Us at Ghost Hunters Club on Long Island (artsy fartsy)
More fartsy than artsyagain at GHC, LI
STEVE-Guitar/Vocals/Bass/Feedback
KEVIN-Bass/Vocals/Noise/Drums/ Electric Toothbrush
BOBBY-Keys/Vocals/Flute/Drums/ Guardrail
BRIAN-Drums/Vocals/Guardrail/Bass/Jaw Harp
Influences
Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The Clash, Tom Waits, The Buzzcocks, The Minutemen, X, Talking Heads, Mission of Burma,The Vibration, Orthrelm, Dead Kennedys, The Beatles, Blonde Redhead, The Drinkers Themseleves, Dead Milkmen, My Way My Love, Motion Picture Cutouts, Jeff Lewis, The Pogues, Pat Macom, Nick Cave(and the Bad Seeds), Beethoven, The Banned, Bikini Kill, Kraftwerk, Skeletonbreath, Kimya Dawson, Nirvana, The Velvet Underground, The Slits, Fiasco, The Ramones, Old Table, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Beck, Bjork, The Misfits, General Miggs, Deerhoof, Pearl Jam, Paper Tiger, Against Me!, Accede Demur, The Pixies, Quixotic, The Genuine Imitations, Jason Anderson, Rancid, Blue Velvet, Secret Slopes, Wrangler Brutes, The Raincoats, Cool Sunshine, Stravinsky, Johnny Cash, Weezer, Aloke, Squeeze, Kid Cassanova, John Fahey, Gang of Four, Phil Elverum/ Microphones/ Mount Eerie, Will Oldham/ Bonnie 'Prince Billy/ Palace etc., Twofold Truth, The Who, Minor Threat, Karl Blau, Mirah, Soundgarden, O'Death, manualist Gerry Phillips, Emily(n) Brodsky, Television, Eleni Mendell, Aeon Yahweh, Elvis Costello(and The Attractions), The Sex Pistols, The Malarkies, XTC, Darb Modnoc, The Blood Brothers, David Bowie, Bert In Mongolia, Glenn Branca, Janis Joplin, Scott Joplin, Vince Guaraldi, Medications, Men Who Lunch, Men Who Brunch, The Evens, Icy Spicy Leoncie, Aaron Maine and the Riley Brothers, Juan Garcia Esquivel, John Philip Sousa, Wack, Some Tasty Donuts, Captured! By Robots, Kung-Fu Bastards, Wesley Willis, Moog Bolero.
Sounds Like
Like a garbage truck... dropped off the Empire State building! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We are the four Yankou brothers. We grew up in Hawthorne, NY in Westchester County but now three of us live in the Bronx. We've been making music for over seven years. Our second full lenght album is now out on Tapeworm Records. You can buy it below. Go to our website: www.noats.com Get our debut album free at www.freeindie.com or buy the real thing below.
For booking or whatever else: Brian's new cell phone number is (914) 564-2764 and his new e-mail address is brianyankou@gmail.com.
Reviews of No One and the Somebodies shows:
“Imagine a punk band and an indie-rock band engaged in an Ultimate Fighting-esque tournament, and you’ll come close to the sound of New York’s No One and the Somebodies. Loud and quasi-chaotic, the four played an impassioned set…
…NOatS songs came across as completed entities that had been smashed about a bit, and often they ended in noisy chaos.”
-Meghann Wilhoite - www.megwilhoite.com
“No One and the Somebodies has long had the most aggressive urinal-stickering campaign of any NYC band... Its lo-fi art pop crackles with zany fervor.”
-Time Out New York
"...one of Westchester's most forward thinking experimental bands...”
-Christopher Vaughan - The Purchase Independent
“Their set was a manic rollick between hoarse garage-rock, frantic punk and bouncing indie-pop...
…Attendees were witnesses to bizarre waltzes, twinkling-like music boxes with flute and keyboards, and the extensive use of a piece of guard rail (that’s right, an actual guard rail) as percussion and general noisemaker.”
-Tim McNulty – Binghamton Pipe Dream
About "Suspicious Package" (TPW 003):
No One and the Somebodies - Suspicious Package
I've been waiting for this album for what seems like forever now, and now that it's finally here, it's better than I ever could have imagined. Suspicious Package is downright epic. NOATS have matured tremendously since their first album, 2004's Pretend You're Out of Control - musically, lyrically, and conceptually. I say conceptually because although I'd hesitate to call this a concept album, it comes damn close. The politics evident on 2004 songs like "Riot on the Verizon" and "Smash the MTA" have bloomed into passionate, cathartic calls of desperation and hope (and to action). Themes and motifs of the "culture of fear" run throughout the album. But the politics don't weigh down the music, which itself shows a maturity, skill level, and interplay between band members that surpasses their older material. Much of the songs move away from the pop song structure, preferring instead to build and evolve, some reaching in excess of ten minutes. And the band throws everything into those songs - in terms of emotion and sincerity, but also in terms of musical ground. NOATS have always been open to experimentation and eclecticism (a guardrail features prominently as an instrument in more than one song), but Suspicious Package elevates this to a new level, and with tremendous success. There's noise freakouts, rattling cacophonies of percussion, jittery dancey bits, tinges of post-rock, screams, shouts, whispers, and a song with a flute called, well, "Flute." But not once does the album feel drawn out or overblown. The whole thing is immediate, urgent, and heartfelt. And despite perhaps having moved beyond the narrow set of parameters that define "punk rock," in spirit and sheer energy alone, No One and the Somebodies are still "punk as fuck."
Suspicious Package TPW003 - $4.50 including S&H within US
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For our first album "Pretend You're Out Of Control" ($11 within US)
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So i made this poster seaction (via you guys influnce) but any way I put that show we played 2 years ago with amy dupchecks friends the Steveadors and fiasco and They like took it off and told me it was a terms of service violation do you know which one i'l talkin about ? it was realy werid did that happen to you guys ?
JESUS FROG VS. KARATE IDIOT... CRUCIFIED AND STUPIFIED... ONE NIGHT ONLY!
COME SEE... SEDIMENT CLUB RADIO SHOCK FOUR LEGGED BABY THE CREEP AND MORE. JUNE 11TH 9-11PM FREE @ THE YIPPIE MUSEUM 9 BLEECKER ST BTW BOWERY AND ELIZABETH
For our first album "Pretend You're Out Of Control" ($11 within US)
outside US ($13) click here:
To get both together ($14 within US) click here:
or outside the US ($17.50)
