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"Straight people they just caint understand how I be rockin' America with this guitar in my hand but I was uh, Born to Rock and like rip shit up, so don't be shocked when your stereo bumps"
Hey, I just wanted to stop by to show you three of our new songs, "Turn Me On," "Almost Famous" and "She's Got It." If you get a chance, we'd love to hear what you think about the music. .. Also, you can now buy thew newest iPhonic songs on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, Napster, and eMusic. Two of the songs ("It's Okay" and "Turn Me On") have never even been released yet! Also, if you get a chance check out the pictures from our recent photo shoot!
steve you impregnated all of us in the waters of lake eerie and now your children are born and are forming a gang in the mold of the knight riders from the first mad max and will storm fenway park to kill david ortiz. fucking thanks
I gots to say the English summer got off to an appalling start what with the downpours throughout the Solstice and the iron gauntlet with which the fuzz chose to police Glastonbury and Avebury. Even for we locals, Avebury was impenetrable as hoards of boys in blue did everything in their power (and more) to keep ye heathens at bay. Instead of hanging at the stones with the revellers, I chose to stay in and get para-munted with The New Lou Reeds’ amazing ‘Bury Me With My Bong’ playing on endless rotation.
In the meantime, one of my favourite albums of the past few months has most certainly been TOP BILLIN’ by Cleveland’s cantankerously named power trio The New Lou Reeds. Quite why such an epic performer as guitarist/singer Stephe DK should have chosen to lumber himself with such a band name is quite beyond me, for the music is unique and entirely uninformed by the Velvets. Imagine a guitar tone shot through with that same low grade gasoline astringency as John Fogerty’s when Creedence were at their most monotonously and monolithically proto-Krautrock (‘Suzie Q’, ‘Pagan Baby’, the second half of ‘Ramble Tamble’), then add a little ornery and perpetually pissed off vocals in the style of TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT-period Neil Young as sent through a ‘Crocus Behemoth’ filter. Finally, add a hefty and inventive rhythm section of solid granite and you approach The New Lou Reeds’ pleasure centres. With TOP BILLIN’, Stephe DK has far surpassed his band’s excellent debut SCREWED, and now just needs to get on the road long enough to hit us with an old style 2LPs per year so as to allow people enough time to fall in love with his obstinacy. He’s a star, brothers’n’sisters, of that I have no doubt. Grab a copy of this slow burner from exitstencilrecordings.com and work at it. We neeeed Stephe DK.
"The first thing you’ve got to realize about Ohio/NY act The New Lou Reeds is that they sound very like Lou Reed… they also don’t sound that ‘new’, so if you totally discount the name altogether you’re likely to get on better with the album itself. They in actual fact offer up a sort of punk version of American bar-room rock, and when I say punk I mean with all the wild abandon of what punk music used to be, not your dribbling highschool posers. This is American music pure and simple, and shouldn’t be attempted without a large swig of bourbon and pocket full of beef jerky. It’s music to love and lose a good woman to, music to drive 18-wheelers to, music to sit on the porch flicking ash on the driveway to, music to drive a stake through the heart of the American dream; and that’s what makes it so damn addictive. Like Fonal records’ Risto, there’s a wild abandon on these recordings that makes you feel that these guys are actually having fun, like they actually want to record damn fine music and get drunk at the same time – and how can we begrudge them that? Turn it up loud and start jiving, by the end of the night you ain’t gonna remember anything anyhow..."
THE NEW LOU REEDS - TOP BILLIN’ – EXIT STENCIL - NYC/Cleveland band led by Stephe DK (Dead Kennedys?) who don’t take themselves too seriously (thank god) and write low-key hooky tunes and decided to take it out of the bedroom and into stadiums COS’ THAT’S WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT ! Who can blame them ? ( www.exitstencilrecordings.com )
HEAR The NEW LOU REEDS live session on my Radio Show -
The Cherry Blossom Clinic on WFMU (NYC/NJ 91.1)
or web wfmu.org this
Sat, SEPT 2 sometime btwn 3-6pm ET!
Sept 2 THE NEW LOU REEDS -
From CLEVELAND, Ohio come The NEW LOU REEDS!
The NEW LOU REEDS feature Cleveland king-rocker Edward Á Sotelo (Cobra Verde, Doug Gillard/GBV) and have a sound that calls to mind 7Ts southern /hard rock and also straight up southern ponk like the Oblivians! They stop by for a live set featuring tracks from their new album Top Billin'!
A little late perhaps, but congrats on reaching the milestone of 666 friends. I'm proud you, my fine heathens. May Satan grant you the boogaloo you've been looking for.
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