Vulture Whale has business with your stereo.

If your ears and stereo have not set up a meeting with the first Vulture Whale record, they might want to sort that out! The straight-up and earnest rock effort from this Birmingham, AL bands band will keep you and your boom box on the best of terms.

Vulture Whale to release their sophomore effort in early 09 on Skybucket Records!

All Music Guide - ...an entertaining collection of rock songs.

Pop Culture Press - There is a new sound brewing in the Old South. Birmingham, Alabama Vulture Whale is angular power pop just as indebted to the vibes of
black-leather-jacketed Tom Verlaine and Lou Reed as they are to their
Dixie homeland.

Take the songwriting abilities of do-it-all Wes McDonald, honed from years of idea-capturing and self-recording. Here¹s a guy who cranks out an album every year and never lets a good lyric get away even if he has to pop into the stairwell real quick and write it on his hand with his trusty Sharpie. Wes has recorded five solo albums, two with Athens, GA band The Ohms, two under the pseudonym Terry Ohms, and has produced records for dozens of bands.

Now take Lester Nuby, seasoned multi-instrumentalist, and rock veteran who drummed with Verbena, and played on countless other projects while somehow living in both Birmingham, AL and Los Angeles. With his crazy-good ear for harmonies and his
³what-you-want-to-do-on-your-axe-when-you-get-home² guitar treatments, he packs all kinds of tanned flesh onto the growing body of Vulture Whale¹s work. VW has recorded two albums in the last two years.

Then you got this Keelan Parrish character who got all good at the bass living in Clanton and Auburn. Keelan is the band muscle, who also lends his sturdy dirty hands to the ongoing beautification of the band¹s rehearsal/studio space/headquarters in Birmingham. His bass playing is as locked-in as that construction worker next door who starts hammering YYZ at 7:05 in the morning so incessantly that you begin tapping or humming along into your pillow. By the way‹that guy next door hammering probably IS Keelan.

Check out Jake Waitzman on drums. He¹s known Wes and Les since junior high, and now the four of them can do that sibling ESP thing when they sit down or stand up to arrange a song. Jake has a style all his own that seems to borrow from every cool drum thing you¹ve ever heard while keeping mad tasty hi-hat time and flaring up right at the perfect moment to give way to the next direction of these addictively crafted rock songs.

Vulture Whale¹s second self-produced record, scheduled for release in early 2009, is further proof of a close-knit rock band hitting their stride. The album, mixed by Mark Rains, will be released on Skybucket Records (Dexateens, 13ghosts, Barton Carroll), also out of Birmingham.
The tracks cover the basic necessities of an album your stereo will savor and not spit out anytime soon. Clever, plain spoken and often brutally honest lyrics sit atop inventive, catchy melodies and are underscored by lush, thumpy, grooved-out arrangements. The songs swoop
in and grasp, delivering the listener safely to the rugged but somehow familiar lair of the Vulture Whale. So, set up that meeting with your stereo to receive the business.

Upcoming Tour Dates:
9.19- The Flying Monkey, Huntsville, Alabama
9.20- Caledonia, Athens, Georgia
9.21- Rojo, Birmingham, Alabama
10.17- Egans, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
10.18- Government Street Grocery, Ocean Springs, Mississippi
10.21- National Underground - CMJ - New York, NY
11.15- Hummingbird, Macon, Georgia