Stone Axe: Captured Live! Roadburn Festival 2011

Stoner rockers Stone Axe played last year's edition of the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The festival is a gathering of everything cool and heavy, attracting visitors from all over the globe. It sells out before the line-up is even announced. For those who got shut out it's good news that their set has been preserved on the new album Captured Live! Roadburn Festival 2011.

It was the final show of the European tour for the Port Orchard, WA quartet, but traveling all over the old continent didn't slow them down . They hit the ground running with the double whammy Stonin' > On With The Show. They play fan favorites - There'd be Days, We Know It's Still Rock 'N' Roll and take a few breathers Chasing Dragons and the slow rumbling psychedelic work-out Skylah Rae, which incidentally is still a bit short with running of a little over 5 minutes - it's a song you don't want to end.

The live recording was produced by the band's guitar player Tony Reed, who knows how to get sound that packs a punch. The album sounds loud even when played at medium volume through shitty car speakers.

Stone Axe:
Dru Brinkerhoff: vocals
Tony Reed: guitar
Mykey Haslip: drums
Mike DuPont: bass

Captured Live! Roadburn Festival 2011 (CD/LP) is released on Ripple Music. Release date: May 7 (UK/Europe), May 8 (North America).

Tracks:

1. Stonin’
2. On With The Show
3. Return of the Worm
4. Chasing Dragons
5. Diamonds & Fools
6. There’d Be Days
7. Black Widow*
8. Shine On*
9. Ain’t Gonna Miss It*
10. Live For The Day*
11. Old Soul
12. We Know It’s Still Rock ‘N’ Roll
13. Skylah Rae
14. Just A Little Bit
15. Nightwolf

* CD only

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Stone Axe: European tour dates

Port Orchard, WA stoner rock band flies to Europe for a string of club dates. The London date is a special. They will be performing two sets at the inaugural Desertfest, dedicating the Stone Free set to their heroes of yesteryear, Free.

Stone Axe: Captured Live! Roadburn Festival 2011, recorded at last year's Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, is available for pre-order. The Deluxe Edition of Stone Axe II drops April 10th (April 2nd in the UK).

Live dates:

• 04/05 Scrutty Murphy's,- Birmingham, UK
• 04/06 Desertfest (2 sets), London, UK
• 04/07 Stereo Cafe Bar, Glasgow, UK
• 04/08 TBA
• 04/09 The Star and Garter, Manchester UK
• 04/10 The Rambler, Eindhoven The Netherlands
• 04/11 Immerhin, Wurzburg, Germany
• 04/12 AJZ, Bielefeld, Germany
• 04/13 Oetinger Villa, Darmstadt, Germany
• 04/14 The Vortex, Siegen, Germany

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HCTF review of Stone Axe II Deluxe Edition.

Stone Axe: Stone Axe II Deluxe Edition

Stone Axe might well be the most prolific stoner rock band these days. They have released two full-length albums, split singles, EPs, love vinyl in various formats (7", 10" and 12"). Oh, and there are different editions of their albums for the USA and Europe, too. Keeping track can be hard, since most of their one-off's appear on small labels specializing in (very) limited runs. With the release of Stone Axe II as a Deluxe 2CD set, fans of the band are treated to over an hour of those rarities on the second disc.

Core band members Dru Brinkerhoff (vocals) and Tony Teed (all instruments) don't do filler. Making sure that every note counts they bring back the ghosts of Thin Lizzy (Those Were The Golden Years) can do Cream better than Cream themselves could (at least nowadays), with a high energy cover of SWLABR.

Tony Reed is self-styled Seventies rock archivalist and he has internalized every hook and riff from that era. Thankfully he doesn't fal into the trap of epigonism, but he has found his own style, a rumbling sound that come to the fore in instrumentals like the galloping Stonin' and the monumental closer of the set, Transmissions (pt2). Brinkerhoff's finest moments are the bluesy Shine On and the trashy throat ripper Metal Damage. Stone Axe that can sound dangerous even when the play acoustic. Chasing Dragons off the original album makes you look over you shoulder to make sure that the nightmarish creature isn't lurking in the corner of the room.

Stone Axe:
Dru Brinkerhoff: vocals
Tony Reed: guitar
Mykey Haslip: drums
Mike DuPont: bass

Stone Axe - 2 Disc Expanded Edition and the LP are released on Ripple Music. Release date: April 10th (April 2nd in the UK).

CD 1 Old Soul We Know It’s Still Rock n Roll Chasing Dragons Live For The Day Those Were The Golden Years On With The Show Ain’t Gonna Miss It One More Time Before I Die Just A Little Bit Turned To Stone

CD 2 SWLABR Black Widow Shine On Rhinoceros King of Everything When I Came Down Taking Me Home(live) Stonin’ The Devil’s Hand Metal Damage For All That Fly Nightwolf The Last Setting Sun Slice the Darkness Transmissions (pt2)

Live dates:

• 03/02 Tumbledown @ The Manette Saloon & Side bar, Bremerton, WA (acoustic)
• 03/03 Helter Skelter Lounge, Poulsbo, WA
• 03/10 Slim's Last Chance, Seattle, WA (w/ Vaporland)
• 03/17 Casey's Bbar and Grill, Belfair, WA (w/ Klementine)
• 03/30 Hell's Kitchen STONEFREE (Stone Axe perform the music of FREE), Tacoma, WA (w/ Electric Falcons)
• 03/31 Coo Coo'S Nest, Port Angeles, WA
• 04/06 Desertfest, London, UK
• 04/10 The Rambler, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• 04/14 The Vortex, Siegen Germany

More European shows will be announced shortly. Stone Axe: Captured Live! Roadburn Festival 2011, recorded at last year's Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, will be released soon.

Video: Stone Axe - Chasing Dragons

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Stone Axe: test pressing auction for Japan Relief

Heavy rock band Stone Axe is auctioning a rare test pressing of their Stone Axe 1 LP. The proceeds will be donated to Hand On Tokyo:

Starting Monday, March 28th, and running for 7 days only, Ripple Music and Stone Axe will auction off the only available test pressing of Ripple Music's release; Stone Axe I Collector's Edition LP.  Proceeds from this auction will go to benefit Hands On Tokyo, a charitable relief effort to aid Japan after their recent disasters.

Only 5 of these test pressings exist, and this is the only one ever to be made available to the public.  You can jump into the auction, win a cool Stone Axe collectible and benefit disaster relief at the Ripple Music Ebay Store.

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HCTF review of Stone Axe - 2 Disc Expanded Edition.

Heavy Ripples, Vol. 1 + Tony Reed chat 03/23

Port Orchard rockers Stone Axe are contributing a song to the double 7 inch Various Artists Heavy Ripples, Vol. 1. Nightwolf was previously recorded by guitarist Tony Reed's other band, Moss Generator. Portland (Maine) quartet Sun Gods In Exile contributes heavy boogie song Over My Broken Bones, Brooklyn's Mighty High delivers the fastpaced Hemaphobic and UK retro rockers Grifter sing about porn legend Ron Jeremy (Hey Ron) and a Small Man Syndrome.

Heavy Ripples, Vol. 1, housed in a striking full color gatefold jacket, is released on Ripple Music. Release date: April 19.

Tracks:

1. Stone Axe - Nightwolf
2. Sun Gods In Exile - Over My Broken Bones
3. Grifter - Small Man Syndrome
4. Grifter - Hey Ron
5. Mighty High - Hempaphobic

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» mightyhigh.net
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» sungodsinexile.com

Got a question for Tony Reed? He is doing a chat on March 23:

We have a special show planned for Ripple Wednesday as we welcome back to the show Tony Reed (Stone Axe/Mos Generator)! Stone Axe is preparing to storm the UK and select parts of Europe in the coming weeks and this is your chance to chat directly with the good Mr. Reed before the band sets sail. Tony will be breaking away from band rehearsals and will join us at 8:30pm PST . . .

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HCTF review of Stone Axe - 2 Disc Expanded Edition.

Stone Axe: Stone Axe - 2 Disc Expanded Edition / LP

Port Orchard heavy rock band Stone Axe brings back the Seventies, with long hair, guitar solos and a singer who can scream the house down while keeping in tune. Starting out as a duo multi-instrumentalist Tony Reed (of Moss Generator) and singer Dru Brinkerhoff cut a self-titled album in 2009. It created quite a stir in the stoner rock underground and their energetic intimate live shows with Mykey Haslip on drums and Mike DuPont on bass helped spreading the word.

Although Tony Reed prefers the studio for laying down the tracks, he is well aware of the fact that the live shows are were it's at and the expanded re-release adds eight live bonus tracks and a DVD with two music videos and (mostly grainy) live footage that sounds great. Filmed up close with hand held cameras the viewer can easily spot where Stone Axe. Singer Brinkerhoff wears Stones, MC5, Thin Lizzy and Humble Pie T-shirts.