Frontier Ruckus trip through the Midwest and KDHX

The strip malls of the Midwest are so maligned, perhaps rightly so, but they’re ours, and they’re not going away anytime soon.

Matt Millia, the singer and songwriter of Frontier Ruckus, knows that. He and his bandmates hail from suburban Detroit, and on their new record, Deadmalls and Nightfalls (due out on Ramseur Records on July 20), they celebrate and eulogize those plazas, and the ghosts that haunt them.

They’re places of memory, Millia explained during the band’s in-studio session on 88.1 KDHX and Feel Like Going Home this morning. They’re not places for a band this spontaneous and inspired, who take the old time instruments of saw, guitar and banjo (played with Scruggs-style speed and dexterity by David Winston Jones), and all the junk shop trumpets and worn-out drums, and make a memorable, melodic noise, in and around Millia’s flash flood of consciousness lyrics.

Fans of the Avett Brothers and Delta Spirit won’t want to miss them at the Old Rock House in downtown St. Louis tonight.

Frontier Ruckus Live at KDHX 7/14/10 by KDHX

Posted by | July 14, 2010 | KDHX, Music | Comment 

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