Absinthe Rose is a Boston based folk band consisting of singer-songwriter Kimbo Rose on acoustic guitar and vocals and a core rhythm section of well-seasoned Boston area music veterans. The band mixes different styles of music including Folk, Americana, Gypsy Jazz, Blues, Punk into a original and diverse sound. Regular touring, live performances mixed with a strong DIY ethic and both personal and political subject matter has quickly gained the band notoriety in the underground DIY music scene.
Absinthe Rose is the musical brainchild of singer songwriter Kimbo Rose. Originally formed in 2008 as a solo acoustic project based out of the Medford and Ashland Oregon area. In 2009 Kimbo Rose relocated to Boston, Massachusetts and self-released her debut CD entitled Digging Ditches & Escaping Holes on her newly formed DIY record label she named Screech Owl Records. This was a ten-track solo acoustic album of material she had been playing for years in Oregon and recorded in Boston. In the spring of 2010 Kimbo Rose partnered up with Bill on Bass, Josh on Banjo, Nick on Electric Guitar and Rich on Drums and the band as you know it today was born.
Absinthe Rose recorded their debut EP with the full band entitled Consistency Through Skepticism And Awareness in the fall of 2010 and began playing around the Boston area. Soon after the band embarked on their first extensive West Coast US tour in the spring of 2011 and hasn’t stopped since. Winter of 2012 they recorded their full-length album entitled The More That We Learn, The More We Learn That We’re Wrong and released in the spring of 2013.
In the spring of 2015, Absinthe Rose returned the studio and began recording a new full length album entitled Black Earth which will be self-released on the band’s own label in September. This record is touted as their most dynamic and eclectic album to date showing the band’s true diversity and Kimbo’s full range of lyrical and musical influences.
Absinthe Rose is now playing on TMN Radio.