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The Bosch
Buy One Get One
It’s nice to hear a garage band doing something different. The Bosch have a full, shuffling sound with a keyboard player who also plays sax and clarinet. The horns give them a 50s rock influence, especially on a couple of hand-clapping numbers and the ballady “Teenage Symphony.” Along with rockabilly drumming, skanky upbeat horn lines, and good Lou Reed-ish rock vox, they’re raucous in a Who meets the White Light/White Heat era Velvets way, but executed with good, clean fun.
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These guys would probably steal little children’s lollipops only to throw them into the gutter right in front of them. Why? Not because they’re inherently evil but because they’re “reaction observers”. How else could you explain a band whose obviously influenced by The Ramones, The White Stripes, and the Violent Femmes and then set off to record a garage rock album as raunchy as the lip curling Mick Jagger. It’s loud and rowdy with a bit of surf rock added to the top. Fortunately it doesn’t sound as derivative as the bevy of other garage rock bands out there with “The” names.
A little of this, a little of that
Thanks to all the Bosch faithful who braved the weather to come out to Trash for the show last night!
In other news, Buy One, Get One is now available on the iTunes Music Store
Metronome leads off this week’s WOXY weekly podcast show Unsigned which features promising unsigned artists… See www.woxy.com for more info. I’ve been listening to the WOXY stream during the last couple of days and it really is a great indie rock radio station.
What else? We’ve lined up a nice little tour outside the city in early December. Here’s the itinerary:
Monday Dec. 4 – The Boar’s Nest, Norfolk, VA
Tuesday Dec. 5 – Galaxy Hut, Arlington, VA
Wednesday Dec. 6 – Sharkey’s, Blacksburg, VA
Finally, we found the first review of our new CD, “Buy One, Get One,” from independentsonly.com. It’s short, so here’s the whole thing:
Did I hear a Rolling Stone’s influence? I heard a lot of influences on this disc from Brooklyn’s The Bosch. It’s sixties psychedelic rock infused with elements of ska and punk. It’s freaking great! Completely engulfing you with a delivery of spastic, high-energy guitars and vocals, The Bosch don’t bring to mind New York… more like the British invasion that brought the world The Kinks. The saxophone leads the rhythm of almost all tracks but often pushed aside by surf riffs and a haunting organ.
R.I.Y.L.: The Buzzcocks, The Kinks, The Who
As always, you can buy the disc at CD Baby.
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The Bosch “Buy One Get One”
Self-Produced
Did I hear a Rolling Stone’s influence? I heard a lot of influences on this disc from Brooklyn’s The Bosch. It’s sixties psychedelic rock infused with elements of ska and punk. It’s freaking great! Completely engulfing you with a delivery of spastic, high-energy guitars and vocals, The Bosch don’t bring to mind New York… more like the British evasion that brought the world The Kinks. The saxophone leads the rhythm of almost all tracks but often pushed aside by surf riffs and a haunting organ.
R.I.Y.L.: The Buzzcocks, The Kinks, The Who
WOXY
A Bosch track, The Movie Director, is included in WOXY’s Unsigned podcast this week. Subscribe (in iTunes or other podcast aggregator).
3, 2, 1, Liftoff
Thanks to everyone who came to the CD release party last week to make it a big success! Also thanks to Deli Magazine for announcing the show on their web site and Largehearted Boy for the link.
You can now purchase Buy One, Get One online at CD Baby and have it delivered right to your door courtesy of our friends at the web’s top independent online CD store. The ever-popular Bosch t-shirts are also available for purchase online.
Buy One, Get One is at college radio stations now. Our own Brett Beyer is not only a skilled bass player, but he is a professional voice over artist and is happy to do station ID’s and such for the stations that are spinning those shiny Bosch songs.
CD Release Show
The Buy One, Get One CDs are here, just in time for the release show tomorrow at Pianos.
Counting down
Sonyc.info recently interviewed Matt and Brett: Getting Arty with The Bosch
SONYC: What is the oddest compliment the band has ever received?
MATT: We played at Trash Bar once and some dude said, “You guys were really tight. You are kind of like the tonight show band… you have horn sections and dance moves…” We don’t have dance moves.
Andrew went down to DC to wonk out at the Future of Music Policy Summit and posted some notes over here.
We’re all looking forward to the release of “Buy One, Get One.” The CD’s are pressed and on their way to Brooklyn. The CD release show will be on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at Pianos on the Lower East Side at 9:30pm. Come on down, buy one and get one.
Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
It’s all covered
The album is back from mastering and we have some of the tracks you can download.
We also have a cover design (by the talented Mr. Jason Hogg):
Only a few weeks until the album is all released…
Until then, we have a show tonight at the Hamilton St. Cafe in Bound Brook, NJ. Jersey, hell yeah!
The Boys Are Back in Town
Josiah A. Pseudonym here, just back from narrowly escaping bear attacks on the Appalachian Trail and ready to go enjoy the rest of the summer with the Bosch boys.
The new album will be titled Buy One, Get One. It’s off to get mastered and duplicated. Those rough mixes that I heard sound hot. Take a listen to a couple of the mixes at MySpace.
Here’s the tracklisting for Buy One, Get One:
- Come On, Phillie
- The Movie Director
- Metronome
- Matching Girlfriend
- Teenage Symphony
- Back to the Laboratory
- Zombie Killer
- Napoleon Invades Russia
- Tell the Doctor
It all starts tonight at The Delancey Lounge for Death Disco. Death Disco is an awesome FREE party at The Delancey, the disgustingly hip spot on the LES featuring a great stage ‘n sound system and an amazing rooftop garden/bar. The illustrious DJ Mojo organizes the night, selecting only the finest local bands. The party starts at 8, with The Bosch on around 10 PM.