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03/14/08 Sub Pop SXSW showcase, Austin TX
04/05/08 Empty Bottle, Chicago IL 04/11/08 Knitting Factory Club, New York City NY 04/12/08 Tufts University, Medford MA 04/12/08 Middle East, Cambridge MA 04/13/08 People's Center, New Haven CT 04/18/08 Belvedere's, Pittsburgh PA 04/19/08 Soundlab, Buffalo NY Discography
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Well, my original intention for my second article was to get into one of several punk or metal bands that whose records have been spending a lot of time on my turntable lately, but I've decided that they can wait, in favor of a band whose songs have been the victims of numerous drunken singalongs involving my friends and I.
And that's exactly the kind of band they are. Droning guitars, slow rhythms, and utterly hilarious lyrics about the absurdities of all the mundane things in life, from sexual frustration to joggers to scrapbooking to eating ice cream when you're depressed. Their newest album, Hope For Men is a modern punk rock masterpiece.
Pissed Jeans was formed in, of all places, Allentown, Pennsylvania by members of The Gate Crashers playing different instruments. The idea for the band was, according to an interview with Blastitude, “spawned on a drive with the Crashers from Vegas to L.A. in between sweaty sing-a-longs to ‘WWF The Music Volume Two.’” The band started life as Unrequited Hard-On, selling five copies of their first demo before changing their name to Pissed Jeans.
More recently, they've been playing a lot of shows, including one-offs alongside other purveyors of punk rock weirdness, such as Deerhunter, Fucked Up, and No Age and two shows alongside Mudhoney last December. They're carving out their own niche among punks, indie rockers with an ear for noise, and pretty much just everyone who thinks feedback is an underused instrument. Their newest album, Hope For Men is out on Sub Pop now, they're touring, and they'll be at SXSW and All Tomorrow's Parties alongside some of alternative rock's weirdest legends (Ween! Sebadoh!) this year. Recommended for anyone who enjoys a different kind of heaviness.
02/14/2008 19:16:44
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