It seemed as if Chapel Hill’s Dexter Romweber was set to at least rock, if not rule, the world. Barely out of his teens, in the mid 1980’s he was featured on MTV’s “Cutting Edge” and “120 Minutes”. He appeared in the cult […]
It seemed as if Chapel Hill’s Dexter Romweber was set to at least rock, if not rule, the world. Barely out of his teens, in the mid 1980’s he was featured on MTV’s “Cutting Edge” and “120 Minutes”. He appeared in the cult […]
Piano is Flat Duo Jets leader/Mozart fan Dexter Romweber’s version of classical music for short attention spans: thirteen disjointed tracks of melodramatic keyboard flourishes in less than 28 minutes. A Cliff’s Notes version of Rachmaninoff or Dvorak, it sounds like […]
There’s nothing on the third solo album from the erstwhile Flat Duo Jets main man that couldn’t, in theory, have been snatched from a vintage FDJ recording — which is not a complaint, by the way. (All time classic: the […]
Feeling patriotic but just not quite able to fly a flag on your car or praise Donald Rumsfeld? Well, my suggestion would be to find an old Lincoln or Caddy and cruise through your ‘hood blasting some Dexter Romweber music. […]
Dexter Romweber is a funny kind of guy. At first casual listen, the singer/guitarist of the Flat Duo Jets sounds like a trailer park troubadour. He spouts the unrefined brilliance that seeps from the untapped wilderness of the American southeast: […]
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