At long last, Street Eaters have ventured down the mountain to crash your eardrums with lots of "hey"s, and lazers. No, we're not looking for a guitarist, cause rhythm is all you need.
Oh yeah, Megan is also in Master Volume, Wild Assumptions, and was in Neverending Party, and Before the Fall, and The Younger Lovers. Johnny is still in Triclops! and Fleshies, and Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children Macnuggits, and was in a bunch of other bands too.
Out Now: 7" Split with White Night on Milwaukee's Repulsion Records!
Out NOW: 12" EP We See Monsters on Bakery Outlet Records in St. Augustine Florida and coming SOON a 7" on Starcleaner Records in Brooklyn!!!!
Nice review of We See Monsters from England's Collective Zine:
"...We See Monsters is a corking record. It's a mere 6 songs and 20ish minutes long, but Street Eaters have come up with a great sound here. The band is a two piece, ignoring guitar and just piling through each song in a whirlwind of bass and drums and dual male / female vocals. The best bit about the latter is when they draw out the syllables all emo-ly, like early Rainer Maria. The tracks are really stripped down and there is nothing mathy or laboured about this, just sinewy basslines and primal, Moss Icon style drumming. I bet this band is an intense joy to witness. Overall the sound lies nicely alongside such outfits as Tubers, Tiny Hawks and the G, a sort of mish mash of post punk high IQ, punk rock bludgeon and emo intensity. It's a killer combo, and as they rumble through this record, each song has it's own little touches that hook you in. 'Eating Worms' may be the standout track, nudging along on a bed of repetition, bass and drums rolling together and the vocals tangling and seperating very nicely indeed.
Excellent record, one of my favourites of 2009 especially as it came completely out of nowhere for me."
"Priding themselves on the fact that they tour in a 1990 Toyota Corolla and refuse to write love songs despite their inter-band couple status, The East Bay's Street Eaters are a relatively new and unknown duo featuring Megan March and Johnny Geek, both of whom have longstanding and notable rap sheets (The Fleshies, Master Volume, Triclops, Harbinger, and Neverending Party). While their music bares subtle traces of similarity to their other workings, the two collaborators manage to cultivate a revitalizing and definitively unique sound. Founded in fuzz-laden, treble-cranked bass parts, dual vocal hooks, relentless rhythmical clamor, and classic East Bay punk undertones pressed through a garage n' noise filter, it's simultaneously infectious and abrasive. It's not overly loose, but far from precise, which works to their favor creating a fun and raucous tonic that's sure to jolt some life into even the most downtrodden set of bones.
Playing in the middle slot between the commendable trashed-out poodle skirt sing-a-longs of C'mon Everybody and the melody-rich gritty throwback rock of Hoboken's Personal and the Pizzas, Street Eaters opted to play on the floor while the others took to the stage. In twenty five minutes they tore their way through a frenzied set, illuminated awkwardly by The Stud's disco lighting and the occasional flash photograph.
Although the confines of having to hold and play an instrument prevented Johnny from carrying out some of the antagonistic free-hand singing antics that have defined some of his other bands live shows, the band's demeanor remained highly charged nonetheless. There were teeter-tottered near falls, facial contortions, flailing arms, and sufficient amounts of back and forth banter. Pop sensibility occasionally surfaced with whoa-oh-oh presence from beneath the mud of Albini-esque distortion and ruckus, but was repeatedly kicked back under before things got too easy on the ears.
By the time it was over it felt as though things hadn't even really gotten started. Short and sweetly sour - just the way I like it."
--Brian Moss, SF Weekly
Another nice review, this time of the White Night/Street Eaters split 7". From Razorcake magazine:
STREET EATERS / WHITE NIGHT:
Split 7”EP White Night: Anaheim. Post Pterodacdudes dudes. It’s like those close-up diagrams of, say, a hair follicle versus looking down at your own arm and looking at all the hair on it at once. Up close, White Night are chock full of tiny pop influences, but growing out of dirty, charming, lo-fi DIY punk rock. Like if FYP had influenced the Beach Boys (instead of visa versa). But on a quick glance from pretty far away, you could just easily say, “Neat band.” Both would be right. Street Eaters: John Geek (Fleshies, Triclops!) and Megan March (Neverending Party) join up as a bass and drums duo. Their songs have a Wire-y space, sparseness, and tremble that has some overlap to Northern California contemporaries Surrender. Broken and asphalty songs with broad-leafed weeds growing through them, even during a Devo cover. Nice. –Todd Taylor (Repulsion)
remember when we played at Gilman together?! so fucking good!! hopefully you can come and hang out with us again at our roadies bday show!!! fuck yeah!!!
once again i would like to thank you for comming all the way out here from berkely so the kids can see yall and have fun. You are amazing musicians and even more amazing people. On behallf of snaggletooth shwag and winona typewriter i'd like to thank you two for being two of the coolest people we've ever shared the stage with. much love<3 , memo and snaggletooth
How's your tour? Are you rawwwwwwwwwwking it I heard Shell & Wade talking about your record...several times haven't actually seen it...ummmpf...we'll find it...you aren't a sucker killer art there sister xo L
damn. this shit is fuckin awesome!!! thanks for the add guys! we should play some shows together! i mean, after all, we live in the east bay too and were DESPERATE for shows!
