Poison The Well Releases New 7" Today on Ferret!

click to listen to a brand new Poison The Well track below!



Tracklist for I / III
1. New Fast
2. Purple Sabbath

Poison The Well Live!

AUSTRALIA / Soundwave Festival
Feb 21 2009 Brisbane - RNA Showgrounds SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Brisbane, Queensland
Feb 22 2009 Venue TBC SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Sydney, New South Wales
Feb 27 2009 Melbourne Showgrounds - SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Melbourne, Victoria
Feb 28 2009 Bonython Park - SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Adelaide, South Australia
Mar 2 2009 Steel Blue Oval - SOUNDWAVE FESTIVAL Perth, South Australia

EUROPE w/ 36 Crazyfists!
Mar 6 2009 Zodiac Oxford, London and South East
Mar 7 2009 Arts Centre Colchester, East
Mar 8 2009 Waterfront Norwich, East
Mar 9 2009 Wolfrun Hall Wolves, Midlands
Mar 10 2009 Academy 2 Manchester, Northwest
Mar 11 2009 Garage Glasgow, Scotland
Mar 13 2009 LA2 London, London and South East
Mar 14 2009 Heling Utrecht, Utrecht
Mar 15 2009 Atack Enschede, Overijssel
Mar 16 2009 Live Music Hall Koln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Mar 17 2009 Grunspan Hamburg, Hamburg
Mar 18 2009 Kato Berlin, Berlin
Mar 20 2009 AJZ Chemnitz, Sachsen
Mar 21 2009 Backstage Werk Munich, Bayern
Mar 22 2009 Substage Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg
Mar 23 2009 Colos Saal Aschaffenburg, Bayern
Mar 24 2009 Matrix Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Mar 26 2009 Pumpehuset Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
Mar 27 2009 KB Malmo, Skåne län
Mar 28 2009 Brewhouse Gothenburg, Gotlands län
Mar 29 2009 John Dee Oslo, Oslo
Mar 30 2009 Debaser Medis Stokholm, Stockholms län

Headbangers Blog Streams The Giraffes' "Prime Motivator!"

huge thanks to Jon Weiderhorn and the entire Headbangers Blog staff for their support!



Sneak Preview: Listen to The Giraffes’ "Prime Motivator" Before You Buy



If you don’t know Brooklyn, New York quartet The Giraffes, you’re not alone. In metal circles, the dudes ain’t exactly Metallica. Hell, they ain’t exactly Horse The Band, popularity-wise. But if you dig rocking out to Zep, Sabbath and Nuggets box sets, and nodding off to upbeat, melodic stoner metal like like early Queens of the Stone Age and Fu Manchu, you’re in for a treat as tasty as home baked space cake.

The Giraffes’ second album, Prime Motivator is a munchie-satisfying feast of full-fisted power chord riffs, THC-saturated guitar tones and big rawk vocals that should leave you singing into the opening of a Budweiser longneck bottle. There’s even some crazy surf punk passages that’ll keep you grinning uncontrollably like a… well, you know. Best of all, you can try it all out for free. Just click “more” to stream the entire record, which comes out today.

(((Click here to stream The Giraffes' "Prime Motivator!")))

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Digitally Releases New Album Today on Stones Throw!

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Digitally Releases New Album, Old Money, Today on Stones Throw Records!



Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has excited fans with a schizophrenic fury. But now with his eighth solo record, the conceptual Old Money, out digitally today and as a CD Jan. 27, the prolific rocker has another target: exploitative industrialists. - Spin.com

Omar Rodriguez Lopez has set the standard for post-modern squalls that combine post-punk, prog, metal and Latin influences. - Rolling Stone

Omar Rodriguez Lopez's Old Money is the first album that The Mars Volta guitarist/producer/writer/arranger will release with Stones Throw Records. The addictive melodies and passionate execution of each performance render Old Money perhaps the most accessible of his non-Volta recordings, and the perfect entry point to anyone not yet familiar with what this prolific artist has to offer.

The album fits comfortably between the guitarist's monumental work with The Mars Volta, and his prior rock-based solo releases such as 2007's The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange. Loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money, the album presents a 10-track collection of concise rock compositions, which range from progressive to psychedelic to downright funky. Many of these sounds could easily be at home on a Volta record proper had they meshed with Cedric Bixler-Zavala’s vocals; Rodriguez Lopez has hinted that this record was a potential follow up to the 2006 Volta release Amputechture until he changed his musical direction.

Through the assistance of many of the players familiar to any fan of his "day gig", Rodriguez Lopez goes straight for the jugular with an unrelenting trio of opening tracks: the lead-in "The Power of Myth," the haunting, Middle Eastern-psych flavored "How to Bill the Bilderberg Group," and the blistering "Population Council's Wet Dream." The results are formidable and easily rank among the most exciting moments of Rodriguez Lopez's solo output. The remainder of the album is equally as memorable and certainly the product of acute inspiration on behalf of its creator. Though clear influences of popular ensembles such as Pink Floyd and Santana can be discerned, a deeper study reveals the cross-continental influence of Israeli garage psych heroes The Churchills, French proggers Ame Son and Magma and Turkish guitar-god Erkin Koray - amongst others.

This historical, though thoroughly modern, discourse ensures that this release fits perfectly within the ever expanding Stones Throw Records' novel. This album serves as an interesting new chapter in the same book that houses Madlib's interplanetary ramblings, Gary Wilson's recurring adolescent nightmares and The Stark Reality's fuzzy children's stories: all Mars Volta favorites.



Old Money Tracklist
1. The Power Of Myth
2. How To Bill The Bilderberg Group
3. Population Council's Wet Dream
4. Private Fortunes
5. Trilateral Commission As Dinner Guests
6. 1921
7. Family War Funding
8. Vipers In The Bosom
9. I Like Rockefellers' First Two Albums, But After That...
10. Old Money



For more information, visit:
www.stonesthrow.com
www.sargenthouse.com

MTV Leaks These Arms Are Snakes' "Red Line Season" Video Footage!

huge thanks to the MTV Subterranean staff for their support!



These Arms Are Snakes “Red Line Season” BHTS



These Arms Are Snakes instigate the molestation of an automobile for your video watching pleasure. Before you watch the video (cos you can’t yet), watch this making of for “Red Line Season” and prepare yourself.

Metal Sucks Leaks New Giraffes MP3!

huge thanks to Vince Neilstein and the entire MetalSucks staff!



EXCLUSIVE DEBUT: THE GIRAFFES - “SMOKE MACHINE”



We confess: we didn’t know shit about The Giraffes until today. But we know good music when we hear it and we pride ourselves on diversity (within metal, that is); so when we were offered the opportunity to premier a new track by Brooklyn’s own The Giraffes, we jumped at the chance.

“Smoke Machine” from their forthcoming album Prime Motivator is a ripping blend of thrash, classic metal, punk and even elements of boogie/surf guitar. Fans of Metallica, Big Business and Clutch alike are about equally as likely to dig the eclectic blend of rock and metal The Giraffes have going on here.

Prime Motivator drops next Tuesday, November 11th on Crustacean Records; if you dig this track, we think you’ll dig the album too.

[Click to listen] The Giraffes - “Smoke Machine”

Chicagoist Reviews The Giraffes' "Prime Motivator!"

huge thanks to Jim Kopeny and the entire Chicagoist staff for their support!



Rockin' Our Turntable: The Giraffes



The Giraffes hail from Brooklyn, but their sound is total Midwestern crunch, strewn with debris and overloaded guitars. Add in a dash of desert stoner attitude and you get a decent impression of what the band is all about. Their new album, Prime Motivator, is a sprawling collection of riffs, electric guitar vibrato, and a gallon's worth of sneering swagger. It's been argued -- and we've agreed -- that the whole stoner rock genre is pretty oversaturated. But then a band like The Giraffes comes along and reminds you why so many other bands wanted to get into the same game in the first place.

Lyrically the band isn't plumbing any great depths, but that's not really the pint, is it? The point is to break out massive breakdowns mid-song, as in the alternately chugging and crashing "Smoke Machine," thrash about, and sweat profusely. We saw them play a few months ago and were caught of guard by how viciously the band presents their material on-stage. The album is tight and well constructed, but live the songs spill out and sprawl all over each other as the bend bends over its gear and gets down to the serious business of spreading the rock.

Get with it.

The Giraffes play tonight at Liar's Club, 1665 W Fullerton, 10 p.m., $5, 21+

Neurosis Adds Om, Six Organs of Admitttance and More to Roadburn 2009!

Adds Om, Six Organs of Admittance, Skullflower and A Storm Of Light to Roadburn's 2009 Beyond The Pale!



"Om is the heaviest band to ever walk the face of the earth" - Scott Kelly, Neurosis

OM, Six Organs of Admittance, Skullflower and A Storm of Light, along with Neurosis have been confirmed for the inaugural European version of Neurosis’ acclaimed Beyond The Pale festival, set to be held at Roadburn 2009 on Saturday, April 25, the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.

"Om is such a rare bird in the vast landscape that is sound, music, art, and emotive expression that they absolutely defy description", says Scott Kelly, "The straightest line is the quickest path to the godhead, Om know this, it is the foundation of their mountain. The meditative nature of the patterns and rhythms found within the speaker flexing sonic blanket that they weave is unparalleled. Om is the heaviest band to ever walk the face of the earth."

"Josh Graham is a prolific individual, a man driven to create. In the years that we have spent together collaborating in Neurosis he has shown himself to be a visionary artist as well as a diligent worker. A Storm Of Light is born of this obsession; it is an ominous sound, a cloud of oppressive doomage. Equal parts heavy and hypnotic, A Storm Of Light is a band grown from truth."

Steve Von Till comments: "All must bow before the pagan wall of drone --I couldn't agree more with the opening quote of Skullflower's semi-official website. Hearing the tortured distorted and eerily shamanic drones emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early nineties was truly a revelation. "IIIrd Gatekeeper" and "Obsidian Shaking Codex" are two of my all time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and I approach guitar-based heavy music: to grab an electric guitar, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and Matthew Bower has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years. Finally after all these years we will all get to witness the power together at Beyond The Pale 2009."

"The words "psych folk', although being a genre of music I feel a passion and affinity for, have begun to lose their meaning and significance over the last several years. A so-called "revival" has dredged up wave upon wave of shallow rehash. Ben Chasny and his Six Organs of Admittance, often tagged by that limiting genre, is a bright flower of inspiration to bring us all hope and remind us that as movements devolve, free spirits can rise above and remain vital among the pale imitators. Fearless and able to avoid the pitfalls and traps of classification he has constantly managed to play cathartic soul music. Not "soul" music, but music that accompanies transformation and the journey of one’s spirit. We are pleased to have this tonal psychonaut join us for this special event."

Also scheduled to appear at Beyond The Pale / Roadurn 2009 are The Young Gods, Akimbo, Guapo and U.S. Christmas, with more bands to be announced.

Roadburn 2009 will run for three days from Thursday, April 23 to Saturday, April 25 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional Afterburner event on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Pre-sales for Beyond The Pale / Roadburn 2009 will start Saturday, December 13th. Recently, Saint Vitus, Amon Duul II, Mono, and Cathedral were also announced to be performing at Roadburn 2009. More info about Roadburn, including confirmed bands for Beyond The Pale and the full festival will follow soon.

More information about previous Beyond the Pale events can be found here.



For more information, visit:
www.roadburn.com
www.neurotrecordings.com