New York’s noise grunge trio GHXST have released a new track titled, Doomgirl. This is the follow-up to the release of the “Evilwickeddesire” LP on vinyl last year via Paris-based Desire Records, which contained their first two EPs (Evil’s Wasted On You and No Rest For The Wicked). They state influences such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, White Zombie, and Sonic Youth, and plan to resurrect 90s rock but with a new kind of stylish noise rock, distortion, bluesy vocals, and heavy drums.
GHXST have announced a UK tour in June – see tour dates below.
June UK Tour Dates:
15th – DJ Set at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen w/ CLUB.THE.MAMMOTH, LONDON, UK
16th – DJ Set at Topman OXFORD STREET, LONDON. UK
17th – Green Door Store, BRIGHTON, UK
20th – The Old Blue Last, LONDON, UK
21st – Kraak Gallery, MANCHESTER, UK
22nd – Birthdays, LONDON, UK
23rd – Oakford Social Club, READING, UK
It was a pleasant surprise to open our email inbox and find a message from Marble Lion, a noise pop band out of Montreal. Unfortunately the details are slim other their Bandcamp and Tumblr pages, so I can’t really provide you with further information on the band. Their music is just creepy enough to pique our interest and we decided to offer them up to you as well.
Total Slacker seem to be the busiest band in lo-fi indie rock these days with release of a cover track, two 7″ singles and USA tour.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have definitely heard Grimes’ track Oblivion. Total slacker have recorded their own version of the track (download / listen below).
Total Slacker will release two new 7”s this June. The first is titled “Brain Slime” which will be released digitally worldwide on June 15 via Japan’s Sixteen Tambourine Records. It will be limited to 300 physical copies which will be pressed for the June 20th release (200 Japan / 100 US).
Brain Slime 7” Tracklisting:
Side A
Brain Slime
Soft Serve Maybelline
Side B
Todd P’s Weed
Total Slacker have been Culture Addicts faves since they released Thrashin’ and Secret VHS Collection. The single is pure lo-fi genius in the vein of Sonic Youth and Brain Slime is the standout track with a catchy, twangy guitar riff and sing-a-long friendly strangely harmonic vocal. I will definitely be trying to get my hands on this 7″.
The second is the Friend Crush 7” split with fellow Brooklyners Friends will be out in late June on Sixteen Tambourine Records. We will definitely be posting more about this release when the info comes in.
Brooklyn’s Total Slacker head out on tour with their friends Night Manager for the Touch Yourself USA Tour in support of their debut LP release “Thrashin’” which was released via UK’s Marshall Teller Records. The tour hits 13 cities playing DIY house shows and venues plus a live Daytrotter Session on June 8 at 2PM CST.
Touch Yourself USA Tour Dates:
6/2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Cheap Storage
6/3 – Philadephia, PA @ Pi Lam (3914 Spruce Street)
6/4 – Harrisonburg, VA @ My Mansion
6/5 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Art Works
6/7 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
6/8 – Daytrotter Live Session @ 2 PM CST
6/8 – Chicago, IL @ Township w/ White Mystery
6/10 – Milwakee, WI @ Turf Club
6/12 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop
6/13 – Columbus, OH @ Ace Of Cups
6/14 – Baltimore, MD @ Bell Foundry w/ Weekends
6/15 – Boston, MA @ Liz Pelly’s (Secret house show)
Total Slacker is an American psych-lo-fi-garage-noise-*gaze band from Brooklyn, New York founded by Tucker Rountree and Emily Jane. Within their first year, Total Slacker released a 2 Song EP, “Crystal Necklace” on Impose Records as well as a 7” Split EP with Weird Dreams (UK), a digital single of “Secret VHS Collection,” and a full length LP, “Thrashin’” all on the UK Label Marshall Teller Records.
Watch the video for Crystal Necklace lifted from Total Slacker’s first EP below.
The glitches with YouTube seem to have worked themselves out and we can post the video picks properly this week. Take a listen / view, and make sure to share and / or leave a comment if you like what we delivered to you this week. We hope you enjoy the tracks as much as us.
Trust: Sulk - love this track…now they have a video.
Gil Scott-Heron: Me And The Devil - still genius after death.
Grimes: Nightmusic f/ Majical Cloudz- new Grimes vid.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: American Dream Part II - cool vid & song.
MS MR: Hurricane - try to identify all of the video clips in this video.
Dum Dum Girls: Coming Down - super stylish video.
Thanks for watching this edition. We’ll be back again next Sunday to offer up some more videos for your eyes and ears, so pop back in again for more music vids and look back in the archives for older editions.
VHS or Beta have released another track from their new album “Diamonds & Dub” which was released digitally May 8 via Krian Music Group. “Diamonds & Dub” is a dub version of their 2011 release “Diamonds & Death” and the VHS duo Mark Palgy & Craig Pfunder connected with DJ/producer Jacques Renault (Holy Ghost, YACHT) and engineer/remixer Mark Verbos (The Gossip, Gang of Four) to create a dub version for seven of the original album’s 9 tracks.
Today, The Hundred In The Hands shared Andy Stott’s remix of their single “Keep It Low” lifted from their new album “Red Night” on June 12 via Warp Records. The remix can be found on the 12-inch “Keep It Low” single, which includes an original B-side (“Mountains”), and additional remixes from JD Twitch. The single will be released on May 28 via Warp Records. The band is also announcing a number of tour dates, including an album preview show at Brooklyn’s Glasslands tomorrow, where they’ll be debuting new material from “Red Night” live for the first time.
Watch the video for the Andy Stott remix below.
About the Andy Stott remix, the band says, “We were listening to Andy Stott’s “Passed Me By” and “We Stay Together” EP’s a lot as we started the record. So many good ideas and textures, with low end in the extreme that kind of rattled our minds a bit. When it came to looking for people to remix, he was first on the list.”
Tour Dates:
5/15 – Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands
5/18 – Moscow, RU – Gorky Park Cherrytree Festival
5/21 – Amsterdam, NL – Indiestad Festival at Paradiso
5/22 – Rotterdam, NL – Rotown
5/24 – Cologne, DE – Electronic Beats Festival at E-Werk
5/25 – Berlin, DE – Meltklub Weekender at Astra Kulturhaus
5/26 – Neustrelitz, DE – Immergut Festival
5/27 – Tuntange, LU – Food For Your Senses Festival
5/28 – Paris, FR – Café De La Danse
5/29 – London, UK – White Heat at Madame Jojo’s
5/31 – London, UK – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen
6/01 – Cambridge, UK – The Portland Arms
6/02 – Bristol, UK – Dot To Dot Festival
6/03 – Nottingham, UK – Dot to Dot Festival
6/04 – Manchester, UK – Dot To Dot Festival
6/06 – Zurich, CH – Exil
6/08 – Luzern, CH – Südpol
6/09 – Imagine Festival, Basel, CH – Imagine Festival
6/14 – Toronto, ON – Wrongbar (NXNE w/Purity Ring)
6/15 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
6/18 – Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
6/19 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
6/26 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
6/27 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
6/30 – Düsseldorf, DE – Open Source Festival
7/07 – Saarbrücken, DE – Electro Magnetic
7/28 – Diepholz, DE – Appletree Garden Festival
8/03 – Salzburg, AT – Stuck! Festival
8/10 – Hamburg, DE – Dockville Festival
8/24-25 – Hannover, DE – Bootboohook Festival
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there…we dedicate this edition to you even though it is not playing mother themed videos. Take a listen / view this week’s videos and make sure to share and / or leave a comment if you like what we delivered to you this week. We hope you enjoy the tracks as much as we did.
Grimes: Nightmusic ft. Majical Cloudz - new Grimes vid…so good.
Howler: This One’s Different - a bucket of blood can do wonders for a vid treatment
Danny Brown: Jay Dee’s Revenge - Danny’s tribute to J Dilla.
Modeselektor featuring Thom Yorke: This - cool and eerie track.
Sorry for the limited amount of videos, but Youtube was acting funky and we had to cut a couple out until next week. Thanks for watching this edition. We’ll be back again next Sunday to offer up some more videos for your eyes and ears, so pop back in again for more music vids and look back in the archives for older editions.
New York’s noise grunge trio GHXST have released a new track titled, Doomgirl. This is the follow-up to the release of the “Evilwickeddesire” LP on vinyl last year via Paris-based Desire Records, which contained their first two EPs (Evil’s Wasted On You and No Rest For The Wicked). They state influences such as the Jesus and Mary Chain, White Zombie, and Sonic Youth, and plan to resurrect 90s rock but with a new kind of stylish noise rock, distortion, bluesy vocals, and heavy drums.
The glitches with YouTube seem to have worked themselves out and we can post the video picks properly this week. Take a listen / view, and make sure to share and / or leave a comment if you like what we delivered to you this week. We hope you enjoy the tracks as much as us.
