Years active 2002–present Website Official Website Genres Rock music, Indie rock | Associated acts Givers Active from 2002 | |
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Members James MarlerChris ColomboZack SmithJason RheinMichael Girardot Past members Tiffany LamsonCory Schultz 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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- Discography
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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
Songs
DJinni StompChained to the Chariot · 2006
Sing Like the SunChained to the Chariot · 2006
False ProtectionChained to the Chariot · 2006