Name: New Steam by Roommate
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: Amy Cimini: viola. Erica Dicker: violin. Anton Hatwich: string bass. Kent Lambert: vocals, piano, moog bass, brownie*. Mercedes Landazuri: banjo. Justin Petertil: electric guitar. Luther Rochester: buchla music box. Katherine Young: bassoon. Seth Vanek: drums.

Amy Cimini: viola. Erica Dicker: violin. Anton Hatwich: string bass. Kent Lambert: vocals, piano, moog bass, brownie*. Mercedes Landazuri: banjo. Justin Petertil: electric guitar. Luther Rochester: buchla music box. Katherine Young: bassoon. Seth Vanek: drums.


New Steam

Midwich is proud to present MAGAS’s Heads Plus, the first proper vinyl release from James Marlon Magas since 2009’s Violent ARP. For the past several years, Magas has been concentrating on instrumental production, eschewing vocal histrionics of previous work, in favor of moodier, more open-ended composition. This focus has resulted in the bombastic and hallucinatory Heads Plus, an all-instrumental wallop that fuses howling ARP Odyssey, capricious Juno funk and fuzzed Rhodes anchored to the ever-present throb of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Freed from vocal constraints, Heads Plus conjures a cinematic ambience where light and dark wrangle for dominance in a dystopian post-techno near-future. Plowing ahead with gleeful abandon, this 5-track EP is a take-no-prisoners statement of intent. Heads Plus is mastered by Ruud Lekx (Rude 66) and cut by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering in NYC and comes housed in a eye-popping full-color UV gloss jacket featuring artwork by renowned sci-fi illustrator, Mark Salwowski. Layout by designer Beth Hall. 


Magas - Countess

Dedicated to Satoru Iwata.

Whatup (Scott Masson's Heavy Heart Mix)

Throughout their ten-plus years as a band, Chicago’s Roommate (led by singer/songwriter and video artist Kent Lambert) has occupied a moody art-pop world thick with sharp melodies, evocative textures, and keen commentary on the underside of contemporary culture. Through hundreds of shows across the U.S. and Western Europe and an acclaimed catalog of 2 EPs and 3 LPs, Kent’s songs have guided the band’s evolution from a wide-ranging community of Chicago musicians to the tightly focused four-piece at the core of their seamless new album MAKE LIKE, available this June 23rd from Strange Weather Records on LP/CS/DL.

Roommate

Pre-order CD, LP and digital via Wichita store: smarturl.it/hbnoscare 
Pre-order on iTunes: hyperurl.co/NoScare 
Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/3XKT03AsTinkrrVeM0jlqc

"Riverside Cemetrery" is the new single taken from NO SCARE, the Wichita debut for Chicago's Health&Beauty, a band led by Brian Sulpizio and backed by keyboard player Ben Boye (Ryley Walker, Bonnie Prince Billy, Angel Olsen etc) and hugely in-demand jazz drummer, Frank Rosaly (Ryley Walker, Peter Brotzmann and many more). 


NO SCARE

Riverside Cemetery

Health&Beauty - Riverside Cemetery

Pre-order CD, LP and digital via Wichita store: http://smarturl.it/hbnoscare 
Pre-order on iTunes: http://hyperurl.co/NoScare  
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XKT03AsTinkrrVeM0jlqc

"Wartime" is the first song to be taken from NO SCARE, the Wichita debut for Chicago's Health&Beauty, a band led by Brian Sulpizio and backed by keyboard player Ben Boye (Ryley Walker, Bonnie Prince Billy, Angel Olsen etc) and hugely in-demand jazz drummer, Frank Rosaly (Ryley Walker, Peter Brotzmann and many more). 
This song originally included a line of Neil Young lyrics and melody which, alas, had to be removed due to Mr Young's people not giving us consent to use it. 

Wartime

Pre-order

Health&Beauty - Wartime

"TP.da-lp-fg-in-tb-l1" by 2kilos &More will be part of Indie Rock Mag's Twin Peaks tribute compilation as the opening track for a volume dedicated to the Black Lodge : "Red Room (The Evil in These Woods)".

The first volume of the compilation will be released through IRM's bandcamp page on May 21st : https://indierockmag.bandcamp.com/

Please join the #IRMxTP facebook event for more infos on this project : https://www.facebook.com/events/144707402675260

2kilos &More on bandcamp : https://2kilosandmore.bandcamp.com/

2kilos &More - TP.da-lp-fg-in-tb-l1 (unmastered version) - Produced by Def.

A late-stage rehearsal straight to cassette for reference. Recorded shortly before going into the studio, probably at John Henry rehearsal rooms. This is Mark on guitar, Lee on drums, and myself on piano and organ (the bass was always addressed in the studio once the basic track was down, which is why it doesn't feature here).
It's best to take the 8 minutes out and listen to the end, preferably in headphones, and in a quiet space,

Eden rehearsal cassette

Made with:
Studio Electronics - Tonestar
Intellijel - Metropolis
Strymon - Magneto
Moog - Slim Phatty

The Secret of Miroganda

Roommate began as a Kent Lambert solo project in NYC in 2000 and has been an ever-mutating Chicago band since 2004. The fourth Roommate album MAKE LIKE was released in June 2015. 
https://roommate.bandcamp.com/album/make-like

New Steam

Roommate

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