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LISTEN! to Full of Hell Ruin Everything with Crawling Back to God

eds. — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:31:36 +0000

So, you know how sometimes you sit in bed at night and think “Well, I could always kill myself” and suddenly all the world’s weight is lifted from your throat and you’d say you slept like a baby except babies give you the creeps (the little sociopaths) and so you avoid wasting any of your private energy conceding they even exist but then sometimes that doesn’t do the trick because you understand, deep down, that there’s just so much fucking horror in this world a coward’s exit wouldn’t make any kind of impact except on the handful of people foolish enough to give a fuck about you and no matter how desperately you paint yourself a misanthrope you’d kind of feel like a dick for hurting the people who bothered to offer you kindness (love even, albeit rarely) despite your many faults because it’s one thing to live like an asshole and a whole other to die like a shithead and so you reevaluate your whole perspective and settle on the consideration “Well, I could always just start some fires” and that seems to work because as much as you tout your “fuck me” rhetoric what you’re really scratching in your hardon heart is “motherFUCK every one of them”?

No?

Then maybe this new Full of Hell track, “Crawling Back to God” (off Trumpeting Ecstasy, due 5.5.17 via Profound Lore) isn’t for you:

Trumpeting Ecstasy, Track Listing:
1. Deluminate
2. Branches of Yew
3. Bound Sphinx
4. The Cosmic Vein
5. Digital Prison
6. Crawling Back to God
7. Fractured Quartz
8. Gnawed Flesh
9. Ashen Mesh
10. Trumpeting Ecstasy
11. At the Cauldron’s Bottom

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LISTEN! to The Night Beats’ Space Grease Cover of “Sloop John B”

PPM News — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:26:51 +0000

You know, I never much cared for the Beach Boys. In fact, until recently, I was all but totally against them. Maybe it was on account of how embarrassed I was to ever be young enough to love “Kokomo” or maybe it was all that time I fucking hated California or big, wide, soft harmonies. Maybe all three. Who knows? But a few months ago, I went on a bender of yearning to understand just what it is that makes people consider Brian Wilson an unmitigated genius which – of course – led me to Pet Sounds which, after a few gringing listens, revealed itself to be a a piece of batshit postmodern pop mastery which – it turns out – Mr. Wilson will be performing at the LEVITATION festival to celebrate the record’s 50th anniversary which is an event that spurred the event’s curators, The Reverberation Appreciation Society, to enlist a whole bunch of folks to pay homage to the album like Shannon and the Clams (swoon), The Black Angels and Night Beats who cover “Sloop John B” with a ragged air of Northwestern ash which you can sniff at your leisure right down below. The record, A Tribute to Pet Sounds, drops as a double LP on 5/27 via T.R.A.S. Full details come after the track. Rockit.

A Tribute to Pet Sounds Track List:

1. The Black Angels – Good Vibrations
2. Indian Jewelry – Wouldnʼt It Be Nice
3. The Sheʼs – You Still Believe In Me
4. Holy Wave – That’s Not Me
5. Morgan Delt – Donʼt Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
6. The Shivas – Iʼm Waiting For The Day
7. Boogarins – Letʼs Go Away For A While
8. Night Beats – Sloop John B
9. Chris Catalena – God Only Knows
10. Christian Bland & The Revelators – I Know Thereʼs An Answer
11. Cool Ghouls – Here Today
12. Shannon & The Clams – I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
13. Burnt Ones – Pet Sounds
14. Cosmonauts – Caroline, No
15. The UFO Club – Hang On To Your Ego

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WATCH! Wussy Ripple Rock Space Time in “Dropping Houses”

PPM News — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 02:56:25 +0000

Goddamnit, I love you Wussy and I have since – somehow – “Maglite” somehow found its way into my frontal lobe a couple years ago and then, not so soon thereafter, the …Popular Favorites remix became the only thing that could get me out of the house on any given workaday and I imagine I will long after you’ve undone and Chuck Cleaver’s gone on to the big sky rolling or started another band with a cringe-worthy, albeit unforgettable moniker (ASS PONYS 4 LIFE!) so it is with great pleasure that I share the clip for “Dropping Houses” (the first single from Forever Sounds out 3/4 via Shake It) which is just the finest little pop psychedelic humdinger I’ve heard in, at least, a year if not more…way more…like, I haven’t heard a song that plumbs the depths of nervous American wax like this beefy jam since “Finest Worksong” and that shit was a goddamn cultural revelation. Please dig below. Rockit.

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WATCH! Amber Tamblyn Cry (Havoc) Over Spilled (Condensed) Milk in “Hungry”

PPM News — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:03:32 +0000

I thought I was watching a grotesquerie of BDD when I first spied White Lung‘s new clip for “Hungry” (off Paradise, due 5.6 via Domino) but, upon further reviews (and with director/White Lung cover artist, etc. Justin Gradin‘s assurance) I understand what I was really seeing was a bit of blunt-force weirdness commenting on the passing ghosts of attraction or attention or half if not quasi if not nearly quite Warholian fame which is all well and could but can we talk – for a second – about the unflappable foxxxiness of George Clarke in black gloves and short shorts? Because I’m pretty sure I never looked that fly when I was trying to rock the “Charlie Don’t Surf” vibe.

All that aside, “Hungry” is a welcome pitch shift for White Lung from the stampeding whorl that punctuated their early work to a far more considerate, temperate structure. It’s still as punk as Misha and company can be but its patience offers a haunting glimpse into Paradise‘s expansive potential.

You’ll find that video and all known tour dates below. Rockit.

White Lung 2016 Tour Dates:

Fri Mar 11 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt
Mar 15 – 19 || Austin, TX || SXSW
Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Festival
Sun Mar 20 || San Antonio, TX || Burger Records Hangover Fest IV
Fri May 6 || Toronto, ON || Velvet Underground (CMW) – album release show
Sat May 7 || Brooklyn, NY || Baby’s All Right – album release show
Tues May 24 || Brighton, UK || Green Door Store
Wed May 25 || Bristol, UK || Start The Bus
Thurs May 26 || London, UK || Victoria
Fri May 27 || Birmingham, UK || The Flapper
Sat May 28 || Leeds, UK || Brudenell Games Room
Sun May 29 || Manchester, UK || The Star & Garter
Tues May 31 || Paris, France || Point Ephemere
Wed Jun 1 || Liége, Belgium || La Zone
Thurs Jun 2 || The Hague, Netherlands || Paard
Fri Jun 3 || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Paradiso
Jul 22-24 || Oro-Medonte, ON || Way Home Festival
Jul 29-31 || Montreal, QC || Osheaga Festival

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WATCH! Kill the Vultures Wax the Callow Depth in Top Soil

PPM News — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:44:37 +0000

I know I still might now know shit about hip hop but I know well enough to pay attention to a band that B L A C K I E says is worth a good goddamn and so here we are with Kill the Vultures who I don’t know well enough to relate to on the routine but have consistently been releasing the Twin City Seedy for a decade, at least and now come to us – in the shadows – with a kerosene fever dream called “Top Soil” (off Carnelian which dropped just shy of Halloween). I’m afraid I’m too tired to play clever against the Fix so just sit back, breath deep and bask in the ambergris. Rockit.

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MYRKUR IS TOURING NORTH AMERICA!

PPM News — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:40:06 +0000

Pardon the caps but it’s been a minute since we were this excited for metal but MYRKUR is kind of a big fucking deal around here. A one-woman black metal act that plays as readily to faerie folk as it does to the carrions of hell, MYRKUR broke all manner of antisocial norms with the release of last year’s magnificent M (which even NPR gushed over) and now NOW she’s coming to America with none other than BEHEMOTH! to deafen and stun the masses still clinging to the Western patriarchy like a manchild to a broseph’s teet. She’s also touring Europe with Deafheaven which is a bill made in grey Hades but doesn’t do me and my kin any good. Below you’ll find all relevant tour dates just shy of a Bandcamp stream of her recent opus. Rockit.

M by Myrkur

MYRKUR NORTH AMERICAN LIVE DATES:

4/21: Theatre of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
4/22: Webster Hall – New York, NY
4/23: Royale – Boston, MA
4/25: Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre – Montreal, Canada
4/26: The Phoenix Concert Theater – Toronto, Canada
4/27: St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI
4/29: Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
4/30: Mill City Nights – Minneapolis, MN
5/1: The Granada Theater – Lawrence, KS
5/3: The Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO
5/4: The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
5/6: The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
5/7: The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA

– All U.S. Dates With Behemoth –

MYRKUR EURO LIVE DATES:

3/2: Apolo – Barcelona, Spain *
3/3: Shoko – Madrid, Spain *
3/4: RCA Club – Lisbon, Portugal *
3/5: Hard Club – Porto, Portugal *
3/8: Le Trabendo – Paris, France *
3/9: Paradiso – Amsterdam, Netherlands *
3/13: The Fleece – Bristol, United Kingdom *
3/14: Heaven – London, United Kingdom *
3/15: Ancienne Belgique – Bruxelles Brussel, Belgium *
3/17: Amager Bio – Copenhagen South, Denmark *
3/18: Debaser Meids – Stockholm, Sweden *
3/19: Sentrum Scene – Sankt Hanshaugen, Norway *
3/20: Pustervik – Göteborg, Sweden *
3/22: Uebel & Gefahrlich – Hamburg, Germany *
3/24: Musik & Frieden – Berlin, Germany *
3/25: Beatpol – Dresden, Germany *
3/28: Arena Vienna – Bezirk Landstrasse, Austria *
3/30: Feierwerk e.V – München, Germany *
3/31: Rote Fabrik – Zurich, Switzerland *
4/1: Jubez – Karlsruhe, Germany *
4/14: Tungenes Lighthouse – Randaberg, Norway
6/18: Hellfest 2016 – Clisson, France

* – w/ Deafheaven

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LISTEN! to the Swooning Tar Beach Beat of Heat Dust’s “Seeking a Praxis”

PPM News — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:53:49 +0000

Back in the days of purple streaks and bitter, bitter New England winters when I was just a pale boy with some dumb scars and a script that would level out Mark E. Smith I was nothing short of a full-blown goth. Hmmmm. Maybe not. It wasn’t until college that I ended up “dancing” mushroom Saturdays away at the Pyramid in a black ball gown, spider web fishnet shirt (thanks, Speak…whoever you may be these days) and dog collar pretending that Dead Can Dance was really on to something total and by then I’d dropped the meds and started in with the shakes that persist to this day but the point is, once you’re goth you’re kinda goth for good and that’s awesome because goths are foxxxy as fuck when they aren’t all terrible and even then, at least, you can learn something new about Kierkegaard. So I’m goth even though I don’t wear it as well as I used to. Heat Dust is kinda goth too but way more goth in the spirit of the post industrialist Bat Cave risen up from the Bayou Brood than the Un Chien Andalous of my youth so of course my callowed cockles are humming hard for the new cool ghoul pop of their new scooner jam, “Seeking a Praxis” (off their eponymous Flenser debut, due 9.25). You can and should hep hard to its wonder below and then catch the band laying waste to the autumnal USA alongside Thou and The Body soon. All known dates end the page. Rockit.

FALL 2015 TOUR WITH THOU/THE BODY
10.12.15 – Austin (no thou/body)
10.13.15 – San Antonio (no thou/body)
10.15.15 – Tucson at 191 Toole at Southwest Terror fest
10.16.15 – Albuquerque
10.17.15 – Colorado Springs (matinee)
10.17.15 – Denver
10.18.15 – Salt Lake City with Sub Rosa
10.19.15 – Reno
10.20.15 – Portland
10.21.15 – Seattle with Dreamdecay
10.22.15 – Seattle (matinee) at KEXP
10.22.15 – Olympia
10.23.15 – Portland (matinee)
10.23.15 – Salem
10.24.15 – Arcata
10.25.15 – Santa Rosa (matinee)
10.25.15 – Berkeley at 924 Gilman
10.26.15 – Oakland at the Metro
10.27.15 – Santa Cruz
10.28.15 – San Luis Obispo with Hollow Sunshine
10.29,15 – Santa Barbara (matinee)
10.29.15 – San Diego
10.30.15 – Lancaster at Moose Lodge
10.31.15 – Los Angeles at Super Chief Gallery
11.01.15 – Riverside at Blood Orange

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LISTEN! to the Hallowed, Hopeless Death Stomp of Wolf Eyes’ “Enemy Ladder”

PPM News — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:58:34 +0000

I fucking love Wolf Eyes. Love ’em. Love ’em. Love ’em. Even though (or maybe because) they drive me out of my hopeless skull and straight into some no future fuck beast that’s all wet hair and teeth any and every time I’ve ever indulged in their Trip Metal/Trap Mental/Trope Model hellscape of wildly informed Michigan weirdness. So it’s weird to be relate their new jam, “Enemy Ladder” (off I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces due 10.30 via Third Man) with the knowledge that’s its something kinda close to straight up rock and roll or about as close to rock and roll as disco bones can get, ground up and snorted off an Anasazi rite. All desert bloom and industrial doom and churning post-punk hardons swung over the fire and is that an actual drum in the background? HOLY FUCK, MAN! THIS IS THE SOUND OF THE NEW END, BABY! THIS IS BOZO, UNFUCKWITHABLE! GET HIP OR GET FUCKED! Rockit.

I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces Tracklist:

1. Catch The Rich Train
2. Twister Nightfall
3. T.O.D.D.
4. Asbestos Youth
5. Enemy Ladder
6. Cynthia Vortex AKA Trip Memory Illness

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WATCH! Publicist UK Serenade the Heavy Hell in “Away”

PPM News — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 23:42:27 +0000

Okay, so you won’t really be watching Publicist UK do anything in their new clip for “Away” (except for briefly, maybe?) as the video is a brooding amalgam of high contrast/concept visions of abandonment, assorted witchy shit and circles but – whatever, dude – it works well and proper to emphasize the sturm and drang of this MASSIVE members of powerhouse collective (Goes Cube, Discordance Axis, Freshkills…FRESHKILLS! Fuck, I loved that band) who’ve taken their respective love of post punk, metal, noise and madness and mashed it all up into something deliciously moody and totally crushing. This track comes from their upcoming Forgive Yourself (due 8.21 via Relapse) which a sawbuck says will rule and also predicates a brief, sweltering tour. Those dates are just below the video which is just below this. No shit. Rockit.

Publicist UK August Tour Dates:
20 – Pittsburgh, PA – 31st Street Pub *
21 – Athens, OH – Jackie O’s *
22 – Cincinnati, OH – Northside Yachtclub *
23 – Columbus, OH – Spacebar *
24 – Brooklyn, NY – St. Vitus #
25 – Boston, MA – Church #
26 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s #
27 – Richmond, VA – Gallery 5 #

* = w/ Young Widows
# = w/ Dälek

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WATCH! Coheed and Cambria Play Hard the Bitter Triumph in “You Got Spirit Kid”

PPM News — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 23:44:01 +0000

I have never cared for Coheed and Cambria because I don’t like prog no matter how postmodern it can get between the punks and the metalheads in a McLuhanian bro off and I also can’t handle Rush (though, thanks in no small part to the Trailer Park Boys, I have been able to afford the band some degree of fuckin’ awesome) and concept albums are the pits unless you’re Craig Finn or Bruce Springsteen or Prurient, I guess but whatever with my reservations because Coheed and Cambria have just dropped the first track off their upcoming NOT CONCEPT! album, The Color Before the Sun (due out 10.9 on 300 Entertainment) and that’s a big fucking deal for a whole lot of people with better sense than me and besides that it’s actually kinda fun as all hell, if decidedly bitter so maybe not that fun at all but it’ll be shit-sure blast to shout along to…ironically? I don’t know but the song is called “You Got Spirit Kid” and it’s embedded below (as a lyric clip with fireworks and confetti and WHOO!). Rockit.

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WATCH! the Mice Rise and Brunch in Eternal Summers’ “Come Alive”

PPM News — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 23:12:24 +0000

I tell people, sometimes, that I used to be a rat catcher. This is a lie. I’ve never caught or killed a rat in my life and even if I had the chance, I’d probably skip it because rats are kind of awesome. Mice on the other hand? Fuck a bunch of mice. Sorry, Eternal Summers. I know that mice make the charm of your new lilting swing “Come Alive” (off Gold and Stone which is out NOW! via Kanine) really pop but mice and I have a long-standing understanding whose name might as well be war. Those are mice, right? Jerks. But enough about my vendetta because this clip is totally adorable if just a touch psychotic and the song, itself, is like a soft breeze over a Key West catamaran. You can check that out below and then go see the band play some time between now and when the cows come home. Seriously, their schedule is endless. Rockit.

Eternal Summers Tour Dates:
7/7 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar *
7/8 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird *
7/9 Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar *
7/10 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *
7/11 Salt Lake City, UT @ Diabolical Records
7/12 Boise, ID @ Neurolux *
7/13 Seattle, WA @ Barboza ^
7/14 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar ^
7/16 Oakland, CA @ 1234 Go! Records ^
7/17 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo ^
7/18 Costa Mesa, CA @ The Wayfarer
7/19 Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar ^
7/20 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
7/21 Oklahoma City, OK @ OKC Farmer’s Market
7/22 Oxford, MS @ Cats Purring Dude Ranch
7/23 Nashville, TN @ The Stone Fox
7/24 Chattanooga, TN @ JJ’s Bohemia
9/11 Galway, IR @ Roisin Dubh
9/12 Dublin, IR @ The Workman’s Club
9/13 Edinburgh, UK @ Electric Circus #
9/15 Cardiff, UK @ 10 Feet Tall #
9/16 Falmouth, UK @ Mono #
9/17 London, UK @ Birthdays #
9/18 Amsterdam, NL @ De Nieuwe Anita (Subbacultcha)
9/19 Antwerp, BEL @ Muziekcentrum TRIX %
9/20 Tilburg, NL – Incubate Festival
9/21 Cologne, GER @ Blue Shell %
9/22 Paris, FR @ L’Espace B %
9/24 Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds %
9/25 Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast %
9/27 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny %
9/28 Norwich, UK – Norwich Arts Centre %
9/30 London, UK @ Tufnell Park Dome %
10/1 Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute %
10/2 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club %
10/3 Southampton, UK @ The Joiners %
10/4 Bristol, UK @ Thekla %
10/5 Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin %

* w/ Wildhoney
^ w/ Nic Hessler
# w/ Pinact
% w/ Surfer Blood

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WATCH! Glen Hansard Inspire the Beatific Pugilist in “Winning Streak”

PPM News — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 01:45:27 +0000

Being a NYC boy of somewhat Irish descent (the plot lines twist a bit between the Scots and the French) with a yen for carved hearts and inimitable rock and roll, I have always had a soft spot for Glen Hansard. Mostly with the Frames but who couldn’t love the tender Yeats of his solo sessions? And so I’d be happy to share this new clip of his, “Winning Streak” (the first notch from Didn’t He Ramble, due 9.18 via Anti-), because the song is lovely as Hansard has ever been but the video, it turns out, was edited by Pinpoint Contributor (and periodic salvation), Melissa Huffsmith-Roth, and being that the damn thing is lovely and patient and touching and just warms all our old bones at HQ, we are over-the-moon STOKED! to share it with you. You can see it below. Sadly, NPR scooped us on this debut. Oh well. There are worse outlets to lose out to. Rockit.

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