Fangs “Aaron” Mullan finished “Another Beer” this week. The best reissue of 2035 is on its way. That of course means Glass Rock II: I Hope I Never Change.
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Thanks to the magic of globalism rather than the tragedy (internet radio versus privatization of water), Glass Rock Life’s been getting some new hits and people have asked “What the f&ck is Glass Rock?” To clarify Glass Rock is a band formed from two groups of mutual admirers, Tall Firs and Soft Location. Here is our artist page from Ecstatic Peace! “the label that takes a chance with its reputation.”
http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/artist.php?id=35
There’s also tabs related to our debut LP and some very kind Reviews above you much like the falling sky. Sincere thanks for your interest. Right now we’re completing our second album despite Aaron playing bass with Hallogallo 2010 and [an unidentified band member] breaking his [or her] nose on the back of a Moby Dick hardcover. What?! Advanced leaks of the second record include the following review of our collared guitar section: “Whereas Mullan is prone to sounding like raindrops and surprising noises that point to a melodic optimistic future, Mies’s guitar has the feel of depleted near dead t&stacles struggling to get out from under the weight of their own existential crisis.” -Witchtorque Feedia
Glass Rock is also a ribald, raunchy but really nice loving way of life. Authenticity is great because no matter what kinda jerk you are Marshall Mathers, at least you can look yourself in the mirror.
Five acts blog kindly to GnR, [ecstatic] peace
http://5acts.blogspot.com/2010/07/glass-rock.html
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Matt picked up with jammin’ blues-rock group with modern tech networking, stoked to play with Gories tonight whether the changes get f*cked up or not
using the internet for modern tech networking-http://jimmyohiofanpage.angelfire.com/
and also
Tonight’s the Night
charting at college/community radio this week:
WCCS Norton MA #13
WHPK Chicago IL #14
Also, Matt, Dave, Kathy, and Aaron are convening to interview producers for Glass Rock II which commences tomorrow night. The panel is thick, the room is smokey. Updates as the process gets under way.
Ironic that someone else wanted to Start The Weekend in Style but with Glass Rock. Now that the satyrs have left, it has indeed gotten mellow round these parts. Enjoy.
Charting at college/community radio this week: WDCE Richmond VA #5, CKXU Lethbridge AB #18, WHPK Chicago IL #19, WLJS Jacksonville AL #22, WNCW Spindale NC #25, Rainy Dawg Radio Portland OR #28
Thanks.
Casey Kasem cannot hold it together after learning that Glass Rock has plummeted from four to twenty-five on the venerable NYU charts.
Seriously, [we] love the spins all the way and cannot help the reaction of our fans. Fans, please keep it up at your day jobs. Fucking doesn’t pay the bills, God we know.
charting at college/community radio this week:
WDCE Richmond VA #6
KVCU Boulder CO #13
WRIR Richmond VA #24
WLJS Jacksonville AL #29
KEXP Seattle WA #46
Thanks.
including PREFIX MAG’s album of the day, we like that.
Also due to overwhelming demand, we’re publishing the original photograph from Brighton with laserbeam included.
Thanks Prefix, thanks Laserbeam.
Indie radio continues to support Glass Rock. The top 30 from WTJU in Charlottsvile, VA came across [my] desk this morning -CALL LETTERS FROM THE CITY OF AMERICA ARE ALWAYS COOL - thanks for playing our record.
A review from back in December also washed up and an unnamed band member gave some thought to disparities in the group when [he] read -This album grows soft and tall and is rather magical at times.
Glass Rock Life is right in the middle, mediating calmly. Please enjoy the 8 Days to Showtime Countdown Funk Jam beneath us.
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See you at Union Pool snitched details below ( You dropped ”Satanarchistic?” Really dude, what kinda deal did they offer you?)
Insane WeatherMan footage came across [my] desk this morning -SNOW- and between that and the new Ozzy book [I] started reading in the bookstore last night, [my] thoughts now remotely controlling the ‘intenet’ turned to Black Sabbath. Much to [my] delight, someone posted a whole buncha [fucking awesome] California Jam hitherto unseen.
Rock historians will explain why Sabbath works or not. Pasty Mother Jones readers will note those dudes in football [new] jerseys who will start beating the living daylights out of Orange County punk rockers in a few years. Some will ask, -What’s this have to do with a soft rock band who loves Wings [the band], kindness, and Motown, called Glass Rock , or a seemingly troubled weatherman inhabiting a character? The simple answer to any questions, comments, and concerns is, “Black Sabbath are awesome and playing in front of palm trees.”
(P.S. If you feel down today, drink orange juice and flip through that OZZY book to read sentences like ”Those Satanists became a real pain in the arse.” Seriously.)
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We appreciate the indepent radio that continues to support our album
Look for new exclusive! demos up soon. However in pursuit of information about Bill “Spaceman” Lee, you may have ended up here to enjoy this quote.
“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.”
Well said. For those obsessed with counterculture pitchers, Glass Rock are a band with songs– 3 Joints to sample on myspace–and a new album.
We’ve received reviews for which we are grateful, even ones which use phrases like ”jazz dinner waffle” which sounds like eating pancakes with a chocolate chip smiley face for dinner i.e. corrupt and immature but not evil. Speaking of breakfast, enjoy some Glass Rock approved jam this morning.
^^^ that seminal sh*t^^^
Tall Firs Meet Soft Location available via LP and download from Ecstatic Peace!, the must have release for Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July, and some Wednesday night you mistakenly hit the town. Also via iTunes.
Glass Rock is a song, is a band, is a way of life. Glass Rock is the crystallized movement formed by the molten lava makeout of the two bands of the album title: ‘Tall Firs meet Soft Location’. It’s a werewolf and a rhino on a first-date rampage of Korean Food and poppers, doing the Cabbage Patch on the boardwalk, kissing babies with beer breath. The core elements of the Soft Location sound are Kathy Leisen’s haunting voice and boneyard guitar, and Matt Kantor’s slo-mo jet fuel bass jamminating. Add Tall Firs: Ryan Sawyer’s could-blow-your-pants-off-but-prefer-to-slowly-work-them-over-your-hips drumming and Dave Mies and Aaron Mullan’s creamy dual-savant guitar stylings: two dudes who don’t even know how the other guy’s guitar is tuned but nonetheless have brought the tandem knockout reverb dropkick since 1991.
The band actively refuses to discuss influences, even with one another. With two pairs of childhood friends in the band, the music just happens and the listener is left to speculate. The serious aficionado is thinking Martha Reeves, Amon Dull II, the Gories, Otis Redding. But Heads know: this thing is wigs, Pepsi commercials, Sam Cooke, hardcore festivals, free stuff on craigslist, and connoisseur-grade sandwiches. In reality, Glass Rock are a prisonyard football team: a motley collection of wizened lifers, small-time pimps, and the wrongly convicted. Leisen is their Burt Reynolds. A painter on the Outside, she woke up back in the huskau of a recording studio after Awesome Michael ratted her and Kantor out to Ecstatic Peace. In the yard Tall Firs were hanging around bench-pressing twice their body weight. This record documents their crushing and dramatic gridiron defeat of the prison guards, and their harrowing escape during the ensuing melee.
GnR II are truly Chimeric. This ain’t reference-rock. This is the half man/half shark/half alligator sung of in days of yore, with inflatable Sasquatch feet and one popsicle arm. This thing will get bestial with you on the dancefloor, and will hold you tight on a pre-dawn canoe ride; staring at the stars crying at the wonder and terror of it all. Glass Rock ‘Tall Firs meet Soft Location’ is available from Ecstatic Peace! via LP and download. Also via iTunes. Recommended for people who wanna get laid.
