I've been rocking out with The Sound of Urchin since around late '98. Back then they had released a jazzy triphop EP called "All That and a Brandy Alexander" that I found on mp3.com. I immediately bought a bunch of live shows off their website and have drive five hours to see them more than once. They are great performers and thoroughly cool dudes. They opened for Tenacious D in Chicago in '01, and pulled my buddies and I backstage to meet Jack Black and Kyle Gass. I stole Jack Black's Bass Ale (ok it was in his abandoned dressing room, but still).
Over the years TSOU has changed styles radically. The first EP was a sample driven collaboration between Barbie Smooth and Tomato-11 (don't ask;). Barbie left when he got an offer he couldn't refuse (MTV was calling asking him to be a producer for some unpopular show called TRL). Tomato hooked up with a live band and started rocking. Now they are a guitar driven band with an eclectic array of styles that defies generic classifiction. Anyway here's a live performance of song off that first EP called "Green Green Gold" (and this is about double the tempo of the original track).
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I read today that when The Sound of Urchin was driving back from SXSW that they listened to a little of my favorite band during the drive home...
...The London Broil.
They are meaty. And greasy. Perhaps you will find them delicious. They put on a very entertaining show:
http://www.myspace.com/thelondonbroil
(They have a bizarre demographic following them on MySpace for an uber-hilarious reason...More to come on that later?)
Put the meat on the table.
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