photo: Kelsi Carpenter NYC noise pop trio GHXST will be on tour in the UK in June. They are sharing Doom Girl as a free taste of the new material they are currently working on. Think a mix between Dinosaur Jr and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Live dates: 06/15 DJ Set at Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London 06/16 DJ Set at Topman Oxfrod Street, London 06/17 Green Door Store, Brighton 06/20 The Old Blue Last, London 06/21 Kraak Gallery, Manchester 06/22 Birthdays, London 06/23 Oakford Social Club, Reading » ghxstmusic.com

Playing essentially the same set list from their South By Southwest showcase, legendary Scottish band Jesus and Mary Chain played a show that illustrated perfect examples of what is best and worst about these types of reunions. The Jesus and Mary Chain played Rotunda 3 in the KowlownBay International Trade and Exhibition Centre, which is basically a glorified mall. In case you were wondering, Rotunda 3 is not the name of some cool bar, it’s actually the third rotunda on … →

You have to love a band like San Diego’s Crocodiles for being able to channel their obvious influences (Jesus & Mary Chain / Echo & the Bunnymen / Spacemen 3) into creating a sound that mines this genre without sounding derivative. San Diego’s Crocodiles are releasing their third disc, Endless Flowers , on June 5th on Frenchkiss Records which is a ten-track (42 minute) slab of psychedelic, fuzzed-out garage rock. Note: for vinyl junkies, there is a limited edition LP pressing on red/white marble vinyl available through Souterrain Transmissions' Web Store . Recorded in Berlin last summer, Endless Flowers is the first album ...

The members of Fawn are not only talented musicians, but design their own record covers, photography, posters, websites, and video treatments. They've assembled an excitingly well-versed group to showcase the sound of New Detroit through the prisms of such 90's touchstones as Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies, Sleater-Kinney, The Breeders, and Juliana Hatfield, alongside modern influences like Yuck or The New Pornographers. Check out this free download of the new song "Pixels".

Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of Sweden’s I Break Horses may or may not be fans of Smog, but either way, the sonic offerings on their debut album “Hearts” is far from anything one would liken to Bill Callahan. Their shoegaze influences are obvious (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Jesus & Mary Chain), but the electronic [...]

Black Tambourine OneTwoThreeFour [EP] [Slumberland; 2012] by Alex R Wilson Rating: These days, everybody seems to be getting back together. Whether it’s something in the air, this current generation’s infatuation with yesteryear (late 80s/early 90s reboot, now with less Skidz ), current project purgatory, reconciliation of feuding members, or boredom, there is little to indicate exactly why everyone is giving their old projects a second (or third) go. Maybe it’s for money; maybe it’s a way to reinsert their place in history — the case varies from band to band. None of these reasons really fit the ...

In bizarre news, rock musician Jack White has fired some shots at a very unlikely source, the Guinness Book of World Records . Yes, you read that correctly. In a conversation with Interview magazine, White brought up a "secret" show that he performed in Canada while he was still a part of the White Stripes with Meg White where they played a single note, therefore claiming the "Shortest Concert of All-Time" record. However, when White contacted Guiness to include the performance in their record books, the attempt was denied. "The thing is, though, that the Guinness book is a very elitist ...

Virna Lindt The Windmills Of Your Mind Virna Lindt The Dossier on Virna Lindt Virna Lindt Attention Stockholm The Woodentops Get It On Before Portishead and other vitamin-D deficient Anglophone producers set to a wholesale plundering of the work of film composers  John Barry and Bernard Hermann , in turn giving the world the unwelcome gift of Trip Hop and the adjective "cinematic" as a critical term denoting the addition of vinyl pop & hiss sounds and postmodern ennui - the equivalent of a sepia filter (or hey, Instagram!) - a relatively gorgeous Swede translator by the name of Virna Lindt  infused the icy cold archness & languid irony of Cristina and Amanda Lear (ex-models' musical output, a genre unto itself) with human warmth and her own appreciation of the big-room orchestral pop of soundtracks gone by. The three songs here don't accurately represent the range of Ms. Lindt's output - the lumbering cover of Michel Lagrand's The Windmills of Your Mind , the absurd dead-eyed naivete of  The Dossier on Virna Lindt , and  finally, her Tot Taylor-produced debut single, Attention Stockholm -  virtually a template for 3/4 the output of  Belle and Sebastien ...  Great songs, yes, but there are other songs, more adventurous, sort of like Sparks and Yello Magic Orchestra, especially on 1985 Play/Record, which was, predictably, a hit in Japan. Had Lindt's influence been felt more deeply, Trip Hop might have a more noble pedigree and not reached its nauseating limit in the studied melancholy of Mono's 1996 sap-fest Life in Mono   The song, a barely concealed rewrite of The Windmills of Your Mind , was a prominent part of (the not-unloveable overwrought) fever dream melodrama of Alfonso Cuarón 's film adaptation of Great Expectations .  Or not...  Who knows if we would have been spared the existence of Black Box Recorder - an ignoble and wholly reprehensible musical clusterfuck that has forever tarred the name of Jesus & Mary Chain 's John Moore .  (The wholly calculated effort to get famous and to get into Sarah Nixey 's pants succeeded on one count, at least.) But Trip Hop will continue to live on forever, along with drum & bass, in the scores of police procedurals on American network television, and in the dusty CD-piles buried in the back of a closet by Unmarried Women of a Certain Age. Note: When I think of Dickens style of writing, I think of the Book of Mormon, a tedious a Holy Book as I've ever read...  An entire post-Christian mythology written by a group of autistic people sitting around a table playing Exquisite Corpse - and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass, and so it came to pass... I've spent countless hours, if not days, searching through the Trouser Press , dollar bins and the back-alleys of Discogs.com , and it's very rare that I come across a chart-topping song or artist in the new wave/post-new wave pop genre that I've got no familiarity with.  (Even rarer that I actually enjoy the song).  In this case, I came across the Woodentops in Oliver Assayas ' 1986 film Disorder - a film that presents with weightier issues than those that make up a subgenre of post-punk trainspotting films- the Clash's  Rude Boy , Penelope Spheeris ' Decline of Western Civilization and Suburbia .  As anthropological curios & points of reference for context-hungry teens they serve their purpose -  as an illuminating or even halfway interesting piece of art, not as much.  Assayas' meditation on the corrosive of guilt and murder without consequence , each in their own way, are Cliff-notes Dostoevsky for their respective class/subculture. This song shares the same manic urgency of  The Feelies  or  Human Switchboard , but has more adventurous production and instrumentation.  The obvious touchstone for Rolo McGinty's brashly confident voice is Echo & The Bunnymen 's Will Sergeant. Alright, it's back to R&B; for a little while, so I don't end up investigating bands that shared bills with the Housemartins .

Riot Fest has announced has announced an initial line-up that includes Elvis Costello, Iggy and the Stooges and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Chicago’s Riot [...]

Irregardless of what the moniker IO ECHO  may intimate of Italian origin the LA-based, "New Orientalism" pairing comprising Ioanna Gika and Big Pink bassist Leopold Ross effectuate something eerily devoid of both place and time on When The Lilies Die. Like a sinister Pet Shop Boys predatorily gnawing a chink in The Jesus & Mary Chain, it's a recording that is barely short of perfect. Io Echo's Soundcloud .

The organizers of Chicago's Riot Fest have announced the first wave of bands that will be playing the festival, including Iggy & the Stooges, Elvis Costello , Descendents , The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gaslight Anthem , Coheed and Cambria , Dropkick Murphys , NOFX , and a reunion from Chicago ska-punk act Slapstick , among many others. The festival will take place September 14th - 16th, at the Congress Theater and Humboldt Park. Tickets are on sale now.

Last year, the video's co-director Ryan Henriquez was directing a web series on the making of Deer Tick's last album Divine Providence in Providence, RI. Ryan spent several days with the band and the album's two producers, Adam Landry and Justin Collins, both of whom were interviewed for the series. During a break from recording, Justin Collins played Ryan the demo for "All The Beer Is Gone" by The Buddies, a band in which Justin sings and plays guitar, comprised of members from Chicago and Justin's hometown of Nashville. Ryan's mind was instantly blown by ...

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Self-directed clip inspired by duo’s favorite David Lynch, Tim Burton films. +++ Lux (L-R): Leah Rosen and David Chandler. Photo by The Ripper. +++ PLAY, POST & SHARE “The Window” by Lux is “…a perfect fit for your summer mix” – KEXP “Song of The Day” ( LINK )   [SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/lux-the-window   [VIDEO]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAgshevQ3yc [MP3]: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/projects/lux/mp3/lux-thewindow.mp3   +++   "...emulating their musical heroes with intoxicating enthusiasm.  It's a total charmer." - Black Book Seattle-based duo Lux has revealed the video for “The Window” from its debut album We Are Not The ...

photo: Luiza Ongelofelijk Amsterdam based post-punk disco house band Wooden Constructions took their time putting together their new album People Now People . They released two free tracks over the last couple of months to get a buzz going. It's quirky and all over the place: a bit of the Talking Heads, Sisters of Mercy, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pavement, Television and then some. Try dancing to it and you wil be on the wrong foot before you know it. People Now People is an album mashing up jangly guitar pop with a stuttering back beat that is hard ...