Rosemary

There are two artists that go under this name. One is a band from Dartford, UK and the other is a female solo artists from Nashville TN, USA.

The following is from the second Rosemary's Myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/rosemarymusic):


"Rosemary's originality and authentic execution of unique modern music is a step in the direction that alternative music will likely soon be taking. Her laid-back, casual yet diverse approach to recorded music has potential [to] be of popularity among the next generation of the independent music circuit."
- Independent Nashville


"Rosemary is likened to the Breeders. And that’s true, to an extent. She has their tenacity, rawness, and quick melodic vocal delivery. Her songs however lack the brash distorted intensity that the one-hit wonder “Cannonball” female-led group had. Instead the music is more cerebral and sublime, often finding a place to stretch out and lay waste to whatever is holding you down."
- J-Sin, Smother Magazine


The American ROSEMARY has been playing music since age 13. Having grown up in Nashville,
TN, she has had the fortune of playing out in local clubs and venues for some
time now. She has been involved with numerous musical projects, (Andy Bodean
and the Bottom Boys, Communist, Tim Chad and Sherry, Ultra Vulgar, Flyaway
Minion, and E-banditos, to name a few). Many of these can be found and downloaded
through Black Label Empire (www.blacklabelempire.com).ROSEMARY partnered
up with master engineer Patrick Himes (who has numerous credits and accolades
to his name, including asst. engineer of Ryan Adam's "Heartbreaker")
back in 2003. They began working on numerous singles and other projects. The
two continue to record together at every possible opportunity. At the moment, BLE
has two singles and one short EP available for purchase, respectively titled
"The Floater," "Cha-Cha in Your Ear," and "The Fabulous Life Of..." ROSEMARY also has a video for "Altazar" from "The Fabulous Life Of...EP."


ROSEMARY and Patrick tackle everything together on the recordings they produce.
Generally, speaking, ROSEMARY writes all lyrics and music, initially. Patrick
then comes behind her and "cleans up [her] mess," as ROSEMARY puts
it. For the most part, all parts are played by both She and Patrick,
with the occasional guest appearance. The two do everything themselves, including
writing, recording, engineering, producing, etc.


ROSEMARY was recently chosen as an editor's pick from Downloads.com, and has
received several other picks and reviews from various online indie radio sites.
Most recently, ROSEMARY graduated from the internationally known SAE Institute,
formerly known as School of Audio Engineering, founded by Tom Misner. This new
acheivement will undoubtedly only enhance her already noteworthy talents.
More information about Rosemary is available here: http://www.rosemaryrocks.com and on myspace at http://www.rosemaryrocks.com

In 2007, ROSEMARY and Patrick Himes opened WaterWorks Entertainment, a Nashville based Recording Studio and Publishing Co. They boast of an impressive list of both published artists and clients to include: Shrug, the Dennis Shepherd Group, e-banditos, Leslie Keffer, Altered Statesman, Guy Farmer, Steve Mackay and many, many, more. WWE has a last fm page where you can go and listen to tons of great music, all for FREE!

and the Brits....

They say an Englishman's home is his castle, and so it is with Dartford's Rosemary: three self-proclaimed "Suburban Kings" making assured, inspired English pop music with many antecedents (try: The Kinks, The Libertines, Thee Headcoats) but precious few contemporaries. Born in the humdrum commuter-belt town of Dartford, too near to London to boast its own vibrant gig underground, but too far outside to hop on a night bus too far beyond midnight, Rosemary – bassist/vocalist Tim Hill, guitar/vocalist Martin Brett and drummer Jon Chamberlain – spent the first year of their life in isolation, playing the local pub to a wall of disinterested eyes. Dartford was not a great place to be in a band, but it was this difficult adolescence that spawned self-released, self-mythologising debut single 'Suburban Kings'. "It was about playing to people that didn't care what you were playing or singing about," chatters Martin, "And then waking up after having a little too much to drink still feeling annoyed about it. It's about ambition, about wanting to play bigger and better places, about wanting to escape your immediate surroundings."

Whereas dozens of bands dream their life away entranced by the prospect of a big break in the big city, though, Rosemary kept their wits about them. A gig way out east in Medway in North Kent saw the band win friends amongst the thriving local mod scene, and before long, they were holed up in Ranscombe Studios in Rochester, recording monophonic and one-take with Jim Riley - the producer behind Billy Childish's ragged, stiff-lipped garage rockers The Buff Medways. XFM's John Kennedy picked up on an early demo of 'Suburban Kings', so that became the first limited 7" single, on the band's own MA2 imprint, and sold out in a week. An XFM playlist and a handful of sessions made Rosemary something of a name to drop on the London circuit, but with the band now running their own Suburban Kings club night - a monthly bands-and-DJs residency at the Tap'N'Tin, the cult Kent indie citadel that staged the Libertines reunion after Pete Doherty's release from prison in 2003 – London would very much have to wait its turn.

And while it's easy to place Rosemary's sound in some Great British lineage, there's far more to this band that slavish adherence to some long-stale '60s dream. "Sure, we like the Beatles, the Stones," chatters Jon, "But that's just the start of it. Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Woodie Guthrie, Chet Baker…" And just take new single 'Benjamin's Ego'. No mere garage-rock ramalama, it commences with Tim's winding, auld-folk clarion call, and proceeds to twist and turn through coiled passages of snake-charmer melody, bounding Cossack-dance choruses, and strange, tense lyrical melodrama. It's the sound of a band that have already escaped their pre-destiny, ready to carve out their own path through the English rock scene. Don't say 'Thyme For Heroes' (the band have already heard quite enough herbaceous puns, thanks) – just put their record on, and pledge allegiance to the new sound of the suburbs.