Middle of The Map Fest has announced their first crop of bands slated to perform at the 3rd annual music portion of the festival, April 4-6 in Kansas City, USA. Tickets are a STEAL at $45…
» mvb
February 3rd, 2013
My Bloody Valentine released their new album mvb at midnight last night via their new website:
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org
● ◉ IT’S PRETTY FUCKING INSANE ◉ ●
Tracklisting:
she found now
only tomorrow
who sees you
is this and yes
if i am
new you
in another way
nothing is
wonder 2
LISTEN:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOfficialMBV?feature=watch
BUY:
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/Catalogue.aspx
Catch them at the O2 March 8th!
» BLACK FLAG: ANNOUNCE DATE IN UK!
January 28th, 2013
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Black Flag have announced Hevy Fest!, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, August 2-4 2013!!!
The show will be their first UK date in 30 years! They’re going to be fronted by Ron Reyes, not our boy Rollins… But hey, change your pants and buy your early bird tix here… \m/ \m/
» JESUS, THIS IS OFF THE CHAIN: PRIMAVERA SOUND LINE-UP
January 23rd, 2013
Feast your eyes on this cosmic line-up. If it’s possible to OD on good music then this is the way to go…
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» BAD ASS GUIDE TO MUSIC: IN THE WEST MIDLANDS
January 23rd, 2013
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If you’ve got nothing to do over the next couple of months then go surf some crowds…
FEBRUARY 13
7th: Thurston Moore & Michael Chapman @ GLEE
12th: Everything Everything @ HMV INSTITUTE
15th: Swim Deep @ HMV INSTITUTE
16th: NME AWARDS TOUR (Django Django/ Miles Kane/ Palma Violets/ Peace) @ O2 ACADEMY
19th: DEFTONES @ O2 ACADEMY
23rd: Wolf Alice/ Wide-Eyed @ THE SUNFLOWER LOUNGE
24th: Deap Vally & Drenge @ THE RAINBOW
26th: Exit Ten @ O2 ACADEMY
MARCH 13
2nd: San Cisco @ HMV INSTITUTE
6th: Wet Nuns @ THE RAINBOW
8th: My Bloody Valentine @ O2 Academy
16th: The Stranglers @ O2 Academy
19th: Cancer Bats @ HMV INSTITUTE
21st: Fiction @ THE RAINBOW
26th: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/ The Big Pink @ HMV INSTITUTE
» IS TROPICAL: TRIPPY ELECTRO EP ‘FLAGS’ OUT NOW
January 22nd, 2013
IS TROPICAL released a new EP of electronic tracks today via Kitsuné and Cooperative. It’s a collection of unreleased demos they were too attached to let go of in the album writing process. IS TROPICAL teamed up with Owen Pratt, Visions, Get People and DRUGSNDREAMZ to produce the tracks. If you’re in to keys this will blow your mind.
Download on iTunes
» Music as Menace: The Murder Ballad
November 13th, 2012
And you thought the olden days were quaint and passe…
The Murder Ballad was a common motif in early blues/jazz/hillbilly hybrid music. It served as a warning. It served as a confession. It was instructive. It was threatening.
Jelly Roll Morton would play this particular song in the brothels of New Orleans.
Sex. Violence. Jealous Rage. Murder. Vulgarity.
Sung from the perspective of a jilted lover, it’s full of lines like “bitch, I’ll cut your fucking throat and drink your blood like wine” and “She pulled out a pistol and shot her right in her eyes/She said, ‘open your legs, you dirty bitch, I’m gonna shoot you between your thighs.”
Would’ve been hard to be a working gal ( or a cheating man, for that matter) with an ominous tune like this chipping away in the background.
Recorded by the legendary Alan Lomax in 1938.
» From The Cosmic Jukebox: The Presley Poltergeist
August 16th, 2012
In the darkness, Elvis shares a womb with his stillborn twin, Jesse. He vacates- only to be born into poverty.
He overcomes poverty, to be a star. A hillbilly with money and fame.
He prevails over the pressures and burdens of celebrity by dropping out/off.
He triumphs over falling off/out (and himself), by staging a comeback.
He transcends his comeback with an ultimate success: Death. It was the last move to make. A death/life so compelling, a mystique so finely woven into the fabric of western culture, that even in finality, it echoes down the mirrored halls into perpetuity…
As adapted from Greil Marcus by Brad Krohe
» FROM THE COSMIC JUKEBOX: HE MADE A WOMAN OUT OF ME
August 2nd, 2012
Bobbie Gentry and some sweet sweet southern soul.
» Interview Gold: Ian Mackaye
July 27th, 2012
Interview Gold brings you the enlightening, the frightening, the awkward, and the LOLZ from music journalism’s most celebrated form.
» SAUNA YOUTH ANNOUNCE ALBUM
July 26th, 2012
Sauna Youth’s press release tells me they are “an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk.” What the hell’s a future human? Anyway, Sauna Youth are great. We saw them a few months back at Camden Crawl (and they also supported Ceremony on their aborted XOYO show back in whenever it was) and they seemed to keep going on forever. That drummer is like a threshing machine (not thrashing, THRESHING, like in The Wurzels song). The albums out in September through Gringo Records/ Faux discx. Should be a good’n.
» On a Steady Diet of Hash, Bread, and Salt: Soundeyet’s Compilation of Rebetika Covers
July 23rd, 2012
Greek music blog Soundeyet has put together a phenomenal compilation of Rebetika covers, featuring the likes of Amen Dunes and Astral Social Club. Rebetika was/is a style of Greek working class music that came about in the ’20′s and 30′s, focused mainly on drugs, women, drink, and poverty. The bulk of this music is found on 78′s. Sensing a renewed interest and appreciation for the Rebetika scene, Soundeyet presents this compilation in hopes “that you will download and enjoy this compilation as much as we did…our wildest dream is that this could set fire to new generations of fearless Rebetika explorers both in our land and abroad.” Read more about it here. Dig at will.
Download here: MediaFire or Sendspace