By Gary Graff
Gringo Star frontman Nick Furgiuele has long wanted to make a live album with the band. And the Atlanta garage rockers' 10th anniversary has become the right time to release Controlled Burn (Live in Atlanta), whose rendition of 2011's "Make You Mine" is premiering exclusively below.
"A lot of my favorite records are live albums," Furgiuele, who co-founded the band with his brother Pete, tells Billboard. "Pete is kind of our recording guru; He's more into studio stuff, but I finally convinced him to do (a live album) and just set up the mics and get some audio, no overdubs or anything. Our set right now is comprised of the whole spectrum of our records, so it's cool to just capture that." And Furgiuele is also happy Gringo Star has something of a counterpoint to the group's more polished studio albums.