Dots and Loops with Dorothea Paas - An Interview

Desde os primeiros momentos que conheci o quarteto canadense Dorothea Paas fiquei deslumbrado, foi realmente amor a primeira audição.

Ecos de Stereolab, Black Tambourines e outros me fizeram adentrar a discografia deles que já contam com alguns eps e um álbum belíssimo A Trist de 2013, mas o encantamento foi mesmo através do último ep de março desse ano, Calm Your Body Down.

Adjetivos são desnecessários, o conselho aqui é ouvir a exaustão, mas detalhe a exaustão nunca vem no caso do Dorothea Pass.

***** Interview with Dorothea Paas *****

1. When did Dorothea Paas started, tell us about the history...
The band started out in 2013. I had been playing shows by myself for a couple years before that in Kingston, and then my friends Mark Streeter and Neven Lochhead joined me and we started working on new arrangements of the songs. I was really excited about the new life the songs were gaining with the band, and we started recording some DIY tapes and playing shows around Kingston and sometimes in Toronto or Montreal. The Kingston music scene was really nourishing at the time.

In 2014 we all went our separate ways but I kept collaborating with Mark (who plays drums) long distance. Last year he moved to Toronto where I am and we were lucky to be joined by our friend Graeme Stewart on bass. Now the three of us are working on new songs and refreshing some older ones. We are trying to go for a honed-in, pretty but rough-hewn sound with our newer arrangements. It has been a real pleasure to see how each of our approaches to playing come together in collaboration, and I feel lucky to be playing with such great musicians and friends!

2. Who are your influences?
We all have really broad musical interests, so influence is sometimes indirect. We don't necessarily sound like the music we listen to, but various elements might seep in. We listen to everything from great music made by friends to highly produced pop and hip hop. I draw influence from people here and there, like Joni Mitchell's song structure, or Julie Doiron's spacious guitar playing, or J Mascis' ability to transform a song with his vocal delivery, but I don't have a firm idea of what I want the band to sound like, and I don't want to model it after another band's sound. Partly that is because I don't know as many bands as my bandmates, which can be sort of funny when they say, 'this sounds like _____' and I have never heard the band. Our musical influences don't always overlap, but it can be helpful to draw on the different knowledge base that my bandmates have from time to time. It can help to put the music we are making into context of a broader history, and can also be useful for things like mixing and recording, to communicate to the engineer what bands we want our sound to be in the vein of.

3. 5 albums of all time:
This is too hard for me! I have never been someone who's made 'best of' lists. I more just consume a lot of things, find reasons to love them, take what I will from them, or criticize where I see fit. I listen to something really obsessively for a few months, and then I might not revisit it for a while. Maybe I'm a product of internet culture in that way. But for whatever reason, I feel unable to answer!

4. How do you feel playing live?
I feel good playing live! It is pretty exhilarating, especially when there is a good feeling in the room and I feel in tune with my bandmates. Audiences can be very loving and nurturing, and when the feeling of admiration seems reciprocal between performer and audience it is a very nice thing. I feel really grateful for the people who come out to live shows. It's heartening.

5. Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
The first recording I made was just me in my bedroom, made through Garage Band, the most minimal recording set up ever. Then the first two tapes we did by ourselves in our jam space on an 8-track cassette recorder we borrowed from our friend Christian Simmons. For the most recent tape, Calm Your Body Down, Christian recorded us in his shared studio in Montreal, which was a great experience. Christian is excellent and his gear is all really nice, a lot of it vintage / analogue, and some of it home made, so it is a treat to record with him. It's usually a pretty fast process, a couple of days in Montreal where we joke a lot and snack intermittently.

6. Which new bands do you recommend?
Old and Weird, Mind Slums, Un Blonde, Sivani, Bizzarh, New Fries, Mozart's Sister, to name a few!

7. Which band would you love to make a cover of?
We want to have a fake band where we play improvised funk jams that are actually terrible. Really though, we haven't ever really talked about doing covers as a band. I don't think it's in the works for us. I used to play covers of Car on a Hill and Help Me by Joni Mitchell when I played alone.

8. What's the plans for the future?
We are working on some new songs, so we will probably record them in the near future! Other than that, we are just practicing as much as we can and planning some fun shows. We might try and go outside of Toronto and Montreal for some further-away shows in the next little while. A lil baby tour maybe?

9. Parting words:
Bless you for listening and reading this interview, lol. Much love.
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https://dorotheapaas.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/doropaasband

Satin Safe with Human Colonies - An Interview

Calvary é o debute dos italianos do Human Colonies, e o frescor dos 90´s infesta o disco inteiro dos caras.

Conexões com Chapterhouse, Yo La Tengo e outros intocáveis formam o ponto de partida para que o Human Colonies desfie sua guitarras e melodias barulhentas mas nunca estridentes.

Um disco que impregna na cabeça e que precisa ser degustado em alto e bom som.

***** Interview with Human Colonies *****

Q. When did Human Colonies started, tell us about the history...
The band started in April 2013, when me, Giuseppe (voice/guitar) met Roman (guitar). Hence several months later we met Davide (drums) and Sara (bass).

Q: Who are your influences?
We all come from different influences so it would be rather hard to tell shortly. Obviously dream-pop and shoegaze scene influenced us (Ride, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, The Jesus And Mary Chain) as our sound approached that genres, but lots of other artists / bands too, from Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd to Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Nirvana – In Utero
Wire – 154 ...
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Source tags & Codes
Former Ghosts - Fleurs

Q. How do you feel playing live?
It’s always an unforgettable experience!

Q. How do you describe Human Colonies sounds?
Spatial, intimate. Whole. We moved from the noisy and buzzy sound of the beginning to more mere and transparent one.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Normally I bring some drafts to the studio and then later we evolve them together .

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Weekend, DIIV, Motorama, Pinkshinyultrablast, Former Ghosts

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We plan do to some gigs this summer and then perhaps work on some new material. Approach a new sound. We don’t know yet.

Q: Any parting words?
“Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroyng” – Kevin Shields
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https://soundcloud.com/humancolonies/sets/calvary
https://www.facebook.com/humancolonies

Red Drop with This Love is Deadly - An Interview

Simplesmente uma pérola, uma pérola mesmo da novo shoegazer ou nem tão novo assim, não é mesmo!?!? O ponto é que o debute dos alemães do This Love is Dead é sublime.

Ecos de MBV, Julee Cruise e mais um monte de referências que tornam-se óbvias mais ao mesmo tempo param por ai, apenas então somente porque as músicas ultrapassam a beleza.

ACIMA, simplesmente ACIMA.

***** Interview with This Love is Dead *****

Q. When did this Love is Deadly started, tell us about the history…
Louis: We officially started in 2008 but it wasn't until 2010 that we really got our act together.

Lisa: When Louis and I met, it was apparent that we shared many musical influences and we were curious to find out what would happen if we’d put our creative energies together. Thus the project This Love is Deadly was born. We spent a year or so recording ideas in our home studio, with very simple means, but it was a great way to develop our ideas and dive into the realm of music production. We were never a “jam band” in the sense that we’d spend our evenings and weekends in a rehearsal room, for us it was much more about finding the right sounds and following a vision that a song idea would spark. Since we were only two people, and we never really saw ourselves as a band, but rather a project, working in a studio setting was pure bliss, because it allowed you to play around and explore a song in a much more holistic way, there were so many possibilities and directions to take, like putting together a puzzle. But we were always very clear on the sound we were looking for.

Q: Who are your influences?
Louis: Initially we were very much influenced by the standard noise-rock bands Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, but also by German bands The Notwist & Tocotronic. Over time we were pretty much influenced by anything that we came across and liked.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Louis: This is hard, there is so many but these 5 would be among them for sure:
1. Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina
2. Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai
3. Beach Boys - Smile
4. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
5. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Louis: I love it! Could always do more.

Lisa: Playing live is a wonderful contrast to writing and recording and a much more immediate way of sharing and enjoying the songs.

Q. How do you describe This Love is Deadly sounds?
Louis: We blend pop melodies with groovy beats, noisy guitars and ambient sounds.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
Lisa: It usually starts with a song idea on the acoustic guitar, or recently, the piano. This is almost always a solitary act. Then the song is presented to the other person, and they add their own flavour,
and we quickly start recording a demo version. This is where we give the song a sound, the edge and dirt. We mostly still record everything, except the drums, in our home studio. On the one hand this
gives you the freedom to work on the music whenever you feel that urge and you don’t have to pay studio rent, but it can be a challenge as well having to deal with neighbours, surrounding sounds and meowing cats in the background. Sometimes the background noise can be a nice addition as well, and we’ve even featured it in a couple of songs.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended
Louis: I really like Caribou, Moderat, Tame Impala and The Dø if you can call them "new".

Lisa: I second that, I’ve also been listening to a lot of John Talabot and Apparat recently.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
Louis: I'm not too crazy about doing covers but it would certainly be something totally different to us.

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
Lisa: Keep on doing what we’re doing, and hopefully more of it!

Q: Any parting words?
Yes, please visit us on:
www.facebook.com/thisloveisdeadlymusic
soundcloud.com/thisloveisdeadly
http://www.thisloveisdeadly.com/
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September Ice with Forever Grey - An Interview

Da mesma escola que o Lebanon Hanover vem os estadunidenses do Forever Grey.

Cold wave, pós punk, darkwave atual, sombrio, soturno e deveras sexy.

Como é usual no estilo o baixo vem em primeira instância sempre conduzindo o clima quase sempre angustiante das músicas. September Ice o ep deles é um delírio.

Talvez a grande revelação no estilo depois de Lebanon Hanover e Tropic of Cancer.

***** Interview with Forever Grey *****

Q. When did Forever Grey started, tell us about the history...
A: Kevin and I(Samantha) were roommates a few years ago. We've know each other for years but just started making music this past November. Kevin has been in multiple local bands, and currently has a project called Denim. This is the first band I've been apart of.

Q: Who are your influences?

A: We're mostly influenced by weird 90's TV and movies such as; X-Files, Twin Peaks, and the Scream movie series.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
A: Pornography by The Cure,
Funhouse by The Stooges,
True Blue by Madonna,
Tomb for Two by Lebanon Hanover,
and The Queen is Dead by The Smiths

Q. How do you feel playing live?
A: Live set-up is always difficult, but we enjoy performing. Our main focus is just creating music.

Q. How do you describe Forever Grey sounds?
A: Forever Grey sounds like a cold walk through a dark graveyard. An infinite X-Files marathon on Netflix.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
A: There is pretty much no process. We write, record, and usually post the songs online all in one day. When we have an idea for a song, we don't stop writing it until we feel like it's completely finished.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
A: TRST AND LEBANON HANOVER!

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
A: Y Control- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, then do a complete scene by scene remake of the music video

Q: What´s the plans for future....
A: Currently Forever Grey would like to keep on creating new music. Maybe release a few splits with some friends' bands. Go on a tour. Maybe OD on some nice drugs in Cuba.

Q: Any parting words?
A: MULDER: ...at times I almost dream I, too, have spent a life the sages' way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer. For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, that life was blotted out-not so completely. But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, dim memories, as now, when once more seems the goal in sight again.
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https://forevergrey.bandcamp.com/album/september-ice

Bone Machine with Maff - An Interview

Novíssima banda chilena que é a bola da vez nas páginas do TBTCI.

Maff é um quarteto que soltou agora em 2015 um tremendo ep, basicamente passeando por tudo que foi feito de barulhento durante os 90´s os caras atrelado a ecos de pós punk clássico.

Uma excelente estreia que serve de cartão de visitas para o Maff, que venha muito mais pela frente,

***** Interview with Maff *****

Q. When did Maff started, tell us about the history.
Maff started in 2012. Ricardo Gomez (vocal / guitar / bass) & Nicolas Colombres (drums) founded the band; they are friends from childhood and have a background together playing in punk rock bands.

Both composed, recorded and produced our first "EP" in our own studio ("The Lab"). The fact that we had our own studio gave us the liberty and the time to experiment and really discover the sound we wanted. The EP was mixed and mastered in Fat Master Studio in Santo Domingo, Chile.

Martin Colombes, Nicolas younger brother, participated in some recording sessions during 2013 and he is now are lead guitar.

Gonzalo Correa joined Maff in February 2015, he was the result of a long search of a guitarist that could understand and could reproduce the sound we discovered live.

Joshua Brierley also joined in February 2015; he plays both syths and guitar.

Fernanda Gomez, Ricardo´s cousin, recently joined Maff contributing with a feminine touch in the vocals.

Q: Who are your influences?
Each band member has their own influences that gives us a lot of variety when it comes to composing and the creation process.

However, our first EP was deeply inspired by The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, Ride, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time.
The Beatles - Revolver
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycho Candy
Pixies - Doolitle
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live has to do with making a connection with our audience, make them experiment feelings that are not present in their everyday life. Our songs create an introspective ambient that is contagious for both the band and the crowd.

Q. How do you describe Maff sounds?
Guitars filled with distortions and effect pedals (chorus, reverb, muffs). With long, droning riffs, accompanied by waves of distortion, noisy fixtures and electric elements. Distant and reverb vocals and melodies disappeared into the walls of guitars, effects and synthesizers.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs
As we said before, having our own studio makes the recording process all about liberty. Experimenting with different sounds, melodies or song structures. It is all about finding the right elements to process the sound that we have in our head.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
It is hard to say; today there are many amazing bands all over their world. However, an interest band is DIIV from NY. Silversun Pickups also has an interesting and powerful proposal.

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
We are now working on some covers of The Pixies, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley and Iggy Pop.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
During 2015 we are focused in playing our EP live. We have planned to start working on our next EP towards the end of this year; hopefully we will have our next work out the first months of 2016.

Q: Any parting words?
Music is everywhere.
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http://www.maffmusica.com/
https://soundcloud.com/maffmusica/sets/maff-ep-2015
https://www.facebook.com/maffmusica

Alone Again Or with City of me - An Interview

Da Ucrânia vem o trio de pós punk sombrio e barulhento, City of Me.

Dois eps, No History (2014) e o mais recente Fall (2015) seguem o mesmo princípio, andamentos gélidos, baixo marcado e pesado, guitarras cortantes e estridentes dando o ar soturno do City of Me.

Uma daqueles boas revelações que o submundo dos bons sons nos ofertam.

***** Interview with City of Me *****

Q. When did CITY OF ME started, tell us about the history...
*CITY OF ME (capitalized)
Eduard (E) – guitar/vocals
Regina (R) – bass

E: I think it was summer 2012, when Regina joined the band, I mean we’ve been playing with Dmitriy, the drummer, for some time. Ever since, we haven’t really considered a fourth band member. We took some time off, so our first record was released two years later. And the latest EP - Fall was released this April.

Q: Who are your influences?
R: Pre-1978 Black Sabbath and similar band of that time: Pentagram, Blue Cheer, Dust. Many artists of mid- and late 60s formed my musical vision in terms of composition and sound. Love was a significant band, I think I can speak for all three of us here. Also, Italo disco (and disco in general) is a strong influence for me right now.

E: It's really hard to say. I think I draw influences from heavier shoegaze and metal bands, so our newer songs comprise a much wider range of influences rather than regular post-punk we’ve been initially ‘tagged’ with.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
E: 1. Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi - Rome
2. Ilya - They Died For Beauty
3. Paul Simon - Graceland
4. Aphrodite's Child - 666
5. Love - Forever Changes

Albums one and two are my personal most favorite records of all time, number three is Regina’s choice, I haven’t had a chance to listen to Paul Simon’s solo songs yet, and all of us would definitely agree on albums four and five.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
R: I feel whatever the crowd feels. So they pretty much decide on my mood during gigs.

E: We've recently returned from tour, and I really enjoyed playing every day for different crowds and cities.

Q. How do you describe CITY OF ME sounds?
E: The latest record is a transition between what we used to play and what you are going to hear on our next record. So I can’t tell you exactly. It's just some guitars, bass, drums, and vocals.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
E: As for both EPs, we played songs tons of times, so when we got to actual recording, tracking drums, bass and guitars took us really fast. The hardest part is mixing, still working on that one.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
R: There are way too many great bands now.

E: Well, we've recently played a mini-festival with a guy recording songs under the name Phooey! He played all by himself, just him and his guitar, kind of Buddy Holly meeting Blink-182 (in a good way). But the way he performed, that's what really impressed us. And for the last two songs, he was joined by a drummer, and that was very extra emotional. This guy is actually around for some time, I can't say he's ‘new’, but he definitely deserves more credit for his art.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
E: Converge or Connan Mockasin.

Q: What's the plan for future?
E: We plan on recording an album, that pretty much sums it up.

Q: Any parting words?
R: Soul-filling life to everyone.

E: Do something special with all the effort it takes because that's the only thing you're going to leave when you die.
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https://cityofme.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cityofmeband

Kill All Hippies with Fribytterdrømme - An Interview

O comboio dinamarquês Fribytterdrømme comporto por sete integrantes, perpetua em sua debute intitulado Labyrintens Farver uma sequência de mantras psicodelicamente hipnóticos que por vezes ecoam fantasmas de Jim Morrison em outras se aproximam dos prediletos da casa, os Black Angels.

Uma estreia delirante e alucinógena que exala o amargo sabor do ácido por todos os poros do disco.

Uma viagem completa e somente com o ticket de ida, porque a volta não é garantida, tenha uma boa viagem.

***** Interview with Fribytterdrømme *****

Q. When did Fribytterdromme started, tell us about the history...
Fribytterdrømme is:
Gabriele Amatulli: Choir, percusision and acoustic guitar
Tor Amdisen: Guitar
Thure Spang Andersson: Bass
Tobias Agger Johannessen: Organ & keys
Simon Arendal Jørgensen: Guitar & harmonica
Lau Ingemann Vinther Pedersen: Guitar & Vocal
Felix Corrigan Sunesson: Drums

Fribytterdrømme was formed in Copenhagen in the late summer of 2011. Everybody in the band more or less knew each other from the same danish small town called Svendborg, either through previous bands, familly, parties, education etc. before we even knew we would end up playing music together. It so happened that suddenly we all found our selves in Copenhagen. Lau got the idea for the band upon reading danish poet Tom Kristensens debut poetry collection "Fribytterdrømme" from 1920. The title loosely translates into "The Pirate Dream" and is a well known book in danish context. Lau called up the guys Simon, Tobias, Felix and Tor and asked them to join a psychedelic rock band. At first the idea was to play and write music in the style of the Doors with the bass lines played by the organ. But we quickly realized that was a shit idea. Then somebody mentioned Thure who took little if any convincing in joining the band on bass. Thure was just what the band needed and the songwriting took up speed building on Laus lyrics and compositions and we started landing our first small gigs playing everything from local parties to childrens daycare summer parties. Gabriele entered the band sort of out of the blue. He had heard a couple of concerts and really liked the music. Our first intention was that he should help us getting around as a roadie but he was totally awful at that. Instead we decided to expand the band with choir and percussion. Gabriele has also taken up the acoustic guitar and wrote the lyrics and melody for the song "Kviksand" on our recently released debut album "Labyrintens Farver" all in all proving a great edition and equally big part of the seven piece ensemble that is Fribytterdrømme.

Q: Who are your influences?
We are a seven piece band and the influences are many. We are quite different from one another and everybody brings a piece of their own musical heritage and personality to the table. We are of course inspired by the poetry collection Fribytterdrømme but it is more in the sense that all band members freely interpret the concept of "Pirate dreams" and then suddenly we come up with a song and then suddenly we had made an album. The title of our debut album "Labyrintens Farver" which translates into "The colors of the labyrinth" pretty much captures our work process. Our music though have its roots in the psychedelic scene of the 60s and 70s especially in a danish and British context. But we also flirt with early 90s British ecstasy bands. Lyrically we are somewhere between expressionism and surrealism.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Seriously are you trying to break up the band? We would get into a big fight over this!

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live is the best feeling ever. Playing live is the intention of the band. Sure it is nice and very fulfilling making a record but it is also means to play more live shows. We really feel like we connect with our audience and there is an extremely euphoric atmosphere on stage. If you get the chance then jump the stage and feel what we are talking about. We wont mind.

Q. How do you describe Fribytterdrome sounds?
Euphoric and huge. Insane and reconcilable. Poetic and laid back.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
It was very fun. We booked thirteen days in Tapf Studio in Copenhagen with our technician and initially eight member of the band Peter Emil Sloth. He is our off stage member and the album is as much his as it is ours. We did all the basic tracks in two days with a basic live setup consisting of drums, 3 guitars, bass and a clue vocal all recorded in the same room. We basically played the whole damn thing live and if anybody messed up we did it again. Luckily with our long track "Fem er det magiske nummer" we hit it spot on. That song is a first take. Then we overdubbed the organ and some guitar solos and and different bass parts and just played around with different sound effects. We did a vocal speech totally messed up by recording it into and an iPhone and then rerecorded by placing the iPhone on a guitar pickup into a cranked amplifier. Great fun. Peter was very good at pushing us into new territories making us use synthesizers among other instruments to make the whole thing come together. Last we did the vocals and percussion and all in all it was thirteen days well spend with less stress than we imagined. We are very proud of the result.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
De Underjordiske is awesome. It is rock and drone and powerful performances and really nice danish songs. Catch them if you can and you probably will. We also really like the Wands. That is a duo who perfectly captures the songwriting skills of the sixties making it songwriting skills of the new millennium, retro and modern at the same time. They are probably not that new anymore as they have played all over the place. Last you should check out a small band called Kogekunst they are highly original in their setup. It is two guy playing drums and guitar both at the same time with organ drones messing up your head. Really far out soundscape and very powerful and noisy.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Primal Scream and their song "Kill all hippies". We actually already at least lyrically covered the opening poem of Tom Kristensens "Fribytterdrømme". The poem is called "Fribytter" (trans. "Pirate"). One of our old songs called "Fribytterdrømmen" (trans. The Pirate Dream) make use of that poem in its full length accompanied by original lyrics by Lau.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We are preparing a danish tour in the fall and working on the release of the vinyl edition of our album. So far it is only released digital. Otherwise: Write more songs. We definitely have more records to make. It is way too fun.

Q: Any parting words?
See you at the bar. Thanks for listening.
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https://soundcloud.com/fribytterdr-mme-album/sets/labyrintens-farver
https://www.facebook.com/fribytterdroemme

Freak Scene with Did You Die - An Interview

Dinosaur Jr, Swervedriver, MBV são a base para o ruidoso Did You Die, diretamente do Canadá, os caras tem uma infinidade de singles, eps e produzem como tocam, em altíssima velocidade.

Uma boa pedida para adentrar ao mundo estridente do Did You Die é através do EP Wonderland, lançado em Abril, uma cacetada atrás da outra.

E se por acaso fica alguma dúvida se os caras estão podendo, eles SÒ, vão abrir pro Swervedriver em Vancouver, preciso falar mais alguma coisa?

***** Interview with Did You Die

Q. When did Did You Die started, tell us about the history...
-DYD started in my bedroom. I had written a slew of songs, maybe like 15 to 20? So I started recording them in my home studio. I also recorded some covers by bands like The Yardbirds, The Byrds, Kate Bush…. It was also a lot of fun to record these songs with friends in another bands that I always wanted to work with. It was really freeing and I didn’t have the restraints of say…a record label or bandmates telling me what and how to do it. The next logical step was to put a band together to play these songs live…

Q: Who are your influences?
-A lot of my influences stem from the late 80s into the early to mid 90s. For these songs it was a combination of bands like Dinosaur JR, Yo La Tengo, My Bloody Valentine, Eric’s Trip and stuff like Chapterhouse. I love how effortless those bands album seem. They didn’t care about having these super pro recordings and back then probably couldn’t afford it. I put that approach into my own efforts where it’s more about releasing music then the best possible recordings. I don’t even really like pro-tool sounding albums anymore. We try and keep everything we do sounding real, maybe adding a bit of reverb to the instruments when we record but that’s about it. Analog just sounds much warmer and suits the music.

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
-Um this is really difficult for me to do….Over the years some albums that have stuck with me and really acted like a blue print are:

Nirvana - Nevermind - I remember hearing this album for the first time as a tween in 1991..and it made me feel like my generation finally had it’s own music. Before then everyone was listening to baby boomer rock like The Beatles or The Stones….

My Blood Valentine - Isin’t Anything - When I heard this album for the first time (pre-Loveless) I had never heard music like this before. This album went on to clearly influence thousands of bands…it really started a style of music.

The Cure - Disintegration - When I’m strong enough I can put this album on….and when that happens I usually listen to it everyday for a month or two. It’s almost therapeutic for me as it can really bring up a lot of real feelings of shitty things and wonderful things that have happened to me all at the same time.

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands - To me this is a flawless album, pop music that actually evokes deep emotion…I haven’t heard an album in the pop sense that can match this one. Darklands is generational.

Dinosaur JR - Bug - sometimes when I put this album on it makes me wonder how 3 kids could have put together a record like this in the late 80s…a time when glamrock and robot pop ruled the airwaves. This album really influenced the way I play guitar and sing….I really identified with the slacker vocal approach. I could relate to it cuz that’s how I approach singing naturally. Bug became the template for american college rock …it really set the tone and spoke to thousands of college kids.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
-Playing live is a lot of fun…sometimes emotional if I think about what the song is about…sometimes I forget the lyrics too tho…haha

Q. How do you describe Did You Die sounds?
-Slacker Rock.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
-simplicity at it’s finest…in the beginning i played all the instruments on the early singles/eps….our full length though that was the band playing live in a room together. We had a really good producer , Felix Fung, who kept pushing us for better takes..keeping us on point with the feel of the song we were recording. Really proud of that album…it will be coming out later this year.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
-Them Are Us Too / DIIV / Elsa / The Prettys.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
-We’ve done a bunch of covers already…I think my favourite cover we’ve done so far is Matthew Sweet’s “Sick Of Myself”. Covers just kind of come up for me as an after thought..or I’ll get an idea to do a cover on a certain day and just figure out the song and record it all in the same day.

Q: What´s the plans for future….
-We have that full length album we are planning on releasing…once that comes out there will be a tour around that….we are currently just planning that out ….

Q: Any parting words?
- We would really love to come and play some shows in Brasil!
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https://www.facebook.com/dydvan
https://didyoudie.bandcamp.com

Sing the Sorrow with Midwest Moms - An Interview

Midwest Moms é um quarteto barulhento e melancólico de Fresno na Califórnia que pratica aquela tendência já comentada diversas vezes aqui no TBTCI mesclando pós punk, shoegazer e guitarreira noventista sempre com ares tristonhos e em alta velocidade.

Guilt Trip é o último ep dos caras lançado em Abril deste ano que resume com exatidão o poderio dos caras.

Para ouvir em alto e bom som.

***** Interview with Midwest Moms *****

Q. When did Midwest Moms started, tell us about the history...
The four of us started playing together about two years ago, in early 2013, I think. Omar and Ryan were friends of mine from the DIY scene, and we were all really into darkwave and coldwave at the time, so we wanted to start a darkwave band. Ryan and I actually originally tried jamming with our friend Oliver on keyboards (he was performing as Loverboy. at the time), but it was just sounding like his project, so we scrapped that idea and recruited Omar on guitar. We tried feeling things out with our friend Dave on drums first, but Shoe, who I didn’t really even know, happened to be in a better state to jam the night we first really got together, despite having an injured leg at the time so we kept him around.

Q: Who are your influences?
This is kind of difficult to answer because I think we would all say different things. Our shared influences are probably thinks like Joy Division, Elliott Smith (although I don’t think that comes through, really), Morrissey and the Smiths (except Shoe—he hates Morrissey)… I’m not sure. Personally, and I know this has been true for Omar at one point in his life or another, I was a huge AFI fan growing up, and that has probably stuck with me more than most things. Jawbreaker is a big one for me, and J Church. Modest Mouse, Ride, Jesus and Mary Chain, a lot of post-punk and darkwave.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This is probably the toughest question ever. My personal top five would probably be Modest Mouse’s “The Moon and Antarctica,” David Bowie’s “Hunky Dory,” Jets to Brazil’s “Perfecting Loneliness,” AFI’s “Sing the Sorrow,” and Tiger Trap’s self-titled. Of course, my answer to this question changes all the time and never makes any sense, so take it with a grain of salt.

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I really enjoy it. I kind of wish we could play with less light sometimes, but I know Omar needs to see in order to jangle. I’ve been told I look really disinterested on-stage, but the reality is that I’m quite the introvert, so I usually take great pains to avoid eye contact with anyone and wind up with my eyes on the ceiling at all times. I do enjoy it, though. Time kind of flies during a set, and what I really love about this band is that it has seriously pushed me as a singer. Strangely enough, I was a soprano when I was in school choirs, and I couldn’t seem to get my voice to come from my diaphragm, whereas now, I feel like I’m constantly belting, so it’s nice to be in that place. It’s not so nice when I’m sick, in which case it’s incredibly hard to sing these songs, but that only happens two or three times a year usually.

Q. How do you describe Midwest Moms sounds?
I’m not really sure. Our sound has been in flux pretty consistently for the whole of our career so far. We’re a post-punk band in some ways, a shoegaze band in others, and maybe kind of grungy lately? The sound has absolutely changed from where we started, but I like where we’re headed.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
We write incredibly slowly due to real-world constraints like school and work, so we’ve done one three-song EP per year so far. We’re sitting on a cover for a potential split, too, so we may wind up with two releases this year. Once we have a few songs we want to record, we’ve been booking time with our friend Jacob Lee (Plastic Skull) of the band Keeper. He comes over to the Infoshop, which is kind of where we’re based, and records us one-by-one. He finally has the means to do live recording now, so I think we might like to try that next. It usually takes less than a day to track it all, then he does mixes and sends them to us and we go back and forth as needed to make little tweaks.

Q. Which new bands do you recommend?
Ryan is in a new band with my partner, Raleigh, and it’s insanely good. They’re called Sleeve and I would venture to say they’re the best band Fresno’s ever produced, or at least in my lifetime. Other fantastic locals include Sci-Fi Caper, Fatty Cakes and the Puff Pastries, Tyrannosaurus Zebra (another of my partner’s bands), The Babbling Crooks, Reunion… I could go on forever about Fresno bands. If you’re not into Night Sins yet, that’s another incredible band, but not local. Sex Cross is great, too, Koban, All Your Sisters, Hemingway, Ghost Noise. I live above a DIY space and previously co-owned one (The Bel-Tower), so I see incredible bands from all over the world all the time, and it’s amazing.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
We cover our friends Sci-Fi Caper, and we do a cover of “Hanging on the Telephone” by The Nerves. I turned part of “Skeletons” into a cover of AFI’s “Reiver’s Music” because the chords in that one section sounded so much like it to me. As for what we’d like to cover in the future, who knows. We toss ideas around all the time. Joy Division’s “Disorder” would be an ideal one, to me, and maybe something by Elliott Smith, although Sleeve did an Elliott Smith cover set once that would blow anything we did out of the water.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We’re working on a couple of songs we started months ago, and the guys were working on another idea the other night. Touring is virtually impossible right now due to work schedules, but we want to get out of town more often. We’ll have “Guilt Trip” tapes pretty soon, and probably a third pressing of the first EP, and someday, we’ll decide on a shirt idea and make some merch.

Q: Any parting words?
Love yourself, love others. Go vegan. Start bands and DIY spaces—especially women and people of color. Participate in and create the communities and spaces you want and need. Think critically. Learn more, grow better, practice compassion, and come to Fresno.
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https://midwestmoms.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/midwestmoms

Arcs of Red to Pulsate Gently In The Morning Sun with Paisley Reich - An Interview

Quando tomei conhecimento dos italianos do Paisley Reich, foi meio que vício instantâneo, não houve por onde escapar.

Conexões e referências com VU, Television, Crystal Stilts me atraíram de imediato, pena que o último registro é de 2012, o belíssimo ep, que é daqueles discos que quanto mais se ouve mais se quer ouvir.

Que os Paisley Reich não demorem mais tempo para soltar material novo.

***** Interview with Paisley Reich *****

Q. When did Paisley Reich started, tell us about the history...
Two of us used to have a crappy high school band that was dismantled right after we started uni. I was sad, I got into lots of weird obscure psychedelic stuff and I had a keyboard and a delay pedal. At some point we met this tall guy who had just moved to Rome and had a Jazzmaster and was into sonic youth and reverb. So we got one of our friends playing bass and started jamming together. We just wanted to sound confusing and weird and loud. After some time we started writing pop songs and doing some home recording. We played shows, we met people, we made friends, we found out there was actually a lot of people making music in Rome. We tried different directions, we stopped for some time and then played more intensively for some time and then stopped again. We periodically recorded stuff with the band or with our friends under the name Paisley Reich. Everything was fun. We have a new EP coming out on vinyl and we are going to release a CD collection of old and new music as well. Everything is coming out soon on Lady Sometimes Records and Satellite Records.

Q: Who are your influences?
We always had a huge amount of different influences and backgrounds. I would say that our main stylistic influences are 70s and 80s post punk and new wave, 80s and 90s indie rock, shoegaze, noise rock and the neo psychedelic revival of the last ten years.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
This one is too tough so I’ll just exclude pre-punk music. I would probably go for some classics and pick Marquee Moon, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Daydream Nation, You’re Living All Over Me and the You Made Me Realise EP

Q. How do you feel playing live?
It’s usually fun to play small, noisy venues when you feel confident and things can get loud and confusing. Without these elements things can get frustrating at times, but I guess sometimes you can turn frustration into something fun as well.

Q. How do you describe Paisley Reich sounds?
I don’t know, I’d say we usually try to take a minimal pop structure and make it into something more noisy, psychedelic or blurred so that we end up having something that sounds very straightforward but is also fun to play and has maybe some mysterious quality to it.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
I think we sound pretty different when we play live from what you hear on records. We don’t really try to replicate the live sound or feeling into a record. We always did everything at home on our laptops, one of us has some studio equipment for special occasions. For this last Ep we recorded the drums in a friend’s practice space and we did everything else at home.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
We are always into a lot of new music. We’ve been loving the whole bubblegum bass thing that has been coming out on Pc Music, Manicure or Activia Benz.

I’ve always loved labels with a very distinctive and bold aesthetic or approach, like Sacred Bones or Posh Isolation. Personally, I think that Iceage have put out some of the most exciting rock records in the last couple of years.

I’d also strongly recommend almost any band from the Italian emo-rock scene. Verme and Distanti in particular.

Q: Which band would you love to make a cover version of?
We usually love covering songs for Christmas Eps or compilations. It could be a very simple, emotional pop tune that you could turn into something weird and hallucinated, but it’s also nice to play something that is more similar to your style. I usually record quite a lot of covers just for fun. Btw It would be cool to make a bedroom version of Kylie Minogue’s Can’t get you out of my head.

Q: What´s the plans for future…
We really don’t know. We can’t wait for our records to come out, but as I said, this is happening soon. We are working on our first video in the meanwhile, just to try something new. We also have some new stuff that we’d like to record with a more bedroom/studio approach and release as singles or as a new Ep in the future.

Q: Any parting words?
This has been some great self-celebration. Thanks for having us over.

Here’s a small present https://soundcloud.com/paisley-reich/alion/s-mVkdS

Much love

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https://paisleyreich.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/paisley.reich

Earthbound with Stiv-One - An Interview

Se para você soa desconhecido Stiv-One talvez o nome All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors  soe mais familiar, certo?

Stiv-One é o alter ego de Steven Doherty do grande e saudoso All Natual Lemon & Line Flavors que infelizmente ruiu a si próprio. Mas Steven adotou seu codinome Stiv-One e tem composto uma seleta e maravilhosa coleção de pérolas do dreampop sempre sonhador ao melhor estilo dos Flavors, só que com sua própria identidade.

Uma verdadeira delicia e o TBTCI torce por demais que Stiv-One não pare, porque seu trabalho é essencial.

***** Interview with Stiv-One *****

Q. When did Stiv-One started, tell us about the history...
Q1. I started Stiv-One after All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors broke up. I had made music with most of the flavors since childhood and the break up was totally devastating. I just kept writing and recording songs alone and didn't really release anything. Once YouTube came around I started slowly making videos for my songs and that's when I truly became Stiv-One. Stiv was a nickname given to me by my friends and I used to refer to songs I was working on as Stiv1 Stiv 2 etc.

Q: Who are your influences?
Q2. I remember where I was when I first heard MBV loveless. Can't say that for any other band! I totally identify with the sound and it changed the course of my life from that moment in my brothers car in 91' I also love the Beatles and some hip hop. I'm weird!

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
Q3. Loveless. /White Album. /Oasis-definitly maybe. /Stereolab-switched on / Slowdive pigmalian

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Q4. Sadly I haven't played live in a long time. I don't even have a band. Stiv-One is just me in my studio. I'd love to do a reunion show with the flavors but sadly don't think it's gonna happen.

Q. How do you describe Stiv-One sounds?
Q5. I would definitely say my sound is in the shoegaze genre. I love layered guitars and melodic vocals. I really try to make my music sound BIG!

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Q6. I record all my music on my Mac computer. I usually start with my acoustic guitar and an idea. I'll make a loop of something and then try to add a beat and a bass line and some keys. Sometimes it works out and sometimes I get frustrated and junk the project. I have a lot of unfinished parts that I've been working on for way too long.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Q7. As far as new bands, I definitely like the "nugaze" sound. Love Ringo Deathstarr and Red House Painters.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Q8. I'm actually working on a cover of "porpoise song" by the Monkees.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Q9. I'm putting together all my songs onto an album called "thousand mile parade". I'm also going to upload some parts of songs that I'm working on to YouTube. I have so much unfinished stuff it's disgusting!

Q: Any parting words?
Q10. Hope this wasn't too boring. I really appreciate you listening to my music. You've motivated me to get of my ass and finish some projects!! Thanks!!!
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https://soundcloud.com/stiv-one
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stiv-One

Cherub Rock with Cadet - An Interview

É curioso e o TBTCI vem falando já há algum tempo, atualmente existe um forte tendência de novas bandas praticando um shoegazer pesado e melancólico influenciado diretamente por Smashing Pumpkins e The Cure.

Talvez a porta tenha sido aberta pelo Nothing, mas percebo que cada vez mais novas bandas se aventuram por essa vertente e com uma desenvoltura altíssima, é o caso do Cadet em seu Ep Disconnect lançado no início de 2015 que vai bem na veia do dessa vertente.

Pesado, melancólico e barulhento, o Cadet apresenta seu cartão de visita de forma convincente.

***** Interview with Cadet *****

Q. When did Cadet started, tell us about the history...
Q1: in early 2013, we all got together with the intention of starting a band that was different from a number of the bands we all had been in in the past. Mike, Rinaldo, and Will all have been in punk/hardcore bands for years, but we all wanted to try something a little different. We come from a fairly lively scene in Philadelphia, and we all grew up not far from each other so getting the band together was fairly easy.

Q: Who are your influences?
Q2: Rinaldo- nirvana, smashing pumpkins
Will- hum, swervedriver
Zach- the cure, smashing pumpkins
Mike- Slowdive, Townes van zant

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
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jawbreaker - dear you
Slowdive - souvlaki
Smashing pumpkins - Mellon collie
Deftones- white pony
Green day - dookie

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Q4: I'm sure that anyone who has ever played a packed basement show or a living room will tell you that it's best feeling on earth. I think we all feel the same way, there is nothing like giving everything you have and leaving it out on the stage.

Q. How do you describe Cadet sounds?
Q5: cadet sounds like a swirling trip though the 1990s and outer space.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Q6: sometimes the song with start with someone bringing a complete thought to the band and we build on it. Often times we build off of smaller ideas and piecing them together

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Q7: the new Turnover record is really enjoyable. Diamond youth

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Q8: probably The Cure or smashing pumpkins

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Q9; well we're actually on tour at the moment, hitting up the east coast of the USA. In the next year we plan on putting out some new music and touring more!

Q: Any parting words?
Q10: thanks for listening!
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https://cadetcadets.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/cadetband

VA - Got That Feeling - A Tribute To Skywave

Never Getting Over It with Alien Boy - An Interview

Os estadunidenses do Alien Boy vem reforçar o que eu já havia cravado aqui há algum tempo atrás, o Nothing e o Whirr viriam a fazer escola.

Dito e feito, uma leva de bandas praticando um shoegazer mais melancólico e rápido, sempre beirando o hardcore mais nunca ultrapassando os limites.

O Alien Boy pega exatamente todos os pontos, a melancolia dos Smiths, o shoegazer e a pitada 90´s mais pesado estilo Sunny Day Real State.

Belo estréia dos caras em Never Getting Over It. Conselho pra ouvir alto e preferencial dando uma volta de carrinho/skate.

***** Interview with Alien Boy *****

Q. When did Alien Boy started, tell us about the history...
Starting a band with my songs was always an idea I had but I was really terrified of it. Early 2014 I did mushrooms with my best friend and after a couple hours of tripping we decided I should do it because it was so scary to me. That summer I started playing the songs with Derek McNeil and eventually we started making demos and reaching out to more people to play in the full band. We played our first two shows as a two piece in early this year.

Q: Who are your influences?
The Smiths and The Wipers are two huge ones. I love the sounds they make and the pop sensibility is unmatched. I'm really influenced by pop punk song structures, bands like Alkaline Trio, Joyce Manor, Swearin' have been a huge influence on my song writing.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
Fuck. There are so many more but some that come to mind are...
Reinventing Axl Rose - Against Me!
The Smiths - The Smiths
Youth in America - The Wipers
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge - My Chemical Romance and every joyce manor record

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Playing live in this band is way different than it's ever been for me. Usually I don't get nervous at all. With this project I get so nervous I can't look at anyone haha. But it's still really fun!

Q. How do you describe Alien Boy sounds?
I was so obsessed with all my favorite bands that I layered them on top of each other and mushed it all together. I love the tones bands like the wipers and my bloody valentine get but also Johnny Marr clean guitar. I just wanted to see what it would sounds like all together.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
Caleb Misclevitz who now plays in Alien Boy (and our other band Our First Brains) recorded it in the practice room at my work after hours. We worked from 10pm to 5am every Wednesday in January. We did em one at a time, track by track, and took our time to really find sounds that we liked. At that point even though I had all the parts laid out it became very collaborative. The energy was amazing.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
As I've mentioned almost an embarrassing amount of times, Joyce Manor if you still consider them to be new. Some of my absolute favorite song writing. I just got super into Mitski, if you haven't heard her you've got to check it out. Mr. Bones is a really great new band from Portland.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
We actually have a smiths cover on Never Getting Over It. We cover Hand in Glove, it was so fun! I've been talking recently about covering Deep Sea Diving Suit by the Magnetic Fields. We're also talking about covering Waggy by Blink 182 or Going to Pasalaqua by Green Day because we're nerds. Oh and My Own Worst Enemy by Lit.... we have a lot of ideas.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We're going to put the record out on cassettes and then we're going to tour california in August! So far that's it. We're working on new songs right now.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks so much for being into the record and getting in touch!
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https://alienboypdx.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/alienboypdx

The Power of Negative Thinking with Love Cop - An Interview

Duffy Rongiiland e Chill Phil formam o bizarro Love Cop.

Uma sonoridade que pode talvez ser definida como Beat Happening dark, ou algo próximo disso.

Dark Ones é o recém lançado trabalho dos caras, e me recordou diretamente o grande Blank Dogs, aquele lo-fi escuro meio desleixado e irônico movido a synths e baixa qualidade de gravação, não que isso seja um problema, muito pelo contrário, Dark Ones é uma grande álbum sadicamente dançante e lesado.

Tem que ouvir pra crer.

***** Interview with Love Cop *****

Q. When did Love Cop started, tell us about the history...
We started Love Cop in 2013. Me (Chill Phil) and Duffy were old friends from our hometown outside NYC and we become fast homies when we moved to Portland, Oregon with the dudes in White Fang and The Memories, who run our label Gnar Tapes. Duffy played in other bands and I booked house shows and parties for the scene and shit and we all smoke a lot of pot so we started hanging out and then me and Duffy started helping those dudes with operations at their old Portland headquarters Gnarnia. One day Rikky (head of Gnar) said to us that we should just start a band so we could play shows and go on tour and ride around the country partying with them and the homies. So we did. And now that's what we do. This is my first band and first time ever making music. The power of negative thinking and marijuana yo.

Q: Who are your influences?
Guided by Voices, Ween, Harry Nilsson, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Madonna, Spiritualized, Happy Mondays, Daniel Johnston, Mariah Carey, Drake, Big Star, The Clean, Beat Happening, The Vaselines, Marilyn Manson, Suicide, JAMC, Biggie, Colleen Green, Gap Dream, The Memories, White Fang, Boys Age, Emotional, Pop Zeus, Cosmonauts, Dolly Parton, Lee Hazelwood, Three 6 Mafia, The Supremes, Beach Boys, Elton John, Skinny Puppy. Everything really except that olde-timey, Jim Crow-era, Mumford & Sons sounding bullshit.


Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
The Great Milenko by Insane Clown Posse
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space by Spiritualized
Antichrist Superstar by Marilyn Manson
When The Smoke Clears by Three 6 Mafia
Dreamy by Beat Happening

Q. How do you feel playing live?
I hate it. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I also don't really like seeing bands live, there are very few I've truly enjoyed, like Gap Dream, My Bloody Valentine, White Fang/The Memories, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds....I think that's it, ha. Nothing against anyone else, I just prefer to listen to music in the dark, under the covers, while crying and smoking pot by myself, duh.

Q. How do you describe Love Cop sounds?
Um, people usually call us "goth". But we are just fucked up weirdos who make fucked up weird shit I guess. I'm trying to make pop music. Just doesn't always come out that way.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
One time when I was a teenager I played some Misfits for a bunch of Deadheads playing hackey-sack and they went "UGHH harsh brah, this sounds like they recorded this inside of a tin can!" Then they put on "Scarlet Begonias" for the eighteenth tine and danced around like assholes, then I got a blowjob in the back of one of their cars. That's kinda my process.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
All our labelmates on Gnar Tapes, Lolipop Records, and Burger Records of course! Fuck everyone else, especially (most) Portland bands. I find none of them interesting at all and I loathe most of them as people. Print that.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
Justin Timberlake

Q: What´s the plans for future....
Our new album 'Dark Ones' just dropped on Gnar Tapes and Lolipop Records on cassette and the 7" for the single "Star 69" is coming out on Lawn Chair Records outta Minneapolis this summer, then an LP of it down the line. Oh yeah, our out-of-print tapes "Eat Yr Heart Out" and "Pop Magick Is Real" are being reissued on Burger later in 2015, Then prolly Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, Elvis for the future....can't decide which yet thou.

Q: Any parting words?
Indie rock sucks. Eat pussy. Smoke weed. Shoot cops. All good boys deserve fudge. All you need is love. All in all is all we are
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lovecop.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ones
www.lolipoprecords.com
www.gnartapes.com
www.facebook.com/thelovecop/photos_stream

Dirty Pennies with Hollow Trees - An Interview

Um verdadeiro supergrupo psych é o Hollow Trees.

Só pra você sentir o drama, Bob Mustachio (ex Warlocks), Christian Bland (Black Angels Reveletors). Andy Olmsted, Luke Dawson, Payton Funk,, Ramiro Verdooren e Cristian Sigler forma o Hollow Trees.

Melhor não ficar perdendo tempo com comentário e explicações teóricas, o Hollow Trees tocou recentemente no Levitation em sua casa, Austin e dizem que foi insano e delirante, acredito mesmo.

Que venha o álbum.

***** Interview with Hollow Trees *****

Q. When did Hollow Trees starts, tell us about the history...
We played our first show 2 years ago at austin psych fest. Andy and I started playing music together after I quit playing drums in The Warlocks and moved to Austin. He is an amazing guy and a great drummer, and I had a bass, and some ideas for songs floating around for in my head for a number of years. It was fun and our friendship kept it that way

As we continued to play in our spare time, we have added close friends, who also happen to be amazing musicians. Now, we are up to 7 members!

Q: Who are your influences?
There is a lesson to be learned in everything, and everything I have experienced has influenced me.

Q. Made a list of 5 albums of all time…
If I could only listen to one record for the rest of my life, it might be The Beatles White Album, it covers a lot of musical ground.

Q. How do you fell playing live?
Unlike playing the drums, playing bass and singing is not something I have been doing for 30+ years, so I get really nervous and excited before a show, which I have not felt since high school. It like free drugs...

Q. How do you describe Hollow Trees sounds?
Minimal, fuzzy, rhythmatic and obscured by Dark Shadows.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We are lucky enough to have a 8 track tape machine in our practice space. So we get to experiment a bit. We have not recorded in a proper studio as of yet.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
You will know them when you hear them. It takes less than nanosecond to recognize good music.

Q: What´s the plans for future...
After Levitation, we will finish some records and keep playing as much as possible!

Q: Any parting words?
Just want to say Thank You!
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https://soundcloud.com/hollowtrees

A Storm In Heaven with The Watchmakers - An Interview

Da mítica cidade inglesa Manchester vem os comboio psicodélico The Watchmakers.

Conexões com Madchester e psicodelismo clássico são evidentes. Os caras entraram de cabeça na fusão de ritmos hipnóticos e ao mesmo tempo dançantes levitando os seus seguidores e fazendo um belo barulho por onde andam passando.

Propício para uma bela e boa trip, boa viagem.

***** Interview with The Watchmakers *****

Q. When did The Watchmakers started, tell us about the history...
We formed in 2012/13 in Manchester from the ashes of other musical projects when Adam (Guitar) joined Rich (Guitar / Vox) and Ian (Drums) to jam song ideas in Manchester. We recorded a few demo's and played a couple of gigs in 2012 and 2013 before Andy (Bass Player) joined in 2013 to compete current line up.

Q: Who are your influences?
We have loads of influences but I'd say our shared influences would be The Verve, The Beatles and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Personally speaking some other bands that have influenced my writing over the last few years are The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, LOVE, Spiritualized, Primal Scream, Tame Impala, White Fence, Black Angels ,The Horrors, Woods and The National.

Q. Make a list of 5 albums of all time…
The Beatles - Revolver
The Verve - A Storm In Heaven
Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentleman We Are Floating In Space
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Love - Forever Changes

If I could have 6 I'd pick 'High Violet' by The National!!

Q. How do you feel playing live?
We love playing live. We have a huge live sound and the songs take on an energy and life of their own. It's a buzz to see people getting into them and we feed off that on stage.

Q. How do you describe The Watchmakers sounds?
Driving grooves drenched in shimmering waves of synths & fuzz with euphoric melodies.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs?
It always starts with a drum track down as the foundation. We'll then then add Bass and layer with synths / strings and ambient sounds before Adam and myself record the guitars and vocals and any other overdubs.

We record everything ourselves in our studio or at Adam's house so it's often a fairly long process from start to finish - especially for Adam who also mixes the tracks. We find doing it ourselves gives us more opportunity to experiment and get the sound spot on without the time and cost restraints when you are paying for a studio.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended
At the moment I'm digging Hinds from Spain, The Babe Rainbow from Australia and Sunflower Bean from Brooklyn. We've also played a couple of gigs with Blossoms from Stockport have just had an amazing year and are worth checking out.

Q: Which bands would you love to make a cover version of?
We've covered The Beatles 'She Said She Said' and the Stone Roses 'All Across The Sands' at our live shows in the past. I'd like to cover The Stone Roses 'Tightrope' or Spiritualized 'I think I'm in love' at some point in the future. I'd also like to put our spin on something more obscure or that sounds nothing like us. Let's go for White Town - 'Your Woman' !!

Q: What´s the plan for the future....
We have some exciting shows coming up this Summer such as Kendal Calling & Secret Garden Party Festival then we'll hopefully be releasing an E.P in the autumn with some shows across the UK and maybe Europe to promote that.

So more hard work rehearsing, recording and writing really...

Q: Any parting words?
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day!
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http://www.thewatchmakers.co.uk
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Watchmakers
https://soundcloud.com/thewatchmakers/sets/the-watchmakers