"Fuck Off" is a somewhat departure from "Nightmare", the first publicly available track off Grave Babies ' debut Hardly Art EP, Gothdammit . Amidst a softly pleasant backdrop are slightly creepy, pseudo-surreal gothic images put forth by director Jordan Utley. The opening notes of the song are initially reminiscent of Bunkbed's cover of Xiu Xiu's "Fallen Angel II", acting as the perfect opening tune for the new EP. After nearly two minutes, a beat kicks in, then guitars and finally vocals. This completes the cold wave circle. [...]
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Those lovable goth rockers Grave Babies have released a new video for their single, "Fuck Off", from their recently released EP, Gothdammit , and boy, is it a doozy. Director Jordan Utley went all out at truly capturing the very essence of the band and the video's song using tongue-in-cheek gothic imagery like ghosts, Ouija boards, religious iconography and nightmarish figures. I love the way this video is filmed. I think Jordan Utley has a bright future ahead of him. Watch the video for "Fuck Off" below. Read more »
Our friends over at Hardly Art currently have a dark soul brooding in their catalogue. Be it Grave Babies , K-Holes or this band, Broken Water , it's clear that there's a love for the dark underbelly of rock n' roll. BW has their latest album, Tempest , coming out via the label on May 29th, and we've really been enjoying the jams they've already released. This one's got a classic alternative rock sound attached to it, at least in terms [...]
It's time to check out a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. Listen. Downloadables: Where Are The Cities (mp3) by Rayon Beach Wait For Us (mp3) by Mind Spiders Do Right (mp3) by Milk [...]
« Ôte le soleil de mon coeur, apprends moi le mépris » Richard Thomson. Grave Babies - Gothdammmit (2012, Hardly Art , stream w/ Blanktapes ) Audio
Washed Out , in the KEXP studios 10-11-2011 // photo credit: Dave Lichterman ( more photos ) Watch Ernest Green née Washed Out perform an intimate yet technologically savvy performance in a new Black Cab Sessions video over at Pitchfork . Green performs the song "New Theory" from his 2009 EP Life of Leisure in the solitude of a car interior rolling through Athens. Georgia, using only his given voice and an iPad. Catch Washed Out tonight at Neumos in Capitol Hill, with probably more gadgets but the same [...]
Washed Out, in the KEXP studios 2011-10-07 // photo credit: Dave Lichterman ( more photos ) A light schedule of shows for the week. Tuesday starts with Lambchop and Alina Hardin at Tractor, Wednesday has a great show at the Neptune with Washed Out and Memoryhouse , and across town, Yuni In Taxco, Feral Children, and Dark State Lines are at the sizzling hot new Barboza venue at Neumos. On Thursday, there's a Folklife Festival preview at the Tractor with Big Sur, Denver, and Annie [...]
All day today, we're playing celebrating Robert Smith's (April 21) by playing your favorite songs by The Cure and other goth favorites. As a genre and a style, "goth" is pretty easy to stereotype (see The Damned's "Grimly Fiendish" for a particularly campy version), but the truth is its influence spreads far and wide. Goth is a thread that connects industrial bands like Einstürzende Neubauten to romantic new wavers like Gene Loves Jezebel (though you'd never find their fans in the same room!) through all manner of dark if not mopey music. Gathered here you'll find indisputable Goth pioneers like [...]
It's a big week for music in a number of ways - Record Store Day and Coachella are both this weekend (actually an unprecedented Weekend 2 at Coachella) as well as our favorite new singles from Best New Releases of the week. A great way to kick-off this playlist mix is with Maps & Atlases' [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe
Hardly Art act Grave Babies have just released a new EP, Gothdammit , that mixes post punk with goth undertones. With song titles as blunt as "Fuck Off", the new EP promises to grab attention. Download the Gothdammit single, "Nightmare", below. Read more »
The lo-fi punk emitting from Grave Babies isn't as bloodcurdling as their name would lead you to believe. Sure, their latest EP offering is titled Gothdamnit and comes complete with a disturbing album cover and tracklist, but you'll quickly discover that their goth identity is one they're actually looking to shed. In fact, if their recent interview with Impose is any indication, Gothdamnit is really a means for Grave Babies to distance themselves from that label. As frontman Danny Wahlfedt told the website, "This whole thing is taking a big [...]
The Shins at the Moore Theatre / photo by Jim Bennett Following the recent release of fourth studio album Port of Morrow , venerable indie artists The Shins revealed a new video for track "The Rifle's Spiral." Directed by Jamie Caliri, the stop-motion animated video evokes elements of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey, with enjoyably macabre results. Watch it via Nowness . For more material from James Mercer of The Shins, check out footage from his recent live performance at KEXP here . [...]
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars When a band tosses out a five song EP, such as Grave Babies have done with Gothdammit , it's often difficult to see it as much more than a stop gap along the way to the next album. But, regardless of where this lives in the band's on-going catalogue, there are definite steps being taken here towards positive progression. "Fuck Off" is the start to this rather short affair, but in the matter of time, it's [...]
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Nightmare Fuck Off Upon first hearing Seattle's Grave Babies in 2010 , there wasn't too much information readily available about them yet. They've quietly self-released two hard to [...]
The new Hunx album Hairdresser Blues has been circulating about the blogosphere for a minute now and to say the least, it's a another solid entry in this prolific glam-punk's output. Gritty and raw, and sassy and full of sneer, the album hits on similar themes with the same reserve of talent the hairdresser-turned-rock-and-ro ll-star brings [...]
The hot mess that is SXSW is officially over, though the effects are still lingering, and may for some time. We're all different people here at ATH, so we wanted to offer you our varied opinions on the festival, so read on about my personal reflections on the fest... Best Bands: Snowmine / Bad Sports : Snowmine jammed it out at our party, and they just sounded beautiful. Their organic songwriting won everyone over, and I'm hoping the love spreads. Bad Sports rocked the Beerland patio in [...]
With everyone finally back from SXSW in Austin, the local concert calendar also picks up significantly this week. Starting on Monday, The Magnetic Fields begin the first of two night at the Neptune Theatre, followed on Tuesday night with the Drive By Truckers at the Showbox, and local legends Mudhoney bring the noise to the Tractor on Wednesday night. On Thursday, Plants and Animals are at Crocodile, Skream & Benga are at Neumo's, Michael Gira , and Sir Richard Bishop are at Triple Door, and Yppah and Anomie Belle [...]
After last year's relatively sensible podcast (I think the BBC cameras scared us into some degree of sensibleness), this years is far, far less sensible. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but it's probably a little more honest. This time around, as well as the more usual suspects of Messrs. Galloway, Reid, Thomas and myself, we are joined by The Two Jamies: Webster who manages Three Blind Wolves and Gilmour who manages We Were Promised Jetpacks. This is helpful because instead of drunken fuckwits gabbling at one another, we actually have [...]
We've been doing up the floors in our house, stripping out the carpet, repainting the walls, painting the trim and doors, and laying down a rich brown woven bamboo (hence the lateness of this post and the general lack of posts this week). It's a project that should add equity to our house and, one day, our pockets. I threw this playlist together Friday morning and set to work stripping carpet from the hallway while it played in the background. Then I threw on some vinyl and rounded out the [...]
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