My Gold Mask | photo by Audrey Leon Hopefully, you have all managed to get through this blackest of Black Fridays without getting trampled upon for a $2 waffle maker, Chicagoans, because we've got an incredible line-up of musical acts setting up shop all round this fair city. We're talking Scott Lucas and the Married Men at Hard Rock Cafe, My Gold Mask at Empty Bottle, Tandoori Knights at Bottom Lounge and so much more. Come on, Pilgrim ! [...]
A little Friday fun. Lucas Smith's Robots With Rayguns project has quickly become one of my favorite listens. I only recently stumbled across his originals which immediately hooked me. Soon I was equally captivated by his remixes. My favorite is definitely RWR's version of Chromeo's "Hot Mess". Like a good remix, Smith makes the song [...]
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney Art rockers My Gold Mask and noise-jam enthusiasts Disappears both stopped by Daytrotter to record live sessions that surfaced this weekend on the Rock Island, Illinois-based music website. It is hard to imagine the Chicago duo My Gold Mask any more stripped down, but Daytrotter managed to capture singer and drummer Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armando's ghostly primal essence while still sounding utterly minimalist. You can stream My Gold Mask's entire set right now or download it for free in 128K [...]
(photo by Jim Newberry) One of our favorite bands meets one of our favorite Web sites, as Chicago lovely drums and guitar duo My Gold Mask have just done a Daytrotter session, recording four songs in a stripped-down format ("Violet Eyes", "All Up In The Air", "Ghost In Your Bed", "Your Coo Ka Choo"). The session was just posted yesterday and the songs are a must-download/must-own format. Godspeed!
(photo by Jim Newberry) One of our favorite bands meets one of our favorite Web sites, as Chicago lovely drums and guitar duo My Gold Mask have just done a Daytrotter session, recording four songs in a stripped-down format ("Violet Eyes", "All Up In The Air", "Ghost In Your Bed", "Your Coo Ka Choo"). The session was just posted yesterday and the songs are a must-download/must-own format. Godspeed!
Their set featured: Violet Eyes All Up In The Air Ghost In Your Bed Your Coo Ka Choo Download all tracks here. My Gold Mask recently performed at NYC's Pianos. Visit My Gold Mask at their official site. Photo courtesy of Jim Newberry. MP3: My Gold Mask - I Don't Need The Reason
About six weeks ago we premiered this remix of our pals My Gold Mask's "Violet Eyes" by My Pal the Crook from Мишка (Mishka) and Brooklyn producer Mike Dextro aka Baryshnikov on the site and today we get to bring you the super-spooky video directed by Kate Stone, who takes all sorts of blacks and whites and found footage clips to amazing effect for the clip. Ghosts, ghouls and glam, oh my. Godspeed!
Blonde Redhead | Photo by Audrey Leon Nothing makes you appreciate Chicago more than a free rock concert in the park, unless it's 100 degrees. Then, you'd have to be mad to want to sit out there for three hours absorbing not only oppressive heat, but cancerous sun rays and thick humidity. If there were a pair of bands that could battle such harsh conditions it would be spooky art rockers My Gold Mask and experimental poppers Blonde Redhead , whose mix of digital samples and high-pitched, cutting vocals were [...]
When My Gold Mask come to town I make it my business to be there... and so should you. They passed though New York last week in the middle of what is their most extensive run of shows to date, a tour that has taken them from Ohio to Colorado and everywhere in between. The very first time I saw Gretta and Jack play live during CMJ 2010, I was instantly blown away, and somehow every time I see them, their sets get better and better! They radiate such an intense passion for [...]
My Gold Mask rocked Manhattan's lower east side last week, bringing their infectious dance-inducing beats to Pianos. Choosing songs from their full discography , the duo played a number of my favorites including "Violet Eyes," "All Up In The Air" and "Bitches." Midway through the set, they threw in a surprise cover of Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" adding a percussionist flair to the dance track. Dancing alone but together, their was no masking the crowds love for My Gold Mask last Thursday night. The Chicago-ans are not only great electro-pop musicians but [...]
I interviewed My Gold Mask for innovative pop culture site FruitFlyLife . Click the link to read the article over on FFL and to browse this amazing site. Full interview below. Photo credit: Jim Newberry My Gold Mask has captured the hearts of both the fashion and music world with their fashion noir [...]
Playing ribfest sounds like a punchline, for sure. But in recent years the organizers of Chicago's Ribfest in North Center have booked some decent musical acts. This year's lineup includes some locals, including Waco Brothers, My Gold Mask and Ezra Furman & the Harpoons . There are also sets by garage rockers The Ettes , rockabilly vets the Legendary Shack Shakers , country rocker Hayes Carll and the Twin Cities' Tapes 'n Tapes . All in all, it's a good lineup ... especially for a ribfest. [...]
I'd be lying if I said I didn't relish at the fact that Lebron has been non-existent for the NBA Finals. It's funny because on ESPN yesterday, they kept on talking about his tweet at 1AM stating, "Now or Never," as a way to motivate himself into playing better. Unfortunately, the tweet had the adverse effect. James scored 19 points, and further reinforces that the Heat belongs to D Wade; Bosch and James are just along for the ride. The fact that Cuban hasn't reared his face at all this year is something that [...]
In the tradition of the great artistic couples (Fred and Ginger, Gram and Emmylou, Kinski and Herzog) Rochelle and Armondo better known as My Gold Mask conjure a mood rather than a simple sound or idea. Their music is a part art-pop, part sonic poetry, and part personal chemistry and in a word moody. Slightly Gothic in their aspirations, My Gold Mask hide behind a veil of sweeping beats, soaring vocals, and an impending sense of doom. Believe it or not, it's good stuff that might remind you of later period Siouxsie [...]
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Tweet This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a [...]
Catch 'em at: 6/10 - Chicago - Ribfest 6/15 - Cincinnati - MOTR Pub 6/16 - Pittsburgh - Garfield Artworks 6/17 - Easton - Nightcat 6/18 - Philadelphia - Kung Fu Necktie 6/21 - Cambridge - TT The Bear's 6/22 - Brooklyn - The Rock Shop 6/23 - New York - Pianos 6/24 - Cleveland - Beachland Tavern My Gold Mask recently performed at NYC's Pianos. Visit My Gold Mask at their official site. [...]
My Gold Mask | Photo Credit: Drew Reynolds No foolin', we really dug My Gold Mask 's 2010 release, A Million Miles (From Where We Were Last) , for easing up a bit on the dark, gothic imagery in favor for something a little more soulful. So it probably comes as no surprise to you that we're also digging this remix of the Million Miles track, "Ghost In Your bed," from Robots With Rayguns . On this remix, the [...]
You may remember a few months ago we brought you the Hard Candy commissioned the Codebase remix of Zowie 's Bite Back. We are delighted to bring you the next remix in our series created exclusively for the site! My Gold Mask 's Ghost In Your Bed gets the remix treatment from Robots With Rayguns ! The gloriously eerie original version has been taken to the dancefloor and injected with 802s synth [...]
http://www.mygoldmask.com/ / http://mygoldmask.bandcamp.com Chicago duo My Gold Mask call their sound 'Extrinsic Pop' though to be honest I've no real idea what that means, what I'm hearing is a powerful, exciting and damn-right excellent indie-pop / rock. Lead singer Gretta Rochelle has an amazing set of pipes on her, for proof watch the live video below, a quite exquisite energetic performance with Gretta's soaring voice howls over her precise drums and the echoey guitar riffs from bandmate Jack Armondo. The first My Gold Mask track I heard [...]
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