Band - The Diatribes

The Diatribes, a Berlin-based folk rock trio, were born in the late 1990s of the collaboration between Landis MacKellar (guitar, harmonica, vocals) from the 1980s New York Fast Folk crowd and Steve Ney (bass), a survivor of the West Berlin indie scene. Adam Weisman, a prominent New Music percussionist and presumptively the only rock drummer to have played under Leonard Bernstein and Frank Zappa, was the final ingredient. Their material, which ranges from hard core to lounge jazz with truck driving music and historical ballads along the way, boils down to a profound dismissal of human perfectibility.