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Updated January 2 2010
Welcome to the official ROOT! website - www.roottheband.com.au. Keep checking here for tour news, ordering merchandise, reading DC's rants and ROOT! downloads.

ROOT! and The Rebelles at the Worker's Club

Hello. Recovered from Christmas' annual dose of family enmity? Don't sit at home hallucinating to the freestyle beats of your evaporative cooler. ROOT! are back, with a salacious summer Saturday bill for your delectation. Of course, you can see us hit the stage just after 10, but if you come a bit early, you can also see The Rebelles - a fabulous Spectoresque lil' combo featuring no less than FIFTEEN girl singers. That's right! The stage won't be big enough to hold them! The Workers Club will tremble with sexy, sassy, steetvibes bouncing off the walls, there's a neat little beer garden if it gets a bit steamy, and you can finish off the night with Melbourne's-own bargain-bin Keats and his devilishly handsome co-conspirators. Saturday January 23rd - don't miss it.

spicks and specks - part deux

ROOT! was on Spicks and Specks back in July and now they're back. In the episode where all the Spicks and Specks moments that were too long, too rude or too bizarre to make it to air during the year, ROOT! appeared in the final moments with Dennis Walter on the mic crooning a rendition of 'My Way'. Check it out here.

new album 'surface paradise' out now

DC Root - frontman of "garage punk poets" ROOT! justifies the hype as this country's most original, articulate, angry, funny singer/songwriter/spoken word artist. And ROOT! have just delivered their most ambitious statement yet - their new album Surface Paradise - released on Shock Records, July 24. Coinciding with their appearance on ABC's Spicks and Specks on July 29 and a national tour to follow, Surface Paradise is an epic, hour-long "song cycle" - lyrical themes, chorus lines, riffs, whole musical sections, appear and re-appear through 15 concise blasts of ragged bar-band rock, electro, lush pop, jazz, roots and musique concrete - AND the truly unique vision of DC Root.

ROOT! may not be on Video Hits; they don't have a Pitchfork-approved review tacked to their MySpace; they certainly don't have flopsy fringes and needle-thin black jeans to boost their marketability. But, my friends, they have my vote for 2009 Album of the Year.

Click for full review from www.thedwarf.com.au

Check out the Surface Paradise teaser:

the lithographs

Hello to everyone, and thanks for buying our new album, especially those who pre-ordered online. We'd just like to apologise - no, not one of our insincere would-I-lie-to-you onstage apologies, but really apologise, for the fact that you haven't yet received, as promised, a signed lithograph of the original album artwork.

Who is responsible? ROOT! Not JB HiFi, who entered into the transaction in good faith that we would deliver the lithographs immediately. Please take out your frustration on us. Do not call JB Hi Fi. Your complaint calls to them, unbeknown to you, were, as they say, shooting the messenger.

You will receive your lithograph. It's just taking a while. When we realized the postage bill for these lithographs amounted to about half our tour profits - a tour that we hadn't yet embarked upon - we were in what is known in the accounting world as a "cash flow crisis". So, once again, please don't call or email JB Hi Fi. Email us. And we will, if it takes the break up of this band to do so, mail those lithographs to you.

Yours in apology
ROOT!

SOMEONE needs to hold up a mirror to society and point out that its frosted-tipped trendy reinterpretation of the mullet looks ridiculous. Thankfully, Melbourne cowpunk band Root! considers itself up to the task...there's a philosophy in newspapers that if you can't be first, you should be the best...it's hard to think that Root! is anything but.

Click for full review from www.theaustralian.com.au

Surface Paradise by ROOT! is distributed by Shock Records. Surface Paradise is now available on Apple's iTunes store with bonus track 'Billy' (also available for individual download). Click here to buy from iTunes.

Click here for information about Surface Paradise and ROOT!'s other releases...

Surface Paradise reaches number 4 on the AIR charts and the 'Mover of the Week' for August 3, 2009. Click here for details.

Whatever DC "was", his new project - in industry speak - "has legs". Despite their trademark cowboy hats, ROOT! have been morphing into a muscular rock band for some time, and now attract a strong following across all the major cities, based on their powerful live reputation and the riveting poetry of DC Root. Surface Paradise finally describes where they are right now.

Click for full review from www.mediasearch.com.au

new video clip

ROOT!'s first video clip from Surface Paradise - My Other Bumper Sticker Is Intelligent - is now available online for your viewing pleasure. Click here to view the new video clip and other ROOT! related media.

Image from the My Other Bumper Sticker Is Intelligent film clip. View clip here.

merchandise

More marketing! As well as CDs, there's plenty of other things you can purchase to show your appreciation of all things ROOT! T-shirts, baby bibs (yes, baby bibs) and, ummm, t-shirts. With more to come soon. Click here to buy stuff.

spicks and specks

ROOT! appeared on ABC's Spicks and Specks on Wednesday July 29th. ROOT! performed five "mystery" cover versions in the "Look What They've Done To My Song" segment (only three were shown though), with DC distractingly ranting over the music and making it very difficult for the judges to guess the songs. Then they re-appeared to play (a shortened version of) I Wish I Was Tex Perkins for the closing credits. Click here to watch the video of ROOT! on Spicks and Specks.