Sunday, April 29, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Happy Ending // Wax Idols
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| © Nick Karp & Hether Fortune |
"Wax Idols' fourth and forthcoming album 'Happy Ending' is an exploration of the abstraction and finality of death from philosophical, political, and personal perspectives. The painting on the cover of a figure mourning is by Oakland artist Lena Gustafson, whose work focuses on what she has described as “how memories are stored in the body.” Fortune says the band picked her to create the art because her work is “post-body, which has a lot to do with what our album is about.”
The dual theme of political anxiety and personal experience is one Fortune began exploring in seriousness on Wax Idols’ third album, 'American Tragic', which Pitchfork proclaimed “smartly unpacks a pretty universal experience—the sadness, nostalgia, and occasional euphoria involved in letting go of something you once cared about, even when it desperately hurts.” 'American Tragic' was reissued in 2017 on the band’s label Etruscan Gold Records. The group also decided to self-release 'Happy Ending' on Etruscan Gold.
Wax Idols’ lineup on this new record is founder and frontperson Hether Fortune (vocals, guitar, bass, organ) with Peter Lightning (guitar, bass, organ, piano), Rachel Travers (drums), and Marisa Prietto (bass, backing vocals). Since the album’s completion, Bay Area musician Greer McGettrick (formerly of The Mallard) has joined the band on bass. Happy Ending was recorded in 2017 at Ruminator Audio in San Francisco, CA and produced by Fortune, Lightning, and Monte Vallier."
credits
Happy Ending will be released May 16, 2018
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Hether Fortune: vocals, guitar, bass, organ
Peter Lightning: guitar, bass, organ, piano
Marisa Prietto: bass, backing vocals
Rachel Travers: drums
Peter Lightning: guitar, bass, organ, piano
Marisa Prietto: bass, backing vocals
Rachel Travers: drums
MY LAURELS BY SPENCER MOODY
Spencer Moody is the lead singer of The Murder City Devils. During his time as lead singer he has written some really great songs, some super great ones, and some straight up great ones. This book has the lyrics to those songs. And the stories behind them. Co-released with Kill Yr Idols and with drawings by the one and only Daniel Gibson.
Friday, April 27, 2018
METAL MOTHER // 'PRIS'
"Pris" is the first single from the forthcoming “Pagan Jazz,” the new 5 song EP by Los Angeles-based Metal Mother due out June 1st.
“Pagan Jazz is inspired by and written for the warehouse party world and all the absurd and whimsical fairies it attracts.” Timberman says. “It’s a melancholic dance record”. It’s also some kind of acid drenched surrealist synth creation that beckons, but the kind of beckoning that only comes from the pearly gates: you’ve been invited because you’re dead. It’s dark, electronic, and machine heavy, but at the same time familiar, vulnerable, and motherly."
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| Photo © Carolyn Crafty |
Carve me from stone
Take me, take me home
I have the body, and you have the face
It doesn’t need to be so complicated
I’m tied up, can’t get down
You’re fired up and chasing your conscience around
Can’t give up, not now no we’ve
We’ve gotten this far
We’ve grown up like overnight
I seen how your presence can cut through the light
But I forgive, and I don’t fight, I
I still heal you
Stop trying to be sexy stop trying to be cool
Stop trying to be so goddam fabulous all the time
Pass me on the street
You find me something to eat
I am not salty and you’re not sweet
Perhaps it’s tasty enough
Bound to bind me
I’m tied up cant get down
You’re fired up and chasing your conscience around
Can’t give up not now no we’ve
We’ve gotten this far
We’ve grown up like overnight
I seen how your presence can cut through the light
But I forgive, and I don’t fight I
I still heal you
Stop trying to be sexy stop trying to be cool
Stop trying to be so goddam fabulous all the time
How did the blankets get so complicated
Memories, you’re talking about memories
I’m tied up can’t get down
You’re fired up and chasing your conscience around
Cant give up not now no we’ve
We’ve gotten this far
We’ve grown up like overnight
I seen how your presence can cut through the light
But I forgive, and I don’t fight I
I still heal you
I’m tied up cant get down
You’re fired up and chasing your conscience around
Can’t give up not now no we’ve
We’ve gotten this far
We’ve grown up like overnight
I seen how your presence can cut through the light
But I forgive, and I don’t fight I
I still heal you
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Haunted Horses // Cold Medicine
Haunted Horses is an industrial-punk duo hailing from Seattle, WA. Their sound is thunderous and chaotic, utilizing wall of noise techniques through an onslaught of keys, guitars and drums. Myke Pelly's off kilter drumming and Colin Dawson's architectural noise structures create jittery post-punk that is both upbeat and gloomy. The bleak vocals are persistently ominous in a seductive way, conjuring up the nightmarish aura of a dissonant horror-film soundtrack. The band has not lost control of their uncompromising industrial vibes since their revival in 2017, continuing to embrace rock experimentation and electronic layers.
Keys/Guitar/Vox: Colin Dawson
Drums: Myke Pelly
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