We’re pulling out all the stops for this show, and we’ll feature some very special guest performers with us. We’re playing with our good friends I Fight Dragons, who will just have returned home from their 6 week coast to coast national tour.  Pretty Good Dance Moves from Brooklyn, NY is also playing.

Doors are at 8pm and the fun starts right at 9pm when we take the stage.

This show is a fulfillment of a lifelong dream for Matt and Tom, who grew up going to shows there and living in it’s shadow. For the band, it signifies a new level for us. It’s the culmination of years
of hard work and we are in the mood to celebrate.

Buy cheaper tickets ($6) online right now HERE - by entering the code “cobalt” for the “Band 2″ category – or pay $11 at the door

Please come out and support us for this one. Come out and help us celebrate the most important show of our lives.  Thanks so much to all of you who have helped us get here!

9 PM – Cobalt & the Hired Guns: www.myspace.com/cobaltandthehiredguns
10 PM -Pretty Good Dance Moves: www.myspace.com/prettygooddancemoves
11 PM – I Fight Dragons: www.myspace.com/ifightdragons

More info, and a bunch of radio promo things to come!

The Jersey Beat just released really great reviews of “The Double Single” and “Jump the Fence,” written by Joe Wawrzyniak. You can read the review in context here.  A stellar review, and more explicit love for “Secrets of the Burgh!”

COBALT AND THE HIRED GUNS – The Double Single

This two song EP CD delivers seven minutes worth of neatly hoppin’ and harmonic country-tinged pop-rock fun. The lively tempos and jumpin’ beats keep things peppy and rousing while the robust vocals and snappy playing are both up to speed. A cool little item.

COBALT AND THE HIRED GUNS – Jump the Fence

A smooth-jumpin’ blast of pure straight-up cookin’ basic rock’n’roll, this album goes down easy with a good deal of flair and spark to spare. There’s no dreaded pretense or needless flashy razzle-dazzle to speak of. Instead we have neatly vibrant and melodic meat-and-potatoes rock that gets right down to snazzy brass tacks with admirable economy and tunefulness. The pleasant vocals, clean and crisp arrangements, and proficient playing keep things bubbling along throughout. Favorite song: The hard-groovin’ number “Secrets of the Burgh.” A solid and worthwhile album.

Double Single was the perfect way to kick off a Chicago summer.  You Left Your Sweater is a boot stomping anthem about the transitory nature of summer love and Of Chicago is a Jason Mraz meets Dashboard Confessional anthem.  The addition Alexander’s sweet vocals on Of Chicago is delightful and fills the track with the sort of tension that tugs at your heart strings.

TD: Things are starting to blow up, that’s exciting! So, would you guys say you have an over arching musical, performance, band philosophy you are working with?

TF: Love and fun. We love each other, we love what we’re doing, we love the people that come to the shows.  We love playing the venues.

MH: I mean, you’ll see, like when we play, it’s all about having a great time and not pretending that we’re not.  We’re doing exactly what we want to be doing. So we try to share that.

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/30/32_30_smash_cobalt.html

It’s official:  Brooklyn LOVES “Secrets of the Burgh!”