INDIE SPOTLIGHT: SOMETHING ABOUT VAMPIRES AND SLUTS
Plus, how you can win a free cd from SAVAS!
We hope to make it a regular feature here at Anarchy Music to let you know about some of the best unsigned and indie bands in the country. Interested bands can contact Anarchy@anarchymusic.net for more info. However, our first Indie Spotlight band are some friends of mine from Myrtle Beach, SC called Something About Vampires And Sluts! Check them out and hopefully you'll dig them as much as the locals do.
If early 80s electro-pop could rise from the dead, put on a sexier
outfit, strip down the overly solicitous pop façade and adopt an edgier
persona the result would be Myrtle Beach, SC based five piece outfit called
Something about Vampires of Sluts. Mining all the snyth powered energy
of bands like The Cure, Heaven 17, Joy Division and Berlin, Something
About Vampires and Sluts is not afraid to mangle their protégés
kinetic pop templates with a darker, updated musings, twisting the
soaring emotionality of a fly wheel crescendo into a newly minted back
drop into a 21st bathhouse beat. Moving between hyper and sullen, sweet
and sick, caustic lyricism with sometimes agonizing, sometimes smoldering and otherwise
frantic melodies, reaching back into the void of pop culture oddities
to unearth a new, brooding and resonant music that is sure to leave a
distinctive mark on the recent 80s revivalism. Featuring a line-up of
new comers including Colin Kane on bass, Beth Graham on Keyboards,
Michael Wood on Vocals, Brian Mckenzie on Guitar and Chrissy
Kotsopolous on keyboards, the quintet has been honing both a wild stage
show and a broad song writing palette that is all in evidence. . With an impressive range of instrumentation and rhythm,
powerful vocals and subtly twisted lyrics, Something About Vampires and Sluts are a
powerfully updated mix of the electric energy of 80s constructs mixed
with the unnerving energy of post-pop punk.
SAVAS has been touring the states for the past 6 years and have released music with Coptercrash Records (home of Party of Helicopters, Acedia, Transistor Transistor, etc.), Rococo Records (who have also worked with Today Is The Day and many more), Release The Bats (Glass Candy, The Vanishing, etc.), and VMS Records (UK Subs, Electric Frankenstein, etc.) and is now on No More Stars Records.
SAVAS's new album "Pretend Endings" is available at www.nomorestarsrecords.com
other recordings are available at www.interpunk.com
Definitely check out the bands new album, but one of you is going to win a free copy of the bands previous album "I'm Not Afraid Of Sex"!!
1. Check out some of the bands songs from their Myspace page SAVAS on Myspace
and if you like what you hear you might as well add them to your friend list!
2. Go over to the Creativity Corner section of our Forum and post a poem, song, or story (fictional or true) that is...well...something about vampires or something about sluts...think dark...or think sexy...and post it in the thread labelled "Something About Vampires And Sluts Contest Thread"!
3. If you arent creatively inclined, or arent a member of our forum (and you should be, since forum members are involved in a TON of exclusive give-aways). Then simply post a bulletin on your Myspace page to turn all of your friends onto Something About Vampires And Sluts. Obviously, you'd have to by a current friend of our Myspace page in order for me to see your bulletin. be sure to title your bulletin either Something About Vampires And Sluts or I'm Not Afriad Of Sex so that I'll know you're entering the contest.
4. If you post a story or poem in our Anarchy Forum AND a bulletin on your Myspace then, yes, you will entered into the drawing twice!
Pretty easy...AND you can help out a cool band in the process!