Hunter Darby, Mike McCoy, Andy Thomas, Robbie Araiza, Julie Lowery, Travis Garaffa
Influences
Doug Allen, Bela Bartok, Blondie, The Buzzcocks, Jimmy Carter, Sri Chinmoy, Sally Crewe, Graham Coxon, Jennings Crawford, The Fall, The Feelies, Woodie Guthrie, Pulp, Ricky Skaggs, Jimmy Webb, X, 2 Live Crew
Sounds Like
NEW REVIEW for the "Babies" http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2008/11/28/cd_review_the_service_industry_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_austin_music_source
from the Austin Chronicle; February 14th, 2008:
Texas Platters
BY GREG BEETS
The Service Industry
Limited Coverage (Sauspop)
The most remarkable thing about the Service Industry is that no one did it sooner. With all the kitchen-bred musicians in Austin, it's high time a band coalesced around the plight of beleaguered day-jobbers. Following last year's restaurant-centric debut, Ranch Is the New French, the local pop collective emerges as a leaner, meaner, Middle American music machine fueled by a more generalized brand of occupational dread. As frontman Mike McCoy drolly depicts death by 1,000 paper cuts on "Now Wake Up and Die," Julie Lowery's melancholic backing vocals give the would-be anthem a palpable hint of grace. "Have to Go to Work" hits like a prison work song reimagined by Cheap Trick, while "Hollywood out of Austin" cheekily excoriates the VIP puffery of certain celluloid transients. Throw in a swell cover of the Undertones' "You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It?)," and you've got the pitch-perfect soundtrack for your next union potluck.
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Hey look at this everybody!!! http://www.txmusic.com/cdreviews/2008/04/the-service-industry
Formed in the summer of 2005,various members of underrated musical projects based out of Austin, Texas and Lawrence, Kansas vented their hatred of working in service industry jobs into a poisonous tirade against the American classes who demand extra salad dressing and flawless table service with their debut album, 'Ranch Is The New French" in October of 2006. Having just finished their follow up 'Limited Coverage', which features the wonderfully inventive guitar stylings of Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets, The Service Industry still delivers well crafted dirt pop and intense, unsettling live shows where the old motto "the customer is always right" has no meaning.
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Hello The Service Industry. Here's what's happening on Saturday 25th July at The Red Rooms...
£4/£3NUS 8pm - 11pm
FOLLOWED BY...
This SATURDAY at Newcastles best Back Alley ClubNight!
Expect to hear a charmingly random selection, including the likes of the following.
MGMT, The Specials, Prince, The Kinks, Crystal Castles, David Bowie, Prodigy, Blur, Hot Chip, The Smiths, Daft Punk, The Cure, Friendly Fires, The Beatles, Human League, Led Zep, The Clash, Oasis, Depeche Mode, The Streets, Stevie Wonder, Kasabian, Sister Sledge, CSS, Beastie Boys, Kings Of Leon, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, Calvin Harris, The Stone Roses, Green Day, Jay Z, Duran Duran, T Rex, Detroit Social Club, James Brown, AC/DC, Shiny Toy Guns, The Who, The Chemical Bros., Maximo Park, ABC, Chic, Roxy Music, Blondie, Supergrass, Adam & The Ants, Queen, The Coral, Bloc Party, Justice, Tom Jones, Mystery Jets, Pulp, MIA, The Libertines, De La Soul, The Cribs, Erasure, Primal Scream, Curtis Mayfield, Snoop Dogg, Girls Aloud, Jimi Hendrix, Gossip, Verve, Joy Division, The Jam, The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Pink Floyd, Kanye West, The Charlatans, The Supremes, Kraftwerk, Talking Heads...
PLEASE NOTE NEW REVENGE PRICES: £3 b4 11.30 £5 after £4 NUS/Guestlist
Drinks from £2.00
REDROOMS is situated above The Blackett Arms, near Grainger Market, Monument.
The Service Industry will be featured on this weekend’s “Road Trip” episode of Undiscovered, airing 6/28.
Listen on: KBRE in Merced, California; WHBR in Parkersburg, West Virginia; WAMX in Huntington/Ashland, West Virginia; WAQX in Syracuse, New York; and WTFX in Louisville, Kentucky Three of our affiliates stream their signal on-line so you can hear the show from anywhere (links on our website)
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The Service Industry will be featured again on this weekend’s episode of Undiscovered, airing 6/14.
Listen on: KBRE in Merced, California; WOSC in Salisbury, Maryland; WHBR in Parkersburg, West Virginia; WAMX in Huntington/Ashland, West Virginia; WAQX in Syracuse, New York; and WTFX in Louisville, Kentucky Four of our affiliates stream their signal on-line so you can hear the show from anywhere (links on our website)
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The Service Industry will be featured on this weekend’s "Taste of Texas" episode of Undiscovered, airing 6/7.
You can catch the show on: KBRE in Merced, California; WOSC in Salisbury, Maryland; WHBR in Parkersburg, West Virginia; WAMX in Huntington/Ashland, West Virginia; WAQX in Syracuse, New York; and WTFX in Louisville, Kentucky Four of our affiliates stream their signal on-line so you can hear the show from anywhere (links on our website)
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