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Hard Living and Heartache - Tucson Weekly, May 7, 2009 By Eric Swedlund In 10 years, Fourkiller Flats have experienced the surging good times of a band on the rise, plenty of booze-filled nights, a pile of tour antics they'll laugh about forever, a breakup, a resurrection, and eventually the sort of contentment that comes from simply playing music on their own terms. Looking at the details—ups and downs, hard living and heartache—the band's history actually starts to sound like a Fourkiller Flats song. Now the Flats are releasing a new record—the band's first since 2001 and just their second full-length overall. It's hard-charging rock 'n' roll: rough, twangy and loud, and full of raise-your-drink-and-sing-along hooks. Beloved if not prolific, they've been playing most of the songs for years, with steady gigs downtown; the band's unofficial home base is Che's Lounge. "We've been milking the same 30 songs for eight years," jokes singer-guitarist Jim Cox. "We definitely took our time and weren't stressed about it. Even though it's quote-unquote new material, the songs have been around a while. If we have a song we've played for a while, by the time we get to the studio, we can really bang it out." Recorded over about six months, Treasure and Trash is well worth the wait, bringing a more revved-up rock 'n' roll ferocity to the trademark Flats sound (described on the band's MySpace as "Chunka Chunka Chunka Chunka WAAAAAAAAAA weedle dee weedle deee WAAAAAAA Chunka Chunka Chu

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