The Gena Rowlands Band plays songs about B-movie starlets, X-movie starlets, people born in the wrong skin, blonde strangers, convenience stores, bad parties and Kong's words with Jesus in the aftermath of a rough first date. It's late-night music: lush strings, arresting vocals and intense arrangements take these finely crafted songs into new sonic territory. But the deceptive beauty of these tunes can't hide the dangerous ideas in Bob Massey's lyrics. Fans of Nick Cave or American Music Club will feel ri...   [ read more ]

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Flesh and Spirits is The Gena Rowlands Bands third full-length recording for Lujo Records. It follows The Nitrate Hymnal, the 2006 collaboration with Anti-Social Music, and the bands 2005 debut La Merde et Les Etoiles. Flesh and Spirits is the bands most focused, cohesive, and catchy work yet. To create the best album of his career, GRB mastermind Bob Massey assembled a virtuosic band of Washington DCs most acclaimed musicians. GRB regulars Jean Cook and David Durst were joined by Vin Novara (formerly ...   [ read more ]

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The Gena Rowlands Band really isn't so much a band as it is a pickup group periodically organized by singer/songwriter Bob Massey, a veteran of the Washington, DC punk scene whose songs are lyrically fraught, carefully arranged, and strangely beautiful. The songs on Flesh and Spirits offer an unusual mixture of wry humor and emotional nakedness; Massey is one of a very small handful of songwriters capable of singing about God in any kind of nuanced way. Where most of his colleagues crowd the two ends of th...   [ read more ]

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