Artist description Introducing, from the San Fransisco Bay area, the new fluke starbucker. After three years and the same lineup,and a year stint with minor changes the band has recently undergone another facelift. As one would expect, with the booting and rebooting of internal operating systems(bass #3) , A keyboardist moving to full-time percussion, a much needed addressing of communication and compatibility ending in dismissal w/ the instatement of a new bass player filling the needs above. can change the sound of the collective unit. This band is once again built on the organic application of shade dynamics raw melodies that doesn't compromise. Their first two full lengths, paper thin and hooker at sea, the 'newer' lineup further refines the band's sound to a fine edge; giving control to the twin towers where it belongs. pampering a pledge to indie's newer and noisier acts, while having feet firmly planted in the foundation of indie rock that pioneers pavement, sebadoh, and superchunk helped build. This all adds up to an energetic, diverse, and always entertaining live show; ranging from slower, deeply personal songwriting, to noise-driven pop songs that will make proud all who listen and understand. This is Pop delivered honestly. You now have a band in your corner. Walk away....or bleed from it. NOTE:The Band met Scott Matthews (he played Fluke Starbucker in the film short 'HardWare Wars' also a well known producer) and he produced a song for the love of fluke off the new record...kind of a fluke records fluke fluke!!

Music Style indie rock

Musical Influences old SST, pie, chapel hill influence, archers, good film, smog, palace, slint, malkmus

Similar Artists sonic youth, superchunk, husker du

Artist History Started in southern Minnnesota by three life friendss. Fluke has gone over many facelifts. history is what makes this band better now

Group Members Ted Nesseth Jeremy GagonJames Dickey-excess casualty

Instruments guitar, drums , bass, synth, siren, medical, blunt

Albums Paper thin -LP 1998: Hooker at sea -LP 1999: currently working on 3rd full length

Press Reviews ZDTVFluke StarbuckerBy Dave RoosWhat's in a name? Well, a lot, if it happens to be Dingus MacCrapface, Trixie Buttcane, or in the case of today's download of the day, Fluke Starbucker. Fluke's catchy name draws you in, but the quality music keeps you listening. These four misplaced Minnesotans grind out good old Pavement-style alt rock with all the tell-tale whelps and bellows. Lead singer and guitarist, Ted Nesseth, points the way with quiet/loud/quiet riffs galore and perfectly off-pitch, darkly witty vocals. The tempo of today's track, School of Fish, lends itself to a staple of alternative fan expression, the slow, vaguely-depressed head nod. So stretchout that neck, put on that comfy sweater, think about your most recent dead pet, and enjoy the stylings of Fluke Starbucker, our MP3 Download of theDay.BULLY MAGAZINEI remember the first time I heard Fugazi. I said to my friend Ben, who had loaned me the tape, "Damn. That sounds new!" "Yes," said Ben. I also said to Ben, upon his loaning me Sister by Sonic Youth, "Wow. That's the future of guitar music, isn't it?" "Yes," said Ben. Ben hasn't given me anything new to listen since Slanted and Enchanted. I think that was several years ago now, right? So it is with great pleasure that I will return his kindly favor and send him a copy of Fluke Starbucker's new album Hooker at Sea. Every song on here is original, beautiful and played by, for the most part, just a trio of guitar/bass/drums. Quite intelligent stuff, the chorus of "No Place Like Home" features the singer screaming "Watch the feather fall into the flying monkey's arms!" If I had to play spot-the-influences, I'd say: Husker Du, "Surfer Rosa" Pixies, Pavement, Ubu, perhaps a little Shudder to Think. I'm jealous of my friends living in the Bay Area, which is where Fluke Starbucker now plays and resides. Originally from somewhere in Minnesota, it sounds like they had nothing to do but turn into an absolutely incredible band. BAMAlthough it's too early to make predictions for the coming year, I feel strangely compelled to do so. Marilyn Manson will offend a parent. A Spice Girl will get caught up in a sex sandal. Lemmy will notice that his mole is growing. And most dire of all, Fluke Starbucker with their mix of '80s SST and '90 Chapel Hill influence, will grow to gargantuan size and swallow the East Bay whole, forcing hoards of 19-year-old gutter punks to abandon their favorite street corner and run for their very lives.Rock Love MagazineNo, Paper Thin is not Mark Hamil's incognito musical debut. Fluke Starbucker's association with Star Wars ends with their cheeky band name, but this Bay Area-based trio just may have had the force with them while recording this lively CD. Paper Thin's15 songs deliver plenty of good Fluke for you buck. Lead sing Ted Nesseth's unconformed vocals are rough, intense, and eminently intriguing throughout. Not knowing where Nesseth's voice is going next make this release so uniquely different for other alternative acts. Nesseth's intensity is evident throughout as he voice transforms itself from normalcy to lunacy a matter of seconds. He captures all of the pain and agony in the lyrics with his expressive voice. - MS SLAP MAGAZINE FLUKE STARBUCKER, "Self-Titled", EP (Starbucker)Fluke Starbucker is probably the best Midwestern import I've heard in a while. Their guitar work is screechy, yet clean and slightly poppy. Their drummer pounds but has a ton of finesse in his power. As an extra bonus, the vocals are actually clean and interesting as opposed to being so distorted that they sound like another guitar. Their self-titled first release is made of four songs that crunch and pop with enough energy and power to get anyone off their bar stool and start slamming. The first song, "Social Revenge", has some great moments where the power of punk rock melds seamlessly into the catchiness of pop. To some this may sound bad, but to me it sounds like a band with some skill. "Reasons" is a Tom Waits-esque song about loss and codependency. It plods along with barely distorted vocals and a bass guitar, and sounds quite creepy. "Subliminal Niceties" is another strange one that creates a weird headspace while still rocking. Fluke Starbucker is just starting out, but you should definitely try and hunt down their debut before they get too big. - HassanSF Bay GuardianFLUKE STARBUCKERUsing the force You wouldn't really expect a good-natured band from Oakland with a silly name from a Star Wars short-film farce to be the next in line for Radiohead's mercurial, craggy, hyper-emo, anti-superstar crown. But at Bottom of the Hill a couple of months ago, Fluke Starbucker punched some Sunday BBQ munchers in the collective face with a surprising dose of dynamic, brainy, emotionally exhausting indie rock. Abandoning hot dogs mid-chew, the crowd gave rapt attention to the transplanted Minnesota quartet's aural attack, and the usual mumblings about our supposedly lame local music scene came to a halt. "Vacation" began sparsely but furiously, Derek Nelson's bass guitar anchoring the song, SST-style, as lead signer-guitarist Ted Nesseth and keyboardist Jeremy Gagon alternately psyched the crowd with a few fake dead-stops and abused flange pedals in burst of strangely warm cacophony. The first riffs of "Sinking Ship" caused rockers to reach for the earplugs; it exploded with a dissonant, open-stringed assault in 6/8 time, then backed off to make way for Nesseth's raspy, silvery baritone. "Canvas Mary" showed off drummer Trevor Wencl's musicality (not just a beat keeper, he - check the smooth undulating drum rolls) and the band's sometime propensity for a Catherine Wheel-ish wall of wombadelic sound. Well, hell; "Gin and Tonic" touched on arena rock and ELO-style synth pop; "There's No Place Like Home" proved to be the modulating, shyly-unfolding-to-going-apeshit Radiohead epic; "Parade" leaned toward Chapel Hill rock and the Jason half of Sebadoh; "Car Wash" sounded like Guided by Voices on steroids. Far form derivative, Fluke Starbucker (who have been at it for three years (and for some silly reason aren't famous yet) seemed, that afternoon anyway, to single-handedly represent the essence of independent '90s rock. After Gagon pushed aside his keys to accompany Wencl in a snare-tom-crash combo and Nesseth pause to tune his guitar in four short fluid motions, the band launched into "Hooker at Sea", a complex epic with several movements, each more compelling than the last - almost like a schizophrenic mini symphony. Fluke Starbucker pushed the boundaries of indie rock, making a hangover day's jagged edges seem smooth.RedButtonFor the week, ending February 2nd, 2000, 'Senseless Beauty' burns at number one. This is Fluke Starbucker's first trip to the top of the Wishlist. The band out of Oakland, CA had written a beautifully hooky emo-PoPcore track that is speaking to the Red Button audience in huge numbers. For fans of GBV and Sugar, shit how about some Husker Du for a little pepper. Listen to 'Senseless Beauty' and then (download) this week's number one song for $1.99! Bio- The History of Fluke Starbucker Long long ago...later that same day....... In 1995, While working as an independent salesman and homeless, Ted couch surfed back and forth between Trevor's dorm In Minneapolis, and Mike's dorm in Mankato, Minnesota. Business picked up in Mankato, and Ted started to spend most of his time there. Mike and Ted began writing songs. When the humidity of summer began, school let out, and the three became the band Starbucker. After a year of playing Minneapolis and surrounding small towns, the Angry Seed Step One Compilation was released featuring Kiss the Dead. With small town boredom, and a record cold winter, the band relocated to the San Francisco Bay area in August of 1996. Shortly after becoming familiar with the Bay Area, we began playing shows all over the West coast, and networking with other bands. In mid 1997 "Paper Thin" was released, and serviced to over 200 radio stations. Shortly following, the Musica de la Free School formed as a consolidation of contacts and ideas. Today those ideas are becoming a maturing label. The Move To San Francisco was a good reason for a name change and Fluke was added to Starbucker, taken from a spoof on Starwars called Hardware Wars. By a complete Fluke, while playing North By Northwest in Portland, OR, we met Scott Matthews (the man who played Fluke in Hardware Wars). By another Fluke he happened to be a record producer, known for producing musicians such as Dick Dale, John Lee Hooker, and the Rolling Stones. It was only a matter of time before we joined forces with our namesake, and in early April of 1998 the song Senseless Beauty was recorded via Fluke producing Fluke. www.redbutton.comEpitonicThese four transplanted Minnesotans play noise-driven pop punk anthems in the tradition of indie pioneers like Fugazi and Sebadoh. You might also detect shades of North Carolina rock (Superchunk, Archers of Loaf), and a dose of D.C.'s Jawbox . The band's strongest suit is Ted Nesseth's clean, precise guitar work, which ranges from delicate introspection to seething walls of sound. Nesseth's unpredictable caterwauling recalls Pavement's Steven Malkmus minus the cynicism, a perfect complement to the band's noisy-niceaural aesthetic. "Hooker at Sea," the title track of Fluke's second full-length and one of the selections available for download here, is a veritable indie symphony full of abrupt tempo changes, dissonant guitar noise, and angsty, nervous vocals. "Senseless Beauty" is a warped love anthem, two and a half minutes of explosive emotion fueled by a catchy pop hook. The album was engineered and mixed by Bob Weston (engineer extraordinaire and bass player for Shellac). - www.epitonic.comMjuice.comQuirk pop form Oakland. These boys have the passion and the songs to back it up. Produced by Bob Weston, ex-Volcano Suns and currently in Chicago's own Shellac. www.mjuice.com

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