Band of the Week: NODZZZ

by Pop Tarts Suck Toasted on Thu, 2009/02/05 - 2:00pm Post to Twitter

A lot of the new-ish grage afflicted bands hailing from New York take themselves a bit too seriously. They strut and pose on stage, trying to look cooler then they are in their designer clothes and perfectly pieced together outfits. They try not to sweat no matter how much their music begs them to. Well the West coast doesn’t seem to have quite the same problems with their garage acts, bands like WAVVES and No Age, who have mixed punk, noise, lo-fi, and garage into one big grab bag but expect you to have fun while listening.

Well you can add San Fran trio NODZZZ to that group of bands as these quirky, Dead Milkmen aping dudes know how to have a good tongue as evidenced by their ability to eschew cool and embrace their inner dorks. But it’s this characteristic that actually makes them cooler then all those bands that just stand there copying Nuggets and getting praised for it. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with those bands, they’re doing their thing and for the most part doing it well. It’s just that bands like NODZZZ make it all seem so effortless and fun. It allows you to escape all the crap that’s raining down in the real world and escape for the duration of their nearly 2-minute long songs. Go ahead get it all out of you, dance around, sweat, and go ape shit. It is okay, the music is practically begging you for this.

This weekend the band will be playing a troika of shows with similar sounding bands, WAVVES, Blank Dogs, and Woods, though each of those bands also brings something else to the table. I was basically forced to check out this band this week when my blogging buddies Paul from The Unblinking Ear and Bill from Sound Bites implored me to check out the fourth band of a lineup I was already stoked about. They were both right in their assertion of this band’s radness and I have been listening to the trio all week. I think you guys will do the same as soon as you get to listening.
NODZZZ - "I Don’t Wanna (Smoke Marijuana)"
NODZZZ - "Highway Memorial Shrine"
NODZZZ on MySpace