SYNTHESIS Band Of The Day Band You’ve Never Heard Of: Crystal Antlers
Posted on 07. Mar, 2008 by some guy in Band of the Day, SXSW
Long Beach, CA is home to more than just gangsta rap. Take Crystal Antlers for example: These five swell fellas rip the stage with a blend of post-punk, metal and dirty down Stooges soul. I shared a bill with these guys just a couple nights after their van had been stolen—fully loaded with gear—and they still performed with reckless abandon, as if a big “Fuck you” to car thieves abound. Check out their upcoming dates:
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Mar 6 2008
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Alex’s Bar- CRYSTAL ANTLERS CELEBRATION TIME PARTY w/ Paperplanes & [...]
Synthesis Band, I mean, Artist You’ve Never Heard of Band, I mean, Artist of The Day: Yoshi
Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by spencer in Blog
Okay, the long-winded title of our daily new band blog (“Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day”) may, by definition, rarely allow for hip-hop artists to get up in this piece. But it’s not like that. At Synthesis you will find a wide array of musical styles fighting for their time in the jukebox. Someone stops an Afropop CD to put in some power metal, only to later be replaced with some fey-assed twee pop, followed by outlaw country and a ska compilation. Then Video Matt or [...]
Synthesis Band Of The Day Band You’ve Never Heard Of: WePrickYou
Posted on 29. Feb, 2008 by some guy in Band of the Day, Blog, Music
Yeeow! Ow! That’s the type of hollering you’ll be doing if you happen to catch a live performance by Sacramento’s WePrickYou. These fellas throw down with the power trio, embracing super stoney fuzz licks and heavy, driving drum work, while managing a loose but humorously intense stage presence.
Frontman and guitarist Marcus Cortez picks a wild curly afro and spits a vocal delivery with undeniable sass and angst, yet is anything but contrived or cliche. And it’s not just any frontman that can keep an audience genuinely entertained between songs [...]
Synthesis Band Of The Day Band You’ve Never Heard Of: Used Alien Mind
Posted on 22. Feb, 2008 by some guy in Band of the Day, Music
Today, as I sat in my chair watching the sun creep out from behind three days worth of rain, I felt the need for a spaced out trip. And as luck would have it, waiting for me in this beautiful cyber world was Des Moines, Iowa’s Used Alien Mind. Behind the helm of this experimental drift-like ambiance is Mike Laporte, who with tunes like “Your Sad Eyes,” might conjure up thoughts of Spiritualized. Ultra slick and polished Used Alien Mind is not, but there’s a lot to be said [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day: The Boneless Children Foundation
Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by James in Band of the Day, Music
If you like fun, sloppy, sometimes kinda poignant-sounding power pop, look no further than San Francisco’s The Boneless Children Foundation. The group is a traditional three-piece rock set up–drums, guitar, bass–and sounds like something you probably really dug 14 years ago when you heard it on college radio (if you’re as old as I am, that is).
The group is led by David Sophia Siegel, who originally hails from St. Louis, MO, but moved to San Francisco in order to become a rock musician and certainly has a flair for the [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of Band Of The Day: Joseph A. Peragine
Posted on 19. Feb, 2008 by spencer in Band of the Day, Music
This is why you never let someone battling with paranoid schizophrenia host their own cooking show. Cincinnati OH one-man-band Joseph A. Peragine takes some burly photos; these images might at first come as stark contrast to the songs on “Self Medication…Poems of Alienation” that feature his soft vocal delivery and acoustic guitars. Then you run into spoken-word tracks that are spat with manic delivery and adderall-urgency. It’s like Filter showing up at a slam-poetry festival with an ovation guitar and a suitcase full of inner demons. His music is certainly [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard Of Band Of The Day: Cougars Kill Cobras
Posted on 15. Feb, 2008 by spencer in Band of the Day, Music
Like most small Northern California mountain towns, Chico has a serious cougar problem. Maybe “problem” isn’t the right word, many of them kill it at places like Monks Wine Bar; hell a few Synthesis Inner Sanctum matrons are quickly approaching cougar status. Still, I’ve never seen one of them kill a snake (though I’ve heard tales), so I’ve decided to give the time-honored Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day distinction to Portland, Maine punk rock trio, Cougars Kill Cobras.
From the look of ‘em you might expect some [...]
Synthesis Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day: Grey
Posted on 14. Feb, 2008 by James in Band of the Day, Music
I remember a few years back, Kittie came out and most people thought it was kind of novel that there was a group of young girls playing pretty heavy music. They’re also Canadian, which is totally precious. I’m not hating on Kittie (I’m not a fan, but whatever, there are far shittier bands that wave the metal banner), or Canada, and it’d be nice to go to metal shows and not have them be like comic book stores, sci-fi conventions and other nerdy sausage fests. Unfortunately for Kittie, most people [...]
