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In celebration of SPIN Magazine's 25 th Anniversary, they're throwing a week-long party in NYC featuring different bands each night. The schedule is pretty stout, featuring The Smashing Pumpkins , The Flaming Lips , The Black Keys , The National , Fang Island , Suckers , and many more. If you live in NYC, checking out the performances during SPIN 25 presented by ZYNC from American Express is certainly worth it. If you're like me and regretably not living in NYC (yet), you can [...]

There seem to have been an upswing in good-times bands lately. Andrew WK's been leading the charge for some time now, but just behind him is Brooklyn's Fang Island. If the first-graders in the abo... Continue reading "Giveaway: A Pair of Tickets To See Fang Island At Rubber Gloves Tonight" >

Fang Island started off as an art project between some friends for school. The members say they used it as an excuse to cut class and smoke weed while still getting credit for college. Genius, right? Well the band finally decided that their music was good enough to pursue the band full time and left the whole college thing behind. Lucky for us, as Fang Island's recently released self-titled LP is one of the best I've heard this year. A lot of bands are doing the post-punk mixed with world music sound that this band is sure [...]

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Still looking up Fang Island, but someone passed this video along to me and I had to share it. You really can't find a more cheerful group to play for than a bunch of kindergartners. Official Site / Myspace / Video for "Daisy "

Fang Island debut album out Feb 23 Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." The Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Check out a couple of new tracks, " Daisy " ( MP3 ) and " Life Coach " ( MP3 ). Their debut album, " Fang Island " will be released February 23rd via Sargent House. 1. Dreams of Dreams 2. Careful Crossers 3. Daisy (MP3) 4. Life Coach (MP3) 5. [...]

• Fang Island - Daisy
• Fang Island - Life Coach

Fang Island delivers sound of 'everyone high-fiving everyone' "A triumphant, heavily riffed, primarily instrumental epic, whiplashing through six minutes of smiling prog jams, and as many tempos as passages, before settling into one last minute of uplifting chants." - Stereogum "Life-affirming prog guitar anthems." – Seattle Stranger Fang Island describes its sound as "everyone high-fiving everyone." And, the Brooklyn quintet's anthemic and soaring songs make it quite possibly one of few bands befitting such description. Check out MP3s for two new tracks, "Daisy" and "Life Coach." Its finger-tapping guitar lines, chanted vocals, [...]

"Everyone high-fiving everyone" That's the description Fang Island give of their music and honestly i shouldn't have to say anymore...but I will. Mainly instrumental, this Brooklyn 5-piece string together euphoric guitar riffs, pounding basslines and tight-as-hell drumming to create epic, triumphant gatherings of sound. Curanga builts up slowly to an eruption of punk-fuelled, Thin Lizzy-esque, six-string mayhem. Its energy and its unashamed ballsiness is infectious, you just want to jump around and hug around in sight when its on. I get the sense that Fang Island use their music to bring people together, it has a real unity to it, [...]

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