November 6, 2010.
Young Adults of Allston, Massachusetts will play their record release show at Great Scott. Filming will be by ExNoise. This show will be the pinnacle of a documentary featuring Young Adults and other Boston area garage rock/punk bands. You could be in the documentary…if you go to the show.
November 6th and 7th, the Modfather Paul Weller will be in New York City playing shows. One is at the Best Buy (Nokia) Theatre and the one I am going to is at the Apollo in Harlem. I’ve been re-familiarizing myself, coincidentally, with Weller’s solo work so I’m looking forward to this thing.
In yet another strange pop culture twist, The Rifles (a favorite of mine) are currently being featured in an iPod commercial. Not directly, of course. The listener of the iPod in the commercial clicks on The Great Escape at the very end. The album art is very visible. This is yet another strange pop culture twist because The Rifles were being played on satellite pop radio throughout summer 2010. I found that weird because nobody knows about the Rifles in the United States…or so it seems. More exposure can’t hurt.
Link to the Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze8hYZDJpXI&feature=related
Band: Woozy Viper
Release: 2010
Label: ?
1. “You Can’t Find Me” – A
2. “Dinner And A Movie”- B
3. “Dirty” – B+
4. “Party Town U.S.A.” – B
5. “It’s Such A Drag” – B+
6. “I Want To Strangle You” – B+
7. “She’s Mine” – B+
8. “Black Is The New Black” – A-
9. “Real Good Time” – A-
10. “Dislocated Shoulder” – A
Comments: Good stuff. To me, it’s rather run of the mill rock and roll (appropriate title) that plays like your (above) average power-pop/garage rock revue. Not too much on here blows my mind, but there are a lot of fun listens to be had. I’ve read about Black Lips comparisons and that’s simply not appropriate or fair. These guys are more Nobunny than Lips. Lyrically and musically.
Grade: B+ (88)
I’m going to link to some YouTube videos that you ought to check out. These really HIGH DEFINITION (if you want them to be) vids were shot a couple of nights ago in Philadelphia. Gentleman Jesse and His Men and Those Darlins.
GJ+HM:
“Highland Crawler” and “Kinda Uptight” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAVLyG5-uo
“Careful” and “Word Gets Around” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifm_TopXpB4&feature=channel
“I Don’t Wanna Know” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZMf8_8vjLo&feature=channel
“Butterfingers” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxyKO0njszs&feature=channel
TD:
“Who’s That Knockin”? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2kkHi372kw&feature=channel
“Wild One” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXkO2bxku7M&feature=channel
“Night Jogger” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgeofK-yXQw&feature=channel
“I’ve No Clue” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsOblpp77k&feature=channel
Here’s a new Black Lips interview video, presumably shot while they were in Mexico in August. It’s good!
This song came up in a Black Lips playlist I had going on Pandora. While I typically wouldn’t consider the two bands to be of the same musical lineage, they both play with an incredible amount of energy.
Happy 18th 25th B-Day to Stephen Pope, formerly of Jay Reatard bass player fame and currently the chief sultan of MTN Dew in a musical collective known as Wavves.
OCT 15th-17th
@ the Temple
670 Centre St.
JP
ALL AGES
$15 per day
Best day: OCT 17!!!
Lineup:
BBQ(Mark Sultan, of King Khan and BBQ, montreal)
Ty Segall(san fran)
Needy Visions
Lord Jeff
Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores(providence)
Hands and Knees
Many Mansions
The Men(nyc)
Bezoar(nyc)
Turbo Fruits(TN)
Pujol(TN)
Duck That
Double Awake
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Sultan, Segall, and Pujol?! Word!!!
The guitars and bass are quite similar to that of Black Lips “Cold Hands”
Check it out:
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 