June 2013
45 posts
Pathetic
ascreamforthememory
I will pray for you.
Infidel Musk(You Are)
Session 606
Just listen to this. Especially if you like Deftones. Support with a purchase if you dig.
Listen/purchase: Rebirth by Session 606
Right Brigade
Bad Brains
Bad Brains - Right Brigade
Listen
I The Mighty
Checkin’ out the new ITM record, out today! Well… between commercials about UTIs…
WEERD SCIENCE VIDEO SHOOT.
Last week in Upstate ny I shot a new music video for Weerd Science. The main mc is Josh Eppard from the band Coheed and Cambria. The song is called “10 Smack Commandment”it’s essentially a warning about the perils of herion use. I’m very happy with what we shot, i’m looking forward to editing this video.
August
Deep Elm Records
check it out, we can paste in bandcamp links on tumblr now!
Together We Will Live Forever
Clint Mansell
girl-from-the-northern-contry:
Track: Together We Will Live Forever
Artist: Clint Mansell
Album: The Fountain Original Soundtrack
and then suddenly i became real again. it hurts so fucking good.
<3
Minerva
Deftones
Deftones - Minerva
one of the great things to come out of 2003!
HEY WHAT?
Hello! Here I am!
I like listening to Radio Xenu!
me too! I’m listening right now! The Music Director, Russ Factor, is on with the top 10 most blogged about songs… then he’ll be taking requests! Love this ish!
Neeshland: Kayo Dot: Coyote, Cambria, Rock-A-Rolla →
theneesh.tumblr.com
Totally lame to reblog yourself… but this post from 2010 has been getting some action lately due to spinning “Marathon” off 2003’s Choirs Of The Eye on Neeshcast #45. Figure I’ll reshare for everyone! Coyote is a fantastic record. Check it out. Btw, drummer Dave Bodie has a new project, Infantephant. I embedded the EP below.
Here in Neeshland we don’t like the constriction of genres. We like music that breaks free from the ordinary. Kayo Dot is a perfect example of such music. I’ve seen their music be categorized as avant-garde, post-rock, post-metal, postmodern classical, progressive rock, experimental doom metal, post-hardcore, free jazz… Their sound is truly uncategorizable. There’s usage of many different instruments and their songs can extend to 18 minutes in length.
Coyote (April 20, 2010) Hydra Head Records
dedicated to Yuko Sueta In just a few days Kayo Dot will be releasing their fourth studio record, Coyote. You can preorder directly from Toby Driver and receive an additional CD-R of a live 2009 performance in handmade packaging for $15 (in the US, which includes shipping… or $18 overseas). The material of the album began taking shape two years ago, in April 2008, as a collaborative long-form composition piece by frontman Toby Driver and NYC-based writer/filmmaker/video artist, Yuko Sueta. It was intended to be a film projected along with music; Yuko as the author and Toby as the composer. September 2008 Toby and Yuko shared a first draft at The Stone with the music performed by Toby (bass guitar, vocals), Kayo Dot’s Daniel Means (alto sax), Tim Byrnes (trumpet), Kayo Dot’s Terran Olson (piano), Kayo Dot’s David Bodie (percussion). Sadly, not too long after, Yuko became incapacitated from Breast Cancer. Toby re-adapted the music and Kayo Dot (with Tim) performed it on their May 2009 tour with Secret Chiefs 3. June-July 2009 the band shacked up with Producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Six Organs of Admittance) in Seattle and recorded Coyote. Yuko passed while the record was in post-production. Cited musical influences include: early Cure, Faith and the Muse, Bauhaus, Herbie Hancock’s Sextant, and Scott Walker’s The Drift. According to Solid PR, The lyrics and story were constructed with deliberate melodrama to pay homage as well to the intended gothic vibe, expressing the protagonist’s loneliness and longing to be in a better place, and her journey through her own personal looking-glass through a hallucinatory world of fear and wonder.Original member (and pre-cursor band, maudlin of the Well, member) Terran Olson returned after several years during the odyssey to Coyote. This also marks the first Kayo Dot album drummer, David Bodie, appears on. The Kayo Dot website describes Bodie’s performance on the record as, “more rhythm-oriented than heard in previous Kayo Dot music.” Previously David Bodie has drummed in Bernier/Schirmer/Bodie, Time of Orchids, MATH, Counterfeit Disaster and Divest.
Fun factoid: Mia Matsumiya, Kayo Dot’s beautiful Japanese violinist, was the original model for the female face in Coheed and Cambria’s Second Stage Turbine Blade liner notes.Currently Kayo Dot is up for Deli Magazine’s NYC Artist of the Month. Vote for them here (in the upper right corner).
to book Kayo Dot on their Coyote Tour contact:
US booking - Merrick Jarmulowicz / The Kenmore Agency (merrick@thekenmoreagency.com)
mainland European booking - Vincent Royers / Odyssey Booking (vincent@odysseybooking.com)
Currently in need of a UK Booking agent. Contact the band if you are interested!Kayo Dot’s first magazine cover-
Featuring:
Kayo Dot: Toby Driver talks Coyote and goth fusion!
Red Sparowes: Post-rock supergroup return with their first album in four years, The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer!
Ufomammut: Italian progressive psych-doom trio celebrate ten years with their latest masterpiece, Eve!
Black Breath: Southern Lord’s latest signing unleash their debut album!
Jucifer: Sludge metal husband/wife duo go DIY!
Eluvium: Ambient/shoegaze/minimalist explorer Matthew Cooper goes pop!
Oxbow: Eugene Robinson remembers the making of Fuckfest in the first of our Classic Albums series!Plus! Wold, Årabrot, Public Guilt, Mouse On The Keys, Caspian, Errors, live action: Sir Richard Bishop, The Ex & Brass Unbound, White Hills + Pontiak, over 100 album reviews and much, much more!
Only in Rock-A-Rolla issue 25, out now!
Buy issue 25 now: http://www.rock-a-rolla.com/backissues.htm
Neeshcast #42: Weerd Science, Dirty Ern, Chris Bittner (Red Light Juliet)
Neeshcast
Weerd Science (Coheed and Cambria’s Josh Eppard) was working with Chris Bittner (Applehead Recording and Production) and DJ Dirty Ern at Ern’s home studio, so I stopped in for a chat! We talked Red Light Juliet, influences, DIY recording, independently releasing music, and oh so much more! One of the most fun episodes yet! During the time of recording and the May 15th premiere on Radio Xenu, the album was not out yet. In exchange for premiering a tune off the record, we unveiled the track-listing. RLJ dropped May 21st, 2013 and can be streamed/purchased on bandcamp. In fact, the release did so well on the first day, that it blew past several Wu Tang Clan releases and held the #1 spot on the site! A limited run of 400 CDs are in the works. Without further ado, here’s all about the release straight from those who created it!
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Purchase Red Light Juliet at weerdscience.bandcamp.com
POZ Review: Weerd Science - Red Light Juliet
*This review was composed by Marc Gary Gray and edited by Erik van Rheenen
We’re at an interesting place in music. Outside the world of Top 40 pop, the rulebook has basically been thrown away. To be a legitimate indie rocker, it used to mean that you were a starving artist; now bands like The Strokes come from privilege and Billy Joel’s indictment that “you can’t look trashy till you spend a lot of money” seems truer than ever.
Hip-hop has had the biggest renaissance of all, and the impact can be seen throughout the young black community. Just look at the next NBA press conference: corn rows and bling have often given way to Buddy Holly glasses and bow ties, and the lines between skaters, punks, hip-hop kids, and every amalgam thereof have been blurred to the point of non-existence. We now live in a world where an openly gay black R&B artist is supported by most of the hip-hop community (and this is clearly a good thing). And this leads us to the artist in question: Weerd Science.
Weerd Science is the brainchild of Coheed and Cambria drummer Josh Eppard. If I were writing this review fifteen years ago, I would leave out this fact; there would be too much baggage attached to the artist being a white guy from upstate New York who drums for a prog-metal band. Now, however, I feel the average music fan can just listen to the music and judge the songs on their own merits. So, does Red Light Juliet have merits? Fuck yes it does.
Whether or not it’s intentional or not is unclear, but this album plays like a mixtape of what’s been happening in hip-hop the past few years. “10 Smack Commandments” has the choppy, rapid smarm of Yelawolf. “You Can’t Do That on Television” owes a lot to early Eminem. “Evil Genius” conveys the snot-nosed brattish flow of Travie McCoy. There are hints of Kanye, some Weezy, and even Mickey Avalon sprinkled through these eight tracks. None of this is to say this album is biting, nor does Mr. Eppard lack a singular voice. Weerd Science is simply a musical composite.
“STEVE HOLT!”
—Steve Holt (via idiotshitbaby)
“I just want to make crazy science with you.”
—Cosima / #OrphanBlack
