Tagged: artpunk

This week marks the launch of a milestone venture for Las Vegas art-rock collective, Candy Warpop . They have recently come forth to call upon the support of their loyal followers by way of an online campaign that will enable them to release a new full-length album. It works like this: fans eager to get their hands on a new release from the Warpop crew will be asked to donate generously to the cause via Kickstarter. The money will then be used for studio time and recording costs so that the album can be promptly distributed [...]

Sweden's Holograms aren't the most original band on the block, but their take on post-punk is enjoyably passionate, catchy, and dark. WATCH THE REVIEW

Art-punk savants Pterodactyl couldn’t have found a better time not to fit in. Music Player: SchoolGlue.mp3 [...]

• Pterodactyl - School Glue

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DOWNLOAD : EULA - "Dirty Hands" (Live at Bruar Falls, Brooklyn 4/16/11) Due to curfew regulations, EULA played a shortened set at Bruar Falls last month but the band is coming back through for a show at Cake Shop this Tuesday (May 10th) with The Everymen . Cover is $5 and this is an early show that starts at 9PM. EULA has a new 10-track disc Maurice Narcisse and the new material sounds great. Check out QRO Magazine's in-depth review of [...]

DOWNLOAD : EULA - "Dirty Hands" (Live at Bruar Falls, Brooklyn 4/16/11) I wasn't previously aware that Bruar Falls had a hard curfew at Midnight (on Saturday night, no loss) so New Haven, CT art-punk band EULA played a blistering but abbreviated set at their record release show last Saturday. The band has a new 10-track disc Maurice Narcisse and the new material sounded great live. A live version of the track "Dirty Hands" (from the new CD) is posted above. It has been [...]

Maurice Narcisse by EULA New Haven, CT art-punk band EULA is playing a record release show next Saturday at Bruar Falls for their new 10-track disc Maurice Narcisse which comes out on April 26th. I've been a huge fan of EULA since catching their live show at Crash Mansion a few year back and the band has been winning over fans with frequent trips to NYC. Young & Pretty Blog recently posted an exclusive interview with vocalist Alyce Lamb and described the band [...]

The art punk label gets thrown around a lot, maybe too much, so can it feel a little hokey to conjure it up yet again. However, nothing has ever encapsulated the legendary Wire more accurately. They were truly too punk for the art kids, and too artsy for the punk kids across their three decade trajectory. While Wire has enjoyed a prolific career, including Colin Newman solo efforts, a swath of collaborative projects, and their post-millennial reunion, the general gallery of ears tend to associate Wire exclusively with their flawless late '70s triage - Pink Flag , Chairs [...]

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Nothing beats using the end of the year slow-down to try to catch up on some CDs that fell through the cracks during the earlier part of the year. Brooklyn’s The Art of Shooting’s full-length debut, Traveling Show , was released last April and it is a major leap forward from the band’s 2005 debut EP “Tyrant’s Black Eyes”. After repeated listens, I still find it hard to find a label or two to describe the evolution of the band’s sound. The band still seems to garner frequent comparisons to Siouxsie & the [...]

A Place To Bury Strangers has the notorious reputation of being the loudest band in New York, which subsequently will make them, statistically speaking, the loudest band in most other markets as well. Initially, I couldn't say that their decibel shredding was more collosal than Mogwai or My Bloody Valentine, but I also didn't have tinnitus over 24 hours after either of those shows. I still, at this moment, can't hear shit. And I had earplugs. Like jumping out of a plane, that thrill either appeals to you or it doesn't. For me, it's impressive, but you always need [...]

• K Tranza - Rulers Of The Scene

Wounds Dead Dead Fucking Dead EP 29 March 2010 by Andy Parker Dublin-based Wounds have whipped up a bit of a media storm of late. Currently being touted by some magazine fuckwits as 'art-hardcore' - presumably a combination of art house and hardcore punk (oh how do you do it!? I wish I could be as imaginative as [...]

Flashion Forward with UI as we gaze at the strange and colorful aesthetic scape fashion and music create when they collide. That’s right: let's frolic about the closets of our fanciest, freshest interviewees and explore the zany manners in which artistes express themselves–and find out if their musical and sartorial styles sing in harmony or clash discordantly. The auspiciously named Art Brut (in honor of Jean Dubuffet and outsider artists everywhere) sets itself up immediately as an aggressively outré band–Frank Black was a fan from day one. Dubbed “crudely hooky” and simultaneously “one-shot [...]

As we walk in to the ‘Red Room’ of The Royal, the first thing I notice is how busy it is, which is a pleasant surprise. The second thing I notice is that the band currently on stage don’t appear to have a lead singer. Then I see him, right up on top of the speaker stack. That’s an old trick for sure but not often performed by a band third on the bill. These are 'The Souvenirs' the first of two local bands playing tonight. I immediately think Eddie Argos and Art Brut; it's the way singer Dale Dawson [...]