Groucho

ABOUT GROUCHO:


Groucho is Dustin Howard, Royce Buckmaster, and Layne Farmen. Groucho takes pride in genre blending, and envelope pushing in creating their music. Hoping to reinvigorate a modern rock sound, with hints of the past and a nod to the future. With gripping live performances and versatile skill-sets, the three piece band approach the possible limitations of working in a small ensemble as an opportunity to stretch 90s rock, alternative indie rock, and guitar-heavy music into psychedelic/prog and post-rock atmospheres. They arent afraid to take their music in many directions.


Groucho’s lyrics tackle topics ranging from addiction and recovery to aliens and spirituality, musing and even laughing at the human condition at times. Jay Ramone from Katt 100.5 recently said on his podcast “There is a group out of Tulsa called GROUCHO that is amazing, and they are doing really really cool stuff.” Stereo Stickman recently wrote “Musically Groucho set the vibe well, this less crisp and more ethereal approach feeling both arena-ready and perfectly suited to the late-night escapism or the long commute. The whole thing rains down and envelops the listener, increasingly so as the track[s] and lyrical depth gather momentum..”


After last year's regional shows and midwest tour dates, they released music in two waves, an EP “Beware the Bearers of False Gifts and Their Broken Promises” featuring their epic single, “Blood in the Water” and a standalone single and cover of INXS’s “Never Tear Us Apart.” Each release was met with a music video and concept. Groucho received over 200k plays last year on combined platforms, with 20k listeners in 90+ countries, notably the US, Brazil and Europe.