Thrilled to be featured in Kill The Music‘s Unsigned Spotlight! Check out the interview and feature below!

https://killthemusic.net/blog/unsigned-spotlight-radiator-king

Newest interview is up now! This one is with fellow Bostonian Music Box Pete and in our chat we discuss everything from growing up in New England to scrap wood…it’s a must read!

http://www.musicboxpete.com/single-post/2018/01/17/Interview-w-North-Shore-Native-Punkster-Radiator-King?platform=hootsuite

Happy New Year y’all!

I want to take a minute to thank those of you who have shown such tremendous support throughout the year, I cannot tell you how much it means. It’s been an amazing year and I truly feel blessed to be on this journey.

There are many plans in the works for 2018 including new music and lots of touring.  I’ve written a bunch of new songs and have begun making plans to head into the studio with the band for early Spring. I am absolutely thrilled to share these songs with you, I think they are some of my best yet.

We will be hitting the road again in late Spring so be on the lookout for shows in your neck of the woods.  If you’d like to stay up-to-date with tours, be sure to follow us on Bandsintown HERE.  Also, I just got in a batch of kickass Radiator King shirts which you can check out HERE.  Well that just about does it. Be good y’all. See you out there on the road!

Adam

If you live in any of the cities listed here on the flyer, come catch us in action! We’d love to see ya! xoxoxo

“The Guns You Pawned” video is now up on YouTube, check it out below!

Beyond thrilled to share with you my latest video for “The Guns You Pawned” premiered today by The Huffington Post! Check it out HERE! Thank you for the thoughtful write-up Randall Radic…

Radiator King releases “The Guns You Pawned” today. Radiator King is the musical project of Adam Silvestri. The song is from Radiator King’s latest album A Hollow Triumph After All, which Silvestri describes as “A sacred and profound attempt to transcend pain, loss and suffering by celebrating a life well-lived, while at once acknowledging the darkly tragicomic catch 22 of existence—that we’re born to die.”

A former punk rocker, Silvestri matured and retired from the punk scene, but not from music. His present style of music combines blues rock thick with the effluvium of punk into a heady new sound highlighted by his working class frankness and authenticity, a sound that’s raw and catchy.

“The Guns You Pawned” begins with a dark bluesy guitar and a powerful groove provided by a solid measured bass and heavy thumping drums. The blues melody resonates with deep evocative colors, giving the music a stridently unforgiving and severe flavor akin to desperadoes ready for a showdown. Dirty guitars infuse the music with a wickedly murky frisson that’s dynamically credible, like walking through a shadowy cemetery at night. A fluid, crying guitar adds supercharged incandescent tones of sadness, while a quavering organ provides knotted hues of sonic friction.

PHOTO CREDIT: RADIATOR KING

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Silvestri’s voice is proximate, oozing intensity and passionate woe. It’s a muscular voice, smoke-filled and full of a rough grating texture, like old scraped velvet, that chaffs the skin raw on your body.

The video, shot in black and white, is chilling. It opens with a guitar swaying and creaking in a barn, then cuts to Silvestri standing near a hangman’s noose, playing his guitar. A young woman walks through the night carrying a torch, as if searching for something. Silvestri digs a grave in soft earth outside a wooden church, as the young woman continues her torchlight journey through the woods. Images of Silvestri standing in the woods, and then sitting at a poker table while drinking and fondling cards, looking over his shoulder, add tension. Meanwhile, the young woman whirls her torch into a spray of sparks, filling the blackness with burning embers. In the end, she stands next to Silvestri as he digs the grave. As he shovels dirt, she jets fire from her mouth.

“The Guns You Pawned” exudes an opaque alchemy that’s starkly overpowering. The bluesy melody infects the listener with rumbling emotions and the rhythm pulses with visceral impact. And Silvestri’s voice, with its too-many-cigarettes and too-much-whiskey rasp is marvelously impressive. Put simply, “The Guns You Pawned” is outstanding!

“Radiator King’s (Adam Silvestri) latest album, A Hollow Triumph After All, is celebratory and somber, an attempt to transcend pain, loss, and suffering by celebrating a life well-lived, while at once acknowledging the fact that we’re born to die. A journey in song merging indie rock, psychedelia, hook-heavy rock & roll, and folk-punk dirges that is bound by Silvestri’s well-drawn lyrics and gravelly vocals, the collection includes his latest, “Second Thoughts in Memphis.” A guitar and keys led tune, reminiscent of both Springsteen and The Replacements, “Second Thoughts in Memphis” chronicles Silvestri’s free-spirited life on the road with the video capturing cinematic imagery of towns across the U.S. as Silvestri plays tour guide, clearly appreciative of the life he is living.

Silvestri notes of the song, “Upon leaving for the “A Hollow Triumph After All” tour this past spring, I decided to take a camera along to capture some of the experience. It was a long tour through the U.S, covering more or less the entire country. For the first three weeks, I traveled with a band, and the remaining three weeks I traveled solo. As you can imagine, the experiences were vast. At times I was surrounded by close friends, laughing and playing music together, and at other times I was all alone, sleeping in the back of my van parked in the Walmart lot closest to the venue I’d just played. That may sound strange, but it’s usually a Walmart parking lot because they’re one of only a few businesses whose policy allows you to park overnight.

When I got back from the 6-week long tour, I had hours of random footage of the journey, and it occurred to me that the this could be made into a great music video for the tune “Second Thoughts in Memphis”. I gave the footage to my friend and editor Joaquin Portacarero who did a wonderful job piecing it together to make the video you see here. Touring is a large part of a musician’s life, and I’d say the more you do it the more you appreciate what it has to teach you. Many of my most notable memories and greatest experiences have been made out there on the road, and it’s my hope that this video captures some of that.”   http://nodepression.com/article/video-premiere-radiator-king-shares-his-second-thoughts-memphis

Thanks to all of you that voted for us in the Deli Mag poll, proud to say we have won! If you visit the The Deli Magazine homepage, you’ll see a fashionable picture of me swiggin’ some bourbon, which shall remain there for the next month.

Check out the write-up and feature by Idobi Radio on my latest LP “A Hollow Triumph After All”. Thank you Emillie Marvel for the kind words. “You’ll be transported to another time and place entirely when you hit play”.  Check it out!

http://idobi.com/exclusives/premiere/premiere-hear-radiator-kings-a-hollow-triumph-after-all/

Friends, I’m proud to announce that Deli Magazine has nominated me for their artist of the month poll!  This is a great honor and I want to thank the folks over at Deli Mag for considering my music. If you enjoy my music and have a free second, I would greatly appreciate your vote, which you can do HERE. By voting you would be helping me not only get my music exposed to new listeners on Deli Mag’s homepage but also afford me the possibility of getting free recording and mastering time.  Thank you for the support!