Fleshies: Brown Flag

<p><i>Bromance is in the air, thanks to Bay punk legends <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fleshies">Fleshies</a> and new album Brown Flag</i></p > <!--break--> <p><strong>The sound of Brown</strong></p > <p>SONIC REDUCER Who's afraid to emphasize the fraught, messy love between musicians, timid about foregrounding the mate in bandmate? Not Fleshies vocalist John Geek, a.k.a. Johnny No Moniker, a man eager to describe his combo's new full-length, Brown Flag (Recess), as the product of the muddy, murky waters of manly affection.</p > <p>"It's a man-love record," Geek freely confesses while waiting on fiancée Megan (she just happens to be another ever-lovin' bandmate, this time in Street Eaters). "We kind of realized we all sort of despised each other — and all love each other so deeply we'd jump in front of a train for each other. That's the bromance of Brown Flag."</p > <p>Sentimental mood miniatures like "You Could Be a Star" as well as tunes about "friends who lost themselves and are more on the edge than they should be," found their way beneath Brown Flag's banner, which Fleshies let fly Jan. 9 at Bottom of the Hill. But so did perfectly raging and fun rock-out numbers like "Grounded" and "Fire It Up" and what Geek describes as "ridiculous" songs à la "Now She Is a Cop" and "Over the Rain-Dro." The latter emerged from one absurd misadventure, when Geek accidentally lapped up a PCP lollipop he found lying around backstage at a hip-hop show a friend was working. "It's the worst drug on the planet," Geek complains good-naturedly. "You feel overwhelmed, and your teeth are clenched. You're just disassociated and annoyed that you're irritatingly high." &#8230;<a href="http://pages.citebite.com/m2t0q7x1c4quc">Read More</a></p >

<p><i>Bromance is in the air, thanks to Bay punk legends <a href="http://www.myspace.com/fleshies">Fleshies</a> and new album Brown Flag</i></p><br /> &gt;<br /> <!--break--><p><strong>The sound of Brown</strong></p> <p>SONIC REDUCER Who's afraid to emphasize the fraught, messy love between musicians, timid about foregrounding the mate in bandmate? Not Fleshies vocalist John Geek, a.k.a. Johnny No Moniker, a man eager to describe his combo's new full-length, Brown Flag (Recess), as the product of the muddy, murky waters of manly affection.</p> <p>"It's a man-love record," Geek freely confesses while waiting on fiancée Megan (she just happens to be another ever-lovin' bandmate, this time in Street Eaters). "We kind of realized we all sort of despised each other — and all love each other so deeply we'd jump in front of a train for each other. That's the bromance of Brown Flag."</p> <p>Sentimental mood miniatures like "You Could Be a Star" as well as tunes about "friends who lost themselves and are more on the edge than they should be," found their way beneath Brown Flag's banner, which Fleshies let fly Jan. 9 at Bottom of the Hill. But so did perfectly raging and fun rock-out numbers like "Grounded" and "Fire It Up" and what Geek describes as "ridiculous" songs à la "Now She Is a Cop" and "Over the Rain-Dro." The latter emerged from one absurd misadventure, when Geek accidentally lapped up a PCP lollipop he found lying around backstage at a hip-hop show a friend was working. "It's the worst drug on the planet," Geek complains good-naturedly. "You feel overwhelmed, and your teeth are clenched. You're just disassociated and annoyed that you're irritatingly high." …<a href="http://pages.citebite.com/m2t0q7x1c4quc">Read More</a></p>