What is it with beguiling, surname-less women and besotted London bands? First Al Cool & The Stranger Wines perved on lost love Celine , and now here's new band Yuck (with members from Hiroshima and New Jersey as well as London) trying to empathise with one Georgia. They refuse to sound sorry for themselves, though: this slice of bouncy punk is like a giddy wave of euphoria you know is only temporary, a sneeze that you just can't suppress, a skip down a street. The guitar sections are a bit 1990s rock (think Mr. Big) and the structure reasonably plaid, but there's a pleasingly blurry aspect, and some nicely distorted and slightly nostalgic boy-girl vocals to [...]
Let's just get straight down to business: the almighty Canuck quartet, Cancer Bats, have released a video to their actually-pretty-fucking-awesom e cover of the Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'. And in the the few minutes before some wise-ass makes a copy of it and uploads it onto YouTube, all you need to do to see it is spread [...]
Distorted sings the following genre(s): Death Metal , Doom Metal , Progressive Metal More videos from Distorted : DISTORTED: In Your Light DISTORTED: Redemption (interview+live) thumbnail: [...]
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars When The Magnetic Fields last put some tracks down on tape with Distortion, we saw the band with a wash of feedback and, well, distortion. They return, however, with Realism , a record with cleaner production, purposefully, and one that allows the minimalist chamber pop group to open up their doors once again to the more enchanting orchestration of mastermind Stephin Merritt. Choosing to open the album with "You Must [...]
If you're interested in hearing two of the heaviest minutes you're set to experience in the next year, we invite you to enjoy the new video clip from the punishers in Goes Cube for their song "Bluest Sky" which appears...
I've been digging the new record by Little Claw lately, Human Taste is definitely a continuation of their first effort, but there are some solid jams on here. Dark, warbling pop soaked in lots of fuzz and reverb, sometimes spinning off into endless-jam/one-note-drone land but the handful of tracks that hold some sort of structure are pretty amazing. Little Claw - Human Taste Little Claw - Frozen In The Future Download audio file (Human_Taste.mp3)
Almost out of nowhere, The Magnetic Fields have announced a brand new record. Hooray! Due for release on January 26th, the latest set from the melancholic pop darlings is titled Realism , and features 13 brand spankin' new tracks. The album is touted as the third record in the band's "no synthesizers" trilogy, a series of albums which ditch the lo-fi new wave style they've grown famous for. Despite this, one still can't help but wonder if Realism will bear any sonic resemblance to the band's 2008 record, Distortion . Not only is [...]
The Magnetic Fields have announced a few details about their forthcoming new album. The band will release the album, entitled ' Realism ', on January 25. The 13-track album is the follow-up to 2008's ' Distortion '. Track listing below. Magnetic Fields ' Realism ' track listing: 'You Must Be Out of Your Mind' 'Interlude' 'We Are Having A Hootenanny' 'I Don't Know What to Say' [...]
>>> photo by Rick Ele Wow, Autumn finally kicked in full gear and nothing goes better with Fall weather than a drunk guy screaming in your face over a heap of distorted noise-punk. I was lucky enough to catch Portland's The Hunches amazing live show a few times before they blew apart this last year. Luckily they offered up one hell of a parting gift with their final LP Exit Dreams on In The Red . The Hunches - Fall Drive The Hunches [...]
mp3: Endless Endless Endless - Distortion Black Talisman is the debut recording from the New York/Jersey duo Endless Endless Endless (Brett Renfer and James Tichenor). James was nice enough to shoot me a copy of the album earlier this week. Black Talisman is a record full of swirling post-noise guitars complimented by flourishes of distorted eight-bit drums n' synth. Think a Zelda dungeon that's really deep in the 'shit.' They describe it a lot better than I can actually: [...]
//photo by elizabeth weinberg Brooklyn's Small Black just released their self-titled EP this month and it's filled with swirly keyboards and fuzzy guitars. While it's true that there have been a bunch of bands in this same vein as of late (check out the last twenty posts and I'm sure you can pick out five or six), Small Black has the advantage of Josh Kolenik's fogged-out vocal delivery and great songwriting abilities. Washed Out (whose slow, fuzzy songs we wrote about a while back) also remixed their song 'Despicable Dogs' and did a [...]
Although I had already witnessed Superpitcher in action at Distortion under his Supermayer moniker, this felt like entering a new world. At the renewed Culture Box, a decent crowd had decided to let Superpitcher bend their ribs. Going through a set of tunes I will not even pretend to have deciphered, Supermayer slowly raised the roof. This is why I love those pumping beats; you not sure what goes on, you just float along until everything collides in a great bass-infused peak. - Dntel - (This Is) The Dream of Evan and [...]
//photo by reed fischer Saw these guys last week when they came through San Francisco and to be honest the show was sort of weak. Don't get me wrong they write some good songs, but I had forgotten that they don't have a drummer and it's really hard to blow a crowd away when it's just two dudes jumping around on stage to a backing track (only Girl Talk can do that because he is not pretending to be a band). It's also weird to be at the front of the stage hearing drums [...]
Encoder ....: lame 3.97 Grabber ....: n/a Source .....: WEB Quality ....: 320kbps/44,1kHz Tracks .....: 04 Genre ......: Techno Year .......: 2009 Rip Date ...: 06-08-2009 Label ......: SK Supreme Records 01. Distorted Reality (Original Mix) : 06:41 02. Distorted Reality (Daniel Marques Remix) : 06:44 03. Sequel (Original Mix) : 09:16 04. Unconventional (Original Mix) : 07:33 Download
New 73 fever continues with The Mantles limited run on Mt St Mtn - which you should go buy right now before they are all gone. Despite having sort of a weak show when I saw them live a while back, they always end up writing solid 60's sounding garage. Nice and fuzzy, just the way we like it. I guess maybe I'm being harsh about having a weak show. I can't expect everyone to smash their amps and freak out like the world is ending. I think that would even seem out of place with [...]
>>photo by Jason Fisher Eat Skull dropped a new one and wow is it the hottest 80s New Zealand underground pop record to not come out of of New Zealand and not be from the 80s. What a fucking lovely trainwreck this band is. The whole LP is marvelous but worth it for this track alone. Eat Skull - Heaven's Stranger
After posting some incredibly gentle tracks throughout the week, I figured out we needed something a bit more gritty for a nice Friday post. I promise this will be my last blurb about Distortion . After this, we can all talk about something less Copenhagen-centric, more original and... well there isn't much else to talk about. So, here's a short video from the special One Minute Rave and a track that could easily have been the anthem of the week. - Sidney Samson - Riverside (Original Mix) [...]
Dette års Distortion Festival nåede sin ende i går aftes og vi må nu vende tilbage til vores normale hverdag. Den sidste Club Clash fest blev holdt i Kødboderne 18, der i samarbejde med berlinerklubberne Panoramabar og Renate, gjorde hvad de kunne for at klemme den sidste energi ud af Distortion, med hjælp fra blandt andet på den franske trio dOP . Jer, der enten ikke havde mulighed for at møde op eller bare var for hårdt ramt af tømmermændene fra i lørdags, skulle tage og downloade det seneste mix fra dOP. Mixet er lavet for hjemmesiden [...]
From my point of view, there are only two reasons why any instrumental rock band would choose to remain vox-less these days: 1) they are frightened that vocals would destroy the aesthetic they've developed, or 2) they don't have time for a fucking vocalist! ¶ Power of 2 , a Minneapolis based prog-rock band featuring Max Becker on drums and Joe Clark on guitar, clearly falls into the latter school, as evidenced by the new self-titled album of driving, explosive, ball-bustin' rock 'n' roller coaster rides they've nailed down for release on Friday. It's a guitar centric album (vocals finally [...]
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