OK TEAM SWEATSHOP, I flew all the way up to Copenhagen to witness the start of the already legendary MAUS/WAR TOUR 2011. It will take Mr John Maus all over Europe, from Finland to Ireland to Turkey and it all starts here, tonight, in Copenhagen, of course, Denmark, the last fortress of free speech and democracy, the last true source of overprized designer T-Shirts. Its freezing, but it will be amazing. Longtime friend and musical wizzard Gary War will play today and on most of the other dates as well. This is probably the last awesome thing we’re gonna be able to do before the shitstorm caused by global capitalism and the other 99 % will climb up our asses again and all we have left is wooden flutes and bones to make music with, which will probably be forbidden because it’s so hedonistic, anyway, so grab the last straw that has been handed to civilization, because WE MUST BECOME THE PITILESS CENSORS OF OURSELVES!!!!
11.11.2011 DK – Copenhagen – Kunsthal Charlottenborg*
13.11.2011 SE – Stockholm – Debaser*
14.11.2011 FI – Turku – Dynamo*
15.11.2011 UK – London – Heaven (+ Washed Out)
17.11.2011 UK – London – Tuffnel Park Dome*
18.11.2011 IRL – Dublin – Whelans
19.11.2011 TR – Istanbul – Arkaoda
21.11.2011 GR – Athens – Six D.O.G.S.
23.11.2011 PT – Lisbon – ZDB*
25.11.2011 ESP – Madrid – Primavera Club*
26.11.2011 ESP – Barcelona – Primavera Club*
27.11.2011 NL – Utrecht – Le Guess Who Festival*
29.11.2011 FR – Paris – Maroquineri*
30.11.2011 DE – Heidelberg – KArlstorbahnhof*
02.12.2011 DE – Cologne – Week End Festival*
03.12.2011 DE – Berlin – Berghain*
“Domino announced today that the label has signed Baltimore DIY stalwart Dan Deacon for a global deal. His first full-length for Domino, out in 2012, follows the BNM’d album Bromst, which was released in 2009 on Carpark.”
For you this means: WAY MORE DAN DEACON ACTION in 2012!! PREPARE FOR THE ALL NEW DAN DEACON ENSEMBLE!!!
Im Laufe der letzten drei Jahre entwickelte sich Nika Roza Danilova – das kleine, hellblonde Energiebündel hinter ZOLA JESUS – von einer in-sich-zurückgezogenen Teenagerin, die in ihren vier Wänden mit Noise-Elementen herumexperimentiert, hin zu einer sehr erwachsenen, international gefeierten Electro-Pop-Künstlerin. Am 30. September 2011 erscheint mit CONATUS nun das neue Album der 22 jährigen Künstlerin auf dem Label Souterrain Transmissions. (Rough Trade)
Der Rolling Stone spricht von ZOLA JESUS als “eine der schillerndsten Popfiguren der Gegenwart” und feiert das neue Album u.a. mit den Worten: “…eine herrliche, bittere, abenteuerliche, selige Platte”. Der Sonic Seducer bezeichnet “Conatus” gar als “atmosphärisches Meisterwerk” und “von erhabener Schönheit”, während Nika Roza Danilova laut ELLE ihre “Gothic-, Industrial-, Avantgarde- und Electro-Pop-Hymnen perfektioniert” hat und “ein schaurig-schönes Meisterwerk” abliefert.
WICHTIG ist: was auf der Platte fragil und kristallen klingt, ist live inzwischen eine echte Wucht in Tüten. Eine “Wall Of Sound”-Synthie-Batterie plus Live-Drumming bieten den perfekten Hintergrund für die stimmgewaltige Performance von Nika. Die Album Release Show im Berliner Berghain Ende September ist bereits das heisseste Ticket der Stadt und nun können wir wir endlich vier weitere Deutschland-Shows für ZOLA JESUS bestätigen:
JOHN MAUS ANNOUNCEMENT
The everyday realm where our lives seem both familiar and equally strange is where John Maus resides. His surreal touch is disarming, opening our eyes to the reality outside the four walls. John Maus performances are not your usual concerts, there are very few of them, he only played a handful of shows in Europe in the past years. The walls between surreality and imagination break down the fog lifts and opens a view to our inner self through him..
11.11.2011 DK – Copenhagen – Kunsthal Charlottenborg*
13.11.2011 SE – Stockholm – Debaser*
14.11.2011 FI – Turku – Dynamo
15.11.2011 UK – London – Heaven (+ Washed Out)
17.11.2011 UK – London – Tuffnel Park Dome*
18.11.2011 IRL – Dublin – Whelans
19.11.2011 TR – Istanbul – Arkaoda
21.11.2011 GR – Athens – Six D.O.G.S.
23.11.2011 PT – Lisbon – ZDB*
25.11.2011 ESP – Madrid – Primavera Club*
26.11.2011 ESP – Barcelona – Primavera Club*
27.11.2011 NL – Utrecht – Le Guess Who Festival*
29.11.2011 FR – Paris – Maroquineri*
30.11.2011 DE – Heidelberg – KArlstorbahnhof*
02.12.2011 DE – Cologne – Week End Festival*
03.12.2011 DE – Berlin – Berghain*
*With GARY WAR
BIOGRAPHY
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 provide 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 80s movie soundtracks, the insistent pulse of Moroder and the spirituality of Medieval and Baroque music all find salvation in John Maus.
His latest album ‘We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves’ broke 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. After stretching muscles with opener “Streetlight”, arpeggiators bubble up to new levels with “Quantum Leap”, a song full of dead zones, glancing slaps and oscillating solos.
‘Pitiless Censors’ as an album displays a more delicate touch than its predecessors. “Hey Moon” is John’s first duet, performed with Molly Nilsson, who originally wrote the song. It’s a serene elegy that subtly weaves an impression of nocturnal loneliness and romantic dreams.
Closing track “Believer” is equally evocative with its bells, choral soaring and echoing sentiment. Of course, a John Maus album wouldn’t be a John Maus album without the same anthemic genius and dark humour that we’ve seen previously with songs like “Maniac” and “Rights For Gays” and this new album finds its succour in “Cop Killer”. The eerie waltz-time offspring of Body Count’s controversial 90s protest track, it is dystopian, bleak and ridiculous and, in short, classic Maus.
Unlike the last two albums, ‘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. The cover of “Pitiless Censors” depicts an airbrushed lighthouse, thrashed by wave after wave, bringing to mind Beckett’s quote “Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.”
Dan Deacon: “My Own Face Is F Word” (from Meetle Mice):
Dan Deacon: “Spring” (from Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat):
Earlier this year, we reported the somewhat baffling news that Francis Ford Coppola, the man who directed The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, had tapped Baltimore-based experimental music dude Dan Deacon to score his new gothic romance/horror film Twixt Now and Sunrise, now simply titled Twixt. (Deacon spoke with Pitchfork about the collaboration.)
Tomorrow at Comic-Con in San Diego, Deacon and Coppola will appear together to unveil the trailer and discuss the film. The appearance will include live music from Deacon. According to a press release, Deacon and Coppola will “demonstrate the interactive experience of the film,” which includes 2D and 3D elements.
In other Deacon news, Carpark will reissue two of his early releases, Meetle Mice and Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat, on double LP and limited cassette on September 13. In a press release, Deacon says, “The music contained on these two albums I wrote while in college (and a few while in high school) when I was just discovering computer music. I wrote them for fun, never planning on doing anything with them at that the time or expecting them to be heard outside of my circle of friends… These albums are like seeds. They sound, look and feel very different from the fruit that they’ve grown but they are still of the same tree.”
Above, stream the Meetle Mice track “My Own Face Is F Word” and the Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat track “Spring”. Below, we’ve got the tracklists for both albums. Also below, we’ve got Deacon’s tour dates, including the debut of a new piece for 27 percussionists, which goes down August 1 at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge.
Carpark will also release limited cassettes of the recent Deacon albums Spiderman of the Rings and Bromst. And in October, Carpark plans to reissue Spiderman of the Rings on vinyl.
Meetle Mice:
01 BJI Aii Hmhp #14
02 Never Do That (Mars)
03 Biggle Hat Was Ice Cream Time (Card Shark Nose Nose)
04 30 (from 21 through 35)
05 Electronics With Clarinet and Bari Sax
06 Song for Dina
07 My Own Face Is F Word
08 Drinking Out of Cups
09 sdahgsfdgh3frgha3wffhjdvbjs4uh
10 The Adventures of Mr Bumbershine
11 That’s a Nice Shirt (Dad)
12 Aerosmith Permanent Vacation 24162-2
13 Plums
14 I’m So Gay With the Boner
15 Aw Ah Ah Ah (Party Cakes)
16 My Weasle Is Married Worm Married
17 I Have AIDS
18 005 September 22 BE
Silly Hat Vs. Eagle Hat:
01 My Name Is Robert
02 ksjfhgljkhertykjlehgskjhkjvhda
03 Sound Events (Live)
04 Shit Slowly Applied on Cock Parts
05 The House I Was Isn’t My Girlfriends Porshe
06 Missy Modle x 1000
07 Spring
08 I Will Always Have Juice Today
09 Glass and Metal
10 It’s Not as It’s Going Downtow
11 Junior High Band With Trucks and Dogs
12 4400440044040 withDufus and The Beatles
Dan Deacon:
08-01 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
08-05 Dublin, Ireland – The Button Factory
08-06 Katowice, Poland – Off Festival
08-09 Sibenik, Croatia – Terraneo Festival
08-14 St. Malo, France – La Route du Rock Festival
09-03 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Festival
09-17 San Francisco, CA – Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
10-29 Asheville, NC – Moogfest
Posted by Tom Breihan on July 22, 2011 at 10:40 a.m.
LA Noise Pop superheroes HEALTH have some new songs and will return to these shores for only a few selected shows only to go straight back to the studio afterwards and finish what we all hope is going to be record of the year 2012.
01.09.2011 UK Oxford – Jericho Tavern TICKETS
02.09.2011 UK Cambridge – End Of The Road Festival TICKETS
03.09.2011 IRL Co Laois – Electric Picnic Festival TICKETS
05.09.2011 UK Bristol – Start The Bus
06.09.2011 FR Paris – Point Ephemere TICKETS
07.09.2011 CH Aarau – Kiff TICKETS
08.09.2011 CZ Prague – Meetfactory TICKETS
09.09.2011 DE Berlin – Berlin Festival TICKETS
11.09.2011 UK Isle of Wight – Bestival TICKETS
13.09.2011 NL Tilburg – Incubate Festival TICKETS
LES SAVY FAV
label: Wichita
website:
album: Root for Ruin (2010)
Die legendären Post Hardcore/Postrock/Noise Helden aus New York sind zum ersten mal seit Ewigkeiten wieder auf einer ausgedehnten Tour in Europa und kommen endlich für mehr als nur eine Show nach Deutschland. Wo bei anderen Bands die LEGENDE im Vordergrund steht, tut dies im Falle von LES SAVY FAV nur ihr bärtiger, hühnenhafter Sänger Tim Harrington der jede einzelne wilde Show der Band so bestreitet, als wäre es die letzte, kein Auge bleibt trocken, keine Boxenturm bleibt unerklommen, keine Möglichkeit dem Abend eine besondere Note zu geben bleibt ungenutzt. LES SAVY FAV sind nicht nur deswegen eine Band die es so sicherlich nicht noch einmal gibt.
New York City noise rock band have gained quite the reputation as one of the wildest and most exhilarating live acts due to the stage presence of lead singer Tim Harrington.Le Savy Fav’s style is influenced by art rock and post-hardcore and since their forming back in 1995 have been quite the fanatical-fan-driven band. They strive on Harrington’s energy, a manic one-man show of awesomely entertaining madness. Shows are punctuated by his gimmicks, including kissing multiple audience members, on-stage wardrobe changes and/or strips, all the while the rest of the band simply continues to play as if nothing out of the odd is happening.
Liebe Freunde
seit heute ist die exklusive CARIBOU & Friends Show im Berliner Astra am 1. Juni 2011 offiziell ausverkauft! Auch an der Abendkasse wird es keine Karten mehr geben, und hoffentlich auch niemanden, der seine Tickets überteuert über EBAY verscheuert! Pfui!
Für alle Fans im Westen der Republik gibt es aber eine gute Nachricht! CARIBOU haben einen ihrer letzten freien Tage in einem ausgebuchten Festival-Terminkalender für den einzigen deutschen Festivalauftritt aufgehoben. Seit letzter Woche ist es offiziell: CARIBOU spielen am 1. Juli 2011 auf dem hervorragenden Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg! Mit Acts wie MOGWAI und OLAFUR ARNALDS am gleichen Tag ist das Line-Up dann auch schon hochkarätig besetzt, und die Kulisse im ehemaligen Hüttenwerk Meiderich ist sowieso eine Reise wert:TRAUMZEIT
Hier nochmal im Überblick – CARIBOU LIVE 2011:
01.06.2011 – Berlin – Astra Kulturhaus – AUSVERKAUFT
01.07.2011 – Duisburg – Traumzeit Festival
Und für alle die im Urlaub oder anderweitig verhindert sind, gibt es als Entschädigung das komplette Live-Album des legendären All-Star-Lineups “CARIBOU VIBRATION ENSEMBLE” (das es sonst nur auf den Konzerten zu kaufen gab) zum kostenlosen Download über die Soundcloud Seite der Band:SOUNDCLOUD
When on 31 July 2010 the New York band O’DEATH took the stage at the legendary Newport Folk Festival to play their first show after a more than twelve-month break, neither the audience nor the critics (amongst whom the show was celebrated with rave reviews) were aware that for the New York quintet this was much more than just another gig.For singer / guitarist Greg Jamie, Banjo hero Gabe Darling, bassist Jesse Newman, violinist Robert Pycior and especially for drummer David Rogers-Berry, this show was a new beginning, indeed almost a kind of rebirth.
It was in 2009, right in the middle of a tour, that drummer David Rogers-Berry was diagnosed with a malignant bone tumor, whereupon not only was the tour cancelled, but the whole band came to a standstill. Death has always played a role in the band, not only in name, but never so strongly as in this moment. After ten-months of long, exhausting, incredibly strenuous, and – for a young man lacking adequate health insurance – very expensive chemotherapy and a prosthetic shoulder, the band made it back to the studio late last year.
The fact that O’Death are set to release their third album “Outside”, out on 6 June 2011 via City Slang, is almost a miracle. With the help of producer Billy Pavone (The Fall, Asobi Seksu, White Rabbits), this record is the subtlest by far, but also the most impressive of the band’s career. “Outside” is an album throughout which, in spite of the gloomy moments, the band loses none of their free-flowing character; a record that lives up to its name with spacious and cinematic arrangements, layers of subtle percussion, and at times an impenetrable wall of found sound.
To celebrate the upcoming release of O’Death’s Outside and the UPCOMING TOUR , we have created this beautiful prelistening E-Card for your streaming, video-watching and photo gallery-enjoying pleasure … bask in the wealth of O’Death content!! It’s fully blog-embeddable and facebook-sharable, so please spread this as far and as wide as possible through all the ordinary channels and lots of extraordinary ones as well. We want this one to have as broad a range as we can manage.
http://www.cityslang.com/outside/
ODEATH TOURDATES
27.04.2011 IRL – Dublin – The Workman’s Club
28.04.2011 IRL – Cork – Crane Lane Thatre
29.04.2011 IRL – Clonakilty – De Barras
30.04.2011 IRL – Galway – Kellys
01.05.2011 UK – Leeds Brudenell
02.05.2011 UK – London – Cargo
04.05.2011 FR – Paris – La Fleche D’or
05.05.2011 CH – Luzern – Frigorex
06.05.2011 CH – Schaffhausen – Tap Tab
07.05.2011 CH – Zurich – El Lokal
08.05.2011 DE – Schorndorf – Manufaktur
09.05.2011 DE – Munich – Feierwerk
11.05.2011 CZ – Prag – K4
12.05.2011 DE – Dresden – Beatpol
13.05.2011 DE – Leipzig – La Familia y Amigos Festival
15.05.2011 DE – Berlin – Privatclub
16.05.2011 DE – Hamburg – Molotow
17.05.2011 DE – Nuremberg – Muz
18.05.2011 DE – Cologne – Studio 672
21.05.2011 NL – Middleburg – De Spot
22.05.2011 NL – Amsterdam – Paradiso
DAN DEACON – 09.04.2011 DE – Berlin – Pictoplasma
JOHN MAUS – 09.04.2011 DE – Berlin – HAU
NO AGE – 13.04.2011DE – Berlin – Berghain
MONOCHROME SET – 20.04.2011 DE – Berlin – Westgermany
NORMAN PALM & BAND – 23.04. 2011 DE – Berlin – Grüner Salon
EMA – 05.05.2011 DE – Berlin – Berghain Kantine
O’DEATH – 15.05.2011 DE – Berlin – Privatclub
GANG GANG DANCE – 21.05.2011 DE – Berlin – HAU2
ABE VIGODA – 28.05.2011 DE – Berlin – Westgermany
CARIBOU – 01.06.2011 – DE – Berlin – Astra (+ Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never)
BLANK DOGS – 05.06.2011 DE – Berlin – Festsaal (+ Crystal Stilts!)
HERMAN DUNE / WYE OAK uvm – 14.06.2011 – Berlin – Festsaal Kreuzberg
LES SAVY FAV – 17.07.2011 DE – MELT! FESTIVAL
