This sounds like if Gang Gang Dance was..... better. The obvious synth pop turns me on in a non creepy way

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GROUNDERS' new album will be available May 12 in North America, July in UK/EU. Tour dates coming soon!

“Where do you go? Waiting around, where do you go from here?” wonders the chorus of “Secret Friend,” the first single from GROUNDERS’ debut self-titled LP.

With a dreamy, reverb-drenched intro, the song drifts alongside layers of wobbly arpeggiated synth lines and space-age guitar melodies. It’s the opening track, and it’s also a fitting intro to GROUNDERS. It shimmers and gleams, but there’s a scrappy, stripped-back undertone that chips away at any polish. For every catchy hook and lush arrangement throughout the album there’s a woozy counterpoint that keeps things slightly off-kilter.

Where do you go from here? Into the weird and wonderful pop world of GROUNDERS.

This spring, the Toronto-based band – Andrew Davis (vocals and guitar), Daniel Busheikin (keyboards), Mike Searle (Bass) and Evan Lewis (guitar) – will release their first full-length album, a collection of dense and intricate pop music under the gauzy veil of krautrock and psychedelia. In the time between releasing the Wreck of a Smile EP in 2013 and laying demos for their debut album, GROUNDERS rediscovered their love for classic pop music, an appreciation that had waned over the years as they became obsessed with circumventing the conventional. They listened to pop staples like David Bowie and Devo, and revisited old favourites like Velvet Underground, Neu and the Zombies. When GROUNDERS finally came up for air, they had a newfound love for pop and a glut of ideas for a debut LP.

Meanwhile, Meditation for Dummies and David Lynch’s self-help guide Catching the Big Fish, on transcendental meditation and the creative process, were passed around the van while touring through North America. As Davis’s interest in meditation increased, his lyrics began to reflect his search for serenity and inner peace.

The album came to life in two distinct spaces: Davis’s bedroom in Toronto’s sleepy High Park neighbourhood; and a spacious two-car garage packed with vintage gear from various pawn shops and second-hand stores across the country.

After recruiting DIANA’s Kieran Adams to handle drums, the band headed into the studio with longtime pal Marcel Ramagnano (Born Ruffians, Absolutely Free) to record. Months of tracking, tinkering and layering later, GROUNDERS enlisted the incomparable David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene, Holy Fuck) to give each song the bombastic, fried analog treatment he’s become known for.

First single "Secret Friend" sounds like a bleached and sunbaked Zombies; “Vyvanse,” which yes, is named after the ADHD drug, contains a lilting guitar riff that’ll break your heart; “Pull It Over Me” careens into the dreamy ether courtesy of a wistful cyclical guitar that’s the epitome of a lazy summer’s day; “No Ringer” is a wobbly Silver Apples trance doused in a saxophone freak-out; "Fool's Banquet" sparkles like early Broadcast flooded by constant glistening waves of pleasure. After cross-country tours, an acclaimed debut EP and a David Lynch-inspired spiritual journey, GROUNDERS have finally come of age.

GROUNDERS - No Ringer

[Verse 1]
She left no room to regret
Kept her legs wide in a tight silhouette
Me and my pride, standing tall
And my nights spent fighting, trying not to fall
You returned to your old ways
Far from the world where we used to blaze
And I walk a twisted line
My heart's entwined, I'll go back to time

[Chorus]
We only parted with sighs
I fell a thousand times
You return to sin, I turn to
I turn to our space

[Verse 2]
I love you still, but it’s a bitter pill
You crave the thrills, and I’ve had my fill
Life’s a winding road, with no place to call on home
I’m a silver coin, rolling through the unknown

[Verse 3]
We hit the clubs all around
You know every guy in this town
Each one with a story, a tale they tell
I’m caught in your spell, but it’s a private hell

[Chorus]
We only parted with sighs
I fell a thousand times
You return to sin, I turn to
I turn to the echoes

[Bridge]
Time, time
Time, time
Time, time
Time
I turn to
I turn to
the echoes

[Verse 4]
We hit the clubs all around
You know every guy in this town
Each one with a story, a tale they tell
I’m caught in your spell, but it’s a private hell

[Outro - Chorus x2]
We only parted with sighs
I fell a thousand times
You return to sin, I turn to
I only parted with sighs
I fell a thousand times
You return to sin, I turn to time

*SIGH* PARTY

OSKU TIL OSKU - BABA NAGA

from the "Eternal Delight" CD/LP (NNF316)
Not Not Fun / 2016

DELIGHT:
https://purplepilgrims.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-delight
midheaven.com/item/eternal-delight-by-purple-pilgrims

Purple Pilgrims "Thru Evry Cell"

"Neathriver Chain" is from the Shadoof LP out now!  Order LP or CD here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/pre-order-bichkraft-shadoof-1

Order Shadoof on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shadoof/id1109816661

On the cusp of their first U.S. tour, Kiev-based four-piece Bichkraft deliver their shimmering second album, Shadoof. To write and record their sophomore effort, the group built a studio in a debris-strewn lot in the hilly Roshinskiy neighborhood of Kiev, Ukraine. Using the piles of broken classical LPs, discarded winter coats and Soviet-era refrigerators they found there, they constructed a studio to serve as their de facto headquarters. The trash-filled yard outside, in all its chaotic beauty, became its own source of inspiration for the recording. Once the songs were complete, the band refined them on the road, performing around Kiev, throughout Ukraine and for the first time in Russia.
    
Finding inspiration in the wasteland, Shadoof refuses to end the party even while chaos and disintegration build around the edges. From anthemic industro-punk (“Big Red Robe”) and jagged, hook-filled noise pop (“Sleeves at Farewell”) to pulsing techno noise (“Stain of Rest”), Shadoof hits hard out of the gates and takes listeners on a journey through Kiev’s winding streets, out past the Ukrainian border and into regions unknown.  This is a record of dangerous beauty made by and for the adventurous.

* Playing live at 2016 Pitchfork Northside Festival Showcase with Marshstepper, Priests, and David Vassalotti *

PITCHFORK
“The electronic beat recalls Big Black's unsettling metronome—or more recently, the dystopian hypnosis of Total Control”
NOISEY
“Fans of early Jesus & Mary Chain, The Ukiah Drag, and psych that doesn’t stray into shitty jam band territory, pay close attention”


Bichkraft - Neathriver Chain

From the new album "Inner Journey Out", Out Now

LP/CD: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr155-psychic-ills-inner-journey-out
iTunes: http://apple.co/1RkgCxX
Bandcamp: https://psychicills.bandcamp.com/album/inner-journey-out


Facebook: www.facebook.com/psychicills
Twitter: twitter.com/psychicills
Instagram: www.instagram.com/psychicills/

TOUR DATES & TICKETS : bit.ly/1Mq3aDc

Inner Journey Out

Baby

Psychic Ills - Baby

SSR is from Savoy Motels debut 45 Hot One B/W Souvenir Shop Rock.  

On tour in June 
June 15: Ottobar - Baltimore, MD
June 16: The Pharmacy - Philadelphia, PA
June 17: Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY *
June 18: Brillobox - Pittsburgh, PA #
June 19: Happy Dog - Cleveland, OH
June 20: UFO Factory - Detroit, MI
June 21: The East Room - Chicago, IL
June 22: PK's - Carbondale, IL 

Savoy Motel Is:
Jeffrey Novak: bass / vocals
Jessica McFarland: drums / vocals
Mimi Galbierz: guitar / vocals
Dillon Watson: guitar

Savoy Motel - Souvenir Shop Rock

GB 126 - KOOL 100's - Blood Skulls Pussy & Violence Axes Daggers Upside-Down Crosses-7" ep

Taking their name from the official cigarette butt of Kansas City, 
Missouri, Kool 100s can be found lying on the sidewalks of its seedier neighborhoods, 
exposed to the elements like a drunk mooning a lightning storm and/or god. 
The guitar is a noxious, carcinogenic fog of blaring 12-string d'jangle, 
tainting lungs and clothing and sweated out in salty chemical rivulets that pool in bodily crevices.
Somewhere in the thick smog of trebly melody, the smooth amphetamine pound of bass and drums 
try to work as many notes and beats into a minute and a half song as possible 
with the jittery insistence of a nic fit. Blood pressures rise, temples throb. 
Vocal melodies diverge from guitar lines, but both are ascerbic and addictive, 
causing blood vessels to dialate and mixed-company to cough uncomfortably. 
Smartly-written lyrics reek of tales of shitheads and ex-girlfriends ("no baby, this one's not about you"), 
bad decisions made with no regrets ("I shouldn't have taken the whole thing"), 
and compulsions you can't swear off ("I can always stop tomorrow").  
Mark Twain suggested you should "write what you know," and so the Kool 100s wrote 
BLOOD SKULLS PUSSY AND VIOLENCE, AXES DAGGERS UPSIDE-DOWN-CROSSES.  
To date, they've also released a 6-song seven inch "We Buy Gold" on Springfield, Illinois' Garbage Shop 
and a cassette "Diet Black" on Omaha's Rainy Road records.

!!!!GARAGE/ LO-FI-PUNK/ R'n'R!!!!

(limited to 300) The 7" will be issued with 2  different covers

1 cover art 150 copies   Black and White
2 cover art 150  copies   Black and Green





KOOL 100's - Queer for him -

FAT WHITE FAMILY - CONNAN MOCKASIN

GB 123 -  BEATNIKS - Beatniks - 7" ep.

BEATNIKS is a punk band in Oakland, featuring members of Violent Change, Life Stinks, 
The World and Andy Human & The Reps. BEATNIKS are serious: they don't watch TV.

Here's what people have to say about the BEATNIKS demo tape:

"...Great downer rock n' roll / proto-punk for fans of Charles Manson (the cult leader, not the musician) 
and hand-rolled cigarettes...disgusted crooner vocals and a desperate urban feel."
-Alex from France (MRR)

"Heavy KBD/protopunk influence (think Penetrators, early Gizmos etc.) combined with occasional 
synth weirdness, and more or less devoid of the novelty aspects of those sounds. 
With great sarcastic lyrics and simple riffs, BEATNIKS are full of snot and stomp and will fuck you up if 
you were to challenge them to a throw down. Whether they'd stick you with a switchblade or zap you 
with a raygun is unclear, but either way, BEATNIKS WIN, YOU LOSE!"
-Vinnie Barrett

!!!!PUNK /KBD/R'n'R !!!!

(limited to 250) The 7" will be issued with three different covers

1 cover art 83 copies   Black and White
2 cover art 83 copies   Green
3 cover art 83 copies   Yellow






BEATNIKS - Friends = Enemies

 new extract from the upcoming beko_301 drug train - petite nature LP ! PREORDERS start next week ! Finies les folies 


cover art by Jimmy Beaulieu !

Drug Train - Finies Les Folies

Title track from the forthcoming Cate Le Bon EP, "Rock Pool", out on January 27th!

http://www.dragcity.com/products/rock-pool
http://geni.us/CateRockPooLiTUNES

Cate Le Bon- "Rock Pool"

Self Architect

H.Grimace - 2.1 Woman

Final mix? Yes? UNMASTERED? Yes. A version of this will be on an un-yet named or, scheduled LP.

MISPERCEPTION

This is the debut single release from L’Epee , the band are Emmaunelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle) , Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) & Lionel & Marie Liminana (The Liminanas) . Recorded in Cabestany (France) and Berlin at Anton’s Cobra Studio , this three track 12” single comes in deluxe packaging & proceeds the full length album released in June this year.

Dreams

teaser track from third Pikelet album Calluses, due out on Chapter Music 16 August 2013.

download this from http://chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/calluses

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https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/pikelet/id256150983?uo=4

Pikelet - Pressure Cooker

beko it's over follow us now on Too Good To Be True

L'actualité musicale playlistée au fil de mes humeurs, le tout agrémenté d'un Kaméhaméha d'Amour!

Drug Train - Finies Les Folies

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