Le Butcherettes: Mexico City garage-punks championed by alt-rock royalty announce debut album, tour dates

The rampantly raved-about garage-punk trio Le Butcherettes have announced the worldwide release of their debut album, Sin Sin Sin this spring, as well as a slew of U.S. tour dates that include a highly anticipated performance at SXSW in Austin, TX on March 19th. See complete dates below. 

Le Butcherettes are like the brilliant offspring of surrealist Luis Bunuel and intrepid rock icon PJ Harvey. Led by 21-year-old vocalist/guitarist/pianist Teri Gender Bender (a recent transplant to L.A. from Guadalajara, Mexico) Le Butcherettes bring a brazen intensity and playful, hook-laden simplicity that hacks to pieces all forms of pretension and excess.

Check out MP3s for the first tracks from the album, "Henry Don't Got Love" HERE and "New York" HERE. 

The band's songs and wildly cathartic live shows have often drawn comparisons to Karen O, Patti Smith, Bikini Kill and many other female-fronted rock groups, but there's a theatricality to Le Butcherettes that brings a further reaching sense of mystery and imagery to the band.

Originally forming as a duo, Le Butcherettes began in 2008 as the brainchild of vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Teri Gender Bender; a self- proclaimed modern feminist who cites Sylvia Plath and Malcolm X as major influences.  Born in Denver, CO to a Mexican stage actress mother and a father who was a fervent lover of the arts, Teri was constantly surrounded by creative energy. Following the death of her father, Teri Gender Bender arrived in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico to begin a new and eventful chapter in her life, and with that the first page of Le Butcherettes was written.

Le Butcherettes quickly garnered acclaim in the Mexican underground music scene. The group's debut EP Kiss & Kill won "Best New Artist" and "Best Punk Record" nominations from Mexico's Indie-O Awards in 2009, and their outrageous and spirited live show captured the attention of both fans and artists alike. By the middle of 2009, Le Butcherettes were tapped by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to participate in their multi-date "It's Blitz" tour of Mexico. There, Le Butcherettes blew away the press, nightly audiences of 25,000+ spectators and even the members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs themselves, who demonstrated their passion for the duo, often dedicating songs to the band. Support dates with The Dead Weather soon followed. 

Following their legendary sold out L.A. debut performance, Le Butcherettes signed to the prestigious William Morris Endeavor agency for worldwide booking, leading to US dates with The Flaming Lips, Omar Rodriguez Lopez and Jane's Addiction. Festival appearances in 2010 included the main stage alongside The Pixies and Interpol at The Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City and the Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Upon relocating to Los Angeles in late 2010, Teri recruited renowned drummer Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and bassist Jonathan Hischke (Hella, Broken Bells) to round out the lineup.

Le Butcherettes' full length debut, Sin Sin Sin was produced by Omar Rodriguez Lopez, who also plays bass on all of the album's tracks, and will issue the album on May 10th, 2011 on Rodriguez Lopez Productions via Sargent House.

LE BUTCHERETTES LIVE:

03/11  Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo #

03/19  Austin, TX @ Emo's Annex - SXSW Sargent House/RLProductions showcase ^^

05/20  Jacksonville, FL @ Plush *

05/21  Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Cafe *

05/22  Boca Raton, FL @ Sunset Cove Amphitheater *

05/28  Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle * 

05/29  Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall * 

06/01  Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom * 

06/04  Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall * 

06/05  Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheatre * 

06/06  Grand Prairie, TX @ Verizon Theatre * 

06/10  Hollywood, CA @ The Hollywood Palladium * 

06/13  San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield Theatre * 

#   with Mike Watt & The Missing Men

^^ with Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Cast Spells, Adebisi Shank, Fang Island, Gypsyblood, 

     Therapies Son, Zechs Marquise

*    with Deftones, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Artist: Le Butcherettes

Album: Sin Sin Sin

Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions

Release Date: May 10th, 2011

01. Tonight                                                            

02. New York  (MP3)                                         

03. Henry Don't Got Love (MP3)                    

04. Leibniz Language                              

05. Bang!                                               

06. All You See in Me is Death                  

07. I'm Getting Sick Of You                      

08. Riko's Smooth Talking Mother             

09. The Actress That Ate Rousseau            

10. Tainted in Sin                                  

11. Dress Off                                        

12. Empty Dimes                                   

13. Mr. Tolstoi   

Hi-Res photos, cover art and bio:

sargenthouse.com/lebutcherettes_assets.html

On the Web:

lebutcherettes.tumblr.com

facebook.com/LeButcherettes

lebutcherettes.bandcamp.com

Jail Weddings launch video series for entire 13-song album with debauched first clip

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"One of the year’s most exhilarating and infectious records, and an assured statement of purpose by one of L.A.’s most compelling groups." -- NBC San Diego

“Hart's obsessively Orbison-esque vocal pleas can send shivers down the spine and draw a tiny tear to the eye in songs that reek of moody doo-wop and do not skimp on the steamy, heaving punk rock & roll.” – LA Weekly

Los Angeles' garage-punk revision of 60s chamber pop, Jail Weddings has launched an endeavor as ambitious as the 10-piece band's size. Starting with the release of the video for "I Thought You Were Someone I Knew", Jail Weddings will release new videos for each of the 13 songs on their recent album, Love Is Lawless. The debauched clip was directed by Kyle Safieh, edited by Ryan Andrus and, seemingly, nearly derailed by an enthusiastic crowd of extras.

Watch "I Thought You Were Someone I Knew" HERE. Download/stream the song on MP3 HERE.

Love Is Lawless takes the pleading, wide-eyed romance of 60’s pop-vocal idealist tantrums to subterranean levels never previously seen from this genre. A shadow has been cast over the fleeting Utopia of modern love, where we still wear such out of date traditions as marriage and monogamy like shackles on a chain gang. Who better to have cast this shadow then Jail Weddings – a soul-stricken modern day Wall Of Sound rock and roll behemoth, comprised of ten (yes, 10) grown men and women who at least have the guts to admit they have still have the emotional stability of an eternally wounded teenager.

Fronted by Gabriel Hart (explosive frontman and mastermind behind the now defunct LA noir punks The Starvations), Jail Weddings is often described as “Nick Cave fronting The Shangri-Las.” The band has carefully crafted these 13 songs over a three year period (since their actual inception in the summer of 2007), released October 2010 on the still skidding heels of two sold out singles and 2009’s critically acclaimed EP Inconvenient Dreams (White Noise/Tru-Vow). 

Sure they may siphon from the 60’s pool, but do not confuse Jail Weddings as any kind of mere throwback act. The sphere of influence is vast, from the grandiose Scott Walker-esque soundscape of the album’s existential opener “How Am I Alive?” to the E-Street Band gone to Hell epic “I Thought You Were Someone I Knew”, to the Sparks meets Meatloaf bombastic melodrama of “What Did You Do With My Gun?”, the band proves its sound is unique as it is limitless. 

Even somewhat theatrical in its scope, Love Is Lawless is sprinkled with moments of quieter reprieve as well, with Hart’s folksy “One Of These Days” where he and his vocal bookends (Katya Hubiak and Jada Wagensomer) simply gather around one single acoustic guitar. “Eavesdroppin’" finds Hart and band arranger Brad Caulkins (of LA based band Fool’s Gold) drunken busking free-jazz under a brooding vocal, before the impending “Staring At The Stars” suddenly sneaks up from beneath, making the album explode back into high gear until its unnerving, determined conclusion “The Impossible”.

Artist: Jail Weddings

Album: Love Is Lawless

Label: White Noise 

Release Date: October 26th, 2010

01. How Am I Alive?

02. When We're Together (We Let Ourselves Go)

03. I Thought You Were Someone I Knew (MP3) (VIDEO)

04. Tough Love

05. You Will Surrender

06. One of These Days

07. What Did You Do With My Gun?

08. Somebody Lonely

09. Eavesdroppin'

10. Staring At The Stars

11. Mutual Fools

12. Blind Times

13. The Impossible

On the Web:

www.jailweddings.net

www.facebook.com/jailweddings

jailweddings.playwhitenoise.com

Members of Jail Weddings are available for interviews. For more information, please contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com 

Swedish atmospheric rock group Jeniferever announce third album borne of tragedy and motion

"It’s personal, every song, every note – it moves out and reaches into you, and you just know that you didn’t find this band, they came looking for you." -- The Red Alert

"The kind of heart-swelling soundscapes that beg to be described in terms of glaciers and geysers." -- Uncut

The sound of Uppsala, Sweden's cult-beloved Jeniferever is often described in epic terms: majestic, soaring, atmospheric, careening, sweeping. And, the quartet's forthcoming third album, Silesia (Monotreme Records) is a fitting example of their masterful meld of melodic pop songcraft with post rock's expansive sonic wanderlust. 

Silesia will be available worldwide this April on CD, vinyl and digital download. Check out the lead track from the album, "Waifs And Strays" HERE. 

Jeniferever – Kristofer Jönson, Martin Sandström, Olle Bilius and Fredrik Aspelin – have previously been compared to some truly otherworldly outfits like The Appleseed Cast, Explosions In The Sky and Immanu El. But every second of Silesia is tied to place and time, bound by reality and borne by experience. It’s less about escape, more confronting the unexpected trials that send one’s life into undulation.

The album’s title is taken from the former name of Berlin’s Ostbahnhof. It was near here, while on tour in 2009, that Kristofer learned that his father had passed away. Reality bit where there was so often release; the structure of life on the road collapsed, and the band cancelled their remaining dates.  Several months later, a third album began to form; while not wholly informed by the recent tragedy, nevertheless the collection bears its title with no little relevance. Said Kristofer, “I liked the idea of naming it after a railway station since it's a place of motion, a place where people arrive and depart and sometimes maybe depart never to come back...” And, the end product is Jeniferever’s brightest, most immediate long-player yet. From pain, confidence; from darkness, light.

Two previous albums – 2006’s Choose a Bright Morning and 2009’s Spring Tides – earned the band the affections of in-the-know admirers. It was easy to be charmed by their soft-focus dynamics, their soaring climaxes and emotions-stirring textures. But it wasn’t so easy to chance upon their fare, and word of mouth has largely driven the group’s reach. Whether Silesia breaks through the invisible divide between underground and mainstream is out of the band’s hands. But there are moments of snappy accessibility that will surely tick relevant radio boxes, given the chance.

There’s a crack and strut to "The Beat of Our Own Blood", the album’s third track. “Goodbye to bright spotlights,” sings Kristofer, taking the listener into the belly of the urban beast, through a city’s trains and tunnels. "Deception Pass" might be the band’s heaviest song yet, drums and bass combining to kick up a turbulent maelstrom of menace. "Hearths" threads elegant atmospherics like satellite trails across a starry sky, and the title-track’s sentiment, while stemming from a single heart, is truly universal.

Leaves fall, ice builds, the sun breaks cover, flowers blossom. Everything’s part of a cycle, every aspect has its beauty. Silesia is an album of similar changes and contrasts, of life and death, and just as fascinating as the forever-changing nature of what’s outside your window. 

Artist: Jeniferever

Album: Silesia

Label: Monotreme Records

Release Date: April 19th, 2011

01. Silesia

02. Waifs And Strays (MP3)

03. The Beat Of Our Own Blood

04. A Drink To Remember

05. Deception Pass

06. Cathedral Peak

07. Where The Hills Fall Towards The Ocean

08. Dover

09. Hearths

On the Web:

www.jeniferever.com

www.monotremerecords.com/jeniferever/jeniferever.php

www.myspace.com/jeniferever

Members of Jeniferever are available for interviews. Please contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com for more information. 

Omar Rodriguez Lopez announces elaborate solo recording anthology, plus Coachella and SXSW live performances

Immensely prolific Grammy Award winning recording artist Omar Rodriguez Lopez (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) announces the spring 2011 release of a quadruple LP / double CD collection culled from his multiple solo and collaborative albums. In celebration of this, Rodriguez Lopez's eponymous band will perform at this year's Coachella Festival and SXSW Music Festival (Sargent House/Rodriguez Lopez Productions showcase). Headlining tour dates are also in the works for late spring. 

The extensive 37-song (38 on the vinyl version) compilation of the guitarist's work, titled Telesterion showcases the variety and breadth of explorative artistry spread across his 25 (and counting) solo albums harvested for this release. For those unsure where to begin discovering Omar's vast catalog, this is a fitting introduction. Telesterion includes a 20-page booklet of artwork and text outlining the scope of his work, with liner notes by longtime friend and Rodriguez Lopez Productions art director Sonny Kay. See Sonny's recollection of their first meeting through to their current collaborations HERE. 

Check out sample tracks "Locomocion Capillar" HERE and "Shake is for 8th Graders" HERE. Stream/download all of Omar's solo releases HERE. 

Omar Rodriguez Lopez's genre-defying sixteen-year career has resulted in more than 40 albums, a Grammy Award and being deemed among Rolling Stone's "Greatest Guitarists Of All Time." His seminal and critically acclaimed band, At the Drive-In, redefined popular rock music at the end of the last decade. Since that time, in addition to being both a solo artist and leader/composer/producer of the The Mars Volta, Rodriguez Lopez has produced groundbreaking recordings for the likes of Juliette Lewis, Le Butcherettes and collaborated with Hans Zimmer, John Frusciante, and Erykah Badu, to name a few. In the early years of the new millennium, Rodriguez Lopez began filmmaking, familiarizing himself with the process by way of producing two unreleased films (2001’s A Manual Dexterity and 2003’s Letters from Dystopia) in lieu of any formal training. His third film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, is the director’s debut feature release. Despite a virtually continuous commitment to the process of recording and touring with his various bands, Rodriguez Lopez has managed to complete two more films since principal production on The Sentimental Engine Slayer wrapped in 2007; El Divino Influjo De Los Secretos and Boiling Death Request are both currently in post-production.

For more information on Omar Rodriguez Lopez's multitude of endeavors, please CLICK HERE.

Telesterion will be available everywhere on Record Store Day, April 16th, 2011 via Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House. 

OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ Live: 
03/19  Austin, TX @ Emo's Annex - SXSW - Sargent House / RLProductions showcase
03/21  Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's
03/22  New Orleans, LA @ HOB Parish

04/15  Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival

Artist: Omar Rodriguez Lopez Album: Telesterion Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions Release Date: April 16th, 2011 CD 1 01. Locomocion Capillar (Solar Gambling) (MP3) 02. Population Council's Wet Dream (Old Money) 03. Amanita Virosa (Xenophanes) 04. Coma Pony (The Apocalypse Inside of an Orange) 05. El Monte T'ai (Calibration) 06. Sex, Consolation for Misery (Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus) 07. Deus Ex Machina (A Manual Dexterity, Soundtrack Vol. 1) 08. Rapid Fire Tollbooth (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) 09. Un Buitre Amable Me Pico (Solar Gambling) 10. Half Kleptos (Cryptomnesia) 11. No Hay Mas Respuestas (Cizaña De Los Amores) 12. Solenoid Mosque (Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead) 13. Melting Chariots (The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange) 14. Dead Hisses to Match Our Own (Megaritual) 15. How to Bill the Bilderberg Group (Old Money) 16. Polaridad (Tychozorente) (VIDEO) 17. La Tirania De La Tradicion (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) 18. An Ancient Shrewdness in the Veins (Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus) 19. Noir (Cryptomnesia) CD2 20. Calibration (Calibration) 21. Viernes (Ciencia De Los Inutiles) 22. Spookrijden Op Het Fietspad (Omar Rodriguez) 23. Boiling Death Request a Body to Rest Its Head On (Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo) 24. Victimas Del Cielo (Cizaña De Los Amores) 25. Las Flores Con Limon (Solar Gambling) 26. At the Push of a Button (Megaritual) 27. Asco Que Conmueve Los Puntos Erogenos (Xenophanes) (VIDEO) 28. The Power of Myth (Old Money) 29. El Todo (Tychozorente) 30. The Palpitations Form a Limit (A Manual Dexterity, Soundtrack Vol. 1) 31. Agua Dulce De Pulpo (Un Escorpion Perfumado) (VIDEO) 32. Poincare (Solar Gambling) 33. Shake is for 8th Graders (Cryptomnesia) (MP3) 34. Atrotecism Fenleon (Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead) 35. Casate Colmillo (The Somnambulists) 36. Desarraigo (Xenophanes) 37. Lunes (Ciencia De Los Inutiles) Hi-res photos, cover art, bio and more: sargenthouse.com/omar_assets.html On the Web:

rodriguezlopezproductions.com

omardigital.rodriguezlopezproductions.com

For more information, please contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com. To contact Rodriguez Lopez Productions, email Cathy Pellow at: cathy@sargenthouse.com

Tera Melos premiere MP3 from forthcoming EP; Co-headlining tour with Marnie Stern Feb-March

"Once in a rare while an album comes along that's so fresh and ingenious it redefines what's possible in a field of music. It's been some time since a trio armed with guitar, drums, bass and vocals have shattered the boundaries of convention and pushed the limits of their instruments and compositions like a graceful tsunami of invention. " -- Exclaim!

"Tera Melos has ferociously explored the outer limits of bizarre time signatures and unhinged thrash since its self-titled 2005 debut. But the band's full-length, Patagonian Rats is more akin to the type of freak-pop perversion dished out by daring pioneers like Devo and The Flaming Lips." -- Wired.com

Sacramento genre-benders Tera Melos premiere a new song today from the forthcoming 6-song EP Zoo Weather and deluxe digital edition of their recently released Patagonian Rats album (both via Sargent House). The track, "Manar The Magic" features a spoken cameo by Mike Watt and is posted courtesy of RCRD LBL HERE.

Tera Melos also announced co-headlining US tour dates with guitar goddess Marnie Stern launching in February. Please see full dates below.

Zoo Weather will be available on February 22nd, 2011 on cassette and digital download. The EP features 3 new songs and 3 remixed tracks (including a remix by Japanese noise legends Melt Banana). All tracks from Zoo Weather, plus two additional songs (a total of 20) will also be available the same day as part of the deluxe digital package for the band's recent full-length, Patagonian Rats. 

Patagonian Rats landed on many Best of 2010 lists, as well as receiving raves from Wired.com, Exclaim!, ALARM Press, Impose and Exploding In Sound. Marnie Stern also named it her favorite album of the year in SPIN. MP3 and video links follow below, or stream the entire Tera Melos discography via Bandcamp. 

Tera Melos / Marnie Stern:

Feb 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo 

Feb 19 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar 

Feb 20 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Martini Ranch 

Feb 22 - San Antonio, TX @ Ten Eleven 

Feb 23 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk 

Feb 24 - Dallas, TX @ Sons Of Hermann Hall 

Feb 25 - New Orleans, LA @ The Parish  

Feb 26 - Tallahasee, FL @ Club DownUnder 

Feb 27 - Orlando, FL @ The Backbooth 

Feb 28 - Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn

Mar 01 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade

Mar 02 - Washington DC @ Red Palace 

Mar 03 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church 

Mar 04 - New York, NY @ Santos Party House

Mar 06 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East 

Mar 07 - Montreal, QU @ Il Motore

Mar 08 - Toronto, ON @ Wrongbar 

Mar 09 - Kalamazoo, MI @ The Strutt 

Mar 10 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean 

Mar 11 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown Jr 

Mar 12 - Denver, CO @ Moes 

Mar 13 - Salt Lake City @ Kilby Court 

Mar 15 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project 

Mar 16 - Portland, OR @ Branx 

Mar 18 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill 

Mar 19 - Sacramento, CA @ Sol Collective

Artist: Tera Melos

Album: Patagonian Rats -- Deluxe Digital Edition

Label: Sargent House

Release Date: February 22nd, 2011

01. Purple and Stripes

02. Kelley

03. Manar The Magic (MP3)

04. Melt Bamanarnana (Melt Banana Remix)

05. Manar The Magic (Pat Hills' Rat Trap Dub)

06. Manar Was A Rat

Artist: Tera Melos
Album: Patagonian Rats -- Deluxe Digital Edition

Label: Sargent House

Release Date: February 22nd, 2011

01. So Occult

02. Kelly

03. The Skin Surf (VIDEO)

04. Aped

05. Trident Tail

06. Frozen Zoo (MP3) (any file format) (VIDEO)

07. In Citrus Heights

08. Skywatch

09. Party With Gina

10. Another Surf

11. Westham United

12. A New Uniform/Patagonia
13. Purple and Stripes
14. Kelley
15. Manar The Magic (MP3)
16. Melt Bamanamana (Melt Banana Remix)
17. Manar The Magic (Pat Hills' Rat Trap Dub)
18. Manar Was A Rat
19. Frozen Zoo (Thawed Out Mix) (VIDEO)
20. Frozen Zoo (Raleigh Moncrief Remix)

Hi-Res photos, cover art and bio:

http://www.sargenthouse.com/tm_assets.html

On the Web:

facebook.com/teramelosmusic

www.teramelos1.tumblr.com

teramelos.bandcamp.com

Tera Melos are available for interviews. For more information, please contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com

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L.A. indie-pop darlings ROBOTANISTS reveal tracklist and art for new album, RCRD LBL premieres first single.

"Robotanists root around in the electro-noir explored by Mazzy Star and Portishead, with Ellquist's sultry voice narrating the way through forays into the dark both metaphorical and literal. Their penchant for the atmospheric never becomes an overbearing aesthetic, though - you can take the title of one of their songs, 'Subtlety Is Underrated,' seriously." -- Kevin Bronson, Buzz Bands Los Angeles' glamorous indie-pop group ROBOTANISTS have released the first single from their forthcoming new album, Plans In Progress, produced by Danny Kalb (Beck, Karen O, Feist). RCRD LBL posted the premiere of the song, "On/Off The Ledge" today, which is available HERE.  The quartet, often compared to Florence + The Machine, Jenny Lewis, The Xx, et al., have also revealed the track listing and artwork for Plans in Progress. The CD/digital release will be available via Overhead Records on February 15th, 2011.  ROBOTANISTS headline a residency at the Silverlake Lounge in Los Angeles throughout February as well as play several shows at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX in March. Please see current dates below. While waiting for the new album and live dates, check out songs from ROBOTANISTS' previous releases: "Wait A Minute Here" (MP3) (VIDEO) from Close Down The Woods and their brilliant reworking of the Jay-Z hit, "Empire State of Mind" as "Exiled State of Mind" (MP3) (VIDEO) from the Shapes and Variations covers project. Stream/download complete albums via Bandcamp HERE. Comprised of songwriters Sarah Ellquist (vocals & keys) and Daniel DeBlanke (guitar, keys) and rhythm section Keith Boyarsky (bass) and Preston Scott Phillips (drums), ROBOTANISTS have spent the past couple of years spreading their big choruses and delicate prose across North America on tour and on the radio. Their breakthrough single "Wait a Minute Here" (from the band's 2008 debut, Close Down The Woods) topped charts in Los Angeles (KCRW, KROQ) and other major cities across the US. "Subtlety is Underrated" was recently featured in a particularly provocative striptease scene on the 2011 season premiere of the MTV hit reality show, The Jersey Shore.  The group's latest effort further expands its lush and lulling sound with contributions from Brad Breek (The Mae Shi, Skull Tape) who added analog synth throughout.  ROBOTANISTS live: 02/07    Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge 02/14    Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge 02/21    Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge 02/28    Los Angeles, CA @ Silverlake Lounge 03/18    Austin, TX @ The Blackheart - SXSW showcase Artist: ROBOTANISTS Album: Plans In Progress Label: Overhead Records Release Date: February 15th, 2011 Track List: 1. Have We Met Before? 2. Terminal A 3. ON/OFF The Ledge (MP3) 4. The Lack Thereof 5. Plans in Progress 6. Luggage vs. Baggage 7. The Ghost You're Haunting Artist: ROBOTANISTS Album: Shapes and Variations Label: Overhead Records Release Date: March 30th, 2010 Track List: 1. Exiled State of Mind (reworking of Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind") (MP3) (VIDEO) 2. Dance, Dance, Dance (Lykke Li) 3. Are You Really Going Out With Her? (reworking of Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?") 4. All You Ever Wanted (The Black Keys) 5. Heaven (Bryan Adams) 6. Never Tear Us Apart (INXS) 7. Glass In Your Headlights (reworking of Phillip Glass' "Glassworks, Outro") Artist: ROBOTANISTS Album: Close Down The Woods Label: Overhead Records Release Date: November 4th, 2008 Track List: 1. Wait A Minute Here (MP3) (VIDEO)   2. Subtlety is Underrated 3. Close Down The Woods 4. Slow Motion 5. Tasteless 6. Getting By 7. I Don't Want to Know What Love Is On the Web: robotanists.com facebook.com/robotanists myspace.com/robotanists robotanists.bandcamp.com overheadrecords.com Members of ROBOTANISTS are available for interviews. For more information, contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com # # # Follow US/THEM group on Twitter: www.twitter.com/usthemgroup

The sound of a parallel universe: Irish trio Adebisi Shank to make U.S. debut in March

"Easily one of the best records of the year. 10/10" -- The 405

"This is a raucous, fun ride which you’ll want to be a part of. 9/10" -- Rock Sound

“Baffling, terrifying and utterly riveting.” -- NME

"Top 5 Best New Irish Bands" -- The Daily Telegraph 

Ireland's highly-praised breakout trio, Adebisi Shank have signed to Sargent House for worldwide management and North American release of their critically-acclaimed recent release, This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank in March 2011. The band also makes its U.S. live debut during the South By Southwest music festival at the Sargent House showcase that month. More details on the live show will be available soon. 

Check out the lead MP3s, "International Dreambeat" HERE and "Genki Shank" HERE. Or, stream the full album HERE. Watch live videos for "International Dreambeat" HERE and "Masa" HERE. 

Imagine it's 1985 and you're making a movie that takes place in 2011. You picture myriad technological devices that simplify our lives -- every mundane activity can be accomplished with the push of a button -- freeing us to travel the globe, living a life of total awesomeness. The anthemic optimism of your era, you assume, will eventually enrich the entire world and create a global new form of music. This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank is just the type of futuristic-utopian sound of a parallel 2011 universe breaking through the time-space continuum to guide us all to perfection. 

The Wexford, Ireland trio deftly merges the triumphant guitar harmonies of Fang Island with the mathematic precision of Battles, the genre-surfing playfulness of Daft Punk and churning intensity of HEALTH. But it's much more than the sum of those parts, it's a sound befitting of the retrofuturism we've come to love about old films where archaic technology collide with far more further-reaching ideas. To wit, the album cover depicting two zebras galloping across a Tron-style neon landscape perfectly embodies the transcendent intersection of triumphant guitars and rollicking drums with vintage synthesizers, marimbas, horns, vocoder, synthesizers, ensemble percussion and musical instruments we're not sure have even been invented yet. 

Adebisi Shank has been doted on by Irish, European and UK press since its 2007 debut EP, 2008 full length and the 2010 Irish release of This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank -- which topped countless Year-End Best of 2010 lists and named by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper one of the Top Five Best New Irish Bands. US label and management company Sargent House has signed Adebisi Shank for worldwide management and will release the album in North America on March 15th, 2011. The album was previously issued in Ireland/UK by equally likeminded and groundbreaking DIY Irish label Richter Collective (co-founded and co-operated by Adebisi Shank drummer, Mick Roe) in 2010. 

This is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank features contributions from Mercury Prize nominated Villagers frontman Conor J O'Brien and Ireland's Choice Prize winner Richie “Jape” Egan among others. The album was recorded and produced by the band and Stephen J. Caffrey in various locations around Ireland and mixed and mastered by TJ Lipple at his home in Washington DC. The trio's debut full length, This is the Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank was produced by legendary musician (Jawbox, Government Issue) and producer (Jawbreaker, Dismemberment Plan) J. Robbins. 

“On the first album, our mission was get in, tear it up, get out," explains bassist Vin. “The whole thing is over in about 24 minutes, which is really cool, but this time we wanted to make something that you could really spend a bit of time with, get a bit lost in. This one's 40 minutes, which might not sound a lot, but to us that is almost like a double album. There's a real sense of geography to the songs, you can really feel the places we've been and to an extent, the people we've met as we've travelled around. It seemed to make sense to bring in as many of our friends as we could to give the album the party vibe we felt it deserved.” He continues, “It's a big glorious mess.” 

Adebisi Shank have gained considerable reputation for their explosive and energetic live performances; NME describing it as,“baffling, terrifying and utterly riveting” and Rock Sound exclaiming the band are "one of the most exciting live bands in Ireland right now.”

Artist: Adebisi Shank

Album: This Is The Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank

Label: Sargent House

Release Date: March 15th, 2011

01. International Dreambeat (MP3) (VIDEO live)

02. Masa (VIDEO live)

03. Genki Shank (MP3)

04. Micromachines

05. (-_-)

06. Logdrum

07. Bones

08. Frunk

09. Europa

10. Century City

Hi-res photos, cover art, bio and more:

www.sargenthouse.com/adebisi_assets.html

On The Web:

www.adebisishank.tumblr.com

facebook.com/adebisishank

adebisishank.bandcamp.com

Members of Adebisi Shank are available for interviews. For more information, please contact Dave Clifford at dave@usthemgroup.com