If you want to see Cryptacize tomorrow, make sure to send an email with the subject CRYPTACIZE CONTEST, to thetapeblog@yahoo.com. This is only for Los Angeles residents, or die hard Cryptacize fans willing to make a journey. Here's a fun game. The next person to email us, wins. If you already entered, enter again. So the next e-mail we receive about the contest will win. Ready, go. Check out this amazing video for "Blue Tears".

Band: Cryptacize From: Oakland, CA Sound: Free-spirited, skewed 60s pop rattled off with wide-eyed wonder Similar Artists: Curtains, Katharine Whalen, Deerhoof, Fiery Furnaces Listen Now: "Tail and Mane" Isn't rock music just a bunch of lies anyway? Dust Bowl deals with the devil at the crossroads, fantastical yarns of spiders from Mars, Milli Vanilli? Fanciful constructions, all of them. And not that there's anything wrong with that; overall, I suppose [...]
Cryptacize's new album, Mythomania, came out on Asthmatic Kitty on the 21st, and since then has received critical praise from The New York Times and Pitchfork . They also shot a video for "Blue Tears", featuring singer Nedelle Torrisi as an escaped patient, being pursued by guitarist/singer Chris Cohen (ex-Deerhoof) and drummer Michael Carreira. The chase starts in a warehouse complex and eventually leads onto a boat (proudly displaying the American flag). The video was directed by Weston Currie , who also directed videos for Abe Vigoda [...]