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On the grapevine to the show in the L.A. Crazy traffic going the other way caused by a fire. Glad we aren’t in it! Our full length album is available to purchase now! http://ping.fm/JVPQ4 this makes us very happy. please buy a copy. We are ready to rock the entire US! We’re playing tonight at the Hemlock in SF with the everawesome Police Teeth from Seattle. Our last bayarea show until Aug.! We are on a NorCal minitour with Police Teeth (seattle/bellingham) this weekend! Eureka tonight, Modesto tomorrow, SF sunday. 2 songs from the upcoming record available to listen to: http://www.myspace.com/mountvicious or http://www.mountvicious.com It was a shame to see Replicator call it quits awhile back, but like many bands that I enjoy at some point or another, the members usually splinter off and occasionally you get all new projects to fall in love with. As is the case with Conan Neutron & Chris Bolig (or known here as Rick Necklace) from Replicator who have decided to start another group under the name of Mount Vicious with members that have played in various other groups such as Holy Kiss, Stay Gold Pony Boy, and City Volume. Mount Vicious is certainly a different animal, however one that will undoubtedly rock you from start to finish. One thing that has definitely been carried over is the members’ sharp sense of humor, which reveals itself very quickly through song titles and most notably the lyrics found on their recently self-released Leather Beer Caddy EP. While it certainly has the bounce and energy of many of post-punks past luminaries, they also manage to channel a bit of the swagger of The Jesus Lizard while rubbing it all down with a bit of Cows/Heroine Sheiks inspired filth. That’s just some sort of frame of reference though, listen to some of tunes for yourself. Whatever the band has come up with here, it’s a wonderful concoction of rock that I greatly look forward to hearing more from. In the meantime, for those searching for more tunes by these guys, they are serving up their Leather Beer Caddy EP for free on Bandcamp. If you’re interested in obtaining higher quality files, throw a few dollars down and they are yours. Either way, grab it if you dig what you hear. The band has recently finished recording for a full-length that they expect to have out in August and should be ready for pre-sale in late June. So definitely keep checking the bands website for more. -Jonathan This is not, technically speaking, a real and formal introduction to this Oakland “supergroup” featuring current and former members of popular Bay-area bands like Replicator, City Volume, Cold War, and The Long Thaw (among many, many others) — these are current versions of five songs scheduled for eventual release, in different form, on the band’s impending full-length debut. They recorded these songs and issued this ep (with only fifty copies available on cd-r; everybody else can download the tracks on the band’s web site) to give people an idea of where they stand right now, musically speaking. Not surprisingly for such a high-energy outfit, they’re impatient and want to bring the rock to you RIGHT NOW. And this they do, with much flair. Their songs are a weirdly distinctive amalgamation of classic, mainstream Big Rock and spazzed-out postmodern math rock, heavy and catchy and baroque all at the same time, with big riffs and squiggly guitar lines over a monster rhythm section. If you’ve heard Replicator — particularly the material they were doing at the tail end of their existence — it’s not difficult to see this as the natural progression of that aesthetic, but the material here is a shade closer to anthemic rock and, while still plenty complex and proggy, not quite so totally mired in the obscure rhythms of math rock. I haven’t heard any of the other bands germane to the members of the band who weren’t in Replicator, so it’s hard to guess what they bring to the table, but the sum of the parts is certainly exciting. The emphasis on guitar frippery (there are three guitar players, offering plenty of opportunity to get some really rocking polyrhythmic six-string action going) definitely works for me. They’re certainly off to a promising start with songs this good and playing so energetic. Hello everybody, It’s called: “Don’t Be a Baby, Come And Get It”, and it comes out this summer, presale available June 30th, “official release” August 29th. Here is the track listing: You may have heard some of these songs before, but I guarantee you, you have NOT heard them like this. But don’t take our word for out, check out the two songs we’ve posted PRINCESS OF THE BRODEO, and THE LONG WALK. Bob Weston of Shellac fame has mastered it, who has worked on many fine records himself. Nextly, we are doing a 33 date tour of the United States of America to celebrate this opus we created. Check out the shows area, as it’s updated in as real time as we can get it. This tour should be a blast, we are going to be playing with some of our favorite bands, POLICE TEETH, Jucifer, Ifihadahifi, the pAperchAse, and many, many more. Oh, this won’t be the last time this is mentioned, if you think that you or some key person or organization should be getting a copy of the cd. Please message us and let us know. oh yeah! We’re also doing 3 date in Northern California with Police Teeth, Eureka, Santa Cruz and San Francisco. DO YOU?!?!? -Conan Neutron dates: ^ w/Jucifer
$6.00, be there early to hang out. 21 and over. May 24, 2009 - Hemlock Tavern, Polk and Sutter in San Francisco. |
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