Added set lists from July 10th, at Newport Blues Cafe, July 12th, at Memorial Park and a photo gallery from the Rock & Blues Cruise courtesy of R. Pelletier. We're missing information from the 11th in Outerland, however. If you have any photos or stories to submit please do so.

Darek discovered a video of Letter To The President from the 12th on YouTube, and Onlycrayons has audio and some pictures from these shows on the way. We'll have those links up for you when they're finished, so check back in the coming days or sign up on the message board and stay ahead of the game.

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

This past Friday evening, Rustic Overtones played a spectacular set for an enthusiastic crowd aboard the Frederick L. Nolan, Jr., a ship which is part of the Rock and Blues Cruise fleet. However, due to the huge turnout, it looked more like a giant tin of human-sardines.

Despite being packed from wall to wall, floor to floor, floor to ceiling, bow to stern, nobody seemed to care. It was a great show, and a unique event. You can scope out the set list from the show along with a great recap courtesy of Donna and OswegoMatt from the Message Board.

I've also uploaded to videos I shot to YouTube, although there isn't much to see. Since the band was not elevated on a stage of any sort, you couldn't see much beyond the first couple rows. I filmed them from the bow of the ship, through the doorways on each side. They still sound good, though!

You can listen to Rustic Overtones play C'mon below, or click for History Crush.

Labels: Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

Rustic Overtones performed Saturday at Tulip Fest, in Washington Park, in Albany NY. Above is a video of them playing "Oxygen." We have added a photo gallery from this date, as well.

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Video

First off, apologies for the lack of recent updates. As you have noticed, the site has gotten a much needed makeover. This took up much of the time that would have been used to compose the updates. Please let us know if we missed anything! Anywho, with things wrapping up, we have some serious catching up to do!

Set lists and photos from recent shows at Tupelo Music Hall, Asylum, Paradise Rock Club and Jerky's Bar. Check out the new, consolidated Dates page for those links, as well as the upcoming schedule.

In addition to set lists and photos, there are four(!) new full shows available from these dates on archive.org. Huge thanks to everybody for their contributions!

Labels: Audio, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

Exclusive new video for Rustic Overtones' "Letter To The President," from their new record "Light At The End". Directed by Doug Karr & Edward Boyce.


The video was shot in Brooklyn on February 29 when the boys were in NYC for their sold-out shows at Sullivan Hall.

The tour continues on with two final stops in Providence on Friday the 18th and Boston the 19th. Thanks to Darek and oswegomatt for their setlist and report from last night's show at Higher Ground. A new gallery has just been posted featuring Darek's shots.

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

Above is a video of Rustic Overtones performing Crash Landing from their set Thursday night, at Revolution Hall. I was able to film three other songs as well, Carnival, Iron Boots, and a unique rendition of Letter to the President capping the evening.

As their extended tour down the East Coast winds down, so have things around here, and finally found some time to add all the fresh pictures, videos and setlists.

So far each date has had at least some brief notes, varying to setlists with full, detailed summaries. Head to the index to see what you missed.

The gallery has some recent additions, from their shows at the Santa Fe Cafe and the Gravity Lounge (thanks to Forum member rusty covertones) as well as pictures to accompany a few videos from Revolution Hall. Also added to the gallery are some photos from their first show of 2008, at Sunday River.

Labels: Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

Pictures, setlist and recording of the Rustic Overtones performance at Bull Moose on Saturday have been added to our archive. Check out the gallery and setlist while you await your download.

A big thank you to Nuphus for the photos, and you guessed it, Onlycrayons, for the audio. Thanks to Donna as well for the clip above as well as one of Troublesome, which you can see here.

Labels: Audio, Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

It's official. Light At The End is set to debut nationwide this Tuesday. If you haven't already, I'd suggest placing your order at Bull Moose. They are offering an exclusive 7" vinyl, free with pre-orders, featuring the title track Light At The End and Sector Z, featuring David Bowie. Supply is limited, but still available for the time being..

March 18th also begins the reissuing of their "back catalog" with a "deluxe" edition of Long Division. Dem, a web manager for Bull Moose, was asked exactly what makes it "deluxe," to which he replied:

It's repackaged with new artwork in a cardboard case and includes three bonus tracks (14-16): "Red Afternoon", "Redemption Pays", and "Let Me Grabbitz". Haven't heard them and can't say whether they're live tracks, demos, stuff they played live but didn't include on studio records, session recordings, or brand new tracks.

Labels: Links, Rustic Overtones

Labels: Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

I've finished going back through my collection, and I have more goodies for you. Yeah, it took me over a week, but I was comparing what I had to items available on the Official Media Thread before I posted them to avoid duplicates. I believe these will all be new additions.

Without further ado, here's your links:

Rustic Overtones - Black Leather Bag.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Happy.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Last Night's Band.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Check.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Rock Like War.mp3
Rustic Overtones - Simple Song.mp3

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

Several tour dates have been discovered for Rustic Overtones, as well as Paranoid Social Club, Lettuce, and Soulive.

Rustic Overtones w/ Lettuce
Friday 2/29/2008
Sullivan Hall, NYC, NY (tickets)

Rustic Overtones w/ Lettuce
Saturday 3/1/2008
Sullivan Hall, NYC, NY (tickets)

Rustic Overtones
Thursday 3/27/2008
The 8x10, Baltimore, MD (the8x10.com)

Paranoid Social Club w/ Planeside
Friday 2/1/2008
MJ's Tavern, Brunswick, ME (via MJ's myspace)

Paranoid Social Club w/ Rude Boy Riot & Forgetful Jones
Friday 2/8/2008
Harper's ferry, Allston, MA (harpersferryboston.com)

Paranoid Social Club w/ Sidecar Radio
Friday, 2/22/2008
Brickhouse, Dover, NH (doverbrickhouse.com)

Soulive
Friday, 3/7/2008
Sundance at Mt. Snow, West Dover, VT (soulive myspace)

Soulive
Saturday, 3/8/2008
The Asylum, Portland, ME (soulive myspace)

There's also a hint of some West Coast dates coming this Spring. As always, the latest rumblings and grumblings can be found on the Rocklikewar.com Message Board.

Labels: Lettuce, Links, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones

As promised, the New Year's Eve Bash was recorded. The quality isn't the best, unfortunately, due to input levels, but it's better than nothing, and there's some great moments in each set that are worth checking out, absolutely. The setlist is up (yes, finally) with notes from the message board by Darek.

Here's links to the recordings, I sliced up the three sets posted on the board into tracks, and zipped them by set: As Fast As, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones

Capping things off in a big way, here's a boatload of Youtube links. A huge thanks to Kane for capping them!! Nice work!!

As Fast As
Open Letter To The Damned
Gretchen My Captain (embedded above)
This Is Real Part 1
This Is Real Part 2

Paranoid Social Club
Theme Song
Rhythm Is (With Spencer)
Fuckin With My Head

Rustic Overtones
The Letter & Hardest Way Possible
C'Mon
Sector Z

Labels: As Fast As, Audio, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Video

Here is a video of Dig, recorded at the New Year's Eve show at Northern Lights. Thanks to Cherry from the board for grabbing this and sharing it with us!

Labels: Rustic Overtones, Video

Three sets of pictures are now online from last night's New Year's Eve Bash at Northern Lights, presented by WEQX. I sorted them into separate galleries for each band, instead of one gigantic one.

As Fast As kicked things off, followed by Paranoid Social Club. Everyone took the stage to countdown to midnight, and then Rustic Overtones began their set. The entire show was recorded, but it might not have come out that well. Check back for that in the coming days.

Labels: As Fast As, Links, Paranoid Social Club, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, WEQX

Missed the Rustic Overtones show at the Waterville Opera House? As you can see, MPBN has it! But they're not alone. There's a few versions of this performance available for download.

Board member Nuphus recorded it from the live stream (Part 1, Part 2) although experienced an occasional cut-out in the sound. Next, you can download it from the MPBN site, as one huge mp3. Your third option is courtesy of Darek, who cut the MPBN copy into separate tracks. You can download that zip file here.

MPBN has also made Marie Morsehead's set available. You'll have to grab that from their site, however.

I've tacked on the setlist for the show which includes a long commentary by Nuphus, so check that out while you wait for your downloads. Also, if you were in attendance at the Pickle Barrel, on the 27th, we are missing that setlist and/or details. Get in touch with us if you have something! Thanks to everyone for their efforts!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

Rustic is playing NOW at the Waterville Opera House. It is an acoustic show featuring an orchestra composed of local musicians, mostly high school students. More information can be found here.

You can listen to a live stream of the show broadcast by Maine Public Broadcasting Network here, and if you miss it, don't worry! The show will also be made available to download in the coming week. Apologies for the late notice, but better late than never, no?

Labels: Audio, Rustic Overtones

Here are links to a recording of Friday's show at Harpers Ferry. There are two options to download, track by track as single mp3s, or in 2 parts (part 1, part 2) in zip files. Huge thanks to Peter (Onlycrayons) for getting this taped!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

Pictures and setlists are up, from the weekend's shows at Harpers Ferry, in Allston / Boston, Massachusetts. Both nights featured some treats, such as Dig, Pop Trash, and Long Division; and as usual, hijinks and wisecracks from the guys. There's some tidbits included as notes with the setlists, as well as some discussion on Tim's message board, including taping Friday's performance.

Friday: Setlist, Gallery
Saturday: Setlist, Gallery

Labels: Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

I am off to Boston for the weekend, to catch Saturday's (and maybe Friday's too) performance at Harpers Ferry. Getting together with my old roommate, and with questionable weather, it could be a few days until I'm able to upload and post my pictures. I'm bringing my camera junk with me, so if there's time I'll do it there.

In the meantime, I leave you with some old goodies. First item of business, all of the photo galleries have been revamped. The images have been moved to a dedicated photobucket, and the galleries were reworked so that it's no longer a single column down the whole page. Faster loading, less scrolling, happier fingers!

The second item is another bootleg, featuring Rustic Overtones, live at Fletcher's, in Baltimore, Maryland. This set is from June 14, 2001. I thought it was on Archive.org, but I can't find it anymore, so I put it up. You can download it here. Have a great weekend!

Labels: Audio, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

No surprises here, Darek came through once again with some great shots of the Stone Church performance from Saturday, December 8th. You may have seen them already, I forgot to post something up here, but if you haven't, go check 'em out and learn more of Rustic's affinity for pumpkins.

The setlist is also up. We're missing Friday's, but there is a recording of that show in the works, that should clear things up. We'll put a link up when it becomes available. Stay tuned 'toned..

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

Thursday night, the Rustic Overtones played the Mercury Lounge, in New York City. Tonight and tomorrow they're at The Stone Church, in New Market, New Hampshire. And last Friday they were at the Ultra Lounge, in Orono, Maine. All in all a busy week.

I have added the setlist from the Mercury Lounge, but we are looking for reports from the 30th, and if you are attending a show, let us know how it went. We will credit you for anything you can contribute - a setlist/review, pictures, and so forth. This is a fan site, so we need your help! Just be sure to leave us a comment, send us an email, or shoot me (jeffd) a private message on the Rock Like War forum with anything you can share, because I'm not going to put things up without your permission.

As mentioned in a previous post, Oxygen is in the WEQX rotation. Today, during the Top 5 at 5, they announced the New Years Eve bash, confirming that it is indeed a triple-header, with not only Rustic, but As Fast As, and Paranoid Social Club.

A lot of board members have said they will be traveling, and with their popularity in EQXland factored in, I expect a solid turnout. Be advised to reserve yourself some tickets, else you could be turned away. Also, if you're buying online, I recommend using musictoday instead of ticketmaster, as the service charge is a bit less.

Labels: As Fast As, Links, Paranoid Social Club, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, WEQX

In case you don't read the message board (you should!) members Darek & 4khiker unearthed an old gem of a show and have shared it with us. It is a live acoustic recording from The Big Easy on August 17th, 2001. You can a) download it here, b) check out the setlist here, or c) read (and register!) for the forum here.

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists

WEQX has added the Rustic Overtones song Oxygen to their current rotation. I heard it Sunday afternoon, while making some last minute rounds for work stuff with the ominous forecast and some light flurries. You can submit an e-quest or call in to their request line: (802) 362-1027

Labels: Links, Rustic Overtones, WEQX

The 2001 setlist archive is now fully functional. It was a bit monotonous pasting the archived information and adding the formatting, but it was really cool to read all the stories and comments included with many performances. For example, their Halloween show from 2001:

In honor of Halloween, the band took to the stage with pumpkins on their heads! Yes, these were actual pumpkins that the guys gutted and carved. Jon had lights in the eyes of his pumpkin which made it look pretty evil.

Rustic was not as active as they normally are on stage because they wore the pumpkins for the entire show! At the end of their set, all of the guys removed
their pumpkins and
smashed them on the stage.

Labels: Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hopefully by now you're over your tryptophan (myth busted!) or otherwise induced holiday hangover, because there is lots of news and rumors swirling about the Rustic Overtones.

First piece of business is that they are releasing a DVD expected to be out in the Spring. They are also re-issuing Long Division in time for the "Holidays." This was confirmed via a teaser for the DVD featured on their MySpace page. I have embedded the second trailer below.



They have also signed some sort of record deal, of which the specifics aren't yet clear. That said, forum member araungzeb reported talk from Spence and Dave that both Long Division and Light At The End will be reissued, featuring bonus tracks, as part of this deal.

While you're checking out the DVD teasers on their page, have a look at the tour dates as they have several shows coming up around New England. One to keep your eye on is the New Year's Eve show. According to Northern Lights' calendar, it is shaping up to be one for the ages, featuring not only the Rustic Overtones, but Paranoid Social Club and As Fast As!! Unbelievable!!

Finally, as promised, I've found the time to get Darek's shots up in a gallery from the Higher Ground show earlier in the month. Use the site navigation for full on gallery goodness.

Labels: As Fast As, Links, Paranoid Social Club, Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Video

There is a new link on the Rustic Overtones area for setlists. There was a suggestion to add such a section to the site, and with some help from the forum community collecting information, we were able to compile them in one location. Sign up and join in!

For the time being, only the 2007 shows and the 2002 State Theater Final Show are working, hopefully using the Wayback Machine we can recoup the old data from the old Rustic fan sites. We'll also work to keep the collection up to date.

Labels: Links, Rustic Overtones, Setlists, Site News

Rustic played Friday night, at Higher Ground, in Burlington, Vermont. A handful of board members were in attendance, including Adam/Handsingloves, who was kind enough to tape the show and hook us up. As always, get it here or head on over to the Rustic media section for it and more goodies. A gallery is also in the makings, courtesy of Darek, which I will put up soon. Thanks again, you two!

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones

Rustic has been keeping busy and filling their schedule.. check out their MySpace page for "officially announced" tour dates. Alternatively (or in addition to that) you can keep tabs on the RockLikeWar message board. The official MySpace page seems to be sporadically updated, and often times dates and venues will be posted up on the message board well in advance. It's a great resource and fun getting to know fellow fans.

Labels: Links, Rustic Overtones

New pictures added to the RO Gallery, from their Asylum show back on July 28th. Many thanks to Darek for these! As always, here's a direct link for the lazies :p

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones

Thanks to the fan community we have pieced together the lyrics for Light At The End. You can use the site navigation or simply click here to browse them. We have also added an "Online Merch Table" thanks to Nimbit, a company that helps independent artists get their music to their fans directly. Click on over to the main page of the Rustic section to check it out, and if you've got a site or blog of your own, join in the embed-a-thon!

Labels: Lyrics, Rustic Overtones, Site News

Rustic performed at Revolution Hall last night, their last scheduled performance as of now. While I've been to several PSC shows, it was actually my first time seeing Rustic Overtones. It was a killer show and a good turnout. I snapped several pictures and some video of Iron Boots. See them here or use the navigation and scope out the entire archive as well.

Labels: Pictures, Rustic Overtones, Video

The moment we've all been waiting for. Earlier this evening the guys played their first real show, with all the guys there, plugged-in and everything.


You can see a small gallery here at MaineToday, and more importantly you can find a recording(!) of the performance, broken into individual tracks, courtesy of Tim over at RockLikeWar. If you've got any shots of your own, pass 'em on to us and we'll get them into a gallery.

Labels: Audio, Links, Pictures, Rustic Overtones

Chances are you're already scoring all the goodies there, but if you haven't found it yet, click on over to www.rocklikewar.com. Some great finds, mastered live recordings both new and old. Be sure to drop in and sign up on the forums, join the discussion, and get to know fellow rustic fans.

Labels: Audio, Links, Rustic Overtones, Video