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Brilliant Colors Round your way Video

 

Brilliant Colors - 'Round Your Way from Slumberland Records on Vimeo.



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This Is Tomorrow + Out Of Step + Mazes = Rad Times

We are so happy to be helping out with our good friends This Is Tomorrow  with putting on Mazes,Milk Maid and Calories on 12th October. Such a rad line up and not to be missed at all believe us.

Tickets can be found via the link HERE

Talking of more RAD shows coming to Birmingham. This is Tomorrow and Super-fuzz  big-muff are putting on Let's Wrestle 23rd July more info can be on the Facebook event HERE.   

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Male Bonding recording video

Male Bonding - Endless Now (Album Trailer Video) from Sub Pop Records on Vimeo.

Warm Brains

Rory Attwell is the man behind all your favourite bands right now. He produces some RAD records over at Bratwell recordings from Weird Dreams,Not Cool,Fair Ohs and many more. He's most famously known for being one third of Test Icicles and according to BBC Radio 1 Attwell was named one of five people set to "shape the sound of 2010". Now this year Rory has he's own project to twiddle the sound knobs to and that's Warm Brains. 

Mixing the shoegaze parts of Blur's Modern life is Rubbish and early Mudhoney sounds.

Take a listen and hear for yourself below
Latest tracks by Warm Brains

The Cereal Box Kid with Not Cool Soundtrack by Danny Sangra

The Cereal Box Kid from danny sangra on Vimeo.

Male Bonding coming to a City and Town near you

Full list of dates for Male Bonding's UK tour. With Out Of Step at The Victoria Birmingham being the only Midlands show. 

SEPTEMBER:

24th - Exeter - The Cavern 
25th - Cardiff - The Globe 
26th - Liverpool - Shipping Forecast 
27th - Birmingham - The Victoria Pub 
28th - Manchester - The Ruby Lounge 
29th - Glasgow - The Admiral
OCTOBER:
1st - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club 
17th - Upset The Rhythm! The Garage, London

Dum Dum Girls Second Lp

Dum Dum Girls are bringing out another Lp due on 27th September entitled 'Only In Dreams' on Sub Pop records.

They recently brought out the brilliant E.P 'Gets me high' at the start of  year and was a small taste of things to come bringing more Shagri-Las harmonies and haunting vocal's from the stunning Dee Dee.
We really can not wait for this record to drop and even more rad news is the UK tour. It has Wrexham Central station on the tour. That show on the 16th will truly be a memorable one.




From Sub Pop 

"Only in Dreams retains Dum Dum Girls’ signature blend of the girl-gang eyeliner punk of the Shangri-Las, the trashy propulsion of the Cramps, and the moody atmospherics of Mazzy Star, but for the first time, all four Dum Dum Girls play and sing on the album. Now the harmonies have more depth, Jules plays her own distinctive guitar leads, and the Bambi (bass)/Sandy (drums) rhythm section powers the music like a vintage V-8 engine. Best of all, tons of time on the road—including two massively successful headlining tours—have molded Dum Dum Girls into a very formidable rock & roll band, giving the music an undeniable force. 


Only in Dreams represents a musical evolution for Dum Dum Girls and a personal one for Dee Dee, and that’s no coincidence. “I’m for real,” she says. “We all are. I’m really passionate about this, it’s all I know. And maybe we’ve just grown up a bit—or grown out a bit. There’s some weight to what we do, and a pure intent, and I think that comes across on this album.”


Uk November Tour Dates 


Manchester FAC251 (November 13)
Newcastle Cluny (14)
Leeds Brudenell Social Club (15)
Wrexham Central Station (16)
London ULU (17)

The History Of Apple Pie You're so Cool video

Akward Vibe Present FRIENDO + PEOPLES PERSONS + COLD PUMAS + PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER

Awkward Vibe have this on Sunday 3rd July and we must say it looks really damn good!

Keep a tab on these promoters right now some sweet shows coming from them..

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Male Bonding The Victoria Birmingham Tuesday 27th September!

Dalston's DIY heroes play their first ever headline show in the second city as part of their UK tour. Im sure you have all heard Bones by now which is taken from their highly anticipated second LP 'Endless now' (Out August on Sub Pop). If that track is anything to go by then the second coming from Male Bonding will be just as good as the first. Live Male Bonding are a must see and we are supper hyped to see them.





Guests for the show we are supper looking forward to having first up -

John J Presley - Take a listen  

One third of Cold Rice's collective Vinny & the Curse. This is John Presley stripped bare and raw.Playing Folk blues that sounds like Nick Cave joining Two Gallants.

Swim Deep -  Take a listen

WOLFGANG,BOSTIN AUSTIN,HIGGY TEE-SHIRT and ZACHARY make up Lo-fi dazed Swim Deep. Chilled out vibes and upbeat rhythms. So far people are saying Wavves meet's Animal Collective...


Also we have This is Tomorrow (RAD Brum promoters) Dj set playing all the things we like and you like. 


Tickets go on sale Friday 1st July via We Got Tickets 


If your on Face Book event page HERE.


See you there..

NOVELLA

Beautiful harmonic vocals, Pixies style drone guitars and Bloody Valentine drumming.

Basically London's Novella are just simply RAD and I can not get enough of them.  'The things you do' is a stand out track and is worthy of your attention so take listen below...

Latest tracks by Novella. 

Q and A with Conan Roberts ( Italian beach Babes label and Mazes)

Conan Roberts runs Italian Beach Babes he put's out some of the radist records and tapes by bands like Fear Of Men, Graffiti Island, Dirty Beaches and many more. He plays bass for Mazes and is from Oswestry. Caught up with Conan before Mazes hit the road for a U.S tour.

What made you start up IIB records and what advice do you have for those who are just starting up their DIY labels

I managed to blag a box of about 200 cassettes from a studio that was chucking them out a few years back. They sat around for quite a while and it was around the time Male Bonding, Pens and Graffiti Island were all starting up. So each band get a couple tracks recorded and i made 100 cassettes with those 3 bands on. I just dubbed them on the cassette played i had at the time. They came out really quiet and i even managed to make about 20 copies play completely backwards.

There so much truly AWFUL music getting released now days, especially in London that it kind of feels like a duty to put out some bands who i think are great and believe in.

ITALIAN BEACH BABES from Conan Roberts on Vimeo.

How did you get involved in bands vids you seem to have all creative fingers not just on the bass right now?

Well apart from being in bands and doing the label I freelance as a cameraman/ video editor. Its what I studied and have done as a day job for a number of years. I worked at MTV for a while and have always been massively into music videos. So I guess its kind of natural to be involved in making a few ourselves. To be honest though, as much fun as it is it is also a total nightmare most of the time, makes you NO money and there is very little recognition for your efforts. I would dissuade anyone from getting into them!

Vimeo page - Link

Novella- The Things You Do from Conan Roberts on Vimeo.

You played Off Set with Graffiti Island last year will their be anymore show’s/Records in the future?

Ha yeah. We recorded 4 new tracks at the end of last year but Pete is still to put the vocals on them. I think when i get back from this Mazes tour we may work on them a little and try get them to a point of being released. As for anymore shows I don’t know. Everyone is very busy with other stuff but if the right show comes along we may do it. 

Tope five players on your I pod right now?

Catherine Wheel- Ferment

Dead Moon- The Graveyard 

V3- Photographic Burns

Boneyards- IBB cassette (will be released in August)

Codine- 1992 Demos

A band to look out for right now?

In my eyes there’s a wave of great new bands coming out of London right now. There seemed to be this little scene around 2009 of like Male Bonding, Fair Ohs, Graffiti Island Pens etc.  Everyones kinda progressed a bit now, split up or got on bigger labels, doing LPs etc which is amazing but its really nice to see younger kids doing new amazing bands and starting to play shows. Id say there’s a few of note

Novella

Boneyards

Old Forest

Sealings

Vision Fortune

Gross Magic

Fear of Men

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

As a label, im just super proud of everything i put out. Im never gonna put out a band im not totally into so im proud of everything. Its great to see other people into it too and kinda follow the label and trust that if i put a record out there gonna like it just cause its on IBB. Kind of like labels such as Dischord, Burger, Art Fag etc the music is varied but generally its always amazing. Also recording and playing in Mazes has been unbelievable. Its nice to take a step back now n again and appreciate what we’ve done as a band, doing an LP people love, playing all over the world. Im super happy with it and really proud of all of us in the band for making it work together. 

And the worst?

No Regrets

If you had to choose Skate or music? 

Right now, music. Its facilitating me not having a proper job and travelling the world. Skateboarding will forever be one of my main passions but to be honest my knees are fucked and its getting harder and harder to skate everyday.

jazz cigarette 2 from Conan Roberts on Vimeo.

I see your from Oswestry what was your experience like music wise growing up there? How did you get records,hear new stuff.

I had a great time. My entire musical background is tied into skateboarding and my youth there. Watching skate videos and finding out what songs were on them then scouring record stores to get the records. I had no Internet then so it was all just looking at linear notes in records, finding fanzines etc and asking older guys. 

Through skating pretty much every weekend id get on a train and travel to either Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool or somewhere to skate and buy records. I remember always hitting Tempest in Birmingham and getting so much US Punk stuff every week. That’s where I bought all my first US Hardcore records. 

Best Pizza Restaurant ever?

Well I’m no Pizza snob, there is a pizza place opposite my flat. Yesterday I picked up a 12" with 3 toppings for £4. Its so cheap its amazing. But I’m looking forward to being in Chicago in a week or so and getting a proper deep pan there. 

Mazes are crazy busy right now it looks as tho you are playing everywhere .You looking forward to heading back to Us and how do they compare to the UK show’s?

Yeah so excited for the US tour. I love being on the road and touring. If it were up to me we'd be doing a hell of a lot more but its not so I have to take what i can get. As Mazes we only played in SXSW before so haven’t really done any proper US shows. The venues are all pretty big as the tours with White Denim so I’m excited for a whole bunch of new people seeing us and having bigger stages to wander around on.

Mazes - Most Days from matt layzell on Vimeo.

Mazes - 'Wait Anyway' from Bowlegs on Vimeo.

And finally what are your top 5 records that changed your life (If you can add a reason to)

Beastie Boys- Ill Communication (Got me into so much amazing music from Hardcore to Hip Hop to Jazz, i saw them in '94 with my dad and i can still remember it to this day)

Prince- Love Sexy (Prince was the first gig i ever went to on this tour, i was 11 and had my mind blown)

Minor Threat- Discography (got into this after Beastie Boys covered Screaming at a Wall, changed my whole outlook on music and life leading me to be straight edge for 8 years and spend most of my 20's driving around the country to hardcore shows every weekend)

Lungfish- Indivisible (I first heard Lungfish on Consolidated skate videos. Scott Bourne would have their tracks on his sections regularly and it always struck a chord with me. Took me a while to track down any of their records but as soon as i did it was an instant obsession. Its hard to pick a favorite as all 9 albums are equally perfect.)

Mazes- A Thousand Hays (Ha, kind of weird picking your own bands record but being in this band has changed my life and made it infinitely more fun and interesting)

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