WINDIAN RECORDS "LOUD, BRASH, SOLID CHUNKS OF 70′S KBD INFLUENCED ROCKERS, SAN DIEGO CA’S SPIDER FEVER IN ITS BRIEF EXISTENCE HAS ALREADY RELEASED 2 AMAZING SINGLES VIA HOZAC AND CAVE PUNK. FROM THE FIRST NEEDLE DROP YOU ARE BLASTED INTO AUSSIE ROCK STANDARDS; HIGH ENERGY AND TO THE POINT. THUGGISH BEATS WITH SONNY VINCENT LIKE HEATED SHREDDING, THESE GUYS HAVE DONE AND/OR DOING TIME IN SUCH BANDS AS OFF!, EARTHLESS, RFTC, HOT SNAKES, WIDOWS, THE SULTANS, AND THE HEARTACHES. NOT EXACTLY LIGHT WEIGHTS."
HOZAC RECORDS - "The brain-blasting and overwhelmingly exhilarating energy that seethes through these first tracks by San Diego’s Spider Fever are what hooked us immediately, with two perfectly raw and impeccably loud songs barreling out of punk’s original seeping wounds. Featuring drummer extraordinaire Mario Rubalcaba (OFF!, Earthless, Rocket From The Crypt, Chicano-Christ, and many more…) here on lead vocals & godlike shredding guitar, it’s a rare and hefty slice of Testors-influenced 70s punk splatter that’s shaking the walls and shattering the windows anywhere its cranked. You just won’t be able to resist this type of nasty scuzz bleeding into air-tight choruses that beat you up and down all within less than two and a half minutes. It’s a classic return to the original violent form that steers clear of any “weird punk” wall-flowering and just beats you continuously until the breathing stops, all to a catchy beat that gets in and out before there’s even time to remember what hit you."stream some brutal noise below......
Ironically referred to by Timeout NY as “Thurston Moore & the E Street Band,” The Men have never been a band to play by categorical punk subgenre rules. Instead, over the last three years, this band has dabbled in everything from hardcore punk to psych to shoegaze to black metal; and they have done all of it effortlessly, and for the most part, flawlessly. Totally removed from the current climate of ADD-youtube-blog-hyped generation of musicians under 21, The Men stand out from the pack as both scene elders and actual record collectors. What makes this band so unique is their ability to synthesize their influences rather than just regurgitate them.
On Open Your Heart, the band’s 3rd full length, the NY quartet explore twangy country music, guitar solos, surf-ish riffs, psych, and just about everything in between. Erring on the side of literal as opposed to ironic, the song titles here (“Oscillation,” “Country Song,” “Ex-Dreams,” etc.) blatantly celebrate the band’s “you get what you pay for” DIY aesthetic. Beyond their genre-defying writing experiments, some of the band’s finest singles to date are on this record; “Open Your Heart,” “Please Don’t Go Away,” and “Candy” all demonstrate a new pop sensibility that previous albums only hinted at. Additionally, having four songwriters in the band lends itself to a truly unpredictable and thrilling live experience. With Open Your Heart, The Men embrace what is truly their calling, and flower into the fully diversified punk band their fans have always championed them for being.
before every review of every decent band used the word GARAGE ROCK as a description, there was a band called THE RESONARS..... they existed outside the media hype machine, breaking up and reforming constantly, releasing most of their output in the early 2000s via GET HIP records, which to me has always been an under-appreciated purveyor of garage and indie rock......
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