04.09.13 – Brooklyn, NY – Silent Barn ^
04.17.13 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – The Crimson Lion
04.18.13 – Oberlin, OH – Oberlin College
04.19.13 – Columbus, OH – Double Happiness
04.20.13 – Chicago, IL – Animal Kingdom
04.21.13 – Ypsilanti, MI – Woodruff’s
05.04.13 – Brooklyn, NY – Death By Audio ~
05.17.13 – Eugene, OR – KWVA Fest
05.18.13 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
05.19.13 – Portland, OR – Record Room
05.22.13 – Oakland, CA – The Night Light
05.23.13 – San Francisco, CA – The Hemlock
05.25.13 – San Diego, CA – The Void
05.25.13 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
Wow, I don’t know if it is just me or did that feel like the longest week with our last Band of the Week, The Electric Street Queens. Ahh well, y’all had plenty of time to check them out! And it’s a must that you check out our current BOTW: Girls of the Gravitron! These dudes are from Memphis, TN and their music is so out of control and bizarre, that after obsessively and excessively listening to their 2010 LP Magnetic Mountain for about three months straight, I still struggle to articulate what it sounds like. It’s weird pop about our weird world. There are elements of Black Lips, Beat Happening (especially in the vocals, very Calvin Johnson), Adam Green/Moldy Peaches, Pavement, and the cheeriness of fellow Memphis legends The Barbaras, Magic Kids, and Toxie- which by the way keyboardist Will McElroy is a member of all four of these bands! He’s the man, and there may be some other overlapping members. I’d say GOTG are a lot darker than those other bands though; there’s this real fuck you attitude to them. Lastly, they remind me of The Adventures of Pete and Pete and a nice, fairly warm Autumn day. In any case, I can’t recommend this band enough. One of my favorites that unfortunately no one outside Memphis seems to know. Well, we at KLYAM are spreading our love, read Glen’s review of Magnetic Mountain: https://klyam.com/2012/10/12/classic-album-review-magnetic-mountain/
Aussie clangers The UV RACE are coming to America in May. In fact, they are hitting up O’Briens Pub here in Allston on May 20. They’ve got an album Racism that came out in January on one of the finest labels around – In The Red.
There is a video out there for “Raw Balls,” a cool track on that record I just mentioned. Check out the video:
The tour dates, as plagiarized from TermBo:
Sat-May-4 Los Angeles,CA – Los Globos
Sun-May-5 San Francisco,CA – Rickshaw Stop
Mon-May-6 Oakland,CA – 1234GO Records
Tue-May-7 Portland,OR – Doug Fir
Wed-May-8 Seattle,WA – Barboza
Fri-May-10 Fargo,ND – The Aquarium (Dempsey?s Upstairs)
Sat-May-11 Madison,WI – University of Wisconsin (FREE SHOW)
Sun-May-12 Milwaukee,WI – Mad Planet
Mon-May-13 Chicago,IL – the Empty Bottle
Tue-May-14 Detroit,MI – the Majestic
Wed-May-15 Columbus,OH – Ace of Cups
Thu-May-16 Cleveland,OH – Now That’s Class (Horrible Fest)
Fri-May-17 Cleveland,OH – Now That’s Class (Horrible Fest)
Sat-May-18 Cleveland,OH – Now That’s Class (Horrible Fest)
Sun-May-19 Rochester,NY – the Bug Jar
Mon-May-20 Boston,MA – O’Brien’s
Tue-May-21 Brooklyn,NY – Death By Audio
Fri-May-24 Philadelphia,PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Sat-May-25 Washington,DC – the Black Cat
Sun-May-26 Richmond,VA – Strange Matter
Mon-May-27 Atlanta,GA – 529
Tue-May-28 Memphis,TN – Murphy’s
Wed-May-29 Denton,TX – Rubber Gloves
Thu-May-30 Austin,TX – Chaos in Tejas
Fri-May-31 Austin,TX – Chaos in Tejas
Sat-June-1 Austin,TX – Chaos in Tejas
Sun-June-2 Austin,TX – Chaos in Tejas
Since we can’t get enough of Memphis related goodness, here is TOXIE – featuring two of the dudes who played that Barbaras Hi-Tone show (Will and Ben). The other half of the group is Alexandra and Madison. Below is the video for “Newgate,” off of the same titled Goner 7″. Available now. Listen and watch:
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