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Here’s some info on the band for you. Anything else you need please don’t hesitate to write to elroy@elroymusic.com

Band Bio

Elroy is a 4 piece band that play a variety of music, from country tinged Americana to 60's style Garage Rock, everything in between, as well as many things that aren’t; sometimes quiet, sometimes loud, always Elroy.

The band was founded in September 2001, and quickly recorded and released their first EP, the 5 song garage rock tinged, “Don’t Buy It – volume I.” As suggested in the name of the CD the CD was available free of charge at shows, and as downloads on their web site. Also there was a double entendre in the name referring to the sad state of the record industry in general, making it a better idea to give away music then to try to run it through the music mill. Since then, Elroy has always offered subsequent 5 song “free downloadable EP’s on their website. Elroy always encourages the sharing of their music between friends and over the Internet.

The band has also released two traditionally packaged and marketed CD’s. Their debut, “Elroy” is an 11 song, all analog, mid-fi guitar rock album, peppered with a bit of Folk and Country. Their second CD “The Case For Going To The Moon” is considered a pop-ier nod to the Beatles, rather then the first CD’s invocation of the Stones, with pianos, organs, ukulele, and wide acoustic 12 string strums. What all Elroy recordings have in common is all the songs are recorded using classic acoustic and electric (not electronic) instruments.

The group was founded by and is fronted by singer and songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marc McElroy. Aside from being a vehicle for his song writing, the band serves another purpose. The members of the band were not only chosen for their musicianship, but for their friendship, and the band is truly a group with a mission to play music and enjoy doing it. Guitarist Charlie Kickham has combined his bar band resume and love of folk music into distorted Les Paul arpeggios, and his solos are tinged with both blues-rock and Bill Frizzell. Bassist Brian Coleman loves Mingus, but spends his time in Elroy searching for elegant simplicity and round notes that anchor the songs. Drummer Adam Doiron balances the need for a constant beat with an off-beat love for the Velvet Underground, like Maureen Tucker and even Ringo Starr before him, it sound really simple, until you really listen.

The songwriting of Marc McElroy is rooted in his youngest years listening to the radio like some other kids watched TV. There in the 70’s and early 80’s, in front of Radio Shack brand speakers, his love for 60’s and 70’s classic rock and classic R&B was forever forged. The band’s arrangements and performances are likewise classically rooted in the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Band, the Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, and the whole of Motown. However these influences can’t be heard overtly upon first listening, but form the foundation on which the music is built.

Elroy is here to say, Rock is not dead. In an era where Rock success can no longer be marked by big record company advances, and “cover of the Rolling Stone” acclaim, Elroy has made a cottage industry out of creating their own kind of Rock music on their own terms.

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What Does Everybody Else Think?

If you love Elroy, you’re in good company; here’s what other journalists have said:

Highlights From Press

“…it would not be out of line to compare this band’s unpretentious, down-to-earth style with populist icons like Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen.” -Showcase Magazine

“Elroy brings great rock with some real highlights on their debut album.” -Rock Tip, (Germany)

“Armed with an inventive and charismatic sense of musicianship” -Spotlight Magazine

…with a deep bottom and a rusty guitar that holds the balance between Crazy Horse, Tom Petty and the Wallflowers. -Mescalina (Italy)

“They play beautiful rock songs and wonderful ballads with folk infusion” -Home-of-Rock (Germany)

“McElroy’s lyrics ring true on every song.” -The Wire

"ELROY delivers a concise and catchy classic Rock which smells dust, BBQ smokes, grass and the foam in the glass..." -KWFM