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Thrushes - Into The Woods
Boys Lie - In Your Eyes
TaxLo Muxtape
Bonde Do Role - Melo Do Tabacco (XXXChange remix)
The Death Set - Impossible (Etan remix)
DJ Sega - Action News
The Old Haunts - Volatile
Future Islands - Nu Autobahn
Fresh from a band meeting in the forest which appears to have been extremely fruitful, Thrushes offer you new videos, remixes, merch, interviews, you name it. Was pretty sure we told you they won't stop (or did Steve tell you that)?
Bmore's top fuzzpop heaters recently dropped an open challenge to friends and fans to remix their hit song "Heartbeats" from 2K7's Sun Come Undone - they picked their favorites and SĒN Baltimore has been posting two new tracks every day this week...New blog on the block Aural States recently made a house call for tea and crisps with the gang to talk about a sophomore LP which might be ready this summer...And you can watch locally grown videos or feather your merch nest over at the Thrushes general store.
Thrushes - Into The Woods
What did we miss?
Bmore artists playing local shows over the next seven days include, but are not limited to: Dan Deacon, Videohippos, Ponytail, Monarch, Thrushes, Ecstatic Sunshine, Jones, Shields, Height, Double Dagger, Thank You, Tall Grass, Television Hill and The Heavycoats. Here's a super quick rundown:
Dan Deacon - Snake Mistakes
Videohippos - Kool Shades
Height - Bad Weather
Shields - Boom
Jones - Too Dope
Ecstatic Sunshine - Little Big Dipper
The Tall Grass - Ring and Ring
Ram Ones (Dan Deacon and Connor Kizer) - Portals
Also at The Talking Head:
Saturday 11/17 - Thrushes and Bang! Bang!
Thrushes - Into The Woods
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At The Ottobar:
Tuesday 11/13 - VHS or Beta, Moving Units, The Heavycoats
The Heavycoats - Sea Song (link from Instrumental Analysis)
Wednesday 11/14 - Melt Banana, Hex Machine, Double Dagger, The Jons
Double Dagger - The Psychic
Monday 11/19 - Black Dice, Pissed Jeans, Ponytail and WZT Hearts
Ponytail - Lion Down
At Lo-Fi Social Club:
Monday 11/19 - Monarch, Oppenheimer
Monarch - Please Concrete
So which ones are you going to? All of them? And you ate a whole wheel of cheese?
Next Saturday Chicago's Bang! Bang! will be at The Talking Head hosting a vinyl release party for their The Dirt that Makes You Drown LP along with Bmore shoegaze darlings Thrushes. Leave us a comment using either the word "bang" or "thrushes" in any context of your choice, or just write a nice haiku about the smell of library books, and you will be magically entered to win something from the following bucket of happiness:
- 2 guest list spots to the show
- 2 vinyl LPs of “The Dirt that Makes You Drown”
- 2 EPs of Bang! Bang!'s "Electric Sex"
- 2 Thrushes "Sun Come Undone" CDs
- 2 super awesome show posters signed by Thrushes (below)
Bang! Bang! - She Came From Outer Space
Thrushes - Aidan Quinn
Thanks to Casey from Thrushes and Morphius Records for the happy fun prize packs. Hint: you might also specify in your comment which part of the bucket of happiness you're aiming for.
Baltimore is known for its all-inclusive bootstrap DIY indie spirit - and with the number of startup artists, labels and legit/underground venues climbing faster than the city's body count (200+ this year, watch your back Detroit), we had plenty of gems to choose from for the first part of this series.
And yes, everyone that lives here wears neon fanny packs and likes to dance in sweaty sardine cans.
1. Among Wolves - Sleep and Dream
2. OCDJ - Pls Stp Th Hstl
3. Small Sur - Big Sur
4. Thrushes - Aidan Quinn
5. Brian Adam Ant - Holy Hell
6. Shields - Boom
7. Santa Dads - You Don't Know
8. The Death Set - Impossible (Dan Deacon Remix)
9. Ecstatic Sunshine - Little Big Dipper
10. Beach House - Master of None
11. Cex - Baltimore
12. Ponytail - Lion Down
13. The Oranges Band - If These Stars Are Struck
14. Double Dagger - The Psychic
15. Basshound - Aerodynamic (Daft Punk jam cover, live)
16. Video Hippos - Kool Shades
17. Dan Deacon - Wham City
18. Jakuta and Carl - 31 And Luving It
Wha:
Among Wolves provides the perfect Grizzly Beach Boy/House harmonies to start and end your days...OCDJ makes sounds on laptop, guitar, kalimba, euphonium, bangs drums, shakes things, cites Master Blaster as a major influence...Small Sur is instantly familiar fire circle hymns...Thrushes are murky shoeglazed pop masters...Brian Adam Ant is psychedilifolk that doesn't sound like Neutral Milk Hotel...Shields drops stuttery butter for fans of Prefuse and Madlib...we'll get to some of his counterparts including Jones and Height next...Santa Dads are beatboxing ukelele costume kidz...The Death Set are brilliant noise...Ecstatic Sunshine are superbad instruminimalists...you already know and love the mazzed out Beach House...Cex changes skins regularly around experimental laptop hop...Pontytail will bite your face...The Oranges Band define their sound as "rock" so...Double Dagger will bite your leg...Basshound are a jam band that occasionally covers Daft Punk for the kids at CBGB...everybody thinks it's crazy...Video Hippos and Dan Deacon are well-known Wham City clan types and Jakuta and Carl are electronic clap clap clap clap.
Let us know who you dig.
So be warned that recreational use of Sun Come Undone may quickly become a daily habit - Thrushes' debut is a sonic fix to savor, shaking, knees to chin on the high school locker room floor between cathartic cold/hot blasts of pedals and cymbals.
1. Thrushes are playing at Ottobar this Wednesday with Stereo Total (Berlin) and The Octopus Project (Austin)
2. You can win a guest list spot to the show plus Thrushes merch - Sun Come Undone CD, Birdnote shirt and a hug from guitarist Casey - by leaving a comment on this post (first local comment wins)
3. Second place prize is a Sun Come Undone CD (you can be from anywhere!)
Note: the first contest is over but now we're doing another drawing on Tuesday afternoon for 2 more CDs, so leave a comment to enter. If you already left a comment you're in.
Thrushes - Into The Woods
The Octopus Project - I Saw The Bright Shinies
Stereo Total - Miss Rebellion Des Hormones
Instrumental Analysis also has a new demo track here. And of course Covert Curiosity, always ahead of the blurve, reviewed them in February. Buy Sun Come Undone here.
Thrushes should open the show around 9pm. We had a quick group echat with the shoegaze songbirds earlier this week:
BT: You know when it's time to put on Sun Come Undone...to escape your mind on a drive, bury your head in the mattress after a long day, etc. So I'm curious, what was your escape music during the tumultuous times of high school?
Casey - I wore out a few cassettes multiple times in high school, namely: SY-“Daydream Nation”, “Siamese Dream”, Fugazi – “Repeater”, “Rites of Spring” – “End on End” , The The- “dusk”, J Church- “Camels, Spilled, Coronas…”
Rachel - a lot of elastica and blur for me. But Surfer Rosa always reminds me of driving around with friends...with nowhere to go, maybe 7-11
Anna - in high school, I liked garbage, stone temple pilots, and nirvana. Blur and Oasis, though public enemies, played side by side in my bedroom.
Ryan - My teen years were The Verve- A Storm in Heaven (an absolute masterpiece). You can get lost in that album. Jesus and Mary Chain, Fugazi. I always hear people talk about the first time the heard Nirvana and how it changed their life. I never understood why. But Fugazi- 13 Songs was definitely that moment for me. Peter Gabriel- Passion is still my all time favorite album.
Casey - When I was in the 10th grade I went to Seattle with my grandparents and I made them stop at the Sub Pop store so I could get it on vinyl.
Rachel - I know I've listened to a bit of Sunny Day Real Estate in my life but don't have any recollection of the sound of their first record.
Anna - Nope. never had it.
BT: You've been compared a lot to the shoegaze heavy hitters, but what do you listen to?
Casey - Surprisingly we don’t listen to much shoegaze at all apart from the Jesus and Mary Chain. Staples on road trips are the 60’s girl groups. The Ronettes are the absolute peak of the form. We also love the Crystals, Shangri-La’s, Supremes as well as doo-wop and early rock and roll. I really enjoy bluegrass, country & western, blues, basically any kind of old timey American music.
Rachel - I think we listen to a lot of music you wouldn't expect? Anna and I have our thing for Nelly Fertado and JT...a NON-guilty pleasure...dance party anyone?
Anna - I love The Cars and any Heart song. 80's ballad rock, too.
Ryan - Old soul music. There is still so much of it that hasn't seen the light of day.
BT: Bonus fun fact?
Casey- We get these gnarly fake teeth out of the quarter toy machines at rest stops and make faces at other drivers and stuff.
BT: Favorite Baltimore haunt?
Casey- Club Charles and for some strange reason I’m really looking forward to going back to the Talking Head
Rachel - Does haunt mean bar? Club Charles.
Anna - I haven't been haunting much lately, but I suppose I like the club charles or rocket to venus.
Ryan - Club Charles for sure.
BT: Lost in Translation anyone? (our favorite)
Rachel - I was Charlotte for Halloween a few years ago. And Anna and I love saying "Herp me! Herp me Mista Hallis!" "Lip my stocking!" Needless to say: Love the movie.
Anna - Lost in Translation is one of my favorites. It's so bittersweet.
Ryan - I LOVE lost in translation. I never thought a Jesus and Mary Chain song would be the highlight of a feature film. One day I want to write soundtracks.
Death in Vegas - Girls
Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven (from Diary)
