VIDEO: The Growlers’ “Not The Man”

The new album by The Growlers is called Chinese Fountain and what is a Chinese Fountain you ask? Is it a firework? A sexual position? Racist slang? You’ll have to find out but the Everloving Records album is out there and they’ve made a video for “Not The Man”, directed by Taylor Bonin. They’ll be on tour in June but are doing a show in San Diego in a few weeks so head out if you can, for it is a must.

May 9… San Diego, CA (Observatory North Park) (Sold Out)
June 3… Taos, NM (Taos Mesa Brewing)
June 5… Dallas, TX (Trees)
June 6… Ozark, AR (Wakarusa)
June 8… New Orleans, LA (One Eyed Jacks)
June 9… Atlanta, GA (Terminal West)
June 10… Asheville, NC (New Mountain Theatre)
June 11… Manchester, TN (Bonnaroo)
June 12… St. Louis, MO (Old Rock House)
June 13… Norman, OK (Opolis)
June 18-20… San Francisco, CA (Great American Music Hall)
July 11… Ottawa, ON (Ottawa Blues Festival)

AUDIO: The Growlers’ “Good Advice”

The Growlers will be releasing a new album next month called Chinese Fountain (Everloving (U.S.)/Smack Face (Australia/New Zealand)/FatCat (Europe) and along with taking part in a forthcoming music festival, they’re sharing a song from the album to come. The song is “Good Advice”, which they are hoping you’ll take heed to when considering listening to this.

Music festival alert: The Growlers will be performing at Beach Goth III at The Observatory Grounds in Orange County, California on October 25th. With three stages and rides throughout the place, some of the other artists scheduled to perform include Chelsea Wolfe, Bleached, The Spits, La Femme, Mariachi El Bronx, The Dickies, Mystic Braves, The Aquadolls, Cosmonauts, The GZA, and Mr Elevator & The Brain Hotel. For more info, this is the perfect place to click.

REVIEW: The Growlers’ “Guilded Pleasures”

The album is called Guilded Pleasures (Everloving) but I found myself wondering when the pleasure would make itself known. The Growlers play this kind of surf-meets-lounge style, and normally I would eat that stuff up as I am a fan of both styles. Then you have a singer that sounds like Bob Dylan and while I’m not thrown-off by the novelty of it, I wondered if this was all they were going to offer me. I tried getting into the songs, then the construction of the songs into an album, and I found myself coming up with various words, all of which lead to me thinking “I just don’t like this”. Or I should say, it’s not that I hate it, but I don’t find myself drawn to anything, enough to make me want to play this repeatedly. If this was played within a playlist of other artists that sounded the same, it would get completely lost because I could not detect anything different. A pass on this one.

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RECORD CRACK: Fat Possum to release a 7″ by Gap Dream

Gabriel Fulvimar’s music has been compared to Giorgio Moroder, Fripp & Eno, and Cann, at least it says so in this bio here for Fulvimar’s project, Gap Dream, and he will be sharing those influences on September 17th with a new single on Fat Possum Records. “Shine Your Love” b/w “Light On A G String” are the two sides of the 45 (which you may pre-order via FatPossum.com) and you can listen to the A-side below.

Gap Dream will be doing it on the road with musical help from Pangea The Growlers, and Cosmonauts, get to the shows early so you can get your money’s worth.

September 19… Vancouver, BC (Electric Owl)
September 20… Seattle, WA (Neumos)
September 21… Portland, OR (Wonder Ballroom)
September 24… Salt Lake City, UT (Urban Lounge)
September 25… Denver, CO (Bluebird Theater)
September 26… Omaha, NE (Slowdown)
September 27… St. Paul, MN (Turf Club)
September 28… Chicago, IL (Subterranean)
September 29… Detroit, MI (Magic Stick)
October 1… Toronto, ON (Lee’s Palace)
October 2… Montreal, QC (Il Motore)
October 3… Boston, MA (Sinclair)
October 4… Philadelphia , PA (First Unitarian Church)
October 5… New York, NY (Bowery Ballroom)
October 6… Washington, DC (Black Cat)
October 8… Atlanta, GA (Terminal West)
October 9… Nashville, TN (Mercy Lounge)
October 11… Houston, TX (Fitzgerald’s)

SOME STUFFS: The Growlers want to pass along their “Humdrum Blues”

The Growlers have a new EP due out on November 12th called Gilded Pleasures (Everloving) so before you check the group out on the tour that will get underway in support of it, have a listen to a track from the EP called “Humdrum Blues”.

As for the tour, they’re calling it the Burgerama Tour, which can only mean good things. This will take them from British Columbia to Santa Ana, California, where they will end the tour by participating in Beach Goth II, which may sound like an oxymoron but if it works for someone, it can work for you.

September 19… Vancouver, BC (Electric Owl)
September 20… Seattle, WA (Neumos)
September 21… Portland, OR (Wonder Ballroom)
September 24… Salt Lake City, UT (Urban Lounge)
September 25… Denver, CO (Bluebird Theater)
September 26… Omaha, NE (Slowdown)
September 27… St. Paul, MN (Turf Club)
September 28… Chicago, IL (Subterranean)
September 29… Detroit, MI (Magic Stick)
October 1… Toronto, ON (Lee’s Palace)
October 2… Montreal, QC (Il Motore)
October 3… Boston, MA (Sinclair)
October 4… Philadelphia, PA (First Unitarian Church)
October 5… New York City, NY (Bowery Ballroom)
October 6… Washington, DC (Black Cat)
October 8… Atlanta, GA (Terminal West)
October 9… Nashville, TN (Mercy Lounge)
October 11… Houston, TX (Fitzgerald’s)
October 12… Austin, TX (The Parish)
October 18-19… Santa Ana, CA (The Observatory) (Beach Goth II)

SOME STUFFS: New tour and video for The Coathangers can be found in this post

By the time most of you read this, The Coathangers will be playing the first of a string of shows in Europe, where they will be until the end of April. See:

March 27… Vera Groningen, Holland $
March 30… Leipzig Germany, Conne Island) $
April 1… Düsseldorf Germany (Zakk) $
April 2… Bielefeld Germany (Forum) $
April 4… Sankt Hanshaugen Norway (John Dee) $
April 6… Umea Sweden, Umea Open (Applet stage)
April 7… Stockholm Sweden (Debaser) $
April 9… Berlin Germany (Astra) $
April 10… Warsaw Poland (Proxima) $
April 11… Wroclaw Poland (Firlej) $
April 12… Munich Germany (Theaterfabrik) $
April 13… Vienna Austria (WUK) $
April 15… Wil Switzerland (Gare de Lion) $
April 16… Zurich Switzerland (Mascotte) $
April 17… Paris France (La Maroquineri)e $
April 19… Manchester UK (Academy 2/3) $
April 20… Glasgow UK (SW3) $
April 21… Wolverhampton UK (Slade Rooms) $
April 22… Cardiff UK (The Great Hall 2) $
April 23… Bristol UK (Academy) $
April 24… Nottingham UK (Rescue Rooms) $
April 25… London UK (Islington Academy) $
April 26… Brighton, UK (Green Door Store) !

$ = w/ And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
! = w/ The Growlers

Before they left, the group created a video for “Merry Go Round” (no relation to the Wild Man Fischer song of the same name), where people are wearing masks and things. You may view these things below.

REVIEW: The Growlers’ “Hung At Heart”

Surf music? Surf rock… in 2013? Yes indeed, and it comes from The Growlers out of Southern California, and their Hung At Heart album (Everloving) is reminiscent of those days when nothing mattered but surf, sand, shorts, bathing suits, and… well, surf.

If you wish, you can listen to this album as a bit of our innocence lost. Many of us, including myself, weren’t around when surf music was the rage, where everyone had to rock out for two minutes and 30 seconds or less at a time, but these guys have that sound down right. It’s not just the music that moves them, but the lyrics that are about love found, love lost, and love wished for, much of which was influenced by early R&B and country, genres where they cut the crap and just gave you what you should hear so you could wiggle on the floor, and move on to the next story.

The entire album isn’t like that, for tracks like “One Million Lovers” and “Pet Shop Eyes” are knee deep in garage rock richness, while “Living In A Memory” sounds ready made for a hoedown. Some of this may sound like the works of The Mummies, The Phantom Surfers, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, or the many projects of Billy Childish, but that innocence also had to do with being punk as fuck because you wanted to buy a guitar or farfisa organ and just enjoy yourself. Hung At Heart is an album of joy, although if we are to get technical for a moment, at 15 songs, this would be considered a double album in the late 50’s/early 60’s, perhaps way too much to rock out to but not enough for modern tastes. By the end of the album, the surf vibe still shines strong and even if you’ve never been anywhere close to a beach or sand, Hung At Heart shows that when it comes to good ol’ rock’n’roll, you can still use your mind to imagine its cool factor.

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VIDEO: Feeding People “Island Universe”

How are all of you readers feeling?

I said: HOW ARE ALL OF YOU READERS FEELING?

HOW MANY OF YOU OUT THERE LIKE TO BE FEEDING PEOPLE?

Okay, most of you aren’t going to get it, but what you can and will get is this wet video by Feeding People, where they speak about an “Island Universe”, a place where one will be able to live forever in peace and love. The video comes off like a very twisted movie from the 1970’s that really goes nowhere, and at the end you’re going “what in the hell did I just watch?” The end result is a song that’ll hook you and become your next earworm. The song is the band’s latest 7″ 45 on Innovative Leisure, which you can purchase directly from the label by clicking here.

In October, the band will be doing a small handful of shows in California with a number of other bands you may be into, so check them out if you can.
October 14… Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Bar ^
October 20… Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory +

^ w/ Onuinu
+ w/ The Growlers, Resonars, Tomorrow’s Tulips, Audacity, Sam Flax

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FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: Denney & The Jets’ “Fun Girls”

It’s great when a band not only goes back to the roots of rock’n’roll, but actually understands how it sounds and where it came from. Denney & The Jets do this in a song that sounds like everything from Chuck Berry and Little Richard to Rockpile and The Rolling Stones. The music has always been primal, and the band talk about their interests and urges in “Fun Girls”. The song is from their brand new EP on Limited Fanfare Records, and they’ll be going on tour where some shows will features The Growlers.

September 28… Chicago, IL @ Audiotree Live
September 29… Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival *
October 1… Detroit, MI @ Majestic Cafe *
October 2… London, Ontario @ APK Live *
October 3… Tonroto, Ontario @ Parts & Labour *
October 4… Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place *
October 5… Albany, NY @ Valentine’s *
October 6… Pawtucket, RI @ The Met *
October 7… Hamden, CT @ The Space *
October 10… Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes*
October 11… Brooklyn, NY@ Williamsburg Music Hall *
October 12… Worcester, MA @ The Grind – Clark University *
October 13… Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
October 14… Pittsburgh, PA @ Thunderbird *

* with The Growlers

You can also listen to the EP in full before you buy it.

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