2011
Gringo Star and Miniboone played the Rocks Off! Boat Cruise in New York City last week. Our photographer Patrick Eves HippieDeathBed.com was there to get some really cool shots of both bands. Check them out below:
Gringo Star
Miniboone
Gringo Star and Miniboone played the Rocks Off! Boat Cruise in New York City last week. Our photographer Patrick Eves HippieDeathBed.com was there to get some really cool shots of both bands. Check them out below:
Gringo Star
Miniboone
Brooklyn’s MiniBoone has just released a 7″ picture disc with “The Other Summer” and “Fight Song”. It’s the band’s follow up to their January 2010 debut Big Changes EP. They just hit the road and are playing SXSW and Denton’s 35 Conferette amongst other shows.
Buy MiniBoone The Other Summer/Fight Song 7″ (Drug Front Records) at: http://miniboone.bandcamp.com
MiniBoone’s Road to Tacos Tour
3/03 Baltimore MD | The Golden West
3/04 Charlottsville VA | The Box
3/05 Norfolk VA | The Taphouse in Ghent
3/06 Richmond VA | The Camel
3/07 Knoxville TN | Preservation Pub
3/08 Nashville TN | The 5 Spot
3/09 Asheville NC | Lexington Avenue Brewery
3/11 Denton TX | 35 Conferette
3/13 Houston TX | Super Happy Fun Land
SXSW
3/15 TUE @ noon | Emos Austin: Gigmaven Showcase
3/16 WED @ 4:30pm | Fado Irish Pub: Beyond Race Showcase
3/17 THURS @ 5pm | The Eastern: Austin Psych-Fest 4
3/18 FRI @ 5pm | The Juju Photo Factory: HOPE Fundraiser
3/19 SAT @ 1pm | Your Mom’s Burgers: Strike Team Agency Showcase
3/20 Atlanta GA | The Five Spot
Over the course of a year and a half, MiniBoone has made Brooklyn their own personal protectorate, decimating human audiences while twisting melodies and swinging instruments wildly above their heads. With three rotating front-men and a rhythm section made of angry rotating swords, they channel the mechanical abandon of Devo while evoking the lyrical resonance and emotional power of Springsteen.
The distinctive brand of American-strange rock and roll formed from this mixture may be at odds with the prevailing lo-fi strains emanating from New York City these days, but it has won them converts of everyone from the Village Voice to NPR. Since January 2010’s Big Changes EP (Drug Front Records), The L Magazine bestowed upon them the prestigious title of one of the “8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear” in April, and the video for their can-you-be-in-a-hardcore-band-and-still-like-Kylie-Minogue standout “Cool Kids Cut Out of the Heart Itself” was featured on the first episode of the Flavorpill Fix. Live, MiniBoone is a genuine thrill, and has displayed its explosion of sentient energy at Northside Festival, Brooklyn Bowl, Mercury Lounge, and the Rocks Off Concert Cruise Ship amongst many others.
Now MiniBoone is adding more fuel to the fire with two new 7” records to be released in the upcoming months. The first single, to be released in December on Drug Front Records, includes “The Other Summer,” an exhaustingly frenetic Andrew W.K. “hiding on the backstreets” opus, and ”Fight Song,” an immaculate specimen of fractured pop glory. Concert goers will be able to preview these new songs when the band returns to stages across New York City during CMJ and points north and south of the city soon after.
As the world’s youth continue to define their existence against the ideas of love and confusion, MiniBoone hope to provide a suitable soundtrack.
FULL CMJ SCHEDULE
10/20 WED @ 9:00pm | Gigmaven Showcase @ National Underground
10/22 FRI @ 8:00pm | Whitesmith Entertainment Showcase @ Otto’s Shrunken Head
10/22 FRI @ 9:30pm | RethinkPopMusic/TheAudioPerv Showcase @ Crash Mansion
10/23 SAT @ 7:00pm | Showcase @ Parkside Lounge
10/23 SAT @ 10:15pm | Deli Magazine Official CMJ Showcase @ Spike Hill
10/23 SAT @ midnight | AMI Entertainment Showcase @ Ace of Clubs
Listen/Download “The Other Summer”
PRESS
The studio session for Big Changes sounds like it was fueled by an endless supply of energy drinks. MiniBoone recreates that frenzied feeling with every gig. The band’s members dance recklessly on and around the stage, tripping over wires and crashing into each other as they pummel the microphones. Despite MiniBoone’s wacky performances however, it takes serious skill to rock like they do.” -NPR All Songs Considered
“MiniBoone is a breath of fresh air: The songs on their debut EP, Big Changes, burst at the seams with a frantic energy that hasn’t really been prevalent around here since, god, maybe Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.” -L Magazine’s “8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear”
“The band mixes the dervish energy of ‘78-era post-punk with the super-hooks of modern indie-pop—think Buildings And Food-era Talking Heads if David Byrne could travel back in time and tell himself about Arcade Fire.” -Christopher Weingarten, Village Voice
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It’s your favorite time of year in New York. Fall, hell no. CMJ! We’re thrilled to announce that we’re partnering up with RethinkPopMusic to bring you an OFFICIAL CMJ SHOWCASE on Friday October 22nd at Crash Mansion. We have a STELLAR lineup of TWELVE BANDS. The show is FREE to CMJ badgeholders, $10 to everyone else UNLESS you RSVP at http://www.rpm-rsvp.com/ which will allow you to buy tickets for only $5!
Check out the lineup below and head over to the Facebook event page or check out the flyer for full event info.
Oh YEAH! OPEN BAR FROM 6-7PM ALL WELL DRINKS! Friday October 22nd, we’ll see you there!
6:00pm The Vanguard
http://www.myspace.com/theavanguardatmyspace
6:30pm Emily Long
http://www.myspace.com/emilylongrocks
7:00pm The Xcerts
http://www.myspace.com/thexcerts
7:30pm Penrose http://www.myspace.com/thepenrosemusic
8:00pm Holy Boys Danger Club
http://www.myspace.com/holyboysdangerclub
8:45pm Reckless Sons
http://www.myspace.com/recklesssons
9:30pm Miniboone
http://www.myspace.com/minibooneband
10:15pm The Aviation Orange
http://www.myspace.com/theaviationorange
11:00pm Young Mammals
http://youngmammals.com/
11:45pm The Yes Way
http://www.myspace.com/theyesway
12:30am Heypenny
http://www.myspace.com/heypenny
1:15am The Chaotic Good
http://www.myspace.com/thechaoticgoodmusic