Jake and Jamin Orrall are on a crazy double bill this weekend with Quintron and Miss Pussycat (photo by Bekah Cope)
Friday, June 11, Death by Audio, 49 South Second St., Brooklyn
Sunday, June 13, Santos Party House, 100 Lafayette St., 212-714-4646, $10, 8:00
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Somehow, even though Nashville’s Jeff the Brotherhood was one of the busiest bands at last fall’s CMJ Music Marathon, we just kept missing them, our primary disappointment of the festival. We also missed them when they passed through this way in February. However, good fortune is shining on us all as brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall are back in the city for two more gigs, on a ten-show East Coast jaunt with Quintron and Miss Pussycat. Jeff the Brotherhood’s HEAVY DAYS (Infinity Cat, October 2009) offers blast after blast of pure psychedelic garage rock on such tunes as “U Got the Look,” “The Tropics,” “Bone Jam,” “Screaming Banshee,” “Doo It,” and “I’m a Freak,” which features an appropriately great freak-out. We can’t wait to finally check out Jake and Jamin letting out a groovy barrage of sound with just drums and guitar. Meanwhile, the New Orleans duo of Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat is back on the road in support of its latest disc, the effervescent TOO THIRSTY 4 LOVE (Goner, October 2008). The pair’s tenth album is a hysterical collection of pseudo-new wave, punk, funk electro-dance rock and craziness, eleven songs that will have you shaking your booty and laughing along to such fun and frantic numbers as “Waterfall,” “The Boss Wants to Party with You,” and “Model Ex Citizen.” Mr. Q affects a riotous British accent on “Sunday Night,” and Miss P has a ball on the piercing “Dirt Bag Fever.” On the disc, Quintron plays his unique Hammond/ Rhodes combo organ set into the grille of a car and a wood synthesizer/beat machine known as the Drum Buddy, while Miss Pussycat is credited with shakers and wind. Quintron and Miss Pussycat, along with Jeff the Brotherhood, will be in Brooklyn on June 11 at Death by Audio, then at Santos Party House on June 13. (Jersey Shore weekenders can also catch them June 12 at Asbury Lanes.)