Band of the Week: Peachcake

[August 4 - 10]
Peachcake
Sounds Like: Electronica
Drinking Buddies: Hellogoodbye, Her Space Holiday, PlayRadioPlay!
Synopsis: Contents pressurized with ecstatic parties. Do not shake.
Makes You Want To...: Dance!; Protest!; Connect with your fellow man!
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One week, one band. You know the drill.
This week, the featured artist is Peachcake.


Last week I discussed certain topics pertaining to skin-melting heat and such. Guess what! It rained! That lowered the temperature a bit. Sadly, things are returning to the triple digit mark; the planet's resistance to this heat is futile at this point. Speaking of hot, all this temperature business is a hot topic (bad pun, I know) in the political field. Now that's a place where tensions are boiling (I'll stop eventually). Between Obama and McCain, words are flying like knives, candid candidate photographs are catching eyes like Britney tabloids, and the political field a battlefield at this point.

Music has been expressing political views for years, encompassing nearly every genre, every style, every instrument, and every lyric imaginable: from Jefferson Airplane to Godspeed You! Black Emperor; from The Beatles to The Blood Brothers. But admittedly, some of these bands induce politics with inebriation by mind-altering substances, while others... well, GY!BE and Blood Brothers can be just playing weird sometimes. Can't politics be a little more straightforward? Something for the common-man to raise their fist and boogie too? Why yes, there is.

May I introduce the one and only, Peachcake. Don't let the tasty creation they're named after fool you! Peachcake is a duo/quartet (depending on when you catch them) of exceptionally epic proportions, and I try not to use that phrase lightly. Rocking the house from Carefree and Cave Creek Arizona, Peachcake mixes up eclectic electronica for eager ears everywhere! Their beats are scientifically designed to make your body move, and their lyrics are custom made to make you party, love, take a friend by their hand, and say "Eff the man!" with dancing instead of obscenities.

Peachcake is an experience, another phrase I tend not to use too often. There are few words that explain exactly how prolifically Peachcake tours, which brings me to the next point. Their songs are splendid, and will have you dancing in seconds, but the real Peachcake experience is a live Peachcake experience. Peachcake is on the tail end of their Make Mixes, Not War tour, which has wreaked havoc and destroyed many a fine music venue across the country in the most fabulous and fun way possible. They even dropped by my town, Fort Worth, TX, to shake up The Ridglea Theater.

Their shows are flamboyant - their performances original every time - their celebrations truly profound. Words simply don't describe the Peachcake experience accurately. Their shows inspire the community of music-goers to band together, with the intention of coming together with love and peace in one massive party of the people. The intention is to lose your inhibitions and accept all the beautiful people that surround you on a daily basis; to join your strange friends and friendly strangers in acceptance and happiness.

I could easily go on for hours gabbing about how unbelievably awesome Peachcake is. But I believe any more said would be doing them an injustice. Peachcake already has the power to preaching to the people more proficiently than I ever will. I shall let them and their amazing music speak for itself. Peachcake is, as mentioned, finishing up their massive Make Mixes, Not War tour, which you can find out more about here.

This wasn't just some string of insanity in the safest form possible though. Turns out these boys are putting together their next release, What Year Will You Have The World?, which will be debuting in the next week (if I'm not mistaken)! They've already been selling tons of copies of their humungous compilation, The Greatest Hits Ever ...So Far, which has a collection of all things Peachcake. Peace, love, and Peachcake. It's a good political policy if you ask me. While I vote Peachcake for President in 2008!, I wish all you party people a wonderful week.

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