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Not the Coachwhips!
The Coachwhips are breaking up. You've got about two days to get into them, if you don't know them already. Last show is on July 23. Last few gigs are with the A Frames off-shoot, The intelligence.
The Coachwhips play a scuzzed-out, slashed-up version of sixties garage, sort of like Pussy Galore, but even better. John Dwyer, the lead whip, has a lot of other projects, most of which are less direct, if just as noisy. I like Coachwhips best. The don't sound like at all like the Hives or White Stripes, even though they play the exact same riffs. It shows how flexible this genre of music is. Even when it's pushed close to pink-noise blur, it can still shake your butt.
Coachwhips - I Made a Bomb one of the best tracks off their last album; a marching band kick drum holding together a haywire sing-along.
Coachwhips - Ya No Wanna more representative of their overall sound. But no less energetic.
Coachwhips - Hand on the Controls
This page has some streams of other cuts, including "You Gonna Get It" which is their finest moment. Get cracking.
posted by bendy @ 7/20/2005 12:40:00 PM [permanent link]
Blackstrap is a rockpunk band that was formed in 2002 by several
disgruntled music fans. Some had played in bands for years, some had
never been involved in music. All of us were upset with the
direction the USA was moving. As you can tell, our impact on all that
has been overwhelming.
We broke up in 2004, just before releasing a debut EP. We still feel
bad about messing up 307 Knox Records
like that. We got back together in
2005. We might drive each other crazy again, so no promises.
We're a band that doesn't have many options as far as
money and time and touring and all those other thing that could make a
band be your life. The web is the main way we promote
ourselves. We figured out we should share what meager knowledge we have
obtained.
RESOURCES
or "Promoting Your Music as the Music Industry We Know and Dislike Dies...."
Websites are a lot of work to figure out, and don't work any magic
on their own. Most people who view your website are already going to know you exist.
Just having a website doesn't mean anyone is going to visit. So don't
worry about securing an Internet domain right away. Stick some
music on MySpace,
and then participate in sites that might actually drive interested
listeners to your music. Blackstrap gets more hits from our link
on ncpunkonline.com than from
higher-profile sites where we get lost in the shuffle.
There are advantages to having your own custom built website and
domain name, but it's only as useful to the extent that it gets linked to.
Here are some sites that are important and help to get noticed. They aren't all music sites, specifically. Alot of them require participation. But hey, you wanted to be on stage, right?
JUST HEARD
WEEKLY FAVS
LOOKING AT...
what else?
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