The Michigan-based collective, NOMO will release their fourth full-length, Invisible Cities , next week, May 5th, on local label, Ubiquity Records . Invisible Cities comes less than a year after the release of their acclaimed Ghost Rock album, completing this spirited sister Cities album during the Ghost Rock sessions and tours. In addition to the title track below, Pitchfork is also previewing the flute-tastic track, "Cresent". MP3: NOMO - Invisible Cities Announced today, NOMO, [...]
Zechs Marquise sound like what you would expect a band that includes two siblings of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Mars Volta, At The Drive In), though Zechs Marquise offer an entirely instrumental and more moody take on the latin-jazz-rock sound that old brother Omar has become quite famous for. Since we last visited Zechs Marquise back in February 2007 , they have racked up quite a bit of milage in the van and released their debut album, Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare , in the both the US and UK (vinyl in the UK comes out May 4th). Though they [...]
I'll be heading to the Yost Theatre in Santa Ana tonight to check out the inaugural KUCI Nights event featuring performances from The Living Suns , Castledoor , The Shys , Death To Anders , and Moostache . I'm most eager to check out The Living Suns, who made a pretty decent album (would have been better as an EP), and I figure it is high time I actually saw Castledoor and Death To Anders live in the flesh. MP3: The Living Suns - Hook [...]
Hecuba by Anna Webber Paradise , the new album from Los Angeles' Hecuba is some way out there next level shit. I'm not going to claim that I totally get all of it, and to be honest, some of it flies right over my head, but that hasn't stopped me from being utter intrigued by Isabelle Albuquerque and Jon Beasley. So called "Visual Music", Albuquerque's lyrics are often narrative and delivered in an almost a stream of consciousness manner, while being backed by instruments resembling real world sounds -on [...]
that is kkmidnite on the left, deep in SXSW mode So Midnite doesn't get on here and post too much, but everyone should "run" over to where he spends most of his time, Chakanawe . His 420 marijuana art themed rant is all time, plus his thrift record store day post is right on, and then there are the Royal Trux treasures that he is finding as he cleans out the garage . Do it. What are still reading here for?
After releasing the amazing single, "I Live This Life Here For You", via RCRD LBL back in February, Evan Voytas has returned with a new single and news that he will release a new EP, titled The New Dynamic Sound of Evan Voytas on May 5th via the downtown Los Angeles label, PolyMono Op. "Getting Higher", the first single from the EP and like "I Live This Life Here For You" and "What Would I Do That For" before it, finds Voytas expanding his range even further. "Getting Higher" is a [...]
Austin's Pillow Queens aren't giving it up that easily, wanting you to believe they were assembled via the Internet to become a "reality band", though their very real lofi slightly psychedelic Black Keys meets the Black Lips sound puts them in good company with fellow Austinites, Strange Boys and Harlem , and is only a matter of time before they are tipped by GvB . Pillow Queens released their debut album, KooKooLegit , in September 2008 via Monofonus Press , a Austin-based record label and multimedia organization that strives to [...]
Record Store Day may be over, but the folks at Fingerprints are continuing - as they always have - to host terrific in-store events, and the next two are no exception. Fingerprints announced via their newsletter ( sign up here ) that Great Northern will be dropping by the store this Friday, April 24th at 7pm and will be bringing with them their new album, Remind Me Where the Light Is , which you will be able to buy an early copy of before comes out next Tuesday, April 28th. Guest list opens [...]
Record Store Day may be over, but the folks at Fingerprints are continuing - as they always have - to host terrific in-store events, and the next two are no exception. Fingerprints announced via their newsletter ( sign up here ) that Great Northern will be dropping by the store this Friday, April 24th at 7pm and will be bringing with them their new album, Remind Me Where the Light Is , which you will be able to buy an early copy of before comes out next Tuesday, April 28th. Guest list opens [...]
Holy Fuck photo by Graham Walsh This May, Toronto's Holy Fuck hit the road on a tour that will keep them in the States through mid June. Along for the ride will be San Diego's Crocodiles , who will be supporting their Fat Possum debut, Summer Of Hate . Holy Fuck/Crocodiles Spring '09 US Tour: 5/21 Boston, MA - Middle East 5/22 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 5/23 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom 5/24 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar 5/25 [...]
Kylesa photo by Geoff L. Johnson Kylesa are heavy as shit and their new album, Static Tensions , can be described using cliche metal verbs like crushing and pummeling, but what you might not expect is that it is also down right catchy. I haven't been there since the beginning (2001), it was only a couple years ago that I got into the band , and my anticipation for the release of Static Tensions (out now on Prosthetic Records ) was only amplified by the earlier announcement [...]
Astronautalis photo by June Zandona With the rise of dickheads bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn, POD and the like in the late 90's, the use of the words rap and rock sandwiched together will forever induce a cringe, regardless of the efforts of Minneapolis' P.O.S. and Seattle's Astronautalis , to right the past wrongs of the "genre". Astronatalis, AKA Andy Bothwell, like P.O.S. , has crafted a sound that is as much at home in dingy all ages DIY punk rock clubs as it is in a basement in the Norhteast, fusing musical textures [...]
via Fingerprints newsletter: Guest List (required for entry) for all the following in-store performances is now open. No purchase required, limit of 2 lists and one guest per person (but Fingerprints will open them wider next week, if any still have room.) Call Fingerprints at (562) 433-4996 asap to be added to the guest list. Noon - Crystal Antlers : Indie buzz doesn't get much louder than that being enjoyed by Long Beach's own Crystal Antlers. They have the prestige that comes with being the last band to release an [...]
Marissa Nadler photo by Jeaneen Lund I still stand by my earlier statement that Marissa Nadler 's music makes for a great come down. With her new album, Little Hells (out now on Kemado), Nadler has created another solid piece of work that completely envelops and transports the listener to wholly magical place. The place where Nadler takes you is not completely safe, as some of the sound scapes are eerily foreboding, but at no time does she ever leave you. It's all strangely comforting. Does that make sense? [...]
Los Angeles heavy-hitters Big Business have announced the release date for their new full length, Mind The Drift , out May 12th 2009 on Hydra Head Records, and are streaming it now in its entirety and complete with band commentary here . In celebration, the band have announced a massive US tour with their bros Tweak Bird , who themselves will have new music on hand in the form of a exclusive tour only e.p. CD-R as well as their 2008 Reservations EP now available on green vinyl courtesy of [...]
I wasn't able to catch these San Francisco by-the-way-of Athens, GA psychedelic scuzz freaks last week in Austin for SXSW, and damn, if I weren't home nursing a nasty bug I picked up down there, I'd be at The Smell tonight for Long Legged Woman 's show with Dark Meat . I mean if the SFBG 's description of LLW as "a ratatouille of Neil Young-meets-Death-in-an-opium- bar: it makes you want to light your flannel on fire and throw it onstage" doesn't pique your interest, then you just might not own any flannel. Being toted along [...]
RAD BAND Wildildlife is playing in LA again this week! They played a show at Relax Bar, which is bullshit, on their way to SXSW from Seattle so I give an extra "good lookin' out" to anyone with the good sense to check them out this Wednesday at Echo Curio 1519 Sunset Blvd. March 25 with Thickets and Sasqrotch.
I first became aware of Flower Travellin' Band as the dudes riding motorcycles naked on the cover of Julian Cope's book "Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock 'n' Roll" . As striking as this image is, what really hooked me on this band was hearing their masterpiece album, Satori . Long before Boris, FTB was creating heavy psyche rock from the land of the rising sun. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they are on tour in the states. Out of all the kooked-out music biz bullshit that [...]
I've been rocking this EP for quite a while now, and I am so glad that these dudes have decided to give this bad boy away since there was no place to buy it. Go to mackwinston.com and click into the music section to download all five songs. This so worth your time, believe me. MP3: Mack Winston and the Reflections - Manipulator ( video ) If you are going to SXSW, check out Mack Winston out at Prague (422 Congress Ave) on Saturday, March 21st at 8pm with The [...]
Inflight At Night
Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Bison - Quill
