Benevento/Russo Duo
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Benevento and Russo met while in junior high school in New Jersey. The Duo began in 2001 when Russo secured a weekly gig at New York’s Knitting Factory music club, and asked Benevento to join him on the Hammond B3 organ. By 2003 the band had self-released two albums, Debut Album (sometimes referred to as Benevento/Russo Duo) and Darts. In 2004, Best Reason to Buy the Sun was released on Ropeadope Records to critical acclaim. Play Pause Stop was released on July 11, 2006.
The Duo was the winner of New Groove of the Year in 2005, at the 5th Annual Jammys. Joe Russo has previously won the New Groove of the Year award in 2000, as a member of Fat Mama.
The band’s unique style blends elements of rock, punk, acid jazz, and fusion. This distinctive sound is the product of a gradual evolution that began with the Hammond organ-driven jazz improvisation of their Knitting Factory days. Their music is powerful and danceable;overdriven keyboard riffs (often looped on an electronic sampler), outlandish noise effects and forceful, technical drumming are all characteristic of the Duo’s musical style.
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Play Pause Stop
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Best Reason to Buy the Sun
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Live at Lollapalooza 2006: Benevento Russo Duo
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Raw Horse
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MonsterCB
absolutely fantastic sound, its a miserable cloudy day out side but i feel warm listening to you guys :)
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Tkooy
awesome drumming
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rhinowing
my pet goat rules
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PseudoSinister
simply cannot get enough. these guys are phenomenal!
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PenningtonNY10
Great combo right here.
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Baeblemusic1
Like listening to Benevento/Russo Duo? How about watching them rock out in concert! We caught them play the Bowery Ballroom in '06, check it out here: http://www.baeblemusic.com/concertvideo/TheBoweryBallroom/BeneventoRussoDuo.html
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JordyPLZ
UGH, YESSS!
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Dahmerish
Saw these guys at Terrapin Hill in '08 doing an incredible jam, definitely worthwhile live show. Echo park is their best chill out track.
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theleft
i suspect some foul play voting going on with the images
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mtp525
serious merging should go on with this band. And Joe Russo is now touring with Gene Ween!
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LikeBricks
This reeeeeeeally needs to merge with the benevento/russo duo
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darkestbob
So what's the correct tag?
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theleft
The best band for people who like them.
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GURT
anyone see any of the shows with The Join? So siiiick.
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robotzzz
whos pumped for boston!
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mosesxan
As an someone in the information management field, it drives me insane to see multiple pages for the same artist. There are very simple ways to map alternate spellings to be directed to one place. I've noticed last.fm does it for larger bands, but not the smaller ones.
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ashforth
Great band. I randomly picked up 'Best Reason to Buy the Sun' for about 50 cents at Sam Goody's going-out-of-business-sale about a year ago. Too bad these guys have like three lastfm pages... If it were all one, these guys would have almost 30,000 plays!
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Footwear85
Oh nice, thanks.
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idna
first 3 songs from the latest album here: www.beneventorussoduo.com/music/pps.htm
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theQuantic
these guys were insanly good in concert with trey and mike gordon
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