SARGENT HOUSE

Sargent House is proud to announce our very first Festival Stage at this years Indiependence Music & Arts Festival on August 2nd.
We will have And So I Watch You From Afar, Bosnian Rainbows, Chelsea Wolfe, Mylets, No Spill Blood &  TTNG all playing our stage this year.
Below are videos and links to see and hear more from each of the bands playing our stage.  (listed in alphabetical order).


AND SO I WATCH YOU FROM AFAR - (IRELAND)
Click to hear all ASIWYFA Albums
See all ASIWYFA Tour dates

BOSNIAN RAINBOWS - (USA)
Click to hear Bosnian Rainbows Albums
See all Bosnian Rainbows Tour dates

CHELSEA WOLFE - (USA)
Click to hear Chelsea Wolfe Albums
See all Chelsea Wolfe Tour dates

MYLETS - (USA)
Click to hear Mylets Albums
See all Mylets Tour dates

NO SPILL BLOOD - (IRELAND)
Click to hear No Spill Blood albums
See all No Spill Blood Tour dates

TTNG - formerly known as This Town Needs Guns (UK)
Click to hear TTNG albums
See all TTNG Tour dates

Hell yes, see you Ireland!

On May 6th, Chelsea Wolfe played a fantastic concert at the Trix in Antwerp. Before the concert, Phil Blackmarquis had the opportunity to meet Chelsea for an exclusive interview, done together with Michael Thiel, aka Weyrd Son, founder of Weyrd Son Records and a huge fan of the American singer/songwriter.
(Check the review of the concert here.)

PhB: Thank you very much for this interview. You are in the middle of your European Tour right now. How is it?
It’s been cool. It’s been different than usual because we’re doing a half acoustic, half electric set, so it’s been a little wierd sometimes to balance the energies of the two different sets. But it works out well.

PhB: Why did you decide to split the concerts in two sets?
We had the new(ish) acoustic album that had come out in October, so we incorporated a fair amount of it in the set but without doing an entire acoustic show, just to challenge the ‘old’ songs with something new… And we split the show in two sets…

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Chelsea Wolfe’s European headline tour begins this Wednesday April 24th in Dublin her first time playing in Ireland. For this tour she has brought along her Violin player and will be performing a combination of both acoustic and electric songs (new and old) for these very special shows. Don’t miss these folks.

SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS TICKET LINKS AND UPDATES HERE.

CHELSEA WOLFE EU 2013
Apr 24, 2013 - Dublin, Ireland @ The Sugar Club
Apr 25, 2013 - Belfast, N. Ireland @ Auntie Annie’s Porterhouse
Apr 27, 2013 - Praha, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar
Apr 28, 2013 - Berlin, Germany @ Kantine am Berghine
Apr 29, 2013 - København, Denmark  @ Vega
Apr 30, 2013 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
May 02, 2013 - Oslo, Norway @ Bla
May 03, 2013 - Lund, Sweden @ Mejeriet
May 04, 2013 - Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich
May 05, 2013 - Aachen, Germany @ Musikbunker Aachen
May 06, 2013 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
May 07, 2013 - Paris, France @ Le Point Ephemere
May 08, 2013 - Diksmuide, Belgium @ 4AD
May 09, 2013 - London,UK @ Cargo
May 10, 2013 - Leeds, UK  @ The Cockpit
May 11, 2013 - Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
May 12, 2013 - Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
May 13, 2013 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli
May 14, 2013 - Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen
May 16, 2013 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Bogen F
May 17, 2013 - Milan, Italy @ Lo Fi Club
May 18, 2013 - St Petersburg, Russia @ Skif Festival
May 19, 2013 - Moscow, Russia @ 16 Tons Club

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The Work Magazine is honored to present one of our favorite artists, Chelsea Wolfe, as the debut highlight in our “Sound Check” series. Here we capture an intimate portrait of this great talent as she prepares to take the stage at The First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles.

Don’t miss Chelsea Wolfe on Tour in Europe starting in Dublin on April 24th. See all TOUR DATES HERE & Below

VIDEO DIRECTED & SHOT BY: KRISTIN COFER 
EDITED BY: JON BROWN / STILL PHOTOS BY: EDDIE CHACON

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Click above to go to Chelsea Wolfe’s most recent Daytrotter

Click here for the Previous Chelsea Wolfe Daytrotter Session

The photographs available of American singer/songwriter Chelsea Wolfe are hugely varied, but all seem to obscure her in some way. They’re akin to peering through a window into an unlit room, her pale face inconspicuous behind mourning veils, half-hidden beneath snakelike tendrils of black hair, or just blurry portraits of an arcane figure. Her sound is equally as nebulous and difficult to define. It’s folk, but with the pathos and epodic slant of a troubled soul. It would seem that Wolfe dwells rather a lot on death.

Following her debut album The Grime & The Glow and 2011 follow-up Apokalypsis, a particularly excellent performance at Roadburn festival gathered her fans from across various styles of metal. Black metal in particular feels like an obvious reference point, though admittedly that’s more to do with its misty and chilly atmospheres than its walls of caustic distorton. Wolfe’s supernatural songs are redolent of isolated pine forests, half-light percolating through tree canopies, and the malodor of rotten petiole. They suggest that death is just as lonely as we feared - yet their ghostly traces hint towards the way that our selves endure through the memories of others around us.

To coincide with the release of her Latitudes session Prayer For The Unborn, the Quietus spoke with Wolfe about haunted keyboards, photography and yes, mortality.

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We are happy to announce that Sargent House is releasing the Chelsea Wolfe / King Dude Split 7” as our special Record Store Day release on April 20, 2013. Support your local shop! 

Check out CW & KD singing together from their tour this past January below.

Chelsea Wolfe’s European headline tour is now announced in full. She will be combining her sets of acoustic and electric songs for these very special shows, she will also be playing Russia and Ireland for the first time. Before leaving California she will play at this year’s Desert Daze Festival out in Mecca, CA on April 20th. Upon her return to the States she will be flying in to New York for a special show with Swans for the Northside Music Festival on June 13th.

SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS AND UPDATES HERE.

Apr 20, 2013 - Mecca, CA @ Desert Daze Festival 

CHELSEA WOLFE EU 2013
Apr 24, 2013 - Dublin, Ireland @ The Sugar Club
Apr 25, 2013 - Belfast, N. Ireland @ Auntie Annie’s Porterhouse
Apr 27, 2013 - Praha, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar
Apr 28, 2013 - Berlin, Germany @ Kantine am Berghine
Apr 29, 2013 - København, Denmark  @ Vega
Apr 30, 2013 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
May 02, 2013 - Oslo, Norway @ Bla
May 03, 2013 - Lund, Sweden @ Mejeriet
May 04, 2013 - Hamburg, Germany @ Uebel & Gefährlich
May 05, 2013 - Aachen, Germany @ Autonomes Zentrum Aachen
May 06, 2013 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
May 07, 2013 - Paris, France @ Le Point Ephemere
May 08, 2013 - Diksmuide, Belgium @ 4AD
May 09, 2013 - London,UK @ Cargo
May 10, 2013 - Leeds, UK  @ The Cockpit
May 11, 2013 - Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
May 12, 2013 - Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
May 13, 2013 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli
May 14, 2013 - Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen
May 16, 2013 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Bogen F
May 17, 2013 - Milan, Italy @ Lo Fi Club
May 18, 2013 - St Petersburg, Russia @ Skif Festival
May 19, 2013 - Moscow, Russia @ 16 Tons Club

Jun 13, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY@ Warsaw - Northside Music Festival w/ Swans

Chelsea Wolfe will be heading back over to Europe this Spring for a headlining run where she will be combining her sets of acoustic and electric songs for some very special shows. More EU dates are still to be added in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for updates. Before leaving California she will also be playing at this year’s Desert Daze Festival out in Mecca, CA and up on her return she will be flying in to New York for a special show with Swans for the Northside Music Festival on June 13th.

SEE ALL SHOW DETAILS AND UPDATES HERE.

Apr 20, 2013 - Mecca, CA @ Desert Daze Festival 

CHELSEA WOLFE EU 2013
Apr 24, 2013 - Dublin, Ireland @ The Sugar Club
Apr 25, 2013 - Belfast, N. Ireland @ Auntie Annie’s Porterhouse
Apr 27, 2013 - Praha, Czech Republic @ Lucerna Music Bar
Apr 29, 2013 - København, Denmark  @ Vega
Apr 30, 2013 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser Medis
May 02, 2013 - Oslo, Norway @ Bla
May 03, 2013 - Lund, Sweden @ Mejeriet
May 06, 2013 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Trix
May 07, 2013 - Paris, France @ Le Point Ephemere
May 08, 2013 - Diksmuide, Belgium @ 4AD
May 09, 2013 - London,UK @ Cargo
May 10, 2013 - Leeds, UK  @ The Cockpit
May 11, 2013 - Glasgow, UK @ King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
May 12, 2013 - Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
May 13, 2013 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli
May 14, 2013 - Arnhem, Netherlands @ Willemeen
May 16, 2013 - Zürich, Switzerland @ Bogen F
May 17, 2013 - Milan, Italy @ Lo Fi Club

Jun 13, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY@ Warsaw - Northside Music Festival w/ Swans

Here at NYLON TV, we love Chelsea Wolfe. Not only have we been listening to Unknown Rooms since it came out, we also admire her fashion abilities - this girl can pull of anything. (Including that amazing nose pincher she’s wearing in our video…) So, when she was in town to play her sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg, we were on it. Come with us inside Black Gold, our favorite record store in Brooklyn, for a total shiver-inducing performance of Appalachia. Check out Black Gold here

Featured Music: Chelsea Wolfe - ‘Appalachia’ Also, check out the band crush we did with her a bit ago here.

What you have here below is 5:15 of visual & sonic ear candy. It’s Chelsea Wolfe & King Dude performing together in Toronto. On the real, I had to watch this footage on repeat because it’s that fucking good! The way this video is shot adds even more mood to these already very moody compositions. After the jump, check out this cryptic noir performance by Chelsea Wolfe & King Dude, plus a couple of surprises!

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Photo above by Daniel Ahrendt

Not to be all LA and vain and superficial, but Chelsea Wolfe‘s complexion is like a cold glass of whole milk. And her voice — it sounds like how it feels to gulp down said beverage, or maybe a White Russian, on a sweltering summer day, inducing the kind of savage, glugging sounds that offend some types of people (not our kind of people), sitting cross-legged and bra-less on an abandoned rooftop in Detroit, wearing nothing but a virginal vintage slip dress, partially-laced combat boots, chipped red nail polish, and an armload of clinking bracelets stacked almost to the elbow. (I guess, although I’ve never been to Detroit.)

Standing in a fluorescent-lit corridor of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, it’s hard not to stare at Chelsea.  She is tall and pale and piercing, her jet black hair, feathery fur coat and generously-inked eyeliner are dark and elegant like a crow’s plumes; her shadowy silhouette broken only by a plastic cup containing a Barbie-pink cocktail that she holds in skull-ringed hands. Cramped between the main stage and “backstage,” which is more like a modest sitting area with nothing pretty to look at (present company excepted) and more often frequented by a totally different kind of worshipper, Chelsea and I talk death, John Cusack, Fashion Week,  and superstition.  She is on tour with her latest album Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs, and with moody vocals that instinctively oscillate between frozen and hearth-like, turning us to ice and then soothing our goosebumps, it is fair to say that on a rainy Friday evening in an unassuming Church in a no-good block of Los Angeles, Chelsea Wolfe is pretty much perfect. Even without the plastic bottle of vodka in my purse.

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Better Than… staring into the Nietzschean abyss.

Chelsea Wolfe embraces darkness, seems to live by it, even. “Dark” is the best way to describe last year’s Apokalypsis, an album that won accolades for melding black metal and American roots music, among other things.

In support of her recently released Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs, Wolfe played an acoustic set at the First Unitarian Church on Friday. Because of her influences (black metal is known for its aggressively anti-christian theology) and the less-than-pious image she has cultivated, there was perhaps some incongruity between the artist and the venue. Nonetheless, Wolfe demonstrated that her music is certainly not devoid of spirituality.

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