The Defibulators, Brooklyn, NY

"No yee-haws or any other hoots or yawps were held back a few nights earlier at a show by the Defibulators at the Rodeo Bar on Third Avenue, which styles itself a honky-tonk oasis in Manhattan....The Defibulators, from Brooklyn, are quintessential Rodeo Bar. Like a hoedown band from a Warner Brothers cartoon, they played raucous and slightly surreal "whackabilly," as they describe it, and featured two washboard percussionists, one in crimson long johns, the other in a Viking helmet."
-The New York Times (Ben Sisario)

"Dark, twangy, honky-tonk with a wailing violin"
-Time Out New York

"Citibilly!"
-The New Yorker

"This band plays it's heart out"
-CNN Entertaintment News

When all the indie bands in Brooklyn decided to go "roots," these guys actually got it right."
-DigPhilly.com (John Davidson)

"The Defibulators know how to pick with a wink in songs like 'Armageddon Boogie'"
-The New York Times

"Sporting dual washboards, some wicked old-timey tunes, and a Paul Bunyan-looking dude just blazing on the fiddle, they whipped the place into a plaid-and-denim frenzy."
-Minneapolis City Pages

"The Defibulators sound like a collision of Asleep at the Wheel and Commander Cody"
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The Defibulators bring to mind the band that backed Loretty Lynn in the Delta Grange Hall in Washington State: raw, tight, rough, authentic, and country as hell."
-Alex Battles (Founder - Brooklyn Country Music Festival)