LARAAJI IN LONDON THIS SEPTEMBER!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

LARAAJI

(Performing two sets with an interval)

Saturday 2 September

The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA UK

7pm | £12.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/411331

LARAAJI is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno saw him playing one night in Washington Square Park and invited him to record an album for his seminal Ambient series (Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance, released 1980). Laraaji went on to release a prolific series of albums for a wide variety of labels, many of which he recorded himself at home and sold as cassettes during his street performances.

In recent years he has had his career celebrated extensively, with two All Saints/Warp retrospectives Celestial Music 1970–2011 and Two Sides of Laraaji – as well as reissues on Glitterbeat and Leaving Records/Stone Throw. He has also collaborated with a new generation of underground musicians such as Sun Araw, their new LP Professional Sunflow (Superior Viaduct) being the fruit of the live shows they played together in 2014.

This September sees All Saints release a stunning pair of LPs of new studio recordings by the celestial music pioneer. Bring On The Sun is a magical mixtape of tracks that run the full gamut of ‘Laraaji music’, from blissed-out percussive jams to reflective vocal hymnals to trance-inducing drones. A perfect Laraaji entry-point on his never-ending creative journey through inner light. The record is recorded by Davey Jewell (Peaking Lights/Flaming Lips) and mixed by Carlos Niño (Leaving Records). This will be preceded by Sun Gong, a major new self-contained work experimenting with gong micro-tonalties processed through various electronic effects. The results are unlike any music he has made before - two side-long long-form pieces that evoke the sound of a shimmering metallic eternal wave. 

Sheer Mag, TERRY and TV Crime this Thursday in London!

Morning all!   This Thursday Upset The Rhythm is heading to the Islington Assembly Hall for the concert of the summer! We have Philadelphia power pop magnates Sheer Mag performing along with Terry from Melbourne (concluding their grand tour of Europe), plus top Nottingham garage punks TV Crime will open the show.   Tickets cost £10 and are available in advance at the link below or on the door from 7pm. July is about to get even hotter, hope you can join us for the party! Full details follow on below.

Since we last communed, we’ve also been lucky enough to confirm a new show for colossal free-punk practitioners Protomartyr.   This will take place on November 14th at The Dome in Tufnell Park. Hot on the heels of their new album for Domino entitled ‘Relatives In Descent’ out the end of September. The band will be joined by Sauna Youth and Bomber Jackets on stage, now that’s what I call a show!   Check our listings section for ticket details, certainly worth buying one in advance.

I’ll leave you pleasantly with something to listen to this morning, a soundtrack to this mailing list and the rising day if you will. The enigmatic Robert Sotelo has just unveiled the magnificent ‘Let’s Transcend’ from his debut record ‘Cusp’ out this September on Upset The Rhythm, here’s the video!   If you enjoy songs built up from ambitious layers of instrumentation into miniature psych pop overtures then this is for you, also recommended if you highly rate dogs paddling in water and dancing.

Upset The Rhythm presents…   SHEER MAG TERRY TV CRIME Thursday 20 July Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £10 | TICKETS    SHEER MAG begins like so many other celebrated rock 'n roll bands of yore: with two brothers. Following in the tradition of The Bee Gees, Oasis and The Allman Brothers, the brothers Seely conspired to create a rock 'n roll band to end all rock bands. The sheer magnitude of the endeavor required the recruitment of a daring drummer, a fearless lyricist and a diva who could party good AND write the rent check. With the pantheon assembled, MAG quickly recorded and released their debut 7" to cosmic acclaim. The band now stands poised on the brink of world domination or complete destruction. Is it Punk? Is it Rock 'n Roll? We'll leave that to the music 'critics.' But it is punk. https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/   TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Primo, Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, sometimes drifting into glam pop and country backwaters, always conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Love is a highway, but you're not likely to find Terry there anymore. He's on the plane. Terry saw the light, he put on his sunhat and is heading to Europe. Debut album, 'Terry HQ' was released last year by Upset The Rhythm, brand new album ‘Remember Terry’ is due out June 30th. https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/   TV CRIME are a new garage punk / power pop band from Nottingham who come fully formed. Their debut single 'Hooligans' (out of Satic Shock) is a total stomper of a power pop song that starts like a classic Good Vibrations Records 7" with The Moondogs-esque guitar work and the energy of 90's legends New Bomb Turks or Gaunt. Flip 'Wild One' is another pounder but with a more rock 'n' roll twist. https://tvcrime.bandcamp.com/

Thanks as always for your time, catch you on Thursday! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHEER MAG TERRY TV CRIME Thursday 20 July Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £10 | TICKETS      PIKACYU-MAKOTO Saturday 12 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS   SPRAY PAINT THE REBEL HOME ENTERTAINMENT Tuesday 15 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   Wolf Eyes in solo mode... JOHN R. OLSON NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION CRAZY JIM Thursday 17 August The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   WARM DIGITS Friday 25 August The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   NAP EYES H. GRIMACE GARDEN CENTRE Thursday 31 August Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB 7:30pm | £8 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF LE TON MITÉ ROBERT SOTELO Monday 4 September Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ 7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.   LOWTIDE Tuesday 5 September The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS   ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch! CLEMENTINE MARCH POZI Friday 8 September New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS Monday 9 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   PRIESTS DOWNTOWN BOYS BIG JOANIE Wednesday 18 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   MOUNT EERIE Monday 13 November Tuesday 14 November St John on Bethnal Green 200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS   PROTOMARTYR SAUNA YOUTH BOMBER JACKETS Tuesday 14 November Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   FUTURE ISLANDS Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT Tuesday 21 November In collaboration with Parallel Lines O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL 7pm | TICKETS

Protomartyr London show announced for this November!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PROTOMARTYR

SAUNA YOUTH

BOMBER JACKETS

Tuesday 14 November

Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ


7.30pm | £12 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410129 

PROTOMARTYR play a taut, austere rock that's been incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed occasionally by space heaters. Short songs made for short practices, and the band learned quickly not to waste time. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter. With respect to the local predecessors, this isn't the primitive stomp of The Dirtbombs or The Stooges' greasy roar. Punk works, kind of, even if it leaves the hardcore kids confused. Post-punk suggests something too retro; indie rock, something too precious. What Protomartyr is, is "stuck between the cracks." If that's the case, though, they aren't alone. Protomartyr's economical rock elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek (whose frontman Kevin Boyer played bass in an early iteration of Protomartyr). Singer Joe Casey's dry declarative snarl serves as a reliable anchor, granting his bandmates (guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard and bassist Scott Davidson) the opportunity to explore textures and reinforce the rhythm section. This is never more apparent than on the band's recent LP on Hardly Art, 'The Agent Intellect'. A brand new album entitled ‘Relatives In Descent’ from Protomartyr is due for release on September 29th through Domino, this show will be in support of that new record!

http://www.protomartyrband.com/ 

SAUNA YOUTH are an evolving band of young future humans making truly irregular punk not quite comparable to anything else. The band, attracted to the possibilities apparent within a DIY philosophy have been self-recording and self-releasing their own music since 2010, creating a number of seven inches, splits and cassettes. Artistic affinities are pledged to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pissed Jeans and The Intelligence, but as Kurt Cobain once asked "Why can't we be both Black Sabbath and The Beatles?", Sauna Youth consistently and urgently pose the question, 'Why can't we be both The Ramones and Steve Reich?'. Sauna Youth's debut album, 'Dreamlands' was released in 2012 through Gringo Records and Faux Discx, whilst the barn storming ‘Distractions’ album came out on Upset The Rhythm in 2015. In the first 5 months of 2017 Sauna Youth wrote and recorded a new album, holing themselves up in a railway arch in Peckham employing automatic writing techniques, instrument swapping and sampling the electrical interference constantly present in the room. They wrote the final instalment of their trilogy based around the fictional town of 'Distraction' - that has been home to their ideas from the beginning. Upset The Rhythm will be releasing this record in the foreseeable future, look out for lots of new songs!

https://www.facebook.com/SaunaYouth/

BOMBER JACKETS are a three piece consisting of Russell Walker, Daniel Bolger, and Sian Dorrer. Both Walker and Bolger will be familiar from the ticklish post-punk of The Pheromoans, whilst Dorrer has a varied CV with groups such as Plug, and Ravioli Me Away, and with involvement across London DIY nodes.  'Kudos To The Bomber Jackets' is the horrifically wry new album from The Bomber Jackets. Following on from 'Lister,' their debut for Alter, 'Kudos To The Bomber Jackets' has a restlessness that takes broader strokes. It finds and holds a register of meandering hope by setting the perverted detail of domestic minutiae against an acutely self-conscious melancholy that cynically daydreams its way into an awkward middle-ground between profundity and platitude.

https://thebomberjackets.bandcamp.com/album/kudos-to-the-bomber-jackets

First listen - Robert Sotelo - 'Let's Transcend' video

We're thrilled to be working with Robert Sotelo on his debut album 'Cusp', out September 1st. Noisey have just premiered the first video from the record: Let's Transcend!

 

 

'Cusp' by Robert Sotelo is available to pre-order now here!

 

 

New shows, Independent Label Market and Sheer Mag!

Morning everyone!   Just a quick message to let you know about the new shows Upset The Rhythm confirmed this week! We’re promoting Wolf Eyes in solo mode at the end of August, we’ve arranged an album launch party for Robert Sotelo this September and last but far from least booked Mount Eerie for two stupendous concerts at St John’s On Bethnal Green this November.   No peace for the wicked. Full details can be found below in our listings section, tickets on sale for all of those from now!

In other news, tomorrow we’ll also be pitching up at Spitalfield’s Independent Label Market, selling records, shirts and sundries from 11am through 6.30pm amongst many other amaxing labels and breweries. We’ll have most of our back catalogue available to buy along with lots of new releases and bargains galore. Here's the stall plot so you can find us near Brushfield Street, come say hello!

Read on for our full listing on our next concert, falling on July 20th with Sheer Mag, Terry and TV Crime all performing at Islington Assembly Hall.

Upset The Rhythm presents…   SHEER MAG TERRY TV CRIME Thursday 20 July Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £10 | TICKETS    SHEER MAG begins like so many other celebrated rock 'n roll bands of yore: with two brothers. Following in the tradition of The Bee Gees, Oasis and The Allman Brothers, the brothers Seely conspired to create a rock 'n roll band to end all rock bands. The sheer magnitude of the endeavor required the recruitment of a daring drummer, a fearless lyricist and a diva who could party good AND write the rent check. With the pantheon assembled, MAG quickly recorded and released their debut 7" to cosmic acclaim. The band now stands poised on the brink of world domination or complete destruction. Is it Punk? Is it Rock 'n Roll? We'll leave that to the music 'critics.' But it is punk. https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/   TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Primo, Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, sometimes drifting into glam pop and country backwaters, always conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Love is a highway, but you're not likely to find Terry there anymore. He's on the plane. Terry saw the light, he put on his sunhat and is heading to Europe. Debut album, 'Terry HQ' was released last year by Upset The Rhythm, brand new album ‘Remember Terry’ is due out June 30th. https://terryhq.bandcamp.com/   TV CRIME are a new garage punk / power pop band from Nottingham who come fully formed. Their debut single 'Hooligans' (out of Satic Shock) is a total stomper of a power pop song that starts like a classic Good Vibrations Records 7" with The Moondogs-esque guitar work and the energy of 90's legends New Bomb Turks or Gaunt. Flip 'Wild One' is another pounder but with a more rock 'n' roll twist. https://tvcrime.bandcamp.com/

See you tomorrow at the market, thanks for reading! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHEER MAG

TERRY

TV CRIME

Thursday 20 July

Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD

7pm | £10 | TICKETS   

 

PIKACYU-MAKOTO

Saturday 12 August

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £7.50 | TICKETS

 

SPRAY PAINT

THE REBEL

HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Tuesday 15 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS

 

JOHN R. OLSON

NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION

CRAZY JIM

Thursday 17 August

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS

 

WARM DIGITS

Friday 25 August

The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, London, N1 9JB

7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

NAP EYES

H. GRIMACE

GARDEN CENTRE

Thursday 31 August

Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 44 Pollard Row, Bethnal Green, London, E2 6NB

7:30pm | £8 | TICKETS

 

DEERHOOF

LE TON MITÉ

Monday 4 September

Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3PQ

7.30pm |  £14 | TICKETS

NB. This is the new date for February’s postponed event, original tickets remain valid.

 

LOWTIDE

Tuesday 5 September

The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT

7.30pm | £5 | TICKETS

 

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!
CLEMENTINE MARCH
POZI
Friday 8 September
New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN
7.30pm | £5.00 | TICKETS

 

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

Monday 9 October

Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ

7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

PRIESTS

DOWNTOWN BOYS

Wednesday 18 October
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ
7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS

 

MOUNT EERIE
Monday 13 November
Tuesday 14 November
St John on Bethnal Green
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA
7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS

 

FUTURE ISLANDS

Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT

Tuesday 21 November

In collaboration with Parallel Lines

O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL

7pm | TICKETS 

UTR and the ILM this Saturday! Abbreviate that!

Hey there! Upset The Rhythm are taking part in this Saturday's Independent Label Market at Spitalfields market. Here's the stall plot so you can find us near Brushfield Street, so many records for you! Come say hello! 

MOUNT EERIE IN LONDON THIS NOVEMBER!

Been a long time coming, Phil back in London, going to a special one!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

MOUNT EERIE

Monday 13 November

Tuesday 14 November

St John on Bethnal Green, 
200 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PA


7.30pm | £15 | Tickets on sale tomorrow morning at 10am!
Available here: http://www.wegottickets.com/upset-the-rhythm-presents-mount-eerie

MOUNT EERIE is the current project of Phil Elverum. In high school in Anacortes Washington in 1996 Elverum started calling his tapes of self-recorded noise and songs “The Microphones”.  Since then he’s produced two decades worth of records that span a wide spectrum from studio heavy atmospheric landscaping to simple raw songs. The Microphones project was nourished by and located within the community of artists around K Records in Olympia in the late 90s/early 2000s, and Phil Elverum’s musical ideas were clearly the product of the flood of independent music in the NW during those years.

After five albums the project was renamed Mount Eerie just as the Microphones were getting some unexpected attention from the widespread acclaim of “the Glow pt. 2” (2001).  The Mount Eerie recordings got weirder and broader, and Elverum left K Records and began releasing everything himself, ultimately building a self-contained small town operation in Anacortes called P.W. Elverum & Sun.  Radical self-sufficiency has been a theme and obsession;  all all ages shows and never though a manager or booking agent, always self-recorded, hands on in all details. Mount Eerie’s albums have always aimed to push into new territory, both in sound and idea, but the thread of Elverum’s voice has remained constant throughout, soft and human amid the wide range of textures and worlds.  Often the lyrics have attempted to grapple with big questions, the briefness and the smallness of human life being a running theme.  On occasion the music has been called “black metal” (Wind’s Poem, 2009), “dream landscape” (Clear Moon, 2012), and “raw and direct” (Lost Wisdom, 2008).

The new album, “A Crow Looked At Me”, sounds closer to the latter; minimal instrumentation, no production, clear and heavy words right up front.  The difference here is the subject matter.  In 2015 Elverum’s wife, the French Canadian cartoonist and musician Geneviève Castrée, was diagnosed with a bad cancer just after giving birth to their first child.  She died a year later.  Elverum wrote and recored the album throughout the fall of 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died, using mostly her instruments; her guitar, her bass, her pick, her amp, her old family accordion, writing the words on her paper. The songs are about the brutal details of that experience, from the hospitalizations to the grieving, the specific domestic banalities that become existential in the context of such huge and abrupt loss.  These songs are not fun.  They are pretty and they are deep, and they find a love that prevails beneath the overwhelming and real sorrow.  It is unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie catalog in its unvarnished expressions of personal grief, metaphor-free. 

http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/

Excited to announce the album launch party for Robert Sotelo!

ROBERT SOTELO - ‘Cusp’ album launch!

CLEMENTINE MARCH

POZI

Friday 8 September

New River Studios, 199 Eade Rd, Manor House, London, N4 1DN

7.30pm | £5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/410124

ROBERT SOTELO is the nom de plume of Andrew Doig, a 36 year old serial musician originally from Peterborough, UK. Andrew’s middle name is Robert, whilst Sotelo is his mother’s maiden name. Using this alter ego he’s been able to write and record the twelve songs that make up his debut solo record ‘Cusp’ (released on September 1st though Upset The Rhythm). Sotelo plays every instrument on the album and recorded and edited it with long term friend John Hannon throughout 2016 at No Studios in Rayleigh, Essex. Sotelo’s verdant world of sound is at once intimate, choosing to build songs up from ambitious layers of instrumentation into miniature psych pop overtures of genuine sincerity of feeling. Very much grounded in that particular forward-facing strain of mid-60s rock that edged towards Sgt Pepper, Sotelo’s music owes as much to Davies and McCartney’s unashamed belief in melody as it does to the uncertainty and confusion that comes with mid-thirties existentialism. ‘Cusp’ is an album that explores the individual in a post-social life era, with Sotelo starting the project initially as an attempt to re-engage with the people he used to know, without relying on nostalgia as a common bond. From this worthy spark of a plan, he’s created something grand and compelling, a vast tapestry of songs that stand up and sound afresh.

https://soundcloud.com/robert-sotelo-3 

CLEMENTINE MARCH was born in France, and musically trained in Brazil, now as a Londoner she writes songs and instrumentals that cross language and genre borders, mashing raw rock sounds, pastoral pop compositions and Brazilian influences with her experience of playing with, to name a few excellent co-conspirators, Snapped Ankles, Julien Gasc, Mega Bog, Pollyanna Valentine, and her own previous band, Water Babies.

https://clementinemarchofficiall.bandcamp.com 

POZI are a new London-based trio and brainchild of Toby Burroughs formerly of Totem (Moshi Moshi Records). Synth-like electric violin weaves through rampant drums and stomping bass, filling your headspace with sparse, angular energy. Their unique world will hypnotize you - it can be manic, fun and unnerving but will get you moving!

https://soundcloud.com/poziband

Wolf Eyes SOLO show planned for August 17th in London!

Upset The Rhythm presents Wolf Eyes in solo mode featuring sets from…

JOHN R. OLSON
NATE YOUNG’S REGRESSION
CRAZY JIM
Thursday 17 August
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/409977

JOHN R. OLSON aka Inzane Johnny of Wolf Eyes and American Tapes will be treating us to a solo slice from his mind platter, featuring reeds and modulations galore. As a part of Wolf Eyes, Olson is responsible for augmenting the USA's longest-running homemade, primitive, electronic, poetry & radical vibes trio. They don't just release albums they launch scotched, taped nuclear audio fronts on humanity. Earlier this year saw them release their new album ‘Undertow’ packed full of what Olson does best; unnerving dread meets genuine freedom vibes that shiver their way through the dark ambience of it all.
http://www.wolfeyes.net/main.html

REGRESSION is the solo project of Nate Young, a founding member of seminal Detroit noise band Wolf Eyes. More recently he's been honing an equally distinctive solo sound that blends myriad sources from musique concrète, vintage film atmospherics, layered synths and archive library recordings into something thrillingly intense. Summoning up crushingly ominous crepuscular soundscapes and synth-washed phantasmagoria, Young undercuts the brutalism of Wolf Eyes with the kind of ambient dread that conjures images of lost horror soundtracks from the 70's. Minimal analogue synth violence is punctuated by thunder cracks of metal percussion ala the early Akita/Null Merzbow duets, massively doomy beat hypnotics and an atmosphere that's somewhere between the most apocalyptic Throbbing Gristle recordings, Coil's Musick To Play In The Dark, The Conet Project and your favourite Kraut kosmonaut. Young's most recent album 'Blinding Confusion' (out on NNA Tapes) has the feel of a kind of post-synth electro-acoustic ritual, albeit tied-in with a visionary compositional aesthetic that is a couple of miles beyond your average weird-beard in a basement non-vibe.

https://soundcloud.com/nate-young



CRAZY JIM aka James ‘Crazy Jim’ Baljo, is proof that not every side-project of Wolf Eyes results in noise. Veering towards the sweet and ambient, Crazy Jim uses only guitars to build huge waves of tonic abstraction. Nate Young credits Crazy Jim as "the first person to coin the term INZANE and plays and lives accordingly", look out for some sweet folk-tuned bliss and tape delay guitar gloop.

https://soundcloud.com/inzaneazylum

Sheer Mag London supports announced as Terry and TV Crime

Upset The Rhythm presents... SHEER MAG TERRY TV CRIME Thursday 20 July Islington Assembly Hall Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD | Map 7pm | £10.00 | Buy tickets

SHEER MAG begins like so many other celebrated rock 'n roll bands of yore: with two brothers. Following in the tradition of The Bee Gees, Oasis and The Allman Brothers, the brothers Seely conspired to create a rock 'n roll band to end all rock bands. The sheer magnitude of the endeavor required the recruitment of a daring drummer, a fearless lyricist and a diva who could party good AND write the rent check. With the pantheon assembled, MAG quickly recorded and released their debut 7" to cosmic acclaim. The band now stands poised on the brink of world domination or complete destruction. Is it Punk? Is it Rock 'n Roll? We'll leave that to the music 'critics.' But it is punk. TERRY is getting ready, combing his hair, buttoning his jacket, turning the key in the door. "I'm doing fine," sings Terry out loud, he knows. Divide him into four and you get Al Montfort (UV Race, Total Control, Dick Diver etc.), Amy Hill (Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Primo, Mick Harvey Band) and Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell Street Bombings). Inevitably, Terry likes to make a noise. Drums, guitars and all his voices come into play, making a solid raft for Terry's inner musings to navigate the languid rapids. This all unravels at its own pace, sometimes drifting into glam pop and country backwaters, always conducting a conversation with the commonplace. Love is a highway, but you're not likely to find Terry there anymore. He's on the plane. Terry saw the light, he put on his sunhat and is heading to Europe. Debut album, 'Terry HQ' was released last year by Upset The Rhythm, brand new album 'Remember Terry' is due out June 30th. TV CRIME are a new garage punk / power pop band from Nottingham who come fully formed. Their debut single 'Hooligans' (out of Satic Shock) is a total stomper of a power pop song that starts like a classic Good Vibrations Records 7" with The Moondogs-esque guitar work and the energy of 90's legends New Bomb Turks or Gaunt. Flip 'Wild One' is another pounder but with a more rock 'n' roll twist.