Equally informed by Son House as the Velvets, Austin, Texas’s contrarians The Strange Boys release their third album, Live Music on October 25 via Rough Trade (TO BE CLEAR “Live” is in the present-tense, as in living the music, THIS IS NOT A LIVE RECORDING). read more…
Equally informed by Son House as the Velvets, Austin, Texas’s contrarians The Strange Boys release their third album, Live Music on October 25 via Rough Trade (TO BE CLEAR “Live” is in the present-tense, as in living the music, THIS IS NOT A LIVE RECORDING).
Born in 2008, The Strange Boys have released two excellent albums, The Strange Boys and Girls Club (2009, the original sessions of which were equally botched and scrapped production attempts by the late Jay Reatard as well as the band) and 2010’s Be Brave.
Half (side A) of Live Music was recorded in April 2011 at the Austin home of producer/Spoon drummer Jim Eno. The second half (side B) was recorded in December 2010 at producer Mike McHugh’s Distillery, the same studio that Be Brave was recorded in.
“Authentically troubled blues for the modern age” — Geoff Travis
“it’s passionate, yawling guitar rock at its best” — Rolling Stone
“The Strange Boys hark back to the roots of American Music and make it their own.” — Austin Chronicle
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