Artist: Tiny Masters of Today
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Bang Bang Boom Cake
Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Tiny Masters of Today took their list from a stria in the Blake Nelson koran Rockstar Superstar, a young adult novel around the trials and tribulations of existence in a stone band. The Tiny Masters -- Ivan, 13, guitar and vocals, and his sister Ada, 11, bass and vocals -- have had far fewer troubles than Nelson did in his fabricated striation. The yoke began scripted material songs earlier they had any idea of starting a dance band. Ivan (no final make calling, a knowing maternal decision, one thinks) was jamming with some friends when Ada started singing about how much she disliked George W. Bush. The effect was "Bushy," which appears on their debut album Bang Bang Boom Cake. They're non technical musicians, but non being competent musically has never been an event in john Rock candy & wind. They get up for their deficiency of chops with an elating mightiness and their innocuous insolence. Singing may be beyond them yet, merely once again, it never stopped Johnny Rotten or Handsome Dick Manitoba. Ivan and Ada ar pretty normal kids. You don't get the feeling that they receive overbearing parents egging them on, and their music isn't cutesy, it's real goon stone, if a fleck derived function.
Their parents curtailed their TV observance on schooltime nights, so the duo and a few of Ivan's friends took refuge in the phratry basement where their parents supplied so with a chinchy metal drum kit and a few old amps. Ivan was decade when he picked up the guitar and Ada followed him on bass at 8-years-old. They created a MySpace website and started putt up demos they made victimization the drumfish programs on Garageband, the user-friendly MacIntosh programme. Andrew Romano, a newsman for Newsweek cartridge, establish them on MySpace where they'd racked up 13,000 spins in a footling more than 7 months, with no promo or selling plan. He wrote them up in a patch called "Middle School of Rock," noting that a British indie judge called Tiger Trap had snapped up their demos and put them out as an EP called Big Noise. Romano called them remarkable for their brattish laborious john Rock tunes and gave them their first interview. When Romano asked Ivan if his classmates like Tiny Masters better than Disney's calendered Senior high school School Musical, he responded like a real rock star: "A clustering of kids in my class formed a fan night club for us," he said. "They, like, worship me." The tunes on Big Noise -- " "Bushy," "Stickin' It to the Man" and "Tooty Frooty" (non the Little Richard song) -- got rave reviews in the British beseech, and airplay on the BBC and XFM radiocommunication. The U.K. mag Artrocker put them on their cover and David Bowie weighed in with a rave review, vocation their music "wizardry" in an interview in the London Times. Not defective for a bunch of homemade demos.
Next to appear was Russell Simins, drummer for the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, wHO besides found the band on MySpace. He sent an email and asked if they'd like to crush with him. After coming together their parents to convince them he wasn't an eccentric person, Simins became their drummer and the only when adult in the band. Gigs at CBGB's and the McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn started building a stateside buzz. K.I.D.S., another EP of home demos, came out in the U.K. and sold out spell Simins took the kids into a real studio and started laying down tracks for their debut Slam Bang Boom Cake. Chris Maxwell and Phil Hernandez (aka the Elegant Too of Brave Combo, Shivaree, They Might Be Giants, John Cale) co-produced the sides with Simins. Most tracks simply supply a mo of polish to the band's unsanded squall, just a few elder common people dropped by the roger Huntington Sessions to supply their two cents. "Disco Bomb" features the B-52's Fred Schneider on background signal vocals and Ramones-like lyrics "Discotheque bomb, we got it goin' on." "Trendsetter" has anti-folk star Kimya Dawson performing one of her demented outbursts around the incorporated indoctrination of tween consumers, while her married man Angelo Spencer adds some real lead guitar. "Holograph World" features Nicolas Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on guitar with Karen O portion out on vocals. Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and DJ Atsushi too dropped by to help out. The finished album was snapped up by Mute in the U.K.; Great Society, an American indie, put the album out in the U.S. In 2007, Tiny Masters played out their summer vacation on circuit, wowing 'em at SXSW (the youngest band to e'er play the fete) and merchandising out smaller venues in London. They were peerless of the highlights of the Underage Festival in Victoria Park, along with a passel of tween bands from the U.K.. In the light of 2007, Tiny Masters returned to shoal in Brooklyn, NY and had to one-armed bandit in gigs as their schooling and parents permitted.
