PRESS UPDATE! (07/2010)
Nick Curran’s brand new CD Reform School Girl graced the pages of the March issue of People Magazine! Reform School Girl was awarded 3 ½ out of 4 stars scoring higher than the competition which included the latest CD by the Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris.

Blues Revue sat down with Nick Curran for a 2-page Q&A style article featured in the Jun/Jul issue of the magazine (#124). Topics of discussion include his latest CD Reform School Girl, his friendship with Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin, his experiences playing and touring with Ronnie Dawson and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, as well as his recent bout with tongue cancer. The article also includes Nick Curran's Top 10 List of Killer B's ("B" Movies) and All Time Top 10 Singles.

Blue Suede News (#90) featured Nick Curran on the cover of their Spring issue of the magazine. The inside accompanying article titled The Return of Screamin’ R&B! presented 10 probing questions surrounding Nick’s current status regarding his career, health and his latest CD Reform School Girl on Eclecto Groove Records. Nick has been a longstanding favorite of the magazine which also recently published a review for his brand new CD calling it “nothing short of glorious.” Blue Suede News is a quarterly magazine that specializes in covering the entire spectrum of American Roots Music. http://www.bluesuedenews.com/

The Portland Press Herald ran a great Q&A feature with Nick Curran published in the March 18th edition of the newspaper. Questions covered topics relating to Nick’s recent bout with tongue cancer, his childhood memories of Maine and the latest CD Reform School Girl. http://www.pressherald.com/life/go/local-music-qanda_2010-03-17.html

The All Music Guide spoke with Nick Curran for an interview published on the popular website’s blog on February 19th, 2010. In the article AMG’s Matt Collar questioned Nick about his new album, his recent diagnosis with tongue cancer and whether to call him blues, rock or punk. The All Music Guide website was created in 1995 as a place for music fans to indulge their passion and is the most comprehensive music reference source on the planet. http://blog.allmusic.com/

RADIO UPDATE! (07/2010)
Nick Curran’s brand new CD Reform School Girl has enjoyed steady and fervent attention since its initial debut in February. Week one got off to a great start with 54 stations adding the record. Of those, 10 stations had the album in Heavy or Medium rotation. Most importantly, both KCRW in Los Angeles and KEXP in Seattle added Nick! KEXP is the KCRW of Seattle and their signal also broadcasts in New York City via www.wnyc.com - They have huge fan base in New York and also offer huge exposure via internet streaming!

…and Nick Curran shows no signs of slowing down. At last count 145 stations had added Reform School Girl and of those 46 stations had the album in Heavy or Medium rotation.

The nationally syndicated radio show Little Steven's Underground Garage has become a major supporter of Nick Curran. The song Sheena’s Back In Town from Nick’s latest CD Reform School Girl made Little Steven’s choice for “Coolest Song In The World.” It aired the weekend of March 19-21 (Show 416) and kicked off a set of music that included songs by Little Richard, Jackie Brenston, and the Shangri-Las among others. That was followed by a 2nd “Coolest Song In The World” selection (proving that lightning does indeed strike twice) with Baby You Crazy which aired May 30th (Show 426). The weekly syndicated radio program is heard on over 200 terrestrial FM radio station in 130 major cities in the USA and in many countries outside the US. It is heard by approximately one million listeners in the US each week. CLICK HERE

Thanks to the exposure generated by airplay on Little Steven’s Underground Garage in March, Nick Curran’s song Sheena’s Back In Town charted #23 on the Classic Rock radio chart in April. Nick’s song shared company on the charts with the likes of Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Chickenfoot, Slash, The Scorpions and Stone Temple Pilots!!! Way to go Nick!!!

Australia’s PBS 106.7FM selected Nick Curran’s Reform School Girl as a PBS Breakfast Feature which ran the week of March 9, 2010. During the program the host played tracks from the album, talked about the release, and then gave away copies on-air. PBS-FM has been a beacon of independent, freeform, passionate, real and unpretentious radio in Melbourne Australia for 25 years. CLICK HERE

B.B. KING’S BLUESVILLE PICKS TO CLICK (Week of May 8, 2010)
1. Reform School Girl– Nick Curran & The Lowlifes

WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING! (07/2010)
“This IS, and will continue to be, the best record of 2010” – Huffington Post
“Reform School Girl is also the first killer party record of 2010, homage to the old-school style of sticking a disc in the player and letting it roll all night long.” – Austin Chronicle
“If you like your rock and roll raw, your blues lowdown, this is the disc for you.” – Vintage Guitar
“Curran rocks, not only in attitude, spirit and raucous guitar playing, but also with a predilection for vintage equipment and a fuzzed-out sound. This is the '50s that you haven't heard until now.” - BluesWax
“The whole CD is nothing short of glorious…we don’t offer record ratings, but six out of five for this one!” – Blue Suede News
“Although recorded in the 21st century, the Super 8 of this entrancing album could have been unearthed beneath Chuck Berry’s old outhouse, such is the authenticity of the rock ‘n’ roll proceedings.” – Guitarist Magazine
“A fiery, campy, and insanely rockin' album, Reform School Girl sounds like something along the lines of Little Richard backed by the Misfits with Phil Spector recording the proceedings in his garage.” – All Music Guide
“But an even better comparison is this: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Curran’s fondness of this music recalls the director’s own recollection of the grindhouse cinema of his youth, in that he savors not only the form, but the outrageous, B-level camp that lurked just below the surface. He knows what he’s doing has a certain trashy genius to it, and that’s what makes it brilliant. Reform School Girl is pulp rock and roll for a new generation.”– The Hurst Review

Little Steven's Underground Garage! (03.15.10)
Little Steven's Underground Garage will feature "Sheena's Back" as Steven's Coolest Song of the Week in the show airing the
week of March 21. Little Steven's Underground Garage syndicates to over 200 stations in the States and more worldwide.

Nick Curran is one of the Most Added at Americana this week ! (02.18.10)
"Reform School Girl" is hitting radio hard and the week of its release it is among the Top 5 most added artists at Americana Radio.

NICK CURRAN - PRESS RELEASE FROM SHORE FIRE MEDIA (02.04.10)
THIS 'REFORM SCHOOL GIRL' WAS LOCKED UP WITH VINTAGE GEAR
When Austin garage rocker and "powerhouse performer" (All Music Guide) Nick Curran went into the Fort Horton studio in Wyldwood, Texas to produce and record what would become 'Reform School Girl' (out from Eclecto Groove February 16th), he says he wanted "a recording that sounds like it's gonna explode out of your stereo at all times," and one listen will tell you that he succeeded. 'Reform School Girl' is a raucous collection that brings to mind both the sounds of Specialty Records - early home to one of Curran's heroes, Little Richard - and the Ramones.

"I dig a kind of lo-fi recording sound, but one that doesn't sound like sh*t," he continues. "Sometimes people think that to get something to sound cool and old, it has to sound bad. The way we do it, it's still sonically great." Those who hear 'Reform School Girl' will agree.

Much of that sound results from the analog equipment and vintage instruments Curran and co-producer Billy Horton (bassist in Curran's band the Lowlifes) used in the studio. Curran played a variety of guitars, including a classic Gretsch, a Squier '51, and an '80s Kramer, best known as an Eddie Van Halen favorite. Of the latter, Curran marvels, "It's one of the guitars that sounds the best in the studio, but you would totally not think it would." Curran and Horton also used tube amplifiers including a Tweed Fender Champ, first introduced in 1955; a Tweed Fender Deluxe from the '50s, known for its saturated tone; and a Blackheart 5 watt combo.

"Some songs are very simply produced," Curran says, "but on the title track we actually ran outta tracks on that and had to add a bunch more on. We were really trying to get a Phil Spector-ish sound on that, so we made sure we put too much of everything on that one!

NICK CURRAN - PRESS RELEASE FROM SHORE FIRE MEDIA (12.22.09)
Nick Curran's Long-Awaited Return, 'Reform School Girl' (Eclecto Groove / Feb. 16, 2010), is A Blast of High-Energy Vintage Rhythm & Blues

"One of the most authentic and exciting roots musicians of his generation" (All Music Guide) Is Back, Following Awards, Critical Huzzahs & Turn On HBO's "True Blood"

Listen to songs from the album here: http://www.myspace.com/curranrock

On 'Reform School Girl' (Eclecto Groove, Feb. 16, 2010), Nick Curran's fifth solo release and first new album in five years, the shouter, songwriter and monster guitarist is an unstoppable, high-energy one-man 50's R&B revival. Curran wrote or cowrote 12 of the album's 14 foot-stomping tracks.

Called "just a total ass-kicker" by no less an authority than Jimmie Vaughan of The Fabulous Thunderbirds (with whom he played for three years), the Austin-based Curran and his new rock'n'roll roots band, The Lowlifes, pull out all the stops on the new album. Curran recorded 'Reform School Girl' on vintage instruments and analog equipment, all the better to recreate the raw, explosive sound of early R&B and rock'n'roll 45's that he loves.

Tracks such as "Tough Love" and "Lusty Li'l Lucy" show the influence of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, while the title track ­ with its refrain, "She stole my heart and then she blew this town" ­ pays homage to girl groups like the Shangri-Las and the Ronettes. "Baby You Crazy" recalls the Sonics at their loudest.

Nick Curran's previous release, 'Dr. Velvet,' garnered the 2004 W.C. Handy Award (now known as the Blues Music Award) for "Best New Artist Debut." In 2008, Curran performed four songs on the mega-hit HBO series "True Blood." All Music Guide called him "one of the most authentic and exciting roots musicians of his generation."

NICK CURRAN SIGNS WITH ECLECTO GROOVE! (10.08.09)
Nick Curran joins us by way of Austin, Texas, and lays down a strikingly savage blend of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm & blues, rockabilly and of course, slashing Texas blues. After four stunning solo releases Nick disbanded the Nitelifes and took flight with The Fabulous Thunderbirds appearing on the band’s 2005 release “Painted On,” alongside a stellar lineup that also included Kirk Fletcher on guitar, Gene Taylor on piano, Ronnie James Weber on bass and Jimi Bott on drums. But alas, all good things must come to an end, and Nick soon turned his attention in a surprisingly new direction. His band, Deguello, soon found Nick pursuing his passion and affinity for punk rock music while also allowing a whole new audience to discover his boundless energy and ferocious raw talent. But for fans of his earlier blues influenced recordings, it would seem that all was now lost. Fast forward to 2009 and where is Nick now? Well…he’s back!! And sounding better than ever!!! His new band, The Lowlifes, recall his earlier rhythm & blues inspired work for the Texas Jamboree label and Nick is promising fans that the best is yet to come. Look out for Nick Curran & the Lowlifes brand new release in early 2010 on Eclecto Groove Records.