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Rodriguez

loud, fast & dirty

About Me

The band Rodriguez from Carinthia in Austria plays garage-punk with a big Rawk N Roll influence since the summer of 1999. Being inspired by bands like The Stooges, New Bomb Turks or Zeke, their songs will serve your ears with an extra portion of roughness and uncompromising garage energy!
Summer 2001, they released their first 7 inch on a Vienna no-budget label called Angry-Funghi Records. In spring 2003 they put out their first full-length album on Swindlebra Records (Ulm/Germany). It was recorded directly live in the rehearsal room. Its a low-fi garage bastard with raw live energy and without any overdubs. Their thirteen killer track debut album became a lot of positive critics from many important zines.
With three new hard-hitting tunes, the guys hit the streets again with a 7 inch called "Trip Fontaine" and was released on Varmint Records (Munich/Germany). As time goes by, Rodriguez became a name in the European Rock-Sub-Scene. After many shows with such great bands like The Deadly Snakes (usa), Turbo ACs (usa), Zeke (usa), The Little Killers (usa), Tokyo Sex Destruction (esp) or The Bellrays (usa) they began to develop more detailed songs, but still keeping nevertheless their Rod-sound. In the summer of 2005 they recorded their next chttp and Relax-O-Matic Vibrator Records (Marseille/France) released in the cold days of autumn a hot slice of a 10 inch, which is called Black Finger Tips. Rodriguez eventually toured with this album in the months of October and November in France. Because the french audience love their music, they repeated a Tour de France in autumn 2006...www.rodriguez.at

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Member Since: 8/1/2005
Band Website: rodriguez.at
Band Members: elmo - guitar/vocals, peter grauss - guitar, chriss - bass, nolte - drums
Influences: ramones, the stooges, new bomb turks, the dirtys, zeke...
Sounds Like: grg rck'n rll fckng bstrd! grrrage rock und roll! gargae
Record Label: relaxomatic vibrator rec.(f) /swindlebra rec.(d)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

EPPLEHAUS, TÜBINGEN (GER) - SHOWREVIEW FROM 31.03.06

"Greedy Bess" und "Rodriguez" im Epplehaus zu Tbingen 31.03.06Spontan ist doch meist am Besten. Fr Freitag Abend kein Plan gehabt. Aber "Ralph on Fires Seite" ist ja immer Qualittsbewusst. Mal eben zw...
Posted by Rodriguez on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:12:00 PST

BLACK FINGER TIPS - REVIEWS!!!

Visions Nr. 160Endlich. Die Schonzeit ist vorbei, die Luftgitarre wird frisch poliert, das dreckige "YEAH!" von ganz tief unten im Wortschatz reaktiviert. Auch wenn Österreich sich bisher für derben ...
Posted by Rodriguez on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:28:00 PST