Scream + Soulside in London this May!

Deep breath!
We have a DC special heading to town this May with Scream and Soulside playing two shows back to back at The Lexington! Tickets are on sale now, most likely for a very short time!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

SCREAM
SOULSIDE
Friday 10 May
Saturday 11 May
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £20.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/xc9953269e0e & https://link.dice.fm/Qfab66a55a93

SCREAM formed in 1979. Drummer Kent Stacks, bassist Skeeter Enoch Thompson and the brothers Pete and Franz Stahl attended school together in Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, when they began to discover the punk and new wave scene in DC and the provocative power of making music. Like most of the punk bands in DC, they were influenced by the Bad Brains, but their rock and roll sensibilities set them apart. In 1982, they went into Inner Ear Studio with Ian MacKaye and Eddie Janney to record Dischord's first full length album, Still Screaming.

Scream followed this with a second full length album, This Side Up, in 1984. The band toured throughout the US and were one of the first US hardcore bands to tour Europe and the UK. In 1987, they released Banging the Drum, which was recorded at both Southern Studios in London and Inner Ear. In 1988, No More Censorship was released on reggae label RAS records. Scream returned to Dischord to release Fumble in 1993.

Scream’s newest album, DC Special, was released late last year on Dischord Records. For this record, Scream invited their extensive music community to help create a unique project that weaves the history of music in Washington DC into the story of the band. DC Special embodies the same sense of community and politics that inspired Scream from the start and is a truly special collection of new music that speaks to the present and also tells the story of DC music, Scream, and the influences that shaped them.

https://dischord.com/release/194/dc-special


SOULSIDE formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985, split up in 1989, then reformed in 2014 and has continued playing and writing music since then. After releasing their debut album on Sammich/Dischord, they recorded Trigger (Dischord, 1988) and Hot Bodi-Gram (Dischord, 1989), which were combined on the Soon Come Happy CD in 1990. The band toured extensively in the US and Europe during these years, including groundbreaking shows in Poland and East Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

In 2020, Soulside put out a new 7-inch, This Ship, their first release in 30 years, which was recorded in Prague. In late 2022, Dischord released a 12-song Soulside album, A Brief Moment in the Sun, which was written during the heart of the pandemic and recorded in person by J. Robbins in November 2021. Soulside toured the US and Europe in 2023 to support the new album. Soulside is: Alexis Fleisig (drums), Scott McCloud (guitar and vocals), Bobby Sullivan (vocals), and Johnny Temple (bass).

https://soulside.bandcamp.com/

Tara Clerkin Trio - London show for November announced!

 

Huge news!

We’ve booked Tara Clerkin Trio to play again for us on Sat 16th November at EartH Theatre. Tickets are on sale… now!

The 100 Club show on Monday is long sold out, so we’re not expecting tickets to linger. Exciting times.

Upset The Rhythm presents…

TARA CLERKIN TRIO

Saturday 16 November

EartH Theatre, 11-17 Stoke Newington Rd, London, N16 8BH

6.30pm-10.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Aeb338640a1d

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Behold... PARSNIP!

 

Green shoots have burst forth from Parsnip! The Australian group have a super-catchy single out today called ‘The Light’, taken from their sophisticated sophomore album ‘Behold’. Drawing comparisons with Dolly Mixture, Sara Goes Pop and Look Blue Go Purple, Parsnip are an animated ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. On ‘Behold’ they explore both the inner and outer realms of consciousness with quick wits and some seriously quality jangle and jolt. Take a listen to ‘The Light’, a whip smart workout if there ever was one!

Upset The Rhythm and Anti Fade Records will release ‘Behold’ on April 26th. There’s a limited transparent vinyl edition, available to pre-order (drum roll please)… now!

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Are you being served this Sunday?

 

Alright there!   This Sunday Upset The Rhythm will be setting out our wares in a highly entertaining pop-up independent label department store event called Are You Being Served?   This will take place across three floors of the Betsey Trotwood on Sunday 11th Feb, from 1pm-7pm.     Russell Walker from The Pheromoans will be performing a 20-min set at 1pm, alongside many other artists and label DJs throughout the day, well worth the £1 entry fee! Check out all the acts performing and labels involved below and if you love a good theme tune this trailer is for you.   See YOU there!

Talking of The Pheromoans, they rolled up their trouser leg and consulted with the master mason this week too as they rebounded with a second single from their  upcoming Wyrd Psearch album.   ‘Faith in the Future’ “cautiously tugs at a thread of certain patterns, mishearings and misinterpreted gestures” according to vocalist Russell Walker. The song is complemented by the visual recordings of 11-year-old Hitchin resident Rowan Walker and his keen eye for transportation.   Wyrd Psearch will be released on March 1st by Upset The Rhythm and is available to pre-order now.   The band will be launching the record with us at Cafe OTO on March 5th too, more info below.

Read on for lots more information on our upcoming UTR London shows, including a new listing for Future Islands at Crystal Palace Bowl later this July.   Our next event by the way will take place on Feb 22nd at The Lexington when we're lucky enough to have Dutch trio The Homesick (Sub Pop) performing. The Homesick write giddily brilliant odd-pop, expect to be bowled over by the fizzing energy of it all.   Findom and Home Secretary are performing too, so look out for some No Wave / Dub / Goth thrills and rhythmic non-songs of crude sound collage.

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE HOMESICK FINDOM HOME SECRETARY Thursday 22 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/bf946caa252b THE HOMESICK are Elias Elgersma (Vocals, Effects), Jaap van der Velde (Vocals, Effects) and Erik Woudwijk (Drums). The Homesick fuse post-punk rhythms with melodic whimsical pop into an experimental blend of great songs. The Dutch group have been around since their first EP Television from 2013 and released their debut album Youth Hunt (Subroutine) in 2017. Hailing from the backwater Frisian municipality of Dokkum, the band enjoy exploring the extremes of their music. Their albums play with this ambiguity as they incorporate dark post-punk alongside sure-fire pop earworms. Their second album The Big Exercise (SubPop) from 2020 inverted this sound, second-guessing their core chemistry as a live unit. Where the debut album incorporates vocals drenched in reverb, warped synths and distorted guitars, the Big Excercise leaves a hint of romanticism through the baroque elements such as piano, acoustic guitar, percussion and clarinet. Shortly after the release of The Big Exercise they individually started to explore new musical directions. Guitar and bass were dropped as Elias and Jaap searched for other sounds playing keys, sample boxes and more new rhythmic instruments. “We wanted to come up with something that we can dance to”, Jaap says. “After these last two years we very much felt like this is what we need now.” The new songs are unmistakably The Homesick and at the same time like you've never heard them before. The third and self-titled album by The Homesick is out now. https://thehomesick.bandcamp.com FINDOM know a thing about Britain’s death drive. They know that morbid fascinations of bad faith, morose binds and slow crawls have led us here. Their debut tape (on Gob Nation) confronts the conceit of class deterioration, clashing together energies of No Wave, Jazz, Dub and Goth into a work that, through part satire and part protest, has the hooks to fight back. We are left with five tracks self-described as anti-jazz with an overarching structure that feels like a Killing Joke inspired noir thriller, where moments of dark aggression are sonically punctuated by open stretches of rhythmic disorientation. https://gobnation.bandcamp.com/album/pay-pig   HOME SECRETARY are a duo from South London, creating rickety and occasionally rhythmic non-songs that combine spoken word with improvised instrumentation. Expect to hear crude sound collage, fumbled instruments, and vocals whispered and proclaimed. https://homesec.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE PHEROMOANS - Wyrd Psearch album launch APOSTILLE DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS FLEX DJs (HP Sorcery & The Plague) Tuesday 5 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed1d116c8c37 THE PHEROMOANS  are tenants of an unruly domain. Over the last 18 years the group have evolved from garage rock primitivists to auteurs of their own curious sound; a frothy brew of loose electronics, refractory rock and humdrum musing. Their songs are mutable, capricious, unreliable narrations, often withholding as much as they reveal. Russell Walker’s understated vocal has always been the band’s unifying focus, it is wry, unsparing and wilfully honest. Walker’s lyrics are an observational tour de force, sometimes droll, yet often tipping over into unlikely pathos. With previous releases on Upset The Rhythm, Convulsive and Alter, 2024 will witness The Pheromoans return with lucky album number 13, entitled ‘Wyrd Psearch’ (out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm). ‘Wyrd Psearch’ was recorded in Lewes throughout 2023. This was undertaken by founding member James Tranmer, his keen instinct for how the band should sound shaping many of the creative decisions. Joined by new guitarist Henry Holmes, the five piece doubled down on a decidedly breezy, melodic approach. Scott Reeve’s drumming is ever brisk, whilst Daniel Bolger explores AOR peripheries on keyboard and bass. “Wyrd Psearch finds us on relatively zestful form” affirms Walker “whether it be merrily recalling the Jason Williamson / Tim Lovejoy Covid summit, or mentally bathing in the pleasures of lunch hours spent strapped to a listening post in Borders.” With The Pheromoans there is always a familiarity at play, only broken and reassembled, like a bygone sitcom gone rogue in your memory. This contributes to the group’s peculiarly British outsider perspective, one that shouts from the sidelines, but never goes unnoticed. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/wyrd-psearch APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’, was released on Night School on September 22nd. https://apostille.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-of-love-and-hate DEAN RODNEY JR. is an artist and the lead singer of Dean Rodney Jr. & The Cowboys. In this latest project he puts on the golden suit and riffs about food, jiggling body parts and more over tight disco pop. Backed by Rosie Ridgeway, Jack Barraclough, Tom Hirst and Robyn Steward, you better watch out as there’s a new sheriff in town! Their debut album ‘The Yeehaw Moment’ is out now. Dean was also the frontman of The Fish Police, has collaborated with Ravioli Me Away and during lockdown, Dean wrote and recorded 54 albums, describing a fictional alternative version of the present day, Dean TV World. https://deanrodneyjrandthecowboys.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE UMBRELLAS SWANSEA SOUND AUTOCAMPER Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   THE UMBRELLAS are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP ‘Fairweather Friend’ goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. It’s a record overflowing with highlights. The candyfloss melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk, and the precision that comes from long months on the road. Taken as a whole ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a bold indie pop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart. https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/the-umbrellas   SWANSEA SOUND are Hue Williams (The Pooh Sticks), Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey (both Talulah Gosh/Heavenly, The Catenary Wires), Bob Collins (The Dentists, The Treasures of Mexico), Ian Button, (Death in Vegas, with Louis Philippe, Pete Astor and Papernut Cambridge). Swansea Sound’s recent album Twentieth Century was released by Skep Wax Records. On this second album of unapologetic indie pop and punk they sing about things like Pete Shelley, vinyl, online shopping and getting older. https://swanseasound.bandcamp.com/album/swansea-sound AUTOCAMPER are a four-piece jangle pop band playing scuzzy C86-inspired music. The band’s recent demo EP came out on Discontinuous Innovation Inc (run by Nick from The Umbrellas), they’ve recently played shows with The Orchids, Lande Hekt, The Vaselines and Jeanines. https://autocamper.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb MARY LATTIMORE is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa. Her debut solo record for Ghostly International, 'At The Dam', was recorded during stops along a road trip across America and released in March 2016. The next year, she compiled sounds from her past life in Philadelphia for a cassette tape titled 'Collected Pieces'. Released in May 2018 to acclaim from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker Lattimore's next album 'Hundreds of Days' presented an expression of mystified gratitude for the natural world. ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ (Ghostly International), Lattimore’s  new LP, speaks not just for its beloved namesake - a hotel in Croatia facing renovation - but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for reading and we'll see you on Sunday in shop assistant mode! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

THE HOMESICK FINDOM HOME SECRETARY Thursday 22 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/bf946caa252b   TARA CLERKIN TRIO GENGHIS COHN Monday 26 February 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | SOLD OUT   THE PHEROMOANS - 'Wyrd Psearch' album launch APOSTILLE DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS FLEX DJs (HP Sorcery & The Plague) Tuesday 5 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed1d116c8c37   THE UMBRELLAS SWANSEA SOUND AUTOCAMPER Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   MARY LATTIMORE Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb   ALISON COTTON Friday 5 April St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025   MARTIN NEWELL (Cleaners From Venus) Thursday 11 April St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Road, Dalston, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/b9f5c252d897 HOUSE Of ALL Thursday 18 April The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wac85b671659   LANKUM Saturday 18 May Sunday 19 May Hackney Empire, 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 8pm | SOLD OUT   THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES Wednesday 12 June - SOLD OUT Thursday 13 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gf4a71a6788c   FUTURE ISLANDS BAXTER DURY JULIE BYRNE Saturday 27 July Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, London, SE19 2BA (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 2pm | Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/3500603AB71C3B14

Faith In The Future!

 

The Pheromoans roll up their trouser and consult with the master mason today as they rebound with a second single from their glorious upcoming ‘Wyrd Psearch’ album. ‘Faith in the Future’ “cautiously tugs at a thread of certain patterns, mishearings and misinterpreted gestures” according to vocalist Russell Walker.

The song is complemented here by the visual recordings of 11-year-old Hitchin resident Rowan Walker and his keen eye for transportation. ‘Wyrd Psearch’ will be released on March 1st by Upset The Rhythm and is available to pre-order now.

London shows and events!

Hello there!   Upset The Rhythm return to live shows in February and our first concert off the block is a real humdinger.   We have Dutch trio The Homesick (Sub Pop) bringing their giddily brilliant odd-pop to The Lexington on Feb 22nd, expect to be bowled over by the fizzing energy of it all. Findom and Home Secretary are performing too, so look out for No Wave / Dub / Goth thrills and rhythmic non-songs of crude sound collage.   What a thing to exist!

We have another excellent evening planned for March 5th too! Come and help us launch The Pheromoans new album 'Wyrd Psearch' in style at Cafe OTO with mega-pals Apostille and Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys performing too. Counting the days!   Read on for everything you need to know about both these events, as well as full write-ups for our upcoming shows for Mary Lattimore (March 26th, Scala) and The Umbrellas (March 13th, OSLO) too.   Since we last talked we've also announced a very special event for Alison Cotton (April 5th) at St Pancras Old Church too, tickets now on sale.   This is also your last call for tickets to Tara Clerkin Trio at The 100 Club on Feb 26th, we're down to our last small handful, heed taken.

One last bit of new news for you!   We're thrilled that Upset The Rhythm will be setting out our wares in a wonderful pop-up independent label department store event called Are You Being Served?   This will take place across three floors of the Betsey Trotwood on Sunday 11th Feb, from 1pm-7pm.     Russell Walker from The Pheromoans will be performing a 20-min set, alongside many other artists and label DJs throughout the day, well worth the £1 entry fee!   Check out the trailer for the full list of ace labels involved. See YOU there!

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE HOMESICK FINDOM HOME SECRETARY Thursday 22 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/bf946caa252b THE HOMESICK are Elias Elgersma (Vocals, Effects), Jaap van der Velde (Vocals, Effects) and Erik Woudwijk (Drums). The Homesick fuse post-punk rhythms with melodic whimsical pop into an experimental blend of great songs. The Dutch group have been around since their first EP Television from 2013 and released their debut album Youth Hunt (Subroutine) in 2017. Hailing from the backwater Frisian municipality of Dokkum, the band enjoy exploring the extremes of their music. Their albums play with this ambiguity as they incorporate dark post-punk alongside sure-fire pop earworms. Their second album The Big Exercise (SubPop) from 2020 inverted this sound, second-guessing their core chemistry as a live unit. Where the debut album incorporates vocals drenched in reverb, warped synths and distorted guitars, the Big Excercise leaves a hint of romanticism through the baroque elements such as piano, acoustic guitar, percussion and clarinet. Shortly after the release of The Big Exercise they individually started to explore new musical directions. Guitar and bass were dropped as Elias and Jaap searched for other sounds playing keys, sample boxes and more new rhythmic instruments. “We wanted to come up with something that we can dance to”, Jaap says. “After these last two years we very much felt like this is what we need now.” The new songs are unmistakably The Homesick and at the same time like you've never heard them before. The third and self-titled album by The Homesick is out now. https://thehomesick.bandcamp.com FINDOM know a thing about Britain’s death drive. They know that morbid fascinations of bad faith, morose binds and slow crawls have led us here. Their debut tape (on Gob Nation) confronts the conceit of class deterioration, clashing together energies of No Wave, Jazz, Dub and Goth into a work that, through part satire and part protest, has the hooks to fight back. We are left with five tracks self-described as anti-jazz with an overarching structure that feels like a Killing Joke inspired noir thriller, where moments of dark aggression are sonically punctuated by open stretches of rhythmic disorientation. https://gobnation.bandcamp.com/album/pay-pig   HOME SECRETARY are a duo from South London, creating rickety and occasionally rhythmic non-songs that combine spoken word with improvised instrumentation. Expect to hear crude sound collage, fumbled instruments, and vocals whispered and proclaimed. https://homesec.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE PHEROMOANS - Wyrd Psearch album launch APOSTILLE DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS FLEX DJs (HP Sorcery & The Plague) Tuesday 5 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed1d116c8c37 THE PHEROMOANS  are tenants of an unruly domain. Over the last 18 years the group have evolved from garage rock primitivists to auteurs of their own curious sound; a frothy brew of loose electronics, refractory rock and humdrum musing. Their songs are mutable, capricious, unreliable narrations, often withholding as much as they reveal. Russell Walker’s understated vocal has always been the band’s unifying focus, it is wry, unsparing and wilfully honest. Walker’s lyrics are an observational tour de force, sometimes droll, yet often tipping over into unlikely pathos. With previous releases on Upset The Rhythm, Convulsive and Alter, 2024 will witness The Pheromoans return with lucky album number 13, entitled ‘Wyrd Psearch’ (out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm). ‘Wyrd Psearch’ was recorded in Lewes throughout 2023. This was undertaken by founding member James Tranmer, his keen instinct for how the band should sound shaping many of the creative decisions. Joined by new guitarist Henry Holmes, the five piece doubled down on a decidedly breezy, melodic approach. Scott Reeve’s drumming is ever brisk, whilst Daniel Bolger explores AOR peripheries on keyboard and bass. “Wyrd Psearch finds us on relatively zestful form” affirms Walker “whether it be merrily recalling the Jason Williamson / Tim Lovejoy Covid summit, or mentally bathing in the pleasures of lunch hours spent strapped to a listening post in Borders.” With The Pheromoans there is always a familiarity at play, only broken and reassembled, like a bygone sitcom gone rogue in your memory. This contributes to the group’s peculiarly British outsider perspective, one that shouts from the sidelines, but never goes unnoticed. https://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/wyrd-psearch APOSTILLE is a man who's torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’, was released on Night School on September 22nd. https://apostille.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-of-love-and-hate DEAN RODNEY JR. is an artist and the lead singer of Dean Rodney Jr. & The Cowboys. In this latest project he puts on the golden suit and riffs about food, jiggling body parts and more over tight disco pop. Backed by Rosie Ridgeway, Jack Barraclough, Tom Hirst and Robyn Steward, you better watch out as there’s a new sheriff in town! Their debut album ‘The Yeehaw Moment’ is out now. Dean was also the frontman of The Fish Police, has collaborated with Ravioli Me Away and during lockdown, Dean wrote and recorded 54 albums, describing a fictional alternative version of the present day, Dean TV World. https://deanrodneyjrandthecowboys.bandcamp.com

Upset The Rhythm presents… THE UMBRELLAS Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   THE UMBRELLAS are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP ‘Fairweather Friend’ goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be. It’s a record overflowing with highlights. The candyfloss melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk, and the precision that comes from long months on the road. Taken as a whole ‘Fairweather Friend’ is a bold indie pop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart. https://theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/the-umbrellas

Upset The Rhythm presents… MARY LATTIMORE Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb MARY LATTIMORE is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects. Her solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa. Her debut solo record for Ghostly International, 'At The Dam', was recorded during stops along a road trip across America and released in March 2016. The next year, she compiled sounds from her past life in Philadelphia for a cassette tape titled 'Collected Pieces'. Released in May 2018 to acclaim from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker Lattimore's next album 'Hundreds of Days' presented an expression of mystified gratitude for the natural world. ‘Goodbye, Hotel Arkada’ (Ghostly International), Lattimore’s  new LP, speaks not just for its beloved namesake - a hotel in Croatia facing renovation - but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements. https://marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for spending this time with us! Upset The Rhythm

UPSET THE RHYTHM UPCOMING SHOWS

THE HOMESICK FINDOM HOME SECRETARY Thursday 22 February The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/bf946caa252b   TARA CLERKIN TRIO Monday 26 February 100 Club, 100 Oxford St, London, W1D 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/a16641a4040a   THE PHEROMOANS - 'Wyrd Psearch' album launch APOSTILLE DEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS FLEX DJs (HP Sorcery & The Plague) Tuesday 5 March Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL 7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed1d116c8c37   THE UMBRELLAS Wednesday 13 March OSLO, 1a Amhurst Road, Hackney Central, London, E8 1LL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ee39bba86945   MARY LATTIMORE Tuesday 26 March Scala, 275 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9NL 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/E8624bc1f2eb   ALISON COTTON Friday 5 April St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL 7.30pm | £13 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025   MARTIN NEWELL (Cleaners From Venus) Thursday 11 April St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Road, Dalston, London, N16 8DD 7.30pm | £15 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/b9f5c252d897 HOUSE Of ALL Thursday 18 April The Dome, 2A Dartmouth Park Hill, Tufnell Park, N19 5QH 7pm | £18 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/wac85b671659   LANKUM Saturday 18 May - SOLD OUT Sunday 19 May Hackney Empire, 291 Mare St, London E8 1EJ (Produced by UTR and Parallel Lines) 8pm | £25-£31.50 | Tickets: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/   THE REDS, PINKS AND PURPLES Wednesday 12 June - SOLD OUT Thursday 13 June The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB 7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/gf4a71a6788c

 

The Homesick - London show on Feb 22nd!

 

 
We’re back baby! Upset The Rhythm return to live shows in February and our first concert off the block is a real humdinger. We have Dutch trio The Homesick (Sub Pop) bringing their giddily brilliant odd-pop to The Lexington on Feb 22nd, expect to be bowled over by the fizzing energy of it all. Findom and Home Secretary are performing too, so look out for No Wave / Dub / Goth thrills and rhythmic non-songs of crude sound collage. What a thing to exist, here’s the details:

Upset The Rhythm presents…

THE HOMESICK
FINDOM
HOME SECRETARY
Thursday 22 February
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £10.00 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/bf946caa252b

THE HOMESICK are Elias Elgersma (Vocals, Effects), Jaap van der Velde (Vocals, Effects) and Erik Woudwijk (Drums). The Homesick fuse post-punk rhythms with melodic whimsical pop into an experimental blend of great songs. The Dutch group have been around since their first EP Television from 2013 and released their debut album Youth Hunt (Subroutine) in 2017. Hailing from the backwater Frisian municipality of Dokkum, the band enjoy exploring the extremes of their music. Their albums play with this ambiguity as they incorporate dark post-punk alongside sure-fire pop earworms. Their second album The Big Exercise (SubPop) from 2020 inverted this sound, second-guessing their core chemistry as a live unit. Where the debut album incorporates vocals drenched in reverb, warped synths and distorted guitars, the Big Excercise leaves a hint of romanticism through the baroque elements such as piano, acoustic guitar, percussion and clarinet. 

Shortly after the release of The Big Exercise they individually started to explore new musical directions. Guitar and bass were dropped as Elias and Jaap searched for other sounds playing keys, sample boxes and more new rhythmic instruments. “We wanted to come up with something that we can dance to”, Jaap says. “After these last two years we very much felt like this is what we need now.” The new songs are unmistakably The Homesick and at the same time like you've never heard them before. The third and self-titled album by The Homesick will be released now.
https://thehomesick.bandcamp.com

FINDOM know a thing about Britain’s death drive. They know that morbid fascinations of bad faith, morose binds and slow crawls have led us here. Their debut tape (on Gob Nation) confronts the conceit of class deterioration, clashing together energies of No Wave, Jazz, Dub and Goth into a work that, through part satire and part protest, has the hooks to fight back. We are left with five tracks self-described as anti-jazz with an overarching structure that feels like a Killing Joke inspired noir thriller, where moments of dark aggression are sonically punctuated by open stretches of rhythmic disorientation.
https://gobnation.bandcamp.com/album/pay-pig

HOME SECRETARY are a duo from South London, creating rickety and occasionally rhythmic non-songs that combine spoken word with improvised instrumentation. Expect to hear crude sound collage, fumbled instruments, and vocals whispered and proclaimed.
https://homesec.bandcamp.com

Alison Cotton - London show!

 

New show announced today for the wondrous Alison Cotton, bow at the ready! Alison's new album for Rocket Recordings is an incredible project, check it out!

Upset The Rhythm presents…

ALISON COTTON
Friday 5 April
St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, King's Cross, NW1 1UL
7.30pm | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Hc9626d08025

ALISON COTTON is a viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was released in 2018 firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes, followed by a vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019 her longform piece, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates’ was released on the Australian label, Longform Editions. As well as the viola, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice, harmonium, percussion, recorder, omnichord, shruti box and piano) to create long, haunting folk drones. Cotton’s recent album ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’, is a 6-track record – her first for Rocket Recordings. This will be followed up in March with ‘Engelchen’, an album reflecting on the intrepid Cook sisters whose efforts helped refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s. It’s a celebration of the human spirit, one that reflects a universality in its narrative which transcends the boundaries of history and impacts very urgently on our daily lives. Whatever attempts may be made to tell this story, it’s hard to imagine one that resonates deeper than ‘Engelchen’. 

https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com

Are You Being Served?

Thrilled that Upset The Rhythm will be setting out our wares in this wonderful independent label department store (across three floors of the Betsey Trotwood) on Sunday 11th Feb, from 1pm-7pm.

Russell Walker from The Pheromoans will be performing a 20-min set, alongside many other artists and label DJs throughout the day, well worth the £1 entry fee! Check out the trailer for the full list of ace labels involved.

Are You Being Served? is organised by the great minds behind at Skep Wax and Gar Du Nord Records, it's going to be a hoot, see you there!

'Wyrd Psearch' by The Pheromoans - out in March!

Puzzling times are upon us! Today we’re unveiling The Pheromoans new album ‘Wyrd Psearch’, out on March 1st via Upset The Rhythm. This is lucky album number 13 for the deadpan DIY group and sees them on vigorously sceptical form. Lead single ‘Downtown’ is out now as a digital single, fans of Russell Walker and of panoramic Hitchin will find much to like in its accompanying video kindly premiered by Raven Sings The Blues.

‘Wyrd Psearch’ is available to pre-order now on 180g black vinyl.
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