Burlington, Ontario natives Sandman Viper Command win the quirkiest band name award for this year's NXNE (apparently they took it from the movie Outbreak), but I've been spinning "Oh Yeah, It's Fusion" all morning. Bluesy garage pop can't get much better than this track. However, "Strawberry Quick" presents a band with quite a bit of range, and the young group is poised to make a bigger dent in the scene. Locally, they've pretty much mopped things up, being nominated for local music awards, and also opening for bands like Japandroids and Wavves. All this to say that I'm going to be checking out one of Sandman Viper Command's two sets at NXNE starting tomorrow. I'm excited for this one. They're relatively untouched here in the States and I have a sneaky feeling that will be rectified within a short amount of time. Check them out at The Silver Dollar Room at 3AM on Thursday, or if that's way late for the kids to be out and about, try Friday at 8 PM at Sneaky Dee's. Enjoy both of the tracks below and get your asses out there.
Nice picture of ummmmmmmmm…idk…..but not Sandman Viper Command
I’m calling bullshit on Ted. I looked at the band’s “weblog” and it appears that the band is composed of four youngish white males, much like the four white dudes in the photograph above. Further, there’s a scrawny longhair in all of their photographs, just like the scrawny longhair on the left end of the sofa. There’s also some facial hair going on in both sources,
Also, none of the people in the band appear to be named Ted, so it’s unlikely that Ted is aware of every photograph of Supreme Vicks Cockrub (unless Ted is their personal photographer or manager or some such shit).
Even more that that, exactly one other internet based music blog has written about Sandwich Vagina Control, so I’d probably just be glad that the band was on the internet at all instead of bitching about the hypothetical legitimacy of the photo.
Fransisco, the dudes in the pic are a band called Teenage Kicks out of Toronto and have played shows with Sandman Viper Command. And yeah, I do know what I speak of.
And, you might want to get a new search engine…
lol easy fellas. I’ll change the pic. It’s not easy when you’re not from Canada and trying to post about a band that doesn’t have a ton of press yet. It’s like a MLB reporter trying to dig up action shots of a 12 year old Dominican phenom. Not exactly all over the place. But thanks for the tip. You’ll have to excuse Brian the cantankerous better half of CD. The important thing is that people should check out the band, regardless of whether or not the photo is of Teenage Kicks or The Beatles.
And….Teenage Kicks is a fucking terrible name for a band.
Hey, my intent was just a “heads up”..Not being critical of a great music site. Keep up the good work.
lol…just saw the tweet…Don’t blame the band. I’m not a member and they had nothing to do with my post.
Somebody get to Canada fast with a new batch of band names. Did NAFTA put an embargo on that kind of thing?
lol no prob Ted. I was just musing on Twitter. Meant no harm. Thanks for reading! Getting stoked to head out to see some shows right this moment!
just to actually recitfiy this picture is actually the boys from sandman viper command, its from album art of their first full length release….