Kepler, one of the many office pets who frequent and occasionally staff KEXP Today is National Pet Day ! While you probably don't need a lot of reminders to appreciate that furried, feathered or finned one in your life, who might right now be curled up beside you, romping around your yard or sitting eagerly waiting for food. Pets demand attention, but not all creatures are so lucky. National Pet Day is a time not only to "celebrate the joy pets bring to our lives" but also to "create public awareness about the plight of [...]
Like a freshly luminous yellow tennis ball whizzing past at breakneck pace across the jaundiced whites of bloodshot eyes, the latest from Brooklyn rabble-rousers Parquet Courts , Smart Aleck Kid, is a wearily blink and y'all miss it sort of affair – a visceral minute of artillery-like yaps, dead snares and the kind of irrepressible adolescent frenzy not heard since Be Your Own Pet were first witnessed ripping a Notting Hill garage a proverbial newbie in the dying summer of '04. And although the young punks' début full-length Light Up Gold only began to be treasured on a second [...]
Turbo Fruits, Wooly Bullies (Cleveland) and Dirty Biscuits (Columbus) perform at Ace of Cups on Friday night. Doors at 9, $5 cover. Jonas Stein got his start in the music biz as a guitarist in Be Your Own Pet , a noisy, indie rock band made up of Nashville teenagers. As a kid with a head full of music ideas, Stein started Turbo Fruits as a side project and then made it his full-time gig once BYOP disbanded in 2008. Earlier this month, Turbo [...]
Esta semana he estado encontrandome de nueva cuenta con algunos discos que en su momento desfilaron de manera frecuente en mis listas de reproduccion y bueno, hay unos que aunque ya ha pasado mucho tiempo siguen sonando bastante malitos, pero hay otros como los vinos, entre mas viejos mas buenos. Este sentimiento generado por el debut de Be Your Own Pet en parte me hizo extrañarlos aun mas ya que cuando anunciaron su separacion en 2008 me dejaron con una enorme tristeza pero ademas, esto fue algo que a todos nos tomo por sorpresa ya que apenas habian editado su [...]
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Tweet When a band you used to like takes a creative nosedive, it’s never fun to watch. I was a fan of The Vines after their debut album “Highly Evolved”, and even if Pitchfork rejected the band outright, it didn’t take away from my enjoyment of “Get Free” or “In the Jungle” as fun songs when I was just starting to get into modern rock music. Their follow-up “Winning Days” has some bright spots, but was a rehash of outtakes from their debut, and [...]
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Tweet Buy the album from Amazon - Vinyl | MP3 | CD Let’s give credit where credit is due. With some rare exceptions - and some great reissue reviews - Pitchfork has strayed away from some of the wonderfully insightful commentary that made the site as influential as it is today, but they get things right a lot of the time. In this case, it’s pinpointing just what the [...]
New York and LA are the entertainment capitals of the world. Regardless of what your personal feelings are for those two cities, there’s no denying that they are responsible for the vast majority of blockbuster movies and successful rock bands. They also churn out a sizeable portion of the the country’s rappers, visual artists and dancers. But this is a great big country, with a lot of people spread across a great big land mass. And while a lot of the cool kids flock to the coasts to start bands and chase the Hollywood dream, there are still [...]
The Turbo Fruits will be part of Quintron's Annual Lundi Gras show at One Eyed Jacks on March 7, 2011 03.03: Sun Hotel + The Blue Party + Caddywhompus - Cafe Prytania 03.04: Dave Nada + Musa + Brice Nice + Beyond Doubt - Maison Upstairs 03.05: Big Freedia + High Rankin - CAC Warehouse 03.06: Papa Grows Funk + Big Chief Monk Boudreaux - d.b.a. [...]
Okay, this isn't going to be strictly punk, more like heavy indie. But it's good and if you are so inclined you can always hit people in time with the pumping guitars. The first band I'm going to put up are one of my old favourites. I was lucky enough to see them before they broke up a couple of years ago and, while it wasn't the greatest gig I've ever seen, it was sweet to see them after they'd announced they were calling it a day. Be Your Own Pet - Fire Department [...]
Earlier in the year, when Turbo Fruits played The Vollrath here in Indianapolis, lead singer Jonas Stein revealed to me his hope to release a series of 73's next year. He made good on the start of that idea much earlier than I expected. A few weeks back, when they showed up to play an MOKB Presents / Butler Scion Free Thursday show, he put a new 73, released by the band's own Turbo Time Records , in my hands. It was actually the third 73 [...]
MOKB Presents and Butler Scion have teamed up to bring you a free explosion of Nashville-styled, garage-rock goodness at Radio Radio in Fountain Square! Tonight we welcome Nashville's Turbo Fruits and Pujol! MP3 : Turbo Fruits - Naked With You MP3 : Turbo Fruits - Mama’s Mad Cos I Fried My Brain MP3 : [...]
STATE CHAMPION (from Louisville/Southern Indiana, on Sophomore Lounge Records ) TURBO FRUITS (from Nashville, TN; ex-Be Your Own Pet, on Ecstatic Peace!/Fat Possum Records) PUJOL (from Nashville, TN) NATIVES (from Louisville, KY) Thursday, November 11th at The RUDYARD KIPLING , 422 W. Oak Street $6, 9 PM, 21-and-over STATE CHAMPION you should know, but just in case you don’t: STATE CHAMPION started in [...]
STATE CHAMPION (from Louisville/Southern Indiana, on Sophomore Lounge Records ) TURBO FRUITS (from Nashville, TN; ex-Be Your Own Pet, on Ecstatic Peace!/Fat Possum Records) PUJOL (from Nashville, TN) NATIVES (from Louisville, KY) Thursday, November 11th at The RUDYARD KIPLING , 422 W. Oak Street $6, 9 PM, 21-and-over STATE CHAMPION you should know, but just in case you don’t: STATE CHAMPION started in [...]
Enjoy a Halloween 2010 mix in podcast format. Download the mix in zip file here (will take a few minutes, the file is almost 60 megs) or stream below. Read on for the tracklist. Clean-cut Halloween 2010 Tracklist The Unicorns - "Tuff Ghost" Crystal Castles f/ Robert Smith - "Not in Love" Be Your Own Pet - "Zombie Graveyard Party" The Misfits - "American Nightmare" The Almighty Defenders - "The Ghost with the Most" [...]
Teeming with as much exuberant enthusiasm as Operator Please hitting legal drinking age thrashing about amongst broken bottles of Bud on the barroom floor, Toronto's Modern Superstitions are infantile enough to get you knocking years off your age in order to surreptitiously sneak into Underage Festival. Tearing through six tracks oozing undying urgency and an avid major key infatuation, the adolescent trio comprised of Nyssa, Matthew and Harry purvey a musical passion far beyond their years, as Everything That Is Not Mine flits between Shangri-Las harmonies and vehement CBGB punk screech, whilst Visions Of [...]
Sixty Watt Bayonets From: Reading / Kingston, United Kingdom Sixty Watt Bayonets come storming out of Reading with 'I Want To Be Your Girlfriend' a refreshing blast of old school new wave. Clocking in at just over two minutes, mathematically proven to be the perfect length for a single, it's got more energy than a Duracell bunny convention. It sounds like someone stapled Beth Ditto's lungs to the best bits of The [...]
In this, the latest of my podcast series, I present to you a podcast you can run for half an hour to. Well about 28 minutes to be exact. But none the less, since I had a bout of running earlier this year which I should really get back into, I've faced the pressure to find a good playlist to run to. This is the summation of that work. Or in fact merely the beginning. I'll probably expand my personal mix to around about an hour or so long. Because half of an hour is a pansy workout! Listen now [...]
Music video for "Mama's Mad Cos I Fried My Brain" by the Turbo Fruits from the band's 2009 release, "Echo Kid."
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