What is there for me to say about the Peechees that you cant google or search anywhere in the internet. Everything we have ever done or say or play is all over the net. Peechees started at the brink of Rice's implosion. Rice was on tour with Bumblescrump, Chrisser's old band in 1992, and we went to Olympia and met Molly, then she came down and finished the last week of tour with us. 2 years later, We got together to jam. We intended to do only a song for the "Rock Stars Kill" compilation, just to record, but Lint from Rancid asked us if we wanted to play this skatejam show, and the Peechees was born.
Kill Rock Stars page
Some fan made us a Myspace site
Lookout Records page
Download some songs:
The Peechees - Tomfoolery
The Peechees - Love is the law (by the Suburbs)
The Peechees doing "Grease" at Jabberjaw. Another song from the same night was used in the documentary, Songs For Cassavetes by Justin Mitchell.
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SEMIAUTOMATIC
Semiautomatic was the duo that Akiko and I did in the late 90s in Brooklyn, New York. This band was my breakaway from rock music, at the end of the Peechees I was getting into battle DJs and scratching and hiphop/electro, that after I moved to New York, it was proper to go with the flow. With the year 2000 looking in the near distance, we made the jump to electronic and played around the genre for a couple records until going back to a different perspective of rock and a keen on the dancefloor.
heres whats listed on All Music Guides, funny how people can keep track of your hobby:
"The Brooklyn-based electronic punk group Semiautomatic features vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Akiko Carver and programmer/multi-instrumentalist Rop Vasquez. At one point the band also included Ian Vanek of Japanther and the Tight Bro's from Way Back When. Vasquez, a former member of the PeeChees, the Lefties, the Creeps, and Rice, also has a solo project, manmatesmachine, which features homemade and modified electronic instruments that appear on Semiautomatic's music as well. Named after Technics' '70s semi-automatic direct-drive turntables, the group issued its self-titled debut in 2000 on Kill Rock Stars' sister imprint, 5 Rue Christine. They moved to Vex for 2001's The Trebuchet, but returned to 5RC for the following year's Resident Genius.
Along with their Semiautomatic duties, Carver and Vasquez are both visual artists as well: Vasquez is a graphic designer, and Carver, an animator, directed a Claymation video for the song "The Ballad of Puss Puss," which was shown at the NAATA San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival. In 2003, Semiautomatic released Wolf Centric, which included two tracks with the Slits' Ari Up; the group met Up at a New York Ladyfest show in 2001, and Carver contributed vocals on one of Up's dancehall records. Other collaborations and projects include an EP remixed by Concentrick (aka Tim Green of the Fucking Champs, Lice, Nation of Ulysses) on Gold Standard Laboratories, as well as music for the gritty Asian-American kids-gone-wrong film Better Luck Tomorrow on Paramount/MTV films and a split 7" with XBXRX. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide"
We put out 4 records, 3 of them on 5RC, which is the Kill Rock Stars side label, and one record on Vex Records, done by william who runs Factory buttons in san diego.
Download some songs:
Semiautomatic - Eat with your eyes
This song was from the third album called "Resident Genius." we also used this song on the MTV film, Better Luck Tomorrow
Semiautomatic - Marion Berry
This is from our last record called Wolfcentric
Semiautomatic feat Ari Up - Stushpuss
Ari Up was the singer for legendary girl punk group from England called The Slits. Add to that, Ari's mom is married to Johnny rotten/john Lydon of PIL/Sex Pistols.
Semiautomatic at Mass Art, 2002. Filmed by Ben Sisto.
Semiautomatic doing "7 O'clock and 7 stops til Brooklyn" in 2000
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THE LEFTIES
The Lefties were a duo w/ me on the guitar and Christopher(the Peechees) on drums. We both took turns on vocals. Whenever the Peechees couldnt do a show, we'd jump in instead, until it took a life of its own. We started it sometime in 1995, from the idea that we were both left-handed and that the left-side of the heart is the romantic side (never proven), also I was into twee. That and owning a Rickenbacker/John Lennon model guitar made go soft. In 1996, we drove down to LA and recorded a bunch of songs w/ Brent and Josh from Further/Beachwood Sparks and they ended up as "These Boys Love You," a mock of the Beach Boys Love You record. The record came out in 97 on Xmas records.
downloads:
The Lefties - Girl
The Lefties - Be My Buffet
**An early recording called "Movies" ended up on The Lefties 7" called "Nightflight of the BatMoon Dog", also on Xmas records. This is the first song we wrote as a duo. Comet Gain did an amazing cover of Movies in one of their killrock star records.
downloads:
THE LEFTIES - Movies
Another songs,"Red Roses" ended up on the "Pop American Style" compilation on March records.
V/A:POP AMERICAN STYLE (March Records) info
downloads:
THE LEFTIES - Red Roses
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