Showing posts with label street eaters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street eaters. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Street Eaters Interviewed on Pop Matters!

"Our self-imposed equipment limitations, which have remained basically the same since we started, have always left a certain amount of sonic space open. To fill it, we use things like cascading vocal harmonies, open bass strings, layered distortion, and melodic tom tom-centered drum parts. I’ve only played bass in one band before [Harbinger], and that was a long time ago, so since I really wasn’t much of a bass player before this band, my entire style has been developed in response to our particular sonics." Read on for the full interview with Street Eaters on Pop Matters.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Collapse Board premiers Street Eaters "Secret Punk and Basement Pop" Mixtape


From Everett True: "You don’t get offered the real good stuff very often. A rad free mixtape of MP3s from basement pop bands that don’t usually trade in the currency, compiled from tapes and vinyl-only releases by Bay Area band Street Eaters. Scratchy, wired, beautiful. Brutal. Vulnerable. Passionate. Full of names that you might not be familiar with right now, but you sure as Bangs will be once you’ve download this mixtape. No shit."Read the rest and get the mix at Collapse Board

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Street Eaters Highlighted on the A.V. Club's Monthly list of "Loud"

"John Geek of long-running East Bay punk band The Fleshies has a side project called Street Eaters with his wife Meghan March. The duo has a new album called Rusty Eyes And Hydrocarbons—and it’s as sugary and intoxicating as a hard-cider Slurpee. Stripped to the bone and built back up with blearily distorted bass and playful drums—not to mention lots of new-wave-y, boy-girl vocals—the disc shimmers and sizzles like summer itself. (Bakery Outlet/Plan-It-X)" Read the full list right here on The AV Club.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Street Eaters Interviewed on Exclaim.ca

"Megan is a pretty fierce force and a talented drummer; I admire her. If anything, she's kind of one of my role models. It's kind of funny when we go to places where we're playing for people who maybe aren't as used to seeing women musicians in general. There are a lot of men who aren't used to seeing that and they sometimes don't really know how to handle that. They'll say, "you play so great for a lady," and it'll kind of give us an opportunity to be like, "yeah, women can play just as well as men." Head on over to Exclaim.ca to read the full interview.

Monday, July 18, 2011

RCRD LBL Premieres Street Eaters New Track "Ashby and Shattuck"

"Taking clear influence from the '90s DIY and punk scenes, the duo retains that stripped-down mentality while capitalizing on its male/female design. Dual vocals are front-and-center, as in "Ashby and Shattuck," when the singing parallels the thumping call-and-response of the drum and bass." Read on and listen to the Street Eaters' new track over at RCRD LBL.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Street Eaters "Rusty Eyes & Hydrocarbons" is out now!!


"Megan March and Johnny Geek reveal their Gilman St. roots with powerful, roughshod melodies and populist politics, but play songs that mutate, twist, and grow as well as rip. Some of them are Who-like in their epic construction. I'll be looking out for their vinyl and would pay to see them again in a second." Giant Robot

"Duel vocals and spirited bass drive a track that never loses steam, a sort of Shellshag/Liars hybrid that pulls you in with ease." RCRD LBL on "Nation Builder"

"Six songs by two Bay Area folks who resurrect the off-kilter punk aggression of Blatz and Flipper and drag it kicking and screaming through the well thought-out energy, simplicity, and harmony of This Bike Is A Pipebomb and Shellshag." Razorcake on the We See Monsters EP

"Street Eaters are a loose garage punk duo with a stripped-down musical approach that psych-out the current minimalist, post-something shoegaze trend to sound refreshingly spirited." Exclaim

"Founded in fuzz-laden, treble-cranked bass parts, dual vocal hooks, relentless rhythmical clamor, and classic East Bay punk undertones pressed through a garage n' noise filter, it's simultaneously infectious and abrasive." SF Weekly

"Like the rest of the album, “Nation Builder” is built out of a few pieces — drums, bass, and two sets of vocals — but the duo transforms those components into something angular and insistent." The Bay Bridged

Friday, July 1, 2011

Giant Robot chats extensively with Street Eaters! On tour now...


Martin Wong from Giant Robot sits down with Street Eaters to talk about their new album, Grace Slick and using a bike rack as a cop deterrent...

MW: Many duos bring in guest musicians, accompaniment, and so on, but you two seem to relish your mano-a-mano musical relationship. Were you tempted one iota to add extra voices, instruments, or other stuff?

MM: We actually thrive on the minimalist aspects of being a two-piece, but one of the extra CD-only tracks (“No Time”) was written as a three-piece vocal harmony, so we had our friend Alanna Paoli (from Songs For Moms) sing the third part.

Read the rest at Giant Robot!


Tuesday, May 17, 2011

RCRD LBL premiers the lead single from Street Eaters' "Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons"


"Tell me why I thought of Sonic Youth when first hearing Street Eaters. They're a two piece, which is a testament to their musical ability, and much more straight forward punk than noise (they lack a guitar, after all), but there is something about the energy in this song. Drum-driven and out for a cause, “Nation Builder” contains definite traces of the Gilman-era pop punk on which the East Bay natives were raised. Duel vocals and spirited bass drive a track that never loses steam, a sort of Shellshag/Liars hybrid that pulls you in with ease. Sure to be a solid debut, grab LP Rusty Eyes & Hydrocarbons, out July 12 on Bakery Outlet and long-time favorite Plan-It-X." Grab "Nation Builder" from RCRD LBL now!