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The Hipshakes

Young Men Having Fun

About Me

The Hipshakes play drums, bass and guitar very fast and loudly.They have several singles and an album out and tour in USA and Europe sometimes.They will probably one day tour Australia/New Zealand/Japan.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/4/2005
Band Website: thehipshakes.com
Band Members: Andrew Anderson - Bass/Vocals, Dan Russell - Guitar/Vocals, Bruce Sargent - Drums/Vocals,
Influences: The Oblivians, The Stooges, The Ramones, 13th Floor Elevators, The Real Losers, Compulsive Gamblers, The Motherfuckers, Black Time, The Reigning Sound, The Sparkling Fountains of Magic Reality, The MC5, The Dirtbombs, The Sights, The Greenhornes, The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, King Louie One Man Band, The Midnight Kicks, Randy, Guitar Wolf, The Warlocks, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Kinks, The Kingsmen, The Standells, The Count 5, The Small Faces, Television, Blondie, Richard Hell, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, The Beach Boys, Johnny Thunders, The Velvet Underground, The Von Bondies, The Likes, Smokers Die Younger, Soledad Brothers, Navvy, Pavement, Kajun SS, Viva L'American Death Ray Music, Greg Oblivian & The Tip Tops. Jackie O & The Tearjerkers, The Cool Jerks, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Rolling Stones, Bad Times, The Unicorns, The Gories, KO & The Knockouts, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Rockin' Richard Berry, Gene Vincent, The Hives, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, The Andrews Sisters, The Ponys, Mission of Burma, Wire, Odetta, Pixies, The Von Bondies, The Black Keys, The Cramps, Black Lips, Eddie Cochran
Sounds Like: Bored incompetent boys with instruments
Record Label: Slovenly, Fistful, Goner, DSH, TTT, S&T, SMF
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bunch Of Shows

Hipshakes new tour dates up, including SXSW, Scandinavia, Germany and Swizerland.Also, new singles on Slovenly and Rob's House, both scheduled to be released the week of March 11th.We just recorded so...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:24:00 PST

Radio show

http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=1781 to listen to a live radio session wot we done recorded.
Posted by The Hipshakes on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:16:00 PST

Buy Buy Buy New single

Hey there, The kind man at Tic Tac Totally allows you to buy a limited white version of our new split single with Cococoma right now, before its released. Thats correct, pre-order now! ...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:17:00 PST

SINGLES!

New singles out soon on:Show and Tell - 2 stomping short songs with excellent artwork drawn by a genius!Tic Tac Totally - Split with Cococoma, including covers of each others hits!Die Slaughterhaus - ...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:11:00 PST

Cococoma/Hipshakes split single

HEY!Just in time for our fall tour with Chicago's, 'CoCoComa' - the Tic Tac Totally label outta Chicago will be releasing a limited split 7-inch featuring both the bands!! Each band contributes one ne...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:10:00 PST

Cococoma/Hipshakes Autumn tour 07!

Yo!Hipshakes hit the road with their buddies Cococoma in Septermber and October.Check the tour dates above.In additiion to the above we may well visit Atlanta...We should have a few new singles out in...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:13:00 PST

Hipshakes on Itunes

Yo! Here is a link for you Itunes lovers: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? playListId=216054380 Listen to large proportions of songs for free in the 30 second sample!...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:53:00 PST

Album!

The Hipshakes debut album "Shake Their Hips" is out on February 6th on Slovenly Records! It has been described as "awesome....blown out - messed up - halfway competent.... perfect" by fellow hitmakers...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:25:00 PST

Records galore!

We've got two new singles out, one on Goner and one on Fistful of Records. Our album will be out soon!...
Posted by The Hipshakes on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:04:00 PST

New Interview

We have been interviewed again, here is the link. http://turnit-down.blogspot.com/ Have a look!
Posted by The Hipshakes on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:16:00 PST