Buzzing Rickenbacker guitars, vintage fuzz organ and pop smarts separate Carry the Zero from the force-fed rock that plagues the airwaves. The trio — Matt Erhartic on guitar, Bill Gaudette on the skins and Eddie "Velvet Fingers" Paquette on the keys — combines left-of-the-dial, indie pop cool with the sexy kick of your old Elvis Costello and Jam records. Carry The Zero delivers garage-door bustin' riffs with all the sharp licks and the swinging hips your family has come to love.
"A beautiful blend of rock music from the '60s and the '00's, Carry the Zero has edge, talent, and attitude. When I put on the band's disc, the hard riffs and smooth vocals immediately struck me as rock star caliber material."- Riley, Local Music Director at WBRU Providence
"Hey! Hey! Hey!" Gets Reviewed by "The Noise"
CARRY THE ZERO
Hey! Hey! Hey!
7-song CD--
"It takes balls to call your album Hey! Hey! Hey!–people are going to expect you to throw it down and get the dance floor all beery and maybe bloody. But the title track (entitled “Title Trackâ€) will put your mind at ease and your body in motion, as the band comes out swinging like The Turbines, and with the same kind of vintage sound but better guitars. Things slow down a bit after that, but they don’t lose intensity, and then the wah-wah-soaked chop chords of “Rev ‘Em Up†bring you back to the fist-pumping. Now, it also takes balls to cover “Midnight Confessions.†Full credit for the fact that this cover works so well goes to singer Matt Erhartic, who belts out these songs with the soul of Sam Cooke, a range wider than yours, and enough pissed-off-ness to make it sound like these tracks were done with a cop standing in the doorway yelling “Okay, boys, time to wrap it up, the neighbors have had enough.†But you haven’t. Excellent."
(Tim Emswiler)
