April 2012
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Indian Handcrafts Live On The Verge Radio Tomorrow...
Indian Handcrafts live session airs - Tomorrow April 25th on LiVE@TheVerge. 6am/pm ET - 3am/pm PT
The Verge XM channel 151 is a channel on XM Canada that specializes in new and emerging music and is heard across North America via Satellite and throughout the rest of the world via the Internet. All LiVE@TheVerge sessions are recorded at the Verge Music Lab. For more info hit up...
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This Town Needs Guns: Headlining European Tour...
This Town Needs Guns begin their European tour on Tuesday, April 24th in the Netherlands. Don’t miss them when they roll through your city. Click HERE For details on each show. THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS SPRING 2012 Apr 24, 2012 - Enschede, OV (NL) @ The Loch Apr 25, 2012 - Antwerpen, (BE) @ JC Den Eglantier Apr 26, 2012 - Den Haag, (NL) @ 330 Live Apr 27, 2012 - Paris, (FR) @ Espace B Apr...
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Live4Ever Interview: And So I Watch You From Afar...
Back in the USSR, they don’t know how lucky they are; in the midst of a typically hot and humid South By Southwest festival in Texas, And So I Watch You From Afar are looking back on an ever so slightly cooler environment when they last visited Russia for a tour which nonetheless proved to be hotter than they could ever have imagined. “It was like -25c, really harsh conditions, so the daytimes...
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Rolling Stone: Interviews Omar Rodriguez Lopez On...
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Teri Gender Bender & Lia Braswell of Le Butcherettes in their trailer at Coachella. Inside a small trailer backstage at Coachella yesterday, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez was trying to cool down after his first performance of the day, and the dressing room wasn’t much cooler than the triple-digit heat outside. Rodriguez-Lopez pulled double duty on both festival weekends...
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Venue One: Video Chit Chat with And So I Watch You...
And So I Watch You From Afar have a little chat with Venue One while in Austin at this years SXSW Festival. You can see a ton of other live videos of ASIWYFA courtesy of VenueOne.com HERE
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Toystereo: Live Review of Chelsea Wolfe at Old...
I was first exposed to Chelsea Wolfe through her most recent album, Apokalypsis, and haunting, driving and addictive as it was, readily snapped up tickets to her show in the loveable Old Blue Last at the first opportunity. Given how powerful her recorded work is, I was expecting a lot - and wasn’t disappointed. The band’s sound completely submerged the cosy space, and any worries...
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MARRIAGES : Violitionist Sessions // 3 Questions...
3 QUESTIONS ONE: Could you tell us about your upcoming album Kitsune and what it was like making it? Emma Ruth Rundle: The theme that we named the record after was just…It went along with the artwork. We purchased these Japanese Oni masks, and one of the masks was ‘kitsune’ which is the possession of the fox spirit, and so we sort of did the artwork around that. We used that whole idea to...
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Happy Birthday To Kyle of Gypsyblood In Honor We...
Happy Birthday to Kyle of Gypsyblood today, instead of giving HIM a present I figured I’d celebrate by giving you all the gift of his music FREE all this week is Gypsyblood’s amazing debut Cold In The Guestway. That’s right, we like to do things backwards here and Kyle backs weirdness that’s why we love him so damn much. HB / XO / CP / SH Go get it and celebrate!
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Line Out: Brian Cook Chronicles Russian Circles...
When the band I play in, Russian Circles, announced our European tour with Deafheaven for Spring 2012, Grant Brissey asked me to write a tour diary chronicling our trip. I was a little hesitant at first. For one thing, I’ve typically tried to keep my band business separate from my music writing. Additionally, my bandmates aren’t the kind of people that want all their day-to-day business made...
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Blare Magazine: The Good Old War Acoustics
As much as they’re known for their recordings, GOOD OLD WAR’s intimate performances are difficult to forget. Whether it’s inside of a church, out in a small studio or at an average-sized venue that’s cozy and personal, they’re songs are hard to brush off due to the experiences they create. Before their recent set last week at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, we met up with the Philadelphia trio...
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Tera Melos Announce their 59 City Headlining...
Holy moly! Tera Melos will be gone forever on this headlining tour in what seems like every city in Europe and Russia! Don’t miss them when they come through your city. **Please make sure to always check with the Venues directly for doors, set times and age restrictions. And always double check HERE that shows info has not changed since it can at times. TERA MELOS EU/UK/RUSSIA 2012 Apr...
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LA Times // Coachella 2012: The antics of Le...
Teri Suaréz is trying to finish a record. Her phone, however, won’t stop interrupting. It’s her mother. “She’s freaking out,” Suaréz said. This past Sunday, Suaréz sent her mother into a state of panic when, at the first weekend of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, she walked away from her guitar and keyboard and climbed to the top of a lighting rig....
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Happy Birthday To Sam Velde
Today is Sam Velde’s Birthday! I’m so happy to have him as my partner in our new little baby 1656 Music. We both love the Power of the Riffs, get it? see what I did there Sam? Anyway, on this day of your birth I just wanted to tell you how nice it is to have you in the house every day and I will see you out in the desert tonight. Annihilate. Love you XO/CP/SH
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Roadburn Fest 2012 : Highlights // Chelsea Wolfe
Newcomer Chelsea Wolfe made a big splash at Roadburn 2012, see for yourself what the buzz is about. Sacramento-born, downtown L.A.-based guitarist, singer and electronics sampler, Chelsea Wolfe crafts haunting soundtracks for the apocalypse. Wolfe, with her heavy, long locks, black veil and her piercing eyes, embodies a strange mixture of otherworldly softness and creepy darkness all at once....
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This Is Not A Scene, It's An Interview with Rory...
Gilbert Potts was pretty impressed by “Gangs”, the latest album from Irish instrumental progressive/post rock outfit And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA). Guitarist Rory Friers was more than happy to share his views on the early days of the band, playing in Ulster Hall and the difference between being in a recording studio and being on stage… Changes in life happen mostly fluidly, but sometimes...
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Sonny Kay - First Series of Four Limited Edition...
Sargent House is happy to announce the very first series of four of the Sonny Kay art print T-shirts. There will only be 200 of each design printed, when they are gone they are gone. We will continue to do series of four and they will always be limited pressings. They are printed on American Apparel shirts and are beautiful! TO ORDER YOURS GO HERE
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LADYGUNN Magazine: Chelsea Wolfe Interview
Chelsea Wolfe, the witchy goth music princess is quickly rising to success with her second album Apokalypsis, and a current European tour. Though she stands out as unique on her own, she’s often categorized into the same genre that includes complimentary comparisons to Zola Jesus, Grimes, and Lykke Li. She has the natural formula to be as successful, as she is convincingly dark and majestic with...
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State IE Features the Sargent House Podcast #2 /...
It’s the return of American label Sargent House‘s podcast presented by 2XM’s Niahm Hegarty. This second edition features an interview of Marfred Rodriguez Lopez from Zechs Marquise, talking about his youth living around At The Drive-In and opening for their Texas reunion gigs. There’s also an interview of Marriages, a new band from Red Sparowes members Greg Burns, Emma Ruth Rundle, Dave Clifford...
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Chelsea Wolfe "Flatlands" // Subbacultcha //...
Chelsea Wolfe performs a new song called “Flatlands” for a Cave Session for Subbacultcha! Belgium on April 14, 2012 in Citadel Park Ghent.
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SPIN: Names Le Butcherettes in Their Top 10 Best...
Le Butcherettes “It’s fitting that Le Butcherettes have opened for both the Dead Weather and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in their native Mexico. To those who’ve never witnessed the fierce glory of female lead Teri Gender Bender firsthand, it’s easiest to imagine her as a cross between Jack White (a shredder on the guitar with the high yawp of a born rock star) and Karen O...
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Happy Birthday John Clardy
A big Happy Birthday goes out today to John Clardy of Tera Melos aka JC to me. He’s not just a badass on the drums he’s also my Ipod saviour. So happy to have him in our family. Much love from all of us and me. XO / SH / CP
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Good Old War Announce Tour with Dispatch in...
Good Old War have just announced they will be joining Dispatch on their October shows. Good Old War is currently on their own US Headlining Tour, and will also be playing this year’s Bunbury Music Festival in July. - SEE ALL DATES HERE Jul 15, 2012 - Cincinnati, OH (US) - Bunbury Music Festival @ Sawyer Point at Yeatman’s Cove w/ Death Cab For Cutie & Guided By Voices & And...
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Los Angeles Times // Coachella 2012: "Le...
All Teri “Gender Bender” Suarez had to do was walk onstage. Five steps to her keyboard and one uncomfortable-looking chicken-squat later, and she already looked as if she were in need of an exorcism. Once she struck her instrument and began sputtering in time to the beat in a crouched position, the gentleman standing next to me leaned over and said, “I’m scared already.” This, as anyone who has...
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Invisible Oranges /Live Report: Deafheaven in NYC
Alcest played Public Assembly in Brooklyn on Saturday (3/31) with support from Los Angeles’ Deafheaven and New York’s Vaura. It was Alcest’s first NYC appearance since their tour with Enslaved last September, following the release of Alcest’s Les Voyages de l’Âme, the band’s third full-length and next step in the meandering evolution of their ethereal/shoegaze/post-black metal. The show was sold...
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Blare Magazine: The Good Old War Interview
One of the most powerful features of music is being able to relate to an artist’s work and feel connected to the musician themselves. With honesty being their most dominant attribute, indie folk group GOOD OLD WAR have penned songs that have been so brutally sincere, it’s been difficult for fans and new listeners to shake off the acoustic bliss embedded in the trio’s first two releases and past...
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And So I Watch You From Afar // Spain & France...
And So I Watch You From Afar will be headlining a few shows in Spain and France, starting on Saturday, April 14th in Barcelona. All Dates below and all individual show details can be seen HERE AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR LIVE Apr 14, 2012 - Barcelona, (ES) @ Sala Becool w/ Atleta Apr 15, 2012 - Madrid, (ES) @ Moby Dick Apr 18, 2012 - Porto, (PT) @ Plano B w/ O Bisonte Apr 20, 2012 - Lyon,...
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New Music Monkey: Zechs Marquise Interview / Show...
Last summer I had the privilege of seeing Zechs Marquise in their infancy. The show was expansive, proggy, and thought provoking. The crowd was interested, but to say blood and fists were pumping would be a stretch. This past Monday, Zech’s opened for At the Drive In and their new material has lifted their live show to a completely new height. To say it’s simply the new material would be...
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Happy Birthday to Chris Georges
Well that Chris Georges is not just one handsome devil, he’s also a great windmiller. Happy Birthday today, to Fang Island’s own. I’m so happy that you have sent us that present, you know, the new album from your band. We love you Mr. Georges. Continue to rock hard and forever, we high five you. XO / CP/ SH
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Rolling Stone Premiere: Cut Chemist feat. Deantoni...
Featuring the drumming beast that is Deantoni Parks
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Good Old War "Calling Me Names" Sargent House...
Good Old War perform “Calling Me Names” from their new album Come Back As Rain in the Sargent House glassroom. We love when they come over and sing for us. Thanks to Behn Fannin for shooting and directing the session for us.
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Terroreyes TV : Interview with Tera Melos' Nick...
Tera Melos are an experimental rock band from Sacramento, CA. We sat down for a quick chat with Nick Reinhart to talk about their upcoming record, past and future collaborations and prank phone calls.
Sean: You guys are working on a new record right now? How’s that going?
Nick: Good. We’ve done most of all the basic tracking- guitar, drums and bass. Started vocals before fIREHOSE...
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Rolling Stone Names Le Butcherettes in their Top...
It’s never just been about the headliners at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. In fact, many of the 100,000-plus fans who bought tickets to this year’s two consecutive Coachella weekends (April 13th-15th and 20th-22nd) signed up before the lineup was even announced. Most knew that the biggest names would be part of a much longer list of exciting rock, dance, hip-hop and...
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Good Old War // Daytrotter Sessions
“One of the ingenious things about having three-part harmonies and significant vocal contributions from all three members of a group can lead you perfectly astray when trying - or attempting - to get at the crux of a lyrical idea. Good Old War’s Keith Goodwin might, technically, be considered the band’s lead singer, but the way that the songs here on the band’s first...
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Nathan & John from Tera Melos hang with Mike Watt...
Nathan Latona and John Clardy of Tera Melos hung out with one of our absolute favorite bass men Mike Watt while they were on tour together with fIREHOSE , so here is the Watt From Pedro show April 8th (not 2011, actually 2012) edition live from Seattle. You can hear it all right HERE.
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Chelsea Wolfe Records Rudimentary Peni Covers for...
Chelsea Wolfe recorded with the legendary Harvey Birrell at Southern Studios in London on April 9th, 2012 for an upcoming special vinyl release for Latitudes, Harvey, was the original engineer on some of the Rudimentary Peni songs she covered for the release - We will have more news and a release date soon! Check out Chelsea Wolfe’s Tribute to Rudimentary Peni COVERS HERE And Don’t...
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This Is Not A Scene, It's A Review of Zechs...
One cursory glance at the cover of the latest album, Getting Paid by El Paso based Zechs Marquise would lead the listener to believe they were about to listen to an album of intense bass laden funk or an album of children’s songs by the Animal Kwackers. Three of the band members are brothers Marcel, Marfred and Rikardo Rodriguez-Lopez, who are brothers of The Mars Volta’s Omar, so a certain rich...
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LAST FM PRESENTS: The Good Old War Interview &...
Good Old War was started by former Days Away members Keith Goodwin and Tim Arnold along with former Unlikely Cowboy member Dan Schwartz. They spent time as the studio & touring band for Anthony Green (Circa Survive) and the logical next step was to get serious as a three-piece. They already knew the musical direction would be acoustic driven with the vocals being a major part of the sound....
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The Aquarian Album Review: Marriages "Kitsune"
Marriages / Kitsune Sargent House In addition to more than a handful of other bands, all three members of Los Angeles heavy psych rockers Marriages have been involved in the instrumental post-metal outfit Red Sparowes at one point or another. For anyone who heard either of the first two albums that Isis-derived side-project-plus put out on Neurosis’ Neurot Recordings, that should give some...
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Zechs Marquise Announce Neon Desert Festival //...
Zechs Marquise just announced they will be playing with At The Drive In some shows in Texas before heading to Southern California also hitting Las Vegas on the way. In May they will head off to meet up with Maps & Atlases and Sister Crayon for 6 shows and a few of their own headliners to be announced soon. On May 26th they will play The Neon Desert Festival along side Rodriguez Lopez...
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Swoon Magazine Feature & Video Interview: Chelsea...
In 2010, Chelsea Wolfe recorded her first official album, The Grime and the Glow, with an old Tascam 8-track recorder by herself and with various friends in Northern California. The result, a combination of stripped-down instrumentation, layers of vocals, haunting melodies, and tape hiss, is an AM radio broadcast from the end of the world. In her second record, Apokalypsis, released in 2011,...
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This Is Not A Scene, It's A Review of And So I...
Released in 2011, “Gangs” caused quite a stir. It’s one of those records that got played a lot by people who don’t normally listen to instrumental music as well as those who live off the stuff. The verdict was overwhelmingly one of being knocked down by the explosion of sound – mainly the distorted, metallic, atonal riff-fest found on a few tracks. While the word “eponymous” is generally used to...
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Zechs Marquise Live " Mega Slap"
Zechs Marquise playing Mega Slap from their album Getting Paid, while on tour with Steve Choi of RX Bandits filling in for Matt Wilkson on this run. Family style. Thanks to Chuck Crittendon for video taping the show! Don’t Miss Zechs Marquise on TOUR - April/ May dates HERE
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Happy Birthday to Terroreyes TV's Sean Stout
Happy Birthday to Sean Stout today. From a skater brat to a video making wunderkind. I adopted you at a very early age, and now you are becoming such a big boy! You are like a son to me for sure and I’m so proud of all that you have built over at Terroreyes TV. So on this day, the whole house wishes you a very Happy Birthday. XO / LOVE / CP/SH
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RCRD LBL: Featured Download from Marriages "Ride...
Marriages, a new group that features three members from Red Sparowes, recently recorded a six-song debut entitled Kitsune. The dark, moody effort, recorded with Toshi Kasai, is hypnotic and occasionally experimental, employing vocals against heavy backdrops in a way that’s a big left-hand turn from their other band. “Ride In My Place,” an early listen from the album, which will be released...
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Good Old War Perform "Better Weather" on Conan
The boys from Good Old War perform “Better Weather” from their new album Come Back as Rain out now on Sargent House. Don’t miss them live they are on tour now! All dates HERE
