Video: Underwater Peoples/Twosyllable Showcase w/ Real Estate, Frat Dad, Pill Wonder

Thankfully, even if you weren't fortunate enough to witness the epic Twosyllable Records / Underwater Peoples showcase that the guys at Chocolate Bobka threw at CMJ (lord knows I wasn't), we can now all share in a little bit of that vaguely tropical, fuzzed-out magic brewing on the East Coast these days.

Real Estate - "Atlantic City" from Elise Oh on Vimeo.

The Underwater Peoples site is hosting videos from the CMJ shindig, so head on over to catch performances by Real Estate, Frat Dad, and Pill Wonder, all of whom we've written about a bit before.

New Frat Dad - Freak In Nature

So that dude Fluffy Lumbers is also in this band called Frat Dad, who you might have heard earlier this year on the homies Underwater Peoples' Summer Showcase comp.



Well, "Freak in Nature" is better than any of those songs. Lumbers' Samuel Franklin and fellow Ridgewood, NJ suburbanite James Benson trade call-and-response vocals over a murky psych-punk groove, and a chorus that would be a speaker-obliterator if it hadn't already obliterated whatever was used to record it.

mp3-> Frat Dad - Freak in Nature [from the Frat Dad 7'', out now on Underwater Peoples]

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Video: Real Estate - Green River/Suburban Beverage

Chocolate Bobka, who got insta-bookmarked after I saw this one, recently posted this awesome live video of intocb favorites Real Estate playing a medley of "Green River" and "Suburban Beverage," which appear on a couple of 7''`s making big waves (no pun intended) this summer.

Real Estate - Green River > Suburban Beverage from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.

Earlier in this same show, Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker and his new band the Freaks played a song from their upcoming Underwater Peoples release.

Alex Bleeker & The Freaks - Summer > Epilogue from Chocolate Bobka on Vimeo.