Black Pistol Fire
Canadian-born, Austin-based rock duo blending southern rock and garage punk.
The band's music was described by one journalist as setting their toes tapping from the first listen.[1] Kevin McKeown and Eric Owen, who first met as students in a North Toronto elementary school kindergarten class, form the rock duo Black Pistol Fire.[2]
Quick Facts
- Formed
- 2011
- Origin
- Canada (born), Austin, Texas (based)
- Genre
- Classic southern rock, garage punk
- Members
- Kevin McKeown (guitar/lead vocals), Eric Owen (drums)
- Notable work
- Deadbeat Graffiti (2017), Look Alive (2021)
Facts from the source article.
Making and release
At the same festival, they performed the song "Antifa" with a demonstrator raising a red and black flag.[3] A reviewer noted that Black Pistol Fire made enough noise to rouse even tired festival-goers.[3] After another act canceled, they were moved to open the main stage an hour later.[4] Another single, "Bully", reached number five on the same chart.[5]
During their high school years, McKeown and Owen began performing rock and roll music together.[2] The same publication, Consequence of Sound, ranked Black Pistol Fire's set as the top performance of the 2017 Voodoo Fest.[6] In 2018, the track "Lost Cause" climbed to the top spot on Canada's rock radio airplay chart.[5]
What the cited sources add
The same review described the festival's Saturday weather as unseasonably hot.[3] The reviewer credited drummer Eric Owen's heavy beats for driving McKeown's performance.[4] A 2012 article listed the band's website, SoundCloud, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube pages as ways to find them.[1]
References
- Danger, "Black Pistol Fire brings rock And roll music back to Texas", The Victoria Advocate, 2012-08-22. facts only, no text reused. victoriaadvocate.com
- Wikipedia, "Black Pistol Fire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hardee, "Behind Black Pistol Fire's Smoking-Hot Rock & Roll: Two Life-Long Friends", Riverfront Times, 2017-10-04; Danger, "Black Pistol Fire brings rock And roll music back to Texas", The Victoria Advocate, 2012-08-22 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Suzanne-Mayer, "Riot Fest 2017 Festival Review: From Worst to Best", Consequence of Sound, 2017-09-18. facts only, no text reused. consequence.net
- Hallon, "Voodoo 2017 Festival Review: Top 10 Sets", Consequence of Sound, 2017-10-30. facts only, no text reused. consequence.net
- Wikipedia, "Black Pistol Fire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Canada Rock National Airplay", Nielsen BDS, 2018-03-12; "Canada Rock National Airplay", Nielsen BDS, 2018-08-11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Black Pistol Fire" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Suzanne-Mayer, "Riot Fest 2017 Festival Review: From Worst to Best", Consequence of Sound, 2017-09-18; Hallon, "Voodoo 2017 Festival Review: Top 10 Sets", Consequence of Sound, 2017-10-30 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Black Pistol Fire (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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