Saturday, January 10, 2009

Much better than Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers

Tiny Masters of Today




The Muldoons


Here are two really cool bands, made up of young musicians, which I learned about on Myspace. The brother-sister act Tiny Masters of Today hail from Brooklyn, where lots of NYC's rock community now is, and the Muldoons, two young brothers (with their dad on drums) reflect the great proto-punk Stooges/MC5 legacy of their native Detroit.

I really like indie rock played with integrity, and I generally really like kids. So I especially like kids who are into indie rock. On the other hand, I have little use for mass marketed, Disney-esque crap, or for superficial, phony, Radio Disney style entertainment. And I hate bad music, which seems to be everywhere these days.

And so, regarding Tiny Masters and the Muldoons, I love them both. They give me much faith in the next generation and of the future of music. And I am so inspired by them that I want to buy a guitar for my beautiful little baby niece, who lives up in Canada. Of course, she's not even one yet. But I want her to be a cool kid, not unlike bass playing Ada. As Artrocker magazine says, re: Tiny Masters - "Each of their songs was a barrage of distorted guitar noise and they obviously thought they were the coolest 11-year-olds on the planet. They quite possibly are."--The Telegraph

Here are some select videos for these two bands. And they truly are bands, and not novelty acts or manifactured pieces of pop from the culture industry/corporate entertainment industry.





And finally, here is a clip that puts these bands in perspective, and gives an indication of how growing up in places like Brooklyn may have shaped these bands.