In the spirit of the holiday season and the Macaca Music Poll, here’s a gift of Sepia hype for another aspiring rock band with desi leadership. It helps that they’re pretty damn good! Prabir and the Substitutes are from — where else? — the real world of Virginia and play real short power-pop songs with throwback 1970s/psychedelic inclinations, all the way to the background ooh-ooh harmonizing, Brian Wilson references and best of all, Prabir-ji’s monumental muttonchops, in which small animals could take shelter from the elements, and which you can admire in their full glory at the end of this clip. Rock on, blood!
December 28, 2006
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on December 28, 2006 10:59 AM · Direct link
Thanks, siddhartha! These guys are fun, and sound a bit Strokes-y to me.. and I would totally kill for the guy on the left's guitar.
on December 28, 2006 11:25 AM · Direct link
I have long had a suspicion that there is a conspiracy under way to infiltrate white indie rock bands with skinny and handsome brown boys (and occasionally girls) which was confirmed when I discovered that popular Liverpool beat combo The Zutons have a brown lead guitarist called Boyun Chowdhry. I like this track.
But what is going on? And what will happen to bhangra and Asian underground if this trend continues?
on December 28, 2006 12:42 PM · Direct link
the real world of VirginiaI just got this. I am so slow. Hilarious.
on January 1, 2007 7:46 PM · Direct link
Hey Sid! Big shout-outs from the somewhat-real world of Washington Dee Cee ... here sitting on the couch watching Matrix Revolutions with our lame asses and saw this link in mah (Laura's) gmail ... Shawn on behalf of the fellas above says thanks. And word up on Prabir's indeed prominent muttonchops.
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