27 Years: News

Been a while since the last entry. We've been brainstorming lots of creative new cover ideas to put in our sets. If you have any suggestions please don't hesitate to send us an email or harass us facebook(:

Other new news...Sam recently became a father to a beautiful baby boy. Congrats! Wes just got back from a fishing trip with the most famous bass fisherman in the world...I wonder if he caught anything. ha.

It's Halloween weekend coming up. We have a couple of shows with the cover project this weekend. I hope to see some costumes that would even scare Mr. Hartle.

A big thank you to all who came out to the show on Saturday in Mankato. We couldn't do it without your support. We'd also like to thank Beautiful Trigger and Diesl for rocking the stage with us. You can check them out on our links bar...We'll be back in Mankato on June 12th opening up for the Texas Hippie Coalition.

We have three great bands for our release party on April 23rd

We are exited to have Mankato's own Diesl and our good friends from Minneapolis Beautiful Trigger sharing the stage with us.

Check em out:

Beautiful Trigger- http://www.beautifultrigger.com
Diesl- http://www.reverbnation.com/diesl

Check out Mike DeGagne's review of the new CD under our PRESS tab. He uses lots of big and fancy words. It made me fall in love with the dictionary all over again...

All joking aside, it's a great/positive review of the record.

5 Days till the release show....

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We're getting geared up for the 23rd. We will have some cool new T-Shirts, our new CD, and maybe even some new music being performed.

New stuff is fun(:

The new record is now available on iTunes for your listening pleasure....

Our CD release party for "The Mr Hartle Sessions" will be held at Busters Bar in Mankato on April 23rd!

Details are still in the works...

After a long break between shows, we are exited to announce that we will be opening up for Bobaflex on March 11th. This will be the 3rd time that we will be sharing the stage with them. If you haven't seen Bobaflex live, your missing out. (you want stories to tell you're grandchildren, don't you?)

We are also in the works of setting up a CD release party!

Inspired by true events.

The story starts in the 1950's in a small Minnesota community. (New Ulm, MN) Dutch Hartle was a local business man. He was known for owning the local Ford dealership and for years was a successful and influential member of the community. Mr Hartle seemingly had it all. He had beautiful wife, family and large victorian home in the center of town.

However, Mr. Hartle also had a dark side. He was known as a compulsive gambler and alcoholic. The basement of his home consisted of slot machines game tables and a full bar. This is where Dutch would throw parties and spend countless nights smoking, drinking and gambling with his friends.

During the 1950's he ended up loosing a substantial sum of money through his car dealership and other business affairs. This led him deeper into alcoholism and depression. One fateful night he went into the basement with a loaded shotgun, walked to the corner of the game room and killed himself.

After his suicide his wife never went in the basement again. She proceeded to shove 5 butter knives in the basement door and only maintenance people were allowed. His wife remained in the home, widowed, for another 40+ years.

A NOTE FROM LANTZ

My father purchased the house in the late 90's. When he first approached the basement door there were 5 knives shoved into the crevasse sealing the door. After removing the knives he went down into the basement. The game room was full of cobwebs and dusty slot machines. He described it as walking into a time warp. Upon further exploration he discovered the shot gun pellets were still in the wall from when Dutch Hartle shot himself.

I had always found the story of Mr. Hartle quite intriguing and wanted to pursue writing about it. Our first album was primarily love songs and leaned on the rock/pop genre. I wanted this record to have much darker overtones. It needed to be about something heavy and real. I felt the music should convey raw emotion while painting a story in the listeners mind. In the beginning of 2009 we began writing what would eventually be known as The Mr. Hartle Sessions.

When the question of how and where to record came up, we had the idea of converting the "Hartle" basement into a recording studio. In the summer of 2009 we started building a studio in the very basement in which the bullet holes reside. The bullet hole area was converted into a live room in which the album was recorded. In November of that same year we officially began recording the Mr. Hartle Sessions. Nine months later we were done tracking the record. The album was then sent to local engineer/producer Luke Fredrickson for Mixing and Mastering.

Recording in that basement was an experience that is hard to describe. I'm not a huge believer in ghosts. That being said, there were nights in which felt like the air was filled with a strange haunting energy. I think that energy transferred to the music creating a powerful and haunting album.

This next week we will be working on finishing three new songs for the Hartle Sessions...working titles are The Final Opus, My Selfish Mind and 2012.

We also made some sweet changes to the end of "Dreams". Thanks to all who helped with the group vocal at the end!

The CD WILL be done mid summer!

Other than that...Got another show with Bobaflex coming up July 16th. As well as some upcoming dates in Sioux Falls, SD.

-27 Years

We are gearing up for the Bobaflex show this Thursday! Be sure to check out our on air interview with the other bands on 95.7 The BLAZE at 2PM the day of the show.

We also have another new song on the myspace entitled Gambling with Blood.

Check it out and hope to see ya Thursday!!!

http://www.myspace.com/27yearsrock

Hey everybody!

We've been working hard since November on the new record. Countless hours have paid off and we finally have a track completed entitled "My Dead Sunshine".

Check it out on myspace and tell us what ya think!

www.myspace.com/27yearsrock