The Weird Weeds

Genre: Rock Hometown: Austin TX
www.weirdweeds.com

Wednesday, March 15   11:00 p.m.
Karma Lounge   (119 W 8th St)

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The Weird Weeds are what happens when three highly individual artists put their collected experience to astounding application. Drummer/singer Nick Hennies has performed with Jandek and Castanets and recorded with Xiu Xiu while guitarist Aaron Russell previously joined members of Deerhoof in THETEETHE and is also a member of Nashville's legendary Cherry Blossoms. Finally, singer/guitarist Sandy Ewen performs alongside Tom Carter of Charalambides under the name Spiderwebs. Based in Austin, TX, The Weird Weeds have made something altogether separate from their other endeavors: seamlessly making improvised music, folk, experimental composition and pop music all part of the same sentence (and occasionally the same song).

In January 2006 The Weird Weeds signed to Los Angeles experimental label Sounds Are Active and released their new EP, "This Is Not What You Want". The EP is a web-only free release and can be downloaded from Sounds Are Active: http://www.soundsareactive.com/

"Somehow, the Weird Weeds are catchy."
- Austin Chronicle

"Lusciously captivating...weird...and gorgeous."
- drownedinsound.com

"It took all of 30 seconds for Weird Weeds' new EP to fully blow my mind...there's nothing half-assed or phoned-in about this; it's solid, steady, stable music that can still get loose without sounding loose because it understands the subtle balance of hard work vis-a-vis hyper-creativity"- Portland Mercury

"The Weird Weeds played songs whose subtle charms took hold of you like a vice and then departed swiftly before you could think about them too long. Like Deerhoof (one of the highest compliments I can think of), the Weird Weeds write songs that lurch in directions that seem at first inexplicable and then slowly obvious, mixing left turn time changes and song lengths that, stopping just short of being too short, leave you both satisfied and enticed." - Tiny Mix Tapes