I got this sad email in my inbox yesterday about the Monolith Festival not being able to return next year, or at least it is on it's last leg. Unfortunately I only got to go to this great festival once, this year, and wondered to myself why I hadn't gone every year. It is it's own unique festival, there is not another one like it, there is not another place like it, and they managed to have great bands and great performances every year. Apparently, the opening day of rain this year might have put it out [...]
A dicembre i Monotonix in Italia: Roma (11 @ Big Bang), San Vito di Leguzzano (VI) (12 @ Centro Stabile di Cultura, Bologna (13 @ Locomotiv), Milano (14 @ Connie Douglas).
Having returned back to UK shores from his extended journey to Oz, award winning Solid Steel resident and Mixtape king Moneyshot is slowly easing his finely tuned party popping skills back into the credible British clubbing consciousness, including a residency at a fantastic new venue back in our collective hometown called the Cardiff Arts Institute . We caught him there recently supporting awesome Israeli funk band The Apples and he dropped this cheeky [...]
See the Austin-based band that The Onion calls "this year's hottest ticket" at Fun Fun Fun Fest next month. Listen & Re-Post! [MP3] The Laughing - "Runner": http://tinyurl.com/thelaughing -runner Recorded over the course of a near year, FEVER is the debut album by Austin band, The Laughing . With an aural aesthetic pulling from somewhere between early Roxy Music and the stretches of contemporaries such as Animal Collective , The Laughing [...]
Anyone who remembers the 'good old' days of festivals when you sat back and relaxed whilst taking in some super sweet beats would revel in the goodness of The Golden Plains Festival. For those that don't, either do I. Woodstock was a long time ago and too far away anyway. The Golden Plains Festival is a modern day version that's only been around for three years. So in festival life span it's only a toddler. A toddler that has been named Australia's Favourite Festival two years running by the 'Festival Awards'. Not so bad for an over [...]
Dino Jnr shredding. The first batch of artists for the 2010 Golden Plains festival was announced this morning. Obviously, Pavement's headline slot was already known , but there are still plenty of lovely inclusions in the fast round. Pavement Dinosaur Jr Dirty Projectors The Big Pink Midnight Juggernauts Tame Impala Super Wild Horses Optimo Calexico Monotonix Gaslamp Killer Nashville Pussy Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard [...]
Dino Jnr shredding. The first batch of artists for the 2010 Golden Plains festival was announced this morning. Obviously, Pavement's headline slot was already known , but there are still plenty of lovely inclusions in the fast round. Pavement Dinosaur Jr Dirty Projectors The Big Pink Midnight Juggernauts Tame Impala Super Wild Horses Optimo Calexico Monotonix Gaslamp Killer Nashville Pussy Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard [...]
Als je zegt dat garagerock een overzichtelijk genre is, is dat nog steeds een understatement. Zwaar overstuurde versterkers, korte songs met feitelijk maar één riff en zang die eerder gebruld dan gezongen wordt, dan heb je het wel ongeveer gehad....
Check out the slideshows for more photos: Sea Wolf; Port O'Brien and Sara Lov. After getting our asses kicked by Monotonix last weekend, we were looking for something a little more chilled out... Continue reading "Sea Wolf at Exit/In, 10/24/09" >
Setlist: The Continental, October 24, 2009 So Keep jumped in to help me out with DJing at The Continental Saturday night since Rudy had a prior commitment, and I feel comfortable saying we kicked total ass. We got a pretty good early crowd and the place was absolutely choked with bodies by 2 a.m. or so. We decided it was a "zero pop" night and Keep enjoyed playing bad cop to anyone requesting what he deemed not heavy enough. That's not to say we didn't play catchy stuff, we just didn't allow ourselves to be [...]
I'll cut right to the chase. Tonight and tomorrow there's a for-charity music fest (the East Country Music Festival) out on 82nd street, and while we don't know many of the bands we think it's incredibly cool to see a fest pop up out in that part of town and we hope they're able to raise some money for SnoCap , which does some neat things in the community (and has no relation to that awful music service of the same name that's all over MySpace). The fest, held at the Red Room (2530 NE 82nd), has [...]
Toronto-based group Little Girls are taking their debut full-length, Concepts on their North American tour with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die! Wavves, and Nurses. music: Growing Little Girls' Concepts Tour 2009 10/23 - New York, NY - Pianos (CMJ - Terrible Records Showcase) - 10PM 10/24 - Halifax - The Paragon ^^ 11/06 - Philidelphia, PA - Swarthmore # 11/08 - Columbus, OH - Summit & 11/09 - [...]
Toronto-based group Little Girls (Josh McIntyre and co.) are releasing the two songs that bookend their debut full-length, Concepts, as they make a pit stop at CMJ on their North American tour with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die! Wavves, and Nurses among others. The first is a ...
This game will actually be easier to play with a handy dandy (and quite glossy) copy of the Scene print edition, but that doesn't come out until tomorrow, so let's play "Spot The Spin" using th... Continue reading "Spot The Spin at the Monotonix Show" >
Help a brother out (Jacob took the Monotonix pictures and was going to contribute to our site as well), if you have any leads it was stolen from the media tent, which means it was probably one of the many bloggers walking in or out of there... Our contributing photographer, Jacob Gonen, lost his camera equipment (see content below) at the Treasure Island Music Festival this past Saturday, October 17th. His equipment was last seen at the Media Tent between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Sadly, this incident not only affects Jacob, but also CoS [...]
LITTLE GIRLS RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR "YOUTH TUNES" + "GROWING" MP3, CMJ THIS WEEK! CHECK OUT THE PITCHFORK TV PREMIERE OF " YOUTH TUNES "NEW SONG NEW SONG " GROWING " AVAILABLE FOR FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD Toronto-based group Little Girls (Josh McIntyre and co.) are releasing the two songs that bookend their debut full-length, Concepts, as they make a pit stop at CMJ on their North American tour with Japandroids, Monotonix, You Say Party! We Say Die! Wavves, and Nurses among others. The first is a haunting and painstakingly hand-colored video for intro track, "Youth Tunes" (click for [...]
Check out the slideshows for more photos: Monotonix; Turbo Fruits and JEFF the Brotherhood. Thanks to antics such as setting fires inside Springwater and collectively stage-diving off Exit/In'... Continue reading "Montonix w/Turbo Fruits & JEFF the Brotherhood at Exit/In, 10/17/09" >
'As Long As We're Not Dead': You can trust Monotonix with your beer, as long as you don't mind it getting poured down the singer's pants. (Playing Saturday, 17th at Exit/In. Read the full intervie... Continue reading "Monotonix, Turbo Fruits, James McMurtry and More: Inside This Week's Music Section" >
By now you should have, in hand, a copy of the Scene's Best of Nashville '09 issue in all its glossy glory. In the music section you'll notice an excerpt from a Q & A I did with Monotonix guitar... Continue reading "Monotonix's Yonatan Gat: The Cream Interview" >
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