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The Hex Dispensers and King Tuff 27Th Scion Garage Show Scion A/v ScheduLe jAnuArY 2011 26th Scion garage Show, Austin: The hex dispensers and King Tuff 27th Scion garage Show, chicago: The hex dispensers and King Tuff CHECK PLuS: IT OUT! Scion garage 7”: The Strange boys/Sex beet Scion A/v remix: The dirtbombs FebuArY 2011 23rd Scion garage Show, Austin: Thee oh Sees and cola Freaks STREAMING NOW AT currenTLY AvAiLAbLe SCIONAV.COM Scion gArAge 7” The SPiTS Scion gArAge 7” Kid congo Powers haunted Fang castle nobunny / & The Pink Monkey birds / jacuzzi boys hunx & his Punx WATCH! MuSic videoS To WATch incLude: STAFF CONTACT SCION PROJECT MANAGER: Jeri Yoshizu, Sciontist For additional information on Scion, email, write or call. The dirTboMbS hunx & hiS Punx The SPiTS EDITOR: Eric Ducker SCION CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE “Sharevari” “Too Young To be in Love” “Scary Swamp” CREATIVE DIRECTION: Scion 19001 S. Western Avenue ART DIRECTOR: Ryan Di Donato Mail Stop WC12 PRODUCTION DIRECTOR: Anton Schlesinger Torrance, CA 90501 CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Brian Costello Phone: 866.70.SCION ASSISTANT EDITOR: Maud Deitch Fax: 310.381.5932 ASK Scion GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: Cameron Charles, Kate Merritt Email: Email us through the contact page located on scion.com QueSTion: Hours: M-F 6am-5pm PST is there any reasoning behind the artist matchups for each Scion garage 7” or is it completely random? CONTRIBUTORS Online Chat: M-F, 6am-6pm PST PHOTOGRAPHERS: Derek Beals, Tyler Bjerke, Sean Connaty, AnSWer: William Hacker, Sandy Kim, Kara McMurty, Bryan Sheffield every 7” pairing is thought out in advance of reaching out to bands. The pairing has to make sense or the 7” just won’t work. The oblivians and Andre either used to be in a band together called the deadly Snakes. For black Lips and Pierced Arrows, the Lips have Scion Garage Zine is published by malbon Brothers Farms. For more information about mBF, contact [email protected] spent their entire careers looking up to Fred cole and cover a couple dead Moon songs. Kid congo and hunx also stand out as an Company references, advertisements and/or websites listed in this publication are not affiliated with Scion, unless otherwise noted through disclosure. important matchup since both artists are truly fans of each other’s work and have the same ethos in their music. Scion does not warrant these companies and is not liable for their preformances or the content on their advertisements and/or websites. —christopher roberts of vice records © 2010 Scion, a marque of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. All rights reserved. Scion and the Scion logo are trademarks of Toyota Motor Corporation. 00430-ZIN01-DN Since their beginnings as a two-piece in Dallas, the Strange Boys have relocated to Austin, expanded their line-up, brought in LA-based members, recorded the song “American Radio” for the Scion A/V Garage 7” series and released their phenomenal second LP, 2010’s Be Brave, on In the Red Records. While on tour in Europe, bassist Philip Sambol answered some emails about where the Strange Boys’ sound comes from and where it’s going. In most genres, and particularly in garage rock, bands get subjected to lazy comparisons to older bands, where those making the comparisons ignore the nuances. Beyond the influences of records and bands, what are some examples of sounds, lyrics, rhythms, etc. that have found a way into your music? The sound of town square bells and church bells on the hour, boots on a hard floor hotel hallway, jet engines, the sun and the smell of fall and winter. Comparisons to Highway 61-era Dylan keep popping up with what you’re doing. On one level, that seems as generic a comparison as saying a metal band sounds like Black Sabbath, and yet it keeps coming up. What are your thoughts on this comparison? It doesn’t really bother me. Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters ever. There are a lot worse people to be compared to. Do you think “musical influences” in general are given too much emphasis when discussing bands, Interview: Brian Costello and when discussing the Strange Boys in particular? Photography: Tyler Bjerke Yes. Influences mean nothing, it’s what you do with them. And it doesn’t matter where you get them from. How did you guys start working with Calvin Johnson? Calvin came to a show of ours in Olympia and introduced himself. We happened to need some- where to stay that night and he offered his place, so we went. The next morning he asked us if we wanted to record at Dub Narcotic, the K Records studio, so we said yes. The song we did didn’t have any lyrics yet, so when we left I said he should put lyrics to it and sing them himself. When we went back to Olympia a few months later he had finished it, and that’s what’s going to come out in 2011. Calvin’s great. Do you have a backlog of unrecorded songs dating back to your two-piece origins, and if so, do you return to them, building on what you know now and who’s now in the band? We have a lot of old songs, but we don’t really go back. A song has to be really good to rework it, and almost all those real old songs are not good enough to go back to. It feels likes a waste of time if the song isn’t good enough. Do you get the chance to work on new material while touring? Oh yeah. We use every soundcheck to work on new stuff and we’re constantly trying out new songs in the sets. Since the band is split up between cities [Los Angeles and Austin], we use tour to practice for our recordings. On page 96 of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, the author Stanley Booth quotes Shirley Watts as saying, “And it’s just a tour, after all, just a group of people going around getting up on stages and playing music for kids to dance.” Does that sound about right to you? Sounds right to me. Because that’s what it is. Except sometimes people don’t dance, but that’s okay too. myspace.com/thestrangeboys Hear the Strange Boys’ contribution to the Scion A/V Garage 7” series at scionav.com/garage Photography: Kara McMurtry The Cola Freaks On October 2, 2010, nearly 30 bands from the international garage rock community descended on the college oasis of Lawrence, Kansas, for the totally free and totally insane Scion Garage Fest. Showing the breadth of the lineup, some of the bands didn’t even have albums out while others have been touring the world for more than 20 years. Since the show took place at four different venues in downtown Lawrence, it was kind of impossible to catch every act, so we checked in with some of the bands to find out who their favorite performers at the Fest were. I guess I should start off by saying I did eat that day, but not a lot, so it was a pretty epic day for me. You know who the best band of the whole thing was? The Cola Freaks. They just killed it. They didn’t really fit in because they’re not really a garage band, but they play this really frantic version of punk rock and the singer looks like Frankenstein about to strangle someone the whole time he’s playing. It’s madness. I don’t think anybody knew what to expect, and people were freaking out and dancing when they were playing, but I don’t think they knew why—it was just happening.—Jesse Smith, Gentleman Jesse & His Men I’d say Cloud Nothings were my favorite band. I love their record, their songs are super melodic and awesome and they’re not really your standard, run-of-the-mill garage rock songs, they toe the line with a lot of other things. They’re all really young and energetic and whenever they play you can tell that they’re really enjoying themselves. It’s really fun watching them freak out onstage because when you talk to them they’re all relatively shy people.—Zach Campbell, Rooftop Vigilantes My favorite performance was definitely Thee Oh Sees. I loved that John Dwyer’s guitar would go massively out of tune during every song but it still sounded fantastic because the rhythm section was so tight on that consistent dun, dun dun dun that happens in every Oh Sees song. The energy was great. It was awesome to see a crowd of nerdy Lawrence, Kansas, students thrashing around to the Photography: Derek Beals, William Hacker, Kara McMurtry kind of music that people in Cleveland would stand there and stare at. Just a really great set overall.—Dylan Baldi, Cloud Nothings Photography: Sean Connaty Timmy Vulgar of Human Eye I think I could speak for the rest of the band too in saying we were all really blown away by Human Eye. I remember there was one moment that really stuck out to me. There was a guy in the audience a couple rows back, and he was an older guy. He looked like an old time soul guy or jazz guy. I don’t know if he was in the entourage of one of the bands or if he was just there for the festival, but he had his eyes closed and the way he was just kind of grooving to things was so old and jazz-inspired, and you would think that was the kind of music being played if you didn’t know what was happening in the room.
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