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.
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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.
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Here’s the yogic crustacean-centric video for recent single ‘Namaste’ and a peak at their European tour dates too!
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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.
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.
BIG JOANIE are like The Ronettes filtered through 80s DIY and riot grrrl with a sprinkling of dashikis.
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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.
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".
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