David Karsten Daniels Releases "Fear of Flying" Today on Fat Cat!

David Karsten Daniels
Releases Fear of Flying, Today on Fat Cat Records!



Each piece lands and is salvaged, carefully set in sound, but with hairline fractures intact, especially in Daniels’s forthright, slightly hoarse voice, which finds crosshatchings and paw-prints of tunefulness everywhere his words and moods want to go. - Paperthinwalls.com

Mr. Daniels triumphs at a profound level. - Absolutepunk.net

His movements and gestures are reminiscent of Brandon Boyd, Anthony Kiedis and a 7-year-old boy who is proud, excited and bashful all at once. - Portland Daily Vanguard

If the single “Martha Ann”—a flaky layered, addictive folk rock jammer that’s got everything from dirty guitar solos to stair-stepping harmonies—from his to be released Fear of Flying (April 29 on Fat Cat) is any indication, then Seattle will likely be falling all over itself to sink it’s claws in to claim this new resident. - The Seattle Weekly

North Carolina-born songwriter David Karsten Daniels deals comfortably in paradox - whether negotiating between “Jesus and the Devil” on last year’s FatCat debut, Sharp Teeth, or finding the magnificent balance between his meticulous arrangements and newly raw guitar and drum textures of his latest effort, Fear Of Flying.

While more consistent than his previous work,Fear Of Flying goes much further into uncomfortable lyrical territory, exploring the heady questions that arise when death and love meet. Daniels also expands his sonic pallette with new instrumentation and influences. As he explains, “[it’s] both more of a pop record and more of a noise record. I set out to make a classic rock album, and I'm not sure where I ended up, but I don't think it's in the 70s.”

As with all Daniels’ recordings to date, Fear of Flying was self-recorded at home, aided and augmented by an array of like-minded, mutually supportive musicians from the Chapel Hill based Bu Hanan Collective, which he co-founded with Alex Lazara, Daniel Hart and Perry Wright.



* Note: This album will be serviced as a digital promo

Fear of Flying Tracklist
1. Wheelchairs
2. That Knot Unties?
3. Martha Ann
4. Falling Down
5. A Myoclonic Jerk
6. A New Garment
7. Every Time A Baby Is Born
8. The Caretaker
9. Oh, Heaven Isn’t Real
10. In My Child Mind You Were A Lion
11. Evensong

David Karsten Daniels Live!
pr 27 2008 @ Media Club Vancouver, British Columbia w/ Nina Nastasia
Apr 28 2008 CD release show @ Nectar Lounge w/ Nina Nastasia, Welcome Seattle, Washington w/ Nina Nastasia
Apr 29 2008 CD release show @ Mississippi Studios w/ Nina Nastasia Portland, Oregon w/ Nina Nastasia
May 1 2008 @ Hemlock Tavern San Francisco, California w/ Nina Nastasia
May 2 2008 @ The Crepe Place Santa Cruz, California w/ Nina Nastasia
May 3 2008 @ Spaceland Los Angeles, California w/ Nina Nastasia
May 5 2008 @ Plush Tuscon, Arizona w/ Nina Nastasia
May 6 2008 @ Modified Phoenix, Arizona w/ Nina Nastasia
May 7 2008 @ Bar Pink Elephant San Diego, California w/ Nina Nastasia
May 9 2008 @ Lil Red Lion Bar Eureka, Californiaw/ Arrogant Hair, Warren Teagarden
May 10 2008 @ The Space Salem, Oregon w/ Soft Tags, Sustentacula

Daytrotter speaks to David Karsten Daniels!

Watch David Karsten Daniels Live in Jackson, Mississippi!



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/davidkarstendaniels
www.fatcat-usa.com

Torche Announce US Tour w/ Boris!

yes.



Torche Live!

w/ Stinking Lizaveta
May 7 2008 Downtown Music Little Rock, Arkansas
May 8 2008 Emo’s Austin, Texas
May 30 2008 One Eyed Jacks New Orleans, Louisiana

w/ The Sword and Stinking Lizaveta
May 9 2008 Lola’s Fort Worth, Texas
May 10 2008 Hi Tone Memphis, Tennessee
May 11 2008 Exit/In Nashville, Tennessee
May 12 2008 The Mad Hatter Covington, Kentucky
May 13 2008 The Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
May 14 2008 Ravari Room Columbus, Ohio
May 15 2008 Rock and Roll Hotel Washington DC
May 16 2008 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
May 17 2008 Music Hall of Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York
May 18 2008 Middle East Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 20 2008 Lincoln Theater Raleigh, North Carolina
May 21 2008 The Jinx Savannah, Georgia
May 22 2008 The Beta Bar Tallahassee, Florida
May 23 2008 Common Grounds Gainesville, Florida
May 24 2008 The Social Orlando, Florida
May 25 2008 State Theater St Pete, Florida
May 26 2008 Lenny’s Atlanta, Georgia
May 27 2008 Bottle Tree Birmingham, Alabama
May 28 2008 Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, Louisiana
May 29 2008 Rudyard’s Houston, Texas

w/ BORIS!
Jun 20 2008 DUDEFEST 2008 Indianapolis, Indiana
Jun 24 2008 Casbah San Diego, California
Jun 25 2008 The Clubhouse Tempe, Arizona
Jun 27 2008 Rubber Gloves Denton, Texas
Jun 28 2008 The Mohawk Austin, Texas
Jun 29 2008 White Rabbit San Antonio, Texas
Jul 1 2008 Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Jul 2 2008 Common Grounds Gainesville, Florida
Jul 3 2008 The Social Orlando, Florida
Jul 5 2008 The Earl Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 6 2008 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, North Carolina
Jul 8 2008 Black Cat Washington DC, Washington DC
Jul 9 2008 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jul 10 2008 Webster Hall New York, New York
Jul 11 2008 The Middle East Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jul 12 2008 La Sala Rosa Montreal, Quebec
Jul 13 2008 Barrymore Ottawa, Ontario
Jul 14 2008 Lee’s Place Toronto, Ontario
Jul 15 2008 Tralf Buffalo, New York
Jul 16 2008 Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 17 2008 Diesel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jul 18 2008 St Andrews Hall Detroit, Michigan
Jul 19 2008 Turner Hall Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 22 2008 The Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Jul 23 2008 Granada Theater Lawrence, Kansas
Jul 25 2008 Marquis Theater Denver, Colorado
Jul 26 2008 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, Utah
Jul 29 2008 Neumo’s Seattle, Washington

www.myspace.com/torche

The Number Twelve Looks Like You Reveal Details of Debut DVD, "Here At The End of All Things," out June 17th on Eyeball!

Reveals Details of Their “Here At The Ends of All Things” DVD, out June 17th on Eyeball Records!



"The prolific maestros of chaotic metal are back with another aptly titled disc with 10 tracks that pull from death metal,
hardcore and... Jazz?. Yes, jazz.." - Alternative Press

“On their latest record, Mongrel (Eyeball), New Jersey’s the Number 12 Looks Like You combine elements of mathcore, hardcore, jazz, and pretty much whatever else pops into their heads—with explosive results.” – Revolver Magazine

“Mongrel fits its name – it’s a dirty, vicious, mixed up beast of a project - quite spectacular” – Decibel Magazine

“It's pretty intimidating to think how much practice and woodshedding they must have endured to get these complicated math formula-esque compositions sounding just right....Both intense and complex, there's very little room for error on Mongrel." - All Music

It took one band, six cameras, five hundred fans and master producer Casey Bates (Chiodos, Foxy Shazam, Fear Before The March of Flames) to capture one of the most historic live performances of The Number Twelve Looks Like You’s career.

Shot on location at a sold-out School of Rock show on December 15th, 2007 in South Hackensack, New Jersey, Here At The End of All Things captures the chaotic and adrenaline infused live show that has made The Number Twelve Looks Like You so important to their fans, and to heavy music in general. The final show of a 75 day tour, the band tore through their eclectic set as though it were the last day on earth and the worst fate the universe could imagine was lingering outside the sold out venue doors. Fans have been debating the genesis of the strange extraterrestrial themes and quixotic radio broadcasts featured at the show and how they would be incorporated into the final dvd. When asked for some insight, Jase Korman lead singer for the band simply said, "We've been touring endlessly for years, but we still haven't played for everyone, so this DVD is a great way to reach every man, woman, and child in the United States of America. If you are a fan of 1996's Independence Day starring Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum, you will fall in love with Here At the End of All Things."

This latest release from Eyeball Records not only features an entire live show from one of the heaviest and most well respected grind-core art-metal bands in music today, but also includes bonus material, music videos, an intimate sit down with the band, and a special second disc capturing the night’s audio, as well as bonus remixes courtesy of Jesse Cannon and more. The staff of Eyeball Records actually attempted to add CGI monsters, spaceships and an exploding White House to the final DVD performance but the furthest they got was a crudely drawn UFO on a notepad next to one of their computers. "None of us have ANY idea how to create CGI aliens... " said a sullen Eyeball employee, "Will Smith would be appalled."

Available for the first time this summer, Here At The End of All Things is another in a series of releases from a band whose relentless touring and hardcore work ethic prove time and again that they are in it for the long haul. The Number Twelve Looks Like You has toured with bands Thursday, GWAR, Minus The Bear, Every Time I Die, Shadows Fall, and others. Their video for "Grandfather" from 2007's Mongrel, landed the band on national TV when MTV2's legendary Head Banger's Ball picked the video up for rotation.



"Here At The End of All Things" Tracklist:

Audio CD
1. Jay Walking Backwards (6:51)
2. Don't Get Blood On My Prada Shoes (2:23)
3. The Weekly Wars (4:48)
4. Texas Dolly (3:40)
5. The Proud Parents Convention Held In The ER (3:31)
6. Grandfather (4:39)
7. Texas Dolly - J. Kale Gilgore Tribute (3:02)
8. Weekly Wars - Endor Remix (4:45)
9. Imagination Express - Jesse Cannon Remix (4:53)

DVD
Full Concert
Interview
"Grandfather" Music Video
"Like A Cat" Music Video



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/tntllu
www.eyeballrecords.com

Pitchfork Reviews Russian Circles' "Station!"

huge thanks to Cosmo Lee and the entire Pitchfork staff for the support, click album art for full review!



Russian Circles
Station
[Suicide Squeeze; 2008]



"This Chicago trio, more compact and disciplined than most of its instrumental rock peers, offers this efficient, precise Suicide Squeeze release."

(((Click to read more!)))

Pastepunk Interviews Team Robespierre!

huge thanks to Jason Bergman and the entire Pastepunk staff!



TEAM ROBESPIERRE
Interview by Jason Bergman



Brooklyn's TEAM ROBESPIERRE are a pretty good example of what happens when you take some synths, frantic vocals, and dance-infused guitars, toss them into a blender, and release a record. Their debut full length, Everything's Perfect was pretty damn consistent, so we caught up with the Ty Kube, who plays synth and occasionaly sings in the group, as he preps for a national spring tour with THE TEENAGERS.

PastePunk: How is the remix project going (the group asked fans to remix their songs and submit the tracks for an upcoming EP. You can find more details at the band's MySpace below)? Any submissions, awesome tracks, or general weirdness you didn't expect?

Ty: The remix project is going great. we've really got some interesting stuff. Hopefully one day we can release some of the tracks we really like. Id have to say our favorite is the remix out friends Ninjasonik did. It actually has rapping on it. Its cool to hear your music used in a hip hop song. This song is gonna be released on a comp[ilation] called All Our Friends Are In Bands.

PastePunk: I saw you guys play at Bowery Ballroom in NYC a month or two ago and you seemed a bit uncomfortable (or at least not used to) being up on a stage. Do you enjoy basement/house shows a lot more and is it tough to transition from playing a floor to being up on a stage, staring down at a crowd?

Ty: Well I think we will always love the warehouses and basements. It's where we came from and hopefully we will always be able to do these shows. Even now as a band we have discussed the fact that NO MATTER WHAT we always wanna play a mix of clubs and DIY shows. As for playing on the stage, it's ok. We are getting more used to it...and there are ways to make the stage feel like the basement. Usually I'll just play my keyboard off the stage or we will just have the crowd come onto the stage and dance around with us. This usually makes security pissed!

PastePunk: So you guys have been getting lots of great press and are now touring with THE TEENAGERS. Is everything really perfect?

Ty: Yes. Well ok I'll be honest No....but looking up. Hopefully we can make everyone feel perfect during out 30 minutes set every night!

PastePunk: What are you plans for the future? Tour? New Album?

Ty: We are about to go on tour with THE TEENAGERS from France and then this summer we are going on tour with MATT & KIM and THE DEATHSET as part of a package tour called "FUCK YEAH FEST!" As for releases we just released a new seven inch on Min/Max Records out of brooklyn and we are about to release a seven inch on Motherfucker Recorded out of London. When this one drops we are gonna go out to the UK to play a few shows. I think the dates on that one are June 11th-15th. No plans for a new album as of yet.

PastePunk: You mix lots of different styles and elements together and I was wondering if that makes your song writing process a hell of a lot harder? Do you all
bring different traits to the table or is writing a more collective process?

Ty: Personally I feel that for us this makes the song writing process easier. I know that sounds weird, but we sort of have a anything goes policy. We'll write a pop punk song, then a hardcore song, and then an elctro one, all in the same session. We all like all these sorts of music and we try and incorporate all of them in the band.

PastePunk: The album certainly has lots of different styles, what were some of your influences or things you looked to when making the album?

Ty: Well I'd say our number one influence is our neighborhood and the things we see everyday happening in Brooklyn. This is especially true when it comes to the lyrics. Musically I'd have to say early electo and punk records, especially the records that mix both styles such as Screamers, Mens Recovery Project and Metal Urbain.

Team Robespierre on Myspace

Thursday Announce Split EP w/ Envy on Temporary Residence * Exclusive In-Studio Interview w/ Buzznet.com Online Now!

Announces Split EP w/ Japan's ENVY on Temporary Residence * Weekend Performance w/ Method Man * Exclusive In-Studio Interview Airing NOW on Buzznet.com!



Atmospheric interludes, samples and strings add a far-reaching scope to their music that skillfully blends the fury and passion they're renowned for, with a graceful cinematic scope... both beautiful and brutal - Kerrang!

City is a rare thing: a disc that reconciles a band's need for discovery with the familiar characteristics that define them... nothing bad could come out of a record this great - Jason Pettigrew / Alternative Press

The awesome irony of a light divided is that, under Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips), this is the Jersey quintets most riff heavy, unified work yet. Combining the youthful aggression of 2001's Full Collapse (led by stellar anthem "Autobiography of a Nation") and the solid professionalism of their major label debut, 2003's War All The Time, Fridmann guides screamo's best band into stronger (the hooky single "Counting 5-4-3-2-1") and more eclectic (the crushing organ instrumental "The Light") territory - and to their crowning achievement . - Entertainment Weekly

Solid PR is honored and humbled to be tapped to represent one of the most important, honest, and meaningful bands in punk rock today, New Jersey's own THURSDAY.

THURSDAY formed in 1997 and played their first official show on New Year's Eve, 1998 in singer Geoff Rickly's basement w/ friends Midtown, Saves the Day, and Poison the Well. Since then, THURSDAY has gone on to become one of the most important and prestigious bands in all of underground music today.

After releasing critically acclaimed albums on the likes of Eyeball, Victory, and Island Records (three of which, Full Collapse, War All The Time, and A City By The Light Divided, saw the band reach commercial success w/ large sales numbers and high rankings on America's Billboard Charts - as of this year the band broke 1 million records sold), and touring relentlessly w/ the likes of AFI, Thrice, Coheed and Cambria, The Cure, and more, THURSDAY recently went on to release their first DVD collection, Kill The House Lights in October 2007.

Now, ten years after the band's inception, THURSDAY is setting their sites on their latest upcoming release: a split EP w/ Japanese atmospheric-thrash band, Envy, to be released sometime this summer on the Temporary Residence label (Explosions in the Sky, Mono, Young Widows).

In an exclusive interview airing RIGHT NOW, Geoff Rickly sits down w/ Buzznet.com's Will Angelos to talk about the making of the upcoming EP, the current state of underground music, THURSDAY side project activity (listen up kids!), and much more revealing information.

Click the image below to be taken to THURSDAY's exclusive in-studio interview w/ Buzznet.com for more news and an insiders look into the band's other surprises happening later this year!



Click here for an exclusive in-studio interview w/ Thursday singer Geoff Rickly, up now on Buzznet.com!

THURSDAY Live!
Tonight, April 25th @ The Chameleon in Lancaster, PA w/ Envy on the Coast and God Fires Man
Saturday, April 26th @ Montclair State University in NJ w/ Paulson and METHOD MAN! (no joke!)

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/thursday
www.thursday.net

Russian Circles Announce US Tour w/ Daughters * May 10th Record Release Show in Chicago!

RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Announce US Tour w/ Daughters * May 10th Record Release Show in Chicago!



The addition of Brian Cook on bass and a huge production improvement make it difficult to ignore Russian Circle's second full-length, Station. It's packed with a variety of well-executed instrumental moments, ranging from beautiful melodies to energetic metallic rock - Lambgoat

Russian Circles were nothing short of fantastic, their aggressive brand of stoney metal was punctuated by Floydian guitar work, ethereal soundscapes and dynamic drumming. - MetalSucks.net

Drummer Dave Turncrantz sets a militant tribal groove, while newly recruited bassist Brian Cook (of These Arms Are Snakes) drops anchor with a forbidding, slightly overdriven drone. That lets guitarist Mike Sullivan plot out slow post-rock builds, clicky headphone-panning arpeggios, and thrashing metal chugs overhead. - Pitchforkmedia.com

Musically I have no comparison for it, that would be too easy but in ideology they are there with Neurosis, Tool, The Swans, Genghis Tron, Pelican, Jesu, Isis and bands that construct whole albums that need to be heard from first song to last and that allow you enough freedom to post your own emotional identity on what they do. - Iann Robinson / NoneLouder.com

On the heels of the band's upcoming full-length, Station, out May 6th on Suicide Squeeze, Chicago's epic rock masters have announced a full US tour w/ Providence's kings-of-chaos and Hydra Head recording artists, Daughters! Full tourdates, and information about the band's upcoming Record Release show (May 10th @ The Subterranean in Chicago) below.

More on Station:

Russian Circles have completed the recording of Station with producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Minus the Bear, Isis). Joining Drummer Dave Turncrantz and guitarist Mike Sullivan for the recordings was Brian Cook on bass of These Arms Are Snakes, and Botch.

Station's sound is huge and heavy, swirling and chugging along like a bastard child on a rampage of destruction and unlearning. Read below for more details on the band's new album (and Suicide Squeeze debut), including cover art and track list, and the new mp3 "Harper Lewis" streaming now on the band's Myspace page. Get ready for this one kids, it's going to be a killer.



Tracklisting for Station
1. Campaign
2. Harper Lewis
3. Station
4. Verses
5. Youngblood
6. Xavii

Russian Circles Live!
May-10 Chicago, IL Subterranean (Record Release Show w/ Call Me Lightning!)

w/ Daughters!
Jun-03 Iowa City IA Picador
Jun-04 St Louis MO Bluebird Theater
Jun-05 Kansas City MO The Riot Room
Jun-06 Denver CO Marquis
Jun-07 Salt Lake City UT Burt's Tiki Lounge
Jun-08 Boise ID Neurolux
Jun-09 Seattle WA Neumos
Jun-10 Portland OR Doug Fir Lounge
Jun-11 Chico CA Cafe Coda
Jun-12 San Francisco CA Slims
Jun-14 Pomona CA The Glasshouse
Jun-15 Los Angeles CA Troubadour
Jun-16 San Diego CA The Casbah
Jun-18 Phoenix AZ The Clubhouse
Jun-20 Austin TX Red 7
Jun-21 Ft Worth TX Lolas
Jun-22 Houston TX Rudyards
Jun-23 Baton Rouge LA Spanish Moon
Jun-24 Birmingham AL Bottle Tree
Jun-25 Atlanta GA The Drunken Unicorn
Jun-26 Chapel Hill NC Local 506
Jun-27 Wilmington DE Harmony Grange
Jun-28 Cambridge MA Middle East Upstairs
Jun-29 Brooklyn NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Jun-30 Baltimore MD The Ottobar
Jul-01 Buffalo NY Mohawk Place
Jul-02 Detroit MI Magic Stick (*no Daughters )



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/russiancircles
www.suicidesqueeze.net

Buzznet Exclusive Download: E For Explosion!

huge thanks to Kurt Orzeck and the entire Buzznet staff!



MPFree: E for Explosion - 'I Explode'
Sounds like: The Maine, The Color Fred
Download here



Jamison Covington has a musical past that includes performing with JamisonParker and his own project, Convington. Now creating music under the name E for Explosion, Covington is back with his latest project's debut album, Reinventing the Heart Beat, set for release on May 20 on Eyeball Records.

Human Highway (feat Islands' Nick Thorburn and Jim Guthrie) Announces Debut Release on Suicide Squeeze!

Human Highway
(featuring Nick Thorburn of Islands and Jim Guthrie)
Announce Debut Album, “Moody Motorcycle,“ out August 19th on Suicide Squeeze!



“Moody Motorcycle” by Human Highway presents a sound reminiscent to that of 50’s / 60’s soul and doo-wop (i.e. the Everly Brothers), created by Islands member Nick Thorburn and Jim Guthrie (Guthrie is also an acclaimed solo musician currently working on a new album which is the follow-up to his 2004 release Now, More Than Ever.)

The album, which Guthrie says features “hot man on man vocal action,” was put together in the course of one week at his house in downtown Toronto (what is said to be the only “House” in all of downtown Toronto), where the two spent their entire week both sleeping on, and recording on, Jim’s living room couch (“my butt didn’t leave that couch for the entire week” says Thorburn)

Human Highway came about while Guthrie and Thorburn were on tour with Islands, and was an idea which stemmed from the duo’s mutual respect for each other as musicians.

Look out for some very exciting surprises around the release of “Moody Motorcycle,” including an upcoming video, “classic” vinyl courtesy of Suicide Squeeze, a Canadian release courtesy of Secret City Records, and sporadic, one-off North American dates, all to be announced in the coming months.



For more information, visit:
www.suicidesqueeze.net
www.myspace.com/humanhighway

Chris Mills and Pyramids Release New Albums Today!

Today ruled for a release day! Two amazing albums from two of our favorite labels:

Chris Mills
Releases New Album, Living in the Aftermath, Today on Ernest Jenning!



Living In The Aftermath finds Mills, instrumentally, in a rawer, tighter and dare I say, rock & roll space. Lyrically riffing on a blur of whatever subjects comes to mind, Mills cites horror movies, four-color ash-can adventures, and the black and white reflections of late night re-runs, as inspiration (and it shows). - Aquarium Drunkard

His fragile, emotive voice (akin to Will Sheff or Ryan Adams) fits the maudlin lyrics like a puzzle piece pairing light-hearted humor with country roots-rock. - Filter Magazine

It’s wonderful. - Absolute Punk

Chris Mills' Living in the Aftermath is the latest collection from one of America's most wandering-est of wandering troubadours. After almost a decade of rave reviews and countless shows in stadiums and shoeboxes (the past 2 years alone have seen him alongside Ben Folds, Bishop Allen, Lucero, Limbeck, and many more), Mills, once again, threatens to break free from seemingly perpetual obscurity, by providing some of the most unaffected, and yet emotionally affecting work of his career.

Harvesting music and lyrics from headlines, horror movies, four-color ash-can adventures, and the black and white reflections of late night re-runs, Mills returns from the recent orchestral majesty of his critically lauded The Wall to Wall Sessions with a raw and ready collection of true rock n' roll numbers, each one peppered with knowing asides, and unencumbered poignancy.

Songs like Untitled No. 1 and Calling All Comrades spin epic tales of lovers on the run from aliens, a-bombs, and vampire insects, while more personal moments unfold in the dream-like imagery and subtlety of Such a Beautiful Thing, Blackbirds, and the "Twilight Zone" inspired Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.

But its not just the songs that make this Mills' strongest record to date, it's the art and immediacy of their execution. Recorded and mixed in eight days, Aftermath benefits from the visceral performances of Mills and a crack cabal of New York City co-conspirators: bassist Drew Glackin (The Silos, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Graham Parker, The Hold Steady), drummer Konrad Meissner (Teddy Thompson, The Silos, Matt Nathanson), keyboardist/arranger David Nagler (Nova Social, Camphor, Chris Lee), and engineer/co-producer Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants).

* Additional players include trumpeter Dave Max Crawford (Sea and Cake, Poi Dog Pondering), violinist Jean Cook (Jon Langford's Ship and Pilot, Beauty Pill, Ida), and steel guitar/banjo virtuoso Jon Rauhouse (Nico Case, Calexico, Giant Sand).

Company aside, it is the ever-impressive evolution of his craft that firmly places Chris Mills alongside peers like Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy as one of the foremost authors of the 21st Century American songbook.



Tracklisting for Living In The Aftermath
1. Calling All Comrades
2. Living In The Aftermath
3. Nightmare At 20,000 Feet
4. Untitled No. 1
5. Such A Beautiful Thing
6. Blackbirds
7. Atom Smashers - download here!
8. I Guess This Is Why (They Invented Goodbye)
9. All's Well That Ends
10. Can't Believe

Chris Mills Live!
Apr 25 2008 Regent Street Retreat w/ Anders Parker Madison, Wisconsin
Apr 26 2008 Schubas (CD release show) Chicago, Illinois
May 3 2008 The Pour House (TRIBUTE TO DREW GLACKIN) Raleigh, North Carolina
May 10 2008 Union Pool (NYC CD RELEASE SHOW) Brooklyn, New York



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/chrismillsmusic
www.ernestjenning.com


Pyramids
Release and Stream Debut Self-Titled Album Today on Hydra Head!



Pyramids are a Denton, Texas-based band alternating between guitar-driven ambient pieces and a hazier approximation of Hydra Head labelmates Jesu's slow-diving metallurgy. I put on "Sleds", the opening track from Pyramids' self-titled full-length, thinking I was supposed to be hearing a metal record, but this one's squarely on the ethereal side of the dichotomy. As multi-layered guitars crumble and burn out, a high, incomprehensible male voice reverberates and decays, bringing to mind Deerhunter's more ambient moments, such as "White Ink". - Pitchforkmedia.com

It starts in the upper atmosphere, in that rarefied air where silence sings and time is little more than an abstraction. As it makes its way down through the tree line, to sea level, to the ear canals, elliptical windows and auditory nerves of the great unwashed, the shapes begin to shift. The sine waves become more distinct: swarming, swirling guitars, drums like a churning steam press, a chorus of celestial voices.

Instruments collude and collide in a roiling shoal and then dissipate, leaving a cavernous hole, a ghost town, the vestiges and echoes of a brief terrestrial existence. Out in Dallas and “other parts of the country,” where seemingly mild psychotropic disturbances can have vast and sinister implications for certain elements within the local populaces, Pyramids conjure the cacophonies of the great unknown, one song at a time.



Stream all of Pyramids self-titled debut HERE!

Pyramids Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Sleds (3:12)
2. Igloo (3:19)
3. The Echo of Something Lovely (3:23)
4. End Resolve (3:44)
5. Hellmonk (3:16)
6. This House is Like Any Other World (3:03)
7. Hillary (3:18)
8. Ghost (3:30)
9. Monks (2:31)
10. 1, 2, 3 (2:35)

CD 2: Remixes
1. The Echo of Something Lovely [Toby Driver/Ted Parsons/Colin Marston] (5:34)
2. 1, 2, 3 [James Plotkin] (4:30)
3. The Echo of Something Lovely [Jesu] (6:18)
4. Sleds [loveliescrushing] (3:49)
5. Ghost [Birchville Cat Motel] (9:54)
6. Sleds [Blut Aus Nord] (3:35)
7. The Echo of Something Lovely [James Plotkin] (3:15)
8. The Echo of Something Lovely [loveliescrushing] (3:27)




For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/pyramidsmusic
www.hydrahead.com

Kayo Dot Streams "Blue Lambency Downward!"

Stream Blue Lambency Downward HERE!

Dusted Praises Torche's "Meanderthal!"

huge thanks to Dustedmagazine.com for their amazing support! Click for full review!

NoneLouder Reviews Steve Von Till's "A Grave Is A Grim Horse!"

huge thanks to Iann Robinson and the entire NoneLouder staff!



STEVE VON TILL
A GRAVE IS A GRIM HORSE
NEUROT RECORDINGS



When you involve yourself in the world of metal you don’t often find reasons to discuss beauty. Anger, violence, rage, hatred, those emotions and ideas you can count in but rarely beauty. I’m not sure why, perhaps beauty is a term that means something flowery and bright, an idea that metalheads tend to shy away from. When I think of beauty I think of it as an artistic concept, devoid of attachment to mass ideology. I can see something that’s so ugly it become beautiful or something so dark, so tragic that it illuminates the tragedy in all of our souls and thus becomes a thing of beauty. Such is the effect with Steve Von Till’s new solo album “A Grave Is A Grim Horse.” This is the third offering from Von Till and by far his most mature and---dare I say it---beautiful work to date.

(((click to read full review!)))

Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till Announce New Solo Albums on Neurot!

Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till
Announce Upcoming Solo Releases on Neurot!




Scott Kelly is one of three founding members of Oakland, California experimental hardcore band Neurosis. He has been writing and recording music since 1985 with Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood and Time and his solo acoustic project. He has also appeared in other recordings, most notably Mastodon's Leviathan (2004) (on the song Hearts Alive) and Blood Mountain (2006) (on the song Crystal Skull). Currently he is still writing, recording and performing with Neurosis and all of the related projects as well as being part owner of Neurosis' record label Neurot Recordings. He has recently started an Internet radio station/website called Combat Music Radio. - Wikipedia.com

* Kelly is also currently working on the new Blood & Time recording as well as writing new music with Neurosis and Shrinebuilder which is a collaboration with Wino (St Vitus/Hidden Hand), Dale Crover (Melvins), and Al Cisneros (Om). Look for the debut release from Shrinebuilder on NR in 2009.

Steve Von Till is a singer and guitarist for the progressive experimental metal band, Neurosis. He is also in Tribes of Neurot and Culper Ring, and records solo work under both his given name and the moniker Harvestman. - Wikipeda.com

* Like Kelly, Von Till is still writing, recording and performing with Neurosis and all of the related projects as well as being part owner of Neurosis' record label Neurot Recordings. He is writing new music with Neurosis, planning further Harvestman titles, including the limited edition release of the soundtrack to the 2006 film 'Hate2O' (Alex Infascelli, dir.), which was scored entirely by Von Till performing as Harvestman.

The leaders of one of the most groundbreaking bands in the history of heavy music have just announced they will be releasing new solo albums on their own Neurot Recordings, later this Spring. Read below to learn more about each amazing album.



SCOTT KELLY: THE WAKE
(May 6th, 2008)

In James Joyce's Dublin the streets inhale and exhale an Irishness that is so fundamentally elemental that it's more a part of the landscape than the actual landscape which is to say: his books are more real than the real space they describe. And so it is with SCOTT KELLY, great guitar griot and founder of Neurosis, and his Wake. Or THE WAKE, to be precise. Its reality supersedes the place, the space and the particulars that gave birth to it. Mixing imagery that borders on a bold and stark contemplation of the limits of our earthly existence via our failed loves, efforts, conceits and even our less than noble other failures [blissfully unspecified and probably unnecessary to HAVE them specified: if you're ALIVE the blanks are easy enough to fill in], THE WAKE with its lion-in-the-winter woe wrenches the almost inexpressibly sad into seven songs that sound like what you hear when you're just about to not hear anything anymore.

"The weather never changes in my world." – Kelly

Goddamned right.

With an acoustic guitar and a croon that crams the lilt, lift and longing of several lives well lived into 5-some-odd minutes of every song this record would not only not have been possible at any other point in either his life, or ours for that matter, than now, it also seems to suggest the shape of beyond-now: thin and on fire.

Enjoy it. Time is short.
--Eugene S. Robinson/www.eugenesrobinson.com




STEVE VON TILL: A GRAVE IS A GRIM HORSE
(May 20th, 2008)

A Grave Is A Grim Horse marks yet another musical accomplishment from a man who has long given us music to save ours lives with. - Iann Robinson / NoneLouder.com

Perhaps the history of the song is innate within us. At least that's what we might glean from STEVE VON TILL's third Neurot Recordings solo outing A GRAVE IS A GRIM HORSE. Intertwined with interpretations of songs by Nick Drake, Townes van Zandt, Mickey Newberry and Lyle Lovitt, Von Till's powerful yet subtly graceful originals merge with a lexicon that manifests as something beyond the concept of persona that popular culture has repeatedly old us over the past 50 years. Where his previous releases showed reverence for folks music forms of the past, A GRAVE IS A GRIM HORSE peers directly inward, drawing from this history of song and earnestly embracing the need we all share to etch our mark upon the artifacts that will ultimately survive us.

Listening to the album, there's a troubling theme that reveals itself only when we're not seeking it. It tells us that we are nothing more than the part of the sum of an elusive whole, but sometimes the patterns that define us can be harnessed, as they are here. And what's most striking about the album is that Von Till's originals are so immediately captivating and threadbare that they seem more familiar on first listen than the works of the time-honored songwriters to whom he pays tribute.



For more information, visit:
www.neurotrecordings.com

Pyramids Stream Self-Titled Debut out Aprill 22nd on Hydra Head!

Pyramids
Announce and Stream Self-Titled Debut Album, Out April 22nd on Hydra Head!



Pyramids are a Denton, Texas-based band alternating between guitar-driven ambient pieces and a hazier approximation of Hydra Head labelmates Jesu's slow-diving metallurgy. I put on "Sleds", the opening track from Pyramids' self-titled full-length, thinking I was supposed to be hearing a metal record, but this one's squarely on the ethereal side of the dichotomy. As multi-layered guitars crumble and burn out, a high, incomprehensible male voice reverberates and decays, bringing to mind Deerhunter's more ambient moments, such as "White Ink". - Pitchforkmedia.com

It starts in the upper atmosphere, in that rarefied air where silence sings and time is little more than an abstraction. As it makes its way down through the tree line, to sea level, to the ear canals, elliptical windows and auditory nerves of the great unwashed, the shapes begin to shift. The sine waves become more distinct: swarming, swirling guitars, drums like a churning steam press, a chorus of celestial voices.

Instruments collude and collide in a roiling shoal and then dissipate, leaving a cavernous hole, a ghost town, the vestiges and echoes of a brief terrestrial existence. Out in Dallas and “other parts of the country,” where seemingly mild psychotropic disturbances can have vast and sinister implications for certain elements within the local populaces, Pyramids conjure the cacophonies of the great unknown, one song at a time.



Stream all of Pyramids self-titled debut HERE!

Pyramids Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Sleds (3:12)
2. Igloo (3:19)
3. The Echo of Something Lovely (3:23)
4. End Resolve (3:44)
5. Hellmonk (3:16)
6. This House is Like Any Other World (3:03)
7. Hillary (3:18)
8. Ghost (3:30)
9. Monks (2:31)
10. 1, 2, 3 (2:35)

CD 2: Remixes
1. The Echo of Something Lovely [Toby Driver/Ted Parsons/Colin Marston] (5:34)
2. 1, 2, 3 [James Plotkin] (4:30)
3. The Echo of Something Lovely [Jesu] (6:18)
4. Sleds [loveliescrushing] (3:49)
5. Ghost [Birchville Cat Motel] (9:54)
6. Sleds [Blut Aus Nord] (3:35)
7. The Echo of Something Lovely [James Plotkin] (3:15)
8. The Echo of Something Lovely [loveliescrushing] (3:27)




For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/pyramidsmusic
www.hydrahead.com

Pitchfork News: Ecstatic Sunshine Hit The Road w/ Cex!

huge thanks to Amy Phillips, Dave Maher, and the entire Pitchfork staff:



Ecstatic Sunshine Hit the Road With Cex



Energized by the recent Cardboard Records release of their sophomore album Way, drone-y three-piece Ecstatic Sunshine have plans to hit the road with fellow Baltimore resident and glitch-hop weirdo Cex.

Before the two meet up, Ecstatic Sunshine kick off their tour tonight (April 17) in Princeton-- right after bandmember Matthew Papich gets weird in NYC. In addition to plenty of Cex, Ecstatic Sunshine will also share stages with Atlas Sound, High Places, Zs, and BARR.

Ecstatic Sunshine:

04-17 Princeton, NJ - Princeton University *#
04-18 Brooklyn, NY - Market Hotel #$^
04-19 Purchase, NY - SUNY Purchase (Culture Shock) #$
04-20 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY - SMOG Club (Bard College) $
04-22 Buffalo, NY - Soundlab $
04-23 Detroit, MI - Scrummage University $
04-26 Chicago, IL - South Union Arts $
04-27 Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club $
04-30 Denver, CO - Rhinoceropolis $
05-02 Boise, ID - 406 O'Farrel St. $
05-03 Portland, OR - Backspace $
05-05 San Francisco, CA - ATA $
05-06 Oakland, CA - TBA $
05-07 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo $%
05-08 Phoenix, AZ - Modified Arts $
05-09 Albuquerque, NM - High Mayhem $
05-11 Austin, TX - The Mohawk $
05-12 Dallas, TX - Kettle Art $
05-14 Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light $
05-15 Athens, GA - Caledonia Lounge $
05-17 Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong $

* with Atlas Sound
# with High Places
$ with Cex
^ with Zs
% with BARR

Stream: Ecstatic Sunshine: Herrons [from the Way LP]

Around the Web Today: Wednesday April 16th

As we find ourselves w/ the not-so-horrible dilemma of having more press come in then we can profile individually on our site, we're trying out this new entry to give props to those who support. Enjoy and click away!

Since this is a new entry, we might sneak in some love from earlier in the week ;)

Solid PR Artist of The Day:


CHRIS MILLS (New album "Living in the Aftermath" April 22nd on Ernest Jenning)

* Absolutepunk review (posted today by Blake Solomon)
* Decoymusic review

Also around the web today:
CMJ.com interviews An Albatross
Plug In Music reviews Scott Kelly's "The Wake" (Neurot)
Treble reviews Cavity's "Laid Insignificant" (Hydra Head)
Impose Magazine Interviews Jettie (Eyeball Records)
MYSPACE BAND OF THE WEEK: E For Explosion (Eyeball Records)

An Albatross Signs To Eyeball Records!

Announces New Full Length out Fall 2008 on Eyeball Records!



The six-piece charge through layers of maniacal noise made complete with an onslaught of assaulting guitar riffs, machine gun percussion, squiggly synths, and Gieda's volatile vocal thrusts.
Spin Magazine

Every An Albatross concert stands the chance of being their last, or at least, getting shut down by the authorities. Notorious for a dangerously convulsive stage show to match their spazzy, organ-driven grindcore, the
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, sextet has had its share of run-ins with concert security men.
Revolver Magazine

Each song is so chock-full of whirlwind Coney Island calliope flourishes that experiencing a little vertigo while listening is not only par for the crusty, avant-grind course—it actually makes the album more enjoyable.
Decibel Magazine

Wilkes-Barre, PA based psychedelic thrash masters, AN ALBATROSS, have announced they've inked a deal w/ New Jersey based super-label Eyeball Records (Thursday, My Chemical Romance, Murder By Death, The Number Twelve Looks Like You).

The band has leaked A BRAND NEW SONG on their Myspace page, entitled, "...And Now Emerges The Silver Pilgrim," to appear on the band's Eyeball debut, due out this Fall.

More information including album title, art and tracklist forthcoming. In the meantime, catch the band as they hit the Northeast and Canada!

An Albatross Live!
Apr 21 2008 Cafe Metropolis Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania w/ Monotonix
Apr 29 2008 Great Scott’s Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 30 2008 AS220 Providence, Rhode Island
May 1 2008 Sala Rossa Montreal, Quebec w/ Aa & Thundrah
May 2 2008 Casbah Hamilton, Ontario w/Aa
May 3 2008 Sneaky Dee’s (over the top festival panache showcase) Toronto, Ontario w/ Aa and Creeping Nobodies

Revolver Magazine interviews An Albatross before this year's SXSW Marathon!

Village Voice documents An Albatross w/ Peelander-Z 4.5.08 @ Williamsburg Music Hall!



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/analbatross23
www.eyeballrecords.com

Pitchfork Reviews Team Robespierre's "Everything's Perfect!"

huge thanks to Zach baron and the entire Pitchfork staff:



Team Robespierre
Everything's Perfect
(Impose; 2008)