This Thursday (11/1) is the record release party for Mike Bones' excellent album The Sky Behind The Sea at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. Mike kills it live and for this show will be backed up by the stellar talents of Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Zwan, Superwolf), Jeff Jensen and Parker Kindred (Anthony & The Johnsons). There are a few equally excellent opening acts for your listening pleasure so show up early: Total Life (Kevin Doria from Growing), Soiled Mattress & The Springs and King Darves. Be sure to come out! It will be a banger.
We couldn't be much more in love with Bones' music; the dude plays with a sincerity and natural talent that is so rarely seen. In the words of Vice Magazine: "Mike Bones is the favorite guitarist of every musician you like in New York. He's like the New York music geek world's secret weapon." Mike's talents, however, do not only lie with his guitar playing. His lyrics are some of the best we have heard for a long long time. As Panpot said in their review of The Sky Behind The Sea: "The lyrics are cynical, murky, and sometimes obscure. But like good street-poetry, they have a seductive mysterious quality. A feeling of brooding isolation, the desolation of a world so odious and complicated that even the enemies of your enemies hate you."
The Sky Behind The Sea is out in a week (11/6), but luckily for you is available early for purchase in our mail-order store here.
To get a taster of Bones' sound check out this clip of him playing solo on Viva Radio:
We are very pleased to announce the belated release of Blood Lines' sole full-length XX. Blood Lines were a blistering, although short-lived quartet from NYC that brought together James Loman and Raquel Vogl (both previously in
The Cranium) with the rhythm team of Allie Alvarado & Busy
Gangnes (of Telepathe). As a whole they formed what was an awe-inspiring outfit that
baffled and inspired many an audience in NYC and on their 2005 US Tour
with Gang Gang Dance. During the
band’s short existence they recorded this record. The resulting sound of Blood Lines is like chaos on rails. Tight, controlled and angular while teeming with a dark kinetic energy. Anyone who had the priviledge of seeing the band live can testify to the intensity that the group brings, and which brought twelve squad cars into the streets of Seattle. Highly original and challenging, it is music that continues the individual musical trajectory started more than ten years ago by The Crainium. 
