Watch This; Chicago Band Goes All Out with Ramshackle 'Vampire Driver'

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"Vampire Driver" is an ambitious trip through countless genres of music. It's a 13-song romp filled with a new-wave funky sound, one that bursts with aggressive moments and giddy choruses. The sophomore record from Chicago quintet Watchers, the disc muscles its way through speakers with kinetic stops and starts. But though you'd call "Vampire" a wild ride, it's nothing like the one singer/ keyboardist Michael Guarrine is on now.

"I'm about eight miles from Des Moines," says Guarrine during a recent phone conversation, "and when I get to Lawrence (Kansas), I'll pick up our new bass player. It's 18 hours of driving and it's boring as (anything). The East Coast is nice to drive, but this is (damn) ridiculous. It's just one farm field after another, with a lot of corn and soybeans. Chicago is like an island. If you're 60 miles outside of it, you're in a field. I do have this little sock monkey I talk to, though. His name is Don and he's amazingly agreeable. He never has to go to the bathroom."

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Watch This; Chicago Band Goes All Out with Ramshackle 'Vampire Driver'

When Gaurrine does get to Lawrence, puts away the sock monkey and adds new bass player Fred Neal to the car, he'll start a new chapter of Watchers. Neal replaces Chris Kralik, ...

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