The bad thing about the endless versatility of viruses and diseases is all the unstoppable death that they spread. The good thing is that we’ve been given plenty of good band names by this microscopic death squad: the Germs, Anthrax, Aids Wolf, Cancer Bats, the Cramps, Pestilence, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Tuberculosis Boy. It’s inevitable that there’s a thousand bands called Swine Flu already (and equally inevitably that 500 of them are noise bands). That must make Avian Flu feel a little old-hat. Anyway, here is the next entry into this dubious pantheon: the German Measles.
The New York-based irregular foursome makes sloppy, messy, tin-pan trash-pop anthems held together with spit and tape. They’ve just released a twelve-inch called “Wild EP” on Captured Tracks and the track below is taken from it.
The German Measles, “Totally Wild”
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 09:50
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November 5th, 2009
[...] I Would Rather: Have an intelligent conversation about the merits of Sam Sifton’s L’Entrecote review (solid), and the sliders at Mark (great) vs. the burgers at Bill’s (blegh), than listen all the way through and/or write up a piece on the Wipers-meets-Calvin-Johnson German Measles ep that’s suddenly attracting attention. [...]