NEWS

The Underground Rainbows have been staying busy to start 2024, recently performing at the memorial show for their departed friend and musical companion, Randal Getzoff. The band has also been working on writing new songs and have begun initial recording sessions.

Upcoming shows for 2024 are currently being scheduled in addition to the following dates and locations that are set:

3/2 Taylor House Brewing Co., Catasauqua, PA

4/20 A Frame, Bethlehem, PA

5/18 The Pattenburg House

with Hot 4 Robot, Asbury, NJ

5/25 Taylor House Brewing Co., Catasauqua, PA

8/3 Taylor House Brewing Co., Catasauqua, PA

8/27 Hanover Township Community Day, Hanover Township, PA

10/12 Taylor House Brewing Co., Catasauqua, PA

MORE SHOWS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

HISTORY

2023 was the biggest year to date for the band. A new song was released every month as well as two in December, bringing a total of 13 new tracks to the world including their most popular songs “At Large,” “Dark and Stormy,” “Mr. Wunder and His Trampoline Gun,” “The Harbor Song,” “Strawberry Banana,” and Beck’s “Cyanide Breath Mint.” 2023 also saw the additions of bassist and vocalist TJ Duddy, drummer and percussionist Nick Cardona, and a brief stay with friend and guitarist Luke Thear. Now performing as a trio with TJ and Nick, the band is pushing onward with new music, shows, collaborations, comedic skits, and more.

The Underground Rainbows, based out of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, began as a side project in 2018 when founder Eamon Murray was asked to perform at the wedding for his friends Josh and Jeanine. Breaking outside of his musical box that had mostly focused on various styles of rock throughout the years, Eamon created several EDM style songs for the wedding that would include the tracks Repast, The Lonely Ghost, and Belle Tower. These songs were released in addition to seven more on the debut album, “Eamon’s Clone Presents The Underground Rainbows” in December, 2018. The album represents Eamon’s first real delve into producing so-called dance music, incorporating various styles of beats and synthesizers with overlays of reggae and psychedelic rock. 

After the October, 2019 release of a Halloween-themed single, “Clowns in the Cellar,” the official full length follow-up album, “Roxiticus: A Choose Your Own Adventure Soundtrack,” was released that November. The album was recorded as the instrumental accompaniment to a choose your own adventure novel that Eamon had written but has still yet to publish. Each song on the album is the musical interpretation of a challenging domain from the story’s manuscript that the adventurer must traverse and conquer.

The following EP, “Always Next Year,” was recorded throughout the quarantine of 2020 and demonstrates a dramatic shift in genres, venturing more towards alternative rock than the avant-garde EDM predecessors. All of the tracks also feature vocals unlike the previous albums that focused more on instrumental soundscapes, including the talents of guest vocalist Keara Murray Weltmer. The songs Painting the Fire, Why Not Let Your Kids Shave Your Head?, Social Distance, The Last Mile, and Always Next Year encompass and reflect upon the wide range of emotions and conflicts throughout that tumultuous year. It was officially released on January 20th, 2021 amidst the political turmoil that was enveloping the United States. 

The single “The Fall of Riot Redsea” was released in the summer of 2021, musically returning to the fantasy-themed instrumental rock-fusion found within the Roxiticus album.

The Underground Rainbows’ last full length release, 2022’s “Under Your Bed,” is the biggest and most dynamic album to date. The thirteen tracks include a wide-range of original songs written between 1997 and 2022, reggae-style covers of The Misfits, Nirvana, Joe Jackson, and Local H, as well as an over the top rendition of Brian Eno’s Mother Whale Eyeless. Featuring distorted guitars, scorching solos, punk rock beats, ska riffs, bluegrass breakdowns, and psychedelic folk, “Under Your Bed” is as diverse and mysterious as the clutter that lurked under Eamon’s actual childhood bed.

Eamon Murray has been writing music for most of his life and has been performing original songs since 1993. Growing up in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA, he performed up and down the shore, throughout the New Brunswick area while attending Rutgers University, the Poconos, the Lehigh Valley, and the vast Philadelphia area. In addition to The Underground Rainbows, he has performed as a solo artist as well as in the bands Chemo and the Insecticides, The Foolz, and Wandering Root.

Eamon founded his independent label Rocket Off the Post in 2011. He has been producing and engineering original music since then from his home studio in Allentown, PA.

INFLUENCES

Musical influences include but are no way limited to: Phish, Nirvana, Beck, Mr. Bungle, Talking Heads, HUM, Megadeth, The Misfits, Brian Eno, Keller Williams, NOFX, Django Reinhardt, Ty Segall, Bass Drum of Death, Metallica, Anthrax, Pretty Lights, The Specials, Local H, Maps & Atlases, Yonder Mountain String Band, Sublime, INXS, Bob Marley, Umphrey’s McGee, Portugal. The Man, The Moody Blues, Screaming Trees, String Cheese Incident, The Disco Biscuits, Sound Tribe Sector 9, T. Rex, Black Sabbath, New Order, The Toadies, Tracy Bonham, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Deep Purple, The Bird and the Bee, The Kinks, Andrew Bird, Anthony B., The Ramones, Naughty By Nature, The Black Keys, Buddy Holly, The Roots, 311, Green Jelly, Havana Social Club, Nick Drake, Danger Mouse, The Cars, Eliott Smith, Khruangbin, The Pixies, Beastie Boys, Al Green, James Brown, George Clinton, The Surfaris, Guns N’ Roses, The Atlantics, LCD Soundsystem, The Rentals, Violent Femmes, St. Germain, The Meters, Pavement, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Faith No More, Ugly Kid Joe, Butthole Surfers, The Smithereens, Radiohead, The Motet, alt J, Green Day, The Dead Milkmen, Camper Van Beethoven, Paul Simon, The Budos Band, The Clash, Fugazi, Bad Religion, Rancid, The Queers, Screeching Weasel, The Aquabats!, Smashing Pumpkins, John Hartford, Johnny Cash, Public Enemy, The Beta Band, The Foolz, The Almighty Terribles, The Battery Electric, The Predator Dub Assassins, The Prodigy, Devo, Fountains of Wayne, Iggy Pop, The White Stripes, The Beatles, Cheap Trick, Wandering Root, Grant Green, Weather Report, King Missile, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Men Without Hats, Weezer, Willie Williams, Wu-Tang Clan, Wyclef Jean, The Sugar Hill Gang, Muse, Pantera, Tool, A Tribe Called Quest, moe., Television, Space, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Type O Negative, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Vampire Weekend, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Prince, Slayer, The Flaming Lips, … … …