Summer 2k16

June 2016

Bloodbuzzed Jukebox 105

Discovering the new indie & alternative pop rock music

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Under the Radar #93 (26.06.2016)

Wandering Playlist

Psych/Punk/Open Road

Honduras - Paralyzed

Working All NIght

Fault

First single off debut EP, to be released in 2016 via Deaf Ambitions.

Stream/buy the 'End of Times' here:
http://store.deafambitions.com/track/end-of-times

End Of Times

Taken from the 'Human Exploration' LP - Available from Static Shock (UK/Europe) and Fashionable Idiots (USA).

Uranium Club - The Collector

Jef Elise Barbara's "Sexe Machin / Sex Machine" 7-inch vinyl out May 13, 2016 on Fixture Records. Order the 7": http://www.fixture-records.com/jefbarbara.html#sexmachin

Written and composed by Jef E. Barbara. Produced and arranged by Pieuvre. Co-produced by Jef E. Barbara. Guitars & synths by Pieuvre. Vocals & organ by Jef E. Barbara, recorded at The Bottle Garden, engineered by Freelove Fenner. Mixed by Caitlin Loney & Peter Woodford at The Bottle Garden. Mastered by Richard White.

Jef Elise Barbara - Sexe Machin / Sex Machine

We are thrilled to announce the debut single and first solo release to come from South London’s Lou E, aka 18 year old Louis Milburn. ‘What Do You Do It For?’ / ‘Next Time’ was recorded and mixed in Milburn’s bedroom and a friend’s garden shed in the Autumn of 2015, amidst Louis’ hectic touring schedule playing guitar and keys for Oscar across the globe. The single will be released on 7” vinyl and digitally on 26th February 2016. 

Despite his youth, Milburn is currently sitting on around three albums worth of unreleased material and this prolificity has an almost cult-like feel to it. Pairing the song writing styles and lyricism of the likes of Elliot Smith and Lou Reed with intricate contemporary guitar work similar to Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Lou E’s work is intensely personal whilst retaining a refined and sincere feeling. In his own words, “Lou E is the chance for me to discuss issues, problems and worries that I’m far too British to talk about with everybody and nobody at the same time”.

This concern for a progressive dialogue is found in lead track ‘What Do You Do It For?’, which deals with faux-spirituality and it’s rise as a trend, the snide line of “go find yourself some more” a shot at those who return from foreign cultures with only a set of clichéd appropriations and a pair of harem pants to show for their travels. Turning on his own anxieties for the single’s B-side, ‘Next Time’, Milburn mourns a relationship that ended badly due to a lack of communication and honesty as he sings ‘Say next time for sure / When your heart is out the door’ as drums crash behind him. 

‘What Do You Do It For?’ / ‘Next Time’ is released 26th February on 7” vinyl and digitally via Beech Coma. The single is the second instalment of the label’s bi-monthly subscription series, part-funded by Arts Council England, with the first cut coming late last year from Bruising.

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Lou E - What Do You Do It For?

Awful

MeetYouThere (In Delaware)

From the forthcoming EP 'The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur" (2015, Leonard Skully Records)

FOR FANS OF: A.R. Kane, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Jesus & Mary Chain, Dif Juz

Daniel and Danny Chavis are natives of Raleigh/ Chapel Hill, North Carolina, East Village residents for the past 28 years, and co-founders of the groundbreakers The Veldt, whose named derived from a Ray Bradbury sci-fi story. Musically reared in the church and juke-joints, the twins have been performing since they were children, listening to music that included gospel, Motown and Pink Floyd. In March, they return to their roots with The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur: The Drake Equation Mixtape EP.  
 
The first single is Sanctified, a ballad that perfectly captures the lush sound of Danny’s screeching decibel-breaking guitar distortion, Daniel’s soulful wail and Hayato Nakao’s deep bass grooves and guitar feedback. This is a perfect re-introduction. The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur was named from an E.E. Cummings poem. Its raging sound is influenced equally by the emotional soul of Marvin Gaye, free jazz warriors Sun Ra and Pharaoh Sanders, various Drake hip-hop tracks, and their own fertile electric imagination. 
 
The Chavis brothers initially made a name for themselves playing throughout the south at a time when fellow southerners REM and Superchunk were securing major label deals. As more black rock bands (Living Colour, 24/7 Spyz) sold more records and gigged worldwide, The Veldt was courted by various labels, including IRS Records and Capitol. 
 
Initially signed to Capitol Records in 1989, they were in the studio with dream-gaze guru Robin Guthrie working on their initial recordings, playing American concert halls with Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain, and recording Marigolds with Lincoln Fong (Moose).

The Veldt were a sensation from the start as they became a part of a movement of innovators who came of musical age at a time when rhythmic rebels were reflective, gritty and wild. Their sound inspired future generations of alternative artists, including TV On the Radio. 
 
They switched labels and Mercury Records released Afrodisiac in 1994, produced by Ray Shulman (The Sundays, Bjork, Sugarcubes). Their single Soul in a Jar was an underground hit.
 
The Veldt expanded their musical language, fusing more electronics into their soundscape. They retired the “Veldt” name and began recording and touring under under the name Apollo Heights. In 1999, the Chavis brothers were joined by bassist Hayato Nakao. Their music was loud, exploring color, space, sensuality and beat driven melodies with rhythmic and dynamic tension. Daniel's falsetto vocals contrasted with Danny's rock dreamscape guitar and Hayato's pounding beats.
 
Although The Veldt had signed to two major labels after leaving Mercury Records in 1995, the brothers decided to self-release their 2008 album White Music for Black People. They eventually changed their name back to The Veldt.
 
Apart from Robin Guthrie and A.R. Kane, they’ve collaborated with TV On The Radio, Mos Def and Lady Miss Kier (Deee-Lite), and have shared the stage with My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Manic Street Preachers, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis, Living Colour and TV on the Radio, among others.
 
The Shocking Fuzz of Your Electric Fur marks the band's re-emergence, released via UK label Leonard Skully Records on March 18, 2016. The Resurrection Hymns LP releases later this year (via SonaBLAST! Records).

All tracks written, produced and performed by Danny C. Chavis, Daniel Chavis, Hayato Nakao
Tracks 1,4  Add vocals by Marie Cochrane
Tracks 2, 4 Add. guitar by Andrew Prinz
Track 5  Produced by Rudy Tambala / A.R. Kane
Tracks 2, 3, 4 Mastered at Engine Room Audio NYC by Mark Christiansen and Jeet Suresh Paul
Tracks 1, 5 mastered by Alexander Kretov at Ummagma Studio
Cover artwork by Andrew Prinz and Danny Chavis


Sanctified

Released May 6, 2016 via Joyful Noise Recordings

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Yoni & Geti - Madeline

Opening track on Return to Content Mountain, released as a ltd edition cassette on 18.3.16: http://artishardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/567680?preview=true

OR for US, order from Negative Fun: https://negativefunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-content-mountain

"Madeline Steinberg’s voice may be saccharine, but her exasperation is hardly veiled as she opens the record over Zoe Camp’s steadying bassline: “This one time you asked me if we could go for a ride / this one time I told you you’re not on my mind.” It sounds like a clear rejection letter, but ambivalence seeps into her voice, and soon she’s telling the other party to “take me away” over Miguel Gallego’s soft supporting vocals."
Impose on Go Away

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Drug Pizza are a four piece from NYC who formed whilst all working at the same radio station. Having snuck in out of hours to record their first EP (released in 2013), they've finally returned with a follow up - Return to Content Mountain - which marks a (slightly) more refined side to the slacker jams of their debut.

The band are previewing the EP with 'No Reaction' - a chugging Weezer-indebted pop song where singer Madeline Steinberg goes from not caring about someone breaking their arm to vowing to carve their name into her body. Jury's out on whether it's the same person.

The band describe the EP's themes as obsession, self-defeat, power, and anxiety and across the 5 tracks they definitely put in a good attempt at tackling each one whilst throwing in a whole range of influences (as you would expect from a band that met whilst working at a radio station). As well as the band's listed influences (Sleater-Kinney, Television, Pixies, Nancy Sinatra) there are pepperings of Pavement throughout and as Sinister on their last release showed, they've been doing that whole Diet Cig thing long before they started plotting world domination.

The EP is set for release on 18 March 2016 and will be jointly released by Art is Hard (UK) and Negative Fun (US).

Drug Pizza - Go Away

The album 'Mirage' is OUT NOW pick it up here: hyperurl.co/MirageDigital

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Go Time

Digital single released on April 15th, 2016 

Free download available at:

https://lakeruth.bandcamp.com/track/through-the-lychgates

Lake Ruth are Allison Brice, Hewson Chen and Matt Schulz 

Artwork by Stephen Grasso 

ⓒ ⓟ 2016 Lake Ruth



Through the Lychgates

"Black Horse" is the debut single from DaDa out on 10th June via Black Wire Music and to be followed by the debut EP 'The Pigeon Conspiracy' on 8th July.

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DaDa - Black Horse

Title: GIRLS @ ft. Chance The Rapper

Prod. Knox Fortune 

Additional Prod. Peter Cottontale

GIRLS @ Ft. Chance the Rapper

After the last Academy Awards and the regular whitewashing of hollywood roles, i wrote this song out of frustration. enjoy lol!

lyrics:

(intro)

(you took me as safe,
that was your first mistake, who said i was safe)

(verse 1)

the other night i watched the Oscars and the roster of the only yellow men were all statues,
we a quarter of the population there’s a room of fuckin’ 1 percenters laughing at you,
fuck a bambu ceiling, guess i gotta play the villain,
ODB up at the Grammys on the mic like “Wu-Tang is for the children!”

Bruce Jenner is woman, OJ was acquitted, Kim K is a hero,
the sky is the limit any minute now they gonna let an Asian brotha’ get a lead role,
shots fired ima reload, never saw this side of Chino,
he was always quiet keeping to himself, never messed with anybody else thats the Jonathan that we know

(hook)

Seems so safe, till one day things go cray,
i swear if things don’t change, my actions can’t be blamed, (STAND UP!)

and now you gotta duck! you know you never gave a fuck!
i came to get my cut! (fuck you, pay me) you know i never gave a fuck!

(verse 2)

i aint never heard of none f y’all fools, i can do whatever every one of y’all do, 
if i never get a chance you might see the homie show up on the 5 o’ clock news,
you aint never seen a yellow boy wild’n yellow boy shinin’ , sound the alarm i got news,
go ahead and pro-file em’ i aint pro-violence, shhhhh, silence is how yellow boys move, 

its been the same ol’ thang, i swear the game don’t change, 
what you talkin bout there aint no space, guess i gotta go and make more space, 
you know I’m cool as a motherfucker chillin’ in the cut hella quiet with the loud pack,
since I’m a cool motherfucker you think everything is safe till i ask you where the safe at!

(hook)

Seems so safe, till one day things go cray,
i swear if things don’t change, my actions can’t be blamed, (STAND UP!)

and now you gotta duck! you know you never gave a fuck!
i came to get my cut! (fuck you, pay me) you know i never gave a fuck!

(outro)

(you took me as safe,
that was your first mistake, who said i was safe)

Music Production:  Harley Mac & King Kanobby

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Additional Vocals: Liphemra 
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We Might Die

Safe

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From the upcoming 7" single by Stephen's Shore on Cloudberry Records to be released summer 2016 

Stephen's Shore - Ocean Blue

This is Pi Ja Ma's first single.
Taken from 'Radio Girl EP' OUT NOW Worldwide!
Buy or stream https://lnk.to/PiJaMaEP
Order the vinyl https://bigwax.fr/bleepmachine/artistes/pi-ja-ma

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LYRICS
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Radio Girl
(Lyrics Axel Concato & Maud Nadal / Music Axel Concato / Arr. Pauline de Tarragon)

Everyone who wanna be a star
Soon or later
Lose your mind, forgetting who you are
It sounds unreal

Ah ah ah ah ah
Real
Ah ah ah ah ah

Never forget
Had I known I'd ever be a star
I would have chilled
Look at all the people in the bars
They all look thrilled

Ah ah ah ah ah
For real
Ah ah ah ah ah

Only needed to be someone that you're proud of
For real
Only wanted to sing a tune you would love
For real
I didn't want it like Prince
I didn't want to be The Beatles

I never thought I’d ever be a star
But now it's real
Need a stop before it goes too far
And disappear

Oh I just need a real friend
I’m done with all you green admirers
Who follow me just like a trend
And make me feel down down

To everyone who wanna be a star
It's like a deal
Do your best but forget who you are
Make it all clean

Oh I don't have real problems
I’m just a radio girl
And I know that I can't complain
I’d better calm down down

Only needed to be someone that you're proud of
For real
Only wanted to sing a tune you would love
For real
I didn't want it like Prince
I didn't want to be The Beatles

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CREDITS
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All vocals by Pauline de Tarragon.
All instruments by Axel Concato.

Composed and produced by Axel Concato.
Co-written with Maud Nadal.
Recorded by Axel Concato at home (Paris) and by Benedic Lamdin at The Fishmarket Studios (London).

Mixed by Maxime Le Guil at Miroir (Paris).
Mastered by Jean-Pierre Delbos at Murrayfield (Paris).

Artwork by LeBeb:
http://paulinedetarragon.tumblr.com/

A&R par Vincent Nayrolles (Bleepmachine).
Published by Bleepmachine & Wagram Publishing.

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Radio Girl EP

Radio Girl

"Knife" is the 3rd track off Twin River's upcoming, sophomore LP 'Passing Shade'. Album out 6/17 via Light Organ Records (CAN/US/EU) & 7/1 (UK).

Pre-order here: bit.ly/21ZGYfN

www.twinriverband.com

Twin River - Knife

Taken from the 16-track 'In This Together' CD:
matineerecordings.com/item.php?item_id=263

Math and Physics Club - Coastal California, 1985

Sat. Nite Duets 'Air Guitar' out September 16th on Father/Daughter Records.

Digital: http://smarturl.it/airguitardigital
LP/CD: http://fatherdaughterrecords.limitedrun.com/products/573481

Emanating from the heartland, Sat. Nite Duets make rock music that evokes the spirit and candor of the Midwest’s greatest outsiders. Imagine the heroism of GBV thrown against the self-reproach of the Violent Femmes and you're halfway there. Pepper on some of the depravity of Jimmy and Dennis Flemion and you’re basically in the homestretch. But there’s something else going on here too, something that has to do with how most of the members have played music together since middle school, how collectively they’ve probably listened to The Basement Tapes and Blue Album like 3 million times.

The new record is called Air Guitar, the latest full-length since Electric Manland did the worm across college radio in 2013. Composed in true and perfect form (erratically in a basement in Milwaukee), Air Guitar continues the democratic tradition established by One Nite Only in 2009 and Summer of Punishment in 2012. A labor of love and leisure, Air Guitar’s tracklist features songs by all six of the band’s regular members, not to mention contributions from a laundry of special guests (e.g. a cognitive musicologist, the bass player's dad, a mime).

Pre-order

Sat. Nite Duets - St. Yuppie

From the debut album "Spend the Night With...", Out Now!

Limited Edition LP: http://bit.ly/2av8NqV
Bandcamp:  https://cheena.bandcamp.com/

TOUR DATES: bit.ly/1IbghKt
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cheenanyc/
General Info: bit.ly/1U4oEfW


Cheena - Car

From their sophomore album "Around The House", out September 2nd, 2016 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Chook Race "Sometimes" (Trouble In Mind Records)

Ghost Wave - All U Do Is Kill

"Victim Of Me" by Descendents from the album 'Hypercaffium Spazzinate,' available July 29th
Pre-order here: https://lnk.to/descendents

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Descendents - Victim Of Me

From the "I Think You're Alright" b/w "Rush" 7" out June 24th on Fat Possum Records

Order the 7" here: smarturl.it/jaysom7

Catch Jay Som on tour this summer with Mitski and Japanese Breakfast: bit.ly/1WOo7R7

Jay Som - Rush

'Hoops' EP out August 26th via Fat Possum Records

iTunes pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.iTunes
FP store pre-order: smarturl.it/Hoops.CDLP

Track listing:
1. Cool 2
2. Yeah
3. Going Strong
4. Give It Time
5. Gemini

Follow Hoops:
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Hoops Tour Dates:
08/24 Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop +
09/08 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club *
09/09 Madison, WI @ The Frequency *
09/23 Cincinnati, OH @ Midpoint Music Festival
09/24 Champaign, IL @ Pygmalion Festival
09/29 Green Bay, WI @ Meyer Theatre (Backstage) ^
10/03 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In *
10/04 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl *
10/05 Durham, NC @ Duke Coffeehouse *
10/06 Washington, DC @ DC9 *
10/07 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
10/09 Allston, MA @ Great Scott *
10/10 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
10/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

* w/ Whitney
^ w/ Car Seat Headrest
+ w/ The Pills & Nice Try

Tickets: bit.ly/Hoops_TourDates 

iTunes

Hoops - Cool 2

Chicago, IL label founded in 2009 with releases by NIGHTSHIFT, Writhing Squares, FACS, Melenas, En Attendant Ana, Mountain Movers, Headroom & more - Cop It. Don't Swap it.

Chook Race "Sometimes" (Trouble In Mind Records)

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