by BBG

DOWNLOAD:Noisear - "Endless Reincarnation" (MP3)

Unearthly Trance at Saint Vitus (more by Greg Cristman)


Unearthly Trance shows are few and far between nowadays, but the band will awaken from their live slumber to play Acheron on March 1st as part of a bill that includes The Communion, Water Torture, and Syphilitic Lust. $8 gets you in the door. Check out the flyer below.

Horseback has completed their new LP Half Blood due via Relapse this Spring. Details are limited so far, but Roadburn has more details about the record and its "amalgamation of drone, doom, black-metal, psychedelia, post-rock, noise, and ambience recorded with a wide array of instruments including guitar, bass, drums, keys, piano, bells, contact mics, field recordings, drum programming, noise and various signal processors." Yep, sounds like a Horseback record!

Check out a new Noisear track from their upcoming three-way split with Antigama and The Kill above. The track features vocals by Mitchell Luna of ex-Maruta fame.

Perdition will join Varix, Murderer and Sad Boys at Heaven Street Records TONIGHT (2/3). Door entry will cost you zilch and beers will cost you a dollar. Sounds like a winning night of furious, crusty punk to me.

Drainland will share a split 7" with Crows due on Suburban Mayhem Records. Stream the material from that release below.

Slices are preparing their new LP Still Cruising for Iron Lung Records. Look for it in the coming weeks and stream "Greensleeves" from the LP below.

One interesting and important footnote to the upcoming Behold the Arctopus show at Saint Vitus on Feb 24th... Support will come from Mindless Blasting and Geryon, two bands which feature Mick Barr with Nondor Nevai and Nick McMaster with Lev Weinstein respectively. Basically, a night of Krallice-related projects... should be interesting. Tickets are on sale.

Like Flipper, a reunited Sleepytime Trio are playing a show at SXSW in Austin this year.

No NYC dates, but Ringworm, Cancer Bats & Primitive are touring from Ohio to SXSW and then back to Ohio together. OFF! were also recently announced on the SXSW lineup.

Mastodon/Opeth/Ghost tickets went on sale earlier today.

Saturday's Ceremony, Pissed Jeans, The Rival Mob, Hoax, Kim Phuc, Gods and Queens show @ Le Poisson Rouge is now sold out.

Converge announced a tour.

YOB recently visited NJ with Tool. Right before that, they headlined their own show in Chicago with Anatomy of Habit and an opening set by YOB's Mike Scheidt who is going to release a solo album this year on Thrill Jockey. BV Chicago has pics from the Chicago show.

If you missed it, check out my interviews we just posted with English Dogs guitarist Gizz Butt and Mark "Barney" Greenway of Napalm Death. (Pilgrim too actually.)

A list of suggested NYC shows with song streams, the "Beaten & Left Blind" video by Landmine Marathon, and a set of European SUNN O))) tour dates, below...

Continue reading "Evillive (Unearthly Trance, Noisear, Horseback, Slices & more)"

by BBG

Rhyton, featuring Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band, D. Charles Speer), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills), and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama), specialize in space-y psychedelia that tips its hat to greats of the genre including Krautrock titans like Can. The largely-improvisational troupe is currently prepping to release their new self-titled LP on January 24th via Thrill Jockey and will celebrate said release with a show on January 26th at Shea Stadium alongside special guests Electroputas, 1129, and Woodsman. $8 gets you into the 9PM show.

The band will also play a second area show a little more than a week later at Maxwell's on February 6th supporting Thurston Moore. Tickets are still available.

Thurston Moore has a few shows coming up including an acoustic set at Lincoln Center and one tomorrow (1/13) at Rockwood as part of the NY Guitar Festival (win two tickets at our Facebook page).

What better way to explore the far reaches of the human psyche with Rhyton than with a video? Check out "Stone Colored" by Rhyton, which makes its first appearance, below...

Continue reading "Rhyton releasing LP, made a new video (premiere), playing shows (one with Thurston Moore who plays Rockwood Friday)"

DOWNLOAD: Pontiak - "Lions of Least"(MP3)

White Hills at Terminal 5 (more by BBG)

"White Hills' sound has changed a bit compared to its catalog, particularly on the two songs enhanced by Oneida's Kid Millions' drums. Hawkwind's big riffs-in-space sound remains an obvious influence, though at different moments the band veers harshly into abstract Kraut electronics, or, as on "No Other Way," approaches stoner rock with a bass line identical to one on Sleep's Holy Mountain. As with those bands, the occasional thin, straining vocals detract from the overall sound, particularly on the otherwise raging "Upon Arrival."" [Dusted]

White Hills released Rough Trade favorite LP H-p1 in June and are already planning a follow-up on Thrill Jockey for early 2012. Similarly, their labelmates Pontiak are preparing for their release of Echo Ono on Feb 21 featuring "Lions of Least" which you can download above. A teaser video for the album is below.

White Hills and Pontiak will head out on a short tour in December including a show on 12/10 at Littlefield. Tickets are on sale. Their full slate of dates and that teaser video, below...

Continue reading "White Hills & Pontiak going on tour, prepping new LPs"

DOWNLOAD: Arbouretum - "Destroying To Save" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Eternal Tapestry - "Galactic Derelict" (MP3)

Arbouretum

After a week on the road, Thrill Jockey labelmates Arbouretum and Eternal Tapestry are mostly done with their current batch of dates together, but will hit NYC for a show at Glasslands on 10/14 with Soft Healer and Begushkin. Tickets are on sale. All remaining dates are listed below.

Both psych bands are touring in support of recent releases, with Arboretum's The Gathering and Eternal Tapestry's Beyond the 4th Door both hitting this year. Check out songs from each respective LP above and some video and all tour dates below.

Continue reading "Arbouretum & Eternal Tapestry on tour (dates & MP3s)"

DOWNLOAD: Trans Am - Futureworld (MP3)

This is not the Beaver Boys. This is Trans AM

Trans Am go on a two-week tour in late September that kicks off in Philadelphia on 9/27 and concludes with a very special two-night stint at Union Pool on 10/8 and 10/9. The NYC shows are special because on 10/8 the band will perform 1999's Futureworld in its entirety, while 10/9 will feature "a special set". Tickets for 10/8 and 10/9 are on sale. All dates are listed below...

The Futureworld set is to celebrate the reissue of the 1999 LP via Thrill Jockey who are celebrating their own 20th anniversary. Out September 13th on CD & vinyl, the remastered reissue will come with 2 digital bonus tracks. They are "Nazi/Hippie Empire", a studio outtake from the Futureworld session, mixed by James Murphy and "Now You Die, Thriddle Fool!" which was originally released by Strength Magazine on a flexi-disc 7". Check out the title track from Futureworld above/below with all dates...

Continue reading "Trans am reissuing 'Futureworld', performing it live in NYC, touring (dates)"

DOWNLOAD: High Places - "Year Off" (MP3)

High Places at Newton Barge Park in 2010 (more by Marianne Ventrice)

High Places are set to release their new LP Original Colors on October 11 via Thrill Jockey. Grab the album's first track, "Year Off," above and check out the artwork and tracklist below.

High Places are planning a tour this fall, but while we wait for that to be announced, they've got a few upcoming dates this month, including one this Saturday (8/13) at Tammany Hall with Ital and Shams. Tickets are on sale now. A flier for the show is below.

All dates, album art, and tracklist, below...

Continue reading "High Places prepping new LP, on tour (MP3 & dates)"

DOWNLOAD: The Sea & Cake - Up On the North Shore (MP3)

Sea and Cake at Summerstage in 2010 (more by Matthew Eisman)

The Sea and Cake released The Moonlight Butterfly, recorded at Soma studios in Chicago by drummer John McEntire, on May 10 via Thrill Jockey. The album, their ninth, is available for purchase and is streaming on the label's site. You can also download "Up On the North Shore" from the album above. And the band are already at work on another album for release later this year or early 2012.

They band will head out on tour later this year. That tour comes to NYC on November 8 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets aren't listed yet, but check Ticketmaster for updates.

'Moonlight Butterfly' artwork and tracklist, along with all tour dates below...

Continue reading "The Sea and Cake released an LP this year, working on another one, going on tour (MP3 & dates)"

by BBG

DOWNLOAD: White Hills - "The Condition of Nothing" (MP3)

White Hills performing Mudhoney at Bowery (more by Amanda Hatfield)

White Hills are preparing to release their new full-length H-p1 on June 21 via Thrill Jockey where you can preorder it. Download "The Condition of Nothing" from the LP above, and check the video for that song, and a brand new video for the title track from the LP below.

White Hills have shows coming up too. Most notably they've landed an amazing slot supporting none other than Sleep at Terminal 5 and with Winter! Tickets are still available.

The Brooklyn band will play a headlining show on home turf to celebrate the record as well. Look for them at Union Pool on July 14th with Oneida side project Man Forever and Weird Owl who have a new LP on the way too. Tickets are on sale.

All dates and videos below...

Continue reading "White Hills releasing H-p1, playing shows (MP3, video, dates)"

DOWNLOAD: Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Fiery Furnaces - Keep Me In The Dark (Eleanor cover version) (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Fiery Furnaces - The End Is Near (MP3)

"Eleanor Friedberger is not just the enigmatic mouthpiece of The Fiery Furnaces, one of music's most interesting, dynamic and constantly exciting bands. In fact, Eleanor Friedberger is an exceptional songwriter herself, playing a variety of instruments and crafting the very sorts of choruses that made you fall in love with The Fiery Furnaces in the first place. She's a lover of Led Zeppelin and Jorge Ben; she's a fearless performer, as comfortable fronting a band as she is playing alone on a stage with an acoustic guitar; she's one of the sweetest alto voices in music. Nowhere is all of this more apparent than on her very first solo album, Last Summer, out on Merge Records on July 12th, 2011.

Last Summer, which was recorded, well, last summer, was born out of Take Me Round Again, a collection of cover songs from the previous Fiery Furnaces album. Both Eleanor and Matthew did their own inspired versions of songs they'd written together for their last LP I'm Going Away. Matt's were otherworldly affairs, while Eleanor's were lo-fi and lovely, all recorded in her home, the sound of an artist kicking off her shoes, settling into a big comfy chair with an acoustic guitar, a glass of scotch, and a four-track. She enjoyed the experience so much she decided to move forward with recording songs she had written in her spare time, songs that hadn't been included on any of The Fiery Furnaces' nine incredible albums." [Merge Records]

Go see the Fiery Furnaces on tour now. The tour kicks off with two NYC shows, tonight (5/4) and Thursday (5/5), at Rockwood Music Hall. Tickets are still available for both. According to someone who works at Thrill Jockey Records (home of the Furnaces), "It'll just be Matt playing the piano and Eleanor singing but they plan on doing simple renditions of as many Fiery Furnaces songs as time will allow! Like most Fiery Furnaces shows, it should be a completely new and unique experience."

The two "Fiery Furnaces" MP3s above are both from 2009 albums that were released via Thrill Jockey. "Keep Me In The Dark", from Take Me Round Again, is Eleanor's cover version of the FF song that first appeared on I'm Going Away. "The End Is Near" is an original track off I'm Going Away.

Eleanor will also be announcing a solo show today via BrooklynVegan.com. Stay tuned for that news coming soon (UPDATE: HERE IT IS. Meanwhile, you can see a list of all FF tour dates, below...

Continue reading "Eleanor Friedberger signed to Merge (MP3), Fiery Furnaces kicking off tour (dates)"

DOWNLOAD: The Skull Defekts - "Fragrant Nimbus" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Thank You "1-2-3 Bad" (MP3)

Daniel Higgs

Glasslands will host a headlining set from Zanzo (aka Hisham Baroocha of Soft Circle with Rob Lowe of Lichens) and additional performances from Thank You and Daniel A.I.U. Higgs TONIGHT (1/25). Entry will cost you a paltry $7, and the show starts at 8:30.

The show will double as a record release party for Thank You, as their new LP Golden Worry is out today via Thrill Jockey. Download "1-2-3 Bad" above and check out a video for "Birth Reunion" below. In early Feb, Thank You will hit the road in support of the LP, tagging Death By Audio on February 12th as part of that jaunt. Double Dagger is also part of the show, and will play NYU with Fucked Up the day before. Full Thank You tour sked is below.

Tonight at Glasslands is one of two NYC shows scheduled for Lungfish member Daniel A.I.U. Higgs in the near future He'll also play Issue Project Room on 2/26 with Heresy of the Free Spirit ("Jozef Van Wissem and Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalists Che Chen (violin, bowed rewap, bass recorder, percussion and tape machine) and Robbie Lee"). Tickets are on sale.

In addition to both of the previously mentioned shows, Daniel Higgs has announced that he has joined on as a member of Skull Defekts. Higgs will appear on the band's forthcoming LP Peer Amid due via Thrill Jockey on 2/15. Check out the first track "Fragrant Nimbus" available for download above/streaming below. The band will follow up the release of the LP with US dates in late March and April with Zomes, including April 3rd at Littlefield in Brooklyn.

That Skull Defekts song stream, the Thank You video, and all tour dates are below.

Continue reading "Daniel Higgs playing solo shows & in the Skull Defekts, Thank You touring w/ a new LP, Soft Circle+Lichens = Zanzo"

photos by Tim Griffin, words by BBG

Slim Cessna's Auto Club at Spiderhouse, March 2010

Directly after the great Dub Trio teams up with CSC Funk Band, alt-country gothabilly band Slim Cessna's Auto Club play the late show at Mercury Lounge TONIGHT (11/10) with The Lingering Doubts. Tickets are still available for both the Dub Trio and the Slim Cessna show. Slim Cessna's appearance is part of a tour of the Northeast that will include Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ tomorrow, 11/11 (where Dex Romweber Duo play tonight).

Slim Cessna's Auto Club played the BrooklynVegan/AnSo day party at Spiderhouse in Austin this year, where these belated pics originate from. Check out more below.

Slim Cessna's Auto Club contains members of Delta 72, 16Horsepower, and Wovenhand. Wovenhand recently announced their participation in Roadburn 2011. Roadburn has also added a gang of other awesome additions in the past week or so, including Voivod (who also played a BV party this year), Rwake, Ludicra, Shrinebuilder (who were supposed to play last year, but played NYC instead), Liturgy, Black Mountain (who just played NYC with Black Angels), Cough (who just played the BV-BBG CMJ showcase), and Yob, who will play The Unreal Never Lived in it's entirety! Full lineup is below.

Speaking of Liturgy, the band recently signed with Thrill Jockey Records and will play Acheron on Dec 3rd with Orphan, Dope Body, and Elks. The show will celebrate Orphan and Dope Body's recent split release on Black Tent Press, pick it up. Liturgy are currently on tour, dig on dates below.

Cough and Naam (both of which will be hitting Roadburn) are scheduled to play The Charleston on 12/11 for a BrooklynVegan presented show with Batillus and new addition Sea of Bones. Congrats to Batillus, who recently signed to Seventh Rule for their new and Sanford-Parker-produced LP Furnace. Look for it next year and look for their tour dates below.

More of those Slim Cessna pics, and all tour dates are below.

Continue reading "Slim Cessna touring (dates & pics), Liturgy now on Thrill Jockey, Batillus to Seventh Rule, Roadburn expands & more"

DOWNLOAD: Oval - "Ah!" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Oval - Ringtone II EP (zip file of MP3s)

Oval is an electronic music group founded in Germany in 1991... The band's original members were Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz, and Frank Metzger, although Oschatz and Metzger left the group in 1995. All three are regarded as pioneers of glitch, a genre of music that embraces the sound of damaged audio produced by the failure of digital equipment. Disdaining the use of synthesizers, Oval instead deliberately mutilated CDs by writing on them with felt pens, then processed the palette of fragmented sounds to create a very rhythmic electronic style. -[Wiki]

Oval will support the release(s) with three US shows, two of which will go down TONIGHT at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn (9/9). Tickets are still available for both the first (at 8PM) and the second set (at 10PM). The third Oval show will be a headlining date at the Sonar Festival in Chicago along with The Slew featuring Kid Koala, Martyn, Ben Frost, Nosaj Thing Visual Show, Black Devil Disco Club and many others. For more info, including ticketing, head to the Sonar site.

Oval recently released a video for "Ah!" from O which is viewable below (the song is downloadable above). In addition, Oval has released the FREE Ringtone II EP for download as well. Check out that above and dig on the tracklisting below.

Continue reading "Oval is here w/ a new double LP & A FREE EP (MP3s) --- 2 NYC shows (tonight) & then Sonar in Chicago (dates)"

by Dominick Mastrangelo

DOWNLOAD: High Places - Can't Feel Nothing (Remix) (MP3)

"High Places vs. Mankind is the second full-length album from Mary Pearson and Rob Barber. Formed as a Brooklyn duo in 2006, High Places have since relocated to Los Angeles, whose warmer temps and mountain vistas better fit the warmth of High Places' music and personalities. But relocation was but a small part of what's been a dynamic few years for the two." [Thrill Jockey]

Continue reading "High Places released an album, played Shea Stadium w/ Bow Ribbons & Soft Circle (pics) "

by Andrew Frisicano

DOWNLOAD: Mi Ami - Cut Men (MP3)

Mi Ami, the San Francisco trio of Daniel Martin-McCormick, Damon Palermo, and Jacob Long, are getting ready to release their second full-length "Steal Your Face" on April 6th and hitting the road in support of the album in the spring [April]. Keep an eye out for a European tour shortly following the initial trek and a FULL US Tour upon their return.

Album artork and tracklist and all tour dates are below...

Continue reading "Mi Ami - new album, MP3, 2010 tour dates (Cake Shop)"

Sorry for the random update, but Three Lobed Recordings is extremely sad to pass along news that our dear friend Jack Rose passed away [Saturday] morning in Philadelphia at the age of 38. This news is still fresh to
us and we're still trying to process it. Jack was a warm, caring
person and was always a pleasure to be around. His larger than life spirit will truly, truly be missed even moreso than his inspired
musical ability. Our deepest sorrow goes out to his wife.
Rest in peace, Jack.
Cory [Three Lobed Recordings]

Continue reading "Jack Rose, RIP "

by Black Bubblegum

Mountains

John Zorn's shrine to experimentalism, The Stone, will host the Record Release party for Choral, the new record by Mountains, on Feb 26th at 10PM. The decidedly ambient and minimalistic Choral is out now on Thrill Jockey, and you can stream the whole thing at their site (click the individual songs). Thursday's outing is one of a pair that the band currently has lined up in their hometown of NYC, the second of which is a FREE show at Chelsea Market on March 9th!

Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, friends since their middle school days.... The group's third album, Choral, (their first self-titled release and second album Sewn were both on Apestaartje), is the culmination of their work to date and a balanced mix of the first two efforts. Mountains is often compared to artists such as Brian Eno and Fennesz citing their extended melodies and their unique broad guitar work. Mountains seamlessly blend pastoral electronic sounds with both field recordings and a plethora of acoustic instruments... Recorded by the duo entirely in the winter and spring of 2008 at home in Brooklyn, Choral is largely live and performed in real time, with only a few overdubs to create a more "choral" effect...Guiding us through sonic peaks and valleys, the band takes us on a journey through their realm of experimentation, occasionally crossing over into psychedelic and kosmiche (Harmonia, Cluster, Popol Vuh) territory.

All Mountains & Stars Like Fleas dates below...

Continue reading "MOUNTAINS - new album, record release show, other tour dates & Stars Like Fleas"

by Black Bubblegum

the Psychic Paramount in Chapel Hill (photo by Shawn Brackbill)

Anything planned for this evening? Got a pair of ear plugs? GOOD ONES? The Psychic Paramount are set to play their first NYC show in over a year at The Stone TONIGHT (Sept 4) at 10PM as part of a short tour that'll last through the weekend (dates below). The band is currently prepping their new record for No Quarter, the follow up to the ear-shredding psych Gamelan Into the Mink Supernatural. The Psychic Paramount is also slated to play CMJ, so keep an eye out for that if ya can't make it out tonight.

The Stone was curated by J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus) for the entire month or September. Also tonight, at the same venue, right before The Psychic Paramount ruins your hearing...

8PM Toby Driver & Kayo Dot Auxiliary Unit
Toby Driver (bass guitar, vocals) Dan Means (alto sax) Tim Byrnes (trumpet) Terran Olson (piano) David Bodie (percussion) Yuko Sueta (projections)
WORLD PREMIERE of a new full-length piece by Driver, with lyrics and film fragments by Yuko Sueta.

The Psychic Paramount are playing with Thrill Jockey bands Arbouretum and Pontiak in Baltimore and Philly over the weekend. Both shows are part of a tour Arbouretum and Pontiak are going on together that then heads straight to NYC after Philly. The NY shows are at Glasslands (Sunday) and Cake Shop.(Monday) Also look for Arbouretum when they return to NYC to open for Earth at the Knitting Factory in October. All dates below...

Continue reading "the PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT playing 3 shows (1 today) (+CMJ), Arbouretum & Pontiak playing some too - 2008 Tour Dates"

DOWNLOAD: Tunng - Bricks (MP3)

David Byrne & Classic Riders Bicycle Club @ Town Hall - Oct 6, 2007 (CRED)

Mr. Byrne, dressed in black and sporting his cool taxi-yellow bike helmet (see our previous StreetFilm here) then rode onto the stage and locked up. Moments later Hal Ruzal, NYC bicycling icon and mechanic at Bicycle Habitat, emerged from behind a curtain to pick his lock with a variety of tools. Mr. Ruzal’s advice on not getting your bike stolen? “Have a bicycle lock that is real expensive, and a bicycle that’s really cheap.” True dat. [StreetFilms]

Continue reading "David Byrne talked bikes, covering Fiery Furnaces ---------------------- Thrill Jockey box set ---- Tunng"