Third Coast Kings

Playing funk, spirit, and R&B in the classic design of the 1960s and ’70s, the 3rd Coast Kings certainly are a Michigan-based octet who’ve won a global following for his or her groove-intensive sound. Created in 2008, the 3rd Coastline Kings feature Andy Filisko on acoustic guitar, Nate Ayers on bass, Wayne “Gemstone” Keovongsak on drums, Ryan Dolan on trumpet, Terry Kimura on trombone, Alec Cooper on tenor sax, and Brian Einstein Lassiter on alto and baritone sax. In the beginning, the group also included business lead vocalist Michelle “The Belle” Camilleri, and after considerable live function throughout Michigan as well as the Midwest, the Kings created a reputation among the state’s leading exponents of traditional spirit and funk. In ’09 2009, the music group recorded an recording, Heavyweight Funk!, that they released themselves. Term of the 3rd Coastline Kings’ live prowess and their debut recording journeyed to Italy as well as the offices of Record Kicks, a label focusing on new rings playing old-school R&B. The label was sufficiently impressed to own band an archive offer, and their one “Provide Me Your Like” b/w “Tonic Stride” premiered by Record Kicks in Apr 2010. While Camilleri made an appearance on the one, later this year 2010 Sean Ike, a previous person in Michigan spirit revivalists the Elevations, had taken over as the group’s business lead singer. Even more live gigs implemented, and a seven-song EP in the band, simply known as Third Coastline Kings, premiered in Apr 2011. Afterwards the same season, Record Kicks released an record, also known as Third Coastline Kings, that included the dancefloor preferred “Spicy Dark brown.” As the group’s pursuing grew, they continuing to perform often through the entire Midwest, and gained supporters in Japan if they had been invited to try out Naeba’s Fuji Rock and roll Festival in 2012. With Steve Barker overtaking on bass for Nate Ayers, the 3rd Coast Kings proceeded to go into the studio room in 2013 to begin with focus on their third full-length record, and Record Kicks released Western world Grand Boulevard in-may 2013.