STREAM: “Nauseous”

MP3: “Tumble Down”

Attention Public,

After careful, weeklong consideration, Terry Malts (San Francisco, CA) have decided to go forth and record a debut LP as per the request of Slumberland Records. Displaying a slick, intelligent take on modern chainsaw pop, TIME certainly lives up to its name!

The wrong turns that led us here: a 6-song cassette (Log Lady; 2010, now in its second pressing), and two 7″ singles (both Slumberland; 2011).

Who is/are/was/will be Terry Malts? A yellow-pages private dick has gleaned the following: Corey Cunningham (guitar, backing vox), by way of Dickson, TN-cum-cardboard-box-in-Toronto, was asked to housesit in Fresno, CA. Duties fulfilled, he shot north on a graffiti trip to 924 Gilman St. and immediately bonded with fellow men’s room “artists” Phil Benson (bass guitar, lead vox) and the unfortunately-named Nathan Sweatt (drums, backing vox).

Hands shook, vibes exchanged; the trio felt compelled to distill their energy into a unified voice. Terry’s gospel is succinct, direct, sincere, and timed expertly with next year’s looming apocalypse: life is hopeless, enjoy!

With a live reputation that bleeds funky “Punk” attitude, I’ve been told this urgency has been crammed into the TM studio edition. Recorded by a machine, then expertly mixed by human being Monte Vallier (Weekend, Young Prisms), this music may compel you to type the following buzzwords into your blog (which, I LOVE, by the way!): catchy, husky, hunky, sharp, blue-collar, rocking, hockey-rock, working-class, perfect, near-perfect, not-half-bad, and/or not-bad.

It’s an album, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a 34-minute hour of pure, unadulterated Malts… alright?

- Matthew Kallman

Tour Dates

01/27 Daly City, CA Serra Bowl $*
02/17 San Francisco, CA Hemlock Tavern * RECORD RELEASE #
02/23 Chico, CA Duffy’s Tavern
02/24 San Diego, CA Tower Bar *%
02/25 Fullerton, CA Burger Records *%
02/26 Los Angeles, CA The Echo PART TIME PUNKS *%
03/09 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop &

* = w/ Permanent Collection
% = w/ Dead Angle
$ = w/ Surf Club
# = w/ Airfix Kits and Cocktails
& = w/ Crocodiles and Bleeding Rainbow

Terry Malts
Killing Time
(Slumberland Records)
Release Date: February 21, 2012

1. Something About You
2. Not Far From It
3. Where Is The Weekend?
4. Tumble Down
5. No Sir, I’m Not A Christian
6. Waiting Room
7. I’m Neurotic
8. Nauseous
9. Mall Dreams
10. No Good For You
11. I Do
12. What Was It
13. Can’t Tell No One
14. No Big Deal

Terry Malts
Something About You 7″
(Slumberland Records)
Release Date: October 11, 2011

A. Something About You
B1. No Sir, I’m Not A Christian
B2. Fun Night

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MP3: “It Will Never Be” (edit)

White Fence is the project of Tim Presley. His third full-length, Family Perfume, is a double album that will be released in two parts - Vol. 1 will be released on vinyl and digitally on April. 3 - then Vol. 2 will be released later this Spring, and then a 2LP and CD version of the whole package will be released this Summer. White Fence will be touring with Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees and will be appearing at this year’s SXSW.

“F*** Nostalgia. Live the truth. Truth is feeling, Truth is sound, Truth is motion. I am believing. I am seeing. I am moving. TRUTH IS FOREVER. Meet The Presley/ White Fence Truth Serum. Imagine if you will, that your Uncle Frank, Aunt Jane and Cousin Ricky all made out with George Harrison at the same time and felt good about it. Thats what the family perfume smells like. Like the real shit. This aint your regular mutton chop rock. This is freak your f***ing mom out cause she caught you naked in the back yard blasting this shit rock. This is not a joke. This is the hit factory. This is the eye. This is another planet. And hurry up, cause this perfume aint available at no Macy’s. F*** the Rolling stones. Long live Keith. We’re allready dead. SMELL THE TRUTH. F*** THE TRUTH. F*** ROCK AND ROLL. LOVE ROCK AND ROLL. And this is just Vol. One.”- Ty Segall

Tour Dates

3/2 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall#
3/3 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour#
3/8 Pioneertown, CA- Pappy and Harriets *
3/9 Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar *
3/10 Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad *
3/11 Denton TX - 35 Denton Festival *
3/13 - 3/16 Austin, TX - SXSW

# = w/ Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, Feeling of Love
* = w/ Thee Oh Sees

White Fence
Family Perfume, Vol. 1
(Woodsist)
Street Date: April 03, 2012

Track List:

1 WF FP Intro
2 Swagger vets & Double moon
3 Long white curtain
4 Balance yr heart
5 Do you know Ida Know?
6 Down PNX
7 Take away lifes endless take
8 Hope! Servatude, i have no!
9 It will never be
10 Soaring, daily pique number 2
11 A Hermes Blues
12 Hey! Roman nose
13 Breathe Again
14 Daily Pique

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MP3: “Sparkly” (matthewdavid’s Odyssey remix)

Young Magic’s debut album, Melt, is out on Feb. 14 on Carpark. The band just premiered its second official music video for “Night In The Ocean” and a remix of “Sparkly” by matthewdavid over at XLR8R. You can also check out a recent In The Open session the band taped in the woods near San Francisco here Also you can hear “Slip Time” and some kind words about the band from the NPR / All Songs Considered crew right here.

Bio:

Although now firmly settled in New York City, Young Magic’s three members came together through equal helpings of openness and fortuity. In 2010, singer and producer Isaac Emmanuel had left his home continent of Australia to travel across Europe, over to New York, and down through Mexico, all the while creating and recording music with whatever instruments he found along the way. While in Mexico, Emmanuel kept a tight correspondence with fellow Australian expat Michael Italia, who for months had been similarly traveling across Europe and South America with portable recording gear in tow. They decided to meet up in New York, where their good friend from a few years prior, Indonesian-born vocalist Melati Malay, had been living and making her own recordings. In early 2011 the three friends, who had initially bonded over their broad musical palettes, began recording together and contributing songs to the record, culling influences and finding their own footing among them.

The immediately fruitful collaboration brought forth singles “Sparkly”, “You With Air” and “Night In The Ocean,” all of which were fitting indicators of the band’s chameleonic sound, heavily informed by West African rhythms, Brainfeeder hip-hop, UK bass, and 60s psychedelic soul. Young Magic’s full-length debut, Melt, comprises both of these tracks-as well as their B-sides-and expands on their varied aesthetic, at once electronically sequenced and completely organic. Containing recordings from 10 different countries, the album flaunts new facets at each turn, letting-as on “Watch For Our Lights”-rough samples from distant lands coalesce with drum machines and distorted synths. “Night In The Ocean” and “Jam Karet” put soaring synth pads around the higher frequencies while deep kicks keep the songs grounded, allowing Isaac and Melati’s vocals to float in synchronicity between. And with its shifting rhythm, open structure, and layers of echoed vocals, closer and highlight, “Drawing Down The Moon,” hints at crystalline take on UK garage: a last dance from a collection of short stories from around the world. With a sonic mélange of vibes on a debut that remains cohesive and distinctly their own, it will be exciting to see where the trio’s tastes will guide them next.

Tour Dates

03/14 - 03/17 Austin, TX SXSW

Young Magic
Melt
(Carpark)
Street Date: Feb. 14, 2012

1. Sparkly
2. Slip Time
3. You With Air
4. Yalam
5. Jam Karet
6. Night In The Ocean
7. Watch For Our Lights
8. The Dancer
9. Cavalry
10. Sanctuary
11. Drawing Down The Moon

Links: Bandcamp//Facebook//Twitter//Official Site//Press Materials

Order Coffee HERE

VIDEO: Quail and Dumplings

WOLFROY CERTIFIED ORGANIC

The organic movement is finally real! It brings us a caffeinated surge of pleasure to introduce to you the first-ever (and only) Bonnie Prince-certified organic coffee. Up until now there were rules and rules about how to get a product certified organic, but standards are for the birds. And Bonny eats birds for breakfast. With coffee, goddamn.

Along his travels Bonny somehow managed to find himself on the island of Hawaii and met up with the Kona Coffee people. After rigorous experiments with bean burning, granulated sugar filtering, boll weevil cross pollination and button pressing (always the most critical part of any operation, including our own. Lever-pullers, shut you mouth!), this limited edition roast is ready to be bought (but mostly sold) right here, right now in the Drag City interglobal e-marketplace.

Each half pound of whole beans comes in a re-sealable black bag complete with a one of a kind pink label to certify the clean body and fresh finish (and deep paranoia) you expect from the Bonny brand. It tastes best when paired with Wolfroy Goes To Town, available for purchase here, but it’s also not bad with chewing gum, hash browns (or as we like to say, hash, browns), garden heirlooms, sour patch gummies, cough drops, foodstuff, ulcers, dandelions, hot dogs and turkey necks.

This “Bonny Billy Blend” from Kona Rose Coffee is 100% Kona Coffee certified Organic by HOFA. 100% Wolfroy certified, too. Certified what is what you’ll have to buy the coffee to figure out.

Tour Dates

01/24 Vooruit Gent Belgium
01/25 Hackney Empire London United Kingdom
01/27 THE STRATHCLYDE SUITE Scotland United Kingdom w/ Nuala Kennedy
01/29 The Fruitmarket Glasgow United Kingdom Celtic Connections
01/31 Vicar Street Dublin Ireland
02/01 Cork Opera House Cork Ireland
04/26 Holmfirth Picturedrome Holmfirth United Kingdom w/ Trembling Bells
04/28 The Frog and Fiddle Cheltenham United Kingdom w/ Trembling Bells
05/02 Acorn Arts Centre Penzance United Kingdom w/ Trembling Bells
05/04 The Bullington Arms Oxford United Kingdom w/ Trembling Bells

Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Wolfroy Goes To Town
(Drag City)

Track List:
No Match
New Whaling
Time To Be Clear
New Tibet
Black Captain
Cows
There Will Be Spring
Quail and Dumplings
We Are Unhappy
Night Noises

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