March 2012
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Good Old War Full Album Stream Up Now!
Good Old War and Sargent House are hosting the full album stream of Come Back As Rain a week early over at Goodoldwar.com . Just click and go take a listen and share it with your friends. We hope you like it! Out everywhere on March 6, 2012
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Good Old War: WXPN and NPR Music Broadcast... →
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Hear a Live Friday Concert by Good Old War and Jesse Baylin at 12noon ET 9am PST from WXPN and NPR Music Broadcast live this Friday March 2nd from the stage at World Cafe Live Known for their lively and inspiring on-stage performances, Good Old War will be at World Cafe Live for this week’s Free at Noon. Come here from their latest, “Come Back As Rain,” and start the...
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Brooklyn Vegan: Show Pick -Gypsyblood on March 2nd...
Gypsyblood & Heavy Times to play a Lake Forest chapel
Chicago bands Gypsyblood and Heavy Times are set to play a FREE show this Friday (March 2), at the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel on the campus of Lake Forest College. The event is being presented by the school’s WMXM radio (89.9 FM) and seems to be open to the public.
In related (and unfortunate) news, Gypsyblood’s van...
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Guitar Player Interview with Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar Rodriguez Lopez keeps his creative throttle set to interstellar overdrive. He doesn’t bask in the achievements of his previous band, At the Drive-In, his ten-years-and-counting blockbuster The Mars Volta, his production company, or any of his myriad film scores or solo releases. Rodriguez Lopez is always fully engaged, generating off-balance riffs, cosmically effected tones, and...
February 2012
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Good Old War In Studio Video Interview - Come Back...
Good Old War take us through the making of Come Back As Rain, their latest album while recording in Omaha at ARC Studios. Come Back As Rain will be released on CD/VINYL and Digitally in North America on March 6th 2012 via Sargent House. And don’t miss them on their Headlining US/Canadian tour and SXSW this March / April ALL DATES HERE
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Deafheaven - "Violet" Live From Amsterdam
Deafheaven “Violet” comes in at 5:10, live video from their sold out show in Amsterdam on February 17, 2012.
featuring: Fire Walk With Us (NL), Hierophant (IT), and Deafheaven (US) Songs:
Miles Alike, by Fire Walk With Us.
Abissus Abissum Invocat, by Hierophant.
Violet, by Deafheaven at 5:10 minutes
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RIP Bill Hicks - A Loving Tribute by Chelsea Wolfe
He’s one of the rare ones.. the ones that look the darkness of reality in the eye.. the ones that can sum up what you already knew, or already felt, in such eloquent words that it fucks with your emotions. When you hear him yell, “play from your fucking heart!” it’s the only thing that matters, and you want to go point a gun at your head onstage to honor that. -Chelsea Wolfe Chelsea and I...
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And So I Watch You From Afar Video Interview &...
45 Sound caught up with Rory Friers of And So I Watch You From Afar just after they played at The Music Show in Dublin’s RDS. Here he talks about how their recent tour of Russia, Ukraine & Belarus went, and also how the band are looking forward to traveling to Texas in two weeks for South By Southwest. We can’t wait to have the lads on our official Sargent House / 1656 Music...
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Chelsea Wolfe joins the Sargent House Family
It is with great pleasure and joy to announce that Chelsea Wolfe is now being managed by Cathy Pellow via Sargent House. She is an extraordinary talent and we are so happy to have her and her band join our family. She will be playing the Sargent House / 1656 Music official SXSW Showcase on March 16th at Bat Bar. She will also be playing at Amoeba in Los Angeles on March 5th and at the Eagle Rock...
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Tera Melos In The Studio Episode #1 "Click Track"
Tera Melos decide to try a click track…. Let’s see what happens
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Los Angeles Times Feature: Big Sir talks about...
During 12 years of sonic partnership, vocalist Lisa Papineau and bassist Juan Alderete’s mesh of meditative lyrics, electro-inflected boom-bap and prog-jazz has combined fury and philosophy in a way that doesn’t have to shout to be heard.
Formed in 1999, their band, Big Sir, brought together the operatic tone of Alderete’s fretless bass with Papineau’s penchant for...
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And So I Watch You From Afar to Play The Music...
Stay tuned for an in-depth interview on the technical side of ASIWYFA in a future issue of Hot Press. For a taste of what’s in store from the guys at The Music Show, check out this amazing full set from the band’s Moscow gig last week:
Having just returned from a grueling two-week jaunt across Russia that saw them packing out houses left, right and center, instrumental geniuses And So I...
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Relix Magazine Feature: Good Old War in the March...
Good Old War are featured in the March 2012 issue of Relix Magazine. Click photo to enlarge.
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Deafheaven to play Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Day...
Brandon Stosuy’s Show No Mercy metal column is throwing a blowout at ND Studios on Wednesday, March 14. It features Rwake, the Atlas Moth, Black Tusk, Deafheaven, Pallbearer, KEN mode, Pilgrim, and Mutilation Rites, with visual projections by Recspec. The party will be free of charge and open to the public. Below, find full event details, and stay tuned for set times.
The Show No Mercy...
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Meet Eureka The Butcher: Low End Theory’s Man in...
Née: Marcel Rodríguez-Lopez Raíces: El Paso, TX Sounds Like: Is psychedelic desert-dub a genre? You should listen to Eureka The Butcher because: There aren’t enough sick beats in your life. By Ivan Fernandez
I’m pretty sure that you, dear readers, are familiar with the Rodriguez-Lopez family of musicians so, when I inform you that Eureka The Butcher is Marcel’s production moniker, you...
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Tera Melos Give Us 40 Rods To The Hogs Head...
Tera Melos performing their classic track 40 Rods To The Hogs Head live for the Beat Cast / Coach Road Sessions in the UK.
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Deafheaven announce they will stay on tour...
Deafheaven, currently selling out their first headline European tour have just announced they will be heading back there with an additional 6 weeks of European touring in April and May with Russian Circles. But first they will be playing shows down to SXSW with new Red Sparowes off shoot band Marriages and Nick Bassett ( the touring Guitar player in Deafheaven’s) main band Whirr. While in...
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Marriages premiere first track, announce Vinyl &...
Red Sparowes offshoot band Marriages premiere the first song from their forthcoming debut. The track “Ten Tiny Fingers” is culled from their new recording, Kitsune and is available to download/stream HERE. Watch a video teaser for Kitsune featuring the band at work in the studio HERE.
Marriages also take to the road in March with dates supporting SF black metal faves Deafheaven and...
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Eureka The Butcher Drops Another Video Cut / 2...
Eureka The Butcher the electronica project of Marcel Rodriguez Lopez (Zechs Marquise, The Mars Volta) is in Los Angeles and he’s about to bring it live featuring Sadah Luna. Don’t miss the west coast shows. EUREKA THE BUTCHER feat Sadah Luna Feb 20 - Hollywood, CA @ Harvard & Stone - FREE SHOW 21+ w/ Big Sir, Gregory Rogove & Devendra Banhart DJ’ing. Doors 9pm Feb 22...
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CoS Premiere: Good Old War Track "Can't Go Home"
Indie-folk trio Good Old War came together after the demise of prog-rock outfit Days Away, of which co-founders Tim Arnold (Old) and Keith Goodwin (Good) were members. Having already released two LPs, the last of which was 2010′s self-titled effort, they’ll return on March 6th with their third album, Come Back as Rain, via Sargent House.
Recorded in Mike Mogis’ Nebraska studio with...
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Marriages Premiere of New Track and In Studio...
Marriages is a trio made up of Dave Clifford, Greg Burns and Emma Ruth Rundle, all of whom are also in post-rock quintet Red Sparowes. Though both acts are signed to Sargent House—and though Clifford has played with Rundle as part of the Nocturnes—these musicians have found, in the face of their own proximity, a degree of fresh sound together.
“Ten Tiny Fingers” is...
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Read the Rules of the Game: 100 Free Albums for...
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 today only, Monday 2/20 in honor of Presidents Day we will be giving away up to 100 FREE downloads of any of our albums so that you can try something NEW, or so that you can finally get that album you wanted but have...
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Alternative Matter Review: Russian Circles...
Chicago trio Russian Circles continue their steady ascent with their fourth album “Empros”. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed “Geneva” doesn’t stray far from their blueprint with opener “309″ barking into life revealing familiar refrains and stark, ominous echoes. With so many bands today overproducing the life out of every single note, this resonates with a rich tone that is...
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Adebisi Shank to Play Mexico & Luxemborg - March...
Adebisi Shank will be playing one show in Guadalajara Mexico on March 15th. and on March 31, 2012 they will play in the Out Of The Crowd Festival at Kulturfabrik in Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxemborg. Check out the Teaser below.
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Tera Melos Announce UK/Ireland Dates of Upcoming...
Tera Melos will be heading overseas in May to headline a massive UK/EU tour after playing some of the April re-union shows with legendary fIREHOSE in the states. Below are the UK and Ireland shows of the tour only. We will be announcing the rest of the tour dates soon, just finishing up the last few. But we can say they will be hitting France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany and more - stay...
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Sound Colour Vibration Incredible Review: Big...
Rodriguez Lopez Productions and Sargent House have been expanding on dozens of releases over the last few years with the plethora of artists that exists between the two. Connected at the heart by Cathy Pellow, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and many others, this is a movement of sound and vision that is gaining considerable reputation as progressive minds are evolving even further from their origins....
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The Irish Times' Una Mullaley reports back from...
… all over Russia, actually. Belfast band And So I Watch You From Afar have a devoted fanbase in the land of Putin. Braving snowdrifts and sub-zero temperatures, UNA MULLALLY joins them on the road
‘WE NEEDED THIS. We needed this.” A young Russian man at a metal club in Penza, 400 miles southeast of Moscow, is emphatically explaining to And So I Watch You From Afar what it means...
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I am seriously obsessed with Chelsea Wolfe
I am obsessed with Chelsea Wolfe . Check out these beautiful live sessions courtesy of Room 205. Seriously, damn.
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Deafheaven & Marriages tour down to SXSW together...
Deafheaven will be playing some shows with Marriages on the way to SXSW also joining them will be Whirr. The full SXSW schedule for Deafheaven and Marriages will be released in the coming days, for now we can confirm that both bands will be playing the official Sargent House show on Friday night, March 16th. DEAFHEAVEN, WHIRR & MARRIAGES 03/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell w/ DNF, Whirr...
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Tera Melos Announce shows with fIREHOSE
Tera Melos will be playing the Pre-Coachella April shows of newly re-united fIREHOSE. That completely rules. You all know how we feel about Mike Watt and everything he does. He is family to us and so that just makes this pairing all the more beautiful. Stay tuned for more Tera Melos Tour news we will be announcing their 40 date European Tour soon and if that’s not enough they are also in...
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Premier Guitar's : What Are You Listening To?...
Zechs Marquise’s Getting Paid on the turntables over at Premier Guitar, nice one.
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Happy Valentines Day from Gypsyblood
In honor of Valentines Day, Gypsyblood has unleashed two Free tracks, a b-side and an alternative slow groove version of their track In Our Veins - Free for download, for lovers only …..
<a href=”http://gypsyblood.bandcamp.com/album/gypsyblood-valentines-day”...
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Verbicide Magazine Interview w/ Teri of Le...
It’s safe to assume there are myriad performers in the world that are products of a neighborhood where feeling safe was never an option. For most of them, though, music (or any form of art) was seen by the community as a gift. However, in the case of Teri Gender Bender (real name Teresa Suaréz), who grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, the notion of a female speaking her mind through music were...
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Big Sir Announce EU/UK Tour and Two dates in...
Big Sir — the longtime collaboration between singer/composer Lisa Papineau and bassist/composer Juan Alderete (The Mars Volta) - announce Spring 2012 EU and UK headlining tour dates in support of their forthcoming new album, Before Gardens After Gardens coming out on February 7th. Please see complete dates below. In anticipation of this new release, Prefix Mag just premiered another new...
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MTVU Interview w/ Tim Arnold from Good Old War
1. Tell us about your craziest touring experience? I’d say my craziest touring experience was in our previous band, Days Away. Our keyboard player bit me in a drunken brawl and I almost died/lost my thumb a week later. True story.
2. What type of college class would you’d most want to take and why? Astronomy. I love the sky.
3. What city in America is the most fun to visit and why? I always...
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New Track from The Mars Volta - Listen to "The...
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The first track, “The Malkin Jewel” from the upcoming album Noctourniquet by The Mars Volta is now streaming in full HERE . Instant download when you Pre-order the album, out on March 27, 2012. Vinyl will be released on Rodriguez Lopez Productions - release date is to be announced.
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Good Old War record Daytrotter Session
Good Old War stopped by Rock Island to record a Daytrotter session. Can’t wait to hear it!
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Boris to Tour in Australia & New Zealand - March...
Boris will be playing the following shows in Australia & New Zealand in March 2012. BORIS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 2012 March 20 - Perth, AU @ The Bakery March 22 - Sydney, AU @ Metro Theater March 23 - Brisbane, AU @ The Hi-Fi March 24 - Melbourne, AU @ Corner Hotel March 27 - Wellington, NZ @ Bodega March 28 - Auckland, NZ @ The Kings Arms Tavern
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State Magazine and New Noise present: The Sargent...
Sargent House are the label / management company in charge of bringing And So I Watch You From Afar and Adebisi Shank to North America and for their first podcast, Ireland’s Niamh Hegarty is at the helm to return the favour by introducing some of Sargent’s roster in return.
The focus is on Sargent House’s SXSW showcase next month but has music from a few of bands off their...
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This track is so banging I had to leak it myself...
Sorry could not hold it in. Because the new Deantoni Parks album coming on RLP is so banging. Here is a track from it called “Make My Day”.
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Boris rocks for Nintendo Japan
Boris scores with Nintendo. Check out this crazy Japanese video game promo music by Boris.
Dan from Good Old War goes Metal Banjo
Good Old War Dan was staying at Sargent House and Cathy likes to make bands play. So here are some of the banjo metal riffs she asked of Dan …
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SYFFAL: Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid - 10 Star...
You ever heard what a bass sounds like when it’s trying to gnaw at your fucking ears?
You ever heard a guitar and keys riff on the same riff at the same fucking time and have the riff turn into this head nodding, neck yanking riff that ends up combining the entire band together on one riff so that when the guitar that was once riffing turns around and just fucking murders a riffy...
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I Paint My Mind: Big Sir – Before Gardens After...
Big Sir is a collaboration between kindred spirits – two people who’s interests, skill, and acumen converge in an incredible melding of aesthetics. They include trip hop & down tempo with rhythms that sometimes break out, bass lines that bring you with them, and dust it all with some of the most heart-tingling vocals you’ll ever hear. Big Sir is of course Juan Alderete (Racer X, The Mars...
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IFC Track Premiere: Good Old War's "It Hurts Every...
Philly threesome, Good Old War, collecting ever more fans and accolades since their Coachella appearance last year, will be releasing their third album “Come Back As Rain,” March 6th on Sargent House. The band, which gets it’s name not from Bush era foreign policy, but from he member’s last names (Goodwin, Arnold and Schwartz) recorded outside their hometown this time with producer Jason Cupp...
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Rolling Stone Premiere Download: "Winter" the...
Yeah! Can’t wait for the new Maps & Atlases album coming out on Barsuk on April 17th, I’ve heard it and it’s fantastic! Check out their first new track above. That Dave Davison sure can write sweet songs.
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Indian Handcrafts to Play March 22nd at Canadian...
Indian Handcrafts will be playing a show at CMF on March 22, 2012 at Lee’s Palace as part of the The Buzz Factor Series - TICKETS 19+
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Behind the Hype Review: Big Sir's Before Gardens...
With over two dozen play throughs over the past couple weeks, my first album submission of the year puts me on a good note. Big Sir’s latest album, Before Gardens After Gardens, is their first LP in many a year. Comprised of the beautiful songstress Lisa Papineau (known for her work with Air and M83) and legendary The Mars Volta bassist Juan Alderete, Big Sir is a staple of the Sargent...
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LA WEEKLY Feature: Big Sir
Big Sir Had Serious Health Scares. So They Made an Album About Life and Death
Six years after the members of Big Sir were forced to confront their mortality head-on, singer-composer Lisa Papineau and bassist Juan Alderete are back with their third album of jazz-prog-electronic jams, Before Gardens, After Gardens.
Right around the time they were finishing their last album Und Die Scheiße...
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Sound Colour Vibration Interview: Deafheaven
San Francisco’s Deafheaven is a band that unlike many, has catapulted into the public consciousness in a way that few can claim experience with. George Clarke and guitar player Kerry McCoy formed the group in 2010 with a self produced, recorded and released demo. Adding in three additional musicians with second guitar player Nick Bassett, bassist Derek Prine and drummer Trevor Deschryver to...