They say: Josefin Öhrn, who follows on the main stage, proves that there’s still room to stretch the possibilities. Öhrn stands centre stage, silhouetted by lights and surrounded in smoke, rooted to the spot as she and her band produce a sweet, glistening sonic sweep. It’s gentle, but somehow still powerful, never soft or easy but uplifting and transporting. She is the first to prove that psychedelia’s light is far from extinguished. GNOD’s R&D set, meanwhile, is a colossal, searing tsunami of outrageously loud noise, crashing again and again with merciless intensity that’s enough to make the Effenaar’s foundations creak. See the full review here: The Quietus ---
It reads: The first time I ever saw Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs it was at The Lexington, two years ago, with Lower Slaughter. I think it was the album launch show after I reviewed ‘Feed The Rats’ for Echoes and Dust. Then the second time was also at The Lexington, as part of a Quietus series that was going on with support from Richard Dawson. So, it seemed fitting to me that we should conduct the interview in the venue, and also get some beers in the process. (((o))): So, one of the things I was wondering about was how the writing process differed from ‘Feed The Rats’ to ‘King of Cowards’? With Feed The Rats, you had songs like ‘Psychopomp’, which was worked on in various forms over time. ‘Icon’ was the same. Like you say, we worked on it over time. We’d write chunks, like 4-minute chunks that were kind of tracks on their own, and they weren’t really finished, but we’d play the live and then write another four minutes track, but they were all in the same key so they’d all just flow together, ‘cause we’d been playing them for fucking two years or something, we put them to-gether. (((o))): Is that a similar approach to a band like Gnod, were you do huge jams and come out into a more structured part of a song like a verse? No, we don’t really jam much, we tend to come to practise with some ideas. Fairly solid progressions and riffs and then stitch it together really. (((o))): I meant more in the sense of constructing a set, do you play each song in its entirety or do you jam through them so it’s fluid?... See the rest here: E&D ---
Watch this great footage of Gum Takes Tooth with guest Wayne Adams (Big Lad, Petbrick etc) playing their Moog Lan Sound show at this years Supersonic Festival See what Supersonic say about it here: Supersonic ---
MIEN have just revealed this rather special video for track '(I'm tired of) Western Shouting'. The band are releasing the track as a single on Friday 21 September. The director of the video, the extremely talented Juanma Carrillo said this about the film "When I thought about the title of the song and the lyrics , I quickly envisioned violent images, like a mother killing her son for fear. For me he was complicated to find a reel idea for criticism the actual politics of the power, money, racism * trump!, so talking with a good friend, we thought about the idea of a terrible game. The idea to change guns for Phones, was too, the perfect excuse to put the terrible importance of social networks, smartphones, and finally the loss of the identity around the world, and how in a short time, the future can be very scary. Maybe in some decades we can sell our souls, or our images to big brands....well i tried to do something with all of these ideas. I wanted to do it all simple, without real visual effects and try to tell the story with the faces of the actors instead.I shot in a really Important business area, where, the underground you can find many homeless, prostitutes, discos, wires, ,and many strange things..." - Next week the band start the first of 4 shows in Europe and a Festival in Toronto. The line-up of players for the euro dates is a bit special: Alex Mass (The Black Angels) Tom Furse (The Horrors) Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone) John-Mark Lapham (The Earlies) Thor Harris (Swans) Rob Kidd (Golden Dawn Arkestra) The dates are: Fri 21 Sept / London, UK / Moth Club Tickets Sat 22 Sept / Angers, France / Levitation Festival Tickets Mon 24 Sept / Paris, France / Le Cafe de la Danse Tickets Tue 25 Sept / Amsterdam, Netherlands / Melkweg Tickets + 27-30 Sept / Toronto, Canada / Night Owl Festival Tickets
Excited to announce that Gnoomes have announced Gnoomes Fest – a one day event in their home city of Perm in Russia. Gnoomes Fest - 22 September. 17.00. - Venue: Smoky Dog - Line-up: KIKOK 3000 K GNOOMES, Half Moon Glass Secret Guest DJ’s
Event Page - The band say this about the event: We asked ourselves a question: are we able to bring the community up and organise such kind of event? Speaking of cultural life, things are getting worse these days in our native city, nothing’s going much to our ears and eyes, except one or two big festivals where you’ll never meet a small local band, who wants to say something. To make a long story short we don’t have a scene with experimental music and we feel that time has come to dive deeply into this ocean of music and to share the moment with the Perm audience. The key idea of the festival lies on the DIY concept: we do everything on our own. We met many people during the last 10 years who are able to do a design, who works as a mixing engineer, who works as a boss at the taproom etc. It means we’re gonna do many things together: open new names, promote them, decorate a stage and finally consume it! That’s what GNOOMES FEST is about ---
We have some vinyl warehouse finds up for sale on our Rocket Bandcamp, only a handful of each: GNOD – INGNODWETRUST BUY GNOD – Aquarian Downer BUY GOAT – Requiem BUY Hey Colossus – Radio Static High BUY Lay Llamas – Ostro BUY Oneida – Positions BUY Mugstar / Oneida – Collisions 02 BUY Mamuthones / Evil Blizzard – Collisions 04 BUY Be quick! ---
They say: The much-anticipated Julie’s Haircut were phenomenal live, each track coaxing you gently in to dynamically dispatch the goodness. A complex concoction of proggy poke and Suspiria-like sweeps that would burn up in a mesmerising maul of sirening guitars and saucy synth. Little imp(ish) leaps of improvised zeal goose-bumping the murmuring motorik, those delicious curvy nibbles of nebula expansion itching on though. Yeah, it was joy to take in.
The odd jazzy injection snaking in, lemonading the melodic manacles before spraying out in opiated orbits and creamy cosmic canters. That sticky metronomed chug of “Orpheus Rising” siphoning some mighty fine seventies-type balladry, full of Amon Düül II whispers and tilting stabs. Plenty of taut titillation and satisfying sway to their wares, but for me they really hit it when they found some sultry tribal colours and ran with them, the energy souring beautifully into a shit-storm of noisy sonics, Laura Agnusdei’s vocals transformed into ascending screams spiked in clawed electronics... Read the rest here: Freq ---
They say: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, is a band that prides itself in not fitting in the traditional doom figure that’s been presented in the last few years. These lads hail all the way from Newcastle and have been in the forefront of the new age of underground music. Don’t be fooled by their over-repetitive annoying name. Their sound does not disappoint! With an immersive delivery, an astonishing reserve of energy and a refreshing take on a style that’s been a bit over-saturated in the last chunk of the decade, there really is no reason to ignore these lads. Their first festival shows in Portugal were widely acclaimed as one of the most memorable in their respective bills. It’s 2018 and we’ve great news regarding Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. New full-length album and a couple of venue shows in Lisbon, Porto and Bragança. So, if you saw them at Reverence Festival in 2016 or at Milhões de Festa last year, than you know how much poetic justice should be done with these guys in a couple of small venues. Just to make sure none of our readers are sleeping on this, we and the great people at Galeria Zé dos Bóis, which will be hosting their Lisbon show, invited the band for a quick chat about their name, the Newcastle scene, the tools that crafted their sound and the band’s relationship with sunny Portugal. Read down below... See the full interview here: WAV ---
We are very happy to reveal the video for 'Carry the Load' – the second single taken from Goatman's album 'Rhythms'. Goatman is one of the members from GOAT and his debut album is released on 12 October. The video for 'Carry the Load' was created by Rocket's very own John O'Carroll and you can watch it above. See what Gigwise say about the new track here: Gigwise - Recorded in GOAT’s northern Swedish home town of Korpilombolo in late 2017 - the 6 tracks on Rhythms reveal a true collision of African Rock, Jazz, Reggae, Gospel and Psych, but all put through the famous GOAT filters. Rhythms is a very apt title for the album as each track is an exploration of the ‘groove’. From the Fela Kuti‘esqe drums and horns jam of Jaam Ak Salam, to the frantic gospel-jazz of 'Carry the Load'. From the fuzzed Can via the ‘Bristol sound’ track of 'Hum Bebass Nahi'n, to the cinematic, Spacemen 3‘esqe drones of the album closer 'Baaneexu'. The end result is quite an astonishing and very unique album, like what you would expect from an album made by a member of GOAT – an album that is hard to put your finger on, but one that you will keep revisiting, the more it’s sounds reveals itself. The album is available in four different ltd edition versions. The Rocket shop version 'Pale Green/Purple splatter' has sold out, but there are 'Pink/Black' swirl 'Yellow' and 'Black' vinyl editions that will be available in all good record shops. Each one is ltd.
