On a cheerier note the Californian band, The Growlers, are playing the Kings Arms on 13 March. Funnily enough I was listening to the bandâs music over Christmas. At a party a friend asked me to name the best band that I had heard recently, and the answer was âThe Growlersâ.
The tracks on this mix, and the following videoâs, will give you a feel for the band. I like the song writing and the voice of the lead singer. They remind me of the Violent Femmes.
The Growlers would probably go down better at a pub by the beach on a hot summers day, but the Kings Arms it will have to be.
Keeping The Growlers company on this mix are some of the usual suspects â Arthur Alexander, Jim Sullivan, King Khan, Spectrals, The Greenhornes, The Replacements and The Seeds, along with some bands that are new â Bill Wilson, Fly Golden Eagle, Freddie Scott, Pangea and The OrwellsâŠ
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Born out of the DIY grunge/punk scene in Seattle/Olympia Washington, Naomi Punk channels the sound of their punk ancestry through warped and strident guitars, beautifully jarring hooks, and heavy tribal drums. Itâs hard to wrap your head around it all, but itâs guaranteed to blast your skull apart.
The trioâcomprised of Travis Benjamin Coster, Neil Gregorson, and Nicolas Luempertâare childhood friends who grew up just outside Seattle. Coster is currently living in Seattle, making music and art, and Gregorson and Luempert are studying music/art at Evergreen State College in Olympia. After playing in several independent projects (U, Masters and Johnson, Seahouse) they formed Naomi Punk.
Their first record, The Feeling was released in April 2012 on Vancouverâs Couple Skate Records, and re-released by Brooklynâs Captured Tracks in October 2012. The Feeling is one of the yearâs most original in the punk/DIY/best-new-band-on-the-planet category.
We were fortunate to have Naomi Punk lay down a killer session just before they played a sold out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg with Calvin Love and Mac DeMarco, and then we saw them again at the Savannah Stopover Festival in Savannah and they blew our minds completely apart.
Watch Naomi Punk perform âThe Spellâ andâBurned Bodyâ off The Feeling as well as a new song, âTelevision Man,â [below].
The mix starts off with Yo La Tengo from their latest album, Fade. Its good to see them rocking on â 30 years of making music! Thereâs also tracks from the new Deerhunter album â Monomania â which I am still absorbing.
Is it me or does the P.S. Eliot track sound like the Banana Splits intro? Surely not, Katie Crutchfield and her sister wouldnât even have been born when the series was playingâŠ
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