The Days of Lore

The Strange Boys are all right

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

South By Southwest is over. Good bands left their marks. Other bands are already looking forward to next year. Austin’s economy is fat and happy. Matt Pinfield’s totally awesome coverage for Direct TV is already a distant memory. Four days of music and sin are being picked up, swept away and hosed down by someone who’s happy to have a job. Yes, life in the hipster mecca has returned to normal. Sort of.

The four kids that make up Austin’s The Strange Boys are still there making rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form. The band’s debut full-length And Girls Club is out on In The Red and is shaping up to be one of my favorites of 2009. It would be quite easy to dismiss them as just another band in a long line of garage rock throwbacks—if the songs weren’t so damn good. “Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up” is cut right from the blues bone. Essentially, the young-ish (early-to-mid 20s) Strange Boys know early rock ‘n’ roll, and play it as if they’ve never been exposed to anything post-1970 (I actually have a few friends who I’m convinced this is the case). It’s not so much garage rock as it is early Beatles if Dylan and the Fab Four smoked that joint and immediately went into the studio together.

“Heard You Wanna Beat Me Up” - The Strange Boys

“Should Have Shot Paul” - The Strange Boys

Tags: In The Red, SXSW, The Strange Boys, The Strange Boys…and Girls Club