New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Philly brat punks Slutever are currently on tour doing America. Well, they had a chance last week to swing by Richmond, Virginia’s WRIR Studios to lay down a couple of tunes. Below are in-studio live performance videos of the ladies kicking out “No Offense” & “I Can Dream the Rest Away.” Their next scheduled local show is Friday, August 19 headlining at Johnny Brenda’s. (Photo by Leigh Metzler) – The Deli Staff
In support of a limited edition 7" recorded with the Kentucky rocker Mansions that is to be released on Tuesday, July 26th, Fences are gearing up to play a ten day tour. The 7" was recorded in April at Avast Studios in Seattle, Washington. The tour will kick off on July 22nd at the Capitol Hill Block Party. The 7" will be for sale in select retail shops in Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Chicago, and Louisville, as well as being downloadable digitally through iTunes. The Fences track on the split is called "Marketplace," and it’s a downbeat, self-deprecating, introspective slow-burner Fences have come to be known by and loved for.
Fences and Mansions Tour:
Friday, July 22 – SEATTLE, WA @ Capitol Hill Block Party Main Stage
Tuesday, July 26 – Split 7″ RELEASE DAY & In-store performance @ Sonic Boom Records in SEATTLE, WA
Friday, July 29 – TACOMA, WA @ Hell’s Kitchen
Saturday, July 30 – SPOKANE, WA @ A Club
Sunday, July 31 – MISSOULA, MT @ Top Hat
Tuesday, August 2 – SIOUX FALLS, SD @ Latitude 44
Wednesday, August 3 – FARGO, ND @ Aquarium
Thursday, August 4 – MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ 7th St Entry
Friday, August 5 – MADISON, WI @ High Noon
Saturday, August 6 – CHICAGO, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club (Official Lollapalooza After Party) w/Titus Andronicus
Sunday, August 7 – CHICAGO, IL @ Lollapalooza
On Thursday, July 14, Speaker Geeks presents the first of a new series of shows at the Studio at Webster Hall featuring the melodic surf-punk stylings of the ambiguously-punctuated Shark? the country-punk growl of the exclamatory Gunfight! (pictured while rocking out in the living room) and the blissed-out shoegazer pop of the un-punctuated Autodrone. Also on hand is DJ Steve Morehouse, who will spin between sets. The show begins at 6pm with an open bar ’til 7, so don’t be late!
Salt for Salt the latest full-length from Providence, RI’s Brown Bird is being released October 18th, 2011 on Supply & Demand Music (Dark Dark Dark, Vandaveer).
Recorded live to tape in Pawtucket, RI, Salt for Salt is the first album by Brown Bird to capture the intense energy of the duo’s live show, surging in waves that often swell into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness.
Paring down from five musicians on their last album to the duo of David Lamb and MorganEve Swain on Salt For Salt resulted in some necessary instrument changes. Swain, a lifelong violinist, spends most of the album on cello and double bass, instruments she picked up in the past two years. Lamb has a kick drum and woodblock/tambourine rigged to a second pedal in front of him, using his whole body and voice to carry the rhythm and melody simultaneously.
Brown BIrd have released the first single from the album, Fingers to the Bone, which you can listen to below:
Brown Bird – Fingers to the Bone
Brown Bird is playing at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday, July, 31 at 11:30am on the Harbor Stage.
–Chrissy Prisco
Antiques fourth release, JWNS is a garage-y, lo-fi affair in the best of ways. There’s brilliance beneath the smudge and that’s what makes this recording so rewarding. You have to pay attention. You have to be patient. You have to dust off the crusty veneer that cakes JWNS.
Though much of the record rocks out pretty well with wall of sound, squelching guitars relegating the vocals to the background, some of the best moments are the quieter tracks like Smile At Me and Making Friends which sound like some of Lou Barlow’s best home recordings and work with Folk Implosion.
At its core, Antiques’ JWNS is 11 tracks of fantastic indie-rock (with a bonus eleven-and-a-half minute keyboard drone tacked on at the end for good measure).
–George Dow
I don’t know if you heard, but a Typhoon is hitting your town. It’s as frightfully glorious as it sounds.
Typhoon – Coast to Coast Tour 2011 from Matthew Ross on Vimeo.
How did the band start?
We have always been recording things on 4-tracks or shitty computer programs. Eventually, these things all kind of came together through the cosmos and the internet.
Where did the band name, Sore Eros, come from?
Robert was laying on the floor in his friend Michael Centore’s bedroom and the words sore and eros were written on a little notebook pad and it just kind of stuck…
Click here to read the rest of the interview with Sore Eros.
–Chrissy Prisco
Blah Blah Blah are preparing to release a new EP called "Thank You Thank You" on August 23rd, and have recently released the first single from that EP called "Why Am I The Only One Laughing". The band also filmed a great video for the track with the help of director Kasia Koniar. You can learn more about the band here.
Blah Blah Blah will be celebrating the release with a show at Double Door on Saturday, August 27th.
