Four Star Riot

Real rock ‘n’ roll has never been trendy. It can’t be, because it’s timeless, eternal. Rock ‘n’ roll isn’t just about bad kids with good hearts, out late on a school night. It’s about always being able to make you remember how you felt when you were one of those kids, or desperately wanted to be. It’s about passion and heartbreak and release, about knowing better but going ahead and doing anyway. Real rock ‘n’ roll is incalculably more than melody, rhythm and sexual analogy. It’s gotta shake your soul as well as your ass.



With their new EP True Life, Tampa Bay's Four Star Riot have finally and perfectly reconciled the two most engaging facets of their musical psyche. After four albums that offered punchy power pop and sensual blue-eyed rock 'n' soul in separate but equal amounts, these five tunes bring the hooks and the swagger together to showcase FSR as an ace purveyor of infectious, finely crafted songs with both an energetic contemporary edge and a reverence for the classic R&B rhythms and passion of truly timeless rock 'n' roll. From the smoky barroom strut of “It Ain't Easy” through the slinky, Stones-y “Take It Slow,” True Life pays homage to the genre's best traditions while retaining Four Star Riot's uniquely catchy and evocative character.



Four Star Riot have supported Bon Jovi, Lit, Jimmy Eat World, Def Leppard, Sum 41, Sugarcult, and Saliva, among many others, and have performed at Austin’s annual South by Southwest SXSW industry to-do, as well as Atlanta’s Atlantis Music Festival and the Florida Music Festival. The group has also garnered multiple awards and kudos from the hometown press, and national ink in outlets such as Music Connection.