KMR UPDATE 25/01/12
Just Announced THE
WAVE PICTURES
Nice N Sleazys, Glasgow
Thursday 22nd March 2012
NEW ALBUM - LONG BLACK CARS - RELEASED APRIL 2ND
ON MOSHI MOSHI
- UK TOUR - MARCH
Recorded over 4 days in New York City, The Wave Pictures
return with their fourth album, Long Black Cars - 12
tracks of wry, observational lyrics "peppered with
details of the everyday."
Produced by the band,
Long Black Cars also features star turns from Wave Pictures
favourites Turner Cody and The WoWz and was inspired
by topics as diverse as Humphrey Bogart, the story of
Job and police brutality.
Frontman Dave Tattersall's
vocals are familiarly rich, warm and soulful, with bassist
Franic Rozycki's fretwork on fine form for stand out
track Never Go Home Again. Accompanied by an unusually
mournful arrangement that perfectly reverberates the
song's narrative about a couple on the run, the result
is pure poetry through an almost elegiac solemnity.
Proceeding track My
Head Gets Screwed On Tighter Every Year deals with the
theme of family feuds - in it, a man addresses his long
lost brother - and faces the reality that it is often
those closest to you that one knows the least.
Elsewhere, standout
track Eskimo Kiss features drummer Jonny 'Huddersfield'
Helm's first recorded vocal on a Wave Pictures album.
"This song is very New York to me...a very enigmatic,
dark and mysterious lyric, but still peppered with details
of the everyday." says Dave Tattersall. Concentrating
on finding the beautiful moments in the everyday, Eskimo
Kiss ponders the little things that keep life exciting.
It's an overarching
theme throughout Long Black Cars - "The point is
not that it is interesting to sing about the mundane
rather than the magical, but that we find the mundane
magical: the everyday amazes me." Explains Tattersall.
On this, their fourth
album for Moshi Moshi, The Wave Pictures once again
blend their perfect mixture of minor key ballads and
characteristic rock'n'roll harmonies - the result is
the ebullient, sardonic pop they've come to be cherished
for.
In support of
the album THE WAVE PICTURES embark on a UK tour in March
KMR UPDATE 13/01/12
Just Announced J
A C U Z Z I B O Y S
Nice N Sleazys, Glasgow
Sunday 25th March 2012
SPIN Magazine says.........The band's LP, Glazin, continues
the raw and rockin' good times. SPIN's seven-out-of-10
review raves: "If these goofy garage punks ever
come to your town, be there with beer money... Jacuzzi
Boys have taken their place among the best sloppy racket-makers
bashing out easy-boogie soundtracks to your next drunken
night at the local rock dive."
KMR UPDATE 15/12/11
Just Announced
B L O U S E
Nice N Sleazys, Glasgow
Sunday 5th Feb 2012
B L O U S E
is based out of a 6,000 square-foot warehouse in North
Portland. The project started in the summer of 2010,
after Los Angeles native Charlie Hilton met Patrick
Adams in art school. They made a few home recordings
and soon began spending nights at the warehouse recording
with Jacob Portrait (Producer of Mint Chicks, Dandy
Warhols, Starfucker). Having played music since their
teens, the three found that there was something inexplicable
in their coming together. After posting two demo tracks
to Bandcamp’s website, the group was picked up
by Captured Tracks out of Brooklyn, NY. A 7" single
of Into Black was released at the end of March '11 by
Captured Tracks. Sub Pop Records will be releasing the
second single for Shadow on May 31st
Updated 24/10/11
The story of 2011 so far.......
Wooden Wand / Harrys Gym / Darkstar / 2:54s / Former
Ghosts / The Babies / Dum Dum Girls / Times New Viking
/ The Wave Pictures / Fresh & Onlys / Black Heart
Procession / Prince Rama / The Nightingales / Black
Lips / MEN / Gala Drop / Cults / Crystal Antlers / Ganglians
/ Male Bonding + loads more
Keep up to date with
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We always have great competitions giving our friends
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etc.
Loads more exciting
shows to be announced very soon
See you there
KMR
KMR WEBSITE UPDATE
02/09/11
Just
Announced
Bank Holiday Special All Dayer
The Admiral Bar, Glasgow
Sat 24th Sep 2011
Doors Open 4pm
with
Kill The Waves
Schnapps
Top Dollar
Bacchanal Party
+ More TBC
Just
Announced
Ganglians
Nice N Sleazy's, Glasgow
Tuesday 27th Sep 2011
Sacramento's Ganglians
return after a relatively quiet two years since their
last album dropping in 2009. The aptly titled "Still
Living" hits the streets August 29th via Souterrain
Transmissions. Ringing in at just under an hour, the
double LP stays true to their psychedelic roots established
on their self-title debut and immediate follow-up "Monster
Head Room", they step it up a notch both stylistically
and sonically by enlisting the help of producer Robby
Moncrieff (who also played a crucial role in the shaping
of The Dirty Projectors' "Bitte Orca").
Just Announced
Male Bonding
The Admiral Bar, Glasgow
Thursday 29th Sep 2011
Male Bonding's songs
are fast, noisy, and full of hooks, a combination that
might remind you of any number of things: Nirvana-era
fuzz-pedal stompers, 1990s American indie rockers, Hüsker
Dü and Dinosaur Jr. followers, not-quite-shoegazer
English bands. Like a lot of those acts-- and like their
contemporaries in No Age and Abe Vigoda-- Male Bonding
started out making more abrasive music. Two of the three
members used to be in the noise-pop band PRE, and the
rich London scene they're coming out of-- a loose collective
of bands with more of a common spirit than a common
sound-- is full of scratchy post-punk, lo-fi fuzz, and
hints of classic labels like Teenbeat, K, and Flying
Nun. These are the kinds of foundational sounds that
indie rock often turns back to when it needs to clear
its head. But with Male Bonding, part of the treat is
hearing them jump out of that and find room in the wide-open
field where amped-up, rangy punk stuff collides with
tuneful slacker pop. (Early on, they covered both Black
Flag and Blur.) No surprise that they've wound up signed
to Sub Pop, a label that built part of its reputation
on that sound.
Just Announced
The Fresh & Onlys
The Admiral Bar, Glasgow - Cancelled
Wednesday 7th Sep 2011
2010 was a decisive
year for San Francisco's the Fresh &Onlys - including
invitations to play All Tomorrow's Parties and then
they joined Deerhunter for a UK tour, extensive treks
throughout the US, and standout performances at the
Woodsist festivals in NY and Big Sur. Keeping with their
notorious urgent pace the Fresh &Onlys released
a handful of exclusive 7" singles, and Captured
Tracks issued the lush and anthemic August In My Mind
EP. Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded
in just over two years since the band's inception with
previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This
newest album is also the first recording done outside
the band's own analog home studio. Hot on the heels
of touring and arranging these new songs live, Play
It Strange was furiously recorded and mixed in one week
with Tim Green (Fucking Champs, Comets On Fire) at Louder
Studios in order to better capture the muscularity and
depth of the band's live performances. Play It Strange
is an addictive record that will establish the Fresh
& Onlys as a band that effortlessly laces together
threads of great guitar bands from decades past. They
may not be your favorite secret to keep much longer.
"When someone tells me
an album has no bad songs, I get dubious-- not about
the claim, but about how ambitious a record that avoids
failure could be. Well, there's not a bad song on Play
It Strange, and yet there's ambition all over it."
Pitchfork
Due to a family illness,
Banjo or Freakout have regrettably pulled out for this
Sunday
KMR WEBSITE UPDATE
20/06/11
Please
Note - The Bootleg Doors tour has been postponed.
New dates will be announced shortly. Original tickets
are still valid.
KMR WEBSITE UPDATE
23/5/11
Just
Announced
Banjo
or Freakout
Vessels
Galadrop
Wet Paint
PAWS
Washington Irive
Top Dollar
Male Pattern Band
+ More TBC
ORAN MOR - Sunday
26th June 2pm - 10pm
The Big BBQ Show is
a new, all day music event which is an exciting addition
to The West End Festival 2011.
Expect a mixture of live music from adventurous and
unique international acts, with sets from some of the
best Scottish talent playing today. On top of that there
will be a massive BBQ, pig on a spit, a mariachi band,
margaritas galore and lots, lots more!
PLEASE NOTE
Cults show has been postponed and will now take place
on Wed 31st Aug at Nice N Sleazy. Original tickets are
still valid and refunds are available from point of
purchase.
and
Fresh & Onlys show will take place at Nice N Sleazy
this Tuesday, 10th May
KMR WEBSITE UPDATE
11/4/11
Just Announced
MEN
Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
Thursday 9th June 2011
MEN is a Brooklyn-based
band and art/performance collective that focuses on
the energy of live performance and the radical potential
of dance music. The group began in 2007 as the DJ/production/remix
team of Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman.
The Talking Heads
and Joan Armatrading are among the group's chief stylistic
influences, and when that's coupled with the dance party
beats behind real guitar and bass, it becomes a fusion
of genres unlike any other.
The band released
its full-length, Talk About Body, in Feb. via
IAMSOUND Records, and another is already in the works.
If you plan
on attending this show, wear comfortable shoes - you'll
be dancing a lot.
The
Nightingales
with Ted Chippington
Sunday 22nd May - The Admiral, Glasgow
Monday 23rd May - Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh
With an ever fluctuating
line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd,
the Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early '80's
as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed
by John Peel, who said of them - "Their performances
will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far
enough distanced from the 1980's to look at the period
rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands
stand revealed as charlatans".
The group recorded
a bunch of critically acclaimed singles and three albums,
plus many radio sessions for their great supporter Peel
- more than any other band bar The Fall. They also regularly
toured the UK and Northern Europe, as headliners and
supporting acts as diverse as Bo Diddley and Nico.
This tour sees them
teaming up with their old pal, droll purveyor of anti-humour,
Ted Chippington, who Stewart Lee cites as a major influence
on his career. "It's difficult to say who the first
alternative comedian was. Ben Elton? Victoria Wood?
John Dowie, if you really know your stuff? Or maybe
the folk singers - Billy Connolly or Jasper Carrott?
But one thing's for sure, Ted Chippington was the first
post-alternative comedian, and without him, everything
would be different. Not necessarily worse. But different."
Just Announced
Prince Rama
Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
Tuesday 17th May 2011
Prince Rama
is a three-piece psychedelic rock band based in Brooklyn,
NY. Originally raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida,
and educated at an art school in Boston, Sisters Taraka
& Nimai Larson and friend Michael Collins have released
4 albums since 2007, the latest being released on Paw
Tracks, a record label started by the band Animal Collective.
The band have been chosen by Animal Collective to perform
at All Tomorrow's Parties festival in May 2011.
Dum
Dum Girls
Stereo, Glasgow
Sunday 3rd April 2011
It's been a busy couple
of years for California's Dum Dum Girls. Originally
a one-woman garage-pop project, the Dum Dum Girls were
formed when lead singer Dee Dee enlisted the services
of former members of the Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls
to form her backing band. Quickly snapped-up by Sub
Pop in 2009, the band set about recording their debut
album, I Will Be, with industry vet Richard Gottehrer
(Blondie, Dr. Feelgood). With almost universal critical
acclaim for the album and extensive touring with the
likes of Vampire Weekend, Girls, MGMT and Male Bonding,
the Dum Dum Girls are a band on the up.
New EP 'He Gets Me High' is out now!
"Worthy contenders
for the soundtrack of your summer." - The Observer
"More
than just another garage rock pastiche, these girls
have real heart" - NME
Black Lips have a
reputation for crazy live shows that have included vomiting,
urinating, nudity, band members kissing, fireworks,
and a chicken. They have steadily built a fanbase that
appreciates their energy and style that is a rough mishmash
of blues, rock, doo-wop, country, and punk.
Having recently finished
recording their new album, Arabia Mountain, with producer
Mark Ronson, The Black Lips hit Glasgow's Stereo on
24th of May.
"Black
Lips are unrivalled producers of furious sleaze rock,
with a broad enough palate to match their danger with
aspiration."
NME
The
Fresh &Onlys
Stereo, Glasgow
Tuesday 10th May 2011
2010 was a decisive
year for San Francisco's the Fresh &Onlys - including
invitations to play All Tomorrow's Parties and then
they joined Deerhunter for a UK tour, extensive treks
throughout the US, and standout performances at the
Woodsist festivals in NY and Big Sur. Keeping with their
notorious urgent pace the Fresh &Onlys released
a handful of exclusive 7" singles, and Captured
Tracks issued the lush and anthemic August In My Mind
EP. Play It Strange is the third full length album recorded
in just over two years since the band's inception with
previous albums out on Woodsist and Castle Face. This
newest album is also the first recording done outside
the band's own analog home studio. Hot on the heels
of touring and arranging these new songs live, Play
It Strange was furiously recorded and mixed in one week
with Tim Green (Fucking Champs, Comets On Fire) at Louder
Studios in order to better capture the muscularity and
depth of the band's live performances. Play It Strange
is an addictive record that will establish the Fresh
&Onlys as a band that effortlessly laces together
threads of great guitar bands from decades past. They
may not be your favorite secret to keep much longer.
"When someone
tells me an album has no bad songs, I get dubious--
not about the claim, but about how ambitious a record
that avoids failure could be. Well, there's not a bad
song on Play It Strange, and yet there's ambition all
over it." Pitchfork
NO
DANCING:
The Scottish Enlightenment / MiaouxMiaoux / Male Pattern
Band
The Admiral, Glasgow
Saturday 9th April 2011
THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
After a quiet couple
of years following their debut single "Eyes",
the Scottish Enlightenment more than made up for their
silence in 2010 with a rather fine debut album. St.
Thomas is an expansive and dramatic tour-de-force about
faith and doubt, religion and uncertainty. Brooding
and melancholic, they create dark, reverb-drenched hooks
and sparse soundscapes out of clanging, repetitive piano
and driving guitars.
MiaouxMiaoux, a.k.a.
Julian Corrie, creates beautiful electronic pop soundscapes
that have been causing quite a stir in Glasgow and beyond.
This music draws on the best bits of electronica and
post-rock, recalling Caribou, Four Tet, Mogwai and Tortoise.
The impressive live show sees MiaouxMiaoux create harmonies,
melodies and beats live and on the fly, looping and
recomposing them into a maelstrom of noise and techno
vibrations.
Please
Note - Death Vessel cancel Glasgow and Edinburgh shows
(6th / 8th March). Refunds at point of purchase.
KMR WEBSITE UPDATE
23/2/11
Times
New Viking
Nice n Sleazy, Glasgow
Saturday 30th April
Times
New Viking are not a font but a rather audaciously talented
trio from Columbus, Ohio. Known for shrouding their
three-cornered pop constructions in clouds of tape hiss
and buzzing noise, the combined talents of Adam Elliott
(vocals / drums), Beth Murphy (vocals / keyboard) and
Jared Phillips (guitar) have taken inspiration from
sources as diverse as British art-school DIY of the
late 1970s, Guided By Voices, Pavement and the Beatles.
After two albums
for Siltbreeze, Times New Viking signed to Matador and
tripled their sales with 2008's Rip It Off. Following
the critical success of Rip It Off, the band quickly
returned to the studio and released Stay Awake, a five-track
7"-only EP of brand new songs. The trio also found
time to play on the hugely successful inaugural Shred
Yr Face tour (with Los Campesinos! and No Age) and have
toured with the likes of Super Furry Animals, Deerhunter
and Yo La Tengo.
April 2011 sees
the release of fifth album 'Dancer Equired', with new
single 'No Room to Live' available to stream on the
band's myspace profile right now.
The
Wave Pictures
Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
Saturday 7th May 2011
The
Wave Pictures are David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and
Jonny ''Huddersfield'' Helm.
For a few years The Wave Pictures have played sporadically
in the UK, France and New York. During this time highlights
have included playing at the Mofo Festival in Paris
at the invitation of friends Herman Dune, and playing
shows with Daniel Johnston and The Jeffrey Lewis Band.
David also sang The Wave Pictures song "Dust Off
Your Heart" with Herman Dune on a radio session
for the great John Peel. They have also served as backing
band and co-songwriters for John Darnielle of The Mountain
Goats, the results featuring on a seven-inch single
released by 4AD records.
Their latest album 'Beer in the Breakers' will be released
on April 18th.
"Not only did I appreciate his take-no-prisoners
musical stylings but also the imaginative lyrical ideas
I found mighty refreshing. This is a man who clearly
harbours no ambition to be seen hobnobbing with Dido
at the Met Bar and has opted instead to plough a righteous
but lonely furrow." - Nick Lowe
2:54
The Arches, Glasgow
Thursday 24th February 2011
These
Dalston-based sisters named themselves after their favourite
moment in a Melvins song. At 2 minutes and 54 seconds
it's the calm before the storm and as the ethos of this
band, that's a good mantra to have.
Hannah and Colette Thurlow are the two women behind
the fuzzy guitars and distorted feedback. The song 'Creeping'
did the rounds on the internet circus a few months back
and it rises into a tinny sonic wall of noise filtered
in between hypnotic vocals. The five minutes in length
slips you into a melancholic, sepia-tinted dream.
They used to be in
a loud and frantic punk band called The Vulgarians ?
far removed from the woozy music they make now. The
nature of punk is still evident though, if only for
the harsh industrial sounds of current MySpace tracks.
'On A Wire' is pure lo-fi seduction.
Up until recently
they hadn't even played a gig yet ? confined to recording
in their bedrooms ? and as two guitars, a bass and a
set of drums can't be played by two people at the same
time, it'll be interesting to see how they work it out
as a live act.
Black
Heart Procession
(Special stripped down show)
The Arches, Glasgow
Sunday 15th May 2011
Pall
Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel of Three Mile Pilot fame
enlist numerous friends and acquaintances from the San
Diego scene to play various instruments, so the band's
roster can sometimes swell to as many as eight performers.
On each of their four full-length albums, Black Heart
Procession uses saws, stripped-down unconventional percussion,
Wurlitzer piano, subtle Moog, and other nontraditional
instrumentation to create the kind of carnivalesque
dirges we've come to expect from Tom Waits over the
years. But the voices here are younger, and their owners'
wounds are fresher, and somehow you're inclined to think
that their tendency is to revel in the pain rather than
kill it with whiskey. It's hard to stop listening to
Black Heart Procession; the music hurts too good!
Happy new year! Here's
what we have coming up in 2011:
Darkstar
Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
Wednesday 16th February 2011
Darkstar
in 2010 are an upgraded model of the Darkstar which
released the much loved single 'Aidy's Girl is A Computer'
at the end of 2009. That song and previous singles 'Need
you' and 'Squeeze my lime' hinted at a nascent song
writing talent and a mastery of oozing synth drones.
The
synths remain, but since then, the band have adjusted
their focus, and added a lead singer James Buttery to
the production and writing team of James Young and AidenWhalley.
The result is a brave, low-key pop masterpiece, which
discards with the cheap thrills and treadmill ideas
that many deploy to access success. Instead, 'North'
will creep up on you with each listen, seducing you
with achingly gorgeous, synthesized song writing.
"Forget
trite 'nuumtheorising, Darkstar feel a deep connection
with the 80s synth pioneers" - The Stool Pigeon
"If
Thom Yorke made an album with John Carpenter"
- The Guardian
Death
Vessel
Sunday 6th March 2011 - Stereo, Glasgow
Tuesday 8th March - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
Having previously
toured with the likes of Low, Jose Gonzalez and Jonsi
of SigurRos this March sees Sub Pop and ATP Recordings
artist Death Vessel embark on his first ever headline
tour of the UK.
Rooted in a traditional
feel of folk and early Americana,Death Vessel's hyper-tuneful
and wholly spellbinding melodies seem to owe as much
to '60s pop, rock and jazz as they do to bluegrass,
old-time or country.
Born in Berlin, Germany
before The Wall fell, this musician lived a childhood
where the ghosts of Cold War casualties and seaport
tragedies haunted the alleyways and beaches. His music
is an eloquent distillation of a life's tales.
The
Babies
Saturday 19th March 2011 - Stereo, Glasgow
Ever wondered what
it would sound like if Vivian Girls and Woods made a
song together?
Well wonder no more because that sound is here.
Vivian Girls frontwoman
Cassie Ramone has teamed up with Woods bassist Kevin
Morby to form lo-fisupergroup The Babies.
The band came about
when Ramone and Morby shared an apartment together and
began casually writing songs during time away from their
respective groups. They recorded some of those songs
last year with Jarvis Taveniere of Woods producing and
will be playing them at Glasgow's Stereo on the 19th
of March.
Wooden
Wand
Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow
Friday 4th February 2011
James Jackson Toth, AKA Wooden Wand is your fearless
friend, the stumbling guy that goes out and gets himself
into some incredibly fucked-up situations but comes
out shining and lives to tell you all about it, entertaining
you safely and immensely. You should be grateful. His
songs are beautiful, indisputably, both musically and
lyrically, and they'll give you joy if you listen to
them.
Former
Ghosts
The Arches, Glasgow
Sunday 6th March 2011
Former Ghosts are a band based on the solo recordings
of Freddy Ruppert, with regular contributions from Xiu
Xiu's Jamie Stewart, Yasmine Kittles of TEARIST and
Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus. To those of you
reading who've already had the pleasure of being introduced
to 2009's excellent debut Fleurs, you can probably just
skip to the next paragraph if you like. But to those
who've only been exposed to the above artists through
the medium of hype, Former Ghosts are probably an intimidating
concept given the absolute swarm of buzz that surrounds
its four members, all hyperbole and blogging and genres
like 'witch house', 'lo-fi', 'Joy Division' etc, etc.
That applies to some/all/none of them depending on who
you ask or what you read. PLEASE DON'T BE PUT OFF! Former
Ghosts (and the various respective solo outings of its
members) are more than worthy of your attention and
done a disservice by this mire of labels and arguments
over what is and isn't 'hip'. New Love 8/10 DROWNED
IN SOUND
'a bruising, sonic
squall of an affair' and that 'dramatic dark pop is
the order of the day, equal parts delicate and muscular'.
Drowned In Sound
The Clash Magazine
found Harrys Gym as one of the festival highlights at
the By:Larm Festival 2009: "Harrys Gym have a presence and sound that could
easily leap the fjords to international note. With a
haunted female singer alongside three comrades layering
an intricate rhythmic landscape, it's hard to comprehend
their name; yet running their entire sound through the
stupidly talented drummer works well, as deep and filthy
programming snugly slots into their driving percussion.
The singer's acerbic vocals are angled somewhere between
Garbage and The Knife and cut through the evening's
more moderate successes like the icy wind outside the
venue. Massive promise."
