Beggars Group Canada

Harlem - Hippies in stores April 6th

• Hippies is the second longplayer from Austin’s newest Matador signings, Harlem. As demonstrated by numerous self-booked tours including stints at SXSW and CMJ, Harlem have a reputation of making club gigs seem like living room shows (and living room shows feel like club shows).
• Their first album for Matador, Hippies, harnesses the band’s energy in its 16 blasts of pure pop energy with a new dimension of songwriting that is as tightly masterful as it is true to a joyfully frantic primitivism.
  Recorded at the Distillery in Costa Mesa, CA with the assistance of Mike McHugh, Hippies is a more refined and cleaner record than it’s predecessor (the self released Free Drugs) with a classically iconoclastic sound that in eras-past was achieved by The Gories, The Standells, Dead Moon, The Kinks and The Pixies.
  The songwriting and vocal duties on Hippies are evenly shared by Coomers (nee Michael Coomer) and Curtis O’Mara — who switch between guitar/vox and drums on stage (and off) alongside newly-added bassist Jose Boyer. Harlem is set to tour vigorously across the continent and play the shit out of SXSW.
  The band are featured on Matador Records recent compilation, Casual Victim Pile (OLE-859), which pays homage to the new breed of Austin upstarts who make that cities music scene so vibrant.
  The album is available on US import CD and LP with complimentary MP3 download.
  A video for “Friendly Ghost” will be unveiled soon, visit www.myspace.com/harlemduh for the latest
  Visit www.matadorrecords.com to download “Friendly Ghost”.
  For the latest information, including tour dates, please visit www.beggarsgroup.ca

“Austin-by-way-of-Tucson garage rock trio Harlem follow up their 2009 debut, Free Drugs, with Hippies, their first release on Matador Records. Building on the lo-fi 50’s garage revival sound established on their previous record, Hippies is a tighter, more calculated affair with catchier riffs and singsong choruses.” – PreFix Mag