Band of the Week: Monsters Are Waiting

[February 25 - March 2]
Monsters Are Waiting
Sounds Like: Indie
Drinking Buddies: Pretty Girls Make Graves, Metric, She Wants Revenge
Synopsis: New wave New Wave.
Makes You Want To...: Listen to vinyl; Brood
[Myspace]




One week, one band. You know the drill.
This week, the featured artist is Monsters Are Waiting.


Time to buckle down. Reality is hitting most of us now: there is no sanctuary from school anymore. No hovels to hide in from the heinously horrendous homework hurled at us. Tensions are tightening, stress levels are rising, mid-terms are coming, projects are due, papers are being written (or assigned). But safety remains with sweet tunes for your delicate audio receivers (ears) to relish in while running out of ink or getting cramps from typing.

Monsters Are Waiting hail straight out of the city of angels - Echo Park for you particulars. Their specialty is turning Hollywood upside down for a nice, mean laugh. Monsters Are Waiting has hence been touted a new wave of New Wave in our modern music. The evidence is clear too, as Monsters Are Waiting's somewhat eerie, somewhat quiet, somewhat bouncy, but always poignant, which emulates plenty of age-old new-wave influence (think 80s Cure, New Order, etc.) With other influences such as The Stone Roses (who Monsters Are Waiting has covered!), The Kinks, and Wire, as well as fellow contemporary bands, Monsters Are Waiting definitely know how to project themselves.

Monsters Are Waiting released their debut album, Fascination, back in 2006 after riling the hornets nest of music advocates down in SXSW. Since then, they have built up quite the repetoire of music videos for their current songs. Lately though, not much word from their home base. But we can hope that they're making sexy new songs for our listening pleasure.

You may find it hard to believe, but they have a Myspace. I sincerely suggest wandering over to Insound to snag a copy of Fascination for yourself, or iTunes of physicality is not a concern. And for you vinyl buffs out there, click the link on Monsters Are Waiting's Myspace to buy up the last of their "Ha Ha - Single" vinyl records that they didn't sell while in England. In the meantime, duck, cover, dodge as much homework as you can, and don't get too many paper cuts; it's bad for the skin.