August 2010

In Your Eye

you gotta see this

Drink Up Buttercup

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Drink Up Buttercup was one of the first band’s we raved about when the Impound started up this year. Luckily, our Senior Eastern Seaboard Correspondent Jake Krolick was at last week’s DUB free concert for the Philly Weekly in their hometown of Philadelphia and brings us this footage. Seriously, kids, you gotta check out their debut, Born And Thrown On A Hook, asap.

The Free Bird Project

Josh Clark & Tim Bluhm

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The Free Bird Project: Josh Clark & Tim Bluhm

Photo: Josh Miller

We like the contrast in styles in this nifty shot. The Mother Hips’ Tim Bluhm (currently on tour with the latest incarnation of The Rhythm Devils) offers bared-teeth intensity and Tea Leaf Green’s Josh Clark gives us a more relaxed, “Yeah, you can go fuck yourself” vibe. Both work for us and we welcome them to our ongoing celebration of the single-finger salute.

Are you interested in giving Dirty Impound the finger? Are you in a band? Well, we wanna see whatcha you got, cowboys (and cowgirls)! Send us your birdie pics and we’ll add them to our archive and make sure folks know you cared enough to raise a middle finger for rock! Send pictures to freebird@dirtyimpound.com

Hey Shredder (bass edition)

7 questions for the low end

Reed Mathis

Tea Leaf Green

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No one plays bass like Reed Mathis. Or perhaps more accurately, Mathis plays bass like no one else. His DNA is unique, and unlike many practitioners of the four-string arts, he’s a duck in any water he’s thrown into – an image whose physicality captures some of the rippled muscle and action charge he brings to his instrument and those he plays alongside. Most of the time these days, Mathis can be found rockin’ proper in Tea Leaf Green (and he co-produced their latest album, too). However, he spent 15 years keeping jazz malleable and fresh in the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, and puts in time in numerous projects these days, including a much-anticipated collection of Beethoven re-imaginings that will see the light of day after years of carving with pals like The Slip’s Andrew Barr and Phish’s Mike Gordon and Page McConnell.

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