Turbo Fruits will turn things upside down in area shows
Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette St.
Friday, October 9, $13, 7:00
Market Hotel, 1142 Myrtle Ave. at Broadway
Saturday, October 10, 8:00
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The Turbo Fruits hit some trouble out on the road when their van window motor broke on the way to Detroit. Worried about someone breaking into the van and stealing their stuff, they pulled into a gas station to get it fixed. “Not cheap but at least we won’t get robbed in between freezing our balls off with the window down,” they noted on their blog. And that’s good for us, as former Be Your Own Pet Jonas Stein is leading the threesome to us, touring behind their awesomely freaky new album, ECHO KID (September 2009, Fat Possum), the soundtrack of a fun, raucous life.
Turbo Fruits play an infectious mix of psychedelic retro garage surf punk with a heavy dose of humor, as one can guess from such song titles as “Mama’s Mad Cos I Fried My Brain,” “Broadzilla,” and “Naked with You” (which could be a lost Ramones classic). Stein does a little Dylan on “Hold Me,” throws in a bit of the Troggs on “Get Up Get On Down (Tonite),” and really cuts loose on “Broadzilla.” It all makes for one hell of an impressive alterna-AMERICAN GRAFFITI meets QUADROPHENIA. The album is a nonstop party, one that should continue on October 9, when TF will be playing with Israeli sensation Monotonix and the Beets at Santos Party House and on October 10 at Brooklyn’s Market Hotel with Monotonix, Ill Ease, Static Static, Stalkers, and EMOK.