If December represented a rather frivolous month filled with excess, intrigue and ATP then January, by (excessively, almost unfairly stark) contrast feels all the more enthusiasm-exhausting, ultimately, utterly dismal. How fitting then that come the first of February, the time by which we'll all presumably be waving white socks in surrender to the relentless sombreness of the worst month of the Gregorian calendar, Wild Flag return to cajole us back into a mirthful sense of worth. Are we in need? To paraphrase the self-professed "veterans", Oh Yeah. Ahead of the quartet's debut UK show at a wet-through [...]
Steve Albini is grinding. The Shellac frontman and rock producer extraordinaire has helped Cloud Nothings flip the script on 2012 with their forthcoming album, is working with the equally volatile Screaming Females on their next effort , and for the trifecta Albini will also have his signature on British garage revivalists The Cribs ' forthcoming album (via NME ) . Tentatively titled In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull, the album also features production from Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips mainstay Dave Fridmann and a little bit of self-production from the band itself. [...]
[Here we'll look at some things you probably passed up when you were a kid because you were too busy playing Star Wars with your friend who was actually a jerk… and who threw a tantrum when you schooled him in NHL '96. What a little bitch. There are roots in the ground that still nurture.] The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips Warner Bros., 1999 Produced by The Flaming Lips , Dave Fridmann, [...]
It's obvious that a band is very strange when hitting college students over the head with drum mallets is one of the more normal things they've done in a while. Just ask the Flaming Lips . There are already rumors that they plan to follow up their gummy skull release with a fetus version , and while Wayne Coyne & co. have also announced plans to play a gig at a Los Angeles cemetery , their most recent outing was pretty subdued by their standards. Observer Today reports that the band spent [...]
Having honed his style with help from producer Dave Fridmann (he of MGMT and Flaming Lips fame), London urchin Max McElligott, has managed to produce some exceptionally beautiful pop tunes. A master of many instruments this track taken from Wolf Gang's forthcoming album is a romantic venture into electro-synth, with big harmonies and bucket loads of charm. Have a listen, whilst staring at a picture of him holding a cat. Good times.
Los Angeles-via-Chicago pop rockers are keeping busy this fall. First off, according to Soundcheck Magazine , OK Go will launch a remix contest early next week for their latest single, "White Knuckles" . The contest is set to run from September 7 until October 14, and beginning September 21, track producer Dave Fridmann will pick his favorite remixes to use across OK Go's web properties. More information about the contest will available net week on OKGo.net . Additionally, OK Go are hitting the road this fall. Of course, they'll be stopping [...]
At times Of the Blue Colour of the Sky sounds more like a Prince album than anything OK Go has done in the past, and it's quite an obvious attempt to shake free from their power-pop roots. The band retains their trademark energy though, it's just directed in a different way musically.
I was so enamored with The Silent League's second album, Of Stars and Other Somebodies, that I wrote about it twice within several months. I rarely feature an artist more than once in the same year, but the lack of awareness surrounding Justin Russo's project was alarming considering its unlimited potential. Although its focus was [...]
MUSIC NEW - The world's most unpredictable and entertaining experimental rock band, THE FLAMING LIPS , are prepping for a busy autumn. First off, the band will appear on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report on September 16th , airing 11:30pm ET. And immediately after the show, the LIPS' brand-new double-album, EMBRYONIC will be available online, in its entirety, only at Colbert's web site for a limited-time (through Monday, September 21). Visit ColbertNation.com . This will be the first complete airing of the album in advance of it's release and [...]
NY's Hopewell has been blending vintage fuzz pedal jams with their early space rock and shoegaze roots for over a decade, their 2001 full-length, 'The Curved Glass' , being the perfect, noisy bridge between the epic psychedelia of '90s acts like Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev and a newer generation of bands that include Dungen, Dead Meadow and Serena-Maneesh. Now back with their sixth album, 'Good Good Desperation' effortlessly slips from cacophonous dueling piano passages, to the Hammond-driven roots rock of The Basement Tapes, while creating something uniquely its own. 'Good [...]
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Twin of Myself "Deep in the woods of western Pennsylvania vocoders hum amongst the flowers and synths bubble under the leaf-strewn ground while flutes whistle in the wind and beats bounce to the soft drizzle of a warm acid rain. As the sun peeks out from between the clouds, the organic aural concoction of Black Moth Super Rainbow starts to glisten above the trees." That was the description found inside the liner of BMSR's third album, Dandelion Gum , but the imagery is possibly even more apt for [...]
A trippy blend of old school analog synths fronted by primitive robotic vocoder. This time produced by Dave Fridmann.
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Eating Us Label: Graveface Records (Release Date: 05/26/09) Pittsburgh's psych-electro experimental synth-pop group Black Mouth Super Rainbow are about to release their latest project, titled Eating Us on May 26, 2009. The members of this elusive quintet include [...]
Last year, during SXSW, mtvU shot Black Moth Super Rainbow as a part of their ongoing Ahead of the Curve series. Black Moth performed "Born On A Day When The Sun Didn't Rise", which at the time had still not been released, and actually still hasn't. On May 26th BMSR will be releasing Eating Us, featuring "Born On A Day When The Sun Didn't Rise", among other tracks. Eating Us is produced by ex Mercury Rev member Dave Fridmann, and is the follow up to their critically acclaimed 2007 album Dandelion Gum. Download "Born The [...]
The funny thing about Hopewell is that they have been sorely overlooked by those who like the psychedelic, dreamy pop being made by bands like Animal Collective , Dungen or to a lesser degree, Dirty Projectors , mainly because they brewed their cred in upstate New York versus Manhattan or Brooklyn. But that might change with the release of Good Good Desperation in May. Hopewell was founded by Jason Russo, of Hopewell Junction who, at 19, joined Mercury Rev [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Grammy-winners OK Go (Chicagoans, now LA residents) will preview songs from their upcoming album on a just announced bi-coastal headline tour that kicks off March 6th in Philadelphia, PA (see full itinerary below). On the East Coast dates, Irish indie band Oppenheimer and Longwave will open; IO Echo and Jaguar Love open the West Coast dates. OK Go spent the cold winter holed up in an upstate New York barn-turned-studio with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Sleater-Kinney), handcrafting what they describe as the [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Grammy-winners OK Go (Chicagoans, now LA residents) will preview songs from their upcoming album on a just announced bi-coastal headline tour that kicks off March 6th in Philadelphia, PA (see full itinerary below). On the East Coast dates, Irish indie band Oppenheimer and Longwave will open; IO Echo and Jaguar Love open the West Coast dates. OK Go spent the cold winter holed up in an upstate New York barn-turned-studio with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Sleater-Kinney), handcrafting what they describe as the [...]
Feb 18, 2009, 6:24pm
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We're really excited about this new Black Moth album, so much that I'm even willing to listen to some hopeful imitations to pass the time. Creeping out from the dark woods of Pennsylvania into the perhaps-even-darker clubs and showplaces of America, Black Moth Super Rainbow act as a singular rhythmic unit to a backdrop of off-key lighting, original schizoid animation and thoroughly screwed video pieces, for no one in particular, but just for the pure, instinctual need to take the show on the road and feed that unique muse of theirs. With Tobacco, [...]
Thursday Common Existence Epitaph Records Release Date: 02.17.09 For many, Thursday has, for the past half-decade, been viewed as a band that peaked too early (their accepted watershed accomplishment being 2001's Full Collapse ). The two full-lengths that followed have been, by and large, only mediocre affairs - bolstered by major label money, but lacking the depth, passion and sophistication that landed them there in the first place. Their move away from a major to Epitaph puzzled some and was viewed as an admission of defeat by others, but it's Geoff Rickley & [...]
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