THE GROWLERS

"The Growlers play party music that's shot through with an undertone of melancholy. It's as if their sepia-tinted rock songs come equipped with both the drunken cheeriness and the nauseating hangover. They know how to rollick like champs, but they can also creep along with a vaguely Eastern European worldweariness that's endearing. They may claim Ol' Dirty Bastard and Lee 'Scratch' Perry as influences on their MySpace page (wigga, please), but the Growlers actually sound more like Man Man if they were fixated on pre-psych rock that's too sophisticated to be considered 'garage.'" --OC Weekly

Dubby psychedelic rock from SF outfit.

"Our girl Dri, who we featured in FADER #51, is back with her smoky ghost-voice. Only, instead of applying it to lilting, gauzy electronic pop, she’s now fronting a straight rootsy dub band called Extra Classic that is apparently based in her dual homes of San Francisco and Lawrence, Kansas. Her singing on this single is lovely and the bass is jamming and according to their MySpace, it is recorded all in analogue." --Fader

"Their raucous set was like if the Velvet Underground had turned to the MC5 at their Boston Tea Party concert in 1968 and, instead of insulting them, had turned and made love to them—and that was how Lou Reed wound up wearing that dog collar. I couldn't make out a single lyric, but did they really close the set with 'Little Honda?'" --LA RECORD

"Swirling, distorted psych, bulldozed along by pounding primitive drums, fuzzed out vocals, all glued together with a heavy spaced out guitar drone. If that ain't the ingredients for record of the month my name is Prince Bloody William. Imagine if you will the best of THEE OH SEES jamming deep with MOON DUO, with the aid of some sort of retro type drug that only Brace Belden knows the name of and you would almost be right on the money. Heavy, without losing one single hook, repetitive without being the least bit boring and shamelessly stepped in the glory years of acid rock without being a boring regurgitating hipster. Be warned, this record will give you a contact high." --Maximum Rock N Roll #337

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THE GROWLERS with Extra Classic, Cosmonauts

Friday, June 29 · 8:30PM at Rickshaw Stop

Tickets Available at the Door