Artist: Hawks

When Hawks frontman Mike Keenan takes the stage wearing a pope's hat and an old priest frock looking every bit as disheveled and deranged as a homeless psychopath, you know you're in for a bruiser. At that point, your options are pretty limited: you can head for the hills or belly up to the stage and take your lashings with humility and a shit-eating grin. Last Friday night's record release show at Star Bar was not the best performance I've seen from the four-piece—their sound suffered somewhat from an inexplicably low vocal mix—but the [...]

"The Plastic Pals was formed in Spring 2005. Guilty as charged is singer/songwriter/guitarist Hawk, aka Håkan Soold, who brought together Anders Sahlin (a guitarist who Hawk played with in the band Piglet in the 1980s) with Sweden´s answer to Sly & Robbie Olov Öqvist (drummer with Caroline Says/Cleveman Rössel Band and Wan Light) and Bengt Alm (bass player with Caroline Says/Cleveman Rössel Band and Wan Light). They released their debut album `Good Karma Café` in 2008. A somewhat americana-tinged affair, and yet still true to the twin guitar-paisley-garage-powerpop -New York rock aesthetics the band presented on their debut EP `The Band That´s [...]

I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. New Kind of Lonely Western Seeds Since their eponymous debut a little over a decade ago, Cali-country revivalists I See Hawks released four more albums before this latest mosey into the sagebrush. Indeed, ISHILA records continue to provide a reliable index to the Southern California zeitgeist, as this fifth collection is more joyful than the high lonesome hallucinogens that dropped during the angst-ridden Noughties. SoCal, like most everywhere else in the USA, is now merely broke; and that bust-ass frame-of-mind, as anyone can tell you, makes for great [...]

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Hawks Pushover [Learning Curve Records, 2012] 4 out of 5 stars Purchase This Album: Learning Curve Records I like the feeling of unease, of stomach-churning grooves. The way the guitars aren't afraid to draw blood. There's nothing pleasant about any of this; it's by turns nasty, vicious and mean. But that's the hook. It's genuinely dirty and dangerous, misanthropic in its rage. If anything has changed for Hawks since last year's [...]

April certainly fulfilled its promise as being one of the better months for local music in recent memory, but from the looks of it we're not going to have any time to catch our breath before May comes barreling in with a promising host of new records clamoring for our attention. In fact, this month is not wasting a single second in unleashing new music on our ears. It's only the first and already we have brand spanking new releases from established acts Reptar and Hope for Agoldensummer , as well as one from up-and-comers the [...]

by BBG Git Some (mems of Planes Mistaken for Stars) at Saint Vitus ( more by BBG ) Planes Mistaken for Stars are back, and will play a one-off show at Saint Vitus on August 8th with Model Home & The Sun The Moon The Stars . Tickets are on sale. The band officially called it quits in 2008 but have reunited sporadically since (like for The [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: HAWKS w/ Chumps, So Pastel Sunday, April 15 529 - 529 Flat Shoals Avenue in Atlanta 30316 Admission is FREE Kind of an odd week for Atlanta music. There are quite a few good shows coming up but there's nothing—at least for me—that screams can't-miss event. So this week I'm going to keep things simple and recommend one of my favorite local bands, HAWKS . The bludgeoning noise-rock foursome have one of the most furious and unpredictable live shows going; nobody [...]

The new HAWKS record, Push Over , isn't scheduled to be released until May 20, but already a good portion of the album has been made available either by way of the three-song sampler the group posted to their Bandcamp page or via the "Tanked" single that the band's label, Learning Curve Records , uploaded to Soundcloud last month. And now this week, the Minneapolis-based imprint posted yet another new song, this one going by the name "White Crosses." It's the lead track from what is surely shaping up to be one [...]

Date Wednesday, March 28th Location Beale Street Tavern Doors 700p Tickets $5 at the Door In the post SXSW lull, we get the chance to see tons of great local acts, and the fine folks over at the Parish are working on a new project specializing in local talent. They'll be showcasing several local acts over at Beale Street Tavern (next to [...]

Atlanta noise pugilists HAWKS are hard at work on their followup to last year's brutal and brilliant RUB , and last week the band gave fans their first taste of the new material in the form of a three-song sampler posted on their Bandcamp page. For those hoping for more of the group's bludgeoning hardcore fury and abrasive noise-rock spasms, there's plenty to like here with "Colossus" leading a furious onslaught of strident screams and slashing guitars. But while these three tracks maintain the same nasty, vile-tempered spirit of chaos and violence that has come [...]

THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Radiohead w/ Other Lives Thursday, March 1 Philips Arena - 1 Philips Drive in Atlanta 30303 SOLD OUT! Do I really have to sell this show? Do you really need to hear my justifications on why it's in your best interest to go see what is possibly the biggest and certainly one of the most critically adored bands on the planet? Jesus, I hope not. It would probably be more constructive if I spent a moment or two chiding audiences and a [...]

This year I had much greater difficulty putting together a list of my favorite local albums than I did a non-local list. And that makes me proud. Not proud for myself, of course, but of this city and the wealth of musical talent it produces. There were more genuinely great local albums produced in 2011 than I can ever remember in my eight years living here, and narrowing them all down to a reasonable number proved to be a much more arduous task than I ever could have thought. And yet, here we are. The caveats and criteria [...]

2011 was the year I dove headlong into local music. I listened to just about everything I could get a hold of, scouring through Facebook, Bandcamp and Soundcloud in my attempts to discover as many local artists and as much local music as I possibly could. But even now I feel as if there's so much out there that I'm missing out on. New bands and artists seem to to be sprouting up every day and the landscape of Atlanta music is constantly in flux, morphing and shifting into something unique and different. And so while the list [...]

Man I love Sinjin Hawke. The music is so DAMN fresh! Check out the latest, out on probably my label of the year, Pelican Fly. DOPE Sinjin Hawke - The Lights EP And grab one of the bootys of the year. DJ Khaled - I'm On One (Sinjin Hawke Bootleg) [Free D/L] ...

• DJ Khaled - I'm On One (Sinjin Hawke Bootleg) Free DL
• Sinjin Hawke - The Lights EP (FLY005)

• Sinjin Hawke - The Lights EP (FLY005)

The Quaker City Night Hawks ¡Torquila Torquila! Self-Released [2011] Fire Note Says: Bring your own beer and plan to stay awhile with The Quaker City Night Hawks! Album Review: Fort Worth's The Quaker City Night Hawks have everything you want from a Saturday night of rock n roll. The Texas quartet offers up a tough as nails, whiskey driven roots rock debut record in ¡Torquila Torquila! [...]

Hawke's 3 Nudes In A Purple Garden is a bit of a mid-90s house classic. But Gavin Hardkiss, who is Hawke, has remixed his own track to come up with a new track 4 Nudes on his blog . 3 Nudes featured back here and is a piece of trance-dance psychadelia. The new track, 4 Nudes , takes things down and out a bit, so that it becomes a mellow piece of house/techno with a more spaced out feel and less hippyish. But it retains a sense of wide-eyed wonder [...]

• Hawke (Gavin Hardkiss) - 4 Nudes

The new album "Terminal twilight" from Norwegian progressive rock wizards White Willow is out today and here's a nice full-length sample tune to whet your appetite. If you dig dark, moody rock with layers of odd analog synths, you'll be into this.

El amigo Sinjin Hawke nos obsequia con su cosecha de bootlegs de 2011, cada cual más guapo: DESCARGA: Sinjin Hawke - Bootlegs 2011 Tracklist: 1. The-Dream – Fancy (Sinjin Hawke Bootleg) 2. Tevin Campbell – Shhh (Sinjin Hawke Bootleg) 3. 702 – Steelo (Sinjin Hawke & Lol Boys Bootleg) 4. Waka Flocka Flame – Drinkin & Smokin (Sinjin Hawke & Grandtheft Bootleg) [...]