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Since the release of their debut album "Short & Sweet" and sophomore follow-up "Headin' On", The Customatics have been in regular rotation on the Third Coast Music Network on KSYM 90.1 in San Antonio, as well as receiving airplay on many stations throughout the country: KEXP in Washington, Wanda's Howdylicious Show in California, KRFC - KVCU - & KGNU in Colorado and KBOO and KMVA in Oregon. They have also been a featured artist on the Hill Country Hayride on KNBT Radio New Braunfels as well as on Rockabilly Radio Online-where they also received a Hot Site Award. "Short & Sweet" received the #5 spot on Third Coast Music's Best of 2003 Click here to download an E-Press Kit in a zipped Adobe Acrobat file |
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CD Reviews: CS Indy - Sound Advice (Whiskey Nights Review)- 9/22/05 Blue Suede News Issue #73 - Whiskey Nights Blue Suede News Issue #69 - Headin' On Blue Suede News Issue #64 - Short & Sweet Whoopsy! Review of Headin' On - 4/05 Articles from home and beyond: CS Indy - Playing Around - 4/7/05 What's Up EP - Man That's Hip - 2/24/05
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Blurbs: "One of the first questions upon meeting
a stranger is, “What kind of music do you like?” Then
the customary response being, “Everything!”ÖBullshit.
That means you either haven’t thought about it enough or
you don’t want to talk to that person about music. But, if
you do like everything, then you should get a little bit of Lil’
Bit & The Customatics in your collection. There is an authenticity
to their songs and performance that is missing in most rock-a-billy
recordings. Or, as they like to call it, “Heartbreakin’
Honky Tonk-a-billy.” And it’s true. There is an adequate
amount of pain in Lil’ Bit’s voice that adds intimacy
to the fun we are already having with this music. Guitarist Brian
Duarte made his guitar sound like a chicken on the track “Red
Hen Hop”. That alone sold it for me" "They're a hot little rockabilly
band, I think you're gonna like'em... " In rockabilly, a genre
dominated, in these parts, by males, Lil' Bit is a diminutive,
and dynamite, breath of rocking air. And the Customatics cats,
with their roots country and roots rock 'n' roll, are no slouches.
[They] are an "Hey Folks-get that CD of
[theirs]..whew! Hotter "I love the country flavor
they gave to the rockabilly songs on the CD. It was very close
to the 50's rockabilly sound..... I loved it - and for what it's
worth, tell the Customatics, and especially their female lead
singer, that Roc LaRue said it's a great CD." "I received the new CD, Short
& Sweet!, by Lil' Bit & The |