Bike fest from Mazes vid

Mazes 'Summer Hits' from FatCat Records on Vimeo.


The next single to come from Mazes debut album ‘A Thousand Heys’. Is ‘Summer Hits’, release on June 20th 2011, via FatCat Records.

La La Vasquez

Vivian Girls,Beast Coast and Dum Dum Girls are all female fronted sun soaked sounds of America. You would think the same of all female three-piece La La Vasquez but your wrong. They sound like Young Marble giants, Talulah Gosh and early Beat Happening so you have to take note. It resonates that British sound, dreary with a glimmer of hope for the sun to shine. Take a listen 

Latest tracks by lalavasquezband

Fear Of Men

Can not wait for more from Brighton's Fear Of Men at present there's a few demo's around on sites and in July there putting out a 7' on Italian Beach Babes. Take a listen to their Dreamy 90's inspired sound via their bandcamp.

Dirty Beaches Speedway King

More info on Dirt Beaches - blog

Not Cool downloads!! 1 down 14 more to come..

NOT COOL  - Way South, South East by Marshall Teller Records


London's finest Not Cool are putting out all their recordings pre 'Rugged Raw' which you can now get on I Tunes. The Pavement cover and the brilliant 'Man Up' are personal fav's.According to Marshall Teller records site there are 14 more to come so keep on the down load.

1. Limbs are For Liars – IBB/Paradise Vendors 12” Split

2. Desks – Unreleased

3. Sneaks – Unreleased

4. Flags of Various Nations – Unreleased

5. Dead Kid City (original version) – Unreleased

6. Wonderful Beasts – 7” Single Released by Sleep All Day Records

7. The Bell Curve – 7” B-Side Single Released by Sleep All Day Records

8. Um, You Didn’t Do That in Soundcheck – 7” Single Released by Sleep All Day Records

9. Joe McCarthy’s Ghost (Minutemen Cover)

10. Flux=Rad (Pavement Cover)

11. Man Up – Unreleased

12. Certainly The End of Something or Other – Unreleased

13. Live Song

14. Live Song

15. Way South, South East – 7” Split with Dignan Porch, Cheatahs and Colours released by Marshall Teller Records 

Rad rhythms from Swim Deep..

Sounds -  Sound cloud 

Slow Animal

Been meaning to do a post on Slow Animal for ages. If your a fan of Lo-Fi Wavves style indie then their perfect for you. The best thing is you can get all their out put so far for free, before the debut LP is out late summer via their Band camp page.

Bandcamp - Slow Animal 

Fair Ohs Everything Is Dancing

The Bombergs

The Les Savy Fav support show i think was Bombergs first ever gig and the first time i heard them.
And for a band that had only just started they sounded pretty good.

Rick who is one sound dude was once in Green Cables a fine band to i may add.
With Bombergs it's a fast assault of good vibes.

In sound reminiscent to The Replacements and XTC.

At present their is only Slow hands Clapping with a chorus hook that will stick in your head for day's. The band are just starting up and playing show's around Birmingham alongside putting on night's via Song and Danse  .

Check out Slow hand Clapping HERE.

A peaceful side to the Criminals

So November and the Criminal have dropped their shoegaze noise and found a tropical beat in the form of PEACE. November played last year at Out Of Step and we were blown away by their wall of noise.

With PEACE the clue is in the name a more mellow approach. 

Not much is written on them at present with only a few Demo's on blog's and Tumbler's. Their debut demo BBLOOD is a crisp clean sound. Mixing influences of early Kate Bush, Grace Land, Fool's Gold and Is Topical minus the beats and bleeps. 

More info on show's can be found here...

Take a look at the Video 

Not Cool Art School

Chapter 24 at SXSW 11

Latest From the Knocking Shop TV

Q AND A with Chris Tipton (Upset the Rhythm and Way Through)

Ever since i read about upset the rhythm in Plain B magazine i just thought it was the radist thing.They put on so many good show's and put out so many great records.In all honesty i get a musical boner just thinking about them and the bands they showcase.

Q and A with Chris Tipton

1.
Upset the Rhythm has been going strong for 6 years now ( i hope I'm right). Has your approach changed to the way you run the live events and is it easier?

I think after the first few events where we spent a lot of time learning how to run things, trail and error so to speak, we struck upon a good way to run shows focusing on making the band and audience happy and equals. It's important to us to always try out new things, especially when concerning venues and support ideas though, when you get bored, everyone does.

2.
How the hell did you get you get Deerhoof to play your first one?So rad you got them.

This was surprisingly easy actually! It was before Deerhoof had much profile and we were just a bunch of Kill Rock Stars nerds who desperately wanted to see them play in London, no one else wanted to put on the show and we realised if we were ever going to see them we should just get on with it and book a show ourselves. So Claire from UTR shot Deerhoof's booking agent an email about our intentions and to our delight we were given a green light and set up a show for them. We'd never done anything like this before but we pretty much live by the maxim nothing ventured nothing gained. In a lot of ways this show is still the template for what we do now, just follow your heart.

3.
Would you take UTR to another place or country?

We've done a bunch of Upset shows in the US, namely New york, Texas, Los Angeles and San Francisco in collaboration with like minded promoters such as The Smell, Todd P and Club Sandwich who all see things in the same light of enthuiasm. Other than that I suppose when we book tours across Europe we try to work with promoters with a similar ethos.

4.
What’s been the most proudest moment for you so far?

Woah - too many to mention, certainly releasing each record, our recent 300th show and our undying commitment to Trash Kit who last month played with their heroes The Raincoats and in doing so completed a lifelong ambition. I know this might sound lame but also whenever we meet someone inspired or appreciative of what we've tried to do over the years it's makes it all worth while. Being part of a community that didn't exist when we started makes us feel like we've achieved something worthwhile.

5.
What’s been the worst moment for you so far?

Everytime I forget the UTR banner and need to work all the way home to get it, we are very superstitious and without its grimy presence we fear unhappy consequences.

6.
Who does all the art-work for posters and shows,do you just let them do what they want and go with it?

I make the majority of them and they are usually inspired by knowing the band's music well and by knowing many of them as people now, I'm a stickler for the making a poster I know will make the band laugh or draw on something they'd appreciate. I'm not an artist in any way but somehow I can make vaguely decent posters that people respond well too. We're also lucky to work with a number of great illustraters who often cold call us and who far outweigh my expectations every time.

7.
Can you name a up and coming band to check-out out..

YES! too many, I don't wanna bore you to death, I'll make it simple and just give you one from the UK > No Womb from Manchester who sing deleriously of choas and the female way, it's multitude of joys and also pains.

8.
Miles Bradley and us would like to know if BARR are doing another Lp?

We're in touch with Brendan and at the moment BARR is on hold, he's working on other music/performance pieces and is also achieving considerable success in the artworld too. We cross our fingers daily.

9.
Your from Shrewsbury which is not a bad place it once had a Virgin which was the only place to get good stuff from, oh and an MVC which was more then Oswestry had. Anyway did you find like me you really had to dig hard and when you did find something truly great in the mass HMV racks it was like Indiana Jones or something. What was your experience like growing up there music wise?

Well this was very much a time pre-internet believe it or not. We used to spend an ordinate amount of time in the post office sending off for fanzine to find out about new music and also of course filling many weekends with trips to Manchester and Birmingham primaily for their independent record shops and helpful staff. Shrewsbury for all it's boredom certainly made us understand that if you wanted something really great to happen you only had yourself to rely on, the DIY spirit of UTR was born in the Old Post Office drinking abode and "entertainment" room of Shrewsbury town centre on many a night. I think now it's so much easier to find out about music online that I can sleep at night considering our forebears in proud Salopia and even in MVC once I found a Melt Banana CD!!!

10.
For a up and coming D.I.Y night like us any words of advice?

Have as much fun as possible, only organise a show if your heart is in it. Don't feel pressured by people telling you it's stupid and try and make everything as fair as possible, if that means paying bands well or keeping ticket prices reasonable, if you have any questions at all ask us at any time.

11.
What are the three records that changed and inspired your life so far?

OK tough question, first record I bought obviously which was They Might Be Giants (sorry!) - Birdhouse In Your Soul 7", um something gateway like Nirvana or Aphex Twin or Sonic Youth or Mogwai, you know those records which pull you deeper into the realms of musical obsession, and finally of course our first 10" mini LP by Death Sentence: Panda! Glorious as UTR001, our happiest child, I can't believe we're nearly 50 releases old now!!

Website Upset The Rhythm

Rc x

La La Vasquez

Real Estate

Islet

Not Far

Music by Chapter 24 taken from their latest e.p


More will be announced closer to the time so watch this space.


R.C