Customers on Robs House records

First of all, I didn't know Carbona's broke up? Crazy...along with a couple other Atlanta projects it seems, but they reformed into the Customers.
I don't know why all I can think of are the Replacements...it's something about the production quality, two people singing in that slightly scratchy voice. Customers are pulling this off perfectly, nothing low-fi, it's really authentic 90's. No gimmicks, no gadgets, glitches, just guitars, drums and bass...but it's not a mess of punk either, trying to piss off everyone around you. Something you ike just because it annoys everyone else...I've done it.
These tracks could in sneak next to something really good and no one at the barbeque would even notice.

A lot of bands like this can write a good song, throw something together, pop a tape in the tape deck, hit record. As talented as they are, that's a very specific choice, you are determining your audience to a certain degree. Customers are the opposite...or they aren't relying on any typical shit I can pin down...it's great...No weird attitude, they aren't trying for anything...except to make for themselves a great single....I hope.

'She's Heroin' has this great phaser/distortion guitar melody kick it off and then it jumps ahead just great back and forth just the right amount of room guitar. Vocally these guys are great, the call and response thing going on between Stephen and Travis, they separate...come back together in a gravely harmony. Like the Replacements they're singing about some depressing scenes but musically it's really uptempo. They are singing like they are having the time of their lives, about heroin and suicide....take that Lou Reed.

You can't really go wrong with Rob's House...they are always putting out great singles...I think this is a kind of genius that comes with music done at this level. You couldn't put these bands together on paper under one label. You couldn't force this kind of thing to happen. Rob's House is organic ... pressing whatever happens to be next, whatever band just broke up and reformed or is completely new on the scene. Every time I get an announcement for something new it's just great to see this developing, growing with the scene and just existing...I'm happy to support music at this level...and especially when it's great, let's face it, but we can't all be so lucky.

Both tracks on the myspace are on the single plus one more...I'm going to go see these guys at a new Cakeshop owned space, Bruars Falls on Grand Street, June 5th.

rhr052: Customers - Howling at the Moon, She's Heroin b/w Monster on the Loose
with the break up of carbonas, beat beat beat and the heart attacks, customers are just one of the new bands emerging from atlanta with the forementioned band members regrouped. notwithstanding, the customers are bringing a fresh sound to the southern capital and are sure to make a name for themselves outside of their previous connections. here's their debut release, get in on it now as we expect many more to follow.
[600 pressed; black vinyl]

jacuzzi boys on Rob's house

Parasol must have the last few remaining copies of this, because it's been long sold out from Rob's House. I'm practically about to go get it, if I didn't already order a bunch of crap the other day that probably went out already. It wasn't out on Rob's House very long before I saw the 'Sold Out' sign, and I'll admit it, it gets me to pay attention and look up the next single from them. I get caught up in it.
Plus if it's blessed by the house of Rob, then it's got to be good. I haven't ever been disappointed with a release...and that SIDS xmas single was great...best of the holiday season.

I became a fan based on this review from sevententwelve and the Island Ave single that came out a while back, sold out from the source by now too....although I saw Academy has a few copies left as of last week.

They have a 60's-gaze sound, like they are doing some kind of impression of that echo drenched era. It's a good one, more authentic...or satisfying then the original...heavy on the tamborine. It's like the number one instrument these days.
The changes, the song structure is even the same, but it's sloppy like the best garage bands. It's more than just burying the sound, or dare I say hiding it under all kinds of effects. This sounds really specific and catchy and from an older time when music mattered...or was at least trying to entertain you, instead of make you work for it.

Jacuzzi Boys
Fought A Crocodile b/w Blowin' Kisses
PS, US LTD ED OF 600 (500 BLACK vinyl, 100 COLOR vinyl)! Miami, FL's eerie & alluring JACUZZI BOYS float on a hot cloud of misty & hypnotic grooves that suck you into their morbid world of jangling, distant guitars overlaid w/ ghostly chants that swell & recede like the sands of time slowly slipping through your tarnished soul. W/ a rollicking beat that sticks to your ribs & forces you to look deep within yourself for the answers to life's toughest questions, they have that magical "something" that you'll feel the 1st time you hear them.
Rob'sHouseRecords
45
$5.25

SIDS Xmas single!!!!? on Rob's House

Just got an email from Trey at Rob's House about this new one from SIDS...
So happy and shocked to hear they're still active after being flung around the country for various reasons, and cryptic myspace messages. I kind of was fondly remembering the ghost of SIDS past...but a Christmas single?!!!!
Well I couldn't be happier then to buy myself a little something to put under the tree.
The packaging promises to be amazing, but even more importantly I can't wait to hear where these tracks are going to go.
One of my favorite bands that I'm still working out exactly what it is to the sound.

I sat down to take a listen to their other singles again and they sound just as good. I keep wondering with this kind of genre, the synth nightmare. There's not a hint of low fi in this...unlike Blank Dogs or something, that is like that hazy dream nightmare. This is rocking right out in front of you in the middle of the street. You went out to get the paper and 1,2,3,4 the explosion starts and you just drop everything and stare.

rhr048 SIDS - xmas single another knock-out 7" from SIDS [http://www.myspace.com/suddeninfantdeathsyndrome]. its still driving punk rock done with keyboards but this time its also a creepy xmas record with bells. in typical SIDS fashion, it come wrapped in amazing packaging, just in time for xmas (hopefully). [300 pressed; clear vinyl] side a: winter. side b: awake all night. ------------------------------

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100 copies went to the band so we only got 200 for sale. super limited but assuming it does well (why wouldnt it?) we'll probably end up repressing it for xmas next year.

available now at www.robshouserecords.com

Robs House 7" explosion! + podcast 23

Rob's House has been amazing for introducing a lot of bands, not just Atlanta-centric stuff either, and it hasn't just been luck...Trey is picking out amazing stuff to release and on the cutting edge, really breaking first releases from these bands, with amazing packaging. I still look at the SIDS release from RH and how intricately it's cut with a colored acetate insert...it's really the best 7".

Sonic Chicken 4 has that 60's garage feel with xylophone which is a nice touch to the low-fi pop feel here. Both tracks are pretty clean with a little distortion on the vocals, and lots of chorus ah ah's. Still immediate feeling like it was done in a few takes and their french? Really?


----rhr041: SONIC CHICKEN 4------------------------

sonic chicken 4 are not an easy one to pin down. they play a fuzzy, ultra-primitive brand of garage stomp that owes equally to '60s pop, velvet underground and bftg comps. the songs catch your ear make you wanna sing along, turn up loud and jump on the couch and then rethink the kind of distortion pedal you have and how you're using it...[600 pressed; 500 black vinyl, 100 blue vinyl]

side a: midnight girl
side b: toe man

Golden Triangle is also taking the 60's garage to a new place, complete with motorcycle samples and kind of Vivian Girls echo vocals like on Prizefighter. They have that ensemble feel, trading vocals between members..just a pure b-movie rock party...their blog has all kinds of pics of their costumed live shows, I'm hoping to catch them at glasslands on the 20th with Blank Dogs...

----rhr043: GOLDEN TRIANGLE------------------------

golden triangle are a raucous, female-fronted brooklyn garage-punk act with a bratty attitude and stylish costumes that resemble some kind of performance art cabaret band. their hypnotic drumming, vocal chants and lofi guitars are just notes from chaos but always exactly where they need to be. catch them on tour in october with quintron. [600 pressed; 500 black vinyl, 100 gold vinyl]

side a: prize fighter, red coat
side b: night brigade

Podcast Episode 22 - Matts back! I try to play the new vivian girls but don't have an adapter. Instead I play Maximillion Colby, and try again to pronounce Dianogah again...we also play the suicide squeeze Coathangers single.

Robs House 2 new ones!

I listened to a lot of the black keys over the holiday weekend...it seemed to be on a couple communal ipods and I was getting into it, at times it sounded like jimi hendrix..even vocally, I was convinced it was some lost tracks or import thing. They have that classic, blues/rock sound down...it's turned into their own thing for sure.
Robs house sent an email about these two seven inches coming down the Atlanta Blues/rock conveyor belt...the first Jack of Heart even toured with the Lips and they are very much garage, live act, there's dirty jangly guitar solos for lovers....they keep mentioning 'your girlfriend' after all their myspace influences and as their quote, so watch it because apparently your girlfriend is really going to like them.

Lover!, is an ex-reatard, and just played at the cakeshop on July 4th????!!!!! Awwww fuck. Anyway, I'm excited because I like this a lot...the riff here reminds me of Foreigner and the Stones, it's big and raw sounding, but still has a homemade awesome feel to it, like something you just found buried at the salvation army. There's a reason he played with Jay and this solo stuff is well along those lines and equally as punishing.

Get them both.

rhr038 Jack of Heart - San Francisco 7" (b/w Ponytail)
Departing completely from the static-soaked, overdriven throb prerogative of their previous bands, Jack Of Heart is a new conglomeration of Piero from the Fatals and Demon's Claws, and Benji from the Creteens. Their sound takes off down the tender side of the switchblade, and erupts with such an unassuming immediacy that it's tough to pinpoint the first time it slithers through your head. With a decidedly less noisy sentiment in place, Jack Of Heart combine echoed and chilling guitars that form those little icy patches that cause you to slip, and fall in love. [todd killings] [500 pressed; black vinyl]

rhr039 Lover! - Man In The Woods 7" (b/w Foxhole Madness)
Rich Crook has already blazed a frightfully righteous pop pathway with Lover!, showcasing the hidden songwriting talents he kept to himself with such notable bands as the Reatards, Lost Sounds, and Viva L'American Death Ray. Once his songs reached the surface in The Knaughty Knights, it was apparent that Crook needed his own vehicle to spread his pop sense to the outer limits of the rock'n roll underworld. [todd killings] [500 pressed; black vinyl]

preorder now at http://www.robshouserecords.com

and if there's any other releases your interested in now's the time to get em. i'm moving in a month and trying to clear out as many records as possible in the meantime.

demon's claws - robs house

Rob's House's continuing quest to define a new american garage rock sound, this is raw, no ovberdub, or studio trickery. It's another lost blues/rock solid single out of the late 60's. It's really ridiculous how authentic this sounds. It seems like a band like this comes out of playing live for a long time. This attempt to capture it I'm sure is the closest they can get. It's stripped down with some echo on the vocals which are perfect in this faraway sound. Barely sung, more story about shitty situations, getting fucked up and probably love started it all.
Always be my friend is a half rockabilly, piano rambler, like that fun throwaway track that sounds like early rolling stones. This is the last thing I would point to Montreal as inspiring. Geography don't mean a thing.
They would be at home throwing beer bottles back at the country crowd from behind the fenced with the barbed wire stage.
I don't think Rob has it anymore, so check out Parasol mailorder.

Demon's Claws
Fucked on K b/w Always Be My Friend
PS, US One of the most dynamic combos to take the filthy route directly to your brain, & each live perrformance solidifies their earnest ambition to stomp their furious rock'n roll death trip into submission. Their stumbling, rambling ways have lead folks down the darker side of americana-tinged blues-punk on more than one occasion & this one just might be the best. 1000 pressed, black vinyl.
RobsHouse
45
$5.25

The Weakends on Rob's House

The Weakends is some french punk, shitty no-fi blues courtesy of Rob's House, recorded/produced by Cheveu, so you get an idea of what we're going to be working with. You know that french garage rock scene that you've been hearing so much about? Right.
They are banging away, singing through broken PA's, sounding like a way cooler hot rod, 50's, b-movie band then you ever remember, or they sound like what those bands should have sounded like, but they were too self aware or just never that good.

This is being played in France? Seriously, these guys are not in it for the money.

Small Towns is just a rocking little repetitive screechy fuzzed out guitar number, David or Simon is yelling, snarling about something, the drums can endearingly barely keep up, they make it seem so easy, but don't sound like dicks. Recorded with a barely working cassette player, heavy on the treble, please.

A very reasonable $4 from Rob's House.

----rhr034: THE WEAKENDS-----------------------------

debut release from bordeaux's the weakends [website] and gauranteed to please. too many lo-fi fuzzed out influences to name but these guys live it and this is just their first step on the way to claiming the title of france's best garage band. recorded by french weird punks cheveu.

[500 pressed; black vinyl]

side a:
death rides

side b:
small towns

By the way all the out of print recent titles on Rob's House are available from parasol.