'Tennis System' to Perform at Brooklyn's Spike Hill, 318
By: Caryn Robbins Feb. 17, 2011
The noisy, earnest legacy of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, and the Jesus and Mary Chain lives on in the expansive, catchy-as-hell pop songs of Washington D.C.'s Tennis System, who perform at Spike Hill on Friday, March 18th at 9:00 PM. Admission is $6.
MatTy Taylor and Misha Bullock are masters of loud and dirty anthems, but rising above the noise that blankets them are Taylor's beautifully sung, dreamy lyrics inspired by both love and art, from the drawings of Egon Schiele to the writing of Aldous Huxley.The band set about creating its first self-released album, The Future of Our History, in 2009 with Jeff Zeigler of Uniform Recording (Kurt Vile, War on Drugs, the Swirlies) and mastering by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes, Pavement, Sonic Youth, the National). Then, Tennis System embarked on touring that took them to South By Southwest (where more than one of their shows was shut down for raucous noise) and CMJ. Band members are also a regular presence in Philadelphia and New York clubs. The band is at work on its best work to date, Teenagers, with Ryan Van Kriedt (of Asteroid No. 4), to be released in 2011.Videos