The Incurables

Featured Artist January 13, 2024
With the song: Someday

Artist's Biography

Emerging from the primordial ooze of the Detroit suburbs, the THE INCURABLES blend the sounds of the 60’s British Invasion and psychedelic era with the guitar-driven energy of New York's CBGB power pop/punk scene of the late '70s and early '80s and deliver it with a passionate sense of fun that's uniquely their own. Consisting of cousins Ray and Darrin Lawson on bass guitar and drums, along with their lifelong friends Pat Kelly and Dennis Pepperack on guitars, The Incurables have been sharing the stage together for decades – literally since the lineup coalesced in high school, with Pat and Ray having been inseparable friends since kindergarten. Since then, the band has graced stages across the US and as far abroad as Germany, The Netherlands and the UK, on tours and as openers for the likes of Alice Cooper, Billy Idol, and Steppenwolf. And for all the miles and all the accolades, there's a sense in the mid-202os that the story is just beginning for this seasoned band of all-but-literal brothers with the sound that's just as infectious as their name implies.y


It's not an overstatement to call The Incurables local legends: they've got a recording history stretching back to the early '90s and remain a potent live draw with their signature harmonic, upbeat, guitar-driven garage rock to this day. They shine onstage, with their high energy live performances and their gift for humor-fueled audience participation winning them new fans each time out. It doesn’t matter if it’s in front of a concert crowd or an intimate club setting... the band performs with the same intensity and passion fueled by their love of music. Not driven by fads or the flavor of the week, their style continues to evolve with an eclectic mix that lands between the sounds of chainsaws on a chalkboard and angels giggling in the wind.

If there are no second acts in showbiz, it's a good thing that The Incurables' first act has never ended. And while it's well-nigh unprecedented that a band with its original lineup intact after three decade becomes a “breakthrough artist,” this band has defied expectations all along and that's just what's been happening over recent years. Through a run of singles, many of them on Big Stir Records, the boys have found much success infiltrating radio stations worldwide, increasing their global fan base with airplay on Little Steven’s Underground Garage, Rodney Bingenheimer, Lord Litter, There Once was a Note, The Heritage Chart, and countless independent and streaming stations (even hosting their own weekly themed show on Canada's KB Radio). The new material, originals and covers alike, has played out to an ever-widening audience who's never had a chance to get their hands on band's hard-to-find back catalog, and they've all been asking one thing: when can we get a full-length records from our new favorite band?

As we round the bend in 2024, the answer is at hand: the new album INSIDE OUT & BACKWARDS will ring in the new year as The Incurables officially join the Big Stir Records roster. Already announced by the roar of the new single “When I Grow Up,” the album also features the hits you know – “Far Away,” “Soda Pop,” “Back Into Eloise” and “Funhouse”, all part of the band's unrelenting run of irresistible singles that've been riding the airwaves since 2020 – and hits yet to be. It's ten tracks of powered-up pop rock that answer the question: where can you find a band that hits the sweet spot between The Stooges and The Romantics? Only in Detroit, of course... and the name of that band is THE INCURABLES.


Full Album show of July 23, 2020
Album: I don't feel so well


Artist's Biography:
THE INCURABLES
Pat Kelly -- Lead Guitar/ Vocals
Ray Lawson -- Bass Guitar/ Vocals
Darrin Lawson – Drums/ Vocals
Dennis Pepperack – Rhythm Guitar
The Incurables are a three-piece harmonic, upbeat, guitar driven garage rock band widely known for their high energy live performances and audience participation. Based out of Wayne Michigan, the band's influences come from groups out of the sixties British Invasion/psychedelic era as well as from New York's "CBGB" sound from the late 70's early 80's. The bands style continues to evolve with a mix of the heavier rock sounds coming out of Detroit and the college indie sounds of Ann Arbor.
The Incurables have found much success sharing the stage with such bands as Billy Idol, Blues Traveler, Steppenwolf, Poison, Alice Cooper, Vince Neil, Detroit locals Bitter Sweet Ally, Adrenalin, Toby Redd, and have completed several tours of Germany and The Netherlands.
Since their first performance the guys have hit the stage running, and continue to do so with their latest album titled "I Don't Feel So Well." The album includes the critically acclaimed single "Detroit Steel" having been featured on the Rodney Bingenheimer show on Little Steven's Underground Garage, and the single "Down" featured on the Lord Litter Radio Show.
If you catch them live or hear them on the radio you can't help but enjoy yourself. Their energy is infectious and clearly incurable.
About the Album:
I don’t feel so well is the fourth studio release from Detroit’s own Garage rock/power pop band The Incurables. The album was produced by The Incurables and Tony Hamera at the award winning Tempermill studio in fashionable Ferndale Michigan.
Channeling the sounds from the groups of the sixties British Invasion and psychedelic scene as well as the seventies and eighties punk and new wave bands of New York's CBGB’s “I don’t feel so well” is packed with the upbeat harmonic high energy sound in which The Incurables are widely Known for.
The first single “Down” is a straight forward rocker done in the true Garage Rock fashion and is being well received on stations across the nation. A video for “Down” has been released and is available for viewing on The Incurables YouTube channel.
The track “Detroit Steel” was chosen as one of the top winning rock anthem songs by the Detroit’s Motor City Muscle Music Festival, a video is also available for viewing on the bands YouTube channel. The Incurables are also working on a new video for their psycho rocker “Eloise” which was influenced by the time the band spent in the now defuncted Eloise psychiatric hospital.
Whether you’re jamming to their CD or catching them onstage you can't help but enjoy yourself knowing that they are not just there to perform or do a job but honestly having fun and loving the music. Their energy is infectious and clearly incurable.


Featured Artist of March 11, 2019 Song: Eloise

Founded in Westland, MI by lifelong friends that met in kindergarten, Ray Lawson (Bass guitar and vocals) and Pat Kelly (Lead guitar and vocals), the band found its heart and soul when they were joined in the mid-eighties by cousin Darrin Lawson (drums and vocals) and Dennis Pepperack (guitar and vocals).
Truly a band of brothers in every sense, they continue to rock with their original members decades later.
Growing up listening to bad AM radio, The Incurables managed to find influences from the groups of the sixties British Invasion and psychedelic scene as well as the seventies and eighties sounds coming from New York's CBGB.
Watching them onstage you can't help but enjoy yourself knowing that they are not just there to perform or do a job but honestly having fun and loving the music.
Their energy is infectious and clearly incurable.






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