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Author: Nik Havert
I've been a music fan since my parents gave me a record player for Christmas when I was still in grade school. The first record I remember owning was "Sesame Street Disco." I've been a professional writer since 2004, but writing long before that. My first published work was in a middle school literary magazine and was a story about a zoo in which the animals could talk.
Lineup for 2018 Audiotree Music Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan announces – Father John Misty to headline.
AUDIOTREE MUSIC FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2018 LINEUP
FATHER JOHN MISTY, LOCAL NATIVES, REAL ESTATE, KHRUANGBIN
& MORE
SEPTEMBER 22-23 IN KALAMAZOO, MI
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Live – King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Chicago, IL – June 10, 2018
“Intense,” “hot,” and “fucked up” were all phrases I heard used to describe the sold-out King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard show in Chicago on June 10th. Fans were lined up down the block in hopes to get early access to the Riviera Theatre’s general admission area for the best spots to watch the show or be in the mosh pit.
It was a cool yet humid afternoon and evening. Fog was high and thick in the city. You couldn’t see the tops of most buildings. It was a bit of a surreal image perfect for a psychedelic rock show. I felt bad for a group of four guys who were asking one of the bouncers for any unclaimed tickets. They’d driven all the way from Ohio and didn’t know the show was sold out until they arrived.
Unfortunately, I missed Amyl and the Sniffers, as my friend attending with the show with me had a late appointment, but we got in after she went through a near TSA-level search at the door. We immediately noticed the heat in the place. A lot of bodies were in there, and the humidity crept in from the streets and into the theatre. Security was already hauling a sweat-soaked woman who could barely walk out of the stage area as we walked down the foyer.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard didn’t seem to feel the heat, however. They only increased it.
The mosh pit started quick. I didn’t get into this one. There were so many people there that moving from our spot (between the downstairs bar and the sound booth) to the main floor and pit was nearly impossible. My friend told me that a lot of the people already looked dehydrated and / or drunk and / or high, and she then remembered that the Spring Awakening electronic music festival had been happening in the city all weekend. Many had decided to wrap up their weekend with Australian psychedelia after going crazy with dubstep and trance for three days.
King Gizzard ripped through “Lord of Lightning” and got a big reaction for “Rattlesnake”. One of the high spots of the night for me was hearing a slightly aggressive version of “Sleep Drifter.” It had an edge to it that you won’t hear on Flying Microtonal Banana.
The three tracks from Nonagon Infinity got a great response from the crowd, of course. My friend was describing the show as “intense” by now. She went to the restroom at one point and came back to tell me, “The real show’s out there (in the foyer). Some girl is fucked up out there and they’re dragging her and other people outside.” I made a break for the restroom at one point and discovered the humidity had turned the foyer floor and stairs down to the restroom into a Slip and Slide. I made it there and back without falling, but I’m not sure others were so lucky.
I was happy to see the four Ohio guys walk by me with drinks in their hands. I clapped one on the shoulder and told him I was happy they made it into the show. The whole crowd was buzzing, both naturally and through chemical means. My friend was a bit freaked out by part of King Gizzard‘s projections that included a cartoon crocodile flying a biplane. King Gizzard shows are always wild, and this one was no exception.
Catch them if you can while they’re in the U.S.
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Flasher releases new video and single – “Who’s Got Time?”
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Iceage announces new fall U.S. tour dates with Black Lips.
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Clutch announces new U.S. tour dates with Sevendust.
CLUTCH ANNOUNCE BOOK OF BAD DECISIONS TOUR DATES WITH
SEVENDUST AND TYLER BRYAN & THE SHAKEDOWN
June 19th, 2018 – Clutch has just announced US/Canada Fall tour dates for their “Book Of Bad Decisions Tour 2018.” Clutch is making the following special offer for this tour: The price of a ticket when purchased in advance online includes a physical CD copy of Clutch‘s new album “Book of Bad Decisions.” Fans will receive information on how to redeem the album after purchasing the advance ticket online. Offer valid through 10/29/18, open to US residents only. Not valid on Resale tickets. Offer only valid for Clutch headline dates. Festivals, Canadian headline dates and the October 13th date with System of a Down are exempt from this offer. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, June 22nd at 10AM local time and will be available at www.pro-rock.com and www.facebook.com/clutchband.Supporting the tour will be Sevendust and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown.Book of Bad Decisions, CLUTCH’s 12th studio album is scheduled for a worldwide release on September 7th, 2018 via their own Weathermaker Music label. The album was recorded at Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN by producer Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather) and consists of 15 new tracks.Clutch Book Of Bad Decisions Tour with Sevendust and Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown:Sun/Sep-16 Chicago IL Riotfest **Tue/Sep-18 St Paul, MN Myth LiveWed/Sep-19 Kansas City, MO Uptown TheaterFri/Sep-21 Houston TX House of BluesSat/Sep-22 San Antonio TX River City Rock Fest **Sun/Sep-23 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey LiveTue/Sep-25 Orlando, FL House Of BluesThu/Sep-27 Norfolk, VA The NorVaFri/Sep-28 Raleigh, NC The RitzSat/Sep-29 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade *Sun/Sep-30 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life **Tue/Oct-02 Denver, CO Ogden TheaterWed/Oct-03 Salt Lake City, UT The DepotFri/Oct-05 Boise, ID Knitting FactorySat/Oct-06 Spokane, WA Knitting FactorySun/Oct-07 Seattle, WA Showbox SODOMon/Oct-08 Vancouver, BC Commodore BallroomTue/Oct-09 Portland, OR Roseland TheaterThu/Oct-11 San Francisco, CA The Regency BallroomFri/Oct-12 Los Angeles, CA El Rey TheaterSat/Oct-13 San Bernardino, CA Glen Helen Amphitheater w/SOAD ***Sun/Oct-14 San Diego, CA North Park/ObservatoryMon/Oct-15 Tempe, AZ The MarqueeWed/Oct-17 Tulsa, OK Cain’s BallroomThu/Oct-18 Sauget, IL Pop’s NightclubFri/Oct-19 Grand Rapids, MI 20 Monroe LiveSat/Oct-20 Detroit, MI The Filmore DetroitSun/Oct-21 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AETue/Oct-23 Toronto, ON RebelThu/Oct-25 Worcester, MA The PalladiumFri/Oct-26 New York, NY Irving PlazaSat/Oct-27 New York, NY Irving PlazaSun/Oct-28 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory*= no Sevendust** = festival date / Clutch and festival bill only*** = date w/ System of a Down/ no SevendustCLUTCH:Neil Fallon – Vocals/GuitarTim Sult – GuitarDan Maines – BassJean-Paul Gaster – Drums/Percussionclutchofficial Twitter: www.twitter.com/clutchofficialOfficial: www.pro-rock.comYouTube: www.youtube.com/user/officialclutch Keep your mind open.[Stay up to date on music news by subscribing.]
The Young Mothers unveil crazy new single – “Jazz Oppression.”
The Young Mothers share “Jazz Oppression” track from forthcoming album Morose
Avant Jazz/Hip-Hop/Punk Rock hybrid featuring ex-MF Doom, Nenah Cherry, ex-White Denim, Shape of Broad Minds, Free Radicals members
Hear & share “Jazz Oppression” (Soundcloud)(Austin Chronicle)
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“A sound that blends free jazz and hip-hop, seeing no distance between them… Latin fuses with African fuses with European and on and on until there is no distinction. This uncompromising group of players delivers an unforgettable listening experience that listeners will doubtless be parsing for some time to come.” — PopMatters
“One of the most interesting and original acts in Texas — perhaps the entire planet,” — Austin Chronicle
Austin, TX musical iconoclasts The Young Mothers share a new track from their forthcoming sophomore album today in an interview with Austin Chronicle. Hear and share “Jazz Oppression” HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)
PopMatters recently premiered album opener “Attica Black” HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)
The band is currently in Europe wrapping up a summer tour before heading to Canada for a couple of shows. See current dates below.
Self Sabotage Records proudly presents Morose, the anticipated follow up by The Young Mothers, a juggernaut of a collective formed in 2012 and featuring a super group of heavy-hitters who have helped steer the direction of creative music in New York, Chicago, Texas, and Scandinavia.
Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (The Thing; Free Fall; Atomic) moved to Austin, Texas in 2009. He’d experimented with stateside living for a few years in Chicago before that, but the city of barbecue, food trucks, and outlaw country music has become his home base. Texas has a deep creative music history, but most Texas improvisers found their notoriety elsewhere, seeking to escape segregation and poverty for a chance to ‘starve a little better’ on the coasts. However, the Texas of 2018 is not the Texas of 1958 and the groundwork for this potent convergence was laid around a decade ago in Houston when Ingebrigt met and linked up with trumpeter/rapper Jawwaad Taylor (Shape Of Broad Minds, MF Doom), and what became a transliteration of his Chicago Sextet into a scrappy Lone Star variant called The Young Mothers has formed a group identity all its own and now has a second album under the belt (their first, A Mothers’ Work Is Never Done was self-released in 2014). Instrumentally The Young Mothers has some similarity with its Windy City relative – in addition to sharing drummer Frank Rosaly and Flaten, the vibraphone chair is held down by percussionist & diabolical vocalist Stefan González (Yells At Eels, Akkolyte), and Jason Jackson (Alvin Fielder, Pauline Oliveros, William Parker) on tenor and barry is their saxophone firebrand. Furthermore, the group features guitarist Jonathan Horne (Plutonium Farmers, ex-White Denim) and prolific wordsmith and improviser JAWWAAD on trumpet, electronics, and rhymes, and it is here that structural similarities between the Young Mothers and Flaten’s other folksy-modal projects end.
The Young Mothers was named after a Houston community project for teen mothers (Project Row Houses) that Flaten’s then-partner had been a part of, and while it may strike one as an odd moniker for a group that melds free improvisation, Tejano-inspired horn lines, the long unfurling electricity of surf rock, tough word-science and crust metal vocals, but relocating to a then-unfamiliar locale and birthing/raising a melange of sonic approaches into a working ensemble is not insignificant, if not quite actual motherhood. (On a side note; another strong connection to the Project Row Houses is the Houstonian artist and legendary sculptor Jesse Lott who made the beautiful album art!) Anyways, while they may have exhibited a homespun ricketiness in the beginning, through touring nationwide and after several festival performances and tours in Europe they’ve honed their sound into something truly their own, and one that’s not insignificantly comparable to historical melds in Scandinavian-American-World Music – the work of Don Cherry, Maffy Falay’s Sevda, and more recent efforts from Two Bands and a Legend and The Cherry Thing successfully merge varied strains of contemporary music with creative improvisation. Flaten’s round, deep tone and precise attack certainly act as an anchor, a fulcrum for sculpted vibraphone resonance, the dry breaks and shimmering floes of Rosaly’s kit, all of which stoke Horne’s flinty guitar and the throaty exhortations of brass and verbal declaration. Check “Black Tar Caviar” for some of the most unruly combinations of threads on this disc; from dual cymbal and tuned gong tempi supporting Jackson’s Gato Barbieri-like burrs, the palette of accents gradually increases until feedback-laden scorch signals a second movement, raps and death howls in tandem against a Cherry-like folk theme and sludgy electric bass grooves/strangled flourishes. It’s a fine microcosm of ten of what The Young Mothers are up to.
And as Håker Flaten tells us; “a lot has changed since I initiated this band in 2012, it has grown into its own thing with a truly collective spirit. I created a monster and its time to let go” – luckily for all of us, this band has stretched its legs further than the Houston/Austin/Dallas triangle and we at Self Sabotage Records are ready to help them to hopefully reach out much further with an album we believe is remarkable! We hope you feel the same.
Morose will be available on LP, CD and download on June 22, 2018 out via Self Sabotage Records (Pre-order at Big Cartel-Self Sabotage).
THE YOUNG MOTHERS TOUR:
06/12 Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rosa
06/13 Hamilton, ON @ Something Else Festival
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Artist: The Young Mothers
Album: Morose
Record Label: Self Sabotage Records
Release Date: June 22nd, 2018
01. Attica Black
02. Black Tar Caviar
03. Bodiless Arms
04. Francisco
05. Untitled #1
06. Jazz Oppression
07. Morose
08. Osaka
09. Untitled #2
10. Shanghai
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Here Lies Man – You Will Know Nothing
Here Lies Man was introduced to me via their label (RidingEasy Records) with the following question – “What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat?”
I’m not sure I can sum up HLM’s sound better than that. They’re from Los Angeles (and consist of members of Antibalas), so it’s tempting to say there’s a touch of southern California rock and surf in there. However, the majority of their sound is a blend of heavy riffs and Afrobeat rhythms. It works. Good heavens, does it work.
The heavy organ and crunchy guitar of “Animal Noises” get things off to a great start. It sounds like a couple wild boars grunting alongside jungle birds. It also cuts out and then fades back in with delicate psychedelic brush strokes. “Summon Fire” could probably do exactly that under the right circumstances. The guitar licks are hot enough, and the drums are perfect for a dance around the fire while spinning a spear overhead. The lyrics are belted out like something from Parliament Funkadelic. “Blindness” is a mostly instrumental with great organ / keyboard work throughout it, especially on the gothic fade-out that would make Bauhaus proud.
“That Much Closer to Nothing” is a good, yet bleak, way to describe living. The title and the sludge-like riffs are nihilistic at first, but then blossom with an infectious energy that let you know that letting go of all your trappings is a good thing. Those Sabbath influences are front and center on “Hell (Wooly Tail).” The bass slithers, the guitars chug, the drums bubble, and the keys melt. The songs ends with a child’s voice telling us to “Look in the mirror.” It lends a bit of creepiness to the title of the next track – “Voices at the Window.” The song is like a fog through which you see what may or may not be a deer along the road as you’re driving at 65mph. In other words, it’s misty and a bit frightening.
The choppy, fuzzy sounds of “Taking the Blame” are heavy and will get your neck moving like a bobble head figure. “Fighting” was the first single off the record, and choosing it was a no-brainer. The groove on it is excellent and belongs at the top of your next workout playlist. “Floating on Water” follows, and its one of the best psychedelic dream-rock songs of the year. It like concentric ripples in a mountain lake. “Memory Games” brings Cream to mind with its floor-stomping blues-based groove. The closer is the lovely “You Ought to Know” – an instrumental that puts together shoegaze, stoner rock, psychedelia, and space rock / lounge.
You Will Know Nothing is the type of album that you can put on a loop and listen to three times in a row without getting bored. It’s funky, heavy, and a great cure for anything ailing you right now.
Keep your mind open.
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Protomartyr drop new single ahead of “Consolation” EP due tomorrow.
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DJ set list for June 13, 2018
Thanks to all who tuned in for my latest WSND show and helped me determine what to play to celebrate Flag Day. Here’s my set list from the show in case you want to know the name of that one weird band I played.
- Sandworms – Agent of Terror
- The Horrors – Machine
- The Paper Chase – One Day He Went Out for Milk and Never Came Back
- The Space Merchants – TranscendentalSuperConsciousState
- Melkbelly – R.O.R.O.B.
- Laura Carbone – Grace
- Screaming Females – It All Means Nothing
- Frenzy of Blood radio ad
- Dum Dum Girls – Heartbeat
- Hot Trash – One More Chance
- Vazum – Fall Guy
- The Noisettes – Hierarchy
- Skyland Drive-in Theatre intermission ad
- Voodoo Glow Skulls – Here Comes the Sun
- Vowws – Esseff
- Bjork – Enjoy (live)
- Madvillain – Operation Lifesaver AKA Mint Test
- Friday Foster radio ad
- Devo – Don’t Shoot (I’m a Man)
- The Clash – Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)
- The Clash – Lose This Skin
- The Smithereens – A Girl Like You (Strip Club version)
- Spice Boys – I Don’t Get Around
- Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark – Dresden
- Sugar Hill radio ad
- Julian Cope – East Easy Rider
- King’s X – Black Flag (requested)
- Dead Parties – Now You’re a Star
- Chromatics – Blue Girl
- Muddy Waters – Take the Bitter with the Sweet
I’m back on air June 27th with a “Best of 2018 So Far” show. Send me your suggestions.
Keep your mind open.
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