Fishboy – Blackout Flashback
By thatch • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Indie, Music, PopI will just take the easy way out and give you the spiel from Fishboy’s Myspace site… it’s easier
Fishboy is a four-piece eccentric indie pop band from Denton, TX that began as the bedroom solo project of front man Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium.
Six years and several shoe boxes full of cassette tapes later, Michener moved from the suburbs to the Texas rock-and-roll Mecca of Denton with a handful of low budget recordings released by the close-knit Austin music collective Business Deal Records. It’s here that the little project became a full-fledged rock band that has since taken on several forms, the most current of which meshes the band’s lo-fi twee pop roots with a loud, energetic rhythm section topped with the occasional horn, piano, or organ., the result of which is somewhere along the lines of fellow Texans Daniel Johnston and Britt Daniel (Spoon) joining the Danielson Famile to play for Anthony Daniels (C3PO) and Daniel Day Lewis (moustache) as they both drink Jack Daniels on a Sunday afternoon.
Since 2005 the band has toured across the nation more than a few times and has walked away with a couple of broken vans and a few gold nuggets, the first of which is a partnership with the Athens, Georgia label Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records. The second is a greater appreciation of their home, the folks that surround them, and the rich history of Texas music.
These themes run deep through the band’s new album, Albatross: How We Failed To Save The Lone Star State With The Power Of Rock And Roll, a record that Michener calls
“a rock opera about how myself, the band, and the ghost of Buddy Holly attempt to save Texas by going on a tour/crime spree in order to perform all 8,030 of the songs I’ve written in my sleep since I was in the womb.”
So basically they are wonderful pop, listen to Blackout Flashback and you will see what I mean. I love this when it shows up on the MP3 player.
Lo-Fi? Hell yes. Highly Recommended (you better believe it)
Websites to be found at http://myspace.com/fishboy and http://www.yofishboy.com/
thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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Hey guys,
Thanks for posting about us the other day. I really appreciate people sharing our music to new ears.
I wanted to let you know Fishboy is headed out on an east coast tour next week.
Should be a lot of fun. Here are the dates:
Apr 23 The Boom Boom Room w/ Jacob Enwood Fayetteville, Arkansas Apr 24 The Way Out Club w/ That’s My Daughter and Wooden Kites St. Louis, Missouri Apr 25 Replay Lounge w/ The Jim Button Band Lawrence, Kansas Apr 26 Surf Ballroom (home of Buddy Holly’s last show!) w/ Poison Control Center!Clear Lake, Iowa Apr 27 Borg Ward w/ Quin Scharber Milwaukee, Wisconsin Apr 28 The Statehouse Bloomington, Indiana Apr 29 Quencher’s Chicago, Illinois Apr 30 503 Oldham ct. w/ Joy Bombs/Big Fresh Lexington, Kentucky May 1 Charm City Art Space w/ the Up Set Baltimore, Maryland May 2 The Knitting Factory w/ Uncle Monsterface and The Besties New York, New York May 3 Party w/926 Main Street Apt. 2 Worcester, Massachusetts May 5 6 Barton St.Rochester, New York May 6 12:00PM Live on 89.7FM WITR Rochester, Pennsylvania May 7 Khyber w/ MILK!Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 8 SPAZZATORIUM GALLERIA!Greenville, North Carolina May 9 255 Ashley Ave Charleston, South Carolina May 10 Caledonia Athens, Georgia May 13 Lowe Mill w/ Japanther Huntsville, Alabama May 15 Cafe Mi Aroma w/ Mermaid Police Chattanooga, Tennessee May 16 Tomato Tomato w/ Velcro Stars Murfreesboro, Tennessee May 17 Actor’s Cafe Shreveport, Louisiana
We still have some open dates in Boston, Atlanta and Nashville so if you know anyone who can help, please let us know!
thanks!
Eric
yofishboy.com (new poster up over here)
myspace.com/fishboy
farewellalbatross.com
Website: yofishboy.com