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Monday, July 09, 2007
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IE Weekly Write Up
Category: News and Politics
THE SUNDELLES
By Phil Fuller
After a long workday recently, I slipped into Taylors in Redlands to unwind before going home, and found myself solemnly staring into a Newcastle. Suddenly, I was distracted by some seriously stellar music oozing its way through the room. The band was the Sundelles, and I blame them for my zombie-like sleepless state the next day.
The Riverside five-piece churn out hauntingly melodic, deliciously discordant '60s-style songs, fusing pre-psychedelic garage rock that's raw enough to have been recorded in someone's shower—you know, for that unmistakable ghetto-reverb sound—and encompasses the overlooked stylings of bands falling somewhere between too-tired rockabilly revival acts and Johnny Thunders-inspired resurrection acts. The Sundelles forgo MC5/Stooges riffs in favor of something with a little more soul, adding a dirty Motown feel to their tunes without resorting to overt plagiarism or sacrificing their underlying smoggy rock sound.
And, unlike other retro rehash bands, the Sundelles don't lose their revivalist swagger, but rather craft their tunes to a not-so-polished perfection. The band also made a recent appearance at UC Riverside that got blurbed about in the student newspaper—the writer referred to the band as "unkempt" and "inebriated" (awesome!), and the Sundelles also apparently made disparaging comments about the campus Greek organizations (even more awesome!). A band that both pisses off the easilypissed- off and goes down well with a frosty Newcastle? The Sundelles may be the greatest IE band ever.
More info and song clips available at
www.myspace.com/thesundellesmusic.
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Monday, April 23, 2007
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UCR HIGHLANDER REVIEW
Drinking at noon with the Sundelles: local band brings drunkenness and debauchery to UCR by Andrew Chin Staff Writer.
April 11th marked a peculiar day for the UC Riverside campus. The day started ou like any other, numberous student eating their lunches in the Commons, countless fraternities and sororities relaxing on the couches alongside their wooden letters along the Bell Tower walkway and students hurriedly rushing to their classes. Little did the students within the immediate area know that, as the clock loudly struck 12 p.m., a group of young, angsty musicians would provide for them a performance different from those of the usual artsy indie-band.
A locally based five-piece garage band, The Sundelles, graced the small stage in front of a handful of students (many of whom had just stopped to watch out of sheer curiosity) at the Bell Tower as the second Nooner of the spring quarter.
Unkempt and appearing slightly inebriated, the band went on to perform an hour-long set full of rock influenced by drunkenness and debauchery, two individual "jam sessions" with random students and a whole lot of cursing. The performance itself seemed to be an entirely random drunken celebreation as the day of the show was, coincidently vocalist and guitarist Samri Sundos' birthday.
Opening with an entirely impromptu piece consisting of feedback-heavy guitar and Sundos' slurred singing of random lines such as, "UCR, you see me, you see I, UCR," repeated numerous times, the first song set the tone for the rest of the bands performance. Immediately afterwards, Sundos commented on the large number of Greek organizations surrounding the stage, eventually calling out a specific fraternity in a disparaging manner.
The set seemed to drag on as the band had only previously played half-hour long sets, making up for extra time by encouraging students watching to play onstage with them.
Although the band's "jam sessions" with random passerby were obviously nothing to write home about, their actual material was not half bad. The rare instances in which the band performed their own written material seemed to be the moments in which students had shown greater interest and enjoyment. However, it could just be because the rest of the band's set consisted of insults and cursing.
The students seemed to view the performance in one of two manners: an entirely entertaining musical performance or an immensely inappropiate and noisy debacle. The overwhelming consensus seemed to be uon the latter.
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