Featuring Wally Palmar (the Romantics), Elliot Easton (the Cars), Andy Babiuk (the Chesterfield Kings), and Clem Burke (Blondie), The Empty Hearts play simple, straightforward, but soulful rock & roll informed by '60s garage rock and British Invasion sounds. The band gathered in Rochester, New York in March 2013 at Babiuk's recording studio Fab Gear, with Ed Stasium as producer and former Faces keyboard player Ian McLagan guesting on piano and organ. In five days, the Empty Hearts knocked out an album's worth of new material, and after striking a deal with 429 Records, the album, simply called The Empty Hearts, was released in 2014. ~ Mark Deming