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Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Strange Boys to Set Sail on Bruise Cruise

By Ani Vrabel at 12:00 PM on August 4, 2010

By the time February rolls around, even those of us in relatively balmy climes are ready for a little warmth... read more

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Those Darlins, Strange Boys, Gentleman Jesse Announce Tour

By Ani Vrabel at 7:30 AM on July 8, 2010

The three young acts will play a series of dates in the south and on the east coast in September... read more

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Spoon Set to Tour on Transference With Deerhunter, Strange Boys and Micachu

By Rachel Bailey at 9:30 AM on January 19, 2010

Following up their highly anticipated and Paste-approved seventh full-length, Spoon will kick off a U.S. tour with a sure-to-be-packed show at their hometown’s Stubbs as part of the annual South by Southwest conference. They’ll be joined throughout their trek by more Paste-approved goodness in the form of Deerhunter, The Strange Boys and Micachu & The Shapes. Fun!... read more

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The Strange Boys Sign to Rough Trade, Tour With Julian Casablancas, Prep New Album for 2010

By Justin Jacobs at 12:30 PM on November 11, 2009

A band name like “The Strange Boys” could allude to all sorts of things. Is their music particularly strange? Are the band members themselves strange fellas? Are they all pre-pubescent gents just trying to strike out against their please-be-normal parents? Turns out, none of these are true. In fact, maybe the strangest thing about them is that you haven’t gotten to know them yet. The band’s pours garage-rock grime over catchy pop tunes like pros. Remedy that right here.... read more

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Walking in a Garage-Rock Wonderland: 10 Examples of 2009's Excellence in Terms of Scrappy, Catchy Song

By Austin L. Ray at 7:00 AM on October 10, 2009

“In the garage I feel safe No one cares about my ways In the garage Where I belong No one hears me sing this song In the garage” -Weezer: “In the Garage” For as long as dudes have been banging on six-strings, the garage has served as a safe haven of sorts, a place where, as Rivers Cuomo so melodically put it in the song above, said dudes could write “stupid words” and “stupid songs,” loving every one. And seemingly every few years since “garage rock” as a genre was coined way back in the middle ’60s, someone announces, breathlessly,... read more

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Getting to Know... The Strange Boys

By Austin L. Ray at 8:00 AM on May 13, 2009

Like it or not, The Strange Boys are probably both younger and more accomplished than you. Since the band's humble beginnings as a duo in 2003... read more

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Strange Boys tour with Mika Miko, Coathangers, more

By Henry Freedland at 1:18 PM on April 14, 2009

If you're irrevocably, inexplicably anti-yelp, anti-swagger or... read more

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The Strange Boys to release debut LP on In the Red

By Henry Freedland at 11:12 AM on February 26, 2009

Even if it often seems like every damn garage in Austin is full of Marshall half stacks and a hand-me-down drum kit, few of those car-parks produce the sounds of genuine garage pop. Real, rhythm'd-and-blues'd, countrified, jangle-your-face-off, swagger-like-it's-1965, Nuggets-box-set stuff.... read more

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