This band reminds us so much of bands and artists from the 1990s when home recording was just hitting an all-time peak. During that decade, we received so many submissions from artists working out of their homes…writing and recording truly unusual stuff…and presenting it with highly original names, images, and packaging. Fishboy is a Denton,… Continue reading Fishboy at Babysue
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Fishboy at Under the Radar
And you thought a concept album about a deaf, dumb, and blind pinball player was silly. Well, get this: a pop-rock opera about the elephant that was publicly electrocuted by Thomas Edison’s Edison Manufacturing Company in 1903, in part to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current. Finally, you say, a piece of art that can… Continue reading Fishboy at Under the Radar
Fishboy at Magnet
Fishboy plays a powerful mix of pop and indie rock and is currently working on a new concept album that includes a wordless booklet themed around Topsy, an elephant publicly electrocuted by Thomas Edison. Now the Denton, Texas, band has a new video for “Thomas Alva Waiting” that runs through chapter two of the booklet, titled Thomas Alva… Continue reading Fishboy at Magnet
Fishboy at Big Takeover
Ambitious Denton, TX indie rockers, Fishboy, return with yet another narrative concept album. Coinciding with a 160 page 5.5×5.5 comic, An Elephant centers on the apocryphal story of Topsy the elephant, who was supposedly electrocuted in a public execution by Thomas Edison in 1903, though historical sources refute the claim that the inventor had anything… Continue reading Fishboy at Big Takeover
Fishboy at Raised By Gypsies
So I’m including the official Fishboy Bandcamp link up there, but I have this as a CD and there is no graphic novel included so I’m not entirely sure what the options are for how to buy it as such because all I see are the graphic novel, digital and vinyl options. Was this… Continue reading Fishboy at Raised By Gypsies
Fishboy at Get It On Vinyl
It’s always to see refreshing ideas. While the concept album is not a new achievement, concepts albums as a whole seem to be few and far between these days. So, yes, An Elephant is a concept album. Denton based Fishboy has taken the story of Topsy, the elephant that was supposedly executed by Edison to… Continue reading Fishboy at Get It On Vinyl
Fishboy at Rock Decibels
Fishboy est un groupe indie pop au son éclectique embrassant aussi bien la lo-fi acoustique que la power pop pleine de panache. Mais c’est avant tout un combo qui sert de véhicule aux compositions loufoques de Eric Michener, un natif du Texas surnommé « fishboy » car il répondit à un défi consiatnt à manger un poisson… Continue reading Fishboy at Rock Decibels
Fishboy at Whisperin and Hollerin
As the wonderful lyric sheet for this cd comes bearing the legend “An Elephant Never Forgets” I have listened to it while watching both the legendary 1935 cartoon An Elephant Never Forgets and the even more Legendary 1952 film The Elephant Never Forgets both with the sound down and using his album as a new… Continue reading Fishboy at Whisperin and Hollerin
Fishboy at Dagger
You can be forgiven for not knowing about this long-running (well, about a decade) Denton, Texas-based bunch led by erstwhile Eric Michener (aka Eric Fishboy). If I’m counting correctly (using my fingers) this is full-length number four (and a graphic novel/comic book, too) and hot on the heels of their previous one, Classic Creeps that… Continue reading Fishboy at Dagger
Fishboy at Azltron
I had a chance to talk to native Texan Eric Michener, who founded the Fishboy music project in 2001. He got the nickname Fishboy after he ate a live fish on a dare. His latest release An Elephant is also a 160 page graphic novel that he created as a companion piece for his album.… Continue reading Fishboy at Azltron