Fans of Canadian post-rock were treated to a smattering of unexpected good news in the year 2012. In addition to Godspeed You Black Emperor! extending their reunion tour to include a ton of additional stops, a slew of festival dates, and the potential recording/release of their long-awaited fourth LP, the band announced that their sister project Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra had enough time before all that for a quick stateside tour. Fronted by the striking Efrim Manuel Menuck – the very same Menuck who serves as GYBE!'s fearless leader – Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra has been [...]
We finally say goodbye to January, and wave hello to February. This week starts off slowly with a highly anticipated show at the Crocodile with the very talented Alabama Shakes and guests Quiet Life . If you can't get into that one, check out The Family Crest , who wrap up a month-long residency in Seattle, with Valley Fair , and Brite Lines at the Tractor. On Thursday, a couple of KEXP favorites: Nada Surf and Say Hi also play at the Tractor, and on Friday, Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra, [...]
5 Songs is a weekly series where we point out the strange, the grand, and the unique connections between our favorite songs. Let's get weird. Photo by Michael Wells Words by Chris There's a lot of Raptures these days. Tuesday we're gonna die, Thursday we're gonna die. The good news is that it's all bullshit and nothing really matters! Come along this long road of long songs to the End of Days… [...]
Daniel Boud If the ubiquity of decorations, lights and carols wasn't enough of a hint, let me be the one to break it to you - like it or not, the Christmas season is upon us. And with the holiday season comes Christmas concerts and performances, but if Handel's Messiah or The Nutcracker Suite aren't your speed, local hardcore heroes Fucked Up would like to offer you an alternative - a complete album recital of David Comes To Life . As touring commitments for [...]
[Photo by Jason Persse . Used with permission] The final day of this year's ATP "I'll Be Your Mirror" festival in Asbury Park, NJ found the festival split between a hip-hop dominated Convention Hall (Ultramagnetic MCs and Public Enemy), and the Paramount Theatre across the concourse hosting (along with Jeff Mangum's second set of the weekend) some incredible post-rock performances, including Earth (which we posted recently ) and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra . SMZ (to use the favored shorthand) were the final act that I saw at the festival, and [...]
Hey, who said festival season was over? A certain All Tomorrow's Parties event, the inaugural U.S. I'll Be Your Mirror , just took Asbury Park, New Jersey by storm (sort of literally, but that's okay because it was inside!) and it surely qualifies as a festival. That's right, while every other festival is in its 10th year and booking the same 250 acts as the festival preceding it, ATP just swoops in with an unglamorous but effective idea and declares itself a contender for U.S. festival of the year! At least as far as the [...]
10/6 @ Le Poisson Rouge. Wanna attend with a guest? If so, then leave a comment! A winner (18+) will be randomly chosen on 9/30 @ NOON. Buy tix here. Follow Le Poisson Rouge on Twitter. Visit Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra on MySpace. Purchase Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra items via Insound. MP3: Thee Silver Mt. Zion - [...]
TOP 10 ALBUMS #1 Thee Silver Mt.Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollapse Traditixionales #2 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs #3 The Drums s - The Drums #4 Caribou - Swim #5 Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here #6 Harlem - Hippies #7 John Grant – Queen of Denmark #8 Woods - At Echo Park #9 Lower Dens – Lower Dens #10 Titus Andronicus - The Monitor [...]
TOP 10 ALBUMS #1 Futurebirds - Hampton's Lullaby #2 Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra - Kollaps Tradixionales #3 Last Harbour - Volo #4 Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises #5 Sharon Van Etten - Epic #6 The Juliets - S/T #7 The Wildernes Of Manitoba - When You Left [...]
List by Christopher Carosi iTunes claims to see into your soul. They know everything, those fuckers. There's something subtly insulting about a company that believes it can do everything for you and cut corners because it knows exactly what every user wants. Hmph. My fear is that all of Western humanity (potential users) can in fact be easily pleased across the board and that Apple is merely capitalizing on what is true: we are all easily defined by what we consume. [...]
¡Que año en cuanto a conciertos estamos viviendo! No nos podemos quejar, ya que han existido de todo tipo de propuestas que han venido o visitarán nuestro querido y bicentenario México. Ahora... RockandRadio, Transmite la Red.
Three sometimes-your-friends-have-ki ds-and-quit-their-jobs-and-up- and-move-to-the-suburbs-and-al though-you're-bummed-you-still -can-be-happy-for-them-you-sel fish-jerk reasons to hike on up to Schubas tonight... 1. There are side-project and then there are side-projects. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra are the latter. Like five or so full-length albums the latter. Coming from the belly of Godspeed You Black Emperor, the sort of ever evolving Orchestra has been as prolific as any non-side-project full-time band, releasing double album after double album of sprawling yet remarkably easily accessible rock epics. You probably don't need me to tell you this, but here's my stamp of approval none the [...]
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Apr 27, 2010, 9:15am
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Konzerte reizen Sinne, wecken Emotionen und beleben Gedanken – bleiben in Erinnerung aber oft unscharf. Sicher ist, dass Thee Silver Mt. Zion @ Ziegel Oh Lac (Zürich) selbst dunkelste Herz-Ecken mit gleissendem Licht überflutete. Di, 20. April 2010: Gitarren-Prediger Efrim Menuck scheint zwar etwas gereizt, doch grad zum Trotz und auch zu fünft zeigt das kanadische [...]
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Gerade rechtzeitig zur Einstimmung auf die anstehenden Schweizer Konzerte veröffentlicht das kanadische Kollektiv sein erstes offizielles Video in über zehn Jahren Bandgeschichte. Das Video zum Song "I Built Myself A Metal Bird" wurde im ehemaligen Hotel2Tango in Montreal aufgenommen und die Bilder lassen erahnen, wie das Studio zu seinem legendären Ruf gekommen ist. Hier werden Einblicke gewährt in ein [...]
I'm sure many have heard of Godspeed You! Black Emperor before, but only a handful have actually taken the time to sit down and experience them. Some know of them from the final climactic scene in 28 Days Later or from the quick yet quite comical reference to the band in Pineapple Express . But for many post-rock connoisseurs, "GY!BE" is one band who defined a genre and maybe even, for some, a lifetime. They are a very influential and eclectic bunch, but the band announced a hiatus in 2003 and [...]
oh the joy the bruised joy, the grinning gleeful perversity of a band who'll do a one song twenty three minute encore introduced as 'probably the least liked track of our career'. yup, the uber-dirge, the monolithic lament, the fucked blues doom klang of 13 blues for thirteen moons . probably the angriest song lyrically maybe anyway they've written: in gated chambers they did meet with cardboards stocking upon their feet and tattled long their tattered road and none did ease no others load the leaden lips of spittled gloom where leaders lunch on meat and ruin and depth and light have [...]
the silver mt. zion 's latest release, kollaps tradixionales , stands out for its unmistakable symmetry spread over 4 lp sides. sides 1 and 4 begin and end the record with with the ebb and flow of long, winding movements reaching deep into their familiar repertoire of mournful strings, tensely depressed piano keys, and cries of desperation by orchestra leader efrim menuck. side 2 builds upon their more recent obsession with punk and blues with a more crushing brutality delivered in two parts, both inseparable components of the live favorite "metal bird". in contrast, side 3 turns on [...]
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