Fred Speakman: Guitar, Vocals, keys
Kwab Copeland: Drums, Vocals
Anthony Clementi: Bass, singing
Kurt Bloch: Guitar, keys, singing
April 2008
Rumors abound regarding the future of the Beltholes. Are they breaking up? Did they travel to India to learn from the Maharishi? Will they succumb to the same fate as the Beatles?
March 2008
SXSW Rock Fun. Gonna need rehab after this. Come see us transcend reality and move towards the next karmic level.
January 2008
The Beltholes return to Ballard. Defying skeptics and naye-sayers, The B-Boys smuggle themselves into the "Hot Zone" to unleash the rock back from whence it came.
August 2007
The Beltholes "do" America. The Champagne Jam Tour 2007 brought the Beltholes to some of our favorite towns and cities. We anxiously look forward to meeting the rest of the country as well asthe world. Thank you all for coming to see us and making every show the best show yet. Thanks to all who put us up and for the great memories!
July 2007
The CDs are done, the t-shirts are printed and the Van fueled up. Our CD release show on the 21st at Jules Mae's Saloon in Georgetown was awesome. Our fans got a healthy dose of the rock and we are still smiling from all the love.
April 2007
The Beltholes somehow magically recruit Seattle's most beloved musician and producer, Kurt Bloch which easily and undeniably creates the best rock band in the history of music.
February 2007
The Beltholes have recently finished off their debut album in the studio with long time Seattle Rock-Superhero Kurt Bloch at the helm. Stay tuned for information regarding it's highly anticipated release.
November 2006
The Beltholes finish their 24 song demo and begin preparations for the recording of the album.
August 2006
The Beltholes add bassist Anthony "mothboy" Clementi to the group when Drew Church gets added to the lineup of the Seattle favorites The Cops.
Sometime 1999
The Drew Curch form and continue till 2006 eventually evolving into The Beltholes in 2006.
One of the most popular and influential rock groups in the world The Beltholes music is embraced by critics (and, to an even greater degree, the public) as seriously as the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and for a long time now, their personalities have been as recognizable individually to the casual music public as any modern rock superheroes.
The Beltholes are eclectic, freely melding Boogie, Hi-Fi, Punk Revival, British Trad Rock, Latin, Cowpunk, Hair Metal, Arena Rock, Glitter-Blues, Surf, Acid Folk, Country Swing, Yacht Rock and Clown-Core influences into an effortlessly groovy whole. Although The Beltholes lyrics are sometimes political in nature (in keeping with their racially integrated lineup), their music almost always has a sunny, laid-back vibe emblematic of their Southern California children-of-rock-stars roots. They keep the groove loose, and they freely give over to extended jamming. In fact, many of their studio songs are edited together out of multiple pieces of longer improvisations, even if the jams often get indulgent.
The Beltholes best capture this era's loosest, reckless, and indulgent qualities in its high-energy mutations of 70’s studio-rock while sounding a mesmerizing call to arms to the counterculture movement rapidly sprouting up nationwide today. The bands reference to "rockin retro losers", finally gives an assignable name to an emerging genre. The Beltholes will be remembered for generations to come for creating one of the ultimate gas'n'go rock adventures of all time.