Black Dice premiere video for new single ‘Rodriguez’

03 May 2012

Black Dice‘s Mr. Impossible is out now and the experimental art noise threesome are taking it on a huge tour aptly called “Electronic Mind Monsters Reader Tour”. The tour kicks off tonight in Boston and they’ll be touring North-America throughout May and head over to Europe in September. You can check all the dates here.

Yesterday the trio premiered a video for the new single ‘Rodriguez’, made by themselves. ‘Rodriguez’ will be released as a 7″ single featuring B-side ‘Pissed In A Cave’ and you can get it exclusively on one of the band’s shows or via Ribbon.

Now get ready for this frantically trippy video.

BEAK> announce somophore album and share new track

03 May 2012

British trio BEAK>, comprising frontman Geoff Barrow (of Portishead fame) and fellow Bristol natives Matt Williams and Billy Fuller have announced the follow up to their 2009’s self-titled debut album.
Their upcoming somophore effort, entitled >>, will be released digitally on June 13th and a physical release arrives on June 11th in the UK and July 3rd in the US via Barrow’s own Invada Records.
‘Yatton’ is the first cut off >>, a hypnotic krautrock track. Listen to it below.

A Gulp for thirsty ears

02 May 2012

I’ve just discovered Gulp, the new side project of Super Furry Animals’s bassist Guto Pryce with Lyndsey Leven, and it almost knocked me off my chair.

‘Game Love’, the duo’s brand new dazzling track, is streaming on E.L.K. Records’ soundcloud. Listen to it now.

Dive become Diiv and offer new track from upcoming debut album

02 May 2012

Yesterday saw Brooklyn indie rockers Dive change their name to Diiv. Frontman Zachary Cole Smith (Of Beach Fossils fame) explained it as an act of respect towards Belgian artist Dirk Ivins aka Dive.
Zachary said “the band is the same, the music is the same, the future will always be the same. A name is nothing.”

To coincide with the name change, Diiv shared a new cut, ‘Doused’, from their upcoming debut album Oshin, out June 26th via Captured Tracks. Listen to it below.

Blues Control share first cut from forthcoming album Valley Tangents

02 May 2012

Blues Control, the avant-rock duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho, originally from Queens, New York and now relocated to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, are set to release their fourth album Valley Tangents. It drops on June 19th and it will mark their debut on Drag City.

The pair have offered the first taste from Valley Tangents, ‘Iron Pigs’, an excellent proggy space jam. Enjoy.

Xiu Xiu premiere video for second single off Always

02 May 2012

‘Honeysuckle’ is the second single lifted from Xiu Xiu‘s recently released album Always and a video for it has emerged yesterday.

Always is out now via Bella Union in Europe and Polyvinyl in the rest of the world.

The brainchild project of Jamie Stewart is starting a North-American tour today, check all the dates and other info here.

Now watch the video for ‘Honeysuckle’ directed by Amir Stoucri and  featuring Xiu Xiu’s member Angela Seo as she goes about her day-to-day routine. Make sure you have finished eating because it gets pretty disturbing.

And after the video you can listen to the first single off Always, ‘Beauty Towne’, posted here a while back.