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MANIFESTO: 1. Dancing is the primary objective. 2. Cave beats are best. 3. Bass Lines should be quotable. 4. Guitars should be sorcery. 5. Singing is noise. 6. Performances should be worth three times the admission fee. Lookbook are: - Bronco Beeghly - Bass Guitar - Errant Kohl - Voice, Guitars, Peripherals - Tom Tom Thompson - Drums Press"This-a-Way couldn't be off to a better start, with Lookbook's album carving quite a unique path between disco and rock. Shades of goth and krautrock darken what otherwise could sound like vacant dance floor motions, and they do a splendid cover of early U2 B-side "Trash, Trampoline, and The Party Girl" to boot. Lookbook never makes the mistake of sounding too mechanical, and are all the more dance-worthy because of it."- Ned Lannaman (Portland Mercury) "Lookbook's minimalist avant-garde pop can destroy audiences." - Ian Rasmussen (Willamette Week) "It’s a bubbly new wave record loaded with hooks and just the right amount of noise and rock-’n'-roll grime." - Mark Lore (Days Of Lore) "Lookbook has continually turned frigid rock bars into dance clubs with it’s fusion of dance music, krautrock and rock ‘n’ roll (think MGMT, Happy Mondays, Kraftwerk and T.Rex) – a sound captured perfectly on debut record The Look and Feel. - PDX Pipeline "Listening to the new Lookbook record sounds perfect, even on a laptop." - Nathan Junior (M Ward/Mike Coykendall/Sea Wolf) ReleasesPhotosVideos |
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So The Prids didn't form their band last year when they met in college, or 6 months ago
when they met at a show, and this isn't their debut release. It's extremely fair to say
The Prids have been around the block a few times. To keep it short and sweet : David Frederickson (guitars, vocals) and Mistina La Fave (bass, vocals) started their band together over a decade ago in rural Missouri. They released a slew of 7"s,eps, and full lengths. They relocated to several cities before landing in beautiful Portland, OR where they now reside. Also of not is the fact that the two fell in love, were married, were divorced, and yet the band continued on. Maile Arruda (keys) and Lee Zeman (drums) round out The Prids sound. 'Chronosynclastic' is the culmination of the Prids life experiences, song writing, playing, and recording. The result is a stunning collection of down right lovable, off kilter, pop songs. Melancholy in feeling, but moving fast enough to appear happy on the surface. The soaring melodies, and the dual boy / girl vocals is the band's foundation. Then you add in David's perfect guitar hooks (remiiniscent of some of Joey Santiago's famous early Pixies guitar lines), heartfelt lyrics, and the pulsing rhythm section and you come out with songs that you want to hear over and over again. David explains the theme of the record to be "About the passing of time, the perception of time, and the marks that are left on our lives". They site such bands as The Smiths, Unrest, Jesus and Mary Chain, Built to Spill (by the way Doug Marstch of Built to Spill is a fan of the band too, and plays some of his guitar magic on Chronosynclastic), Wire, Sonic Youth, The Vaselines--all as being influences. While some of these influences can be heard, mostly they just sound like The Prids ! We hope you enjoy the new record as much as we do, and by all means go see them at a show and say hi. (they are really nice ! ) The Prids are: - Mistina La Fave - bass + vox - David Frederickson- guitar + vox - Lee Zeman- percussion - Maile Arruda- Keys PressI remember the first time I saw the Prids. I had heard a couple of their songs and thought they were great, but was blown away by the power and intensity of their live show. I was completed enraptured by their set. They are one of the best bands I think I have ever seen and they write some of the best songs I have ever heard. They are continually on my list of shows to go to and albums to get my hands on.- Oliver Ackermann - A Place To Bury Strangers The Prids are not only a really good band but they are also very nice people. They are what is good about independent music. They are getting out there and bringing a unique and worthwhile thing to their audience, this is what it's all about. - Henry Rollins At first I thought The Prids are great cuz they rock so hard, especially Mistina's physical bass playing. Then I got into the way she and David sing together. But after a few year and records I realized that what makes them really special is that they write good songs--lyrically, melodically, rhythmically, and dynamically good songs. - Doug Martsch - Built to Spill The fact that the Prids are not a household name is baffling to me. From the opening notes of 'Back Up Slow', the first Prids song I heard, I fell in love with this band. Not only do they write great songs, a dying art, but they execute them brilliantly time after time. In a world full of disposable music, the Prids rise above and prove once again that good music is timeless and deserves to be heard by as many people as possible. - Scott Ford - Twilight Singers The best thing in the musician world is loving a band's music and meeting them and finding out they are not only wonderful people but forming a long lasting friendship with them. Beautiful people making beautiful music isn't as common as you might think it's a rarity and I am glad The Prids will still fill the world with theirs. - Brett Nelson - Built to Spill The Prids are inspirational. There is no disconnect between the beauty of their music and their character. Whether its their fiercely DIY values, an aesthetic that fuses the ferocity of punk with a harrowing dark romanticism, or their generosity in playing countless benefit shows, they have always stood for something greater than themselves or their songs. They have lived and made music in a way that is fearless and flawless. - Kip Berman - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ReleasesFor The Prids' full discography, go here:http://www.theprids.com/?page=discography PhotosVideos |
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Bicycles, ghosts, coded messages, tape machines. Most of the current tags songs began as a series of dreams. Other draw from lead singer Richard Shirk's ability to happen to be near bizarre events - aside from being on a commuter train that was struck by lightning and later having a waking vision of Joan of Arc (these are within the last six months), he spent a bizarre childhood in the midwest where he lived in a haunted house and had 3 run-ins with what is described in journals of the paranormal as a poltergeist. Three years later outside of Newton, Iowa, he saw a UFO from about a hundred feet away. Along with a penchant for waltz-time, fuzzed out acoustic guitars played through vintage tube amps and non-traditional song structure, all of these things contributed to journalists dubbing our sound 'indie beat.' These songs - which sometimes land between spooky lo-fi folk/psych and the kind of chiming cant-get-outta-your-head tune you might hear on college radio circa 1981 - are narrative, strange vignettes that were sometimes beamed straight from the rock satellite ala 'VALIS.' Soft Tags are: - Richard Shirk (vox, gtr left) - Adam Jones (vox/ rhythm bass, gtr) - Tim Yates (theremin/keys & auxiliary bass) - Gordon Nickel (vox/ drums) - Thomas Bradley Meyers (gtr). Auxiliary Tags: - Christian Hurd (guru, guitar, vox) On leave and back soon: - Paul Notley (bass/gtr) Press"Quick: Name a local band audacious enough to release a double album in the instant gratification era of the MP3? Still thinking, huh. I'm pretty sure that no one outside of Soft Tags, Richard Shirk's quirky Kiwi pop-inspired outfit, would dare something so radical. New joint Mathematical Monsters is split down into two discs, labeled (Birds) and (Elephants), and both sides easily breeze past anything Shirk's ever written before. "Elms" bops along on a faraway organ and perfectly jangly guitar line, coming off like a cross between the Clean and some of the more tuneful lo-fi pop that's become so popular this year. And though the record is still hidden under a slight bed of tape hiss, Mathematical Monsters sees the Tags' taking the natural grandeur, the push-and-pull, of their songs and aiming for something bigger. Shirk's a longtime admirer of the Go-Betweens and here, on nuggets like the hushed "814" and the chugging "Brazil," he comes close to matching their pure pop hooks."- Willamette Week "In the current age of affordable recording software, Soft Tags keep the spirit of lo-fi alive with four-track opuses that gleam like excavated relics. Richard Shirk's vocals occasionally poke their way out of the murky froth like a Pentacostal howler, while chords are bludgeoned with all the subtlety of a battering ram. Live, acoustic guitars are cranked through amplifiers and the drum setup dispenses with cymbals entirely, for a thumping, simplistic groove that will have your foot stomping the earth and your fist unconsciously crushing your can of beer. The flyer for this show boasts an appearance by 'The Optophonic Carousel Lightshow,' which could be promising and "Free Books!" So expect some visuals and some book-learnin' along with your raw, bare-bones, indier-than-indie folk 'n' roll." - Portland Mercury ReleasesPhotosVideos |
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We Miss The Earth are: - Chris Koza: guitar + vox - Christian Hurd: percussion + vox - Mistina La Fave: bass - Ryan Lynn: guitar PressReleasesA New Silent Erareleased 2009 PhotosVideos |
