September 2011
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Happy Birthday Marcel Rodriguez Lopez
Happy Birthday today to Chino, you incredibly talented thing you! I thank you for the beautiful gift you and your Zechs Marquise brothers made to help us all in Getting Paid. I hope you have a great one - we all love you so much over at the house. XO - CP
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Rolling Stone Premiere's Mladek from Russian...
Russian Circles “Empros” available everywhere on October 25, 2011 on Sargent House.
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Birp Finds Gypsyblood - The El Cid Interview
Don’t Trust Your GPS In The Southern Appalachian Mountains: an Interview with Gypsyblood - By Ryan Donar
Waiting outside of El Cid II; an out-of-place Mexican restaurant in the heart of Logan Square beside a comic book store that I promised myself not to go into. It’s about 6:50 p.m. when I look at the clock on my phone (early to a 7:00 p.m. meeting time of course, but only to make sure I got...
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Zechs Marquise & Native Announce Tour with...
Two of our bands, Zechs Marquise and Native will be touring with Thursday and Maylene And The Sons of Disaster this winter. Don’t miss our boys when they roll through. Thursday, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, Zechs Marquise, Native Shows Nov 23 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza Nov 25 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House Nov 26 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar // Early show Big Lineup Nov 27 -...
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Los Angeles Times Featured Show Pick - Zechs...
Thrusting listeners into chase scenes through psychedelic dreamscapes is nothing new for El Paso prog rock instrumentalists Zechs Marquise. However, the major difference on their latest album, “Getting Paid” (out Tuesday on Rodriguez Lopez Productions via Sargent House), isn’t the fear of being chased, but of what’s running up behind you.
Through the incorporation of boom bap...
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SSG Music Concert Review | First Encounter with...
Probably the best way to see the Flaming Lips live is to go into the whole thing having no idea who they are or what their music sounds like. I only decided to go because I was intrigued by their openers, Le Butcherettes, and I had no idea what sort of craziness waited in that theater.
Somehow the Lips had evaded my radar. Le Butcherettes crept onto the screen after seeing an internet video of...
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Zechs Marquise "Getting Paid" Out Today - Full...
ZECHS MARQUISE - Getting Paid - out today! September 27, 2011
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Getting Paid: An Interview with Marfred...
(l - r) Marcos Smith, Matthew Wilkson, Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez, Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez and Rikardo Rodriguez-Lopez
Imagine a soundtrack for a blaxploitation film starring Shaft in outer space and you’ll have an idea of what Zechs Marquise’s second album, Getting Paid, sounds like. The album is a harder, funkier successor to the group’s full-length debut Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare,...
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Remezcla Reviews: Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid
Puerto Rico via El Paso, Texas’ prog/psychedelic ensemble, Zechs Marquise, can be considered to be a musical family affair, as three of the members of the band, Marcel, Marfred, and Rikardo Rodríguez-Lópezare brothers, also sharing the same surname and blood line with the strongly influential member of The Mars Volta, Omar Rodríguez-Lopez.
The El Paso-based band, which formed in 2004, have...
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BeatCast Live Studio Session w/ Tera Melos
Tera Melos stopped by to record a session with BeatCast during their busy summer touring schedule, which has seen them play across Europe and the US, including shows with Sargent House labels mates Le Bucherettes and Adebisi Shank. They very kindly ventured into the wilds of the english countryside with us to our friends at Coach Road Studios where we recorded a few songs. See here ‘Frozen Zoo’...
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Popthomology Live Review & Photos: Le Butcherettes...
Click to see All Photos After a short time pleasantly spent goofing around at the fair midway after we arrived in Puyallup, it was time to head into the Grandstand for openers Le Butcherettes, an L.A.-based garage-punk trio formed originally in Guadalajara, Mexico. Having previewed their album, Sin Sin Sin, I knew I would dig them but was unprepared for just how mindblowing their live show was....
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Zechs Marquise Cover Story / Fusion Magazine
Thanks to Fusion Magazine for such a sexy Cover and feature story on Zechs Marquise. Page 8 Enlarge Page 9 Enlarge
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Fang Island Remixes The Joy Formidable "Cradle"...
Welsh shoegaze bashers the Joy Formidable’s debut LP, The Big Roar, dropped earlier this year via Atlantic and Canvasback; now, maximalist math-rockers Fang Island have done up an expectedly zany remix to The Big Roar cut “Cradle”. DL: The Joy Formidable: “Cradle (Fang Island Remix)”
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Sacramento Press / Le Butcherettes / Harlow's Live...
Scanning the Harlow’s crowd an hour or so before Le Butcherettes were slated for the stage, you would have found lead singer Terri Gender Bender leaning against a large pillar, her small foot tapping in rhythm with the hard drumming coming from Diciembre Gris, the second opener.
This small metronome action would have been the only outgoing behavior exhibited by Terri, who, off stage, seems...
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This Town Needs Guns Acoustic
This Town Needs Guns recorded an acoustic song at home today and we think it’s a beauty and worth sharing with everyone, so here it is put to some random clips from the lads cameras. 7” Pre-Order details coming soon. New Album is being recorded soon! Spring 2012 Release on Sargent House, we can’t wait. (No, It’s not an acoustic album, but we might need to have them do...
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Russian Circles Live in Richmond Australia
Russian Circles live from Richmond, Australia at the Corner on September 8th 2011 Thanks to Carbie Warbie for sharing it.
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Native's Wrestling Moves - Pre Order Vinyl
Native ‘s Wrestling Moves is now on Vinyl and available for Pre-Order through our friends at Topshelf Records
First pressing is of 500 split between 100 Clear w/ Orange Splatter, 150 Maroon, and 250 Black. This item includes a copy of the album on vinyl and will come with a download card. - Orders will ship in October. Click HERE for more info
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Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Productions - YOU...
You know us over at Sargent House and Rodriguez Lopez Productions, we like to turn people onto music, and we like to thank the people that support us and all our bands over here. So every once in a while, when we are feeling frisky, grateful, bored, happy - whatever we like to give away FREE downloads to our albums so that you can try something NEW, or so that you can finally get that album you...
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Alarm Magazine Premiere: Zechs Marquise "Static...
Zechs Marquise Getting Paid (Rodriguez Lopez / Sargent House out on 9/27/11) STREAM “STATIC LOVERS”
El Paso-based psych-prog five-piece Zechs Marquise is set to release its sophomore album, Getting Paid, on September 27. The band is three-fifths Rodriguez Lopez — brothers Marcel, Rikardo, and Marfred — a surname that gained music-industry clout from Omar, the prolific Mars...
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Mike Watt Drops Mad House on His Radio Show...
Mike Watt is one of my absolutely favorite humans alive. Not only is he one of the most amazing bass men out there, he’s an incredible Uncle to, and a great inspiration to the children of my house. His support means so much to me and so imagine my glee at seeing his radio playlist this week after receiving my little box of Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Goodies I sent him. Well Mike went...
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Behind The Hype : Zechs Marquise / Getting Paid...
Zechs Marquise had me at hello, being named after one of the most gangster anime characters of all time. From El Paso, Texas, ZM carries the banner of ‘sister band’ to the mighty The Mars Volta. Hell, three of the members are siblings to Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, with Marcel performing double duty of percussion with the Mars Volta. Signing with Sargent House a few years ago, ZM is...
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Zechs Marquise "Getting Paid" Vinyl Arrives /...
Zechs Marquise receive their first boxes of “Getting Paid” Double 12” Vinyl. It’s like Christmas in September. To order VINYL or CD click here. Vinyl comes with Free Download card and 3 Bonus Remixes. All pre-orders will ship out early and will arrive before release day on September 27, 2011. Will also be available on all the tour dates going forward. TOUR
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Gypsyblood Live / AudioTree
Thanks to Audiotree Live in Chicago for having Gypsyblood in for a great live session playing songs from their album Cold In The Guestway and hear their answers to some interesting questions. Click the picture to listen to the session and interview.
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Flab Mag: Tera Melos don’t stop and don’t quit...
Maps & Atlases with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos / Photo: Maria Colòn
Tera Melos hasn’t exactly been on hiatus this summer. They’ve headlined a mini West Coast tour with label mates Adebisi Shank and Le Butcherettes, and there have been surprise appearances by Nick Reinhart – most recently performing a rousing encore with Maps & Atlases at Ace of Spades in Sacramento (see image).
But...
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All Music Guide Review: Zechs Marquise 's Getting...
At the Drive-In / The Mars Volta guitarist and musical auteur Omar Rodriguez-Lopez doesn’t contribute to this sophomore album by the band led by his brothers Marfred on bass and drummer/keyboardist Marcel (other brother Rikardo joined after this recording was complete) — but he green lit it for his label. The predominantly instrumental set is a jittery and expertly produced...
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Remezcla Premiere / Free DL: Zechs Marquise...
The music project of Texas-bred psych prog rockers Zechs Marquise is the dubsteppier music derivative of the other prog rockers, The Mars Volta. Yep, the El Paso siblings who share the Rodriguez-Lopez for a last name, along with their childhood friends, spring off to form dope bands and rock our eardrums hard oscillating among at ease, to violent and ecstatic, and spaced-out rock music. Since...
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May We Introduce You To Gypsyblood? FREE Album DL
If Error shows up click refresh In 2006, I was introduced to a band by Dave Davison of Maps & Atlases out of Chicago called Karma with A K. I fell deeply and madly in love with them. They never even got around to releasing an album before they disbanded. I was so sad when I heard they called it quits without ever having really left Chicago. But I kept dibs on the boys of the Karma unit...
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Big Sir Announce More Shows!
Big Sir will be playing a few shows on the West Coast to debut new songs from their upcoming album along with some classics. Kicking it all off on September 30th at the Bootleg in Los Angeles will be Juan Alderete, Lisa Papineau and Cedric Bixler Zavala in the line up for that show. Make sure to come support and hear the incredible new songs. We can’t wait! GET ADVANCE TIX for LA. Below...
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The AV Club Interviews: Dave & Erin of Maps &...
Dave Davison and Erin Elders The band members discuss their biggest influences
Maps & Atlases formed in 2004 at Columbia College, and soon gained notoriety for their frenetic musicality, impressionistic lyrics, and lead singer Dave Davison’s unique vocals. The band’s experimental math rock-influenced sound gave way to a less abrasive folk approach on its debut full-length, Perch...
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Le Butcherettes Tour Updates Sept, Nov & Dec 2011
Le Butcherettes have added a bunch of new shows to their schedule they will be headling some in between their jaunts with The Flaming Lips in September and heading to the East Coast for a few right before their play at the Fun Fun Fun Festival in Austin. Also announced are the rescheduled dates for the postponed September shows with Iggy & The Stooges new dates are now in December, with no...
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Zechs Marquise Announce Album Release Shows -...
Zechs Marquise will be playing a few shows in support of their new release “Getting Paid” available everywhere on September 27th via Rodriguez Lopez Productions.
They will have both the CD and the double Vinyl early and will be selling them at the shows. If you can’t make it out you can order them from our STORE. Look out for more Fall tour dates to be announced soon. Oh and did you see...
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Tera Melos First Album Issued on Vinyl for The...
Sargent House is happy to announce the first ever pressing on vinyl of the very first ever album by Tera Melos. It never had a name, it’s often referred to as The Melody’s , Untitled or Tera Melos but none of those are actually its name it simply does not have one. We are now taking Pre-Orders for this first run of 1,000 in Clear Vinyl w/ free Download card for full album. We are also...
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Total Guitar - Feature on Mike Sullivan of Russian...
Click to View Online Story - Issue 218 - September 2011 - starts page 76 Total Bad Ass.
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Adebisi Shank Live from Electric Picnic
Adebisi Shank make all picnics fun. Thanks Cock And Bull TV for the visuals of our lovely lads at Electric Picnic.
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Russian Circles Live in Richmond Australia
Thanks Carbie Warbie for the video of Russian Circles in Australia (starts in around 1:44) I Can’t wait for the new album Empros to be out! It’s so amazing, dare I say best…
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Track By Track with Tera Melos "Patagonian Rats"
A Terroreyes TV Exclusive
“Behind Patagonian Rats” Interview by Bobby Markos (of Native)
When an album is released, it is picked and prodded at by critics and fans alike. The songs are played over and over and read at their face value. But often times, we as listeners forget that there is another dimension to an album: the mind and timeline that went into creating it. Tera...
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Wishing Iggy Pop a Speedy Recovery. Shows...
Sadly, the shows with Le Butcherettes in September with Iggy and The Stooges have to be rescheduled Due to Iggy Pop’s injury sustained during The Stooges’ Aug 27th headline appearance in Romania, the band is forced to postpone their upcoming US shows.
After several days of rest at home the need for medical attention became apparent. Dr. Frank Smith of the Cayman Orthopedic Group has...
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Irish Times Thumbs Up Adebisi Shank At Electric...
Review: Adebisi Shank, Cosby Stage
Atmosphere: A hugely appreciative crowd gather in the smallish Cosby tent in anticipation of entering the wind machine simulator that is Adebisi Shank live.
High: Vinny giving his bass guitar away to someone in the front row at the end of the gig much to everyone’s astonishment. Low: The feeling that this gig would have been better placed...
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Russian Circles Head to Australia & New Zealand -...
Russian Circles will be headlining their first Tour in Australia and co-headlining two shows in New Zealand with Jakob in September 2011 Presented by Heathen Skulls please always check with venues for details of door times and ticket info. (Please note the previously announced Melbourne show on the 16th listed on the poster has changed to St Kilda - see in dates below). They have also added an...
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ZACH HILL ALL MONTH SALE! Check It
In honor of our love of all things Zach Hill we thought it appropriate to share his bounty. So we made a Vinyl and CD deal so you can have all three of the releases Sargent House has put out of his for a mighty fine price! All this month we will have the Zach Hill Ultimate bundles in Effect!
Featuring Hella - Tripper ( The New Album from Hella! Zach Hill & Spencer Seim) Zach Hill - Face Tat...
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This Town Needs Guns 7" Album Art & News
We are delighted to announce the upcoming This Town Needs Guns 7” release. It has two tracks, the last recordings that will have Stu on vocals. We will be releasing it digitally everywhere on October 11, 2011 and will be taking pre-orders for this limited edition 7” vinyl soon! You will be able to download the tracks right away when you pre-order starting on or around October 1st. ...
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Happy Birthday Omar
Happy Birthday to my friend, partner and continual inspiration Omar Rodriguez Lopez. It’s been great to have someone in my world that shares my love of creative freedom. Ain’t no mountain high enough I wouldn’t climb for you and it’s been an honor and a pleasure to help you share all those drops in that bucket of yours. Keep creating. Much love. XOXO - CP
