We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Gravedigging

by The Buttertones

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9.99 USD  or more

     

  • Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The album, 'Gravedigging,' on Vinyl LP.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Gravedigging via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The album, 'Gravedigging,' on CD.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Gravedigging via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Gravedigging Cassette Tape
    Cassette + Digital Album

    The album, Gravedigging, on Cassette Tape.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Gravedigging via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
Pistol Whip 02:57
2.
3.
Neon Cowboy 03:02
4.
5.
Matador 03:19
6.
I Ran Away 03:08
7.
8.
9.
Ghost Safari 02:29
10.
11.
Gravediggin' 04:03

about

The Buttertones’ Gravedigging is more a movie waiting to
happen than an album—or a soundtrack just waiting to inspire a
movie, with scene after scene of action, tension and release set
to a sound that takes everything good and true about American
music before the Beatles prettied it up (surf, sweet soul, the boss
saxophone-overdrive garage of the Northwest wailers like the
Sonics) and matches it to punk energy, post-punk precision and
the kind of personality that blows the circuit-breakers at a
backyard party.

The Buttertones started their own journey in 2011 as three music
school misfits (or drinking buddies, they say) in the heart of
Hollywood, happy to learn how to to play, produce and perform
but less excited about frequent go-nowhere conversations with
classmates who had little interest in either the past or the future
of music. So that’s why bassist Sean Redman (also a former
member of Cherry Glazerr) felt like he’d lucked out when he
found guitarist/singer Richard Araiza and
drummer/polyinstrumentalist Modesto ‘Cobi’ Cobiån: “Cobi and
Richard were the first guys I met where I thought they knew
what they were talking about,” he says. “They had good
influences—they weren’t just trying to pander.

Their first rehearsals were in a Hollywood bedroom where
Redman was living on an air mattress, then Araiza finally locked
down Boettcher—who he’d often see responding to the same
casting calls as he did—to replace another guitarist who was
transitioning back to family life even as the Buttertones prepared
their debut release, a self-titled cassette on L.A.’s garage-pop
Lolipop label. Then they absorbed sax player London Guzmån
(formerly in Long Beach’s Wild Pack of Canaries with breakout
local Rudy De Anda) after spotting him at a local DJ night,
recruiting him for their sophomore album American Brunch—and
discovering the kind chemistry they didn't know they were
missing. Says Araiza: “We’re proud to be a legit band. It’s a very
collaborative process—we rely on each other. I feel that’s rare
nowadays, especially with rock bands.”

When it came time to make Gravedigging—the follow-up to a special
issue 8” for Innovative, which ended up pulling them aboard the
label full-time—they knew it was time to go deeper and get dirtier.
Recorded at Jazzcats studio in LongBeach—home-away-from-home
to fellow Innovative Leisure artists Hanni El Khatib, Tijuana Panthers,
Wall of Death and more—in the spring of 2016, the sessions were
supercharged with hard-won live experience from endless
street-level shows and relentless midnight-to-six rehearsals at the
Buttertones lock-out, then focused even further by the insight and
vision of producer Jonny Bell. (“Jonny pushed us like crazy,” says
Boettcher. “He had so many ideas all he time.”)

Think of it this way: you might not yet know how the band that made
Gravedigging is going to land—but you know it’s going to hit hard.

credits

released March 31, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Buttertones Los Angeles, California

A moody Los Angeles-based cinematic surf rock/garage outfit with a Merseybeat heart and a take-no-prisoners punk attitude, The Buttertones draw inspiration from bands like The Sonics, Suicide, The Walker Brothers, Joy Division, and The Gun Club. The group built a loyal fan base with their atmospheric live shows and albums like 2017's Gravedigging and 2018's Midnight in a Moonless Dream. ... more

shows

contact / help

Contact The Buttertones

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Buttertones, you may also like: