
Phoenix New Times website 3/22/04
With only a seven-inch vinyl single on the streets (sleeved in a cover
showing the Greenhaven Mobile Home Park in east Phoenix) and a lone video on
their Web site chronicling the adventures of a repo truck driver taking in a
2-for-1 night at Jugheads, the members of Greenhaven have fashioned a quick
image of themselves as pool-playing, trucker-hat-wearing stoners with a
penchant for Black Sabbath-style hard rock. Turns out there’re a lot of those
types in the Valley -- who knew? -- and, as the single continues to catch
fire with the national punk press, the band is gaining a wide audience of
soul partners from outside the city limits as well. Fronted by singer Matt
Strangwayes, formerly of the Pavement Music band Windigo, Greenhaven surely
has more in store. For now, the quartet is riding its rollicking
truck-driving anthem “Southbound” as far down the interstates as it will take
them.
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