Events – Whartscape 2010

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin

Official Site Fifth (and final) edition of Baltimore’s outdoor festivNal Whartscape is currently taking place and will wrap up on July 25th. The festival usually features hundreds of bands and some of this year’s participants include: No Age Arab On Radar Lightning Bolt Ponytail Child Bite Twin Stumps Universal Order Of Armageddon Twig Harper Xiu [...]

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On Tour + Posters – Helmet

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin

This fall, Helmet are going to tour in support of “Seeing Eye Dog”, their latest record. American/Canadian portion of the tour will start in Sacramento, CA on September 8 and will wrap up in Los Angeles on November 5 and later on the band is going to play a string of European dates. Tour dates: [...]

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Download/Streaming Vault – Tree No Leaves, Tigon, Feastoffetus, Funeral Club

Posted on July 22, 2010 by admin

Tree No Leaves – Peer Pressure/Mass Euphoria / Asorta Story (album) / Hallows (Single) TNL is  a trio of Dustin Ray, Sarah Nicole and Matt Novak, who describe their music in the following way: We are travelers of the aural unknown, riding the limitless wave of newborn soundscapes into the collective ear. These sounds look [...]

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Upcoming Releases – Blue Water White Death – Self-Titled

Posted on July 21, 2010 by admin

BWWD is a collaboration between Shearwater’s Johnathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu frontman/leader Jamie Stewart. The band is named after a 70s documentary about explorers looking for sharks in Australia (an excerpt from the movie is shown below). The band’s self-titled album is scheduled for release on October 12 via Graveface label. Tracklist: 01 This Is [...]

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Review Vault – Polar Dream, mnttab, Dirty Woman

Posted on July 21, 2010 by admin

Polar Dream – Follow Me To The Forest More of lush, cinematic sounds….this time from Mexico. Polar Dream are a 5 piece that plays  instrumental music in the vein of GSYBE and Mono. In fact, they could almost be mistaken for Mexican cousins of Mono, since both bands write compositions are emotionally charged and moody [...]

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Upcoming Releases – Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

New album by Swans with a ridiculously awesome title (as pointed out by  Pitchfork) of “My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky” is set for release on September 21st via Michael Gira’s label Young God Records. Gira commented on the album: “THIS IS NOT A REUNION. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia [...]

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Boston Events – Drug Rug / Tune-Yards at MFA

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

On July 28th, Drug Rug (Cambridge, MA) and Tune-Yards are going to play a show at Museum of Fine Arts as part of the museum’s Concerts In The Courtyard series. Cambridge-based duo Drug Rug combines their vocals to create their “brand of sunshine lo-fi that teeters on the shrill end, a la the beginnings of [...]

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Forum Updates

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

Gone But Not Forgotten > Husker Du Bands > Melt-Banana Labels > Sargent House Latest Releases > Pan Sonic – Gravitoni

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Gone In 60 Seconds – Update #2

Posted on July 17, 2010 by admin

Just a reminder – I’m still accepting submissions for a digital compilation of 1-minute tracks. So far, the participants include: PBK Harvey Girls Guanoman Finneyerkes Chris Rehm Street Cheetah Jewy Sabatay Pantone247 False Awakening Collapse Under The Empire With more on the way. For those of you who need a reminder of submission deadline/details: Based [...]

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Events – Supersonic 2010

Posted on July 16, 2010 by admin

Official Site Supersonic Festival is an an annual event held at the Custard Factory in Birmingham, UK. This year’s line-up of the festival was called “near-criminally excellent” by the Quietus. Some of the performers this year include: Napalm Death Godflesh Swans Melt-Banana People Like Us Lichens Cave Among many other. Plus, Michael Rother’s (Neu!) supergroup [...]

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Events – David Yow Gallery Debut

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin

Since Scratch Acid / Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow is a professional graphic designer, it should come as no surprise that this year he’s also organizing his first solo art exhibition. “SOLO” is a collection of paintings, collasge and digital drawings by Yow, which will be exhibited at DIY Gallery in Echo Park, California. The [...]

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New Releases – Helmet – Betty (Digital Reissue)

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin

Helmet / Hamilton Page announced via the band’s official site that they’re reissuing 1994 “Betty” with 5 tracks that were included on original album. The original album tracklist looked the following way: Wilma’s Rainbow / I Know / Biscuits For Smut / Milquetoast / Tic / Rollo / Street Crab / Clean / Vaccination / [...]

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Download / Streaming Vault – Hi-Fi Acrobatics Commission, Street Cheetah, Weed Hounds, Nomogram

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin

Hi-Fi Acrobatics Commission – S/T H-FAC is a duo of Jason Joyner and Sean Moore who offer their self-titled album for download via the band’s Bandcamp page. It’s a nice melange of digital (and other sounds) which is described in the following way: “Roughly six years ago, Jason Joyner (Pardon My Carbon) & Sean Moore [...]

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R.I.P. – Dustbowl / Open Your Arms And Welcome

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin

Two more blogs to add to the list of dead: Dustbowl (which used to reside at http://plowcore.blogspot.com/) and Open Your Arms And Welcome (which used to reside at http://openyourarmsandwelcome.blogspot.com/).  The reason for their departure is unclear, but what’s clear is that they will be sorely missed. Note – You can check out archive.org version of [...]

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Gone In 60 Seconds – Update

Posted on July 11, 2010 by admin

Just a reminder – I’m still accepting submissions for a digital compilation of 1-minute tracks. So far, the participants include: PBK Harvey Girls Guanoman Finneyerkes Chris Rehm With more on the way. For those of you who need a reminder of submission deadline/details: Based on another project that never quite materialized, Gone In 60 Seconds [...]

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Review Vault – Eagle Owl Attack, Trippy Wicked, Deadhorse

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin

Eagle Owl Attack – Into The Fold EP / Sleep The Winter 7″ EOA is an Edinburgh, Scotland based collective which offers a set of lullabies/waltzes for for a decaying world with those two records. If music could be associated with times of the season, then their work is definitely that of fall and winter [...]

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