Here's a look at the concerts announced this week: Crystalyne , Sneaky Dee's, Jun 2 Shearing Pinx , Danny Green's, Jun 9 Purity Ring , Wrongbar, Jun 14 Man Forever , Double Double Land, Jun 14 Tallest Man On Earth , Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Jun 15 Bravestation , The Drake Underground, Jul 7 Youth Lagoon w. Father John Misty , Opera House, Jul 12 Gaslight Anthem , Opera House, Jul 14 Saint Motel , Drake, Jul 23 Citizen Cope , The Phoenix, Jul 26 Blues Control , Parts & Labour, Jul 31

Lea and Russ return, new label, new elements but still Blues Control at heart. Valley Tangents finds a home in the ever deepening stable at Drag City and it's the duo's most expansive, varied and clearest vision yet. Just off their collaboration and subsequent tour with Laraaji, the pair have rolled out an album that throws new age, jazz, lounge and experimental touchstones in the mixer and comes out with such a seamless digestion of the pieces that it instantly feels like all of them and none of them at once. Surprisingly, for an album that feels so ...

DOWNLOAD: Blues Control - "Iron Pigs" (MP3) Blues Control at Barnard College in 2010 (more by Andrew Frisicano) Last year, psych rockers Blues Control collaborated with Laraaji and Arji for RVNG's FRKWYS series and this year they toured together. That...

Blues Control, the avant-rock duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho, originally from Queens, New York and now relocated to Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, are set to release their fourth album Valley Tangents. It drops on June 19th and it will mark their debut on City Drag. The pair have offered the first taste from Valley [...]

The Young at Bar 96 for the BV official SXSW showcase (more by Tim Griffin) The Young will kick-off a round of dates in late May with a few shows in their native Texas including Chaos in Tejas. They leave...

ein tag für die straße. nie habe ich hinterher aufgeräumt. mit den jahren kommt geruhsamkeit und ein blick für die details. ich teile weiter mit Euch, nur keine parolen mehr aus. bleibt bei der sache, freunde, es ist der 1. mai! am 11. juni wird die debut ep "let it go" auf dirty hit erscheinen, vorab möchte das junge duo aus leeds aber mit einem schmankerl aufwarten, und nichts anderes ist dieses frankie goes to hollywood cover: fossil collective : the power of love by fossil collective hinter dem projekt stecken joe reeves und darren cullen, die gemeinsam von glasgow aus ...

Blues Control, where do I know you from? Did I catch you opening for Collective">Animal Collective, once upon a time? Am I confusing your name with the commonly-used phrase, “lose control”? Couldn’t your alias also be an appropriately fitting title for a hypothetical cover band comprised of middle-aged men known for wearing their sunglasses excessively, and at unprescribed times? Clarity has come in the form of a press release, as well as our previous reporting . Essentially, if you aren’t intimately familiar with the experimental duo already, there’s a strong chance of that changing in a couple ...

Fresh off of collaborating with New Age artist Laraaji on last year's eighth installment in RVNG's FRKWYS series , NYC avant-noise duo Blues Control are readying their Drag City debut, Valley Tangents , for release on June 19. The swarming collage of "Iron Pigs" is a cut from that album. Blues Control: "Iron Pigs"

The goal of the RVNG label’s FRKWYS series—the name nods to the Folkways label founded in the late 1940s by Moses Asch to document obscure folk and world music—is to unite older musicians with their younger aesthetic offspring in order to foster a trans-generational musical dialogue between like minds. Recent projects have paired experimental psych-rock duo Blues Control with new-age music pioneer Laraaji, and young vocal-collagist Julianna Barwick with no-wave trailblazer Ikue Mori . For Icon Give Thank , the ninth installment in the ongoing FRKWYS series, contemporary Los Angeles-based producers/musicians M. Geddes Gengras and Cameron Stallones (the ...

WHAT : Motel Mozaique Festival WHEN : April 19-22 WHERE : Rotterdam, Netherlands WHO : Of Montreal, the Antlers, Bowerbirds, Light Asylum, Blues Control & Laraaji, Patrick Watson, AU, AM & Shawn Lee, Django Django, 2:54, more WHAT : Sónar Tokyo WHEN : April 21-22 WHERE : Tokyo, Japan  WHO : Squarepusher, Rustie, Mount Kimbie, Africa Hitech, Hudson Mohawke, Vincent Gallo, Clark, Teebs, the Cinematic Orchestra, more WHAT : Elita Festival WHEN : April 18-23 WHERE : Milan, Italy WHO : M83, the Field, Skrillex, Matthew Herbert, Little Dragon, Walls, Soul Clap, Richie Hawtin, Chelsea Wolfe, Mr. Scruff, Connan Mockasin, more WHAT : Rokolectiv WHEN : April 19-22 WHERE : Bucharest, Romania WHO : Hauschka, Maria Minerva ...

Upstate New York’s Black Dirt Studio , established in 2005 by No-Neck Blues Band dude Jason Meagher, has seen a lot of activity in the fairly short time it’s been around, with all sorts of great bands and labels (many likely influenced by NNCK) recording their best work within its walls. Peaking Lights, Hototogisu, Psychic Ills, the late Jack Rose, Blues Control, Expo 70, and Charalambides have all recorded there, as have artists on labels like Siltbreeze, Woodsist, Kranky, Locust, Northern-Spy, Soft Abuse, and The Social Registry. With that much concentrated heaviness permeating the place, Black Dirt had to ...

WHAT : Moon Block Party Presents: Desert Daze WHEN : April 12-22 WHERE : North Palm Springs, CA WHO : Dengue Fever, Here We Go Magic, the Fresh & Onlys, Bleached, Crystal Antlers, Dead Meadow, Young Prisms, the Entrance Band, the Soft Pack, Cosmonauts, more WHAT :  Snowbombing WHEN : April 9-14 WHERE : Mayrhofen, Austria  WHO : DJ Shadow, Dizzee Rascal, Booka Shade, Fatboy Slim, Jungle Brothers, Lindstrom, the Vaccines, Crookers, more WHAT : Bridgetown Comedy Festival WHEN : April 12-15 WHERE : Portland, OR WHO : Todd Barry, Tim Heidecker, Maria Bamford, Jeanane Garofalo, Doug Benson, Jon Glaser, Todd Glass, Steve Agee, Horatio Sanz, Mary Lynn Rasjkub, more WHAT :  Festival Electrónica en Abril WHEN : April 12-15; April 19-21 WHERE : Madrid, Spain; Barcelona, Spain WHO : Manuel Göttsching performing E2-E4 , THEESatisfaction, Blues Control & Laraaji, Pete Swanson, Hype Williams, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Nate Young, more

The rock duo known as Blues Control has issued releases on a number of esteemed imprints. Drag City will outfit their next LP, Valley Tangents. A recent press release from the label verifies the the collection will arrive on June, 19 2012. The duo has yet to reveal details on the dates and locations of [...]

by Andrew Frisicano Psychedelic duo Blues Control collaborated with zither master Laraaji (known for the Brian Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance) and musician Arji Cakouros for a release that was part of RVNG's FRKWYS series in November. The quartet...

Last year, ambient soundscape artists Blues Control recorded an album, titled FRKWYS Vol. 8, with Brian Eno collaborator Laraaji—best known for his 1980 album Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. Tonight, the group will the music for the first time alongside Laraaji, with a two-set performance taking pl...