Local Face on My Space: 534

While not a “local” band, 534, from Brooklyn, N.Y., will be on our local green turf here this coming weekend, both at Friday Night Live and Saturday at The Grist Mill.

While I don’t generally gravitate to R&B/pop music, I gave listen to the material on their MySpace page.

I also clicked on their video for the song, “The Same.” Both the songs and the video are clearly well produced, with solid hooks, both lyrically and musically, and the video does a nice job sliding back and forth from “the story” to the band playing.

Quoting the site: “Helming from Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, founding members Adam Root and Paul Orne upon meeting in early 2004 realized that they had quite a similar vision for the band that would be known as a few other names before the two finally settling on 534.”

Why 534? I guess you’ll have to ask them yourself. Whatever reason they have for the name, I could easily imagine this band’s material being on mainstream pop radio in the near future and will be looking forward to seeing their reception in Rutland.

If you want to be 534’s friend, you can find them at http://www.myspace.com/534music.

George Nostrand