http://www.nerdles.com - "News for Nerds" Has this to say:
"OK, so its safe to say that if you send ‘em, I’ll check ‘em out, and likely write something about them in the columns at some point or another. So when our column editor forwarded me a link to a band that had been in touch and asked us to check them out, I was worries. I just hoped for something interesting. Most likely I would think it was shit and write just that, creating a little animosity between 4 angsty teenagers somewhere in the middle of Butt-F&*k, Nowhere and…well, me, here at the Nerdles cyber tribe.
No point in writing about it unless I feel something about it, good or bad, right? Right, but how happy was I to find that the first user requested review was actually quite an interesting find.
Hailing from Altlanta, Georgia in the US, The Nerd Parade, who clearly found us Googling themselves, claim indie/rock/electronica as their genre span, or at least they do on myspace. Not sure whether that really serves as the best description but it’s certainly heading in that direction. First off, I like it, quite a lot actually.
‘Dead Air and Denial’ is what would have happened if The Surfari’s turned into vampires at the Titty Twister in the film ‘From Dusk Til Dawn’ and rocked out. It’s a great surf-rock tune that somehow turns in to a long outro that sounds like it should be the music for the closing ceremony for the Olympics or something – not sold on this bit, nevertheless, I like the tune and it’s probably one of the highlights for me, along with ‘The Span of a Life’ that immediately puts me in mind of Queens of the Stone Age, and then somehow relents to reveal a group that cannot get away from the sound of where it lives - there is a certain southern rock/country vibe that seems to underlay most of the tracks, even the more electronic tracks, though not as much. It’s a Southern charm that permeates music rather than influences it – bands like The Black Crowes dish it out in buckets, and a band called Paw, from Texas used to regularly throw it out in the acoustic break downs of their grungy alt-rock, and this band show it too in their breakdowns, intro’s and outro’s, and its something that I like.
All in, The Nerd Parade are well worth a listen. It’s a good mix of many genres and sounds from spiky rock guitars & some sweet harmonies, to blues infused break-beats and many things in-between. The track variation is quite diverse too, so there will be something there that appeals to most people. http://www.myspace.com/thenerdparade
cowpokes on 10 SteersOh yeah…this is my twisted score scheme. An out-of 10 score (purely based on my opinion, other peoples opinion may vary and they have every right to do so), mixed with a possibly offensive stereotype based on location, for which I apologize profusely.
Errr…sorry."
