Speedy Ortiz's "SPORTS EP" Reviewed in The Boston Globe

Oh... and THIS is TONIGHT!!

SPEEDY ORTIZ's "SPORTS EP" Available For Pre-Order + FREE Download!

The debut EP from SPEEDY ORTIZ, SPORTS EP, is set for a June 5th release on Exploding In Sound Records. The album is available in limited edition 10” random colored vinyl and digitally through Bandcamp and other major distributors. Pre-orders are now available through Bandcamp and the label’s online store. All pre-orders include a download of the full record on May 29th, a week before the album’s official release. “Silver Spring,” the first single from the record is available now for streaming and as a free download. Head over to the label’s Soundcloud page or the band’s Bandcamp now!

PRE-ORDER HERE!!

Speedy Ortiz has several release shows planned along the East Coast, celebrating the arrival of SPORTS EP with friends in Boston, MA (5/30), Danbury, CT (6/1), and Brooklyn, NY (6/2) before heading out on tour this summer. Fans at the shows will be able to purchase the vinyl ahead of the June 5th release. Check out more info below and full release show details.

The Northampton, MA based indie rock quartet has been widely praised since their inception, with The Boston Phoenix hailing them, “one of Massachusetts's best new bands,” and describing their infectious sound as “guitar-oriented slacker pop, heavy '90s jams with catchy choruses for head-bopping, or push pits.” Originally a solo project of vocalist/guitarist Sadie Dupuis, the full band came together late last year as Matt Robidoux (guitar), Mike Falcone (drums), and Darl Ferm (bass) joined forces. Speedy Ortiz aren’t aiming to be the next nostalgic buzz band; this is loud, clever, and honest music that draws from genuine influences and an undying love of indie rock’s finest decade.

SPORTS EP, recorded at The Sex Dungeon studio in Philly (Ugh God, Fat History Month, Florida=Death), highlights Speedy Ortiz’s uncompromising knack for catchy hooks, tremendously overdriven guitars, brutal pounding drums, thick rumbling basslines, and a sharp yet bleak sense of humor. Their music twists and turns from the anthemic sludge of “Curling” to the brilliant word-play of the explosive “Silver Spring,” and the twitchy post-punk guitar riffs of “Basketball”. Speedy Ortiz’s music is addictive and ferocious, creating exceptional rock with a shimmering muscular brilliance. Your soundtrack to the summer has arrived.

Mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore, Doomstar) and mastered by Keith Freund (RIBS, Dirty Dishes).

SPEEDY ORTIZ – Spring / Summer 2012 Tour Dates [more to be announced]:

5/22 - Amherst, MA – Babetown w/ California X, Life in Vacuum, Peace Be Still, You'll Live
5/30 – Allston, MA – O’Briens w/ Grass Is Green, Young Adults, Arvid Noe**
6/1 – Danbury, CT – Heirloom Arts Theatre w/ Ovlov, Disco Doom, Eastwood, Estrogen Highs**
6/2 – Brooklyn, NY – Shea Stadium w/ Disco Doom, Census, Turbosleaze**
6/22 – Philadelphia, PA – Level Room w/ Ugh God, Cusses
6/23 – Baltimore, MD – Golden West w/ Roomrunner, Daughn Gibson

** denotes record release weekend

SPEEDY ORTIZ Need A Van!! YOU Can Help Make That Happen!

A message from Speedy Ortiz...

"VANS ACROSS AMERICA! Speedy Ortiz wants to bring our rock show to a city near you this summer, and we can't do that without a van! And hopefully a van with decent gas mileage since gas just might cost more than ever this year. But if we can bring the rock out on the road to you, it will be totally worth it!

Our plan is to tour between June 21st and August 4th. At the moment our itinerary will hopefully be including such faraway lands as Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, Chapel Hill, Asheville, Savannah, Tampa, Gainesville, Athens, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Denton, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Oakland, Eugene, Portland, Olympia, Seattle, Spokane, Missoula, Salt Lake City, Boulder, Denver, Omaha, Iowa City, Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New York!

Thanks to everyone who's been listening to our music! <3 Also a lot of the content for our kickstarter video was pulled from Youtube. And so we graciously thank anyone who uploaded any live Speedy performances in the past 6 months. They really came in handy! One final note regarding our rewards: The exclusive Sports EP cassettes are limited to the first 50 pledges who donate $25 or more. Thanks everyone!"

RONSON Reviewed on Letters From A Tapehead

Letters From A Tapehead recently reviewed Grass Is Green's Ronson. Check it out HERE.

"I've been listening to Ronson, the third album from Boston post-punk/post-hardcore band, Grass Is Green, on and off since its release. Many times I've sat listening to it and attempted to perfectly distill my reasons for liking it, which hasn't been easy. Speaking objectively, Grass Is Green could serve as the functioning successor to Disc 2 of Dischord Records' 20 Years of Dischord compilation, their own sound the perfect culmination of many of the bands featured on that disc, namely Fugazi, Faraquet, Branch Manager, Smart Went Crazy, Jawbox and Lungfish. Ronson captures many of the elements that shaped and informed early pre-Alternative 90s America, the sort of off-kilter rock sounds that epitomized the shift from hardcore to indie rock. The combined efforts of guitarist/vocalist Andy Chervenak, guitarist Devin McKnight, bassist Michael Thomas and drummer Jesse Weiss, despite their allegiance to point and sound in time, are refreshingly guitar-driven and loud.

But, saying that a band simply "emulates an already established sound to supply its output" as opposed to "embraces an established sound to inspire its output" shortchanges their abilities. Derivations and nostalgia be damned, Grass Is Green is a good band, capable of being somewhat whimsical ("Three Little Chickens"), melodic and pop-driven ("Nice Guy of the Year Award") or a little esoteric ("Devin's Lament"). Ronson provides a musically well-versed collection of songs that can appeal to both appreciators and casual listeners, the funk-laden tone of "Dance Punk Revival School" or the Thurston Moore-based strums of "Panera" contrasting nicely with the more ballad-toned "Somebody's Something" or straightforward and catchy "Riff Sibling." Other songs like "Life Of Mike" and "Baby Prieto's Big Score" will have an audience with alterna-heads and listeners that latch onto college radio like newborns suckling mama's instant breakfast, but to the absolute exclusion of nobody. Even at its most experimental, Ronson is just a fun and entertaining album, which is something you can't really explain with an academic's perspective and a lexicon abundant with five dollar adjectives."

Pile on Tour with Ugh God!!

A message from Pile...

"Hoyhoy. We're going back out on tour in couple of days and it's gon be great. Here's the the's.

April 24th - Brooklyn NY - Shea Stadium w/ She Keeps Bees, Slothrust and Big Ups
April 25th - Allentown PA - Soft Machine Gallery w/ H O R S E*
April 26th - Greenville NC - TBA*
April 27th - Chapel Hill NC - Chapel Hill Underground w/ Morgan's End*
April 28th - Charlotte NC - The Milestone w/ Weekenders and Bracing for Impact*
April 29th - Asheville NC - The Murder Basement w/ Albert Adams and Grammer School*
April 30th - Charlottesville VA - Tea Bazaar w/ Buck Gooter*
May 1st - New Brunswick NJ - The Alamo w/ Eternal Fuzz*
May 2nd - Allston MA - O'Briens w/ Fat History Month and SKIMASK*

w/ Ugh God

We're going to record a new full-length in July at the Sex Dungeon!"

PILE Head Out with Fat History Month + Announce Dates with Ugh God!

Pile will kick off their previously announced Midwest tour with Fat History Month tomorrow in Boston, so be sure to catch them in your town. The must see live band will hit the road once again before entering the studio in late May with Philly's Ugh God for another string of can't miss shows. Here's what the band had to say about it all...

"hey everybody, just dropping a line to say we're doing some stuff. FIRST OF ALL, we're going on tour with Fat History Month at the end of March here are the dates:

3/21 Boston MA - Machine w/ Living Void & Dutch Guts (no Fat History Month)
3/22 Northampton MA - Sierra Grille w/ Speedy Ortiz
3/23 Buffalo NY - Jungle Gym
3/24 Detroit MI - Garden Bowl
3/25 Chicago IL - daytime secret apartment show so secret i don't know much about it yet THEN at night the Casa Donde w/ AxiSova and The New Diet
3/26 Bloomington IN - maybe a glory hole?
3/27 Columbus OH - Carabar
3/28 Athens OH - The Union w/ Nurser
3/29 Philadelphia - Kung Fu Necktie w/ Ugh God and Rasputin's Secret Police
3/30 New Paltz NY - Rte 32 fest
3/31 Allston MA - Wacky Castle w/ State Champion and Grass is Green

then we're playing some shows in and around town for a bit.

4/9 Allston MA - Great Scott w/ Buildings (MN), Slothrust (NY), Crinkle Face and Speedy Ortiz
4/18 Boston Somewhere TBA w/ The Back Pockets (ATL)

then we're going out on a trip with UGH GOD:

4/25 Richmond VA - TBA
4/26 Greenville NC
4/27 Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill Underground
4/28 Charlotte NC - The Milestone
4/29 Asheville NC - TBA
4/30 Charlottesville/Harrisonburg VA - TBA
5/1 Philly
5/2 Allston - O'BRIENS w/ FAT HISTORY MONTH AND SKIMASK

If anyone has ideas or suggestions about where we those TBA's should be, we're all ears."

SPEEDY ORTIZ Join Exploding In Sound Records!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12, 2012

SPEEDY ORTIZ to release Sports EP
on Exploding In Sound Records

Speedy Ortiz (ex-mems. Quilty, Graph, Ovlov) will follow up recently released digital single “Taylor Swift b/w Swim Fan” with Sports, an infectious five-track 10” LP, in late May

Exploding In Sound Records is excited to announce that Northampton, MA-based quartet Speedy Ortiz have joined its steadily growing roster. Last week, Speedy Ortiz self-released the exceptionally catchy “Taylor Swift b/w Swim Fan.” The single, recorded by Paul Q. Kolderie (Pixies, Radiohead, Hole) and mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr., Thurston Moore) is the first taste of the band’s complete line-up. The group will follow it up with Sports EP, their label debut, which will be limited to 500 copies on colored 10” vinyl and digital in late May. Speedy Ortiz will tour in support of the record this summer throughout the country.

Following the demise of Brooklyn rock trio Quilty, vocalist/guitarist Sadie Dupuis began writing music at summer camp under the name Speedy Ortiz. Her knack for songwriting was prosperous as she quickly wrote, performed, and recorded an EP and full length of hook-heavy home demos. The recordings are raw and simple, allowing the focus to rest entirely on the charm and sarcastic wit of the songs themselves without any studio gloss in sight. Speedy Ortiz was never meant to be a solo act, however, and it was almost serendipitous that during the same time two other East Coast indie rock favorites came to an end. Graph’s Matt Robidoux (guitars), Ovlov’s Mike Falcone (drums), and Darl Ferm (bass) joined Speedy Ortiz, coming together to create a crushing sound of early ‘90s-influenced guitar rock, grunge, and experimental pop. The Massachusetts band’s grueling work ethic has led to near constant shows on the East coast since their formation.

Sports, recorded at The Sex Dungeon studio in Philly (Ugh God, Fat History Month, Florida=Death), features Speedy Ortiz’s catchy hooks, enormous overdriven guitars, brutally pounding drums, and thick rumbling basslines. From the anthemic dirge of “Curling” to the brilliant word-play of the explosive “Silver Spring,” and the twitchy post-punk guitar riffs of “Basketball,” Speedy Ortiz’s music is addictive and ferocious, creating exceptional rock without taking things too seriously.

Sports Tracklist:

1. Basketball
2. Silver Spring
3. Curling
4. Indoor Soccer
5. Suck Buddies

SPEEDY ORTIZ is:

Sadie Dupuis – vocals/guitar
Matt Robidoux – guitar
Mike Falcone - drums
Darl Ferm – bass



“sweetly woozy vocals over scrappy, fuzzed up guitars and splashes of reverb. While they recall the halcyon days of slacker indie rock, Speedy Ortiz add their own twist of vintage garage to proceedings, creating something that stands comparison with the best that is out there at the minute.” – The Mad Mackerel

“Her lyrics — often creepy, sometimes grotesque, but always poignant — are worth digging out from beneath Speedy Ortiz's catchy, noisy rock. It makes sense that she moved up from New York to the band's current base in Northampton this September to earn her MFA in poetry at UMass.” – The Phoenix

“lovingly steeped in 90's flannel (ala a melting pot of Pavement, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Helium- kinda) but sounding more stripped down in a raw garage band sort of way, Speedy Ortiz is head bangingly awesome.” – American Pancake

“Speedy Ortiz might fall under what you'd call post-grunge. The classic elements are there, muddy, deliciously murky messes of instrumentation, dudes in hats, and a badass lady sounding sassy and snarly at the same time. These Massachusetts rascals have just released a little two-song taster, and the more I listen to it the more I'm drinking the Kool Aid.” – Fuzzy Logic

“noisy guitar rock, modeled off that earliest phase of math rock that came from the start of the '90s. Dupuis is carefree and mildly mopey in her delivery, as were Timony and Liz Phair seventeen years ago. And it all comes together perfectly.” – Choir Croak Out Them Goodies

Stream and download Speedy Ortiz’s music at speedyortiz.bandcamp.com.

Members of SPEEDY ORTIZ are available for interviews.

For more information, please contact rattledbylarush@gmail.com, dan@explodinginsound.com or dave@explodinginsound.com

For all booking inquiries, please email rattledbylarush@gmail.com or dan@explodinginsound.com

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