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  • WE PLAY XPN'S FREE AT NOON MAY 14TH

    Hey guys, great news. We're playing XPN's free at noon show next Friday May 14th. Follow the link to RSVP: FREE AT NOON RSVP


             Here’s what the folks at WXPN have to say about our band:
    Hailing from Philadelphia, the psychedelic foursome Drink Up Buttercup came together in 2008. Thriving in the Philly indie music scene, the four young musicians were soon making a name for themselves for their creative live performances. Three rings, plenty of trash-can banging, and an abundance of inspired melodies has brought the band enough repute to release, tour, and release again. They’ve gotten some impressive praise from big-name sources. The New York Times recently said this of their performances: “Drink Up Buttercup, a quartet from Philadelphia that lunges joyously into every jangly chord and full-throated chorus…brought a smile to every face I could see, and the bashing on that garbage can lid couldn’t obscure some genuinely pretty and expressive harmonies.”
    Their latest, “Born and Thrown on a Hook” is Beatles-esque (but somehow molded into a sound deeply their own). It’s surreal but storied, and the influences are obvious but not at all too much. One could describe it best as “a mix between Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, The Doors and The Beatles”.


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  • ALLMUSIC REVIEWS BORN AND THROWN ON A HOOK

    Drink Up Buttercup have built a huge buzz with their energetic live shows and songwriting that distills the golden pop sounds of England and America between approximately 1964 and 1975 into a dizzying, heady brew. The arrangements are uniformly inventive, splicing together bits and pieces of everything that's been waxed since the mid-'60s with a gleefully scattershot approach. The melodies are uniformly catchy; the vocals are marked by harmonies so sweet they could give you diabetes; and James Harvey's lead vocals are always surprising, full of unexpected starts and stops, one minute sweet and folky, the next an uncontained shriek of outrageous psychedelic delight. The same juxtapositions abound in the arrangements. The opening triad starts with "Seasickness Pills," a stomping blend of garage band noise and Brit-pop that drops a Gregorian chant-like interlude into its climax, then moves jarringly into "Animate the Hangtime," a noisy jolt of musique concrète, before concluding with the blissfully sweet "Young Ladies" with tinkling piano, glockenspiel, and ELO-like synth swells. The band's vocal harmonies are angelic and the rhythmic feel is half Beatles, half Kinks, finishing with delirious rippling piano flourishes. Acoustic guitar kicks off "Doggy Head," a funky stomper that sounds like the Archies singing with a quieter version of Slade with a bit of reggae in the backbeat. "Who Spilled the Beaker" is another brief but ominous keyboard interlude that leads to "Heavy Hand," a raucous bit of New York City-flavored garage psychedelia with hints of Motown and the 13th Floor Elevators in its big noisy montage. The band's exuberance, free-flowing creativity, and uncontained performance style carry over to the album, which is presented with the same ebb and flow as a live show. There is hardly any silence between tracks, and their penchant for rhythmic noise and oddball vocals suggests a rock suite as much as a random collection of songs.

    Link: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jpfqxzqsldte~T1
    4:56 PM
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      • Joan

        I really love this album!  Heavy Hand is amazing!! Can't get Doggy Head out of my mind and the song about the Monseignor is like a mini opera in my head.   This band is talented! When are they coming to Philly again?

        2 years ago

  • HELP SPREAD WORD ABOUT BORN AND THROWN ON A HOOK

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    Friends! Post this widgit anywhere & everywhere you can to spread the word about DUB and BORN AND THROWN ON A HOOK: http://bit.ly/5ozMLU PS. THERE ARE 2 NEW TRACKS FROM THE ALBUM FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE ON IT!




    4:38 PM
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      • Maddie Lesperance

        I thought this said porn and thrown on a hook :(
        I'll spread the word anyway...

        2 years ago

  • YOUNG LADIES ON THE TRIPWIRE & AOL SPINNER

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