San Diego California isn’t exactly the first place you think of when trying to name cities that pump out bands faster then I go through lemonade bottles. I wonder if the locals knew they had something special when they first heard the fourman group of Weatherbox. When I first heard them I knew within the first minute of “Trippin’, the Life Fantastic” that this wasn’t your typical indie punk rock group.
The Members of Weatherbox
The name Weatherbox comes from a song by the band Mission to Burma. In an interview that vocalist and guitarist Brian Warren gave with AbsolutePunk he said this about the name: “It began as a random name but slowly gained meaning. When people ask me what it means now, I say the box is your consciousness and the weather is the external stimuli which effects you constantly. So Weatherbox is everything but since we got it from the Mission of Burma song it’s also nothing. So it is the union of everything with nothing,”.
It all started with an EP titled “The Clearing”. The EP is full of songs about life and death. With their gutting guitar riffs, and punk lyrics Weatherbox began to get some attention and also raise some eyebrows.
Then came American Art, the debut LP that made Weatherbox an underground household name, if that expression makes any sense. It was released on May 8th 2007. On this album, listeners were left being able to recognize Weatherbox’s distinctive sound. Slightly bizzare bridges and drum beats make this album worth many more listens. This album is what indie is all about, experimentation, and music for music’s sake.
Weatherbox’s follow up to American Art came in September of 2009. It was called “The Cosmic Drama”. It left old fans satisfied while managing to not sound just like American Art.
Will Weatherbox ever break into the mainstream or will they stay an underground smash like so many bands before? It is possible that they will become mainstream. As long as there are people like me who want to get the word out about unknown bands, and people like you who care, then Weatherbox breaking into the mainstream is certainly possible. In conclusion, with deep lyrics, gutting guitar riffs, and a very distinctive sound, Weatherbox truly is an underground sensation.
A few mp3s are streaming at weatherbox’s myspace page where you can check out the band’s latest news, and such. http://www.myspace.com/weatherbox
I really enjoy this band as well. There is tremendous growth between Warren’s beginnings in Mr. Valentine and their most recent track “The Bullets”
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