It is with great pleasure that we can confirm that we have booked U.S legends The Melvins again for November...
Room 237 & Brudenell presents...
THE MELVINS (Ipecac/Atlantic, U.S) + DJ Support TBC
£15 advance @ Brudenell Social Club 2/11/11
No/very very limited guestlist due to needing to cover costs.
THE MELVINS
TICKETS::::::
JUMBO RECORDS - http://tinyurl.com/3tsyc3y
CRASH RECORDS - http://tinyurl.com/3tezd5r
SEETICKETS - http://tinyurl.com/43kj6l4
WEGOTTICKETS - http://tinyurl.com/3k54zn4
TICKETWEB - http://tinyurl.com/3pkbekg
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Thursday, 11 August 2011
RUINS ALONE / GROUPER / BARDO POND
Monday 3rd October - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds
RUINS ALONE
Ruins were a Japanese experimental rock duo of drum set and electric bass guitar. The group, formed in 1985, was supposedly intended to be a power trio; the guitarist, however, never showed up to the band's first rehearsal, so the group remained a duo. The drummer is Tatsuya Yoshida and the group has featured four different bass players over its history.
He was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival Groening curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
Website: http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/eng/index.html
Live Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5XqUxxe94&feature=player_embedded
Plus support from:
NOPE
Nope are inspired by psychedelic repetitive and primitive sludge the like of which will be dredged from the River Air following the collapse of the industrial world in 2068. Their music attempts to convey the rhythms and pace of life experienced on the cusp of the birth of the machine age. They are equal parts Spinning Jenny, nano technology and undiscovered bio-fuel. Featuring members of That Fucking Tank and Mucky Sailor.
Website: http://www.justsaynope.co.uk/
+ 1 more TBC
Doors 7.30pm
£6 adv / motd
Tickets for all availble from Crash, Jumbo, Seetickets, Wwegottickets...
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Saturday 8th October @ Brudenell
GROUPER (Liz Harris/Portland, U.S) + THE HAXAN CLOAK + DOOR
"This spooky night-time anthem shows that Grouper's restless artistic spirit shows no sign of diminishing just yet. (The Guardian)
"Whether she's working in realm of rough-hewn folk or amniotic drift, this is music that takes you places." (Pitchfork)
£6 advance
Tickets available soon at Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets, Seetickets and from the venue.
Liz Harris (Grouper) is flying over for three special appearances in October. Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/post rock musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. She has just released her latest album which received critical unanimous critical acclaim from International press. She was the tour support for Animal Collective's high profile U.S tour and has supported The Flaming Lips, Godspeed, Xiu Xiu and played a great deal of International festivals.
http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15332-a-i-a-alien-observer-a-i-a-dream-loss/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSVE198yGw
www.last.fm/music/Grouper
Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/noise musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. Harris' music is a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and delicate vocals. Reverb and tape delay effects are used widely throughout Harris' recordings.
Harris’ first album was 2005’s Grouper, a self-released full-length CD-R, followed later that year by Way Their Crept on Free Porcupine (re-released in 2007 on Type Records). Other recordings include 2006's He Knows, released as a 3" CD, the 12" Weird Forest release Wide in 2007, and a 7" called Tried.
Grouper was chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in May 2011.
THE HAXAN CLOAK
Label: Aurora Borealis
The Haxan Cloak is 24 year old London-based musician Bobby Krlic.
He has released several CD-R EPs, all sold at live shows and currently out of print, bar one being exclusively distributed by the Aurora Borealis label.
He has played live with Matthew Bower, Prurient, Cold Cave, Zan Lyons and others. He also participated in a 3-day residency at prestigious London performance space, ‘Shunt’.
www.myspace.com/thehaxancloak
www.last.fm/music/The+Haxan+Cloak
DOOR - Duo based in Leeds and London, comprised of Bryan Lippin and Jonny Mirror.
“The DOOR approach meshes industrial clang and tape into ordered chaos and abstract fog… call it sound art if you are looking for a way out” - Toru Takemitsu.
http://soundcloud.com/door-5
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FRIDAY 21st OCTOBER 2011 @ THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
£8 Advance, available at Jumbo, Crash and the following sites...
WEGOTTICKETS - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/124166
SEETICKETS - http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BARDO-P ... lub/568332
TICKETWEB - http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region ... interface=
BARDO POND (Matador/ATP/Fire)
One of the most respected and influential psych/post-rock/shoegaze bands in the World since 1991. The U.S equivalent of Mogwai, cited by the Scots as their biggest influence and having completed tours together for the last 10+ years. They have consistently been selected to headline festival alongside their peers Sonic Youth, Godspeed etc and are over for three dates in Europe while headlining Supersonic festival.
American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (flute and vocals), Clint Takeda (bass guitar), Jason Kourkonis (drums), and Aaron Igler (synth/electronics). Bardo Pond's drug-inspired music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. Many Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others.
www.bardopond.org
www.myspace.com/bardopond
HOOKWORMS
A relatively new five piece psychedelic rock group in the vein of Spacemen 3. Dense Wooden Shjips-esque grooves play repetitious host to echo drenched spiritual wailing and astral synth drone. Featuring members of Twisted and Spectrals.
http://parasiticnematode.blogspot.com/
THE PISS SUPERSTITION
The monicker under which former Vibracathedral Orchestra member Julian Bradley conducts his guitar drone explorations. Expect murky compositions with unexpectedly melodic seams and disintegrated doom-riffs running through the layers of effects fuzz and feedback. New LP out on Memoirs of an Aesthete.
thepisssuperstition.blogspot.com.
TRUMPETS OF DEATH
Broody avant rock...
"Trumpets of Death have delivered a record which is uncompromising in its vision and, most wonderfully, complete in its execution. It is a record which richly rewards repeat listens. Teeth + Teeth = Teeths is something music in 2011 desperately needs: a shot of the dark stuff, delivered by people who know exactly what they're doing" Soundblab.com
www.trumpetsofdeath.com
RUINS ALONE
Ruins were a Japanese experimental rock duo of drum set and electric bass guitar. The group, formed in 1985, was supposedly intended to be a power trio; the guitarist, however, never showed up to the band's first rehearsal, so the group remained a duo. The drummer is Tatsuya Yoshida and the group has featured four different bass players over its history.
He was chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival Groening curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England.
Website: http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~ruins/eng/index.html
Live Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5XqUxxe94&feature=player_embedded
Plus support from:
NOPE
Nope are inspired by psychedelic repetitive and primitive sludge the like of which will be dredged from the River Air following the collapse of the industrial world in 2068. Their music attempts to convey the rhythms and pace of life experienced on the cusp of the birth of the machine age. They are equal parts Spinning Jenny, nano technology and undiscovered bio-fuel. Featuring members of That Fucking Tank and Mucky Sailor.
Website: http://www.justsaynope.co.uk/
+ 1 more TBC
Doors 7.30pm
£6 adv / motd
Tickets for all availble from Crash, Jumbo, Seetickets, Wwegottickets...
---------------------------------
Saturday 8th October @ Brudenell
GROUPER (Liz Harris/Portland, U.S) + THE HAXAN CLOAK + DOOR
"This spooky night-time anthem shows that Grouper's restless artistic spirit shows no sign of diminishing just yet. (The Guardian)
"Whether she's working in realm of rough-hewn folk or amniotic drift, this is music that takes you places." (Pitchfork)
£6 advance
Tickets available soon at Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets, Seetickets and from the venue.
Liz Harris (Grouper) is flying over for three special appearances in October. Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/post rock musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. She has just released her latest album which received critical unanimous critical acclaim from International press. She was the tour support for Animal Collective's high profile U.S tour and has supported The Flaming Lips, Godspeed, Xiu Xiu and played a great deal of International festivals.
http://www.pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15332-a-i-a-alien-observer-a-i-a-dream-loss/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSVE198yGw
www.last.fm/music/Grouper
Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/noise musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. Harris' music is a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and delicate vocals. Reverb and tape delay effects are used widely throughout Harris' recordings.
Harris’ first album was 2005’s Grouper, a self-released full-length CD-R, followed later that year by Way Their Crept on Free Porcupine (re-released in 2007 on Type Records). Other recordings include 2006's He Knows, released as a 3" CD, the 12" Weird Forest release Wide in 2007, and a 7" called Tried.
Grouper was chosen by Animal Collective to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in May 2011.
THE HAXAN CLOAK
Label: Aurora Borealis
The Haxan Cloak is 24 year old London-based musician Bobby Krlic.
He has released several CD-R EPs, all sold at live shows and currently out of print, bar one being exclusively distributed by the Aurora Borealis label.
He has played live with Matthew Bower, Prurient, Cold Cave, Zan Lyons and others. He also participated in a 3-day residency at prestigious London performance space, ‘Shunt’.
www.myspace.com/thehaxancloak
www.last.fm/music/The+Haxan+Cloak
DOOR - Duo based in Leeds and London, comprised of Bryan Lippin and Jonny Mirror.
“The DOOR approach meshes industrial clang and tape into ordered chaos and abstract fog… call it sound art if you are looking for a way out” - Toru Takemitsu.
http://soundcloud.com/door-5
-------------------------
FRIDAY 21st OCTOBER 2011 @ THE BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
£8 Advance, available at Jumbo, Crash and the following sites...
WEGOTTICKETS - http://www.wegottickets.com/event/124166
SEETICKETS - http://www.seetickets.com/Event/BARDO-P ... lub/568332
TICKETWEB - http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region ... interface=
BARDO POND (Matador/ATP/Fire)
One of the most respected and influential psych/post-rock/shoegaze bands in the World since 1991. The U.S equivalent of Mogwai, cited by the Scots as their biggest influence and having completed tours together for the last 10+ years. They have consistently been selected to headline festival alongside their peers Sonic Youth, Godspeed etc and are over for three dates in Europe while headlining Supersonic festival.
American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (flute and vocals), Clint Takeda (bass guitar), Jason Kourkonis (drums), and Aaron Igler (synth/electronics). Bardo Pond's drug-inspired music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. Many Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others.
www.bardopond.org
www.myspace.com/bardopond
HOOKWORMS
A relatively new five piece psychedelic rock group in the vein of Spacemen 3. Dense Wooden Shjips-esque grooves play repetitious host to echo drenched spiritual wailing and astral synth drone. Featuring members of Twisted and Spectrals.
http://parasiticnematode.blogspot.com/
THE PISS SUPERSTITION
The monicker under which former Vibracathedral Orchestra member Julian Bradley conducts his guitar drone explorations. Expect murky compositions with unexpectedly melodic seams and disintegrated doom-riffs running through the layers of effects fuzz and feedback. New LP out on Memoirs of an Aesthete.
thepisssuperstition.blogspot.com.
TRUMPETS OF DEATH
Broody avant rock...
"Trumpets of Death have delivered a record which is uncompromising in its vision and, most wonderfully, complete in its execution. It is a record which richly rewards repeat listens. Teeth + Teeth = Teeths is something music in 2011 desperately needs: a shot of the dark stuff, delivered by people who know exactly what they're doing" Soundblab.com
www.trumpetsofdeath.com
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
UPCOMING 2011 SHOWS
THURSDAY 24TH MARCH 2011
HYPE WILLIAMS (Hippos In Tanks/Berlin) + HOOKWORMS + BEARDS
"The missing link between Aphex Twin & Ariel Pink" (The Guardian)
One of the top albums of the year in Wire magazine and playing Sonar and Field Day 2011. The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in ╲magic hours╡ this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full â•„ BBC Radio 1â•˙s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.
@ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB £6 advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108203
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SATURDAY 2ND APRIL
KING MIDAS SOUND (The Bug/Hyperdub) + KWES (Warp/Young Turks) + ANXST (Formerly P45) + BAMBOOMAN... Experimental/electronic/dubstep
King Midas Sound is Kevin Martin (The Bug) new experimental dubstep project, composed of Martin and London/Trinidad poet Roger Robinson. Their first 12" release "(HDB014) Cool Out" and debut album Waiting For You are both released through Kode9s Hyperdub label. "Meltdown" also featured on the 5 Years Of Hyperdub CD release in 2009.
@ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB £9 advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108205
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FRIDAY 15TH APRIL
RETOX (San Diego/Three One G) + CHICKENHAWK + HUMANFLY
Justin Pearson & Gabe Serbian from THE LOCUST's new band. Where it‚s simply music, and not a revolution, it is a revolutionary tool. More importantly, music is an effective form of communication and a means of emotional expression. A stern „fuck you‰ to the powers that be is an obvious reaction to modern times. Retox is that reaction to stagnant and boring cultures, as well as the countercultures that have slipped into a sea of pointlessness. The band is a reaction to the world that the members and their comrades live in: lives littered with frustration; lives soaked in violence. Featuring members of acts such as The Locust, Head Wound City, Holy Molar, All Leather, Some Girls, and The Festival of Dead Deer. With violent music, as with Retox, there is no choice but to retoxify.
@ JOSEPHS WELL £7.50 Advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109664
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Thursday 12th May 2011
BLACK DICE (Paw Tracks, DFA/ Brooklyn) + NEIL CAMPBELL & MICK FLOWER + SOILDERS OF FORTUNE
They are over for Animal Collective's ATP in May and one of the most pioneering experimental, electronic acts over the last decade. As seen at the premier leftfield festivals in the world, touring with Godspseed, Sonic Youth in every corner of the world.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109003
HYPE WILLIAMS (Hippos In Tanks/Berlin) + HOOKWORMS + BEARDS
"The missing link between Aphex Twin & Ariel Pink" (The Guardian)
One of the top albums of the year in Wire magazine and playing Sonar and Field Day 2011. The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in ╲magic hours╡ this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full â•„ BBC Radio 1â•˙s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.
@ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB £6 advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108203
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SATURDAY 2ND APRIL
KING MIDAS SOUND (The Bug/Hyperdub) + KWES (Warp/Young Turks) + ANXST (Formerly P45) + BAMBOOMAN... Experimental/electronic/dubstep
King Midas Sound is Kevin Martin (The Bug) new experimental dubstep project, composed of Martin and London/Trinidad poet Roger Robinson. Their first 12" release "(HDB014) Cool Out" and debut album Waiting For You are both released through Kode9s Hyperdub label. "Meltdown" also featured on the 5 Years Of Hyperdub CD release in 2009.
@ BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB £9 advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108205
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FRIDAY 15TH APRIL
RETOX (San Diego/Three One G) + CHICKENHAWK + HUMANFLY
Justin Pearson & Gabe Serbian from THE LOCUST's new band. Where it‚s simply music, and not a revolution, it is a revolutionary tool. More importantly, music is an effective form of communication and a means of emotional expression. A stern „fuck you‰ to the powers that be is an obvious reaction to modern times. Retox is that reaction to stagnant and boring cultures, as well as the countercultures that have slipped into a sea of pointlessness. The band is a reaction to the world that the members and their comrades live in: lives littered with frustration; lives soaked in violence. Featuring members of acts such as The Locust, Head Wound City, Holy Molar, All Leather, Some Girls, and The Festival of Dead Deer. With violent music, as with Retox, there is no choice but to retoxify.
@ JOSEPHS WELL £7.50 Advance
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109664
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Thursday 12th May 2011
BLACK DICE (Paw Tracks, DFA/ Brooklyn) + NEIL CAMPBELL & MICK FLOWER + SOILDERS OF FORTUNE
They are over for Animal Collective's ATP in May and one of the most pioneering experimental, electronic acts over the last decade. As seen at the premier leftfield festivals in the world, touring with Godspseed, Sonic Youth in every corner of the world.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109003
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
CONSTELLATIONS FESTIVAL
We are proud to have been asked by Futuresound to be one of the curators of the upcoming Constellations festival in Leeds featuring...
Broken Social Scene / Four Tet / Liars/ Beak> / Los Campesinos! / Les Savy Fav / Local Natives / Konx-om-Pax / Esben & The Witch / Kom Gold Panada / Chickenhawk / Spectrals / Honour Befo...re Glory / Wingman / Dam Mantle / The Vaccines / Cloud Nothings / Breton / Eagulls / The Runaround Kids.
Saturday:- (£11 or £5.50 with ticket for Sunday)
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10629
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10628
BEAK>
Experimental psych krautrock featuring PORTISHEAD founding member Geoff Barrow + Team Brick.
www.myspace.com/beak2009
www.beak.bandcamp.com
KONX-OM-PAX (Displaycopy.net, A/V Set)
Konx-om-Pax is 24 year old Glasgow based Director/Animator/Sound Designer Tom Scholefield.He has created album artwork for Oneohtrix Point never, Hudson Mohawke, Jamie Liddel and is supporting Mogwai on their upcoming 2011 tour. In recent years worked with Warp Records, DFA Records, Planet Mu, Underground Resistance, Universal Everything and Optimo Espacio.
www.myspace.com/konxompax
ABE VIGODA (L.A, USA)
Is a tropical punk rock band based in Los Angeles, California, but are originally from Chino, California; a city in the Inland Empire. They frequently perform at The Smell
www.myspace.com/abevigoda
EAGULLS
www.myspace.com/eagulls
Sunday :- (£25) http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10628
Broken Social Scene / Four Tet / Liars / Los Campesinos! / Les Savy Fav / Local Natives / Esben & The Witch / Kom Gold Panada / Chickenhawk / Spectrals / Honour Before Glory / Wingman / Dam Mantle / The Vaccines / Cloud Nothings / Breton / The Runaround Kids
+ Art exhibitions and more...
www.constellationsfestival.com
Broken Social Scene / Four Tet / Liars/ Beak> / Los Campesinos! / Les Savy Fav / Local Natives / Konx-om-Pax / Esben & The Witch / Kom Gold Panada / Chickenhawk / Spectrals / Honour Befo...re Glory / Wingman / Dam Mantle / The Vaccines / Cloud Nothings / Breton / Eagulls / The Runaround Kids.
Saturday:- (£11 or £5.50 with ticket for Sunday)
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10629
http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10628
BEAK>
Experimental psych krautrock featuring PORTISHEAD founding member Geoff Barrow + Team Brick.
www.myspace.com/beak2009
www.beak.bandcamp.com
KONX-OM-PAX (Displaycopy.net, A/V Set)
Konx-om-Pax is 24 year old Glasgow based Director/Animator/Sound Designer Tom Scholefield.He has created album artwork for Oneohtrix Point never, Hudson Mohawke, Jamie Liddel and is supporting Mogwai on their upcoming 2011 tour. In recent years worked with Warp Records, DFA Records, Planet Mu, Underground Resistance, Universal Everything and Optimo Espacio.
www.myspace.com/konxompax
ABE VIGODA (L.A, USA)
Is a tropical punk rock band based in Los Angeles, California, but are originally from Chino, California; a city in the Inland Empire. They frequently perform at The Smell
www.myspace.com/abevigoda
EAGULLS
www.myspace.com/eagulls
Sunday :- (£25) http://www.jumborecords.co.uk/tickets.asp?sort&event_id=10628
Broken Social Scene / Four Tet / Liars / Los Campesinos! / Les Savy Fav / Local Natives / Esben & The Witch / Kom Gold Panada / Chickenhawk / Spectrals / Honour Before Glory / Wingman / Dam Mantle / The Vaccines / Cloud Nothings / Breton / The Runaround Kids
+ Art exhibitions and more...
www.constellationsfestival.com
RANGDA + EMERALDS
Room 237 & The Brudenell is very proud to present a triple headline show with three of the most anticipated artists selected by curators Godspeed You! Black Emporer and Belle & Sebastian while they are over for the Xmas ATP festivals.
GET YOUR TICKETS IN ASAP AS THIS WILL SELL OUT QUICK.
£7 Advance @ Brudenell - 8/12/10
...
Tickets available soon from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/92865
----------------------------
RANGDA
Like an avant-garde supergroup of sorts, Rangda's line up includes Chris Corsano (Flower-Corsano Duo), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). The group's debut release, False Flag, was released earlier this year on Drag City. As you can imagine from these musicians you can expect what could only be described as one of the most intense jams you could possibly imagine.
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/rangda
www.myspace.com/calonarang
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14249-false-flag/
www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zqrj
www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5714
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JakvyyNmo4A
EMERALDS
Emeralds are an ambient/kosmische/progressive electronic music trio from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together under the name Fancelions in 2005[1] in Cleveland's western suburbs of Bay Village and Westlake. However, due to a desire to simplify and focus more on live improvisation, they re-formed as Emeralds, playing their first show under that name in June 2006[2]. Since then the group has released over thirty recordings, on labels such as Hanson Records, American Tapes, No Fun Productions, Ecstatic Peace! and also on their own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album What Happened, released on No Fun Productions in 2009, is their most widely known release to date. In fall of 2009 the band self-released the follow-up full length to Solar Bridge which is self-titled Emeralds. In the coming years Emeralds releases will appear on Editions Mego and Industrial Records. They have collaborated with Aaron Dilloway on the cassette Under Pressure, released a split tour CD with Japanese noise musician Pain Jerk and opened for Throbbing Gristle in New York and Chicago[3]. The band has also filled headlining slots at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Fest in New York and Stockholm, Sweden. Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt also perform and record under their own names. John Elliott performs as Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods, and under various other aliases.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14275-does-it-look-like-im-here/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lsQKiIF7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEE8LzzLPDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acqD51NwQ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qM2Tp4dqgg
HOWLIN RAIN
Howlin Rain is a San Francisco band which formed in 2004 and released their first album in 2006. Described as "classically soulful, Howlin' Rain are currently signed with Rick Rubin to the Columbia Records subset American Recordings. The band's second album Magnificent Fiend was released on March 3, 2008 and has "combination of psychedelia, blues, funk and classic 1970s arena rock." Ethan Miller, while still with Comets on Fire, felt the urge to pursue a more melodic sound in his music and express the influence of growing up on the Lost Coast, so he formed Howlin Rain with his former high school band-mate Ian Gradek, and drummer John Moloney.[6] After the 2006 release of Comets on Fire's last album, he released Howlin Rain's self-titled first album, Howlin Rain with Birdman Records and began touring with Queens of the Stone Age.
Shortly after the release of their first album Moloney left the band but they picked up and later Garett Goddard, Eli Eckert, and Joel Robinow. They released their second album in 2008 and are currently touring on their own.
The band have been chosen personally by Belle & Sebastian to perform at their second Bowlie Weekender festival presented by All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK in December 2010.
www.howlinrain.com
www.myspace.com/howlinrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSI85G3MDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EdtFEt6Pc
GET YOUR TICKETS IN ASAP AS THIS WILL SELL OUT QUICK.
£7 Advance @ Brudenell - 8/12/10
...
Tickets available soon from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/92865
----------------------------
RANGDA
Like an avant-garde supergroup of sorts, Rangda's line up includes Chris Corsano (Flower-Corsano Duo), Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). The group's debut release, False Flag, was released earlier this year on Drag City. As you can imagine from these musicians you can expect what could only be described as one of the most intense jams you could possibly imagine.
http://www.dragcity.com/artists/rangda
www.myspace.com/calonarang
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14249-false-flag/
www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zqrj
www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5714
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JakvyyNmo4A
EMERALDS
Emeralds are an ambient/kosmische/progressive electronic music trio from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together under the name Fancelions in 2005[1] in Cleveland's western suburbs of Bay Village and Westlake. However, due to a desire to simplify and focus more on live improvisation, they re-formed as Emeralds, playing their first show under that name in June 2006[2]. Since then the group has released over thirty recordings, on labels such as Hanson Records, American Tapes, No Fun Productions, Ecstatic Peace! and also on their own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. The album What Happened, released on No Fun Productions in 2009, is their most widely known release to date. In fall of 2009 the band self-released the follow-up full length to Solar Bridge which is self-titled Emeralds. In the coming years Emeralds releases will appear on Editions Mego and Industrial Records. They have collaborated with Aaron Dilloway on the cassette Under Pressure, released a split tour CD with Japanese noise musician Pain Jerk and opened for Throbbing Gristle in New York and Chicago[3]. The band has also filled headlining slots at Carlos Giffoni's No Fun Fest in New York and Stockholm, Sweden. Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt also perform and record under their own names. John Elliott performs as Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods, and under various other aliases.
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14275-does-it-look-like-im-here/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lsQKiIF7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEE8LzzLPDo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acqD51NwQ0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qM2Tp4dqgg
HOWLIN RAIN
Howlin Rain is a San Francisco band which formed in 2004 and released their first album in 2006. Described as "classically soulful, Howlin' Rain are currently signed with Rick Rubin to the Columbia Records subset American Recordings. The band's second album Magnificent Fiend was released on March 3, 2008 and has "combination of psychedelia, blues, funk and classic 1970s arena rock." Ethan Miller, while still with Comets on Fire, felt the urge to pursue a more melodic sound in his music and express the influence of growing up on the Lost Coast, so he formed Howlin Rain with his former high school band-mate Ian Gradek, and drummer John Moloney.[6] After the 2006 release of Comets on Fire's last album, he released Howlin Rain's self-titled first album, Howlin Rain with Birdman Records and began touring with Queens of the Stone Age.
Shortly after the release of their first album Moloney left the band but they picked up and later Garett Goddard, Eli Eckert, and Joel Robinow. They released their second album in 2008 and are currently touring on their own.
The band have been chosen personally by Belle & Sebastian to perform at their second Bowlie Weekender festival presented by All Tomorrow's Parties in the UK in December 2010.
www.howlinrain.com
www.myspace.com/howlinrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSI85G3MDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0EdtFEt6Pc
HYPE WILLIAMS
Room 237/MARIObong/Coby Sey present....
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
HYPE WILLIAMS + 1 More TBC.
...
Doors 7.30 - 10.30 end
Thursday 25th November 2010 @ Nation Of Shopkeepers
£4 advance - Tickets at Jumbo & Wegottickets.
Followed by LIMN - Clubnight (Live illustration, dj's play electronica, techno, italo etc)
HYPE WILLIAMS
http://www.myspace.com/hypheewilliams
Hype Williams is an elusive project conceived by two "illegal immigrants" who for now we will know as D. Blunt and Inga Copeland. The duo are touring on the back of a super-limited LP on Carnival (hot off the press), with EPs out on Second Layer (September) and De Stijl EP (November) plus a Hippos In Tanks full length (March 2011) round the corner.
The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in “magic hours” this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full – BBC Radio 1’s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.
With a catalogue of weird tall tales already tethered to their (borrowed) name – including an “18 year relay project”, plus alternative names including sounds of Hate, Paradise Sisters and Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band – the band exists as part of a bigger picture completed by a 360° range of art activities (“all about abuse, be it drugs, culture or equipment’, according to D. Blunt).
To date, infrequent but Hype-worthy concerts have been complemented by art happenings including “Gyptian Lover”, a series of exhibitions at London’s SPACE that have drifted fluidly around media including video, sculpture, installation and performance, Upset The Rhythm's Yes Way festival, plus shows with kindred spirit Sun Araw in the pipeline.
"What do we actually know about Hype Williams? ... an obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al ... music which fascinates largely because of its refusal to commit" - The Wire
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
Watch/listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupR1k7QZdE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbfJpEigOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsad3s3hk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc&feature=related
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
HYPE WILLIAMS + 1 More TBC.
...
Doors 7.30 - 10.30 end
Thursday 25th November 2010 @ Nation Of Shopkeepers
£4 advance - Tickets at Jumbo & Wegottickets.
Followed by LIMN - Clubnight (Live illustration, dj's play electronica, techno, italo etc)
HYPE WILLIAMS
http://www.myspace.com/hypheewilliams
Hype Williams is an elusive project conceived by two "illegal immigrants" who for now we will know as D. Blunt and Inga Copeland. The duo are touring on the back of a super-limited LP on Carnival (hot off the press), with EPs out on Second Layer (September) and De Stijl EP (November) plus a Hippos In Tanks full length (March 2011) round the corner.
The Hype starts here... a totally unique, alien, addictive sound that ransacks the musical filing cabinet: disjointed psych-pop rattles around the channels, smooth-edge soul is refracted into disorientating dream tracks, murked instrumentals stumble through your psyche, disembodied samples of cult rapper Drake float around and into other, less familiar voices ... recorded exclusively in “magic hours” this is music that requires you to lift its shroud and climb inside. The spectrum of approving listeners to date is full – BBC Radio 1’s Benji B has premiered tracks, and The Wire has already devoted a page to trying to unpick the myth via a glowing review of their debut album.
With a catalogue of weird tall tales already tethered to their (borrowed) name – including an “18 year relay project”, plus alternative names including sounds of Hate, Paradise Sisters and Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band – the band exists as part of a bigger picture completed by a 360° range of art activities (“all about abuse, be it drugs, culture or equipment’, according to D. Blunt).
To date, infrequent but Hype-worthy concerts have been complemented by art happenings including “Gyptian Lover”, a series of exhibitions at London’s SPACE that have drifted fluidly around media including video, sculpture, installation and performance, Upset The Rhythm's Yes Way festival, plus shows with kindred spirit Sun Araw in the pipeline.
"What do we actually know about Hype Williams? ... an obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al ... music which fascinates largely because of its refusal to commit" - The Wire
"Believe our hype about Hype. The missing link between Ariel Pink and Aphex Twin" - The Guardian
Watch/listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NupR1k7QZdE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMbfJpEigOs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsad3s3hk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc&feature=related
Sun Araw + Zun Zun Egui + Runners + Hookworms + Ben Dewrance (DJ) @ Brudenell.
The 'How Come...' Tour featuring......
featuring......
Sun Araw + Zun Zun Egui + Runners + Hookworms + Ben Dewrance (DJ) @ Brudenell.
...Tuesday 23rd November 2010.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/89747
Tickets... £6 Advance/MOTD... Available from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets...
SUN ARAW
“On Patrol is his most mind-bending statement yet – two LPs of reverb-drenched guitar, distant singing, and muffled beats” - Pitchfork
“Sun Araw's all-gates-open aesthetic is truly liberating … a transcendental voyage through modern culture” - The Wire
The recently named Hypnagogic Pop (Wire) is a good description of a recent bunch of American artists such as Sun Araw, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Skaters, Ducktails, Pocahaunted, Emeralds. Probably one of the most original new styles in music it draws from a love of retro 80's childhood nostalgia, psychedelia, experimental synths, drone, noise and ambient music.
The music of Cameron Stallones, aka Sun Araw, makes the familiar sound hauntingly surreal. His dubby bass lines, loping beats, and quivering Farfisa organ chords are easy to grasp. But the way Stallones arranges them, looping them into trances and submerging them in echo, makes the resulting songs feel less like clear images than foggy, humid dreams. They also paint a picture of his home city, Los Angeles, as a faded memory of its glamorous past, a ghost rising from the streets like heat waves.
www.myspace.com/sunaraw
http://pitchfork.com/features/columns/7818-the-out-door-4/3/ - Pitchfork Interview
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3038/ - Free downloads
www.last.fm/music/Sun+Araw
ZUN ZUN EGUI
“Zun Zun Egui's 20-minute debut EP Bal La Poussiere makes the Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend look like sadsacks and slack motherfuckers; it's a volatile blend of African polyrhythms, tropical blues, Mars Volta energy, bowel-busting Boris riffs, and swirls of AmRep noise—think Konono N°1 covered by Jesus Lizard, and you're getting close.” - Village Voice
“Internationalist loonies Zun Zun Egui have crowds pouring down the hills to the call of their kraut-meets-math-meets-post-hardcore noise and multilingual vocals from a dude who grabs his crotch and say he's called Motherf***ker” – NME (Green Man Festival review)
Zun Zun Egui conjure up bona fide rebel music that is full of body, raw in spirit
and totally free of precedent. A heavy, heavy dance band, they fire up mighty,
eternal grooves worthy of some dust-caked Lagos street jam, but don’t just
settle for that: tropical melodies, thrilling stop-start time switches, scorching
psychedelics and robust underground rock flourishes are gathered up as the
momentum swells towards frenzied, ecstatic finales. East African guitar
practice is inflamed by multi-lingual incantations (in French, English, Creole,
Japanese...), sinuous prog gets a big bass undertow. It’s roll and roll, a
rainbow blaze of rhythm and sound that pulls both the rockers and the
writhers into its heart.
www.myspace.com/zunzunegui
drownedinsound.com/releases/14533/reviews/4137452
www.last.fm/music/Zun+Zun+Egui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19sPAPjep5I - At SXSW
featuring......
Sun Araw + Zun Zun Egui + Runners + Hookworms + Ben Dewrance (DJ) @ Brudenell.
...Tuesday 23rd November 2010.
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/89747
Tickets... £6 Advance/MOTD... Available from Jumbo, Crash, Wegottickets...
SUN ARAW
“On Patrol is his most mind-bending statement yet – two LPs of reverb-drenched guitar, distant singing, and muffled beats” - Pitchfork
“Sun Araw's all-gates-open aesthetic is truly liberating … a transcendental voyage through modern culture” - The Wire
The recently named Hypnagogic Pop (Wire) is a good description of a recent bunch of American artists such as Sun Araw, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Skaters, Ducktails, Pocahaunted, Emeralds. Probably one of the most original new styles in music it draws from a love of retro 80's childhood nostalgia, psychedelia, experimental synths, drone, noise and ambient music.
The music of Cameron Stallones, aka Sun Araw, makes the familiar sound hauntingly surreal. His dubby bass lines, loping beats, and quivering Farfisa organ chords are easy to grasp. But the way Stallones arranges them, looping them into trances and submerging them in echo, makes the resulting songs feel less like clear images than foggy, humid dreams. They also paint a picture of his home city, Los Angeles, as a faded memory of its glamorous past, a ghost rising from the streets like heat waves.
www.myspace.com/sunaraw
http://pitchfork.com/features/columns/7818-the-out-door-4/3/ - Pitchfork Interview
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/3038/ - Free downloads
www.last.fm/music/Sun+Araw
ZUN ZUN EGUI
“Zun Zun Egui's 20-minute debut EP Bal La Poussiere makes the Dirty Projectors and Vampire Weekend look like sadsacks and slack motherfuckers; it's a volatile blend of African polyrhythms, tropical blues, Mars Volta energy, bowel-busting Boris riffs, and swirls of AmRep noise—think Konono N°1 covered by Jesus Lizard, and you're getting close.” - Village Voice
“Internationalist loonies Zun Zun Egui have crowds pouring down the hills to the call of their kraut-meets-math-meets-post-hardcore noise and multilingual vocals from a dude who grabs his crotch and say he's called Motherf***ker” – NME (Green Man Festival review)
Zun Zun Egui conjure up bona fide rebel music that is full of body, raw in spirit
and totally free of precedent. A heavy, heavy dance band, they fire up mighty,
eternal grooves worthy of some dust-caked Lagos street jam, but don’t just
settle for that: tropical melodies, thrilling stop-start time switches, scorching
psychedelics and robust underground rock flourishes are gathered up as the
momentum swells towards frenzied, ecstatic finales. East African guitar
practice is inflamed by multi-lingual incantations (in French, English, Creole,
Japanese...), sinuous prog gets a big bass undertow. It’s roll and roll, a
rainbow blaze of rhythm and sound that pulls both the rockers and the
writhers into its heart.
www.myspace.com/zunzunegui
drownedinsound.com/releases/14533/reviews/4137452
www.last.fm/music/Zun+Zun+Egui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19sPAPjep5I - At SXSW
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