For the past five years, ROCKWIRED.COM has boasted a one-of-a-kind, online musical reportage. Not only has the independently published venture gained international notoriety, but it has also given LUSH some of the best conversation of his life. “I guess that is why anyone would really want to do something like this. No one really thinks about how hard a good conversation is to come by and with ROCKWIRED I feel blessed.”
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
ASH'S ANGELS
ASH GRAY OF ASH GRAY AND THE GiRLSTALKS TO ROCKWiRED
ABOUT THEiR EP THiS COULD BE A WiLD NiGHT
WORKiNG WiTH THE GiRLS
AND BRiNGiNG MELODY BACK TO ROCK MUSiC
iNTERViEWED BY BRiAN LUSH
Forget the bleak economic forecast that creeps its way into the already depressing nightly news. It’s time to pop the E.P. ‘THIS COULD BE A WILD NIGHT’ into your car stereo, crank it up and slam into fifth gear (provided you drive stick). This smashing debut from ASH GRAY AND THE GIRLS is all sun, fun and kitsch marked by some of the most epic melodies and vocal arrangements this side of MEATLOAF. While singer-songwriter ASH GRAY is front and center, his four girl singers - KG, HELEN, MARY and ABBI - are hardly what anyone would think of as “backup”. In a pop age where everyone is going goo-goo for GAGA and showing dismay over sickeningly-earnest asshole songwriter using the n-word in a PLAYBOY interview, ASH GRAY AND THE GIRLS are here to prove just how powerful simple things like melody and harmony can be. If only the CD was more than seven songs! (READ MORE)