Famous Class

Tony Castles Live on Viva Radio

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:40:23 +0000

Tony Castles Joins the Family

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:32:32 +0000

Get ready for the new Tony Castles EP “No Service” out this September on Famous Class!

Tony Castles Win Pitchfork Best Dressed 09

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:30:36 +0000

“nothing but sex” – Pitchforkmedia.com

Tony Castles Shows

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Sept 17th RECORD RELEASE @ Union Pool- Brooklyn NY

Sept 6th @Urban Lounge w/Jamie Lidell- Salt Lake City, UT

Sept 7th @ Bluebird Theatre w/Jamie Lidell- Denver,CO

Sept 8th @ Bourbon Theatre w/Jamie Lidell- Lincoln NE

Sept 9th @ Old Rockhouse w/Jamie Lidell- St. Louis, MO

Sept 10th @ Grog Shop w/Jamie Lidell- Cleveland, OH

Sept 11th @ Royale w/Jamie Lidell- Boston, MA

Sept 23th @ Rock and Roll Hotel w/ Tom Tom Club- Washington DC

Sept 24th @ Grog Shop w/ Tom Tom Club- Cleveland Heights OH

Sept 25th @ Midpoint Music Festivalw/ Tom Tom Club – Cincinnati, OH

Sept 26^th @ Exit In w/ Tom Tom Club- Nashville TN

Sept 27^th @ The Old Rock House w/ Tom Tom Club- St. Louis MO

Sept 28^th @ Metro w/ Tom Tom Club- Chicago IL

Sept 29^th @ Mickey Finn’s Pub w/ Tom Tom Club- Toledo OH

Sept 30^th @ Phoenix Theater w/ Tom Tom Club- Toronto ON

Oct 1^st @ Cabaret Mile End w/ Tom Tom Club- Montreal PQ

Oct 2^nd @ HG Showcase Lounge w/ Tom Tom Club- South Burlington VT

Oct 3^rd @ Paradise w/ Tom Tom Club- Boston MA

Impose Says Hello to Tony Castles

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:14:32 +0000

Tony Castles do great justice to dream pop with this simmering and sweet six-plus minute demo “Pirates.” They’re a Brooklyn band who’ve been floating around Brooklyn lineups anywhere between Effi Briest, Darlings, and Dinowalrus. They were only a blip on our radar until recently, and now for they’re playing a shit-ton of CMJ dates, including a date tomorrow at Webster Hall with Das Racist and Suckers, as well as a spot on our 5-day Imposition, for the Famous Class day show.

NORTHSIDE PARTY

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:40:13 +0000

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

Mr. A*OK: Make The Huck Say Aye

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:18:20 +0000

Famous Class Party Killed

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:43:51 +0000

holy shit this thing was fun, we’ll be posting more picture and some video later this week

Mr. A*OK Shows

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Jun 21st @ Brooklyn Bowl- BlueRoc Party w/Curren$y, Rugz D. Bewler, Snakes Say Hisss -Brooklyn, NY

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

COUNT DOWN!

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:30:44 +0000

The -FAMOUS CLASS ACTION- MIXTAPE VOL. 1 is coming your way this weekend compliments of Mr. A*OK. ft. Huxtables, Tony Castles, Wacka Flocka, Project Pat, Snakes Say Hisss and many more!

MR. A*OK Joins the Family

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:26:39 +0000

Famous Class welcomes our first DJ to the family!

Snakes Say Hiss- In the Studio

admin — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:57:01 +0000

Boogie Boarder hang zone

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Snakes Video Pics

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:28:58 +0000

Snakes Say Hiss shot a video last week with our friend Tony Bliz from Creative Control. you can check out some of the photos over at the snakes say hiss artist page. we’ll have the video ready to go by the end of May

Tour Video

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:26:46 +0000

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

Check it out!

Darlings/Boogie Boarder Tour By Daniel Carbone

admin — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:31:53 +0000

FAMOUS CLASS PARTY @ DEATH BY AUDIO

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:10:37 +0000

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!

Tough Knuckles Shows

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soon

Tough Knuckles- Living In Fear 2010

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:20:19 +0000

Tough Knuckles review in Vice

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:52:22 +0000

Tough Knuckles is kind of like a cross between Gary Wilson and Ariel Pink if you substitute all the mental disorder with sweetness. Instead of dressing as a sultry woman or having some kind of body-dysmorphic dysfunction, Calvin LeCompte is a lo-fi charmer, and that’s jazzy—Greek jazzy!

MAGGIE LEE

Tough Knuckles live at the Fader party

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:41:10 +0000

TOUGH KNUCKLES JOINS THE FAMOUS CLASS FAMILY

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:56:07 +0000

We couldn’t be happier here at the Famous Class camp! We have the first vinyl over at the webstore now and are sending the boys to record the follow up at the end of May. Expect big things!

Darlings L magazine

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:58:46 +0000

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.”

Titus Andronicus Give Boogie Boarder a Shout on Pitchfork

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:54:24 +0000

Patrick from Titus did that guest list thing on pitchfork yesterday and gave a little love.

Favorite New Band

“Boogie Boarder are kind of a spaz band from Brooklyn. They have lots of bad-ass riffs but also lots of wanky goodness, and they definitely know how to entertain. They have a lot of that reckless abandon that’s at the heart of all great rock’n'roll music. The bass player plays this half bass-half guitar thing in the tradition of the Presidents of the United States of America. And their album Pizza Hero comes with a really beautiful zine with all these really nice drawings. A lot of bang for your buck.”

SXSW Famous Class Show Ruled!

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:46:33 +0000

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

Darlings Head Down To Austin

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:46:04 +0000

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

Check the Darlings Show date for details

Darlings Shows

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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

Snakes Say Hiss: No More Tears

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:57:55 +0000

We’re mixing the album now, should have some tracks to play soon and a new LP this summer!

Darlings in THE NEW YORK TIMES!

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:19:27 +0000

“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

Darlings-8 NYC Bands You Need to Hear: 2009

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:15:25 +0000

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

Boogie Boarder in Impose Magazine

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:11:03 +0000

Assuming for a moment that our beloved Ponytail had a large share in resurrecting good vibes and positive music through amazing chops and challenging, weird music, then let us postulate Boogie Boarder as another band filling in the natural order that begs for music with bigger Vibes and greater positivity that still retains the crunchy guitars and aharmonic progress left to us from our great detuned forefathers. If you were always amused and confused as to how Phish could cite Sonic Youth as an influence, Boogie Boarder’s new album Pizza Hero takes us one more step closer to knocking some righteous sense into the equation.

-impose

Boogie Boarder in Vice

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:09:13 +0000

This is Ed Zipco’s friend’s band. Ed says they have been “really killing shows lately” and that they’ve “become the really dependable, really good vibes backbone of most rock shows since spring.” He says that the drummer, Cyrus, is “one of the most solid guys in the Brooklyn show community.” Furthermore, Cyrus runs this label called Famous Class that puts out cute CDs that come with little comic books. If that’s not enough to make you go, “Holy balls!” and run out and buy this, I officially throw my hands up in the air in the universal sign of “Your loss, loser.”

Boogie Boarder on rcrdlbl.com

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:05:03 +0000

Sometimes people talk about how they picked up a record only because they loved the cover art. They’ll talk about how they had never heard the music, how just based on what their eyeballs were saying, that record was for them. If I was browsing and ready to make a selection based on nothing but names or titling, Boogie Boarder records would be leaving the store with me. Best band name I’ve heard in a while. Name of the Brooklyn foursome’s full-length? Pizza Hero. You’d have to be nuts not to want to hear it. The fact that their grungy stripe of surf rock rules doesn’t hurt either.

-rcrdlbl.com

Live sets from Boogie Boarder and Darlings

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:00:38 +0000

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

Darlings- Teenage Girl Official video

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:20:57 +0000

Snakes Say Hiss Shows

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:00:24 +0000

Sept 11th @ The Rockyard- Brooklyn, NY

Sept 24th @ Los Hermanos Tortilla Factory- Brooklyn, NY

Snakes Say Hiss in Spin

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:52:51 +0000

Their electronic indie pop music has real bite. “I Control the Wind” sashays in synth and flirts with a line of falsetto aah-haas. Snakes shed this skin on other tracks, though, trading Franz Ferdinand sheen for softer blips with the Postal Service’s punctuation. Snakes have settled with fellow bands Boogie Boarder and the Huxtables in a collective called Famous Class, which includes group of other artists working in DIY mediums like DVDs, comics, shirts, and zines.

- Spin.com

SPLATTERHAUS

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Directed by Jonny + Cyrus

Famous Class Photo Shoot 2007

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Boogie Boarder @ Station 171

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:34:38 +0000

Darlings hit the studio

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:22:58 +0000

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.

Darlings in Vanity Fair

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:20:45 +0000

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.

Boogie Boarder Shows

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:15:39 +0000

Sept 1st @ Union Pool w/ Heavy Cream- Brooklyn NY

New Huxtables Songs

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:17:57 +0000

We recorded some new jamz that we’ll be slowly giving away for free on the site. New things are brewing here…

Huxtables review in Vice

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:15:33 +0000

This is exactly what I always hoped all those Paper Rad/Load bands would sound like instead of just bad noise-jazz—casual little guitar melodies with broken-y keyboards and extended Cosby Show samples.

-Vice

Huxtables Review in Amp Camp

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:14:24 +0000

Their album A Touch of Wonder proves the goofy twosome put a whole lotta love, along with the laughter, into their funky mix of synthe pop, exploratory electronica, and indie rock.

-Amp Camp

Huxtables Review in Exclaim

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:11:52 +0000

Be prepared for 42 pages of madness. The Huxtables have paired their CD with a mini-booklet featuring drawings such as a creature that appears to be half human, a crown on what looks like a superhero and a computer screen smoking a pipe. This combustion of awkward images best describes the mood of the album. A Touch of Wonder is a synth pop meets sampling meets indie rock delight.

-Exclaim

Huxtables review in audioversity

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:10:31 +0000

This is the third of the exuberantly packaged Famous Class albums I have received in the last few months, and it doesn’t come close to disappointing. First came the infectious synth-pop of Snakes Say Hisss!, then the raucous surf of Boogie Boarder and now we have basement party-noise of The Huxtables…
With twelve songs in just over twenty minutes, A Touch of Wonder is the best kind of party there is: brief and to the point.

-Audioversity

Huxtables Hopper C (the Bunny)

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:55:24 +0000

Huxtables Crystal Cubes

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Famous Class Masks

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Snakes Say Hisss!-Take It Slow

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:17:47 +0000

Snakes Say Hisss- Pirate Ship Party

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:36:56 +0000

Pirates in the Caribean

Darlings-Teenage Girl

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:56:43 +0000

Directed By Creative Control

Boogie Boarder: Clacka Coo Clack

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:54:51 +0000

Directed by the Perry + Dirt Wave

Boogie Boarder: Bio Hassle

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:01:11 +0000

Directed By Johnny Doe Smith

Huxtables Shows

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:15:02 +0000

March 35, 2023 @ The Jordan’s Furniture MegaBlimp – Huxtables in Space… IN 9D IMAXXX M.O.M.

April 02 , 2023 @ Foxwoods, Brooklyn Submarine Yards – Huxtables opening for disembodied brains of Tony Castles at the giant underwater condo highrise super-spa-casino where Brooklyn used to be

Classy New Site

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:51:04 +0000

Classy New Site Launches

THIS SHIT IS FRESH!

New Darlings Record

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:19:17 +0000

New Darlings record get it here: