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City: MINNEAPOLIS
State: Minnesota
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 

Small White

Date/Time:Fri., May 15, 10:00pm

Price: free

Small White

Erin Roof

Small White

Small White get an A for their class project on the history of rock 'n' roll. The local duo sound like they speed-read The Rock Snob's Dictionary and threw it on the funeral pyre with macho gusto the way they blow through genres, mixing breeds to see what kind of labradoodle mishap will flop out of their basement test tubes. "I Suck at Music" takes a stab at grunge and adds an infusion of frat-boy pop punk. "Internet Love Song" rips a shtick from mid-'90s pop with catchy fuzz and sing-along choruses. "I Was Sent Here 2 Fuk U" is deconstructed dance rock with Vocoder vocals, heavy synths, and bass snapped together to make something equally dark and weird. But Small White are none of these genres. They only wish to douse all these posturings and write a scathingly humorous commentary on all that is good and egregious with modern music's state of affairs. With Dudedawg and Eye of the Great Protector. 21+.

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Saturday, November 22, 2008 

Current mood:  accomplished
Our first Panning!:

courtesy of Delusions of Adequacy

Small White is a two-piece power pop band. The duo plays fuzzed out songs you've probably heard before, but hey, all music is rehash right? What's important here is that these guys do it with a Superchunk kind of flair and energy, and that, my friends, is an impressive feat in musical culture where Pro Tools is readily available and even the noisiest bands seem to control every sound.
None of this makes Small White good. They're decent on the best songs and terrible on the worst ones. "Decent" isn't a very high ceiling for any band, but power pop doesn't really leave a lot of room at the top end of the spectrum. Only the truly amazing bands like Big Star or, god forbid, Weezer have managed to take the genre to heights it really shouldn't be able to reach, so no one should really expect a lot, but it would be nice if they didn't dip below decent so often.

The best songs are the ones when they're just playing simple, fuzzed out pop and the worst are when they're trying to leave that territory. Seems easy enough, right? Lots of bands stick to what they know and hone their craft. Big Star and Superchunk made their mark that way. Weezer, on the other hand...these guys could learn something from them. Mainly, don't try to write involved songs when you don't have the chops. It always ends in disaster.

-Matthew Kalogerakis
11/07/08
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Thursday, September 04, 2008 
we're very proud and humbled to received this fine review form the one and only babysue:

Interesting and different. Small White is the Twin Cities, Minnesota duo consisting of Alex and Chout. The album begins with the curious experimental "Intro." But immediately afterward these two individuals launch into aggressive underground guitar pop. The sound of Small White is similar in some ways to Devo...particularly the vocals. Some of the songwriting is slightly reminiscent of early Flaming Lips. The song titles are great...makes us wish that this album had included a lyric sheet. The decidedly underground sound of the tunes on Do It Till It Ends is appropriate for these odd pop ditties. Thirteen smart little oddities including "Screens," "Melting Microphones," "Leave It All Behind," and "Drowning Poseur." (Rating: 4+++++)
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 
A couple more sites wrote a couple nice things:

Perfect Porridge

and

Switchblade Comb

thanks!!
Currently listening:
The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In
By Thee Oh Sees
Release date: 2008-04-08
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 

Small White (CD-Release); Les Deux Maggots; Gumbi

Date/Time:Fri., August 1, 9:00pm

Small White

David Hansen

In bands and in swimsuits, it can take a certain courage to sport a two-piece. But from Birthday Suits to Ratatat, show posters and CD bins are peppered with more and more artists who find liberty in bondage, who thrive under the sonic pressures of working with two little instruments. Consider Small White. The local duo, who at times echo the soaring guitar melodies of the aforementioned Ratatat and at others the grinding arrhythmia of Knife World, fashion a shape shifter's sound that is a baffling expansion of the two-piece configuration, and on their long-overdue debut full-length, Do It Till It Ends, the hooks come fast, stretch out, but never overstay their welcome. Supporting them are Les Deux Magot, another local duo whose sound, a distant shear conjured with guitar and drums, is unseemly and thrilling, and as bracing as a broken tooth. With Gumbi. 21+.


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Thursday, July 31, 2008 
Michael Metzger wrote nice piece on us for www.minnpost.com:

Perhaps no one is more determined to have fun playing their music than Chout and Alex, the two guitarist-bassist-vocalists who make up Small White.

Their irreverent approach begins with the band's name (a contrarian takeoff on Steve Albini's Big Black) and carries through much of their material; the full-bore guitar roar with shouted lyrics about cleaning the genitalia of horses ("She's Chunkin'), surf-punk with a melodic nod to the "Munsters" theme ("Drowning Poseur") and a bouncy bit of thunder called "Be My Rodeo."

"It's all about fun," says Chout. He acquired his odd name in games of disc golf he used to play "when the hippie mood would hit."

"Chout" was a shouted warning — a fusion of "watch" and "out" — to fellow players.

A downside of the nickname is that people have sung Tears for Fears' "Shout" at him over the years. (These are the things he can do without, apparently.)

Chout and Alex say they're carrying on the tradition of rock duos (they mischievously cite Wham! and Hall & Oates as influences), but acknowledge that they would someday like to replace their three programmed drum machines with a real person.

Small White celebrates the release of a new CD, "Do It Til It Ends," this Friday (Aug. 1) at St. Paul's Turf Club. Les Deux Magots, Somatic Fuzz (their final show) and Gumbi also are on the bill. Admission is $5.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 
I'm deleting all these blogs with individual pics from all the old shows, since I got a pro flickr page now with unlimited uploading:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallwhitemusic/sets/

All our show pics will be uploaded there from now on, and eventually I'm gonna have pics from every show we've ever played, along with the bands we played with.  If you have pics of any of the shows we'd love to have 'em.

Chout
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Saturday, June 24, 2006 

Current mood:  giddy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Small White gets two-thirds of a sentence in this weeks Pulse!!!!

If you missed the first Newmad Tuesday at the Nomad a few weeks back, heres your chance to catch another batch of spanking new bands for the low, low price of free. After catching the raging war that was Radio Ks Battle of the Underage Underground at First Ave last Sunday-- and be assured, were going to try and get some of those bands over to the Nomad for future installments of the Newmad seriesI wandered over to the Seventh Street Entry and got to catch most of Lazer Forevers set opening for Askeleton. There just arent enough killer power trios in the world out there, but with Lazer Forever were at least one closer to the goal. Its independent, its rock, its pretty much everything you could want from three guys, two stringed instruments and a kit. Small White's brand of tongue-in-cheek rock, delivered in duo format by Chout and Alsex, will surely remind some of Tenacious D, while opener Harbor draws their inspiration both from across the pond (Coldplay, Radiohead) and right here at home (Clem Snide, The Strokes). Trust me: youre in for a rockalicious evening. 9 p.m. FREE. 21 . 501 Cedar Ave. S., Mpls. 612-338-6424.STEVE MCPHERSON



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