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Watch: ‘Animal Insults’ by Netherlands

Posted: 1 April 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: anger, Animal Insults, animal rights, liberation, Netherlands, punk rock, Severance, Svart Records, Timo Ellis, video stream

Something unlike anything you’ve heard before, Severance is the 9th release from multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis (Cibo Matto, Spacehog, Yoko Ono) under the Netherlands moniker. Just out on Svart Records, Severance features all the hallmarks of Ellis’ work, including blistering post-shred guitar heroics, primal drumming, and soulful, yet searing caterwauls. But as with every Netherlands release, Ellis has inexplicably found a way to ratchet up the intensity, render the dynamic shifts more extreme, and hone his menacing melange of melody and rhythm into a uniquely weaponized form of rock ‘n’ roll that reaches towards high art.

To coincide with the release of their new album, Netherlands have shared the video for their animal-rights anthem ‘Animal Insults’. Band leader Timo Ellis comments, ‘The song (and video of) ‘Animal Insults’ is more or less a straight up, punk rock animal-rights anthem/ scream of anger and grief. IMO, any regular meat/ fish/ dairy eaters that have the (relative) privilege + access to be able to *extremely easily* transition to a fully plant-based diet…ought to summon the guts to unflinchingly watch footage like this…in order to plainly see how horrifically inhumane (and socially and environmentally catastrophic!) the worldwide, legal, factory farm system really is. The current cultural and commercial manifestations of malevolent, ecocidal speciesism need to be dismantled, at scale…and as soon as humanly possible. ANIMAL LIBERATION RIGHT NOW! ‘

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Watch: ‘Cocaine Footprints’ by These Beasts

Posted: 30 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Cocaine Footprints, Heavy, Magnetic Eye Records, Noise Rock, Sludge, Stoner, These Beasts, video stream

THESE BEASTS release a dashing video for the track ‘Cocaine Footprints’ as the final single taken from their forthcoming new album Cares, Wills, Wants. The crushing new full-length from the Chicago sludgy noise rock trio is slated for release on April 21, 2023 through Magnetic Eye Records.

Watch the video here:

THESE BEASTS comment: “There’s a bar near our rehearsal building that is sort of a hang out for bands and a great place to catch up with friends and talk music”, bass player and singer Todd Fabian relates. “One day, our friend Shirilla told us a hilarious story about someone calling the bar and asking him to find their cocaine. Of course, he told them no, but after getting off the phone, he did look over and saw these cocaine footprints coming out of the bathroom. Once we named the song that, the lyrics became an ambiguous story about our local hangout and our friends there. We also had a listening party at the bar one night after we got our test press and filmed a lot of it for the video.”

These Beasts by Joe Malone

Watch: ‘We Feel Alright’ by Girls Under Glass

Posted: 29 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Dependent Records, electric noire, electronic, Girls Under Glass, goth, gothioc rock, Killing Joke, video stream, We Feel Alright

Girls Under Glass unveil the black and white video ‘We Feel Alright’, which is also the first single taken from the forthcoming album Backdraft. After a long hiatus the Hamburgian gothic rockers return with fiery new tracks that take the best elements from the band’s past and shapes them into an album that leads the way to the future. The release date of Backdraft has been slated to June 2, 2023.

‘We Feel Alright’ is also available as a digital single with two Girls Under Glass remixes entitled ‘Who the F*** Is Killing Joke?’ and ‘Into the Shining Light’ through the regular platforms.

The electric noire clip ‘We Feel Alright’ is now available to watch here:

Girls Under Glass comment: “The original version of ‘We Feel Alright’ was already introduced for years ago live on stage, but ever since we have continued to work on the song until it was just perfect for us”, synth player Axel Ermes explains. “This track comes with the vibe of our classics, yet it is also moving forward. It was fun to work on the two alternative mixes, which will be available as bonus tracks.”

Girls Under Glass by Bianca Chang

Listen: ‘Separation from the Sacred’ by Dave Lombardo

Posted: 29 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Dave Lombardo, Dead Cross, Drums, Empire State Bastard, Ipecac Recordings, Mr Bungle, Separation from the Sacred, track stream

Dave Lombardo shares the second single ‘Separation from the Sacred"’today, from his upcoming debut solo record, Rites of Percussion, coming 5th May via Ipecac Recordings.

Lombardo is one of the busiest musicians working right now. Never one to rest on his laurels, the drumming pioneer recently released new albums with Dead Cross and Venamoris, and announced Empire State Bastard, a new project with members of Biffy Clyro who have just shared a new single. He will also be hitting the road with Mr. Bungle and The Misfits in the coming months, as well as festival appearances with John Zorn (including Big Ears Fest in April).

Listen to ‘Separation from the Sacred’ here:

The recording process of the film score-like album had a simple mantra: drums had to be drums. Mixed in early 2022 by Lombardo’s son, David A. Lombardo, the self-produced release features a large concert bass drum, a timpani, a grand piano, and a flock of shakers, maracas, Chinese and symphonic gongs, Native American drums, congas, timbales, bongos, batás, wood blocks, djembes, ibos, darbukas, octobans, cajóns, and cymbals.

Listen: ‘Die Tonight’ by Cliff and Ivy

Posted: 27 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Cliff and Ivy, dark, Die Tonight, goth, House of Extreme Darkness, Post-Punk, single stream

Alaska’s premier goth rock band, Cliff And Ivy recently unveiled their new single, ‘Die Tonight’ on their label, House of Extreme Darkness.

‘Die Tonight’ is a dark punk song for those who love like vampires – legendary, eternal and full of fire. Almost an eternity in the making, it was inspired by the undying flame of love that exists between immortal lovers and in the natural world.

Death and life are always linked together, as it takes the clearest dark night to be able to see the aurora in the northern sky. ‘Die Tonight’ was recorded in Alaska while the northern lights exploded above.

‘Die Tonight’ is available on all streaming services including Bandcamp.

Listen here:

Watch: ‘Forført Av Kulden’ by MORK

Posted: 27 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: black metal, Dypet, Forført Av Kulden, Mork, Norwegian, Peaceville Records, video stream

After unveiling two singles of ‘Bortgang’ and ‘Tilbake Til Opprinnelsen’, Norwegian black-metal band MORK deliver a stunning video for ‘Forført Av Kulden’ to celebrate the release of their new album Dypet which is out now on Peaceville.

You can check out the video here:

Thematically, ‘Forført Av Kulden’ deals with the beguiling force of the cold, often portrayed as an omnipresent character within the world of Black Metal and a look into the natural beauty in death. On the single our protagonist enters a trance-like state to wander the forest and eventually freeze.

The song is also accompanied by a striking video, directed by Trond-Atle Bokerød, which echoes the primordial allure of nature, synonymous with the Black Metal subgenre, whilst exploring the unforgiving winter that is the song’s subject. After a veil of synthesizers are lifted MORK’s signature Black Metal tonalities are revealed for a mid paced rhythm that eventually gives way to Eriksen’s signature vocals and lachrymose lead lines.

Regarding the track Thomas Eriksen had the following to say:

“Forført Av Kulden’About being seduced into the cold hard weather outside by an unknown force. Wandering into the snowstorm at night and ending up freezing to death. It depicts a somewhat glorified theme of death as a beautiful and unavoidable thing.”

Listen: ‘Move Fast’ by Argonaut

Posted: 26 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: alternative, Argonaut, company, corporate, Indie, Lo-Fi, microserfs, Move Fast, office, Pop, Single, video stream

‘Move Fast’ is from the open-ended Argonaut album Songs from the Black Hat.

It is Gen X Silicon Valley slogans, 80’s pop synths and 90’s noise.

The video follows the adventures of some hapless microserfs in an office pod near you.

We’re reminded of Douglas Coupland, and also a time pre-pandemic when offices 9-5, 5 days a week were the usual. It’s a fizzy li-fi indie tune: check it here:

Watch: ‘A Classic Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue’ by Resurrectionists

Posted: 24 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: A Classic Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Bob Weston, Doom Chamber-Americana, Now That We Are All Ghosts, Resurrectionists, Seismic Wave Entertainment, video stream

‘A Classic Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue’ is the first video from Now That We Are All Ghosts, the second album from Milwaukee’s Resurrectionists.

The project was self-engineered, recorded and produced; it was mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. The album features nine songs of Doom Chamber-Americana, all powerfully cinematic and ripe for video treatments, leading the group to take the unusual and ambitious step of commissioning videos for every one of them. Now That We Are All Ghosts, will be released on Seismic Wave Entertainment on 12” vinyl LP, CD and Digital formats.

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The new album sees a marked change in the band’s direction and stylistic range. Resurrectionists were originally formed by lyricist, guitarist and banjo picker Joe Cannon and bassist Jeff Brueggeman from the locally revered trio WORK with drummer Josh Barto and pedal steel player Gavin Hardy. On the group’s 2019 debut album What Comes In — a collection of everyman trouble tales delivered with dark wit and piquant Midwestern tang — Gavin’s mournful, swelling steel work helped steer songs into Gothic-country territory.

On Now That We Are All Ghosts, Hardy has been replaced by multi-instrumentalist Gian Pogliano. Gian’s penchant for more adventurous, wider-ranging sonic discourse inspires Resurrectionists to branch out into unexpected stylistic experimentation. The material here is informed equally by the meticulous melodic abstractions of pre-punk icons Television as the Old Weird American sounds of Dock Boggs and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. The album’s opener ‘A Classic Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue,’ for instance begins as a mournful, banjo-driven meditation but ends as an apocalyptic howl, filled with shrieking banjo feedback – ideal support for Cannon’s writing and singing.

Joe’s lyrics on Now That We Are All Ghosts are both primal and poetic and he sings the hell out of them with a tent preacher’s conviction and a working-class punk’s urgency. Lines that seem to squarely address experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic were actually influenced by reading Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain pre-2020, married to strange ruminations concerning Walt Whitman’s death mask.

It all adds up to a collection of life-or-death songs that are incredibly haunting, daunting and visceral.

Pic: TW Hansen

Watch: ‘Paradise is Mine’ by Swans: album and tour dates announced

Posted: 22 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Lyric Video, Paradise is Mine, Swans, The Beggar, track stream, Young God Records

SWANS have announced details of their sixteenth studio album, The Beggar, due for release on Mute / Young God Records (N America) on 23 June 2023. In addition, Swans have announced further dates for a tour across the UK, Europe and North America – full details below. The Beggar will be released on double vinyl in a brown chipboard sleeve with a download card for accessing an additional 44 minutes of music (also included on the album’s CD version), as a double CD in a brown chipboard digi-pack, as well as digitally.

Listen to the first track from the album, ‘Paradise is Mine’:

SWANS LIVE DATES – 2023

20 May – Leipzig DE, UT Connewitz – SOLD OUT

21 May – Poznan PL, CK Zamek – SOLD OUT

23 May – Katowice PL, Kino Teatr Rialto – SOLD OUT

25 May – Zilina SK, New Synagogue

26 May – Ljubljana SL, Kino Siska

27 May – Innsbruck, AT, Heart of Noise Festival, Treibhaus

29 May – Bologna IT, Teatro Duse

31 May – Lyon FR, Transbordeur

2 June – Barcelona ES, Primavera Sound Festival

4 June – Lisbon PT, Culturgest – SOLD OUT

5 June – Lisbon PT, Culturgest

6 June – Faro PT, Teatro Das Figuras

9 June – Madrid ES, Primavera Sound Festival

11 June – Athens GR, Vraxon Theatre

13 June – Thessaloniki GR, Moni Lazariston

15 June – Antwerp BE, Bourlaschouwburg

16 June – Utrecht NL, Hertz Theatre – SOLD OUT

11 Aug – Brighton UK, St George’s

12 Aug – Manchester UK, Albert Hall

15 Aug – Newcastle UK, Boiler Shop

16 Aug – Glasgow UK, St Luke’s

18 Aug – Bristol UK, Arc Tangent Festival

19 Aug – Leeds UK, Belgrave Music Hall

21 Aug – Dublin IE, The Academy

23 Aug – Norwich UK, Waterfront

24 Aug – London UK, Troxy

26 Aug – La Tour-De-Peilz CH, Nox Orae Festival

2 Sep – Dallas TX, Granada Theater

3 Sep – Austin TX, Paramount Theatre

7 Sep – Phoenix AZ, Crescent Ballroom

8 Sep – Los Angeles CA, Lodge Room

9 Sep – Los Angeles CA, Lodge Room

12 Sep – San Francisco CA, Great American Music Hall

13 Sep – San Francisco CA, Great American Music Hall

15 Sep – Portland OR, Revolution Hall

16 Sep – Seattle WA, The Crocodile Showroom

19 Sep – Omaha NE, Waiting Room Showroom

20 Sep – Minneapolis MN, Fine Line Music Cafe

21 Sep – Chicago IL, Cabaret Metro

23 Sep – Detroit MI, Magic Bag

24 Sep – Cleveland OH, Beachland Ballroom

26 Sep – Toronto ON, Phoenix Concert Theater

27 Sep – Montreal QC, Theatre National

29 Sep – Brooklyn NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg

30 Sep – Brooklyn NY, Music Hall of Williamsburg

Listen: ‘Epidendrum Nocturnum’ by Botanist

Posted: 22 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Avant-garde, Botanist, Epidendrum Nocturnum, Metal, Progressive, Prophecy Productions, track stream

Plant-based metal avant-gardists BOTANIST have seeded the new track ‘Epidendrum Nocturnum’, which is named after a ‘nocturnal’ species of the orchid family (common to South Florida but also growing in the Caribbean and all the way down to Brasil), as the second single taken from their forthcoming album VIII: Selenotrope. The album is planted for blooming on May 19, 2023.

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BOTANIST comment: “For VIII: Selenotrope, I wanted to limit myself to only dulcimers, drums, bass and voice”, mastermind Otrebor explains. “For the voice, I decided to have an album without any screams or harsh vocals whatsoever, and instead to rely on the whispers that speak to the listener as messages in a dreamlike state. As the album progresses, melodic choirs are increasingly introduced. These choirs, which have progressed in form and presence since I started Botanist, see their biggest role ever on VIII: Selenotrope. The song ‘Epidendrum Nocturnum’ is one of the album’s darker pieces. Its churning main section gives way to a cathartic landscape in which whispered elements underpin melodic choral paeans to flora that bloom in moonlight.”

Botanist by Tony Thomas

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