I hope you guys respect that I'm don't force music on you all the time. I mean, all posting whoever the mp3s blogs are all unanimously championing this week only to discard them the next for some dude whose music is all yodels, gut-bucket, and a sampler; who everyone in Brooklyn will pretend to like for six months. I mean, clearly I'm too busy self-promoting to promote anybody else.
So I hope you will take it to heart when I tell you Springfield, MO's Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is an awesome band.
Mina and I went to see them in Hoboken last week. We were schmancy enough to get on the guest list because their new drummer, Warren, is a DERRICK fan. (Self-promotion pays off!) So Warren and I flirted over mySpace for like a week and he was kind enough to put us on the list for their gig opening for Tapes N' Tapes.
What a bunch of supremely nice dudes! We talked to Warren about comedy, then one of their singer/songwriters, John Robert joined us and we talked about (what else) Wu Tang. Then it was time for them to go on. Warren is such a new drummer, in fact, that he wasn't playing with them on their trip to NYC (I guess it was their old drummer's last hurrah). So he hung out with Mina and I some more. Then it was time to ROCK.
You guys: this is a good band. They are precisely up my alley. Jangly sunny power-pop with dope lyrics (no indie-rock mush-mouthed nonsense talk). Hell of catchy. One of their songs has been on The OC, that's kind of the vibe. You will like them if you like sunshine, reading, and girls. Or if you like sunshine, reading, and are a girl. So buy their record, be their mySpace friend, and see them when they come through your town.
They even brought their friend JR who's in another band in their town along just to play the cowbell and the tambourine. And man, he played the SHIT out of that cowbell and that tambourine. Good dudes, and I can't wait 'till they make a return trip so we can further seal the pact between moderately successful indie bands and moderately successful comedy groups.
Shoutout to Springfield:
Posted by DC at July 23, 2006 11:23 PM