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6/06 @ PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
6/18 @ ZUZU
6/23 @ LOREM IPSUM
HANDS AND KNEES // “COOL” MP3 + 6/23 @ LOREM IPSUM BOOKS
“Cool” is sneak preview #2 of Hands and Knees’ forthcoming release Red Hot Minnow, out June 23rd, 2012 on Primordial Sounds. Preorder here: just $5 and comes with MP3s.
All involved parties are incredibly psyched to share the Red Hot Minnow release show details with you: Saturday June 23rd at Lorem Ipsum Books with Happy Jawbone Family Band and Fedavees. Joe from H+K made the excellent poster, below. Signups are here, see you there.
HANDS AND KNEES // RED HOT MINNOW out JUNE 23rd on CSST+DIGI
Say hello to the newest from Hands and Knees. ”Dreamt” is the Side B opener to Red Hot Minnow, the followup to their January 2011 self-release Wholesome.
On June 23rd, Boston blog-turned-label pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS is releasing Red Hot Minnow on a first-edition of 100 cassettes, all coming with a free digital download, for just $5. Once all cassettes are sold, the album will be available for digital purchase via iTunes, bandcamp, and more.
Come celebrate the release of Red Hot Minnow with us: Saturday June 23rd at Lorem Ipsum Books in Cambridge’s Inman Square with Happy Jawbone Family Band.
09/27/11: Choose My Music interviews Hands and Knees
CMM: One thing I am hoping to find in this series is some kind of link between where a band is based and their music. Do you feel as an artist you are influenced by your surroundings and the scene around you?
H&K: Well, we have a lot of great bands in the area that fire us up and make us want to play better. And I guess we hear things that other bands do, and if we really like it, we’ll go back and try to pay homage to it, or whatever. I think that as far as cities go, Boston is a pretty sleepy one, but with enough going on and enough fun people to make it interesting. Again, I think that splitting our time up between Western MA and Boston gives us a unique perspective, and allows our music to flourish in a slight vacuum. As far as the actual every day surroundings go, I guess there’s a surreal and oddball quality to living in MA, and to us it’s always a hysterical place. I dunno how to describe that exactly, but it is home to some of the most fucked up and funniest people on the planet, and I think we can all agree that it makes us laugh a lot. It can also be a tremendous bummer, because people can be so bitchy here, but most of the time it’s a gas and there’s no doubt that it enters into the music somehow.
CMM: What other influences does the band have, musical or otherwise?
H&K: Doomstar!, Shannon and the Clams, Sore Eros, Needy Visions, Tony the Bookie, Bo Diddley’s “Have Guitar, Will Travel” and The Best Show on WFMU; and the really loveable new Happy Jawbone Family Band record. Also, all kinds of underground and overground stuff from everywhere we pick up on WMBR 88.1 from MIT (best station on the planet), and WZBC 90.3 from Boston College.
read the rest of the interview at Choose My Music
more on Hands and Knees here
“The music of Hands and Knees has as much in common with the early years of this thing we call rock and roll as it does with the music of their modern day peers. Songs like album opener, ‘Throw Me From The Bridge Of Flowers’, make you want to stomp and clap along. These songs have got some swing and swagger to them. ‘Dancing On Your Tears’ is infectious. ‘99’ rips, with shades of Link Wray on electric guitar.”
Daykamp Music on Wholesome by Hands and Knees on 06/12/2011 | more
Hands and Knees “Dancing On Your Tears”
Fan-made video for the excellent cut from Wholesome. Well done, Anabel from Spain!
“April 16 is Record Store Day, inaugurated in 2007. Once a year, snobby clerks at independent record stores worldwide drop the attitude and come together, celebrating the art of music and the prospect of holding on to their jobs. Many shops across the city participate, but you’d be hard pressed to find a better lineup than Hands and Knees, Eternal Summers, and the Nashville garage-rock powerhouse Natural Child, at this two-level Lower East Side bakery and performance venue, which will revive its lamentably defunct record store for the occasion. (For more information, visit recordstoreday.com.)”
The New Yorker on Cake Shop’s April 16th show. Click here for facebook event.
Made a flyer for this upcoming Hands and Knees show. Really great bill on Record Store Day with Eternal Summers and Natural Child, all going down at Cake Shop in New York City. RSVP here, see you there.
