The Psychic Paramount live in NYC posted 6/17/2009
The Psychic Paramount, fresh of a successful UK/EU tour, played a mindblowing show at Santos Party House here in New York last week. Check out this great video:
Headdress "Lunes" in the webstore posted 6/1/2009
The Headdress album is now available in the webstore on both CD and LP. These will ship to arrive by the June 9th streetdate. Order away!
Upcoming Tours posted 5/22/2009
Doug Paisley
Tues Jun 9th - Bruar Falls - Brooklyn, NY w/ Mike Bones
Thurs Jun 11th - The Compound - Philadelphia, PA w/ Greg Weeks
Sat Jun 13th - Union Pool - Brooklyn, NY w/ War on Drugs
Sun Jun 14th - BAR - New Haven, CT
Mon Jun 15th - Morning Glory - Pittsburgh, PA
Thurs Jun 18th - The Swan Dive - Louisville, KY
Fri Jun 19th - Bear's - Bloomington, IN
Sat Jun 20th - The Hideout - Chicago, IL w/ Bachelorette
Mon Jun 22nd - Hi-Dive - Madison, WI
The Psychic Paramount
Tues Jun 9th - Santos Party House - New York, NY w/ Electroputas
Endless Boogie
Sun Jul 5th - The Ottobar - Baltimore, MD
Mon Jul 6th - 9:30 Club - Washington DC w/ Sonic Youth
Tues Jul 7th - Kung Fu Necktie - Philadelphia, PA
Headdress Lunes out June 9th posted 5/18/2009
In a just a few short weeks you'll be able to head to your local record store and purchase the second album from the Texas duo Headdress. June 9th, to be exact. Lunes is a massive album of psychedelic drone and ambient metal. It's a heavy record, for sure. Earth Phase 3 comes to mind, though Headdress have created their own unique sound. Here's the debut mp3 from the album:
The Lost White Brother
The Psychic Paramount UK/EU tour posted 4/15/2009
The Psychic Paramount have been hard at work on their 2nd studio album, tentatively titled II, but in between the late nights and early mornings spent in the studio they managed to schedule a group of UK and European shows, capped off by a perfomance at the Grand Palais in Paris. Expect US tour dates later this summer:
5/30/09 – L’Usine – Geneva, Switzerland
5/21/09 – Le Sonic –Lyon, France
“Circuits Electronique Les Nuits Sonores" Festival
5/22/09 – SAS – Delemont, Switzerland
5/23/09 – Atelier Batho – Saint-Etienne, France
5/24/09 – La Milterie – Lille, France
5/25/09 – Clwb Ifor Bach – Cardiff, UK
5/26/09 – Corsica Studios – London, UK
5/27/09 – The Portland – Cambridge, UK
5/29/09 – Grand Palais – Paris, France
5/30/09 – Worm – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Doug Paisley on the CBC posted 4/3/2009
Doug Paisley will be performing live on the CBC program Q this Monday April 6th. Listen live here.
Also starting Monday: "What About Us?" is the Starbucks "Pick of the Week" in all Canadian stores. Stop into any location to receive a free mp3 of the song.
ENDLESS BOOGIE at SXSW posted 3/10/2009
Boy, we can't wait for SXSW. We've had about enough of the cold weather in the Northeast and are more than ready for sunshine, mexican food and hundreds of bands. Endless Boogie are making the trip this year and you'll have five opportunities to see them over the course of the festival. Check it:
Wed March 19th - Beerland (711 Red River)
w/ Eat Skull, Homosexuals, Turbo Fruits and more! Endless Boogie at 5:40pm
Thursday March 19th - Friends of Sound Records (1704 South Congress)
Endless Boogie @ 5:00pm
Thursday March 19th - Smokin' Music (504 Trinity)
w/Radio Moscow, The Entrance Band and Flower Travellin' Band. Endless Boogie @ 11:00pm
Friday March 20th - Urban Outfitters backlot (2406 Guadalupe)
Endless Boogie @ 3:00pm
Friday March 20th - The Music Gym (815 E. 6th St)
w/Kurt Vile and Coconuts. Endless Boogie @ 1:00am
CIRCLE DVD Available for sale posted 3/5/2009
Saturnus Reality: a film by Circle is now available in the webstore. We also found some copies of the long out of print Katapult LP while moving boxes in our office. Order those quick as they won't be around long!
Pre-Order: FINAL posted 2/10/2009
The new Final album Reading All The Right Signals Wrong is now available for pre-order in the webstore. For those unfamiliar, Final is Justin Broadrick of Godflesh, Jesu and many other music projets since the mid-80's. This vinyl version is limited to 1500 copies and will ship on February 17th, 2009.
Order away!
Circle "Saturnus Reality" DVD posted 2/3/2009
We're pleased to annouce the DVD release of Saturnus Reality, perhaps the most bizarre rock documentary you will ever see. The films subject is Circle, and throughout the course of the 98 minute movie we see them jamming, recording and hanging out in the snow covered forests of Finland. If you're hoping light will be shed on the innerworkings of the group, we're sorry to report this film somehow makes them even more mysterious.
The DVD will hit stores on March 10th. There will be a limited number of free advance screenings happening around the country, the first of which takes place next week:
Feb 9th - San Francisco, CA
@ The Knockout Bar, 10pm. Free
Presented by Aquarius Records
March 9th - Los Angeles, CA
@ Echo Curio. 9pm. Free
March 9th - Chicago, IL
@ Sonotheque, 9pm. Free
Presented by Empty Bottle & Reckless
March 13th - Brooklyn, NY
@ Monkeytown, 9pm. Free
Presented by No Quarter
DOUG PAISLEY in stores today posted 1/27/2009
The debut album from Doug Paisley, which you can read about below, is available in record stores today (that includes our webstore).
Also new in the webstore is the second pressing of the Endless Boogie 2xLP. Buy them up!
DOUG PAISLEY posted 1/15/2009
People are raving about the debut album from Doug Paisley, available now on vinyl and digitally through Itunes and Fina. You can preorder the CD from Insound.
Mojo Magazine love the album. Here's what they have to say in the new issue:
4 Stars!
When Greil Marcus first coined the term "Old, Weird America", in his 1997 Dylan dissection Invisible Republic, he was tapping into a substream of US cultural history that lurked out behind the white houses, a crumbling landscape of juke joints, truck stops and figures on the highway whose lonesome cries of foreboding could be heard in the grooves of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, The Basement Tapes and a wealth of spectral, recondite pop country, folk and gospel platters released throughout America's shining 20th Century.
Somehow, the publication of Invisible Republic coincided with the emergence of a new wave of young American songwriters who devoured everything from Appalchian banjo ballads to 60s psychedelic folk in an effort to reconnect with this mythic, rustic strangeness. That this "New Weird America" ultimately lost its way in a forest of tweeness and freakouts, is surprising, given the climate of approaching apocalypse that's enveloped the US these past eight years. Yet, just as a new figure of hope arrives in the mansion on the hill, along comes a young songwriter who's tapped into the red clay dirt of a new depression America. The biggest surprise is that he's done it gently with songs of poetry, harmony and sweetness and the honeyed, craggy voice of the classic American country singer.
Like Neil Young and The Band before him, Paisley's perspective is that of the Canadian outsider, seeing America anew whilst being fully immersed in its history and myths. Like The Band he re-presents American music history without the trappings of fashion and, like the Young of After The Goldrush uses his outsider status to ruminate on America's fate.
For this age of information overload Paisley's biog is refreshingly scant. He's toured with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, working with Toronto-based visual artist Shary Boyle as Dark Hand And Lamplight, where he picks his way through songs of sad sinners while Boyle projects hand-drawn images of Pilgrim fathers entwined in rose and briar. This link to Will Oldham's alter ego and the dark imagery of the American ballad is no accident. At times Paisley's debut is redolent of Oldham's Bonnie "Prince" Billy debut 1999's I See A Darkness, albeit a version sung by some weary Texan desperado. Yet while Paisley's lilting melodies, comforting Guy Clark drawl, Simone Schmidt's distant female backing vocals and lazy Bearsville arrangements initially suggest a lighter work than Oldham's sombre masterpiece, repeated listens reveal nagging details within these love songs of union and division - great fireballs, waves rising up, birds falling from the sky, unimaginable things buried in the ground, deeds that can't be undone, cold, soundless rain and something on the horizon we will surely see coming/in the wide open plain. This mood of prophecy and foreboding lends Paisley's debut an eerie power and strength, meaning that as you return to his charming and enchanting country melodies - and you will - they'll continue to throw up their weird details, glinting symbols of doom on the horizon of the American west.
Listen: Doug Paisley - What About Us?