Jesus Christ Let's Help Them

April 3, 2017 5:32 AM

Let's start the week off right with a Big Beautiful Day courtesy of ✨✨PWR BTTM✨✨ the queerpunk duo who have already conquered the NPR Tiny Desk, BESTIE$ FOR CA$H, A.V. Undercover (Counting Crows!), and yes, even frikkin SXSW. [n.b. Some songs have cussing]

What?? More??? OK.

Ugly Cherries
Answer My Text
West Texas
I Wanna Boi

Their new album Pageant is out May 12th.

posted by gwint (6 comments total)

Answer My Text is a jam!
posted by bigendian at 8:12 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

Thank you, I needed this band in my life.
posted by Mooseli at 9:44 AM on April 3, 2017 [1 favorite]

I first found them as part of NPR's SXSW 100 last year and when I heard their Tiny Desk Concert they pretty much instantly, and I mean withing all of 2 chords, cemented themselves as my favorite band. Their songs manage to pack so much raw emotion even in very succinct lyrics (1994 has all of 9 lines and it can bring me to tears) that just mesh so well with their hyper-energetic guitar licks.

Their very inclusive concert policies and mountains of glitter certainly don't hurt.

Since it wasn't included above, here's a link to their 2017 SXSW NPR set, featuring a few new songs off of Pageant, a guest appearance by Alynda Lee Segarra from Hurray For The Riff Raff and a poem that kills fascists.
posted by OMGTehAwsome at 10:19 AM on April 3, 2017

Aaaaand the SXSW link was posted above, but I was just too distracted to notice. As penance, here are more links:
1994
Projection
Vacation
Their KEXP set
On The Chris Gethard Show
posted by OMGTehAwsome at 10:51 AM on April 3, 2017

They're so much damn fun. I'm due to see them when they hit the East Coast this spring and I bet their show is going to be THE MOST FUN EVER.
posted by rachaelfaith at 1:20 PM on April 3, 2017

Mod note: A couple deleted. Sorry, but if there are reasonable sources for multiple accusations of various bad behavior and/or crimes committed by these band members that people should know about, it's best to provide links rather than "I heard" sort of stuff – the internet and people being what they are.
posted by taz (staff) at 6:30 AM on April 4, 2017 [2 favorites]