BONEYARDS will be busy reaking havoc at The Great Escape over the next few days and as a little going away present to the web, they’ve uploaded a new song from the forthcoming Rest In Beach release due this summer.
Rip It Up has all the electrifying, excitable fuzz that makes the band so watchable and with a catchy riff to boot. Listen below.
Boneyards at TGE
The Black Dove – 3.40pm
Belushi’s – 10.30pm
SWIMMING LESSONS is the experimental pop project from Leeds based artist Ben Lewis. Notice recent support shows with How To Dress Well, along with slots on Noisey bills, is demonstrative of an excitable expectation currently bubbling in the music press.
An example of why can be found in new song Double. It’s an audible oozing of warmth and complexity. Comforting vocals dissolve into starry eyed synths and melodic click clacks to create a song of real depth. Listen below.
We’re thrilled to announce the first VISIONS festival which will take place on 10th August at three exciting warehouse spaces around London Fields: Oval Space, Netil House and New Empowering Church.
First wave of acts confirmed for the event are !!! (CHK CHK CHK), CLOUD NOTHINGS, ICEAGE, THE HAXAN CLOAK, JEFFREY LEWIS, STILL CORNERS, THE SOFT MOON, MOLLY NILSSON, MICACHU & TIRZAH, and BEACON.
There will also be food stalls on the day with Netil Market, an Exhibition Gallery with Belly Kids, and much more to come.
Very limited Early Bird tickets are on sale now and for a week only from: http://visionsfestival.ticketabc.com/events/visions-festival/
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See you there!
Once a fortnight here on SEXBEAT we aim to bring you a Personal Playlist from bands we like, talking about bands they like…
If you don’t know by now, then here is an introduction; JOEY FOURR is the latest project from ex Tubelords man Joseph Prendergast. Last year he started out with a website that looked as if it came straight out of a sentient virus infected program of a Windows ’95 desktop and strange lo-fi experiments that challenged the sensory receptors of your brain.
Since then, a couple of EPs later – and with a better website – Joe continues with the experiments. Sometimes with bounds of fuzz and also, like on his latest release Sunslime, songs with a real emotional anchor.
His contribution to the week’s Personal Playlist is perhaps not what you’d have expected. See what he chose below and check out his Facebook page to see some of his awesome screen print illustrations.
First, some exciting news. Suicide Squeeze is continuing its singles series with forthcoming releases set to be veritable feast of rad bands. Cloud Nothings, Audacity and La Luz to name just three. Meat Market, Gap Dream and Nü Sensae are another three and to mention many more would just be showing off.
Here , however, is an audible taste of the impending release in the shape of this cut by New York via Texas band THE NUMERATORS. Dead is a garage rock song bathing in psychedelic substances. Weighty with ambling reverb soaked riffs teasing you down the rabbit hole. Stream below and read more details on the release here.
Tagged Audacity, Cloud Nothings, Dead, Gap Dream, La Luz, meat market, Nü Sensae, The Numerators
Taken from NATURAL CHILD’s 2012 album Hard In Heaven, throttling gem, Laid, Paid and Strange signals a re release on Burger Records.
Dressed in the throngs of 70s style, no nonsense “let’s get to it” rock and roll, with motoring psych touches, it’s a fine way to start an LP. Grab it here.
Field Day have PANDA BEAR in the studio for this bumper edition radio episode. Tom Baker hosts as the Animal Collective co-founder talks about inspirations and introduces a specially made mix ahead of the festival which is just two weeks away now. Stream below and order your ticket here.
With a number of bands from the label performing, the good folks at Howling Owl Records will be taking over Above Audio at The Great Escape this year. Weekend tickets are already sold out but here’s a preview of what you’ll be seeing if you are headed to Brighton next week.
Independent film maker Adam Lilley has just finished shooting his project Chayav, a depiction of one man’s acts of desperation to connect outside his pre decided culture.
Shot in and around East London, we’re very excited to see the end result.
In all appearances and reflections Yaakov is the ideal within the Hasidic Jewish community, but for everything that matters he is simply an image of this man.
CHAYAV is a short film exploring the actions of an increasingly lonely and ultimately struggling man, born into a community to which he doesn’t belong.
For an insight on Chayav, here is a glimpse of the Directors Statement.
CHAYAV is a film of want, a want that for all, will remain as so. This is a story exploring the actions of an increasingly lonely and ultimately struggling man, born into a community to which he doesn’t belong.
We follow his acts of desperation to connect outside a pre-decided culture, in a bid to be free of a stringent moral obligation. With an all too familiar undertone, CHAYAV bares a truth that resonates cross culture and community. Ones own life is rarely fulfilling but the lust for another’s is rarely an answer.
Born into the Hasidim, YAAKOV, a now forced family man, has nothing but an incessant daily reminder of who he his and whom he must remain to be. Working belligerently at a family owned Orthodox grocery, living within the depths of Hasidic Stamford Hill and with a wife now so dedicated to the Torah, to God and to him. YAAKOV is subsumed more than ever into a life mirrored to all around him… and it is more than he can stand.
YAAKOVS struggle with his identity, the blurring of acceptability, and the romanticism of a community so different to his own is what twists his fate… and the women to whom he involves. So infatuated with all that he is not, YAAKOV turns to idolising and obsessing over the women that come to represent this. Watching from afar, with nothing but fascination and admiration, to him, they are a sight to behold.
- Adam Lilley, Writer/Director.
To keep up to date with release schedules and more information, like the official Chayav page here.
Drip Feed is one hald of a two track demo uploaded to Bandcamp by Londoners DEEP MEN. Despite the tags used, folk it certainly isn’t. More like a steady, bludgeoning by colossal doom stomps that sound like a Transfromer crashing down to the dusty earth. The almost incessant, carefully placed guitar feedback falls just on the right side of brutal and while there are certainly gentler, more melodic moments to be found in amongst the savagery, this one’s not for the faint-hearted.
