Big Walnuts Yonder: Mike Watt (Minutemen), Nels Cline (Wilco), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos) share song from forthcoming debut

Big Walnuts Yonder premiere the first track from their forthcoming debut full length today via Consequence of Sound. Hear and share "Raise The Drawbridges" HERE. (Direct Soundcloud) See track listing and Raymond Pettibon's cover art below. 

Big Walnuts Yonder is bassist/vocalist Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers), drummer Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos). It is not a supergroup. "It's worlds colliding," says Mike Watt. 

Four exceptional musicians whose work spans multiple genres and generations, Big Walnuts Yonder is a monumental endeavor that's more than the sum of its parts. The results are a truly epic album defying categorization, where one might hear elements of proto-punk, free jazz, power pop, experimental music, psych-rock and your first teenage acid trip all in one. 

The impetus for Big Walnuts Yonder came about way back in 2008 from a conversation between Watt and Reinhart while their bands toured together in Japan. The two discussed recording together and who they might bring in to the sessions. "Nick gets ahold of my first opera," Watt explains. "Made in 1997 with Nels Cline. He said 'what's it like playing with Nels?'" 

"So Watt says, 'if you want to know the man, play with the man,'" Cline elaborates. Cline agreed to join if Reinhart picked the drummer. Reinhart quickly mentioned Saunier, unaware that Cline had previously brought Watt to see him perform at a Deerhoof show years before. "Greg immediately came to mind," Reinhart says. "His drumming has highly influenced my guitar playing over the years." The lineup solidified in its mutual appreciation and they began making plans to write and record - while circumnavigating the schedules of 4 extremely busy musicians. "We had planned it for so long," Saunier says. "Then several years passed in which nothing occurred due to everyone's schedules. It was 2-3 years of warm, leisurely prep time, then suddenly made in a panic with time and money on the line."

Prior to recording, Watt sent the band demo recordings of 8 song structures of just him playing bass, unaccompanied. (Cline and Saunier also later brought 1 song each to the session, to which the band contributed their parts, making the album 10 songs total.) Reinhart worked out guitar parts to fit Watt's riffs and the two traded files back and forth. "I'm pretty sure the other guys didn't have parts set before going into the studio," Reinhart says. "Maybe we hadn't discussed what we would do. But it's interesting how a lot of the songs began as Mike Watt basslines, and everyone was able to pull songs and melodies out of them."

The album was recorded in just 3 days in summer 2014 in Brooklyn, NY with producer and former Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone engineering at his Studio G. "It was this concentrated sort of freakout," Saunier says. "We basically had to invent a new band on the spot. And, people might have a stereotype of what each person does, but we all showed up to do what we're prevented from doing in other groups." The band would play through each song a couple of times to make up parts, then hit record. "Nels can improvise with anything," Watt notes. "It was trippy to watch the huge pedal dance! Both those guys have like 35 pedals each. And, Greg's not just a drummer man, he's incredible." The album's 10 tracks were recorded primarily live with very few overdubs. Although Big Walnuts Yonder was created under somewhat spontaneous circumstances, the group endeavored to ensure the album wouldn't sound like a jam session. "It was very clear among us," Saunier notes: "Let's not overindulge and make it a 'musician's recording'." 

It wasn't until many months later that vocals were added to the songs, with Reinhart recording vocals to 7 songs and Watt singing on 2 tracks at their home studios. "It was actually a surprise that it ended up having vocals on it," Cline admits. "But it added a layer of accessibility that I didn't expect." Saunier, a revered producer in his own right, volunteered to mix the album - a fact that the other 3 musicians each express as a major boon for the album. Saunier was able to take his time to mix each song very differently from the others. This, too, gives the album the unique feel of all rock history condensed into a single explosive, compelling whole. 

As Watt and Reinhart note, the 30-year span between the ages of Big Walnuts Yonder members is also a contributing factor to its magic. And, likely a key to the band's iconoclast sound. "That's insane playing and connecting with someone who's almost 30 years older than me," Reinhart says. "Observing how these dudes are just hammering away so much later is inspiring. They're still learning and exploring." Watt adds, "it's interesting that people are much more open-minded now. We were all just trying to be adventurous with music."

Asked how he might describe Big Walnuts Yonder, Cline succinctly nails it on the head: "It's sick. It has an extreme quality and kicks ass."

Big Walnuts Yonder features a cover illustration by punk art legend Raymond Pettibon. The album will be available on LP, CD and download on May 5th, 2017 via Sargent House. Physical pre-orders are available at bigwalnutsyonder.hellomerch.com. 

Artist: Big Walnuts Yonder Album: Big Walnuts Yonder Label: Sargent House Release Date: May 5th, 2017 01. All Against All 02. Sponge Bath 03. Flare Star Phantom 04. I Got Marty Feldman Eyes 05. Raise the Drawbridges? 06. Ready to Pop! 07. Forgot to Brush 08. Rapid Driver Moon Inhaler 09. Pud 10. Heat Melter On the Web: sargenthouse.com/big-walnuts-yonder bigwalnutsyonder.hellomerch.com facebook.com/bigwalnutsyonder

Here Lies Man: Antibalas members, "if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat" premiere song from forthcoming debut

"It's funky, groovy, heavy, and trippy all at once, and it rules pretty hard." -- Brooklyn Vegan

Los Angeles quintet Here Lies Man share a new song from their forthcoming self-titled debut album today via Tiny Mix Tapes. Hear and share "When I Come To" HERE. (Direct Soundcloud). 

Brooklyn Vegan recently launched the song "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", available to hear and share HERE. (Direct YouTube and Soundcloud.)

What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? In short, that’s the underlying vibe to the self-titled debut by Here Lies Man. The L.A. based quintet is founded and conceptualized by Marcos Garcia of Antibalas, bringing his erudite experience of World rhythms and music to the more riff-based foundations of heavy rock. The results are an incredibly catchy and refreshing twist on classic forms, without sounding forced and trite like some sort of mash-up attempt. Here Lies Man merges and expands musical traditions organically, utilizing the talents of drummer Geoff Mann (son of jazz musician Herbie Mann and former Antibalas member) and a host of skilled musicians to make Garcia’s vision a reality. 

“These repetitive guitar figures that happen in Afrobeat music are pretty close to heavy rock guitar riffs,” Garcia explains. “It’s based on the clave. It’s the musical algorithm that the rhythms revolve around. That’s what gives it integrity and is part of this musical conversation going on. I knew I wanted it to be psychedelic and heavy, and I wanted to be expanding on a musical tradition than pretending to be creating something new.” The recording and band came together in the somewhat spontaneous fashion for which L.A. is famous. Garcia and Mann laid down the foundations and the band quickly expanded the recording and live shows soon followed. 

And that expansion is the brilliant, hazy, psychedelic, hook-laden 8-song masterwork Here Lies Man, available on LP, CD and download on April 7th, 2017 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available at iTunes and RidingEasyRecs.com. 

Artist: Here Lies Man

Album: Here Lies Man

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: April 7, 2017

01. When I Come To

02. I Stand Alone

03. Eyes of the Law

04. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

05. Letting Go

06. So Far Away

07. Belt of the Sun

08. Here Lies Man

On The Web:

facebook.com/hereliesman

ridingeasyrecs.com

Alabama Deathwalk premiere dramatic video from new album 'Steep Hills'

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"An Americana take on emo, something that finds itself on the spectrum between The Weakerthans and Pinegrove, with a bald lyricism that recalls the likes of John Darnielle." -- Consequence of Sound

New Braunsfels, TX's Alabama Deathwalk premiere the stark, dramatic video for "Friends" off of the band's recent full length debut today via Impose Magazine. Watch and share "Friends" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Consequence of Sound recently hosted a stream of the full album, Steep Hills HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)

The geographic intersection of the ghosts of yesteryear and the electric hum of modernity is at the forefront of the music of Eric Reed. For the past eight-and-a-half years, El Paso native Reed has worked under the moniker Alabama Deathwalk. Once a disciple to the heavier corners of prog-rock, Reed went through a West Texas rebirth as a singer-songwriter. His emphasis shifted from complex instrumentation to in-depth narratives-from riffs to lyrics. And here in the mountains of the Southwest, 700 miles from LA and 760 miles from the Texas/Louisiana border, Reed has spent nearly a decade honing his craft, occasionally recruiting friends to round out the project into a full band, and solidifying his reputation as one of the region's premier songwriters.

While Alabama Deathwalk harbors vestiges of Americana traditions-acoustic guitar underpinnings, forlorn ballads, stripped down production-the music made by Reed sounds distinctly modern. Western twang has been excised in favor of the electric austerity of Weakerthans and Low. The folk parables of old country have been replaced by the kind of stark vignettes uttered by Sufjan Stevens or John Darnielle. Reed doesn't sing about shooting a man over a lovely barmaid, but he opens the song "Friends" with the admission that he's "lost three friends in the last two years." El Paso may no longer be the lawless Wild West, but the undercurrent of death is still present.

Every city has its unsung troubadours, but with regional shows supporting artists like Built To Spill, Sleepercar, Deer Tick, and Porches under his belt, Reed is already pollinating his craft outside of the downtown crowd. And with a new album in the works and an upcoming tour dates with Jim Ward on the calendar, it's only a matter of time before Alabama Deathwalk passes beyond El Paso and into the greater national consciousness. 

Steep Hills is available on CD and download as of October 21st, 2016 via Bandcamp. 

Artist: Alabama Deathwalk

Album: Steep Hills

Label: Self-released

Release date: October 21st, 2016

01. Two Weeks

02. Freaky

03. Dallas

04. Purse

05. Friends

06. Peter

07. Rest

08. Intermission

09. Confessions Pt. Two

10. All At Once

On The Web:

facebook.com/alabamadeathwalk

www.alabamadeathwalk.bandcamp.com

'Brown Acid' compilation of rare 60s-70s pre-metal singles announces 4th edition w/ song stream

"A great distillation of what the underground was capable of back in the day, and still feels as fresh and poignant now." -- Clrvynt

L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records announce the upcoming release of the fourth edition in their celebrated compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid today with a premiere of the first track at Brooklyn Vegan. Hear and share Brown Acid:The Third Trip HERE. (Direct Soundcloud).  About Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip: If you thought we were getting close to the end of the Brown Acid series with our last Trip, you were dead wrong...we’re only just getting rolling. The well of privately released hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal 45s is deep and we are nowhere near tapped out. Most of these records were barely released and never properly distributed so they ain’t easy to find, but they’re out there if you’re willing to dig...and we aren’t afraid to get our hands dirty. Hard calluses have formed from handling the shovel and we’ve sifted through a lot of dirt, but we’ve dug up another ten tremendous records to share with all the heavy heads out there. This volume brings together eight insanely rare and skull-crushingly heavy 45s as well as two previously unreleased bangers.   You may remember the Zekes’ jaw dropper “Box” from the First Trip. If you don’t, you better go back and refresh your memory, you stoner. That song rips! And so does this previously unheard recording we legally obtained from the Beverly Hills records vaults. “Comin' Back” is the longest tune we’ve yet to include on this series and it’s a full-on rager! The only surviving copy of this recording came to us on the original 1/4” master tape from Hollywood’s long-defunct Demars & Duffy Music. We did our best to preserve the recording and we think you’ll appreciate the rawness. There have been numerous groups named Bad Axe over the years, but the one you hear here is the baddest. This five-piece fresh outta high school kicked out this jam (and a few others) in a Chicago studio in 1973 just for the hell of it. As a garage band, they were previously named The Burlington Express and they went on to be known as Bitch, but these dudes hit their stride as Bad Axe and “Coachman” is their crowning achievement. It went completely unreleased until 2014 when Permanent Records issued it and “Poor Man, Run” as a limited edition 45 with a killer picture sleeve. It’s long out-of-print and only obtainable now on Brown Acid. The rest of the records included on this volume vary in rarity, but at least two of them were virtually unknown until we discovered them.  You’ll win the lottery before you find copies of all of the original 45s in even the best record stores.  Many of the records included in this volume are owned only by the members of the bands and some of the band members don’t even have personal copies.  That’s just how hard these guys hit it back in the day!  We’re lucky some of these guys are still alive and well enough to give us permission to use their masters. About the Brown Acid series: Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century -- particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins - often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip.  Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A./Chicago retailer Permanent Records has shown incredible persistence in tracking down a stellar collection of rare singles from the 60s and 70s for the growing compilation series. Partnered with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, the two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long.  "I essentially go through hell and high water just to find these records," Barresi says. "Once I find a record worthy of tracking, I begin the (sometimes) extremely arduous process of contacting the band members and encouraging them to take part. Daniel and I agree that licensing all the tracks we're using for Brown Acid is best for everyone involved," rather than simply bootlegging the tracks. When all of the bands and labels haven't existed for 30-40 years or more, tracking down the creators gives all of these tunes a real second chance at success.  "There's a long list of songs that we'd love to include," Barresi says. "But we just can't track the bands down. I like the idea that Brown Acid is getting so much attention, so people might reach out to us." Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on April 20th, 2017 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available for digital (with immediate download of the first single) at Bandcamp, physical pre-orders at RidingEasy Records.

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip 

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: April 20th, 2017

01. Kanaan "Leave It"

02. Stone Garden "Oceans Inside Me"

03. Headstones "Carry Me On" 

04. Wrath "Rock N’ Roll Fever"

05. Bungi "Numbers"

06. Erving Forbush "The Train"

07. Zekes "Comin' Back" (previously unreleased)

08. Bad Axe "Coachman"

09. Ash "Warrant"

10. Axas "Lucifer"

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The Third Trip 

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: October 31st, 2016

01. Grand Theft "Scream (It’s Eating Me Alive)" (STREAM)

02. Chook "Cold Feet" (STREAM)

03. Lindholm Brothers "No Time For Last Goodbyes"

04. Diehard "Heartbreak" 

05. Blown Free "The Wizard" 

06. Factory "Time Machine"

07. Inside Experience "Be On My Way"

08. Cold Swett "Quit Your Foolin'"

09. Elliott Black "Highway Song"

10. First State Bank "Before You Leave"

11. Flash Beverage "The Train"

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The Second Trip

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: April 20th, 2016

01. Ash "Midnight Witch" (STREAM)

02. Sweet Crystal "Warlords"

03. Raving Maniac "Rock and Roll Man"

04. Crossfield "Take It" (STREAM)

05. Spiny Norman "Bell Park Loon" (Unreleased)

06. Glass Sun "Silence of the Morning"

07. Volt Rush Band "Love To You"

08. Buck "Long Hot Highway"

09. Iron Knowledge "Show Stopper" (STREAM)

10. Sonny Hugg "Daybreak"

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The First Trip  ALBUM STREAM

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: August 11th, 2015

01. Zeke's "Box"

02. Snow "Sunflower"

03. Tour "One of the Bad Guys"

04. Zebra "Wasted"

05. Bob Goodsite "Faze 1"

06. Raw Meat "Stand-By Girl"

07. Punch "Deathhead"

08. Bacchus "Carry My Load"

09. Lenny Drake "Love Eyes (Cast Your Spell On Me)"

10. The Todd "Mystify Me"

11. Josefus "Hard Luck"

On The Web:

www.ridingeasyrecords.com

Ghost Against Ghost premiere first track from forthcoming album, Composer Christopher Bono w/ members of Mercury Rev, Mars Volta, et al.

"Evokes a wide array of inspirations to create a vast and intense field of sounds. Christopher Bono constructs a darkly spiritual aura in this post-rock inspired composition." -- Stereogum Woodstock, NY band Ghost Against Ghost premiere the first track from their forthcoming epic album still love today via Metal Injection. Hear and share "Resume" HERE. (Direct Soundcloud). Ghost Against Ghost will release their first full length album on April 14, 2017 via Our Silent Canvas. Pre-orders are available now via Bandcamp. This 65 minute LP weaves themes of love, heartbreak, and betrayal into monolithic synth-driven space-rock, with inspiration as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Vangelis and Pink Floyd.  Writer and producer Christopher Bono utilizes his classical background to sculpt this expansive and engaging series of compositions, contrasting heavy walls of sound with ambient passages, contemporary classical and experimental electronic influences.  Bono collaborated with Thomas Pridgen, whose drumming credits include the likes of The Mars Volta, Trash Talk, Suicidal Tendencies and Memorials. The album's enveloping sound also contains special contributions by ambient guitarist Anthony Molina, the multi-instrumentalist famous for playing with Mercury Rev, and otherworldly choral sections featuring vocalists Jamie Rae, Stacie Bono and Michele Kennedy.  While in the midst of completing the yet unfinished Ghost Against Ghost concept album, Oia, front man Christopher Bono was unexpectedly struck by a psychologically disorienting family tragedy in the spring of 2014 forcing him back into the writing studio to process this new trauma through music. Over the following months, Bono reflected on the confusion and internal conflict that resulted when the life he knew was ripped apart by disturbing revelations of a shocking betrayal and a Pandora's Box of dark, misaligned secrets. To dig further into the heart of the experience, he based the lyrical point of view from that of the female victim, his mother.  The album also comes in two versions, the audiophile version which is more dynamic and quieter, and a louder master that appeals on a more commercial level. About the production process Bono says, "as a producer, I'm continuously exploring vintage, analogue gear and instruments contrasted with the precise benefits of modern, digital techniques and equipment. Simultaneously, as a composer, I see the pros and cons of the analogue-digital domains similarly to the differences found in writing and arranging for acoustic versus electronic instruments.  In both cases there is a colourful beauty created when the different production styles and sound worlds are blended in unexpected ways."  VICE's The Creator's Project also recently premiered the short film directed by Craig Murray (Mogwai, Converge) for the remix Ghost Against Ghost song "Checkpoint Charlie." Watch HERE.  For full biography on Ghost Against Ghost and Christopher Bono, please CLICK HERE.

Artist: Ghost Against Ghost Album: still love Label: Our Silent Canvas Release Date: April 14th, 2017 01. Son of Cessiphus 02. Still Love 03. A Relapse of Remembrance 04. The River of the Intimate, Pt. 1 05. The River of the Intimate, Pt. 2 06. Resume 07. You Secret Ocean 08. Unarm 09. Guerison On The Web: ghostagainstghost.com www.christopherbono.com facebook.com/GhostAgainstGhost www.facebook.com/C.Bono.Music oursilentcanvasstore.org www.oursilentcanvas.bandcamp.com

Dunbarrow sign to RidingEasy Records, Norwegian quintet's debut to be reissued

Trondheim, Norway quintet Dunbarrow announce their signing to L.A. label RidingEasy Records today. The label will reissue the band's 2016 self-titled debut album worldwide with a special die-cut sleeve and insert for the LP. It will be on CD for the first time ever. 

Hear & share the single "Lucifer's Child": Soundcloud and Bandcamp. 

Summoned to play it the old way in a new age, Trondheim, Norway quintet Dunbarrow draws inspiration from freezing winter nights, unpolished demo tapes from the 70’s and the Swedish throwback rock from the beginning of the 21st century. The result is Norwegian proto-doom with a back-to-basics sound, from Pentagram and Witchfinder General to Quicksilver Messenger Service.

Dunbarrow’s clean, unadorned sound shares the unpretentious brilliance of classic heavy progenitors playing basements and barns, before the big budgets and bloated habits diluted hard rock into an echo chamber awash in reverb and layered in distant, screeching hobbits. The band’s 9-track self-titled album is a classic in the sense that every song becomes instantly recognizable after just one listen. 

With lyrics like the clever paean to a young witch mother’s birth of “Lucifer’s Child”, Dunbarrow has a wealth of gloomy sentiments: “Can you understand my young mother’s plight / Away from the comforts that burn at the stake / She gave birth to a venomous snake / On her great pyre she smiled / For she carried Lucifer’s child.” 

Dunbarrow is based in the far northern Norwegian city Trondheim, but is originally from Haugesund on the west coast of Norway. The band has been playing together for over 8 years through different band names and genres. In 2014, vocalist Espen Andersen joined the band upon the departure of original singer/bassist Richard Chappell. Sondre Berge went from playing drums to playing bass. Kenneth Lønning and Eirik Øvregård are still on the guitars, with Pål Gunnar Dale taking over the drums permanently in 2016. Espen Andersen recorded and mixed the debut album at Stoy Studios. Dunbarrow is hitting the studio for their second album this summer. 

Dunbarrow will be available on CD on March 10th, 2017 and LP in May via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available at RidingEasyRecs.com. 

Artist: Dunbarrow

Album: Dunbarrow

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: March 10th (CD) & May (LP), 2017

01. Try and Fail

02. The Wanderer

03. You Knew I Was a Snake

04. My Little Darling

05. Lucifer's Child

06. Guillotine

07. The Crows Ain't Far Behind

08. Forsaken

09. Witches of the Woods

On The Web:

Facebook.com/Dunbarrow

Instagram.com/Dunbarrow

ridingeasyrecs.com

Evil Triplet stream entire debut album ahead of release, heavy psych from Austin punk pioneer

"From Hawkwind to Hendrix, Gong to Guru Guru, Neu! to noise, the lysergic local trio synthesizes psych rock, classic rock, Krautrock, and punk." -- Austin Chronicle

Austin trio Evil Triplet are streaming their forthcoming double LP debut album Otherworld ahead of release starting today via CvltNation. Hear and share the full album HERE. (Direct Soundcloud).

The Austin Chronicle recently featured the band, also highlighting vocalist/guitarist Steve Marsh's extensive background from 70s-80s punk progenitors Terminal Mind, to late-80s industrial-psych Miracle Room and later period noise merchants Wisdom Tooth. Read more and hear Evil Triplet album track "Get a Job" HERE. 

Evil Triplet is a heavy psych trio from Austin, TX. The space rock behemoth is comprised of Steve Marsh (guitar and vocals), Kirk Laktas (drums), and Joe Volpi (bass).

Marsh traces back to Terminal Mind, a seminal band in the Austin punk scene of the late 70s that spawned The Big Boys and The Dicks (Super Secret offshoot Sonic Surgery Records will be reissuing Terminal Mind's original recorded output, plus unreleased studio and live tracks, later in 2017). He then led Miracle Room, a psychedelic industrial hoedown that shared stages with Snakefinger, Butthole Surfers, Scratch Acid, Negativland, and Sonny Sharrock, among others, and morphed into Wisdom Tooth, which released a CD on Knitting Factory's imprint.

Kirk is the keyboard wizard in post-rock bands My Education and Cinders, and was an early member of Stars Of The Lid. He has worked sessions with Acid Mothers Temple, Shearwater, Pauline Oliveros and ST37.

Mr Volpi toured and recorded with Primordial Undermind, as well as lending his chops to countless other Austin bands, including The Flood and Reverend Glasseye. He also performs a dark acoustic song cycle solo as Kaiser Soze, and plays standup bass in Cinders.

Evil Triplet recorded their debut opus at Sonic Ranch Studios, in the desert outside El Paso, TX. The sound is lush, lysergic and overpowering. In addition to the solid foundation of classic heavy guitar rock, there are multiple points of experimentation, with Marsh attacking the electric guitar with vibrator, drill, electric razor and music box. There are also underlying synth loops, piano and organ, all in service to the tripped-out material, with lyrics covering such topics as space, mushrooms, human consciousness as alien possession, and a plea from Lucifer to his minions to stay in school.

The record will be distributed by Revolver USA and available in 180g vinyl and CD at record stores and by mail order from Super Secret Records. The band will be touring to support the record release this Spring, so get ready to be absorbed into Evil Triplet's Otherworld!

Otherworld will be available on LP, CD and download on February 10th, 2017 via Super Secret Records. 

EVIL TRIPLET LIVE:

02/10 Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas (album release show)

Artist: Evil Triplet

Album: Otherworld

Label: Super Secret Records

Release date: February 10th, 2017

01) Star Ladder

02) Fungus

03) Get a Job

04) Planet I'm On

05) Post Group Date Scene

06) Pyramids

07) We Are The Aliens

08) Worship Satin

09) Road Trips

On The Web:

facebook.com/eviltriplet

supersecretrecords.com

Electric Citizen announce tour with Crazy World of Arthur Brown, post Daytrotter session

"Going from one riff-filled masterpiece to the next, Electric Citizen go well beyond anything that they accomplished with 2014's Sateen. The band is coming into their own, and they know it." -- Metal Injection "With songs this good, they deserve to blow up." -- Consequence of Sound Electric Citizen continue their relentless tour schedule this month in support of their groundbreaking sophomore album Higher Time. The Cincinnati quartet hits the road mid-February supporting British rock legend The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (a.k.a. The God of Hellfire). Please see complete dates below.  Daytrotter releases a new Electric Citizen live session this week, available HERE. And, guitarist Ross Dolan sits down with PlayThisRiff to demonstrate how to play the band's "Light Years Beyond" guitar riffs HERE.  Electric Citizen's recent album was recorded at Black Keys' frontman Dan Auerbach's studio Easy Eye Sound with producer Brian Olive (The Arcs, Dr. John). It was released on May 13th, 2016.  Electric Citizen is a rock n roll band from Cincinnati, Ohio whose heavy sound is timeless and music to the ears of any rock n roll fan. Formed in 2013 by guitarist Ross Dolan, vocalist Laura Dolan, bassist Randy Proctor and drummer Nate Wagner, the band has busied itself with turning heads and ears on to their music. Since signing with RidingEasy Records in early 2014, they've done several direct support tours with Wolfmother, Fu Manchu, and Budos Band. The band's debut album Sateen ended up on several 'Best of 2014' lists and Higher Time has been met with even more praise since its release. Higher Time is available on LP, CD and download via RidingEasy Records as of May 13th, 2016. ELECTRIC CITIZEN LIVE 2017: 02/10 Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Tavern 02/15 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent * 02/16 Las Vegas, NV @ Vinyl Las Vegas * 02/17 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's * 02/18 Portland, OR @ Star Theater * 02/21 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's *  02/23 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge * * w/ The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Artist: Electric Citizen Album: Higher Time Label: RidingEasy Records Release Date: May 13th, 2016 01. Evil 02. Social Phobia 03. Misery Keeper 04. Devils in Passing Time 05. Golden Mean 06. Higher Time 07. Ghost of Me 08. Natural Law 09. Crux 10. Two Hearted Woman On The Web: www.electriccitizenband.com www.facebook.com/ElectricCitizen electriccitizenband.bandcamp.com twitter.com/electriccitizN