Friday, August 20, 2010

News: Netherfriends Tour Update

Updated Aug 23rd:
Aug 23 2010     9:00P  Sunset Tavern     Seattle, WA    
Sep   3 2010     9:00P  Berbati's Pan     Portland, or    
Sep   4 2010     9:30P  The Space     Salem, Oregon    
Sep   5 2010     9:00P  Milk Bar     San Francisco, California    
Sep   6 2010     7:30P  Mama Buzz Cafe     Oakland, California    
Sep   7 2010     9:00P  Silverlake Lounge     Los Angeles, California    
Sep 10 2010     9:00P  The Closet     Reno, Nevada    
Sep 12 2010     9:30P  Rendezvous/JewelBox Theater     Seattle, Washington
Sep 18 2010     9:00P  University of Alaska Fairbanks Pub Fairbanks, Alaska

Sep 22 2010     7:00P  Flying M Coffee Garage: Nampa (Boise), Idaho    
Sep 26 2010     7:00P  The Aquarium (Dempsey's) Fargo, North Dakota    
Oct  14 2010     9:00P  529     Atlanta, Georgia


September:
27th     Chicago
29th     Detroit

October:
4th       New Hampshire
5th       Boston
6th       New Jersey
10th     Baltimore
11th     Richmond
12th     North Carolina
13th     Atlanta
14th     Atlanta
15th     Atlanta
16th     North Carolina
17th     Virginia
18th     Philly

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Media: Netherfriends - Daytrotter Session, September 26th, 2009


Check out this archived Daytrotter session from September 26th 2009, featuring songs from Netherfriends' first EP, Calling You Out. You can download the entire session by using the Daytrotter Download Manager.



-Words By Daytrotter's Sean Moeller:

"Shawn Rosenblatt, the lone constant in the Chicago band Netherfriends, is some kind of a mastermind. The young man with the slightly slumped shoulders and the ever-changing group of friends and hired guns has such an expert way with indie rock arrangement and with the tricky business of sounding both unfamiliar and like something that we've been intimate with time and again. It's as if we could recall his songs by closing our eyes and checking in with our olfactory sensibilities and we should be able to arrive at a clear picture - like a demented circus train, or a hammer hitting a bullet sending a gorgeous distress signal up from a life raft to explode over a vast and terrifying ocean. He seems to have gone out with a net and corralled all of the tails of every comet that's come close enough to Earth to nab, bundled them and then shocked them into weird motions and dance maneuvers. They are trained to serve his songs loyally and to add some creative energies as well, making the workload less taxing. Netherfriends songs involve a combination of a few things: there are the jumpy expressions of literate aggression, the warm, hollow-bodied guitar work, the louds and the softs, the bridges of gooey ooos and ahhs and baaas, the feelings of desperate continuance and a countenance that most likely pays the closest attention to those gooey bridges when they're spiked with some kind of illicit liquor. From one song, we're led to believe that there's nothing good enough to get out of the shower or the bed, which reminds me of what sounded to be a suicidal disc jockey on the local radio station yesterday afternoon making what he probably thought was an insightful, rhetorical question, "Ever wonder how those little miracles, like how you got out of bed this morning to face the day, happen?" Rosenblatt takes that stance only mildly on "Worean Kar," a song that is partially inspired by the grandfather who helped put all of his grandchildren through college with the money that he made as a professional photographer, shooting the Korean War and as the go-to guy for New York City mobsters when their loved ones were getting married. The jaunty number, which begins with some piano trippings - those artful stumbles of someone so good that there's no reason to care about the frayed ends and pieces - and gallops through like a pissy, but pretty number that Tim Kasher would write. Then the barroom piano's back after a lazy fog storm in the middle of the song, all before Rosenblatt just starts singing," Korean War," over and over. These are songs that all of the young 20-somethings out there can relate to in that the characters are searching for some breaks, looking for a way to make ends meet both mentally and externally. Rosenblatt lets his songs hit you between the eyes, in the guts, across the heart and knife you in the back. They're full of betrayal - personal betrayal and natural betrayal that really just amounts to how the cards fall. He asks for an unknown someone to pour him some slack, which could just be an alcoholic metaphor, or it could be seen as something so easy that it could happen just as a glass of milk is poured into a glass. He sings, "I always wanted something else and nothing more," and it's that unmistakable desire that shines through all of these songs of tough love and tougher skin."

Netherfriends - Daytrotter Session, September 26, 2009

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Media: Stream Netherfriends - Barry and Sherry

<a href="http://netherfriends.bandcamp.com/album/barry-and-sherry">Brett Easton Ellis Novel by Netherfriends</a>

News: Netherfriends - Barry and Sherry 1st pressing

Netherfriends', Berry and Sharry is being pressed to 150g clear wax in a limited quantity of 500.  The order is almost in and should be available to order around early to mid November. 

Tour: Netherfriends - August Tour

AUGUST TOUR

8/9/2010
The Project Lodge, Madison, WI

8/10/2010
Vaudville Mews, Des Moines, Iowa

8/11/2010
Slowdown, Omaha, NE

8/12/2010
staging grounds, rapid city, SD

8/13/2010
The Nestor Tavern, Fargo, ND

8/14/2010
Top Hat Lounge, Missoula, MT

8/23/2010
Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA