The End Men - Play With Your Toys, #NoTourForOIdMen

• Posted by Popa Tunes February 23, 2013 - 1,658 views
  
  
  

  
   

  
  Matthew Hendershot - vox, guitar, bass, other

  
  Livia Ranalli - drums, percussions, toys, vox, other

  Pack your bindle kids, run away and clean your mind. The End Men’s new album ‘Play With Your Toys’ kicks off like a Coney Island barker luring you into the tent not for the change in your pocket, but for a peek at astonishing wonders as they shred, bend and shape rock & roll to their will, from the first track with its Winkie Guards ‘Cleaning Your Mind’ intro and Matthew’s gruff declaration ‘It is important that you know what you are about to see is only a show.” we know we have just stepped off our familiar train stop into their world and ”You may leave here just a little bit deranged” and boom, like a canon barrage  Livia’s kit explodes with bursts of shrapnel flying into Matthews sonic fuzz intro, we’re pulled deeper into the tent enticed to experience something profound and unusual. 

  
  The album highlights all the things that make The End Men unique and cutting edge, with its carnivalesque rhythms and beats,  Livia’s trademark powerful percussion diversity and Matthews fluid guitar style and Al Jolson meets Tom Wait’s and Captain Beefheart vocals. It recreate's that sense of voyeurism one gets seeing them live, they seem to do some sort of secret ritual dance you’re viewing from a darkened glen as lanterns and moonlight glitter between the shadows after which you know you just witnessed something mysterious and beautiful.

  
  New Record "Play With Your Toys" out Feb. 14th 

  
  on Well Rounded Hoodlum Records!

  
  Go ahead, download the new single 'Wrong Way Street' for free and don't look back!

  
  Get it! 8 dolla!
  
  
  

  
  

  
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  No Tour For Old Men

  
  

  
  
  

  
  New York rock 'n' roots bands The End Men and The Slaughterhouse Chorus join forces for a 10-date U.S. tour this March, binging on booze, blues and barbecue from Bushwick to Bucktown. Spiking classic Americana influences with liberal shots of punk, garage and rock and roll, the two bands present a raucous, unpredictable and, dare we say, intoxicating double-bill. "No Tour For Old Men" kicks off in Brooklyn, NY at Muchmore's on March 20th, with Sons of an Illustrious Father!
  
  No Tour For Old Men Tour Schedule:
  
  3/20: Brooklyn, NY @ Muchmore's
  3/21: Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
  3/22: Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto Project
  3/23: Columbus, OH @ Scarlet & Gray
  3/24: Nashville, TN @ FooBar Too
  3/25: Carbondale, IL @ PK's
  3/26: Lawrence, KS @ Frank's North Star
  3/27: Chicago, IL @ Quincher's
  3/28: Canton, OH @ Buzzbin Magazine HQ
  3/29: Rochester, NY @ Sticky Lips BBQ
  3/30: Albany, NY @ Valentine's Music Club
  
  Brooklynites The End Men distill their blend of blues, punk, garage and carnival music into what can best be described as pure rock 'n roll. It's a heady, heavy, immediate sound, one that made multiplatinum producer Bob Power exclaim "HOLY S#%%! Tom Waits meets the White Stripes." Flattering, sure, but maybe a little simplistic - the power-duo of Matthew Hendershot (vocals, guitar, bass) and Livia Ranalli (drums, percussions, vocals) conjure up a musical chaos quite unlike any you've heard before. Comedic interludes offset the energetic musical onslaught as the two play anything within reach; homemade instruments and found objects litter the stage, adding an unpredictable element to a floor-shaking live show that radiates reckless joy and abandon. 2013 is looking like a big year for the End Men: the terrible twosome have just released their first full-length record "Play With Your Toys" and will embark on their second tour of Europe this summer. (http://theendmen.bandcamp.com)
  
  
  The Slaughterhouse Chorus, hailing from the capital of the Empire State, Albany quartet marinade their rampaging punk rock in country twang and classic rock swagger. 2012 saw the band touring the East Coast, racking up "Best Local Punk Band" designations in both the Albany Metroland Readers' and Critics' Polls, and unleashing their debut full-length on the world. Self-produced in their home studio (colloquially known as the John Wilkes Sound Booth), the album features a dozen boot-stomping singalongs that get political, personal, and downright apocalyptic- it's "a hell-bound hayride through the heart of America" (Dying Scene.com). The new year finds The Slaughterhouse Chorus releasing a split 7" record with Syracuse punk rockers Bridge Under Fire before hitting the road in March. Always committed to the DIY spirit, the band is also producing and releasing several albums by New York's finest independent bands over the course of 2013 on their own Built4BBQ label. (http://theslaughtershousechorus.com)