ABOUT THE ALBUM The Texas based Main Line Riders is the type of band whose fans go to their concerts and afterwards they all hang around, sweaty and smiling, talking about how Main Line Riders is the next great rock band. They can't be blamed. When you see MLR, you get the feeling you've discovered something really amazing and special, and you're 'in' on it just before the rest of the world catches on. Well, consider this your warning, Rock and Roll has returned, not with a whimper, but with a resounding hinge crushing, door smashing kick. As if they were poised and ready to take over Sunset Strip in the late 80's, Shot In the Dark 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 bands Vains of Jenna, Buck Cherry, and Poets & P*rn Stars. MLR 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, not to mention helping the band fulfill (and even exceed) their immense potential with their debut release. Shot in the Dark is full of brilliant moments, all held together by heavy harmonic riffs blasting from the guitars, and Throwin' Bones boasting a guitar solo that would make Stryper's Oz Fox grin. Shot in the Dark is the aural thunderclap that is The Mainline Riders brand new record, an unapologetically anthemic hard rock album, with 9 shout-along, swaggering rockers. No matter how you like your rock served up, The Main Line Riders dish it with delight, and you'll be wolfing it down and demanding more. KEY SELLING POINTS **Band members spent over 10 years touring in professional band. **High production values **Digitally mastered **For fans of AC/DC, Hanoi Rocks, Guns-n-Roses, Veins of Jenna, Buck Cherry, and Poets & Porn Star. **Full radio/magazine advertising campaign **Features track on the Heaven's Metal Magazine subscribers compilation **Band has active My Space site **Full 2008 nationwide tour in the works **Artwork by renown artist, Caleb Olsen (X-sinner, Final Axe, Seventh Power). WWW.
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COM REVIEW Guitarist Cliff Powell (a.k.a. Cliffy Huntington) got his start in the mid-nineties with the Ramones influences punk rock band The Huntingtons. Parting ways with The Huntingtons in 2001, Cliffy joined The Stivs later the same year, a Portland, Oregon based unit that merged elements of rock and roll and punk. The Stivs went on to fall apart in early 2006 at which point Cliffy developed a vision to form his first evangelistic band. The end result was Main Line Riders. A group originating from Houston, Texas, Main Line Riders put together it's initial line up in 2006 and, after writing and rehearsing over the next year, recorded it's full length debut, Shot In The Dark. The album was shopped around to several labels until the band settled on Retroactive Records, which released it in the fall of 2007. What Main Line Riders delivers on Shot In The Dark is a throwback sound to the eighties, a decade in which hair metal and glam - and all the layered choruses and hooks, hooks and more hooks inherit to the era - ruled supreme. Specifically, the guys give us a late eighties Sunset Strip sleaze style of hard rock inviting comparison to early LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses, Junkyard, Hanoi Rocks, Kix and at times even AC/DC. On the Christian side of the fence, the only band to approach this might be Bombs Over Broadway era Squad 5-O, although fans of X-Sinner, Guardian (with Jamie Rowe on lead vocals), early 90s Bride and Rage Of Angels should find Main Line Riders to appeal to their taste. What stands out most about Main Line Riders is it's youthful and infectious energy. Shot In The Dark, for example, is built upon a foundation of up-tempo hard rockers such as Ride The Main Line, One Way Ticket To Love, the aptly entitled Pack Up Your Blues and Time To
