29 Jan 2010

"...its a Mole!"

Johnny O...Rocket's sleeve designer/lighting man etc has just completed his first video for the Bristol fuzz rockers 'The Moles'

The band features Billy Fuller from Fuzz against Junk and Beak.....

Teeth of the Tweets

Teeth of the Sea have set up a Twitter page and a blog so if you are interested you can keep up with all the latest band news including studio reports from the new album:

26 Jan 2010

Rocket Probes January 2010 Playlist



The Group – Feedback
(Ennio Morricone’s psych group on top form, taken from the Psych Funk 101 compilation which has some other pretty good tracks...well worth checking out)

Alan Spawhawk – Solo guitar
(The title of this says it all...the guitarist from Low plays a slow and doomy ambience, reminds me of the most recent Earth albums but even sparser...thanks to **K for tuning us into this)

Earthling Temple – Pilgrimage to Thunderbolt Pagoda
(Some nice Kosmiche soundscapes on this collaboration between Earthling Society and High Mountain Temple)

Serpentia Satelite – As yet untitled second album
(Received tracks for this new album from this great space rock band from Peru via New York...this newy is a lot more dense and psychedelic compared to their amazing first....watch this space, the vinyl version could be a future launch!!)

Group Inerane – Nadan Al Kazawnin
(Nice repetitive fuzz from another great Western Sahara band, this track is taken from their Guitars from Agadez LP)

Gnod – Science and Industry cassette
(The brilliant Gnod return once again with two amazing new tracks...this cassette released by Not Not Fun sold out in a day!!!)

Sun Araw – Hey Mandala
(Can't stop playing this dubbed-out hallucinatory Funkedelic like tribal monster)

Can – Ogam Ogat
(2 lengthy outtakes from Can's legendary 1971 "Tago Mago" sessions, worth it just for Auf Der Einbahnstrasse Part One)

People Ceremony – Buddha Meet Rock
(Japanese tripped out oriental hypnotic grooves courtesy of Gareth from The Big Naturals)

Spacemen 3 – Perfect Prescription (re-issue)
(Euphoric drone pop, soundtracking the snowy days)



23 Jan 2010

The Big Naturals - Introduction




Rockets friends The Big Naturals play a gig with the Heads in Finland at the Psychotropic festival on Friday the 5th & 6th of Feb. They have been ripping up ears in the UK's West Country for the past few years & after a few line up shifts, the two piece have found their feet firmly clinging to a psyche-out drum & bass wall of amplified blitz.

In 2008 they played the Rocket 10th Anniversary show and supplied a track for the now highly sought after CD that also included exculsive tracks by The Heads, White Hills, Teeth of the Sea etc. With Solar Projectors in tow and the addition of new drummer Jess Webb, this two piece are stomping in the footsteps of many 1970's intense heavy rhythm sections.

Watch this space for some exclusive footage soon. In the meantime here is the mark 1 line up with original drummer Sam James & guest Paul Allen (The Heads) on guitar:

22 Jan 2010

New Gnod cassette on Not Not Fun



GNOD - SCIENCE & INDUSTRY CASSETTE

Soon to be joining us on-board the Rocket orbiter, label faves Gnod release another 2 stunning jams on cassette via Not Not Fun (NNF 184). Great to hear any new Gnod tracks, especially ones that appeared in the recent Holy Trinity tour set list......outside the dream syndicate, here we come.

Side One : Deadbeat Disco In Paper Error Shocker !

Side Two : Big Chief

Another clip of Gnod psyching their boots off:



Check out further Gnod material:

ONEIDA live cassette



New tape from oneida!!!

"Fine European Food And Wine" is the latest release from NYC psych rock masters, Oneida. This is tape features 2 monster improv jams... each clocking in at around 15 minutes.

THIS IS WHAT THE BAND'S WEBSITE SAID:

Yep. . .there are 100 of ‘em and apparently the women who printed up the covers (designed by our pal Eli Lehrhoff) looks like a 21 year old Claudia Schiffer. Unfortunately (fortunately for her) she lives somewhere in Ontario. . .oh wait. . .we’ll be there shortly. . .anyway. . .if you are interested in ordering this cassette called Fine European Food and Wine. . .you can. . .here

Here’s what I wrote to Scotch Tapes about the release:

Greetings intrepid world travelers who may or may not have the blues! Oneida is a lucky band – we are probably an unlucky band as well but we won’t get into that here. Let’s dwell on our luck. Cut to: 2002. Oneida releases our vinyl only double album Each One Teach One to an indifferent public. The word trickles out. The word trickles back. Founding member Papa Crazee quits the band.* The remaining trio of Oneida wonders whether we will continue on. . .

Jagjaguwar steps in and releases this double LP onto CD and sends a copy to Italy. To this magazine called Blow Up. Blow Up is basically the Rolling Stone of Italy (so we’ve been told). The editor decides that Each One Teach One is amazing and that it is so amazing Oneida must grace the actual cover of the shit. This is the first and last time that Oneida has appeared on the cover of a magazine exclusively. I say exclusively because Plan B put a blurry photo of me on their cover once but we learned that most of the magazines they printed had The Detroit Cobras on it. Then there was this New York magazine called Ghetto Blaster. . .they put us on the back cover and misspelled our name – so that’s that.

But this Blow Up shit is for real. They put our mugs on the cover. They talk about Each One Teach One like it’s the heaviest shit ever. We know its true (check it out) but we never expected anyone to agree with us.

All of a sudden we are minor stars in Italy – well if not stars – music fans actually care about us. This is quite novel. We get flown over to Italy to do a tour. We arrive in Rome and open up for Cat Power. She was not in good shape. As the audience files into the venue – people are pointing us out and hollering at us. “Oh – neigh – da!!!!”

The energy level that’s coming off these people is extraordinary. Some of them happen to be beautiful Italian women. People recognized me on the street in Naples – and if you’ve ever been to Naples you know that might not be a great thing. But it was a great thing for us. . .it was amazing.

We got a taste of adoration and it was really fun for us.

We started off a lot of these shows with improvisations and we recorded them all onto mini disc. They languished in the vaults (a box) for the last 6 years. This label in the UK Rocket went through those shows for us and picked out a few performances that they liked but decided they did not sound good enough to release onto LP. . .and that’s where Scotch Tapes came in. . .and we appreciate it. This cassette goes out to all our fans in Italy – who have shown us the way for the last few years. Thank you Italy – we love you.

21 Jan 2010

Wooden Shjips & The Heads Gig



Wooden Shjips & The Heads


Monday 19th April

(19:30 - 23:00)


Bush Hall

310 Uxbridge Road

Shepherds Bush

London

W12 7LJ


£13.00 (Advance Tickets)

20 Jan 2010

TEETH OF THE SEA HYPNOTICON LAUNCH PARTY


TEETH OF THE SEA
Party to celebrate the launch of the Hypnoticon EP
6th February
8pm till late / free entry
The Olde Peculiar at the Mucky Pup, Angel, London


WHITE HILLS LIVE DATES in MARCH!



White Hills Live Dates

YES! It's the tour you've all been waiting for....White Hills and Pontiak, two of the loudest, heaviest bands on the Thrill Jockey roster, if not the world, have confirmed some exciting live dates in March. Between them these two have spent months and months on the road, finely tuning their craft and earning well deserved reputations as bands with ear-splitting and galvanising live performances!

These shows are sure to be off the richter in their hypnotic intensity and grizzled psych noisiness...DO NOT MISS OUT!!!

Sun 28 Feb - ITA Verona Interzona
Mon 01 Mar - ITA Ravenna Bronson
Tue 02 Mar - ITA Milan CIRCOLO A.R.C.I. MAGNOLIA
Wed 03 Mar - SWI Lausanne Le Romandie
Thur 04 Mar - GER/FRA TBC
Fri 05 Mar - HOL Amsterdam
Sat 06 Mar - UK Brighton Engine Room
Sun 07 Mar - UK Manchester Ruby Lounge
Mon 08 Mar - UK Glasgow Captain's Rest
Tue 09 Mar - UK London Luminaire
Wed 10 Mar - UK Nottingham the Art Organization
Thu 11 Mar - UK Bristol Louisiana
Fri 12 Mar - HOL Tilburg O13
Sat 13 Mar -GER TBC
Sun 14 Mar - FRA Paris (w/ MONO) Maroquinerie
Mon 15 Mar - CZE Prague V Jeleni
Tue 16 Mar - GER Leipzig
Wed 17 Mar - SWE Malmo
Thu 18 Mar - SWE Gothenburg
Fri 19 Mar - NOR John Dee
Sat 20 Mar - SWE Stockholm Fritz's Corner @ Debaser
Sun 21 Mar - DEN Copenhagen Lades
Mon 22 Mar - GER Hamburg Hafenklang

More to be confirmed.....

You can watch a video trailer created especially for the tour by White Hills' Ego Sensation right here...



15 Jan 2010

Heads Relaxin Re-issue



Due out sometime this year, Rocket's own Johnnyo is finally putting the finishing touches to the deluxe 'Heads Relaxin with' re-issue artwork.

The artwork that was originally created by Rockets other head scientist Chris Reeder and is now getting the full expanded treatment with loads of rare photos and flyers.

The double disc will also be crammed full of extra tracks including radio show material from the likes of Peel and Radcliffe and feature the rare early singles.

It released via The Heads own label 'Rooster' in conjunction with Forte & will be distributed via:


So keep an eye open to it's release date.

KING FUZZ!
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