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May 21, 2013 • Warping vibes for the web label Aural Sects (now almost 100 releases in!) Copenhagen-based producer and intentional misspeller, Unkwon (Anders Dixen) quietly released Fractures, a rather lovely five-song EP in March for free via the Bandcamp and Mediafire channels as per the usual with the AS squad (Twos, Witowmaker, Nancy, ZXZ etc.) Mixing lazed porthole drifting house, chillwave...
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May 9, 2013 • Man. If one recent aural blow away from a French shoegaze band - Future; hear the amazing “Skylights” here- wasn’t enough, but a few weeks pass before more drifting space landed in my inbox, spear-sharp to please. Venera 4 are a pair of guys and a pair of girls that make head-filling washes for fans of the usual...
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May 9, 2013 • Brooklyn’s dark-faced post punks Dream Affair have been a Holloweyed favorite for a few years now. After a few releases for the likes of Avant!, Nostilveo and Nursed, the band shacked up with Hand Drawn Dracula‘s new darker-leaning offshoot label Artifical last year and released their six-song From Now On EP. This week the band unveiled...
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May 2, 2013 • The latest video treatment from Cascine signed producer and Twin Shadow bassist Russ Manning’s Rush Midnight project follows a group of glammed-up bad girls as they explore on the night, walking around looking for fun, finding boys and cruising on BMX bikes. Rush Midnight will release a debut for Cascine in the winter.
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Apr 22, 2013 • The sandwiched Coachella week played host to slew of well-booked, top-to-bottom bills and the partytimers behind Check Yo Ponytail 2‘s last Tuesday night made no exception. Special guests Boys Noize, R.L. Grime, Shlohmo, Groundislava and Spaceghostpurrp- with his RVIDXR KLVN- made showed up to join the already-announced Gaslamp Killer, Salva and Thundercat. I missed the opening of...
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Apr 9, 2013 • Future are a brand new Parisian duo that make fantastic, drifting shoegaze slink. A perfect equation of A Place to Bury Strangers and The Soft Moon with just a hint of that French-do-it-best club-ready pace, their debut four-song EP, Abyss will release digitally on April 15th. Excited about this. Stream the EP’s opener, “Skylights” below. Photo: Fiona Torre...
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Mar 29, 2013 • A drums/organ duo from the South of Italy, Cannibal Movie mix experimental heavy drone and long form hypnosis on their two-track release, Mondo Music. I’ll let the pair call it in their own words: “Cannibal Movie [are] exponents of new Italian occult psychedelic scene. They play drums and an old italian organ and their sound is a mix of obscure...
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Mar 26, 2013 • Started in 2008, Cologne’s Urban Homes started as “almost exclusively a post-punk outfit.” Cutting their teeth playing ranks in punk and hardcore acts of the Rhine region for a decade plus, these four members do something notably different on Centres, their sprawling, five-song debut proper under the Urban Homes moniker. Released for the German Altin Village & Mine imprint...
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Mar 13, 2013 • HOLY are a crust/d-beat/power violence-inspired hardcore quartet from Milan, Italy. Stream their sophomore effort, The Age of Collapse below. Fans of NAILS and Black Breath take note. HOLY- The Age Of Collapse (Full Stream) London-based Carmen Villain is a former model that will release her debut LP, Sleeper, via Lindstrom’s Smalltown Supertown imprint (we’re...
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Mar 4, 2013 • I love the Bandcamp stumble! Pueblo People are a trio of players from Italy that recently self-released their debut, The First Four Moons for free via the service. Aptly described by the band as “Guitar music from the 60s vs. guitar music from the 90s,” Pueblo People blend the jangle, the rabbit role reverb psych...
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Mar 4, 2013 • A fantastic bill from start to finish, last weekend’s Part Time Punks brought in LA shoegazing post punks, Flaamingos (keep an eye out for these boys as they’re set to release their debut via NY imprint Felte), favorite locals Cold Showers for their first LA-area show in five months (new stuff sounds great) and dark...
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Feb 21, 2013 • Last night, Chicago punks The Orwells headlined a Blundertown presented show alongside CA fun-havers Pangea and The Shrills and longhaired riff-rollers Zig Zags at The Unit B Skatepark in Santa Ana. I headed down with a pocket camera and had some fun. The Orwells will hit the East coast by early March and then continue down...
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Feb 5, 2013 • Member of the Giallo Disco family (Based somewhere between “Berlin and Vienna,” remember), Antoni Maiovvi released a new EP, Stockholm Synthdrone back in September and now opening tune, “Darkroom” just got the video treatment. The video follows Maiovvi (that’s him up there) around as he tracks people- err victims- down and gets a little, uh, physical. A little...
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Feb 1, 2013 • Last week we told you about the new, Lee and Nancy-like collaborative LP from ex Moldy Peaches’ Adam Green and sultry Little Joy singer Binki Shaprio, which is now available via Rounder/Concord Records. To celebrate release day, the pair – their band included Nick White (Bright Eyes, Tilly and The Wall) and Jason Boesel (Rilo...
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Jan 30, 2013 • The name Babe Rainbow has been mentioned many times here on the site. The murky, beat-friendly creations of Canadian (ex Vancouver, now Toronto) musician/producer/remixer Cameron Reed came to our attention around the time he released his debut Shaved (2010) for the legendary Warp Records imprint. Following with another EP, Endless Path in 2011, remix work and some...
