PAWS @ Glasslands March 5th - Live Show Review

PAWS finally landed in America Tuesday night! This blog has been waiting to see them live ever since we first heard single “Sore Tummy” tear open 90s riffs and bring it to 2012. These are hardworking guys from Glasgow, Scotland who’ve earned their debut tour across the pond. Their punk is much more reflective and melancholic, and less in-the-moment; there really isn’t even a clear shout in their debut album Cokefloat! until track 9 (“Tulips”). They sing songs about mothers and fathers, bullies and ex-girlfriends, and Cupid, who fucked them up pretty bad apparently. They never really threaten to go off rails and do something conventionally “punk,” but that doesn’t mean it’s not good stuff.

Otherwise known as that band Japandroids wear often on their chests, PAWS (all-caps) still seem a bit mysterious to me, even after they did a 7 Silly Questions interview with this blog. Where does that name come from? What’s the significance of a coke float, and can I drink one with the band? And is the cover to their album meant to brainwash us? Either way, it’s working. Here’s to hopefully many more tours in America, more record releases, and more notoriety.

Check out their full tour below. Definitely try and make it if they’re in your city—they’re selling an exclusive EP cassette called “Tiger Lily” with three unreleased songs! Or you can just stream it here.

And check out more PAWS photos here!

-Story and Photos by Joe Waslin

Tour Dates:
3/7 - DC9, Washington DC
3/8 - The Barbary, Philadelphia PA
3/9 - Shea Stadium, Brooklyn NY
3/10 - The Spotty Dog, Hudson NY
3/11 - Great Scott, Allston MA
3/13 - 3/16 SXSW, Austin TX

Stream PAWS Tour EP!

Scottish garage-rock band PAWS kick off their US tour tomorrow, and to celebrate the band put together a tour-only tape EP, limited to 50 handmade copies. Take a listen!



Tour Dates:
3/5 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands

3/6 New York NY - Cake Shop

3/7 Washington DC - DC9

3/8 Philadelphia PA - The Barbary

3/9 Brooklyn NY - Shea Stadium

3/10 Hudson NY - The Spotty Dog

3/11 Allston MA - Great Scott

3/13 Austin, TX - Red 7 - Force Field PR / Stones Throw (SXSW)

3/14 Austin, TX - Scoot Inn - Converse / Thrasher (SXSW)

3/14 Austin, TX - The Side Bar - The Midgetmen Party (SXSW)

3/14 Austin, TX - Valhalla - Fat Cat Showcase (SXSW)

3/15 Austin, TX - The Grackle - Exploding In Sound (SXSW)

3/15 Austin, TX - Homeslice Pizza (SXSW)

3/16 Austin, TX - The Mohawk - Flowerbooking / Onion AV (SXSW)

PAWS ft. Alice Costelloe - Sore Tummy Video!

The fantastic album Cokefloat is out now! Look for PAWS to tour the US this Spring!!

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #42 - Favorite Tracks of 2012!

Podcast version of the live Viva Indie Rock radio show Thursdays 9PM on Plaza Midwood Community Radio! This week: a recap of some of our favorite tracks from 2012. Mind you, this is only a one hour radio show, so we had to condense. But, here's 14 songs we absolutely love!

Track List:
1) Cloud Nothings  Attack On Memory  Stay Useless
2) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  You Kill
3) Moonface  With Sinaii:Heatbreaking Bravery  Teary Eyes and Bloody Lips
4) The Babies  Our House on the Hill  Alligator
5) Cheers Elephant  Like Wind Blows Fire  Leaves
6) Fawn  Coastlines  Pixels
7) CocoRosie  We Are On Fire Single  Tearz for Animals (feat Anthony Hegarty)
8) The Eversons  Summer Feeling  Could It Ever Get Better
9) PAWS  Cokefloat  Catherine 1956
10) Tanlines  Mixed Emotions  All of Me
11) KIDS  KIDS  My Sincerest Apologies
12) Satellite Stories  Phrases to Break the Ice  Anti-Lover
13) Stargroves  Within Me A Lunatic Sings Single
14) Frankie Rose  Interstellar  Interstellar

10 Favorite Tracks Second Half of 2012

Here are 10 tracks that never left heavy rotation on my personal playlist the second half of 2012. Again, it was brutal trying to pare this down to 10 songs. In truth, there were about 40 tracks I seriously considered. You can also revisit my 10 Favorite Tracks First Half of 2012!

#10 Reptile Youth - Morning Sun



#9 Plateaus - Blackout



#8 Local Natives - Breakers



#7 The Babies - Alligator



#6 Stargroves - Within Me A Lunatic Sings



#5 Satellite Stories - Anti-Lover



#4 Parakeet - Shonen Hearts



#3 PAWS - Catherine 1956



#2 Fawn - Pixels



#1 Eternal Summers - You Kill

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #35

Podcast version of the live Viva Indie Rock radio show Thursdays 9PM on Plaza Midwood Community Radio. 



Track List:
1) Dum Dum Girls  End of Daze  I Got Nothing
2) Guards  Silver Lining   Silver Lining
3) Reptile Youth   Reptile Youth   Be My Yoko Ono
4) Cars and Trains  We Are All Fire  Between Parentheses
5) PAWS  Cokefloat   Boregasm
6) People Get Ready  Windy Cindy
7) The Rest   Seesaw  Hey! For Horses
8) Moon Duo  Circles   I Been Gone
9) Windsor Drive  Wanderlust EP  I Don't Feel It
10) Skip Zone  Skip Zone  Leaving Planet Boredom
11) Seamonster  Baldessari   Normandy Landscape
12) Grizzly Bear   Shields  A Simple Answer
13) Forrests  Tarifa
14) Deerhoof  Breakup Song  The Trouble With Candyhands
15) How To Dress Well  Total Loss  World I Need You

7 Silly Questions w/ PAWS!

When I told my friend Michael I was going to do a 7 Silly Questions with PAWS, his first reaction was "I want them to tour the US so bad." And he is not the only one. Ever since their promo company started sending out the preview tracks, I fell in love with their sound. More to the point, I fell in love with their highly intelligent and often poignant lyrics which set them far apart and far above most of their musical contemporaries.




PAWS hail from Glasgow, Scotland with members respectively from Tain (Highlands of Scotland), Edinburgh, and Glasgow. Their debut full-length Cokefloat! is due out Oct 9th on FatCat Records. Currently on a European tour with Japandroids, we are kind of shocked that they had time to answer our insipid interrogatives. But we are glad they did.

What's the most embarrassing band you loved as a kid?
Josh: Daphne and Celeste
Phillip: Spice Girls (but I'm not that embarrassed any more)
Matt: Deacon Blue

What is the first record you bought?
Josh: Jimi Hendrix (Best of)
Phillip: "Spice" by Spice Girls
Matt: Warren G. Can't remember which record.

Unicorns vs. Narwhals? Who would win in a fight? 
Unicorns, because they are literally the Scottish National Animal...wikipedia that shit if you don't believe.

What is the funniest thing that has happened to you on the road? 
Phil popped an ollie over Brian Japandroid in Switzerland at the start of the tour...

Who has the worst van etiquette?
Phillip and Josh because they can't drive....

Who is in heavy rotation on your iPod?
Japandroids.

What is the worst fight over nothing that you got into with each other after being road weary and exhausted?
The only fight we have ever had on the road happened a couple of days ago in Rotterdam after the show. Waaaaayyyyyy toooo mucccchhhhhh whiskeyyyyy.

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #34

Podcast version of the live VIR radio show, Thursdays 9PM EST, www.pmcradio.org.



Track List:
1) Plateaus  Plateaus LP  Blackout
2) Deerhoof  Breakup Song   Breakup Songs
3) Ladyhawk  No Can Do  No Can Do
4) Cars and Trains  We Are All Fire  Nations
5) Beloved Binge  Pockets  Some People Think I'm Nuts
6) Black Marble  A Different Arrangement  Static
7) The Coathangers  The Coathangers/Heavy Cream Split  Merry Go Round
8) The Raveonettes  Observator  Young and Cold
9) PAWS  Cokefloat  Homecoming
10) Logan Lynn Do You Want Me Or Not 
11) METZ   METZ   Wet Blanket
12) R.E.M.  Document 25th Anniversary  King of Birds
13) Halls  Ark  Roses for the Dead
14) Silent Rider   Silent Rider   They Say It All
15) Grizzly Bear  Shields  Half Gate
16) Cult of Youth   Love Will Prevail   New Old Ways

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #33

Podcast version of the live VIR radio program Thursdays 9pm on www.pmcradio.org.



Track List:
1) Punks on Mars  Showers of Pain
2) PAWS  Cokefloat  Catherine 1956
3) Tom Tom Club  Downtown Rockers  Love Tape
4) Boyfrndz  All Day Pass  Surfs Up
5) Hannah Georgas  Hannah Georgas  Somebody
6) The Raveonettes  Observator  Sinking With The Sun
7) Dan Deacon  America   Prettyboy
8) Parenthetical Girls  Privilege Pt. V: Portrait of a Reputation  Portrait of a Reputation
9) Cult of Youth  Love Will Prevail  New Old Ways
10) Fierce Creatures  Catacomb Party  Lover's Vice
11) Cymbals Eat Guitars  Hawk Highway
12) Parlours  All Is Here  Dreamers
13) Deerhoof   Breakup Song   Bad Kids to the Front
14) Sparkling Wide Pressure   Grandfather Harmonic  Looking to Remember

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #29

Viva Indie Rock Podcast #29 is available for your streaming or downloading pleasure. Tons of great new music this week. See below for a complete tracklist. Catch a live broadcast sometime! Thursdays, 9pm EST. You can stream it on the interwebs at PMCRadio.org!


Track List:
1) Swearin'  Swearin' Here to Hear
2) Wavves  Adult Swim Singles  Hippies is Punks
3) Casiokids  Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen  Olympiske Leker
4) Kisses  Funny Heartbeat  Funny Heartbeat
5) Black Moth Super Rainbow  Windshield Smasher EP  Windshield Smasher
6) Reptile Youth   Summer Sampler  Morning Sun
7) Ormonde  Machine  Cherry Blossom
8) Eternal Summers  Correct Behavior  Girls in the City
9) PAWS  Cokefloat!  Miss American Bookworm
10) Thee Oh Sees   Putrifiers II  Flood's New Light
11) Paul Banks  Banks  The Base
12) Blonds  The Bad Ones  Time
13) Levek  Look A Little Closer  French Lessons
14) The Deadly Syndrome  All In Time  Whatever Comes Our Way
15) Paradise  Nocture  Wild Nothing

Download PAWS "Miss American Bookworm" MP3

Hailing from Glasgow, PAWS bash out infectious, lo-fi, garage pop-rock that can quickly shift from cute melancholia to an unnerving territorial roar. Look for their new album Cakefloat! October 9th on FatCat Records.