Urchin PR
New Member
Foggy Notions presents
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
& special guests Jogging
Feb 2nd, 2009, Upstairs at Whelan’s,
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from Ticketmaster, WAV, ROAD, Tickets.ie, City Discs
“Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, this group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend,” – Pitchfork, 8.5
"Unashamed, unafraid, gritty hot mess melodies that take cues from The Stooges, Joe Cocker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Ozzy Osbourne" --LA Weekly
“This is Crystal Antlers, and they sound to these ears like bratty young brothers of Comets On Fire – totally hotwired and fried psychedelic punks – only with a little of the noise removed for fractional extra clarity,” - Uncut
“Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers have mastered the art of thrash, that combustible build-up of noise and melody that so many others have tried to harness, only to fail in a miserable pool of fuzzy annoyance.” OC Weekly
Long Beach, California’s Crystal Antlers have been tearing it up all over the place with their mix of soul-tinged, psych-rattled blues.
They first began turning heads in 2008 with their recording debut, EP, a release that was produced by Ikey Owens (Mars Volta) and noted for its blend of psychedelic, garage rock, and prog rock sounds.
And if the words “chimney sweep” and “soul psychedelia” don’t go together in your mind, they just may after you take a listen to EP. When the band first formed, three of its members were in fact working as chimney sweeps and playing out constantly in Southern California. Getting dirty by day and by night, the band recorded two 7-inch singles before settling down to record their debut.
Formed in January 2006, Jonny Bell (bass, vocals, woodwinds), Andrew King (guitar, organ), Victor Rodriguez (organ), Kevin Stuart (drums), and Damian Edwards (percussion) soon developed a reputation for eccentric live shows and have earned comparisons to Comets on Fire and Les Savy Fav.
Their summer of 2008 was filled with the punk rock mischief of touring cross-country on a vegetable oil-powered school bus as part of the F Yeah Fest, taking massive orders for their self-released EP through their myspace page, and on downtime, drinking beers in percussionist Damian's empty pool.
The L.A outfit signed with Touch and Go Records in August that year who reissued their EP in October, with its first ever pressing on vinyl in November. A new full-length album is due for release in early 2009.
www.myspace.com/crystalantlers
http://pitchfork.tv/dont-look-down/crystal-antlers-part-1-of-2
http://pitchfork.tv/crystal-antlers-part-2-of-2
http://www.myspace.com/darkermylove
CRYSTAL ANTLERS
& special guests Jogging
Feb 2nd, 2009, Upstairs at Whelan’s,
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from Ticketmaster, WAV, ROAD, Tickets.ie, City Discs
“Merging psych, garage, lo-fi, prog, and countless other influences, this group easily maintains consistency despite a complete inability to be pinned to any specific movement or trend,” – Pitchfork, 8.5
"Unashamed, unafraid, gritty hot mess melodies that take cues from The Stooges, Joe Cocker, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Ozzy Osbourne" --LA Weekly
“This is Crystal Antlers, and they sound to these ears like bratty young brothers of Comets On Fire – totally hotwired and fried psychedelic punks – only with a little of the noise removed for fractional extra clarity,” - Uncut
“Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers have mastered the art of thrash, that combustible build-up of noise and melody that so many others have tried to harness, only to fail in a miserable pool of fuzzy annoyance.” OC Weekly
Long Beach, California’s Crystal Antlers have been tearing it up all over the place with their mix of soul-tinged, psych-rattled blues.
They first began turning heads in 2008 with their recording debut, EP, a release that was produced by Ikey Owens (Mars Volta) and noted for its blend of psychedelic, garage rock, and prog rock sounds.
And if the words “chimney sweep” and “soul psychedelia” don’t go together in your mind, they just may after you take a listen to EP. When the band first formed, three of its members were in fact working as chimney sweeps and playing out constantly in Southern California. Getting dirty by day and by night, the band recorded two 7-inch singles before settling down to record their debut.
Formed in January 2006, Jonny Bell (bass, vocals, woodwinds), Andrew King (guitar, organ), Victor Rodriguez (organ), Kevin Stuart (drums), and Damian Edwards (percussion) soon developed a reputation for eccentric live shows and have earned comparisons to Comets on Fire and Les Savy Fav.
Their summer of 2008 was filled with the punk rock mischief of touring cross-country on a vegetable oil-powered school bus as part of the F Yeah Fest, taking massive orders for their self-released EP through their myspace page, and on downtime, drinking beers in percussionist Damian's empty pool.
The L.A outfit signed with Touch and Go Records in August that year who reissued their EP in October, with its first ever pressing on vinyl in November. A new full-length album is due for release in early 2009.
www.myspace.com/crystalantlers
http://pitchfork.tv/dont-look-down/crystal-antlers-part-1-of-2
http://pitchfork.tv/crystal-antlers-part-2-of-2
http://www.myspace.com/darkermylove
