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Rat Silo

2008 Year of the Rat Silo

About Me

From the guts of Jakalope, Numb, Sons Of Freedom, 54-40, SNFU and The Tainted Lovers.

get the cd:

or download MP3s:

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also available from iTunes

payplay.fm/ratsilo

Yakkety Yak...

Stripped down rock dirges With tastes of white guy blues and Chain-gang singalongs -Vue Weekly, Edmonton March 08

Straight from Garageland, this old-school hard rock pops out catchy, gutsy smart songs.
-CD Baby January 08

The William H. Macy of Rock...Striving for something more understated and lasting, not the usual rock star type, vocally or lyrically. This is a good thing. Driving, dancible rock with some smarts is a welcome relief.
-Radio Bandcouver December 2007

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/11/2007
Band Website: ratsilo.com
Band Members: Don Binns Bass Finn Manniche Guitar Jim Newton Vocals Dave Osborne Piano, Organ Sean Stubbs Drums
Influences: Beatles, Stones, pj harvey, Tom Waits, Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Grace Jones, Black Crowes, Black Uhuru, John Coltrane, Lou Reed and The Velvets, Stooges, Patti Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Ramones, Joy Division
Sounds Like: The sound your heart makes when you eat a hot dog.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rat Silo now on itunes

Hooray!
Posted by Rat Silo on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST

Rat Silo now charting on CBC radio 3

Oh Beautiful beautiful friends...the sweet joy that resonates across my frame. they like us...they really really like us.we have submitted to various college and community stations too.
Posted by Rat Silo on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:15:00 PST

cds in stores in London, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto

Hey groovers:London: Groves RecordsCalgary: MegatunesToronto: Criminal RecordsEdmonton: MegatunesOttawa: End Hitsthanks so much to all parties!jim
Posted by Rat Silo on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:05:00 PST

cd now in stores in vancouver - Bone Rattle, Neptoon, Red Cat, Zulu

Yee-haw.our fabbo cd is now on sale at these fine stores.Get Down.
Posted by Rat Silo on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:23:00 PST

Lovely Lovely CBC

We love CBC.Our national radio system has shown us great love.We were played on Wed Dec. 12 CBC Radio 1 as a plug for our gig at The Bourbon, and then again on CBC 690AM on Wed Dec. 19.The good people...
Posted by Rat Silo on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:45:00 PST

Rat Silo is in cyberspace

Hello friends.we just posted the first song from our CD "Rat Silo November 2007".It's called Getupgotoworkgohomegotobed.The songs have not been mastered yet, and we hope that the whole set will be rea...
Posted by Rat Silo on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:01:00 PST