Experimental post-punkers Table Manners are very much in the minimalist Prinzhorn Dance School vein, with an authentic early 80s feel despite having only formed a year ago. Always impressive live, they’ve recorded a fantastic set of tracks and released it all as a free download album! Click on the picture above for the Rapidshare link.
Write Record Release, run by the band members themselves, is a burgeoning club night happening monthly at The George Tavern. With the likes of Dignan Porch, Micron 63, Islington Boys Club, and Cotton Club coming up, it’s well worth a night out. The next night is on 26th Feb, and hit read more for full lineups and dates for the next couple months.
Also, we’ve picked a personal fave track from the download album below, as a taster. ‘Sharp 1200′ kicks the collection off with a compelling sample before the ominous drum line leads into this fantastic cold drone track. “Midnight has never been so sharp”, indeed. Grab it below and if you like it, grab the full album via Rapidshare.
London club Brave Exhibitions have compiled their second Podcast, nicely available for free download here.
Tracklisting:
“Frustre” Spotch Forcey
“Swastika Sally” No Kisses
“Communist Control” German Shepherds
“Quiet Room” Les Provisoires
“Tragic Figures” Savage Republic
“Fuer Den Untergang” Einsturzende Neubauten
“Herpes Simplex” Rosa Yemen
“The Rope” Clair Obscur
If you wish to hear such sounds in person, their next event will be held at the Old Blue Last tomorrow night (the 12th). Live sets from Advert and Constantinoplex, as well as resident DJs.
A fair bunch of releases that may well interest you’s this week – and a few from last week which we shamefully missed. New stuff from Hatcham Social, Dananananaykroyd, Underground Railroad, BLK JKS, This Town Needs Guns + a few more very interesting bits & pieces.
Here’s an exciting new band we’re following – thought we’d share a great opportunity to grab yourselves a quality free download too. The esteemed Trevor Jackson has produced this excellent track – check the video above and download here if you like. It’s got a real Gramme-esque backing, funky driving bass and rhythm – nothing wrong with that at all! We’re excited to hear more – give them a listen at their MySpace.
Physical releases from Offset Fest faves Kasms and Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man, as well as awesome stuff from These Are Powers, Disconcerts, Dan Deacon, Tilly & The Wall, Asobi Seksu + much much more.
This great compilation doesn’t come out til next week, but you can have a sneaky listen to a few tracks right here, and there’ll be a new track from the comp on their MySpace every day until release. All the 31 tracks are exclusives, and it’s curated by The National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner to benefit AIDS charity Red Hot. Full cover art and tracklisting (including the dates each track will be premièred on MySpace) are all here, and to preorder the 2CD or 3LP set go there.
Video: Times New Viking – Call and Respond (live on A>D>D)
Some lo-fi treats for you – check out the new A>D>D session from Times New Viking, recorded on VHS cameras, and then grab a very generous Matador Records sampler featuring Fucked Up, Jay Reatard, Shearwater, Pavement (and including that very track above) and more vids after the jump…
Fanfarlo have completed their long-awaited debut album, ‘Reservoir’, and it’s being intially self-released, which means starting from the Valentine’s Massacre gig on Feb 14th, it can be all yours. They’ve kindly dropped a brand new mp3 from the album for people to get their ears around – it’s a great track and you can grab it after the jump and check out the upcoming tour dates where you can buy the album! Sadly, guitarist/keyboardist/singer Mark left the band just before Christmas – check out his new projects here.
The Black Lips found themselves in the centre of a bizarre getaway after a drunken crowd-baiting set in Chennai. After judging a ‘Battle of the metal bands’ competition for 6 hours, with only whisky for company, they wound up playing a frenetic session involving cursing, mooning and crowd incitement – all of which didn’t go down too well with tour managers and suits. Having to liberate their passports and take a 10 hour road trip to avoid shithole jail cells, they’re now safely holed up with King Khan in Berlin, from where the drummer Joe Bradley spoke to Vice.
Vice Records themselves are dropping the new album ‘200 Million Thousand’ on Feb 24th, and there’s a lovely taster mp3 for you right here. There’s also a chance to make your own video for the track ‘Starting Over’ – go here for details. Also check out the brainfuck cover art and UK tour dates after the jump.
This one kind of passed us by on the recommended releases, but it’s interesting enough to check out. Glasgow’s The Phantom Band are having their debut album, Checkmate Savage, released today by Chemikal Underground, and reviews are rather complimentary: “Were they from Brooklyn rather than Glasgow, Checkmate Savage would already have been acclaimed as a benchmark album for 2009.” THE GUARDIAN [4/5]. Anyway, there’s a newfangled widget system below for you to decide for yourselves, and a list of upcoming tour dates below that…
Experimental post-punkers Table Manners are very much in the minimalist Prinzhorn Dance School vein, with an authentic early 80s feel despite having only formed a year ago. Always impressive live, they’ve recorded a fantastic set of tracks and released it all as a free download album! Click on the picture above for the Rapidshare link.
