New Zombie Season - "Film Students"

Download: Zombie Season - "Film Students"

Spotted both this flyer and this song over at Switchblade. Zombie Season seem to have come along at just the right time, as 2008 is shaping up to be the year of the fuzz in terms of rock records (Magnetic Fields, Vivian Girls, Times New Viking, etc). Zombie Season are very similar to those group's in terms of making dreamy, fuzz-laden pop, and their song "Film Students" matches the romanticism of a Broken Social Scene with the thick distortion that seems to be all the rage these days. Listen to "Film Students" at the top of the post.

Hear more here.

Tonight: Military Special @ The Uptown Theatre

Download: Military Special - "Warrant Error"

Like a middle point between Bloc Party's angular post-punk revivalism and The Cure's gothic pathos, Military Special create a rambunctiously shout-along brand of rock music with that, nonetheless, leaves room for detours into spacey indie-pop. There's just the right amount of desperation in the vocals and lyrics to keep listeners hooked, but unlike most of their contemporaries, Military Special don't navelgaze for its own sake. Instead, there's always plenty of energy to go around.

Military Special play before the midnight showing of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Peep the trailer below:


(Nightmare on Elm Street trailer)

Military Special MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)
jon@minneapolisfuckingrocks.com

Show Announcement: Solid Gold at the Hexagon

Deets via More Cowbell:

Solid Gold + “Secret Special Guests”*
Saturday, August 23
Hexagon Bar
Minneapolis, MN
10 pm | FREE | 21

In order to celebrate the release of issue #25 (considering how the print business is floundering these days, any issue successfully printed is cause of celebration), Rift Magazine is holding a party that doubles as a birthday get-together for Robyn, who is turning the big 30. Sounds like "All My Friends" will be on the playlist for this one. The details for the event are above. As to who the surprise guests are? (Well, you probably know this already, but just play along. It's Wednesday.) If you're doomed to know, then you've figured out that this event won't be a P.O.S.. It's in the hands of Vampires.

Did you see what I did there?

In other Vamp Hands news, the experimental quartet will be playing before a screening of Bits, a local independent film. The viewing takes place at the Uptown on Friday, August 22nd. Doors are at 11:30 pm, with the band playing from 11:45-12:30. Then the film screens.

Check out more here.

(Jonathan Graef)