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Pleasant Variety

2016 Digital Racket January

Wire

WithGuitars March 2016 soundcloud playlist

More for Bees

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Here's the first song from Tough Age's upcoming 11/12/13 release on Mint Records!

Tough Age - Sea of White

Wreckless Eric will be playing at The Lexington, London, on May 17th
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Wreckless Eric - Depression

The last Gun Club studio LP recorded before the untimely death of Jeffrey Lee Pierce in 1996.  If you ask me the quality of this one stands right up there next to their 1984 classic "The Las Vegas Story," and his 1985 solo LP, "Wildweed."   Unlike some artists whose creativity declines later in their career, JLP just kept getting better at his songwriting craft.


The Gun Club - Lucky Jim - 01 - Lucky Jim

Bossa Nova Civic Club will release their second compilation on limited 12” vinyl and digital download Feb, 2015. Presale will begin 1 week prior online exclusively at bushwickismelting.com.

Volume 2, the sophmore collaborative release with Sisterjam is a three track compilation including original unreleased material by Brooklyn-based producers Black Meteoric Star (AKA Gavin Russom, DFA), Lorna Dune (Dazzleships, Lo Bit Landscapes), and J Slusher (Lost Soul).

Black Meteoric Star – Unearthed Arcana

INDO 15

'Several Shades Of Green' is the first Wreckless Eric single taken from his new album 'amERICa' out on 13th November. Eric returns to Europe to tour this winter including a very special live date on 3rd Dec at Stoke Newington Church.

Wreckless Eric - Several Shades Of Green

Tereshkova - White Gusts

"Death Mask" is the Plume Records single from The Lost Estate -the debut album from John Dillon. After the release of the single "Maria" and a cassette run of the album on Portland's Never Anything Records, The Lost Estate will be available on vinyl from Plume Records this spring. Listen to the single "Death Mask" and pre-order your copy of The Lost Estate now.

Death Mask

Neon Grey LP
By L.A. Girlfriend
Release date: February 3, 2016

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Available on Spotify & iTunes

©L.A. Girlfriend 2016 | Bantakat


Death By Unga Bunga - Lady Fondue

Produced by Matthew Johnson at Suburban Home Studios.

Mastered by Tom Woodhead at Hippocratic Mastering.

Knew You'd Never Been There

I've been releasing one "side" at a time from this multi-vinyl Collection, like scenes from a film that will eventually come together to complete the cinematic/sonic adventure.

I've decided to expand the project with two more sides now making this a triple vinyl offering 6-sides total!

Sunset Beyond The Sea

Nocturnal Koreans

Internal Exile

#734
airdate 6/30/2016
Producer: Ned Sublette
The Ring and the Shout. At one time thought to have died out, the ring shout is the oldest known form of African American music. Producer Ned Sublette travels to Winnsboro, Louisiana, to record the Easter Rock, an annual ritual with a direct connection to antebellum slavery days, in an endangered plantation church with a wooden floor that serves as a drum when the Rockers are in charge. And we visit Athens, Georgia, to speak with Art Rosenbaum, co-producer of the McIntosh County Shouters' forthcoming album.

The Ring and the Shout

Lava Children have been cultivating a composite of psychedelia and dusty dream-rock since their founding in
an Altadena, California garage. Following the release of their self-titled mini-lp, Lava Children have garnered praise
from PopMatters, Tiny Mix Tapes and NPR, as well as acclaim from their label mates, Black Moth Super Rainbow.
Their new self-titled full length, to be released on Graveface Records on May 22nd, builds on the foundation
already established by their 2009 mini-lp. It puts forth a matured aesthetic that has been tempered through many
months of audio experimentation. The Tulsa-based band, comprised of guitarist/vocalist Sherri West, guitarists Taylor Clark and Ben Kindell and drummer Peter Tomshany, draws on the nostalgic sounds of cave rock and the acid-drenched psychedelia of the 60s. Yet, their sound is full of unusual, personal and confusingly beautiful stylings that refuse to let the band be pigeonholed as mere throwback rock. The Lava Children's self-titled full length is a beautiful and mysterious auditory fantasy. The opener "Mothra” is a fogveiled incantation, and by “Revellers” we are fully involved in a ritual. In “Cave” we find ourselves dancing deep in the Earth's core. The album ends in a warm afterglow with “Blue Smoke” and “Wormhole.” The compact disc comes packaged in a recycled gatefold sleeve and the retail vinyl color is emerald green with a silver haze. 

Lava Children - Cave

Track One from the forthcoming Wire album "Change Becomes Us"

Change Becomes Us

Doubles & Trebles

Pre Order Ltd Edition

WIRE – CHANGE BECOMES US – pinkflag (pf20)

“Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time…,” laughs Colin Newman when asked to explain Wire’s original motivation for Change Becomes Us. While that might sound like the kind of feeble excuse you’d offer in mitigation when a drunken escapade goes horribly wrong, not only was it a good idea, it actually turned into a superlative one. 

In spring 2012, Wire’s plan had been to convene at Rockfield Studios in Wales to review the rudimentary blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980 – a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive yet the band was disintegrating. The aim wasn’t simply to resuscitate and record old songs – in fact, many of them hadn’t become proper songs in the first place, existing only as basic ideas or undeveloped parts. Rather, the objective was to approach that unrealised work as an oblique strategy, a potential springboard for Wire’s contemporary, forward-looking processes, a possible point of departure for new compositions.

This took place with Wire firing on all cylinders, as a four-piece studio entity again, the core line-up of Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey now enhanced by guitarist Matthew Simms. Simms had played a key role in helping the band to cultivate and shape its new sonic landscape throughout the preceding year’s live work. Out of the exploratory Rockfield session and subsequent, extensive development and production at Newman’s Swim Studio, the ostensible source material became, in the classic Wire tradition, something quite other than what it may have once been or what it might have become if it had been pursued in 1980. 

“Love Bends” is a case in point. Its roots lie in “Piano Tuner” -- the raucous, octave-hopping number performed in February 1980 at the Electric Ballroom in Camden and preserved on Document and Eyewitness -- but it’s now morphed, improbably, into an irresistible, totally modern pop song. “It had to be turned into something else,” explains Lewis, “because it only really had one bit.” Just as improbably, the gently lilting “Re-invent Your Second Wheel” is tangentially connected to the notorious “Zegk Hoqp,” which was more of a one-time happening than a song at the Camden gig -- mostly shouting and banging, executed by a stage-full of Wire cronies in funny hats. “It was written for performance, around people with newspaper headdresses; not with music in mind,” Lewis emphasizes. Similarly transformed, “& Much Besides” is a six-minute oneiric-melodic interlude that gives no hint of its putative origins in “Eastern Standard” --  a dreary, obtuse three-minute geography lesson delivered with former manager Mick Collins at the Electric Ballroom concert.

Newman’s writing and production reimagines the past in ways that ultimately break any substantive connection with it, making entirely new pieces; and these songs themselves enact Wire’s restless drive to become other, often thriving on a fundamental tension between opposing sonic characteristics. With its stop-start, soft-hard, quiet-loud structure, “Adore Your Island” veers between what Newman describes as “prog and unhinged punk rock,” never quite resolving itself; the drama of “Attractive Space” hinges on a progressive splitting of the song’s personality, between its calm expansive, anthemic orientation and an increasing sense of intensity and claustrophobia. 

Change Becomes Us encapsulates the paradoxical essence of Wire’s creativity. The tendency of these new songs to refuse a single, settled identity is emblematic of the band’s ever-evolving aesthetic -- one that’s always hinged on sustained tensions and oppositions: between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the comfortable and the unsettling, the melodic and the brutal, the cerebral and the visceral, the smart and the moronic, the obvious and the inscrutable, the rational and the absurd. This intrinsic, core ambivalence generates the essential otherness that has characterized Wire’s most memorable, distinctive work -- from the epochal innovations of Chairs Missing and 154 to the electronic-pop deconstructions of A Bell Is A Cup to Send’s postmodern-punk expressionism and the widescreen lyricism of Red Barked Tree.

Change Becomes Us is an undeniable part of that illustrious lineage. Definitely more than just a good idea at the time.

Wilson Neate


Keep Exhaling

Adore Your island

Re-Invent Your Second Wheel

Stealth of a Stork

The Haxan Cloak - 'Excavation': Released 15th April 2013
CD, 2xLP & Digital

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The Haxan Cloak - The Mirror Reflecting (Part 2)

Track 4, Taken from This Other Kingdom's brand new EP 'Sunlight' released April 13th 2013

Vacate The Horror (SUNLIGHT EP)

WHITE RAINBOW Remix of MOON DUO'S "Trails", from Exclusive Record Store Day Limited LP 'CIRCLES REMIXED'!

CIRCLES REMIXED:
Side a.
Free Action (Tom Furse Mix)
Trails (White Rainbow Trailblazer Edition)
Sleepwalker (Zombie Zombie Mix)
I Been Gone (Life Coach Mix)

Side b.
I Can See (K-X-P Live Mix)
Ville Cranian (Circles) (Sun Araw)
Sparks (Eric Copeland Mix)
Rolling Out (Umberto Mix)

When Moon Duo’s last full length, Mazes, was released in 2011 there was a limited edition bonus CD that came with it exclusively for retail featuring remixes of the album tracks by the likes of Gary War, Sonic Boom, Psychic Ills and others. The bonus disc was so well received that the band decided to release it as a limited 12” on RSD in 2012 and will do it again with their new album Circles.  This time the remixes are from Portland/ Kranky Record’s artist White Rainbow, Black Dice member Eric Copeland, Zombie Zombie, Tom Furse of the Horrors, Sun Araw, Phil Manley of Trans Am, Life Coach, Umberto, and Finnish band K-X-P.


Exclusive Record Store Day Release limited to 1000!
Features remixes by Tom Furse (The Horrors), Life Coach (Phil Manley of Trans Am), Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and more!
Moon Duo will be back touring the EU this late spring/summer!


Moon Duo - Trails (White Rainbow Remix)

FÖLLAKZOID
Album: II RMX
Song: "9"
Remixed by PSYCHIC ILLS 

DOWNLOAD AT http://follakzoid.bandcamp.com/album/ii-rmx

Pre-order 12" split at FOLLAKZOID@GMAIL.COM

this song is also available at Sacred Bones Records's Todo Muere vol.3 comp.

FÖLLAKZOID - "9" rmx by PSYCHIC ILLS

FÖLLAKZOID
Album: II RMX
Song: "Trees"
Remixed by MOON DUO

DOWNLOAD AT follakzoid.bandcamp.com/album/ii-rmx

Pre-order 12" split at FOLLAKZOID@GMAIL.COM

Föllakzoid "Trees" rmx by MOON DUO

Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World - Acoustic Version

New album, More Light. Out Now. Buy Here >>http://primalscre.am/MlD4h3

Available exclusively on the Record Store Day vinyl

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City Slang (Record Store Day Exclusive)

Shark's Tooth

Since their formation in London in 1976, the members of Wire have maintained and advanced a musical project which treats the creative potential of a rock band as a fluid, amorphous medium. As removed from self-conscious intellectualism as they are from the inherent conservatism of much rock music, Wire employ their unique, endlessly restless and risk-taking creativity to question every aspect of songwriting, recording and performance. They delight and disturb in equal measure, troubleshooting the circuitry of perfect pop, or patrolling the limits of focused experimentalism. In terms of working together as Wire, the group's members disbanded in 1980, reformed in 1985, disbanded in 1992 and reformed for the second time in 2000. Such sabbaticals from their career as Wire have served to sharpen the group's edge and focus, updating the tactics with which they pursue this shared project.

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Internal Exile

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