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Spaceboy Radio 2014

From the debut EP 'Medusa' out now.
Produced by Clifford John Usher

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Lyrics:

I can never be the girl 
the girl you knew before 

living through those darkest hours 
living through a war 

all the voices in my head 
they say we can’t go on 

that I could never be your girl 
but I’m still holding on 


could you ever love me again? 
I need to know our love’s not a sinking stone 


If I could feel you next to me 
If I could know what’s right 

if all the demons chasing me 
would fade into the night 

could you ever trust me again 
if what we had is gone? 

will you ever trust me? 
I’m still holding on 


could you ever love me again? 
I need to know our love’s not a sinking stone

www.GEMS-band.com
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GEMS is Lindsay Pitts and Clifford John Usher

GEMS - Sinking Stone

Taken from the forthcoming debut album, 'Brain Holiday', released via Palmist/ FatCat on October 21st.

UK 'Brain Holiday' pre-order: http://fatcat.sandbaghq.com/dead-gaze-brain-holiday-pre-order.html

US 'Brain Holiday' pre-order: http://www.insound.com/Brain-Holiday-Vinyl-LP-Dead-Gaze/P/INS123615/


Dead Gaze - Runnin On The Moon

Freaks

Cemetery With A View

Kill Me In The Morning Light

Sick Apart

I must confess
I'm not in love with you
But if we see it through
Who knows where we'll end up?

If this is a test
I want to challenge you
To see if love can bloom
In the presence of doubt

Please don't say that I've been the lucky one
Can't we all find love the same?

I can't find a reason to hide from you
You may find the reason inside of you
If we can discover what love can do
I may find a reason to love you

I've been impressed
You've brought some attitude
Maybe we'll turn out soon
If we keep our heads up

But try to access
If we don't stay in tune
And we turn out removed
Then it wasn't enough

Please don't say that I've been the lucky one
Can't we all find love the same?
If we both say we're not the lucky ones
Then is love the one to blame?

I can't find a reason to hide from you
You may find the reason inside of you
If we can discover what love can do
I may find a reason to love you

Written by Josh Belmar

Reason To Love

(Youtube video for Young at Heart:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBRxG7HHFeM)

Young At Heart, due 3 March 2014 on limited cassette and digital release from Howling Owl Records (http://howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com/product/howl029-towns-young-at-heart-cassette-presale), will be the first single to be released from TOWNS' debut album 'Get By' due May 2014.

Childhood friends TOWNS create a spaced out suburban escapism that combines the experimental guitar sounds and DIY aesthetics of psych and shoegaze with the melodies of 60s and 90s guitar pop. Seeing the excitement of rock’n’roll as a way to escape the everyday humdrum of growing up in Weston-super-Mare, they believe in the beauty, glamour and power of ‘proper’ pop music.

TOWNS contrast kitchen sink lyrics, attractive melodies and dreamy guitars with feedback, driving bass-lines and baggy beats. The band have already made waves with previous single releases, scooping up single of the month from ARTROCKER before being nominated as their new band of the year, crashing THE GUARDIAN and XFM playlists with ‘Just Everything’, exciting Zane Lowe to declare his love for ‘Gone Are The Days’ live on air, while NME predicted that their 'new band of the year' ‘are about to cover themselves in glory’ after a typically exciting live show.

Young At Heart, as with the album, was recorded and mastered with the help of fellow Howling Owl Records label mates Dom Mitchison (Velcro Hooks), Hugo Bishop (Oliver Wilde) and Olive Wilde at their recently opened Malthouse Studios.

TOWNS have nurtured their sound amongst like-minded people in Bristol, to create an underground of DIY guitar noise, warehouse parties and good times where there are no rules and anything goes as every show finishes in a flurry of chaotic scenes and stage invasions. Catch them live here:


07 Feb - Bristol Live Magazine 2 Year Party at Start The Bus, Bristol
08 Feb - Antidotes Night Club, Old Blue Last, London (Free Entry)
14 Feb - Talking Heads, Southampton (w/ The Twang)
15 Feb - The Fleece, Bristol (w/ The Twang)
16 Feb - O2 Academy, Liverpool (w/ The Twang)
19 Feb - The Ruby Lounge, Manchester (w/ The Twang)
20 Feb - O2 Academy 2, Newcastle (w/ The Twang)
21 Feb - O2 ABC 2, Glasgow (w/ The Twang)
23 Feb - The Lexington, London (w/ The Telescopes)
25 Feb - The Duchess, York (w/ The Twang)
27 Feb - The Cockpit, Leeds (w/ The Twang)

07 Mar - The Grapes, Falmouth (w/ The Black Tambourines)
18 Mar - The Nest, Bath
19 Mar - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
20 Mar - The Louisiana, Bristol
21 Mar - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
26 Mar - Carpe Diem - Leeds
27 Mar - The Horn, Saint Albans
28 Mar – This Feeling at Purple Turtle, London
29 Mar - Club 85, Hitchin

10 May - Lennons, Southampton
15 May - Moles, Bath
21 May - Old Blue Last, London
23 May - Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa

www.townsband.co.uk
www.facebook.com/townsband
www.twitter.com/townsband
wearetowns@gmail.com

Young At Heart

Demo Track 1 of a Space Rock project with Automo Tone, Radio Ray and Rich Om.

Sonic Outlaws- Gravity from the album demo GRAVITY

Life

Produced, recorded and mixed by Jon Greene in San José, Costa Rica 2012. Mastered by David S. Gardner at Magneto Mastering. 

Marlene

YOU ARE NUMBER SIX is THEO LEFEBVRE.
YOUNG CUBS 2014 via DIGITAL/CASSETTE // Late May '14

YOU ARE NUMBER SIX "Binary Numbers" Weird Tales EP // YC09

'Marbles' is the second track on TOWNS debut album 'Get By' due 2nd June from Bristol's much lauded DIY label Howling Owl Records. The album is available physically on limited vinyl and cd as well as digitally from online retailers:

Vinyl: http://www.howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com/product/towns-get-by-debut-album-12-ltd-to-100-presale
CD: http://www.howlingowlrecords.bigcartel.com/product/towns-get-by-debut-album-cd-presale


In keeping with this DIY affair 'Get By' was recorded in Bristol with friends and fellow label mates Dom Mitchison (Velcro Hooks) and was mastered by Oliver Wilde, with additional help in the early stages by Hugo Bishop (Oliver Wilde). The album also features appearances from Robin Stewart (The Naturals), Dom Mitchison (Velcro Hooks) and Richard Clarke (Scarlett Rascal) on penultimate track 'Everyone's Out'. While the album artwork was taken by girlfriend and former member of GuMM Lily Cook.

'Get By' sees childhood friends TOWNS create a spaced out suburban escapism that combines the experimental guitar sounds and DIY aesthetics of psych and shoegaze with the melodies of 60s and 90s guitar pop. Seeing the excitement of rock’n’roll as a way to escape the everyday humdrum of growing up in Weston-super-Mare, they believe in the beauty, glamour and power of ‘proper’ pop music.

Already in their short career TOWNS have experienced many highs and lows and know how volatile the music industry can be. Being lauded by NME as a best new band of 2011, based purely on two demoes before they had even played their first show, to their former booking agent running off with over £1000 of the bands money, virtually crippling the band, to the high of working with legend Owen Morris (Oasis, Verve), only for the label paying the bill to get swallowed up by a major. It's been pretty eventful but TOWNS are proud to be finally sharing their debut album with you.

Nothing beats the fun of touring so the band constantly tour. TOWNS have had the pleasure to play alongside Paul Weller, Spiritualized, The Twang, Toy, Eagulls and play the following shows in support of the record:

19 Apr - Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth
20 Apr - Loves Café, W-s-M (w/Oliver Wilde)
21 Apr - The Cavern, Exeter
24 Apr - Oakford Social Club, Reading

02 May - Esquires, Bedford
03 May - The Square, Harlow
10 May - Lennons, Southampton
15 May - Moles, Bath
17 May - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
21 May - Old Blue Last, London
23 May - Zephyr Lounge, Leamington Spa
30 May - Exchange, Bristol (w/The Cosmonauts)
31 May - Carnabys, W-s-M (w/John Lennon, Alan McGee)

Guardian Band Of The Day:
www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/…/new-band-towns

Zane Lowe's Radio 1 Next Hype:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bsmxp

NME New Band Of The Year:
www.nme.com/photos/50-best-new-…-2011/217451/1/1#21

Fly Track Of The Day:
mamacolive.com/thefly/news/artic…k-of-the-day-169/

Artrocker Single Of The Month:
www.artrocker.tv/singles/article/…ing-22nd-october

Clash Track Of The Day:
www.clashmusic.com/news/preview-to…just-everything


TOWNS - Marbles

Pre-order from iTunes: http://smarturl.it/tpo-wh-itunes

Slumberland Records is pleased to announce the signing of London-based neo-psychedelic pop group The Proper Ornaments. Mining the rich territories of The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, their debut album proper "Wooden Head" features fourteen thrillingly taut and melodic pop songs with a deep, dark undercurrent. Comprised of Argentinian Max Claps and James Hoare (also of Veronica Falls) – who both sing and write the songs – and joined by Daniel Nellis (bass) and Robert Syme (drums), the band have already shared stages with the likes of Real Estate, Woods, Crystal Stilts, Toy and Metronomy.

Maximo Claps arrived in London in 2008 on a one-way ticket from Buenos Aires, aided by former Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham. Oldham had produced a record by Claps' Argentinian band of the time but the group had fallen apart in a mess of drugs and acrimony and Claps' family were attempting to intervene by sending him to a mental hospital. The only option seemed to be to flee the country. As Claps recalls, "The day before flying to the UK I got run over by a car and had to escape hospital in order to make it so I arrived with bandages and my head all stitched up."

A few weeks later Max walked into the vintage clothes shop where James Hoare sat behind the counter reading a book on The Velvet Underground, and attempted to cause a diversion while his kleptomaniac girlfriend stole a pair of boots. “She didn't steal them in the end,” says Max. “They weren't her size”. However, the shop assistant and the would-be accomplice bonded over a mutual love of the Velvets, Love, Felt and West Coast pop and began writing together, taking their name from a song by the pioneering soft psych band The Free Design. In 2010 they released their first single, "Recalling", following it up with a five-song EP for London label No Pain in Pop. In 2013 Lo Recordings released all their output to date on a collection titled "Waiting for the Summer", followed by the single “First Step Out” in February 2014.

Their new album was recorded at a studio in Hackney, as well as at home in their old flat in Whitechapel on a broken 8-track reel-to-reel bought off eBay from an angry guy who threatened to shoot them and chop off their balls when they attempted to return it - a terrifying experience for a pair of skinny indie boys. Taking inspiration from Berlin-era Lou Reed, Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Darklands”, The Television Personalities and West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the songs are breezy and easy on the ear, with sublime harmonies and chiming Byrdsian guitar, but with a darker twist and a pervasive air of melancholy. Stand-out tracks include the beautiful but sad “Summer’s Gone” (about mental illness), “Magazine” (an upbeat number written from the perspective of a bullet in the barrel of a gun) and “You’ll See” (about how when you die you’ll see everyone you know, all there lined up in a row).

With "Wooden Head", The Proper Ornaments prove that it is still possible to create an album of pure pop perfection. Max's girlfriend may not have stolen the boots, but The Proper Ornaments are about to steal your heart.

“The joint project of James and Max, through romantic drama that borders on that of The Libertines. And when you hear The Proper Ornaments you’ll see why it’s all worth it. It’s like they’re meant for each other, like Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts” - Loud & Quiet

The Proper Ornaments - Magazine

New Track from the upcoming studio record!

Rock n Roll from Manchester #BSR x

Bring Yourself Down For Me

93's version of Drive Blind by RIDE. In honour of them reforming

Drive Blind

Tweak Bird - Lights In Lines

Icons of Andria is a recording project, a collaboration between Rodney Sellars of The Year Zero and Ken Negrete & Fabiola Sanchez of Familiar Trees on a Sci-fi concept album. Original concept & artwork by Rodney Sellars. Guitar & Lyrics by Rodney Sellars. Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Ken Negrete. Midi/Synthesizers/Piano by Ken Negrete. Vocals by Fabiola Sanchez & Rodney Sellars. Bass by Joel O'Neill.

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A view of Andria at the bow of the Sky Sailor, about to arrive at The Temple of the Ancient Ones where she will transform the boy into a new being.
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BACKSTORY:

The boy reached slowly for Andria. It seemed odd to be attracted to a machine.

Her skin was warmer than he had expected. She turned to look at him, slightly shocked but not offended.

She put her arm around his shoulders. Her eyes were like colorful voids, lines of blue and green seemed to fall from her irises into her pupils. He wanted to fall into the beautiful vortices.

"Does it give you pleasure to be touched?" He asked.

"Yes." She smiled.

"Why?" He asked.

"Early models of myself were indifferent to human contact. It was found however, that this made it difficult for them to empathize and therefore understand the needs of humans. One can only understand desire if they possess it themselves." 

She leaned her face in closer to his. They kissed. Her lips were cool and sweet.

It had been quite a long time since either of them had been held in such a way.

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Icons Of Andria
(Lyrics by Rodney Sellars)

you and i 
in this vacant world 
you're such a pretty girl
under open skies
in this empty place
in your warm embrace
i wanna fall into your eyes
 
i believe in andria

it's only you and i
andria fall in love 
in the ruins of another age
i feel alive 
in this timeless place 
its so far away from everyone
and it never dies

i believe in andria
you and i 
in a beautiful space
believe in andria
you and i
in a beautiful space
believe in andria 
you and i 
in a beautiful space

Icons Of Andria

Cicada Tree

The second single from yOya's "Go North" EP, due out July 16, 2013.

Spaceboy Radio 2014

Scott Shawn DeRocks