"Adolescence of a young precious mind / In the night skies of the wilderness, of the wilderness..."
"Your Bike" by Eastside L.A. post-punk/garage rockers The Tracks has the kind of swagger that you don't here very much anymore. For some reason, heavy bands whether leaning towards punk or post hardcore or heavy metal seem to think that noise, that being loud is bad ass. Usually it is just noisy and, well of course, fucking loud. Step into the sultry, unhinged askew sound of The Tracks and you feel dark ghosts in the background, some wearing leather jackets and some wearing sharkskin suits, some slinging guitars seemingly made of glitter and some slinging saxophones.
Like an iconic amalgam of artists like Richard hell and the Voidoids, X, James Chance and the Contortions, Los Illegals, The Cramps and Elvis himself, Front man Venancio Bermudez, bassist Felipe Contreras, drummer Jimmy Conde and guitarist Juan Santana seem to embody a cross generational milieu of rebellion, cool and sexual tension personified. I don't know how they got the sonic nucleic acid of rockabilly, post punk, retro garage rock, doo wop punk, straight rock and roll all at once but they have it. With a new album called "Paredón Blanco” (the historic name of Boyle Heights) and a follow up to the well received 2018 debut album "Treasured Memories", things are looking fine for The Tracks.
Check out the wonderfully filmic Official Video of "Your Bike" as directed by Dylan Dixon.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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LOS ANGELES — The Tracks—the Boyle Heights, Los Angeles garage rock/post-punk band—is excited to announce a forthcoming album, music video and short film. Titled "Paredón Blanco” —the historic name of Boyle Heights—the album is the followup to The Tracks' acclaimed 2018 debut full-length, "Treasured Memories." The band has earned praise from The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Buzz Bands, L.A. Record and many other publications. "Paredón Blanco" will be released digitally on July 29, 2022. A music video for the song “Your Bike” will be released on July 22. The Tracks are playing a release show for "Paredón Blanco" on July 29 at La Zona Rosa, located at 1010 E Cesar Chavez Ave in Boyle Heights. “It Happened on Brooklyn Ave.”—a murder mystery short film set in East L.A. and featuring The Tracks—will be released in September.
Frontman Venancio Bermudez, bassist Felipe Contreras, drummer Jimmy Conde and guitarist Juan Santana met at Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights, where they united over their shared love of rock and roll. Their upcoming album “Paredón Blanco" is dedicated to the place they grew up and the music that raised them. Reclaiming a sound that Chicanos have been historically excluded from, when you see The Tracks perform live, all adversity disappears in their ability to unify and empower an audience. Produced by Lewis Pesacov, the album embraces rawness, complexity, and the enormous reality that making music is perhaps their only way to survive.
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