Blood Brothers
The Blood Brothers have been around for ten years now, and that’s a statistic that makes us feel horribly aged, and want to cry old mans tears. Formed in Seattle in ’97, the band number their two full-time vocalists Jordan Billie and Johnny Whitney (four names for two people, fancy that) along with Morgan Henderson on bass, Cody Votolato on guitar and Mark Gajadhar on drums, though at certain points you’ll find all of them bellowing along, or switching from their guitars to Wurlitzer organs or laptops.
Before today, it was true that the band had released four records – ‘This Adultery is Ripe’ in 2000, ‘March on Electric Children’ two years later, 2003’s ‘Burn, Piano Island, Burn’ and the decidedly stripped back yet still exhilarating ‘Crimes’ in ’04. Their newest, greatest record is entitled ‘Young Machetes’, and is out on these shores this very day. It was co-produced by Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, and a dozen of its startling tracks hark back to earlier, rowdier days of the band. It’s one stunning record.
COMING SOON: Tonight, we’ve got Chris Pratt going down to catch the band at London’s Islington Academy. He’ll be giving them a right grilling, the fruits of which will find their way here soon afterwards.
OFFICIAL SITE: Worth checking out the excellent MP3s on offer here – including the band’s remix of Gang of Four’s ‘Anthrax’.
BLOOD BROTHERS’ MYSPACE: A page that always has three tracks from the new album on it – visit it a few times, listen to the lot!
V2 RECORDS BLOOD BROTHERS PAGE: The best place for legal Blood Brothers downloads you’ll be able to find.
’LOVE RHYMES WITH HIDEOUS CAR WRECK: Superbly titled Blood Brother classic which we called ‘trash punk’, but said it was freakin’ ace.
SET FIRE TO THE FACE ON FIRE – THE VIDEO: The video accompaniment to the first single from the long awaited and now finally released ‘Young Machetes’.
READING FESTIVAL ‘05: We walked in, and this was the first thing we saw. And because of that, we decided to brace the mini-moshers and stay.