I got hip to The Muslims a few months ago. Some website shouted them out, either Vice Magazine or www.streetboners.com, some site that does not typically shout out random bands.
These guys were local band out of San Diego, no label. They have since blown up a bit. I listened to their myspace page tracks over and over for a day and forgot them, but the name stuck in my mind. The Muslims? So bad, but fuck it, no worse that "The Police", right?
Then, a few days ago I saw on othermusic.com website there is a rare Muslims 12" and I dropped everything to find it, but have come to realize it is long gone. They have a 10 song LP dropping in February, though.
So back to the myspace page. I highly recommend you go check it out... the 5 jams on there are all gold. These guys are like Strokes-y rock. That's it, pretty much. Just really good, really catchy rock jams, lots of "hey! ho!" choruses. Great bass tone. The singer has a slacker too-cool-to-try-too-hard voice but it is endearing and totally works. I copied the tracks off myspace and listened to it 5 times back to back to back to back to back in my Jeep.
The twist is I guess they just changed their name from "The Muslims" to "The Soft Pack". Meh, on the one hand, to name your band The Muslims and then get cold feet and change it is kind of pussy. But, now that they are starting to blow up and get some recognition, it would just be a matter of time until some cleric put a fatwah on them so you can't really hate on them for changing up the name.
Go check it out now, these songs will be stuck in your head all week. Fortson, this is your all American rock band.
http://www.myspace.com/thesoftpack
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good stuff..... thats quite a tour schedule theyve got listed on their myspace...... the hipster intelligentsia must be hip to these guys!!
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