Dads are a two-piece emo/punk band from New Brunswick, NJ. They will be releasing their first proper full length entitled American Radass (this is important), which was recorded at Format Audio (My Heart to Joy & The World Is…) by the amazing Ryan Stack. Dads will be performing at I Got Brains! Fest in August and will be touring the entire US throughout the fall.
Pre-order is up at Flannel Gurl Records (orders start shipping August 7th).
Nick Ferrio is a country singer and songwriter from Peterborough, Ontario. You might know Nick as the silly and fun-loving bassist in The Burning Hell. But since before Nick joined The Burning Hell six years ago, he has been quietly working away on his own songs. Now, for the first time he is branching out into a solo career.
Nick’s music is at once honest and filled with tall tales. His version of country music contains shades of some of country’s greatest storytellers, likening to Tom T Hall, Willie Nelson and George Jones. Joined by Ryan Perks on lead guitar, Emmott Clancy on drums, Liam Wilson on bass, Chris Altmann on pedal steel, Caylie Staples and Spencer Burton (of The Grey Kingdom) on harmony vocals, Nick Ferrio & His Feelings made a record of country music the way it was recorded generations ago – with ribbon mics and tape machines.
Stay tuned to Shuffling Feet Records for the official release of this new LP.
The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall, is Black Light Burn‘s new album streeting on August 14. The record is getting the vinyl treatment courtesy of Rocket Science and Brookvale Records.
The special hand-numbered 2LP set features artwork by the band’s own Wes Borland (of Limp Bizkit fame), and the highlighter-yellow A/B record in the set actually glows under black light!
The pre-order at Brookvale is up now!
Legendary bands Converge and Napalm Death have come together for a split release, bridging the worlds of personal and politically driven extreme music.
Recorded as part of their new album sessions, Converge offer up the blazing new song “No Light Escapes”. Already a staple of their live set, this whirlwind of an emotional charged song is a soon to be a discordant hardcore/metal anthem for the band. Also on the release, Converge offer a “We Are The World” styled rendition of the influential Entombed classic “Wolverine Blues”. Joining them in tribute is a number of friends including Tomas Lindberg (Disfear, At The Gates, Lock Up), Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Split Cranium), Kevin Baker (APMD, The Hope Conspiracy), Brian Izzi (Trap Them), and more. A new Converge album will surface later in 2012 on Epitaph/Deathwish.
On the flip side, metal pioneers Napalm Death offer up two new aural monsters. First, “Will By Mouth” erupts in classic grind fashion. A buzz of brutal guitars and a crushing blast beat lay a foundation for Barney Greenway’s vicious vocal attack. All of it uniquely bleeding together to paint a vivid picture of social unrest. Also on the release, Napalm Death offer the slower and textural new song “No Impediment To Triumph (Bhopal)”. A deeply resonant number that lyrically sheds light on the horrific Bhopal Gas Tragedy of 1984. Without question, “No Impediment…” is truly a powerful and poignant moment for this legendary band.
You can pre-order several different color variants (including GGR’s exclusive “Vinyl Bong” pressings) from Deathwish as well as from Converge direct.
Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics are a modern R&B group based out of Atlanta, GA, and have been a slick addition to the local Atlanta scene since early 2008 (although formed in 2006). Lead female vocalist Ruby Velle, is backed by a solid lineup, including a three piece horn section (trumpet, baritone sax, tenor sax) and rhythm section (B3 organ/keys, electric guitar, bass and drums). Since emerging on the scene, the band has performed at some of the areas best known venues and events for live music including; The Earl, Smith’s Olde Bar, Highland Ballroom, and The Woodruff Art Center, Center Stage, and many more.
It’s About Time is their first full-length LP, and a limited number of records was pressed and shipped out this week! Stay tuned for their tour circuit and listening party events – if you are into solid southern R&B sounds, you will most definitely dig this album.
Sirs is a four-piece punk band from upstate New York. Formed in 2009 after meeting at school, original members consisted of Justin Jurgens, Dave Benton, Kyle Seely and Hart Seely. Their fantastic self-titled LP dropped this month via Topshelf Records. Grab it!
After a slight delay, the CLEAR – DEMO 7″ is available for pre-order from Triple B Records. Six songs of Minor Threat-influenced hardcore. Features members of lots of cool bands. There are 2 colors available for purchase, and you can listen to the entire record now at www.bbbrecords.bandcamp.com.
Like Nomads‘ We Miss Us is now available from Going Records. 180gram, 45rpm, and limited to 100 copies. We Miss Us goes through two lengthy tracks that shows the true colors of how an energetic band can roll around a world of tech and noise and twinkle, while drilling every riff into the ground with raw emotion. If you like anything in the world of tech, shred, “math rock”, heavy, twinkle daddies, prog, emo, or grind, check this record out.
David Lynch’ Eraserhead rests firmly at the top of that canon of American underground culture for which there is no genre. A staple of the dark underbelly of popular cinema that was originally only viewable at arthouse screenings or on the Midnight Movie circuit, Eraserhead is a truly unadulterated offering; and much of its sensation lies beyond the purely visual realm. The stark, dusty black and white images put forth are caked with and submerged in a dense jungle of industrial hums, buzzes, screeches and screams. Eraserhead is a narrative made up of two intertwined veins: one of bleak and beautiful pictures elegantly painted in gray and black; and one of blankets of sublime, enveloping noise and static, the tinkering of Fats Waller organ rolls echoing in the background.
Thanks to Sacred Bones Records, the Eraserhead original soundtrack will receive the vinyl treatment on August 7. Pre-order it now!
Update: Gotta Groove Records only manufactured the first pressing of this release. The subsequent re-pressing was handled by a different pressing plant.
Kishi Bashi’s debut full-length is a bright and soaring avant-pop record written primarily on violin – Kishi Bashi’s main instrument which has brought him to record and tour with the likes of Regina Spector, Sondre Lerche, Alexi Murdoch, of Montreal and more. The record is available now from Joyful Noise Recordings.
Kishi Bashi collaborated with of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes on that band’s new album, Paralytic Stalks. This last endeavor he credits with some of his most recent musical growth, acknowledging that Barnes pushed him to new heights of creativity, forcing him to explore a broader use of his primary instrument: the violin. This experimentation affected his loop-based live show and led to him write more of the new record with violin rather than piano or guitar, loosening him from the grip of habit and expanding his palette. Kishi Bashi uses Japanese singing as another of many layers, doing so without any trace of gimmickry, and achieving what, to Western ears, must sound like an expression of the ineffable.
After lead track “Intro/Pathos, Pathos,” a soaring yet concise amalgam of all that is to come, the record unfolds with a gentle, and somehow grander revisiting of two songs from Room for Dream, reigniting their purpose with subtle variations that serve the larger arc of this new LP. From the deconstructed doo-wop of “Wonder Woman, Wonder Me,” a 21st century transmission of Smile-era Brian Wilson to the menacing marriage of Eastern hues and Western operatics in “Beat the Bright out of Me,” this album is a mediation between opposing drives, offering possible reconciliation but never promising it. Kishi Bashi played and produced 151a entirely himself.
