Rocket Girl is VERY excited to be working with Whipping Boy again after releasing their first two 12" singles back in the early nineties! (Cheree Records)

'No One Take Prisoners Anymore' / 'Earth's Last Picture' is the first new material from Whipping Boy in almost 12 years. The two tracks will be available digitally on 12th March.

One of the great iconic Irish acts of the last 25 years, Whipping Boy returned in 2011 to an Irish live scene that they once owned and put in some immense performances around the country's festivals and venues.

The band promote the new release with two shows:

Sunday February 26th - RDS, Hot Press Music Expo, Dublin
Friday, March 16th - The Barfly, London

• Following the release of the ‘Anatomy’ album, Drugstore return with a new single, ‘Aquamarine’

• To find the perfect pistolero for the duet on ‘Aquamarine’, Isabel Monteiro, Drugstore’s head-honcho, turned into an A&R scout:..‘Everyone had this idea about who I should duet with, from famous dinosaurs to even dead people! When Rolf Harris was mentioned, that was it, I had to take control of the situation, so I spent 48 hours on MySpace looking for something special, heard over 500 bands, famous and obscure, then I came across this beautiful voice, from this totally unknown guy called Chris Belson. He’s only 24, but he sounds like a man who’s been living inside a velvet-coated bottle of gin forever. Perfecto!’

This new luxuriously and lovingly packaged double CD with DVD is a labour of love in memory of Jason DiEmilio (1970-2006) aka the Azusa Plane. Two CDs feature over two hours of music spanning the breadth of the Azusa Plane catalogue. The DVD features a thirty-minute live set and 65 MP3s split between 11 folders; which include rare tracks, never released Azusa Plane live recordings, an interview with Jason and a previously unreleased recording. An expansive booklet is included with the release which contains essays, thoughts, reflections and memories of DiEmilio's life and musical output.

The in-store due to take place Thursday 11th August has been postponed due to security reasons. We will keep you posted when we can reschedule.
Be safe.

 

Drugstore will play an instore at the lovely Rough Trade East on 11th August. On stage at 7pm.
You can get a free wrist band if you buy the album from RT or else get there in plenty of time on the day.

Emeralds is the new album by guitarist/songwriter, producer and sound architect Robin Guthrie.

He is about to embark on a US tour:

DATE    CITY
   
Mon-May-30-11    Washington, DC
Tue-May-31-11    New York, NY
Wed-Jun-01-11    Boston, MA
Thu-Jun-02-11    OFF
Fri-Jun-03-11    Montreal, QC
Sat-Jun-04-11    Toronto, ON
Sun-Jun-05-11    Chicago, IL
Mon-Jun-06-11    OFF
Tue-Jun-07-11    OFF
Wed-Jun-08-11    Seattle, WA
Thu-Jun-09-11    Vancouver, BC
Fri-Jun-10-11    Portland, OR
Sat-Jun-11-11    OFF
Sun-Jun-12-11    San Francisco, CA
Mon-Jun-13-11    Los Angeles, CA
Tue-Jun-14-11    Solana Beach, CA
Wed-Jun-15-11    OFF
Thu-Jun-16-11    Mexico City, MEX
 

Drugstore will play Cork X Southwest on June 4th 2011

ttp://www.eventelephant.com/cork-x-south-west-festival-2011

http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/3/16/electric-independence-ulrich-schnauss

The much anticipated follow up to their self-titled debut album will be out on 28th February.

'Pretty Ugly' features 13 brand new tracks.

The band will play a special album launch show at the Social in London on 1st March.
 

Almost a decade on from the first Rocket Girl compilation, this luxuriously-packaged double CD/download showcases the sonic esprit de corps of label founder Vinita Joshi - a twenty-seven track treasure-trove, brimming with the label’s most recent aural acquisitions.

Tracklisting:

CD ONE

A Diana’s Diana- Lilys
Frozen Twilight - God is an Astronaut
Dressed For Rain - The Sleeping Years
No.6 - Sam Kills Two
I Know I’ll See You - A Place to Bury Strangers
Love Never Dies A Natural Death - Robin Guthrie
Standing Still - The Brothers Movement
Memories Just Wash Away - Project Skyward
Setting Sun - Howling Bells (Ulrich Schnauss) remix
You’re My Yoko - Television Personalities
Tattoo - Peter Daltrey
Rocket Girl - Kennedy Green
Cold Water - Pieter Nooten
I’ve God Them - aM
Dream - The Azusa Plane

CD TWO

The Long Goodbye - All in the Golden Afternoon with Ulrich Schnauss
Maybe Next Time - The Pragmatic
In The Distance Fading (The Echelon Effect remix) - God is An Astronaut
Just Out of Reach - A Place to Bury Strangers
Swallowtail - Lemon’s Chair
Blooth - Serena Maneesh
In The Glow - Asteroid #4
London - A Shoreline Dream with Ulrich Schnauss
Nowhere - Elika (Project Skyward remix)
Broken Heart - Robin Guthrie
Blue - Pieter Nooten
Bubbles and Flugelhorn - Fuxa

Out 24th January 2011

aM™[aem]  is the Japanese duo featuring Kodai (Supercar) and Miyuki.

Think: Atmosphere / Stratosphere/ Noise / Asian Echoes / Ground Groove Rhythm / New Psychedelic / Sparkle Bleep Galaxy / Cool / Beautifully / Spinning Nostalgic Music Magic!  

"Belong to Galaxy" is the amazing new album and I really hope the band will come over to play in the UK soon...

Pieter Nooten's album  "Here is Why" will be released on 6th September.

Pieter Nooten's fragile and restrained music has been well known for many years. Being part of the early line-up of Clan Of Xymox in the 80s, Nooten was responsible for most of their early cult hits. Before leaving COX in 1990, he released an extraordinary album on 4AD, a collaboration with Michael Brook, entitled "Sleep With The Fishes", which was highly acclaimed and reached absolute cult status in 'ambient' circles which reverberates up until this day.

Twenty years later, Nooten signs with Rocket Girl and his obscure imago has cautiously made way to a more communicative one.

This month sees the release of 'Kennedy Green', a unique project partnering stunning tracks with an inspiring story and a pledge to raise thousands of pounds for children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent.

Website: www.clicsargent.org.uk

Kennedy Green features the two teenagers Laura Green and Hannah Kennedy.

The 2 track single featuring "Cocopah" and the original version of "Rocket Girl" is out now and precedes the full length album, due out on July 12.

There will be a double Peter Daltrey album out on 28th June 2010 "Heroine" / "Tattoo".  

This beautifully packaged album features great songs from Peter Daltrey, the legendary singer of UK 60's band Kaleidoscope.

Rocket Girl is thrilled to announce the release of a catchy new song from the TVPs on 1st May.

'Youre My Yoko' will be available as a limited, coloured 7" and download only.

The album will follow on 1st June - on all fomats: download, CD and limited edition coloured LP with inner sleeve.

A Memory Is Better Than Nothing
The Girl In The Hand Me Down Clothes
She's My Yoko
Walk Towards The Light
Funny He Never Married
Except For Jennifer
People Think That We're Strange
My New Tattoo
If You Don't Want Me
Come Back To Bed
The Good Anarchist
All the Things You Are
You Freed My Spirit

The double A-side single
“Blind”
“Sister”
will be released on 15th March as limited CD single and download only. The band will be touring the UK in February:

11 Cardiff Barfly
12 Tunbridge Wells Forum
13 Bedford Pad
14 Brighton Engine Room
15 Southampton Joiners
17 London Barfly
18 Birmingham Rainbow
19 Leeds Cockpit
21 Stoke Sugarmill
22 Nottingham Bodega
24 Manchester Night and Day
25 Glasgow Captain's Rest (w/So So Modern)

You can listen to a radio special with music and interview from Ulrich Schnauss here:

http://redbullmusicacademyradio.com/shows/2235/

On Red Bull Music Academy Radio

This remix album will be released on 15th March 2010.

Track-listing

1 howling bells: setting sun
2 a sunny day in glasgow: ghost in the graveyard
3 katharina franck: faithful friend
4 madrid: out to sea
5 asobi seksu: strawberries
6 dragons: remembrance
7 aus: halo
8 mahogany: supervitesse
9 lunz (roedelius & tim story): lunz
10 rachel goswell: coastline
11 high violets: chinese letter
12 mark gardener: story of the eye
13 i'm not a gun: make sense and loose
14 mojave 3: bluebird of happiness

“Essentially what makes me really happy about this album is the fact that it's a selection of the - in my opinion - best mixes from a musical point of view, rather than a compilation of the commercially most succesful ones, or the tracks that have the biggest names associated with them. In all cases, the original songs are already great in their own right - which made it really inspiring to work with them.” – Ulrich Schnauss

Mr prolific, AKA Robin Guthrie has recorded a wonderful new EP to be released on 15th March 2010.

1 horse heaven
2 petals
3 slightly out of focus
4 sunflower stories

Beautiful, instrumental dreaminess as expected from Robin :)

Moved By Opposing Forces is available now, on CD and digital download.

Currently the most played album at Rocket Girl HQ!!

UNCUT ****

Ambient electonica taken to logical extremes

Holistic Science / Astronomy graduate and New Yorker Ryan Field aka Skyward wants to 'express ideas about the universe through music.' Either that or this is a lot of echo-crazed hippy noodling. a Tubular Bells for the post-DJ Sasha generation. Moved By Opposing Forces manages to be a completely immersive experience, brilliant in its uncompromising, trippy blend of rippling electronics and modulated guitars. The entrance of thin voices shunts it close to chill-out, but the wonderfully filthy bass on 'Superblaster' and 'Hungry Ghost' kicks it back to life.
Chris Roberts.

Project Skyward added to Epic 45 show.

Wednesday 21st October
Queen of Hoxton
London

Doors 8pm, Tickets £5 on the door

Kirsty Hawkshaw & Ulrich Schnauss
Project Skyward
Malory

Upstairs at the Garage - 22nd October 2009

Project Skyward will play at The Social on 28th October.

Line up is:

Yeti Lane
Le Volume Courbe
Project Skyward

Get there early to avoid disappointment or buy tickets in advance from wegottickets.com

Friday November 6- Nottingham, UK at Social with Japandroids

Saturday November 7 Birmingham, UK at Flapper with Japandroids

Sunday November 8 Cardiff, UK at Barfly with Japandroids

Monday November 9 Dublin, Ireland at Whelans with Japandroids

Wednesday November 11 Belfast, Ireland at Auntie Annie's with Japandroids

Thursday November 12 Glasgow, UK at Captain’s Rest with Japandroids

Friday November 13 Newcastle UK at Digital with Japandroids

Saturday November 14 Manchester, UK at Moho with Japandroids

Sunday November 15 Leeds UK at Cockpit with Japandroids

Tuesday November 17 Cambridge, UK at Portland

Wednesday November 18 UK, London Garage

Thursday November 19 Paris, FR at La Maroquinerie

Sat November 21 Brussels, BE at Botanique Orangerie

Tuesday November 24 Hamburg, Germany at Ubel & Gefahrlich

Wednesday November 25 Cologne, Germany at die Werkstatt

Thursday November 26 Utrecht, Holland at Guess Festival

Friday November 27 Groningen, HOlland at Vera

Saturday November 28 Erfurt, Germany at Museumskeller

Sunday November 29 Dresden, Germany at Beatpol

Tuesday December 1 Berlin, Germany at Magnet

Wednesday December 2 Lausanne, Switzerland at Le Romanidie

Thursday December 3 Milan Italy at Magnolia

Friday December 4 Munich, Germany at 59:1

Sun December 6 Minehead, UK at All Tomorrow's Parties

Friday December 11 Madrid, Spain at Sala Caracol

Saturday December 12 Barcelona, Spain at Bikini

Sunday December 13 Barcelona, Spain at LA2

Rocket Girl is proud to announce the release of the Project Skyward album 'Moved By Opposing Forces' on 2nd November. The album features cosmic, atmospheric sounds with ethereal vocals and electronic beats. A must for fans of electronica and good song writing.