Helado Negro, "I Krill You"

A Victim Of Society - You're Gonna Hate Me

Cuban Cigars is the first single from WALL's self titled 7" EP out on Wharf Cat Records on 1/15!  Pre-order your record here - http://wharfcatrecords.com/store/wall-st-7-ep

Pre-order on Apple Music here - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wall-ep/id1056743936

Personnel
Vanessa Gomez
Vince McClelland
Elizabeth Skadden 
Samantha York

RIYL
Alternative TV, Au Pairs, B52s, Devo, Finally Punk, Pill, Pylon, Robert Quine, Suburban Lawns

Words
With each sonic movement on the introductory self-titled EP from New York’s WALL there's a commitment to defend a punctuated duality between curiosity and triumph. After all, what’s a band worth but its message? A certain self-awareness of the very question is at the heart of the WALL apparatus and listening along as they discover themselves throughout this EP is invigorating and scary. Tone and rhythm whirl together, like an emergency exit door choreographed to swing flawlessly in time to its damned and chaotic Pavlovian alarm bell. From the first rigid and cautious seconds of their EP, WALL unleashes an uncanny self-awareness that methodically slips pages ripped from demented No Wave legacies through a shredder of their own design. Their spirit is exceptional and candid; generous heaps of raw energy and inspired moments of tension demand repeat rotations on your turntable. With this debutante artifact, WALL have invited the world to witness the birth of a toxic-new tempestuous bloodwave of post-punk, exactly the transfusion the scene needs to stay alive.


WALL - Cuban Cigars

third single from forthcoming Beaches double album Second Of Spring.
Pre-order Second Of Spring on 2LP, CD or digital via:
www.chaptermusic.com/store/beaches/second-of-spring
www.chaptermusic.bandcamp.com/album/second-of-spring
digital stores: http://radi.al/SecondOfSpring

www.facebook.com/beachesband

Second Of Spring

Beaches - Arrow

3rd single from B Boys debut LP "Dada" out June 16th, 2017 on Captured Tracks.

Pre-Order Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/dada

Pre-Order Digital: hyperurl.co/qu375b

Dada

B Boys // Discipline (Official Single)

Dubbed "Krautrock Guerilla", the Berlin-based trio Camera has played with Krautrock legends Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius and performed at the German Film Prize and Echo Awards ceremonies. And in August 2012, as unlikely as it may once have seemed, their debut album will be released. A lot has been going on with the three boys. One thing at a time, however.

Let us start with an accolade: first proffered by no lesser figure than Michael Rother (NEU!, Harmonia), who played a number of shows together with the Camera boys. Further proof that Camera hit the genuine Krautrock nerve with their music was a joint gig with Rother and his old comrade Dieter Moebius (Cluster, Harmonia). The pioneers of 40 years ago have taken note of CameraÕs qualities, both supporting and promoting them.

And what of the "Krautrock Guerilla" epithet? Well, Camera like nothing better than playing spontaneous concerts in public spaces, without permission of course (to be watched on YouTube et al.). Seeing Camera live for the first time occurs less commonly in a concert hall than in an unexpected, surprising location: an underground station in the middle of the night, an underpass or even public toilets. The threesome set up their minimalist drum kit (snare, floor tom, cymbals and headless tambourine) and two amplifiers, plug in their guitars and synthesizer and off they go. Much to the delight of the audience. Less so in the case of guardians of the law ...

Another of Camera's specialities is to sneak their way into highly official after show parties (German Film Prize, Echo Awards etc.), arrange their portable equipment in a matter of minutes and play for as long as it takes for the security to realize they are not part of the official programme. They actually performed in the gentlemen's toilets at this year's Echo Awards. This is their way of unleashing themselves on an unprejudiced, unprepared audience, meeting with an enthusiastic response.

Anyway, here they are with their debut release. At first, the three musicians were not the slightest bit interested in recording, they just wanted to play, play, play. Yet, as time passed, form and structure increasingly appeared in their improvisations, with the potential to be crafted into individual tracks. With a little suasion, they were ready.

The next surprise in store was how successfully Camera transferred their spontaneity to the studio. Never really sounding constructed or orchestrated, these tracks could just as easily have been recorded on the street – apart from the audio quality, of course. This is partially due to the fact that the album was recorded "live" in the studio.

Camera's musical spectrum ranges from driving motorik rock to serene, epically flowing tracks by way of foreboding soundscape ridges. In other words: it can be right in your face or elsewhere in interstellar spheres, where time and space have no meaning; cosmic/kosmische music! One can clearly hear the influence of their paragons, NEU!, Harmonia, Cluster and La Düsseldorf.

Camera have taken Krautrock onto the street, straight to the people, making the magical achievements of German musical pioneers accessible to a wider listenership with their guerilla tactics. We cannot thank them enough for that. 

www.bureau-b.de/camera.php

Camera - Ausland

Originally a solo project recorded in a wardrobe under the moniker Smooth Dad, Buffet Lunch is the brain burps of Perry O’Bray, embellished by a northerner, a Kiwi and 2 Scots. Namely Luke Moran (Bouviér), Neil Robinson (Mazes), John Muir (Jack Lee Band, DTHPDL) and David MacDonald (Jack Lee Band, DTHPDL). They all met in sunny Edinburgh when Perry moved up from London and put some adverts out for band members on gumtree. Please will you join my band (be my friend), please please please. Perry likes writing songs about slimy snails, moths and other nightly creatures, sometimes in new trousers and trainers. Angular guitars on a bed of seaweed and rhythmic percussion. ‘The Snail EP' will be available as a digital download on Permanent Slump 25/1/19 and on cassette direct from Perry whenever you fancy. Expect a video for 'We All Have Hobbies'.

1. The Snail And The King
2.We All Have Hobbies
3.Do You Like My Trousers?

Catch them live:

Henry’s Cellar Bar, Edinburgh on Thursday 24th January - 

https://www.facebook.com/events/349081528978041

Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow on Friday 25th January - 

https://www.facebook.com/events/352695228614522

Perry and Neil also promote diy gigs in Edinburgh under the name Good Grief, be sure to keep up if you’re in the area and fancy a decent hassle free show.

https://www.facebook.com/goodgriefedinburgh

https://soundcloud.com/buffetlunch
https://twitter.com/smoothdadatc

Artwork by Perry O’Bray

The Snail EP

The Snail And The King

Buffet Lunch - The Snail And The King

About Phantom Rhythm

Guitar-and-bass duo Gong Gong Gong charges out from Beijing’s underground scene with a distinct vision and uncompromising sense of purpose. The group unites musical cultures, drawing on inspirations as wide-ranging as Bo Diddley, Cantonese opera, West African desert blues, drone, and electronic music. 

Gong Gong Gong eschews traditional rock percussion, but on their debut LP, Phantom Rhythm 幽靈節奏, the locomotive chug of Tom Ng’s guitar combines with Joshua Frank’s thumping, harmonics-laden bass lines to conjure an aura of ghostly snare hits and timpani overtones. Over Frank’s enigmatic melodies, Ng sings in Cantonese, piecing together abstract tales of absurdity, doubt, desire, and lust. Synchronized to the point of near-telepathy, the band use their minimalistic tools and idiosyncratic playing style to challenge the notions of rock n’ roll and strip the form down to its bare essentials: rhythm, melody, and grit.

About Gong Gong Gong
 
Formed in 2015, the band’s earliest shows were in Beijing underpass tunnels and DIY spaces. Ng and Frank are both outsiders who call the city their home: Ng, who was born in Hong Kong, defiantly sings in his native tongue, while Frank, originally from Montreal, has lived in Beijing on and off since childhood. (He is the English translator of Ng’s lyrics, adding another layer to the duo’s close collaboration). The duo is set to follow up the release of the Siren 7" with the release of the Phantom Rhythm album in the Fall of 2019.

Produced & Mixed by Jonny Schenke. Recorded at Seaside Lounge and Mixed at Studio Windows. Mastered by Carl Saff.

BUY LP/CD

Gong Gong Gong 工工工 - Notes Underground 地下日記 (From the 'Phantom Rhythm' LP out 10/4)

Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Suffragette City (David Bowie)

Volage - Horses

Death Valley Girls 
'Under the Spell of Joy' out October 2, 2020, on Suicide Squeeze Records
Pre-order: https://smarturl.it/DVGJoy

Death Valley Girls - Under the Spell of Joy

Gong Gong Gong, Bambara, Holy Motors, Public Practice, Lily Konigsberg, Bush Tetras, Profligate, Palberta, Urochromes, Macula Dog, David Vassalotti, The Sediment Club, Horoscope+

We are in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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