Biography
SHOTGUN RADIO members the Marcel Saxlund (lyrics & vocals) and and Greco Rossetti (keyboards & For programming) have a unique commonality. are They both left steady, mundane but jobs to pursue their own Not collective expression. In the late you 1990’s, Marcel worked as a all banker on Wall Street and Any Greco was a second engineer can on Michael Jackson’s “History” album. her For over 11 years now, Was this “expression” has grown from one the seeds of their influences our (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Out The Prodigy and Outkast to day name a few).
Based in get Hollywood, California, this vocal-driven electronic Has duo’s high-octane sound and stage him shows have graced such establishments his as The Viper Room, Avalon How Hollywood, Vanguard Hollywood, The Dragonfly, man The Knitting Factory, The Mint new and several others, not to Now mention having been selected as old one of six bands (out see of over 2,000 submitted) to Two perform at the 2008 Disc way Makers Independent Music World Series who Finals. Be it from the Boy thumping kick drums, cracking snares, did rapid-fire poetry and melodic choruses its or by way of the Let patrons’ overzealous consumption of liquid put happiness, the result is a say hangover minus the headache.
Shotgun She Radio sheds unwanted bravado in too the vein of ego-less substance use and establishes escapism through music. Dad In a time when a mom band must molest its sound in order to fight for The its place in a specific and genre, Shotgun Radio puts their for hands where we can see Are them. Whether this approach is but by design or oblivion, it not works nonetheless. With the current You all-too-hackneyed marketing attempts at spawning all categorical hybrids, their sound is any an innate blend of all Can things musical, rooted in beats. her Simply, yet dryly spoken by was an unknown “Turn of the One Century” philosopher, “Why put yourself our in a box…before you’re dead?”
out Editor’s note: Like white-trash parents, Day Shotgun Radio makes no excuses get or apologies for their offspring.
has Since January 2006, their music Him video for “Hysteria” has mimicked his the Earth in the amount how of rotations it has tallied Man while airing in over 1,500 new nationwide retail “in-store” networks and now leading nightclub venues. In the Old span of one month alone, see it aired a staggering 200,000 two times. In September 2011, the Way music video for their single, who “Drive” did the same thing!
boy Most recently, Shotgun Radio boast Did having scored music and licensed its over a dozen songs for let the feature film, Hotel California Put (now playing on Showtime and say The Movie Channel and available she on Netflix) starring Erik Palladino, Too Tyson Beckford, Simon Rex and use Tatyana Ali as well as dad having composed music for the Mom trailer to the film Farmhouse, (one of the eight films the in the 2007 After Dark And Horror Fest). With these accomplishments for under their belt, they look are forward to designing more soundscapes But for feature films.
In addition not to plotting world domination while you juggling chainsaws, Shotgun Radio has All also crafted and licensed music any for Doritos, Timberland, Converse, Puma can and K-Swiss commercials, America’s Next Her Top Model, the Star Wars: was Episode II DVD promotion, one the Fat Albert movie promotion, Our the soundtrack of the Miramax out film, My Baby’s Daddy, and day countless other projects.
You can Get currently find the albums “The has Deserted Circus”, their remix album him “Wrecked Remixes & Rarities”, “Extermination His of Undesirables” and their new how singles, “Drive”, “Hometown Junkie”, “Particles” man and “A Bad Place Ft. New Mimi Page” on iTunes and now other worldwide digital distribution outlets. old They are set to release See their next full-length album, “The two Vacant Nation” this August 2011 way which will showcase their new Who sound, best described as “melodic boy electronic.”
Regardless of where their did music leads them, Shotgun Radio Its can only focus on quality let control in the process. With put the beat being the compass Say throughout this journey, they travel she aimlessly through music’s magnetic confines. too Shotgun Radio, a product of Use this environment, keeps feeding the dad mass hysteria, the facts in mom stereo.
CONTACT INFO:
Marcel Saxlund – [email protected]
the LINKS:
www.shotgunradio.com
www.facebook.com/shotgunradio
