New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Mike Golden & Friends released a full-length album back in December called Groceries. The album is a diverse effort that mixes dance rock, blues, and even has a ukulele ballad. You can tell the band is having fun every step of the way..
You can catch Mike Golden & Friends at Panchos on January 22nd.
Phonographic Arts are hosting a local’s only show full of gothic/post-punk influenced psychedelic noise this Sunday night at their new home and a new favorite hangout of ours, The Level Room. Starting the night off will be dark/bluesy punks Latern, followed by the noisy psych rock of Harsh Vibes. Headlining the night’s bill will be the psychedelic post-punk of Far-Out Fangtooth, who had a break out year in 2011 on the heels of their well-received debut LP, Pure & Disinterested via Siltbreeze. The record found the group expanding their sound from their early days of Cramps-esque garage punk, to the aforementioned gothic/psychedelic post punk. Far-Out Fangtooth also have a new 7” coming out in the near future via HoZac Records. I know that it is on Sunday, but don’t sleep on this show! The Level Room, 2108 Market St., $8, 9pm, 21+ – Dan Brightcliffe
Below is a new track available for free download called “Children of the Sea” from local faves Buried Beds. It’s off their upcoming concert film DVD and accompanying EP, Small Stories. They’ll be celebrating both releases on January 20 at The Ruba Club.
Free Energy have been pretty quiet lately while they work on their sophomore album with producer John Agnello. However, lead vocalist Paul Sprangers recently collaborated with long-time pal Ian Anderson from One for the Team, who has a new 7” coming out under the moniker Dream Brother via his own label Afternoon Records. Check out their most enjoyable new track “Haunted Heart” below. Anderson has also recruited the help of John Venderslice for the project, and you can take a listen to their collaboration “Pretty Eyes” HERE. Enjoy!
Dream Brother – Haunted Heart (Feat. Paul Sprangers) by Dream Brother
Mountjoy are kicking off 2012 right with an EP release show at PhilaMOCA tonight. The alt rock quartet will be sharing their new EP Squam Lake Tapes. And to celebrate, the band is giving out free copies to all who attend and will be debuting some new tunes as well. Between releasing preview tunes like Crickets and dropping a hot video for their song Smoking Tea, Shorty Boy-boy should be helping to fuel the fire for this evening’s festivities. And knowing the unexpected elements that Shorty Boy-boy enjoy bringing to their live performances and how Mountjoy like to pull out all the stops for special shows, you can count on their being a couple surprises! PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 9pm, $7, All Ages – Bill McThrill
Disappears have unveiled the details of their next album. It will be called Pre Language and will be released on March 1st through Chicago’s Kranky Records. The album will feature 9 new tracks including "Replicate" below.
Damon J Carruesco and Jonathan Van Herik of Disappears also have a side project called E+ which you can catch at Beat Kitchen on Jan. 18th and again at Schubas on Feb. 1st.
Some bands can be appreciated better when driving at night, and aware of their "night-driving-affinity", The Big Sleep – who belong to the restrict cirlce of bands that landed on the cover of our rag – launched a self-shot video that has a lot of… night driving in it. This duo-plus-drums’s strength has always been their epic riffs and wall of guitars, and "Ace" doesn’t disappint in those departments. Welcome back big sleepers!
Avant-indie sextet Luminol experiment with contrasting sounds and scenes on their most recent release, Locked In The Woods, which first saw light back in August. Building off of 2009’s Organ Grinder EP, the band doesn’t shy away from the mysterious and the macabre on their latest offering. Unsettling wails, hisses and plucked strings set the tone on sophomore track “Right Hand Man”, and the fretwork of guitarists Andy Ayers and Chris Winter is as delicate and prickling as the chills it sends down your spine. The track is the stuff of Grimm’s darkest fairy tales, but is contrasted by the melodic violin, and Barbara Burgio’s plaintive vocals, on “Squeaking Soul”. The track is the lullaby leading up to the host of dreamlike, and sometimes haunting, tunes that follow – Luminol still definitely gravitate towards the creepy, with bass lines that border on menacing and lyrical delivery that recalls the films of Tim Burton. For listeners up for an evening of boundary-pushing, atmospheric compositions, the band will be playing material from Locked In The Woods at the Skylark Café and Club on Jan. 20. with the Little Black Bottles, and Seeing Blind.
– Kate Shepherd
This week two very different Chicago bands have appeared over a Daytrotter. On the 9th they posted their session with Pillars & Tongues. It was the band’s third appearance and first since releasing their 2011 album The Pass and Crossing.
The other session was with The Smith Westerns making their first Daytrotter appearance, and performing tracks from their early 2011 release Dye It Blonde.
Audiotree has posted a video from Company of Thieves performance for them back in August. The video is for the track "Gorgeous/Grotesque" which appears on the band’s 2011 release Running From A Gamble.
You might know Colin Frangicetto as the guitarist for local area rockers Circa Survive. Well, he recently released his latest solo effort My Brother’s Ears/My Sister’s Eyes EP (which we’ve been digging, and you can download the album for free HERE) under his moniker Psychic Babble (cool band name). Frangicetto also just won our Featured Artist(s) Poll so we had a chance to find out more about the nice dude/PETA-friendly musician from Doylestown HERE.
