Search - Porter Block :: Off Our Shoulders

Off Our Shoulders is a rock record filled with catchy power-pop melodies, harmonies, driving guitars and a powerful back beat that one can imagine hearing both on the radio and blasting from a car s stereo. The radio-ready songs were developed out of simple stories. All of Who I Am sounds like a love song to a girl, but turns out to be about a Martin Guitar. Sun Goes Down was inspired by the famous Howard Cossell line down goes Frazier and was written as a radio broadcast of a boxing match. Happy Everything came from a holiday card and its overly perky sentiment conjured a cynic s perspective on the holiday season.

Porter Block was a 2007 New Music Weekly AC Best New Group of the year nominee. They also contributed to the popular, Guilt By Association compilation alongside Devendra Banhart, Bonnie Prince Billy, Mike Watt, Jim O Rourke, among others. The band toured the East Coast with Deep Blue Something this winter and will be heading out on tour again this summer.