NEWS
New Single/DL ‘In Your Street Today’
Out August 4th on One Little Indian Records
Spearheading the new revival of the garage rock revival of the new millennium, yes that’s right, Stalkers are back both utterly pissed and boisterously pissed off. Following the release of their debut album ‘Yesterday Is No Tomorrow’, the Brooklyn punks return with their new single, ‘In Your Street Today’. Crazy shit it is: it’s blacker than The Black Lips, dirty trenches of sound, deeply mired in muck, already groping your sister while your mom watches on and approves. Yes, it is that rough: true RAWK and ROLL. New York Dolls? Check. The Stooges? Check. Great punk rock and roll? A definite check.
In addition the single contains yet another new song. Yes, they are practically giving it away. ‘Feral Children’ is yet one more shit storm of sound showing Stalkers as the antidotes to the art-punk scene, music for those who prefer to drink, fuck, swear, love and get rowdy. It screams from the rooftops, clangs you to death and refuses to let go; three more minutes of intense, NYC punk.
“This is a band who realize that AC/DC and New York Dolls are the only good bands ever, and who stick to writing booze-soaked rackets that sound refreshingly, genuinely carefree and debauched.” – Time Out
“Clash swagger and a dash of Elvis hip shake heard after ten pints of lager.” – Metal Hammer
“Choruses that will leave ceilings beer stained and bikers weeping tears of joy.” – Alternative Ulster (AU)
Dates:
WED July 16 - London GooNite Club @ Buffalo Bar
SAT July 19 - London Dirty Water Club
Biography
This is a band who realize that AC/DC and New York Dolls are the only good bands ever, and who stick to writing booze-soaked rackets that sound refreshingly, genuinely carefree and debauched.” – TIME OUT
“For fans of good-time, three-chord guitar music; of sharp, smart-ass, punk-pop choruses, and for those who believe that rock’ n’roll is ample reward for putting up with living in what is a predominantly crappy world.” NME
If drinking, fighting and good old-fashioned rock’n’roll are your mantra, your world is about to change. The first taster UK music fans got of Brooklyn punks, STALKERS, was one of the best party songs you’re likely to hear all year, in the form of double a-sided single ‘Lets Get It Together/Circus Baby’, with only 1000 sought-after copies pressed and released in the UK in March.
Recently signed to One Little Indian Records, their debut album ‘Yesterday Is No Tomorrow’ gets its UK release on the 5th of November. Featuring both those tracks, and nine other floor beaters, ‘Yesterday Is No Tomorrow’ is that once-every-five-years, rough-diamond gem of an album to get everyone talking.
Upfront of the album coming out, One Little Indian will release their second UK single (their first came out through Heron), the title track ‘Yesterday Is No Tomorrow’ on vinyl, CD and download on the 22nd of October.
Variously describing themselves as Denny Wilson riding through the woods drunk on a dirtbike, The Beatles but better, or, erm, a studded leather fist slamming into a junior high school locker, an argument over music tastes would bring them together. Beardy frontman Andy Doocey (Andy Animal to his friends) fought the cause of everything from the Beach Boys to the Damned, whilst drummer Josh Styles – vintage vinyl record collector – strong-armed the virtues of garage rock. So opposed were they, they shook on forming their own band, enlisting bassist Danny Goldshtein, and Ryan Cohn and Lefty Maynard on guitars.
It didn’t happen overnight. Their very first live performance was in 2003, brazenly offering support to punk legend TV Smith. They have been a live draw in NYC’s rock’n’roll underbelly ever since, earning a reputation for the wildest shows in town. It hasn’t made them rich (yet), they’ve kept on the day jobs (labourer, silversmith…), but when they clock off, they know how to party.
They came to the UK for the first time in April for some dates, playing at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury, two support slots with The Horrors and Ra Ra Riot, before ramming London Turbofest at the Horse And Groom. They’re back again in August for a London show at the Dirty Water Club in Tufnell Park, London, on Thursday 23rd August, followed by their first ever UK Festival shows, at Leeds Festival on Friday 24th August and at Reading Festival on Sunday 26th August. Don’t bother coming without a drink in your hand…“