Hello again!
I trust you're having a brilliant week so far. Looks like it might get even better, as tomorrow we've plotted a show for garage rock garglers THE INTELLIGENCE, along with the highly impressive HOUSEWIVES and FRED C DOBBS in support too. Gallons more information on tomorrow's blown out revels follow along with news of next week's one off NO AGE party at Corsica Studios too! Also, today we're announcing new shows for SKY NEEDLE, SLEAFORD MODS, another NO AGE show in October, and news of our August UTR festival YARD PARTY too, which sees the likes of MICHAEL CHAPMAN, HALO HALO, CUT HANDS, U.S. GIRLS, SAUNA YOUTH, MERCHANDISE, SILVER FOX, MARK MCGUIRE, PLEASE, YEAR OF BIRDS and many, many other brilliant bands team up for three days of underground excess at The Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick. Check out our listings coda for the full scoop, enjoy…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
THE INTELLIGENCE write soundscapes set in a grainy, ash-gray world, among piles of scrap metal and busted machinery, with discarded computer parts blinking in cobwebbed corners and factories belching out toxins at irregular intervals. They play songs for the black and white wasteland of humanity, a post-apocalyptic industrial revolution, warmed only by the distant loops of a delayed, disembodied guitar riff. At the center of it all would be Lars Finberg, delivering deadpan lines like "Going out with you is like going out with a cop." He'd be pounding bent garbage-can lids with one hand and programming distorted beats on his keyboard with the other, a one-man laboratory of intoxicating post-punk experimentation. The music is so jagged and cinematically poetic and dusted in clouds of lo-fi noise that listening to it at different times can conjure completely different visions. It's par for the course for Finberg, who has participated in some of Seattle's most exciting musical forces such as the A-Frames and The Dipers. Brand new album, 'Everybody's Got It Easy But Me' was released last year by long-term label In The Red, and it's our favourite one yet, full of pop hooks, metronomically repetitive guitar riffs, new wavey synth moves and guest appearances from members of Thee Oh Sees and Shannon & The Clams, go check it out now if you haven't already!
https://www.facebook.com/theintelligenceband
http://www.myspace.com/theworldisadrag
HOUSEWIVES tangle guitar, drums and layers of vocals to delirious effect, creating vast webs of rhythmic pulse-and-slap. Unfolding like a never-ending map, their songs creep out of chaos into urgent bursts of energy and loud focus, really can't wait to see them play live!
https://soundcloud.com/housewivesband
FRED C DOBBS writes scuzzy, melancholic pop nuggets, recorded with a large dose of murky reverb goodness. He will shortly be releasing his debut EP, 'The Old Days' which includes five self recorded gems. All vocals and instruments, including drums (all two of them) are played by Fred himself. Think the Shangri-Las playing beaten up guitars through bad amps!
https://soundcloud.com/fred_c_dobbs
\\\\\\ NEXT THURSDAY /////
NO AGE
TENSE MEN
SIRLOIN (VEG)
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
NO AGE are forever cascading forward in a positive direction, gleefully instinctive, erupting out of your speakers, blasting away the clouds above the smoggy cityscape to reveal a solar flaring sun. With an ecstatic force bubbling around and beyond their music, they release contagious energy like they’re main-lining a field full of whirring wind turbines, while tuned into an ancient celestial power source. No Age is the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall, they are on a constant journey to explore the furthest reaches of sound. They set out with one particular rule in mind: To write songs that they would be psyched to listen to. On a first listen, discovering each new dose of their alchemy is exhilarating, they produce perfectly crafted songs, underpinned by infectious melodies and ear-piercing cacophony. This swirling mix of unstoppable momentum is catapulted into the stratosphere by sweeping bursts of symphonic growls. Their power is enunciated through their ability to take their core of catchy song-writing and expand its emotional influence through tone, structure and noise. With their forthcoming album 'An Object', their fourth so far, No Age have forgone the straight and narrow route, landing in a strange and unexpected place, feet planted in fresh, fertile soil. This new LP finds Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined, rats’ nests. This special one off show in London sees the duo stopping off to showcase tracks from their new album way ahead of its August release date, seriously too excited! The floor is going to buckle, that's for sure!
http://noagela.org/
TENSE MEN is a new project from Sauna Youth honcho Rich Phoenix on drums and Cold Pumas' Ollie Fisher on guitar. Looped, claustrophobic surges of brittle guitar and shocked drum beats that stack up to create a sound a lot larger than the sum of its parts. Check out their cassette on Cazenove Tapes right now!
http://tensemen.tumblr.com/
SIRLOIN (VEG) is New Zealander, Dave Currie, lining up stammering drum machines, damaged synth noise and spooked slow-motion atmospheres into a deliriously heady cloud of tripped out dance music.
https://soundcloud.com/ddavve
Thanks for reading, we really appreciate it!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
Monday 24 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225650
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
FAWN SPOTS
SOFT ARROWS
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
ADVANCE BASE
(previously… CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE)
HALO HALO
ROBERT STILLMAN
Friday 12 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/224950
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
FRAU
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
YARD PARTY - DAY 1
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MICHAEL CHAPMAN
CUT HANDS
SPENCER CLARK
ROB ST JOHN
FLAMINGODS
Thursday 15 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346
YARD PARTY - DAY 2
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U.S. GIRLS & SLIM TWIG
SAUNA YOUTH
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
FAT WHITE FAMILY BAND
LAS KELLIES
Friday 16 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
5pm-midnight | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346
YARD PARTY - DAY 3
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MERCHANDISE
MARK MCGUIRE (of EMERALDS)
JOE MCPHEE
EARTH ROD
SILVER FOX
EX EASTER ISLAND HEAD
YONG YONG
HALO HALO
SEX HANDS
PLEASE
YEAR OF BIRDS
APOSTILLE
Saturday 17 August
The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN
Noon-midnight | £15.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346
N.B. Tickets cost £33 for a three day festival pass!
All options are available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/festivals/f/6346
"YARD PARTY is a three day music festival presented by Upset The Rhythm, taking place at Hackney Wick's tremendous and intrepid Yard Theatre. Focussing on a wide variety of international underground music from folk to noise by way of damaged romantic pop, Yard Party's intention is to haul the DIY concert out of it's expected parameters and into 'interesting pastures new' to enhance the potency of the music, its effect on the audience and to deconstruct the passive nature of what witnessing live music in 2013 shouldn't be. YARD PARTY will take place on Thursday 15 August and Friday 16 August from 5pm - midnight, and then on Saturday 17 August from noon - midnight, all-dayer style! and will take place at The Yard Theatre. The full address for the event is The Yard Theatre, Unit 2, Queen's Yard, Hackney Wick, E9 5EN"
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223847
SKY NEEDLE
MAD NANNA
THE PHEROMOANS
Wednesday 11 September
Cafe Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225994
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544
BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545
NO AGE
Wednesday 2 October
KOKO, 1a Camden High St, Mornington Crescent, NW1 7JE
7pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227464
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
SLEAFORD MODS
Wednesday 30 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/227468
DESTRUCTION UNIT
(ex-Reatards, Lost Sounds)
Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225040
Too soon for June?
So here we are on the last day of Spring, thanking you for supporting us through our crazy busy May and especially to everyone for coming to see MOUNT EERIE last week. Four way vocals are definitely the way to go! We've got two suitably, splendid shows lined up for next week. Monday at Dalston Victoria sees the one and only CHRIS COHEN in town again for the first time since his jaw-dropping performance at our last Xmas party, who doesn't love a singing drummer? Then on Wednesday we're lucky enough to have MARNIE STERN, SKY LARKIN and TRASH KIT all playing for us at The Garage, very, very exciting! In other news, we're announcing today a "short notice" concert for the truly remarkable artist LONNIE HOLLEY, the show takes place in three weeks time on June 24th and full details follow in our listings closer. To get you in the mood for Summer, check out Lonnie's heartbreakingly beautiful track from his recent Dust To Digital album…
LONNIE HOLLEY - "All Rendered Truth"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDh_GyrMU4A
\\\\\\ MONDAY /////
CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
CHRIS COHEN is a 37-year-old native of Los Angeles currently residing in the farmlands of Vermont. He is the child of a former music business executive and a former Broadway actress. His resumé of prior musical projects is a long one: as a contributing member of The Curtains, Cryptacize, Deerhoof, and Natural Dreamers, he released 10 full-length albums between 2002 and 2008. Along the way, Cohen was also a touring player with White Magic, Cass McCombs, Haunted Graffiti and Danielson, among others, for stints both short and long. All of this has culminated in his first release under his own name, and his first for Captured Tracks, 'Overgrown Path'. A singing drummer who writes psychedelic pop music, Cohen also records his own bass, Casio MT65, piano, and guitar. Tracks like “Caller No. 99″ and “Monad” follow idiosyncratic forms, but are still melodic in an unconventional and homegrown way – like the best of Robert Wyatt, Mayo Thompson, Syd Barrett, and Jerry Garcia. 'Overgrown Path' unfolds its delicate and unexpected arrangements around Cohen’s relaxed baritone, unhurriedly revealing the detailed world wrapped up in each song. Also, be sure to check out Cohen's brilliant recent split 7" with Reveille on Clapping Music too!
http://capturedtracks.com/artists/chris-cohen/
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE is Iain Paxon, Jacindy Cartland and Stuart Cartland. King Alfred Man Of Leisure have previously released various memos and hotwires for Brighton labels Sex Is Disgusting, Tuff Enuff and Hark! However, new album 'We Are Submarine' on Savoury Days adopts a more substantial approach to their interpretation of mesmeric, minimal pop (and song length) with insightful results. Although mercifully the realm of the serious artist is one steered well clear of, these latest offerings discuss topics such as men in white vans, the devil and sub-aqua life, make it a total must hear!
https://soundcloud.com/savourydays/king-alfred-man-of-1
SHOWMAN'S WAGON are a band of enthusiasts. In their wagon there hangs a snatcher bag where Johnny whirlwind works off the excess whilst a bi-lingual and ambidextrous troll models follies to better understand this excess. Entering their forgery of sound is not for timorous wussies. One member, a fearless bass-guzzler by anyone's reckoning, recently broke his foot in the attempt. They are going down a rocky road and their minds, now mush, are fizzing from all the bumps (and snare hits (coming fast)). Try and catch them before they unhinge. No recordings/links up yet!
\\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
MARNIE STERN fully lives up to her reputation as “the lady who shreds,” but for Marnie Stern, shredding is not enough. After putting out three critically-acclaimed albums, Marnie could have gotten away with putting out another album filled with her richly layered sound, singular frenetic finger tapping and quasi-philosophical lyrics. However, as anyone who has given her last few albums a good listen can tell, Marnie is not one to stand still. Instead she attacks her musical evolution with full frontal bravado, reveling in musical risk instead of relaxing in the comforts of the known. For Marnie, musical possibility drives her ambition. Her new album, 'The Chronicles of Marnia', finds Marnie not only working with a new drummer (Oneida’s Kid Millions), but also passionately subtracting from her normally dense song structures to craft a sound that is both familiar and wholly original. Her trademark exuberant guitar work is still present, in fact, absent of a few layers of grit, it’s even more evident. “We stripped away a lot of the layers and a lot of unnecessary interweaving guitar parts. There’s less clutter and more of staying on a part without adding too much instrumentation.” Through the subtractive production process, Marnie’s voice became more prominent, a fact that kind of concerns Marnie, “I get worried that I am coming across as someone who thinks they are a ‘singer,’ as opposed to my usual mishmash of voices that aren’t always in key,” she said about the album’s more pronounced vocals. “I grapple with that attitude because I think it's important as a musician to try and be as proficient as possible, or try to put a lot of work into it. I suppose in my own way, I put a ton of time into singing and trying to find interesting melody ideas, I just never think of myself as having a ‘nice’ voice.” It’s an enervating change for an artist who in the past has always skillfully buried her vocals under the guitar and drum tracks. Even as Marnie evolves from what Pitchfork called her “art-metal math-rock bubblegum pop” genre, fans will still find themselves jumping head first into the album and quickly bonding with the emotionally resonant material, cascading hooks and transcendental guitar riffs. Plus, the album shreds. She is Marnie Stern after all.
http://marniestern.net/
SKY LARKIN are two old friends and one newer one. London called Katie away for a while and Doug ran away to Scotland but now Yorkshire holds us all. They've appeared with Broken Social Scene, The Gossip, Architecture in Helsinki, Menomena, Land of Talk, The Organ, The Little Ones, The Research, Howling Bells, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Forward Russia, Napoleon IIIRD, Los Campesinos!, Hot Club de Paris, 1990s, The Vibration, Metronomy. They wanna be with you everywhere, Wichita Recordings is their home, check out recent album 'Kaleide', packed to the brim with chiming guitars, rousing chorus rushes and grin inducing sentiment. Sky Larkin will be touring with Marnie Stern on all her UK dates, exciting!
http://skylarkinskylarkin.tumblr.com/
TRASH KIT are a gang of facepainted flag-bearers who have a wild feel for melody and a heartfelt kick inside each song. Mixing chaos, considered songcraft and overlapping harmonies in equal measure, the female trio sound as joyful as they are focussed. Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray formed the band in early 2009, and since then have been lighting up London, energising the UK underground with their raw performances and promise. Trash Kit have a sound of their very own, it's both urbane and primal, drawing on the potential of punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music. Trash Kit have an awesome album and 7” available through UTR now plus a recent split 7” with Woolf on Milk.
http://trashkitrules.blogspot.com/
Thanks for reading, have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you on Monday!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
NO AGE
TENSE MEN
SIRLOIN (VEG)
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
LONNIE HOLLEY
(Dust To Digital)
Monday 24 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225650
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
FAWN SPOTS
SOFT ARROWS
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
ADVANCE BASE
(previously… CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE)
HALO HALO
Friday 12 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/224950
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
FRAU
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223847
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544
BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
DESTRUCTION UNIT
(ex-Reatards, Lost Sounds)
Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225040
Hello Friday!
It's been a busy week for us what with our 500th show on Monday and Bleached on Wednesday, now we're seeing the week out in style tonight with an atmospheric MOUNT EERIE and SLUSHY GUTS concert at St Giles In The Fields. Tickets are very limited so booking in advance is strongly advised! Set times falling on 8.30pm, 9.15pm, full story to follow! Plus we'll also have our new T-shirts celebrating our 500th show available to buy at the show, they're now online here too: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/
NICE!
In our dual role as record label too I sidestep, as both our new albums by HALO HALO and CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA are now available to pre-order in our online shop too, here's some music to whet your appetite, both incredible records, we hope you like them!!!
HALO HALO - 'Want 2 B'
LISTEN
CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA - 'Skewed'
LISTEN
\\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364
MOUNT EERIE is Phil Elverum. The 34 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name The Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie (and added an “e” to his last name, Elvrum) after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. “Mount Eerie” specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown. To date, his most critically acclaimed (and popular) album is the Microphones’ 2001 epic The Glow Pt. 2. The first official Mount Eerie album — following the Microphones’ final 2003 full-length, also called Mount Eerie — is 2005’s No Flashlight. It was followed by 2007’s Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7, a 132-page, hardcover book of his photography, packaged with a 10” picture disk. In early 2009, the journals he kept and drawings he scribbled in Norway were released as a 144-page hardcover book called Dawn. It came with 16 color photo cards and a CD of songs he wrote while living there. Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums, Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. Last year saw Phil release a stunning pair of sister albums called 'Clear Moon' and 'Ocean Roar' dealing with fogs of noise, observational visions and his impeccable sense of song, for this show he's backed up by a pair of bassists, keyboardist and percussion, not to mention arranging his music for multiple vocals, it's definitely going to be special!
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/
SLUSHY GUTS is a deliberate stripping back to basics, a concerted effort to write a song one could whistle and an exercise in embracing fear. At once melodic and dissonant, poetic and honest, intimate and claustrophobic, Slushy Guts is awkward pop music, naked and uncomfortable, a bundle of subtle unease and a maze of contradictions, a too long sentence, a load of heartfelt non-sense. It tried to just be happy but got confused and came out kinda sad. The recent 'The Bloop, Julia, Train, Slowdown, Whistle, Upsweep and All The While The Hum' album is available now through the website below.
http://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for reading, listening and for tirelessly attending all our shows, you are great, we truly appreciate it! Today we're announcing new shows for ADVANCE BASE, which is Owen from CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE's brand new project, and also for DESTRUCTION UNIT, featuring ex-members of the REATARDS and LOST SOUNDS. Check the listings that follow on for more specifics. Have a terrific bank holiday!
UPSET
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CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
NO AGE
TENSE MEN
SIRLOIN (VEG)
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
ADVANCE BASE
(previously… CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE)
Friday 12 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/224950
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223847
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544
BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
DESTRUCTION UNIT
(ex-Reatards, Lost Sounds)
Wednesday 23 October
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/225040
Well I never!
Tonight sees Upset The Rhythm tolling the "500 shows old" bell all night long! When we started out back in 2003 I had no clue we'd ever reach this milestone, show two was far from our minds, and the idea that we'd still be organising events and releasing record 10 years later would have seemed hilarious, yet here we are! I am so incredibly humbled by everyone's continued support and kind words and help over the years; bands, audience and coal face, Upset the Rhythm is more than the sum of its parts and its you who make us! OK, it's not an awards ceremony, sniff, sniff… so, tonight! The Lexington, DOPE BODY, TONSTARTSSBANDHT and LAB COAST all performing for us, it's going to be the best fun and I hope you can come and celebrate with us, we'll have loads of old posters on the walls, a limited edition t-shirt featuring the poster art from our very first show (DEERHOOF at Needles bar) and so many good vibes you might need to bring a cynical friend to keep grounded. I'm also taking this opportunity to tell you about our BLEACHED and ROYAL LIMP show on Wednesday and our (nearly sold out) MOUNT EERIE show on Friday too, thanks for reading, thanks for everything...
\\\\\\ TONIGHT /////
"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764
DOPE BODY are a brutally primal hardcore beast from Baltimore. Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upsidedown and standing on its hands. Debut LP 'Nupping' was released on Hit Dat/Hoss a year or so back, whilst stunning new album 'Natural History' came out on Drag City last year and refuses to leave our turntable! Dope Body's new 7" also through Drag City is called 'Saturday' and is available now, it's really, very, very good!
http://dopebody.bandcamp.com/
TONSTARTSSBANDHT, pronounced "TAHN-starts-bandit", are a band of brothers; Andy White and Edwin M. White, with a passion for psychedelic pop and something special they like to call "boogie rock". Hailing from Orlando via Montreal and NYC, they are currently to be seen wandering the streets in a hazy stupor. Using samples like a slowed down Big Country the duo first put together a self-released debut LP in 2009 of melodic wonder called 'An When'. Since then, Tonstartssbandht have released a further seven records, they're latest being released through Arbutus Records, who also work with Grimes and Sean Nicholas Savage. Part country, part unhinged psych soup, part Of Montreal synth-pop group, Tonstartssbandht have been busy gathering a loyal following indebted to their heavy drummed soundscapes, freaked swamps of effects and ecstatic vocal float, which they're now bringing to the UK for the first time. Last month saw Tonstartssbandht touring Russia and the Ukraine alongside Dirty Beaches, their split tour cassette from said event is essential, check out the link below to hear it!
http://tonstartssbandht.bandcamp.com/
LAB COAST have that sort of breezy layered subtle guitar pop sound that's easy to like. Invoking a bit of unpretentious retro sound reminiscent in the catalogs of labels like Slumberland and Sarah. Lab Coast keep it really catchy in that loose but tight way good bands of this variety hit on just right. The flip finds them getting a bit more psyched out and showing some of their more experimental impulses that are subtly at play in all of their songs. Look out for their recent cassette album on Night People and 7" release through Faux Discx.
http://labcoast.bandcamp.com/
\\\\\\ WEDNESDAY /////
BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360
BLEACHED are two sisters from LA creating rough-hewed, high-collared, melodic Rock & Roll. Formerly part of Mika Miko, Jessica and Jennifer Clavin were best known for their freewheeling ’77 punk and riot girl lawlessness. In Bleached, they share the same slant towards the hard-edged, but instead veer towards a more vintage ensemble of Ramones bubble-gum, Merle Haggard country, and 60’s psychedelic rock. Raised up deep in the San Fernando Valley, their suburban isolation nurtured the girls' creativity, as they started making their own music at a young age. Sneaking into punk shows over the hill in Hollywood, they grew up to become teenaged underground staples at the all-ages Downtown DIY venue, The Smell. Signed to Kill Rock Stars and Post Present Medium, their all-girl punk band Mika Miko drew international acclaim and won them slots on tours with No Age, Black Lips, and The Gossip. After the breakup of Mika Miko the Clavin sisters vowed to continue working together on music and formed Bleached. Bleached’s playful harmonizing masks the dark topics they sing about: the struggles experienced upon failed relationships and all the sad themes that Stevie Nicks once eloquently expressed. That’s the goal, the sugary and sour re-purposed by two aggressively harmonic musicians and songwriters. Bleached have 7" singles available now through Ooga Booga, Suicide Squeeze and Art Fag Recordings now, whilst last month saw the band's bombastic debut album 'Ride Your Heart' released worldwide via Dead Oceans.
http://hellobleached.tumblr.com/
ROYAL LIMP is a project that’s still fresh from the womb, so to speak. A bold “I’m here”, posted on Facebook just under a year ago, announced the return of the familiar face of Andy Auld – co-founder of the Sex Is Disgusting label and member of now-defunct Teen Sheikhs, amongst other artistic dabblings – to the musical ether. Since then it’s been something of a quiet year: a few tentative uploads to Soundcloud, a handful of shows, and some glimpsed promises, allowing Royal Limp to spend time fleshing out his “gloomy as fuck tape loops and keyboard jams” with a full band, the future is arriving every second, and we're very excited to see what it has in store for Royal Limp.
https://soundcloud.com/royal-limp
\\\\\\ FRIDAY /////
MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364
MOUNT EERIE is Phil Elverum. The 34 year-old multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name The Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie (and added an “e” to his last name, Elvrum) after returning from a trip to Norway, where he lived alone in a remote cabin for a winter. “Mount Eerie” specifically refers to the mountain on Fidalgo Island, an island an hour and change north of Seattle where you’ll also find Elverum’s lifelong Anacortes, Washington hometown. To date, his most critically acclaimed (and popular) album is the Microphones’ 2001 epic The Glow Pt. 2. The first official Mount Eerie album — following the Microphones’ final 2003 full-length, also called Mount Eerie — is 2005’s No Flashlight. It was followed by 2007’s Mount Eerie pts. 6 & 7, a 132-page, hardcover book of his photography, packaged with a 10” picture disk. In early 2009, the journals he kept and drawings he scribbled in Norway were released as a 144-page hardcover book called Dawn. It came with 16 color photo cards and a CD of songs he wrote while living there. Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things. In addition to his extravagantly packaged albums, Elverum has released self-published books (which he illustrates or fills with his photographs) via his own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. Last year saw Phil release a stunning pair of sister albums called 'Clear Moon' and 'Ocean Roar' dealing with fogs of noise, observational visions and his impeccable sense of song, for this show he's backed up by a pair of bassists, keyboardist and percussion, not to mention arranging his music for multiple vocals, it's definitely going to be special!
http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/
SLUSHY GUTS is a deliberate stripping back to basics, a concerted effort to write a song one could whistle and an exercise in embracing fear. At once melodic and dissonant, poetic and honest, intimate and claustrophobic, Slushy Guts is awkward pop music, naked and uncomfortable, a bundle of subtle unease and a maze of contradictions, a too long sentence, a load of heartfelt non-sense. It tried to just be happy but got confused and came out kinda sad. The recent 'The Bloop, Julia, Train, Slowdown, Whistle, Upsweep and All The While The Hum' album is available now through the website below.
http://slushyguts.bandcamp.com/
One last thing before I go, Daniel from UTR is setting up an awesome show tomorrow at the Dalston Victoria too, featuring ANDY BOAY and EOLA from Tonstartssbandht in their solo guises along with UK faces APOSTILLE and SIR LOIN (Veg), doors 8pm, tickets £4, very reasonable and highly recommended, must go situation! Signing off...
See you lots this week!
Greatest,
UPSET
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CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
NO AGE
TENSE MEN
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
MIKAL CRONIN
Monday 19 August
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223847
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544
BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
Once more unto the breach!
Firstly, we just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for coming to our DIRTY BEACHES and DANIEL HIGGS shows already this week, both were truly brilliant, endgame synth punk vs banjo shamanism, we hope you had as much fun as we did! That's not us done for the week though as show 499!!! raises it's head tomorrow at Tufnell Park's Dome with an incomparable lineup of garage rock freakdom and punk psychedelics we've cobbled together under the title of FUZZBOX. Personally I think this could be our biggest, boldest and brightest lineup yet with PURLING HISS, WHITE FENCE, MIKAL CRONIN and JACCO GARDNER all performing alongside (a newly announced) KING TUFF too! Tickets are just £10 (bargainous), and we will have some saved to buy on the door, which opens from 6.30pm, here's tomorrow's show times, how useful…
7.25pm - JACCO GARDNER
8.20pm - KING TUFF
9.15pm - MIKAL CRONIN
10.25 - WHITE FENCE
11.30pm - PURLING HISS
Read on for loads more blurb about FUZZBOX and about Monday's 500th Upset The Rhythm show with DOPE BODY and TONSTARTSSBANDHT too!!!!!! More than 1 show every week for 10 years!!! In other news, we've just confirmed new events in September for SHANNON AND THE CLAMS and an awesome double-headed beast of a party with BLACK PUS (Chippendale from Lighting Bolt's solo warp) and DAN FRIEL (of Parts & Labor), check those listings…
\\\\\\ TOMORROW /////
Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
PURLING HISS
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
KING TUFF
JACCO GARDNER
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
Doors 6.30pm / Live music from 7.20pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879
PURLING HISS is an umbrella moniker for guitarist Mike Polizze's home recorded overdriven maximal rock excess. He's been stockpiling solo tapes for years, and since 2009, a steady stream of Purling Hiss material has appeared on labels like Woodsist and Permanent. Polizze's recordings don't have the flow of typical home-recorded lo-fi music. Songs stop and start haphazardly; sequencing seems arbitrary, with the albums unfolding more like candid snapshots than cohesive statements. This casual, tossed-off quality is part of the band's charm. Last year's 'Lounge Lizards' on Mexican Summer showcased six songs that stick around like sedan carpet matted with spilled Pepsi and Pat’s wrappers, a hard drill that penetrates historical musical hits, like the Cars through Dinosaur Jr through Monoshock and into the cold, acrid air of present times. Polizze has recently struck gold, recruiting a live band consisting of fellow Philadelphia rock veterans Mike Sneeringer, on drums, and Kiel Everett, on bass. The trio expands the tinny sound of Purling Hiss' records considerably, resulting in workmanlike, head-bopping anthems that set Polizze's guitar pyrotechnics front and center. New album 'Water On Mars' (Drag City) is barely contained, ready to flow through your streets of rage and fire and ruin. Purling Hiss cares, and they've stacked up the guitars, bass and drums to stand tall above the alienated masses.Car-wrecking anthems, for all the right reasons.
http://purlinghiss.bandcamp.com/
WHITE FENCE is a solo project gone band, this time with the inimitable Tim Presley from San Francisco as the man in control. Since 2010, White Fence have released 4 full-length albums and several EPs, a live cassette and the terrific 'Hair' collaboration LP with Ty Segall on Drag City. Presley's albums are all nearly overcrowded by sonic ideas and psychedelic twists. Even one of his simpler songs, the acoustic track 'Balance Yr Heart' off 'Family Perfume Vol. 1', gives the impression that he spliced together two different-but-similar songs that were floating in his head. In just three years, he's managed to poise himself as a prolific artist in a town that runneth over with prolific artists. Presley tempers the softer acoustic moments of his sound with songs slathered in acid-burnt fuzz, stretching it out with echoing psych guitar solos after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook. Last month, Castle Face released 'Cyclops Reap', a collection of orphan tracks that slipped the noose of previous releases. 'Make Them Dinner at Our Shoes', like every other track on the album, it's masked under a thin layer of hiss. It's hard to tell exactly what he's singing in places - his vocals are occasionally swallowed by his guitar or another sound - but one phrase is always clear: "clear open sky." Those words are backed by bright major chords on an electric guitar and the soft, steady ambiance of a shaker. Like most of White Fence's lyrics, it's unclear what those words are trying to communicate in a literal sense, but packaged the way they are, the emotional connection is clear.
http://whitefenceartcollective.blogspot.nl/
MIKAL CRONIN was raised in Laguna Beach, California, where as a teenager he developed a passion for both surfing and rock & roll. While attending Laguna Beach High School, he fell in with a handful of like-minded music fans, and formed a band that played local parties. After a spell as bassist in surf-punk Charlie & The Moonhearts, Mikal began working on his own garage-accented pop tapping into his love of 80's indie rock. Around the same time, Mikal also befriended kindred spirit Ty Segall, joined his live band and also collaborated on an album together called 'Reverse Shark Attack'. Mikal Cronin's self-titled album was released by Trouble in Mind Records in September 2011. Conceived and recorded as a sort of therapy to help cope with adjusting to life post-college, an ensuing break-up and geographic isolation, Mikal’s solo debut is fully realized, cohesive and beautiful, with themes as personal as they are universal; questioning your future, accepting your past and living in the moment. Taking influences such as late sixties Del Shannon and The Everly Brothers and filtering them through his own mutant California fuzz, Mikal deftly explores his singer/songwriter side that at moments feels like a punk Harry Nilsson or Curt Boettcher that balances sweet melodies and chords with chunky, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. Cronin's brand new album 'MCII', and his first disc for Merge Records, is all about new beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century. Other than a few guest appearances from Charles Moonhart, Petey Dammit and Ty Segall, Cronin recorded all the instruments / parts himself, lending the record a unique personal pop focus, it's so good! Total must hear for 2013 territory!
http://mikalcronin.bandcamp.com/
KING TUFF aka Kyle Thomas is one of the best guys going in the good-time rock 'n' roll department. He was in a folk collective called Feathers, is the frontman in a stoner-metal band with J Mascis called Witch, and also plays in a great rock band called Happy Birthday. A more enigmatic nomad of a furioso frontman/artist/guitar legend could not be imagined. You can’t make this up. Grinning gold teeth behind blonde shades, in black, skeletal denim, with a studded “KING TUFF” across the shoulders where feral locks fall. His charisma is magnetic, his shows are akin to cheap-beer-soaked tent revivals, he combines the stadium-sized guitar licks of Erik Cartwright with the bratty whine of Eric Cartman, and his solo debut, 2008's 'Was Dead', was the sort of album most scuzz-loving musicians would incinerate their garages to make. Back last May, Sub Pop released King Tuff's self-titled new album. Irreverence is paramount to being in a garage-rock band and Thomas has this in spades. In "Keep on Movin'", he shouts out arcane dance moves and, in his own words, lets his guitar (whose name is Jazijoo) drool. He lets out a comically puny bark in "Stranger". He gives his songs titles like "Loser's Wall" and "Swamp of Love", which sound like landmarks where misfits in the Deep South meet to make out. The album art bears the image of a cartoon bat holding a Gibson guitar and a magic wand. Clichés frowning upon judging a book by its cover need not apply here. There's the too-appropriately-titled opener "Anthem", carried by a double-neck lead begging to be greeted with devil horn gestures. There's the Lynyrd Skynyrd-esque boogie of "Stranger", the freewheeling and fun "Baby Just Break", and climactic closer "Hit & Run". Album highlight 'Bad Thing' is Hunx's 'Hairdresser Blues' spiked with brown liquor and loaded with a supercharged chorus. Completely free of abstraction, King Tuff goes for maximum impact and that's exactly what he achieves!
http://www.subpop.com/artists/king_tuff
JACCO GARDNER is a baroque pop multi instrumentalist. He creates a unique sound by combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects. Gardner recorded and engineered new album 'Cabinet of Curiosities' at his Shadow Shoppe Studio in Holland, playing every instrument himself save the drums, having mastered recorder, clarinet, bass, guitar, keyboards and violin as a child. As an adult he also appears to have got to grips with the harpsichord, mellotron, flute and organ, because they're all part of his chamber-pop palette. Expect charmed chord sequences and unexpected key changes, and don't be surprised when things take a turn for the melancholy, even sinister. 'Watching the Moon' has the same creepily Old English air that pervades Syd Barrett's work. 'Lullaby' is the eeriest of all: "I will bury you where the sun goes down," sings Gardner, "deep within the night, sleep when stars are bright." There's something horribly lovely about that image, and something freakily intriguing about Gardner's Cabinet.
http://www.jaccogardner.com/
\\\\\\ MONDAY /////
"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764
DOPE BODY are a brutally primal hardcore beast from Baltimore. Born in 2008 out of the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable, heavy group ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, and came back boasting a spasm of styles and directions. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, Dope Body enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so). Dope Body writhe under their own experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a single tune. Rather than comparing their ferocity to other contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled upsidedown and standing on its hands. Debut LP 'Nupping' was released on Hit Dat/Hoss a year or so back, whilst stunning new album 'Natural History' came out on Drag City last year and refuses to leave our turntable! Dope Body's new 7" also through Drag City is called 'Saturday' and is available now, it's really, very, very good!
http://dopebody.bandcamp.com/
TONSTARTSSBANDHT, pronounced "TAHN-starts-bandit", are a band of brothers; Andy White and Edwin M. White, with a passion for psychedelic pop and something special they like to call "boogie rock". Hailing from Orlando via Montreal and NYC, they are currently to be seen wandering the streets in a hazy stupor. Using samples like a slowed down Big Country the duo first put together a self-released debut LP in 2009 of melodic wonder called 'An When'. Since then, Tonstartssbandht have released a further seven records, they're latest being released through Arbutus Records, who also work with Grimes and Sean Nicholas Savage. Part country, part unhinged psych soup, part Of Montreal synth-pop group, Tonstartssbandht have been busy gathering a loyal following indebted to their heavy drummed soundscapes, freaked swamps of effects and ecstatic vocal float, which they're now bringing to the UK for the first time. Last month saw Tonstartssbandht touring Russia and the Ukraine alongside Dirty Beaches, their split tour cassette from said event is essential, check out the link below to hear it!
http://tonstartssbandht.bandcamp.com/
LAB COAST have that sort of breezy layered subtle guitar pop sound that's easy to like. Invoking a bit of unpretentious retro sound reminiscent in the catalogs of labels like Slumberland and Sarah. Lab Coast keep it really catchy in that loose but tight way good bands of this variety hit on just right. The flip finds them getting a bit more psyched out and showing some of their more experimental impulses that are subtly at play in all of their songs. Look out for their recent cassette album on Night People and 7" release through Faux Discx.
http://labcoast.bandcamp.com/
See you sooner than soon!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.blogspot.com
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BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360
MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364
CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
THE INTELLIGENCE
HOUSEWIVES
FRED C DOBBS
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
NO AGE
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
Thursday 12 September
Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, E8 2EB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223544
BLACK PUS
DAN FRIEL
Monday 23 September
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/223545
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
Hello, hello!
Tomorrow we have a really rare treat for you! Underground weirdo-rock legends SUPREME DICKS will be performing for us at Dalston Victoria. It's their first show in London for seventeen years, time, absence and hearts fonder grown! In support we have Matt from Talibam!'s new PLATINUM VISION horn party and CHALAQUE from Manchester will also expounding loudly. All the specifics follow, including new listings for DANIEL HIGGS (a second performance added due to demand!), DIRTY BEACHES announced as our secret headliners next Monday in Bethnal Green, plus a new show shouted from the rooftops for personal favourites THE INTELLIGENCE next month! Read up…
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SUPREME DICKS
PLATINUM VISION
CHALAQUE
Thursday 9 May
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/205122
SUPREME DICKS are an experimental rock group formed in 1984 in Amherst, Massachussetts by Jon Shere, Steve Shavel and Danny Oxenberg. Their glorious music combines dissonant lo-fi noise, avant-garde, and psychedelic sounds to warped song structures. Rising out of the same scene that produced Dinosaur Jr, Supreme Dicks were vital contributors to the lo-fi and avant garde genres. The band’s constantly revolving line-up (Lou Barlow was a Dick now and again) centered around Daniel Oxenberg, Jon Shere, Steve Shavel, Mark Hanson, and Jim Spring, whose psychedelic-yet-twangy brand of rock’n'roll came out of the band’s roots at Hampshire College in the Reagan era. The Dicks released a clutch of incredible records - three albums, a single, a split single and a 12" EP - over a four-year period before not-so-much disbanding as dispersing at the end of 1996. This slow, brooding, hugely affecting body of warped psychedelic work was released as a box set by Jagjaguwar in 2011 entitled 'Breathing And Not Breathing'. In 2012, Supreme Dicks came back together to play a limited number of shows in the US, making this ever-so-rare European tour their first major jaunt in almost 17 years. In the live setting, the band upholds a tradition of inviting others to play with them onstage - musicians who have done so include Beck, Dan Kapelovitz and Ariel Pink. Their legendary Amherst jams were known to continue for anywhere up to 15 hours at a time (although, on this tour, we'll be looking at more traditional set lengths). This is going to be the unforgettable!
http://www.jagjaguwar.com/artist.php?name=supremedicks
PLATINUM VISION is Matt Mottel from Talibam!'s new sophisticat-jazz out project. Keyboards, wailing guitar, bass and brass all spinning out a landscape for Matt's (often absurdist) slouchy blues vocal to walk out, leading you serenly through equal parts calm and chaos. All expectors of the unexpected will be primed.
http://platinumvision.bandcamp.com/
CHALAQUE aka Nick Mitchell of Manchester's Golden Lab records, will be providing some exceptionally wonky guitar noise. At first, you might think you’ve got Nick pegged as a psych guitarist with stock moves, but listen for a few minutes and you’ll suddenly wonder where the hell you are. One guitar, two amps, feedback stacked into walls and high-pitched soloing.
https://www.facebook.com/chalaque?ref=ts&fref=ts
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DIRTY BEACHES
FEMMINIELLI
PLANTAGENET 3
Monday 13 May
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, 42 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, E2 6NB
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211298
DIRTY BEACHES is the sound of waves against a picturesque and putrid shore, the silent rumble of a Chevy as it speeds by in slow motion. Sparse but condensed, relentlessly edging forward: this is music for locomotive travel, for racing your weary motorcycle through neon archways and into tunnels at dusk. The man behind Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai; solo performer, sound-smith, and trans-Pacific nomad. Born in Taiwan, Hungtai has made Toronto, Honolulu, Montreal, and Vancouver his homes. Like Bo Didley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions are not so much stripped down as refined to their essence. Drum loops entrance, Hungtai’s croon enchants, and the yearning melodies draped overtop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humour.
http://dirtybeaches.bandcamp.com/
FEMMINIELLI is Montréal producer Bernardino Femminielli, an artist whose already left a significant mark on the Canadian music scene before releasing his third album 'Double Invitation', having toured as a live member of Dirty Beaches and producing some tracks for Montreal pop-star-in-waiting Jef Barbara. But on 'Double Invititation', Femminielli has made it clear that he is possibly the best current Italo songwriter/producer in the world. Drawing equally from the camps of Moroder and Gainsbourg, his music is divided between creepy synthpop singles like "Chauffeur" and "A Que Quieres Jugar" and epic long-form dark disco. Carefully constructed down to the last detail, it sounds so authentic it's difficult to believe it isn't from the late 1970s. 'Double Invitation' is out on Desire Records.
https://soundcloud.com/femminielli
PLANTAGENET 3 like to think of their music as a misguided combination of spaghetti Western soundtracks, 1960s surf/spy-theme guitars and minimalist rock, with the end result being a bit like Young Marble Giants covering Ennio Morricone. They've released one previous single and an album, been featured by the likes of Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music, as well as blogs like This is Fake DIY and the 405, and Rough Trade who once described them as invoking "the ghost of Joe Meek and the most searching of 90s post rockisms to form something shimmering, mysterious and beguiling".
https://soundcloud.com/plantagenet3/sets/the-darkening-green/
Thanks for your continued support and for reading this wayfaring missive!
One last thing before we go! If you need something brilliant to do on Sunday evening make sure you check out SUNK SEASON at Cafe Oto who have organised an awesome evening of synth sorcery and knew-age experimentalism, it's going to be the best, more here: http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/sunk-season-the-innercity-asterism-tidal.shtm
Thank you and goodnight!
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DANIEL HIGGS
Tuesday 14 May
St Margaret's House Chapel, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL
7pm | SOLD OUT!
9pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222171
Upset The Rhythm & Le Guess Who? present FUZZBOX
Featuring…
WHITE FENCE
MIKAL CRONIN
PURLING HISS
JACCO GARDNER
THE PHEROMOANS
Thursday 16 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
7pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208879
"Upset The Rhythm's 500th show!"
DOPE BODY
TONSTARTSSBANDHT
LAB COAST
Monday 20 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207764
BLEACHED
ROYAL LIMP
Wednesday 22 May
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213360
MOUNT EERIE
(Multiple vocal, guitar, two basses, percussion set)
SLUSHY GUTS
Friday 24 May
St Giles In The Fields, 60 St Giles High Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 8LG
8pm | £13.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/207364
CHRIS COHEN
KING ALFRED MAN OF LEISURE
SHOWMAN'S WAGON
Monday 3 June
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/213093
MARNIE STERN
SKY LARKIN
TRASH KIT
Wednesday 5 June
The Garage, 22 Highbury Corner, Highbury & Islington, N5 1RD
7.30pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/211291
THE INTELLIGENCE
Thursday 13 June
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222180
NO AGE
Thursday 20 June
Corsica Studios, 4/5 Elephant Road, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | £10.00 | Tickets only available on the door on the night!
LUCKY DRAGONS
MARY OCHER
Wednesday 3 July
SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, E8 3RH
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217821
SIC ALPS
THEO VERNEY
SHUDDER PULPS
Thursday 4 July
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
8pm | £7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216195
SCOTT & CHARLENE'S WEDDING
Saturday 6 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217364
MOON DUO
GNOD
NOVELLA
Wednesday 17 July
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | £11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/208293
WARM SODA
BED RUGS
Friday 19 July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/214927
PENGO
BLOOD STEREO
USURPER
INFINITE GAAAH
IAN MURPHY / DUNCAN HARRISON
Sunday 28th July
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
3pm-9pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/216791
THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
(Sacred Bones)
Friday 4 October
Dalston Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, Dalston, E8 3AS
8pm | £6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/217365
Due
to demand nearing frenzy, we've added a further performance by DANIEL
HIGGS on Tuesday 14th May at St Margaret's House Chapel, this is a later
set in the evening, 9pm - 10.30pm, tickets £10, booking highly
advisable (40 only!)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/222171
