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Rotary Downs

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Years active
  
2002–present

Website
  
Official Website

Genres
  
Rock music, Indie rock

Associated acts
  
Givers

Active from
  
2002

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Members
  
James Marler Chris Colombo Zack Smith Jason Rhein Michael Girardot

Past members
  
Tiffany Lamson Cory Schultz

Origin
  
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Albums
  
Chained to the Chariot, Cracked Maps and Blue Reports, Long After the Thrill, Rotary Downs, Traces, Quitters EP

Record labels
  
Rookery Records, Rotary Downs

Similar
  
The New Orleans Bingo! Sh, Happy Talk Band, Joe Krown, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Russell Batiste Jr

Profiles

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Rotary Downs is an Indie Rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana. The band is made up of vocalist and guitarist James Marler, guitarist Chris Colombo, keyboardist and trumpeter Michael Girardot, bassist Jason Rhein, and drummer Zack Smith.

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History

Rotary Downs is a two time winner of the "Best Rock Band" category at Gambit Weekly's Big Easy Music Awards. NPR's Morning Edition considers them "outsider artists" and characterized their 2007 album Chained To The Chariot as "a stunning collection of psychedelic art-pop songs that play like brilliant mash-ups of Neutral Milk Hotel and Odelay-era Beck".

Chained To The Chariot was recorded in the months preceding and following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, as described in a feature on Current TV. Some of the band's recorded work on the album was damaged by the flood, but later salvaged. In the wake of the disaster, band members described a sense of increased artistic collaboration and cross-pollination in the music scene in New Orleans.

On March 9, 2010, Rotary Downs released Cracked Maps & Blue Reports, described by Filter magazine as "perfectly New Orleanian: both high and low, in and out, joyous and mournful."

Discography

  • Rotary Downs (2002)
  • Long After The Thrill (2003)
  • Quitters (EP) (2004)
  • Chained To The Chariot (2006)
  • Cracked Maps & Blue Reports (2010)
  • Songs

    DJinni StompChained to the Chariot · 2006
    Sing Like the SunChained to the Chariot · 2006
    False ProtectionChained to the Chariot · 2006

    References

    Rotary Downs Wikipedia