Hash Redactor's debut album out today, upcoming London shows from Bill Nace/Twig Harper, Escape-ism and Calvin Johnson!

Hello everyone!   Look how the sun shines on Hash Redactor’s debut album Drecksound, out today through Upset The Rhythm! This bruising Memphis band is fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with Nots rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, so you bet it packs a punch.   Hash Redactor dive into territory that feels distinctly untethered and wild, producing a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert with this LP!

Drecksound is a flailing, nihilistic quake of buckled, cathartic punk caught on heavyweight vinyl and available in shops as of… now!   You can listen to the whole stunning album up now on Spotify.   Whilst the record is also available to order now on mint green or black vinyl through our webshop here.   Total powerhouse debut!

Back in the London show-promotion hot seat now, we have two events coming up next week for you. On Monday we’re thrilled to be hosting a show at The Islington alongside our friends from the Colour Out Of Space festival.   This inimitable evening will feature live blocks of sound from experimental guitarist Bill Nace (of Body/Head), the one and only James ‘Twig’ Harper and the elusive Glands Of External Secretion. Certainly a lot to wrangle your head around there! Mind-expanding noise-off from three of its most essential practitioners.

Then next Wednesday we’re back at MOTH Club with Ian Svenonius for the return of his new project Escape-ism, an opportunity to rejoice in revolt.   With an economic nod to the surpluses of rocknroll Svenonius brings with gusto all manner of humour and critique to proceedings. These are minimal songs that think big and present Ian in his most raw and vital manifestation. An utter prescription for fulfillment.   The wondrous swirl of guitar, sung-spoken vocals, drums and tapes of Solution Hours will kick off proceedings too. Lucky us!

You can read more about both of those shows and our upcoming concert at HQI in White City on May 6th for Calvin Johnson, The Catenary Wires and Rose Mercie below!   You’ll also find new shows in our listings section for Roxanne Clifford’s synth pop project Patience (June 18th) and noisy Halcyon Veil affiliates Prison Religion (July 19th) too. Remarkable times!

Upset The Rhythm & Colour Out Of Space presents…   BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   BILL NACE is an artist and musician based in Western Massachusetts. He has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Michael Morley, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano, Jooklo Duo, Chris Cooper, Samara Lubelski, Thurston Moore, Jake Meginsky, Jessica Rylan, Paul Flaherty, Wally Shoup, and Kim Gordon, with whom he regularly plays as one half of the duo Body/Head. Their critically acclaimed LP 'The Switch' was released on Matador last year. He has been a featured musician in festivals such as ATP (curated by Jim Jarmusch and held in Monticello, NY), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Supersonic Festival (Birmingham, UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC), and Homegrown (Boston, MA). Nace's range of guitar playing has been described as "veering from sculptural, almost Remko-Scha-esque chime to Loren Connors-style elegance in only a few short moves." Recordings found on Ecstatic Peace (Northampton, MA), Ultra Eczema (Belgium), Holidays (Italy), 8mm (Italy), Throne Heap (VA), HP Cycle (Toronto, ON), as well as on Nace's own label Open Mouth. https://www.discogs.com/artist/610465-Bill-Nace   JAMES TWIG HARPER really pulls out real time-and-space bending tracks. Harper, perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nate Young in Nautical Almanac and alongside Daniel Higgs for Thrill Jockey, holds some genuine weirdness within. He has a distinctly unique fidelity and gyroscopic dynamic that makes for a deliciously disorienting experience all of his own conception. There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality. Sometimes Harper's music can enters passages which sound almost like a primitive take on Florian Hecker's plonging, rubbery computer music or Rashad Becker's perplexing notional folk music. Check out his releases on Open Mouth, Planam, Thrill Jockey and Heresee for the full tangle. https://hansonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/twig-harper   GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION began when Seymour Glass, inspired by J.D. Salinger's short story 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish', starts publishing the legendary Bananafish Zine in 1987, which for eighteen issues and up until 2004, constitutes a huge and ambitious attempt of presenting underground culture in its every form. Completely unknown experimental branchings, with a preference for the lo-fi, collage aesthetics, Glass's paranoid and absurd manner of writing and the whole structuring of the noise scene, with San Francisco as a starting point and every "tweaked" corner of the globe as a destination, found their home in Bananafish and their main representative in Seymour Glass. Glands of External Secretion began as Glass wanted to testify further via weird monuments of experimental and far-out studio improv, using a surreal collage of songs, sounds, Barbara Manning's vocals, voice samples, loops, out-of-context rhythms, field recordings, electronics, cut-up manipulated noises and anything else which is not considered music. The result is a twisted riot of sound bordering on audacity which the term 'extremely psychedelic' fails to completely encapsulate. https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM is the nom de guerre of mythic rock 'n' roll provocateur / theorist / revolutionary Ian Svenonius (performer, author, filmmaker, etc). Svenonius is known for his work in the music groups The Make-Up, Chain & The Gang, XYZ, Weird War and author of underground bestsellers such as The Psychic Soviet, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock 'n' Roll Group, and Censorship Now! Recognised by Performer Magazine as the "greatest performer on the planet", Svenonius is profound, prophetic, perverse, and poetic. His debut solo album an 'Introduction to Escape-ism' was released through Merge last year and teamed up a drum machine, guitar, cassette player, and a single voice singing out... for a way out. Svenonius' songs cry out for love, justice, redemption and insurrection, they stomp on convention and clobber notions of what music can be. Live, Escape-ism a new paradigm of performance: raw, gestural, idiotic, sublime, revolutionary, poetic, faux naif, unknowing, a drainage pipe that leads to who knows where.   'The Lost Record' is Escape-ism's new album on Merge and is already a classic, destined to bewitch the minds, hearts, and dancing shoes of any rock 'n' roll fan who happens to discover it, for as long as such creatures exist. Without the high-octane hype machine of the mind-control minstrels who hypnotize the hapless through the mass media, 'The Lost Record' is bound for inevitable obscurity, but-with its timeless tunes, poignant message, and innovative sound-rediscovery and immortal status is equally assured! Music enthusiasts will be thrilled to be the ones clever and kind enough to have rescued this platter from oblivion. This show follows on from last year's appearance at MOTH Club, Ian enjoyed it so much he's coming back this May! https://escape-ism.bandcamp.com/   SOLUTION HOURS are a two-piece band from London, comprised of Charlotte (vocals, drums) and Andrew (guitar, ambience). With spoken word-inspired vocals, dynamic drumming and unique guitar tunings underscored by ambient soundscapes played from a tape machine, the band have devised a sound that defies the usual trappings that a two-piece face, drawing comparisons to Life Without Buildings and bands from the heyday of 90s emo and slowcore in turn. They self-released the double single 'Into the Sea / Pocket' in 2017 and the EP 'Try Again' in 2018. https://solutionhours.bandcamp.com/

Upset The Rhythm presents…   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES ROSE MERCIE Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON has been rockin' it hardcore throughout the NW corner of the United States of America since way back. Olympia, Washington is where he hangs his hat. Beats, rhymes and lots of dark chocolate are how he whiles the hours. Calvin’s work in underground culture started as a teenage fan volunteering at the local community radio station, KAOS-FM. He moved on to writing for fanzines, organizing music and film events, playing music in various ill-fated bands. Calvin established K Records, a locally oriented media outlet, in 1982. In 1993 Calvin founded Dub Narcotic Studio in which he has documented the work of Mirah, the Blow, Versus, Built to Spill, Fitz of Depression, Make-Up and Little Wings. It has also been the incubator of many Calvin experiments in collaboration and self-expression, such as Beat Happening, Halo Benders and Dub Narcotic Sound System. The decade of the double zeroes saw him set out into the world, acoustic guitar in hand, as a solo artist of musical platitudes. This show sees Calvin as troubadour, baring his soul and playing tracks from his wide-ranging opus ‘A Wonderful Beast’, released last October on K Records. Dig. https://calvinjohnson.bandcamp.com/ THE CATENARY WIRES are Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher. They specialise in emotive indie duets, capturing the spirits of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot, and releasing them into modern Britain. In their previous lives, Amelia and Rob featured in indie bands Talulah Gosh, Heavenly and Tender Trap, and released several records on Calvin Johnson’s K Records. A new Catenary Wires LP is due this Summer too, look out! https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/the-catenary-wires/ ROSE MERCIE is, above all, the coming-together of Charlène, Inès, Louann and Michèle. The chemistry between these four musicians from Paris is incredible, and propels each song in a swarm of imagery. Melancholic and moving, percussive and vocal, shooting glances to an elsewhere which has never felt so close; a place where Electrelane are dancing to The Shangri-Las. Rose Mercie’s debut album is out now on Jelodanti Records SDZ Records and Monofonus Press. https://rosemerciemonofonus.bandcamp.com/album/rose-mercie

Have a brilliant weekend, thanks for your time! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

BILL NACE & JAMES TWIG HARPER GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION Monday 29 April The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle Street, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius) SOLUTION HOURS Wednesday 1 May Moth Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette St, Hackney Central, London, E9 6NU 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   CALVIN JOHNSON THE CATENARY WIRES ROSE MERCIE Monday 6 May HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   THE ESSEX GREEN TOM O.C WILSON LOWELL THOMPSON Friday 10 May Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   HEN OGLEDD (Sally Pilkington, Dawn Bothwell, Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies) RAP (Jolly Discs) Tuesday 14 May Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, Shepherd's Bush, London, W12 7LJ 7.30pm | £14 | TICKETS   PRIESTS APOSTILLE HYGIENE Thursday 16 May 100 Club, Oxford Street, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   HYGIENE WORMS CHILD’S POSE CHUBBY CHARLES STATIC SHOCK DISCO (from 11pm-1am) Friday 24 May The Stag’s Head, 55 Orsman Rd, London, N1 5RA 8pm | £5 on the door!   ANA DA SILVA & PHEW TARANTULA Monday 27 May St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, London, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   LANKUM BRIGHDE CHAIMBEUL (May 28) ANDY THE DOORBUM (May 29) Tuesday 28 May & Wednesday 29 May In association with Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £16.50 each day, £30 two-day pass | TICKETS   CHRIS COHEN THE JELAS Wednesday 29 May MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £9 | TICKETS   BILGE PUMP WITCHING WAVES Friday 31 May The Islington, 1 Tolpuddle St, Angel, London, N1 0XT 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   SACRED PAWS COMFORT Thursday 13 June Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   PATIENCE Tuesday 18 June MOTH Club, Old Trades Hall, Valette Street, London, E8 1EL 7.30pm | £8 | TICKETS   ELF POWER BAMBOO Wednesday 19 June OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   CONSTANT MONGREL Saturday 22 June New River Studios 199 Eade Rd, Harringay Warehouse District, London, N4 1DN 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS   NORMIL HAWAIIANS RATTLE ERASERS Thursday 11 July Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £7 | TICKETS DANIEL HIGGS ETERNAL BROADCAST Wednesday 17 July HQI, The Rotunda, Wood Lane, White City Place, London, W12 7TP (3 min walk from White City tube directly north up Wood Lane. Venue is behind the green gates) 7.30pm | £10 | TICKETS   PRISON RELIGION (Halcyon Veil) HYPERSTITION DUO Friday 19 July The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £8.50 | TICKETS   ADVANCE BASE ALICE HUBBLE Monday 22 July Redon, Railway Arches, 289 Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9HA 7.30pm | £12 | TICKETS   TIM PRESLEY’S WHITE FENCE ROBERT SOTELO Wednesday 21 August OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £12.50 | TICKETS   DEERHOOF DOG CHOCOLATE Monday 2 September EartH, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston, London, N16 8BH 7.30pm | £15 | TICKETS