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Action Friend

Rank #50 Denver, CO Other / Genre-hopping / Avant-rock

Action Friend

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Bio: Formed in 2005 beneath the shadow of The Berkeley Inn in northwest Denver, CO. Action Friend have played hundreds and hundreds of shows all over Colorado, recorded two albums with members of the Melvins and Big Business, toured a couple of times, and are on their 3rd bassist. They never got a voc... See Full Bio

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"For You The World" FULL ALBUM Available now to your listening pleasure @ http://actionfriend.bandcamp.com/ And you can download it there too if you'd like...

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“Opening band Action Friend started the evening offering a unique and unusual sound to the mix. Leaving the NCAA football game playing on stage during their entire set, the band was a sonic assault on the senses. Often switching styles from heavy and aggressive to catchy hooks, then dissolving into complete chaos and back again within seconds, it was difficult to keep your bearings as a listener.”

— Allen Klowsowski, Reverb-Denver Post

“With enough breakneck shifts in tone, style and pacing to confuse and confound anyone looking for more conventional songwriting, Action Friend's debut clearly has its roots in the wildly experimental guitar music of John Zorn. This can be disconcerting to anyone not willing to follow the band's sharp turns through its virtuostic instrumentals. Although music like this can often seem more fun to play than it is to listen to, Action Friend isn't worshipping the limp imaginations of false guitar gods. Each song is an experiment in sound, texture, tone and jazz structures that shares an aesthetic with electronic collage bands. If you listen closely enough, you'll hear the Melvins' Dale Crover's percussive contributions, but the multi-layered songwriting is all Action Friend.”

— Tom Murphy, Westword

“Action Friend’s heavy debut immediately penetrates your warm, wet, sonic psyche—whether you like it or not—and that’s how it is for the rest of this erratic, yet well planned and expertly executed sonic voyage into the genre blending, grunge-saturated, mind-fuck zone. You will either love it or hate it, but it’s not going to stop.”

— Marcus Solomon, Razorcake.org

“Up next was Action Friend, who was in especially high form for this show. Although the band displayed its customary rapid, abrupt and seemingly perversely placed time signature changes, on at least two compositions, the guys figured out a way to make that sound good even to someone who isn’t as much into John Zorn-esque song structures or John McLaughlin’s dizzying shifts in tone. Having refined its sound to a far greater degree than the last time I caught one of its shows, Action Friend’s development has resulted in the best music the band has written to date. The third distinct song in particular masterfully incorporated Ennio Morricone guitar phrasings with Replacements-ish indie rock sections and Sonic Youth-inspired experimental rock choruses. Throughout its set, the outfit engaged in a good deal of spacey jazz and ended on what sounded like a futuristic spy movie theme.”

— Tom Murphy, Westword Backbeat

“Action Friend is one of the weirdest bands gracing the Denver scene. Its frenetic spazz-rock straddles the avant-garde jazz of John Zorn and the dusty soundtracks of Ennio Morricone. But don't let those hallowed names fool you: Despite its unflinchingly technical performance style, Action Friend plays capricious, gloriously unhinged music. At the trio's Monday night show at Monkey Mania, it ran through a furious set of stop-start mini-epics, nodding equally toward the punch-drunk metal of Mike Patton's Ipecac label and Sonic Youth's experimental noise albums. During "From Here To Torso" the bassist and drummer locked eyes while the guitarist undulated over his seven-string, plucking as if in a feverish trance. The bizarre, melodic sensibility of the songs was matched only by the band's devotion to its performance, and in a town stuffed with overearnest balladeers, both sounded highly refreshing.”

— John Wenzel, Denver Post

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NEW ALBUM!!!
May 27, 2011
Should be ready for release at our TRI-CD Realease show on June 25th @ The Meado...

New Album!
Mar 10, 2011
Action Friend's new album has been recorded. Action Friend is currently mixing s...

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D6 Runs Dry
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aahhhhhh.....under age useless pieces of shit!!!
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