Contrary to what their psychedelic rock n’ roll music may suggest, Crystal Antlers are actually quite lovely. They are dream boats floating atop a bathtub lake of Budweiser and ice. Sound insane? Well, it’s true! Please find the proof in the puddin’ below, video gold of the Long Beachers visiting our Hotbox and setting sail on a bountiful Bob Dylan “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” cover adventure. But you know what? IT IS NOT ALL OVER NOW. It is only the beginning…
The preliminary lineup for this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York has been announced. The event, which will run from October 20 to 24 at music venues across Manhattan and Brooklyn, will include School of Seven Bells, Broadcast, Japandroids. Mum, Atlas Sound, the Budos Band, Pitbull, the Very Best, Crystal Antlers, Cymbals Eat Guitars, the Antlers, Suckers, Pissed Jeans, and Screaming Females.
Register for the CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival at cmj.com/marathon.
FYF (formerly Fuck Yeah Fest) is back and taking place at the Los Angeles Historic State Park in Downtown LA on Saturday, September 5th, 2009. Tickets are going for $20 a pop and are on sale now. FYF will also be donating $1 of every ticket to two organizations, Homeboy Industries and Harvest of Hope.
This year, the event is attached to an urgent awareness regarding the California State Park System where the governer recently decided to cut $14.2 million in funding, bringing over 100 California State Parks to the brink of closure. For more information on the State Park situation, go to www.calparks.org. Also the lineup is awesome, including The Black Lips, No Age, Lightning Bolt, Crystal Antlers and more.
I first experienced the Crystal Antlers at last year’s CMJ. I wasn’t there to see them; I was basically there to partake in the free drinks. The boozy hipster crowd was quite loud and sociable amongst themselves, until the Antlers strummed the first feedback drenched riff of their set and propelled head first into one of the most clamorous-yet-invigorating rock shows I had seen all week.
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On the day that Touch and Go officially releases their last original full length, Tentacles by the Crystal Antlers, former
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