Powderhouse
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Bio
Powderhouse is a female-fronted rock band from Boston. With a sound that combines alt-country, garage rock, power-pop and classic rock, Powderhouse creates original music that features strong songwriting, emotional vocals, loud guitars, powerful drums, tasty keyboards and hi-energy performances. The band has played top clubs around Boston, including T.T. the Bear’s, Church, Bill’s Bar, All Asia and Porters Bar. Powderhouse is finishing work on a full-length CD and is planning more gigs in 2009.
About
Powderhouse is built upon the songwriting and vocals of Teresa Mastrorilli. Teresa had been writing songs for several years when she approached the rhythm section of Kevin Moylan and Ray Boyce (x-Returnables) at the end of 2006 to help her record some of her material. At that time, Kevin and Ray were in a band called The New Thirty. The New Thirty had been playing around Boston for the past several years, releasing the CD "Racecar" on FOC Records as well as being selected to play the 2006 International Pop Overthrow Festival at The Paradise Lounge in Boston.
Kevin and Ray thought Teresa's songs were great, so they asked their friend Evan Appelbaum (who also plays with Kevin and Ray in a party band called Big Vise) to join them in the recording sessions. Things went so well that they decided to form a band.
"Powderhouse" played their debut gig to a packed house at P.A.’s Lounge in Somerville in May of 2007. Since then, the band has played very successful gigs at T.T. the Bear’s Place in Cambridge, Church in Boston, All Asia Bar in Cambridge, Bill’s Bar in Boston and Porters Bar in Boston. The band released a 9 song EP (taken from those initial recording sessions) on FOC Records in 2007.
After taking some time off this past winter to re-group and re-charge, Powderhouse invited keyboardist Art Daprato to join the band in early 2008. In addition, Fred Pickard (x-New Thirty, x-Returnables) recently came on board as lead guitarist (replacing Evan, who remains involved in recording). Powderhouse is currently back in the studio working on new material, and is planning on more gigs in and around Boston during 2009. A full-length CD release on FOC Records is planned for the winter of 2009.
Live performance videos:
Bill's Bar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZFEw0Q8HXs
T.T. the Bear's Place: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=97821E74B0729D59
Web Sites:
http://www.reverbnation.com/powderhouse
http://www.myspace.com/powderhouseband
http://www.sonicbids.com/powderhouse
http://www.garageband.com/artist/powderhouse
http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Powderhouse/21261572967
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Powderhouse
http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Powderhouse
http://www.myspace.com/focrecords
