The track “Take Your Picture” from Gypsyblood’s album Cold In The Guestway makes a perfect score for this Unit Riders Video of Kyle Baldock BMX Dirt Jump Sessions filmed at Gorge Rd New Zealand. Licensed through 1656 Music.

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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

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Then it was to the Bat Bar for Gypsyblood. When you listen to their records, you hear lots of softer single-note guitar riffs with complex time signatures and tempo changes in their rhythm section, as well as tricky vocal melodies — but when you hear Gypsyblood live, they rip your face off and chop you up into a million little pieces. and you can hardly recognize the songs, even when you know every word. Their stage presence is filled with manic energy. Gypsyblood’s sound is unique to them, mixing chaotic post-punk rhythms with a ferocious and borderline psychotic energy.

The next band up at the Bat Bar was Marriages from Los Angeles. This experimental trio filled the room with rhythmic guitar tapping, droning bass, and a tight drum section. The drum and bass filled up enough space that could have been enough to listen to  on their own. The guitars plunged their sound into oceans of feedback noise bliss that sounded like a slightly poppy version of Pelican. Their female singer added the perfect airy vocals soft touch to their songs in between finger tapping on her guitar.

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Gypsyblood & Heavy Times to play a Lake Forest chapel

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 …..

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Remix of the Gypsyblood track Superstition from the album Cold In The Guestway

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Well it’s that time of year again. Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions presents our second Label Sampler Vol 2 which is available for FREE starting on October 25th, 2011 thanks to our pals over at Amazon. So enjoy! Discover new music, share with your friends and maybe even let it compel you to go and buy a new album from any of these well deserved musicians. Each one teach one. #OccupyHelpingBands.  (Sorry but only available in the USA) I hate those stupid border restrictions!

CLICK HERE TO GET IT ON 10/25/11

SARGENT HOUSE / RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ / Vol. 2 LABEL SAMPLER

Russian Circles - Mladek  (Empros)
Le Butcherettes - New York  (Sin, Sin, Sin)
Gypsyblood - Take Your Picture (Cold In The Guestway)
Adebisi Shank - Genki Shank (This Is the Second Album of A Band..)
Boris - Hope (New Album)
Tera Melos - Frozen Zoo (Patagonian Rats)
ME & LP - Bonnie Says (Chez Raymond)
Good Old War - Get Some (Self Titled)
Hella - Yubacore (Tripper)
Boris - Riot Sugar (Heavy Rocks 2011)
Zechs Marquise - Everlasting Beacon Of Light (Getting Paid)

Gypsyblood live video from their Audiotree session. Click the photo to watch. So good. Don’t miss them with Le Butcherettes in Chicago on 11/4/11 at Subterranean! 

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 the right rendezvous point). I’m asked by two small, very young teenagers in backpacks and zipped up matching hoodies for a cigarette as I take a drag off of the last pre-rolled bugler I had in my breast pocket. “Are these kids for real? Maybe they are older than I think,” I say to myself as they hold out their hands as if they were expecting a snack. I say, “nah, this is the only one I have.” They put their hands down to their sides and kindly said, “fuck you,” then strutted away on their scooters. Confused and misplaced I hear a door open behind me and some male voices asking if and when a certain friend (Kyle) would arrive. Ignoring the conversation and keeping to my nosey self inspecting the nearby cops across the street at the train station I hear, “Ryan? Are you Ryan?” I turn around and am face-to-face with Chicago’s very own pop-garde masterminds, Gypsyblood.

The El Cid hostess leads Adam, Ryan, Chris and I upstairs where we thought would be a little less noisier in order to conduct the interview properly but instead arrive in a bar area with people chatting on both sides of our table and a mariachi band playing overhead in the speakers. The waitress brings out chips and Ryan White (bassist of Gypsyblood) discreetly whistles, or so he thought, as the waitress takes our drink orders. Margaritas and rice water. 

Ryan Donar: Who are you guys and where are you guys from?

Adam James: We are Gypsyblood from Chicago, Illinois. Actually right next door to El Cid is where we practice, that’s also where we recorded half the album. 

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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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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 for years waiting. Then one day Dave Davison emailed me two demos of songs that blew my mind and he said “Remember Karma with A K ? Well this is Adam and Kyle’s new band GYPSYBLOOD. The rest is history. I signed the bloods and this my friends is that story.

So, May we Introduce you to GYPSYBLOOD? All this week their album Cold In The Guestway is FREE for download HERE. They have mellowed, my Karma boys but oh what sweet tunes they make. So, what have you got to lose? Get turned on, I know I did. And if you love our “May We Introduce You” Free downloads thing make sure and help us spread the music! 

 

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 Patchwork, released last year on Barsuk Records. While the band may have scaled back its overt musical flair over time, it remains one of the tightest, most interesting musical acts going.

The A.V. Club caught up with Davison and Erin Elders, (guitarist-lead singer and lead guitarist, respectively) in advance of their set at A.V. Fest this weekend, to talk about some of their favorite local bands, as well as their experiences as musicians and music fans in Chicago.

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Gypsyblood playing a FREE show as part of the Pitchfork After Parties brought to you by Sailor Jerry it’s FREE with RSVP on July 17th at Cobra Lounge and just another awesome poster by the one and only Ryan Duggan. Hit That. CHI TOWN.