Wednesday, November 30, 2022

blackwinterwells to perform entire upcoming album at Boiler Room x Subculture live & livestream event, album out Friday, 12/2

"A genre tag for genre-less music." -- Vice


"Reinventing the emo genre." -- Alternative Press


"Hyperpop, digicore, SoundCloud pop – call it what you want, but blackwinterwells has been one of its key creative voices." -- The Fader



Canadian musician and producer blackwinterwells will perform the latest full length titled protector in its entirety on album release day, this Friday, December 2nd. This special performance is part of the Boiler Room x Subculture live event at Catch One in Los Angeles, which will also be live-streamed worldwide. Tickets and more information HERE


The blackwinterwells album protector will be in stores everywhere on December 2nd via Eyeball Records. Pre-orders for protector are available HERE. Eyeball Records' merch store for blackwinterwells albums, bundles and more is HERE.


Watch/share the official video for the "archangel" single via YouTube HERE


It's not uncommon to create labels for sounds and styles of music. Understanding how an album fits into a

"genre" allows listeners to safely navigate an artist’s body of work.


In the case of blackwinterwells, you'd be remiss to go by the previous headlines of "hyperpop" and electronic musical-architecture. This Hamilton, Ontario native shape-shifts the moment you think you have it all figured out.


Following the debut Eyeball release of Crystal Shards, comes protector, an ethereally nuanced collection of tracks wholly engineered and produced by blackwinterwells, and featuring a guest collaboration with 8485 on the track "paper plane." While the album infuses the electronic elements found in previous blackwinterwells releases, these compositions are built with a unique wall-of-sound noise. formed with symphonic song-writing in mind. In a world filled with artists making individual songs to capture the most plays, protector offers a refreshingly patient body of work that sounds best when absorbed as a full album.


Boiler Room is an independent music platform connecting club culture to the wider world, on screen and IRL through parties, film and video. They will be pairing-up with Subculture for this packed lineup featuring live performances from artists such as 3L3D3P, Carpetgarden, 8485 and Dana Dentata.


protector will be available on CD and download on December 2nd, 2022 via Eyeball Records.


BLACKWINTERWELLS LIVE 2022:

12/02 Los Angeles, CA - Boiler Room at Catch One







Artist: blackwinterwells

Album: protector

Record Label: Eyeball Records

Release Date: December 2nd, 2022


01. archangel

02. gutter

03. the silver gate

04. metallurgy

05. kyphosis

06. valiance

07. for yanny

08. your tattered wings

08. paper plane

09. springloader

10. fabled protector











On The Web:

instagram.com/blackwinterwells 

twitter.com/blackwntrwells 

open.spotify.com/artist/4tF39UYlbBLqTo5JK3qX1u 

tiktok.com/@blackwinterwells 

www.blackwinterwells.com
















Tuesday, November 22, 2022

blackwinterwells shares "archangel" video, announces forthcoming album 'protector' on Eyeball Records

 

"A genre tag for genre-less music." -- Vice


"Reinventing the emo genre." -- Alternative Press


"Hyperpop, digicore, SoundCloud pop – call it what you want, but blackwinterwells has been one of its key creative voices." -- The Fader



Canadian musician and producer blackwinterwells shares the official video for "archangel" today via the Helix Tears Collective. The song is from her forthcoming album protector on Eyeball Records. Watch/share "archangel" via YouTube HERE


Pre-orders for protector are available HERE. Eyeball Records' merch store for blackwinterwells albums, bundles and more is HERE.


It's not uncommon to create labels for sounds and styles of music. Understanding how an album fits into a

"genre" allows listeners to safely navigate an artist’s body of work.


In the case of blackwinterwells, you'd be remiss to go by the previous headlines of "hyperpop" and electronic musical-architecture. This Hamilton, Ontario native shape-shifts the moment you think you have it all figured out.


Following the debut Eyeball release of Crystal Shards, comes protector, an ethereally nuanced collection of tracks wholly engineered and produced by blackwinterwells, and featuring a guest collaboration with 8485 on the track "paper plane." While the album infuses the electronic elements found in previous blackwinterwells releases, these compositions are built with a unique wall-of-sound noise. formed with symphonic song-writing in mind. In a world filled with artists making individual songs to capture the most plays, protector offers a refreshingly patient body of work that sounds best when absorbed as a full album.


protector will be available on CD and download on December 2nd, 2022 via Eyeball Records.


BLACKWINTERWELLS LIVE 2022:

12/02 Los Angeles, CA - Boiler Room at Catch One







Artist: blackwinterwells

Album: protector

Record Label: Eyeball Records

Release Date: December 2nd, 2022


01. archangel

02. gutter

03. the silver gate

04. metallurgy

05. kyphosis

06. valiance

07. for yanny

08. your tattered wings

08. paper plane

09. springloader

10. fabled protector











On The Web:

instagram.com/blackwinterwells 

twitter.com/blackwntrwells 

open.spotify.com/artist/4tF39UYlbBLqTo5JK3qX1u 

tiktok.com/@blackwinterwells 

www.blackwinterwells.com
















Thursday, November 17, 2022

90s DIY punk reissue label Solid Brass announces previously unreleased Nuzzle LP, shares first single

 


Los Angeles label Solid Brass Records announces its second release today, sharing the lead single from the forthcoming previously unreleased album by SF band Nuzzle via New Noise Magazine. The album, No Love Like That -- The Stanford Sessions 1997 was originally recorded for short-lived Sub Pop subsidiary Die Young, Stay Pretty. These recordings became the stuff of lore for fans of 90s west coast indie music. Hear "No Más" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)


The label's three partners recently did an in-depth interview via No Echo HERE. The label founders are themselves influential members of the 90s underground scene and beyond (see below.) Solid Brass nods to great archival labels like Numero Group and Trust Records to properly resurrect key DIY records from the 90s-00s, as well as putting out new releases.


The label's first three releases are 1) the complete discography of Cleveland's 90s post-hardcore band Grain, 2) Nuzzle's No Love Like That -- The Stanford Sessions 1997 album, and 3) a new album from High Aura'd songwriter John Kolodij's reunited The Pines of Rome. All of them mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering and street in First Quarter 2023, followed by many more exciting works to be announced soon. 


About Solid Brass Records:


Solid Brass Records started in 2022 after a few friends from the 90’s DIY music scene reconnected over their shared appreciation for the community, people, and bands that influenced them 30 years prior. They decided to pool their collective knowledge and resources to start a label focused on reissuing music from that period as well as showcasing new bands similarly inspired by this scene. 

 

Jason Pearson lives in Los Angeles and runs the day-to-day operations of the label. He grew up in Richmond, VA and also lived in Cleveland and Chicago before spending 15+ years working in project management and customer operations roles for several tech companies in the SF/Bay Area.

 

Chuck Pettry lives in Los Angeles and spent the 90s and early 2000s in Oakland where he worked for Alternative Tentacles, the merchandise company Cinder Block, and ran his own label Sound On Sound. Currently he helps run Sandbag, a music merchandise company known for their work for some of the largest artists in the industry. He also plays in the metal band, Glaciers.

 

Justin Sinkovich lives in Chicago and is currently a Professor at Columbia College where he teaches students how to launch their own businesses. During the early dotcom era he co-founded, and sold, the music streaming site Epitonic. He also worked as the US label manager for Southern Records as well as Head of Digital at Touch and Go Records. In the 90s Justin played in Thumbnail and Atombombpocketknife. He currently plays in The Poison Arrows.


About Nuzzle's No Love Like That - The Stanford Sessions 1997:


Originally recorded for Die Young Stay Pretty (a short-lived Sub Pop subsidiary), these previously unreleased recordings became the stuff of lore for fans of 90s west coast indie music. Essentially a demo and precursor to Nuzzle’s 1999 LP San Lorenzo’s Blues, these tracks are raw, energetic, and representative of Nuzzle’s live shows. Newly remixed and mastered, No Love Like That: Stanford Sessions 1997, is quintessential Nuzzle at their pinnacle. 


Nuzzle began as a trio; Nate Dalton (guitar), Simon Fabela (bass) and Ricardo Reano (drums) in Rosemead, CA in 1991 before ultimately settling in Santa Cruz. In 1993 Nate’s older brother Andrew joined on guitar and switched to vocals early in 1994, solidifying their lineup.


By the mid 90s Nuzzle had already released several 45s, their Follow, For Now LP on Youth Strike Chord, and several compilation tracks. They had also completed a successful US tour with Fisticuffs Bluff, and had become staples in a loosely knit but deeply felt west coast scene anchored by Kill Rock Stars Records in Olympia and Gravity Records in San Diego. The buzz they generated helped them find their way onto bills with bands like Evergreen, Unwound, Lync, Bikini Kill, Modest Mouse, The VSS, Clikatat Ikatowi, and more. 


In 1996 Nuzzle teamed up with friend and engineer Andy Radin to record 8 new songs at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, where Radin was recording bands during graveyard shifts from 10pm to dawn. “The legend goes that these recordings were originally meant for release on a ‘big label’ and were short-sightedly passed on,” recalls George Chen from Zum Audio. 


Nuzzle never returned to the Stanford studio for a final mixing so Radin labeled his cassette copy 'Nuzzle Rough Mixes' and shelved the project while the band continued to play shows up and down the CA coast in 1997 and 1998.


Bassist Simon Fabela recounts, “We re-recorded the Stanford songs with Jeff Pinn from Zilla/Hyde Street Studios in an abandoned, supposedly haunted, half-way house in San Jose. That became San Lorenzo's Blues and was released in 1999 on Troubleman Unlimited.”


Radin and the band all agree the LP on Troubleman is strong, but these Stanford sessions capture Nuzzle as they were live; raw with more plaintive urgency in the vocals. “None of us had heard it in nearly 10 years. We actually really like the recordings since they captured what Nuzzle was like live back then,” says Simon Fabela, bassist for Nuzzle (and now Duster). “I was talking with a friend recently and she was saying that none of our recordings really captured the sound, the energy, the rawness of Nuzzle as she remembers us live. Listening to the Stanford sessions, I think these recordings came the closest,” says guitarist Nate Dalton.


No Love Like That: Stanford Sessions 1997 has been remixed by Liam Andrew Nelson, mastered by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering in Los Angeles, and will be available on LP and download in April 2023 on Solid Brass Records.



Artist: Nuzzle

Album: No Love Like That -- The Stanford Sessions 1997

Label: Solid Brass Records 

Release Date: April 2023


01. Daedalus and Us

02. No Más

03. Unbreakable You

04. Allen Says

05. We Almost Lost Del Mar

06. The Word #2

07. No Love Like That



















On The Web:

solidbrassrecords.com

instagram.com/solidbrassrecs

instagram.com/nuzzleband

nuzzleband.bandcamp.com








Tuesday, November 15, 2022

N8NOFACE drops video for "Spray (ADULT. remix)" from Bound To Let You Down (The Remixes) EP

 


"Has the short and sweet hookiness of the Ramones or the Descendents, the rigid minimalism of Suicide, the playful, gooey synths of chiptune and a splash of hip-hop delivery in the vocals, which are deceptively catchy and full of character." -- Revolver Magazine


"The number 1 contender for Electro Punk Champion of 2022! ...Imagine if Atari Teenage Riot, Wu-Tang Clan, Devo, and Joy Division decided to create a group together the outcome might sound like N8NOFACE.” — CvltNation


“The futuristic and post-apocalyptic sound he’s refined over the last decade sonically encapsulates our increasingly dystopian present. N8 bolsters walls of buzzing, ominous synths with blistering drums he’s sampled from old punk records, chopping them for minimal parts and maximum dirt.” -- SPIN Magazine


"Pulling equally from hip hop, Suicide, and shouty post-punk, and fusing it all together seamlessly." -- Brooklyn Vegan



L.A. singer N8NOFACE shares the official video for "Spray (ADULT. Remix)" today via CvltNation. The song is culled from the newly released Bound To Let You Down (The Remixes) EP on Eyeball Records. Watch/share "Spray (ADULT. Remix)" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)


The digital-only release, Bound To Let You Down (The Remixes), featuring remixes by Eyedress, ADULT., Peanut Butter Wolf and more, is also out now on all DSPs. N8NOFACE's original 2021 album Bound To Let You Down was just released for the first time on vinyl on November 4th. It's available for mail order HERE. The album is also available from Amazon and in many brick and mortar stores nationwide.


Bound To Let You Down (The Remixes) EP is a collection of tracks built from N8NOFACE’s debut Eyeball Records 2021 release Bound To Let You Down, featuring the synth-punk anthems “Spray,” “Y So Serio” and “Already Hate Your Next BF”. This new digital-only 8-song collection features tracks inspired from Bound, being reworked, retwisted, and in some cases, wholly reimagined by some of N8’s closest creative partners, including Eyedress, ADULT., Peanut Butter Wolf, Brian Spencer, Trouble Andrew and Yung F150


N8NOFACE's sound can be uniquely classified as the past, present and future heartbeat of the real L.A. A dirty melding of 80s/90s nostalgic synth-punk combined with the amalgamation of chaos heard in grimy Soundcloud rap tapes. Lyrically, his sometimes romantic, oftentimes violent storytelling tunes lean toward Narcocorrido, the bloody ballads of Mexican drug cartels. It sounds dark on the surface, but really N8NOFACE’s music is a lot of fun, and as exciting as the birth of punk rock and hiphop. 


He’s been making and posting glitchy synthpunk since the days of MySpace, when he first gained attention in chiptune duo Crimekillz. Even before the demise of that band, however, N8NOFACE was disseminating his dadaist lo-fi rants online, recording them on the cheap on his home computer setup. 


N8NOFACE has to date released 5 proper albums — Homicide (2022), Bound To Let You Down (2021), Just Here To Die (2020), Synth Up The Punks (2019) and True Story (2018) — and a slew of singles, mixtapes and collaborations, many of them with sprawling double-digit track listings. Before relocating to Long Beach, CA around a decade ago, he owned a graffiti & record store in his hometown of Tucson, AZ. It was here that he developed his vast musical taste from grimy hiphop beats to seminal aggressive synth punks The Screamers


Eyeball Records: Started in a small NYC apartment in 1995, Eyeball is best known for its history supporting genre-defining artists from the New York/New Jersey punk/hardcore scene. It was the original home for artists such as My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Number Twelve Looks Like You, H20, Murder By Death and The Casualties. Currently, the label pairs with artists who are reinventing the underground today -- artists like N8NOFACE, blackwinterwells, 3I3d3p, Carpetgarden, and BBY Goyard. 



N8NOFACE LIVE 2022:

11/19 Oakland, CA - Eli's Mile High Club







Artist: N8NOFACE

Album: Bound To Let You Down (The Remixes)

Record Label: Eyeball Records

Release Date: November 4th, 2022


01. Dead is Dead (Brian Spencer Remix)

02. Can't Take No More (Eyedress Remix)

03. Can't Take No More (N8NOFACE Remix)

04. Felt You (Yung F150 x Trouble Andrew Remix)

05. Already Hate Your Next BF (N8NOFACE Remix)

06. Boy Boy (N8NOFACE Remix)

07. Someday Maybe (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)

08. Spray (ADULT. Remix)












On The Web:

linktr.ee/n8noface

n8noface.bandcamp.com

eyeballrecords.org
















Friday, November 11, 2022

LGBTQ honky-tonk artist Secret Emchy Society's album hits streaming services today via Broken Clover Records after 6-month embargo



“Boisterous, heartfelt, and frequently tongue-in-cheek songs, her freewheeling persona belying a well-honed songcraft, including hook-infused tunes and soundscapes that integrate a wide range of country and rock sources.” — No Depression


Oakland, CA LGBTQ country music band Secret Emchy Society release their new album today on all streaming platforms via Broken Clover Records. The album was previously available exclusively on vinyl and Bandcamp, per the Bay Area label's policy. Hear and share Gold Country/Country Gold via Bandcamp HERE, Spotify, Apple Music and more. 


The Secret Emchy Society plays foot stompin' heart breakin' queer cowboy songs about good friends and hard times. Frontperson Cindy Emch uses her unique & nuanced voice to sing her deeply personal Americana music for modern times. She has previously sung, strummed, and squeezeboxed her way around the country with the bands Vagabondage, Rhubarb Whiskey, Oakland Wine Drinkers Union, and Feral


Broken Clover Records is the unique record label dedicated to biannually donating label's monthly proceeds to charity, and favoring fans who buy physical product and downloads by releasing recordings exclusively on vinyl & Bandcamp up to 6-months before the hit streaming services.


Gold Country/Country Gold is available everywhere now, November 11th, 2022 via Broken Clover Records



SECRET EMCHY SOCIETY LIVE:

11/17 San Francisco, CA - The Lost Church w/ Lilli Lewis






Artist: Secret Emchy Society

Album: Gold Country/Country Gold

Record Label: Broken Clover Records

Release Date: November 11, 2022


01. Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other

02. Think I Do

03. Live Wire

04. Another Time & PLace

05. I Wish I Was In Texas With You

06. Rye Whiskey Baby

07. Bars Are Closing

08. Birch Bones Redux

09. Oceola

10. My Old Flame

11. Something About The Moon

12. Murdered Your Bourbon








On The Web:

facebook.com/emchymusic

twitter.com/secretemchysoc1

instagram.com/secretemchysociety

youtube.com/channel/UC6G_jTLX-NoH7gbllhF8nig

tiktok.com/@secretemchysociety










Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Karma Vulture shares new single "Do The Twitch" via Metal Injection

 


"This is the kind of rock ’n’ roll that demands booze, bad decisions, and debauchery, and has you singing laments the next day." -- CvltNation


"One of those bands with a special something, full of grit and fiesty spirit." -- Doomed & Stoned


"Stacks up the riffs... If you're dying for something like Monster Magnet or old Queens of The Stone Age, then you're going to dig Karma Vulture." -- Metal Injection



Stoner rock trio Karma Vulture share a new single today via Metal Injection. The song, "Do The Twitch" is the first glimpse of the band's full length debut, set for release in early 2023. Hear and share "Do The Twitch" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp)


Watch and share the Spaghetti-Western/Horror themed video for "Better Luck Next Time" from the band's Death By Comfort EP released back in March of this year. CvltNation launched the video HERE. (Direct YouTube.) 


Karma Vulture is a desert rock power trio from Joshua Tree, now based in Nashville, consisting of singer/bassist Conor Spellane, guitarist Will Hammond, and drummer Ben Foerg. The band has a familiar yet idiosyncratic sound, blending elements of stoner rock and 90s grunge with hints of classic rock, psych and modern alternative rock for good measure. The band executes their earworm hooks and hammer-dropping riffs with equal aplomb. Or, in other words: It’s super catchy, super heavy and super dope. 


Founded in late-2018, the band hit its stride with the addition of Foerg on drums, and released its first EP with their current lineup in early 2022. Death By Comfort was recorded by Norm Block (Mark Lanegan, Brian Jonestown Massacre) in Spring 2020 just as the world was shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They finished it remotely thru the pandemic, with mixing engineer Joshua Martinez, and then used the remaining months of the lockdown to record their first full-length LP, Something Better, which drops in early 2023.


”Do the Twitch”, the first single from the LP, is a barn burning fusion of punk, surf, & heavy metal that fully encapsulates the band’s unique approach to rock music, with wildly original tones, hard hitting grooves, and distinct lyrics. The band plans to tour the U.S. in support of the album, throughout 2023 and beyond and is already hard at work on new material as well as accompanying music videos. 


KARMA VULTURE LIVE:

11/08 Nashville, TN - Drkmttr Collective 

12/01 Nashville, TN - The East Room




Artist: Karma Vulture

Album: "Do The Twitch" single

Record Label:  Bent Knee Records 

Release Date: November 08, 2022


01. Do The Twitch


On The Web:

linktr.ee/karmavulture