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It’s time to B Radical at the Black Label | The Spokesman-Review

By Ed Condran For The Spokesman-Review

“Waking Up Human,” the second album by Spokane’s B Radicals is apt. Songs … slap the listener in the face with its energy and positive message… shaking it up courtesy of its bouncy existential avant rock-funk…”

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“Spokane-based rockers the B Radicals come to the 219, bringing their distinctive brand of psychedelia-tinged “existential experimental rock-funk,” which takes audiences “on a polyrhythmic trip through ethereal realms.” Far from word salad, the B Radicals’ self-applied descriptors are radically apt. Songs like “Strange Travels” and “Galactic Circles” traffick in a trippy sensibility that conjures King Crimson and David Bowie crossed with the ever-expanding universe of riffs typified by spacier cuts from the Grateful Dead. Far from a mind-spiralling electro jam band, the B Radicals turn out some truly unique sounds — look no further than “Go Go Gadget Funk,” which launches listeners through a sonic wormhole of funk bordered on both sides with didgeridoo. Be ready to get all kinds of spacey, groovy and funky at the 219 from 9 p.m.-midnight.”- Zach Hagadone, The Reader (Sep 20, 2019)

“While developing a local following for their extended live jams, the B-Rads have also written some more structured tunes. Their new album, Free Your Imagination: A Sonifesto, captures both their concise songs and some free-form excursions in an accessible but mind-expanding collection. Jimmy at Amplified Wax recorded them the old-fashioned way: a band in a room, no click track, programming, synthesis, nor auto-tune.”- Matt Loi, 103.1 KCDA “Local Lounge” (Apr 17, 2015)

“The B Radicals join us in Taps on Saturday February 6th with a fun mixture of rock, psychedelic and funk.”- Schweitzer Mountain Resort

“Funky or psychedelic groups are rare in Spokane, let alone bands that combine both elements. For almost 8 years, the B Radicals have fed both your mind and body: lyrics of travel and transcendence set to danceable grooves. Bradford sings and lays down some soulful, effects-heavy guitar work. Konrad brings the funk on the bass. Dave uses every percussion instrument known to humankind, and improvises plenty of his own. Lancer keeps it all together on the drums. The result is a dynamic, spacey trip with an ever-shifting texture: sometimes subtle, sometimes bold, always colorful.”- Matt Loi, 103.1 KCDA “Local Lounge” (Apr 17, 2015)

“A B Radicals song —with titles like “Chunky Smooth” and “Go Go Gadget Funk” — is like an extensive sonic ride through the musical universe. It’ll start out harmonious and crunchy, blur into a slow groove, then pick back up into a bluesy beat that makes you want to move. “It’s like busting a dam; we’re trying to open up every possibility…” Although those jam-band sensibilities are there, the songs are quite structured. There are certain spots reserved for improvisation, but…they’re not just making things up on stage.”- Laura Johnson, The Inlander (May 06, 2015)

“We’ve been described as Tool for hippies…And I’m by no means offended by that.” In preparation for the release of their debut album Free Your Imagination: A Sonifesto (a made-up term meaning trying to reach things you can’t express), recorded with excellent clarity at Amplified Wax last Memorial Day weekend, the quartet coined the term “existential experimental rock/psychedelic/funk” to try to explain their sound. But that doesn’t do them justice.- Laura Johnson, The Inlander (May 06, 2015)

“B Radicals – One of Spokane’s favorite funk and jam bands.”- SOM, Entertainment Spokane

“Headlights from Riverside Avenue. The audience, they say, provides the final element that makes playing music worthwhile. Life is meant to be joyful, Little says — so music is, therefore, joyful. Onstage, the B Radicals are one of those bands that makes you appreciate live music. Each performance sounds as raw and humble as the countless live shows they’ve recorded. There’s something to be appreciated here in watching something artistically created on the fly. The band says they plan to record an album within the next couple of months and play more live shows to more people, but they don’t plan to give up their experimental-jam band roots. They plan to turn more people onto their vibrations and, get people to ‘the place where you can’t describe it, you have to be there.'”- Jordy Byrd, The Inlander

“Watch performances such as musical favorites the B Radicals.”- Renee Sande, Yahoo! Voices

“The B Radicals are an experimental rock and funk quartet formed in Spokane. Grounded in the solid framework of their tasty, eclectic compositions, the B Rads creatively, playfully push their musicality in the live setting with spontaneous improvisational pieces. Their original approach contains an honest artistic flair. The B Radicals are sure to inspire your being. Funkier than a primate since 2008!”- KYRS, Thin Air Community Radio

“Last month, it was Mon Cheri; B Radicals take over (Residency at the Seaside) this month with their crunchy, jam-band influenced sounds.”- The Inlander

“The B Radicals were here at the Foggy Bottom Lounge in early February, and were a raving success!…Smooth tunes over some cold beverages to wrap up your skiing day.”- Mt. Spokane, Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard

“(The B Radicals) mention people like Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Bob Marley as influences both musically and in life. The band speaks of feeling the vibrations, light versus dark, being ambassadors for peace and how music causes them to feel present in this world. It’s not trite for them; it’s not fake. They truly believe that music can change the world, with a sincerity that makes you want to believe too.”- Laura Johnson, The Inlander (May 06, 2015)