Member Since: 11/22/2004
Band Website: DruggistMusic.com
Band Members: Blake Cormier
and
Zach Dunlap
Influences: The Who
Radiohead
David Bowie
The Breeders
Daniel Johnston
Pinhead Gunpowder
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Guided By Voices
Elvis Costello
The Beatles
The Smiths
The Clash
Fugazi
Sounds Like: "It's like you gave a bunch of instruments to kindergarteners."
-Manson, BTLS.COM "The Druggist sound is hard to define and impossible to ignore. It's a very open, very patient mix of influences and styles... it's impossible to contest this fact: Druggist writes great songs."
-SArocks.com "Edgy indie rock... their songs are melody-driven, yes, but they haven't neglected the importance of intelligent lyrics."
-Jessica Belasco, 210SA Magazine "Druggist makes jangling pop-rock built on a potent combination of lyrics and music in which one doesn't overpower the other. The band plays with verve, energy and an infectious attitude."
-Jim Beal, San Antonio Express News "...the slumbering beast that this album represents gives me the impression of something more like The Beatles and Beach Boys earlier efforts, hinting at what is going on in this bands head for the future... to me, Druggist pose a question with 'Early Michael Keaton.' 'Are we to be defined by a generation or a we to define it ourselves?'
- Ben Simkins, Rebelnoise.com "The album amply demonstrates the group’s innate pop melodicism and the organic way in which they compliment each other, onstage and off."
-Denise Blaz, San Antonio Current "...the most startling songs on There’s Already an Everything are the skeletal ones, where his haunting piano chords frame his soaring vocals and Dunlap noodles away in an evocative manner that sounds like carefully considered spontaneity.'Do You Know The Way I Feel?' is an instant, brooding classic, and it’s nearly matched by 'It Was the Song,' and 'She Said,' in which Cormier succintly defines his spiritual dilemma: 'I don’t want to die/ I just want to fall asleep forever.'This is earnest, self-absorbed music that makes no concessions to irony or levity, and it doesn’t need to."
- Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Current
"This may be the worst shit i've ever heard yet... seriously."
-Bubba the Love Sponge, Sirius satellite channel 101 "The band's boring attempt at creating original music reeks of effort."
-Chuck Arnold, People Magazine "Nope... I don't like this at all."
-Smarmy McGee, Pitchfork Media
Record Label: Celebutard Records
Type of Label: None