March 7, 2010

Jun 19th @ Crest Hardware- Crest Fest w/ Sundelles, Oberhofer  -Brooklyn, NY

Jun 25th @ Death By Audio-Northside Fest w/ Grooms, Sisters, Snakes Say Hisss, Tough Knuckles, Mr A*OK -Brooklyn, NY

Jun 25th @ Public Assembly-Northside Fest w/ Dom, Sundelles -Brooklyn, NY

Jun 27th @ Public Assembly- Northside Fest w/The Wave Pictures -Brooklyn, NY

Jul 23rd @ Whitney Museum- w/ Bear Hands -Manhattan, NY

June 20, 2010

We’re teaming up with our buddies at Less Artists More Condos and throwing a party for the Northside Fest. shit should be nuts

May 3, 2010

our buddy Daniel Carbone made a rad tour video from our St Louis trip for creative control.

Check it out!

April 22, 2010

its been a while since we’ve had a the whole family together but the time has come! Mark your calender now for May 28th and come see Tony Castles + Darlings + Snakes Say Hiss + Boogie Boarder + Tough Knuckles + DJ Mr. A*OK  @ DBA. We’re gonna have some new jamz from all the bands plus a new wave of shirts.
Get Ready!

March 30, 2010

SXSW was a blast! our party with impose magazine sold out about half way into the show and shit got crazy. check out photos on the impose site

http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/the-austin-imposition-night-one

March 8, 2010

Darlings have some SXSW show lined up, come drink a beer with us!

Check the Darlings Show date for details

February 28, 2010

Both bands went to the studio at breakthruradio.com and recorded some jamz last fall. old news yes but still fun!

February 27, 2010

As Winter continues to keep its chilly grasp fastened tightly upon our fair city, Darlings have hunkered down and are combating the cold with a barrage of Brooklyn-brewed garage pop.  Last weekend, the band convened with their guru Nick Smeraski at Headgear Studio to record six new tracks.  We’re in the mixing stage, so these songs will be coming at you sooner than you think.

February 27, 2010

Vanity Fair used “Teenage Girl” in a behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz and a bunch of Hollywood starlets.  Check it out at the end of this article.  Unfortunately it’s not a photo shoot of Hollywood starlets AND Darlings, they’re just mugging for the camera while our song plays.  Plus we would never agree to share the spotlight like that.

January 25, 2010

New Darlings record get it here:

April 1, 2010

its been a year since L magazine told you to watch Darlings. they did a nice recap of the year..

“As we write this, one or more members of Darlings are currently watching MTV’s Teen Cribs (again, Twitter), but in the past 12 months, their slouchy, hooky garage rock has found its way all over the city. First there was praise for their debut album, Yeah I Know, on every conceivable local music blog this summer, then the mothership of press – The New York Times — got on board with a few nice things to say. Next came Urban Outfitters, who included their song “Eviction Party” in an in-store store playlist/blog mix along the likes of Girls and The xx. Things got weirder when Vanity Fair used “Teenage Girl” to soundtrack abehind-the-scenes photo shoot teaser for their Hollywood issue. While the year concluded with Yeah I Know on more than a few “best of” lists (The L’s included), Darlings kicked off 2010 with their first trip to SXSW where they played a load of shows at places like thrift stores and tattoo shops. Their band name is getting easier to Google, too. To keep it going, they’ll be opening for the Smith Westerns at Market Hotel on April 3 and playing Brooklyn Bowl on the 15th, where they’ll share the stage with ‘09 honorable mention, Sisters.”

February 28, 2010

“I saw Brian crowd-surfing on some people/But there was no band at all.” That’s Peter Rynsky, singer of Darlings, at the outset of “Eviction Party,” a splash of lo-fi elegance that, like most Darlings songs, squeezes meaning from the inconsequential. On its winning debut album “Yeah I Know” (Famous Class), this young New York band — Mr. Rynsky, the guitarist Joe Tirabassi, the keyboardist Maura Lynch and the drummer Matt Solomon — plays casually rendered garage-pop that’s masking an arched eyebrow: they’re all working harder than they appear to be. Among the best here is “Friends Forever,” a dry love letter that’s part surf-rock, part musical theater. “I can’t wait to see your skinny legs again,” Mr. Rynsky sings, “because we’re more than friends/and I need you.” During the unprintable chorus, the affair moves from the park to a literal dark room to a metaphorical one. “Don’t make me get down on my knees,” Mr. Rynsky sings, though it sounds like he wouldn’t mind.

nytimes

February 28, 2010

Possibly the least well-known band on this year’s list, Darlings is a Brooklyn-based four-piece that sounds pretty much exactly how you always wanted your high school garage band to sound. They’re surprisingly impressive on a technical level, with all sorts of meandering guitar melodies and interesting interplay between instruments. The recording is far from polished, but it’s got this perfect level of fidelity that keeps things clear enough but also seems to say, “We could have made this sound better, but we didn’t feel like it, you fucking square.” They call to mind a sloppier Teenage Fanclub or Sloan at times, with whimsical melodies that feel completely timeless. Then, out of nowhere, they turn into a loud, screamy rock band, like early Replacements or the Jason Lowenstein contributions to Sebadoh, or maybe even… Nirvana? Basically, they’ve held onto the idea that this whole music thing was always supposed to be fun because you get to bang on shit really, really hard — it just so happens they bring an awful lot of other stuff to the table as well.

L Magazine