Shred Flintstone singer Dan Barrecchia had the band name before he had the band. He had been in another New Jersey band – that one called Jean Pool – when the idea came to him in a flash of inspiration.
“I was at a show and it just came to my head and I just started saying it over and over again,” Barrecchia told me. Since then, Barrecchia and his group have recorded two albums and two EPs, a colorful compilation put out on bright pink cassettes. Locally, they are among the bands from the tri-state area set to duke it out at Our Wicked Lady, in the Bushwick bar’s second “Winter Madness Battle of the Bands,” which takes place on its rooftop next weekend.
It’s not the kind of thing that Barrecchia said he would normally do. His songs with Shred Flinstone have a confident, aggressive style – 2020’s EP “Shred’s Dead” was an especially strong showing of good, tight riffs where his voice brings to mind the enunciation of John Dwyer in his various Oh Sees bands. (Barrecchia prefers to liken the sound to Ween, a rock act with a longer and more certain legacy.) Check out “Shit List” or “Hinges” for full-throated takes on these ideas, boiled down to single, diligently-performed riffs.
