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Explorer's Club w/ Gringo Starr and Oh No No

Presented by The End at The End

January 5, 2012

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The Explorers Club, a band hailing from Charleston, SC, will be releasing its sophomore set, “Grand Hotel,” in early spring 2012, with Mark Linett (who just finished the mix on Beach Boys’ “SMiLE” for Capitol Records) mixing the release. In advance of the release of “Grand Hotel,” the band has readied three EP “suites” that will each feature one cover song not on the album, bundled with two early “under-construction” (pre-Linett) mixes of tracks from the forthcoming set. The second of the three suites, “The Carolinian Suite,” will be available exclusively at Amazon MP3 for free on November 22, 2011. The remaining Suite will be available in December, also for free, exclusively at Amazon MP3. The first suite, “The Californian Suite,” went to #7 on the Amazon free downloads chart.

The “Carolinian Suite,” which comes out next week, reprises the Classics IV hit, “Stormy,” along with originals “Sweet Delights” and “It’s No Use.” The “Californian Suite,” which is already out, features the Burt Bacharach standard, “Walk On By,” along with two Explorers Club originals (“Weight Of The World and “Summer Days, Summer Nights”). The “New Yorker Suite,” which comes out in December, will feature the Explorers Club’s take on the Vanity Fare opus, “Hitchin’ A Ride,” and it will be tied to “Anticipatin’” and “Run, Run, Run,” the latter of which will later be released to radio as the lead track from “Grand Hotel.”

“Grand Hotel” is the long-anticipated follow-up to the band’s close-your-eyes-and-you’d-swear-it-was-the-Beach Boys debut, “Freedom Wind,” and was produced in Atlanta by band member Jason Brewer, along with co-producer Matt Goldman. It features fifteen tracks that once again take listeners back in time to a period when radio was laden with songs by Burt Bacharach, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, and pop mainstays like The Grass Roots.

Also performing: Gringo Starr & Oh No No