This is awesome, harsh, dirty, electronic noise. DIY punk for a new generation.
Tiz off a soon to be released compilation, out 8th Apr I think. The album’s full of similar such brilliant stuff.
Ragged-and-raw, blue-collar country rock innit?
Diamond Rugs is the brand new collaborative project of John McCauley and Robbie Crowell (Deer Tick), Ian Saint Pe (Black Lips), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Hardy Morris (Dead Confederate), and Bryan Dufresne (Six Finger Satellite)
Deathwish Spring Sampler - More Free Punk / Hardcore
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Hot on the heels of the Pink Mist Summer sampler the other day comes this, a 26 band strong Deathwish Spring Sampler:
Bands in order of appearance: Touche Amore, AC4 (unreleased), Blacklisted, Loma Prieta (unreleased), Code Orange Kids, Heiress, Birds In Row, Narrows, Gaza, Oathbreaker, Converge, Hesitation Wounds, Punch, Living Eyes, Mindset, Vigilante, New Lows, The Mongoloids (unreleased), Palm, Whips/Chains, Single Mothers, Stomach Earth (unreleased), Deafheaven, Cold Cave (unreleased), Self Defense Family, and Dad Punchers.
Not bad huh?
Esben and the Witch “Despair” Plus The Klad Hest Remix
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Second the remix:
There can be no favourites when the two are so bewilderingly good & different.
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Bombino - Amidinine
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Tuareg artist Bombino from down Niger way has scored a wee bit of a coup by getting The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach to produce his latest album.
So many years after Tinariwen came to our attention & Saharan dessert blues is still throwing up some of the coolest “sounds” around.
Blistering guitar jams & that now well familiar chanting this is an album that’ll fair warm the cockles of the stoniest of hearts.
Get. On. It.
See also the album trailer below:
Pre-order here.
Solo artist Cabaret Rat from over Oxford way hit me up the other day with the kind of stated influences that are guaranteed to turn my head:
His musical influences come from a selection of bands from the eighties/early nineties American alt-rock and industrial movements, such as Ministry, Jim Foetus and Big Black, as well as British punk, and later dance and electronica.
Have a listen to ‘Billie Funday’ & see whatcha think.
Pink Mist Website is One Year Old – Have Some Free Music!
TweetYou’ve all checked this out right?
http://www.pinkmist.co.uk/new-music/4184/
Some amazing stuff on there. Get downloading!
Going for it a bit today eh?
Norwegian screamo anyone?
Their sound, while hard to pigeonhole, has been described as “an effervescent keyboard-driven indie sheen that mixes poppiness with an almost Beefheartian quirkiness submerged neatly beneath the tunes”.
Bristol band, love this, their new single. Been around for aaages but never very productive. Till this single I never really got them but this is an “upped their game” type game changer thing.
Probably gunna be a bit too namby pamby for you but that’s ok, we cannae all like everything right?
Gone Tomorrow by Svalbard
TweetHeyyyy everyones, check out the new EP by Svalbard, it’s ace in an “alternative hardcore” kind of way.
Not the easiest band in the world to pigeonhole they often seem to end up on bills with fast n furious H/C bands although that’s not exclusively their thing really.
In essence they’re your thinking (wo)mans hardcore band. “Tricky hardcore” to coin a phrase that I may have just made up.
Listen anyway, it’s clever stuff.
Pig Destroyer: ‘Mass & Volume’ EP
TweetSweeet, more Pig Destroyer stuff.
Proceeds from the sale of the EP will go toward the college fund for Pat Egan’s daughter.
Egan worked for many years with Relapse Records before passing away last month.
So ffs get buying yo?
During a January visit to New York earlier this year Iceage curated an art event ’Thrown Together’ and played at the 285 Kent venue ahead of their second album’s release. Over this time they were joined by L.A. based photographer/director Cali Thornhill Dewitt who filmed their two shows and captured footage which is perfectly edited to capture the overwhelming rush of emotion from their live show and matched to create a live video for the album track ’Morals’.
Hashtag Hardcore. Cant stop pronouncing their name “Coliguns” or presuming they called themselves that coz their favourite vegetable is a Coliflower. Hashtag Twat also then I guess.
Mudhoney have just let a new track loose. And have announced Metz are touring with them. Wasn’t going to see them as, y’know, they’re playing the o2 & we all know the contempt within which I hold that place. With Metz as support tho…
The almighty Mudhoney will release Vanishing Point, their 9th full-length album in 25 years, on 1st April in the UK and Europe via Sub Pop.
“This album is so good it has its own trailer” stated one critic.
“They are the AC/DC of American loser-punk,” said Pitchfork
“Though we believe it is intended to be positive, that is a confusing quote,” replied Sub Pop.
There’s also this album trailer….
Being reviews & new band editor of one of the UK’s leading (no sniggering at the back please) music & culture (again, no sniggering at the back please) websites has it’s ups & downs.
“Heyy, have a listen to our band, people say we sound like Faith No More”.
…is one of the downsides. But when your next email contains the phrase:
Check out this live footage of Centuries in action: http://youtu.be/AByts1x6LzU
…well that there, that’s one of the upsides.
CENTURIES are FFO of Baptists, Heartless and Nails, but their overall sound is more like modern hardcore acts. I know that cuz it said so on the press release. Check it.
