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StarBenders

starbenders nico constantine Kimi Shelter - lead vox/lead guitar Kyle Gordon - guitar/vox Aaronious Monk - bass Katie Herron - drums 	Institution

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True rock & roll, at its core, lives in that youthful, unjaded space between adolescence and adulthood. Smoking cigarettes behind the bowling alley with your friends. Cruising the suburbs aimlessly for hours blasting your favorite bands because it’s the only thing that makes life bearable. Sneaking out and getting busted by the cops for being at the skatepark after curfew. Awakening to the fact that you’re an outsider, but realizing through the songs you’re listening to that it’s not a bad thing to be.

 

Atlanta band StarBenders’ “blasphemous candy-coated bubblegum punk,” as frontgirl Kimi Shelter calls it, is teenage rebellion, pure and concentrated—the transcendent rock & roll antidote to the suffocating environment that spawned it. “I write from my 14-year-old self,” Shelter says, “and I’m still very in tune with that self because that’s the age when you really start to understand and appreciate music, and it was the age when I started to create myself as I am today. Now, when I write something, I ask myself, ‘If I was 14 and heard this, would I flip my shit over it? If the answer’s yes, I know it’s good enough.”

 

StarBenders’ self-titled debut EP—out this fall on Institution Records—was produced by Nico Constantine (Biters, Coathangers, Lady Gaga), recorded and mixed by Jeff Bakos (The Woggles, MonstrO, GG Allin), and mastered by Jeff Golden (Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Bad Brains). “The new EP represents a very genuine moment for me,” Shelter says. “Everything is coming from this persecuted mind frame—this snotty schoolgirl attitude toward life. Which is autobiographical—I was the little punk kid in a small town. A lot of the songs deal with saying or feeling things that put you on the outside, but then embracing that. And there’s also a sexuality to it—a very animalistic, schoolgirl view of sexuality.”

 

StarBenders formed late in 2013, but for Shelter and drummer Katie Herron, its genesis lies deeper in their past—at a wilderness-therapy camp for troubled kids. Even at her teenage worst, Shelter was pretty innocent—mostly, she just liked being out and around people, listening to music and going to shows. But in the tiny Georgia town where she lived, the police didn’t have much better to do than hassle punk kids. “If you were skateboarding where you shouldn’t be, you got booked,” she says. “If you were under 18 and out past curfew, you got taken to the police station. I was arrested for all kinds of ridiculous shit—stuff like littering. I was arrested five or six times before I was 15.”

 

Terrified her daughter would end up on drugs, Shelter’s recovered-alcoholic ex-flower-child mother was accordingly strict. Herron came from a different and even more austere background, her Dad a Pentecostal tent preacher near Huntsville, Ala.—the kind that lays hands on people, speaking in tongues while they fall backward into ecstatic, near-epileptic fits of salvation.

 

So Shelter’s and Herron’s parents shipped them off to a nature-healing camp in the middle of nowhere to get ’em good and rehabilitated. “The whole troubled-youth industry is big business—and a total crock of bullshit,” Shelter says. “It reminds me of that Suicidal Tendencies song ‘Institutionalized’—’I just wanted a Pepsi, Mom!’ But that camp is where I met Katie, so at least something good came of it. She was fascinating to me—so quiet, but so scrappy. Katie has always been mysterious to me, but at the same time, from the beginning, we had an understanding.”

 

The two made a pact that someday they’d start a rock & roll band together. After they left camp behind, they kept in touch for the rest of high school, visiting each other whenever possible. During college, they went their separate ways, both playing in bands, their musical personalities slowly emerging and evolving until Shelter’s recent rock & roll visions drew them back together in StarBenders. “All of a sudden,” Shelter says, “Katie was right there with me like we were 14 again, being assholes in the wilderness. It’s so rare in life that you actually stand by one of the million things you shouted you were gonna do at that age. I’m so glad Katie’s in this band with me now. She’s a phenomenal drummer, and we’re a dynamic duo in a lot of ways. When we’re out at the bar after a show, we’re like two hyenas in the background, cackling and talking shit.”

 

Shelter and Herron are joined in StarBenders by rhythm guitarist Kyle Gordon and bassist Aaronious Monk. The former they discovered playing with his old band Kill Gordon in Birmingham. (“He captured me when I saw him play,” Shelter says. “He had these really interesting moves—kinda reminded of me of Dex from the Flat Duo Jets.”) And the latter they found outside infamous Atlanta dive the Star Bar after Monk was booted in the wake of a bar fight. “Aaron has this evil  genius thing about him,” Shelter says. “He’s the guy that will come up to you and start talking physics in the middle of a bar. The night we met, he was deep into some argument with this guy about some untouchable topic like religion or politics. After a while, the guy started getting aggressive. Of course, everybody’s looking, and this dude was twice his size, and Aaron was just standing defiantly in front of him still trying to state his point—finally, they come to blows and the bouncer ends up throwing Aaron out. I went to check on him, and he was sitting on the curb smoking a cigarette with a busted lip. I sat down, we started talking and we’ve been friends ever since.

 

“Everybody in the band is a defiant punk,” Shelter says. “Katie. Aaron. And Kyle was a lone wolf, too. That’s why we work so well together. It’s one of those situations where different paths lead to the same place.”

 

And in that place, StarBenders are now making powerful music that conjures the same depth of feeling, newness and electricity that hits you when you’re a wide-eyed kid at your first rock show. Will your 14-year-old self flip over it? Hell yes. It’s that good.

 

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Progarchy reviews Pillage & Plunder’s upcoming debut LP and premieres “I Will Drink the Ocean When I Go There”

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If you have occasional fond thoughts of 90s art rock bands like the Monks of Doom you may also recall, while waxing nostalgic about the dear old 1990s, that there was a golden moment, after the commercial breakthrough of punk/grunge/indie rock in America but before the advent of Napster, when bands that had been toiling in musical nether regions for years finally had their moments in the sun.  The MoD were an offshoot of Camper Van Beethoven, the most palatably inventive American band of the 1980s and early 1990s, and like the great Camper Van approached American prog — delegated generally and unfortunately to the backwater of “jam” band categorization — with a firm belief that dumping every damn thing they could think of into the musical kettle and bringing it all to boil would work.  And it mostly did.  We’re talking about music that went deeply into the spirit of blues and other “ethnic” musics as processed through Roky Erickson, Captain Beefheart and, later, performance art bands like Butthole Surfers and the Flaming Lips, a twisted and distinctly American edge-of-the-frontier wildness that would make a great novel if Cormac McCarthy ever chose to write it.  In the pages of Progarchy I’ve before referenced the spectacular Metal Flake Mother out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, who sailed these same waters and with the same ethic in the 90s, and my notion is that regionally there were many bands following a similar path, nodding to the blues, jazz, European folk, surf guitar, 50s lounge music, Tom Waits, and punk all at the same time, as if the real guitar heroes in the room were Django Reinhardt, Marc Ribot, Dick Dale, and Sonny Sharrock.  In the post-punk pre-internet age, these bands sold records, sometimes lots of records, and could sustain careers lasting, well, months.

Pillage and Plunder brought this short-lived and extremely satisfying era to life when I spun up their new record, The Show Must Go Wrong, for the first time.  Mixing an eclectic take on Belew-era Crimson with an Esquivel-via-Cake loungeyness, Pillage and Plunder map a journey that’s less highway than exit ramps, and across its 35 minutes The Show Must Go Wrong takes every possible detour, sightseeing on the outskirts of modern music.  The breathtakingly inventive “Beetlejuice” opens the record, with its furious and metallic nod to prime Oingo Boingo, and with “Boogeyman” the music maintains its carnival-esque darkness, backed by big riffs and chops.  “How Did It Come To This?” follows, and the album turns in mood, which got me to thinking that the precocious musicianship here on display presents a problem for Pillage and Plunder, though it’s not a bad problem to have: while the songs are composed and concise (a big plus), as an album The Show Must Go Wrong comes at times dangerously close to living up to its title, as it suffers at points from a lack of curatorial will in favor of showcasing musical dexterity, favoring breadth over depth.  So the promise of sideways-tilting, reach-deep, dark humor at the top of the album — and revisited in such songs as the excellent “Moocow” and “Nutcracker” — turns into an occasionally studied oddball-ness as the record unfolds.  But it’s a small complaint for the kind of record this is supposed to be, not to mention that the songs have a way of turning themselves into earworms that simply will not leave the head and hum alone.  Check for instance, “I Will Drink The Ocean When I Go There,” which premieres here on Progarchy: LISTEN HERE…

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The Head featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution… catch them this month in Georgia Shakespeare’s production of Tony Award-winning play One Man, Two Guvnors

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At 22, the members of Atlanta trio the Head might seem like unlikely candidates to play ’60s mod rockers in the vein of the Beatles. The group’s members — twin brothers Jack and Mike Shaw and their childhood friend Jacob Morrell — were born nearly three decades after the Beatles released their first album, 1963’s “Please Please Me.” READ MORE…

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Glide magazine premieres the title track of City Tribes forthcoming release Undertow

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San Francisco-based City Tribe is prepping to release their debut album Undertow on July 29. Glide Magazine is proud to premiere the new single and title track from the project.

“Undertow” opens with a hypnotic, relentless line in a minor key, signaling something ominous, something foreboding – a warning call, which is then joined by a haunting vocal line drenched in reverb. But after a minute of this intense buildup, the wall of sound, propelled by a warm bass-line, crashes into major key and all of a sudden it’s as if the sun has appeared behind a thick screen of clouds.

City Tribe’s four members all hail from California, which is readily apparent in these songs. That laid-back, cheerful vibe infuses their debut album with buoyant confidence; however, what makes a song like “Undertow” so compelling is their interest in playing traditional California beach music against the moody, alt/indie sounds of the 90s and 2000s. It’s this tension and aesthetic unison that gives these tracks such depth, and demonstrate the band’s already well-honed hand at songwriting. LISTEN HERE…

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USA TODAY says that they “can’t get enough of these Nashville rockers,” and that everyone should “start getting into The Wans now before the rest of the country catches on…”

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The Wans. I can’t get enough of these Nashville rockers, who have been previewing tracks from their upcoming album (out Sept. 9) on several sites all week. Start getting into them now before the rest of the country catches on … READ MORE HERE…

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Flavorwire premieres “Tired” from The Wans upcoming debut LP, saying that they “mix the well-trodden influences of Black Sabbath and Jimmy Page, combining them with grunge’s most thrashing elements, and ending up somewhere between Queens of the Stone Age and The Dead Weather.”

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Nashville has no shortage of promising rock bands, but The Wans are one to keep an eye out for well outside of Music City. Hell, you may have heard them already: they’ve opened for Pearl Jam and Beck, and been featured on a number of TV shows and sporting events (including, yes, Nashville).

On the band’s debut album, He Said, She Said (out September 9 and produced by alt-country’s new favorite producer, Dave Cobb), they mix the well-trodden influences of Black Sabbath and Jimmy Page, combining them with grunge’s most thrashing elements, and ending up somewhere between Queens of the Stone Age and the Dead Weather. Flavorwire is pleased to premiere “Tired,” a cut from He Said, She Said in which unrelenting percussion reiterates singer Simon Kerr’s frustrated scream. LISTEN HERE…

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