Tired of being Spoon fed new music; Get Ready For McREADYROCK

With the five major music labels dictating what music we should enjoy; it becomes increasingly difficult to find a unique sound on the radio waves. I find myself having to dig deeper and deeper to find something better then Nickelback or 30 Seconds to Mars. All of Nickelback's songs sound exactly the same and all whiny punk music should be taken off the radio, no one cares if your girlfriend doesn't love you any more. And yet these are the choices that we have to live with unless you start doing some serious legwork.

Last Saturday night I stumbled into Phoenixville's own "Moon Saloon". I was initially irritated and perplexed when I was forced to pay a five dollar cover for some local band that I had never heard about. "Great," I thought to myself, "I have to pay 10 dollars (5 for me and 5 for my girlfriend) so I can hear some middle aged losers play 'Smoke on the Water' for an hour and a half."

Needless to say you can imagine my surprise when I heard a remarkable sound coming from the back of the bar. The band is called McReadyRock and the only way I can describe their music is a cross between Rage Against the Machine (without the politics) and the Parliament Funkadelics (without the acid). These guys are all under 25 years old and have been playing together for under a year; yet they sound as if they have been throwing it down for a decade.

I asked the youngest member of the band and sick lead guitarist, Alex, how he handled the live shows at the Moon Saloon. "The Moon is our home base. I'd say we probably play here more then anywhere else. We need to get some money together in order to get some equipment in order to start a local tour or something."

If you would like to check out McReady Rock go to their myspace page at www.myspace.com/mcreadyrock

The band will be taking a hiatus for the next few weeks because their percussionist Alex (not the same Alex as before) is getting married. Congratulations!