Radical Dads and Nerves Jr. are playing the Zanzabar on June 29th!! This is one of those shows that you can’t miss. Radical Dads is coming in from NYC and have quite the pedigree (see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). They just released their debut album a week ago on Uninhabitable Mansions (check it out here). One listen and you will be hooked. Zanzabar may explode. To sweeten the mix, locals Nerves Jr. are opening. We’ve had our eye on this band for a while now and they just got out of the studio for their new album out on SonaBlast! We’ve heard their first single from the album, “As Bright as Your Night Light” (below) and if the rest of the album is anywhere near this track, we may have the next big band to break out of Louisville! More reason to come and check out what is to come. All for a 5 spot. See you there.
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DETAILS:
Radical Dads
Nerves Jr.
Zanzabar
June 29, 2011
8:00pm
$5
ABOUT RADICAL DADS:
Radical Dads was founded in 2008 along the banks of the Gowanus Canal. Lindsay Baker sings and plays the guitar. Robbie Guertin (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) sings and plays the drums. Chris Diken plays the guitar and does not sing.
The band released its self-titled EP in May 2009 and the Recklessness 7-inch in December 2010. Radical Dads’ first full-length album, Mega Rama, is being released by Uninhabitable Mansions, an art collective and record label based in Brooklyn, NY.
Radical Dads’ interests include disaster, piracy, land use, feedback, distortion, and feedback-laced distortion.
“Nerves Jr. is textured, electronic and experimental. This band might not realize how or why they are special. No local band does what they do. Electronics melt into song melt into vocals melt into huge, noisy, well-executed guitar licks. Beautifully mysterious in its obscure local origins, as it is in its fully developed sound, Who Loves You The Best recalls arrangements like Einsturzende Neubauten and vocals of Animal Collective. No other band with 140 Facebook friends is this talented or idiosyncratic. If you liked any band between NIN and Aphex Twin, you will enjoy Nerves Jr., and wonder just how they did it. ” -LEO WEEKLY
http://nervesjunior.bandcamp.com/album/who-loves-you-the-best-ep
SOME LOVE:
WNYC
“Released as a 7-inch single in early December, the track “Recklessness” is a fuzzed-up, energetic explosion with a driving gritty guitar lick leading the charge.”
Brooklyn Vegan
“Musically, the bassless trio sorta reminded me of the early ’90s DC indie, and could have fit on Simple Machines Records alongside Liquorice, Tsunami or Scrawl.”
The Needle Drop
“A Brooklyn outfit with a weird name isn’t that uncommon, but the fierce rock ‘n’ roll passion laid down on this song is.”
Oh My Rockness
“They make happy, snappy lo-fi fuzz pop that walks that high-wire line somewhere between twee and punk and just straight up old school indie-rock.” or “Radical Dads: a band to take home to mom”
Village Voice
“Aside from their great name (which really, guys, kudos), Brooklyn trio Radical Dads have managed to strip mall punk of its food court aspirations and find its inner crackle and pop—with a trendy, lo-fi twist.”
Flavorwire/Flavorpill
“Radical Dads are three parts rock and one part art”