Protomartyr return next May with their biggest London show to date!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

PROTOMARTYR

Thursday 10 May

Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King´s Cross, London, N1 9NL

7pm | £12.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/420727

* Tickets go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 1st November!

PROTOMARTYR return to London next May for their biggest show yet! 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 brand new album entitled 'Relatives In Descent’, out now through Domino. This show follows on from the band’s long sold out Tufnell Park Dome show planned for next month.

http://www.protomartyrband.com/  

Praise for Relatives In Descent:

“Political, environmental, epistemological, social, familial and individual anxieties fuel the latest songs by Protomartyr, a band from Detroit that has been reclaiming the jagged, muscular dissonances of post-punk for 21st-century America.” The New York Times (Album of the Week)

“Sensational, bloodied but unbowed post-punk” The Guardian 5*

"Brooding and abrasive, the Detroit post-punk group's new LP isn't for the faint of heart - but beauty lies in its 12 knotty, pummeling tunes." Entertainment Weekly

"Over the course of four full-length albums, the Detroit-based band has produced a collection of lyrically dense, deeply philosophical (and usually very loud) songs that grapple with some of life's thorniest questions: What does it mean to be human? What is truth? What is the nature of good and evil?" NPR Music

“Masters at articulating a detached sense of anger and disgust” Uncut 8/10

"Is there any guitar band quite as raw as Protomartyr? Closer to Swans or Glenn Branca than their peers, Protomartyr stack simple sounds into a churning, impenetrable wave of kinetic energy." SPIN

“A brilliant record – Protomartyr’s best” Loud & Quiet 10/10 Album of the Week

"Oustanding” The Line of Best Fit (9/10, Album of the Week)

 “Detroit post-punks hit a new peak – their best record yet” Q 4*

"Truly one of America’s finest rock bands at this moment." Bandcamp

 “A masterpiece” DIY 4*

 “Protomartyr at their most unsettling and their most accessible” Stereogum

“Bold, brash and unwavering” NME 4*

“Well-timed rock and roll that tries to make sense of the ever-changing nature of the present” Noisey

 “Breathtaking” Drowned in Sound 9/10

Gun Outfit make a welcome return to London this Febraury!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

GUN OUTFIT
Tuesday 20 February
Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU
7.30pm | £10 | https://www.wegottickets.com/event/420213

Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s enveloping “Western expanse” aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes has become gradually smoother over time. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which Brueghel, St. Augustine, and the goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.
https://gunoutfit.bandcamp.com/

Carla dal Forno this Tuesday in London, Shopping coming up soon!

Hello everyone!

 

Firstly huge thanks for coming out last week to see Priests, Downtown Boys and Big Joanie. It was such a treat to see all three bands play together and I trust you had as much fun as we did.

Here we are bending your ear with a quick reminder about our upcoming Carla dal Forno concert this Tuesday at the Shacklewell Arms. Carla’s music swirls with gothic sensibility and meditative majesty, an electronic dark pop melancholy brimming with dubbed-out atmospherics. Joining Carla in celebrating the release of her new EP on Blackest Ever Black will be Protection Spells, known for their imagist pop and gnostic ambience. Tickets cost £8 and we will have a limited amount available on the door from 8pm.   Read on for the whole story, including our future write-up for our Shopping, Gauche (members of Priests and Downtown Boys) and The World concert at Kamio on Friday 10 November!

Since we last talked Upset The Rhythm have confirmed a brand new show for Spirit Fest, an impromptu super group of bewitching avant pop talents in the shape of Tenniscoats, Markus from The Notwist and members of Jam Money and Joasihno too. This one off concert will take place on December 7th, so ring that date with a highlighter! We’re also very pleased to announce a second show for Ian Svenonius (Escape-ism) on November 17th at The Islington too, now that’s what we call by pop demand!   The World’s debut tour of Europe starts tonight in Nottingham too, so what better excuse do we need to share their awesome tour poster with you again, go see them shake up some funk in a town near you imminently.

Upset The Rhythm presents...   CARLA DAL FORNO PROTECTION SPELLS Tuesday 24 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO specialises in obliquely confessional dispatches from the edge zones of feeling. Her new EP 'The Garden' marks both a refinement of the dub-damaged, inward-looking bedsit pop essayed on her 2016 debut album 'You Know What It's Like', and an evolutionary leap. More than anything, it represents the full flowering of an effortlessly brilliant and uniquely resourceful songwriter, singer and producer - one with the uncanny gift of creating music which feels immediately as though you've known it, or it's known you, all your life. While there is warmth and intimacy to come, The Garden opens with a cold hard stare: 'We Shouldn't Have To Wait', an unexpectedly confrontational companion piece, or response, to her own first single and calling card, 'Fast Moving Cars'. This is not a dazed reverie, but forceful, fatalistic, void-chasing drone-rock led by a stalking, venus-in-furs bassline that levels everything in its path. No longer gazing from afar at fast moving cars, but behind the wheel of one, driving pretty recklessly. No particular destination in mind, but impatient to get there. New EP The Garden (out Oct 6th on Blackest Ever Black) is a compact masterpiece from a remarkable artist who - frighteningly, excitingly - has only just begun to hit her stride. https://blackesteverblack. bandcamp.com/album/you-know- what-its-like   PROTECTION SPELLS are a London based band making minimalist pop music. Brought together in 2016 by their mutual love of each other, they spend their time bleaching runes into t-shirts and trying to figure out if Imagism can be applied to music. Their music has been described as "a witch in an echo chamber" and "like a shrine maiden with the irritability of a kitten". https://protectionspells. bandcamp.com/releases

Upset The Rhythm presents… SHOPPING GAUCHE THE WORLD Friday 10 November Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL 8pm - 2am | £9 | TICKETS  SHOPPING are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 . Their debut LP 'Consumer Complaints' was released November 2013 in the UK via MILK records and quickly sold out its first pressing. A US re-issue of 'Consumer Complaints' came out in 2015 via Fat Cat records, followed up by their excellent second album 'Why Choose?' The band are tirelessly committed to taking their sound to new audiences and spreading the Shopping gospel, securing impressive gigs along the way including main support for ESG and Gang Of Four as well as a BBC 6 Music session for Marc Riley. They have toured in the UK and throughout Europe numerous times over the last few years and last year toured the USA with also awesome Gauche, look out for a new album imminently! https://soundcloud.com/shoppingband GAUCHE are made up of Daniele Yandel of Priests and Mary Regalado & Adrienne Berry of Downtown Boys, plus a cast of friends. Gauche bring a funked groove to scratchy, minimal post-punk on their debut Get Away With.... Originally released on cassette via Sister Polygon Records, it is now also available on LP through Danger Records. Taking elements of Young Marble Giants, ESG (who they have played with) and Grass Widow, the DC band inject an explosive energy into songs about fraught relationships, a dependency on technology and social media and unfair working conditions. https://g-a-u-c-h-e.bandcamp.com/releases THE WORLD are from Oakland, California. The year is 2017 and The World offer the only glimmers of hope in a city rapidly transforming into a wasteland of artisanal toast and succulent shops right before our very eyes. They've awed all those who have seen them play in San Francisco basements, beach town bars, crowded East Bay lofts - who knew the sight of bongos could be so titillating? And now The World is ready for the world. Their debut LP is all double sax attack, the tremolo of dub guitar, and those spare and sturdy drums, anchored by the gravitational pull of Amber's propulsive bass. Every member of this band feels like the secret weapon, and together, the combination is deadly, the particular alchemy of musicians who voraciously consume music of all kinds. Members have done time in Andy Human and the Reptoids, Rays, Pang, and Penny Machine - devotees of all those will find much to like here. The World's a post-punk band, sure, but they're also a dance group, a wild and revolutionary art collective, sounds from the past catapulted to the future. 'First World Record' is due out October 6th through Upset The Rhythm.  http://theworldband.tumblr.com/

Talk again soon! Thanks for your time! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

CARLA DAL FORNO PROTECTIVE SPELLS Tuesday 24 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS GARY WAR Thursday 26 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | SOLD OUT JOHN MAUS THE WORLD GARY WAR  Friday 27 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | SOLD OUT   SHOPPING GAUCHE THE WORLD  Friday 10 November Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL 8pm - 2am | £9 | 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 | SOLD OUT   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) Friday 17 November Saturday 18 November – SOLD OUT The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   FUTURE ISLANDS Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT Tuesday 21 November - SOLD OUT Wednesday 22 November In collaboration with Parallel Lines O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL 7pm | TICKETS    ROY MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER TUCKER Thursday 23 November In collaboration with Café OTO Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   SPIRIT FEST (Tenniscoats & members of The Notwist, Joasihno and Jam Money) Thursday 7 December The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON (Live band show) Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS

Second Escape-ism show added!

Due to POP DEMAND we've added a second show for Ian next month!

Upset The Rhythm presents...

ESCAPE-ISM
(Ian Svenonius)
Friday 17 November
The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT
7.30pm | £9 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/420224

TERRY's new song joins the Thirty Days Of Yes mixtape!

Terry have a brand new song called 'Hold On Harry' that's just joined the cast of winning comp Thirty Days Of Yes. You know what you've gotta do!

https://thirtydaysofyes.bandcamp.com/releases

 

Thirty Days of Yes is a subscription mixtape that will release a song a day over 30 days. Developed in response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, to drive the 'Yes' message and show support for the LGBTQI+ community, particularly the youth community who don't have a voice in this public debate. 100% of the profits will go to LGBTQI+ youth organisations, Minus18 and Twenty10. 

Priests & Downtown Boys tomorrow, Carla dal Forno next week, plus news on The World's LP!

Afternoon everyone!   We have two top Upset The Rhythm shows coming up this following week for you. Tomorrow we pitch up at The Dome for nothing short of an extravaganza with Priests, Downtown Boys and Big Joanie all performing!   If you like your rock music to be truly radical and harness the personal politic like a force of nature then this is the show to end all shows, it’s going to be nothing short of an electric whirlwind. Think amps on from 8.15pm, tickets available on the door from 7.30pm.

Then next Tuesday we find ourselves in high spirits at The Shacklewell Arms for an evening of dub-damaged bedsit pop ambience and spooked imagism from Carla dal Forno and Protection Spells too.   Please read on for the whole scoop on both of those ventures, plus our show programme concludes this message too.

Donning our jubilant record label hat for one moment, The World’s debut album ‘First World Record’ is now shipping from our webstore and will be hitting the shops this Friday.   Here’s a photo of the LP in all its transparent glory taken during the glowering skies of yesterday’s storm, hence the apples on the ground too!

The World are five people from Oakland, California who write rowdy dance music with a post punk tool kit and an insightful yet short attention span. Their songs typically clock in around two minutes long and are a wild head-rush of Amber Sermeno’s funk-minded bass lines and shuddering guitar courtesy of Andy Jordan. Amber also sings alongside Elyse Schrock, who anchors their propulsive songs with some supremely robust drumming. The steady beat is bolstered by Stanley Martinez’s flurrying saxophone melodies and Alexa Pantalone’s expansive bongo rhythms. Alexa also plays sax on half of the songs too, contributing further to the complex interplay of instruments that make The World’s music so immediate, compelling and groove conscious.

Here’s the yogic crustacean-centric video for recent single ‘Namaste’ and a peak at their European tour dates too!

Upset The Rhythm presents...   PRIESTS DOWNTOWN BOYS BIG JOANIE Wednesday 18 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele (drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash, Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity, Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible, urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what is desired and what is presented. https://666priests666.tumblr.com   DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015's Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band's revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock's most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band's righteous assault and captivating presence. The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today. https://soundcloud.com/subpop/downtown-boys-a-wall   BIG JOANIE are like The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis. https://bigjoanie.bandcamp.com/music

Upset The Rhythm presents...   CARLA DAL FORNO PROTECTION SPELLS Tuesday 24 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO specialises in obliquely confessional dispatches from the edge zones of feeling. Her new EP 'The Garden' marks both a refinement of the dub-damaged, inward-looking bedsit pop essayed on her 2016 debut album 'You Know What It's Like', and an evolutionary leap. More than anything, it represents the full flowering of an effortlessly brilliant and uniquely resourceful songwriter, singer and producer - one with the uncanny gift of creating music which feels immediately as though you've known it, or it's known you, all your life. While there is warmth and intimacy to come, The Garden opens with a cold hard stare: 'We Shouldn't Have To Wait', an unexpectedly confrontational companion piece, or response, to her own first single and calling card, 'Fast Moving Cars'. This is not a dazed reverie, but forceful, fatalistic, void-chasing drone-rock led by a stalking, venus-in-furs bassline that levels everything in its path. No longer gazing from afar at fast moving cars, but behind the wheel of one, driving pretty recklessly. No particular destination in mind, but impatient to get there. New EP The Garden (out Oct 6th on Blackest Ever Black) is a compact masterpiece from a remarkable artist who - frighteningly, excitingly - has only just begun to hit her stride. https://blackesteverblack. bandcamp.com/album/you-know- what-its-like   PROTECTION SPELLS are a London based band making minimalist pop music. Brought together in 2016 by their mutual love of each other, they spend their time bleaching runes into t-shirts and trying to figure out if Imagism can be applied to music. Their music has been described as "a witch in an echo chamber" and "like a shrine maiden with the irritability of a kitten". https://protectionspells. bandcamp.com/releases

Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

PRIESTS DOWNTOWN BOYS BIG JOANIE Wednesday 18 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   CARLA DAL FORNO PROTECTIVE SPELLS Tuesday 24 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS GARY WAR Thursday 26 October The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, London, E8 3AS 7.30pm | SOLD OUT JOHN MAUS THE WORLD GARY WAR  Friday 27 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | SOLD OUT   SHOPPING GAUCHE THE WORLD  Friday 10 November Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL 8pm - 2am | £9 | 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   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) Saturday 18 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   FUTURE ISLANDS Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT Tuesday 21 November - SOLD OUT Wednesday 22 November In collaboration with Parallel Lines O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL 7pm | TICKETS    ROY MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER TUCKER Thursday 23 November In collaboration with Café OTO Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON (Live band show) Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS

Normil Hawaiians album, plus upcoming London shows!

Good morning!

Normil Hawaiians released their debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' in 1982, 35 years ago. This week we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be helping this record stride out into its unique field of sound again. Upset The Rhythm will be reissuing a re-mastered version of ‘More Wealth Than Money’ alongside a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album’s overlooked corners this December.   This ambitious debut album takes the listener on a quest over its four sides of vinyl as the group’s communal take on post punk starts sprouting leaves from its mouth, beginning to carve out a new furrow of dark psychedelia, industrial folk and a peculiarly British kosmische.

Tape loops, echo boxes, extended percussive sessions and duteous faith in the tones emanating from a particular old wah-wah pedal were all employed by Normil Hawaiians to stretch their sonic fabric into wild and redolent new dimensions for this record. As a result ‘More Wealth Than Money’ still feels truly expansive, brave, cinematic even as it documents the band’s travels into a plaintive pastoralism awash with waking dreams.

On December 1st ‘More Wealth Than Money’ will sing anew, getting its first proper UK release ever. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. It is truly a thing of beauty! Our pre-order link has just gone live too: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

This week Upset The Rhythm also sailed out on the digital airwaves (not convinced they exist, but let’s extend the metaphor) with our brand new radio show for the French arts-hub CAMP.   Over the course of 120 minutes we played lots of our favourite songs from the outer limits of out. If you need two hours of your life soundtracking by yours truly then you can listen to the archived show now on mixcloud here, enjoy!

In terms of upcoming shows in London, this coming Monday we’ll be heading to Tufnell Park Dome for a special one-off UK concert from Shannon And The Clams and TV Crime. It’s been two whole years since SATC were last here with their powerful, lovelorn garage punk, so expect lots of new songs in the set from their forthcoming new record.   You can find the full write up for that event below, along with our listing for the imminent Priests, Downtown Boys and Big Joanie extravaganza too.

Upset The Rhythm presents...   SHANNON AND THE CLAMS TV CRIME UTR DJs Monday 9 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   SHANNON & THE CLAMS are from Oakland, California and comprise of Shannon Shaw (vocals, bass), Cody Blanchard (vocals, guitar), and Ian Amberson (drums, vocals). Sounding like a prom band from 1964 getting dosed with acid and having the sweetest lovelorn freak out, Shannon And The Clams defy expectations. Imagine a brawling Etta James, backed up by the 13th Floor Elevators singing Shangri La's tunes. Shannon has a voice that can go from a sweet girl group croon to a bluesy ballsy growl before you realize you're headed for the (dance) floor. It's total punk rock bop, brimming with doo-wop glory delivered to your door by the Homecoming Queen and Kings of weirdo rock 'n' roll. What started as an open mic project for a shy, young Shannon to try out some tunes ended with the Clams meeting and forming a band. Many have said to have been possessed by thee (eerily similar at times) haunted howls and beautiful growls of their two lead vocalists, hypnotized by their heavy heartbeats, and mesmerized by their magical music. Your ears may become infested with a real Buddy Holly jolly kinda joy (oh boy) while you stutter along to a hiccupy song. Take a scratch and a sniff at these stickers and get bit by their bad-brained snarls. It's always Christmas (if you want it). It's your party time, and it's excellent. Cry-yi-yi if you want to, but be sure to surf a splish-splash with a laugh later. Recent album, 'Gone by the Dawn' (Hardly Art) is monumental; immense, magnificent, and unforgettable. Shannon and the Clams have pioneered their way into a lonesome land where the past still lives in the long shadows of a hot afternoon, where whispering spirits follow high along canyon walls, and if you sink your fingers into the dusty hard-packed earth you pull out hands smeared with blood. http://shannonandtheclams.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/

Upset The Rhythm presents...   PRIESTS DOWNTOWN BOYS BIG JOANIE Wednesday 18 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS PRIESTS are Daniele Daniele (drums), Katie Alice Greer (vocals), G.L. Jaguar (guitar), and Taylor Mulitz (bass). Formed in 2011 in Washington DC, the band has proven a valuable force for strangeness in a city that is increasingly terraformed by norms. At a time when few groups were making serious moves beyond the Beltway, Priests toured throughout North America and Europe. More significantly, they've helped to raise the general standard of show-going at home through cassettes and singles released on Sister Polygon, including music by bands like Sneaks, Snail Mail, Pinkwash, Cigarette, Downtown Boys, and numerous Priests-affiliated groups like Gauche and Flasher. Still, even amidst thriving hometown creativity, Priests possess a singular gravity. They are physical and combustible, urgent and visceral. This January, Nothing Feels Natural, the band's first full length LP was released on their own label Sister Polygon Records. It's the bands most stylistically diverse set of songs to date, expanding on their lo-fi post-punk bona-fides with ideas drawn from pop, R&B, and industrial noise. Thematically, Nothing can be understood as a series of vignettes - nine stories that crystallize into a bigger picture about the economics of human relationships, the invisibility of feminized labor, and the dual purpose of art for both the group and the individual. It's a record that thrives amid the tension between that what is valued and what is dismissed; between what is desired and what is presented. https://666priests666.tumblr.com   DOWNTOWN BOYS use their ferocious energy and powerhouse live shows to unite crowds in the struggle to smash racism, queerphobia, capitalism, fascism, boredom, and all things people use to try to close our minds, eyes and hearts. The Providence, RI band have just announced their third album, Cost of Living, to be released August 11th on Sub Pop. The new album - the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed sophomore album, 2015's Full Communism - is at once incendiary, cathartic, and fun, melding the band's revolutionary ideals with boundless energy. Produced by Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, one of indie-rock's most mythological figures (he also produced Blonde Redhead, The Gossip, and others), Cost of Living shows a sense of maturity without compromising the band's righteous assault and captivating presence. The position of Downtown Boys has been clear since they started storming through basements and DIY spaces with their radically-minded, indefatigable rock music: they are here to topple the white-cis-het hegemony and draft a new history. This is how Downtown Boys began, and their resolve has only strengthened as both their sound and audience have grown. Like the socially conscious groups of years past, from Public Enemy to Rage Against the Machine, Downtown Boys harness powerful sloganeering, repetitive grooves, and earworm hooks to create one of the most necessary musical statements of today. https://soundcloud.com/subpop/downtown-boys-a-wall   BIG JOANIE are like The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis. https://bigjoanie.bandcamp.com/music

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday! Upset The Rhythm x

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS TV CRIME UTR DJS 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   CARLA DAL FORNO PROTECTIVE SPELLS Tuesday 24 October The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB 8pm | £8 | TICKETS   JOHN MAUS THE WORLD GARY WAR  Friday 27 October Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, London, N19 5QQ 7.30pm | £12 | SOLD OUT   SHOPPING GAUCHE THE WORLD  Friday 10 November Kamio, 3 Rivington Street , London, EC2A 3JL 8pm - 2am | £9 | 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   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) Saturday 18 November The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   FUTURE ISLANDS Monday 20 November - SOLD OUT Tuesday 21 November - SOLD OUT Wednesday 22 November In collaboration with Parallel Lines O2 Academy Brixton, 211 Stockwell Rd, Brixton, London SW9 9SL 7pm | TICKETS    ROY MONTGOMERY ALEXANDER TUCKER Thursday 23 November In collaboration with Café OTO Cafe OTO, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   RICHARD DAWSON (Live band show) Wednesday 20 December Islington Assembly Hall, Upper Street, Islington, London, N1 2UD 7pm | £15 | TICKETS