Category Archives: The Barbaras

Flashback: The Barbaras/Magic Kids- “Good Vibrations” (2007)


This is fucking awesome! In this video you can start to see the transition from The Barbaras to the Magic Kids. Love both bands.
You Tube description: “I asked the Barbaras to play a show with the Demon’s Claws that I booked in November 2007 at Murphy’s in Memphis….they said yes without realizing that Billy and Stephen would be on tour with Jay Reatard…..they played as a 3 piece and did only Beach Boys covers….here’s their version of Good Vibrations!”- April Novak.
And why not give ya a clip of these dudes performing “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” on the same night? Why not?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFDvIEs3n2A&feature=relmfu

That Barbaras Record Might Be Coming Out This Year

As Stephen Pope tells New Zealand’s The Corner [LINK]:

Are you planning on releasing the Barbara’s album this year?

We’re shooting for that, yeah. Alicia from Lost Sounds and River City Tanlines is handling that. We recorded an LP with Jay Reatard like three years ago and we thought he’d deleted it in a fit of anger, cause that’s what he told us. Then the band kind of dissolved, but Alicia got hold of Jay’s recording machine, and it turned out that the Barbara’s LP was still on there. She’s been mixing it, and it’s been really slow process, but I think Goner’s going to put it out, hopefully this year.