Tuesday 11.01.11: Rollo Grady presents DEER TICK / GUARDS / BLEEDING KNEES CLUB @ Echoplex

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8:30pm / $13adv; $15 dos; $16 walk up day of show / 18+

Deer Tick || LISTEN || WATCH
From the band that’s been both accurately and inaccurately labeled just about everything this side of Top 40 comes a true-to-form rock-n-roll record. Scratch that, true-to-form is not Deer Tick’s style. Let’s start over…

Naturally, after so many years of critics praising [and making fun of] them for their “folk” and “country” sounds and hardly ever mentioning the fact that they’ve also recorded virtually dozens of other kinds of music, the band wanted to make a record that was truer to their live set (which has gained some notoriety): raw, loud, heartfelt, and completely uninterested in whatever the hell the rest of the music industry is up to.

To produce this record, the band recruited the team of Adam Landry and Justin Collins, who produced McCauley’s side-project Middle Brother’s debut album. The results are unlike anything you’ve heard on a Deer Tick album, but Deer Tick achieves something that is a lot more accurate to their live sound. Distorted guitars are aplenty, guitarist Ian O’Neil and drummer Dennis Ryan take lead vocal duties for the first time on record. Man, you can practically smell the sweat and the beer! Shit, you may even hear a guitar or two break somewhere in there! It’s got a little Exile, it’s got a little In Utero, it’s got a little Nilsson Schmilsson, but it’s 100% Deer-Fucking-Tick in their purest, and most carefree form… perhaps that’s because this is the first record they’ve recorded in their home state of Rhode Island… GAH!!! No need to over-think this shit!!! Moving on…

The songs are there. The delivery is in your face. There’s no studio magic. There’s no hiding the fact that Deer Tick is just five regular dudes. This record may rattle your thoughts, and it may make you think differently about Deer Tick, but at least they didn’t make the same album four times in a row, right?

-Cecil Thyme

Guards
Guards was formed in New York City when Richie James Follin returned from a European tour to a recording studio with nothing in it but a broken electric 12 string guitar and an omnichord. He wrote and recorded a few songs for his little sister to sing on, but ended up singing on the songs himself. He enlisted the help of his friends (Caroline Polachek of Chairlift, James Richardson of MGMT, Loren Shane Humphrey of Willowz) and family (Madeline Follin of Cults) to guest on some songs and they spread the word without his knowledge via twitter and the internet. Then, he decided to give the songs away for free.

Richie James Follin is 27 and he is originally from southern California. He started the Willowz (lead singer and guitarist) when he was 19 in 2002 and has released 4 records with them as well as a solo record and multiple other projects. He also plays guitar in Cults.The Windish Agency

Bleeding Knees Club || LISTEN || WATCH
BLEEDING KNEES CLUB Debut single – ‘Have Fun’ Released 6th June NOIR Records

Bleeding Knees Club is the musical brainchild of Alex Wall and Jordan Malane. Gold Coast natives they’ve already played with Lightspeed Champion, Wavves and Gold Fields in Australia.

With label interest hotting up on both sides of the Atlantic, the Bleeding Knees Club are set to head over to the UK for the first time in May, playing a fine selection of dates in London and beyond, before they head to NYC. Soon enough the band will be decamping full-time to London.

Have Fun, their debut release, was recorded behind a shoe shop in their hometown and is going to be the first release on new London-based label NOIR.

‘Have Fun’ is brilliant. It’s bold, brash, young, urgent rock n roll. Influenced by country, r n b and garage and surf-rock, it demonstrates the Bleeding Knees Club’s fuck-you attitude and the sheer visceral thrill of this band.The Windish Agency