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Les Paul-through-Marshall-rock from Austin, Texas that still believes the music is more important than the haircut.
Unravel Mars is a modern rock band from Austin that believes rock can be catchy, clever, and challenging, but still unpretentious and able to move you. The band was born out of the demise of another long time band and the need for a new creative outlet. Pete Huff and Jason Cain are veteran musicians, having played for seven years in the popular Murfreesboro hard rock band Basementality as well as studios around Nashville, TN. In 2003, the old band seemed to have gone as far as it could go, and the long time friends went their separate ways. After a year of failed starts and failed plans, Jason and Pete moved to Austin, TX because as Jason says, "We had nothing better to do than move somewhere we had never been."
Throughout the fall of 2005, the two old friends auditioned at least half of Austin (and a good bit of Buda and Round Rock as well). By January, spirits were down, and it seemed that there was no one that would fit the idea of what Jason and Pete wanted to play. Then came a chance email from a singer named Natalie Muñoz. Natalie had sang in school related bands throughout high school and college as well as the occasional coffee shop performance with friends, but had never fronted a real rock act. "I just wanted to try singing with a real band at least once before I died," she says. Finding the Austin karaoke scene not getting her any closer to that goal, she began to respond to ads in the Austin Chronicle. As luck would have it, one of those was Jason and Pete's.
"She walked into practice and could just wail! It was so refreshing," said Pete of their first get together in a Music Lab rehearsal space. Finding common ground in bands like Alice in Chains, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, A Perfect Circle, and other modern rock, the trio decided to make it official and Unravel Mars came to life.
Currently the band is finishing up its first albums worth of original material and planning to record their first album starting in April. "I'd rather take our time and write the best music we can and play covers we dig than have the three of us write a ton of mediocre originals just to have a full set," says Jason. Pete sums it up best. 'We are good at what we do and have been for a long time. We can't wait until we get to start proving ourselves to a new city."
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