Monday, 30 November 2015
BAMBOO on Noisey!
Noisey have just premiered an amazing new track from BAMBOO's new album ('Prince Pansori Priestess' out this Friday) called 'Hexagonal', listen up!
Monday, 23 November 2015
Upset The Rhythm at the Independent Label Market this Saturday!
We're back at the Independent Label Market in Spitalfields this Saturday with lots of new releases from Bamboo, The Wharves and Normil Hawaiians, alongside 90% of our back catalogue, including warehouse find rarities from Xiu Xiu, Parenthetical Girls, Trash Kit, John Maus, Yikes and Future Islands, see you there!!!
Friday, 20 November 2015
New releases out today for The Wharves and Normil Hawaiians!
Afternoon everyone!
Today our new
records by THE WHARVES and NORMIL HAWAIIANS are hitting the shelves
of shops near you. ‘Return Of The Ranters’ by Normil Hawaiians was originally
recorded in 1985, and it’s taken thirty years to see a proper release for this
lost magnum opus. Their music is a hypnotic swirl of improvised avant-punk
drifts and hymned mantras and it’s with a heart full of pride that we can say
we’ve helped see this record finally released. Available on black and white
180g vinyl and gatefold digipak CD (plus photo booklet), we’re very excited for
this one to make its way out there to you.
And it’s
keeping good company as The Wharves 7” also released today sounds equally outstanding.
Following on from
last year’s brilliant ‘At Bay’ album on Gringo Records, this brand new single
gives us a glimpse of what their next album ‘Electa’ will sound like next year.
Side A boasts the plaintive yet powerful track ‘NAZ’, which soars for the
sky with each vocal climb and guitar trail. Whilst, ‘My Will’ on the flipside
takes us back to a wintry past life, sounding practically medieval in its
quietude, before leaping up like a newly lit bonfire when a rebel choir of
friends and family join the fray. Limited to 500 copies in hand-embossed
sleeves, these won’t hang around for long.
Both records
are available now through our webshop from today as well!
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NEXT SHOW /////
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
SLIM TWIG is a twenty-six-year
old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’! His record reissued last year was
completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After
producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012),
and scoring two films, Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his
own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record.
They featured a cast of Toronto heavies. He briefly performed
Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy
(U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released
songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic,
synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the
cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest for
DFA.
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacific City Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
‘Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig’ is to date the most sonically immersive album in Twig’s discography. Where some records have focused explicitly on sample-based songwriting, while others have been completely live-recorded, the new album arrives at a perfectly produced fusion of fidelities. It hovers, glamorously caught between a cloud of obscurant, half-speed tape hiss, and the most stoned Jeff Lynne production you’ve ever heard. Twig flirts here with a variety of vibes, most often opting for a three-dimensional approach whereby a warped tape aura is overlaid with colourful, laser-cut keyboard and guitar melodies. All the while, we find Twig irreverently raiding classic rock of its symbolism, sexuality, and social ambition for ulterior subversions. In this respect, TYFSWT's closest cousin may be Royal Trux's ‘Accelerator’. Many of the songs play referential sonic games like this, discursively incorporating familiar melodies, production styles or ideas (a fuzzy ballad on wage inequality is cheekily titled ‘Textiles On Mainstreet’), only to pair them with incongruous textures or themes. 'Live In, Live On Your Era', a song encouraging an embrace of one’s own cultural circumstance, is consciously styled as the most ‘retro’ sounding cut on the album (Jimmy Page leads and all), seemingly upending the lyrical content. On and on, the jokes and meta-sonic rock commentary continue like so many Zappa-esque indulgences. Sonically and politically, his aim is to be a rock n’ roll subversive in an era where that claim should rightfully be made by luddite cave-people. Context is everything, and Twig’s gift may be in zeroing in on that.
http://slimtwig.blogspot.co.uk/
TARZANA is the culmination of a long five year collaboration between musicians Jan Anderzén (Fonal, Kemialliset Ystävät, Tomutonttu) and Spencer Clark (The Skaters, Pacific City Soundvisions, Monopoly Child Star Searchers). A space ethnic alien hyperdimensional ooze is here, brought into a live setting with the addition of belgian synthesist composer Floris Vanhoof (Kraak, Ultra eczema), who, in Tarzana, will be playing free sampladelic drum pads. Below you can hear two tracks from their new album ‘Alien Wildlife Estate’, which percolate with the kind of heady, humid exotica that few do better. According to the press release, the music is “engaged as a Fruitopian vision of a rescattering of all elements within an International Airport to be presented as Audio exhibit!” We couldn’t tell you what that means, but it sounds amazing. Listen below and look for the release through Underwater Peoples and Pacific City Sound Vision.
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/julian-neyers-airport-tarzana/s-ZkxQI
https://soundcloud.com/pacificcitysound/private-scarab-club-reserve/s-kEPeo
MAGIC STEVEN is a Melbourne, Australia-based performer whose work has been alternately described as autobiographical storytelling, deadpan not-comedy, guided meditation and long-form beat poetry. He has performed as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Fringe Festival in Melbourne, and more recently at Liquid Architecture Festival and at MONA's Dark Mofo Festival in Tasmania.
http://www.magicsteven.net/
TROON LIENAD (DJ Set)
https://www.mixcloud.com/troonlienad/
Thanks to all of you for coming out
this week to see Mikal Cronin and Calvin Johnson too, it was brilliant to see
you all.
Have the best weekend!
UTR
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
MAGIC STEVEN
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
WHALO
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | £5 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334740
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17
February
The Lexington,
96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Calvin Johnson tonight in London!
Times for tonight's sold out show at the Tin Tabernacle!
CALVIN JOHNSON - 8.45pm
INVISIBLE FOXX - 8pm
Doors - 7pm
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Tuesday, 17 November 2015
MIKAL CRONIN tonight in London!
Morning all!
Today we’ve announced
two new events for you, PROTOMARTYR
will be heading to The 100 Club next April and sooner still GUN OUTFIT will finally make it back
over to London next February. Details of both shows can be found in our ‘upcoming
listings’ below, along with the show blurb for tonight’s exciting MIKAL CRONIN, J FERNANDEZ and THEO VERNEY
concert at The Scala. Tickets for tonight are £13 on the door from 7.30pm and
live music will be commencing from 8.15pm. In other news, tomorrow’s CALVIN JOHNSON show at The Tin
Tabernacle is now completely sold out, we won’t have any tickets on the door,
but we will have a bar and you can expect supports INVISIBLE FOXX (boasting some cello arrangements, no less!) to
start around 8pm. Read on…
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TONIGHT /////
MIKAL CRONIN
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday 17 November
Scala, 275 Pentonville
Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
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 hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin
release, 'MCII', his first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new
beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century.
Earlier this year Merge released Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked
by lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for
which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply
sound bigger in everyone’s head.
https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin
J
FERNANDEZ has a colourful world of imagination
that’s perfectly captured in his debut album ‘Many Levels of Laughter’. With
lyrics reflecting the profound (emotional mushroom trips), the mundane (dentist
visits, board games) and life’s other curiosities (sleep apnea, Craigslist
encounters), he’s made an album steeped in DIY origins, but offering a superior
exploration of sound that’s all set to wrap J Fernandez in a far worldlier
embrace. Born to Filipino immigrant parents, J (Justin) Fernandez relocated to
the Chicago from his native Little Rock, Arkansas to begin work for the U.S.
map company Rand McNally. Spending his spare time navigating his own personal
world of musical endeavours, he created three unique and accomplished early EPs
‘Olympic Village’, ‘No Luck’ and ‘Memorize Now’ that placed him alongside label
peers Best Coast, Mount Eerie, and Dirty Beaches whilst winning him praise and
comparisons to everyone from Syd Barrett, to Robyn Hitchcock and Ennio
Morricone. Fernandez’s songwriting draws on disparate influences from Terry
Riley to the annals of early electronic music, pop and psychedelia, not to
mention Can, Yo La Tengo, Jim O’Rourke, Electric Prunes, James Burke’s
‘Connections’, Carl Sagan, Bas Jan Ader, the winter in Chicago, and Adderall.
Listen closely to ‘Markers’, you can hear manipulated found sounds of the
outside world behind looped Casio keyboards. Elsewhere the mellow jazzy tones
of ‘Filled With Joy’ recall the energy and sonic sound of 90s Argentine band
Babasonicos whilst the layers of broken Moog string synthesizer on ‘Apophis’ is
played backwards and perhaps hints at a sound of the future.
https://jfernandez.bandcamp.com/
THEO
VERNEY is a rock-n-roll prodigy from
Brighton! He’s spent the last two years building excitement and anticipation
across the UK and Europe with his no holds barred, psych-infused shows. Theo
is currently recording his debut album to follow up the much acclaimed ‘Heavy
Sunn’ EP which was released last year on Hate Hate Hate Records (The Wytches,
Fat White Family). He’s been touring with his band regularly since its release,
supporting the likes Drenge, Toy, Archie Bronson Outfit, La Luz and Parquet
Courts as well as his own headline shows. Theo's new EP 'Brain Disease' is out
now, go check it out!
http://theoverney.tumblr.com/
Thank you for reading
this, before we head off we wanted to point you in the direction of this show
taking place this week too, which looks fantastic and well worth your attendance!
Constant Flux presents...
THE FISH
POLICE
JOEY FOURR
DANIEL
WAKEFORD
WITCHING WAVES
Saturday 21st November 2015
DIY Space For London
96-108 Ormside Street, London, SE15 1TF
£5 / carers free or donation
Flat Access / Accessible Toilets
Enjoy your week!
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MIKAL CRONIN
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
CALVIN JOHNSON
INVISIBLE FOXX
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | SOLD OUT
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | SOLD OUT
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17
February
The Lexington,
96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
*NB. Tickets onsale from 10am this
Friday.
GUN OUTFIT heading over in February!
Tremendous news! GUN OUTFIT are coming back to Europe next February (at long last!) in support of their cracking new album 'Dream All Over' out now on Paradise Of Bachelors. We're overjoyed to announce their London show which will take place at The Lexington on Feb 17th.
Upset The Rhythm presents…
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17 February
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160
GUN OUTFIT
Wednesday 17 February
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £8 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/340160
Opening credits. One weekend in 1947, teenaged filmmaker, music video forefather, fledgling occultist, and eventual Mick Jagger collaborator Kenneth Anger shoots a short film of homoerotic surrealism called Fireworks in his parents’ empty house in Beverly Hills. The stated intention is to capture “the explosive pyrotechnics of a dream,” and it does so with ghostly brutality, distilling a potent, symbolically charged amalgam of desire, dread, violence, and the tentative trappings of magick that would occupy Anger (an Aleister Crowley acolyte) in later years.
Almost seventy years later, Dream All Over, the fourth full-length album by the cinematically-minded Los Angeles rock and roll band Gun Outfit—and their first with Paradise of Bachelors—describes a comparable flickering and dimming of dreams, that moment when the lights go up, and the “temporary relief” of sleep’s “imaginary displays” dissolves into stark, deadening lucidity. The songs are suffused with a slyly cynical hangover/hangman’s humor that evokes, from the perspective of “a stranger / getting stranger still,” L.A.’s disorienting simulacrum kingdom of crawling pictures: “I looked familiar in a foreign land / I couldn’t speak, but I could understand / From another life I rode / Into a desert of my own / And when I put my blanket down / I’m going to dream all over” (“Legends of My Own”).
The
dangerous California obliquely mapped by Gun Outfit herein bears little
resemblance to Tinseltown fantasies, except insofar as the incantatory
dialogues of singers Carrie Keith (guitar, vocals, slide) and Dylan
Sharp (guitar, vocals, banjo, balalaika) throw off a muted, wary carnal
heat, the lingering afterimage of spent desire. (“Isn’t enchantment what
we like?” asks the song “In Orbit,” dubiously.) Instead the inscape
drawn through Dream All Over navigates the dark side of the
moon—the Hollywood Babylon L.A. of Kenneth Anger and David Lynch, Father
Yod and Charlie Manson, muscle cars and drought—as reflected upon a
pair of road-weary human hearts. As Dylan sings in “Only Ever Over,”
“Out here on the West coast where the ocean eats the sun / We’ve known
for a long time the end’s already come.”
The
band members, all of whom have made or worked on their own and others’
low-budget, homebrew art films in various capacities, draw from the
syntax and systems of cinema, in two senses: the songs invoke imagistic
memories and unfold like dreams unremembered upon waking, but they also
rely on staunchly collaborative team processes. The unmistakable rhythm
section of Daniel Swire (drums, percussion) and Adam Payne (bass, also
of Residual Echoes) fuel Dylan and Carrie’s spacious, enmeshed guitar
work with a corporeal throb, and all decisions are democratically
decided. Friend and mentor Henry Barnes (Amps for Christ/Man Is the
Bastard) plays three different homemade electric sitars on the
record. Facundo Bermudez (Ty Segall, No Age) engineered and co-produced.
Although reared in the realm of hardcore punk aesthetics, these days Gun Outfit bears a greater sonic and songwriterly kinship to the likes of Lee Hazlewood or Blaze Foley than to anything released in the heyday of the SST label. But there is an unspoken understanding throughout their recordings, but pointedly so on Dream All Over, that punk rock is folk music, certainly as much as honky-tonk belongs to the American folk tradition. But the band somehow communicates this kinship by barely acknowledging the formal tropes of either genre. It’s a compellingly elusive aesthetic strategy articulated in the withering “Gotta Wanna”: “I wanna squirm around / I’m a wild primate / Can’t never make no art / When my clothing chafes.”
There
are many such moments on Dream All Over, deflating lyrical reversals
that frame these plainspoken riddles with devastating regret and
resignation, in the manner of all great country songs. The existential
beach-blanket bingo ritual of “Came to Be” (“futility,” we learn, is
“the reason for the partying”) ends with a scathingly dismissive
indictment: “And that’s what I know of Paradise.” “Worldly Way” finishes
with a desolate aphorism: “Oh world, what knowledge do you teach? / To
grow a tail and chase it / Or sit awhile in grief.” The album begins
with a cautious, nodding admission of our powerlessness to resist the
dominion “Of the often noticed clock / And its fascist frame.” But it
ends with a glimmer of prehistoric hope, a “temporary relief”: “So cup a
little coal / Try to make it glow / We’re going to have a fire before
we go.” End credits.
PROTOMARTYR back in London next April!
After last week's incredible show, we've just booked PROTOMARTYR to come back next April!!
Upset The Rhythm presents...
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Upset The Rhythm presents...
PROTOMARTYR
Monday 4th April
100 Club, 100 Oxford St, Oxford Street, W1D 1LL
7.30pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/339599
Friday, 13 November 2015
BAMBOO digital single out today! Plus MIKAL CRONIN playing next week!
Good morning!
Thanks to so
many of you who came out this week to see Shannon And The Clams, what a way to
kick start their tour, they’re going to have the best time yet over here. We’re
back in show mode next Tuesday, this time at the Scala with the amazing MIKAL CRONIN, J FERNANDEZ and THEO VERNEY.
You can read all about the night of psych-infused rock-n-roll we have planned
for you below. We also have a handful of tickets left for next week’s CALVIN JOHNSON show too, so if you
fancy coming to that one its worth buying some in advance.
In label news,
today we’re releasing a digital single by BAMBOO
(Nick from Peepholes and Rachel from Trash Kit), whose sublime album ‘Prince
Pansori Priestess’ we’re releasing on December 4th. You can
stream the lead track ‘Be Brothers’ now by clicking on the
single artwork below. The first part of the song begins very
vulnerably, “Can’t look back, can you
see, something over there looks pretty good to me” admits Rachel honestly
over her fragile plucked banjo motif, a sense of hope returning grows,
underscored by drifts of blushing ambience. Halfway through and the percussion
picks up, allowing the rippling synths to walk hand in hand with Roedelius
towards the horizon. Verity Susman (of Electrelane) guests towards the end of
the track on saxophone, helping the song reach its more resolved future. Enjoy!
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TUESDAY /////
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday 17 November
Scala, 275 Pentonville
Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm | £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
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 hefty, psychedelic guitar freak-outs. 2013 saw Cronin
release, 'MCII', his first disc for Merge Records, which was all about new
beginnings, looking at new relationships and growing up in the 21st century.
Earlier this year Merge released Mikal’s third album, entitled ‘MCIII’. Marked
by lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for
which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply
sound bigger in everyone’s head.
https://www.mergerecords.com/mikal-cronin
J
FERNANDEZ has a colourful world of imagination
that’s perfectly captured in his debut album ‘Many Levels of Laughter’. With
lyrics reflecting the profound (emotional mushroom trips), the mundane (dentist
visits, board games) and life’s other curiosities (sleep apnea, Craigslist
encounters), he’s made an album steeped in DIY origins, but offering a superior
exploration of sound that’s all set to wrap J Fernandez in a far worldlier
embrace. Born to Filipino immigrant parents, J (Justin) Fernandez relocated to
the Chicago from his native Little Rock, Arkansas to begin work for the U.S.
map company Rand McNally. Spending his spare time navigating his own personal
world of musical endeavours, he created three unique and accomplished early EPs
‘Olympic Village’, ‘No Luck’ and ‘Memorize Now’ that placed him alongside label
peers Best Coast, Mount Eerie, and Dirty Beaches whilst winning him praise and
comparisons to everyone from Syd Barrett, to Robyn Hitchcock and Ennio
Morricone. Fernandez’s songwriting draws on disparate influences from Terry
Riley to the annals of early electronic music, pop and psychedelia, not to
mention Can, Yo La Tengo, Jim O’Rourke, Electric Prunes, James Burke’s
‘Connections’, Carl Sagan, Bas Jan Ader, the winter in Chicago, and Adderall.
Listen closely to ‘Markers’, you can hear manipulated found sounds of the
outside world behind looped Casio keyboards. Elsewhere the mellow jazzy tones
of ‘Filled With Joy’ recall the energy and sonic sound of 90s Argentine band
Babasonicos whilst the layers of broken Moog string synthesizer on ‘Apophis’ is
played backwards and perhaps hints at a sound of the future.
https://jfernandez.bandcamp.com/
THEO
VERNEY is a rock-n-roll prodigy from
Brighton! He’s spent the last two years building excitement and anticipation
across the UK and Europe with his no holds barred, psych-infused shows. Theo
is currently recording his debut album to follow up the much acclaimed ‘Heavy
Sunn’ EP which was released last year on Hate Hate Hate Records (The Wytches,
Fat White Family). He’s been touring with his band regularly since its release,
supporting the likes Drenge, Toy, Archie Bronson Outfit, La Luz and Parquet
Courts as well as his own headline shows. Theo's new EP 'Brain Disease' is out
now, go check it out!
http://theoverney.tumblr.com/
Thank you for reading
this, before we head off into the weekend we wanted to point you in the
direction of this show taking place next week too, which looks fantastic and well
worth your attendance!
Constant Flux presents...
THE FISH
POLICE
JOEY FOURR
DANIEL
WAKEFORD
WITCHING
WAVES
Saturday 21st November 2015
DIY Space For London
96-108 Ormside Street, London, SE15 1TF
£5 / carers free or donation
Flat Access / Accessible Toilets
Have the best weekend,
see you next week!
UPSET THE RHYTHM
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UPSET THE RHYTHM /////
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UPCOMING SHOWS \\\\\
MIKAL CRONIN
J FERNANDEZ
THEO VERNEY
Tuesday
17 November
Scala,
275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL
7.30pm
| £13 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/325344
CALVIN JOHNSON
INVISIBLE FOXX
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
Wednesday 18 November
The Tin Tabernacle, 12-16 Cambridge Avenue, Kilburn, NW6 5BA
7pm | £10 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/330306
SLIM TWIG
TARZANA (Spencer Clark, Jan Anderzen, Floris Vanhoof)
TROON LEINAD (DJ set)
Wednesday 2 December
The Victoria, 451
Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
7.30pm | £6 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/334563
MOSS
LIME
AS
ONDAS
Monday 7 December
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern St,
Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
IAN SVENONIUS (Escapism)
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Tuesday 15 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | SOLD OUT
OLIVIA NEUTRON JOHN
Wednesday 16 December
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/338385
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