Brownout

Brownout: Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2017

Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, blues and rock roots, he and his bandmates never lost their taste for Britain's Sabbath. Their first album of Sabbath covers, Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath (2014, Ubiquity) was acclaimed by both NPR, who named it one of that year's fifty best ...

Sometimes Jazz Takes Guts

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 28, 2017

Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II Ubiquity Records 2016 Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, blues and rock roots, he and his bandmates never lost their taste for Britain's Sabbath. Their first album of Sabbath covers, Brownout Presents Brown ...

Brownout: Aguilas and Cobras

by Chris M. Slawecki
December 23, 2009

The best little R&B band in (Austin) Texas is the Latino little brother to Grupo Fantasma, which often backs up the miniature R&B tornado known as Prince. “It's funny because we can be rehearsing with Grupo Fantasma one night and then the next night the same group of guys can go back to the rehearsal room and rehearse as Brownout and the music is completely different," muses guitarist Adrian Quesada. For its second release in this Latin configuration, Brownout emerges ...

New Brownout Album out & New Tour Dates Added

Source: Michael Ricci
September 15, 2009

Six Degrees has just released the new album from Brownout, the Psychedlic Latin-Funksters' sophomore release, Aguilas and Cobras. The members of Brownout have backed the legendary Prince in Las Vegas, at Coachella and on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Their other alter-ego band Grupo Fantasma was also nominated for a GRAMMY last year. Brownout is Grupo Fantasma's psychedelic Latin funk little brother.

UPCOMING US TOUR DATES: Wed 9/16/09: Club Congress, Tuscon, AZ Thu 9/17/09: Zanzibar, Santa Monica, ...
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Six Degrees Announces Brownout Album & Us Tour

Source: Press Junkie PR
August 27, 2009

If ever a band could boast having a complex genealogical tree, that band is Brownout. The eight-piece, Latin funk ensemble based in Austin, Texas, is both offspring and germinating seed to Grammy-nominated Grupo Fantasma. The latter in turn traces its roots to when Austin based Blue Noise Band and The Blimp, from booming border town of Laredo, Texas, converged in its conception.

Brownout may well be Grupo Fantasma's psychedelic Latin funk little brother, an offshoot of the collective that regularly ...
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