A filthy Rock N' Roll sandwich layered with psychedelic, garage, blues, punk, and space. Served with a side of deep-fried distortion.

2-Dirty Rock 'n' Roll

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punk rock

Giel

NAS.5

Punk rock y a la lona

Summer Fades

Taken from the album "Stars Are Our Home."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) and Sonic Cathedral (UK)

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It was Alfred Bester, if I recall correctly, who called 'the stars my destination', in his brilliant novel of the same name from 1956. Long considered a libertarian science fiction classic, it's also notable for featuring one of the very first accounts of synaesthesia in English-language fiction. This might be drawing a particularly long bow, but the title of Black Hearted Brother's debut, "Stars Are Our Home", immediately brought Bester's book to mind – and there's definitely something of the synaesthesic experience about this album, overflowing with enraptured, glowing textures, flaring white light like magnesium, in consort with brilliant red-blue waves of psychedelia.

Of course, the first thing that might crane your head towards "Stars Are Our Home" is the group's membership: Neil Halstead, the éminence grise behind Slowdive and Mojave 3; Mark Van Hoen, an original member of Seefeel, subsequently working solo and as Locust; and Nick Holton, the main mover behind Holton's Opulent Oog, and member of Coley Park, who have released albums on Halstead's Shady Lane label. They had previously converged on Halstead's 2001 solo album, "Sleeping On Roads," though Van Hoen also co-produced Mojave 3's "Out Of Tune" (1998), "Excuses For Travelers" (2000) and "Spoon & Rafter" (2003), while Holton took up production duties for Halstead's "Palindrome Hunches" (2012). Van Hoen and Halstead go back much further still, to 1992, when they were in Seefeel and Slowdive respectively: 'Mark taught Neil much that was electronic and ambient music.'

You could hear that education bearing fruit with Slowdive's late-period masterpiece, 1995's "Pygmalion." In some ways, "Stars Are Our Home" echoes that album's experimental process, if not the outcome, as Black Hearted Brother are a very different, distinctive beast, often indulging in what Halstead, self-deprecatingly, describes as 'a lot of very long and indulgent space rawk.' And indeed, that space-rock drive is writ loud and clear on the album's opening title track, an instrumental bliss-out that navigates through ocean-tides of FX-drenched guitar. But there's a lot more to it: 'The idea was to just make a record that was in some ways "unedited",' Halstead continues. 'To not worry about a particular sound or style, but to just go with the flow. We all make quite focused records individually so, as Mark says, it's our "guilty pleasures" album.' That seems about right, except with "Stars Are Our Home," the outcome is no guilt, all pleasure.

'Neil and Nick had, I think, started a few months before they asked me to join the party,' Van Hoen recalls. 'I think they had a few songs on the go, and needed an extra hand to add a few funny noises and generally add to the chaos – or maybe bring some order to the chaos.' Van Hoen has picked up on the dialectical nature of "Stars Are Our Home" here, its "order" and its "chaos": it's a rich, compelling album full of unexpected twists and turns, at times overloading the sensorium with so much material you're drenched in noise, but it'll just as quickly flip back on itself and drift through a glazed-eye, agrarian moment of acoustic melancholy (see the start of "Time In The Machine", which, as if to prove my point, takes less than a minute to build into a clangorous, droning monster).

So, there's a whole lot going on in these grooves, and plenty of it's unexpected, or from unexpected sources. The trio plays fast and loose with what listeners might consider their pre-ordained 'roles'. 'Primarily the songs themselves were started either by Nick or Neil individually,' Van Hoen explains, 'but then edited, developed and generally messed around with and rendered almost unlistenable by either myself or the others. The roles were not always clear cut. Sometimes Nick would be playing keyboards and synths, and myself guitars.' Lyrics on the record feel like another texture, another layer: sometimes they're invocatory chants, sometimes Halstead's and Holton's voices are ghosted by electronic manipulation, as on "Oh Crust". Often there's more going on than at first glance, and an index of the album's lyrical concerns runs to 'romance, sci-fi, places to go on holiday, real UFO abduction, the duality in the meaning of words, lament for the loss of psychedelic freedoms by the masses…'

"Stars Are Our Home" is brave and beautiful, mysterious and resonant. Its experimental edges never forget the importance of the pop moment; the best way to bring people around to your way of hearing is to seduce their ears, and there's seduction plenty here, pure pop like "Take Heart", the Other Green World of "I'm Back", the closing driftwork that is "Look Out Here They Come". A real head-wrecker of an album. And what does the future hold? The trio speaks as one: 'Black Hearted Brother will grow and mature into something very sophisticated in the coming years. A kind of comedic-space-rock-dancehall outfit to define a zeitgeist for the 22nd century, if you like.' Ha, yeah – amen, brothers!

Black Hearted Brother - (I Don't Mean To) Wonder

Taken from their debut album "Weird Sister."
Out now on Slumberland Records (US) & Fortuna Pop! (UK)

LP/CD: http://smarturl.it/jgws-album
Digital: http://smarturl.it/jgws-itunes

Thrilling Cardiff-based noisepop five-piece Joanna Gruesome will be releasing their terrific debut album via Fortuna POP! (Europe) and Slumberland (USA) in September. Brimming with irresistible pop melodies and spiked with dissonant fuzzy jangle, their songs are shot through with loud discordant feedback and super-fast, hardcore punk drumbeats. This album sees their first foray away from recording in a living room to a proper studio under the guidance of producer MJ of the much lauded Hookworms.

Kicking it against sexism and homophobia, nothing is off-limits, drawing inspiration from DIY scenes such as Riot Grrrl/noisepop/C86 /K Records as well as post hardcore like Drive Like Jehu/Converge and the art rock of The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, Joanna Gruesome offer a staggeringly diverse album, unexpectedly quiet and surprisingly loud.

Joanna Gruesome comprise Alanna on vocals, Owen on guitar, Max on bass, George on guitar and Dave on drums. They all met in an anger management counseling group. During the course they were told that writing, making music, dancing or painting could relieve tension and help reduce feelings of anger. One initiative involved a project where they were assigned a group to compose and perform a song in front of other members. Initially they found each other infuriating but gradually acknowledged their musical chemistry and decided to continue with the band outside the therapy group.

Most of the album was written during a month long stay in a seedy west Brighton hotel (now closed down) called The Hell House. The residents were pretty strange, kept attempting occult rituals/using Ouija boards etc and many of the songs were written to distract from the weirdness. Heart-wrenching and exhilarating in equal measure, these are not cheerful songs.

Awash with nods to mental illness and the dark recesses of the mind, the record is littered with references to the devil or zombies and allusions to comic books. “Secret Surprise”, in which mental illness takes a physical form and is fought using razor blades. Or "Anti-Parent Cowboy Killers," which is about stealing a scooter and driving it into the ocean when you should be in school LEARNING. Or "Sugarcrush," about spending a summer burning knitwear.

They have built-up a phenomenal live reputation, blending obnoxiously loud guitars and the occasional band uniform, with a high energy performance dispersed with quieter reflection, boy/girl vocals and teenage angst.

“Abrasion, anger, attitude. One guitarist is in the audience, but this isn’t too much of a stretch. There are slower parts where the musicians take a second to breath. There are noisier bits where the musicians take a second to reflect. There are thumpy bits where the musicians take a second to dance and enjoy themselves. Everyone’s smiling. Everyone’s hugging themselves. What a glorious mess of a noise to be a part of. What a glorious sense of community.” Everett True, Collapse Board
 
"A brilliant band from Cardiff who love their fuzzy melodies and songs dripped in scuzzy reverb." Huw Stephens, Radio One.

Joanna Gruesome - Sugarcrush

From 'Glow & Behold' out 30/09 (UK) / 01/10 (US)

UK:
Pre-order the album now at iTunes to download ‘Middle Sea’ for free: http://po.st/GlowBeholdiTunes
Limited signed artwork print available when you pre-order the CD or ltd edition white 12” vinyl from the official store: http://po.st/GlowBeholdStore

US:
Pre-order at http://fatpossum.com/products/glow-and-behold

Glow & Behold

Middle Sea

Earthless - Violence Of The Red Sea

Girl's Gonna Break It is title of the new The Sore Losers single. The track is the first from the forthcoming second album of the Belgians. The album will be released next Spring, but the band will debut new material at a show at AB Brussels next month.

The song is the first from The Sore Losers album produced by Rudolf de Borst (aka Dolf The Datsun, when playing in The Datsuns. De Borst invited The Sore Losers over at the Svenska Grammofon Studio in Gothenburgh, Sweden to record their new album on the Neve console, which once was the heart and soul of the legendary Queen studio in Montreux, used by no other than Jimmy Page leading Led Zeppelin to their 'Coda'.

Girl's Gonna Break It will be released by Excelsior Recordings on October 15th. The second album will be released next year. An exclusive first taste can be heard at the AB Club in Brussels where the band will debut their new songs on November 16th.

The Sore Losers - Girl's Gonna Break It

Neighborhood Brats - "Total Dementia"

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FROM THE ALBUM - GUILTY AS CHARGED

FUCK THEM ALL

. Justified (A song about domestic abuse!)

JC Satàn  -  I Get Nervous

23 Number One Chicken

17 My Impala '65

03 Whatever

Last year Geronimo! announced they'd be breaking up after seven years, three full lengths, and three EPs as a band, but before they go the Chicago based trio wanted to release their final batch of songs they wrote together. In true Geronimo! fashion, the band continue to prove they only get better with each new release, the fine wine of Chicago fuzzy alternative influenced post-punk. Buzz Yr Girlfriend: Vol. 4 - Why Did You Leave Me? is the result of those final songs, a ripping and agressive burst of shredding guitars and stampeding rhythms. The walls may be closing in on Geronimo!'s time together, but they're not going out without a fight. BYG! Vol. 4 is out March 31st on Exploding In Sound Records.

Since the release of Fuzzy Dreams, the band's full length debut to last year's masterpiece Cheap Trick, Geronimo! have proven to be the Midwest's "best kept secret" but those who have come into contact with the tangled web of their music and the band's unmistakable charm know that Geronimo! may be going the way of the buffalo, but the noise they made over the past seven years will forever ring triumphant. The closing moments of Cheap Trick stand out "Euphoria" says it best, "what kind of heaven have I stumbled in to / can I stay here for a while?".
 
Geronimo! will play their final show on March 28th at Chicago's Beat Kitchen with long time friends Vaya, Velcicopter, and a few others dear friends to be announced in March! 

Geronimo! - Fires Of Hell

"If Death Ever Slept" appears on Negative Feedback Resistor, Out Now


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Destruction Unit - "If Death Ever Slept"

Hausu - She's a Babe

Download "Koi No Yokan" here: http://smarturl.it/deftemp

Lyrics - "Bored"

Hear me spit on you, wither I Remold into gold and bury I from - Sun

Reborn left to sigh, recure maybe I'll 
Be born and simplify - The way I lie - Before 
I get bored, I get bored, I get bored I'm bored 
Repent by you and trust to figure out
I burn that gift to doll and let it shine before
I get bored, I get bored, I get bored, I wish for a real one

Fit and confide, before me or I
I will come clean, it gets worse - it's more
Get bored, I get bored, I get bored, A wish for a real one
Get bored, Get bored, Get bored, I wish for a real one

Adrenaline

Bored

In April of 2008, we at Sub Pop Records had the good fortune to release the US version of Antidotes, the debut album by Oxford, UK quintet Foals. Antidotes was a special album. Two years on from that impressive introduction, a choice has been made–-rather than contort Antidotes’ lithesome guitars into ever more elaborate patterns, Total Life Forever is the sound of a band settling into and surveying the decay of old protocols. With this new album, Foals strip their sound back and turn themselves inside out searching for that invisible human thing. The result is an album as persuasive emotionally as Antidotes  was physically. Whereas that album constantly reinforced its own presence by filling the air with yelping and polyrhythm, tracks on Total Life Forever such as disarming opener “Blue Blood,” “2 Trees” and the astonishing “Black Gold” are happier to leave gaps for the listener to explore in mind’s ear and eye. Written primarily in the basement of their Oxford HQ (“The House of Supreme Mathematics”) and recorded in Gothenburg with former Clor man Luke Smith, Total Life Forever finds Foals singing rather than shouting, emotional as well as functional. The band’s soul-search reveals new antidotes found in infinite, internal spaces rather than carved violently upon the air–-Total Life Forever feels more the work of artists than artisans. It’s a triumph that they’ve managed to remain a band of progress and propulsion while investigating that vast, dark space lurking inside themselves-–that gap between ribs where “nature, or god or whatever you wanna call it, will come in.”

Released: June 15, 2010 


   1. Blue Blood
   2. Miami
   3. Total Life Forever
   4. Black Gold
   5. Spanish Sahara
   6. This Orient
   7. Fugue
   8. After Glow
   9. Alabaster
  10. 2 Trees
  11. What Remains



Total Life Forever

Spanish Sahara

Foals - Spanish Sahara

The KADAVAR LP is shortly to be released by TEE PEE Records together with TCMR end of February 2012.

Off one thing is clear, it is impossible to overhear the Black Sabbath influence. Of course the impact of other great and important bands, such as Led Zeppelin, Hawkwind and Witchfinder General can also be heard in the music of this band. This can make you forget that you are actually listening to a contemporary trio from Berlin.

Reading this you could get the impression, that listening to KADAVAR’s music could get boring quite fast, due to the fact that we’ve heard this kind of music before. The good thing about their music is that the sound is converted in such way that the audience notices that blood, sweat and tears have been shed during the process. Music like this can only be played on such high level if one has been through the rough shit that live brings with it sometimes. As an audience we are automatically faced with long straight hair, minimum one mustache, a lot of rings on both hands, fur collars and flared trousers.
The Ludwig- Drum set sounds amazingly dry, well it is a Ludwig. Bass and Guitar stand on either side of the stage, building a panorama view, which is great fun over headphones. On the left you get Grease, on the right Fuzz, everything pounds and booms, there’s the double space vocals. It’s easy to be blown away. Superb.
The trio is a well attuned team that sing of Wizzards, Lucifer and of course Mountains. I don’t quite understand how someone can be so deep into a matter but i like it. The guys names are Lindemann, Mammut, and TIger. I’m wishless!
For 70′s hardrockfans this vinyl is a complete revelation, for all rockfans, that haven’t dared to advance into the 70′s stuff, this is a good field research. For me, this record is simply mega entertaining. A record that is stuffed with skill and know-how.
You can’t reinvent the wheel, but you can roll it!

Kadavar

Goddess of Dawn

Kadavar - Goddess of Dawn

“Its sureness and subtlety say more than a few gauche early pullquotes” | PITCHFORK
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17355-persistent-malaise/

“The songs do this wonderful thing, where they just gnaw on you” | DAYTROTTER
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/cold-pumas/20056359-37383554

“The methodically planned looseness of ‘Persistent Malaise’s constant groove is thoroughly captivating” | LOUD AND QUIET
http://www.loudandquiet.com/2012/11/cold-pumas-persistent-malaise/

“I can’t think of a better album from a British band all year” | NORMAN RECORDS
http://www.normanrecords.com/records/136796-cold-pumas-persistent-malaise

Fog Cutter

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"Just To Be Like You"

The Black Madonnas - Look At You Know

New album 'Divides' out May 6th ft. "Motherless Land" + "Into Dust"
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Dead Man's Shoes

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The Lung

newwest-demo versh

Franki Jo

"Blue Baby" is the first official single from Ovlov's full length debut "Am," due out July 2nd via Exploding In Sound Records. The album is available for pre-order at www.ovlov.bandcamp.com on "piss yellow" and "swamp green" vinyl.

Ovlov - Blue Baby

Album Available Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bass-drum-of-death/id666075373

"Shattered Me b/w Crawling After You:" https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shattered-me-single/id630008148

Bass Drum of Death

Bass Drum of Death - Crawling After You

"Nu Punk" is the second official single from Ovlov's full length debut "Am," due out July 2nd via Exploding In Sound Records. The album is available for pre-order at www.ovlov.bandcamp.com on "piss yellow" and "swamp green" vinyl.

Ovlov - Nu Punk

Cavity click keeps the rhythm, keeps it movin'.  Any day it's gonna crack.  Popcorn kernel, olive pit, at any moment smashed to bits (yeah).  Toothache's better than heartache baby, I've figured that much out.  And I thought I knew a thing or two about the blues but you've got me wonderin' now.

Dog-eyed kindess (naive and trusting) fans the purest flame of morning fire.  But once it fizzles out into charred, formless evening, how do you ignite without turning to ash (yeah).  Seasick's better than heartsick, baby.  I know that much by now.  And I thought I knew nausea from sea to cars but you've got me wonderin' now.

Forced into morning, tempted into night.  Tally all the things that you broke.  Bending her branches.  Snapping, sapping and writhing.  For me alone.  Yeah, I guess sunburn's better than heartburn (barely).  Guess I never figured that out.  And I thought I knew a thing or two about the blues but you've got me wonderin' now.  

'Tally All The Things That You Broke' EP, Out 10/8/13 on What's Your Rupture?

Parquet Courts - You've Got Me Wonderin' Now

Bent Shapes is Andy Sadoway, Ben Potrykus, and Supriya Gunda. Since forming under the name Girlfriends in 2009, the Boston trio has released a string of cassettes and 7”s full of fuzzy garage, frantic jangle pop, and scrappy post-punk on various labels (including band members’ own imprints). The band’s myriad of influences reference touchstones like Josef K, The Feelies, Jonathan Richman, Billy Childish, and The Fall.

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Ovlov - Nu Punk

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