Flux Outside by Royal Bangs

Flux Outside, Royal Bangs' 2011 album on Glassnote, followed Let It Beep and marked a step up for a Knoxville, Tennessee band that had started out as two high school kids playing together in 2001. Ryan Schaefer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, and drummer Chris Rusk became Royal Bangs once guitarist Sam Stratton joined in 2005, and their basement-made debut, We Breed Champions, only got out into the world after Patrick Carney of the Black Keys found them on Myspace and put it out on his Audio Eagle label in 2008.

Moving to Glassnote put the trio on a bigger stage, and "Fireball" was the song that carried it to alternative radio. It's restless, hooky indie rock from a band that clearly liked to tinker.

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