Artist: Helms

Oneohtrix Point Never By Greg Salter November 24, 2011 A church seems like an appropriate venue to hear Daniel Lopatin present the music he's been making as Oneohtrix Point Never over the last few years. His albums, particularly the sci-fi ambience of 2010's Returnal and the more fractured, abject tracks on this year's Replica , are meditative, insular, cerebral things, best heard all the way through, on your own. What's more, it seems kind of fitting that an artist who has just created [...]

There's a headrush of duality in the music of Helm, aka London artist Luke Younger. Previous releases have dripped with solipsistic noise elements – the loop of a whooping cough, the scrape of a surface – but here the gaze has widened and turned skyward while concentrating more on individual sources. Each track on Impasse whirs with its own logic, each track creating its own world that links up within the whole to a singular mass that feels much more open. "Glazing Over An Autumn Pastoral" speaks of the infinite, but instead of employing hypnagogic mind tricks, the [...]

• Helm - 04 Glazing Over an Autumn Pastoral

Levon Helm at Summerstage in Central Park ( more by Chris La Putt ) The Band's Levon Helm will step outside of his weekly Midnight Ramble for a show at Wellmont Theatre on February 10th with Peter Wolf . Tickets are currently on AMEX presale and go on regular sale Friday 11/18 at noon. The show, along with a pair of dates that he has lined up at Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, NY (11/18 and [...]

Memories of Summer... Photos by Kira Doucette Words by Julie Stoller Live from Life is good 2011 Prowse Farm - Canton, MA ALL STAR PERFORMANCE - The [...]

• Levon Helm - Electric Dirt

Electronic duo Lamb return with Build a Fire - the latest single off 5 . An EP of remixes drops on November 5th, talent including Evil9 , Gaudi , LOWB , Jonathan Boulet and Alyx Dennison . Watch the video below and leave your comments. Revisit one of our absolute favorite Lamb tracks - Gabriel . Build a [...]

Our friend Derek McCabe was at the free Levon Helm Band show at John Gill's Farm yesterday and brought back these amazing photos...

Earlier this week there was question about whether last night's Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm's studio on Plochmann Lane in Woodstock, New York would be by candlelight after Hurricane Irene knocked power out at the famed barn. Luckily power was restored and yesterday's very special Midnight Ramble with guests Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers went on as planned, with electricity. [Photo via Weir's Twitter account ] Bruce and Bobby teamed up for the first time in [...]

Narrows and Helms Alee will be playing a week of west coast dates in October. Click below for the details.

After almost a year of silence Kapgun drops a 30min mix. Its a soulful mix of drum and bass enjoy... At the Helm with Kapgun by irondj Tracklist: 1. James Brown - The Boss (Dexcell Remix) 2. Lady Sings The Blues - Big Bud 3. Groover - Command Strange & Intelligent 4. Me & The Devil (Utah Jazz RMX) - Gil Scott-Heron 5. Walking Away - Grimm, BlueMotion, Remo 6. Track08 (Feat. Lauryn Hill) - Unknown Artist [...]

• irondj - At the Helm with Kapgun

Photos by Wade Wenzel ​Big Business, Torche, Helms AleeJuly 29, 2011Triple Rock Social ClubThat unholy rumble you might have heard emanating from the Triple Rock on Friday night was one of the best (

photos by Justin Tyler , words by BBG Torche (and wig) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Torche headlined a triple threat of massive riffery with Big Business and Helms Alee at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Wednesday (7/20) as part of their larger tour together . For Helms Alee, the show was one of two that night with the band signing on for a late night show with [...]

• kenandavis - Torche at the Music Hall of Williamsburg (7/20/2011) - Part 1
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photos by Markus Shaffer Helms Alee @ the Charleston Helms Alee have started a Kickstarter to raise dough for a video for "8/16" the track off of their new LP Weatherhead ( stream it in full ). The band is halfway to their goal, so help them get there if you can. Check out a promo video for the video below. [...]

Left to right, in front of the Baltimore Marriot: Hozi, Ben, Quan, Dana, the bellhop. Helms Alee have put out the best record of the year so far with Weatherhead. I am thrilled that their tour gives me the chance to interview them, because it means I get to do things like write this opening [...]

News Left to right, in front of the Baltimore Marriot: Hozi, Ben, Quan, Dana, the bellhop. Helms Alee have put out the best record of the year so far with Weatherhead. I am thrilled that their tour gives me the chance to interview them, because it means I get to do things like write this opening [...]

photos by Chris La Putt "Dear friends, Yes. That was me singing with Levon Helm & Emmylou & so many friends in Central Park. One of those nights you hold onto." - Tift Merritt Levon Helm , Emmylou Harris and Hayes Carll played Summerstage last night (7/18) . Pictures from that show are in this post. During [...]

Some of you are going to love this album. Some of you are going to hate this album. Judging by the extremely small (and thus inaccurate) sample size of opinions I have gathered over the past couple of weeks, middle ground is nonexistent, or at the very least undiscovered by yours truly. For those expecting [...]

There are sophomore slumps, and there are sophomore stumbles. Helms Alee 's Weatherhead is not a terrible album, but it's a definite step back from their 2008 debut. Here, we find a band experimenting with so many new styles that the winning combination of melodic metal riffs and male/female vocal harmonies that made their first release so promising are often absent here. That's not to say that there's nothing to love on Weatherhead . On "Pretty As Pie", guitarist Ben Verellen channels his inner Slash with an arpeggiated guitar riff that quickly breaks down [...]

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Where art-punk meets metal destruction.

In 1998, American alternative rock group, Mercury Rev released what they thought would be their last record. Deserter's Songs, recorded as a sort of final hoorah with little-to-no regard for public opinion, resulted in massive commercial and critical success effectively launching the band to heights previously unmatched. Five years prior, lead singer, David Baker had left the group following the release of Boces and with his departure so left the darker, less-palatable side of the group – something that undoubtedly paved the way for the strange but accessible mood of Deserter's Songs. Now, in [...]