New York 5-piece K-Holes are set to release Dismania, their second full-length album.
“Dismania comes packed with the same kind of sinister, feverish punk skronk the New York quintet (featuring former members of Golden Triangle and the Black Lips) is known for.” says the press release. “It’s a dark, brutal, menacing trip; the sound of escape with the sheen of redemption, fueled by the low, thundering beat of tribal divination.”
The quintet’s new effort drops on May 1st via Hardly Art and it can be pre-ordered now.
K-Holes premiered yesterday a cinematic video for ‘Window In The Wall’, a track lifted from Dismania. Filmmaker Sebastian Mlynarski directed it and you can watch it below.
Earlier today, Primavera Sound announced the daily line-up of all artists confirmed to play at both Parque da Cidade and Casa da Música. Head over to the festival’s website for all the details.
To coincide with this announcement, as of today one-day tickets are available at 35€ for Thursday and 50€ for Friday and Saturday via Ticketline and Paypal.
The general pass is on sale for 99 Euros (+booking fee) and points of sale are Ticketline, Ticketmaster, Seetickets UK, Paypal, Optimus Primavera Sound official Facebook and several Optimus stores throughout Portugal.
As previously hinted, tickets are selling fast. Be sure to get yours before they sell out.
Los Angeles based art rock outfit Liars have been teasing a new album for a few months with sound and video snippets posted on their Tumblr.
The trio comprising Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross, have recently announced the title and release date for the album. WIXIW will be released on June 4th in Europe and June 5th in the US via Mute.
According to the press release, WIXIW “saw the band working more collaboratively than on previous recordings, and began when Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill moved into an isolated cabin in the mountains to begin writing.”
Recorded in Los Angeles and produced by the band and Mute’s Daniel Miller, WIXIW “is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one’s head even after an initial listen. Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars’ work up to now, and a complete break from anything you’d ever heard the band do previously.”
Earlier today, the threesome shared ‘No. 1 Against The Rush’, the first single off the forthcoming album. You can listen to it on their facebook or check it out below. You can also check the trailer for WIXIW.
Today sees the release of Theme Park‘s new single ‘Two Hours’ via Transgressive Records. The single comes as a limited edition 7″ and it includes b-side ‘Mourning Crimes’.
Coinciding with it, the foursome are giving away four exclusive tracks as a free download bundle. The EP includes the original version of previous single ‘Milk’ and its b-side ‘Ghosts’, an acoustic version of ‘Wax’ and a new remix of ‘Two Hours’.
Theme Park are currently recording their debut album set for release later in the summer.
Whilst we wait for the album to drop, head over to Theme Park’s facebook to download their free EP.
The first press of Death and Vanilla sold out but the band announced a second press is expected to arrive mid april and it can be ordered now through the labels.
Head over to their bandcamp to stream the album.
Death And Vanilla have just premiered a new video made by Sarah Mosk for Cul-De-Sac, one of the tracks from the album. Check it out below.
Legendary and influential krautrock outfit Can are releasing The Lost Tapes, a 3-CD box set featuring unreleased studio and live material and also soundtracks of films that were never completed.
Can’s keyboard player Irmin Schmidt and Mute’s Daniel Miller curated The Lost Tapes and Jono Podmore helped to compile and edit it.
The material was found after the Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock’ N’ Pop Museum.
“Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music.” says the issued press release.
“What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.”
The tracks were recorded between 1968 and 1977 with Can members Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and vocals from Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney on most tracks.
The Lost Tapes will be released on June 18th in Europe and a day later in the US via Mute.
The first taster from this upcoming collection is the excellent and groovy opening track ‘Millionenspiel’. Enjoy.
