Longstay

"It's not hard to imagine that Longstay's debut Homes & Houses was written and recorded during long nights with whiskey bottles scattered around the room and Otis Redding and The Band on the turntable." -VISIBLEVOICE
"Their debut EP, Homes & Houses, is a nice little appetizer of 7 songs that leaves you wanting more. Every track is solid, with lead singer Nik Ewing at times channeling a hint of Mick Jagger." -HEARYA
".Americana-leaning band with enough pop sensibility to hook and pull you in and is able to capture a dynamic range of moods, demonstrating a knack for aligning themes with notes." -MIXTAPE MUSE



There is no glamorous behind the scenes story here. They were not raised by wolves, they don't have famous friends on TV, they have never done drugs with hookers or even stayed up past midnight. You may or may not know that they have been alternately paid in beer for shows, used student loans to press an EP or that the lead guitarist regularly goes to bed at 9:30. You may not care that their tours involve shirtless "dad-wrestling," may or may not include the same instrumentation as the night prior (or functioning instruments for that matter) and at the end of the night, has a decent probability of a stage full of friends and strangers alike, belting out "The Weight." LONGSTAY is best personified by acknowledging their debt to Bob Dylan for selling out or to three part harmonies or to their actual monetary debt in this modern American Dustbowl.
Their first EP, "Houses & Homes", was self-released at San Diego's legendary Casbah; described as "a melting soundscape of americana, blues-ridden guitar licks, harmonies, folkishness, rockability and other imaginary words that aren't real but sound cool." Even the LONGSTAY orchestra lends its services to Homes & Houses, pulling a string section, a few horns and recruiting some drunks for choir detail to embellish what was mostly recorded completely live.