Over the last eight or so months The Drums have enjoyed a meteoric rise from hipster faves to genuine ‘next big thing’ contenders. Slapping a heavy dose of sun-kissed surf-pop over the monochrome beats of UK new wavers Joy Division and The Cure, the Brooklyn-based outfit have already found themselves on the cover of the [...]
This year’s Shockwaves NME Awards Tour kicks off at the O2 Academy in Newcastle tonight with live sets from The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink and The Drums. I managed to get my hands on a couple of complimentary tickets (thanks Matt) so can avoid the usual ‘am I/aren’t I’ guestlist shenanigans and [...]
Ubiquitous in this year’s One’s To Watch lists, New York City-based outfit The Drums fuse the rain-soaked monochrome of late eighties Manchester with the sunkissed pop of California to startling effect on their debut EP. Dazed & Confused said Summertime! ‘took the Sun Records blueprint, added some parochial wit and peppered it with flashes of [...]
Well-hyped New Yorkers The Drums have revealed details of their new single ‘Best Friend’, due for release on in the UK on April 5. Speaking to the NME, frontman Johnathan Pierce explained, “‘Best Friend’ is a special song to us. It is my favourite song that we have. It’s the first song we wrote when [...]
You’d have thought I lived in New York rather than Newcastle with the amount I’ve been banging on about Big Apple bands of late. But when the banks of the Hudson river can spew forth the indie-pop genius of The Drums, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Acrylics, who can blame me? Check [...]
The 2010 Shockwaves NME Awards Tour kicks off at the O2 Academy in Newcastle on February 4. The line-up includes The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Big Pink (pictured) and The Drums. The full dates are: Newcastle O2 Academy (February 4) Glasgow Barrowland (5) Manchester Academy (6) Leeds O2 Academy (7) Nottingham Rock City (9) [...]
More than five thousand miles separate the rain-soaked monochrome of Manchester and the sun-kissed Technicolor of California but Brooklyn-based four-piece The Drums straddle the musical divide with style. Marrying the embryonic post-punk of early Factory Records with the surf guitars of Jan & Dean, debut mini-album Summertime! is an incandescent blast of lo-fi garage rock. [...]
We love The Drums. Since their debut mini-album Summertime! landed in our letterbox a week or so ago, their incandescent fusion of embryonic UK post-punk and sunkissed California surf has rarely been of the toonwaves playlist. Who? Jonathan Price (vocals), Jacob Graham (guitars), Adam Kessler (guitars), Connor Hanwick (drums) Where? Brooklyn, New York When? Debut [...]
