WED 9/1 : AS BUILT PResents Main Fader, Cub3the3rd, Mouse Queen, Donovan Sharp & Kid K DJing
Friday, 27 August 2010
AS BUILT PResents: Sept O'Brien's Wednesday Night Residency
Monday, 23 August 2010
I've put together five diverse bills consisting of many unique and up and coming Greater Boston area talent currently making the local scene a hot bed of ridiculously great music. With a few must see out of state bands thrown in like Brother Kite (RI), My Friends (DE), MMOSS (NH), these shows are not to be missed.
If you haven't already downloaded the killer sampler, you can grab for FREE HERE.
DOOMSTAR! - The End of the World featured on 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
"Just to be open minded, lets give the total nihilists a chance to speak too. San Diego, a place apparently known for sunshine, wild animals, and millennialist conspiracy is also the home of DOOMSTAR!(With the mandatory exclamation mark, do I still put a period at the end of that sentence?) Anyway, it is not that they hate everything. In fact, they love making garage pop. But ask them what is just around the corner for humanity and they won’t pull any punches. It is time for the final dance, so get your partner and shake it like it is 1999 and Y2K is actually real."
Lord Jeff(Ecstatic Peace) - Thurston Moore likes them so they must be good. Really though, these guys will be blowing up right about the time their new album drops. 60's Pysch X Doo Wop
Broadcaster(RI) - boozy brother of Neil Young & Built to Spill. Hot off the mixing board. MP3: "Old Creep"
Guillermo Sexo - post punk influenced shoegaze mixed with melody driven 90’s college rock. New album Vivid Nights was released in June STREAM:Vivid Nights MP3:"Neon Lights"
Peace & Quiet - - From the depths of two of my good friends Brendan and Main Fader minds, comes Peace & Quiet. Demented Les Claypool X JAMC X drone FRE(EP):Inauguration EP
O'Briens Pub, Allston
9PM > 21+ > $6
This show/ flyer was featured on the front page of the O'Briens weekly newsletter and Foundwaves
Thanks to all the bands for bringing their A games, Ryan McDaid for providing the visuals, Will Malizia for designing the poster, and any one that came out. Be on the look out for some big news for Sept!
Next Big Thing Blog Reviews Heavy Water Experiments
Sometimes the elements connect in just the right way and surround the listener with the right mood, environment, in which better to discover new music. Today as I explore this collection, the heat wave pulses, the road works outside shake and shout, in fact the whole damn day positively VIBRATES as I press play.
Welcome to the disturbance, it’s going to be a fine ride indeed.
This is the sound of a mirage, gentle shimmer of unreality, then that heat (now here in the speakers) explodes outwards, the dream figures melt, the colours collide, mesh frantic, the drums tiptoe up top the flames, and the song settles into an agitating lullaby. The vocals shift into focus, the harmonies subtle, and within all this fine magic, pop melodies strain against the ‘difference’.
Like a storm sneaking into the glare of a summer’s day, this band thrives on the ambiguity of it all, glorious messy mix of the chaos in the Jam and the structure of the song craft.
They let the instruments roar, and sing as people used to flying, finding the swoops and danger above somehow calming. There is a scent of the Psychedelic madness here, a tension grown from the soon to be freedom of the willfully frantic.
It is a place where the ghost of a traffic jam is filtered over the serenity of a deep forest, where the grit and grandeur of a festival edging into sunset along the howls of guitars is superimposed over forgotten photos of homes long lost by destructive lovers.
Never clumsy enough to be mistaken for simple hard rock, never bland enough to please those that seek the new age as a refuge from the difficult, it is an invitation to let go, to ride the hallucination bare back, to get fierce, to go crazy.
"The album has “indie rock” written all over it. The vocals range from Polyphonic Spree to chanting. The guitar chords are pretty simple; sometimes they recall the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, sometimes Blood Red Shoes, and other times they nosedive into Sonic Youth noise. All three bands are gods in their respective scenes, so it speaks well for Sexo."6.14.2010
Guillermo Sexo's new album Vivid Nights Streaming on Bandcamp
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Stream Guillermo Sexo’s new album Vivid Nights at their BANDCAMP and DOWNLOAD the first single “Neon Lights” and a personal favorite “Crossbow 1”
“There is a little bit of a lot of stuff in every one of Guillermo Sexo’s compositions — the best way I can think of summarizing it is to say that they sound a bit like what would happen if Dinosaur Jr remade their first album but with Kristen Hersh helping out on vocals. But, as “Vivid Nights” proves, they are also a band that have transcended their many influences and become a truly unique and creative force in the Boston rock scene.” – Love and Mathematics - 6.5.2010
AS BUILT PR SXSW & Beyond - Summer 2010 Sampler
Monday, 12 April 2010
Greetings,
Head over to Bandcamp and download the SXSW & Beyond Summer sampler we put together! It features upcoming tracks from As Built artists and some of the finest bands in Boston at the moment. Unreleased tracks from Hands and Knees, Ketman, Broken River Prophet! The biggest of ups to all the artists that allowed me to use their wonderful tunes.
Tracklisting
Andy Menudo - "What's so Good about the Good Old Days"
Hands and Knees - "Sitting At the Piano Disappearing" *
Girlfriends - "Good to Be True"
Young Mammals - "Confetti"
Doomstar! - "Rainbow Bloodsucker"
WALLcreeper - "Should Have Known Better"
Aficionado - "I Don't Believe We've Met"
Miniboone - "Devil in Your Eyes"
The Big Big Bucks - "Futurecar"
Young Adults - "Annulation"
Guillermo Sexo - "Neon Lights"
The Beatings - "All the Things You've Been Missing"
Broken River Prophet - "Scraping a Living"
Seamonster - "Oh, Appalachia"
The Points North - "Girl From the North Country"
Ketman - "Picaro"
Quilt - "Falst Eto"
"It’s got the Bucks! And Quilt! And Girlfriends! And good lord, Hands and Knees and Doomstar! and Young Adults I LOVE BOSTON. Everyone say thank you to the dudes at As Built PR." Pilgrims of Sound
The sampler was also featured on Largehearted Boy as apart of their Free Daily Download posts on April 6th.
MiniBoone will be coming up to Boston on Saturday 4/17 to play our first AS BUILT PR(ESENTS) of 2010 with The Bucks, Earthquake Party!, and Pretty & Nice. Répondez s’il vous plaît.
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