Lets back off of the hate (But what do you expect, its ass retarded hot out there. Who moves the bay area for the heat?) and focus a little more on… aggression. Remember when I was all Mayyors? And then I was all Duuudes! Yeah, ok: Videos of the Mayyors destroying @ The Eagle:

The Mayyors LIVE - Part 1 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

The Mayyors LIVE - Part 2 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

Brought to you by that J. Howell guy/eighty four films who also posted the first episode of Forest City Rockers (featuring the Mayyors… surprise!). Apparently each episode will be cartoon and live footage of (hopefully) more mean ass shit:

Forest City Rockers Episode 1 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo.

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I forgot about this because this player wasn’t working on my linux box, but it works on my Mac. Yeah, I think my description is accurate. Video is by some dude named J. Howell. Snagged this from here.

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I got to the Eagle just as Traditional Fools started. I’m kind of glad I was wound up about getting to this show because I enjoyed this. They were fun, a party band. I mean, ok, it was just more garage stomp but they were cute, young, sloppy, enthusiastic, catchy and the songs are all super short.

So, Mayyors. This band has no website, is on a label with no website, and their debut seven inch is already “sold out”. I think sold out is an exaggeration, I know it was for sale at the show as I saw that all black sleeve floating around in people’s hands. But still, people were definitely buzzing. The eagle was packed. After the show, within ten minutes of posting the photos I had a spike in traffic. Whatever it is these guys are doing to get their name out there is working.

So what did I think of the show? I liked it. I enjoyed it quite a bit. “I liked this” is actually all I have to say. There are reference points, but my mind is content not to make the connections. Its like I’m stuffed after a big meal, but that doesn’t really help you. I’ll try.

This shit is rock (no roll). You know the sound; hard guitar, screamo vocals, tweaked screachy solos. The band is pretty severe on stage — loud and kind of threatening. John Pritchard (who was in Sexy Prison which is one of my favorite band names) fronts this band, and his antics made me think of the singer from Hank IV. The bassist is aggressive with his bass. The guitarist, Chris Woodhouse, liked to come to the edge of the stage, eyes glazed over, zombie stance, and flatten you with guitar. When he wasn’t doing that he was assuming some other insane position. At one point I saw him in the most severe Ramones stance (it was almost a split). I looked away for a second and when I looked back he was still in that stance, but the guitar was on his shoulders and behind his neck and he was still playing like he was Jimmi Hendrix or something! So, yeah. I liked this. You should totally check them out this Friday when they play the Hemlock.

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There’s a lot going on this week. On Wednesday Snacks and Bran(…)Posplay 21 grand. Snacks are a Baltimore duo who tape electronics to themselves and make squiggles and unholy snacks. Not electronic snacks either, food ones. Maybe its entertaining, maybe its stupid. The I’m going to find out!

On Thursday, at the The Terminal will be LA noise devastation dudes (with John Wiese) Sissy Spacek, Death Sentence: Panda! will do their tribal woodwind punk thing, Gerritt, Jason Crumer, and Chen Santa Maria (whom I always miss, but it sounds like they’re still mining that post rock thing for new sounds. Be careful guys, a lot of miners are getting trapped these days!) . Also, there’s the San Francisco debut of Mayyors (featuring Chris Woodhouse of FM Knives) at The Eagle, along with The Oh Sees and Master/Slave. Word on the street is that the first Mayyors seven inch is already sold out despite the fact that they don’t have a website and neither does their label. Is the band that awesome or are they the kings of the ‘buy now ebay later’ scene (read: did they do a small run of seven inches and sell them to a large group of friends)? I guess you’ll have to go and find out (I am).

Friday is a total unwieldy cluster fuck of a night. There’s The Mantles and The Botticellis(record release) and The Papercuts at Cafe du Nord; Jucifer at the Uptown in Oakland; Buzzer and The Aerosols at the Hemlock; Club Sandwich at the ATA; Awesomefest featuring Girls, The Oh Sees and Port O’brien.

Its kind of overwhelming. The Mantles are solid, Buzzer features Andy from The Cuts and its fun enough, Club Sandwich has some interestingly sensual moshing that you simply have to witness, and if you read this blog at all you know how we feel about Girls. You should definitely check all of these bands out SOME OTHER TIME because Friday is the Hard Place record release party for Get Your Hopes Up

Hard Place
Easy Street
The Sarrees

4/18/2008
9PM
Smile @ The Knockout
3223 Mission St. (where misson and valencia meet)
$5

And if you just can’t wait, or want to be able to sing along with every song, or you’re obligated to be at one of these other shows but feel like you could be missing out on a piece of rock ‘n roll history, you’re in luck. The record is totally for sale on iTunes right now. Come on out on Friday and say hi!

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