If you're one of the fortunate people who attended The Rabid Whole's CD release party at the Bovine in Toronto, Canada last night, then you've already experience this awesome new album. If you missed the show, then we have a super treat for you in the form of this exclusive world premiere of the band's latest album Refuge , due out May 1st, 2012 via Boonsdale Records. Recorded and produced by Karl Schubach (Misery Signals, Solace), mixed by Dave Ogilvie (Jakalope, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and mastered by Noah Mintz (Broken Social Scene, Death From Above ...

Trees On Fire is a day festival run by the people behind 2000 Trees Festival and the record label "I Started The Fire Records" and at the Spring Fling edition there were many artists there who would also be playing later in the summer. The first band I saw was Run, WALK!. They're a bass guitar and drum duo, so I guess you could draw comparisons to Death From Above 1979. The bassist/singer was great, playing cho... Read more..

Visit Indie Shuffle to download. Sounds like: Death From Above 1979, The Rapture, Crystal Castles, LCD Soundsystem Song: DZ Deathrays - No Sleep [download here ] What's so good? If you’re listening to DZ Deathrays, I would advise you to play them loud. Very loud. Apologize to your mother, shut your door, and twist that volume knob. DZ Deathrays are Shane Parsons on guitar and vocals, Simon Ridley on drums, and a hell of a lot of distortion. Australia’s been experiencing a bit of a punk revival in the last couple of years, and DZ Deathrays’ Bloodstreams is a ...

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases New Romantic The release of dance-rock trio Lioness ' debut LP the Golden Killer last week has been four years in the making, but it seems the timing is perfect, as their hometown of Toronto becomes known for shelling out dark, moody artists (think the Weeknd , Austra , Trust ) But Lioness have been on the drama-dance kick since releasing their debut EP in 2008, springing out of the same mid-2000s rush of dance punk from the likes of Death from Above 1979 , Crystal Castles and You Say Party . Started by bassist Ronnie Morris and ...

Category:  MP3 Blog Summary:  With the debut Huoratron album out this week, we've got a download of one of the tracks The Finnish producer, Huoratron's debut album is out this week, so we've got a download of one of the tracks, 'Bug Party'. Hailing from the deepest, darkest corner of Scandinavia, Huoratron is the latest artist to watch from Last Gang Records, home to Crystal Castles, DFA 1979, Boys Noize and more. Download 'Bug Party' below. ‘Cryptocracy' is out April 24 Gallery Options Face book Logo on Gallery On:  "" Enter the Competition:  "" Vote for this Photo:  "" Include ...

Currently touring nationally, Shane Parsons and Simon Ridley from DZ Deathrays discuss strobe lights, house parties and ‘NME’ hype with DARREN LEVIN . DZ Deathrays and Bleeding Knees Club may share little in common aesthetically – the former plays a punishing brand of party-rock not unlike early Wolf & Cub or DFA 1979, while the latter dabbles in bratty surf-garage – but their career paths have taken an uncannily similar trajectory. Both duos cut their teeth playing house parties in their native Queensland. They signed to the same label, Melbourne’s I Oh You. They jointly appeared on NME ’s “50 Best New Bands of 2011”. And they’ve released their respective debuts within a month of each other. (DZ Deathray’s Bloodstreams came out earlier this month while Nothing To Do by Bleeding Knees was released in early March.) When M+N caught up with DZ’s Simon Ridley and Shane Parsons at the South Melbourne offices of their label in February, they were about to head back overseas for showcase dates in Europe and the States. Down the hall in a separate boardroom, Bleeding Knees Club were gearing up to do the same thing. So do they get lumped in together overseas? “A little bit,” says singer-guitarist Parsons, laughing. “It must be the two-piece thing.” Ridley, the band’s guitarist-turned-drummer, has another theory. People who aren’t from Queensland, he jokes, have a problem distinguishing between their adopted hometown of Brisbane and Bleeding Knees Club’s native Gold Cast. The pair, however, originally hail from Bundaberg, only forming the band when they were sharing a house together in Brisbane. They started playing house parties under the name Denzel, but it was soon shortened to DZ, initially as a private joke. “We called it DZ because it sounded more like a hip-hop troupe,” Ridley jokes. DZ released only one EP, 2009 debut Ruined My Life , before a clash with a US dub-step producer forced yet another name change . Adding “Deathrays” to their moniker in 2011, the band released a second EP, Brutal Tapes , all the while becoming renowned for their seizure-inducing live shows. Is the strobe lighting still a big part of what you do? Simon: When we can, yeah. We don’t really do it so much for supports or anything – that’d be weird … It’s just douche-y if you’re the support and you’ve got an entire lighting rig. [ Laughs ] So the strobes are more than just a DIY box on the ground? Simon: Well, now I use a laptop and a foot controller. That’s another thing that takes fucking ages, because we set it all up and run it all ourselves. Shane: It’s a whole bunch of scenes that Simon changes by hitting the pedal. We write a set with the lights in mind. We only do it for headline sets because it takes 20-30 minutes just to set it up. You can’t do that for supports. Touring with that must be hard. Shane: It’s OK for the UK because you drive everywhere, but in Australia we fly, so you can’t really take lighting. At Laneway in Brisbane they had a lighting guy who kinda knew the gist of the band. [ Laughs ] I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone in Brisbane who didn’t know the gist of the band. Shane: It’s weird because last year we did a show and the turnout was less than expected … We haven’t actually played that much in Brisbane. We spent three months of last year overseas. We haven’t been doing hometown shows, so it’s been really good recently: we did [shows with] Crystal Castles and Fucked Up, and Laneway. And Foo Fighters, of course [in 2011]. I guess you’re sick of talking about it though. Simon: No way, that was amazing. I could talk about it all day. Was it one of those scenarios where the big international rock band was too busy Skype-ing their kids to engage with the local supports? Simon: Well, the only guys we ended up really talking to were Fucked Up and some of the Tenacious D guys. We got to meet the Foo Fighters once. They had bodyguards that you had to get clearance from. It got really weird at one stage. They have this meeting room for VIPs, and we were in there trying to steal some of their booze because we ran out of ours. When Dave [Grohl] came in, there were literally all these people grabbing at him. We thought, “This is fucking weird! We have to get out of here!” … The best bit was the food catering. We’d get in really early so we could get free lunches. You mean you don’t get food riders in Brisbane? [ Laughter ] It’s interesting that new single ‘No Sleep’ premiered on BBC Radio 1 in the UK, rather than here. Was that a product of spending so much time over there [last year]? Shane: When we were over there the second time we did a live session [for BBC] at Maida Vale Studios, so it was pretty incredible that they asked us to do that. Simon: Really bizarre. Being in there and knowing Metallica and Radiohead recorded there. [ Laughter ] Shane: It was the end of the tour as well, so we were haggard. We’d done 22 shows in a row, and we’re not used to doing that because we’re an Australian band. People like [BBC presenter] Huw Stephens have been really supportive. Did the NME write-up have any impact on the momentum in the UK? Simon: Yeah, definitely. As much as everyone hates it, if you get mentioned in there, people still abide by it for some reason. Shane: It’s got such a huge following. Now, they’re so vibrant online. They just need to put a link up … and it goes crazy. The NME thing was really nuts. We never sent any music to them … They came to a show in Brighton and did a review of it. We did a two-hour interview with a guy [from NME ] in Liverpool. We just sat down and had some beers at the end of our first UK tour. Since then they’ve kept in contact. Is ‘No Sleep’ indicative of how the record sounds? Shane: I think the reason we chose that [as a single] is because it’s a bridging step from the upbeat rock of the EP and the moments on the record that are a little different. There are some slower songs and stuff that’s more atmospheric in some ways. Simon: We do write stuff that’s different to what we play live. We just don’t play it live because it’s boring. Shane: And sometimes it’s too hard. I have a pedal that’s a sequencer so it’s all perfectly timed. Doing it live is difficult. Using laptops and click tracks – we just don’t do that. We’ll probably end up trying to do it. Where’d you record the album? Simon: We recorded it at Mount Nebo [in Queensland] where we did some of the other songs on the last EP. We got Richard [Pike] from PVT to come up and produce it. What was it like working with Richard? Simon: It was good. He pushed us. We’re pretty lazy when it comes to recording. Three takes max. [ Laughs ] Shane: Richard really pushed me vocally. I would never class myself as a good singer, so it was good to have him pushing me to hit notes properly. It was relentless. I’d spend three hours singing one verse just to get it right. It was a good learning curve. We were able to add some synths to some songs, to give it a bit more of a dynamic and add colour to what’s essentially just guitars and drums. Did he play on the record? Shane: He did a synth line on ‘Play Dead Until You’re Dead’. It’s a really swell-y sort of song all the way up until the end until it blows up. He wrote this descending keyboard part, which sounds really awesome, because it’s so unexpected. For another slow song we wrote some synths on his laptop. Were you really intent on separating what you do live from what you do in the studio? Simon: I think this is just the first time we’ve been able to go into a cool studio and do stuff that we’ve wanted to do. Also, we wanted someone that would take us outside our comfort zone; to push us in ways that we wouldn’t have normally. Shane: Just subtle things like, “You should stop everything there. Just to give air to the song.” You just bypass that song because you’re totally focused on getting through the song without stuffing up. That’s the good thing about having someone ...

We at PureGrainAudio are extremely pleased to release a free download of the brand new The Rabid Whole song "Future". It comes off the group's newest album Refuge , which is set for release on May 1st, 2012 via Boonsdale Records. The album was recorded and produced by Karl Schubach (Misery Signals, Solace), mixed by Dave Ogilvie (Jakalope, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson) and mastered by Noah Mintz (Broken Social Scene, Death From Above 1979).

Exhilarated beyond belief, Justice throw their digits at Death From Above 1979s’ ‘Blood On Our Hands,’ socializing Toronto’s Jesse F. Keeler (MSTRKRFT) & Al-P (Girlsareshort) to the heavens capitals. Joyous in the fact of Jesse & Sebastien’s previous band Death … Continue reading →

Exhilarated beyond belief, Justice throw their digits at Death From Above 1979s’ ‘Blood On Our Hands,’ socializing Toronto’s Jesse F. Keeler (MSTRKRFT) & Al-P (Girlsareshort) to the heavens capitals. Joyous in the fact of Jesse & Sebastien’s previous band Death … Continue reading →

I don’t normally post about single reissues, but this DFA1979 album (on pink!) is one of my vinyl collecting white whales. I’ve only run across this album once and it wasn’t for sale. However, I might do a little begging this April because You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine is getting a Canada-only reissue on [...]

Over the coming weeks we'll be focusing a lot on Record Store Day and the many releases lined up for the annual event, however, one announcement has really caught our eyes today, and made us wish we lived in Canada. Last Gang Records have announced that the only full length album made by Toronto duo Death From Above 1979 will be getting a vinyl reissue for RSD2012. Limited to just 1000 copies on pink vinyl, this is officially the fittest looking release lined up for April 21st thus far. There is a catch, the LP will only be sold ...

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1,000 copies printed on pink vinyl.

I have another track off Felix Cartal’s upcoming full-length album Different Faces (dropping March 27th) for you today. 30,000 LFOs is definitely the loudest, hardest track of the entire album. Compared to the relatively serene H.U.N.T., Cartal’s collaboration with Sebastien Grainger of DFA 1979 fame, 30,000 LFOs is like a sonic A-Bomb. Check out the [...] No related posts.

Dim Mak veteran Felix Cartal will be releasing a 13-track full-length effort on March 27th titled Different Faces. I’m very excited to bring you today an exclusive first listen for of the first song off the album, a collaboration with DFA 1979 member Sebastien Grainger titled H.U.N.T. It follows an epic cinematic album intro track [...] Related posts: Felix Cartal – The Joker EP Felix Cartal’s releases his latest video “Black to White” Felix Cartal remixes Etienne De Crecy [stream]