Tell-Tale Heartbreakers

The Tell Tale Heartbreakers emerged from the Bay Area’s underground music scene in late 2004. Since then, they sculpted their own sound, tearing through the post-punk music scene with tense, guitar and bass-driven songs that reflect the darker side of rock and roll. Their influences run deep, encompassing everything from Gothic Rock, New Wave, Post Punk to Psychobilly.



Fronting the Heartbreakers is Traci. Already an accomplished Gothic/Indie DJ, Traci formerly fronted the emencly popular, all girl Psychobilly band: The Deadutantes.



Guitarist Ryan Rosprim is no stranger to popular bands. Playing for the one of the Bay Area’s foremost gothic rock bands Kill Sister Kill and Gang of Grim.



Bassist Matt Eskew thumped along with the punk-a-billy band The BLANKS before moving on to form The Defiant Ones with members of Hayride to Hell and The Nite-Crawlers.



Last but not least, a recent addition to the Heartbreakers is drummer Michael Smartt.



The Tell-Tale Heartbreakers are working hard to record their second album, due out in 2010.



"When the sounds of Spellbound’s surf guitars faded, hard-edged Bay Area rockers the Tell-Tale Heartbreakers took over, filling the stage with smoke as lead singer Traci Lee strutted in high-heeled red boots. With a vocal sound that rests somewhere between Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O and The Donnas’ Brett Anderson, Lee led the quartet through the anti-stalking anthem “Haunted” and the thrash track “Tragedy,” both featured on the band’s recently released self-titled album. Heartbreak never rocked this much."

-Nicole Beckley



www.groundcontrolmag.com



The tradition of old bone shakin' ballads is back, reborn and springing forth with wicked vigor. Dismally delightful, the Tell-Tale Heartbreakers' graven tunes pack a punch with a fist full of serrated pieces from broken bottles and splintered hearts. Vivacious vox-vixen Traci delivers her trademark sultry sound, taking the audience and her band mates on a wild ride, the kind of ride you remember from the aches and pains that greet you in bed the morning after a late and lawless night. A feral pack of seasoned musicians, band mates Ryan, Matt and Joey orchestrate with ease; the spine-tingling pangs and clamor of a troupe of black cats on a hot tin roof. Distilled to poisonous perfection, the Tell-Tale Heartbreakers are definitely shaken, not stirred, and pour a potent formaldehyde cocktail of sinister song! Bottoms up!



-DJ Maverick Cadaverick

FresnoGoth.com