MP3: Vivian Girls - “When I’m Gone”

Swirling noise Brooklynites, Vivian Girls have confirmed the release of their sophomore album via the ever wonderful In The Red label on September 8th, 2009.

Released almost exactly a year after In The Red’s reissue of their self-titled debut, the new album, Everything Goes Wrong promises to be slightly longer than the 22 mins their debut clocked in at with the band having taken their time and recorded it in six days - rather than the three their debut took though many of the songs were still recorded in single takes.

Whilst the band have again captured their raw, fun edge - as the influence of ’60s girl groups, The Ramones as well as surf and indie pop, still ring true, Everything Goes Wrong is without a doubt a darker, moodier album than its predecessor; a trait which arguably makes the band an even more appealing proposition this time round.

Over the last year, the Vivian Girls have toured the US and Europe extensively, received a considerable amount of national and international press, and, perhaps most significant of all, become the subject of a question on Jeopardy.

VIVIAN GIRLS

“The Nightmare of Sound Tour”

Tue-Aug-25 New York, NY Death By Audio +
Wed-Aug-26 Philadelphia, PA The Barbary +
Thu-Aug-27 Pittsburgh, PA Andy Warhol Museum +
Fri-Aug-28 Columbus, OH Summit +
Sat-Aug-29 Champaign, IL Cowboy Monkey +
Sun-Aug-30 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle +
Mon-Aug-31 Minneapolis, MN 7th St Entry +
Tue-Sep-01 Fargo, ND The Aquarium +
Fri-Sep-04 Missoula, MT Union Hall +
Sun-Sep-06 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
Mon-Sep-07 Portland, OR Berbati’s Pan +*
Wed-Sep-09 San Francisco, CA Rickshaw Stop - CD Release Show! +
Fri-Sep-11 Los Angeles, CA The Echo +
Fri-Oct-09 Honolulu, HI Loft Gallery and Lounge
Tue-Oct-13 Phoenix, AZ Modified Arts
Thu-Oct-15 Dallas, TX The Cavern
Fri-Oct-16 Austin, TX Red 7
Sat-Oct-17 Jackson, MS Hal and Mal’s
Sun-Oct-18 Pensacola, FL Sluggo’s
Mon-Oct-19 Tallahassee, FL Club Downunder
Tue-Oct-20 Tampa, FL Czar
Wed-Oct-21 Lake Worth, FL Propaganda
Tue-Oct-27 Asheville, NC The Milestone
Wed-Oct-28 Charlottesville, VA Outback Lodge
Thu-Oct-29 Washington, DC TBA
Fri-Oct-30 Storrs, CT University of Connecticut
Sat-Oct-31 Brooklyn, NY Ridgewood Masonic Temple

+ = w/ THE BEETS
* = w/ EAT SKULL

Vivian Girls
Everything Goes Wrong
(In The Red)
Street Date: Sept. 8, 2009

01 Walking Alone at Night
02 I Have No Fun
03 Can’t Get Over You
04 Desert
05 Tension
06 Survival
07 The End
08 When I’m Gone
09 Out for the Sun
10 I’m Not Asleep
11 Double Vision
12 You’re My Guy
13 Before I Start to Cry

VIVIAN GIRLS LINKS:

Band Page: www.viviangirls.net

Myspace: www.myspace.com/viviangirlsnyc

Twitter: twitter.com/viviangirls

Label Page: www.intheredrecords.com

MP3: Papercuts - “You Can Have What You Want”

Papercuts’ You Can Have What You Want is the newest phase in Jason Quever’s ongoing pop investigations. The relatively earthbound happy-sad pop of Mockingbird & Can’t Go Back is now launched into the vault of the skies. Here Quever delves further into epic, hazy pop using mostly vintage organs, pulsing bass & Kraut-via-Ringo-inspired drum rhythms. Intact from those earlier efforts are Quever’s sense of arrangement and drama, as well as his soaring vocals, draped in reverb gauze.

The words reveal an obsession with mortality and things cosmic, while sonically the voice acts as another instrument. This obsessively all analog effort (no computer processing here whatsoever!) cuts across several eras of dreamy sound: 80’s/90’s Creation & 4AD records, The Zombies, 60’s French pop, even CAN’s Future Days, & then there’s the inevitable connection to former tourmates Beach House & Grizzly Bear. Indeed, Beach House’s Alex Scally helped with some of the arrangements, but You Can Have What You Want is its own strain of addictive pop. For many, it will be the blissful / melancholy jam of the summer.

PAPERCUTS

09/06 Seattle, WA Sunset Tavern *
09/07 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios *
09/09 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall *#
11/18 New Orleans, LA Tipitina’s +
11/19 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree +
11/20 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse +
11/21 Norfolk, VA Attucks Theatre +
11/22 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg +
11/24 Northampton, MA Pearl Street Ballroom +
11/25 Rochester, NY German House +
11/26 Toronto, ONT Phoenix +
11/27 Pontiac, MI The Crofoot Ballroom +
11/28 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom +
11/30 Bloomington, IN Bluebird +
12/01 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway +
12/02 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford +
12/03 Athens, GA 40 Watt +

Papercuts
You Can Have What You Want
(Gnomonsong)
Street date: April 14, 2009

01 Once We Walked In The Sunlight
02 A Dictator’s Lament
03 The Machine Will Tell Us So
04 A Peculiar Hallelujah
05 Jet Plane
06 Dead Love
07 Future Primitive
08 You Can Have What You Want
09 The Void
10 The Wolf

PAPERCUTS LINKS:

MySpace - www.myspace.com/thepapercuts

Press Materials - www.gnomonsong.com/papercuts

Interview with PASTE

MP3: Imaad Wasif - “The Priestess”

In another life, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Imaad Wasif might have been a poet or a priest. He draws inspiration from beyond the veil, seeking connections and cosmic patters in the hopes of expressing the simplest but most profound message to his listeners: We are not alone. The urgency of that communication, and his need to convey it, give both his delicate guitar ballads and his fervent rock songs a ferocity and focus that resonates with every note.

Wasif goes far beyond the here and now in his music, but he is very much of this time. He is a rock musician who came of age in the Coachella Valley of the 1990s. Early on he played live and in the studio with Lou Barlow’s Folk Implosion. In 2006, Kill Rock Stars released Wasif’s self-titled solo debut, an acoustic psych gem. Around the same time, he was enlisted as a touring guitarist and opening act for Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Sophomore album Strange Hexes revealed Wasif’s varied influences. The album was recorded with his band Two Part Beast (Bobb Bruno and Adam Garcia) and self-released in March 2008. That album was the first to hint at the distinctive sound Wasif has ultimately crafted for himself; a blast of post-modern psychedelic rock that is at once potent and refined. The album will be re-released by Tee Pee Records in 2010.

Having gained a reputation for his intense live shows while opening for RTX, The Raconteurs, Neko Case, Arthur Lee’s Love and Sebadoh, Wasif has plans for an extensive tour in the fall of 2009. He can also be found playing guitar on “Little Shadow” from the YYY’s latest album, It’s Blitz! and Lou Barlow’s forthcoming solo album, Goodnight Unknown. His collaboration with Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, and “Little” Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dead Weather on the score for the Spike Jonze-directed film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are hits theaters in October.

The theme of love in its many guises, both as redemption and call to arms, is one that Wasif returns to again and again in his songs. Its mythical quality becomes a springboard from which he explores the mysteries of life and the universe on his third album, The Voidist. Recorded with Two Part Beast, plus guests Dale Crover (Melvins) and Greg Burns (Red Sparowes), by Chad Bamford (Weezer) with additional recordings by Mathias Schneeberger (The Obsessed, Gutter Twins), the release is due from Tee Pee Records in October 2009.

IMAAD WASIF

No shows currently scheduled, but if you’re in LA, catch Imaad as part of this event on Sunday:

Occult USA:
The Process Church of the Final Judgment
AUG. 23
@ SILENT MOVIE THEATER

Was The Process Church truly “one of the most dangerous Satanic cults in
America”? Or were they an intensely creative apocalyptic shadow side to the
flower-powered ’60s and New Age ’70s? Scores of black-cloaked devotees swept
the streets of New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and other cities
selling magazines with titles like “Sex”, “Fear”, “Love” and “Death”, and a
theology proposing the reconciliation of Christ and Satan through love.
Marianne Faithfull, George Clinton and Mick Jagger participated in Process
publications, and Funkadelic reproduced Process material in two of their
albums. The inside story of this controversial group has at last emerged
with Feral House’s LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH by Timothy Wyllie and other former
members. Tonight, Feral House and Process Books present a re-creation of an
actual Process Church “Sabbath Assembly” ritual. Author Wyllie (Father
Micah) will follow to discuss the cult and his time within it in a
multimedia presentation. The Sabbath Assembly band, comprised of Jex Thoth
(Profound Lore Records), Imaad Wasif (Tee Pee Records), Kevin Rutmanis
(Cows, Melvins, Tomahawk)and David Christian (of No-Neck Blues Band) will
perform Process hymns and songs throughout.

$15 at the door

Imaad Wasif
The Voidist
(Tee Pee)
Street Date: Oct. 13, 2009

1. Redeemer
2. Priestess
3. Fangs
4. Widow Wing
5. Our Skulls
6. Return to You
7. The Hand of the Imposter
8. Daughter of Fire
9. Her Sorcery
10. Another
11. Razorlike

IMAAD WASIF LINKS:

Myspace: www.myspace.com/imaadw

Label Page: www.teepeerecords.com

MP3: Frida Hyvönen - “Jesus Was a Crossmaker”

MP3: Daniel Rossen - “Waterfall”

American Dust is proud to announce the fall 2009 release of CRAYON ANGEL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JUDEE SILL, featuring new recordings by artists including Beth Orton, Bill Callahan, Ron Sexsmith, Final Fantasy, Nicolai Dunger, Marisa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity, Colossal Yes (with members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire), Meg Baird, Frida Hyvönen, and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles. (See full track list below.)

Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen’s Asylum Records and released two cherished cult LPs, 1971’s Judee Sill and 1973’s Heart Food, before vanishing from the music scene and eventually dying of a drug overdose in North Hollywood, California in 1979. Though forgotten for years, her music has enjoyed a period of rediscovery since her two studio albums were reissued on CD in 2005.

In addition to cover versions of songs from Judee’s modest recorded output, Crayon Angel also features TWO NEW JUDEE SILL-PENNED SONGS, for which sheet music, but no known original recordings, survive. BETH ORTON brings to life the complex and lovely “Reach for the Sky,” while BILL CALLAHAN records the epic slow-burn number “Like a Rainbow,” a co-write with Judee’s onetime boyfriend Lal Baum (great-grandson of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum - how about that?).

CRAYON ANGEL: A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF JUDEE SILL is released September 22 on American Dust (www.americandust.net).

Various Artists
Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill
(American Dust)
Street date: Sept. 22, 2009
01 Ron Sexsmith: “Crayon Angel”
02 Beth Orton: “Reach for the Sky”
03 Daniel Rossen: “Waterfall”
04 Frida Hyvönen: “Jesus Was a Cross Maker”
05 Shalants: “Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos”
06 Final Fantasy: “The Donor”
07 Nicolai Dunger: “Soldier of the Heart”
08 Trembling Blue Stars: “Lady-O”
09 Colossal Yes: “The Phoenix”
10 Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity: “The Kiss”
11 Princeton: “Down Where the Valleys Are Low”
12 The Bye Bye Blackbirds: “There’s a Rugged Road”
13 Meg Baird: “When the Bridegroom Comes”
14 Bill Callahan: “For a Rainbow”
15 P.G. Six: “Til Dreams Come True”

RELATED LINKS:

American Dust - www.americandust.net

More on Judee Sill - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judee_Sill