The Blind Shake

Blind Shake side project Jim & The French Vanilla ready new LP (listen to "Back Home")

Jim Blaha makes dystopian animal beat garage rock with his brother Mike in Minneapolis’ The Blind Shake. But on his own he makes catchy, if slightly less crazed, rock…

The Blind Shake releasing new LP (listen to "Shoot All the Birds"), touring, playing three NYC-area shows

Minneapolis dystopian bashers The Blind Shake will release their new album Celebrate Your Worth via Goner on October 21. The first single “I Shot All The Birds” has all the Blind Shake signifiers…

Hot Snakes, Wire, Diamanda Galas & more added to Drive Like Jehu-curated All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 lineup

We already mentioned that Drive Like Jehu were playing and curating curating the second weekend of a two-weekend, Wales-set edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties 2…

The Gories, King Khan, The Monkeywrench, Soulside, Mission of Burma & more playing Drive Like Jehu-curated ATP

Drive Like Jehu are back in a pretty serious way these days, playing the just-announced Noise Pop Fest and curating and playing ATP in Wa…

Gonerfest 12 initial lineup: "TY REX," Ultimate Painting, Blind Shake, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Nobunny, NOTS & more

Gonerfest, Goner Records’ annual music festival, will take place September 24-27, 2015 in Memphis, TN. This will be the 12th edition and the initial lineup includes Ultimate Painting, TY REX (Ty Segall doing T-Rex…

The Blind Shake releasing a new LP (listen), playing SXSW

Minneapolis’ animal beat bashers The Blind Shake just wrapped up their Modern Surf Classics tour with John Reis (including two NYC shows)…

House of Vans at Mohawk 2015 SXSW lineups (The Damned, METZ, Angel Olsen, Laura Marling, Future Islands & more)

We already posted the Pitchfork parties happening at House of Vans at The Mohawk for SXSW 2015 today, and now here’s most of the rest House of Vans’ lineup for the whole w…

John Reis & The Blind Shake played Mercury Lounge with The So So Glos (pics)

Post-punks in Hawaiian shirts Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake played their second of two NYC shows last Thursday (2/26) at Mercury Lounge, in support of their collaborative Modern Surf Classics album…

John Reis & the Blind Shake on tour, surfed with the So So Glos @ Saint Vitus (pics)

On tour from Minneapolis, a city with a rich surfing tradition, Minneapolis’ The Blind Shake played St Vitus last night (2/25) with John Reis (RFTC, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, the Sultans, Pitchfork, etc) who recorded an album called Modern Surf Classics with the band last year and is on tour with them…
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