Friday, May 6, 2016

RidingEasy Records news: May 'Potcast', Brown Acid: The Second Trip, Electric Citizen, Slow Season, Salem's Pot albums and lots of tours...

Listen to RidingEasy Potcast - Number 5 (Soundcloud) (Mixcloud)


Southern California label RidingEasy Records has a lot afoot, as usual, so here's a quick rundown 
of all the current and upcoming action:

1) The fifth edition of the RidingEasy Potcast is out now, featuring DJ Bonghits playing 2 hours of rock 'n' roll, psych, doom and pure bliss. Featuring sneak peaks at new signings and upcoming releases. Check out the full playlist and stream or download via Soundcloud or Mixcloud. 

2) Brown Acid: The Second Trip: The second installment in the ongoing compilation series of rare 60s-70s proto-metal singles just hit the streets, fittingly, on April 20th... and the world still hasn't come down off it. Dangerous Minds hosted the full album stream, dance/DJ trendsetter mag Wax Poetics launched Iron Knowledge's long-lost infectious detuned bass warble motif that sampling DJs would kill for HERE. Consequence of Sound dropped the first tab: Ash's "Midnight Witch". 

Watch/share the brand new video for Brown Acid's Spiny Norman, whose "Bell Park Loon" had never even been released until now: YouTube. 

3) Electric Citizen release their anticipated sophomore album Higher Time next Friday... the 13th! The Cincinnati quartet is currently on the road throughout the UK & EU supporting Wolfmother. Listen to three new tracks via Soundcloud. 

4) Slow Season just announced their barnstorming (literally... it was recorded on a farm in their central California home) third album via Consequence of Sound. Just one listen to the lead track from the forthcoming Westing (out July 8th) and you'll know why everyone's going crazy over "Y'Wanna". 

5) Salem's Pot recently announced their forthcoming album -- a hazy fever dream of dark, thrilling excess. It's equal parts of The Cramps' Psychedelic Jungle, Pentagram's Relentless, Roky Erickson's The Evil One and The Stooges Raw Power, as much heirs to Deep Purple as Dead Moon... metal, garage punk, acid rock and a belladonna trip gone wrong. Hear/share "Just For Kicks". 


And, coming this summer and beyond, more mind-blowing new releases from bands both familiar and new... Please get in touch for more information, interviews, guest list requests and anything else you might need. 

ON TOUR:

MONDO DRAG:
08/26 - 28 Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas

ELECTRIC CITIZEN:
05/06 Djurgarden, SWE @ Gruna Lund *
05/08 Milan, IT @ Alcatraz *
05/09 Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus *
05/10 Munich, GER @ Kesselhaus *
05/11 Wien, AT @ Arena *
05/13 Barcelona, ES @ Apolo 1 *

* w/ Wolfmother 

SLOW SEASON:
05/18 Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon
05/19 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
05/20 Oakland, CA @ The Golden Bull Bar
05/24 Portland, OR @ The Liquor Store Bar
05/25 Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
05/27 Boise, ID @ Shredders
05/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
05/31 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
06/01 Indianapolis, IN @ Bent Rail Brewing
06/02 Cleveland, OH @ Stone Tavern
06/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Gooski's
06/04 Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
06/07 Columbus, OH @ Rumba Room
06/10 Memphis, TN @ Buccaneer Lounge 
06/11 Hattiesburg, MS @ The Tavern
06/13 Shreveport, LA @ Bears
06/14 Texarkana, TX @ Arrow Bar
06/16 Oklahoma City, OK @ Blue Note
06/18 Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas
06/22 Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Taproom

MONOLORD:
05/06 Stuttgart, DE @ Keller Club
05/07 Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse
05/08 Prague, CZ @ Klub 007
05/09 Vienna, AT @ DasBACH
05/10 Budapest, HU @ Durer Kurt
05/12 Zagreb, HR @ AKC Attack
05/13 Arbitrano Santa Maria, IT @ Officina Degli Angeli
05/14 Milan, IT @ Lo-Fi Club
05/15 Bouc Bel Air, FR @ Le Korigan
05/16 Paris, FR @ Doomed Gatherings Festival
05/17 Koln, DE @ MTC Club
05/18 Gothenburg, SE @ Truckstop Alaska
05/28 Netphen, DE @ Freak Valley Festival
07/09 Nikolsdorf, AT @ Stick & Stone Fest
07/23 Tromso, NO @ Bukta Open Air Festival 


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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Årabrot premiere video from new album via Brooklyn Vegan, U.S. tour starts next week

Watch/share "The Gospel" video (YouTube) 


"Årabrot have always been both weird and heavy, with the ratio varying from album to album. On The Gospel, they're at their weirdest and best" -- The Wire

"A stunning return from an artist worth believing in" - 9/10 -- Terrorizer


Norwegian Grammy Award winning genre-defying band Arabrot premiere a video for the title track of their new album today via Brooklyn Vegan. Watch and share "The Gospel" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Arabrot kick off U.S. headlining tour dates next Wednesday, May 11th. Please see complete dates below. 

These are the first North American dates supporting Arabrot's latest album The Gospel, released February 2016. Stream the full album via Bandcamp or Soundcloud. 

After having recovered from throat cancer last year, singer Kjetil Nernes performs better than ever, exemplified on recent European tours. The Gospel was recorded partly with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago and partly in the old church in the woods of Dalarna, Sweden where the singer lives and runs his studio these days. The album features guest appearances by Ted Parsons (Swans, Godflesh), Stephen O'Malley of Sunn0))) and Andrew Liles (Current 93/Nurse With Wound) among others. 

The Gospel is a collection of the music and lyrics written by Nernes while undergoing cancer surgery, treament and recovery. 

During their 12 years of existence, Arabrot has managed to upset people in every possible way. From the get go in Haugesund Norway, where it all started, they've been provoking people with controversial artwork and unusual press shots. The singer's voice was described, "sounds like someone who just escaped a mental institution." They have grown from there and have become something of a cult band with hard core fans all over the world.

They've never done anything the usual way, but still Arabrot won the Grammy for best metal album in 2012. Not bad for an rock band in Norway, a country with one of the most interesting metal scenes in the world.

Since then they've toured rock clubs in Scandinavia, Europe and the U.S. But they've also composed music for silent movies like Die Niebelungen and Doctor Caligari. They've teamed up with The Quietus-founder John Doran on his spoken word tour. They've blown whole art galleries away with their brutal, yet sophisticated sound. And after six full length albums and 6 EPs, the band continues to grow.


ARABROT U.S. TOUR 2016:
05/11 Seattle, WA @ The Highline *
05/12 Vancouver, B.C. @ The Media Club * 
05/13 Tacoma, WA @ The Valley *
05/14 Portland, OR @ Panic Room *
05/17 Sacramento, CA @ Starlite Lounge * 
05/18 Oakland, CA @ Golden Bull * 
05/19 Los Angeles, CA @ The Complex *
05/20 Tucson, AZ @ Exploded View Gallery
05/21 El Paso, TX @ The Sandbox
05/22 Austin, TX @ Sidewinder
05/23 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger


* w/ Helen Money, Insect Ark



Artist: Årabrot
Album: The Gospel 
Label: Fysisk Format 
Release Date: February 26th, 2016

01. The Gospel
02. I Run
03. Tall Man
04. Faustus
05. Ah Feel
06. And The Whore is This City
07. I Am the Sun
08. Darkest Day
09. Rebekka (Tragoedie)


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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ghost Against Ghost share new track "Resume" from upcoming 'still love' LP

"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 a new track from the forthcoming epic album still love today via AllMusic. The track, "Resume" is available to hear and share HERE. (Direct Soundcloud HERE.)

Stereogum premiered the lead track from the previous release Unarm EP recently, listen to "Unarm" HERE. 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. 

Ghost Against Ghost is fronted by composer and producer Christopher Bono, with musical contributions by guitarist Anthony Molina (Mercury Rev) and drummer Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta, Trash Talk) and various other musicians. 

Resume is the third release from the upcoming still love LP. This epic 9-minute gothic shoegaze track moves from vast sci-fi fields of Vangelis-like distorted synth textures, to downtempo verses driven by Pridgen's heavy grooves and Bono's contemplative lyrics. The vocal passage peaks in a dense choir of interweaving female and male vocals that transitions into a massive, slow and heavy sound wall over a Black Sabbath inspired groove. This somehow delivers the listener into an uptempo, psycho-circus disco-electronica section that strangely blends mid-70's Pink Floyd dance grooves with beautifully wild, classical sounding lines to create a sort of vintage sonic futurism.

Lyrically, Bono continues the gender reversal technique of the still love releases where the words are sung from a female perspective and examines the river of difficult emotions that surround a divorce. In Resume, rhetorical questions are continuously asked to the leaving lover about the boundaries of their love, and where perhaps, on a more cosmic level, it may begin again. 

For full biography on Ghost Against Ghost and Christopher Bono, please CLICK HERE.


Artist: Ghost Against Ghost
Album: Resume EP
Label: Our Silent Canvas
Release Date: May 3rd, 2016

01. Resume (STREAM)







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Friday, April 29, 2016

Us Lights change name to KING WHO with new EP, launch European tour next week 


"Inspired by dream pop and post-punk outfits from the ’80s, such as Echo and the Bunnymen and The Church, mixed with a modern sensibility a la Deerhunter’s more ethereal moments." -- TrebleZine

"Michael Young’s vocals for King Who are breathtaking. As rich as Rufus Wainwright, his tone soars over beautiful, classic synth melodies. This five piece produce an incredibly dynamic tease of clean emotive pop. I defy you to not be blown away." -- The Deli Magazine


Portland, OR quintet King Who (formerly known as Us Lights) share the title track from their forthcoming Body EP today. The intoxicating 4-song EP is packed with beautiful, soaring melodies and powerful musicianship, driven by the silky and emotive vocals of frontman Michael Young. Hear and share "Body" via Soundcloud. 

King Who recently joined the growing SELF Group label roster, releasing their debut Us Lights on LP and download in March 2016 (full album stream), while announcing the forthcoming Body EP out on May 6th in conjunction with a European tour. Prior to that trek, the band plays a hometown tour kickoff tonight. Please see current dates below. 

King Who uses synth-driven soundscapes, soaring tonal vocals, crisp guitar lines, and a steadfast rhythm section to create a sonically moving and unique brand of dark adventurous pop. 

King Who's Us Lights is available on LP and download via SELF Group. The Body EP will be available digitally on May 6th. 


KING WHO LIVE:
04/29 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar
05/07 Vienna, AT @ TBA
05/12 Giessen, DE @ Muk
05/14 Offenbach, DE @ Hafen 2
05/16 Prague, CZ @ Roxy
05/17 Dresden, DE @ OstPol
05/19 Nyon, CH @ La Parenthese
05/20 Basel, CH @ Podium
05/21 Stuttgart, DE @ Cafe Galao
05/25 Vienna, AT @ Rhiz
05/26 Chemnitz, DE @ Aaltra
05/27 Rosenheim, DE @ Atra Club
05/28 Brno, CZ @ Kabinet MUZ
05/30 Klagenfurt, AT @ Leidhaben Cafe
06/02 Zagreb, HR @ Spunk
06/03 Zabok, HR @ Zelena Dvorana
06/04 Osijek, HR @ Club Exit
06/06 Vienna, AT @ Fluc


Artist: King Who
Album: Body EP
Label: Self Group
Release Date: May 6th, 2016

01. Body (STREAM)
02. Rome
03. Control
04.Legs


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Friday, April 22, 2016

The Infinite Three share new album - UK band channels early Killing Joke, 90s SWANS, Cop Shoot Cop, heavy post-punk drone brilliance


"While metal is only one component of the trio’s sound, their dissonant, angular rock music is psychedelic, droning, and hypnotic." -- Metal Insider

"Blixa Bargeld backward-masking Horse Rotovator on an old gramophone... 5.5 out of 5!" -- Zero Tolerance Magazine


London, England trio The Infinite Three are streaming their third full length Lucky Beast today, following a trio of premieres this week. The album continues to develop the band's infectious and powerful hybrid of post-punk, drone and proto-industrial rock hearkening to early Killing Joke, 90s-era SWANS, Cop Shoot Cop, NIN, et al. 

Metal Insider launched the first single, "Dawn Accelerator" HERE. New Noise Magazine shared album opening mantra-like stomper Hydrogen" HERE. Spill Magazine premiered the epic album closer "Partisans" HERE. Hear and share the entire album Soundcloud HERE. 

The Infinite Three are Daniel Knowler, Paul Middleton and Samuel Mclaughlin. Taking cues from noise-rock, dub, drone and post-punk, their songs are warped constructions grounded in repetition and soaked in monochrome psychedelia.

Lucky Beast is The Infinite Three's third studio album (their fourth counting the fan-only Zeklof release from 2015).  Recorded with engineer Jon Clayton, whose past credits include Band of Holy Joy and The Monochrome Set, Lucky Beast continues The Infinite Three's dissonant take on art-rock.  A luminescent egg emerging from the banks of The River Effra. 

Paul Middleton and Daniel Knowler are both alumni of noise pioneers Cindytalk; Paul was also part of Kevin Martin's industrial-jazz heavyweights GOD; Sam McLaughlin has recorded extensively with poet and artist Gerry Mitchell. Daniel Knowler has worked on the MFOTWU project with performance artist Franko B. As The Infinite Three, they have worked with celebrated improvising saxophonist Tom Jackson, London based producer Den Liberator and recently supported psych-noise legends The Telescopes in England.


Lucky Beast is available on CD, cassette and download on April 22nd via Actual Size Music.


Artist: The Infinite Three
Album: Lucky Beast
Label: Actual Size Music
Release Date: April 22nd, 2016

01) Hydrogen
02) Dawn Accelerator
03) Like Moss
04) Holding Hungry Names
05) Lucky Beast
06) Healer
07) Emission
08) Partisans

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Ben Cissner (ex-Tiny Vipers, Windsor for the Derby, VietNam) streaming full forthcoming solo debut via AllMusic, tour starts in May


"A blend of songs that are sometimes weary and knowing with tunes that bounce and crackle with energy, Cissner isn't painting with just one brush. An engaging, thoroughly melodic experience." -- AllMusic

Austin, TX songwriter Benjamin Cissner (ex-Tiny Vipers, Windsor For The Derby, VietNam) is streaming his entire forthcoming solo debut Birds in the Night ahead of release via AllMusic.com. Hear and share the full album HERE. (Direct Soundcloud).

In an extensive interview about his career, songwriting and quantum mechanics with AXS.com, Cissner previously shared lead single, "Follow You Down" HERE.

Ben Cissner hits the road in May, some shows with Scott Yoder (formerly of The Pharmacy). Please see current dates below, more to come. 

Birds in the Night is the debut album by Benjamin Cissner, an artist out of Austin, TX. He has previously been a member of Trance Syndicate/Secretly Canadian band Windsor for the Derby, and recorded and toured with Sub Pop artist Tiny Vipers. 

The album is literate, dark'n'dusty Americana with a bit of noise and nods to Nilsson, Cohen, Cave, Elliott Smith, Townes, Gira, Richard Thompson, Hazlewood and the like. It was recorded and co-produced by Matthew Melton (Bare Wires, Warm Soda) at his Fuzz City studio in Austin. 

Birds In The Night will be available on LP and download on April 22nd, 2016. 


BEN CISSNER LIVE:
04/23 Austin, TX @ Safehouse Session
04/25 Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas
05/04 El Paso, TX @ TBA
05/07 Los Angeles, CA @ The Redwood
05/13 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
05/14 Olympia, WA @ TBA w/ Scott Yoder
05/15 Tacoma, WA @ TBA w/ Scott Yoder
05/17 Boise, ID @ (house show)
05/18 Salt Lake City, UT @ (house show)
05/21 Kansas City, MO @ Cowtown
05/22 Wichita, KS @ Kirby's


Artist: Benjamin Cissner
Album: Birds in the Night
Label: Ben Cissner Music
Release Date: April 22nd, 2016

01) Division
02) Fifty / One Fifty
03) Hybris
04) Chippy's Lament
05) Flood
06) Nothing To Do But Wait
07) Follow You Down (STREAM)
08) Bad Mark
09) Alms
10) Ghost / Miami
11) Ballad of a Prawn










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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Slow Season premiere first single from forthcoming album via Consequence of Sound, announce May-June tour


"The album’s fantastic, Jane’s Addiction-esque lead cut 'Y’wanna' signals new growth for Slow Season both as songwriters and recordists and these are by far their finest songs to date." -- Consequence of Sound 

Central California quartet Slow Season premiere the first track from their forthcoming new album, Westing today via Consequence of Sound. The explosive single, "Y'Wanna" is available to hear and share HERE. (Direct Soundcloud). 

Slow Season hits the road yet again in May - June leading up to the album release. Please see current dates below. 

Contrary to the band’s name, downtime is a rarity for Slow Season. Sandwiched between summer 2015’s extensive tour with their RidingEasy labelmates Mondo Drag and Electric Citizen, plus several short west coast jaunts, the hard-working quartet also found time to hammer out its most powerful and ambitious album yet. Written, engineered, produced and mixed themselves on their own equipment, entirely on analog tape, Westing is a hard-hitting and powerful reminder of how at one time a rock ’n’ roll band could be a transcendent experience.

While Slow Season’s sound continues to effortlessly nod to the great bands of the 60s-70s, Westing is truly the sound of a band coming into their own. The songwriting is tight, howling and hypnotic. The sound is classic, yet refreshingly new. 

“It's a different album,” says drummer and primary recording engineer Cody Tarbell. “But we never have wanted to find a particular sound or any one thing and be attached to it permanently. A big part of our records is experimenting.” The Visalia, CA band -- Daniel Rice (vocals, guitar), David Kent (guitar), Hayden Doyel (bass), and Cody Tarbell (drums) --  has recorded all of their albums on reel-to-reel at Tarbell's home studio in a cornfield. This affords them the time to experiment getting sounds, while maintaining focus on the most important notion that performance is key. As with previous albums, recording was pretty immediate, tracked between January 15th and the beginning of February 2016 to 16-track tape and mixed to 2-track tape. 

Equally as ambitious as the band’s self-sufficient production is the sprawling lyrical theme to the album.  Thematically picking up where the Slow Season’s previous full length Mountains left off, Westing tackles some heady issues.

“Westing follows a loose narrative about our nation's loss of innocence as it explores its frontiers,” vocalist Daniel Rice explains. “Re-contextualized in a story about an unnamed protagonist faced with choosing between different ideological allegiances and his own social identity.” From song to song, the album follows what Rice explains as, “the unholy trinity of greed+power+violence, the injustice wrought from this, persisting in willful ignorance, and reaping what is sown.” A deep conceptual arc, for sure, and one that adds further weight to the Slow Season’s intensity. 

Album opener “Y’Wanna” erupts from the speakers as if the band couldn’t even wait for the tape to start recording. it’s a full-throttle rocker reminiscent of Zep’s “Immigrant Song” with sly reference to “Four Sticks”, all groove and pummel. “Flag” keeps things rolling along with its bouncing, stop-n-go guitar riff. The 6/8-time blues sway of “The Jackal” echoes early Sabbath malefic boogie, while “Saurekonig” is a cavernous and volcanic mass driven by huge drums, ringing slide guitar and ominous drone. “Damascus” is a rollicking anthem driven by Tarbell’s syncopated hi-hat/snare interplay and Rice’s explosive wail proving just how much of a dynamic powerhouse Slow Season has become. Throughout, Westing is a smart and snarling rocker that sounds like rock ’n’ roll records should: massive, infectious and inviting repeat listens.

Westing will be available on LP, CD and download via RidingEasy Records on July 8th, 2016. Pre-orders include a free immediate download of the first single and are available HERE. 


SLOW SEASON LIVE:
05/18 Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon
05/19 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
05/20 Oakland, CA @ The Golden Bull Bar
05/21 Grants Pass, OR @ G Street Bar & Grill
05/24 Portland, OR @ The Liquor Store Bar
05/25 Seattle, WA @ Funhouse
05/27 Boise, ID @ The Shredder
05/28 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
05/29 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
05/30 Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
05/31 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
06/01 Indianapolis, IN @ Bent Rail Brewing
06/02 Kent, OH @ Stone Tavern
06/03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Gooski’s
06/04 Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
06/06 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
06/07 Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe
06/08 Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Yacht Club
06/09 Nashville, TN @ FooBAR
06/10 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone *
06/11 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia *
06/12 Hattiesburg, MS @ The Tavern *
06/13 Shreveport, LA @ Bears *
06/14 Texarkana, TX @ Arrow Bar *
06/16 Oklahoma City, OK @ Blue Note *
06/17 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves 
06/18 Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas
06/19 San Antonio, TX @ The Mix
06/22 Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Taproom
06/23 San Diego, CA @ The Merrow

*w/ Dirty Streets

Artist: Slow Season
Album: Westing
Label: RidingEasy Records
Release Date: July 8th, 2016

01. Y'Wanna (STREAM)
02. Flag
03. Big City Livin' 
04. The Jackal
05. Saurekonig
06. Damascus
07. Miranda
08. Manifest
09. Rainmaker












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