Alberta Cross: New Article On RollingStone!

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ ATO Records) - RollingStone.com recently featured an article on one of ATO's newest bands, Alberta Cross, calling them 'one of the summer's must-see new bands' (see following the full article).
Their album hits shelves Sept. 22nd.

Alberta Cross, a quintet of stoner rock revivalists from Brooklyn-via-London-via-Sweden who became one of the summer's must-see new bands thanks to appearances at Coachella and Bonnaroo.

Sounds Like: Nineties-style shoegaze guitar dissonance fused with the laid-back hippie folk rock of 1970's Los Angeles. It's all topped off with the high-lonesome vocals of lead singer Petter Ericson Stakee, a Swedish import whose voice recalls Neil Young and Jim James. Their full-length debut Broken Side of Time features wind tunnels of bent guitar riffs, distort power chords and the haunting melodies of rural American music.

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� Before recording their new album, the five members of Alberta Cross holed up at Haunted Hollow studio owned by Dave Matthews - the band is signed to Matthews' ATO label - outside Charlottesville, Virginia. 'We were in the middle of the forest, just drinking wine and smoking weed and jamming for, like, 10 hours a day,' Ericson Stakee tells Rolling Stone. These jam sessions help craft the slow-burner 'Rise from the Shadows' and the big-sky rocker 'Taking Control.'

� Stakee wrote the acoustic number 'Ghost of City Life' about the hipsters that walked around the band's then-home base of Brooklyn, New York. 'You know who I'm talking about-the people you meet in the city, the scenesters and all,' Ericson Stakee said. 'I was just sick of the city, tired of all the fake people.'

� After recording their album in Austin, Texas, with Spoon producer Mike McCarthy, the band fell in love with the Lone Star capital and are now contemplating a move there. 'Everybody welcomed us with open arms: 'Come on, let me buy you a drink, there's a party later,' ' says bassist Terry Wolfers, who formed the band with Ericson Stakee after the two met in an East London bar. Life in Austin does have its dangers, however: 'I OD'd on Mexican food,' Ericson Stakee jokes.

Hear It Now: Broken Side of Time is due out September 22nd. Watch Alberta Cross perform 'ATX' above.