Breakthrough for Broke City USA
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Rock band Broke City are the winners of the GBOB Challenge USA 2008. Taking place at Chain Reaction, Los Angeles and streamed live on Notmtv, the final featured 11 bands from all over the country and places as far adrift as New Mexico and Alaska.
But there can be no two American cities as culturally adrift as Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Surprising then, that a band comprised of members from both those cities should be such a seamless cohesive unit as Broke City. It was no walkover for them however, in a very tight competition. In the end the judges had just two points separating the top three bands, with metal band Theory of Hate from Anchorage in third place and funky rockers Bofus from Las Cruces in second.
Broke City’s sound is a cocktail of layered crunching guitars, evocative melodies and soul-searching lyrics. As vocalist Joel Pack reveals, “Life was all about music to me since I was about five. But now things have kind of flipped. Now music for me is all about life”.
