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Teen Getaway
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teen getaway - hits and missives - this is american music release - may 28, 2013 So here’s the thing: There are lots of bands in Birmingham, Alabama. Always have been. Good ones, too. Rock bands. Loud-ass rock bands. But here’s the other thing: You’ve never heard ‘em. And why would you? Aside from the late, great Verbena and the recently reformed Man or Astroman?, very few of the Magic City’s finest rockers have found an audience past Nashville (if that). But things are definitely changing. Acts like Alabama Shakes, Jason Isbell, and The Civil Wars have rightly garnered national attention thanks, in no small part, to the allure of The South’s rich musical history – blues, country, R&B… The South is modern music’s Fertile Crescent. Jazz was born here. Rock was born here. Sun Ra, despite his celestial origins, was buried here – and that’s important mainly because Alabama has a lot of wonderful weird. Teen Getaway is part of that wonderful weird. The band’s latest album, Hits & Missives, is a fine companion through Alabama’s musical landscape -- one that travels the Lost Highway with Pere Ubu, Television, XTC, Throwing Muses, The Wedding Present, and R.E.M. as well as Hank Williams. There’s a little twang, a little bump, but a whole lot of what the band calls “Bubblegum Skronk”: Catchy songs battered and fried by copious distortion. For a band that was originally conceived as a recording project, Teen Getaway has only released a handful of studio recordings. Ask the band a
