After last fall's genius Dropout Boogie tour with Black Mountain, The Black Angels are hitting the road for a headlining US tour this spring. Touring behind their 2010 record Phosphene Dream (which almost made the cut on our Best Of 2010 list), the Austin-based psych band will be backed by Suun and Sleepy Suns throughout the nationwide jaunt. Dates after the jump. The Black Angels - "Telephone" 3/31- New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks * [...]
The Black Angels announce spring headline tour Blue Horizon is pleased to announce that The Black Angels will be heading out on a headlining tour this spring in support of their latest release, Phosphene Dream . Buy CDs, MP3s, more: The Black Angels on Amazon.com The Black Angels on Amazon.co.uk [...]
Editor's Note: The 2010 music scene was actually one of my favorites in a long time. While some saw a slow year with nothing eventful happening, I saw a hip-hop artist reveal himself as a human (K. West), an Icelandic superstar create something magical on his own (Jonsi), and a band that reached the highest of expectations (Arcade Fire), plus a plethora of Bay Area bands that expanded the scene's already blooming hype machine (Weekend, Judgement Day, Grand Lake, Morning Benders, Sean Hayes, Sonny & The Sunsets, Il Gato, Sleepy Sun, The Limousines, etc). [...]
Photo: Platonov Pavel . The time and place and manner of my death are three facts that don't exist yet. Facts exist for whole centuries and then suddenly cease. Pluto used to be a planet and now it is a chunk of debris, number 1341340. My grandmother's house stands on the hill above the sea where she left it. When I come back to visit I discover a crater in its place. This room is full of facts. All day I let the cat out, let it in, then let it [...]
50. Sonny and the Sunsets – Tomorrow is Alright 2010 was a good year for straight forward beach rock that drifted with carefree lyrics and concepts. Tomorrow is Alright took the genre into a more humorous and psychedelic direction and the results were quite rewarding. Just try listening to Planet of Women and not smiling, it's not possible. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [mp3] Sonny and the Sunsets - Too Young to Burn from Tomorrow [...]
Photo by Philip Cosores After premiering stills from their new concert film and seeing them on tour , One Thirty BPM has become quite familiar with The Black Angels and their retro-psych sounds. We have also started smoking salvia, but that was more to be like Miley than to be like The Black Angels. Either way, The Black Angels sound awesome when you're physically unable to get off the ground. A good place to pick-up some for yourself could be the Austin Psych Fest, ther fourth annual celebration of trippy music organized by the [...]
We here at NRBW have always been big fans of Psych Fest since our first trip to the festival in 2009. Not only did we have a good time seeing the bands we were allowed to see, but it remains the only festival in history that we were actually chased running and screaming out of [...]
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UNKLE I did not know what to expect with British trip-hop group UNKLE when it came to live shows. My experience with the band involved the still impressive 1998 album, Psyence Fiction and 2003's slightly catchy Never Never Land . After that I ignored War Stories (2007) and even their most recent album, Where Did the Night Fall (2010). So I was curious to see if the group could capture the darkness and immensity of their sound in a live setting and still hold my attention. [...]
Fresh off the release of their newest album, Where Did The Night Fall, trip rock pioneers UNKLE return to San Francisco almost three years to the date of their last SF performance. Competing with Game 2 of the World Series, James Lavelle's live band would have to pitch a strong game in order to please the divided, [...]
SIDE A 1. Kurt Vile - In My Time 2. His Clancyness - Nothing And Nowhere To Go 3. Sacred Animals - Chosen Seed 4. Sleepy Sun - Open Eyes 5. PS I Love You - 2012 6. The Phantom Band - Walls 7. Paleo - The King James Fakebook SIDE B 1. Pomegranates [...]
Date 9/18/10 Location The Parish Doors 8:30pm Tickets $10 @ Parish Site Psych rock San Francisco band Sleepy Sun are making a stop at The Parish on Saturday evening in Austin. Joining the rockers are True Widow and Austin's very own The Astronaut Suit and Brother Ghost . For such a [...]
Date 9/18/10 Location The Parish Doors 8:30pm Tickets $10 @ Parish Site Psych rock San Francisco band Sleepy Sun are making a stop at The Parish on Saturday evening in Austin. Joining the rockers are True Widow and Austin's very own The Astronaut Suit and Brother Ghost . For such a [...]
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What is happening this week in the D? Tuesday, September 14th, 2010: - Crystal Castles at House of Blues ( Tickets )* Wednesday, September 15th, 2010: - Rebirth Brass Band at Granada Theater ( Tickets ) Thursday, September 16th, 2010: - Miamihorror at Granada Theater ( Tickets )* - Matthew and The Arrogant Sea at Lochrann's in Frisco* Friday, September 17th, 2010: - The Tallest Man on Earth at House of [...]
Having missed most of the first week of the Festival by being in Spain, I am now going to miss large parts of this week by pootling about in Anstruther at Haarfest (tickets can be found in the right hand column of this page ). Mrs. Toad will presumably hate me for this of course, as she has to stay behind in Edinburgh and do a proper job, whereas I can fuck off to Fife, get lashed, and call it work. Mwaaah hah haaa...! Given the fact that during the Festival the centre of Edinburgh [...]
Para todos aquellos "suuper fans" de UNKLE , este 28 de septiembre se lanzará un EP de 8 temas y con varias colaboraciones, entre las que destacan Big in Japan y Gavin Clark . Además de los cortes nuevos, " Answer EP " trae una reversión de " The Runaway " por Lupe Fiasco , y un remix de Tim Goldsworthy a " Follow Me Down " con las vocales de Sleepy Sun (los que se supone serían teloneros de los Arctic Monkeys en México). Aparte de [...]
Thanks to two stellar albums in 2009’s Embrace and this May’s Fever , fans have grown accustomed to Sleepy Sun dropping tracks like “Marina”: behemoths of rock that, over the course of more than six minutes, wind from epic stoner rock to docile vocal interludes before dropping into some serious west coast psychedelia. What excites us most about the upcoming release of their “Marina” 10-inch is previously unreleased B-side “Horses”, a tight little package that finds singer Bret Constantino getting loose over some of the most traditional rock riffs we’ve seen yet from the San [...]
Thanks to two stellar albums in 2009’s Embrace and this May’s Fever, fans have grown accustomed to Sleepy Sun dropping tracks like “Marina”: behemoths of rock that, over the course of more than six minutes, wind from epic stoner rock to docile vocal interludes before dropping into some serious west coast psychedelia. What excites us [...]
"Fever" is the sophomore album from Santa Cruz retro-rockers Sleepy Sun , seeking to build on a well-regarded debut of stoner riffage and psych-folk. Here, the band are at their best when they keep it concise: the close harmonies and crashing outro of "Freedom Line" and the buzzing contemplative "Acid Love." "Ooh Boy" is muted, pensive and pizzicato, "Rigmaroo" a folksy ramble. But a little more stack-heeled flash or Syd Barrett whimsy would have been welcome on extended workouts like album closer "Sandstorm Woman". If a name producer is what it takes to [...]
High Places - High Places Vs. Mankind Υπάρχει ρυθμός, μελωδίες που έρχονται πάνω σε παράξενα αποκρυσταλλωμέν α ριφάκια, μια γυναικεία αιθέρια φωνή, πολλή ηχώ και ορχηστρικά ambient ηχοτοπία. Όλα αυτά μοιάζουν οικεία στα χαρτιά αλλά στην πραγματικότητα οι προθέσεις τους είναι πιο σκοτεινές και κρυμμένες. Κάποιες λίγες φορές όπως στο "When It Comes" βγαίνουν απο το καβούκι τους έχοντας όμως ως ασπίδα τα beats τους που θυμίζουν λίγο Fever Ray. Άλλη μια τέτοια εξωστρεφής φορά είναι και, η πιο άμεση στιγμή του δίσκου, το "On Giving Up" [...]
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