GALVEZTON - Some Kind of Love (A Tribute to The Velvet Underground) (2024) Hi-Res

Who is GALVEZTON? GALVEZTON is the stage name that eclectic writer/musician Robert Kuhn uses to release music and perform under. He adopted the moniker prior to the release of the 2022 colorful independent rock ’n’ roll album PERSEVERE to draw awareness to the island Robert adopts as home and its collective creative/cultural scene.

GALVEZTON is an ancient bar of sand drenched in greasy sea foam grit and salty afterglow. It was once home to the proud Karankawa then squatted on by artists and finally sold to rich vacation short term renters and left for dead before the rising global tides and jellyfish swallow her whole.

GALVEZTON loves to surf and play music with friends and children. He makes up songs that seem to be about nothing and everything at the same time; a vignette of a feeling. The beat changes but the voice is real and honest. A surprising number of music journalists compare GALVEZTON’s sound to that of the Velvet Underground and perhaps there is a shared lineage. You can probably owe that to Kuhn’s frank, laid back lyric delivery and common elements like drony, psychedelic pads on top of tom heavy primal surf beats. Instead of fighting it, their manager encouraged them to own it and make a tribute album. So, they got the band together one windy night after the Misfits Mardis Gras parade for a well fueled live recording session. They captured nine Velvet Underground songs before morning. It was rock and roll at its finest and gave substance for the new GALVEZTON release, Some Kind Love.

Some Kinda Love is a 9 song collection of songs by The Velvet Underground that GALVEZTON recorded live in their Galveston, TX studio last year.