May 2013
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Russian Circles Drummer Dave Turncrantz gets love...
He’s one of the best drummers in the world… and the cymbals he plays are Istanbul Agop and they are stoked about it. Full page ad for them featuring Dave Turncrantz of Russian Circles in this months issue of Modern Drummer Magazine. Of course he should also be on the Cover.. get with it MD!
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Submerge Magazine: Cover Story and feature on Tera...
Tera Melos are on the cover and there is a great feature story on them in Issue #136 of Submerge Magazine - Click to read it online or grab it in hard copy out this week in Sacramento, CA. And don’t miss Tera Melos out on tour now - see all dates here.
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Sargent House Takes Over Made Of Chalk this Month...
Sargent House has taken over Made Of Chalk all this month with 9 live video premieres featuring three from each of our bands including Tera Melos, TTNG and Native. Here are the first three videos one from each. All shot live in Chicago. Big thanks to Made of Chalk for making these.
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Mylets answers another round of Questions from The...
A lot has changed for Henry Kohen a.k.a. Mylets since we last spoke in December. He’s moved to Los Angeles, is now officially signed to Sargent House, and is living in Sargent house with its founder Cathy Pellow. Now Mylets days are filled with non-stop practice, playing, writing, and recording for his new full length which should be out next year. In the mean time Sargent House has released...
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CLASH Magazine Live Review: Bosnian Rainbows in...
The word “supergroup” can be a tricky term. It’s one of those words that has a habit of raising expectations, and that’s not always a good thing. Bosnian Rainbows are certainly an act who fit firmly into the supergroup category, made up of former The Mars Volta members Omar Rodríguez-López and Deantoni Parks, plus Le Butcherettes vocalist Teri Gender Bender, and...
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And So I Watch You From Afar do Two Nights in...
And So I Watch You From Afar in Whelan’s, Dublin on 15 May 2013.
To celebrate the launch of their third studio album “All Hail Bright Futures”, Belfast noise merchants And So I Watch You From Afar descended on Whelan’s last night for the first of two Dublin shows. With the new album taking the band in several different musical directions, it was always going to come down to how the...
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SPREAD: Retrospective Deconstruction Feature -...
I have to review my favorite song performed by Native on March 25th, 2013, in Montreal at L’Escogriffe. This favorite Montreal dive bar, at first, seemed like a peculiar location to film a killer video, but it became clear this was home. The vibe and lighting accompanied Native‘s tension and rebellious attitude. These cats were so real and nice to the Spread crew, I was blown away. Also, the...
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Vice's NOISEY Video Premiere of Indian Handcrafts...
Here’s a sweet exclusive: the gritty new video for Indian Handcrafts’ latest single, “Bruce Lee.” As an homage to their late hero’s sick Kung Fu skills, the Canadian duo pretty much kicks the crap out of each other with high kicks, uppercuts, and nunchucks, plus that ultimate display of testosterone-fuelled masculinity, the staring contest. All of this is set to a...
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Tera Melos Misadventures continue.... Sunburn
Tera Melos continue their misadventures on the road… the song is Sunburn from their album X’ed Out. TERA MELOS are on tour see all shows here
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Bosnian Rainbows announce East Coast Tour Dates in...
Bosnian Rainbows have just announced more US shows and some more European & South American festival plays in support of their upcoming debut album release on June 25, 2013 on Sargent House. The album is now available for Pre-Order on Vinyl, CD and digitally on Itunes. SEE ALL BOSNIAN RAINBOWS SHOW DETAILS HERE BOSNIAN RAINBOWS 2013 May 25, 2013 - El Paso, TX @ Neon Desert Music...
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Deafheaven Announces full US Tour with Marriages...
Deafheaven will be headlining the first US Tour in support of their new album Sunbather which will see its release via Deathwish on June 11th. As support on all dates will be Marriages the band from Red Sparowes members Emma Ruth Rundle and Greg Burns and on drums special guest Chris Common from These Arms Are Snakes will be playing with them for this tour. On May 18th Deafheaven will be guest...
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Pitchfork Review of Tera Melos' X'ed Out
Sacramento trio Tera Melos traffic in genres that are often viewed as the opposite of punk, i.e., prog, math-rock, post-hardcore. But when done properly, these styles generate all of the enthusiasm of punk while turning its traditional logic about formal training on its head: What if your love of music inspires you to train to the point where you can accomplish anything you want? That’s what...
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Russian Circles begin recording LP5 - at...
Russian Circles began recording their fifth full length album today in Chicago at Electrical Audio with long time allie Brandon Curtis (Geneva, Empros) producing again. Day 1, let the drums begin…..the album is slated for release late this year on Sargent House. We can’t wait.
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Fang Island & No Spill Blood end their EU Tour...
It’s the end of the current tour for Fang Island, who have been doing the rounds over the preceding weeks aided and abetted by No Spill Blood. Hailing from Rhode Island, Fang Island specialize in a type of infectious, no frills guitar music that marks them out as the greatest band on earth. Okay, they’re not the greatest band on earth, but they might well be the most enjoyable band to rock out...
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STATE IE A Month In New Noise May: Features Mylets...
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Pitchfork gives Deafheaven's "Dream House" - Best...
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Chelsea Wolfe - Live Review and Interview from...
On May 6th, Chelsea Wolfe played a fantastic concert at the Trix in Antwerp. Before the concert, Phil Blackmarquis had the opportunity to meet Chelsea for an exclusive interview, done together with Michael Thiel, aka Weyrd Son, founder of Weyrd Son Records and a huge fan of the American singer/songwriter. (Check the review of the concert here.)
PhB: Thank you very much for this interview. You...
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Deafheaven Live Show Review - May 7, 2013 -...
Deafheaven prove to be nothing short of magical. Their blend of post-rock, shoe-gaze and black metal surprisingly translates perfectly live/ The band’s visceral and deeply personal performance is nothing short of wonderful. There’s a sense of artistry to the band that also doesn’t seem forced, mainly because of that tremendous and genuine passion with which they deliver their set. The moments...
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Under Cover: An interview with Artist Sonny Kay...
In the first of our regular features on the importance of cover artwork, Loreana Rushe talks to L.A based visual artist Sonny Kay about the work he did on Street Meat by No Spill Blood and gains some insight into his creative process and inspirations.
Hi Sonny. Tell us about this cover.
It’s a digital collage created in Photoshop from photos I found online as well as some textures I made on...
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Tera Melos...... Misadventures.... Slimed.....
Tera Melos are on the road…. Don’t miss them SEE ALL DATES HERE
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SPREAD Album Review: Mylets' Retcon
Building fresh fabric layer by layer, Henry Kohen as Mylets births a syncopatic slow-moving beast with a thousand whirring parts. Kohen is both the architect and the conduit for every sound that you will hear on his new release, Retcon – released digitally May 7th. Vinyl on June 25th. It’s no wonder Sargent House scooped him up before the crest of musical-pathfinding-as-a-business discovered...
Berlin Music: Bosnian Rainbows live Show Review
Bosnian Rainbows is an Art/Experimental Rock band from El Paso. It’s composed of two members (guitarist and drummer) of “The Mars Volta” (R.I.P.). Even if the mastermind of Bosnian Rainbows is Omar Rodríguez-López, during the live show the scene was completely taken by barefoot singer Teri Gender Bender, who jumped, crawled and flipped for the whole performance. Her voice is amazing, and its...
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Emma Ruth Rundle unleashes a new solo album track...
Sargent House is delighted to announce that Emma Ruth Rundle will be recording her debut solo album this year for release on Sargent House. Above is a video of her performing a new track “Oh Sarah” live from the Glassroom. (Shot & Edited by Spencer Rollins) Earlier this year we had Emma in the Glassroom performing with her band Marriages another song that will now be on her...
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LA MUSIC BLOG: Live review of Mylets in LA at The...
Sargent House makes a point to sign artists with unique sounds…
LA’s own Mylets consists of Henry Kohen on vocals, Henry Kohen on guitar, and Henry Kohen on the sampling pad. The usual one-man-band thing can get tiresome, but Kohen nails it. His style of jittery, grungy, angsty rock is the kind of sound that he probably wouldn’t want any other musicians to ruin. Using delay pedals to...
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Rolling Stone Interview with Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is a restless creative force, with endless musical projects as guitarist and producer, his own label and an accelerating sideline as an experimental filmmaker. In the past, he’s walked away from popular bands just to follow his muse into some unexpected directions, but says a brief reunion tour last year with At the Drive-In mattered more to him than many of us will...
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Stereogum track review Deafheaven 'Dream House'...
Black metal purists may reject San Francisco’s Deafheaven in much the same way, and for many of the same reasons, they reject Brooklyn’s Liturgy: Something about those bands’ respective approaches to the genre feels like cultural tourism, as if black metal were somehow beneath them, as if they were somehow bigger than black metal. For an insular culture in which elitism is frequently...
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NPR Premieres Deafheaven's "Dream House" from the...
April 2013
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Bosnian Rainbows European & US Tour starts May 6th...
Bosnian Rainbows continue their non stop touring and will head back out starting on May 6th in Berlin with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs playing some club dates of their own before returning to the United States for Neon Desert Festival in El Paso on May 25th to kick off their Texas shows with Zorch. Newly announced album release shows are in June on the West Coast. Headlining US Tour dates in July will...
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Mylets Ampersand Glassroom video goes viral -...
Mylets, the one-man-band of Henry Kohen, recently released the first of his three part live performance videos for the Sargent House Glassroom Sessions, of which “Ampersand” (below) quickly went viral, racking up over 65-thousand views by word of mouth.
Today we have posted the third and final Mylets video “Seven Diamonds Plus One” (posted above at the top). The studio...
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TTNG Live video from Oxford of "I'll Take the...
TTNG performing live in Oxford their son “I’ll Take The Minute Snake” - from their latest album 13.0.0.0.0. cheers to GreenDore Films for sharing. Don’t miss TTNG out now on tour with our very own Tera Melos - shows are selling out across the land! SEE ALL TTNG SHOWS DETAILS HERE
TERA MELOS & TTNG TOUR 2013 Apr 28, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison - SOLD OUT Apr...
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Liverpool Echo Live Show Review: Fang Island & No...
No Spill Blood live at the Kazimier Featuring members of Elk and Adebisi Shank, No Spill Blood are to music what Genghis Khan was to warfare; loud, fearsome and bloody.
Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War Of The Worlds might be the barometer in sci-fi musical epics, but No Spill Blood, with their other-worldly keyboard magic, thudding fuzz bass, outrageously great drumming and...
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BEARDED MAGAZINE: Pretty Much sums it up ASIWYFA...
Tonight was always going to be good, but for something so beautiful, so epic, so special to come from within London’s Garage took me completely by surprise. Never have I been more impressed by a band’s live performance. This four piece from Ireland are unique. They are a band of brothers in the truest sense. They clearly love each other, love their songs and adore their fans. This is...
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Epitonic: An Interview with Tera Melos' Nick...
Tera Melos is one of the few bands who could evolve from producing chaotic instrumentals to crafting pop songs with clever vocal hooks, and they have done so without sacrificing their unique approach. Epitonic talked with guitarist and vocalist Nick Reinhart to discuss their new album, X’ed Out (out now on Sargent House), their recent tours, and some more personal aspects of the band....
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And So I Watch You From Afar Announce TONS of...
And So I Watch You From Afar continue to bring their live show to the masses with a load of European Festivals announced and a big Irish run. Still more dates to come and a Fall USA tour to be announced… so stay tuned.
SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS HERE AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR 2013 May 03, 2013 - Draperstown, NI @ Cellar Bar May 04, 2013 - Louth, IE @ Vantastival Festival May 05, 2013 -...
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QCA: Native Live Session two new songs Brass &...
Thanks to Quiet Country Audio for having Native in for a live session. Above are two songs from the forthcoming new album out on Sargent House this Summer. SEE FULL FEATURE AND PHOTO GALLERY HERE
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Eureka The Butcher's "Music For Mothers" comes...
Eureka the Butcher, solo pseudonym of Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (also of Zechs Marquise and The Mars Volta) announces the forthcoming release of his debut album. The recording, Music For Mothers is dedicated to the multi-instrumentalist’s mother Frances Sarah Rodriguez-Lopez who passed away last year. The album will be released via Rodriguez Lopez Productions on May 28, 2013 - stream...
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Rock A Rolla Magazine Features And So I Watch You...
And So I Watch You From Afar are featured in the April/May 2013 issue of Rock A Rolla Magazine as well as a fantastic review of the new Tera Melos album X’ed Out on newstands now!
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Rolling Stone Premieres Bosnian Rainbows "Turtle...
After an intense experience with his last project, the Mars Volta, guitarist and vocalist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez returned home to El Paso for some much-needed rest. Instead, he found three like-minded musicians who were ready for a new journey.
Rodriguez-Lopez, Teri Gender Bender (of Le Butcherettes), Deantoni Parks (the Mars Volta’s drummer) and Nicci Kasper created the alt-rock band...
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Flab Magazine: Podcast Interview with Sargent...
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This week’s guest is the irrepressible Cathy Pellow, founder and leader of Sargent House in Echo Park, California. I’ve been curious about her for a while. Like many others, my understanding of her was essentially derived from Facebook posts and Tweets – some of them quite hilarious, others misleadingly terse. I am very aware that a Tweet is not the best...
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Chelsea Wolfe headlining European & Russian Tour...
Chelsea Wolfe’s European headline tour begins this Wednesday April 24th in Dublin her first time playing in Ireland. For this tour she has brought along her Violin player and will be performing a combination of both acoustic and electric songs (new and old) for these very special shows. Don’t miss these folks. SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS TICKET LINKS AND UPDATES HERE. CHELSEA WOLFE EU 2013 Apr...
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Boris return to the USA for 2 Night Residencies,...
Boris ’ massive US Tour begins on April 23rd and will include a special series of residency shows. Just announced in June they will perform two nights in Tokyo before heading off to Australia. The residency shows, billed as “from the past, the present and through to the future” features Boris playing 2 consecutive nights in select cities. For the first night, the band will...
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Bosnian Rainbows Announce more US shows and...
Bosnian Rainbows continue their non stop touring and will head back out starting on May 6th in Berlin with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs playing some club dates of their own before returning to the United States for Neon Desert Festival in El Paso on May 25th to kick off their Texas shows with Zorch. Newly announced album release shows are in June on the West Coast. Then in August they head back to Europe...
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Antwon visits the Glassroom and drops "Still...
We love having our friends come over and play in our glass room. Big thanks to Antwon for stopping in and dropping this tune “Still Guarded”. Performed live, this is a cut from Antwon’s In Dark Denim mixtape that was produced by Cities Aviv. Shout outs to David Romo for shooting and editing and to Chris Common of The Farm for recording and mixing the audio. SUPPORT YOUR...
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Pitchfork: Stream Chelsea Wolfe's "Fight Like...
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EXCLAIM! Interview with Nick & Nathan of Tera...
If the exuberantly iconoclastic genre-swirling protoplasmic goo of Tera Melos’ music finally seeps into the mainstream thanks to the smokescreen of accessibility disguising the multitudinous quirks of their latest album, X’ed Out, the “progressive” tag might regain its functionality as a positive descriptor in the annals of popular music. The ever-evolving three-piece...
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Tera Melos release first video for Bite from X'ed...
Tera Melos have unleashed their first video from their album X’ed Out for the track Bite. Directed by their video partner in crime Behn Fannin. Tera Melos also head off today for their extensive US/ Canadian headline tour starting on April 18th with our very own TTNG on all the shows as well. Not only is this video insane and awesome but this Poster for their 4/20 show rules too so we...
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The Work Magazine: Chelsea Wolfe / Soundcheck...
The Work Magazine is honored to present one of our favorite artists, Chelsea Wolfe, as the debut highlight in our “Sound Check” series. Here we capture an intimate portrait of this great talent as she prepares to take the stage at The First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. Don’t miss Chelsea Wolfe on Tour in Europe starting in Dublin on April 24th. See all TOUR DATES HERE & Below
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Zorch to join Bosnian Rainbows in May for Texas...
Zorch will join label mates Bosnian Rainbows on their handful of Texas club shows in May. What a good time those shows will be!! And stay tuned for news about the new debut album from Zorch coming on Sargent House this Summer! BOSNIAN RAINBOWS & ZORCH 2013 May 28, 2013 - Dallas, TX @ Trees May 29, 2013 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 May 30, 2013 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues- Bronze Peacock
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Alarm Magazine: Best Release for this Week - Tera...
Yup. Tera Melos you got a winner…
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Fang Island's Live Performance & Interview with...
If you missed the live broadcast of Fang Island performing Sisterly and Seek It Out and their interview with Steve Lamacq’s show on BBC6 Music show don’t fret they have the archived session available to hear HERE for just this month - so check it out! DON’T MISS FANG ISLAND ON EU TOUR NOW WITH NO SPILL BLOOD - SEE ALL DATES HERE
