Here’s a fun game. Find a new indie rock band, gather your friends, put the new indie band’s album on the gramaphone, turn it up to 11 and then try to shout the influences of said indie band over the din at your friends. First one to hoarse wins.
So let’s try it. Download the first song below. It’s by a band called Tapes ‘n Tapes from their new album The Loon.
Ready? Go! PIXIES! Uuhhh..uhh..... TALKING HEADS! Uhhh…hmmm… VIOLENT FEMMES?! Uhmm....... uhhhhh..... PAVEMENT!
Ok, that’s enough. I SAID, THAT’S . . . enough. Fun game, huh?
Well, that would be Tapes ‘n Tapes in a nutshell if you think you can fit a band into such a tight space – literally or figuratively. They are this month’s hippest Internets buzz band. Which is kind of strange when you learn that they are from Minnesota. But I guess with a state population of 5 million, at least three people have to be able to write some verycatchy, fairly danceable, albeit slightly off kilter rock and roll that could set the Internets on fire.
Website: Here
Buy: Online Here
Stuff to Sample: From Tapes ‘n Tapes' new album The Loon “Cowbell†“Insistor†and “Omahaâ€
Note: Earlier in the post I said Tapes n' Tapes was made up of three guys. Well, if you read that and then looked at the photo and wondered where I learned to count, I must congratulate you for paying attention. You are very astute. T n' T started as three guys and a drum machine (a portable CD player) but things just didn't work out with the drum machine so they got a real live drum machine.
I bet I could kick the shit out of those cats. They look like wimps. Wimps! I'll smear their white Minnesota asses all over the Twin Cities and then banish them to the nether regions of Canada.
Die Tapes 'n' Tapes, just fucking DIE.
Wow. Angry Wookie Alert!
What's got you so perturbed?
[1] wimps, really??? i think they look like a bunch of hotsicles. i purchased the entire album based on their looks alone.
I'm sick of this wimpy 'my feelings got hurt' geek indie-rock. I want some balls-to-the-wall gimme a bottle of whiskey and 50 blonde bitches with big titties and a pack of Marlboro Reds gut-busting rock and roll!
ROOOOOOOOAWWWRRRSDFSTG!!!?#$?@#$
[4] We all want that type of Rock and Roll, unfortunately, since the end of the Cold War, the government has changed the chemicals in the water and now all we get is geeky indie rock.
If you want rock and roll like the days of old, then you should run for president and drug the American people accordingly.
[4] i agree. get back to the days when sex, drugs & rocknroll meant just that. people were way over the top. they took more uppers than downers. they took drugs that allowed you to die & still come back to life. the drugs these days, they make you die and stay dead. that's no way to party. the only person i know who can be dead & party is bernie. and we aint no bernie!
[4] werd up. give me slayer over this wimp rock any day.
666 bitches.