Ghost stories, Sleater-Kinney, old horror movies, Joy Division, Oingo Boingo, Radiohead, The Cure, Maestro Echoplex, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Interpol, Pere Ubu, feedback, Pixies, Wilco, Pulp, The Beatles
Sounds Like
"What Happened To The World In Your Hands" live @ CIA:
"Human Voices" live @ Safari Sam's:
The cast of Back To The Future does "Character Witness"
"The Rat" live @ the Knitting Factory:
Covering "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus for Halloween:
(Thanks for the above videos, Mom.)
And thanks to Jeff Koga for this one!
"Steady" live @ the Knitting Factory:
At Dr. Shiloe's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an institution run by the dreadful Dr. Shiloe, a woman who delights in administering the worst form of punishment -- the mysterious Ice Room where the girls face their darkest fears. Now Ken, Melissa, and two dudes named Dan -- three girls from very different worlds -- are the newcomers in this desert hell. During their stay, each girl will be tempted to commit the ultimate crime of betrayal as Dr. Shiloe cleverly tries to turn them against each other -- until they learn that the only way to survive is to stick together...and fight back.
"...the vocals slide in like Sonic Youth throwing a punk rock through the windows of a goth club, and I'm hooked. There's a full-on joy of noise rock, but mixed with a healthy dose of dark Britpop, shoegazed swirls, and an undeniable punk rock snicker in the vocal delivery." - Big Takeover
"...My Bloody Valentine influenced, modern shoegazing" - NME
"...the dense sonic display that Shiloe put forth on their EP, And Now The Screaming Starts is something that grabs you right away but also has a growing effect as you listen to the songs over and over." - Post-Punk.com
"Shiloe's dark psychedelic rock draws frequent comparisons to the similarly brooding output of Creation Records in the early 90's, but this L.A band's sound stretches far beyond the restrictive realm of shoegaze, especially on tracks like the full-throttle punk guitar rush of 'Alarms.'" - The Organ Grinder
"Songs like the spiraling postpunk livewire of “Alarms” and the slow-motion thunderclouds of “Gone” prove that, had Kevin Shields decided to stay home last year, the genre he wrenched from obscurity to greatness would be in good -- if white-knuckled and intense -- hands." -Prefix Magazine
"...it’s nice to have a band take listeners up to a higher level of intelligence through their cerebral lyrics. Brooding, post-punk, shoe-gaze may all describe Shiloe, but Ken, Melissa, and Dan pull together a dark sound with gritty indie rock tunes that will have you succumb to delightful derangement for a few minutes." -Beatcrave
"All fuzzgauzed atmosphere and razor riffs that tightrope from brooding shoegaze to rhythmically unhinged rock, Shiloe is a something of a rarity within their genre tag (always some variant of ‘post-punk revivalism’) in that they don’t stop at the revival—they actually push the music beyond the echoes of whatever bands inspired it." -Web In Front
"Shiloe scraped the skin off my face with the rough side of the grunge-gazing rock." - Classical Geek Theatre
"Slightly psychedelic sounding melodic and slightly frazzled America indie rock of a rather confident Black Rebel Motorcycle Club meets X nature...Fuzztone riffs, droning guitars, they’re rather refined and rather good." -Organ Magazine
"...features the shared-track Alarms and even though it's early January, I think this song is likely to end up on many year-end best-of lists. Mine, at least! Highly recommended." -Local Vertical
"an indie rock exploration of sound that leads listeners into a dark and droning post-punk world... and focuses lyrically on dark and intellectual themes."-Performer Magazine (Dec '08)
"LA power-brood with throttling guitars, bass & drums & a vocalist who sounds about one uneasy hiss from slapping that grin off your face." -Spider House Cafe (Austin, TX)
I can not believe the fouth is here but I am super stoked that it is.. We have a load of fireworks, been actually lighting a few off already, it's hard to wait when you have a lighter in hand and bag of fireworks.. It's so much fun.. But anyway.. You have a great 4th and we'll catch up soon.
hey there! what's shakin??? we'd love for you to come out to the Viper Room next thursday, june
25th, we play at 8pm, please contact us with your first and last name
and we'll put you on our unlimited guest list! hope you can make it
out, its gonna be a great night, and hey, its free!!!
WE'RE INVITING YOU TO OUR SHOW TOMORROW NIGHT 6/13/2009 11:00 PM at the Witches Brew16151 Parthenia St., North Hills, California 91343 - HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE & HAVE A ROCKING WEEKEND!!!
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