May 2011
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April 2011
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Impose Magazine Review: Le Butcherettes Sin Sin...
Le Butcherettes, Sin Sin Sin /May 10, 2011 Le Butcherettes, which started as a duo in Guadalajara, Mexico, is captained by 21-year old singer/guitarist/pianist Teri Gender Bender, and mentored by Omar Rodriguez Lopez, who also plays bass on the album. After settling in LA in 2010, Gender Bender joined forces with drummer Gabe from The Locust and bassist Jonathan from Hella and Le...
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Chicagoist Show Feature Gypsyblood
DOWNLOAD THEN SEE: Gypsyblood
If the year was 1991 instead of 2011 Gypsybood would be on Matador Records. Spin magazine would be creaming their pants extolling the band’s praises. Stephen Malkmus and Bob Pollard would be at their shows bobbing their heads in the back of the room. Their debut, Cold In The Guestway, is immediately familiar but never tiring. The Chicago duo of Adam...
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Breakthrough Radio: Cast Spells Live Session &...
David Davison stopped by Breakthrough Radio in New York on 4/19/11 while out on tour with Maps & Atlases for a bit of a chat and an acoustic session of his Cast Spells songs. It’s a real beauty. Take A LISTEN HERE 00:00 Cast Spells on BTR Live Studio 01:21 Potted Plant 04:51 Interview 09:08 Vampire 11:56 Pioneer Scalps 14:38 Interview 15:32 American Quilts 17:40 Interview...
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Russian Circles Add More Shows to European Tour
Russian Circles have just added a week of headline shows to their European tour before they will join up with Boris for their co-headlining dates.
RUSSIAN CIRCLES Jun 10 - Budapest, Hungary @ A38 Roof Stage Jun 11 - Murska Sobota, Slovenia @ Mikk Jun 12 - Bolzano, Italy @ Mountain Sessions Jun 13 - Freiburg, Germany @ White Rabbit Club Jun 14 - Düdingen, Switzerland @ Cafe Bad Bonn Jun 15 -...
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Tera Melos Live: Frozen Zoo, Manar The Magic, In...
Tera Melos live, playing Frozen Zoo & In Citrus Heights from the album Patagonian Rats and Manar The Magic from the EP Zoo Weather. Shot in Orlando at the Backbooth Theater on February 27, 2011 by Erick R. Wilczynski
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FADER: Death Grips "Guillotine It Goes Yah"
When you get an email that says INTENSE AVANT HIP HOP in the header you don’t think, you click on it and cross your fingers in hopes that it lives up to the claim. Sacramento crew Death Grips definitely does just that, for better or worse. “Guillotine It Goes Yah” and the accompanying Ex-Military mixtape proves that things really do go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown was once amping...
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Le Butcherettes On The Creative Process and The...
Le Butcherettes On Their Creative Approach To Songwriting And The Meaning Behind Their New Album
Le Butcherettes know how to put on a live show. The “garage-punk trio” (which originally began in 2008 as a duo), fronted by Teri Gender Bender, has come from Mexico to Los Angeles, bringing with them an almost theatrical energy and obvious passion for their music. Read on to learn about the band’s...
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Native Tour Starts 5.5.11 + BledFest & KrazyFest
Native will be hitting the road starting May 5th for a month long tour with good friends La Dispute , Defeater & Former Thieves. Along the way all the bands will also be playing KrazyFest and BledFest. Make sure to pick up tickets these shows are going to be sell outs for sure.
LA DISPUTE, DEFEATER, NATIVE, FORMER THIEVES TOUR May 5, 2011 – Detroit, MI (US) @ The Magic Stick – Buy...
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Le Butcherettes Album Release Show in LA on May 11
Le Butcherettes will be playing their album release show for Sin Sin Sin with good friends and awesome band Agent Ribbons on May 11th at the Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA make sure to get TIX sorry it’s 21+
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Adebisi Shank Announce More Shows & Festivals
Adebisi Shank will be playing some headline shows in May along with an appearance at Pig Stock Festival. In June they will be doing the F.M.C. Tour joined by Heathers & O Emperor . In July they will play Castlepalooza and then in September they will perform at Ireland’s Electric Picnic.
Adebisi Shank UK/Ireland Shows May 10 - Leeds, UK @ Brudnell Social Club w/ &U&I...
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Good Old War Back on Tour Starting 4.27.11
Good Old War are bringing their magic back out to the people. After making the whole crowd sing at Coachella they will continue the good times and head back out with old friends Guster. Then in June they will play alongside Ani DiFranco, Gogol Bordello (acoustic), Josh Ritter and many more at the Appel Arts & Music Festival. Then in July a few select dates with Gomez. So don’t miss our...
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Matt Embree Behind The Scenes on Tour with State...
I love this Behind-the-scenes and live concert footage of Matt Embree of RX Bandits and Love You Moon touring with State Radio as a 4th member of the band in March 2011. This catches up with them at the first stops of their tour in Denver and Aspen, Colorado. EMBREE!!!! (love the Cast Spells shirt he’s wearing too! Family Style)
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Death Grips - EX Military Mixtape FREE DL
Death Grips - Exmilitary Mixtape by deathgrips
“We we’re pretty excited when the first Death Grips track dropped, and this is pretty much more of the same raw-ass shit from the likes of Zach Hill & Company: Angry and aggro, anarchic and dead pan, pushing the instrumentals to new levels of grit and industrial damage.
There’s also the non-sequitor Major Lazer-biter...
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ALARM: Guest Spot w/ Nick from Fang Island on the...
Fang Island, with its three-guitar attack and lightning-fast riffs, knows a few things about shredding. Logic dictates that it also knows a fair amount about guitars. For guitarist Nicholas Sadler, there’s one axe in particular that stands out: a weirdly human girl-guitar of mysterious origins. In this piece penned for ALARM, Sadler laments the fact that he didn’t conceive of...
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Sometimes Fans Just Say the Best Things - We...
Taken from the Blog of Crushing Destroyer. The one the only Kenny Remster. “so fucking happy they played this wednesday. For all of you who dont know, which is probably a lot…because even being a big Maps and Atlases and Cast Spells fan, I didnt know…There is a little of an undiscovered phenomenon that is Dave Davison. The entire show was awesome, and they played songs from all three...
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RCRD LBL Feature: Le Butcherettes - I'm Getting...
There is a God, and her name is Teri Gender Bender. Storming the states with dress, apron, duster, meat and blood capsules in tow, Ms. Bender is the frontwoman of Le Butcherettes. The Mexico native is also miles more badass than every review that begins by asserting her sex appeal (duh, guys—let’s move on). Along with a powerhouse duo behind her—Jonathan Hischke of Hella/Broken Bells...
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Inside the Drums of Death Grips
Inside the drums of Zach Hill recording Death Grips. Tight. Brought to you by Thirdworlds.net
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Tera Melos Live: Kelly, Skywatch, Aped
Tera Melos performing the songs Kelly, Skywatch & Aped from the album Patagonian Rats. We’ve got this whole live show recorded and will be releasing them a song at a time. It was filmed while on their most recent tour with Marnie Stern at the Backbooth in Orlando, Florida on Feb 27, 2011. Thanks to Erick R. Wilczynski and his gang for shooting it and cutting it for us.
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Hella's New Record Is Hella Done
When Sacramento drummer Zach Hill recently posted on his Facebook page, “Finished the new Hella album,” it caused a shit storm of excitement amongst his fans. As of press time for this issue, the post had a monstrous 359 “likes” and nearly 100 comments. Jose Sanchez said, “Woooooo OMG that shits gonna be on replay for months on end, I love you Zach Hill.” Richie Saldivar chimed in with, “Fuck...
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Impose Magazine Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez -...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Telesterion (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)
The uber-prolific ORL (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta) comes out of left field with this 2-CD 37-song compendium that draws from 17 albums. His canon includes more than 40 albums in a sixteen-year career! And defying all marketing logic he’s also releasing this as a 4-LP set (including an extra song!). In some ways, ORL is like a...
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Spin Features 2 Boris Tracks in Top 18 May Issue
Check out Spin Magazine’s newest feature in conjunction with Itunes. You can get Free Downloads of their pick of top 18 tracks from the May 2011 Issue. With our very own Boris having the top 2. Hope from the upcoming album Attention Please and Riot Sugar from their new Heavy Rocks album both out on May 24, 2011. - CLICK to go to Spin’s Itunes Page.
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My Old Kentucky Blog gets some Gypsyblood
Music makes for some twisted, codependent and abusive relationships. Lennon and McCartney. Jagger and Richards. Loggins and Messina. The list goes ever on. Longtime friends Adam James and Kyle Victor birthed Chicago’s Gypsyblood back in ‘09, not long after a huge throwdown between the two resulted in their previous project breaking up. But he swore he’d change!
Only time will tell whether or...
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Submerge Reveals The Truth.. It's Not A Rumor
Rumor has it local videographer Sean Stout of Terroreyes.tv is teaming up with Sargent House to become their “main video dude,” a gig he described to me as a sort of “dream job” outside the recent !!! show at Townhouse. Stout’s heading down to Los Angeles in May, and Nick Reinhart of esteemed Sacramento band Tera Melos (also signed to Sargent House) is apparently moving with him. Sargent...
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Death Grips - Lord of The Game
After dropping their first single, “Full Moon (Death Classic),” Sacramento hip hop-noise hybrid Death Grips (featuring Zach Hill) just posted a new video for “Lord of the Game.” VHS-driven visuals continue to dominate DG’s aesthetic; a grainy, tornado-like spiral scrambles night shots of city streets and night clubs. Like “Full Moon,” a multi-faceted...
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Remezcla Q&A : Zechs Marquise
Zechs Marquise is a prog-funk-jazz band from El Paso, Texas. Their album, Getting Paid (set to release this year) is their sophomore attempt. When I heard them last year, I felt instantly transported to 2004, Roseland Ballroom, where I was exposed to The Mars Volta and their energetic mix of funk, blues, jazz, and ambient noises for the first time. Soon after, I found out why there were so...
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Therapies Son Free Instore at Origami Vinyl...
Therapies Son will be performing a Free in store at Origami Vinyl in Echo Park, CA on April 21st at 7pm in celebration of the debut EP entitled Over The Sea available on 10” Vinyl on 4/16 as a Record Store Day release. Listen HERE
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Dirty Impound's 11 Bands To Watch In 2011
Le Butcherettes
The Slits, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and early PJ Harvey & Patti Smith all leap to mind when one presses play onSin Sin Sin, the terrific, befuzzed debut from Los Angeles-by-way-of-Guadalajara, Mexico’s Le Butcherettes (arriving May 10). But these references quickly fade to footnotes once one digs into their gutsy, bile-rich music – all skinned knuckles, dented hearts and battered...
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Tera Melos to Play Forbidden Fruit Festival -...
Tera Melos will be playing this years Forbidden Fruit Festival in Ireland on June 5th on the Lighthouse Stage that was curated by our very own brothers in arms The Richter Collective. What a Lineup. While over there Tera Melos will also be playing a number of UK shows and a few more in Ireland so keep an eye out for the announcement soon of venues, dates and opening bands for their June European...
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NPR Music Exclusive Preview: Le Butcherettes "...
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This week on All Songs Considered, we’ve got an exclusive premiere from a record whose origins date back five years, and whose inspirations go back decades more. Rome is a collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and film composer Daniele Luppi, whose shared love of classic Italian film music became the basis for an album that plays like a...
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MTV Iggy Album Review: Le Butcherettes Tear Garage...
Sin Sin Sin Le Butcherettes Release date: May 10, 2011 on Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Mexico City garage punks Le Butcherettes have debuted with Sin Sin Sin a slab of seductive and surreal rock that more than stands up to the mayhem of their live show.
Produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, the recording has an immediacy that makes the listener feel as if they are watching the duo’s blood...
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Whiteboard Project Band Of The Day: Therapies Son
Name : Therapies Son
Okay, we can all probably agree that we may have overdosed on lo-fi in the last year or so.
Bands jumped on the lo-fi wagon and rode it with gay abandon, to the extent that music reviewers eventually started to get a a bit perturbed by the lo-fi nation. However, used correctly, it is an effective method of music and todays Band Of The Day has it down. Alex Jacob records...
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Boris & Russian Circles Announce First Round of...
Russian Circles & Boris together on the same show makes it a gig you can’t miss. Both bands will be co-headlining a European tour together this Summer. Take a peep at just a few of the dates below. MORE SHOWS STILL TO BE ADDED. Stay tuned for updates
BORIS & RUSSIAN CIRCLES EUROPEAN SUMMER TOUR 2011 June 17 - Tilburg, Netherlands @ 013 Popcentrum June 18 - Brugge, Belgium @...
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Kindness Of Ravens Feature/Interview: Gypsyblood
Another band we kept hearing about during last month’s South by Southwest festival was Chicago’s Gypsyblood. The bandformed in 2009 and just released their debut full-length, Cold in the Guestway, which spans a range of sounds—all raw, all rough, and all undeniably appealing. One of our favorite tracks from the album, ”In Our Blood,” is this week’s Song of the Week....
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Teri Gender Bender / Le Butcherettes Talks Woman...
The reigning Mexican-American rock queen and 2010 Academy alum, Teri Gender Bender from Le Butcherettes, had a brief chat the other day with our news correspondent, James Pants, regarding her recent move to Los Angeles, her stage show, and her outlook on the female role in the male-dominated rock spectrum. Thus the story begins.
I’ve seen a lot in my day, but I do reckon that one of the more...
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Live REVIEW: pre-coachella party: !!! + zechs...
Marcel Rodriguez Lopez and Marfred Rodriguez Lopez of Zechs Marquise chop it up
The two bands playing Costs Mesa’s intimate, chic-grunge Detroit Bar Thursday night were big. Too big.
Too big for the stage they took, in sheer size, sound and force. Big enough to play Coachella too, to thousands of screaming fans. But on the Thursday night before Coachella weekend, I caught these two...
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Live From Coachella Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
Live from Coachella April 15, 2011 6 Live Videos of - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group
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Cowbell Magazine Reviews Boris' Heavy Rocks &...
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LA TIMES/Coachella 2011: Striking a pose with Omar...
No matter which psychedelic collective Omar Rodriguez-Lopez finds himself in, they all contain a few essential elements: blistering jams, howling Spanglish and spine-bending dance moves. It certainly seemed to be the case during their 45-minute sonic tirade at the Gobi Tent. Joined by vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala, the founders of the Mars Volta ignited Coachella fans with a barrage of...
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Flab Mag: Q&A/ Zechs Marquise’s Marfred Rodriguez...
Zechs Marquise - April 12, 2011, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco Check out more photos and video on FLABmag’s FLickr Page The Omar Rodriguez-Lopez group played the GAMH along with opening act, Zechs Marquise, a band that is comprised primarily of Rodriguez-Lopez men. Marfred, Marcel and Rico, along with El Paso friends, Marcos and Matt took the stage to an outpouring of genial...
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The Rathaus Review: Gypsyblood "Cold In The...
The music of Chicago’s Gypsyblood has been compared to Pavement, Guided by Voices, Dinosaur Jr., Throwing Muses, Archers of Loaf and dozens of other 90′s alternative bands. To me those comparisons are flat out lazy. I’ll admit certain elements of the early to mid 90′s (sludgy guitar riffs, strained vocals, brooding lyrics) vaguely hover around Gypsyblood’s latest LP Cold in the Guestway;...
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Remezcla Q&A : Omar Rodriguez Lopez
If Omar Rodríguez López never wants to talk to me ever again, I completely understand. Not because I offended him or because he’s some prog-rock heady diva, not at all. He’d be prone to try and forget my existence because he might think I’m going to go all Misery on him. Admittedly, I’m a fan. Admittedly, The Mars Volta’s De-Loused in the Comatorium is one of the reasons this little San Juan...
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COS Reviews: Gypsyblood/Cold In The Guestway
Chicago is, in my humble opinion, one of the best cities for truly creative work. Granted, I am bias since it’s where I call my home, and also where I’m involved in the arts, but when it comes solid music, theater, and art, Chicago is where it’s at. Other cities have a lot of creative people doing creative things, but Chicago artists seem to still have a strong foothold in reality. There’s a...
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Sick Of The Radio Recommends Therapies Son/ Record...
Therapies Son: Touching Down
Therapies Son - Touching Down you and me in the echo
I had definitely reached that point in the season when I was pretty much sick of every single thing on my iPod. Even shuffle wasn’t bringing up any gems, so it was a real relief when I clicked on Therapies Son bandcamp and was hit with a wave of goodness via “Touching Down”. With shades of Air coming...
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Deantoni Parks Starring in Sympathy For Delicious...
Look at Deantoni Parks all up in this Movie Sympathy For Delicious. Directed by Mark Ruffalo, with Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis & Laura Linney. Featuring a song by The Mars Volta members Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala & Deantoni Parks. In Theaters on 4/29.
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Adebisi Shank Announce Some Shows & Festival Plays
Adebisi Shank will be playing some headline shows in May along with making an appearance at Pig Stock Festival. Then they will be heading over to Canada to play Sled Island Island Fest then a West Coast week of shows in the USA at the end of June 2011. In September they are booked to perform at Ireland’s Electric Picnic. More Details on the USA shows to come and might also have a few...
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Subba-Cultcha Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez 's...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’ solo and collaborative efforts are often fiendishly difficult to gauge. They’re also awkward to review. Freewheeling, spontaneous, and utterly distinctive, Rodriguez-Lopez’ records tend to elicit a broad range of interpretations and verdicts, from ‘off the wall genius’ to ‘unexplainable mess’, and the wealth of such material to date (25 solo albums… for now) can make...
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RX Bandits Announce Summer Tour will be the Last.
It is with an incredible sadness that I relay this news. The band that started it all for me and who were so instrumental in the creation of what has now become Sargent House. The one, the only, the great loves of my musical life, RX Bandits have decided that this Summer’s US tour will be their last together. It is so hard for me to fathom that it I will not be able to witness one of the...
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The Scenestar Features - Le Butcherettes May 11th...
Le Butcherettes Headline The Bootleg Theater
One of our favorite new artists has added a headlining date! Le Butcherettes recently showcased their amazing live show at SXSW and has an opening slot with Deftones at the Hollywood Palladium in June, which is already SOLD OUT. Now you can see them play a record release party for their newest release, Sin Sin Sin, when Le Butcherettes play at...
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Loud Loop Press Review: Gypsyblood "Cold In The...
For a debut record, Gypsyblood‘s Cold In The Guestway seems to, no pun intended, hit all the right notes. Elements of ragged guitar rockery and noisy bedroom pop are tightly weaved together on Cold In The Guestway. And yet perhaps the band’s biggest accomplishment is that the record, while it does at times throwback to the early 90′s alternative-rock-era, doesn’t sound angsty or take itself...
