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Electric Citizen - Sateen
Release Date - July 1 2014

EasyRider Records
EZRDR - 029


“Taking cultish cues from European acts like The Devil’s Blood and Mansion, but stripping away the religious iconography to leave behind an earthy psychedelic swirl. The retro-style production, especially one so ably done, is a rarity among American acts, who usually bring such influences to bear with a modern feel, but Electric Citizen sound like old pros on their first outing.”

The Obelisk

EasyRider Records, the LA based label responsible for releases by the likes of Monolord, Sons of Huns and Salem’s Pot today announced the signing of the heavy psychedelic outfit Electric Citizen.

Following on from limited edition vinyl/cassette-only releases on The Crossing and Breathe Plastic Records, the winners of this year’s Best Rock Band honor at the 2014 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards will release their debut album, entitled Sateen on 1 July.

Taking their name from a song by the legendary Notting Hill Gate set the Edgar Broughton Band, Electric Citizen is the brainchild of guitarist Ross Dolan and the enigmatic vocalist Laura Dolan, Nick Vogelpohl (bass), and Nate Wagner (drums).

Despite only forming last March the band has had a busy year turning heads and ears onto their dark and esoteric brand of haunting ’60s West Coast folk and quintessentially British sounding rock. Recorded and produced by fellow Ohioan and local legend Brian Olive (Greenhornes, Soledad Brothers) at The Diamonds, Electric Citizen follow in the footsteps of other, similarly 1970s obsessed anti-modernists Blood Ceremony, Wolf People,

Graveyard and Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats. Drawing on influences and eras synonymous with the heaviest of heavy psychedelic rock and archaic ill vibes, and music by bands such as Shocking Blue, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Black Widow and Amon Düül II.

The band takes to the road over the next few months ahead of Sateen’s official release on 1 July 2014 via EasyRider Records (www.easyriderrecords.com).

Tour Dates:

Wednesday, March 19 – Double Door (Chicago) w. Mad Alchemy Thursday, March 20 – Pyramid Scheme (Grand Rapids) w. Mad Alchemy Friday, March 21 – Corktown Tavern (Detroit)
Saturday, March 22 – Happy Dog (Cleveland)
Friday, April 4 – Northside Tavern (Cincinnati) w. Valley Of The Sun Wednesday, April 9 – w. Spirit Caravan (Columbus)
Saturday, April 26 – Milwaukee Psych Fest
Wednesday, May 7 – MOTR (Cincinnati) w. Aqua Nebula Oscillator

Website – www.electriccitizenband.com
Bandcamp – www.electriccitizenband.bandcamp.com Facebook – www.facebook.com/ElectricCitizen Twitter – @electriccitizN
Instagram – @electriccitizenband 

For pictures, promo, interview requests and guest list please contact Richard S Jones at richard@shelteredlifepr.com / 07854610592.

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More praise for Electric Citizen:

“They come from Cincinnati but are lovers of the legendary British psychedelic groups of the golden years; the space rock of Hawkwind and the electric, grotesque blues of the Edgar Broughton Band from whom they take their name.”
Rumore Magazine

“Electric Citizen plays a contemporary edge with a vitality that elevates its sound beyond slavish retro worship as the musicians translate their influences into a celebration of the past and a reimagining of the future.”


City Beat Magazine

“Soon, it was time to put in the earplugs and warm up our head banging muscles for Electric Citizen. The Cincinnati quartet delivered the promised ‘witchy '70s metal’ with just the right kind of polish. The tones and rhythms might have been copped from Master of Reality, but there was more fury and fuzz-covered joy in this riffage than the last half-dozen Sabbath reunions put together. Singer Laura Dolan’s words were lost in the wash of guitar, bass and drums but her commanding presence and delivery compensated easily. Awash in Dig Deep’s liquid glow, guitar man Ross Dolan kept the reins on his impressive chops, always finding the right lick; he never stepped so far out in front as to diminish the group’s full-bodied impact. Hair flipped, invisible oranges were hoisted, and we were highly impressed as we retreated for a breath of fresh air.”

Nashville Scene

“Special bands exist within their own timeframe: Allergic to trends and suspicious of new technologies, it’s the loners and freethinkers that, ironically, appeal to the masses. Electric Citizen is yet to play their debut show, but they’re already creating quite a stir. A hauntingly beautiful combination of West Coast psych and dark, medieval folk that the summer of ’68 longed for.”

Chybucca Sounds

“If I sound overly sentimental, it is because the sound of Electric Citizen is so deeply reminiscent of the power-rock bands of the early 1970s. It is the sound of an era that purists might consider when ‘real’ heavy metal was forged – when the music was made as a darker reaction against the ‘smile on your brother, come on love one another’ feel-good decade that was the

1960s. Recorded and Produced here in town by Brian Olive [Greenhornes, Soledad Brothers] at The Diamonds and Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, OR, Electric Citizen’s music harkens back to a time when the seminal work of bands like Back Sabbath, Judas Priest or Iron Maiden danced that gossamer line between deviant behavior and black magic.”

WVXU Cincinnati

“An epic piece of psychedelia with hazy organs, jangly eastern-tinged guitars and Dolan's piercing banshee wail creating an intense atmosphere of dread that reaches proportions unparalleled since Jim told us about his unfortunate parental issues in ‘The End’. A perfect primer for an act that are gonna be huge.”

The Active Listener

“Trust me when I say you're in for one hell of a retro treat with these Ohio psych rockers. Straight from the outset you're instantly cast back to a time where flared jeans reigned supreme, Ozzy still had the capability to string a sentence together and acid taken by those at Woodstock was still yet to wear off.”

Ride With The Devil

“The music of Electric Citizen is influenced by heavy psych rock of the decade of the 70s and manages to create beautiful music that accompanies us on a journey full of psychedelic images painted by the wonderful vocals of Laura Dolan.”
Welcome To The Void 


Electric Citizen - Burning In Hell

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Monolord - Harbinger Of Death

Robot Hustle and Josh Cheon of Honey Soundsystem were the guest DJs at Hard French on Saturday April 2, 2014. Here is Josh Cheon's hour long set where he played all 7"s back to back. 

Josh Cheon - Live at Hard French [4-2-14]

Henry's Dress were that rare band for us - a group that we discovered through a demo tape, and then only through the Linton's heroic perseverance in getting a very busy Papa Slumber to listen. Boy, are we glad we finally listened! This EP documents the band's middle period, branching out from their initial interests in Loop-meets-MBV pop heaviness into the more mod/punk sounds that would fuel their later efforts. It's a superb, varied record well worthy of your further investigation.

Anyway you slice it, this record is a smash. Hard-hitting tracks like "Radio One" and "Feathers" are the Dress at their punkiest best. Linton's "A Is For Cribbage" is the Dress at their most mod, coming on like an early Who on a handful of purple hearts - it's possibly our favorite Dress tune! And then of course there's "Sally Wants" and "Three" - a couple of blissed-out fuzzed-out downtempo tracks that beat the space-rockers to the punch by a few solid years.

The band would go even further down the mod/punk route with their subsequent album "Bust 'em Green," but this EP represents a raw, immediate document of a band finding their footing and their own unique sound. And best of all - it still sounds freaking great.


Henry's Dress - Definitely Nothing

Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium

Chrysalis

WAR GODS OF THE DEEP

TROUBLED ROSE

THE RED DEATH

MAKER OF THE MOONS

HAUNTER OF THE DARK

HEIR TO THE PICKLE THRONE

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Mannveira - Von Er Eitur - 03 Vítiskvalir Vitundar

Serpents Lair - Demo MMXIV - 01 Labyrinthine Offerings

Serpents Lair - Demo MMXIV - 02 Epistemology of Death

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The Cutthroats 9: Dissension

"You Can't Stop Me", out on July 14th (UK), July 15th (NA)and July 11th, 2014 (EU) via Nuclear Blast Records.

Cease to Exist

SUICIDE SILENCE - Cease To Exist

Severed Heads are one of the longest surviving bands to emerge from the Australian post-punk independent music scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, incorporating elements of 'industrial' noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Gary Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads was the vehicle for composer Tom Ellard. 
By 1983 they released a C-60 cassette called “Since The Accident” that grabbed the attention of Ink Records, a subsidiary of Virgin in the UK.  Ellard added a throwaway track at the last minute to fill out the cassette, not wanting to leave an unseemly gap on a C60 tape. This track, “Dead Eyes Opened” was catchy enough to get a lot of airplay on the main non-commercial radio station in Sydney. The band was asked to make this song into a 12” single. For this extended version, Tom Ellard and producer Patrick Gibson went to M Squared studio and passed the multitrack through various EQ and delays. “Dead Eyes Opened” features lyrics from a radio program narrated by Edgar Lustgarten, a crime journalist from England. They reference an actual double murder case that occurred in 1924 calling to mind the gruesome imagery of Hannibal Lecter. The rhythms are made by a TR-808 drum machine and an SH-1 synthesizer. A KORG PolySix did the rising wafty sound and strings. The load solo was a Casiotone run through an Octaver foot pedal. On the B-side are two solo compositions “Bullet” and “Mount” that Ellard recorded at Terse Tapes in 1982. 
All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in the original jacket featuring the iconic photograph of a girl with a painted face wrapped in some cloth by Juilee Pryor. Each copy includes a fold-out newsprint poster with a large photo of the band wearing Art Unit skull shirts on one side and liner notes and press clippings on the other. 30 years later Severed Heads are still paving the way for powerful imaginative challenging music far and wide. 

01 Dead Eyes Opened

Modern Life Mag has been living their living through their lifestyle and the people that follow it. So to celebrate our culture, we wanted to give you a good vibes mix on our birthday, May 9th. This mix features some of the freshest talent and music you'll find on the net. This mix was constructed by MLM DJs, Flocko La Wave and Kareem Got Jewels Galore. The two make an hour mix that you won't forget. Chill, celebrate, get turnt, and enjoy. 

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Tracklist 

Flocko La Wave Side

Virtuso The God - ThazMyShit
Young Scooter - Disfunction 
Travi$ Scott - Don't Play 
Wiz Khalifa - We Dem Boyz
Shy Glizzy - So Awesome 
2 Chainz x Lil Boosie - Wulda Cuda Shuda
DT Blanco - Flexas 
TSF x Moe Gang - Flava in yo Ear 
Yung Nation - Wurk Wurk  
Future - Shit (Salva Remix) 
Future - Move That Dope (Thelonious Martin Remix)
Problem - Like What (Salva Remix) 
Que - OG Bobby Johnson ( Gutta Remix)
Wale - Bad (DJ Slink Booty Bounce)

Kareem Got Jewels Galore Side

- FatKidsBrotha – Magic feat. Miloh Smith
• Dom Kennedy – Nothng Like Me
• Curtis Williams – Late Nights Early Morning
• Rome Fortune – Waterfall
• Future – Special feat. Young Scooter
• Yung Simmie – Don’t Step On My Shoes
• Peewee Longway – Sneakin’ & Geekin
’• Key! – I Can’t 
• Lil B – Straps On Deck
• Trinidad Jame$ - Eastside
• Toro y Moi – Harm In Change
• Young Thug – Eww
• Gucci Mane & Young Thug – Stoner 2 Times
• Gucci Mane &Young Thug – OMG Bro
• Migos – Handsome & Wealthy
• Ree$e - #FreeGucci feat. Jace
• Miloh Smith – White
• Yung Simmie – Still Smoking feat. Amber London
• Key! – Coming Down


Modern Life Mag 4th Anniversary Mix

Some of my favorite Post Punk Affiliated music from recent years. Volume Six.

You can check out the other incarnations of these playlists by checking out these links:

Spotify: goo.gl/XA7g6W
YouTube: goo.gl/xxLwgN
8Tracks: goo.gl/7XBc6b
LastFM: goo.gl/qjseiy
Mixcloud: goo.gl/u69OrZ

Photo by @rachel-escoto

Human Tetris - Things I Don’t Need
Roladex - Pink Halloween (Police De Moeurs mix)
HTRK - Synthetik
Cold Comfort - The Future That Never Was
Stress Waves - Incandescent Dreams
Luminance - Les Loups
The Weeps - Did It To Myself
Halcyon - Halcyon
Colder - To The Music
Schonwald - Mercurial
Joy Must Remain - Let The Right One In
I DO NOT LOVE. - Down And Left
The Radio Dept. - The Video Dept.
Holograms - Attestupa
Warmline - Tested
La Fete Triste - Signal : Blau
Double Echo - Sylvia
The Gothic Archies - Ever Falls The Twilight

Post Punk Affiliated - Volume 6

Sam Shalabi & Stefan Christoff - "Flying Street"

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