FRICTION - Ari Ari

ARI ARI

ARI ARI & MAN AT ARMS
Split Lathe Cut 12 inch record
First print of 50
(fric-027)
12 inch split between ARI ARI and MAN AT ARMS containing their existing eps "there's a new sheriff in town" and "being and commerce". The first pressing is of 50 clear lathe cut records made by Peter King Records in New Zealand with all new art work by Jill and screenprinted by Me, JVB.
Released on April 15 at Robotfest.

ARI ARI
There's A New
Sheriff In Town ep
(fric-020)

CD $7.00

$4.49

1. Liquored Up and At' Em mp3
2. Set Your Strobelight To Stun
3. Backseat O.D.
4. Such A Sinker
5. Kim Jong-Il Communication

photo by Casey Spring

There is a new internet only t-shirt available in the merch section.

Here is a live video filmed at the DAAC in Grand Rapids.

The reviews are starting to role in finally.

Joshua Nordyke did a story and Illustration about going to see ARI ARI at the DAAC and having a hard time getting home.

Casey Spring took some great photos at Kraftbrau in Kzoo - 6.24.05

I took these photos at the Friction Saw Her Ghost Fest - 6.25.05

Older photos

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ari.ari. must be stopped! This spazzy, indie four-piece from Muncie, Ind., has conquered the Midwest and has plans for the major cities on both coasts and everywhere in between. ari.ari. (ryan-guitar, brandon-drums, mark-synth, jill-vocals) takes every stage it plays and makes it their own. On top of the speakers, on top of each other, in the crowd on the floorŠthe best 12 to 18 minutes of your life. This debut EP, recorded in a 12-hour session in a living room, was intended as a demo, but Friction and ari.ari. decided the raw, one-take session was a good representation of what they do live. The band rips through the five songs on "Thereąs a New Sheriff in Town," without letting up or staying in any one place for too-long: spaced-out post-indie-shred guitars colliding with fat-bottom synth-lines, acrobatic drumming and power-saw female vocals. After spending three months on the road annihilating everything in their path, getting compared to the awesome destructive power of voltron and making believers out of the most jaded of skeptics, the band is currently writing material for a much anticipated and feared full-length album.

There's a New Sheriff in Town
Friction, 2005
rating: 4/5
reviewer: matty g
tinymixtapes.com

styles: spazz, hardcore, punk
others: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Blood Brothers
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I didn't even want to go to the show. I was in a super-lazy mood, and all I wanted to do was go home,
lay in bed, and watch a movie or three. After the first band bored my ears off, my apathy only got
worse, and I was about to leave just as Ari Ari took the stage. They then proceeded to completely melt
my face and I had no choice but to leave and hit up an ATM immediately after they were done so I could
score a shirt and this CD that I'm reviewing right... now.

I can't count the number of times a band has blown me away live, but left me extremely disappointed with
the CD (These Arms Are Snakes, I'm looking at you). And while There's a New Sheriff in Town isn't as good
as Ari Ari's incinerating live show, it sure as hell isn't anywhere near being a disappointment. Not only
does it have some of my favorite artwork of the year (think Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone meets
Burn, Piano Island, Burn), it's also got some of my favorite tunes as well.

The whole thing's brief, 12:36 to be exact, but if it were any longer, you'd probably need medical attention
after listening to it. Ari Ari rip through the five songs without letting up the pace once, and never stop in
one place for too long. Normally with a band like this, there are times when I wish they would explore a single
idea further before they leave it in the dust, but every change on There's a New Sheriff in Town feels entirely
appropriate, like the song just might die if they stop moving. Jill (last names are entirely absent from
everything about the band I've found) sounds like a complete madwoman, and you can just imagine her grabbing
everyone around her, pleading for help with wide eyes and a look of confused desperation on her face as she
shouts her way through the songs. (Which is exactly how she performs. You really need to check them out live.)
There are moments like on "Liquored Up and At 'Em" (oh yeah, their song titles are pretty aces too), where Jill
loses any sense of sanity and her voice rips through your head like a buzzsaw. I wish I were exaggerating, but
I'm not; she seriously sounds like she's going to rip you the fuck apart.

Acting as the backbone, Mark's synthesizer lays a solid foundation for Ryan's
experimental-hardcore-art-punk-spaced-out-whatever guitar workouts and Brandon's acrobatic drumming.
Everything comes together perfectly in a spazzy mess and with Jill's vocals they form like Voltron into a vicious
rock beast with the power of ten normal bands and the capability to completely fuck up your face, much like they
did mine that fateful night. Make sure you've got a good health plan and strap yourself in for one of the best
rides this year from one of the most promising bands I've heard in a while.

Press... High Resolution Photo - High Resolution One Sheet

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Photo by JVB - Friction Saw Her Ghost Fest 6.25.05

Label Contact:frictionrecords@gmail.com