Excited to bring these Costa Mesa rockers back and whatever odd bus/church van/sleeping quarters they roll up in.
Parade of Flesh presents . . .
Thursday, January 10th, 2013 – 7pm
The GROWLERS
at Club Dada – 2720 Elm St
All Ages, $13 advance, $15 day of show
Facebook event
When the Growlers put out their “Greatest sHits” compilation and their subsequent “Couples Vol 1-8” series there was no doubt the writing team of Brooks Nielsen and Matt Taylor and their band of merry menacers could output as many songs about the Growler life as they wanted to.The question would be what of that output to put out.
Now, with several moon cycles and a couple hundred tunes behind them, The Growlers are set to release their latest batch of sonic brownies, “Hung at Heart”, November 13 via Everloving Records, and yes their goodies are still laced with that psychedelic circus of surf, sex, and hobo trance, boom boom twang that makes for a hell of a high!
However, getting these treats out of the oven wasn’t all that easy. Indie Iron Chef, Dan Auerbach, had initially tried his hand in the kitchen but when the dish ended up overcooked, the Growlers brought it back to the home kitchen, drank the juice and started over.
Warning to the hipster savants: This is a Growlers record. Fuzzy genius and working class logic mix easily in love songs that extol the virtues of the free market in mate selection (One Million Lovers). “Some Day” opens up the Hope and Magic aisle in the sentimental supermarket where Nielsen sings about turning ‘bologna into steak and tallboys into champagne.’ The real magic however, has been the relentless pursuit of happiness on the road while traveling throughout the hundreds of gigs performed to get from Costa Mesa to London to Brazil and back. At every stop along the way the kids and creeps have joined the Beach Goth caravan that is the Growlers experience. It is the experience they have coined that has landed them on the big stages of Coachella (where their set began at 4:20) and Lollapalooza 2012 and though nothing in life is certain, one thing will always remain true: The Growlers will continue to live a simple blend of surfing and experimentation, both in music and road dog life.