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Straight off their critically acclaimed 2008 album “Homenaje,” Brownout comes to SOBs on October 17th to share their inventive sound. With soulful backbeats, psychedelic exploration, tough grooves and brassy streetwise accents, Brownout can already claim the kind of bona fides needed to stand on their own.

Sometimes playing under the name Grupo Fantasma, they play over 150 shows per year, including backing Prince at Coachella and on the “Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”  Guitarist Adrian Quesada says. “We’ve been lucky enough to be performing sometimes, where there’s a whole audience that’s not even familiar with Grupo Fantasma when Brownout is playing and vice versa. We’re definitely trying to keep the two separate. At the same time there’s no point in trying to hide the fact that it’s the same band.”

They have performed all over the world, in music festivals such as Bonnaroo and the New Orleans Jazz Festival, and played for U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait and Iraq. Somehow, as Grupo Fantasma, they even found the time to release a Grammy-nominated full-length, Sonidos Gold.

Mostly instrumental, the band takes its cues from James Brown's J.B.'s and San Francisco's Malo, the Seventies act fronted by Carlos Santana's brother Jorge, but they infuse it with their particular vibe of border music hybrids and generous brushstrokes of trippy psychedelia.

Hear for yourself the sound of a group that XLR8R described as “A band like this restores faith that all may not be lost…If this doesn't get the party started, y'all must be D.O.A.”