Friday 25 March 2011

SPAGHETTI TREE - April 1st and 2nd


Upset The Rhythm presents....

SPAGHETTI TREE _^_^_^_^_^_^_

April Fools' Day is an often maligned time of the year. Since the times of Chaucer the day has persisted in the unravelling of sanity, practical jokes and tomfoolery, even though nowadays we're lucky to notice a hoax in the papers before all fun is culled by noon. This is why we have decided to celebrate the day in style, restoring the event to its anarchic origins with a 48 hour spectacle of fun and music taking place in Peckham Rye's old cricket bat factory, The Bussey Building. The two day event is entitled Spaghetti Tree in homage to the 1957 Panorama broadcast which fooled the nation.

On Friday 1 April we're lucky enough to have US sonic eccentrics Dan Deacon and John Maus throwing down the gauntlet to the UK's finest keyboard-weirding acts including PLUG, Munch Munch and Design A Wave. After the revels we'll lead a procession into the darkness of the Rye in an attempt to see one of William Blake's childhood visions of an angel in a tree. The next day things get blown further apart as logic continues to be defied, this time with No Age, Japanther, Ducktails, Ignatz, Please, Peepholes, Hygiene, Woolf, Smack Wizards and Eternal Fags all performing across the space's several rooms.

So yes, we're guaranteeing the most fun April Fools' Day ever, along with it's confused Saturday brother. Feeling hungry? Let's reap the Spaghetti grove!

*SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 1*

DAN DEACON
JOHN MAUS
PLUG
MUNCH MUNCH
DESIGN A WAVE
+ 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS DJs
+ WFMU DJs
Friday 1 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
8pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

DAN DEACON is an absurdist composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Musically influenced by Devo, Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond Scott and Conlon Nancarrow, Dan's music strives to take modern experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, placing it into more informal "fun time". Dan's music is about community and how to organise and inspire it. From founding the well-known Wham City art collective, to organising and running an annually sold-out DIY music festival called Whartscape, to conceiving, planning and curating the massive 60 person / 30 band Baltimore Round Robin Tour, it's clear to see that bringing people together is the major theme of his work, only exemplified further by his gameplay with the audience. Dan's recent album 'Bromst' embodies the same energy and excitement as the previous melting pot 'Spiderman of the Rings', however the craftsmanship and composition have a wider scope and richer palette. Bromst overflows with a mixture of acoustic instruments, mechanical instruments, samples and electronics. The piano, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, live drums, winds and brass give the album a much richer tone and skillfully weave together into a rich, dense, noisy dance pop that has become Dan Deacon's signature sound. This is only UK show Dan is playing on this quick trip over to Europe, so let's make it special!
http://www.myspace.com/dandeacon

JOHN MAUS lives and works in Minnesota. Although first drawn to our attention as a member of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Maus has proved himself to be an extraordinary musician with a distinctive sound in his own right. Perhaps co-conspirator and collaborator Ariel Pink perhaps has the definitive insight into the talents of the man... "John Maus is a maniac on a bloody crusade - a tortured evangelist on a mercenary quest to rid our world of villainous defilers of The Gospel of True Love. By turns shockingly infectious and disarmingly unpredictable, his music conflates a perplexing marriage of Moroder's 'Never Ending Story' and classical 12-tone renegades of 20th century past, harking the new path which resurrects romance from its post-modern shackles, and reignites the promise of a better world." John has two albums entitled 'Songs' and 'Love Is Real' available through Upset The Rhythm now and a new album coming in June entitled 'We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves'.
http://www.myspace.com/johnmaus

PLUG are an articulate drums-and-also-bass duo from London who deal in heartily-voiced, compulsive melodies married to an incessant nodding groove. Comprising Sian Dorrer (vocals and drums) and Georgie Nettell (bass, keys and vocals) PLUG construct minimal pop vignettes with bright, sumptuous basslines locking indelibly with crisp, taught drumming - a deceptively simple yet driving combination owing as much to hip-hop and dance as the sparse clatter of post-punk. Songs are handled deftly with Sian's strident, powerful vocals augmented by Georgie's more subdued whisper. PLUG play a sophisticated kind of post-something pop with a brisk intensity, a wry sense of humour and a canny knack for a memorable hook. PLUG's self-titled debut album is out now through Upset The Rhythm.
http://www.myspace.com/plugddd

MUNCH MUNCH are a kaleidoscopic pop group from Bristol who write ecstatic, elliptical songs that burst with creativity and restless energy. The band are four friends: Tom, Richard, Jack and Sarah Louise. Their songs swim deep only to breach the waves in spectacular style. Concerned with shivering eternity, rusting history and touching upon the many vistas and dead-ends of love, Munch Munch are constantly trying to catch up with the uncertain moments which most validate our lives. The band have toured the UK and Europe, playing with the likes of Dirty Projectors, Why?, No Age, Ponytail, Clues and Hot Chip. Along the way they have recorded a BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale session for Huw Stevens, and played festivals including Lovebox, Truck, Tanned Tin in Spain, and Imago in Portugal. Recent album 'Double Visions' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.
http://www.myspace.com/munchmunchband

DESIGN A WAVE is one-man recording machine, Tom Hirst, sometimes in solo musical guise, sometimes with added choreography. Design A Wave have perfected an emotive, melancholic synth pop which nods towards the eccentricity of artists like Snakefinger and Tuxedomoon, the synthetic slickness and charity shop glamour of Italo Disco, and the misery of coldwave. Design A Wave have a brand new 12" record entitled 'Live On Your Yard' released through Alter Records now. This is the first vinyl release in Design a Wave's 10 year history, following on from a slew of humble and privately distributed CD-Rs, and also the first Design A Wave recording to feature external musicians - Melissa Osborne on synth and Will Saunders on bass.
www.myspace.com/designawave



*SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 2*

NO AGE
DUCKTAILS
JAPANTHER
PLEASE
PEEPHOLES
HYGIENE
WOOLF
IGNATZ
ETERNAL FAGS
SMACK WIZARDS
+WFMU DJs
+ UTR DJs
Saturday 2 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
3pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

NO
AGE is Randy Randall and Dean Spunt – two heavyweights from the Los Angeles punk / skate / art underworld. A crashing collision of sweetly shouted ditties, ecstatic crunch feedback and violent bouts of percussion, the NO AGE sound is abound with pop songs fighting to break through a mist of white fuzz. In March 2007, the band released a set of five vinyl only EPs across five different labels, including their debut ‘Get Hurt’ 12″ on Upset The Rhythm, some highlights of which have since been compiled for Fat Cat CD ‘Weirdo Rippers’. The duo’s debut album proper ‘Nouns’ was released in 2008 on the rather epic Sub Pop imprint to much acclaim and was followed up with the dreamy, more-sampled based ‘Losing Feeling’ EP last year. This show sees No Age playing with recently added third member on sound sources/electronics called Cundo Bermudez and performing a ton of new material from their excellent new album ‘Everything In Between’.
http://www.myspace.com/nonoage


DUCKTAILS is Matt Mondanile, a New Jersey resident whose pop is drenched in a warm drone. There is an amazingly realised aesthetic running through this stuff, with all its plastic nostalgias - like Ninja Turtles pizza, fake palm trees and sugary cereal - and the lo-fi tape fuzz that also permeates his other projects, Predator Vision, Real Estate and Dreams In Mirror Field. It's home recording with one of the most embracing feels you'll find - reminiscent of Ariel Pink, but with a weird-out exploratory nudge. Matthew prefers cassettes as scuffed-up homes for this stuff, but a vinyl full-length on LA DIY label Not Not Fun and a new LP on Olde English Spelling Bee and Woodsist are more widely come by. This show sees Matt teaming up with Spectrals as his backing group, to expand the music into new realms.
http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss

JAPANTHER is an art project established circa 2001 by Ian Vanek - who plays drums, cassettes and sings - and Matt Reilly - who plays bass and Casio SK-1, and sings. The explosive, unapologetically punk power duo have collaborated with a variety of artists including Penny Rimbaud, Dan Graham, Eileen Myles, Ninjasonik, Anita Sparrow and Spankrock. They have made a name for themselves through their energising live shows, sometimes in unique performance situations - alongside synchronised swimmers, a top the Williamsburg Bridge, with giant marionettes and shadow puppets, and from the back of a moving truck in SoHo, with giant dinosaurs and BMXers flying off the walls. Last year saw them release their wildly awesome album 'Rock N Roll Ice Cream' on Menlo Park.
http://japanther.com/

PLEASE are a trio conceived in London in 2006, comprised of duelling guitarists and an activated drummer. Thus far one 10" exists in the Please cannon courtesy of Ouse Records, which is an excellent introduction to their wayward psych-garage stomp. The band feature members of The Lowest Form, Cleckhudderfax and Isambard Kingston Brunel, so it comes as no surprise that Please also sound completely different. Together the threesome offer up ramshackle rhythms and trippy aerobic guitars played alongside unmannered vocals. Delivered with the heady rush you'd expect of punk, Please race 60s garage slap and wrong-footed prog through an obstacle course. Look out for an upcoming split 12" with Spin Spin The Dogs on Upset The Rhythm soon!
http://www.myspace.com/pleees

PEEPHOLES are Katia Barrett and Nick Carlisle who take turns singing, drumming and synth-prodding whilst smiling a lot and running back and forth on stage. Their songs, often cloaked in a cloud of echoing atmospherics, throb with raucous beats and jab you in the eye when you're not looking. It's party music for the lost at sea - sometimes tribal, sometimes soaring, never boring. Peepholes have a number of self-released EPs available through their website, a brilliant record on Hungry For Power and, most recently, a split 12" EP on Upset The Rhythm.
http://www.wearepeepholes.co.uk

HYGIENE take the listener on a post-pub stagger through the concrete walkways and underpasses of Britain's decline. Daydreaming at their offices on a weekday or at home with their record collection on a Saturday night, the members of Hygiene are dislocated in both time and space. Their new LP 'Public Sector' (La Vida Es Un Mus) has one DM boot in the past and the other longwing brogue firmly up the backside of the present. 'Public Sector' hearkens back to a time of Polytechnic radicalism, Special Patrol Group repression and O Level temptresses yet evades the pitfalls of vapid historicity and pastiche. Hygiene see historical continuities and follow them to their logical conclusions, reducing their influences down to their essential constituent elements and reassembling them into now music for now people.
http://hygieneband.blogspot.com/

WOOLF are slowly playing faster. Formed at the Lambeth women's project, Woolf feature members of Gender Fascist, Schneaky Tigers, Corey Orbison and Roseanne Barrr. Their songs an energetic fistfights of tumbling drums, heavy guitar noise and blasting vocal assaults. Female fronted, female backed queer Wollstonecrafts, Thomas Beattie & Maria Beatty are their flawed mentors. Milk Records have just released a new split 7" with Woolf and Trash Kit!
http://www.myspace.com/woolflondon

IGNATZ is named after the vicious mouse that would throw bricks at Krazy Kat's head in the 1910s comic of the same name, Ignatz is the one man band of a young guy called Bram Devens from Brussels, whose futuristic folk / blues inspired chanting and rambling might fit in the "New Weird Belgium" or freak folk movement. Stunning rootsfolk, but played by a lost and unworldly creature, his sound is a mix of fingerpicked guitar music in a cloud of effects, electronic noises and scarce lyrics - a mixture of broken English and unintelligible mantra-like repetitions. Check Devens' albums on Kraak for more, 'I Hate This City' being his most recent record..
http://www.kraak.net/en/releases.php?ID=31f

ETERNAL FAGS are Chris White (Guitar,Vocals) and Rob Alexander (Drums) from Glasgow. They blend punk, pop, rock, angular, and whatever else vibes with limited frills, straining vox, bedrock basslines and drums, and sweet guitar lines. They're rock punk, in the sense of how the way they sound meets what they are. Turns out it's a really cool idea when somebody makes a band of it. Check out Winning Sperm Party for related releases!
http://winningspermparty.com/projects/eternal-fags

SMACK WIZARDS are also from Glasgow, specialising in overdriven improv noise pop and consisting of Claire O'Brien (drums), Waldo (bass) and Jack Mellin (guitar). Semi-improvised loosely written pop songs par excellence from the Winning Sperm stable again.
http://winningspermparty.com/projects/smack-wizards

Wednesday 16 March 2011

KIT embark on their SICH EMBASSY TOUR


Here's the KIT tour dates for you too. Presenting the SICH EMBASSY TOUR 2011:

March 20 - Packhorse - Leeds w/ Cowtown, Broken Arm
March 21 - Stereo - Glasgow w/ Divorce
March 22 - The Lexington - London w/ Babies, Trash Kit
March 23 - Tsunami Club - Koln
March 24 - Marie Antoinette - Berlin w/ Babies
March 25 - OCCII - Amsterdam w/ Little Birth, DJ De Boer, De RaaskalBOfukkerz, Staatseinde
March 26 - SUB071 - Leiden w/ Red The Planeet
March 27 - Poortgebouw - Rotterdam
March 28 - Old Blue Last - London w/ Tearist, Way Through

KIT are a super-melodic experimental rock band mainly from Los Angeles, California. They were recently described by Rob Barber of High Places as "a strange intersection where Void meet Incredible String Band". This gives some insight into their wonderful muddling of genres. They play fast, short, defiant songs that mess with the ideas of pop music and wayward punk. Maybe they'll start off playing a song straight - sweetness and light abounds - but, before you know it, everything gets flipped on its head and chased into damaged terrain. KIT songs can typically embrace hardcore rush, pop verse, jagged noise and cheer rally, all within the same moment - nothing but raw energy and instinctive songwriting holding it all together. KIT have a new album available right now through Upset The Rhythm entitled 'Invocation'. For this tour they also have a super limited new remix EP, featuring rmxs from Xiu Xiu, White Rainbow, Stereo Total and Nero's Day At Disneyland
http://www.myspace.com/vvkitvv

Kit "Ambrosia" from who ate my teeth? on Vimeo.

Monday 14 March 2011

TYVEK TOMORROW at THE GROSVENOR


Afternoon all!
Just wanted to send you a quick message about our show for TYVEK tomorrow at The Grosvenor in Stockwell. We've been dreaming of TYVEK reaching our big smoke from their motor city home for years, so it's with much joy that we welcome them finally to London. A full-on evening of splintered garage slap and rambling noise punk is a dead cert, fortified further with the ever awesome SPIN SPIN THE DOGS and THE PHEROMOANS in support too. Read on for the full details, seriously exciting stuff! Also we've convinced THE MANTLES and NODZZZ to play once more in London at the end of their tour so check out the listings list listed below, thanks...


*^*^*^ TOMORROW ^*^*^*

TYVEK
THE PHEROMOANS
SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Tuesday 15 March
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Rd, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/102465

Tyvek are new traditionalists from Detroit who unashamedly take the reins and harness the ambition to keep their slurred, manically refreshing noise pop bouncing around the skulls of everyone still breathing in the real, uncategorizable fumes of the original new wave. With an already impressive trail of essential releases behind them, including the recent In The Red album 'Nothing Fits' and an infinitesimal stream of "tour-only" CDRs, the band is always evolving, yet never strays too far from the original cacophony that earned them a spot in the hallowed halls of modern punk's elite erratics. Their live set shifts dramatically with each new appearance, ranging from a monstrous five-piece to a stripped-down trio that gets the job done without sacrificing the intensity or brazen brevity that captures the off-center sounds of bygone-era DIY scrapings and spins them into gold.
http://www.myspace.com/tyvekmusic

The Pheromoans are five young men from the suburban hard shoulder that lies between London and Brighton. The quintet have a cavalier approach to their instruments. Everyone seems to get a go at everything, with an admirable disregard for whether they can play it very well or not. Somehow this approach translates into DIY shamble / avant-garage at its finest in the tradition of The Keggs, Swell Maps and Danny And The Dressmakers. Catch their awesome new LP on Convulsive now!
http://www.myspace.com/pheromoans

Spin Spin The Dogs is a band of rotating line-up that formed in Nottingham in 2003 after its core members Vincent Larkin, Dean Hinks and John Wilson began making music in the basement of their shared house. The group draw from an eccentric mix of influences, the most observable probably being The Contortions, James Brown, Ivor Cutler and The Fall. Gringo have released a recent 12" EP entitled 'Leave Me In Leicester' whilst a forthcoming split 12" with Please will see a release on Upset The Rhythm soon.
http://www.myspace.com/spinspinthedogs


One last thing before I leave you, we've also confirmed new appearances for Brooklyn super-group THE BABIES and for UTR faves KIT too, details follow. Have a brilliant day and we'll see you tomorrow!
TEAM UTR
xxx

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UPCOMING UPSET 2010 > > >

THE BABIES (Vivian Girls / Woods)
CHEATAHS
ANGUISH SANDWICH
Thursday 17 March
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101351

KIT
THE BABIES (Vivian Girls / Woods)
TRASH KIT
Tuesday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105943

THE MANTLES
NODZZZ
Thursday 24 March
Marquis Of Landsdowne Basement, 48 Stoke Newington Road, Dalston, N16 7XJ
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112946

TEARIST
KIT
WAY THROUGH
Monday 28 March
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | 6.00 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107031

SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 1
DAN DEACON
JOHN MAUS
PLUG
MUNCH MUNCH
DESIGN A WAVE
20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS DJs
WFMU DJs
Friday 1 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
8pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 2
NO AGE
JAPANTHER
DUCKTAILS
PLEASE
ETERNAL FAGS
SMACK WIZARDS
IGNATZ
PEEPHOLES
HYGIENE
WOOLF
WFMU DJs
Saturday 2 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
3pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

"IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ICA"
NO AGE PRESENT 'THE BEAR' (One-Off Live Film Soundtracking!)
Sunday 3 April
The ICA, The Mall, Westminster, WC2N 5
7pm | 12.50 | http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=28098&bid=103

SIGHTINGS
LIBEREZ
NEGATIVE PEGASUS
Wednesday 6 April
The Grosvenor
17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110050

MI AMI
NO BABIES
DIVA (aka DIVA DOMPE of POCAHAUNTED)
Thursday 14 April
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108320

DUSTIN WONG (previously of PONYTAIL / Thrill Jockey)
HIGHLIFE
GENTLE FRIENDLY
Monday 18 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | 6.50 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107032

LITURGY
MATT LOVERIDGE
Tuesday 19 April
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105922

TIMES NEW VIKING
VERONICA FALLS
CHAPTER 24
Tuesday 3 May
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, Old Street, EC2A 4AW
8pm | 9.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110454

DJ DOG DICK
SEWN LEATHER
Friday 6 May
Power Lunches Arts Cafe, 446 Kingsland Road, Dalston, E8 4AE
8pm | 5.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112460

THE BROTHERS UNCONNECTED
"A TRIBUTE TO SUN CITY GIRLS AND CHARLES GOCHER"
ISAMBARD KINGSTON BRUNEL
A SHORT FILM FOR CHARLES GOCHER
Monday 9 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108324

MARNIE STERN
MUNCH MUNCH
Tuesday 10 May
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, Old Street, EC2A 4AP
7.30pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107453

MATMOS WITH J LESSER
JOHN WIESE
BIRDS OF DELAY
Tursday 19 May
Auto-Italia, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, London, SE15 6NJ
7.30pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108837

CHAIN AND THE GANG (now featuring James Canty too!)
GRASS WIDOW
Tuesday 24 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108426

THEE OH SEES
CARNIVORES
Thursday 26 May
Tufnell Park Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/112458

HALF JAPANESE
THE LOVELY EGGS
Tuesday 31 May
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | 12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105945

JULIAN LYNCH
DUCKTAILS
BIG TROUBLES
Wednesday 1 June
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
7.30pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109859

TUNE-YARDS
SCREAMING FEMALES
THOUSANDS
Wednesday 8 June
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | 11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/111524

Friday 11 March 2011

NODZZZ and THE MANTLES - JOINT TOUR!!!



We're overjoyed to have two of our favourite bands touring the UK together! NODZZZ and THE MANTLES are jangle bros of the highest order as well as good friends, go check them out at any and/or all of these dates throughout the kingdoms.

NODZZZ & THE MANTLES
UK & Ireland - March

12.03 - London - The Victoria
13.03 - Southend - The Railway
14.03 - Nottinghamm - Spanky Van Dykes
15.03 - York - The Basement
16.03 - Cardiff - Undertone
17.03 - Belfast - The Menagerie
18.03 - Dubline - The Workman's Club
19.03 - Glasgow - Nice N Sleazy
22.03 - Manchester - The Deaf Institute
23.03 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
25.03 - Brighton - Green Door Store

Nodzzz are Sean Paul on guitar, Anthony Atlas on bass and Pete Hilton on drums. They're sweet dudes with an even sweeter sound, first honed on a killer single called "(I Don't Wanna) Smoke Marijuana" b / w "We Are the Only Animals" released on the wonderful Make A Mess imprint. Barely three minutes long, each side tore the face off the last days of 2007, revealing a candy skeleton that had the Modern Lovers' teeth marks in it. The group's self-titled debut on What's Your Rupture is a grower, with ten new songs in a markedly more pop direction. You can hear the simple American pleasures of baseball, road trips and late summer plain as day within this record. More specifically, you can hear three guys examining where punk became something more, between notions of power pop and advanced songwriting on the Embarrassment / Big Dipper / Pointed Sticks axis, but with the economy of the Minutemen or Beat Happening. They're in and out before you know it, having firmly planted the seeds of catchy melodies between your ears. This is day one of their UK tour with The Mantles ahead of their new album 'Innings' on Woodsist.
http://www.myspace.com/nodzzz

The Mantles have been dead-on in distilling a contemporary pop / psych concoction that mixes equal parts early Chills with early Dream Syndicate - and really, who wouldn't among us want a bottle of that with which to quietly tipple the day away. They burrow into the core of rock, extracting essential magma that fuses SF ballroom psychedelia, Byrds jangle pop and the Velvet Underground's extraordinary ability for serpentine leads and bridges. The Mantles have toured the US alongside Ty Segall and have an awesome self-titled album out on Siltbreeze plus a new EP recently through Mexican Summer.
http://www.myspace.com/mantles

Thursday 10 March 2011

MUNCH MUNCH - TOUR IMPENDING! + REMIX


Yes! Sound myriad miracle flippers MUNCH MUNCH will be hitting the road soon so we wanted to publish these (below) tourdates of theirs alongside a brand new remix of Wolfman's Wife by Vincent Oliver... enjoy!



15/03/2011
LONDON White Heat @ Madam JoJos
w/ Cymbals + Ben Butler & Mousepad

19/03/2011
CARDIFF Loose @ Buffalo Bar

24/03/2011
GLASGOW @ Captain's Rest

25/03/2011
NEWCASTLE @ Star And Shadow

26/03/2011
LEEDS @ The George

01/04/2011
LONDON Upset The Rhythm presents Spaghetti Tree @ Bussey Building
w/ Dan Deacon + John Maus + more

07/04/2011
PARIS @ L'International

08/04/2011
COLMAR (FR) @ Festival Supersounds

09/04/2011
ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE (LUX) @ Out Of The Crowd Festival w/ Battles + Baths + more

Wednesday 9 March 2011

NO AGE present THE BEAR


Poster by Gina Baber

"IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ICA"

NO AGE PRESENT 'THE BEAR'

Sunday 3 April

The ICA

The Mall, Westminster, WC2N 5
7pm| £12 | http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=28098&bid=103

After wildly successful events in Los Angeles and New York, NO AGE return to London for our Spaghetti Tree festival and a one off performance that sees them scoring (for want of a better word) with live instrumentation Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic nature film The Bear from 1988. The film tracks the progression of an orphan bear on his journey of survival. No Age, feeling strongly connected to this childhood mainstay, weave a tapestry of weirded sonics and bombastic rhythmic passages which perfectly transmit the dramatic and emotive themes of this internationally awarded piece of French cinema.

x


Monday 7 March 2011

FORMER GHOSTS and TERROR BIRD and POWERDOVE


Hello again!
Firstly, big thank yous to everyone who came to our Wake Week show for the Luminaire on Saturday, I'm glad we got the chance to properly pay our respects; a fine send off indeed. Keeping up with the death/mourning theme we have the totally jaw-dropping FORMER GHOSTS playing tomorrow at Cargo. Splintering floor toms, sublime electronics, Freddy Ruppert's gloriously doleful voice are all in order, along with some harsh percussion and guitar courtesy of Jamie Stewart too. In support we have spooked alchemy from TERROR BIRD and hushed intensity from POWERDOVE. What a great lineup, I'm sure you'll agree! Details galore...


>|\|\|\ TOMORROW /|/|/|<

FORMER GHOSTS (Freddy Ruppert + Jamie Stewart)
TERRORBIRD
POWERDOVE
Tuesday 8 March Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101352

FORMER GHOSTS is a synth-pop project from Freddy Ruppert. The band in recording mode also comprises Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Zola Jesus' Nika Roza Danilova and Yasmine Kittles from Tearist. Ruppert is the lead songwriter on this brutally gloomy, effortlessly honest project. With their debut album 'Fleurs', the band created an album so intense that it can become hard to listen to. And we say this in an effort to compliment their ability to render the themes of the album - heartbreak, death, love, needing, wanting - so sonically accurate that they replicate those feelings in the listener. Album number two 'New Love.' was released last November also on Upset The Rhythm and was very well received. The album deals with new love as a cure for the heartbreak and jealousy of the past, but a beginning to a new obsession - the search to replace the old love. For this show Freddy will be accompanied by Jamie Stewart for the entire "Fleurs-heavy" set.
http://freddyruppert.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/formerghostssleep

TERROR BIRD hail from Vancouver and are the wife and husband duo Nikki Never and Jeremiah Haywood. Night-People teamed up with German label Adagio 830 to present their debut album 'Human Culture' last year - a masterpiece of heartfelt, haunted, ethereal pop music. Nikki's piano and synth arrangements guide her voice, full of feeling and beauty, through layers of dark ambience that constantly break away into shiny spaces of hopeful abandon. Terror Bird also have a brand new hand-screened 7" available now on the wonderful Night School imprint.
http://www.myspace.com/xterrorbirdx

POWERDOVE aka Annie Lewandowski was born and raised in the Midwest and now lives in England. Her first band, Emma Zunz, recorded their self-titled debut album for Tellous in 2006. She has also recorded with Hawnay Troof, Xiu Xiu and The Curtains, with whom she also toured the US and the UK in 2006. As an improviser on the piano and accordion, Annie has recorded with Doublends Vert, Caroline Kraabel and the London Improviser's Orchestra, and has performed with Fred Frith, Sylvia Hallett, Jennifer Pike, John Edwards, John Butcher, Chris Cutler, Charles Hayward and many more.
http://www.myspace.com/powerdove

It's going to be great, we'll see you there tomorrow! Thanks again for reading this humble missive, best things to you...
UPSET THE RHYTHM xxx

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UPCOMING UPSET 2010 > > >

NODZZZ
THE MANTLES
BOMBER JACKETS
Saturday 12 March
The Victoria in Dalston, 451 Queensbridge Rd, E8 3AS
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101354

TYVEK
THE PHEROMOANS
SPIN SPIN THE DOGS
Tuesday 15 March
The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Rd, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 7.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/102465

THE BABIES (Vivian Girls / Woods)
CHEATAHS
ANGUISH SANDWICH
Thursday 17 March
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/101351

KIT
TRASH KIT
Tuesday 22 March
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105943

TEARIST
WAY THROUGH
Monday 28 March
Old Blue Last, 38 Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3ES
8pm | 6.00 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107031

SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 1
DAN DEACON
JOHN MAUS
PLUG
MUNCH MUNCH
DESIGN A WAVE
20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS DJs
WFMU DJs
Friday 1 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
8pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

SPAGHETTI TREE - DAY 2
NO AGE
JAPANTHER
DUCKTAILS
PLEASE
ETERNAL FAGS
SMACK WIZARDS
IGNATZ
PEEPHOLES
HYGIENE
WOOLF
WFMU DJs
Saturday 2 April
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
(1 min walk from Peckham Rye Overland Station)
3pm | TICKETS> http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2301

"IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ICA"
NO AGE PRESENT 'THE BEAR' (One-Off Live Film Soundtracking!)
Sunday 3 April
The ICA, The Mall, Westminster, WC2N 5
7pm | 12.50 | http://www.ica.org.uk/?lid=28098&bid=103

SIGHTINGS
LIBEREZ
NEGATIVE PEGASUS
Wednesday 6 April
The Grosvenor
17 Sidney Road, Stockwell, SW9 0TP
8pm | 7.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110050

MI AMI
NO BABIES
DIVA (aka DIVA DOMPE of POCAHAUNTED)
Thursday 14 April
Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Street, Elephant & Castle, SE17 1LB
8pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108320

DUSTIN WONG (previously of PONYTAIL / Thrill Jockey)
HIGHLIFE
GENTLE FRIENDLY
Monday 18 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Road, Islington, N1 9JB
7.30pm | 6.50 |http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107032

LITURGY
MATT LOVERIDGE
Tuesday 19 April
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
8pm | 6.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105922

TIMES NEW VIKING
VERONICA FALLS
CHAPTER 24
Tuesday 3 May
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, Old Street, EC2A 4AW
8pm | 9.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/110454

JAMIE STEWART (of XIU XIU)
(r)
TRUMPETS OF DEATH
Saturday 7 May
Café Oto, 22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, E8 3DL
7.30pm | 8.50 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109024

THE BROTHERS UNCONNECTED
"A TRIBUTE TO SUN CITY GIRLS AND CHARLES GOCHER"
ISAMBARD KINGSTON BRUNEL
A SHORT FILM FOR CHARLES GOCHER
Monday 9 May
The Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108324

MARNIE STERN
MUNCH MUNCH
Tuesday 10 May
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, Old Street, EC2A 4AP
7.30pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/107453

MATMOS WITH J LESSER
JOHN WIESE
BIRDS OF DELAY
Tursday 19 May
Auto-Italia, 1 Glengall Road, Peckham, London, SE15 6NJ
7.30pm | 10.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108837

CHAIN AND THE GANG (now featuring James Canty too!)
GRASS WIDOW
Tuesday 24 May
The Dome, 178 Junction Road, Tufnell Park, N19 5QQ
8pm | 9.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/108426

HALF JAPANESE
THE LOVELY EGGS
Tuesday 31 May
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | 12.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/105945

JULIAN LYNCH
DUCKTAILS
BIG TROUBLES
Wednesday 1 June
CAMP Basement, 70-74 City Road, Old Street, EC1Y 2BJ
7.30pm | 8.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/109859

TUNE-YARDS
SCREAMING FEMALES
THOUSANDS
Wednesday 8 June
The Scala, 275 Pentonville Road, King's Cross, N1 9NL
7.30pm | 11.00 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/111524

Wednesday 2 March 2011

JOHN MAUS - "WE MUST BECOME THE PITILESS CENSORS OF OURSELVES" NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCED


Ok, it's been a long time coming, but we're happy to announce today that JOHN MAUS' third album 'We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves' will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 27th. This post here gives us an opportunity to share with you the tracklisting, some words about the album (more on John's artist page on http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk) and the artwork to the new album and today's free track 'Quantum Leap', track 2 from the new record. So without further ado here's some official gubbins...

FREE mp3 available NOW for "Quantum Leap":
http://bit.ly/quantumleapmp3

John Maus - Quantum Leap (Upset The Rhythm / Ribbon Music)

John Maus, the Minnesotan pop enigma, returns this June with his eagerly awaited third album entitled ‘We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves’. The album will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 27th in UK, Europe, Australia and Japan and via great new imprint Ribbon Music in North America on June 28th. Here's the cover art below, shining out like a beacon of hope.


‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’
Tracklisting

01. Streetlight
02. Quantum Leap
03. … And The Rain
04. Hey Moon
05. Keep Pushing On
06. The Crucifix
07. Head for the Country
08. Cop Killer
09. Matter of Fact
10. We Can Break Through
11. Believer

JOHN MAUS lives in his birthplace of Austin, Minnesota. Whilst working towards his PhD in Political Science he also composes music that taps into melancholic fantasy and affirms that we are all truly alive. Questing synthesisers, tensely strung bass lines and chasing drum machines providing the perfect backdrop for John's deeply resonant reverb-drenched vocal. Born in the decade of synth pop and sharing his birthday with George Frideric Handel, John started making music when Nirvana posters went up on every teenager’s wall. It’s this curious conflux of influences that partially helps to describe John’s music. It’s a world where the Germs jam with Jerry Goldsmith, Cabaret Voltaire relocate to Eternia and Josquin des Prez writes a new score for RoboCop. The confrontation of punk, the fleeting poignancy of 80’s movie soundtracks, the insistent pulse of Moroder and the spirituality of Medieval and Baroque music all find salvation in John Maus.

John Maus’ debut album proper entitled ‘Songs’ was released in 2006. It was a record permeated with aching memories; a perfect testimony to lost romance and longing. It’s awe-inspired follow-up ‘Love Is Real’ (released on UTR, 2007) proved a more cohesive listen in terms of focus and emotional depth. Maus finally returned last year to the heavy snows of the Midwest to finish album number three, ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’, set for release this June.


This is the artwork for free track Quantum Leap which will also appear on iTunes later today.

‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ breaks new ground for Maus. The shirt pulling and air punching of his impassioned live performance is finally captured in all its frenzied appeal alongside a tender inner space. ‘Pitiless Censors’ looks towards the future in all its absurdity. It’s a record where promise takes the lead for the first time, providing a counterpoint to John’s default existential calling. This is perhaps best shown with new track ‘Quantum Leap’ available through the link above and via iTunes as of now. ‘Quantum Leap’, a song full of dead zones, glancing slaps and oscillating solos. “Heart to heart, mind to mind, we are the ones who seem to travel through time,” intones Maus resolutely through the mist. John’s lyrics are as likely to touch upon themes of Cronenberg gore just as much as the musings of Jacques Rancière. It’s this no-brow approach that makes things interesting, casting Maus as a savant and allowing his music to startle us in ways whereby we open up to the unimaginable.

If that's wet your interest here's a list of John's impending live performances too at SXSW and throughout darkest Europe.


John Maus LIVE Schedule
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16.03.2011 TX – Austin – ND Venue (Altered Zones Party)
17.03.2011 TX – Austin – Victory Grill (Moog Party)
25.03.2011 DE – Frankfurt – Globe For Frankfurt and the World
26.03.2011 UK – Manchester – Islington Mill *
27.03.2011 UK – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club *
28.03.2011 UK – Newcastle – Star & Shadow Cinema *
29.03.2011 UK – Glasgow – Mono *
31.03.2011 UK – Bristol – The Croft *
01.04.2011 UK – London – Bussey Building (Upset The Rhythm’s Spaghetti Tree) ±
02.04.2011 FR – Paris – La Fleche D’or *
04.04.2011 DE – Hamburg – Golden Pudel
05.04.2011 DE – Nürnberg – K4
06.04.2011 BE – Brussels – Les Ateliers Claus
07.04.2011 NL – Tilburg – Incubate
09.04.2011 DE – Berlin – HAU
10.04.2011 CZ – Prag – 007
22.05.2011 UK – Cheshire – Friends Of Mine Festival

* with PLUG
± with Dan Deacon, PLUG, Munch Munch and Design A Wave



NB.

^ John Maus PR Contact: Lisa Durrant | lisa@inhousepress.com
Press materials available upon request.

^ Upset the Rhythm website: http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
^ Ribbon Music website: http://www.ribbonmusic.com/
^ Photo Credit - Jennifer Juniper Stratford