There's something immediately foreboding about the music of Northampton, MA's Elaine Kahn - aka Horsebladder . Of course, a project consisting of on woman, a keyboard, and "sometimes a drum," all but screams of foreboding minimalism - but on "Winter, Worse Winter" it's more than just that. Kahn, like similar artist Julia Holter , has a knack for sounding simultaneously gorgeous and terrifying. Sparse vocals and stuttering keys meld around the wispy echos of Kahn's voice and the occasional brute-force drum beats in blunt-yet-mysterious ways. Hearing Kahn sing amidst the mostly silent racket feels almost like hearing the distant shout [...]
turbo fruits - "mama's mad cos i fried my brain" (download) I can't get enough of these guys. I've been humming this song non-stop the past couple of days. Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace label put out some of their early stuff, and now they're putting out music on Fat Possum (eg: 20092s Echo Kid , which this song is from). They also played the Bruise Cruise indie rock cruise alongside The Black Lips, Surfer Blood, Vivian Girls and more. You can catch them playing 12 shows this [...]
Matta Gawa - "Dialogue of a man and His Ba" MP3/download Ahhhhh, MaaaaaaattaaaaaaaaaaaGaaaaaawa aaaaaaaaa ... kind of reminds of "Goosefrabba," the saying Jack Nicholson, playing a psychiatrist, employed in Anger Management (admittedly: not a great movie, though John C. Reilly puts in a characteristically quirky cameo as an angry, former bully of a Buddhist) when he [...]
Oh Thurston, why? As a pretty big Sonic Youth fan, I always try and listen to everything Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label puts out. Ninety-nine percent of the time it's mind blowing amazing, but I just can't get into this record. I'll admit, when I heard first single 'Jesus Stole My Girlfriend' I quite liked it. It's a punchy track with a nostalgic slur of a chorus and I find the story behind it strangely charming. Apparently the band met playing in a Christian rock band and then jacked in religion to write songs with lots [...]
Soho's not particularly renowned for its violence. Granted, unfortunately homophobia will forever be ingrained in the morality of many and the odd skull's smashed in against a telephone switchboard on Charing Cross Road. And Violent Soho as a band name's none too instantaneously grabbing, no. Yet when you sound like Nine Black Alps ripping Billy Corgan's polished, bald head off and swinging it about by its frayed strands of spinal chord atop a flaming horse fleeing the last ever Reading Festival names are all but irrelevant. For this Antipodean quartet have little interest in convention or whatever the [...]
I love Sonic Youth. I'll just get that out of the way to start with. And with said love comes a desire to delve in to the side projects, ideas and activities of each band member. I want to trawl record stores for their SYR releases, I want to try and pretend I understand Ranaldo's Text of Light stuff, and I want to check out everything released by Ecstatic Peace! I first saw Black Helicopter back in March at SXSW. I enjoyed their set, but they didn't blow me away. The band are from [...]
Now, I've never been to Detroit, but that doesn't mean I haven't heard things. Things like the astounding number of vacant homes, and how the bears are beginning roam freely within city limits. With the abandonment from the auto industry, it seems like there would be plenty of time to sit around and drink beer. I don't know much about the background of Awesome Color , but it certainly seems a viable direction - for three grizzly, grimy dudes to decide to channel their collective energy wrought from the gray, dreary city into [...]
A look at the very Wolves In The Throne Room-like art for "Stratospheric Passenger." Servile Sect - Stratospheric Passenger download [...]
it's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. so said jerry garcia, grateful dead fella and ice-cream flavour. it seems a fitting quote given the general absence of declared counterculturism (whatever that really means) from the underground of somethingorother these days. was it ever anything other than poseur iconoclasm (musically speaking)? punk lasted all of two dada-ish minutes, rave lasted a few glo-sticks longer. does the not always willingly labeled concept of freak folk that all this shit [...]
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Dueling photography is what you get with Hush Arbors ' video for "Coming Home" off their recent Ecstatic Peace LP, Yankee Reality . First there's the beautiful landscapes of mountains and hills and lakes from across the country (and possibly world). Then, the second photographic element is stop motion photography of the band fooling around in front of the screen on which the landscapes appear. It's interesting, colorful, fun, and fits well with the song. Hush Arbors' Yankee Reality is upbeat and, in the [...]
Ecstatic Peace released Hush Arbor's latest album, Yankee Reality , earlier this year. Now the band have released the song "Coming Home" as a video, which you can weird above.
Violent Soho have been signed to Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label, and their debut album will be out via the label (a co-release with Universal) in March of 2010. The band are in Chicago tonight, but will be playing a bunch of New York City shows in the near future. Considering the shows will be with the likes of Band of Skulls, Dead Weather, and Jaguar Love, checking out at least one of them might be a good idea. The band's schedule is listed after the jump. Violent Soho tour dates: 11/13 [...]
earlier in the year i said this about the race to the bottom seven incher: with a sleeve that looks like it was designed by me drunk at four in the morning with a head full of medicine and my hands celltotaped to a broken felt tip pen. two tracks with the overdriven guitar sound of an nice old pink telecaster being gently forced into the guts and anus of a broken amp. some folk holler pop nonsense over the top of this distorto din. it's frankly fucking [...]
earlier in the year i said this about the race to the bottom seven incher: with a sleeve that looks like it was designed by me drunk at four in the morning with a head full of medicine and my hands celltotaped to a broken felt tip pen. two tracks with the overdriven guitar sound of an nice old pink telecaster being gently forced into the guts and anus of a broken amp. some folk holler pop nonsense over the top of this distorto din. it's frankly fucking [...]
earlier in the year i said this about the race to the bottom seven incher: with a sleeve that looks like it was designed by me drunk at four in the morning with a head full of medicine and my hands celltotaped to a broken felt tip pen. two tracks with the overdriven guitar sound of an nice old pink telecaster being gently forced into the guts and anus of a broken amp. some folk holler pop nonsense over the top of this distorto din. it's frankly fucking [...]
As you probably know, former Be Your Own Pet frontwoman Jemina Pearl is making good use of her queen bee vocal sass appeal on a solo album, Break It Up , which dropped last Tuesday on Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace label. Still haven't given it a shot? Perhaps this new single will convince you. Featuring razor-sharp and polished production from John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.), Pearl has no problem letting her snarly defiance shine through in the throwdown "Looking For Trouble." Jemina Pearl - "Looking For [...]
Virginian psych-folk journeyman, Keith Wood (aka Hush Arbors) has his forthcoming LP, Yankee Reality cocked and loaded for release on October 6th. The folks at Ecstatic Peace have been working overtime in 2009, releasing quite a bit of noteworthy experimental material all clamped tight in folk-with-a-sneer standards and badass attitude. We're huge fans of WAND's 09 release, Hard Knox , and even though the two have toured together in the past, listening to Yankee Reality has me standing in line for tickets should this tandem tour ever resurface. In all facets, this album is primed [...]
Fans of Prayer of Death should understand that The Entrance Band sounds quite different, occasionally flirting so closely with alt-rock sonic textures that the band's voice becomes a little less distinctive. Blakeslee is making a conscious effort to explore new directions with this band, whether fans of Prayer of Death agree with it or not, and who can blame him? The Entrance Band will definitely give second thoughts to those fans who painted Blakeslee as a morbid death rocker. But there are times when it's hard not to miss a little of [...]
Editor's Note: Albums pile up quickly around here, and it's difficult sometimes to maximize output and get our stamp on every album we enjoy. In addition, we also have to work backwards a bit to put our ears to albums we miss. Today's post rather blends these two ideas together. The Entrance Band's self-titled release last week completely missed me. Completely aware of Guy Blakeslee's stellar Prayer of Death album, I was both mildly upset this didn't hit my radar in advance yet excited to evaluate it with a critical lens. The Entrance Band - [...]
Editor's Note: Albums pile up quickly around here, and it's difficult sometimes to maximize output and get our stamp on every album we enjoy. In addition, we also have to work backwards a bit to put our ears to albums we miss. Today's post rather blends these two ideas together. The Entrance Band's self-titled release last week completely missed me. Keenly aware of Guy Blakeslee's stellar Prayer of Death album, I was both mildly upset this didn't hit my radar in advance yet excited to evaluate it with a critical lens. The Entrance Band [...]
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