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This is NOT ‘only rock ‘n roll’ and anyone who thinks it is must have been dancing.
Sam Goodwill calls their music, “indie, electro and soul,” because you have to write something in those lines of your myspace page and there just isn’t enough space to explain, sometimes. They could have called it dance music, too, since it is danceable, but then when do you stop.
Here is “You are Here:” keyboard, guitar and drums, and synthesizer, and some other electronic gizmos; it has a rocking beat and opens with “I’m only happy when I’m living vicariously through men I envy.” Oh, and then Sam (nee Buonavolonta — let’s use Goodwill) gets down on his hands and knees and plays the foot pedals.
Sam — clearly the frontman, with wild Jerry Garcia hair and beard — does most of the singing, plays keys, guitar and electronic devices, and writes the songs. Beau Banfield plays guitar and bass and sings, and David Pokrivnak massages the skins.
That they are all talented musicians is almost lost in the complexity of their music, which seems to go everywhere and still stay the course. Sam says the two year old band is involved in a “somber celebration,” making “playful predictions of the end of the world.” What fun, eh?
Well it IS fun. And it is danceable. And it can get a little weird at times.
But it always comes back to this, their theme: “We can meet our maker as we are.” And they mean you, too.


Thanks for covering these guys! I dance every time! Them boys and their “electronic gizmos”
These guys are going to keep us all on our toes-
This band is awesome, they rock, you can’t help but wanta dance. Great article, look forward to more from Sam Goodwill. Saw them at Cedars, they rocked!
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