Photos: The Magic Kids, The Young Friends & Gospel Claws @ The Trunk Space

On nothing but the strength of the only two songs I could find from The Magic Kids I overcame my seething laziness and trekked on down to The Trunk Space last night. Knowing that The Young Friends and Gospel Claws were supporting didn't hurt the motivation factor either... because like to hear the music they play.

For your personal reference in case you totally ignored my post yesterday and didn't go, all three bands have their own spin on the booming genre of "post nouveau surf wave" (or whatever the shit it's called) made popular by internet famous band such as Girls, Wavves and or Surfer Blood. One thing I came to understand deep in my heart over the course of the night is this... The best and really ONLY place to listen to this "music type style" is live in a small intimate space. In a bigger venue I think it might feel forced and weird, but the Trunk Space it kinda feels like you are just hanging out watching your friends jam in a garage a block away from the beach after surfing all morning. That might (no, it definitely does) sound stupid but I don't care, that's how it made me feel and YOU can't tell ME how to feel!

Oddly enough this is my first trip back to The Trunk Space since having my ears melted at the Crystal Antlers show last year, and you know what? Throw a pair of earplugs in and things are not so bad, in fact I think I might be able to get used to it. And that is a good thing for me due to the basket load of goats worth of good bands lined up to play there over the next coming... forever I guess.

As for these pictures, the one thing The Trunk Space hasn't changed is the lighting, its fucking dark in there and that makes for some grainy/blurry ass pictures that I have attempted to save via Adobe Lightroom, so please forgive me if they burn your eyes out or something. If for some reason you want to see even MORE of them click HERE for our Flickr page.

Tonight In Phoenix: The Magic Kids, The Young Friends, Gospel Claws @ The Trunk Space

Normally I wait till later in the day to post this kind of thing but I wanted to give you all plenty of time to make plans for tonight at the Trunk Space. The Magic Kids out of Memphis are playing tonight with a couple of my favorite Phoenix bands... The Young Friends and Gospel Claws. If the promise of three great bands in an intimate setting are not enough to motivate you this Wednesday night I also heard a rumor about possible "free PBR at bikini next door" just one though and you will have to negotiate this yourselves, I am not here to be your middle man dammit! So let's recap... 3 great bands, free beer, intimate setting and free beer. What the hells else are you going to do on a Wednesday night? Tickets are only $10 and you can get them HERE

Tonight In Phoenix: Real Estate, Stephen Steinbrink, Young Friends & Really Big Birds @ Modified

Goddamn that is a lot of band name to type out for a title and I didn't even type out all of it. Well Real Estate is acquiring a shit ton of blogbuzz as of late to store away in their beach cave, and if you have listened to Sirius XMU for more than 5 minutes over the last 4 months you would know that "The guys in Real Estate went to high school with the Vivian Girls! Such a small world"  and I am getting sick of hearing about it DAMMIT! But I digress... I got it on good authority that Stephen Steinbrink and his Band are "really fucking good" and I can vouch for the goodness of The Young Friends. I have yet to be exposed (musically OR sexually) to Really Big Birds, but I can't imagine they would suck (musically OR sexually) with a name as retarded............ly awesome as that ;-) Tix are money and the show starts at time.

mp3: Young Friends "Riverside Kids" & "Make Out Point"

So I had the unexpected pleasure of catching a new, really good Phoenix band at Modified Arts last Friday (check the pics HERE). They go by the "search engine ambiguous" name of The Young Friends. For the time being their name is very accurate since they are both young AND presumably friends. So young in fact I am pretty sure one if not both of them are still in High School. Their EP NORTH END/SOUTH END is available for a free download from their label Holiday Records, just click HERE. Check out a couple of tracks off of that very EP below.

You can catch the duo (Andrew McKee & Brant Stuns) at The Trunk Space tonight opening for City Center (another search engine ambiguous name) out of Brooklyn.


The Young Friends - "Make Out Point"


The Young Friends - "Riverside Kids"