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June 16

Not Quite Strictly 1979...

Stereo Sanctity bands are the best bands

news letter #656

WIRE

Dirty Disco

Eagulls - Requiem (Killing Joke Cover)

Gang of Four - To Hell with Poverty(Wanz Dover Ready for the Floor Remix)

http://www.mrbongo.com/products/hollie-cook-prince-fatty-presents-hollie-cook-in-dub

The much-anticipated second album instalment from Hollie Cook.  Prince Fatty dubs her self-titled album tracks adding extra bass, delays and reverbs to Hollie’s captivating vocals. Featuring tracks such as ‘For Me You Are Dub’; a ska version of an old Andrews Sisters’ classic, ‘And The Beat Goes On’; a brand new dub cover of the The Whispers’ disco classic, ‘Walking in the Sand’; a delicious adaptation of the Shangri La’s legendary record, and ‘Baby’; a new revamp of this heavily requested anthem, in collaboration with French synth-pop outfit, ‘The Shoes’.
 
“The dub versions showcase real tape echoes, heavy spring reverbs and alternate instrumental elements such as melodica, percussion or horns that were hidden in the vocal versions. All the dubs are mixed live in my studio in the same Rub a Dub style as was made famous in 70s Jamaica by King Tubby and others, i.e not with the use of computers for automation and endless digital nonsense but with fingers, late night vibes and re-arranged with a razor blade!” Prince Fatty

1. Shadow Dub / 2. Used To Be Dub / 3. That Very Night Dub / 4. And The Beat Goes On Dub / 5. Crying Dub / 6. For Me You Are Dub / 7. Milk & Honey Dub / 8. Baby Dub / 9. Walking In The Sand Dub / 10. Sugarwater Dub

Hollie Cook - And The Beat Goes On Dub

Written by Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson. From the album 'Divide and Exit', released by Harbinger Sound 2014. 

Tied Up in Nottz

Single from their latest album, Singles. Out March 25th.

Buy on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seasons-waiting-on-you/id791124020?i=791124024

Seasons (Waiting on You)

Andrew Bird - Tin Foiled 
Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
Out June 3rd, 2014
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/1jXLnt3

Summer Tour Dates:
6/6 Brooklyn, NY - Studio 360 WNYC Radio Love Fest @ BAM Harvey Theater
6/7 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade (early show) 
6/7 Brooklyn, NY- Rough Trade (late show)
6/8 Washington, DC -Lincoln Theater 
6/9 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
6/10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 
6/12 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
6/13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
6/15 Tulsa, OK	- Cain's Ballroom
6/16 Austin, TX - The Paramount
6/19 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Community House
6/20 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua
6/21 Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Fest
7/2 Ann Arbor, MI - Power Center
7/4 Toronto, ON - Urban Roots Fest
7/6 Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Fest
7/8 New York, NY - Summerstage
7/10	Hanover, NH - Dartmouth
7/11	Bridgeport, CT - The Klein
7/12	Lowell, MA - Summer Music Series
7/18	Vancouver, BC	- Vancouver Folk Fest
7/24-27	Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Fest 
7/26 Edmonton, AB	- Interstellar Rodeo
8/1	Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library 
8/2	Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
8/3 San Francisco, CA - Stern Grove Fest

Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...

Tin Foiled

Museum of Love
"In Infancy"


from the debut self-titled album

Stay connected:
www.museumoflove.net
www.twitter.com/Museumoflove
www.facebook.com/museumofloveband

DFA STORE

Museum of Love - In Infancy

"Want Me" by Machinedrum

Download the track for free at adultswim.com/singles beginning June 16.

Machinedrum - Want Me

From the 2014 re-release of Wire infamous early 80's live album "Document & Eyewitness". The release comes as double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, double album (CD & digital) plus 3 additions to the Legal Bootleg series


It's All In The Brochure

12XU (RFH Version)

Hyperdub singer and producer Jessy Lanza delivers a stellar mix of R&B, house, footwork and hip hop, peppered with her own, new material. 

@jessylanza

Tracklist on THUMP: http://bit.ly/1p9ouSv

MIXED BY Jessy Lanza

Out Now.
Digital: 
http://itunes.com/ryx
7" Vinyl:
http://shop.ry-x.com/
Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/album/2XACouMaoTaHBVXGF3MVIl

Video:
http://youtu.be/vwNceY7YkLk

http://soundcloud.com/ryxmusic
http://ry-x.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RYXmusic
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2KjAo6wVc9d2WcxdxSArpV

Dawn

Sweat

The new mixtape HUNGER PANGS.
Download: http://tiny.cc/hungerpangs

Official Website: http://mussymayhem.com

Facebook: http://fbl.me/cakesdakilla
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CAKESDAKILLA
Tumblr: http://mussymayhem.tumblr.com

Tour Dates: https://www.songkick.com/artists/5157448-cakes-da-killa
Videos: http://goo.gl/tfVCJc
Lyrics: http://rapgenius.com/artists/Cakes-da-killa

Living Gud, Eating Gud [prod. Joe Lalich]

Aby Ngana Diop's "Liital" on LP/CD/Digital/Tape https://abynganadiop.bandcamp.com

Aby Ngana Diop was the most famous taasukat in Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. Taasu is a Wolof-language poetic style, usually performed by women griots over frenetic drum patterns, with an aggressive verbal flow thought to presage rap. Her only album Liital was groundbreaking in the history of Senegalese music because it was the first commercial recording to feature a traditional female taasukat performing to the modern accompaniment of mbalax, Senegal’s quintessential pop genre.

Aby Ngana Diop—Dieuleul-Dieuleul

From GOAT's forthcoming full-length, 'Commune', out 9/23 on Sub Pop.

Pre-order:
https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/goat/commune
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/commune/id889458536
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L9QYI8Y/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

https://www.facebook.com/goatsweden
https://www.subpop.com/artists/goat

twitter.com/subpop
www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
instagram.com/subpop#
subpop.tumblr.com

Commune

Hide From the Sun

GOAT - Hide From The Sun

From the SV & The Eruptions - INJECTION - Album,  released 7th August 2014.

Visit - https://www.spunkvolcano.com for more info.

Complete your Spunk Volcano & The Eruptions - albums & EP's  collection, available to purchase at the following online stores :- 

BIGCARTEL - https://svandtheeruptions.bigcartel.com/
AMAZON - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=Spunk+Volcano+and+the+Eruptions
SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/artist/1zH0Vag8SPfTHQPFo9Ryth
APPLE MUSIC - https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/905634737
CD BABY - https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/SpunkVolcanotheEruptions1

Spunk Volcano & the Eruptions - Platform 3

From the 2014 re-release of Wire infamous early 80's live album "Document & Eyewitness". The release comes as double vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, double album (CD & digital) plus 3 additions to the Legal Bootleg series

Document & Eyewitness 1979-1980

Revealing Trade Secrets (Electric Ballroom)

Taken from the upcoming album 'Punish, Honey'.
Released Sept 15th via Tri Angle Records.
2xLP, CD & Digital. 

Vessel - Red Sex

North Atlantic Oscillation - The Third Day
Pre-order the album on CD, LP or Download here:
www.musicglue.com/northatlanticoscillation/
Released 06.10.2014
We ship worldwide

October Tour
21.10.14 - Newcastle Star and Shadow Cinema
22.10.14 - London Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
23.10.14 - Manchester Soup Kitchen
24.10.14 - Birmingham The Oobleck

facebook.com/northatlanticoscillation
twitter.com/northatlanticos


North Atlantic Oscillation - August

From the album Rips, out October 7, 2014 on Merge Records.
Vinyl / CD:  http://www.mergerecords.com/rips

Rips

Order from Merge

Ex Hex "Beast"

Allah-Las - "Worship The Sun" out 9/16/14.

Pre-Order Allah-Las - 'Worship The Sun' on iTunes now: 
http://www.smarturl.it/worshipthesun

Pre-Order Allah-Las - 'Worship The Sun' on Amazon now:
http://www.smarturl.it/worshipthesun2

Pre-Order Allah-Las - 'Worship The Sun' on Bandcamp now: http://allahlas.bandcamp.com/album/worship-the-sun

"501-415" b/w "No Werewolf" vinyl avaliable now: http://www.innovativeleisure.net/shop/501-415-bw-no-werewolf/

http://www.facebook.com/allahlasmusic
http://www.twitter.com/AllahLas
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http://allahlas.com/

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(c) 2014 Innovative Leisure

Allah-Las - "Buffalo Nickel"

From the forthcoming album, Mean Love, out Sept 2 on City Slang (EU) and DFA (US).

Pre-order the album:
iTunes: smarturl.it/SinkaneiTunes
Amazon CD: smarturl.it/SinkaneAmazonCD
Amazon LP: smarturl.it/SinkaneAmazonLP

Direct from DFA (US):
store.dfarecords.com/collections/fr…oducts/dfa2445

Direct from City Slang (EU):
LP: cityslang.frocksteady.com/shop/music/m…-love-1.html
CD: cityslang.frocksteady.com/shop/music/m…an-love.html

New Name

Order: http://bit.ly/1lhkzoR

Album due October 28, 2014 

http://wearemysteries.com/

Mysteries - Newly Thrown

Sheer Mag Full Set 9.20.14

HARD LOVIN

Taken from the Sheer Mag - S/T 7" EP.
Out on Static Shock Records (UK/EU) and Wilsuns (USA).

Sheer Mag - What You Want

A track off of KW-042, the Sheer Mag - S/T 7"

Sheer Mag - Button Up

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

Love Bends

Attractive Space

Subway Sect - Derail your senses

Gang of Four - Damanged Goods

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.

see more - www.pinkflag.com

12XU (RFH Version)

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