skinny wolves
Well-Known Member
Skinny Wolves Present:
SIC ALPS
(Usa, Drag City Records/ Siltbreeze/ Slumberland/ Woodsist, etc)
w/ SO COW
GIRLS NAMES
NO MONSTER CLUB
Sunday 11th October
The Joinery Gallery, Stoneybatter, Dublin
Doors 7.30pm / 10euro
B/Y/O/B
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
SIC ALPS
http://www.sicalps.com
Matt Hartman (ex-Coachwhips, Cat Power) plays drums and sings, while Mike Donovan (Big Techno Werewolves, Sounds of the Barbary Coast, Yikes!, Church Steps) plays guitar and sings, along with Noel Von Harmonson (NVH, Comets On Fire, The Lowdown).
"Damaged psychedelic noise pop from San Francisco, currently on tour with SONIC YOUTH"
Rock songs, as viewed far too often, are a dying breed. Not even talking about - not even noticing - reports of rock's death, the form in itself, the aesthetic, the approach, is seldom acknowledged as being treated intelligently, creatively, progressively. This is total bullshit, of course, but you can't really help but understand some of the folks that could be lead to think that way. There's only so many stories you can tell with a guitar, there's so many years and sides of great rock music, there were so many breakthroughs in the 60s up until now, that the rock and roll song could be mistaken for a corpse, fetishized only by the genre's enthusiasts, collectors & suburban dreamers.
The Sic Alps, though, are a different matter. While you can see rock's evolution throughout the 70s, with the Swell Maps, Sonic Youth in the 80s and 90s, or people like Sightings nowadays, rock, in its swinging, hip-shaking, daydreaming, bar and bedroom ruckus universe has been apparently stagnant to most people for a number of years, save for some notable exceptions (the Hospitals, Comets On Fire, the Black Lips, a ton Of stuff on In The Red). If it ain't crazy it ain't rock'n'roll and that's just the way it is (that & yr dad has to be able to boogie to it).
This duo (now trio) out of San Francisco are the perfect hybrid for this rock idiom - wild boys when they gotta be wild; rock scientists and genre scholastics with a - huge - heart and a true passion for the game. They remanufacture rock's narrative, its metrics, adapt it to their musical and verbal phrasing, demolish rock recording conventions, resituate it as being dangerous (in some other new way). They have the freedom, the damage, the will and the craft, and boy they pull it off.
If you haven't seen'em live but you love the records ('Descriptions of the Harbour' 12", 'Pleasures & Treasures' and a ton of singles and limited-release editions recently compiled on 'A Long Way Around a Shortcut', just released on Drag City records) it's pretty much mindblowing how they're able to reproduce such rich deviant sound onstage, but they do and it's such truly fresh shit. The energy ever bursting, the narrative never lost (though reality's forgotten), freedom unquestioned, fire continuous. True heavy delivery from one of contemporary rock's visionaries, flying high since day one, flying high right now, wanting to bring the storm and the goodness near you.
SO COW
http://www.myspace.com/socow
http://www.tictactotally.com/bands?id=30
So Cow is Brian Kelly and friends. Kelly releases super-smart razor-blade indie-pop records and splits his between his base in Seoul and his home of Tuam, and, more recently, has been touring everywhere in between. Of his latest eponymous collection Pitchfork wrote: If you've ever been young and unlucky in love, the Irish multi-instrumentalist has a song that will strike exactly that kind of emotional chord. Like Television Personalities or the Clean at their most engaging, Kelly plays rickety guitar-pop that sounds homemade without feeling insular.
GIRLS NAMES
(Belfast)
http://www.myspace.com/girlsnames
Girls Names are a two piece from Belfast who love Beat Happening, Black Tambourine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Josef K, The Fall, Orange Juice and make reverb soaked noise pop.
NO MONSTER CLUB
(Bobby from Dublin Duck Dispensarys new band, debut show)
http://www.myspace.com/nomonsterclub
"No Monster Club is the amalgamation of a symphony of one. It is a revival of dirges and waltzes unearthed from the attics of dead popstars. It is the society of noise which silently forms around the cells and atoms of a young but ageing troubadour. It is a slideshow of the grotesque and a gramophone of the absurd, which - if you are of any valour, virtue or melody - you cannot help but join."
SIC ALPS
(Usa, Drag City Records/ Siltbreeze/ Slumberland/ Woodsist, etc)
w/ SO COW
GIRLS NAMES
NO MONSTER CLUB
Sunday 11th October
The Joinery Gallery, Stoneybatter, Dublin
Doors 7.30pm / 10euro
B/Y/O/B
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
SIC ALPS
http://www.sicalps.com
Matt Hartman (ex-Coachwhips, Cat Power) plays drums and sings, while Mike Donovan (Big Techno Werewolves, Sounds of the Barbary Coast, Yikes!, Church Steps) plays guitar and sings, along with Noel Von Harmonson (NVH, Comets On Fire, The Lowdown).
"Damaged psychedelic noise pop from San Francisco, currently on tour with SONIC YOUTH"
Rock songs, as viewed far too often, are a dying breed. Not even talking about - not even noticing - reports of rock's death, the form in itself, the aesthetic, the approach, is seldom acknowledged as being treated intelligently, creatively, progressively. This is total bullshit, of course, but you can't really help but understand some of the folks that could be lead to think that way. There's only so many stories you can tell with a guitar, there's so many years and sides of great rock music, there were so many breakthroughs in the 60s up until now, that the rock and roll song could be mistaken for a corpse, fetishized only by the genre's enthusiasts, collectors & suburban dreamers.
The Sic Alps, though, are a different matter. While you can see rock's evolution throughout the 70s, with the Swell Maps, Sonic Youth in the 80s and 90s, or people like Sightings nowadays, rock, in its swinging, hip-shaking, daydreaming, bar and bedroom ruckus universe has been apparently stagnant to most people for a number of years, save for some notable exceptions (the Hospitals, Comets On Fire, the Black Lips, a ton Of stuff on In The Red). If it ain't crazy it ain't rock'n'roll and that's just the way it is (that & yr dad has to be able to boogie to it).
This duo (now trio) out of San Francisco are the perfect hybrid for this rock idiom - wild boys when they gotta be wild; rock scientists and genre scholastics with a - huge - heart and a true passion for the game. They remanufacture rock's narrative, its metrics, adapt it to their musical and verbal phrasing, demolish rock recording conventions, resituate it as being dangerous (in some other new way). They have the freedom, the damage, the will and the craft, and boy they pull it off.
If you haven't seen'em live but you love the records ('Descriptions of the Harbour' 12", 'Pleasures & Treasures' and a ton of singles and limited-release editions recently compiled on 'A Long Way Around a Shortcut', just released on Drag City records) it's pretty much mindblowing how they're able to reproduce such rich deviant sound onstage, but they do and it's such truly fresh shit. The energy ever bursting, the narrative never lost (though reality's forgotten), freedom unquestioned, fire continuous. True heavy delivery from one of contemporary rock's visionaries, flying high since day one, flying high right now, wanting to bring the storm and the goodness near you.
SO COW
http://www.myspace.com/socow
http://www.tictactotally.com/bands?id=30
So Cow is Brian Kelly and friends. Kelly releases super-smart razor-blade indie-pop records and splits his between his base in Seoul and his home of Tuam, and, more recently, has been touring everywhere in between. Of his latest eponymous collection Pitchfork wrote: If you've ever been young and unlucky in love, the Irish multi-instrumentalist has a song that will strike exactly that kind of emotional chord. Like Television Personalities or the Clean at their most engaging, Kelly plays rickety guitar-pop that sounds homemade without feeling insular.
GIRLS NAMES
(Belfast)
http://www.myspace.com/girlsnames
Girls Names are a two piece from Belfast who love Beat Happening, Black Tambourine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Josef K, The Fall, Orange Juice and make reverb soaked noise pop.
NO MONSTER CLUB
(Bobby from Dublin Duck Dispensarys new band, debut show)
http://www.myspace.com/nomonsterclub
"No Monster Club is the amalgamation of a symphony of one. It is a revival of dirges and waltzes unearthed from the attics of dead popstars. It is the society of noise which silently forms around the cells and atoms of a young but ageing troubadour. It is a slideshow of the grotesque and a gramophone of the absurd, which - if you are of any valour, virtue or melody - you cannot help but join."
