There's a lot less blood on the hands of Bloody Knives than one would expect, if you were going by their name and the title of their most recent album Blood . That being said, it's sort of irrelevant because the music they're making is pretty incredible, and you can grab that record from Saint Marie Records . As a kid who grew up with his fair share of angst, there's a darkness captured in the song itself, but the combination of shoegaze elements [...]
Hailing from Austin, Texas, Bloody Knives (Preston Maddox (bass, voice, keyboards, samples, programming), Jake McCown (drums, noise, programming, art) and Jim Moon (sound manipulator) combine the sounds of heavy punk and industrial with blurry ambient electronics, atmospherics, and 8-bit glitches and melodies. Check out their intense video for "Disappear" above. Bloody Knives' sophomore album will be released through Xd Records in 2012. http://rpc.blogcatalog.com/ http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ ping
Date Tuesday, August 23rd Location Scott Inn Doors 900p Tickets $5 at the Door One of the bands that seems to have flown beneath the radar in the Austin scene is Bloody Knives . Their fusion of shoegaze, post-punk, noise, ambient, etc is hands-down one of the most unique sounds in our nation, let alone our little town. They'll be putting [...]
MP3: BLOW! - Attention MP3: Dead Leaf Echo - Half-Truth Woodlands Tavern probably isn't the first place you'd expect to see a festival spawned by Columbus shoegaze band Love Culture, but the band's drummer, Robert Fischer, got the idea after noticing the venue's two-stage setup. He started talking about the idea with friends and bandmates, who all pitched in. Says Fischer: "As much as I love all of our local festivals, the lineups are almost exclusively Columbus bands. While this festival is still heavy on the locals (10 [...]
A newish split 73 from Me You Us Them and Bloody Knives sets Brooklyn vs. Austin on an electropunky shoegazey slab of wax. Just a brief warning, this can be a bit harsh. Listen. Streamable: Research / I Was Talking To Your Ghost 73 (bandcamp) Me You Us Them look something like this: You can (and let's face it, probably should) buy stuff @ store.meyouusthem.com . For example, [...]
BBC staple, Me You Us Them , hit us with the news of their new Split 73 Bloody Knives. The MYUT track, "Research," finds the band pushing the limits of indie rock with a hard, fast, furious sound. Their friends, Bloody Knives , keeps the pace up, but with much different flair. Their track, "I Was Talking To Your Ghost" has this very thick ambient sound with airy vocals droning synth, defintiely a great counter part to the MYUT track. If you want to pick up the vinly copy, check out the details from Tiple Down... [...]
Date 1/28/11 Location Beauty Bar Doors 9pm Tickets $5 @ Door Those looking to check out some of the best local talent Austin has to offer should head out to Beauty Bar on Friday night for a set by Paperthreat and some other solid acts. Joining our former artist to watch band on stage are [...]
It's been a really miserable day, weather-wise, in Austin today, so it's only fitting that I'm here to give a shout-out to one of Austin's rising bands, Bloody Knives . The group is a duo, and deal predominantly with sort of an electronic rock element, but not in a cheesy manner. There is an underlying sense of urgency, accompanied by doom in the driving beats, yet the melodic vocals that pop in and out of the track below provide the perfect bit of balance for listeners. You can, and should, get your hands on this [...]
White Noise is not supposed to be music. Music is not weird sounds with lyrics over it. Most parents of the 1950s disregarded rock music as "loud noise" and considered it as nothing but shrill sounds. Fast forward 60 years later and that's more of a reality thanks largely to today's technology. Whether or not you enjoy it, synthesizers along with a plethora of gadgets have propelled electronic music as a mainstream genre, but most people disregard the genre almost entirely. Now that's not a fair thing to do considering how much great electronica exists, but I [...]
Bloody Knives From: Austin, Texas, United States The final instalment in the Devil's short series of bands from the Killredrocket Records 'Decadence' compilation. Today's feature band are Bloody Knives, a two piece electropunk duo from Killredrocket Records homebase of Austin who pound your ears with a mix of droning 8 bit industrial, shoegaze and raw grunge. It's kinda like Soundgarden bumping into My [...]
Inzwischen ist das einstige Phänomen, dass Label Alben komplett kostenlos zum Herunterladen anbieten ja erfreulicher Alltag geworden – welch bessere Promotion kann es für Bands geben? Killredrocketrecords hat nun eine 15-Track-Compilation zusammengestellt, zu der 5 Bands jeweils 3 Lieder beigesteuert haben. Stilistisch geht es auf «Decadence» eher düster zu – da gibt es Post-Punk (Bloody Knives, Was She A Vampire), Indierock und Noisepop (Stellarium). Wie üblich sind nicht alle Songs toll, aber bei dem „Preis" sollte man als Freund dunkler Klänge schon mal ein Ohr riskieren. Link zur Downloadseite bei [...]
Austin-based label Kill Red Rockets is a humanitarian effort. They currently host a killer (pun intended) compilation on their website called Jesus in Space made up almost entirely of good stateside shoegaze, dream pop, fucked electro, and ethereal meditations with teeth. The comp is packed with artists readers of this blog will be familiar with (Oblisk, Ceremony, Dead Leaf Echo), and many more that I'm not familiar with at all and will take measures to correct. The nefariously titled Bloody Knives (pictured above) is one that stuck out. "Hands Around My Neck," included below for a taste, [...]
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