Lovebirds debut “Filled With Hate” video

San Francisco punk band Lovebirds have released their new Sam Woo Starr directed video for “Filled With Hate”. We can tell you, that both the video and song, are amongst our favourites of the summer. The title-track is off their forthcoming release, out August 11th via Empty Cellar Records. Read a message from the band via Herbal Caen, or just watch the video, both worth your time.

Man, I don’t ever go out nowadays. I don’t know what to say, I’ve got the blues. Usually though when I am creepy crawling, I’m out to catch The Lovebirds, they being San Francisco’s best new guitar band. I’ve been watching them carve up the dank air of many a fine Mission saloon for about a year now and they always have the edge. They’re Of and Raised in SF and they’re youngish. All of them jam their instruments with technique and style, in accordance with the Old Ways. They have a budget Scott Gorham riff inside a jangly scorcher called “Filled With Hate,” which is about leaving Los Angeles for San Francisco.

You can go pretty far nowadays on the idea of a Band, but The Lovebirds don’t have time for that shit. Whether you wear denim, leather, or tie-dye it’s only worth about an El Rio drink ticket if you don’t know how to write the tunes and The Lovebirds wear a cloak of many colors. The guitars weave together beautifully, leads, hooks and riffs arranged like an American cheese platter. The rhythm section takes the cheese and deftly makes a deli sandwich, playing with smarts and panache. This is the kind of band that you can smoke weed with the drummer outside the bar and talk in-depth about the annexation of Hawaii and then walk inside, look the guitarist straight in the eye and say, “R.E.M is better than Teenage Fanclub” and he’ll still drive your fool ass home. They’ve even got a dude in the band who says funny shit on stage. You can take one look at them and know they learn things from books and write songs with instruments (no, seriously).

These songs have tons of moves and NOBODY puts moves in their songs anymore besides The Cacamen, and that was only one move, once. Moves are great, they’re like skate tricks you can put in your songs. Seems to me, the only move a band will pull nowadays is the downward dog, am I right? The Lovebirds are punk, but in the classical sense, not the ebay sense. They dare to believe that R.E.M is better than Big Star. Just kidding, they’re not there yet. But this is an excellent start. I end in verse:

A bouquet of riffs from The Lovebirds

On a chilly Francisco night

Was thundering through my laptop

I was homeless came morning light

-Herbal Caen

THE LOVEBIRDS
FILLED WITH HATE
TRACKLISTING

01. Filled With Hate
02. Streets of Rage
03. Ready To Suffer
04. Up and Down

Lovebirds on the video for “Filled With Hate”:

“A homemade DVD was found in late 2004 at the Goodwill Bins in San Francisco, CA. It sat on a shelf unused until 2017, when owners, The Lovebirds decided to cut it together for their first music video. We believe the footage brings up the age old question: why do we dance? Why does music move us in such ways? Nobody knows, but check out this new video!”