Tiny Masters of Today

"Dude, have you heard of this band playing in brooklyn, its like 2 13 year old kids. Its like a mini white stripes... Tiny Masters of the Universe I think..."
That was last Saturday, my friend Chet was trying to tell me about them, but this was one of those drunken, last brain cell memory type of "did you know?" type of pontifications.

I took it to heart. I love kids trying and also jack white. I believe in our future. So I bookmarked it somewhere in my head, and yesterday I found who he was talking about.


Tiny Masters of Today



Is this the legitimate return of lo-fi? - in the vain of the stooges and the Ramones. Especially in their sub 2 minute songs. What made punk rock so cool in the 70's was the lack of money and good recording equipment, the do what you can in order to F with the man attitude. In this day and age, only a couple of pre-teens can legitimately do this. They probably have no allowance, they havent been influence by the news or even the daily show yet. They are not intellectuals, pseudo or actual, and their edges havent softened at all. In a world where people are growing up so much faster and becoming more knowledgeable about society so quickly, the only way we can now create the too stupid to quit, unfiltered mind of the 1969 22 year old punk rock icon, is to find a couple of 11 year olds and give them one pick. too dramatic? fuck you.

In the normal brooklyn band, the lead singer wears a mickey mouse shirt b/c he thinks its ridiculous in a hipster sort of way. Ivan, of Tiny Masters, wears it because, yes, he actually likes Mickey Mouse and wants to go to Disneyland.

I really don't even feel right grouping them with other bands in the same age group. I won't even mention them. That would demean what the Tiny Masters are.

If that's not enough, they have a fucking dancing panda on their webpage.