Mary Anne Hobbs has just announced she will be playing a 'world exclusive' of new Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs track on her Monday BBC 6 Music show which starts at 10:30am.
Plus listen to the first live performance of the track in session with Marc Riley from 7pm too.
So Monday is now looking like a Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs takeover day on 6 Music!
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Moscow's Oto Radio asked Rocket's Chris Reeder what were his five 'non' Rocket albums of the year and this is what he said: Oto Radio
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The Petbrick, duo formed by Iggor Cavalera and Wayne Adams, is literally a noise project. The musicians themselves, on audio sharing networks, claim to create "horrible noise". He who writes to you disagrees, for he thinks it is a beautiful and thought-provoking cluster of noises.
What you hear on the group's first full album, titled "I" (2019), is extreme musicality, an industrialist who can shake off clues or put the people in black to fuss. But the duo's sound goes beyond labels, creating mesmerizing and disturbing moods by bringing together elements of noise, repeatability, nervous beats, a la kraut rock experimentalism, hardcore urgency and metallic weight.
While Iggor (former Sepultura / Cavalera Conspiracy / Mixhell / Soulwax) is in charge of punching the drum kit, Wayne (Big Lad / Death Pedals / Johnny Broke) takes care of the electronic trachitans that sustain the music bluster. It is not a simple process to digest, because it carries a creative freedom that brings diversity to the work. And, as we know nowadays, what doesn't fit into bothersome standards...
Read the rest here: Scream and Yell
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On Monday (13th), Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are heading back to BBC 6Music studios in Salford for a brand new Marc Riley session
Tune in here from 7pm: Marc Riley
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Bonnacons of Doom have announced to new shows for 2020:
10 Feb / UK / Leeds / Brudenell Social Club (w/ Algiers) Tickets
19 Mar / UK / Liverpool / Kazimier Stockroom Tickets
So their dates confirmed now are:
10 Feb / UK / Leeds / Brudenell Social Club (w/ Algiers)
19 Mar / UK / Liverpool / Kazimier Stockroom
3 Apr / UK / Manchester / Soup Kitchen
01-02 May / NL / Nijmegen / Sonic Whip Festival (w/Gum Takes Tooth)
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Rastilho presents: Control Tower - Petbrick w / Iggor Cavalera
After visiting us with Grave classics "Beneath The Remains" and "Arise" along with his brother Max, Iggor Cavalera returns to our country on January 16 and 17 to promote Petbrick's debut album. We talk to the musician about this new project to which Wayne Adams joins, what distinguishes him from Max Cavalera and the possibility of the brothers taking "Schizophrenia" to the road.
Watch here: Metal Hammer Portugal
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They say:
Shoegaze melts and soothes the soul. It gets its power from the dichotomy of beauty and noise, and both properties are much needed in 2019. Like many genres and subgenres in this day and age, shoegaze doesn’t live in a vacuum—it bleeds into other genres and has seen much evolution since its ‘80s and ‘90s heyday. Many of the artists listed below aren’t solely categorized as shoegaze—they adopt adjacent genres like dream pop and slowcore or they might even dabble in more distant realms like industrial or electronic music. However you might square these albums, Paste rounded up 10 of our favorite shoegaze (or shoegaze-like) full-lengths from the past year for your reading and listening pleasure.
3. Gnoomes: MU!
Gnoomes may lurk in dark electronic shadows, but their shoegaze guitar chops shouldn’t be questioned. The Russian quartet’s most recent album, MU!, merges the experimental sides of Stereolab, Wand and Neu! with furiously gyrating guitars. The LP shifts between states of matter, and getting sucked into their dynamic compositions is easy. “Glasgow Coma State” is positively gleaming and vigorous while “Ursa Major” is wispy and discombobulating. Their color schemes change too—songs like “Progulka” are filled with bright hues, while others like “Sword in the Stone” and “Irma” have a distinctly monochrome smog. Like many albums of heady hypnotics, you know the finale is going to melt your psyche, and the two-track curtain close (“How Do You” and “Feel Now”) is a shoegaze-tinted psych-pop hurrah for the ages. MU! is so memorable because it brushes the same pleasure centers as the genre’s titans without retracing the steps of their predecessors or peers. With MU!, they’ve cleared a space for themselves in electro-shoegaze heaven. —Lizzie Manno
See the full piece here: Paste
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Much like Holy Roar, Rocket Recordings feature many bands that I have been loving for a while know. Luckily I got to see a couple last year and have at least on artist that I will be seeing this year. 20 years in the business and producing some of the country’s best bands and some of the best albums, have seen them heralded in the independent music scene. Recently made as ‘Label of the Year’ by Get in To This, there can’t be much complaints! Below is a few bands which Rocket Recordings released over the last couple of years that have been mainstays on my CD player, Deezer in the car and Spotify at my work...
Read the rest here: Eclectic Waves
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Great to see Teeth of the Sea – WRAITH and Gnoomes – MU! in Echoes and Dust's Top 20 Albums of the Year.
See the full list here: E&D
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We are extremely flattered to see that 'Get Into This' has made Rocket their 'Label of the Year' for the second time!! To win it once before was an amazing achievement, to win it a second time is incredibly humbling. So thanks to Peter Guy and the 'Get Into This' team for will their continued support, passion and love for Rocket!
This is what they say:
LABEL OF 2019
There are a lot of strong contenders for record label of 2019.
The usual suspects Jagjaguwar, Ninja Tune, Southern Lord, Heavenly Recordings, Thrill Jockey, 4AD and Bella Union were joined by relatively smaller indies like Partisan, The Leaf Label, Sonic Cathedral, Fuzz Club – and Liverpool’s God Unknown in having a booming 2019.
However, it’s the reliable yet distinctly wild and progressive Rocket Recordings which takes our title once again this year for releases including Teeth of the Sea, Petbrick, Julie’s Haircut, The Utopia Strong, Gnoomes, Gum Takes Tooth and DJINN capping a remarkable year in noise.
We were eternally grateful for their support when booking bands for Deeper Cuts Festival too – with much of their roster and captain Chris Reeder joining us on the decks.
With the likes of OCH lining up a new album early in 2020, expect more exploration into the cosmos from these groove overlords.
Read their whole 2019 round-up here: GIT
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