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The Free Bird Project: Band of Skulls

Band of Skulls

We spent most of yesterday afternoon listening to the fab new slab from Band of Skulls, and want to hip y’all to Sweet Sour, which comes out February 14th (with a special iTunes exclusive edition next Tuesday, February 7th). It’s one of those platters that feels good right away but moves with such limber seductiveness that you don’t realize how much you’ve fallen under its sway until much later. This Southhampton, England trio is ballsy and filled with confident attitude, as this Free Bird shot from DI pal Brad Hodge (captured at last year’s Bonnaroo) illustrates, but they know how to charm in subtler ways, as evidenced by the Lebowski-esque new video below. Sweet Sour is a creeper, one of those albums that slips into the cracks of one’s life and stays there.

Band of Skulls by Brad Hodge

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
The Free Bird Project
0 February 3, 2012

You Gotta See This: Butch Walker And The Black Widows

Butch Walker And The Black Widows

Synthesizers

Props to Butch Walker And The Black Widows for getting Matthew McConaughey to reprise his legendary Dazed and Confused character David Wooderson for this video, where apparently the girls do stay the same age as he gets older.

In Your Eye
0 January 31, 2012

Albums of the Week | January 31-February 6

January 31-February 6

In this edition: Jay Gonzalez, Wino & Conny Oches, Spielgusher, Cardinal and John K. Samson.

what’s tickling our fancy this week…

Albums of the Week
0 January 31, 2012

We’ll Do It Live: Jackie Greene

Jackie Greene

01.28.12 | Santa Cruz, CA

A couple things these shots, expertly captured last weekend at the Catalyst Club by pro lensman and DI regular Jay Blakesberg, make clear: 1) Jackie Greene is a very photogenic dude, and 2) One doesn’t need to hear a note to smell the rock ‘n’ roll funk wafting off this band. Greene and his talented, ever-more-in-tune with their leader band offer up a classic, rib-sticking sort of music, something akin to what the early 70s Dead accomplished or Little Feat in the time of Lowell George, but devoid of nostalgia, in love with something more enduring and bedrock that ties what Greene does to a larger, happy tradition without actually reproducing it in his own music. We’re gonna chat with Jackie on the Impound this year, but for now y’all can drink in the fun that went down last Saturday (and check out Jackie’s tour schedule in February and March to see if you can catch the real deal in the flesh).

We'll Do It Live
0 January 31, 2012

You Gotta See This: Red Fang

Red Fang

Hank Is Dead

Not every band should make videos. A few minutes trolling the abyss on MTV/VH1/CMT will affirm this truth. But motherflucking Red Fang has the touch. Not only do they rock your balls into a firestorm, they’ve got a shameless, do-anything-it-takes attitude in their videos that’s goddamn charming. Case in point, this new one that starts with an awkward shower scene worthy of an 80s teen flick and culminates in an air guitar competition they judged in their hometown of Portland, OR. And if you haven’t already checked out their latest album, Murder The Mountains, well, we’re a little disappointed in you. It was one of DI’s 20 Favorite Albums of 2011 – pure hard rock mightiness.

In Your Eye
0 January 28, 2012

The Free Bird Project: Diego’s Umbrella

Diego's Umbrella

Gypsy Pirate Polka. It’s as intriguing a soundbite for a band as we’ve ever encountered, and Bay Area-based Diego’s Umbrella live up to the descriptor with a cavorting, scoop-em-all-up energy that compares well with kindred spirits Gogol Bordello. The band is currently on tour, hitting Santa Barbara and Solano Beach in their native California this weekend and picking up the trail again in early February. Here’s their live schedule, and do yourself a favor and check these guys out. Anyone who flips us off with this much flair is fully worthy of DI’s support!

Diego's Umbrella by John Margaretten

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
The Free Bird Project
0 January 28, 2012

You Gotta See This: JEFF The Brotherhood

JEFF The Brotherhood

Bummer

The bros of JEFF The Brotherhood show off their Survivor/Lost skills in this vagabond video directed by Lina Plioplyte. This highlight of last year’s We Are The Champions is what should blast out of car stereos instead of, well, most of the turd storm filling what’s left of radio, a classic single that cuts right to the heart of things with unadorned lines like, “I have been aching for your touch/ I’m bummin’ so much.” JEFF The Brotherhood is currently on tour opening for The Kills, and plays tonight, January 26, in New Orleans (full tour schedule here).

In Your Eye
0 January 26, 2012

You Gotta See This: Akron/Family

Akron/Family

Everyone Is Guilty

Don’t stand off in your own little world. Be here in the now. Join us in our run through the wilds of the human condition. This is what Akron/Family cries in ways literal and figurative each time they gather in a music hall. The ultimate rise and fall of their concert experiences hinges on the level of engagement and enthusiasm of everyone in the room, not just the dudes with electrified instruments. This evening at The Blockley in Philadelphi (distilled beautifully by DI Brother In Arms Jake Krolick over at the quite swell Beat Of My Strut) looks like the lads and the gathered mob were symbiotic in the extreme. Aided by members of Sun Ra Arkestra, this January night appears to have loosened up some love, including a nod to the recently passed Etta James, who Akron/Family’s Miles Seaton suggests would like folks to party in her honor. We couldn’t agree more.

In Your Eye
0 January 25, 2012

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