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Dirty Beaches

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Mastermind Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan, but he doesn’t have a home. Moving from place to place throughout his life due to a fractured family, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter sometimes felt adrift. In a recent phone interview, he described a stint selling real estate in China during his mid-twenties as “a weird displacement upon displacement.” And that same feeling can be ascribed to his music, which layers coats of lo-fi grime over tracks that sound like relics from the early days of rock ‘n’ roll. Many of his songs come off like Elvis Presley relics recorded through the wall of a skeezy motel.

Hungtai started pursuing music seriously about five years ago after moving to Montreal, and has released a few 7″ singles leading up to his debut LP, Badlands, out March 29 on Zoo Music.

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The Duke Spirit

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

The Duke Spirit are an English rock band based in London. Their sound has been seen as a melding of influences ranging from alternative guitar bands such as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Spiritualized, the tremulous rock’n'roll of bands such as The Gun Club and The Patti Smith Group, to distinctive rhythmic ‘Atlantic soul’ and Motown influences.

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Iceage

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Iceage is a punk rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. Signed to Tambourhinoceros in Denmark and Dais Records in the USA. They were then noticed (and picked up by)What’s Your Rupture? Records for international release, their debut album New Brigade was released in January 2011 in Denmark and on June 21, 2011, in the US. They have toured with JEFF the Brotherhood and Fucked Up.

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Arrows of Love

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

“Kinetic…Bless them!” Lauren Lauverne BBC6Music

“Spellbindingly intense stuff, brilliant. I loved them before the end of the first song” – STEVE HARRIS (XFM)

“An epileptic fit set to music, it’s wild-eyed and feral, raw and unpolished and all the better for it.” Music Week

” Tattered, erratic, and modest, it’s the stuff of classic rock legend.” The Independent

“Impressive…..Punk infused white noise collides with Barrettesque schizophrenia”Drowned In Sound

“A band for the connoisseur” Daily Mirror

“This single is officially evil…….a full-throttle garage-punk number, barely observing the laws of logic in its mission to derange your mind….” * * * * Artrocker (on Real Friends)

“The sonic attack of At The Drive-In…If one is to delve a little deeper with something of substance, something dignified,you can find the likes of London’s Arrows of Love” * * * *Rock Feedback

“WOAH!! This is the stuff…. A nod to Bleach-era Nirvana, Arrows Of Love don’t outstay their welcome with this quick-fire burst of frenzied punk. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!“ Music-Zine

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Frazer King

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Manchester’s Frazer King ( 2 parts gang, 3 parts band and a dash of spirit(s) )…..

‘For the uninitiated, Frazer King look like a right rabble, so gloriously out of step with everything else going on today, their mob-mentality pitched somewhere between the right side of boisterous and the wrong side of unruly. Their sound is almost impossible to label, taking in a Pogues-like mix of disarray and beauty, a Shack-esque ear for melody and a Bad Seeds intensity (with some added vigorous skiffle for good measure). Add to the mix three fantastic, distinctive voices and the result is the best new band in Manchester at the moment. Someone, surely, will sign them soon’. (Shaun Curran – City Life 2011)

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FORMS

Monday, July 4th, 2011

“The essential nature of a species or thing, esp. (in Plato’s thought) regarded as an abstract ideal that real things imitate or participate in”

Playing on The1234 New Bands Stage and at The El paso aftershow.

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States of Emotion

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

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Brown Brogues

Monday, June 20th, 2011

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Throwing up

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

Throwing Up are a punk band that formed in the winter of 2010 in London. Camille and CJC used to play in grunge band Headless and Ben Rayner’s played in a fine array of bands including Shitting Fists and Ben Rayner and the Pricks.
Their first self released single sold out pretty much straight away through word of mouth and their next single is to be released shortly on adored American label Whats Your Rupture?
So far this year the band have played numerous shows at SXSW being described as “one of the best live acts at SXSW”
Primavera festival was a crazed success with hundreds of people trying to cram into the tiny tent they were playing at culminating in security arresting Clare for knocking someone out with her bass.

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The History of Apple Pie.

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

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