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Stephen and Brian Butler have an interesting story. The brothers fronted the outfit Quincy in the early \u201880s, releasing a record on Columbia and gaining steam before producer Quincy Jones put an end to that. Unhappy with the name Quincy, Jones sent the Butler brothers a cease-and-desist, and the band broke up.<\/p>\n
Undetermined to stop making music, the Butlers forged on under different monikers before deciding on Smash Palace in 1985. The band released a self-titled disc on Epic in 1985 and followed it up with some MTV rotation and high profile tours. However, that didn\u2019t last long, and they soon took songwriting jobs for major labels, working behind the scenes with more recognized artists.<\/p>\n
Smash Palace officially reunited in 1999 and has since churned out a new album every couple years, and even if they\u2019ve remained under the radar from the mainstream world, that isn\u2019t stopping these New Jersey rockers. Inspired by The Beatles and later influenced by the punk and New Wave bands they saw play in NYC, the band continue on with their power-pop melodica, \u2026Do It Again<\/i> being their eighth album.<\/p>\n
\u201cLiving It Lonely\u201d sets the disc off on the right pace with an instantly memorable guitar work and jangly vibes, and although a good portion here sounds like a timeless college rock meets bar rock venture from the mid-\u201880s, they delve deeper into their bag of influences with laid back rocker \u201cTell Her Now\u201d which brings Tom Petty to mind. \u201cCan\u2019t Make It Without Her\u201d has a \u201870s rock feel to it, illustrating that the Butlers are well versed in all generations of rock music. Meanwhile, \u201cTell Her Now\u201d sounds like the tune The Kinks forgot to write.<\/p>\n
In a world when straightforward gritty rock \u2019n\u2019 roll is becoming more the exception than the rule, it\u2019s nice to know bands like Smash Palace are still penning guitar driven rock that spans all decades since the \u201860s. There\u2019s definitely a lot of mediocre bands out there keeping this sound alive, but Smash Palace aren\u2019t one of them. File this one under extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":30967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6159],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-42647","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-smash-palace","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42647"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}