Category: Snow Bud

Snow Bud and the Flower People

FLASHBACK to be released 4/20 (2012)

Snow Bud 4/20 FLASHBACK album release at Ella Street Social Club, PortlandCavity Search Records has teamed with Snow Bud and the Flower People to release their latest album FLASHBACK. Produced by Jack Endino at Seattle’s Soundhouse Studio in 2010, Flashback features some re-envisioned hits from Snow Bud’s first two cassettes from 1986, and one brand new hit: STONER GIRL.

CD release show at Ella Street Social Club on April 20. The album will be available on CD and MP3 via Cavity Search Records, and at selected Portland-based stores (such as Sonic Recollections).

Snow Bud and the Flower People - FLASHBACK - 2012
Snow Bud and the Flower People - FLASHBACK - 2012

The Stranger on Snow Bud – 10 February 2011

Snow Bud and the Flower People, Remedios the Beauty, Green Handshake, Keith Cook

(Funhouse) You’ve gotta have old-fashioned, Monster Squad–style Wolfman ‘nads to name a song “Bong Hit,” especially if you go the full distance by starting the song with a bubbling sound effect and ensuring the lyrics are entirely about doing hits from a bong (“Bong hit/It’s the shit”) without even making the most perfunctory gestures toward a high-minded metaphor or two. But Snow Bud and the Flower People have ‘nads to spare; they’re as subtle as a Cheech and Chong movie, but they back up all the weed talk by being a super-solid garage-rock psychedelic band. They’re like Reverend Horton Heat’s younger stoner brother, barreling out of the garage to bring weed and hot licks to the people. PAUL CONSTANT

Snow Bud – Thurs 10/21 @ Satyricon

Snow Bud at Satyricon - October 21, 2010From Willamette Week: Kleveland, Snow Bud and the Flower People, Hogwild, Slackjaw

[DOOBIE JAMS!] Snow Bud and the Flower People, fronted by Napalm Beach frontman/Portland legend Chris Newman, is kind of a joke. Newman, of course, is in on said joke: Snow Bud began as a gag—a stoner-rock project that could goof on trippy Doors and Hendrix formulas while writing a seemingly endless string of songs about marijuana—and later grew into something of a bit more consequence. That initial joke spawned a 25-year career—one dogged by hiatuses during Newman’s occasional jail time and homelessness—and a few brushes with fame, from High Times to Sub Pop. The music, taken in as a lengthy blur of bluesy riffs, feedback and one-liners, reminds as much of the Butthole Surfers and the Melvins as it does of those hippie-rock influences. For an old joke, it shows that these guys take Snow Bud pretty seriously. CASEY JARMAN. Satyricon 9 pm. $7. 21+.