Arrows

So many of my friends are obsessed with Arrows.

I can understand why. If you're into that noodly style 90's emo stuff that is having a popularity resurgence right now you would dig Arrows too. What makes it better is they are a band (mainly) from Brisbane. My roomate even works with one of the dudes. I keep saying it, but we do have some of the best music in the country right in our city.

I saw them once, in Melbourne of all places, opening for This Town Needs Guns. A perfect combination for a perfect noodly concert. They are a very hard bunch to catch live, as they don't play a lot of shows. However, we're going to get our second Arrows show in the last few months very soon.

October 1st, at Thriller. This will be my first time heading to Thriller since they moved from Rosies. It's now halfway between the Valley and the city at Hotel Orient. I'm hoping this venue is better than Rosies was for quieter bands. During Frank Turner all I could really hear was the music from the dance floor one room over.

Opening for Arrows is the always wonderful Jamie Hay. A former hardcore singer, he now does his own style of acoustic folk rock. But which former hardcore singer doesn't do that these days?

Arrows (with free MP3s)
Jamie Hay

Free Music Friday 9!

I really just want to post this band purely for their description on Last.Fm:

They sound like a panda bear spaghetti birthday party, that has a not funny clown but you’re kinda just laughing at him, and everyone got you pretty sweet gifts like comics/records/books/video games (even though you’re totally an adult and you don’t really care) and of course mom made you triple chocolate cake and got you peanut butter and chocolate ice cream to go along with it and she put chocolate covered strawberries on top just like she has for the past 6 years or so and the party is so indescribingly awesome, like all your friends getting splinters in their feet cause of shitty hardwood floors but your mom takes them out with tweezers, and your friends are all good to go and its just a rad time.

The band? Jazz Hands.

After spending a few days this week seeing bands like La Dispute, Quiet Steps, To The North and Nuclear Summer playing, it's no surprise that I'm staying in that vein: noodly guitar screamo. They easily fall into this seemingly becoming popular category of screamo with indie math-rock guitars. They typify the style of fast, clean and bright music overlayed with screamed and shouted lyrics.

You can name your price ($zero to $infinity) and get their new The Party EP at their Bandcamp here.