Dead Luke returns! This time with a slow burner of a psych-jam that feels akin to the faded crushed velvet paintings of our collective youth. It feels like Dirty Beaches, from the "Slow Ride" days, got in with the bad kids from across the tracks, smoked a few too many happy sticks and decided to [...]
Dead Luke - I Loved by PORTALS Je vous reparle très bientôt de ce type, nouveau héraut du rock psychédélique made in USA, signé chez le fabuleux label Moon Glyph. Vous pouvez tout y acheter, y a quasiment rien de mauvais. Interview de Dead Luke chez Harpy Ooze
Dead Luke says it loud – he's psyched out and he's proud. Weaving a drone so sweet, Dead Luke is the latest in a modern revival of Sixties-style psychedelia, drained through a filter of fuzz. Released as a cassette, God Takes LSD is even more founded in faded blurs and indiscernible echoes, a knee-deep swamp collection of slow-burning sounds in ye old tradition of druggy tunes. The nods to that guy in the sky, including the alternative origin story told all in beeps and whistle...
Wisconsin psych-rock band Dead Luke has a new release out on Oakland record label Moon Glyph . The full length cassette tape God Takes LSD is available locally at Aquarius Records , 1-2-3-4 Go! Records , and Amoeba Records in both Berkeley and San Francisco. Fuzzy guitars and deep, murky blues riffs create a hazy ambiance which melts into the ears of the listener on this jammy, lo-fi release. For a little taste of the trip, stream and download the single "I Loved" below. [...]
This little number just popped up on Dead Luke's Soundcloud page. Holy Interrogation, is the track, it was uploaded an hour ago. That's all we know, now press play it's cool.
(Moon Glyph, 2011) Dead Luke: dead blues, corpsing psychedelia, fractal guitar licks, corruption. Meanwhile...In The Midwest, Dead Luke is resurrecting, amassing muscle, sinew, tendons: illuminating. Whereas before Dead Luke was the walking dead: limbs falling off, corrosive flesh-eating layers; now: a heart beating in the chest, even if irregularly, words speaking/singing--because of a mouth without holes in the cheeks. All said, Dead Luke is a more handsome dinner companion now. For whatever type guest you're interested in, Dead Luke seems to be spanning the full register of available deadness, this time leg-wobbling on the [...]
Madison Wisconsin's Dead Luke recently released his sophomore LP, Meanwhile... In The Midwest, via Moon Glyph. It's full of some pretty mind bending straight up garage psych jams. As the press release reads; Amidst pilfering of collective bargaining rights, the storming of public buildings in union protests, and subsequent recalls of elected officials, a bubbling of proletariat discontent in Madison, WI has shed light on a region of the country often overlooked. Emerging from this unrest comes Dead Luke’s second full length and [...]
Minneapolis based Moon Glyph Records recently released the second LP from midwestern psych artist Dead Luke . In what the label calls "a fuzzed-out call to arms for the No Coast", the record, called "Meanwhile... In The Midwest", is eight tracks of beautifully hazy psychedelic music. Pressed in an edition of just 500 copies, you can pick this one up direct from the label for $12. Check out the album track "God Of Nothing" below! Dead Luke - "God Of Nothing by Moon Glyph
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011, happened this week, and not only was it the single best night of baseball entertainment possibly ever, Radiohead played their first gig in over three years to a smallish crowd at The Roseland in NYC. At this point, Radiohead's NYC media thing is confusing to me. Colbert Report, two shows, DJ sets, and Jimmy Fallon all in a city that sports some of the best champions of consumerism and greed - two tenets the Radiohead boys would love to live without. Not only that, but King of Limbs came out like 7 1/2 months [...]
Dead Luke's American Haircut was one of our favorites from last year and in quick order he's followed it up with the equally engaging Meanwhile... In the Midwest . Where Haircut was a densely layered psychedelic creep, the follow-up peers its head above the haze. For the first time since we've had Luke on our radar, his voice is clear and free from the murk of heavy processing. The album is full of early morning space-blues and rising sun jams with the man himself prosthelytizing out front like he means it. Being from Madison, WI, [...]
Dead Luke and Dead Gaze really need to ride in a school bus around North America, spreading their blazed visions and neo-psychedelia all in one dead swoop. Here we have two awesomely fried Dead Luke tracks coming out on Moon Glyph. Apparently a response to the unrest in Madison, WI, the songs come off Meanwhile in the Midwest, a new album that comes wrapped in a concept of the No Coast between East and West, and surely conjures up those vast flatlands and the highway arteries that span them, wit...
Dead Luke — If You Love Me Moon Glyph , bearer of all things glorious and weird, have offered up a free 2011 sampler that features 14 new and otherwise unreleased tracks. Included on the mix are several of the label’s Minneapolis staples ( Food Pyramid , Buffalo Moon , Velvet Davenport ) as well as some groups you might have heard elsewhere ( Spectrum Spools signees Forma ). Among the delights to be had is [...]
Following most excellent Top Ten submissions from Starbar, Polly Pocket, Dr Roddy, Barry-Sean and Mr Popper come MM's top ten covers of 2010. Now, we've said on many occasions that we're not great lovers of covers. However, some of the cover versions we heard in 2010 may well have done enough to change our minds permanently. So without further ado... 10 Holly Miranda - Nobody Sees Me Like You Do mp3 (Yoko Ono cover) 9 First Aid Kit - When I Grow Up mp3 (Fever Ray cover) [...]
While we think that we're not great lovers of covers here at MM, I'm beginning to suspect that this is actually a pretty long way from the reality of things. Especially, as just lately, there seems to have been a plethora of excellent cover versions hitting our iTunes playlists. So here are a few that we've picked up from over the net and fellow bloggers that are well worth a listen or two...we have Phosphorescent covering Lucinda Williams , The Sparrow & The Workshop doing The Cars , Duke Spirit's [...]
We've been following Dead Luke since a couple of intriguing singles popped up in a batch of Sacred Bones releases a few years back. Those two 7"s struck a chord, winding their way down the lo-fi garage/psych territory that was simultaneously raw and sickly gritty. He's followed up on this template with a recent Night People tape in the same vein; so naturally we could only expect similar results when Luke sent us his upcoming debut LP for Florida's Dying but the truth of what lay in American Haircut was much better than we could have ever anticipated. [...]
Five song selection feat. Mark McGuire - Sun Araw - Dead Luke - Neokarma Jookla Trio - Aidan Baker. Drony, Ritualistic, lo-fi soundscape material. Mark McGuire ( A Pocket Full of Rain ) #Pizza Night Sun Araw ( In Orbit ) #Not Not Fun Dead Luke ( Cosmic Meltdown ) #Night People Neokarma Jookla Trio ( Time's Vibes ) #Conspiracy Aidan Baker ( Liminoid/Lifeforms ) #Alien 8 Mark McGuire - The Lonesome Fog Horn Blows [...]
Daniel Harris via Monday, July 6 Daniel Harris at Weirdo Records (donate, 8:00, all ages) Harris uses instruments like the cello, glockenspiel, melodica, banjo, etc to make soundscapey folk tunes. Good stuff. Tuesday, July 7 Animal Hospital , Quoins , Manners , Battle House at Great Scott ($8, 9:00, 18+) This is [...]
There's been a little buzz building here and there about Zola Jesus - we were lucky enough to see her at SxSW - and we'd like to take this opportunity to turn the buzz up to 11. She's Nika Danilova, she's 19 and the quote on her MySpace says it all: "fear the banshee." We wouldn't necessarily compare her vocals with a banshee, but there is something wild and uncontrolled about her singing, and when coupled with a crackling, lo-fi sound [...]
The Singles Collection is contributor Jason Jackowiak’s weekly column focusing on rare and essential 7″ releases. We gladly accept all types of 7″ for consideration. We've got an extra-special edition of The Singles Collection for you this week, one that's less focused on prattling on about wildly obscure 73 slabs of wax and more concerned with letting you lot in on exactly what goes into running one of the best labels around. While at SxSW a couple weeks back, we were able to corner the crew from New York's [...]
Dead Luke continues to scorch the wax on another Sacred Bones release. This time he's taken one more unlikely cover through the melted wringer paired up with a Luke original all wrapped up in a pretty sleeve. Dead Luke - Record Two 7" Dead Luke's second Sacred Bones single sees the Wisconsinite taking on The Stones in an unconventional fashion. "Jumping Jack Flash Drive" isn't your parent's Stones and purists will probably shit when [...]
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