August 2012
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Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group with Deantoni Parks and...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez group with Deantoni Parks and special guest Teresa Suarez aka Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes on Vocals for all the shows will be touring together in the EU as well as some US dates including Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin . More shows will be added in Australia and on the East Coast of the USA. Stay tuned. CHECK HERE FOR SHOW DETAILS, TICKET LINKS & UPDATES ORLG TOUR...
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Brooklyn Vegan: Russian Circles, Chelsea Wolfe &...
On Thursday night (8/23) Russian Circles brought their Sargent House tour de force with Chelsea Wolfe and Marriages through Chicago for a performance at Lincoln Hall.
The venue was packed by the time openers and Red Sparowes-related project Marriages polished off a pair of songs. They sounded great and performed cuts from their debut EP, Kitsune, which hit stores in May via the label. If you...
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MONO/POLY to release album on Rodriguez Lopez...
Sargent House is happy to welcome Mono/Poly and his manager Sydney Villaroz to the Sargent House management family. We are also happy to announce that his upcoming release will be coming out on the Rodriguez Lopez Productions Label. To celebrate Mono/Poly will be heading over to Europe for a tour for some headline shows and some shows where he will be opening for Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group that...
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Consequence of Sound Premieres Full Album "Crypts"
As previously reported, Crypts is the new project of These Arms Are Snakes vocalist Steve Snere, programmer Bryce Brown, and visual artist Nick Bartoletti. In July, the trio premiered the eerie “Territories”, a single from their debut self-titled album. And today, with a little over a week before the album hits shelves, the entire eight-track effort is streaming below. As evidenced by the...
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Tera Melos Live From Moscow Bashing them with 40...
Tera Melos live from Moscow. Skin Surfing with a New Uniform to finally bash them with 40 Rods to the Hogs Head… My three sons. xo
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Gizmodo Falls In Love with Adebisi Shank & Last 3...
If you need a song to get you revved up and ready to go, look no further; Adebisi Shank has you covered. This Irish trio puts out some seriously upbeat math-rocky craziness, and Genki Shank (free dl) from their album This Is The Second Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank is a great introduction.
A bit more intuitive than some of their other, mathier tunes, Genki Shank has a great galloping beat...
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Russian Circles Live Videos: 309 & Harper Lewis
Russian Circles live videos of 309 from their album Empros and Harper Lewis from the album Station. Shot on August 22, 2012 at The Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids, MI filmed by Joel Potrykus.
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Chelsea Wolfe US Headline Shows start August 26th...
After touring this whole month with label mates Russian Circles and Marriages. Chelsea Wolfe will be headlining some of her own shows before leaving for her tours in Japan and Australia. Joining her starting in Seattle will be our very own Crypts celebrating their debut album release that comes out on Sargent House on Sept 4th! FAMILY. CHELSEA WOLFE - HEADLINE DATES 8/26 - Lawrence, KS @ The...
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Fang Island's AudioTree Live Session Video
Fang Island stopped by to see our pals Audiotree while in Chicago to chat and play some great tunes from their new album Major and some from their last Self Titled album. Check it out. It’s a beauty. Tracklisting for the Session: The Illinois Seek it out Chompers Sisterly Life Coach Dooney Rock Asunder Daisy Welcome Wagon
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Chelsea Wolfe Announces headline Australian Tour...
Chelsea Wolfe will be playing her first ever shows in Japan then will immediately be heading over to Australia for her first headline tour there. All shows will be with special guest Heirs except for the additional Melbourne show that will be a full band Acoustic Album set, completely different to the first Melbourne show that will feature music from the Electric albums. Thanks to Heathen Skulls...
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Russian Circles Announce Australian & New Zealand...
Russian Circles will be heading back over to headline Tours in Australia, New Zealand and Asia for the following Shows below. Don’t miss them folks. A big thanks to Heathen Skulls for the Australian and to Kitty Wu for the Asian dates. RUSSIAN CIRCLES / EAGLE TWIN /NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIAN TOUR Sep 26, 2012 - Newton, AUC, NZ @ Kings Arms Tavern Sep 27, 2012 - Wellington, NZ @ San...
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Fang Island Stop by Chic-A-Go-Go for A Song
Fang Island stopped by to hang out with Ratso and the gang and play a song while in Chicago at Chic-A-Go-Go.
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Sargent House. The Independent Label Stable Lands...
From Omar Rodriquez Lopez (The Mars Volta) to Russian Circles If you aren’t familiar with the independent label Sargent House you’ve been missing out on a most eccentric collection of music.
Their artist roster is stocked top to bottom with smart & distinctive bands that range from folk to metal and every weird thing in between. The man looming at the top of the roster, Omar Rodriquez...
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SPIN Premiere: Crypts' Completely Fucked
Hear Crypt’s ‘Completely Fucked’: These Arms Are Snakes Frontman Goes Witchwave
Boo! Bubbling up from witch house’s crustiest cauldron come Crypts, a new project from ex-These Arms Are Snakes front-yelper Steve Snere. It’s easy to compare it to contemporary chapel-haunters like Salem or darkwave revisionists like Cold Cave thanks to the booming 808s, syrupy...
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Interview: No Spill Blood
Our world is in peril. Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, can no longer stand the terrible destruction plaguing our planet. She gives three magic instruments to three special young people. From Cork, Matt with the power of bass. From Dublin, Ruadhan with the power of synth. Also from Dublin, Lar with the power of drum. With the three powers combined they summon earth’s greatest champion – NO SPILL...
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The Farm Will Open in Early 2013
A new recording studio and artists collective compound just an hour and a half drive from Los Angeles. The Farm is coming 2013.
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It won’t be like any place on Earth… History is about to be made.
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Austinist: Fang Island at Mohawk [Show Review and...
By the end of Fang Island’s 45-minute set at the Mohawk on Friday, just about everyone in attendance was physically spent and drenched with sweat. However, just before the band’s encore song and penultimate track, “Daisy,” guitarist/vocalist Jason Bartell suggested to the crowd, “If you have any energy left, expound it.” It was all the motivation the otherwise...
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KEXP's Song of the Day: Fang Island – Sisterly
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on the Morning Show with John Richards, is “Sisterly” by Fang Island from the 2012 album Major on Sargent...
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Happy Birthday To Vin of Adebisi Shank
Happy Birthday today to the one and only Vin of Adebisi Shank.. You have earned and will keep forever my supreme love. Damn, we love you and we hope you are enjoying your Birthday and your USA tour with Fang Island. XO / CP / SH
Folks, make sure to bring him some Cake!!!!!!!!! FANG ISLAND & ADEBISI SHANK //MAJOR TOUR 2012 08/20 New Orleans, LA @ Parish at House of Blues 08/21 Birmingham, AL...
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FADER'S: What We're Reading by Chelsea Wolfe
Tired of reading the same recommended books from the usual sources? Just think of our weekly What We’re Reading column as your non-committal book club with The FADER and some of your favorite bands. For this installment, Chelsea Wolfe talks about some of her recent faves.
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence: This book has haunted me since I finished reading it. It takes me a long time to get...
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The DROPP: Deafheaven & Bosse-de-Nage to record...
California-based Bay Area black metal mixers, Deafheaven and Boss-de-Nage, will be in the studio this weekend, recording a split to be released sometime this Fall on Flenser.
[We had the opportunity to catch Deavheaven at Will’s Pub as well as have an interview with lead vocalist George Clarke earlier this year.]
Deafheaven will be recording their take on post-rock group Mogwai’s “Punk...
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Steel For Brains: This Menacing Melody - An...
Chelsea Wolfe is an indefinable force in the music world. Critics and writers and fans alike have tried their best to place her in some genre, but the art and artist seem to transcend those barriers - much like the other musicians Steel for Brains has interviewed. Concerning so many things like the DIY movement as well as the resistance to be labeled, here’s what Chelsea had to say:
The first...
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Good Old War Perform "Better Weather" & "Loud...
Good Old War performing “Better Weather” above and below “Loud Love” both songs from their album Come Back As Rain on the Jimmy Kimmel Show last night! They make us so proud. Thanks to every one at the Jimmy Kimmel show we had such a blast!
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402 Productions: Live Review & Photos Fang Island...
Fang Island has been on a constant national tour in support of their latest album, Major. As Fang Island would most likely admit, their music is best served live with sprinkles of high five participation and the occasional push made from the mosh pit.
Fang Island played The Great American Music Hall two years prior to this date, opening for Red Sparowes. Back then, “Chompers” was better known...
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HOT PRESS Magazine: Introducing No Spill Blood...
Introducing No Spill Blood They are the sound of the apocalypse… Ireland is producing a tribe of vitalic rock bands ( BATS, Adebisi Shank etc) that seem intent on disorientating by sending pulses racing with their furious tempo and experimenting with an assortment of brilliant squeals that could make the furniture bleed. Well No Spill Blood continue along the similar delicious adrenaline...
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402 Productions: Live Review & Photos Zechs...
Zechs Marquise played direct support on the show and was the only other band on the bill. Their most recent release, Getting Paid, was one of our top picks in 2011. Their psychedelic jam rock styling mixed with 4/4 hip hop beats which then weave back into mind-warping interludes is completely awe-inspiring. I’m actually fairly disappointed in San Francisco’s lack of coming to shows early,...
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Glamour Magazine Discovers the Beauty that is...
Darlings, meet Chelsea Wolfe, and get ready to fall in love!
(Isn’t she lovely? I especially adore her jaded prom-queen-esque scowl in this photo.)
The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter hit it big with critics with last year’s darkly excellent Apokalypsis, a second album about revelations and “seeing the truth,” as she puts it. I have been following Chelsea for a...
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INDIE MAG'S ICON Feature: Lisa Papineau
Lisa Papineau solo artist and the singer in both Big Sir and Me & LP Is the Indie Icon feature in the July / August issue of Indie Mag. You can download the full magazine for FREE or buy in Print HERE
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August 25th ECHO PARK RISING - We Will Be There,...
On August 25th at The Echoplex we will be part of the Echo Park Rising open house Free to all, with Music, Food & Art. We will have a table with Vinyl, Posters, CDS and other assorted goodies including very RARE Test pressings from a bunch of our artists at Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions. We are proud to be based in Echo Park so come hang out with us and all our friends in...
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BOWLEGS: The Fang Island - Interview
We recently described Fang Island’s Major as a straight up, sometimes sideways, slice of proper, sweet, heart on sleeve, riff-laden pop and rock – which roughly translated means we love the shit out of it. This group know their way around a good song, they fire riffs off like they’re going out of fashion, drop melodies for fun and rock the fuck out whenever the mood might take them. It was...
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Steel For Brains: Voiceless Noise - An Interview...
The premise is simple. The execution? The antithesis of anything simplistic. Three guys. Three instruments. A sound that at once crushes and transcends the listener - Russian Circles has been around for a while not doing the same thing necessarily but retaining their signature, bombastic sound combing elements of prog rock with shoegaze with punk and even elements of psychedelia. I recently...
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Good Old War Video of The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)...
Good Old War live cover of the Banana Boat Song at their sold out Union Transfer Show in Philadelphia, PA August 6, 2012. Tim does a great job singing on this one! GOOD OLD WAR ON TOUR MORE SHOWS ANNOUNCED CLICK TO SEE FULL SCHEDULE
And don’t forget to tune into Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 14th - GOW will be playing live on the show on ABC TV with Joseph Gordon Levitt as the guest....
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Recommended Music Documentary Viewing: A Joyful...
This is such an interesting and great documentary called A Joyful Slog made in Ireland by the Community of Independents. It features interviews with Michael Roe who is not just the drummer of Adebisi Shank he was also one of the founders of top Indie label The Richter Collective and who is now head of Sargent House’s European office. I was also interviewed for it while over in Dublin in...
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Golden Plec Feature: Hi, Have You Met No Spill...
<a href=”http://nospillblood.bandcamp.com/album/street-meat” data-mce-href=”http://nospillblood.bandcamp.com/album/street-meat”>Street Meat by No Spill Blood</a> Synth bands have never had an easy ride with the music press. Mark Ribowsky, famed soul biographer stated the synthesizer had the ability to “not only...
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Video Premiere: Fang Island's Sisterly
The first video for the track Sisterly from Fang Island’s album Major is now premiering over at MTVU.com. Directed by Behn Fannin - Watch it above and don’t miss Fang Island out now on their headline US Tour with Zechs Marquise & Adebisi Shank SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS, TIX & UPDATES FANG ISLAND ‘MAJOR’ 2012 TOUR 08/10 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour * !! 08/11 San Diego, CA...
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ASIWYFA Video Interview at Dublin Airport On their...
And So I Watch You From Afar caught up with 45sound at 5am in Dublin Airport on Wednesday August 8th 2012 before they flew off for their first ever China Tour. They told us how much they are looking forward to their 10 days & 5 shows in China, and how much they enjoyed their “dream” coast-to-coast US & Canada Tour in June & July where they toured and played with other...
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Chelsea Wolfe Unveils Acoustic Album Video...
Chelsea Wolfe’s Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs the LP out on October 16, 2012. amazing…
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AUX: TRACK BY TRACK Fang Island walk us through...
It’s easy to make fast music in a major key and call it happy, but Fang Island have made positivity their band’s mission. The Rhode Island trio described their self-titled 2010 full-length debut, a collection of frenzied, triumphant guitar anthems, as ‘everyone high-fiving everyone’; titling their majestic new follow-up Major seems equally as fitting.
“We wrote this record to be played live,...
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Pre-Orders for Chelsea Wolfe's Unknown Rooms: A...
Chelsea Wolfe’s Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs is now available to pre-order at her online store on Vinyl, CD or Digitally. Also being offered are limited time only CD or Vinyl Bundles that come with a choice of T-Shirt, 11x17 Poster, a 3x3 Fridge Magnet and a Lyric note pad and the option to add any other cd release to it. Below is a live rendition of the song...
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SF Weekly: 5 Reasons To Go See Fang Island Tonight...
Tonight, Brooklyn-based weirdos Fang Island are playing the Great American Music Hall with Zechs Marquise show starts at 8 p.m., tickets are $15. We strongly suggest you go watch these guys — here are five reasons why. 1. Fang Island is Responsible for the Greatest Patrick Swayze Tribute in History From the “Time of my Life” whistle and the dead president masks to the Dirty...
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CVLT NATION Collection of Clouds: Deafheaven’s...
This is something special. Records that can be classified as cathartic escapism are rare, causing such a stir that one cannot help but have a peek. So is the common story about one of Deathwish Inc.’s many gems. Deafheaven is a seamless blend of bombastic, airy blackened shoegaze edged with surreal intimacy. I do my best not to succumb to hyperbole, but believe the hype surrounding this Bay...
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Washingtonian Band Notes: Good Old War Tonight at...
We catch up with the Philly three-piece’s Keith Goodwin to talk Counting Crows, musical inspiration, and getting “Mad Men” stars to appear in your video. By Julyssa Lopez Good Old War plays Black Cat this Tuesday, August 7. SEE ALL GOOD OLD WAR SHOW DATES HERE
We last chatted with Philadelphia-based band Good Old War back in April, when they were in town to play a show at Black Cat. They...
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Crypts will join Chelsea Wolfe in Sept then Omar...
Crypts will be heading out on tour in support of their Sargent House debut, self-titled release out on September 4th, 2012. Opening for new label mates Chelsea Wolfe in September then with Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s group that will feature Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes on vocals and Deantoni Parks on drums in October. It’s going to get real weird. We can’t wait! CHELSEA...
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Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Deantoni Parks & Juan...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s group featuring Deantoni Parks on drums and Juan Alderete on bass performing “My Horror Is in Park, Drive Me Away Troubled Heart” live from the METAMORPHOSE Festival in Japan - Spring 2012. HOLY CRAP THESE BOYS CAN PLAY.
Don’t Miss Omar Rodriguez Lopez on TOUR all dates HERE
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Russian Circles, Chelsea Wolfe, Marriages Tour...
Russian Circles tour with label mates Chelsea Wolfe and Marriages starts today, August 6th. Thanks to Neal Williams of Epic Problems for the Tour poster art - they will have 100 of these silk screen posters available for sale on the tour. Make sure to come early and see Russian Circles’ Dave Turncrantz playing drums also in Marriages the new Red Sparowes off shoot from Greg Burns and Emma...
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Sound Colour Vibration Review: Deantoni Parks'...
When Brooklyn based drummer Deantoni Parks first started to work with the guys in The Mars Volta circles, it felt like a perfect fit. Having first contact with his polyrhthmic and highly stylized techniques in a euphoric mind altered state at Vegoose festival playing behind the kit for Volta, I couldn’t believe how he was controlling his drums under a plethora of subtle effects and the overall...
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The 90's make a great tribute to Sargent House /...
This was the best present I ever got. The directing team simply known as “The 90’s” made me a video tribute to Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions and our bands circa 2012. With music by Matthew Embree. Thank you guys! Best belated Christmas present ever!
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Pitchfork TV Premieres: CYP2 Session Chelsea Wolfe...
Chelsea Wolfe performs a new song called “Feral Love” a track that will be on her next, not yet titled full band electric album to be released on Sargent House in Early 2013 (not to be confused with her all Acoustic release entitled Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs that is due out this year on October 16, 2012 also on Sargent House. This live video was shot at The Echo...
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Russian Circles Live Studio Session "309" & Tour...
Russian Circles release the first of a three part live in-studio video series which is the debut of the new in-studio sessions series by Sargent House in conjunction with Terroreyes.TV. The clip is for the song “309” from the band’s recent album, Empros. Audio for this session was engineered and mixed by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business) at Entourage Studios in North...
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Omar Rodriguez Lopez's Los Chidos to Screen in NYC...
Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s film Los Chidos will be screened at the New York International Latino Film Festival on Friday, Aug 17th, 2012 at 9:15PM at the Clearview Cinema Chelsea 7. For Tickets and more details CLICK HERE
