Meet… Brock & Sgro
The fourth studio album from Alan Brock and Chip Sgro, Cut The Wires, streamed live last week. “I was watching one of those zombie apocalypse shows and speculating on their popularity,” Brock says. “I believe they shed light on our growing infatuation with technology and the desensitizing and dehumanizing impact that it brings. Cut the Wires is a clarion call to look up from our screens once in a while and enjoy the world around us.”
Brock (Mountain Lakes) and Sgro (Boonton) are augmented by drummer Ken Trimmer (Lavallette) and bassist Rich Santiago (an out-of-state foreigner). Sgro explains another track off the album, “Find A Better Way”— “I tried to capture how people feel about working hard and taking care of family, but getting worn down. That’s when you dream of living a different type of existence, with more freedom and less stress. But change is hard so we usually end up clinging to what’s familiar and that’s really the rub, isn’t it?”
Brock & Sgro’s music has been tapped by the Music Supervisor of The Freak Brothers show Jonathan McHugh. Based on the original 1971 underground hippie comic book The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers—starring Woody Harrelson, John Goodman and rapper Schoolboy Q—of two stoners who smoke a ton of pot, McHugh says, “Brock & Sgro’s music has a powerful drive and determination. I’ve gone back to them multiple times to create music for the show as their [combination of] Heartland Rock, British Invasion and Power Pop perfectly fits the show's aesthetic.”
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