Just a reminder! The Boss Martians are back in town Friday night at
Off Broadway w/ Ded Bugs & Left Arm! Should be a great show, hope to
see ya there.
18 & up, $7.
3509 Lemp in Soulard
www.offbroadwaystl.com
BIO
Fronted by guitar-smashing, soul singing, anthem-writing buzzbomb Evan
Foster, Seattle's BOSS MARTIANS are thee Rock & Roll jet boys to look
for in 2008! Got Songs?? HELL YES!! At least, that is, according to
Rolling Stone's David Fricke who anointed them "rising stars"
referencing their addictive hooks, killer tunes, and super-charged
performance a couple years ago in New York City at Little Steven's
International Underground Garage Festival alongside The Strokes and
Iggy Pop (among many others!) SPIN Magazine, quick to get aboard, said
"the Boss Martians' irresistible 'I Am Your Radio' should make them
stars…" regarding the Foster-penned Power Pop instant-anthem. Taking
it all over the top at the concert that day was the introduction the
Martians received from the "Boss" himself — Bruce Springsteen — to
10,000 people!
Martian History Lesson: Evan Foster (guitar, vocals) and NickC (keys)
met as teenagers in Tacoma, WA and discovered a mutual obsession with
Garage, Punk, Surf, Power Pop, New Wave, old SST Records releases, and
CAFFEINE! They both wanted to start a weird rock band — enter The Boss
Martians!! The Martians uniquely combine the primal energy of Punk
with the raw, unmistakable sound and swagger of Northwest Garage Rock
(think The Sonics!!), English blue-eyed soul (think Small Faces and
The Who!!), and the pure pop sensibility of a young, sneering Elvis
Costello. Rounding out the band's low end and drum kit destruction
plan, respectively, are Scott Myrene on bass guitar and the young,
often angry, Spokane-born, "Dirty" Thomas Caviezel on drums.
The last few years have proven to be very good to our Martians and
accolades abound for their relentless DIY touring all over the U.S.
and Europe while supporting their last full-length release "The
Set-Up" (MuSick/India/Rough Trade), which was declared a "Power Pop
Masterpiece" by Punk Planet!
BIG NEWS right now is that IGGY POP has co-written AND performed on
the new Boss Martians album entitled "Pressure in the S.O.D.O.",
scheduled for release in Europe in Nov 2007, and on July 8th, 2008 in
the U.S.!!
The album, mixed by Rock & Roll genius Jack Endino (Nirvana, Hot Hot
Heat, and everyone else that rules), features a song entitled "HEY HEY
YEAH YEAH" which is currently featured on six E-Trade TV commercial
ads running thru 2009 in the U.S. and Canada (WATCH THE ADS), and to
top that — one of these ads was just announced as being one of the
MOST POPULAR ADS OF SUPER BOWL XLII!!!
FOR MORE INFO:
http://www.myspace.com/thebossmartians
http://www.bossmartians.com
