photo by Jim Bennett Earlier this March, we featured The Men during our 2012 SXSW broadcast from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop (read about it here ). If you take nothing else from this post, know that The Men take it to 12. Yes, 12. They are louder than 11. They are abrasive. They sweat blood. They howl into the crowd with reckless abandon. But they also make rock n'roll in the purest sense of the word. And they want to show you a good time. The Brooklyn group, fronted by guitarists and vocalists [...]
Watch 'Make Him Pay' via Spin . Next is out now. Purchase MEN items via Insound. MP3: MEN - Next
The Men - Turn It Around The Men - Open Your Heart The Men create loud and noisy and genre-defying whatever-you-wanna-call-it-roc k that's filled with lovely distortion/melody/more distortion combos and turn-on-a-dime, crashing-down-all-around-you reverb, feedback, and good ol' rock 'n' roll riffage. But don't try to pigeonhole, 'cause Open Your Heart is a weird, wild ride with a ton of unpredictable twists and turns along the way, and these dudes do a fantastic job of making sense outta all of that [...]
Albums of the Month - March 2012 After hitting a snag in January and seemingly going through the motions last month, March exploded. Quality albums from big names like Odd Future and Tanlines , alongside some unknown entities really made gave a lot of optimism for the remainder of 2012. Number one may not be a surprise for some of you, but the month gave us a lot of unexpected gems. Here are my favorite three. [...]
As new releases pour out, I'll highlight the best albums of 2012. So, to elaborate on a post last month , here are a couple more recommendations for new albums. I'm a little late to the party in discovering The Men . But now that I've spent some time with the band's Open Your Heart , I'm a big fan. The Men made possibly the best rock album of the year and it's an early contender for my top release of 2012. The Men play punk, post-punk and whatever other genre you want to throw in. When I listen to [...]
Their set featured: Bataille Ex-Dreams Freaky I Saw Her Face Kyle Keays Night Landing Open Your Heart Turn It Around Enjoy the full playback here. Like The Men on Facebook. Purchase The Men items via Insound. MP3: The Men - Ex-Dreams
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Open Your Heart (mp3) by The Men Adult (mp3) by Ceremony Final Fight (mp3) by PO PO [...]
Rock out with the Ümlaut . Enjoy thoroughly. Japandroids "The House That Heaven Built" [ follow ] The Men "Open Your Heart" [ follow ] from Open Your Heart Best Coast "The Only Place" [ follow ] [free download ] Rose Cousins "For The Best" [ follow ] from We Have Made a Spark Silversun Pickups "Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) [ follow ] [...]
If you've been living under the proverbial rock this past week, you might have missed the return of several big names: Best Coast, Japandroids, and Sigur Rós. All solid offerings that should keep you satiated until next week. Enjoy. A-Trak feat. Juicy J and Danny Brown - "Piss Test" It seems like it's impossible to go a week without a Danny Brown spot coming in on our Top Ten MP3s list. This time he pops up on A-Trak's cut from the upcoming Fool's Gold Records compilation, Loosies . "Blunt and [...]
Records This year, Frontier Psychiatrist has expanded both its staff and its coverage considerably, allowing us to bring you more thoughts on our favorite records, concerts, books and films than ever before. Nonetheless, it seems as if every week a new album is released that mesmerizes us but that we fail to share with you. We've addressed this problem to some degree through the use of our Tumblr , but we still fall just a bit short. And so, as we did last year, we will be bringing you periodic round-ups of the best Albums [...]
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Tweet vaso link Unfortunately I missed The Men when they played Bug Jar last week. With my birthday last Saturday, I was just too busy to make it work, but I made it up to them in part by purchasing their debut album on vinyl on Sunday. I hadn't listened to it before hearing their solid new album, Open Your Heart , but I loved the energy and brashness that one displayed. And then, I we got [...]
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Listen to The Men 's new song "A Minor" below, released as part of Sacred Bones ' Record Store Day compilation. As we get closer to this year's Record Store Day we're beginning to hear more and more of the music that'll be released on the day, April 21st. This time it's Brooklyn's Garage-Indie-Rock thrower-downers The Men , whose new 8-minute-Goliath will appear on their label Sacred Bones' compilation "Todo Muere Vol. 23 , also featuring the likes of War , Crystal [...]
Frank Yang Back to back festivals! What a great idea. Just prior to heading out to engage with Canadian Musicfest's 2012 edition, I took a look back at years past and noticed a couple trends - one, that I usually complain about the lineup ( check! ) and that as a result of not wanting to see the same old same old, I try to branch out and see new and unknown acts, usually from foreign climes, with little background and no guarantee of [...]
The Men The Men have announced additional tour dates in the US for later this Summer. After playing 58 shows in 2012 - through Sunday - the band sets off for shows in Europe before heading back to the US. The band's most recently album, Open Your Heart , was released earlier this month. Complete tour dates below. Tour Dates 5-16 New York, NY - Webster Hall ! 5-30 - Dublin, Ireland @ Whelan's 6-1 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera [...]
This, my friends, is what we call a good, old-fashioned freak out - eight minutes of men, ahem, The Men , jamming for the sake of it. And while "A Minor" doesn't display the urgency displayed on their past two albums, Leave Home and Open Your Heart, it does further the mystique of a band who is seemingly capable of whatever form of Rock 'N' Roll they damn well choose. It's as if they gathered one day in their practice space and asked, "What should we do today? A dusty, psychedelic groove or a Black Sabbath [...]
The thing with rock'n'roll is that musicians can't really try too hard to get it out there, it must be evident - from the band's material and their attitude - that it runs in their blood. It's like flair, either you have it or you don't... Pitchfork blessed The Men do "have it" indeed, and this makes them the flagship rock'n'roll band in a scene that lately has expressed mostly breakout bands confined to the pop and electronic realms. These guys took Sonic Youth's noise-rock lesson, stripped it of overly elaborated parts and experimental guitar tones, and delivered an album [...]
Hear the b-side that will appear on their label's Record Store Day comp.
Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy! Tenacious D return with a star-studded video for "To Be the Best." And they're still alive, thanks to Val Kilmer . Check it out above! The Men, one of the best acts we saw at SXSW , release a new song, "A Minor." Unlike most of their tracks, it's an 8-minute jam. [ Soundcloud ] Smashing Pumpkins will release Oceania on July 19, thanks [...]
Enjoy 'A Minor' via SoundCloud. Like The Men on Facebook. Purchase The Men items via Insound. MP3: The Men - Ex-Dreams
Uh oh, looks I've found my new obsession. The Men's new album, Open Your Heart has been spinning pretty much constantly since it was dropped by the gods of music in to my lap a few weeks back. It's been a pretty non-stop The Men party, and I've set the satellites to detect anything The Men [...]
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