Ultimate Painting
Modern Nature (Ultimate Painting / Beak>) share first single from debut LP
Modern Nature are Jack Cooper of Ultimate Painting and Will Young on Beak> and their debut album will be out in August.
Bill's Indie Basement (1/25): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: Swervedriver’s new album ’Future Ruins’, plus Robert Forster, Proper Ornaments, an amazing new Beak> video, and a reissue of Mark Stewart & The Maffia’s 1983 debut.
Ultimate Painting broke up, new LP has been shelved indefinitely
“Anyone who has worked with us knows that the partnership at the core of this band has always been a very fragile thing, but due to an irreconcilable breakdown we will no longer be working with each other. ” – Jack Cooper.
Ultimate Painting prep new LP 'Up!' (listen to "Not Gonna Burn Myself Anymore")
Ultimate Painting are back with their fourth album, titled Up!, on April 6. It’s their first album for Bella Union after three in three years for Trouble in Mind…
Jack Cooper (Ultimate Painting) & Cut Worms tell us their Top 10s of 2017
Jack Cooper pics his Top 10 Records of the year, Max from Cut Worms offers a little levity with “Top ten best ‘top 10 fail videos’ on YouTube”
Bill’s Indie Basement (12/8): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more
This week: a lost album from Television Personalities, former The Loft frontman Pete Astor, the debut solo album from Jackson MacIntosh of Sheer Agony, and LP #3 from Scotland’s The Spook School.
The Proper Ornaments covered Jesus & Mary Chain (listen), announce U.S. tour
The Proper Ornaments, the project from James Hoare (Ultimate Painting, Veronica Falls) and Max Oscarnold (Toy), just released their second album, Foxhole, via Slumberland / Tough Love. Not entirely different form what Haore does in Ultimate Painting, it’s magic hour psych pop…
Yo La Tengo played Central Park (setlist, pics); announce return of Hanukkah shows
The 2017 Hanukkah shows will be at Bowery Ballroom.
Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage preps solo LP (listen to "Winter in the South")
He’ll also be touring this fall with Ultimate Painting’s Jack Cooper.
Jack Cooper of Ultimate Painting releasing solo debut -- listen to "North of Anywhere"
Jack Cooper, of Ultimate Painting and Mazes, will release his first solo album, titled Sandgrown, on August 25 via Trouble in Mind. He made the record on his own using a 4-track portastudio, inspired by his hometown of Blackpool and his upbringing on England’s Fylde Coast…
