Justo esta semana estaba pensando en que estaría bien bien padre que Weyes Blood nos presentara un nuevo material, aprovechando que se acaba de confirmar para la cercana edición de SXSW; sin embargo hasta el momento no ha anunciado nada nuevo, a diferencia de su hermano Zak Mering, ya que este tipo acaba de poner a la venta una colección de 23 tracks pertenecientes a su proyecto de nombre Raw Thrills , así que si hasta el momento no habían tenido el gusto de conocer lo que está haciendo Zak bajo este alias que lo separa por [...]
Brooklyn's Raw Thrills is the psych-pop bedroom project of Zak Mering, formerly of Greatest Hits. This week, Mering dropped his Essential Thrills tape via Australian imprint Airlines Tapes. The tape compiles a collection of lo-fi, hazy pop songs he wrote, produced and recorded from 2008-09 in Los Angeles. On "Most Still", Mering offers a bright tune drowned in distorted vocals and guitars backed with the metronome click of a drum machine beat sprinting along. The tape is loaded wi...
Este 2012 Raw Thrills lo inicio con una serie de lanzamientos muy importantes, con los cuales no se habia podido dejar de hablar de ellos, hasta que ya mas entrados en el año poco a poco fueron entrando en un pequeño descanso que, probablemente, solamente fue con motivo de la grabacion de lo que sera su siguiente material, el cual le dara una continuacion a su album "Top Gun Cruisin", asi como al EP "Psychedelic Wave Music". Pues bueno, hace unos momentos los chicos de Raw Thrills compartieron el video perteneciente a "Crystal Powers", corte incluido [...]
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Cada que me topo con algo que de alguna manera tiene que ver con Zak Mering debo prepararme de alguna manera para adentrarme a la cantidad de informacion que estara componiendo cada nota sobre el ya que como les he venido informando, ademas de tocar con Greatest Hits tambien ha estado haciendo un chingo de cosas con su proyecto base llamado Raw Thrills del que a inicios de año les habia informado que estaba por editar un nuevo material de larga duracion titulado "Sick Steez" previo a su visita al festival Nrmal pero ahora, parece que no solamente [...]
Don't know when or how he's doing it, but Zak Mering is keeping himself astonishingly prolific, dropping new projects and/or LPs and EPs every other day. This time it's not one but two brand new offerings made under his principal Raw Thrills moniker, Top Gun Cruisin and Psychedelic Wave Music . While the latter EP, well, amounts to psychedelic wave music, gathering eight relatively short synth instrumentals that develop a distinctly cinematic feel, a soundtrack to an imaginary 80s b-movie if you will, the former may legitimately be deemed another proper full-length. With a length [...]
A little ray of sunshine A little bit of soul Add just a touch of magic [mering] and BOOM! You got the greatest thing since rock 'n' roll PHOTO: (from left to right) Z. Mering, Z. Mering, Z. [...]
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Seguramente estan un poco familiarizados con Zak Mering ya que el año pasado junto con Tyler Thacker crearon uno de los proyectos mas comentados de ese momento llamado Greatest Hits pero ademas, no me extrañaria que tambien ya estuvieran un tanto apegados a su proyecto en solitario de nombre Raw Thrills con el que ya lleva un buen ratote editando cosas bastante interesantes e incluso, por ahi si le rascan un poco mas encontraran algunos covers que le hizo a The Beatles que sin duda, de inmediato querran agregarlos a su biblioteca musical y si no, pues bueno, [...]
As already reported in December , Zak Mering is about to drop Sick Steez , the next LP of his Raw Thrills project. While his work as one half of Greatest Hits (together with Tyler Thacker) arguably gets a lot more attention by the press (the guys recently successfully finished a Kickstarter to fund money for mixing their first full-length Breakdown , not to be confused with Zak's Raw Thrills effort Shakedown from 2011) than his countless other creative commitments (including Philip La Fonde [...]
As Raw Thrills and one-half of Greatest Hits - a “pop” band with experimental roots- Brooklyn's Zak Mering makes pop music. On “Making A Change,” a track from his forthcoming Six Steez LP, his vocals carry exaggerated tones over deliciously dulcet, almost-dance beats. An exceptional arrangement of candied percussion, deep-walking bass lines, and Fantasia keyboard melodies peaks up from low in the mix, making way for a turned-up, arena-style virtuoso guitar solo. Raw Thrills possesses the perfect amount of eccentricity, appealing to way-out ears without alienating the less preternaturally inclined. Raw Thrills: "Makin' [...]
Lyssna på en kort och udda men alldeles underbar låt från Zak Mering alias Raw Thrills kommande fullängdare Sick steez , som släpps på Gunk TV Records tidigt nästa år
Completely unexpected yet of course great news straight outta the Gunk TV camp: Apparently there's a new Raw Thrills full-length on its way which is the most amazing thing for everyone who at least had a glimpse at this year's (or late last year's, actually depends on how you look at it) Shakedown . Sick Steez will be out in early 2012, and below you may listen to the first track "Makin' A Change", another signature Zak Mering weirdo jam.
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue OLD Daughters of Eve Chicago. 1966 It was the times of Beat Boom. All-girl garage bands began forming at an escalating rate. Incorporating lotta of surf jams & cute girls/awesome girls complaints/lingerings. Some of which are not so politically correct: portraying the "little women" , though many hold relevance to nowadays. Different era same shit. Also in terms of sound. 'Hey Lover' was their 1st release, covering a [...]
Using footage from one of my favorite live videos from the 60s, The Temptations - My Girl (which you may have already spotted at Coco's bday party ), as well as some other timeless b&w film, Zak Mering, aka Raw Thrills , brings us an up-to-date Joe Meek-inspired classic. Well, kind of... this was actually recorded in 2009 but he just decided to dig deep into his music archives and unearth this love gem. Hold me now. [...]
Wonderful little treat just shared by Zak Mering aka Raw Thrills . He's recorded this beautiful Jenn Moss / Joe Meek cover/rework two years ago already but only now provided it with these appropriately dreamy moving pictures.
MP3: Dream Love: "Love Juice (Feat. Raw Thrills)" Zak Mering is a busy guy. In between his work with Greatest Hits , his label Gunk TV Records and all the other collab's he's done with other awesome artists including Maria Minerva , he has managed to keep his solo project Raw Thrills alive with this brand new track entitled Love Juice. Look out for the Love Juice single on [...]
Pretty chopped-up synth disco awesomeness here by Tallahassee, Florida producer enigma Dream Love who's gonna drop this gem as a cassingle soon via his own Noise Horror imprint. Basically, the name Love Juice says it all, so suffice it to add that this jam features Raw Thrills aka Zak Mering on vocals which of course makes this whole business only more worthwhile. Well that's about it, so go for it: Dream Love - Love Juice (feat. Raw Thrills)
Weirdo-disco-kreatören från Tallahassee, Taylor Ross a.k.a. Dream Love , har som tidigare nämnts ett album på gång, och idag bjuder han på nya singeln Love juice , vilken gästas av Zak Mering från Raw Thrills som bidragit med lite gles sång. Låten backas upp av b-sidan Can't touch och släpps på kassett den 12 juni genom Noise Horror Dream Love featuring Raw Thrills - Love juice
Click here to view the embedded video. RAW THRILLS Feat. MARIA MINERVA - "City Lights"
Raw Thrills feat. Maria Minerva : City Lights - Video
Zak's unstoppable. While we're at it , here's also the brand new video for City Lights, another thrilling collaboration between our darlings Zak Mering and Maria Minerva . Compared to the rather humble and spontaneous late-night chatroom banger Ooh, Zak (Ma-Ma-Maria), this one's almost polished, but in any case it shows how surprisingly well this transatlantic artistic relationship works. It's perfect.
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