land mammals

We were asked to participate in Rubber Gloves’ FREE WEEK right as everyone gets back in the school vibe and to handpick a few bands to showcase at our show September 4th. Mind Spiders are an obvious one–side project of one of local punk legends Marked Men, we’ve already been shoving in your face for awhile now. Sunnybrook and Melting Season are both associates of Denton musical ensemble Sleep Whale–both bands run the gamit of soundscapes, with Sunnybrook’s songs being much more blown-out with thick-set contruction and foggy electronic samples while Melting Season is more instrumental with story-bookish and immersive murals accompanied by jolting soundbytes. Lastly but not least we’ve incorporated the psychedelic-seizing pop of Land Mammals, a band new to my ears whom I caught wind of through their hallucinogenic-house show performances that are seemingly constant in Denton these days. That is what we’re bringing on our side, now I expect all of you reading this to show up and have fun, because after all its FREE. Here is the fbook event page.

Mind Spiders – Dirty Secrets
Sunnybrook – Lobby
Melting Season – The Cliffs
Land Mammals – Poprocks

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This entry was written by rellis, posted on August 24, 2010 at 5:56 pm, filed under Shows and tagged land mammals, marked men, melting season, mind spiders, rubber gloves, sleep whale, sunnybrook. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.

sleep whale//make another picture

Sleep Whale is a veritable Super Group, with at least three separate outcroppings of the band now finding success in Abacus, Sunnybrook and Melting Season- and further mélange in Motherly and Northern. Sleep Whale look like a jam band and play like an orchestra. If krautrock was the colorful, peculiar German uncle, Sleep Whale is the mellower American nephew that could only have been born after 90s shoegaze. Even moreso I hear Another Green World influenced in their music which is never a bad album to be compared to (unless you’re a Death Metal band). Though I have yet to see them under their newest moniker (formerly Mom) the I can assure the band will not let you down as they tour the country throughout November in support of their new Western Vinyl release Houseboat.

Sleep Whale – Make Another Picture

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This entry was written by rellis, posted on October 26, 2009 at 3:16 pm, filed under New Tunes and tagged abacus, brian eno, krautrock, melting season, motherly, northern, sleep whale, sunnybrook. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.