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The Yelling

First, let us say that this another band that comes to us via our friend Larry at Future Sounds. We were going to do a whole post about his latest comp - which is fuckin’ rad, btw - but we thought that might be bit redundant. So here’s just one of the many awesome bands he is introducing to the world on volume 32.

The Yelling hails from North Hollywood. They sound a little like The White Stripes with a better drummer (and really, who isn’t a better drummer than Meg White?) plus the guy from Cold War Kids on lead vocals. They rock real good and their drummer has an afro.

The peeps over at Inflight At Night reviewed them recently and used the words “polyembryonal gametophyte” in their article. We can’t hope to top that, so instead we’ll tell you this: The Yelling’s MySpace page lists their band website as www.theyelling.com. Apparently, this is not (yet) the case, because right now that URL leads you to one of those squatted dot-coms covered in advertising. Here’s the thing though: one of the ads is for a computer animated service that allows you to punch in a sentence and then have it read by an automated female voice.

You can have a lot of fun with this. For example, type in “Scott is a chode smoker” and then call your friend Scott and leave the message on his voice mail. Or type in the lyrics to “Baby Got Back” and then hit the play button while your co-worker is on the phone with his grandmother. Seriously, you should give this a try. It will lift your spirits and make you want to listen to some loud rock n roll. Speaking of which, have you heard The Yelling?

MP3: ‘Blood On The Steps’