Artist: Hawks

Spring as a metaphor for fertility and renewal may be a worn-out cliche, but it's hard not to feel optimistic about the future when porch weather hits Atlanta and you've got this much potentially great new music to look forward to. I mean, March certainly had its moments—new records from AkuYou , deadCAT and Calm White Noise come to mind, as do those Cloudeater singles—but April just looks filthy stacked . And unlike last month, which saw many of the releases arrive in the form of singles or short EPs, April comes [...]

All flailing penises and other performance shenanigans aside, Hawks has made its name by consistently churning out a guttural din of bruising pig fuck noise full of slashing guitars and sinister grooves. The band is all spittle, sneer and snarl, attacking in venomous bursts of misanthropic rage that aims for the gut and bowels. But occasionally ("Sunder King" on last year's brilliant Push Over being a perfect example), the group scales back the psychosis and latches onto something much more tuneful and direct. With "Rattalker," the A-side from their upcoming self-titled 73, the emphasis is not [...]

Bunbury is back in 2013 for their second festival in Cincinnati. After one run through the lineup, in my opinion, it's better than last year already. Some of the heavy duty star power is gone, but the bands represented make up for it big time. Here is the lineup that was announced today. Bunbury Music Festival 2013 BUY TICKETS NOW Friday, July 12 FUN. WALK THE MOON TEGAN & SARA DEVOTCHKA TOKYO POLICE CLUB [...]

Torn Hawk - Tarifa (by Luke Wyatt ) Video for “Tarifa”, a track from Torn Hawk’s new limited white label release on L.I.E.S. Buy

"We have an announcement," says the drummer between songs. "There's lots of corn left! So alla you who feel like havin' a cob..." Just another glamorous gig for Levon & The Hawks, the group that less than a year later would be shattering folkie ear drums with Bob Dylan, and by decade's end would be [...]

If you're looking to ease slowly and comfortably into your Tuesday morning, may I suggest you keep a safe distance from what is yet another whiplash-inducing punch to the throat from Atlanta's finest noise peddlers, Hawks . At this point you should already know the drill—lashing, abrasive guitars; filthy vocals and a rhythm section that is hell-bent on leaving listeners battered and bruised. But like all of Hawks' best moments, there's just enough of a hint of melody to make you relish every last note of caustic punishment. The track comes from an upcoming split 73 with [...]

If 2011 was the year I dove headlong into local music , then 2012 was the year that I really began to dissect and discern the artists and the community that create the music (or at least I hope that's something of the impression that I've been leaving on the pages of this blog). Among the multitude of reasons I continue to do this, lying near the top, is watching local artists develop and grow (or in many cases, regress)—the choices they make, the strategies they employ, the trends they embrace. It's a fascinating slice of human theater and [...]

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love (yes, we are now true loves) gave to me...lasdbewjhfbauirvahbv,a (crap, it happened; see the Grand National post for explanation) Hawke is Gavin Hardkiss of the San Francisco Hardkisses; three brothers working in acid house/trance/breakbeat techno music production.  This remix by Atnarko, a Canadian/Floridian DJ, takes a nice track into a great groove for a ride that begs you sit in the most comfortable chair you can find.  This one is an early Sunday afternoon just waiting to happen. [...]

La semana pasada os hablaba de Hawk Eyes y de su nuevo sencillo, " Witch Hunt ", que sigue promocionando el que es el segundo trabajo de los de Leeds bajo ese nombre, Ideas . La banda antes se llamaba Chickenhawk pero se vio obligada a cambiar de nombre por problemas legales. Lo interesante de Hawk Eyes es sin duda que, sin dejar de lado totalmente sus raíces más salvajes, incluyen en sus canciones una curiosa mezcla entre rock experimental y alternativo que tiene algo especial. Ideas [...]

Hawk Eyes es una de esas jóvenes bandas de metal que tratan de aportar nuevas ideas al género a la vez que luchan por hacerse un hueco en la escena. Se trata de una banda muy interesante que conocí cuando aún se llamaban Chickenhawk, nomenclatura que abandonaron por problemas legales. Su sonido es difícil de definir, aunque el stoner , sludge y metalcore están muy presentes. Su último esfuerzo, Ideas , añade además un toque progresivo, aunque podemos decir que la parte más [...]

I've been sitting on a few videos from the Whores. / Fight Amp / Hawks show from last month, and every day I tell myself that I'm going to get one of them posted. But then this little hateful thing called life and work happens and failure-to-post ensues. Lameness reigns supreme. But not today, folks! Today we get to revel in the muck and filth of Hawks' biting and brutal pig fuck noise. And while this footage may not reveal the band at their most visceral or unhinged, watching drummer Shane Patrick blast away at his kit more [...]

Photo by Brandon Belcher Hawks , stumbling around in a fury of guttural amps and broken rhythms, ascended the stage last Thursday night at the Basement . They were like a marching horde of disgust slowly making their way around a bend behind a rocky ravine framed by jagged mountain tops. As their set forged on, the band continued to gain energy, becoming louder with more clearly phrased melodies and progressions.The last songs were face crushing and demented. It was the kind of street-side dissonance that feeds on road kill and sleeps under [...]

Photos of Whores. , Fight Amp and Hawks performing at the basement on October 25, 2012. All photos by Brandon Belcher. Click on a photo to enlarge. [...]

[ Long Island Electrical Systems ] Brooklyn's Luke Wyatt is best known for his hallucinatory, warped-VHS videos for the likes of Ital and Peoples Potential Unlimited, but Tarifa , his debut 123 as Torn Hawk for the chameleonic L.I.E.S., shows he's just as adept in the audio realm. Wyatt clearly composes with visuals in mind, however. The four tracks on Tarifa resemble soundtrack work, and stand in contrast to the label's more dance floor-oriented releases. [...]

Publicado a principios de año en su edición de vinilo, llega ahora la edición digital de este super EP para el sello Is It Balearic..? Recordings (Coyote) a cargo del experto y con larga carrera tras de si de Hardway Bros (Sean Johnston, quien a medidos de los 90 ya colaboró con Sabres Of Paradise, el mítico Andrew Weatherall), y ahora se ha sacado un temazo temazo, este "Mania Theme" y sus 8 minutazos, con un resumen de su gran pasado musical, una mezcla de electronica, de [...]

• Hardway Bros - Hardway Bros Mania Theme (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
• Hardway Bros - Mania Theme
• Hardway Bros - Mania Theme (Toby Tobias Remix)
• Hardway Bros - Pacific Coastal Highway #1 (Hardway Bros Reconstruction)

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 [...]

PHOTO: A look inside Cut Copy's production studio, where they're recording their next album between games -- and time-outs -- of the Celtics playoff run. Someone gets these guys a... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

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 [...]