We are super excited to be performing at the Campfire Festival in Lakewood, PA this weekend! Feeling very humbled to be playing along with so many amazing artists such as Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires, Delta Spirit, Lake Street Dive, and many more.

Tickets are still available here if you’re interested: http://www.campfirefestival.com/accommodations

Hope to see you there!!

Ghosts of Jupiter - http://ghostsofjupiter.com/
Banana Phonetic - http://bananaphonetic.com/

Doors: 8pm
Show: 9pm

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01004722C59C86CD

Grab you tickets here:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01004635DCBB9C11

We’re excited to play you some cuts from our upcoming EP “The Facts of Evolution,” plus some other surprises.

We’ll be opening, so come early and catch the whole show. It’s gonna be a blast!!!

Sweet and shifty. That’s what you get when you mix the savory sounds of Boston’s best after-dinner treat, Banana Phonetic, a BP that you can trust, with the itinerant crew of vagabonds who make up the sewer-blues side project: August West and the Rest. Stoked and stoned: It’s my general condition sittin’ back with a Buddha sack, knowing that this very sonic split is on the menu Wednesday night (December at Precinct down in Union Square, Somerville.

Banana Phonetic, fresh off their rowdy stint at Brooklyn’s Trash Bar a couple weekends back—and flaunting a new, five-strong front—is surely one of the best of Boston’s burgeoning groups, bringing high-voltage psychedelica and downbeat funk in a concise, well-honed package. Haunting vocals float over a soupy-thick rhythmic backdrop with searing guitar leads pumping effect-laden surges through the twisting soundscape for a real cool time. And the rag-tag troubadours of August West and the Rest are coming together Wednesday night for a rare and special treat. Utilizing a groove-based gutter flow of street-swing, test-tube mind expansion and good ol’ fashioned grime, this synapse-singing syndicate will most assuredly deliver a tasty dish of vaga-blues for the Phonetic prequel.

(9:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 8, Precinct, 70 Union Square, Somerville, 21+, no cover) Bartlett

This album is perfect for a long drive on a sunny day. The EP starts out with a track fit for the beach, as “It Was A Drag” uses simple chords, drum tracks, and high-pitched vocals for a happy, poppy effect. The album progresses to become more intense and dramatic, as the instrumental work becomes more complicated and the melodies more thought provoking. By the time “Metronome” comes on, the album takes a 180 and suddenly a heavy bass drum introduces piano chords in a minor key. Here the group enters Radiohead territory.

Overall, this album shows a wide range of musicianship from each of the four members. Not one of the songs sounds like the other, and each musician proves his capabilities with the wide range of sounds produced by each instrument. The songs are powerful and filled with an array of emotion. If this album doesn’t send you on a meditative journey, it will definitely take you on a ride through different spectrums of sounds and melodies, and make you wonder where this band is headed next. (Self-released)

-Natalie Gergely, Performer Magazine

Banana Phonetic & Otis Grove
Tomorrow night at Precinct in Somerville.
It’s gonna be a great show and if you haven’t heard Otis Grove yet, you really need to do that. We’re really psyched to be playing with such awesome bands these days.