New Fleshtones Album

[kopper]

Got this in an email from Yep Roc Records:

Fleshtones set to release Take A Good Look on January 22

They were birthed at CBGB along with the Talking Heads, The Ramones, Blondie and Television. Their first video is in the permanent collection at MoMA. They shared a practice space with the Cramps in the 70s, tours and a label with R.E.M. in the 80s, and stages with everyone from James Brown to the Police. They've been making albums and touring the world for thirty years, and they're still under the radar.

But now it seems that their years of dogged perseverance might finally pay off. 2007 saw the release of Joe Bonomo's biography, Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band. 2008 will see the releases of the band's tribute album Vindicated!, the film documentary, Pardon Us For Living, But the Graveyard Is Full, and the band's new album, Take a Good Look, which is set to release on January 22nd. Take a Good Look is pure Fleshtones, and bursting at the seams with fuzzy guitars and dance beats. Hipsters and shoe-gazers be damned, rock n' roll is a party and The Fleshtones just tapped the keg.

[Blair]

Yeah, I thought I still had the URL at the time I wrote that.

[PJ Dirty Water]

And make sure to grab yourself a copy of "Vindicated!: A Tribute to the Fleshtones" (try www.pandemicvinyl.com in the USA). Twenty-three choice covers of Fleshtones songs by other bands plus a secret track of the Fleshtones live at the Dirty Water Club, London, in October 2006.

[Joe Bonomo]

Hey the Yep Roc album link is up and alive again:

http://216.69.135.140/MP3Players/Fleshtones/TakeAGoodLook/Wimpy.html

[DelMonas]

Great news, I didn't know about the biography either ... Has anyone read it ?

[kopper]

Did you put that out, PJ?

[Mystic Mike]

I agree it's an excellent release; I'm debuting it in my top 5 on tomorrow's radio show. You can always count on the Fleshtones whether it's live on on record.

[Blair]

I really enjoyed the book.

[DelMonas]

OK, thanks, I guess I'll have to buy it now ;)