The Gay Blades
Hometown: 5th Ring of Hell
Tags: indie, indie rock, trash pop
“If Freddie Mercury sang for Death From Above 1979, these guys would open the show!”
The Gay Blades are a two piece from somewhere in or near New York City and play an acerbic brand of Trash Pop. What is Trash Pop, you ask? Trash Pop is what happens when two keenly observant wanna be hipsters write songs the same pair couldn’t possibly pull off live, and make up for their missing bass player with consistent TNT like performances and a heaping spoonful of swagger. The Gay Blades invented it. Trust me. Listen at Last.fmTIM BURTON VERSUS TRASH ROCK. NOISE VERSUS ART. PEOPLE DRESSED UP IN THEIR BEST FUCKED UP OUTFITS. NAKED VERSUS NOTHING. THE GAY BLADES. SEX VERSUS THE REPUBLIC. US VERSUS YOU.
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Guardian UK's New Band Of The Day on The Gay Blades
6 months agoThis New Jersey duo create a heavily ironised rifferama that recalls the rock'n'roll excess of glam-metal, but without venturing too far into Tenacious D territory Hometown: New Jersey. The lineup: Clark Westfield (vocals, guitar), Puppy Mills (drums), Jeff Plate (bass). The background: It used to be that spoof or merely "arch" bands, whose sincerity of intent was hard to detect, usually remained music press in-jokes, but ever since the mainstream success of Electric Six and the Darkness – or, for that matter, Scissor Sisters or Eagles of Death Metal (or Jet, or the Datsuns), who tend, unless we've mightily missed the point, towards the cartoonishly OTT because they're less than serious – the general public has been more accommodating towards outfits who appear to have their tongues firmly lodged in their cheeks. And so it's no wonder that New Jersey duo the Gay Blades are currently generating a lot of attention, not just from journalists who like this sort of thing because they get the gags and the references... more at guardian.co.uk