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photo by Jim Bennett ( view set ) Ever since we caught sight of Rising Mountains , their 2009 release, we've been fans of Capsula . The Bilbao by way of Buenos Aires band always thrills with their glam rock inspired riffs and pounding rhythms, reminding you as much of Sonic Youth as T.Rex and David Bowie. Their stage shows, in particular, are a spectacle to behold, as Martin Guevara wails, flails and grinds his guitar on any and every object near him while Coni Duchess lays down the most alluring bass lines ever, [...]

The band  Könsförrädare  ("Gender Betrayer"; if you don't speak Swedish it will be next to impossible to pronouce it) released their debut EP during Spring. They are described as a mix of Sonic Youth, Butch Wig and  riot grrrl , which you can hear below in one of the songs from the EP, "Death to Stories". Könsförrädare on Tumblr - on Facebook - on Spotify - on Wimp - on Soundcloud

• konsforradare - Death To Stories

UMA are a husband and wife duo from Berlin who make floating experimental electronic-pop music that is as distinctive as it is infectious. Ella & Florian Zwietnig have crafted a meticulous world enveloped in delicate unusual melodies, insistent and uncompromising rhythms and off-the-wall electronic soundscapes. Their idiosyncratic sound likely owes much to Ella’s atypical background for an electronic artist, having studied classical music and singing in various choirs. The band’s EP ‘Drop Your Soul’ is the perfect statement of intent, showcasing the band’s experimentalism in the vein of Animal Collective alongside the warped melodic sentiment of Bjork. [...]

Beats Per Minute's Brendan Frank sat down with Divine Fits at this year's Sasquatch Festival to discuss band dynamics, band names and that infamous story behind Wolf Parade's debut album title Apologies To The Queen Mary . Brendan: So you were all quite accomplished before you formed Divine Fits. What are you hoping to achieve with this band? Dan: I don’t know if I’m trying to achieve anything different, really. This band is just different by its nature because of the people we have. It’s very collaborative. Everybody [...]

My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain (in dit geval op volle snelheid) en een snufje Sonic Youth. Hoeveel invloeden kun je eigenlijk in je muziek kwijt als je een shoegaze-band wil zijn? Ride, inderdaad, die had ik niet...

Felizmente ainda há quem faça música com o coração, e consiga produzir um álbum com uma estética apurada, demonstrando ter a preocupação de reunir, num mesmo objecto, um acervo coerente de canções com sentido. Os debutantes Elektra Zagreb lançaram no passado mês de Maio o registo Dreams About Dying In California . Masterizado por Rodolfo Silveira e com ajuda na produção de Filipe Sambado e João Pratas, o álbum eleva-os ao estatuto de banda de "linha-da-frente", pódio alcançado de forma incrivelmente meteórica, se atendermos ao facto de se terem formado apenas em 2011, e [...]

I don't often get to review instrumental albums, but two good ones came my way so here they are: Dynamo Bliss "Night and Day" Prog-poppers from North Sweden Dynamo Bliss had a pretty cool single in 2011 called "Circadian Rhythm," so the band felt they could build an album around the entire concept. Mikael Sandström (electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, accordion, pedal steel), Stefan Olofsson (vocals, keyboards, zither, guitar, bass, percussion), and Peter Olofsson (drums) give us an album that is mostly instrumental, it starts with a gentle acoustic guitar of [...]

Following a series of excellent singles, EPs and digital releases, long time MM faves Gaoler's Daughter will finally release their long awaited fan-funded debut album How To Make Time on the 26th August. As you might expect it combines voyeuristic vocals, reverb-washed guitars and driving rhythms, resulting in an album that subtly acknowledges the band's influences from Can to Sonic Youth . The first taste comes in the form of the video and stream for energetic lead single Cordelia , which is currently monopolising our play-count and more than whetting [...]

All Tomorrow's Parties á Íslandi kynna með miklu stolti komu hinnar goðsagnakenndu hljómsveitar NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS á ATP Iceland helgina 28.-29, sem haldin verður á gömlu NATO herstöðinni Ásbrú. Nick Cave spilaði síðast á Íslandi árið 2006 en hljómsveitin hans, The Bad Seeds, kom síðast fram á Íslandi árið 1986 þegar Nick Cave heimsótti Ísland í fyrsta sinn. Hann hafði þetta að segja um fyrirhugaða tónleika á ATP Iceland, „ uppáhalds tónlistarhátíðin mín í uppáhaldslandinu mínu .“ Tónlistardagskrá hátíðarinnar verður ekki af verri endanum en auk Nick Cave & The [...]

" Chelsea Light Moving isn't just a band – it's an inventor of games. I mean just wood, and coloured plastics. But we're not selling it. It won't be available in any digital formats. It's most decidedly not a war game." War has, however, been publicly waged by onetime wife Kim Gordon: the very nucleus of Sonic Youth apparently irreparably split, in a recent and rightly lionised interview with Elle , she told of Moore's conversely inseparable intimacy with one of his literary collaborators and it was this which eventually forced the wheels from [...]

Incoming: Camera Obscura, John Grant, Alice Smith, 3OH!3, Peter Tork, Pitbull, Mount Kimbie, Eleanor Friedberger, Kinks' Tribute, Ida Maria, Kisses, Warships, Joseph Arthur, Vans Warped Tour, Steve Miller Band, Holy Folk, the Dig, Tilly & the Wall, Sea Wolf, La Santa Cecilia, Wildcat! Wildcat!, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Jonathan Wilson, Bleu, the Game, Iris DeMent, Mr. Little Jeans, Mark Farina, Dave Alvin, the Muffs, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five, Iron & Wine, She & Him, Austra, Johnette Napolitano, Iggy Azalea, Boz Scaggs Above:  That's She & Him 's video for "I Could Have [...]

Here at Consequence of Sound , we live for music festivals. Whether the event of choice is located in a favorite city or on a field in the middle of nowhere, even the act of getting there inspires an unbearable sensation of anticipation, comparable to Christmas mornings from childhood. Over the past decade, the festival climate has changed from a handful of events to nearly every major market having a musical destination to call its own. While the likes of Lollapalooza and Sasquatch! sold out in record time and Austin City Limits followed Coachella's example and expanded [...]

Thurston Moore's first band formation since the breakup of Sonic Youth has resulted in Chelsea Light Moving - and he's wasted no time in releasing their eponymous debut LP that we reviewed here . Photographer Eleonora Collini was on hand to photograph their show at Village Underground in London as part of their European-wide tour. Moore and co are to play the Yoko Ono curated Meltdown Festival this week on June 19th in a special improv performance.

So we typically toss a video onto a post when highlighting a new band or a concert or whatever, and we let you draw your own conclusion about it. Sometimes we throw a change-up ... strike that - let’s call it a round up. These visual/aural displays were worthy of our attention, and we think you'll dig them. If a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video must be worth a million. Hold on to your hats! Words and picks by Brendan [...]

“Good weird or bad weird?” asks the lovely voice of Tahlia Harper on the final track of Antenna to the Afterworld . Our daring protagonist, Sonny Smith, replies, “I don’t know.” The answer overall on the fourth album from Sonny & The Sunsets is, as it usually seems to be, some of both. “Weird” is ostensibly an odd adjective to employ while describing a band whose work feels so immediately familiar – there are strains of everything from doo-wop to new wave to the Pixies in [...]

New York noise-rock outfit Pop. 1280 will release their sophomore album, Imps of Perversion , on August 6th via Sacred Bones Records. The follow-up to last year's The Horror was produced by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, Swans) at NYC's BC Studio. According to a press release, the 10-track effort is "their most cohesive and powerful statement to date. Woven together with stories of lust, sexual confusion, temptation, and debauchery, Imps forms a tight web of manic synth-punk, bad-trip acid jams and bludgeoning industrial beats. [...]

Still Corners clue their listeners in that they're set to take them on an escapade straight away on Strange Pleasures by naming its lead-off track 'The Trip.' Combine that with the hallucinogenic, desert-splashed cover art that looks like the surface of a colorful, undiscovered moon, and you have the blueprint for a record whose primary mission is to take you somewhere new. And yet, this gorgeously diaphanous album plays out more like an ethereal dream sequence rather than any tangible, globe-trotting odyssey, with the exploration coming as more [...]

Northside Festival isn’t a festival in the truest sense of the word - there are no stages, no set times and sure as hell no danger of copious amounts of mud. Still, the mini- SXSW gets bigger and better every year. This year over 350 bands big and mostly small are taking over Williamsburg and Greenpoint for showcases in basically every bar and venue. It’s going to be a wild weekend and we can hardly wait. There really aren’t traditional headliners at Northside Festival, as it caters to discovery [...]

• Bear Hands - Crime Pays
• Belle Mare - The Boat of the Fragile Mind
• chancetherapper - Acid Rap
• Solange - Losing You
• Xenia Rubinos - Cherry Tree

Former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore will return to Whelan's this Sunday (16th June) with his new band Chelsea Light Moving , support comes from Mike Watt's Il Sogno del Marinaio , and we have a pair of tickets to give away. To be in with a chance of winning, email us at giveaway@state.ie and give us a reason why you should be awarded the tickets, something for us to read. Get your entries in before 5pm tomorrow (Friday), or else death/taxes/third bad thing.

I tend to associate Sacred Bones Records with spare, cold post-punk/electronic/noise - Pharmakon, Vår, Lust For Youth, Cult Of Youth ... even Zola Jesus, really - but Arizona's Destruction Unit don't quite fit that description, even though they do fit pretty nicely on the Sacred Bones roster. Destruction Unit are basically a roots-based rock band whose hook-heavy psychedelic songs are delivered through terrifying feedback squalls and (presumably) several dozen cheap/broken effects pedals. Their closest Sacred Bones analogue is probably the Men, which especially makes sense, as Destruction Unit's forthcoming Sacred Bones debut, Deep Trip (which follows a handful [...]