The New Haven Advocate, Michael Levy
The songs are superb, credible pop, with lyrics that demand to be memorized in car stereos. Just try not to dance too much while driving.  Read more...

BostonMusicSpotlight.com, Jed Heneberry
Sucka Brown: Unclassifiable, Undeniably Catchy
“What do they sound like?”
Sometimes it’s an easy question to answer. Sometimes not. In the case of Boston’s own Sucka Brown, it is, and it isn’t. Their myspace page refers to them as “rock / funk / pop” as well as “dance rock.” Lead singer Brendan Hall jokingly proposes, “a couple of tin cans inside a trash barrel,” and only slightly more seriously a “Chili Peppers, INXS, Talking Heads mashup.” Other comparisons include Incubus, Maroon 5, and 311, none of which makes all that much sense.
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SoundTheSirens.com (Live Review) Paradise Rock Club, January 26, 2007
Boston’s Sucka Brown plays spastic funk-rock with an edge, and the result is comparable to Maroon 5 on Creatine. But despite their influences, the band’s songs avoid coming off as light, summertime pop fare; the mellow grooves are bolstered by singer Brendan Hall’s soaring, soulful vocals and a powerful rhythm section. Sucka Brown eagerly debuted new songs from their upcoming album, What Elephant?, and the swaying beats and bouncy rhythms of “Wait” were strong enough to cut through the pungent, lingering smell of weed in the air. An ambitious cover of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” captured the song’s best, bizarre qualities and wrapped up the set. 

Boston Magazine, Geoff Gagnon-May 2007 Issue
No disrespect to frontman Brendan Hall and his bandmates, but with a radio-ready dance-rock sound, Sucka Brown invites comparisons: The best of its funky stuff evokes the Red Hot Chili Peppers channeling 311; the best of its rock calls to mind Third Eye Blind. Hall’s voice is full of fun inflection, and most of the tracks are polished and hooky gems. Oh, and if the shrieks of swooning local ladies (read: certain Boston magazine staffers) are any indication, Hall’s stage show is definitely worth catching as well.

BandoftheDay.com, May 2, 2007
I think I have a new favourite band name. Sucka Brown sounds so damn funky, which is great considering their music is just as funky, if not moreso. Their new album, "What Elephant?" is still pretty fresh too, so check it out before it becomes rotten. And by rotten I mean fifty million times platinum.

The Boston Globe
It's hard not to enjoy this group's energetic live set and trend setting dance rock.

Skope Magazine, Bill Kopp
Upon hearing its drums-and-shouted-vocal leadoff, one could be forgiven for guessing that Extra Medium, the debut album by Boston-based Sucka Brown, is the latest white hip-hop act. That guess, however, would fall wide of the mark.  Read more...

Kier Byrnes, What's Up Magazine
SUCKA BROWN – Extra Medium
I tried to not like these guys. Funk-rock is a genre that I have heard to death. I've heard it a million times and 99% of the time it's done pretty poorly. Sucka Brown is in that 1%. They have a bit of a 311 thing going on, a bit of Sugar Ray. Not every album makes me want to crank my stereo and dance on my desk but as you can tell by the number of typos in this (unless the copy writer took them out), I was getting down! Sucka Brown has shared the stage with bands like fellow locals American Hi-Fi and Paranoid Social Club as well as Reel Big Fish. Sucka Brown is smooth and well put together, the musicians are all serious players even though the music can be very light and refreshing music. This is the band you want to bring your dancing shoes to go and see. All I can say is time to hit it, this rocks!

Amy Martin, The Portland Phoenix
8 Days a Week
Boston quartet Sucka Brown released their debut album Extra Medium after touring the shit out of New England. You may have seen them opening for Paranoid Social Club, Zox, or Averi in Boston's Middle East or just about any college in the Northeast. The band describe their album as a soulful, yet poppy collection of tracks, easily a house-party favorite. After a few listens, we've decided front man Brendan Hall sounds similar to Faith No More's Mike Patton circa 1989 — which is quite a compliment considering Patton recorded the absolute best cover of "Easy" originally recorded by the Commodores. 

Nick Scalia, Play New Haven Magazine
Boston's Brown Getting Their Groove On In Hamden
Yes, they're smooth, they've got a few wicked funk-guitar licks, and their name sounds like some long-lost Blaxploitation classic that used to share double-bills with Superfly.
But Boston's Sucka Brown - in town again this month, playing The Space on Dec. 22 - isn't a retro act at all, but rather a musical melting pot of every groove-oriented genre out there.
"We've called it a billion different things, but right now we're settling on dance-rock'," says vocalist Brendan Hall.  Don't confuse their version of dance-rock with the trendy, Franz Ferdinand kind, though. Instead, Hall, along with bandmates Todd Denman (guitar), Scott Sowden (bass), and Matt Slowik (drums), work with a musical vibe that's both bouncy and chilled-out, weaving together the funkified strut of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the spacey dub-rock of 311, and a whole lot of energetic white-boy soul...Read More Here

Michael Freidson, The Boston Metro 11/13/2005
The boys of Sucka Brown met just two years ago and already, they pack houses, land high-profile gigs and get some press. How do they do it? Vocalist Brendan Hall tells us how, a few days before Sucka Brown's CD release party.  Read More Here

Rev. Daryl Litts, Altercation Magazine www.myspace.com/infaction
Sucka Brown • Extra Medium • Self Released **** Sucka Brown. The name conjures images of an undiscovered afro-bearing member of the Fat Albert gang. But don’t be fooled—these guys are a fresh, upbeat rock outfit primed to turn heads with Extra Medium. This inaugural album showcases a unique blend of quirky, funky rock with a solid core of refreshingly bright lyrics and genuine talent. Enhanced by strikingly excellent production and infectious grooviness, this disc is sure to keep you humming and strutting, afro or not.

Mike Loce, The Noise Magazine
SUCKA BROWN, Extra Medium
Not sure if what I’ve received is a greatest hits compilation on the new album, or the new album itself...Described as hook-laden and dance-heavy, a single vocalist fronts the band aptly, and these guys sound tight and produced well. Powderfinger Promotions obviously think they’ve got a winner here. I hear these sounds echoing in the psyche nicely for the early 20-something generation---about half a generation behind me, the even more fucked up youth who don’t know even what styles of music they like. It’s good to be unhinged in the brain while you enjoy the world. Bands like this might appear at colleges, which would be a prime time to sample the expanded sonic revelry that is Sucka Brown. In fact, browsing, the bio here, it appears as though clubs and college shows are no strangers to these guys. Good mix of groove based, phat dance, heavy gaseous jams that wilt the eardrums and body, and then bring them back up to par again.

MetroWest Daily News
Take a sip of Sucka Brown.  Mix a little P-Funk with the Barenaked Ladies and what do you get? It’s the Sucka Brown band, with a beat laid down by Northborough bassist Scott Sowden, who, incidentally, was once a graphics intern here at the Daily News. Check out their new CD, "Extra Medium," available online, or catch their show. They’ll be at Endicott College on Feb. 4, Bridgewater State on Feb. 7 and Fitchburg State on Feb. 9. Then they’re on to Worcester’s Tammany Hall for a March 2 show. They keep the beat at www.suckabrown.com.

Winifred Chane, CMJ: “Breezy, funky, and upbeat, Boston's own Sucka Brown sound like they belong on the soundtrack of a West-Coast beach party.”

NYPress.com: "Sucka Brown, a foursome lead by Brendan Hall give us great music to get down to."

Melinda Green, Skope Magazine: “You can't help but rock out when these guys hit the stage.”

Taxi A&R: “Sucka Brown could easily turn some label heads.”

Dan Maimone, Editor, 168 Magazine: “Sucka Brown have the looks, stage presence, and most importanly the songs to take them to the next level”

David Avery, Powderfinger Promotions: "Sounding somewhat like a more artistically sensitive and song-focused take on 311, Sucka Brown can move deftly between straight up and syncopated rhythms with nearly unnoticable seamlessness. While the band is clearly able to rock with a solid rhythm section, equally important are the innovative and catchy guitar melodies, and the strong vocals and stage presence of striking frontman Brendan Hall. The band has grown rapidly into an impressive musical force that we can expect great things from."

Ashley Rigazio, Sound The Sirens Magizine: "Boston’s Sucka Brown plays spastic reggae-funk-rock with an edge, and the result is comparable to Maroon 5 on Creatine. But despite their influences, the band’s songs avoid coming off as light, summertime pop fare; the mellow grooves are bolstered by singer Brendan Hall’s soaring, soulful vocals and a powerful rhythm section. Sucka Brown eagerly debuted new songs from their upcoming album, What Elephant?, and the swaying beats and bouncy reggae rhythms of “Wait” were strong enough to cut through the pungent, lingering smell of weed in the air."  Read More Here