This tuesday saw the release of a record we are very excited about. Douglas Armour's debut full length The Light Of A Golden Day, The Arms Of The Night.
In anticipation of your love of Douglas Armour's musical stylings we have created a page which lets you stream the entire record. Let the obsessing begin people.
Click Here To Check Out The Douglas Armour Record.
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Just jammed some Growing Rough Mixes from their forthcoming full length......really wish we could post them but you are going to have to go buy Lateral if you want a preview.
This is what the album looks like.
Growing's Lateral comes out tomorrow and to celebrate the occasion, Growing (ie Kevin Doria & Joe Denardo) will be DJing Lit this evening (Monday) for the Hugs Party with this guy and this guy. I can almost guarantee that no one will jam the new Growing record tonight
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LP EDITION IS A BIT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE COMPACT DISC BUT COMES WITH A FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD!
A nice piece at Stereo gum: http://stereogum.com/archives/the-outsiders/the-outsiders-vol-6_008057.html?utm_source=sb&utm_medium=ff
Another nice one at Panpot: http://www.panpot.ca/reviews/renderAlbumReview.php?id=198
And Here Is Some Bad Digital Camera Video Of Them Killing It At Johnny Brendas A Few Weeks Back:
And then another from Death By Audio
As always this record and many other fine releases from the label are available via mailorder by clicking here.
Or you can walk down to your local record store (which hopefully is not a Coconuts).
Ok. You may have realized that Telepathe has been tearing up NYC (and occasionally LA) in
all kinds of incarnations for the past year and a half. It is only now that we are ready to unleash on you the first commercially available recordings since the trio reinvented itself with spectacular results. Headed
towards a more electronic oriented landscape the three created a
new sound for Telepathe, versed in beat politics, punk,
noise and, dare we say it, pop.
All of this is self evident in the music contained on the band's freshly pressed Sinister Militia 12-inch, which will be in stores June 19th. Featured are two new tracks, Sinister Militia and Islands, along with a remix of each, the former by Tyler Pope, Justin van der Volgen and Mario Andreoni of !!! with the latter being served up Drew Daniel of Matmos. This record shows the band further developing their sound and, with the two remixes, brings them even closer to the dancefloor.
Telepathe are very close to completion of their forthcoming TBA full-length. The roughs we have heard so far have been outstanding showing the 12-inch material, though strong, is only a hint at the level the band has taken things to. Working with a range of production-oriented collaborators in the past year (Alexxxchange of Spank Rock, The Brothers, Nicholas Vernhees/Rare Book Room) the band has taken their musical ideas into a wholly new territory. You can hear some rough examples of this on the new direction on both Telepathe's Myspace and the Myspace of Rare Book Room Records (who will soon be releasing a killer double CD compilation featuring Telepathe, TK Webb, Blood On The Wall and many other talented people).
In advance of the 12-inch release Telepathe has been asked to go out on tour with !!!. After a few shows with !!! the band will be doing some gigs by themselves:
April 28th at The Smell in Los Angeles, CA
April 29th at The Fillmore in San Francisco, CA *
April 30th at The Library in Sacramento, CA *
May 1st at Macdonald Theater in Eugene, OR *
May 2nd at Someday Lounge in Portland, OR *
May 3rd at Neumo's in Seattle, WA *
May 4th at La Voyeur in Olympia, WA
May 5th at a Basement in Portland, OR
* = with !!!
For a taster of Sinister Militia check out this live version of Islands:
We have this feeling that 2007 is going to be a major year for Psychic Ills. The press has been all over Early Violence and the band in general as of late. The band has been reborn into a trio that is musically light years ahead of Dins or the Early Violence material. All reports on their recent Indian Jewelry tour and their European tour have been gushing. The NY Times ran a piece on them which is always a fine feather in your cap. The new material is taking shape and and there is a lot of it. Probably beyond most of those external factors though, the most tell tale sign would be that when a band member had to quit less than a week before their European tour, the three remaining members just picked up the pieces and plowed through 7 weeks of touring in a 12 week period with astounding results. Unstoppable.
We're going to work on getting new material together for everyone to hear as well as pulling a new Psychic Ills website together. In the meantime you can express your own love by voting for them at the Deli in the "Emerging NYC Artists Catagory" by clicking here.
Also Spin.Com just made them 'Band Of The Day' today. They may have hit the nail on the head with the comment: "The focus here is on the big picture -- on piercing the gloomy firmament and spiraling through Technicolor wormholes until ears pop, eyes bulge, and water and lips peel away from teeth." Check it out by clicking here.
Also, regarding Early Violence, an uncredited bonus remix of Diamond City has been getting billed as "redux" version due to an error at the mastering house (you may see it at itunes or some other online serives). In reality it is supposed to be unlisted bonus track which had the working title "chopped and screwed" and referenced Robert Earl Davis aka this guy.
They will be playing New Years Eve at Monkey Town in Brooklyn which very well may turn out to be the bext show of 2006 or 2007 depending on what time they play.
