When: 
Friday, December 7, 2012 - 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Where: 
The Spot
Presenter: 
LAF
Price: 
Free
They don’t smoke pot. They don’t stay up all that late, since they like to run in the morning. Do they drink? Hell, yes! But not to excess. If you’re looking to be a groupie, but don’t want it to interfere with your career or personal life, the Stone Foxes are an excellent choice.

But they play like a dirty, dirty blues rock band, the kind that does things with underage girls and fishes and make for great biographies 50 years later. On stage, they swap instruments, switch lead singers, and sweat so much that they must have to replace equipment more regularly than The Who's Pete Townshend. They rocked out an audience of Google employees so hard that they all wound up on the stage. If they can do that to Google employees, imagine what they can do to people who aren’t so rich they can pay other people to dance for them.

The new album, Small Fires (out in February 2013), is as polished as they’ll ever be. You can even understand the lyrics! It still sounds dirty, but it’s a clean dirty. Kind of like the guys themselves. These are guys who worry about where to take girls on dates. For 50 years, guys have gotten into rock for the girls and drugs. The Stone Foxes might be the first band to get into rock for the rock. And you can hear all of that nice guy, Bay Area, liberal repression burst out on this album. It’s raw and bluesy. I don’t know where it comes from. But I get the feeling you have to know these guys a long time before you figure that out.

"The four San Franciscans in The Stone Foxes have an energetic style that's rooted in swampy, foot-stomping blues-rock."

- NPR

"In a time of laptops and drum machines, the roots-blues the band plays is a welcome change. Enthusiastic and talented, the Stone Foxes knocked it out of the park for the release of Bears & Bulls."

- Relix

http://thestonefoxes.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbBHqR4-Hkw

Sponsored by: 
LAF

Contact information

Name: 
LAF
Email: 
laf@lafayette.edu