Black Mountain Soundtracks New Surf Film Year Zero
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Black Mountain Soundtracks New Surf Film Year Zero
Download New Song “Mary Lou”
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Black Mountain’s Year Zero soundtrack is nothing less than the band’s full, powerful glory distilled down to one dense, 45-minute acid tab of music. Featuring five new songs and five previously released songs, the Year Zero soundtrack weaves crunching, analog psych metal; futuristic droneouts; and, somehow, a twisted saxaphone ditty.
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Black Mountain Performs On KCRW’s Morning:Tour News
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Black Mountain Performs On KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
European and Australian Tour this Spring
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On this St. Valentine’s Day, Black Mountain showed up bright and early to KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic to play a rare radio set for all the lovebirds in the Los Angeles area and beyond.
KCRW posted both video (embed above) and a stream of the 45-minute show for the masses. Spoiler: they begin with 2010’s most romantic indie rock song…
Setlist:
The Hair Song
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More Bands Announced for Roadburn and The Afterburner Party
All via Roadburn of course
Roadburn is thrilled to report that doom supergroup Shrinebuilder will be part of the 2011 Roadburn Festival lineup. Originally scheduled to perform at this years Roadburn Festival in April 2010, Shrinebuilder ended up stuck in New York due to logistic complications arising from the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Shrinebuilder is now scheduled to play on Saturday, April 16 at the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.
With Scott Kelly (Neurosis) and Scott “Wino” Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, The Hidden Hand and Wino) on guitar, Al Cisneros (OM, Sleep) on bass and Dale Crover (Melvins) on drums, Shrinebuilder’s self-titled debut full-length (released on Neurot Recordings) is perhaps the most anticipated “Roadburn Festival album” of the year. Over the past year we have watched the Shrinebuilder buzz rise to fever pitch.
We are truly looking forward to see Kelly, Wino, Cisneros and Crover meld their unique, different styles. When these four musicians get together, catchy canyon-size riffs lead to psychedelic guitar solos; subdued vocals add a mellow touch; and the meandering, groove-laden ambience ultimately creates crushing doom riffage. The sum of the parts is only strengthened by the natural vibe between these musical heavyweights – all of whom embody the true spirit of the Roadburn Festival. (more…)
Black Mountain Tour With Black Angels
via Pitchfork
Classic rocking riffers Black Mountain return with a new Jagjaguwar album, Wilderness Heart (that’s the Shark Week cover up there), September 14 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK. (Download a bluesy duet called “Hair Song” above.) Understandably, they’re touring behind the new recording– with color-appropriate psych band the Black Angels, no less– in places like America and Canada. All black everything dates are below.
In other Black Angels news, the Austin band’s new album, Phosphene Dream, is out in the U.S. September 14 via Blue Horizon– listen to a track from it at Spin. And, as a special black-on-black tour bonus, download the Black Angels’ cover of Black Mountain’s “No Satisfaction” right here, too.
MP3: The Black Angels: “No Satisfaction (Black Mountain cover)”
Black Mountain:
08-26 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theatre
08-30 New York, NY – The Knitting Factory #
09-03 Stradbally, Ireland – Electric Picnic Festival
09-04 Oxford, England – O2 Academy 2
09-05 Birmingham, England – Hare and Hounds
09-08 Brighton, England – Concorde 2
09-09 Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix
09-10 Isle of Wight, England – Bestival
09-11 Dorset, England – End of the Road Festival
09-12 Leeds, England – TJ’s Woodhouse Club
09-14 Glasgow, Scotland – Oran Mor
09-15 Manchester, England – Academy 3
09-16 Nottingham, England – Rescue Rooms
09-17 Tilburg, Netherlands – Incubate Festival
09-18 Groningen, Netherlands – Take Root
09-20 Koln, Germany – Gebaeude 9
09-21 Hamburg, Germany – Grünspan
09-22 Denmark, Copenhagen – Loppen
09-24 Oslo, Norway – John Dee
09-27 Berlin, Germany – Festsaal Kreuzberg
09-28 Munich, Germany – 59:1
09-29 Milan, Italy – Salumeria della Musica
09-30 Ravenna, Italy – Bronson
10-01 Rome, Italy – Circolo degli Artisti
10-03 Lausanne, Switzerland – Le Romandie
10-04 France, Paris – La Maroquinerie
10-05 Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
10-06 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
10-07 London, England – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
10-28 Chicago, IL – Metro @
10-30 Buffalo, NY – Tralf Music Hall @
10-31 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre @
11-01 Montreal, Quebec – La Tulipe @
11-02 Boston, MA – Paradise @
11-03 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom @
11-06 Philadelphia, NY – Theatre of Living Arts @
11-07 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club @
11-09 Louisville, KY – Headliners @
11-10 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle @
11-11 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge @
11-12 Atlanta, GA – The Earl @
11-13 Orlando, FL – The Social @
11-15 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree @
11-16 New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s @
11-17 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live @
11-19 Austin, TX – La Zona Rosa @
11-20 Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater @
11-24 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre @
11-26 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore @
11-28 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom @
11-29 Seattle, WA – The Showbox @
11-30 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Commodore Ballroom @
# with the War on Drugs
@ with the Black Angels
Black Mountain Premiere New Single, ‘The Hair Song’ – Free Download
via spinner.com
The rocketing riffs and whirling keys heard on Black Mountain‘s breezy new single, ‘The Hair Song,’ took a while to flesh out, according to vocalist Amber Webber. “We tried the song a few different ways and nothing seemed to work,” she tells Spinner. “We ditched it for a bit and then came back to it, and that’s when it became not-so-minimal.”
The second single and opening track from the Vancouver quartet’s forthcoming album, ‘Wilderness Heart,’ (available Sept. 14) may have started out as a subdued folk affair, but fans now have plenty of driving chords and countrified flourishes to feast upon. “I think the rhythm section really carries the song,” says Webber, who notes that once they band had gathered in the studio, the feel-good tune came together pretty quickly. “It was really fun and fast to record.”
A video for ‘The Hair Song’ is also on the way, though the outfit is keeping the concept under wraps for the time being. Webber does, however, gave Spinner a few hints about the follow-up to their debut, the mystical ‘Old Fangs,’ the which you can watch below.
“We filmed the [new] video in Ontario in this little country town that I’ve never been to before and have actually never even heard of,” she says. “It was beautiful and on the lake, but also really touristy in kind of a cool way. [Our director] found these old sort of castle-y ruins and had us playing out in the tall grass between them.”
“We actually had actors this time too,” she adds. “I’m hoping that we’re just in the very last bit of the video. I think it’s more the actors’ time to shine.”
While listeners are getting acquainted with ‘The Hair Song’ and fantasizing about the cinematic treats that await in the forthcoming music video, they can also enter Jagjaguwar’s pre-order contest for ‘Wilderness Heart’ if they happen to live in the United States. One lucky U.S. fan will win two tickets to see Black Mountain’s performance at the Knitting Factory in New York City August 30th, as well as two Band Bench passes to see the band perform the following day on ‘Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,’ and $300 towards travel and accommodations.
Complete contest details and Black Mountain tour dates can be found at Jagjaguwar.com.
A Plethora Of Tee Pee News
The various items comes via Tee Pee Newsletter and various Myspace blog posts.
Sweet Apple add more tour dates including shows with Guided By Voices!
Ancestors have announced October tour dates with new Tee Pee Records labelmates The Fucking Wrath! Be sure to check out The Fucking Wrath at The Power Of The Riff Festival August 8th in Los Angeles!
Night Horse have announced dates in August and October. Stay tuned for September tour dates with Radio Moscow!
Hopewell will be touring with The Dandy Warhols this November!
Imaad Wasif is currently on tour with The New Pornographers and will be touring Europe and UK this September!
Quest For Fire is supporting Black Mountain this weekend and has added Canadian album release shows. More tour dates soon! Lights From Paradise is out August 31st!
Spindrift begins a West Coast tour this weekend and will be supporting Black Mountain on select dates!
The Warlocks have announced a November European/UK tour!
Kreisor performs at Pianos in New York City Tonight!
Check out the Tee Pee Tours Page for details on all.
A limited number of Ancestors and Night Horse (preorder below) European Tour t-shirts are still available in the Tee Pee Webstore .
NIGHT HORSE – PERDITION HYMNS is now available for preorder on CD and Limited Edition 2LP (color vinyl limited to 500 copies). Head to the Tee Pee Webstore to purchase your copy! Stay tuned for news on limited edition Night Horse bundles.
The Main Street Gospel – Love Will Have Her Revenge
Check out the MP3 Premier of “I Won’t Be Staying” on Shockhound.com
Click on cover image to purchase.
with performances by:
Lecherous Gaze (x-Annhilation Time)
Righteous Fool (members of C.O.C.)
The Shrine
Semen Sundae
DJ Sets by Greg Anderson (Southern Lord) & Sam James Velde (Night Horse)
Black Mountain’s Stephen McBean Talks New Album Wilderness Heart
Via Pitchfork.
Pitchfork has an interview up with Stephen McBean talks about the new and upcoming album “Wilderness Heart.” Here’s a few clips from it.
Pitchfork: How long have you been in L.A.?
Stephen McBean: I’ve been going back and forth from Vancouver since September. We did some of the recording and mixing down here. But then I fell in love, too.
Pitchfork: How did you decide to make the record in L.A.?
Well, there were some new songs floating around. At first we thought we could rent a bunch of gear and record it ourselves like we did on the first one and a bunch of the second one. At first, we cringed at the idea of what people refer to as “using a producer.” But then, we didn’t want to repeat ourselves.
Pitchfork: Did they work with each other at all? Or did they split up the songs between them?
SM: We worked with Dave first. We had maybe 15 songs, and we just told him to pick his favorites. He picked the ones that we thought he would pick, and the same with Randall.
You can read the entire interview over at Pitchfork.
Black Mountain Ready New Album
Spaced-out Vancouver riff-rockers Black Mountain have spent much of the time since releasing their last album, 2008’s In the Future, concentrating on side projects like Pink Mountaintops and Lightning Dust. But this summer, the main band roars back into action. Jagjaguwar will release Wilderness Heart, their new album, on September 14 in the U.S. and a day earlier in the UK.
Up above you can stream “Old Fangs”, the album’s chugging first single. If you head over to this site and cough up an email address, the download is yours for free.
The band recorded the album in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver. They worked with two producers, D. Sardy (Nine Inch Nails, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon) and Sunn O)))/Boris veteran Randall Dunn. That insanely badass graphic you see above is Black Mountain keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt’s cover art, and we’ve got the tracklist below.
The band will spend their entire summer and some of their fall touring through North America and Europe, and we’ve got those dates below.
Wilderness Heart:
01 The Hair Song
02 Old Fangs
03 Radiant Hearts
04 Rollercoaster
05 Let Spirits Ride
06 Buried by the Blues
07 The Way to Gone
08 Wilderness Heart
09 The Space of Your Mind
10 Sadie
Black Mountain:
06-23 Kamloops, British Columbia – Pogue Mahone @
06-24 Calgary, Alberta – Republik @
06-25 Edmonton, Alberta – Starlite Room @
06-26 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Amigo’s @
06-27 Regina, Saskatchewan – The Exchange @
06-28 Winnipeg, Manitoba – The Garrick Centre @$
06-30 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon *
07-01 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall *
07-02 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick *
07-03 London, Ontario – Call the Office
07-09 Hultsfred, Sweden – Hultsfred Festival
07-10 Bruges, Belgium – Cactus Festival
07-11 Kinross-Shire, Scotland – T in the Park
07-13-14 London, England – The Lexington
07-16 Suffolk, England – Latitude Festival
07-17 Dour, Belgium – Dour Festival
07-18 Ferropolis, Germany – Melt Festival
07-23 Toronto, Ontario – Horseshoe Tavern ^
07-24 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom ^
07-26 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
07-27 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room &
07-28 Denver, CO – The Bluebird Theater ~
07-30 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge ~
07-31 Boise, ID – Neurolux ~
08-26 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theatre +
08-30 New York, NY – The Knitting Factory #
09-04 Oxford, England – O2 Academy 2
09-05 Birmingham, England – Hare and Hounds
09-10 Isle of Wight, England – Bestival
09-11 Dorset, England – End of the Road Festival
09-12 Leeds, England – TJ’s Woodhouse Club
09-14 Glasgow, Scotland – Oran Mor
09-15 Manchester, England – Academy 3
09-16 Nottingham, England – Rescue Rooms
09-17 Tilburg, Netherlands – Incubate Festival
09-18 Groningen, Netherlands – Take Root
10-07 London, England – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
@ with Lord Beginner
$ with Sleepy Sun
* with David Vandervelde
^ with Quest for Fire
& with the Dodos
~ with Spindrift
+ with Lower Heaven
# with the War on Drugs
Click the link above to hear a new track off of the album
The Soda Shop 