DAUGHTERS Announce Euro Tour w/ The Fall of Troy * Upcoming US Dates w/ Coalesce!

Announce European Tour w/ THE FALL OF TROY * Upcoming US Dates w/ COALESCE!



"Galaxies heavier than its predecessor" - CMJ

"The band manages to express musically in a short timespan what many bands of this genre don't in their entire career." - Lambgoat

"Daughters split the difference between Hella and the Locust into tiny little pieces before eating the pieces, barfing them up and then eating them again." - PaperThinWalls.com

"Led by monstrous drums, metal vocals, and a general vibe of unrelenting chaos, the quintet of Alexis Marshall (vocals), Brent Frattini (guitar), Jon Syverson (drums), Nicholas Andrew Sadler (guitar), and Samuel Moorehouse Walker (bass), unleash the fury on their latest album, Hell Songs." - Spin.com

"The quintet plays less grind and more plodding doom-core (read: an amphetamine-charged Arab on Radar). They still sound like Daughters, but even more chaotic." - Decibel Magazine

DAUGHTERS are a five-piece musical fistfight from Providence, Rhode Island. Bastard children of the New England hardcore and noise scenes, DAUGHTERS frequently get mislabeled as a grindcore band. In truth, DAUGHTERS present a new kind of spastic musical confrontation that exposes narrow-minded metal-by-numbers for what it is (boring) much to the satisfaction of fans that recognize and appreciate creative musical ambition. Their latest release, 2006’s Hell Songs marks a significant artistic progression for the band, building upon the chaotic intensity of 2003’s Canada Songs with fleshed out arrangements and debauched lyrics delivered in desperate yowl. PopMatters described it as “The most dramatic stylistic shift by an extreme band in 2006, Hell Songs is a mere glimpse of what this immensely talented band is capable of.”

DAUGHTERS thrive on presenting a memorable live experience. Their shows are explosions of precise intensity served as a platform for frontman Alexis Marshall’s particularly personal brand of connecting with the audience. Not afraid to reach out and touch (and occasionally exchange bodily fluids with) their fans, DAUGHTERS deliver their songs with no shortage of sweat and confident passion. Not for the faint of heart, DAUGHTERS present the listener with something of real substance, something with feeling. Or as Decoymusic.com put it, “Daughters are fucking insane.”



DAUGHTERS US Tour w/ Coalesce!
Aug 15 2007 Palladium (upstairs) Worcester, Massachusetts
Aug 16 2007 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 17 2007 Knitting Factory New York City, New York
Aug 18 2007 Otto Bar Baltimore, Maryland
Aug 19 2007 Alley Katz Richmond, Virginia
Aug 20 2007 Lawrenceville Moose Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aug 21 2007 Magic Stick Detroit, Michigan
Aug 22 2007 Knights of Columbus Arlington Heights, Illinois
Aug 23 2007 Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio

Glacial Fest
Aug 25 2007 Cuneen Hackett Art Center Poughkeepsie, New York w/ The Number Twelve Looks Like You

European Tour w/ The Fall of Troy!
Sep 19 2007 Barfly -UK Birmingham
Sep 20 2007 Wedgewood Rooms - UK Portsmouth
Sep 21 2007 TBA - UK TBA
Sep 22 2007 Zodiac - UK Oxford
Sep 23 2007 Academy 3 - UK Manchester
Sep 24 2007 King Tuts - UK Glasgow, Scotland
Sep 25 2007 Cockpit - UK Leeds
Sep 26 2007 TJ's - UK Newport
Sep 27 2007 The Corporation - UK Sheffield
Sep 28 2007 Islington Academy - UK London
Sep 29 2007 La Malterie - France Lille
Sep 30 2007 Boule Noire - France Paris
Oct 1 2007 Molotow - Germany Hamburg
Oct 2 2007 Z BAU - Germany Nernburg
Oct 3 2007 Magnet - Germany Berlin
Oct 4 2007 Backstage - Germany Munich
Oct 5 2007 025 - Germany Frankfurt
Oct 6 2007 Werkstatt - Visions Party - Germany Cologne
Oct 7 2007 Effenaar - Netherlands Eindhoven
Oct 8 2007 Waterfront - Netherlands Rotterdam
Oct 9 2007 AB Club - Belgium Brussels

DAUGHTERS Headlining - RockSound Magazine Presents:
Oct 10 2007 Engine Room - UK Brighton
Oct 11 2007 The Croft - UK Bristol
Oct 12 2007 Independent - UK Sunderland

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/daughters1
www.wearedaughters.com
www.hydrahead.com/press/daughters
www.hellsongsfromdaughters.com
www.hydraheadlines.blogspot.com

YAKUZA Releases "Transmutations" Today!

Releases "Transmutations" Today on Prosthetic!



"Yakuza’s the extreme music equivalent of a fleet-fingered DJ with a bottomless crate of Decibel-approved 7-inches––ones that soothe and sear, massage and mutilate." - Decibel Magazine

"Though the group has a vocalist, Bruce Lamont, who doubles on reeds, and though it has the clout to snag legendary free-jazz percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang, it still loads Transmutations with atmospheres that are neither jazz nor psychedelia nor Neurosis-esque post-metal, but a cataclysmic collision of all three." - The Onion AV Club

"An exploration of extremes -hypnotic, sax-led grooves juxtaposed with raging apocalyptic grind." - Chord Magazine

"Listening to a Yakuza album with full attention is likely to take you places other albums rarely go." - Lambgoat.com

"An inspired, diverse, invigorating piece of work that will leave listeners wondering just what this highly talented band is capable of accomplishing next." - PopMatters.com

With high praise from the metal press, local and national newspapers, and highbrow publications alike, Chicago’s YAKUZA has succeeded in garnering attention of all kinds, all the while not compromising the band’s free-flowing and spontaneous musical integrity. Regardless, YAKUZA remains independent, maintaining an almost indescribable sound that picks and plucks from a wealth of influences and inspirations.

Staying deeply rooted in a genre all its own, YAKUZA’s existence lies on a metal base with progressive flair, while somehow also incorporating elements of jazz, world beat, and post-rock ambience. Picture (if you can) a mixture of King Crimson, all periods of John Coltrane’s career, Tortoise, and Napalm Death. The end result is captivating, a sound that Rolling Stone, Revolver, Alternative Press, the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, All That Jazz and countless others all agree is refreshingly original, technically proficient, all the while still staying very metal.

Continuing the band’s genre-defying sound with Transmutations, the follow-up to 2006’s critically acclaimed record, Samsara, the album sees YAKUZA again pushing the aural boundaries further albeit in a different way, incorporating more psychedelic elements alongside stretching, doomy movements and the band’s trademark jazz-influences, while also incorporating breakneck grind riffs and grooves at the same time.



"Exploration, experimentation, riding the line between the familiar and the foreign; the essential elements for YAKUZA have already been established,” frontman Bruce Lamont says. “We are not interested in creating music that’s not easily definable. Our roots are firmly planted in metal - yes, but like life, the sounds here are not cut and dry. At times this record can be uplifting, cruel, celebratory and just downright fuckin’ mean."

Utilizing producer and established multi-instrumentalist Sanford Parker (Rwake, Pelican, Minsk) for the recording of Transmutations, YAKUZA couldn’t be happier with the album’s end sound. “Sanford was great to work with,” Lamont says. “We really feel he has refined his craft over the past half a dozen recordings he's done. He’s known the band for a long time and helped with our last release, so he is already aware of our studio tendencies. With him the process felt almost effortless.”

With an album that continues the YAKUZA sound while – somehow - also expanding upon the band’s already established enigmatic concepts and forward-thinking approach to metal, Transmutations continues to push the envelope, carving a niche in the metal genre, while still continuing the band’s originality that has garnered so much attention in the underground – metal, mainstream or otherwise.



"Transmutations" Tracklist:
1. meat curtains
2. egocide
3. congestive art-failure
4. praying for asteroids
5. raus
6. steal the fire
7. the blinding
8. existence into oblivion
9. perception management
10. black market liver
11. zombies

Yakuza Live!
TONIGHT Aug 11 2007 RECORD RELEASE SHOW @ SUBTERRANEAN 18+ Chicago, IL

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/yakuza

LateNightWallflower.com interviews Ronen Kauffman

big thanks to Matt Pullman!



* Geoff Rickly of Thursday enjoys new reading material

FUCKED UP and COALESCE have new release dates

FUCKED UP "Year of the Pig"
now out August 14th on What's Your Rupture



COALESCE "There is Nothing New Under the Sun" Reissue
now out August 21st on Hydra Head

BIRDS OF AVALON Kickoff US Dates w/ Ted Leo!

Kickoff US Dates w/ Ted Leo!



"The new album from North Carolina psychedelic indie-rockers the Birds of Avalon, Bazaar Bazaar is an exciting whirlwind psych-prog-pop rawk record in the tradition of Cheap Trick, Blue Cheer and Thin Lizzy. " - WXPN in Philadelphia

"BOA shudders and roars with the acid-burnt psychedelic prog/blues bluster of the '60s shot through with contemporary punk/pop energy and invention." - Chord Magazine

"70s guitar jams that would do Lynyrd Skynyrd proud" - Outburn Magazine

"Tap a Coors party ball and grow your hair out." - Alternative Press

"Bazaar Bazaar is a lesson in classic rock 'n roll" - Pastepunk.com

After a 7-year stint in a prison van with the double drum, frenetic rock n’ roll assault known as The Cherry Valence, guitarists Cheetie Kumar and Paul Siler, felt a growing desire to move on. In a final whirlwind year that saw The Cherry Valence touring Europe multiple times, the couple, Kumar and Siler, got married and made the difficult decision to divorce their band.

Returning home hitched and band-less, they began late night clandestine meetings with neighbor and local crooner Craig Tilley (The Weather), where they hatched a plan to form Birds of Avalon and laid the foundation for what was to become the first batch of Birds Of Avalon songs. Still needing to round out their line up they snared their favorite area drummer Scott Nurkin (Dynamite Brothers) and soon added multi-instrumentalist and fanatical 4 tracker, David Mueller on bass.

With the release of their debut full length, Bazaar Bazaar, Birds Of Avalon have developed a unique psychedelic meets progressive sound that yields feelings that transcend the conventions of both. Skillfully channeling elements of a time in Rock since past, while maintaining their place in the lineage of North Carolinian independent rock heritage. Easily traversing an area between raw blues rock and atmospheric pysch-pop. Birds Of Avalon “can tear it up in a three-minute barn-burner or lure you into an extended psychedelic journey, wandering schizophrenically like a Brian May guitar solo,” so says Jens Lekman of Cincinnati City Beat.

Bazaar Bazaar was released on May 22nd on Volcom Entertainment and was recorded and produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Active, Wilco), Greg Elkins and Brian Quast.



Watch Birds of Avalon shred HERE

More praise:

"It sounded like Sloan gone psych. No, it sounded like Led Zeppelin gone pop. No, that's not quite it either. Black Sabbath meets The Beatles? In fact it's none of those, but the truth lies somewhere in the middle of those comparisons.” - Jim Kopeny (Chicagoist, Donewaiting, Tankboy)

"Like Led Zeppelin psychedelic blues, Black Sabbath's bag of riffs and a love for all things rockin' from the '60s and '70s... The band's debut is a freewheelin' ode to most of what's great about rock'n'roll." - Aversion.com

"The record is so ceaselessly accessible I can't help but call it charming." - The Chicago Reader

"The North Carolina-based group has released a surprisingly strong debut with Bazaar Bazaar, a chugging pop-rock (with emphasis on the latter) effort in a space where ELO, Wolfmother and Sweet coalesce." - The Houston Press

“Led by a pair of guitarists who seem, by sheer force, to be powering their amplifiers rather than the other way around, Birds of Avalon make thunderous, precise rock with enough proggy smarts to keep you on your toes.” Steve Haruch for the Nashville Scene

"Where the Cherry Valence perfected a hybrid of AC/DC, Motörhead, the MC5, and the classic-rock-by-way-of-garage-punk revivalism of the Hellacopters, Birds of Avalon are more about layers, psychedelia, and the song." - Memphis Flyer

“A band capable of delivering three-minute rock bliss and expansive psychedelic workouts with equal chops.” – Salt Lake Tribune



BIRDS OF AVALON US Tour Dates:

w/ Ted Leo!
8/5/2007 Madison Theatre Covington, KY w/ Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Hold Steady, The Black Angels, Buffalo Killers
8/6/2007 Exit In Nashville, TN
8/7/2007 Bottletree Cafe Birmingham, AL
8/8/2007 WhirlyBall Roswell, GA
8/9/2007 40 Watt Club Athens, GA
8/10/2007 Cats Cradle Carrboro, NC
8/11/2007 Recher Theater Towson, MD
8/12/2007 McCarren Park Pool Brooklyn, NY

Volcom Tour w/ Riverboat Gamblers, Valient Thorr, Totimoshi, ASG, and more!
8/28/2007 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
8/29/2007 Peabody's Cleveland , OH
8/30/2007 Magic Stick Detroit, MI
8/31/2007 The Basement Columbus, OH
9/1/2007 Subterranean Chicago, IL
9/2/2007 The Rave/Eagles Club Milwaukee, WI

w/ Fucking Champs!
9/7/2007 Dante's Portland, OR
9/8/2007 Crocodile Cafe Seattle, WA
9/16/2007 Aquarium Fargo, ND
9/17/2007 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
9/18/2007 Waiting Room Omaha, NE
9/19/2007 Record Bar Kansas City, MO
9/20/2007 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
9/21/2007 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
9/22/2007 The Green Room Reno, NV
9/23/2007 Great American Music Hall San Fransico, CA



Stream "Bazaar Bazaar" HERE!

"Bazaar Bazaar" Tracklist:
1. Bicentennial Baby
2. Horse Called Dust
3. Instant Coma
4. Set You Free
5. Wanderlust
6. Taking Trains
7. Superpower
8. Where’s My Blood?
9. Turn Gold
10. Think
11. Lost Pages From the Robot Repair Manual



For more information, visit:
www.birdsofavalon.com
www.myspace.com/birdsofavalon
www.volcoment.com

WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY Announce "Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's 20th Century"this Fall on Chunksaah!

THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY

Announce New Album “Addicted to Bad Ideas -- Peter Lorre’s 20th Century” out September 11, 2007 on Chunksaah Records * World Premiere of New Live Multi-Media Concert Staging @ Philadelphia’s Live Arts Festival September 8th & 9th * US Tour w/ SUBHUMANS, and more!



“A combination of Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues and the noise the devil makes as cities burn. It's one thing to talk about the destruction of institutions that hold society together, but another to mean it. World/Inferno Friendship Society means it, or seems to, and it's unclear which is more dangerous.” - NPR

"A raucous, nine-person cabaret act that introduced a welcome touch of anarchy to the cozy Caucus Patio" - Entertainment Weekly

"Showtune-esque vocals, plenty of horns, and hooks that are impossible *not* to sing along to." - Alternative Press

“If you're looking for something different, important and fun (all at the same time), then I can think of no CD that fits the bill as well as Red-Eyed Soul.” – Punknews.org

"The word "unique" doesn't even describe half of the qualities that make the WORLD INFERNO / FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY a compelling recorded and live act. This compact of friends and roaring musicians is "disorderly conduct" in motion, enacted with a fervor that cannot be washed out." - Pastepunk.com

Read Spin.com’s live review of the Hallowmas on the High Seas Halloween Boat Cruise around Manhattan HERE!

Brooklyn punk legends WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY join forces with Jay Scheib,* one of contemporary theater’s brightest young visionaries, to create a punk-rock opera for the times. Continuing the charge in the evolution of the genre via the ultimate 20th century archetype of alienation, Peter Lorre, World/Inferno dedicate a furious song cycle following Lorre’s unheralded existence from his days with Wedekind and Brecht through the cycle of World Wars to a pitiless fall from grace in the drug-infused quagmire of Hollywood vines. Led by the inimitable Jack Terricloth, World/Inferno paint a picture of the twentieth century from the outsider’s eye via a multi-media spectacle.

"Addicted to Bad Ideas" is the new album from the collective known as The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Gotham City's anarchist big-band originally known for bringing their brand of circus inspired swing-punk to rooftops, basements, halls, churches and anywhere their fire-breathing mayhem was accepted. The Inferno has since created a cult-following (especially in the New York City metropolitan area) that is so magical, their live appearances are some of the most intense and eagerly anticipated events of the weekend.

Recorded by Don Fury and featuring, for the first time ever, a full orchestra backing the group, "Addicted to Bad Ideas" is by far the band's most fascinating work yet. Premiering live in Fall 2007 @ WXPN's World Cafe in Philadelphia, in conjunction with the Chunksaah Records release of the band's new record, one of America’s finest progressive punk bands bring their unique vision from the clubs to the stage for the first time, and delves into the most comprehensive and intriguing work the World/Inferno Friendship Society has ever brought us.



The World/Inferno Friendship Society:
Jack Terricloth - Vocals
Sandra Malak - Bass/Background Vocals
Lucky Strano - Guitar
Semra Ercin - Percussion/Background Vocals
Franz Nicolay - Keyboards/Accordion
Maura Corrigan - Alto Saxophone
Peter Hess - Tenor Saxophone
Ken Thomson - Baritone Saxophone
Raja Najib - Piano
Kevin Raczka - Drums

MORE ON WORLD/INFERNO:
The World/Inferno Friendship Society is not a rock band with a horn section; it's a fully-integrated orchestra of young men and women writing for you songs of the wine, freedoms and foibles which make life more than waking up and going to work every day. Nine pieces - 2 drummers 4 horns 2 guitars way too many teeth a piano and an accordion. Sign the fuck up!

Fate, my friends, loves the Fearless. And We, in turn, love You. Don't turn away from love, friends--don't be chicken. THE WORLD/INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY is all the proof you need. With songs so sweet and a quicksilver beat, a lean 9-piece orchestra of girls and boys plays the cabaret-soul-punkety soundtrack to your romances and disasters. The vaudeville circus you always wished your life could be can be--just come and see!

ABOUT DIRECTOR JAY SCHEIB:
Director Jay Scheib has been developing new work for live performance for nearly a decade, premiering an array of cross disciplinary works in the US and throughout Europe. Recent works include the live-cinema performance work "This Place is a Desert," which premiered at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art and will travel later this season to New York's Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar Festival. Other recent works include the staging of Argentinean author Daniel Veronese's "Women Dreamt Horses," first presented as a work in progress at the Prelude Festival in New York City followed by its critically acclaimed premier at Performance Space 122 as part of BAiT – Buenos Aires in Translation. Also in New York, Scheib directed a studio production of Slovenian writer Saska Rakef's new play "Shelter," first at the New York Theater Workshop as part of the European Dream Festival and later in Ljubljana as part of the PreGlej Festival of new plays. At Raum (Space) Bologna, Scheib premiered his Shakespeare adaptation "All Good Everything Good" as a performance installation with Italian singer Margareth Kammerer. Other productions last season include the world premier of Irene Popovic's opera "Mozart Luster Lustik" at the Sava Center in Belgrade Serbia and a new staging of the Novoflot science fiction opera saga "Kommander Kobayashi" at the Saarlandisches Staatstheater in Saarbruecken, Germany. Current works include a collaboration with composer Anthony Gatto on a new opera adaptation of Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans," premiering at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2008, and "Untitled Mars (this title may change)" conceived and directed by Scheib, which will premiere in April 2008 at Performance Space 122.

A recipient of the NEA/TCG program for directors, Jay Scheib is currently Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum Institute für Regie und Schauspiel in Salzburg Austria.



“Addicted To Bad Ideas” Tracklist:
1. Peter Lorre Overture (4.47)
2. With A Good Criminal Heart (2.57)
3. "M" Is For Morphine (3.03)
4. And Embarked On A Life Of Poverty (3.34)
5. Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik (4.15)
6. I Just Make Faces (2.47)
7. Everybody Comes To Rick's (2.08)
8. Cathy Catharine (2.51)
9. Thumb Cinema (3.25)
10. Addicted To Bad Ideas (3.16)
11. Heart Attack '64 (2.40)

Discography:
Addicted To Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century (September 11th, 2007)
Red-Eyed Soul – CD (2006)
Me V. Angry Mob - CDEP/12" (2005)
Speak Of Brave Men - CDEP/7" (2004)
The Expatriate Act - Track on Rock Against Bush Vol.1 Compilation CD (2004)
Hallowmas - Live at North Six - CD (2003)
Just The Best Party - CD (2002)
International Smashism - Vinyl EP (2001)
East Coast Super Sound Punk Of Today! - The Singles CD (2000)
I Wouldn't Want To Live in a World without Grudges - 7" (2000)
Pumpkin Time - 7" (1999)
The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League - CD/LP (1997)
Our Candidate - 7" (1997)
The Models and The Mannequins - 7" (1996)
Tattoos Fade - 7" (1996)



WORLD/INFERNO Live!
Sunday, August 5th - 2pm Sharp @ Washington Square Park in NYC - (Free show!) w/ Witch Hunt, Flase Prophets, Crack Rock Steady 7
Sunday, August 5th - 8pm @ Club Exit in Brooklyn w/ Leftover Crack, The Degenerics, Witch Hunt, False Prophets

Peter Lorre's 20th Century Live!
September 8th @ The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (WXPN World Cafe)
September 9th @ The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (WXPN World Cafe) + Live Broadcast on WXPN!
+ Spring 2008 US Tour!

US Tour w/ Subhumans!
Sep 13 2007 Cell Block Mobile, Alabama
Sep 14 2007 Fuel Coffeehouse Jacksonville, Florida
Sep 15 2007 Studio A Miami, Florida
Sep 16 2007 The Social Orlando, Florida
Sep 18 2007 Asheville Arts Centre Asheville, North Carolina
Sep 19 2007 20th Century Theatre CINCINNATI, Ohio
Sep 20 2007 Mr Smalls Theatre PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania
Sep 21 2007 8First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 22 2007 Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 23 2007 Knitting Factory New York, New York
Sep 24 2007 Knitting Factory New York, New York
Sep 26 2007 The Club at Water Street ROCHESTER, New York
Sep 27 2007 Grog Shop Cleveland, Ohio
Sep 28 2007 Magic Stick Detroit
Sep 29 2007 Logan Square Auditorium Chicago, Illinois




For more information, visit:
www.worldinferno.com
www.myspace.com/worldinferno
www.chunksaah.com
www.arktype.org

Pastepunk interviews Ronen Kauffman!

thanks to Jason Bergman for this awesome interview, click images to read:



also, catch Ronen's upcoming appearance @ Warped Tour, Curmudgeon Record Store, the CMJ Music Marathon and more!
Aug 3 2007 WARPED TOUR - Philadelphia @ Tweeter Center @ the Waterfront
Aug 4 2007 WARPED TOUR - NYC @ Nassau Coliseum
Aug 5 2007 WARPED TOUR - NJ @ Raceway Park
Aug 9 2007 WARPED TOUR - Boston @ Tweeter Center
Aug 11 2007 Signing/Reading - Somerville, NJ @ Curmudgeon Music
Oct 18 2007 CMJ Panel - Lit Rock & Music Books @ NYU Kimmel Center, room 905/907