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Interview: Crocodiles

crocodiles - summer of hate
Crocodiles are nice guys. Despite all the fuss about crystal meth, drugs, anger that surrounds this up-and-coming Southern Californian duo emerging from the same "scene" (but don't call it that way please!) that gave us Wavves, Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs and many more, when I arrived at Bardens Boudoir - where they would later present their new album Summer Of Hate in the last date of their European tour - about one and a half hour late for our interview*, they kept that sort of composure and politeness that one would expect to find in British folks [...]

Best of 2009 So Far…

Animal Collective - My Girls
So 2009 is a little more than half-way over (and there was much rejoicing). Anyhow, with the year rapidly moving by, there existed a need to document the records that have been occupying my turntable and iPod like the Germans did France circa 1940 [too soon? No, it's never too soon!]. While I did go through the effort of culling the releases of the year into this list; the efforts required to actually reflect enough to number them was far too great only being this far into our orbit around the sun. However, I was willing to expend enough effort [...]

Crocodiles!

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Crocodiles. Een 'nieuw' indie bandje dat wat mij betreft flinke afdrukken kan maken in de voetsporen van grotere indie bandjes die hun afdrukken al wat eerder in het zand hadden gezet. Eerder, maar daarom niet beter. Crocodiles doet als bandje simpelweg wat het moet doen; lekker rocken, lekker swingen, gitaartje hier, songtekstje daar. Ja eh, Jezus, sorry, wat een kutbeschrijving. Luister maar gewoon wat en oordeel zelf of je het wat vind. Joost mag het weten, ik ben stoked. Crocodiles - Refuse Angels from [...]

Crocodiles / Christin Turner

crocodiles - summer of hate
Here's some advice for you youths: !) Be positive. 2) Wake up early. 3) Collect talented friends. Not that one and two are rules I personally abide by. But three -- pshhh the most / best of all. Now, don't go around being a friend-whore. Just, you know... be cool about it. I've been thinking for the past several years of buying land in fuck-knows-where, calling on all friends and moving there to create most amazing shit. I think I would call it ... a 'caw-m-you-nh'. The point [...]

Crocodiles: Your Next Favourite Band?

crocodiles - summer of hate
I've been meaning to write about Crocodiles for a while now, so I'm glad I finally have a reason to. Out of San Diego, Crocodiles export a sweet blend of shredded guitar rock mixed with a bunch of pop sensibilities ie. they take a lot of Black Rebel Motor Cycle and combine it with all the good parts of every relevant band of the moment... They pretty much lay claim to be one of the only new bands I listen to, apparently they're super cute too. So I guess that means it's that time to lock [...]

Summer of Hate

crocodiles - summer of hate
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? Nein, Crocodiles! Passend zum Sommer das Video zu ihrem Über-Kracher "Summer of Hate". Nicht wirklich bahnbrechend revolutionär aber so klebrig wie der Arbeits-Tisch heute Nachmittag: Crocodiles mit ihrem psychedelischen Lo-Fi-Noise-Pop. Sie gesellen sich damit nahtlos zu den Crystal Antlers und meinen persönlichen Lieblingen Wavves. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate Crocodiles - I Wanna Kill
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Summer of Hate

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When we last checked in with the Crocodiles they were on tour with Ladytron and the Faint, and I was banging "Summer of Hate" a bunch. Now summer has actually arrived, and so has a video for the song. THX: MBV

Crocodiles:

crocodiles - summer of hate
Everything about this says "1969," from the sound to the haircuts to the sunglasses to the desert setting. The only thing that might be non-1969 is the video quality, which is more reminiscent of Thomas Edison. The influences are clear and this band has avoided trend-hopping by placing itself in a tradition. If a Velvet Underground-esque, black-and-white downer at a time when others are looking for fun-loving summer jams is your kind of thing, you're sure to like it. (Full disclosure: this is totally my kind of thing.) [ Stereogum ]

Some fuzzy-summer-wave-po pish music get videos: Wavves and Crocodiles

Wavves "No Hope Kids"
Two of the better albums of the year, and two of the more surprisingly great releases of the year belong to Wavves and Crocodiles . Wavvves and Summer of Hat e respectively came out of nowhere in 2009, and especially during these summer months, as their fuzzed out blaring grunge pop has captivated more than a few listeners. We'll start with "Summer of Hate", the title track off the Crocodiles album. It's a slower and more methodic track than some of their other songs, but it's bold and beautiful. The art direction [...]

crocodiles - summer of hate

crocodiles - summer of hate
crocodiles play whelans upstairs on 30 July with support from Wounds + Cheap Freaks more info here

Video: Crocodiles - "Summer of Hate"

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Crocodiles - "Summer of Hate"

New Crocodiles Video - "Summer Of Hate"

Crocodiles - "Neon Jesus" on Last Call 6/23 (TheAudioPerv.com)
San Diego JAMC and MJ -digging BTW , Dum Dum Girls collaborators , and all around harworkers Crocodiles have a new video for their Summer Of Hate title track. (Yes, just in time for your summer of hate.) It was directed by Christin Turner, who fuzzes up their desert trek with a hazy pixelated double-exposed black-and-white washing. It's fittingly reminiscent of some lost VU outtake. And, as VaginaWash4u comments over at YouTube: I like this band a lot i saw them live great energy they did remind me of [...]

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