SEACATS

The pop-punk band SEACATS are perfectly tailored for Austin’s warm air. There’s something about the band of twentysomething guys that just makes you want to have a good time, throw your responsibilities to the wayside, and breathe in the moment. The feeling of youth the band washes over a crowd is pretty addictive, exemplified on songs like “Summer Fun Song” and “Whoa Whoa Whoa Hey Hey Hey.” We hope that SXSW is ready to rock along with SEACATS, and that you are too on Tuesday at Neumos. - Seattle Show Gal

Seacats from Kelso, WA are one of my very favorite Sound Off! alumni—their album Metal Music, is in regular rotation on my summer playlist (you can download it for the bargain price of name your price here) and they're definitely recommended if you like early Weezer, the Rentals, and BOAT.

The band will be releasing a new full-length this summer on Fin Records and today they've debuted a new video for the first single, "Wrecked." The video was directed by Derrick Acosta and Dusty Peterman and now I can't get this song out of my head.

You should let it infect your brain, too:

Seacats are playing the SXSW Send Off Show at Neumos tomorrow, March 5, with Lemolo, OCNotes, and Spac3man. Tickets are available here. They're opening the show, so be sure to get there early to catch Seacats! You think this video is charming? They're even more fun live. - The Stranger (Seattle)

Seacats from Kelso, WA are one of my very favorite Sound Off! alumni—their album Metal Music, is in regular rotation on my summer playlist (you can download it for the bargain price of name your price here) and they're definitely recommended if you like early Weezer, the Rentals, and BOAT.

The band will be releasing a new full-length this summer on Fin Records and today they've debuted a new video for the first single, "Wrecked." The video was directed by Derrick Acosta and Dusty Peterman and now I can't get this song out of my head.

You should let it infect your brain, too:

Seacats are playing the SXSW Send Off Show at Neumos tomorrow, March 5, with Lemolo, OCNotes, and Spac3man. Tickets are available here. They're opening the show, so be sure to get there early to catch Seacats! You think this video is charming? They're even more fun live. - The Stranger (Seattle)

When I showed up to Seacats’ show at Heartland last night, singer/drummer Josh Davis and keyboardist Justin Salisbury were both wearing the same Weezer Red Album tour t-shirts.

“If there is one thing I hope to accomplish with Seacats, it’s establishing myself as Seattle’s resident Weezer scholar,” says Josh Davis.

He’s only half kidding.


Brothers Mike and Josh Davis have been churning out Weezer-tastic power pop in their Kelso based band Seacats since 2009. Joined by their friends Justin Salisbury, Jordan Cole, and Mike Ferrario, the gang has been all about Weezer before Seacats even existed.

“Before our band, we had a web show that shall remain nameless,” Josh says. “Me and my brother won a radio contest from a Portland station 94.7 where we got to go back stage and interview Weezer, which really only meant interviewing Brian, Pat, and Carl. They just took us on a tour of the entire, giant, Weezer corporation that is playing as a stadium band.”

The brothers have followed Weezer everywhere, including seeing one of Weezer’s side projects play at The Vera Project.

“They pulled up to The Vera in a limo,” says Josh.

Seacats have managed to craft one of this year’s catchiest singles, “Wrecked,” which will appear on their upcoming full-length album, due out on Fin Records in October. The song’s lurching bass-line is hooky as hell, and matched with its epic lucha libre music video, “Wrecked” will stick itself firmly in your brain.

Live at Heartland, Seacats ended their sweaty set with an insane altered version of the single. With absolutely no regard for tempo, Seacats began the song as a doom metal number, shifted to a high punky speed for the bridge, and ended the song at 200 mph going so fast that Josh could barely sing the hook in time. The experience was pleasantly disorienting.

“That’s the first time we’ve done that,” Mike says. “We practiced it once. We just wanted to mess with everyone.”

The band is refreshingly funny in a town full of somber folkies. At the Yellingham festival in Bellingham this year, a week after My Chemical Romance had officially broken up, the band led the crowd in a shout-along to the emo outfit’s classic single “I’m Not Okay.”

Their most recent 7” on Fin Records for the single “Firewood” inexplicably has a hamburger on it.

The great thing about Seacats is that behind the comedy lies some of Seattle catchiest tunes. Check them out at: seacats.bandcamp.com. - Seattle Weekly

“It’s all about the simple times, about doing what makes you happy,” Mike Davis sings in “Minus World” the new single from Seacats upcoming self titled LP.

Unfortunately, in the hilarious music video for the song (making it’s worldwide international debut here), Kelso, WA’s leading Weezer Scholars are very unhappy after a bum performance at a community center that sounds something akin to an acid jazz band getting in a carwreck. To remedy the solution, Davis decides to enter in a skateboarding contest that could win him “Free Burgers 4 Life,” and eventually lands him in outer space.

Imagine the original Disney Channel movie “Brink” meets “Hot Rod,” but with an extra tablespoon of charm. A+ to Seacats for the special effects in the video’s climax, which rivals Avatar’s breathtaking visual fireworks with its own unique brand green screen magic.

“We made the ‘Minus World’ video ourselves in our hometown of Kelso, WA this July. It is sort of a hometown tribute to the all-ages venue Minus World we used to have in Kelso,” drummer/singer Josh Davis writes. “Minus World was an awesome restaurant/arcade/venue that existed in our town and created a thriving all-ages local music scene but then sadly shut down last year.”

While the song acts as a sort of eulogy, in effect it’s an uber-catchy pop number perfect for soundtracking the final lap of summer, with a lovely little coda at the end to help you get extra sentimental. Produced by Steve Fisk of Nirvana and Soundgarden fame, the full length is due out October 15 on Fin Records. Featuring spiffy pink vinyl, the record has my vote for album cover of the year. Check out the educational 11 minute infomercial for the album here, and maybe cruise on over to Seacats’ previous visual masterpiece for the record’s other single, “Wrecked,” which features 90s quality VHS footage of Mexican wrestling and an unreasonably hooky bass riff. - Seattle Weekly

Washington's SEACATS are a throwback to vintage party music. Their sound is cool and upbeat. Its garage rock meets the pool party. Album opener, Don't Get What You Want, will have you screaming along with the whimsical melodies before it hits the second chorus.

On, We Don't Sleep, they put their best foot forward. Falsetto vocals glide nicely with an easily strummed electric guitar. Its a quick, in your face, tune that excels. Yield is a three minute poppy/grunge tune, I could imagine a less dark Cobain writing.

All in all, the SEACATS please. Watch for upcoming shows in your area! - Awaken Music Blog

Washington's SEACATS are a throwback to vintage party music. Their sound is cool and upbeat. Its garage rock meets the pool party. Album opener, Don't Get What You Want, will have you screaming along with the whimsical melodies before it hits the second chorus.

On, We Don't Sleep, they put their best foot forward. Falsetto vocals glide nicely with an easily strummed electric guitar. Its a quick, in your face, tune that excels. Yield is a three minute poppy/grunge tune, I could imagine a less dark Cobain writing.

All in all, the SEACATS please. Watch for upcoming shows in your area! - Awaken Music Blog

Before being "geeked-up" became a slang term in the bay area "Hyphy" music scene, describing various things from a type of fashion to excessive amphetamine use, it described a certain nerdy-feel good swagger that bands like Weezer brought to the table,and in my opinion encompassed a lot of 90's Alt. Rock. Seacats are indeed "geeked-up". Up tempo guitar chords, and bratty vocals just make me want to curl up with a bowl of POP's and watch Nickelodeon cartoons when they were at their best (Rugrats,Rocko's modern life, AHHHH! REAL MONSTERS...anyone?). "K'nittle blues" utilizes bending synths, and sock hop drum beats in combination with distortion crushed vocal segments to showcase real creative talent. The punky whine vocals, and melodic xylo tapping in "Don't get what you want" remind us that stepping outside of the "real world", and in to our own little one can be the best inspiration for musical genius, and in their own respect, Seacats might just have that.

http://www.vanvoice.com/blog/kfoster - Vancouver Voice

Before being "geeked-up" became a slang term in the bay area "Hyphy" music scene, describing various things from a type of fashion to excessive amphetamine use, it described a certain nerdy-feel good swagger that bands like Weezer brought to the table,and in my opinion encompassed a lot of 90's Alt. Rock. Seacats are indeed "geeked-up". Up tempo guitar chords, and bratty vocals just make me want to curl up with a bowl of POP's and watch Nickelodeon cartoons when they were at their best (Rugrats,Rocko's modern life, AHHHH! REAL MONSTERS...anyone?). "K'nittle blues" utilizes bending synths, and sock hop drum beats in combination with distortion crushed vocal segments to showcase real creative talent. The punky whine vocals, and melodic xylo tapping in "Don't get what you want" remind us that stepping outside of the "real world", and in to our own little one can be the best inspiration for musical genius, and in their own respect, Seacats might just have that.

http://www.vanvoice.com/blog/kfoster - Vancouver Voice