Ooooooh… B-SIDE ETCHING!

Slang Chickens MY FLOOR EP is now available to order in our brand new ONLINE STORE.  CD version will ship right away, and LP versions will ship as soon as they arrive, later this month or early March.

We are proud to announce our next release, Slang Chickens’ MY FLOOR EP.  MY FLOOR will be available as a one-sided 12″ (with b-side etching), digital, and CD.  This will be a split release with our dear friends Infrasonic Sound.  MY FLOOR finds Chickens’ mash of punk, country, new wave evolving into its newest form.  With songs covering a range of topics from firearms, drugs, love, and dreams, MY FLOOR will be available in February in time for the band’s Monday night residency at The Echo in Los Angeles.

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And stream two of the more of the EP’s songs, “My Floor” and “Never Been High” below

Mini Mansions Daytrotter session up now!  Love the cartoon PJ shirt.

Mini Mansions LP will be out November 2nd on Ipecac / Rekords Rekords!

Copies of their MONK 7″ are still available

Slang Chickens hit the road today.  West Coasters, come hang out!

8/14 San Francisco, CA @ Amnesia w/ The Splinters, Sam Flax and the Higher Power, and The Spooks
8/16 Portland,OR @ Valetines w/ Love Always (Kathy from the Thermals solo) and The Golden Hours
8/17 Olympia, WA @ Northern w/ Chung Antique
8/18 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
8/19 Eugene, OR @ Wandering Goat Coffee House
8/21 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern w/ Man/Miracle and Yellow Dress
8/22 Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place w/ Mountain Animal Hospital, and Indian Giver
8/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Downtown Independent w/ PAPA

Artist: Mini Mansions
Title: “Monk” b/w “Heart of Glass”
Label: Psychedelic Judaism (Echo Park)
Format: 7-inch (+ download), purple swirl, 1000 pressed

There’s a key entry in the popular hand guide, Judging Various Media By Its Cover, about skipping over anything adorned with doll parts. But, as the introduction to that book sagely cautions, every rule has its exception and Mini Mansions proves that even this time-honored “indicator of bunk” can be misleading. The band’s still young, but with ties to Queens of the Stone Age and Buddyhead’s Wires on Fire (all three acts share member Michael Shuman), Mini Mansions knows a thing or two about balancing the bizarre with the brilliant.

Side A features “Monk,” a mercurial slice of vintage-sounding psych-pop that finds singer Shuman channeling John Lennon’s stuffy croon through Elliott Smith’s delicate pipes. That’s not to say he’s as good as either (it’d be a mighty tall bill to fill), but it’s an aesthetic he wears well. Meanwhile, fuzzy distortion, organ hum, crisp bass-lines and a Zombies-like beat keep the track moving. On the flip, the Mansions take on Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” slowing the original down to achieve a similarly gluey, psychedelic atmosphere.

Check out other rad vinyl reviews in Chris Martin’s column “INCHES”.

It’s that time of year so Slang Chickens will be headed out to Texas.  Dates listed below.  LA heads should take note of the 3/12 show with our friends Sleepy Sun from San Francisco!

3/12 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/ Sleepy Sun

3/14 Palm Springs, CA @ The Ace Hotel – PS X PS Party

3/16 Las Cruces, NM @ Equinox – PRE SXSW Fest w/ Mini Mansions + more

3/17 El Paso, TX @ Percolator – CANCELED

3/18 Austin, TX @ Annie’s – Buddyhead / Buzzgrinder Party w/ Evan Dando, The Entrance Band, Sweet Apple, Nebula

3/20 Austin, TX @ MWTX w/ GWAR, Andrew WK, Fucked Up, The Soft Pack, Japandroids, Fool’s Gold

3/20 Austin, TX @ Club Primos – Bobby Missle / Parade of Flesh Party w/ Digital Leather, Beach Fossils, TV Ghost

3/21 Dallas, TX @ Bro Fest at the Double-Wide Bar w/ The Soft Pack, Sleepy Sun, Dum Dum Girls, Those Darlins

Anthony laid down an impromptu gyspy version of the song.

And his band Mikki and the Mauses does a great cover.