Stone Lucy - 3 MP3s from Halluchimeras - © 2009 Stone Lucy Music

Our new album almost killed our band.

This new CD has survived a year of isolation.
It has survived a car crash.
Survived broken hearts.
It’s pushed us through broken bones and just being plain broke.
It has seen us play our best shows.
It’s survived infighting,
Self-doubt,
and growing up.
We’ve taken a long time to get these songs out into the world. Too long.

But Richmond’s most musically ambitious group is ready to release their newest work: Halluchimeras

Stone Lucy is rock music. Stone Lucy is the creative partnership between 4 friends. We are a hard rock band that takes chances, that writes and records songs the way rock 'n' roll was meant to be: ambitious, adventurous, and potent. We are dedicated to the idea that truly ambitious musicians create art and perform it.

“Ghosts have a cold, dead hand in some of what’s going on just below the surface, so be ready to get emotionally engaged while they rock you off your chair”  (Lexi Kahn, LBSH).

Origin of the word “Halluchimeras”:
Hallu (from hallucinations): 1 a: perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs (as LSD)
b: the object so perceived

Chimera(s): 1.a: fanciful mental illusion or fabrication
2. An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

A song is like a part of you, an organ, like your brain or your heart. Different tissues making up something you can’t live without.

Stone Lucy's Syndicated Summer captures everything from life in a tech-crazed society to the death of a dear friend, and does so without being overly pretentious or preachy. This disc is crafted with passionate performances, heavy riffs, and a keen eye toward songwriting.

Co-Produced by Alex Keena and Stone Lucy, Syndicated Summer serves as a celebration of the life and death of Daryl Gillespie, a life long friend of singer Adam Parker who died from undetermined causes in 2006. The culmination of the band's first two recording sessions, this EP was released as the groups first “shopping demo” in January of 2007.

"Propelled by Adam Parker’s immensely-likable vocals, Stone Lucy chases a sister muse of Tool and Soundgarden, with a youthful verve and a proggish swagger"  (Lexi Kahn, Low Budget Super Hero)

"Stone Lucy is a Richmond rock band that has been creating music since September of 2005, and its chugging riffs and psychedelic time changes contain strong similarities to prog-rock powerhouse band Tool...the four-piece group shares "a commitment to making intense hard-rock music that is bereft of trends," and last September played a Darfur benefit show, proving that they are socially aware as well"  (Ricmond.com)

. "...It’s time to consider the varied ways to calculate the success of a local rock band. There are the classic ways; the number of shows a band plays, the number of people in the crowd and the number of people buying the band’s merchandise. Then there is the number of MySpace “friends” accrued by a band and the number of times its songs have been played therein. By any of these measures, Richmond’s Stone Lucy is a burgeoning success. But by the most revealing measure – the number of Stone Lucy stickers on bumpers on Honda Civics around town – the band is gigantic"  (Richmond-Times Dispatch).