The Young Friends – the rock group with the second most generic name ever after "The The" – ise a fun party band that recently relocated from Phoenex to Brooklyn. So far the Big Apple treated them well: they played this year’s NYC PopFest, and got blogged by Brooklyn Vegan like… 2 hours after they moved here (something that will surely irritate many long time NY based artists).
Their story actually bears surprising similarities with the one of NYC’s own beach boys The Drums, a band that’s been very supportive with them (Holiday Records, run in part by Jacob of The Drums, released YF’s first single) and with whom they seem to have a lot in common also on a musical level: fast paced, bouncy rhythms + ultra catchy melodies + sparse, simple arrangements + preference for clean guitar tones + alto male vocals. The Young Friends are actually very young (the core duo is 17 years old) and surely talented, and they have plenty of time to work on their sound in a more personal direction – before they’ll have to change the band name… I mean, I don’t think anybody over 25 would wanto to play in a band with that name, right? The band will play Glasslands tonight with Warm Ghost and Grand Children.