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August mentions, reviews and video coverage

Thanks to Brooklyn based Impose Magazine for the mention on this Week in Pop – scroll down, and you’ll see a mention and the Bullet Time video by us.

“It’s an amalgam of everything pertaining to ‘what New York used to be’ but with a DFA soul that sympathizes with the indie dance revolutions of the oughts”.

Speaking of film, we’re in this years NYC independent film festival – https://www.nycindiefilmfest.com/film/bullet-time

And thanks to the mention from UK based “Fame Magazine” on http://www.famemagazine.co.uk/2014/08/06/fame-presents-stereo-off/

EP & Video Mentions on Various Sites

Thanks for the EP review from Sonic Eclectic –
http://soniceclectic.com/music/2014/07/stereo-five-different-bands-one/
“They’re awesome. They’re able to sound different yet familiar in every track, staying true to their style.”

And some more mentions of the Bullet Time video and the band, thanks!

http://skopemag.com/2014/07/25/stereo-off-drop-first-music-video-bullet-time

and

http://ventsmagazine.com/nyc-electro-rockers-stereo-off-drop-new-video-bullet-time/

along with http://barrelhousebklyn.com/stereo-off-bullet-time-official-video/

Couple more interviews coming. The songs for the second EP have been confirmed and will be worked on in the coming weeks. And then last but not least, our next show.

August 29th (Friday) at Spike Hill (FREE)

More details and flyer to come soon.

Interview with 24 Our Music

Check out the interview we did with 24ourMusic – http://24ourmusic.net/2014/07/07/stereo-moment-inspiration/ – we talk about a bit of history, a bit of influence, the EP itself and a bit of advice.

Or as they put it – “What started out as a single effort rapidly progressed into a five-piece band with members comparable to five-star chefs doing fusion cuisine, each bringing something of value to the table. The result: a multi-hyphenated musical genre comprised of pop, electro, indie, post punk to name only a few.

Which made me very hungry.

Jokes and dinners aside, its a great piece and thanks to Patricia and the crew at 24OurMusic once more. And… if you missed the review from a month prior – here you go!

Updates and more EP reviews

Got a couple of great EP reviews recently, both from sites based just a quick drive up route 87 (ok maybe not that quick, and that’s another story) in Canada!

One from Replicant Ears – EP Review – http://replicantears.com/2014/06/23/album-review-stereo-off-stereo-off-ny-ep5/ that harkens the EP back to a mix of music from past decades and stating “This EP is definitely worth picking up, I’ve had it on repeat for days.” Thanks to Ryan and the team there at Replicant.

And then last week from 24OurMusic – “Stereo Off: Those Sexy Devils” – the title says enough surely…. And with a 9.8 out of 10 on the review also! – http://24ourmusic.net/2014/06/18/stereo-off/, much thanks to Patricia and everyone else over there.

It had me wondering, do we have that song that everyone mentions has their favourite? Or has it been an even split? So I looked at our review list and other mentions. And as of Late June 2014, due to reviews so far this year, the votes for favourite song per review went like this (note some reviews didn’t single one out, thus aren’t part of that count).

Photographs – 3
Bullet Time – 3
Effectual – 3
The Thrill – 3
MI6 – 3

Well, so much for seeing if reviews and feedback would help identify our top song from the EP. On a positive note, surely that means they are all keepers!

Bar Matchless Show in Brooklyn

Thanks to everyone that came by on Saturday night to Bar Matchless, and thanks for the great staff at the venue too, along with Cru & Soda, Band Antenna and At Sea. Set list was as follows:

Supercooler / Redesign / Photographs / Effectual / MI6 / The Thrill / Game Of Stones / Bad Fridays / Bullet Time / The Things We Do

See you in a few weeks as we get a couple of other dates fully confirmed… and get back to updating this site a bit more.

Bullet Time – Music Video from Stereo Off

Here is our first music video – Bullet Time, off of our first EP “Stereo Off New York EP5, aka, SONY EP5”.

Let us know what you think and thanks for all the likes and comments already. Cheers to http://www.deadredeyes.com for the making of and directing and thanks to all the people that helped out, acted in, let us use apartments, bars, etc.

The video is a bit of an homage to retro NYC circa the 70’s and 80’s perhaps, or at least that’s the vibe we were going for. In true low-budget indie spirits we were involved from creating the plot and story line, all the way down to going through all the takes and amends (in fact, our bassist even did the video editing on this) to final cuts, which is frankly as DIY as it gets.

Stereo Off at Bar Matchless, Brooklyn

Finish off the longest day of the year with a sunset set from Stereo Off, along with Band Antenna & another band to be confirmed. More info and details also to be noted on https://www.facebook.com/events/309314459223034/ – follow/like/add us if you haven’t already!

Details:

Saturday, June 21st, 7pm doors, $8 charge.

Bar Matchless is at 557 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Just north of McCarren park where Williamsburg and Greenpoint meet.

Nearest train is Nassau Ave on the G (5 mins walk) or Lorimer St / Metropolitan Ave on the L (15 min walk).

We’ve got some new stuff to play and also to give away, so hope to see you there.

Sebastian Acting in Short Film by Dead Red Eyes

While we wait for the music video to come out after the Memorial Day weekend. Here’s Sebastian in a short film called “The Goon and The Dangler” from Dead Red Eyes.  The film itself was for a contest where teams had to meet certain criteria in under 3 minutes.

Find out more about how that worked at www.deadredeyes.com – but in the meantime check the short film out:

It features Stereo Off soundtracks in the background.

 

 

Weekend Update: Photos Ready, Video Edits, Reviews & Mentions

Its been a busy couple weeks for the band, we’ve finalised our photos and a couple of them are now on the site. We can also provide a full EPK on request. Here’s one for now.

And of course more to come on the FB page. In the meantime, the music video is ready!!!! – much thanks to everyone that helped us the past two weeks, everyone that stood in even when they had no idea what the scene would be about and just let someone say “ok, put on this make up”. Now all that needs to be done is some final editing and mixing and we’ll have it live soon.

In the meantime, here’s some more press, reviews and mentions about the band:

“SYFFAL” (Shut Your Fuckin Face And Listen) – http://www.syffal.com/stereo-off-seren-myamoto
Joel “says STOP SLEEPING on Stereo Off”, thanks for the props and putting us top of that list!

“Who To Listen To” uses some of the press kit to put us as a featured artist at http://whotolistento.com/stereooff/

Names of the sites seem to drop a hint overall….. thanks everyone, more to come soon.

Down By The River – Music Video Shoots, Reviews & More

Busy weekend for the band as we start finalizing the photo shoot takes from the previous weekend, in the meantime moving on to the music video shoots. The picture above is a hint. Its old school. Its black and white.

So the weekend update had to wait a couple days as we were out and about, but another week, and some more coverage. Newswhistle put together an awesome piece and interview with the band at A Great White With A Blindfold: What Unsigned Brooklyn Band Is Sharpening Its Teeth. Citing a mix of 80’s bands and recent NYC bands of much hype. Quote: “this band is moving fast towards golden indie shores”. Nice one. You can also find 3 of the Non-EP tracks on that article too.

And then moving back to the EP itself, a bonus review this week that nearly flew under my radar, from the Equal Ground.

“the most eclectic electronic sounds with the most down to earth rock tones and crashes them together to create an enthralling experience” & “This is cool! Seriously cool!”. Thanks to both sites for the coverage, reviews and interviews.

So not a bad weekend after all. Still plenty of work to do on the video though…. couple more sessions in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

Weekend Updates – Beside The Photo Shoot

Hey Everyone, just wanted to drop the usual updates. We had a great photo shoot on the weekend, looking forward to getting some high quality band photos in order to get the word out. Much thanks to Deneka Peniston and Brian Morris Gallery.

As for other updates, we have a triple header this weekend.

Awesome write up from The General at http://thegeneralmusic.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/stereo-off-ny-ep5.html, tagged “fucking excellent” and mentioned Photographs as “a fantastic indie-pop slice of heaven” and Bullet Time as “the sort of track that really benefits from being blasted loudly and with the bass turned up“. Nice one! Just read the blog, because the general is always right.

Cheers also for the quick round up and a mention of the EP on Shout It Loud Reviews – which can be seen at http://www.shoutitloudreviews.com/index.php/music-news/item/334-stereo-off-stereo-off-ny-ep5-ep-review

And to cap off the weekend. If you are in the UK, listen on Monday 7pm – 8pm for Stereo Off on Temporary Noise Radio at http://myradiostream.com/temporarynoiseradio

More to come soon, thanks.

Rock Music Pick From Zambah Music App Site

Slightly belated update as the weekend was busier than expected, but still keeping the weekly update streak semi alive.

Check out Stereo Off’s review at http://blog.zambah.com/rock-music-pick-stereo-off-stereo-off-new-york-ep-5-songs/ – and if in a band, Zambah is a music app that aims to connect independent artists with bands. Not sure how it works yet, but we’ll give their beta a shot.

Glad the team and Zambah enjoyed the EP. Loving this quote in particular (regarding the “effectual” song):
“If you’re not dancing when this song come on then something is clearly wrong with you.”

Thanks for the review! Good way to start the spring, and hey the snow is finally gone. Time to shoot a video then.

Check out other past reviews on http://www.stereooff.com/reviews

Another Week of Hibernating. And Reviews!

Without getting too technical, and most of you on WordPress blogs can attest to this, but every time I login I see loads of new comments awaiting approval. Sadly its mostly salesy/spammy comments being submitted. Actually found a legit one in the pile from a little while ago and didn’t know what to do with it.

Anyway, still hibernating in the studio as we get ready for EP2 and back on the stage at a venue near you (Assuming you are near us). But in the mean time, some great new updates, such as this review from Indie News Now at http://indienewsnow.com/inn/stereo-off-giving-the-classics-a-new-life/– which gave us a 9/10 and reminded them “so much of David Byrne that it sends me right back to that era.” That was really cool to hear and thanks for reviewing us. Glad you liked the EP and hopefully you stay tuned in the coming months.

I was back and forth on using Twitter for the band, as its full of junk and bands auto-replying with messages. But if you dig through, there are some great ways to find new music and new blogs, sites, etc and connect with those looking for that new unsigned band that no one knows yet, as opposed to being “that band” who just pesters strangers.

As a result, we’ve started to get some nice mentions and places tweeting or referring us to their readers, whether from other zines/blogs like http://www.iamnotamusician.com/ or a random hotel in LA http://www.graftononsunset.com/west-la-hotels.htm – so wanted to start mentioning some of these too.

Being a new unsigned band (in New York, a city of thousands of unsigned indie bands!) trying to get some traction out there, “getting the word out” has been the goal while staying warm this winter. Hopefully more where that came from next week, as its been a few weeks in a row now. That and a confirmed gig date for the spring time, which I’m certainly ready for (springtime and next gig that is).

EP Review from Aural Press

Aural Press – an independent blog based in the UK – http://auralpress.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/ep-review-stereo-off-ny-ep5-by-stereo-off/ gave our EP a great review this week. Much thanks to them. Check the overall blog out, its relatively new but starting to cover some good bands that you have and haven’t heard of.

More to come soon. Gotta start saving a copy of these things, as I know things don’t stay online forever (contrary to popular belief). We’re continuing to look at building coverage from the ground up via social media – so why not give this Twitter thing a look and follow us on https://twitter.com/stereooff for some band updates.

Gotta admit though, some of the Twitter stuff is odd. And what’s with all these bands doing auto-replies. Especially funny when the autoreply asks how did you find them, when they actually followed you first. Imagine that in real life.

Person 1: Um, good to meet you, how did you know about me?
Person 2: Well, you been walking behind me for a bit now.

Another round up of stuff

Well, it was a long week, but still. Here’s the stereo roundup. Got invited to Transmission Thursdays down at Hotel Chantelle which the whole band was unable to make gig wise, but a couple of us got put on the list and checked it out anyway. Place was packed due to fashion week, but good fun nonetheless.

Also, in the running for band of the week at Flowers in a Gun – a NYC based blog that is well worth the read and covers loads of new bands too. Hopefully some home town votes will get us on there next week.

There’s a couple more QA’s and reviews coming live soon, but as we’ve learned, these sites have quite a waiting list at times, so we are going to try and sort out a few more as we wait. We had to work on explaining the band a bit better, so came up with this picture – hope that helps. The next hurdle to jump is answering the what bands influence you / what bands you sound like. I’ve started to remember what other people have said so far, as well as some of the bands I listen to now, but that answer changes all the time (plus aren’t we technically supposed to generate our own style and sound?). Either way, have a listen and let us know what you think.

Demo Track Update Feb 2014

Hey, speaking of pushing things along, here’s another demo in progress.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pemoh6qd5t1prle/GAMEofSTONESwVOXnBRIDGE3.m4a

Check out updates and other outtakes on our Facebook page too at https://www.facebook.com/Stereo.Off

Stay tuned for more demos and info as we put the tracks together for the next round. And of course, scroll to the right and currently round 1 is posted on our page. Let us know what you think.

The Next Six or so Months

Every band member of Stereo Off has been in previous bands – a couple of them are in multiple bands as we speak. And it can be a lot of work when you’re not 19 any more. But we all believe that it is going to be “that” time this time, whatever time that may be and whatever that even means. However, for new bands out there it can be a lot of hard work. This digital age makes it easy to make music and get your music heard. Which is wonderful. Gone are the days of only knowing about a set amount of bands or the hurdles you have to jump to get bands on mass market Vinyl, or in the hey-days of CD whenever that was (perhaps the 90s?). Now everyone can get out there. The negative factor is the same thing really. Everyone is out there!

As a result its more important to play to ones strengths. I’m probably breaking some rule here, but we are not the next big name band that’s going to go platinum and tour the world for life, as much as I’d (and hopefully we’d) love to be. But I do want to try and write more about how it is out there because that’s exactly what bands do not seem to do, though that is also less and less a boundary these days as well.

The band started in 2012, with just a few songs, gradually building into 2013 where we played a fair few gigs around New York, reminding me of all the things I loved and loathed about such nights. But it was frustrating to push things along. In the early days, you can bank on your friends going to your gigs, but the new faces need to show up sooner rather than later. To get a great venue spot, you need to really have a good following and some releases out there. That said, I think (like all bands I’ve been in prior) we’ve been able to punch over our weight there, blagging some of my favorite NYC venues, even with some recent turn outs being a little on the down side (another thing bands aren’t allowed to admit – though in our defense, still doing pretty well). However, in Jan 2014 we finally got our first EP recorded and printed out. It was cool to get this parcel in the mail, but at the same time, not quite the shiver you’d feel if you saw it in a store (though I guess these days, finding a store stocking CDs is just as rare!).

That was one consistency though. Whether a band now or a few years back, whether it was getting on Facebook or MySpace, you needed to get the word out, PR, Radio, Podcasts, Reviews, etc. And you can’t do that without anything recorded. But now we have no excuse. We’re here with EP1 and ready with enough songs to make EP2 and EP3 pretty soon, and we’re hoping to time that and our music video, along with getting coverage, reviews, etc, all in a way that a wave will start to hit. Not that I’m putting an exact time-line on it, but the next six or so months will be key. For those that know me, I spent many years on the other side of the Atlantic seeing bands come and go much faster than over here. Nowadays its full speed on both sides. Are you in?

Weekend Update, But not the SNL thing

Hey, just wanted to update things here as we work on getting the word out.

Cheers to Your Music News for the review and thanks for those following as we try and get our FB act together (much overdue work on our part perhaps) and push that new EP which we just received in the mail – its available to play on the right hand column of this site too.

Time to wind down though, perhaps un-plug for the weekend? Here’s an unplugged take of one of our newer tracks post-EP.

Stereo Off EP Tracks

Photographs / Bullet Time / Effectual / The Thrill / MI6. All available below.

Stereo off at Glasslands – Saturday dec 21

Looking forward to this Saturday, as we will be at Glasslands in Brooklyn.

Info and Tickets here: http://www.theglasslands.com/event/434023-stereo-off-brooklyn/

Starts at eight pm, so start your Xmas holiday festivities right and get in the spirit on sat December 21st. We’ll be in holiday spirits and celebrating our first EP finally being done, as its off at the printers now.

Also with “The lovely” and “Guess and check”. Two great bands we know and recommend. Show starts at 8, we are on just after 9. See you there.

Glasslands is at 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY 11249, near the river. Nearest train is Bedford Ave on the L.


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