Big thanks to Scott “Deluxe” Drake from The Lovesores and The Humpers who spoke to Uber Rock in the UK and told them “I can tell you what bands I like most in Portland, Oregon: Hot LZ’s, Ex-Girlfriends Club, Celebrity Graves, Last 45s, Suicide Notes, No Tomorrow Boys.”
We can definitely say The Lovesores are one of our favorite bands in Portland too!
Who would have guessed that The Ex-Girlfriends Club would get their asses kicked by Hustle and Drone in their debut at Rigsketball, but when the 6’5” Albatross went down with a sore back the week before we knew we were screwed. Luckily we can say that we got beaten by one of the teams that ended up in the championship! The big winners are all the fans that get to enjoy one of the best comps of 2013. Check it out on Bandcamp with tons of amazing bands like Typhoon, Aan, The We Shared Milk, And And And, TxE, Animal Eyes, Trick Sensei, Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Mannequinhead, Ed and the Red Reds, Fanno Creek, Soul Ipsum, Hustle & Drone, Bevelers, Sort Ultra, Rio Grands, Mr. Tang, The Morals, Souvenir Driver, Thanks, Otis Heat, The Hague, Skip Roxy, Eidolons, Vultures in the Sky, Brownish Black, A Happy Death, Charts, Con Bro Chill, The Suicide Notes, and DoublePlusGood.
Big thanks to Sakebomb for playing The Witch today on his show, The Dirty Blue Camel Show on KBGA in Missoula Montana along with other bands we love like Mudhoney, Dirty Beaches, Thee Oh Sees, Shonen Knife, Deerhunter, Shannon and the Clams and tons more.
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kbga&playlist=23865
Thanks to Luke Strahota of The Satin Chaps for putting together another amazing Nuggets Night as a benefit for Norton Records. This year a ton of amazing bands are on the bill including The Pynnacles, Suicide Notes, Queued Up, Beyond Veronica, The Ex-Girlfriends Club, The Cool Whips, Dirty Rubbers, Paradise, The Sellwoods, The Very Foundation, The Deep Joy, Cry of the Shadow Animal and of course The Satin Chaps. Read the full review in the Portland Tribune “[The Ex-Girlfriends Club is] a slithering jackhammer held by dirty velvet gloves,” says Albatross who got into garage music for the best of reasons. “It made me want to smash my body against the sun,” he says.
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/11-features/124823-for-one-night-nuggets-turn-to-gold
Thanks to Woody from The Ripple Effect who has some great things to say about Boo Hoo Hoo including, “If you told me it was some lost garage punk album from 25 years ago I would have believed that,” “This is some raw garagey shit,” and “It will definitely get the party started.”
Read the whole review here: http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2012/05/ex-girlfriends-club-boo-hoo-hoo.html
Check out The Ex-Girlfriends Club show review in Local Cut.
THE EX-GIRLFRIENDS CLUB, SUGAR SUGAR SUGAR, HOWLIN WINO
(Kenton Club, 2025 N Kilpatrick) A number of squares heard the Ex-Girlfriends Club via their song “Blowback (I Am Your SuperPAC),” which became a minor internet sensation after Politico featured the video. Apparently, some people found it surprising when rockers in eyeliner and feather boas acknowledged the 1970s were dead long enough to be pissed off by a topical Supreme Court decision. Unfortunately, “Blowback” isn’t on Boo Hoo Hoo, the Ex-Girlfriends’ debut LP, which avoids anything remotely topical. This is a glam band, and their province is performance, not politics. Frontman Albatross has styled his vocals after David Johansen of the New York Dolls, though the aesthetic evokes a particularly druggy garage, with none of the Dolls’ sleeker R&B influences. The Ex-Girlfriends excel at grimy nursery rhymes (“Coming Off Benzos”), with a few weirder, dronier moments, as on the album’s standout, “I’m Not Your Man,” a sleazy celebration of the single life. REBECCA WILSON
Thanks to local Portland ezine bePortland for their review of our show with the Dead Milkmen.
“The temperature starts to increase as the glam rock five-piece Ex-Girfriends Club begins to play. Watching them strut and swagger without giving a single care, they bring a straightforward garage rock sound deep into the realm of the punk. Beyond this their lyrics are fun and easy-to-swallow, the song ‘Blowback’ reads “I’ve got a Super Pac, Uncle Sam fanny pack,” reminding me of a certain comedy rock headliner. But to discount Ex-Girlfriends Club as a gimmicky stage act would be a huge mistake, since underneath those bangs and tight pants is a super heavy, downright filthy mix of crunching distortion and reverb’d bass. Ex-Girlfriend’s lead singer rocked so hard at the end, he split his pants clean down the middle, a shocking but strangely appropriate thing to happen during their pretty outrageous show.”
http://beportland.com/entertainment/dead-milkmen-hawthorne-theatre
Big thanks to Mad Mackerel and The Devil Has The Best Tuna for posting the video for Blowback along with garage rockers Burnt Ones, The Joy Formidable, and more.
Thus Spake Drake posted The Ex-Girlfriends Club’s rendition of The Sonic’s classic The Witch, along with a review of Leonard Cohen and tracks from Imperial Teen and more.
A couple of blog posted about debut album Boo Hoo Hoo‘s release on Spotify. Sound of Us gave Boo Hoo Hoo a 7/10 rating and a Swedish blog who listed the record along with new music from Wooden Shjips , The Fall and more.
The Ex-Girlfriends Club is excited that songs from their debut LP “Boo Hoo Hoo” are starting to get airplay on college radio stations across the US and Canada. KXLU in Los Angeles has been playing Coming Off Benzos and Your Prescription, KSJS in San Jose, CA and KFAI in Minneapolis, MN have been playing Lightning Bolt, and KDVS at UC Davis in California have been playing I’m Not Your Man. KVCU in Boulder CO, has been playing a bunch of cuts from the record including Devil Eyes, but The Witch has definitely been getting the most airplay from stations like WXDU at Duke University in Durham NC, WBJB in New Jersey, WITR in New York and KZME in our home town of Portland! We’re also excited that The Ex-Girlfriends Club was in the Top 5 CMJ Adds on WGMU in Fairfax, VA. Big thanks to everyone for their support!
Big thanks to London’s premier music mag NME for featuring The Ex-Girlfriends Club’s video for their new song on their website. Blowback (I Am Your SuperPAC) was also listed on Politico.com by Kenneth P. Vogel as their Daily Funny.
The Ex-Girlfriends Club 