Buttercup

Since Buttercup played their first gig together in 2003, it has been a constant production of maniacal bliss in the form of art rock, brought to an audience in unconventional and creative ways. Formed in San Antonio, the band has fused a true post-modern sound that crams their love of The Kinks, Neil Young and The Talking Heads into something more at home with fellow Texans Spoon, Chicago's Wilco or New York's Interpol.



The band shows no sign of slowing their pace, joyously celebrating the July 2009 release of their third full length album, “The Weather Here” produced by Salim Nourallah (Rhett Miller, The Old 97s), whose songwriting and production skills have created the group's best recording to date. With 3 self-produced EP's released in 2007-2008, Buttercup was armed with more than enough studio experience to basically record what is their first "live" record with Salim - and the energy and emotion is palpable.



From their charmingly arranged harmonies to their unpredictable onstage antics, Buttercup is comfortable and chameleon-like in a live setting. The Cup revels in their ability to adapt from a stripped-down, intimate setting to a raucous, energetic and unpredictable club show. Employing such whimsical tools as an old rotary telephone, tambourines, glockenspiels and other fanciful homemade instruments, fans have come to expect the barriers between the stage and audience to be broken; teeth to be lost and hearts to be won.



"I Am a Tiger" -- a video directed by Jose JonesButtercup "I am a Tiger"



Buttercup -- "Doug Manion" @ the Limelight, Sept 2008.



Buttercup -- "Johnny Appleseed" @ the Limelight, Sept 2008.



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