October 29, 2012

Touring: The Men

Artwork by Ben Montero / layout by Alicia Saye

THE MEN TOUR DATES:

  • AUCKLAND LANEWAY FESTIVAL: MONDAY JANUARY 28th @ Silo Park. Tickets + lineup info here.
  • SYDNEY: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 @ Goodgod Small Club w/- Royal Headache + Raw Prawn. Tickets on sale now from Moshtix.
  • MELBOURNE: WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6 @ Northcote Social Club w/- White Walls + Nun. Tickets on sale now from the venue.
  • BRISBANE LANEWAY FESTIVAL: Friday 1st February @ RNA, Fortitude Valley. Tickets + lineup info here.
  • SYDNEY LANEWAY FESTIVAL: Saturday 2nd February @ Sydney College Of The Arts, Rozelle. Tickets + lineup info here.
  • MELBOURNE LANEWAY FESTIVAL: Sunday 3rd February Footscray Community Arts Centre. Tickets + lineup info here.
  • ADELAIDE LANEWAY FESTIVAL: Friday 8th February Fowler’s Live and Uni SA City West Campus. Tickets + lineup info here.
  • PERTH LANEWAY FESTIVAL: Saturday 9th February Perth Cultural Centre. Tickets + lineup info here.

Mistletone, Maggot Music and Triple R present Brooklyn’s The Men on their first visit to Australasia. Ironically referred to by Time Out New York as “Thurston Moore & the E Street Band”, The Men bring their incendiary live set to Laneway Festival NZ + Australia, as well as sideshows in Sydney +  Melbourne.

With a love of scuzzy guitars, The Men don’t play by categorical punk sub-genre rules, but dabble in everything from hardcore punk to psych to shoegaze to black metal and country. The quartet’s catalogue began in 2008 with a hand-dubbed self-released demo cassette, and grew to include more tapes and LPs including their on-point third album, 2012’s Open Your Heart (out locally on Spunk Records), which won new fans’ hearts with its goofy blues explosions, country-lovin’ dirges and straight-up indie punk anthems (cue the triple j playlisted title track). This year they’ve criss-crossed Europe, played shows with Ty Segall, the Thee Oh Sees and Redd Kross and performed at festivals such as Pitchfork Festival, FYF Fest Los Angeles and Primavera Sound, Barcelona. A new album on Sacred Bones is expected in early 2013.

Having four songwriters in the band lends itself to a truly unpredictable and thrilling live experience which has seen The Men grow a following of die hard fans, from living rooms and basements throughout New York’s five boroughs to across the United States and Europe. Catch The Men on their debut Australasian tour for a truly blistering and distorted live punk experience.

Open Your Heart is both tremendously physical and friendly, knocking you on your ass one second, then immediately helping you back up to put a beer in your hand… (It’s) like a tribute to the pure rejuvenating powers of rock’n’roll itself by going nuts with all the things that got you hooked the first time: breakneck Zep riffs! Duel-guitar leads! Drum solos!  It’s essentially a teenager’s highlight reel”PITCHFORK BEST NEW MUSIC (Rating 8.5)

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