Franklin Square Event
May 19, 2010
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Pic of the Day
May 19, 2010
| I took my dad to the mall the other day to buy some new shoes (he is 66).
We decided to grab a bite at the food court. I noticed he was watching a teenager sitting next to him. The teenager had spiked hair in all different colors – green, red, orange, and blue. My dad kept staring at her. When the teenager had had enough, she sarcastically asked: “What’s the matter old man, never done anything wild in your life?” Knowing my Dad, I quickly swallowed my food so that I would not choke on his response; I knew he would have a good one! In classic style he responded without batting an eyelid …. “Got stoned once and screwed a peacock. I was just wondering if you were my daughter.” |
Male Bonding
May 19, 2010
Male Bonding Nothing Hurts
Emerging from the fertile D.I.Y. rock scene in Dalston, a gentrification-proof London neighborhood with ample “lo-fi” bands and Turkish restaurants, noise-pop trio Male Bonding plays fast. Nothing Hurts, the band’s first full-length, gets it done in half an hour, and most songs clock in at around two minutes. But, there’s much more to Male Bonding than high-speed, high-impact punk. If you will know their velocity, you will remember their melodies. Every song on Nothing Hurts, whether a clipped, snarling rock anthem (“All Things This Way,” “Crooked Scene,” “Pumpkin”) or something more foggy and contemplative (“Franklin,” “Worse to Come”), carries a hook that’s immediate and permanent. Nothing Hurts was recorded in the fall of 2009 in New York and mixed and mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic Sound.
After a triumphant return home to the UK, from their US tour with the Vivian Girls & The Soft Pack the band are gearing up to begin a pretty lengthy UK tour.
Interview with Dirty Laundry TV.
Band of the Week on Spinner.com
Free MP3 of Franklin, via Stereogum
Free MP3 of Years Not Long via Pitchfork
“Webb’s upper-register vocals have yearning nailed down, and the feeling is cemented by lyrics…”-Pitchfork
“…people of the world will finally know of Male Bonding’s gritty awesomeness.” – Fader
“…Male Bonding, gets friendly with choppy, high-velocity noise pop.” –Village Voice
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