Simply Saucer Announces Descension to the Midwest
posted Thursday May 8th, 2008
Canadian psychedelic pioneers Simply Saucer have recently announced dates for a short US tour next month, and with all the promise of their dizzying proto-punk blazing through the fertile Midwest, it's probably a good idea to get your tickets early. As they had mentioned before in previous press releases, they intended to only visit cities that represented the original NHL hockey teams, but despite their national sport's universal importance, it might not translate into the best touring route for a band in their age bracket. Regardless, Simply Saucer are one of North America's true sonic powerhouses, and their ...
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Eat Skull Turns Stomachs at Twilight Bar
posted Thursday May 1st, 2008
Tonight night in Portland at the Twilight Bar & Cafe, local noise-pop hit makers Eat Skull return to the stage for a night of miscalculated mayhem after blowing minds at this year's SXSW fest, and securing their future recordings with Philadelphia-based Siltbreeze Records. It only took a few months of hushed adoration and a short string of live appearances before they captured the attention and the soiled hearts of today's punk taste makers, but at the bloodthirsty rate people are scrambling for their releases, it looks like they might already have the Midas touch. Utilizing the ...
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Crash Normal Hits the West Coast
posted Saturday Apr 26th, 2008
Crash Normal are in the midst of their pilgrimage through the West Coast this weekend making a stop tonight in Davis, California and finding themselves in Portland, Oregon next Wednesday. There's no doubt the Parisian trio have been kicking their mash-up of drum-machine, compu-fuzz and rudimentary rock'n'roll at the ears of anyone paying attention to the Francocentric Glue Wave for quite a few years now. After all, when many of us were wallowing in the mires of "garage rock," Crash Normal was smashing the old axioms of modern DIY music. As they stood over the proverbial dead ...
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Digital Leather Penetrates Philadelphia in All the Wrong Ways
posted Wednesday Apr 23rd, 2008
Monday night in historic Philadelphia at the M Room, kick the week off with an absurd and pulverizing show, baring the ugly underbelly of the electronic punk noise movement, and implementing what looks like an official FDH Records showcase. Digital Leather is one of America's most underrated, yet prolific shape-shifting bands who seem to be endlessly releasing interesting new material, along with a heap of bizarrely great side projects to fill in the gaps. With a wide range of synthesized tone bending capabilities and a nasty disposition, Digital Leather make it all look so easy, and ...
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13th Annual Blackout Fest Assembles in Athens
posted Thursday Apr 17th, 2008
As the warm spring air wafts across the country this week, with it comes the music festival season. Two of this year's earliest festivals get underway this weekend, Horrible Fest in Cleveland, and The (other) Blackout Festival in Athens, Ohio. The Blackout Festival, curated by Blackout Booking, is now in its 13th year running, and this year's line up boasts quite an array of underground acts featuring 33 bands playing today through Saturday. Thursday night starts out with an interesting act, Mishka Shubaly, who hails from Brooklyn and plays a down tempo, country/folk sound ...
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Lover! and Black & Whites Tour Rages Westward
posted Wednesday Apr 16th, 2008
Tired of that ratty stack of 80s porno mags? Why not try coming to the sounds of Lover! when they head out on tour later this week? With dates all the way from Milwaukee to Texas, and a stint on the west coast in between, there’s plenty to get excited about. A band that rightfully deserves the exclamation mark at the end of its name, Lover! is a kick-up the heels power-pop sensation from the diabolical mind of Rich Crook. The ex-Reatards/Lost Sounds/American Death Ray/current Knaughty Knights maverick offers up catchy hooks and irresistible fun times ...
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Fall-Outs and Blank Its Slide into Slabtown
posted Friday Apr 11th, 2008
The Fall-Outs are playing a show on Saturday with the Blank Its and The Pity Fucks at Slabtown in Portland. The Fall-Outs were one of the premier bands in the late 80s and early 90s that ushered in the revival of roots flavored 60s rock'n'roll. They had the perfect amalgam of twangy pop and cleverly presented musical abrasion that oddly landed them in a field that alluded to a gamut of genres, without seeming homogenized. Releasing four albums in their heyday on labels such as Sub Pop, Estrus, and Super Electro, The Fall-Outs seemed ...
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Dutchess And The Duke Friday at the Dubliner in Seattle
posted Thursday Apr 10th, 2008
Friday night in Seattle at the Dubliner, come on out to witness the spectacle of one of the Pacific Northwest's best new bands, The Dutchess And The Duke, as they harmonically slay their peers with an impeccably moving set. With the fun and impossibly great promise of good times the Fe Fi Fo Fums and the Flying Dutchmen delivered over the past few years, it's somewhat of a shock when you warm up to the sultry and heartfelt delivery of Jesse Lortz (of both the Fums and the Dutchmen) and Kimbery Morrison's (thee Dutchess from the ...
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It's Radio Time!
In this ever-changing world where entertainment lays closely between the hearts and groins of millions of music fanatics, it is impossible to stay on top of what is going on around us. With thousands upon thousands of bands forming, recording and breaking up before they even see the light of day, often their reach for the minions of faceless audiences the world over comes up short and they disband before the brilliance of their output is recognized beyond the ears of their immediate cronies. And that's a crime. Victimoftime.com is a website dedicated to spotlighting the aural underdog. Through a ...
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