This is an unsolicited recommendation. And to add further creedence to all you kneepads-wearers, guess who else approves???
Los Llamarada, teenagers from Monterrey, Mexico, have unleashed the best boombox-recorded weirdpunk of the 2000s, "The Exploding Now" LP on
Ss recordS.
They just played SxSW to a fairly empty room. They were right upstairs from a packed Saints & Daniel Johnston show, and there was only one giant line to get into the building. But Tom Lax of Siltbreeze Records and thee best record review blog in the universe (
Siltblog) said this about seeing Los Llamarada...
Next up was the best band I seen all weekend, Los Llamarada. They was 5 Mexican teens from Monterrey & they slithered out a loose, noisy set of crud that was somethin like 'Forming' era Germs meet's Brian Gregory era Cramps meets Earcom era Prats. There was about 10 of us in the room & we was all spellbound. They could've pushed us over w/a feather. Muchos Fantasticos. Later as they was packin up, Jared TNV was tryin to talk to them about baseball. They just looked at him, pointed at their fingers & laughed. "Beisbol", they said, was for pussies. They was into diamond rings. Jared stood there, stunned. He looked like he'd been probed by an alien. Maybe he had. The kids from Los Llamarada lit up cigarettes & laughed even harder. Then suddenly they was gone. Poof! Vanished into thin air. I heard the word "Chupacabra" right before they disappeared. There was somethin sinister goin on & I liked it. Maybe that new lp of theirs on S-S will open some more doors to their mystery.
Only on vinyl....limited to 600....Ss is like a brand many future-collectible-speculators have learned to trust...SO GET ON IT!
http://www.myspace.com/losllamarada