Main Line Riders is the type of band whose fans go to their concerts and afterwards all hang around, sweaty and smiling, talking about how they've just seen the next great rock band. Can't really blame 'em either...when you see MLR, you get the feeling that you've just discovered something really amazing and special, that you're "in on it" just before the rest of the world catches on. Consider this your only warning: rock-n-roll has returned...not with a whimper, but with a resounding hinge crushing, door smashing bang.
Consider this your only warning: rock-n-roll has returned...not with a whimper, but with a resounding hinge crushing, door smashing bang.
As if they were poised and ready to take over the Sunset Strip in the late 80's, Shot In The Dark, the band's debut album, provides a healthy dose of classic rock jams that never cease to please. With every song employing huge, anthemic hooks, cleverly mixing snarl and attitude, the band has no problems paying homage to their musical rabbis, AC/DC, Hanoi Rocks, Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, while appealing to fans of modern day hard rock bands like Vains Of Jenna, Endeverafter, The Donnas and Poets & Porn Stars.
MLR's appeal is in no small part to vocalist, Mikey Mayhem, whose vocals give a nasty attitude and confidence that matches the intensity of the music.
Shot In The Dark is an unapologetically anthemic hard rock album, with 9 shout-along, swaggering rockers.
Be sure to catch the band on tour beginning June of 2008.