Bonerama

Even in a city that doesn’t play by the rules, New Orleans’ Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock and free improvisation in the same set; maybe even the same song. Bonerama has been repeatedly recognized by Rolling Stone, hailed as “the ultimate in brass balls” (2005) and praised for their “…crushing ensemble riffing, human-feedback shrieks and wah-wah growls” (2007). Bonerama carries the brass-band concept to places unknown; what other brass band could snag an honor for “Best Rock Band” (Big Easy Awards 2007 and 2010)? As co-founder Mark Mullins puts it, “We thought we could expand what a New Orleans brass band could do. Bands like Dirty Dozen started the “anything goes” concept, bringing in the guitars and the drum kit and using the sousaphone like a bass guitar. We thought we could push things a little further.”

While Dapp's exact origins are unknown, it's clear that he's the product of a secret government program to create the perfect funkdified super-soldier, in order to defeat the impending emo threat to all humanity.

To that end, Dapp has been spreading fresh, retro-fied funkness to audiences since early in 2008. He has also been a covert contributing funk-nasty ninja for the bands The Blue Method, The BurnDown All Stars, Mortal Men and Peripheral Rhythm. He's played bass, performed vocals and written music for each of the groups he's been part of before taking the fight out to the people on his own. His songs and performances are dynamic and catchy, and his danceable funk-pop grooves and smart lyrics are infectious and interesting.

Dapp tours with a badass power-soul free-for-all of musicians. Audiences agree: Dapp and his band are raucous full fledged jazz-jam monster, like a groovin' Godzilla, rising up out of a frothy funk ocean and wreaking sick R&B havoc on thousand of fleeing innocent concert-goers ears.

Dapp and his band are currently destroying venues such as World Cafe Live, The North Star, The Fire, Mad River Philadelphia, The Triumph Brewery and others in support of his first EP, Alone At Last, which was released in April of 2010

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Bonerama with DAPP

Thursday, June 21 · 8:00PM at North Star Bar