Stiff, Sun, Stax, Motown, John Paul Jones, Jamerson, Will Lee, Jack Bruce, Bruce Thomas, Foxton, Moulding, Farndon, Entwistle, Steve Kilbey, Andy Fraser, Tom Petersson, McCartney, Roger Glover, Lemmy, Bootsy, Geezer . . .
working on the new full-length vinyl ~ see ya soon ...
Our virgin vinyl 7", "Giants of Love" b/w "Sidewalkin'", is on Slow Gold Zebra Records!
Find it at these fine wreckastowes:
Academy Records, Eat Records, Passout Records, Other Music, Rockit Scientist in NYC; Used Kids in Columbus; Shake It in Cincinnati
Our 2nd CD, "The Cymbal and the Skull" available at: Rockit Scientist (NYC) and Sound Fix Records (Bklyn), plus iTunes and CD Baby.
Heavy Creatures is happy to be part of the new Unexpainable Recordings tape compilation called "Unexplainable Forever". The limited 6 cassette edition was released Oct. 2008, packaged in a hand stamped box with a fold out insert
It features 50 artists from all over the world with a total 4 and 1/2 hours of material. It contains a wide variety of styles ranging from Psychedelic Rock to Shoegaze to Harsh Noise, to Acoustic Folk, to Ambient Soundscapes, to full on Electronic Mayhem.
Heavy Creatures have gone to heaven.
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GARAGELAND NYC offers digital and analog recording, with the live room in Brooklyn and addtional production facilities in Manhattan. We've recently expanded capabilities with our mobile unit, and can now record virtually anywhere!
Garageland NYC has been busy recording demos and broadcast ads with a talented array of voiceover artists. We are happy to take on exciting new projects, from string quartets to singer/songwriters and bands, from commercials to independent film.
The Brought Low banged out a few new killer tunes Feb/Mar '09!
We're happy to continue our relationship with New York City House Concerts, recording classical music's top emerging talent.
Congrats to John Gallagher Jr., who won a 2007 Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical, Spring Awakening! John recorded a few excellent songs with us in our old downtown studio.
CHRISTOPHER PEIFER is foremost a rock musician, having recorded and toured the world with The Kowalskis, sir, Frances Farmer My Hero and many others. He's shared the stage with rock giants Soundgarden, dinosaurs Head East, Grand Funk Railroad and Foghat, notorious punkers Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys), Vice Squad and The Fleshtones, and garage legends The Dirtbombs, The Woggles, and Eddie and the Hotrods.
He's recorded at some the of the metropolitan area's finest studios, including: Dubway, LoHo, Threshold (NYC); Headgear, MetroSonic (Brooklyn), Don Casale (Long Island), Moonlight Mile (Hoboken).
A bass and guitar player, he is available for session work with ORIGINAL acts, playing: Rock, Punk, Pop, Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Dance, Soul, R&B, Singer/songwriter, Americana . . .
Chris currently writes, records and performs with ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT and HEAVY CREATURES and plays bass with Mishal Zeera, and Josh Diamond and the Brooklyn Soul.
A composer (ASCAP), and sound designer, Chris' credits range from Fringe to Broadway, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Fest and Juilliard at Lincoln Center.
Chris has put sound around, lit and worked alongside such luminaries as Bill Clinton, Joey Ramone, The Roots, Ashley Judd, Spike Lee, Mary Tyler Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amy Sedaris, Cherry Jones, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Alan Alda, Charlie Rose, Cat Power, Richie Havens, Nick Cave and many more . . .
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GRANDE interviewed:
“Check out GRANDE – Seductive hits and powerful licks, rock-n-roar with just enough metal to keep the devil happy ... these boys know how to satisfy ... get an earful, the future is knocking at the door.”
-- Starr Tucker, New York Waste, Summer 2007
Band names are important. If you're named the Fluffy Princesses and sound like Brutal Knights there is certain to be a tragic disconnect. Then there is Heavy Creatures. They could be Dirty Animals or Sexy Beasts - essentially you'd just need an adjective to convey purringly thick swagger and a noun that remained as primitive as possible and you would get the idea. Heavy Creatures is fronted by two women who use classic 60s female harmonies in "Family Tree" as effectively as they combine their vocal power to create a primal drum circle feel in "Love Come Down." And the music - well, shit is heavy. It chuggs along beneath grandly gesturing keyboard and guitar lines while toying with the blues and psychedelic music so cleverly you're hard pressed to assign them a genre. These creatures understand the meaning of "momentum" and "build" and "crescendo" so well, you'd swear they were mounting a charge on all the mediocre bands in NYC. Heavy Creatures is the closest thing to Jefferson Airplane when they were interesting, sexy and just a bit creepy we've seen, so put on something beaded and dig.
Through frequent tempo changes, they challenge their audience while insistently commanding their attention at the same time. Fans can look forward to seeing them as more of a presence on the music scene this year.
These guys had my head bobbin' and toe tappin' as they tore through an assemblage of nifty little riffs, plus their bassist (Christopher Peifer) was popping off some supercool John Paul Jones-esque melodies pretty much the whole way through. I especially enjoyed how many of their tunes crammed seemingly unrelated riffs right up against each other back-to-back, making the longer songs less gassy. Fun band.
I've been really digging this band Heavy Creatures lately. I somehow stumbled on their myspace page, which is doubly strange/lucky for me because I don't spend that much time on myspace, but I was drawn to their name. Anyway, I love their artwork, I love their taste in guitars, I love the sound of their records, but most of all, I LOVE their songs. They're classic rock influenced, which in a lot of cases just means tired sounding and unoriginal, but not here, because the songs are just so good. I can't stop playing the riff to "Family Tree" in practice. So it's really crazy to me that they aren't really playing that many shows around town (NYC). They should be all over the place.
NYC's Heavy Creatures have developed their own special blend of organic rock reliant on viscous grooves and a sweeping ethereal spirit showcased on the quartet's latest eight-track excursion, The Cymbal and the Skull. There's an underlying darkness swirling through the Moog keyboards and Neil Young-esque fretwork that emits a kind of barren Midwestern farm night scene on cuts like "Crimson Canyon," while the hypnotic shuffle of "Landing of the Fall" harkens back to the days of surf rock psychedelics as interpreted through the walls of a dank metropolitan rehearsal space. Meshing entrancing drone rock with a free love, make peace not war sensibility, the smoky vibes emanated by Heavy Creatures teeter on the brink of rock 'n' roll danger with a tribal swagger with an underscored riot grrrl grit leading the charge.
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ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT reviewed:
"Best of 2008"
-- GORILLA GOT ME RADIO - WMBR 88.1 FM BOSTON
"Rolling Stones jangle and swagger. Think "Brown Sugar."
-- Kristen K., Razorcake
"Seven inches of vinyl ... Another Saturday Night's latest bar room rocker ... Howlin' guitars and steady rollin' tunes. Grab a PBR and bring on the night."
-- Starr Tucker, NY Waste, Fall '08
Another Saturday Night ist purer Amerikanischer Rock’n’Roll, vielleicht sogar typisch New Yorker, wenn man sich manche an die Dolls oder Fleshtones gemahnende Gesangsparts anhört. Auch das Songwriting ist zeitlos, einfacher, rauer und energischer, in allen Epochen des R&R verwurzelter Garagen Rock mit Backgroundgesang, wie man ihn nur gern haben kann. Hier sollte man die Augen nach einem Longplayer offen halten, denn die beiden hier vorgestellten Songs machen Appetit auf mehr.
(Another Saturday Night is pure American rock n roll, maybe even typically New York if you're listening to some of the vocal parts that are reminiscent of the Dolls or the Fleshtones. The songwriting, rooted in all the epochs of rock and roll, is also timeless, simple, raw and energetic Garage Rock with background vocals, just like you want it. With this one we should keep our eyes open for a LP because these songs whet your appetite for more.)
-- Flying Revolver (Germany)
“Plus! Crazy Music d'Aujourd'hui . . . Encore plus de myspace dÈmentiels de groupes ESSENTIELS . . . ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT . . . Stones + Penetrators = pas la tÍte ‡ toto.”
( “More! Crazy Music of Today . . . Still more irrational myspace of ESSENTIAL groups . . . ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT . . . Stones + Penetrators = not the head with louse.”)
-- ROCK IN NICE, NICE ROCK AND UNDERGROUND MUSIC (France)
-- Bubblegum Slut (UK)
Yep, it's another Saturday night in NYC, and you're heading out to your favourite local bar, having finally managed to scrub the dirt out from beneath your fingernails. You shoot the shit with the bartender, Dale, who knows your preferred brand of beer without you having to tell him. You say hey to some friends playing pool in the corner, adjust your balls, take a long pull from the cold bottle, head over to the stage and nod your head in time to the Stones-by-way-of-Dolls garage rock the band is playing. It's Another Saturday Night, man, and the world is A-okay.
-- Sleazegrinder (Boston)
In the spirit of cooperation a number of our friends have joined together to support Habitat For Humanity by donating a song for the new CD I have just produced for Moiko Records !
Featuring tunes by Bravo, David Wheeler, pmc , Pedestrian X, Mark Alan Dooley, The OneNeeders, Kicking At The Trunk, Encrypted Verbalist, Love Sex & Death, Wormajor, Three or More, Johnathan Devil, Woody Black, my old friend St "Star" Kapellier, & myself ~ 15 stellar artist who recognize the value of working together to achieve a common goal ~ this kick ass CD ROCKS & is almost ready for it's international release in 2009 !
According to our Executive producer Crystal Cartier ~ The Rock CD should become available w/ it's release date set to coincide w/ it's debut on blogtalkradio. com on Sat, March 21st!
Please sign up with blogtalkradio (link below) so we can make this debut really stand out ~ I'm sure Habitat For Humanity will put all the dough to good use !!!!!!
Peace Love & Respect,
Ben Vandagriff a.k.a. The Altruistic Messiah
& remember music isn't a competition ~ it's all about love !!!!!
