shagg
Rock Pop Funk
  • Label type Indie
  • Label name Lunch Lady
  • Influences Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder
  • Sounds like Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Seal
  • Members Ben Cannon (bass), Michael Preston (guitar), Jeff Garfin (drums), Aaron Mitchell (vocals), Eddie Rubeiz (piano, percussion, vocals), Stephen Shirk (guitar), PJ Loughran (saxophone, vocals)

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album image Star Buh Ba Ba Ba
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StarWalk Through Me
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StarPeach
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StarJust Ain't Enough
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StarBetween Words
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StarMichael Thought He Could Fly
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StarShade of Melancholy
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6 $0.99 $
StarRenewal
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StarYour Golden Rule
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StarButterfly Kiss
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StarLeila Rose
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StarBuh Ba Ba Ba
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StarCity in the Sky
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NameShagg
Genre Rock Pop Funk
Website addresshttp://www.shagg.org
We Music Store Url wemusicstore.com/shagg
AboutOriginally formed in Brooklyn in 1997, Shagg combines classic R&B and soul with modern pop/rock songwriting.

Shagg started humbly with apartment jams and coffeehouse performances. As our lineup grew, our writing evolved from folksy, roots-based songs to full-blown compositions borrowing liberally from jazz, funk, soul, and world music. Our sound has been compared to Curtis Mayfield, the Neville Brothers, Los Lobos, Al Green, and Stevie Wonder.

We recorded our first demo in early 2000 with producer Stephen Shirk (Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos, Michael Maxwell), whose apartment studio was the perfect setting for our homegrown sound. Those sessions resulted in the Peach EP, featuring the songs "Shade of Melancholy" and "Just Ain't Enough," both finalists in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest that year.

We returned to the studio in 2002 with producer Joe DeVico (Joe Elefante, Dave Murphy), best known for his work with jazz ensembles. The goal was to make a record that captured our live sound, with a minimum of overdubbing. The record took three days to record and three years to mix, but it worked out in the end! The result is Buh Ba Ba Ba, a set of 12 songs ranging from the exuberant funk of the title track to the aching "Shade of Melancholy."

Based on rough mixes from the Buh Ba Ba Ba sessions, we were selected by the editors of CMJ to compete for the Coca-Cola New Music Award, which is the unsigned artist category of Dick Clark's American Music Awards. We didn't win, but we're doing all right.
PressShade of Melancholy is one of the best songs I've heard this year, by artists large or small. It's the track Ben Harper has waited his whole career to make, and by the end of its smoggy-jazz exaltations that "everything's gonna be all right," you're guaranteed to believe it regardless of your mood.
- Joe McCombs, StarPolish

The groove was great and the overall vibe of it was really cool ... a little bit of Neville Brothers or Los Lobos or maybe even Latin Playboys.
- Joe Chiccarelli, Producer & Engineer (Frank Zappa, Tori Amos, Beck, U2, Counting Crows, Etta James)

The music not only resonates with a contemporary freshness, but also revels in the influences of their organic fathers of funk and groove. This is some very fresh and exciting new music.
- Chris K., Gods of Music

Get ready to turn back the clock to a time when the all-mighty, all-natural groove dominated the airwaves. Think ... warm music. Music that puts a smile on your face.
- Chris Hathaway, Ampcast.com

Shagg slides 1970s jazz-folk grooves into its bluesy acoustic soul. Well-played and sung with jaw-clenched seriousness.
- Nick Dedina, Listen.com
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Contact Information

City Brooklyn
StateNY
Zip11215
Country United States

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loveblue From Blue
Feb, 18 2007

Wishing you all the very best...
I recently found out that I'm one of 10 finalists from the music contest on here that is eligible to win $1000 at the end of the month. In order for me to win, I must have the highest amount of votes by members, album sales and overall activity on my profile.

The night of Valentine's Day (music IS my lover) I recorded a few songs and they are now for sale as well. If it's been a while since you've seen my profile, do take a listen. Please check out my myspace profile too- there's a lot more to see, read and hear there (I'm a writer and videographer as well).

*with respect and gratitude*
thank you for your time and consideration.

in love, for love, feel love, be love, with love, my love, from love

alamourus From A.L. & Associates
Oct, 27 2006

peach is really good

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