Revolver Guide To Sled Island Festival.

THURSDAY JUNE 21ST
BABY DEE @ Ironwood Stage & Grill, set time 12:00 AM

HOT SNAKES @ Dickens, set time 12:00 AM

TERRY MALTS @ The Palomino, set time 11:00

REIGNING SOUND @ Republik, set time 11:30 PM


FRIDAY JUNE 22ND
BABY DEE @ The Palomino, set time 11:00 AM

REIGNING SOUND @ # 1 Legion Downstairs, set time 12:00 AM

THE STRANGE BOYS @ Broken City, set time 1:00 AM

TERRY MALTS @ # 1 Legion Downstairs, set time 11:00 PM


SATURDAY JUNE 23RD
BABY DEE @ # 1 Legion Downstairs, set time 10:00 PM

THE STRANGE BOYS @ Dickens, set time 12:30 AM

Revolver Related Shows This Week (5/7 - 5/13)

MONDAY MAY 7TH
DIRTY BEACHES - Northampton    MA    Iron Horse    w/ Xiu Xiu       
LA OTRACINA - Bremen    DE    Stubnitz           
SIC ALPS - Cologne    DE    King Georg           
MARK SULTAN - Denver    CO    Hi-Dive           
UNSANE - Dallas    TX    Trees     w/ The Melvins
   
TUESDAY MAY 8TH   
ALLO DARLIN'- San Francisco     CA    Rickshaw Stop           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Pawtucket    RI    The Met   
COLOSSAL YES -     San Francisco     CA    Hemlock Tavern   
DIRTY BEACHES - Portland    ME    SPACE Gallery     w/ Xiu Xiu       
JUCIFER - Geneva    CH    Le Kab Usine           
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Toronto    ON    Silver Dollar            
TY SEGALL - Minneapolis    MN    7th Street Entry     w/ White Fence        
SIC ALPS - Paris    FR    La Mecanique Ondulatoire           
STRANGE BOYS, THE - Nashville    TN    The End            
UNSANE - Santa Fe    NM    Santa Fe Brewing Company    w/ The Melvins               
ZOMES - Miami Beach    FL    The Fillmore Miami Beach     w/ Beach House

WEDNESDAY MAY 9TH       
A STORM OF LIGHT- Berlin    DE    Berghain    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Chico     CA    Origami Lounge           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - New York    NY    Irving Plaza           
DIRTY BEACHES - Montreal    QC    La Sala Rossa    w/ Xiu Xiu       
LA OTRACINA - Stockholm    SE    Mother           
TY SEGALL - Madison    WI    High Noon Saloon     w/ White Fence        
SIC ALPS - Lille    FR    La Malterie           
SPITS, THE - Goteborg    SE    Truck Stop Alaska            
STRANGE BOYS, THE - Bloomington    IN    The Bishop            
UNSANE - Santa Ana    CA    Galaxy Concert Theatre     w/ The Melvins               
ZOMES - Orlando    FL    Beacham Theater     w/ Beach House

THURSDAY MAY 10TH       
A STORM OF LIGHT     - Leipzig    DE    Conne Island    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Portland     OR     Mississippi Studios            
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Boston    MA    Paradise           
JUCIFER - Prague    CZ    Klub Final            
LA OTRACINA - Goteborg    SE    Koloni           
PURLING HISS - Fayetteville    AR    Arkansas Music Pavilion     w/ Wilco       
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Detroit    MI    Lager House             
TY SEGALL - Chicago    IL    Lincoln Hall    w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys        
SPITS, THE - Stockholm    SE    Vielles Montagnes                   
MARK SULTAN - Brooklyn    NY    Knitting Factory           
TERRY MALTS - San Francisco    CA    Slim's           
TORCHE - Chapel HIll    NC    Local 506               
ZOMES - Jacksonville    FL    Free Bird Live     w/ Beach House   

FRIDAY MAY 11TH   
A STORM OF LIGHT - Prague    CZ    Lucerna Music Bar    w/ Sleep       
ALLO DARLIN' - Seattle     WA    The Vera Project      
BLACK TWIG PICKERS - Birmingham    AL    Secret Stages Festival           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Baltimore    MD    Sonar           
DASH RIP ROCK - Macon    GA    Hummingbird Bar & Taproom           
DIRTY BEACHES - Ottawa    ON    Mavericks     w/ Xiu Xiu       
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Asheville    NC    Emerald Lounge    w/ Barreracudas       
JUCIFER - Halle    DE    Reilstrasse 78            
LA OTRACINA - Copenhagen    DK    Mayhem           
PURLING HISS - Birmingham    AL    Sloss Furnaces            
PYGMY LUSH - Philadelphia    PA    First Unitarian/Side Chapel           
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Cleveland    OH    Horrible Fest

TY SEGALL - Detroit    MI    Lager House     w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys              
SULTAN, MARK - New Haven    CT    Cafe 9           
TORCHE - Atlanta    GA    5 2 9        
ZOMES - Birmingham    AL    The Bottletree     w/ Beach House

SATURDAY MAY 12TH           
BLACK LIPS    5/12    Atlanta    GA    Terminal West at King Plow Arts Center           
BLACK TWIG PICKERS - Birmingham    AL    Secret Stages Festival           
BURNING IMAGE - Bakersfield    CA    Riley's Backstage           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Harrisburg    PA    The Abbey Bar           
DIRTY BEACHES - Toronto    ON    Lee's Place     w/ Xiu Xiu       
DUCKTAILS - New York    NY    Terminal 5            
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Washington    DC    Black Cat    w/ Barreracudas       
NATE HALL - Johnson City    TN    The Hideaway    Record Release Show       
JUCIFER - Berlin    DE    Magnet Club           
LA OTRACINA - Malmo    SE    Get Daun Festival           
MV & EE - Jamaica Plain    MA    The Whitehaus           
PURLING HISS - Jackson    MS    Thalia Mara Hall            
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Chicago    IL    Empty Bottle           
TY SEGALL - Toronto    ON    Horseshoe Tavern    w/ White Fence, The Strange Boys        
SPITS, THE - Aarhus    DK    Woxhall               
MARK SULTAN - Boston    MA    PA's Lounge           
TORCHE - Orlando    FL    Will's Pub               
ZOMES - Athens    GA    The Georgia Theatre     w/ Beach House

SUNDAY MAY 13TH           
CHRISSY MURDERBOT - Buffalo    NY    Soundlab           
GENTLEMAN JESSE - Brooklyn    NY    Knitting Factory    w/ Barreracudas       
JUCIFER - Slupsk    PO    Motor Rock Club           
MV & EE - Brooklyn    NY    285 Kent    Record Release Show       
QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT - Milwaukee    WI    Cactus Club           
TY SEGALL - Montreal    QC    IL Motore             
SPITS, THE - Venice    IT    Guilty Boat Party                    
ZOMES - Asheville    NC    Orange Peel     w/ Beach House

Burger Boogaloo Happening In SF This Weekend.

The Strange Boys, The Cuts, White Mystery, Sir Lord Von Raven, King Lollipop, Tough Shits and others performing at Thee Parkside this weekend.

Revolver Guide To SXSW 2012 - Tuesday March 13th.

MARCH 13TH
CLOUDLAND CANYON  
Party - Monofonus presents @ Beerland, set time 12:15 AM

COLEMAN, JOHN WESLEY  
Party - Monofonus presents @Beerland, set time 10:55 PM

DASH RIP ROCK  
Showcase - TheconneXtion @ Frank, set time 12:00 AM -12:40 AM

DEAR, MATTHEW  
Showcase - Pitchfork @ Mohawk - Patio, set time 1:00 AM - 1:40 AM

OH SEES, THEE  
Party - Panache SXSW Preview Party @ Scoot Inn, set time 12:45 AM

PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT  
Party - NiNXSxSWSxSXNiN: Escapes XIV @ Club 1808, set time 1:00 AM

RUSTED SHUT
Pary - Presented by: SXSW Music: FREE Opening Night Party @ The Jr., set time 9:00 PM

SOLE  
Party - Indie512 Unofficial SXSW Hip Hop Showcase @ The 512 Bar, set time 10:15 PM

STRANGE BOYS, THE  
Party - Jansport presents Bands and a Bonfire under the Big Sky @ Mohawk

TYCHO
Showcase - Pitchfork @ Mohawk, set time 11:30

WHITE FENCE  
Party - Panache SXSW Preview Party @ Scoot Inn, set time 11:45 PM

WHITE MYSTERY
Party - Rock 'n Roll Riverboat @ Lady Bird Lake  
Party -  BleachOnline.com/Fanatic Promotion @ Beauty Bar, set time 1:00 AM

Ty Segall, White Fence, Tomorrows Tulips & Strange Boys Playing Burgerama.

Bruise Cruise Kick-Off Party Flyer.

Rev Bands Playing Bruise Cruise.

Amazingly enough quite a few Revolver bands will be part of the first Bruise Cruise happening February 25th through 28th 2011. In The Red and Goner recording artists performing include; The Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Strange Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Quintron and Miss Pussycat. The cruise will include multiple concerts at sea, an island party in Nassau, Bahamas, open-bar cocktail parties, and a soul dance-off. Good times on the high seas.

Bruise Cruise - The Strange Boys from BRUISE CRUISE FEST on Vimeo.

A Strange Boys Track For You.

Magnet Mag.com has taken the liberty to post 'Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up' by the Texas garage youngsters Strange Boys. Give it a listen HERE.

The Boys have been touring hard this Spring/Summer. Their epic journey across North American is winding down over the following week. Remaining West Coast dates are with the Coathangers:

07/02 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern (w/ The Coathangers)
07/03 San Jose, CA @ Nickel City Arcade (w/ The Coathangers)
07/06 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah (w/ The Coathangers)
07/07 Tucson, AZ @ Plush (w/ The Coathangers)
07/09 Lubbock, TX @ Bash Riprocks (w/ The Coathangers)
07/10 Dallas, TX @ The Lounge (w/ The Coathangers)
07/11 Austin, TX @ Stubb's BBQ (w/ Spoon, Atlas Sound)

Strange Boys 3 Star Rolling Stone Review.

Upcoming Strange Boys live dates:
04/08 Asheville, NC @ Th New French Bar
04/09 Tuscaloosa, AL @ Egan's
04/10 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
06/05 Denton, TX @ Rubbergloves (w/ Mika Miko)
06/06 Austin, TX @ Mohawk (w/ Mika Miko)
06/07 Houston, TX @ Numbers (w/ Mika Miko)
06/08 New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar (w/ Mika Miko)
06/10 Greensboro, NC @ University of NC (w/ Mika Miko)
06/11 Washington, DC @ Comet Pizza & Ping Pong (w/ Mika Miko)
06/12 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head (w/ Mika Miko, The Death Set)
06/13 Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel (w/ Mika Miko)
06/14 New York, NY @ Cake Shop (w/ Mika Miko)
06/15 Philadelphia, PA @ Danger Danger Gallery (w/ Mika Miko)
06/16 Worcester, MA @ Ralph's Diner (w/ Mika Miko)
06/18 Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
06/20 Columbus, OH @ Bourbon St. (w/ Mika Miko)
06/22 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen (w/ Mika Miko)
06/23 Minneapolis, MN @ First-Avenue (w/ Mika Miko)
06/24 Iowa City, IA @ Public Space 1 (w/ Mika Miko)
06/25 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall (w/ Mika Miko)
06/26 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive (w/ Mika Miko)
06/27 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court (w/ Mika Miko)
06/29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell (w/ Mika Miko)

It's Time For Revolver USA Podcast #16.

Listen to over thirty minutes of music and babble as Uli & Potsie venture into new releases by: Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Seeland, Syntheme, Astral Social Club, Phantom Limbs, Cobalt, Strange Boys, Odd Nosdam and Peter Walker on Revolver USA Podcast #16. You can stream or download an AAC file of this podcast and all other Revolver podcasts at the Revolver pod-page: http://www.midheaven.com/audio/podcast/

Get To Know The Strange Boys Via Dusted.com

Every January Dusted runs their annual Destined series in which they select ten artists to watch over in the coming year. Second to last chosen for 2009 was In The Red's new signing The Strange Boys. Here's your chance to get to know the boys.

Dusted’s Nate Knaebel profiles the Austin garage band and Destined selection Strange Boys.
Destined: The Strange Boys

The Austin-via-Dallas based Strange Boys are a young garage rock act whose loose, somewhat rootsy approach to the style brings to mind the old Doug Sahm adage “you just can’t live in Texas / If you don’t have a lot of soul.” The Strange Boys blend Nuggets garage, punk, R&B, blues and country without getting pinned down by any one of those styles. It’s as if those terms are used only as vehicle to create a musical feeling rather than a particular genre.

Formed as a punk band by guitarist/singer/songwriter Ryan Sambol and drummer Matt Hammer while the two were only in 8th grade, the Strange Boys have actually been making recordings for almost as long. It was with their 2007 Nothing EP on Dusty Medical, however, that the band truly came into its own. Despite their age (the majority of the band is just barely past 21, with Sambol’s older brother Philip coming in at the comparatively ancient age of 25), the Strange Boys generate a creaky jangle that sounds like it should be coming from a collection of old souls rather than guys barely in their second decade of living. Yet the Strange Boys aren’t a bunch of outsider savants who happened upon their style accidentally. As devoted music listeners, the Boys have done their homework. “You listen to a New York Dolls record in high school. “Pills,” the rock & roll nurse. Then you hear the Bo Diddley version,” explains Sambol. “You go from New York City in the 1970s to Chicago in the 1950s. Then you find out what Bo was listening to in Chicago. You just keep going back and back. And the further back you go the more sincere you get.”

There is a notable authenticity to the group’s sound that presumably comes in part from an interest in the past, however, the Strange Boys aren’t exactly retro fetishists either. It was with the arrival of Greg Enlow to the band around 2006 that they began to see themselves in more of a current context. “Greg introduced us to a lot of new stuff. King Khan & BBQ, Greg Cartwright stuff… the Reigning Sound, Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers. I didn’t know anything like that was going on as a songwriter,” says Sambol. “They all made me say, Oh shit! and feel a lot better about things. You don’t have to be in 1959 to do this.”

Sambol also notes the influence of the Black Lips. “We learned a lot from them,” he says. “A lot of bands around us took themselves so seriously. The problem is when the music comes off like it’s more important than it really is. You’d see the Black Lips playing and they were smiling. It changes the vibe of things when the musicians on stage look like they’re having fun.”

But where the Black Lips sound entirely of these times, marinating their retro tendencies with Gangsta Grillz swagger, the Strange Boys evoke a sound not unlike that heard on Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, or at least a younger garage punk version of that album. That’s not to say the Strange Boys recall the Old Weird America, or the new one for that matter, yet both the Strange Boys and Dylan (and the Band) work a similar kind of magic, the end result being a rock ‘n’ roll sound plucked from numerous influences yet utterly unto itself. In the case of the Strange Boys, however, the Nuggets box set replaces Harry Smith’s Anthology as a blue print.

While the band’s musical scholarship is undeniable, one would be wise to avoid pinpointing a particular influence. “A band can make a whole career out of sounding like Radiohead, and no one says anything,” Sambol points out. “But when a band tries to go through someone that’s maybe easier to poke at – the Kinks or Dylan – people desperately want to reference it.” Touché.

While Sambol noted that he one day hopes to outgrow any influences, the band’s official debut full-length, The Strange Boys and Girls Club, already finds the band standing solidly on its own. It’s the sound of high school dances stomped out on gymnasium floors long since abandoned; cold nights and warm whiskey; bad decisions and trouble. The jangling guitars are punctuated with strategic bursts of fuzz; the drums provide a laconic shuffling rhythm that pushes the band along just so without ever rushing things. Sambol’s strained bleat sounds simultaneously desperate and elated. The album’s recording history, however, is a somewhat tumultuous one, despite the album’s almost insouciant feel.

Jay Reatard, an early champion of the band who helped get them signed to In the Red Records after seeing them live, actually recorded the original version of the record. The final album, however, comprises recordings made in an abandon liquor store with collaborator Orville Neley, who also recorded the Nothing EP, in Denton, Texas. About the process of recording And Girls Club, Sambol says, “There was definitely a comfort level with Orville. By the time we went to Orville’s, the tracks were old. At Jay’s, the tracks were fresh and the clock was ticking.

“It’s difficult to go somewhere and record with someone, and just because two people like each other’s music that doesn’t mean it’s always very good when you put it together. But what it comes down to is, we didn’t give him good enough tracks. If we did the tracks the way we did at Orville’s, we could have had a great record.” But as Sambol notes, “Jay’s cool with it, he wants the best record. And for someone who records everything himself, he understands that someone else wants to do what they want to do.”

Regardless of who the band records with, much of the quality of the Strange Boys music can be attributed to their commitment to a sound and finding that sound in the most natural way. “It’s really about playing the way you want to be heard. There are plenty of studios where you can do anything in. There were things in my head that I wanted to hear. You can get in trouble in a studio that way. You want to hear something that’s impossible to get. You have to accept what you’re getting and make it sound unique. If you don’t play something cool, it’s not going to sound cool.”

By Nate Knaebel