411: About
The Gist
Kids Like You and Me spread the good word about good music and release records as KLYAM Records. We write about music happenings in underground rock and roll/punk/slime and occasionally other stuff. It’s unfortunate that good tunes and bands go unnoticed or barely noticed all the time. Rest assured! Good tunes and bands don’t go unnoticed on KLYAM. In fact, promoting these bands is pretty much what KLYAM is about. Aside from album reviews, concert reviews, interviews, band spotlights, and so forth, you will also be able to find entertainment musings of all varieties.
KLYAM became a thing in June 2009. The crew behind the scenes is from Boston, Massachusetts, where the winters are cold, the nice weather doesn’t last long enough, and more importantly where touring bands should come through to more often.
“Read Kids Like You and Me! You will discover a straight up and purely awesome resource for sick bands and catchy jams both new and old with a gangsta lean to the kind of raw, nasty, garagey, punk, and weirdo side of rock and roll that our pages were founded on. These dudes truly know what is up with underground rock and roll today and they are generously dishing it out on a daily basis. KLYAM will turn you on in more ways than one, mostly with new releases, tour dates, videos, show listings and other nasty sassafras. For punk slime all the time visit http://www.klyam.com. Don’t forget to bookmark that shit, scratch it into your desk if need be. The Kids are there for you.” – Boston Compass
KLYAM is run by
Chris DeCarlo and Glen Maganzini
Honorary KLYAMers:
Black Lips – Cole Alexander, Joe Bradley, Jared Swilley, Ian St. Pe
Jay Reatard – [Deceased]
Mark Sultan
Arish A. King Khan
Nobunny - Justin Champlin, Elvis Christ, Touchy Tony, D’Animal
No Age – Dean Spunt, Randy Randall
Wavves – Nathan Williams, Stephen Pope
Box Elders – Dave Goldberg, Clayton McIntyre, Jeremiah McIntyre
Hunx and His Punx
The Walkmen
Animal Collective – Panda Bear, Avey Tare, Brian Weitz, Josh Dibb
Deerhunter- Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Josh Fauver, Moses Archuleta
Harlem - Michael Coomers, Curtis O’Mara, Jose Boyer
Bill Hicks- [Deceased]
Billy Hayes
Noam Chomsky
Ron Paul
Papa “Paul” KLYAM
Bands of The Week
March 2013- Girls of the Gravitron
December 2012- The Electric Street Queens
November 2012- SKIMASK
October 2012- The Fagettes
September 2012- The Hussy
August 2012- Gravys Drop
July 2012- The Migs
June 2012- Fat Creeps
May 2012- Mark Sultan
April 2012- SARALEE
March 2012- New Highway Hymnal
February 2012- Bleached
December 2011- Shannon and the Clams
December 2011- The Orwells
November 2011- Big Mess
October 2011- Maine Coons
October 2011 – Hurricanes of Love
September 2011 – Fat History Month
August 2011 – Adam Green
July 2011 – The Beets
June 2011 – Nobunny
June 2011 – Lotus Plaza
May 2011 – Atlantic Thrills
May 2011 – Colleen Green
April 2011- Black Lips
April 2011 – Dead Ghosts
March 2011 – Dum Dum Girls
March 2011 – Natural Child
February 2011 – Girlfriends
February 2011 – Wheels On Fire
January 2011 – Wavves
January 2011 – Lost Sounds
December 2010 – Deerhunter
December 2010- White Wires
December 2010 – Jacuzzi Boys
November 2010- Magic Kids
November 2010 – No Age
November 2010 – Ty Segall
October 2010- King Khan & The Shrines
October 2010- Box Elders
September 2010 – Gentleman Jesse and His Men
Music Submission: klyamemail@gmail.com – We really really really enjoy listening to music, so please don’t hesitate. Recently, there have been more submissions than we’ve been able to keep up with! In the KLYAM spirit of posting only what we genuinely are interested in and enjoy, we may be guilty of the high crime of neglecting to post a bit about your band. Here is an inside secret to getting posted on KLYAM: look at the kinds of bands that the contributors post. Slap an old ATTN: tag in the subject line of your e-mail. This will work out best, but we don’t do tons and tons of reviews of submissions.
Past Contributors:
Justin Cole
Lauren Chavarria
Ben Tan
James DiNanno
Kelsey Tuminelli
Andrew Bedsole
Richard Franke
Matt Hurton
Matthew Ramsden
John Toothaker
Shane Wolf
*Little Note, Bottom of Page*
The concert calendar and concert reviews are, with little exception, New England based.
