ATX punks MoonKill play album release party 6/21, debut album out now

“Moonkill live somewhere in the world of darkened punk realms where all things Danzig are held sacred…There's something in the band that feels very much like you're driving West on I-10 in an old Cadillac with your hair blowing from beneath your cowboy hat...basically Danzig fronting Clutch.” — Austin Town Hall

"Everything you could possibly want from the darker side of punk." -- New Noise Magazine

"A cocktail of punk, hardcore and space rock making their own quintessential noise combo.” – Punktuation

Austin band MoonKill play a hometown album release party to celebrate the release of their full length debut album. Hear/share the 10-song MoonKill album on Bandcamp and all DSPs. 

The album release show:

June 21st at The Far Out Lounge. Doors at 7pm. Tickets/info HERE.

MoonKill plays untethered Texas Punk. Inserting ambient spacey sounds & new-wave tension into a punk world that is difficult to pin down. 

MoonKill materialized in a T-shirt factory, which doubled as an after-hours practice space, in Austin, TX. The quartet all connected for a random jam session in May 2022. The drummer was the lynchpin in a network of friends, which included a guitarist who lived in a trailer in his driveway at the time. The first session produced their initial song “Long Line to Hell'' and they have been growing their queue of Texas Punk songs ever since. 

The band self-produced a 3 song EP, The Kong Sessions, in the loft of their friend’s screen-printing shop. After presenting it to producer/engineer Roky Moon (of American Sharks), he offered to produce their debut album, which was completed in February 2024. They played their first live show in Sept. 2023, to a packed house, and began a relentless live show schedule.

Since then, others have taken notice, including their growing fan base in and around Austin. Their EP gained notice from music critics, including Greg Kot, (Chicago Tribune) who featured “Dead Holiday” on his syndicated show, Sound Opinions.

MoonKill will be available to stream & download on May 24th. Order/save HERE.  

MOONKILL LIVE 2024:

07/11 Austin, TX - Carousel Lounge

07/28 Austin, TX - ABGB

Artist: MoonKill

Album: MoonKill

Label: self-released 

Release Date: May 24th, 2024

01. Dead Holiday

02. Ranger Danger, Pt. 1

03. Ranger Danger, Pt. 2

04. Chainsaw Bathroom Sex

05. Murderhouse

06. Full Stop

07. Ghost Town

08. Long Line to Hell

09. Rabbit’s Foot

10. Friend or Foe

On The Web:

linktr.ee/moonkillband

moonkill.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/moonkillband

LORD BUFFALO share "Cracks in the Vermeer" single, announce July tour dates

“Known for their atmospheric spin on folk-rock, at times sounding like the Anthology of American Folk Music beamed from outer space.” — NPR Music

“A dusky, moody, roots-quaking disc of tension and release.” — Austin Chronicle

“Reimagines Wovenhand as fronted by Nick Cave… Grim, grey, thoroughly American gothic. Violins and violence.” — The Obelisk

“A magnificent murmuration of mournful mood and murk from the mid-Texan old masters.” – Echoes & Dust

“Lord Buffalo masterfully mixes straightforward, stoner-tinged rock with more violin-driven post-rock tones into one beautifully captivating sound that everyone should be familiar with.” — Metal Injection

Austin heavy psychedelic-Americana band Lord Buffalo release a new single today, "Cracks in the Vermeer" from their forthcoming album Holus Bolus. The track premiered via Echoes & Dust in the UK/EU HERE and Glide Magazine in North America HERE. Now available on all DSPs HERE.

Metal Injection previously launched the title track and official video for "Holus Bolus" HERE. (Direct YouTube.) The Obelisk recently shared the video for "I Wait on the Door Slab" alongside an insightful album review HERE. Direct YouTube.)

Lord Buffalo is heavy in the way that ghosts are heavy… in the way that billowing dust is heavy. 

That is to say, the Austin, TX Psych-Americana band’s music impacts hard, though it seems impossible to touch. Their sound flows through us, it doesn’t invite the Pavlovian response of typical heavy rock music. 

Perhaps it’s fitting then that their new album Holus Bolus takes its name from an antiquated term meaning “all at once.” It materializes instantly from the first notes of the opening title track, like a dark grey haze drawing listeners in with the band’s deft juxtapositions of droning violin, guitars, drums and vocals. It draws equally from Morricone and Badalementi as from Sabbath and Swans. 

While the quartet trudges the same murky waters as dark emotive brethren David Eugene Edwards/Woven Hand, Chelsea Wolfe, Emma Ruth Rundle, Earth/Dylan Carlson, Echo & The Bunnymen, Nick Cave, etc., their creative interplay of Middle Eastern influence with a distinctly Western feel takes listeners in entirely new directions as the album envelops them. 

Lord Buffalo is Daniel Pruitt (guitar, bass, piano, vocals, melodica), Garrett Hellman (guitar, sub-bass, piano, synths), Patrick Patterson (violin), and Yamal Said (drums, percussion). Holus Bolus was recorded by Danny Reisch and Max Lorenzen at Good Danny's in Lockhart, TX. Mixed by Danny Reisch. Mastered by Max Lorenzen.

“While the making of this record feels a bit like a sleep-deprived hallucination to me,” Pruitt says. “Listening to it now, I find it strangely hopeful — there's a kind of release that you hit in exhaustion. I think the record knew what it was after, even if we didn’t. It felt very much like the record just appeared one day, holus bolus.”

Holus Bolus will be available worldwide on vinyl, CD, and digital via Blues Funeral Recordings on July 12, 2024. Pre-order HERE. 

LORD BUFFALO LIVE 2024:

7.11 Austin, TX - The 13th Floor (record release show)

7.19 Tulsa, OK - Mercury Lounge

7.20 OKC, OK - Blue Note

7.24 Phoenix, AZ - Rips Bar

7.26 Imperial, CA - Saltcedar BBQ 

7.27 Los Angeles, CA - Redwood Bar 

7.28 San Pedro, CA - The Sardine  

7.30 Spring Valley, CA - The Bancroft Bar 

7.31 Las Vegas, NV - The Usual Place

8.01 Palmdale, CA - Transplants Brewing Co.

8.03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom Of The Hill

8.06 Portland, OR - Dante's

8.07 Yakima, WA - Bearded Monkey

8.08 Boise, ID - Shrine Social Club

8.11 Denver, CO - Skylark Lounge

Artist: Lord Buffalo

Album: Holus Bolus

Label: Blues Funeral Recordings

Release Date: July 12, 2024

01. Holus Bolus

02. Slow Drug

03. Passing Joy 

04. Malpaisano

05. I Wait on the Door Slab

06. Cracks in the Vermeer

07. Rowing in Eden

Sharif Dumani shares 1st track from LP feat. Kevin Rutmanis, Imaad Wasif (YYYs), Stephen McBean (Black Mountain), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks)

 

L.A. songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sharif Dumani shares the first single today from his forthcoming debut solo album In Search of Memory. Hear/share the track "Tight Lipped" on all DSPs and Bandcamp.

Sharif Dumani is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.

Sharif started in punk bands during the late 90’s. There have been myriad projects since then and he’s currently fronting the guitar-pop group Exploding Flowers, playing guitar for first-wave L.A. punk artist Alice Bag and now embarking on a solo career. This batch of songs is the debut of his first solo outing. 21 songs of noisy guitar pop embedded with floating melodies and assaulting hooks. The album was self-recorded to tape on a Tascam 388 ¼" reel-to-reel machine.

A number of guests contribute to the album, including Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk, Hepa-Titus), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Joe Strummer, Weirdos), Imaad Wasif (Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Folk Implosion, Lowercase), Nick Murray (White Fence, Thee Oh Sees), Stephen McBean (Black Mountain, Pink Mountaintops), Sophia Knapp (Lights), and Cory Lomberg. Mastered at Chicago Mastering Service by Matthew Barnhart (Bob Mould, Superchunk, Metz, Pissed Jeans). Album artwork by artist/musician Jill Emery (Hole, Mazzy Star, Super Heroines).

Sharif has collaborated with a wide range of projects both recording and performing with groups and artists such as Sex Stains, Jowe Head (Swell Maps/Television Personalities), Nikki Sudden, The Moon Upstairs, Cody Chesnutt, Nick Garrie, and Classics of Love (ex-Operation Ivy). This is his debut solo release, In Search Of Memory.

In Search of Memory will be available on vinyl via Broken Clover Records on August 15, 2024. Pre-order HERE. 

Artist: Sharif Dumani

Album: In Search of Memory

Label: Broken Clover Records

Release Date: August 15, 2024

Side A

1. Cool As Night [1:11]

2. Another A**hole [1:20]

3. Tight Lipped [2:30]

4. Torrential Downpour [3:06]

5. Mercy [1:22)

6. Cheerleaders And Chocolate Cake [0:51]

7. The Drowning Thought [2:52]

8. Somewhere In The Abstract [1:17]

9. There’s An Easier Way [2:18]

10. All We Are [3:07]

Side B

1. Points Of Contention [2:14]

2. Gentrifashionable [2:24]

3. Home [2:55]

4. Steel Tin Roof [1:24]

5. As Far Out As We Can See [2:19]

6. In Texas [2:30]

7. Invisible Economy [1:37]

8. Statues [1:57]

9. Vanishing Acts [3:04]

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brokencloverrecords.bandcamp.com