whipsaws make good

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by theancpodcast.
Categories: local antics.

http://www.adn.com/play/story/253193.html

The Whipsaws have scored the ultimate independent rock band’s dream, and it isn’t a major label deal — it’s a free rehearsal space stocked with a lifetime’s supply of cold beer.

But the taps in the wall of the Moose’s Tooth Brewing Co. warehouse aren’t working too hard this Sunday afternoon. Guitarist Aaron Benolkin and drummer James Dommek Jr. each nurse glasses of their favorite microbrews between songs, but the quartet is chugging water like a football team doing two-a-days. This is a work shift for the Whipsaws, a band which is also a business, an honest to goodness LLC.

This second straight day of three-hour rehearsals is preparation for a series of release parties for the band’s new CD, “60 Watt Avenue,” this month and the base for touring the Lower 48 later this year.

“One more time,” singer Evan Phillips says after the band’s third stab at “Where I Live,” a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leeroy Stagger. Stagger will open the Whipsaws’ upcoming shows, and the band plans to back him on a few tunes.

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