The Strange Boys are a dusty Austin garage rock band and in the last seven days everyone has been getting unprecedentedly excited about them. It’s not that they’re anything other than totally scuzzy and brilliant, it’s just that a band exists happily sitting on their local cloud before one day the rest of the world starts screaming about them. I guess the art is to keep everyone shouting. Anyway, it’s late but they’re playing tonight in Brixton, and I was supposed to go but I can’t because my flatmate’s being a little bitch, so there’s a free space on the guest list. I’ll send the name on the list to the first person to comment beneath and leave their email. Oh, and here’s a song.
The Strange Boys, “Heard You Want To Beat Me Up”
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Reader Comments
August 18th, 2009
10:52 am
FIRST!
August 18th, 2009
10:59 am
wow robbie, you must be really fucking proud. a guest list space to a gig no one gives a shit about
August 20th, 2009
10:19 am
they rule. one of the best records this year. word.
August 20th, 2009
10:20 am
indeed. wonderful record that doesn’t come off as a group of dudes that just started listening to rock and making their version of a rehash.
August 20th, 2009
10:20 am
It always being from Austin. SXSW nerds love that shit.
August 20th, 2009
10:22 am
Probably my most played album of the summer, definitely my most enjoyed.
August 20th, 2009
10:22 am
NME cover darlings to be, followed by a toss car advert. Then followed by the Keyboard player, shagging one of Bob’s daughters.
Let’s hope they don’t loose their way.
August 20th, 2009
10:23 am
The Strange Boys’ “And Girls Club” and TV Ghost’s “Cold Fish” LPs are both great summer releases from inthered records. worn em both out.
August 20th, 2009
10:23 am
Man, garage is the most overused (in the red) word in the fucking world!!
August 20th, 2009
10:23 am
Already have this, they’re called the Black Lips. Move on out of the garage already.
August 20th, 2009
10:23 am
this is wonderful.
August 20th, 2009
10:24 am
I find these guys actually sound pretty different than the Black Lips, for example, looking past the obvious. The Strange Boys sound like they tend more towards pop in a way that I usually associate with British bands.