If there were a blogging-god, she would certainly punish us severely. Yes, folks, The Frontier Brothers have been on blogging vacation. We've been drinking champagne out of crystal flutes, counting our piles of money, and generally celebrating the ripe fruit of the music industry.
But really, the band is alive and kicking. I've been in New York, researching this fascinating Earth metropolis for our upcoming television series. The internet is still pulsing with excitement generated by our upcoming full length album, Space Punk Starlet. Need proof?
Why don't you check out our friends at Alternative Apparel, who have added our new single, Space Punk Starlet, to their music player. Do you need cheap, high quality, environmentally conscious t-shirts? (YES!) Check out Alternative Apparel.
Or check out the fantastic Tuneage blog, where "thisstuffisinteresting" writes: "I’ve been pretty obsessed with ‘brother’ bands lately and I’m not sure why. "
Hey thisstuffisinteresting, maybe I can help out. You are obsessed.... you are obsessed because ... you are obsessed because space rock is awesome?
Yes.
Thats why.
Happy rocking!
BRETT MOSES
2008-07-23
2008-07-02
Booking the Tour!
Booking booking booking. If you would like us to come play your city, and your city is located in the Continental United States, and you will be in your city in the months of September or October 2008, then please let us know. We will book book book our way to you, and possibly play at your house if you would like to invite your friends and feed us. Booking booking booking
2008-06-27
June 27 - Central Market - Show Report
I spent the last two days emptying my room in Austin of all her things. On Saturday I will be traveling to New York for a month, and a stranger will inhabit my room at our house (and share a bathroom with Marshall Galactic). When I return to Austin, we'll be moving to a new place down the road. So long, old house.
I left Austin yesterday morning. My drive to Fort Worth had a tinge of symbolism. Out with the old, in with the new. We got to Central Market for load-in at 4:30 PM as requested by the booking agency. No one else was there. The sound guy, Dre, laughed at our punctuality.
Central Market is a boutique grocery store with a community element. Their "beer & burger" concert series is heavily attended and, by most estimations, more desirable than a gig at a rock club. For this gig, we were joined by two excellent DFW area bands, Odis & Goodwin. They both rocked the house and cooked up an excellent atmosphere for us to rock. So we rocked.
Strangely enough, I often feel better about our performance at "weird" venues than at big clubs. Something about having to play in bizarre locations - I concentrate a little more. There were kids playing on the jungle gym just a few feet behind the stage.
Our setlist:
We Are The Frontier Brothers
Get Up Go
Take It For Love
Kickstand Woman
Magazine Soul
Everyones A Neutron Bomb
Space Punk Starlet
Girl is an Unsolved Mystery (Groovy Ghoulies)
Robot Song
Robot Song Outro
Dream Collector
The show was a rousing success. The old and the young came together in the glorious name of rock. Shit, I don't know what I'm trying to say here. It was a lot of fun and ended in a raucous and possibly dangerous water-fight on stage.
No more shows until August. :(
Brett
I left Austin yesterday morning. My drive to Fort Worth had a tinge of symbolism. Out with the old, in with the new. We got to Central Market for load-in at 4:30 PM as requested by the booking agency. No one else was there. The sound guy, Dre, laughed at our punctuality.
Central Market is a boutique grocery store with a community element. Their "beer & burger" concert series is heavily attended and, by most estimations, more desirable than a gig at a rock club. For this gig, we were joined by two excellent DFW area bands, Odis & Goodwin. They both rocked the house and cooked up an excellent atmosphere for us to rock. So we rocked.
Strangely enough, I often feel better about our performance at "weird" venues than at big clubs. Something about having to play in bizarre locations - I concentrate a little more. There were kids playing on the jungle gym just a few feet behind the stage.
Our setlist:
We Are The Frontier Brothers
Get Up Go
Take It For Love
Kickstand Woman
Magazine Soul
Everyones A Neutron Bomb
Space Punk Starlet
Girl is an Unsolved Mystery (Groovy Ghoulies)
Robot Song
Robot Song Outro
Dream Collector
The show was a rousing success. The old and the young came together in the glorious name of rock. Shit, I don't know what I'm trying to say here. It was a lot of fun and ended in a raucous and possibly dangerous water-fight on stage.
No more shows until August. :(
Brett
2008-06-23
P R E S S R O U N D U P
From TheChickenFishSpeaks.Com (I...Know...) comes this fancy blurb:
The first thing I noticed when listening to this release was the vocals. Two singers came to mind: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and Robert Smith of The Cure. The vocalist has a warped quality to his singing that works well with the bit spacey alternative rock sound of the band. This is most evident on the terrific song "Technicalelectronicsupersonicrobot (T.E.S.S.)". The music and subject matter (being in love with a robot) are Flaming Lips all the way, but the aching passion as the vocalist sings "Why don't you love me anymore" is pure Robert Smith. Yet another great release that will go into my permanent collection.
-- Mite Mutant (2008)
Very nice Mite Mutant - thank you for the kind words.
Here is a little gem from WFAA.COM and The Dallas Morning News, courtesy of Mike Daniel:
Like any self-serving indie act, the Frontier Brothers are trying to fill a niche. Which one they're targeting is about as clear as Major Tom's path back to Earth after ground control lost contact with him (according to David Bowie, anyway). Formed in Fort Worth but now based in Austin, the trio scored recent appearances on MTV and in Spin for wearing skin-hugging silver, red and greenish-gold spandex body suits at South by Southwest in March. Giggly claims that the band's from outer space notwithstanding, its sound is a maudlin mishmash of British glam pop, chicken-fried piano melodies and punky sideshow brass that brings to mind what a child raised by Brian Wilson, Liza Minnelli and Syd Barrett might conjure up. Is it edgy? About as much as a plastic dinner knife. Is it entertaining? Greatly; so much so that the BBC and USA Today have noticed, and Fort Worth Weekly has nominated it as best new artist even though the act isn't around there much anymore. Now that's far out.
A little complementary, a little not so much. Edgy as a plastic dinner knife? I don't think you listened to the album, Mike. We'll talk afterword.
Brett
The first thing I noticed when listening to this release was the vocals. Two singers came to mind: Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and Robert Smith of The Cure. The vocalist has a warped quality to his singing that works well with the bit spacey alternative rock sound of the band. This is most evident on the terrific song "Technicalelectronicsupersonicrobot (T.E.S.S.)". The music and subject matter (being in love with a robot) are Flaming Lips all the way, but the aching passion as the vocalist sings "Why don't you love me anymore" is pure Robert Smith. Yet another great release that will go into my permanent collection.
-- Mite Mutant (2008)
Very nice Mite Mutant - thank you for the kind words.
Here is a little gem from WFAA.COM and The Dallas Morning News, courtesy of Mike Daniel:
Like any self-serving indie act, the Frontier Brothers are trying to fill a niche. Which one they're targeting is about as clear as Major Tom's path back to Earth after ground control lost contact with him (according to David Bowie, anyway). Formed in Fort Worth but now based in Austin, the trio scored recent appearances on MTV and in Spin for wearing skin-hugging silver, red and greenish-gold spandex body suits at South by Southwest in March. Giggly claims that the band's from outer space notwithstanding, its sound is a maudlin mishmash of British glam pop, chicken-fried piano melodies and punky sideshow brass that brings to mind what a child raised by Brian Wilson, Liza Minnelli and Syd Barrett might conjure up. Is it edgy? About as much as a plastic dinner knife. Is it entertaining? Greatly; so much so that the BBC and USA Today have noticed, and Fort Worth Weekly has nominated it as best new artist even though the act isn't around there much anymore. Now that's far out.
A little complementary, a little not so much. Edgy as a plastic dinner knife? I don't think you listened to the album, Mike. We'll talk afterword.
Brett
2008-06-19
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