Doc Roc Presents
Tame Impala
The Growl
Thu Feb 28
7:00 pm
Cain's Ballroom
Tulsa, OK
$17, $19, $21, $27
Tickets
This event is all ages
Show :: 8pm (times are subject to change)
http://www.cainsballroom.com/event/187311/
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Tame Impala
Tame Impala's debut record from 2010, Innerspeaker, received a tropically warm reception thanks in part to its irreverent, contemporary spin on assumedly dead and forgotten sounds, as well as its unique, infinitely surprising way around a melody. It was youthful, romantic songwriting in a melting technicolour dreamcoat.
Critics agreed, with Pitchfork awarding the album its 'Best New Music' designation the week of release. Innerspeaker featured prominently on 2010 end-of-year Best Of lists from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Urban Outfitters, self-titled magazine, and was warmly received by not only music press but also the wider media, with features in publications as diverse as Spin, Nylon, Esquire, LA Times, Billboard, Interview, The Last Magazine, and many more. The band capped the year off with their live television debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
Throughout 2010 and 2011, the band were welcomed by fans in stages the world over, with a touring schedule that included highlights such as Coachella, Glastonbury, Big Day Out, Roskilde, Summersonic and T In The Park.
Since they finished touring Innerspeaker, one half of the band (Jay Watson & Nick Allbrook) have been on the road with offshoot band Pond, while Kevin Parker went deep into the wormhole making album #2. Since its completion earlier in the year, guitarist and keyboard player Dom Simper has recorded his own solo cover version of album #2 in preparation for the forthcoming live circus.
Their second record is due in October 2012, is on a whole new level of cosmic and will soon be here to sizzle your speakerboxxx. The juicy details of which will be revealed sooner than you can say "2nd album syndrome".
Critics agreed, with Pitchfork awarding the album its 'Best New Music' designation the week of release. Innerspeaker featured prominently on 2010 end-of-year Best Of lists from Pitchfork, Stereogum, Urban Outfitters, self-titled magazine, and was warmly received by not only music press but also the wider media, with features in publications as diverse as Spin, Nylon, Esquire, LA Times, Billboard, Interview, The Last Magazine, and many more. The band capped the year off with their live television debut on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
Throughout 2010 and 2011, the band were welcomed by fans in stages the world over, with a touring schedule that included highlights such as Coachella, Glastonbury, Big Day Out, Roskilde, Summersonic and T In The Park.
Since they finished touring Innerspeaker, one half of the band (Jay Watson & Nick Allbrook) have been on the road with offshoot band Pond, while Kevin Parker went deep into the wormhole making album #2. Since its completion earlier in the year, guitarist and keyboard player Dom Simper has recorded his own solo cover version of album #2 in preparation for the forthcoming live circus.
Their second record is due in October 2012, is on a whole new level of cosmic and will soon be here to sizzle your speakerboxxx. The juicy details of which will be revealed sooner than you can say "2nd album syndrome".
The Growl
Listening to The Growl's colossal sound – built up in layers of percussion, with guitar tones one music
critic aptly described as leaving the taste of iron on your tongue – it is hard to believe the band
began as simply as a bedroom recording project between two friends. Seeing them live, as a sixpiece
dual‐drummer wall of sound, more so. And while the core of the band is still founding
members front‐man Cameron Avery and bassist Clinton Oliver, it is safe to say the band has come a
very long way in a very short time.
In December last year the band locked themselves and a stack of old recording gear into a derelict
and deserted loft above the streets of Perth city. With the roof literally coming down around them
they set about recording their debut album. Eight months later the first single is ready to be
released. Confusingly titled Cleaver Lever, the same name as their debut EP, the track embodies the
evolution of The Growl's sound.
Self‐recorded and produced, Cleaver Lever is a worthy addition to a stunning body of work
emanating from the current pool of musicians in the West Australian city of Fremantle. With
Cameron Avery's other band Pond (in which he plays drums) having recently released their new
album to a stunning reception across Europe and the US, and with Tame Impala doing all of the
amazing things they are doing, the Fremantle music scene has produced some of the most
interesting and imaginative music of the last few years ‐ and that's just looking at the bands the
world outside of Australia knows about.
Back at home, The Growl have had a fairly speedy rise to prominence. In addition to being
Unearthed by Australian Radio Station Triple J for the Big Day Out in 2012, The Growl found a very
strong grassroots following upon debuting as a live act in 2010. Community radio loved them, other
bands loved them, and within a year The Growl were capable of selling out big shows to an
increasingly diverse audience.
The band began touring Australia, and the more they played live the more intense and abstract the
live performance became, which in turn continued to shape and expand the band's songwriting,
musical capabilities and personnel.
Cleaver Lever is a significant event in this continuing evolution of the band.
Intense and sideways, but also so familiar and beautiful‐sounding, Cleaver Lever is a lot of different
things rolled into one... and while journalists often find themselves describing The Growl in vivid and
colourful language, the common consensus is always that there is just something inexplicable and
magical to what this band can do.
critic aptly described as leaving the taste of iron on your tongue – it is hard to believe the band
began as simply as a bedroom recording project between two friends. Seeing them live, as a sixpiece
dual‐drummer wall of sound, more so. And while the core of the band is still founding
members front‐man Cameron Avery and bassist Clinton Oliver, it is safe to say the band has come a
very long way in a very short time.
In December last year the band locked themselves and a stack of old recording gear into a derelict
and deserted loft above the streets of Perth city. With the roof literally coming down around them
they set about recording their debut album. Eight months later the first single is ready to be
released. Confusingly titled Cleaver Lever, the same name as their debut EP, the track embodies the
evolution of The Growl's sound.
Self‐recorded and produced, Cleaver Lever is a worthy addition to a stunning body of work
emanating from the current pool of musicians in the West Australian city of Fremantle. With
Cameron Avery's other band Pond (in which he plays drums) having recently released their new
album to a stunning reception across Europe and the US, and with Tame Impala doing all of the
amazing things they are doing, the Fremantle music scene has produced some of the most
interesting and imaginative music of the last few years ‐ and that's just looking at the bands the
world outside of Australia knows about.
Back at home, The Growl have had a fairly speedy rise to prominence. In addition to being
Unearthed by Australian Radio Station Triple J for the Big Day Out in 2012, The Growl found a very
strong grassroots following upon debuting as a live act in 2010. Community radio loved them, other
bands loved them, and within a year The Growl were capable of selling out big shows to an
increasingly diverse audience.
The band began touring Australia, and the more they played live the more intense and abstract the
live performance became, which in turn continued to shape and expand the band's songwriting,
musical capabilities and personnel.
Cleaver Lever is a significant event in this continuing evolution of the band.
Intense and sideways, but also so familiar and beautiful‐sounding, Cleaver Lever is a lot of different
things rolled into one... and while journalists often find themselves describing The Growl in vivid and
colourful language, the common consensus is always that there is just something inexplicable and
magical to what this band can do.
