Vines

[bryan <munki100@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Someone else mentioned The Vines. I haven't heard their records but when I 
> saw them live last year they definately weren't anything to rave about. If 
> you want to hear some cool Australian garage music, check out The Stoneage 
> Hearts or Rocket Science, who are a bit more experimental ala Euroboys but 
> rock nonetheless.

Just read this in LA Weekly...the Vines are playing next Tuesday,
at the Troubadour.

http://www.laweekly.com/picks/scoring.php3

The Vines at the Troubadour.

This is a guarded recommendation. The Vines are a young Australian 
rock & roll band that almost no one has heard - let alone witnessed
live - and yet they've scored a big-label record deal, made an album 
with medium-hot producer Rob Schnapf and received a boatload of 
foaming-at-the-ears notices ("the new Nirvana," etc.) from British 
people who really should know better. Yeah, the Vines do have an In 
Utero-era Nirvana thing going - lots of screaming, aggressive riffs, 
etc. - but then so did fellow Australian kindergrungers Silverchair. 
That said, the non-neo-grunge half of the Vines' forthcoming debut, 
Highly Evolved, is full of interesting stuff: pretty melodies and harmonies, 
an out-of-nowhere uptempo song, long minutes of dreaminess that 
recall Pink Floyd at their Sunday-afternoon-in-the-sun finest, and 
one cut that makes the most of half of "Don't Fear the Reaper"central 
riff. Which half of the Vines will come across live to an audience 
unfamiliar with their music? Who knows. But so what? A little 
suspense never hurt nobody. (Jay Babcock)



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