Ugly Stick

Back in 1993, the four dudes who make up Columbus, Ohio’s own Ugly Stick (Hey, that’s their name, I’m not judging) produced an fantastic album, Absinthe, that’s still listed on many a critic’s top 100 of all time list. A happy mix of rock/alt-country with some Clash-type pop, Eddie Mann, David Holm, Jeff Clowdus and Al Huckabee made some great music…and as so often happens with great bands, then broke up not long after.

Fast forward fifteen years and suddenly the Stick is back with 14 — count ‘em — 14 kick-ass songs with their new album Still Glistening, and thank the music gods for that! Really, any fan of music could just sit here and play this awesome album all freakin’ day long.

—Brandon Whitehead
KC Active
Kansas City, MO

Or download the new album from

Publicity, Europe - Peter Holmstedt, Hemifran www.hemifran.com
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Publicity, US - Peter Bottomley, Skyscraper Media www.skyscrapermedia.net

Ugly Stick returns with their second full-length CD 15 years later, Still Glistening. And in true underground fashion, the band shows that 14 years hasn’t slowed or softened them as they tear through a number of garage, punk, country and psychedelic rock songs like they were in their ’20s.

— Michael Swanger
CitiView
Des Moines, IA

With country music slowly seeping into the distortion and angst of punk rock over the last few years it seems appropriate that a band that helped develop the cow punk sound should make their return after a nearly 14-year absence. While Ugly Stick have fairly obvious similarities to bands like Uncle Tupelo or the Old 97’s, there is undoubtedly a unique quality that sets these guys apart. Straddling the line between two genres is never an easy task but with Ugly Stick’s talent and experience the results have rarely been so rewarding. —Ty Trumbull
Exclaim
Toronto, Ontario

Still Glistening[is] a choogling set of sub-three-minute, twangy punk and power-pop workouts that celebrate and/or satirize all manner of Midwestern dead-enders. Druggies, dealers and pick-up artists, all you 24-hour party people on a budget: Here's a rock & roll band to meet your sardonic, trashy needs. —Roy Kasten
Riverfront Times
St. Louis, MO

Ugly Stick is back, and by all accounts, rocking better than before. —Travis Hoewisher
Delaware Gazette
Delaware, OH

Here, the grit of American roots mingles satisfyingly with Midwestern classic rock guitars, eighties jangle-pop, and frantic rhythmic contortion. Standouts include the pounding call-and-response of “Left to Lay,” the opening love-among-the-ruins tale “Little Lynn,” and “Woodbine,” a perfect take on first invasion Brit-pop, shimmering with the ghost of 1968 and wafting an evanescence of rockabilly.—Skyscraper ..Still Glistening is an album we can recommend highly if you want your spoiled MTV-kids to hear how the pure rock'n'roll of our youth sounded. How we sweated, young ones. —Valsam
Rootstime
Halen, Belgium

This is a fine return for the Columbus, Ohio, cowpunk foursome. The 14 years in between their two full-length albums have not dulled the band's enthusiasm or ability. Songs like "Little Lynn," "Gone My Love," and "Left to Lay" show that maturity can bring even greater melodies and mayhem, as well as depth of understanding. At the same time, "Hang Dog Sickness" and "Jerry Can't Make Me" indicate that bar bands can just have fun—and that older doesn't always mean wiser. Ugly Stick is a fun roots rock band, and people who live near Columbus are lucky. For some, this record is as close as we can get—to the band, as well as to the origin of the Columbus sound. —Heath Row
Go Metric

"Seminal cowpunk outfit Ugly Stick pairs the hard, the hillbilly and the nicely melodic" —Columbus Alive
Columbus, OH
.."The real talk of the town is the reunion of Ugly Stick, one of the bands that defined the early '90s scene and, in all honesty, what is considered the "Columbus sound". Take roots rock written by college kids too clever for their own good, run it through the Pixies a couple of times and you've got Ugly Stick.The times have changed but good music is good music and Ugly Stick showed they've still got it, leaving another generation of the Columbus music scene wanting more."

—the Other Paper
Columbus, OH ..

If you are looking for a CD copy of our 1993 release
Absinthe, there are a very few copies left
and CD Baby is the only place you can get them.

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