harpoonistaxemurderer.com
Shawn ‘The Harpoonist’ Hall and Matthew ‘The Axe Murderer’ Rogers are based in Vancouver, BC. Shawn plays our Farmer DownBeats and Matthew has played an UpSnare prototype.
Official Bio:
“Their influences range from the iconic songwriting of Willie Dixon to the boundary pushing of Jack White and Danger Mouse but their sound is distinctly their own, smothered in greasy, gritty soul and imbued with funk. Shawn Hall provides the rousing, rugged vocals and blues harmonica, while Matthew Rogers rips on the guitar and pounds the skins with his feet. Their music is unapologetic. It slaps you in the face and makes you sweat like it’s a sticky, summer night. It cuts you to the core. It’s the blues played the way it was meant to be played.
Shawn and Matthew have received considerable recognition in the last few years. They have been nominated for ‘Blues Album of the Year’ at the Junos in 2014, for multiple Maple Blues Awards and won ‘Blues Act of the Year’ at the SiriusXM Indies in 2013. The duo has also pounded their fair share of festival stages including SXSW 2013/14, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Ottawa Blues Fest, Calgary Folk Fest, and Montreal Jazz Fest. Along the way they’ve shared the stage with Taj Mahal, Booker T Jones, David Wilcox, Mother Mother, The Sheepdogs, and Serena Ryder. They’ve also had songs featured on television shows such as the ‘CSI’, ‘NCIS New Orleans’, ‘The Good Wife’, ‘Blue Bloods’, and the aptly-named TV movie ‘Lizzie Borden Took An Axe’.”
