So a whole week has passed and I hope you have all had a chance to check out last week's band RESTAURANT (http://www.myspace.com/resturantmusic)! The guys played SXSW last week and are headed back to good ol' LA real soon.
http://www.myspace.com/igluandhartly (tons of music and photos)
http://www.igluandhartly.com (official page, but hard to navigate)
WHO ARE IGLU & HARTLY?
This week's band is a lovely quintet of gentlemen from Silver Lake/Echo Park, CA named after DJ Iglu (Jarvis Anderson, lead singer) and Hartly Dark (not sure about that one). When I first saw them at the Silverlake Lounge the band was basically three white hip-hop rappers and a Jewish guitar player. They wore the most obnoxious '80s clothing and had a MAC laptop filling in for all other necessary instruments to make a band. I wasn't able to pick my jaw up off the floor until about the fourth song, where my mind was straightened out enough to think "What the hell is this?!!?" Is it comedy night at the Silverlake Lounge or are these guys for real? Oh yes, they are for real! So real, they want to prove it to you by wearing the lowest-rise jeans ever made and no underwear. That's real. Actually, the person I was with that night said "These guys should be playing in their underwear," and there was not a doubt in my mind that that was absolutely true. So anyway, after the shock wore off, I began to really like the nonsense of songs like "The Pajama Song" and "DayGlo." I have now seen them perform a handful of times around LA and they have yet to disappoint me. The band now has a real-live drummer and a bass player, and their fan base is growing show by show. They just signed on with Red Ghost Management but have yet to put together an album or sign with a label. The single "Violent and Young" is on iTunes though!
Music Connection named Iglu & Hartly one of the Best 100 Unsigned Artists!
http://www.musicconnection.com/issues/2007/issue25/guide/mchot100unsigned2007.pdf
WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE IGLU & HARTLY, TOO...:
***The guys wear almost no clothes at all.
***Their music is 110% pure fun and their live show will definitely put a smile on your face.
***It's not often that a band that takes their silliness seriously goes very far, but I really have faith in these guys.
***They already have MERCHANDISE!! so they must be on the right track.
Every week I add this exact update to the front page of my own MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/juliaswanwick. Let's be friends!
Thanks!!
Julia
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