Sunday, November 27, 2016

New Releases: November 2016

With just a month left on 2016's calendar, let's take a look at some of the most interesting new releases that November had to offer:

Albums

A Tribe Called Quest
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
SAD13 - Slugger
HONEYBLOOD - Babes Never Die
HOPE SANDOVAL AND THE WARM INVENTIONS - Until the Hunter
LAMBCHOP - FLOTUS
JIM JAMES - Eternally Even
THEE OH SEES - An Odd Entrances
THE MEN - Devil Music
E - E
VIRGINIA WING - Forward Constant Motion
AUSTRA - Future Politics
ESBEN AND THE WITCH - Older Terrors
SLEIGH BELLS - Jessica Rabbit
ULRICH SCHNAUSS - No Further Ahead Than Today
THOUGHT FORMS - Songs About Drowning
TYVEK - Origin Of What
ONEIDA AND RHYS CHATHAM - What's Your Sign?
JAMES JOHNSTON - The Starless Room
HOWE GELB - Future Standards
PAPA M - Highway Songs
MANNEQUIN PUSSY - Romantic
UNIFORM - Ghosthouse
WOLF PEOPLE - Ruins
AMERICAN WRESTLERS - Goodbye Terrible Youth
THE WAVE PICTURES - Bamboo Diner In The Rain
BUBBLEGUM LEMONADE - The Great Leap Backward
THE PERFECT ENGLISH WEATHER - Isobar Blues
THE WHARVES - Electa
MICA LEVI AND OLIVER COATES - Remain Calm
DAVID BAZAN - Dark Sacred Night
HIS NAME IS ALIVE - Patterns of Light
BALTIC FLEET - The Dear One
JUSTICE - Woman
COMMON - Black America Again
EFTERKLANG / FUNDAL - Leaves: The Colour Of Falling (feat. The Happy Hopeless Orchestra)
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT - Goodnight City
THE HIDDEN CAMERAS - Home On Native Land
SEX SWING - Sex Swing
BODY / HEAD - No Waves
MIKE WATT - “Ring Spiel” Tour ’95

Singles & EPs

Goat Girl
GOAT GIRL - Country Sleaze / Scum
OUR GIRL - Normally EP
FORTH WANDERERS - Slop
STEVE GUNN - Ancient Jules
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS - The Dream Synopsis EP
FREAK PARTY featuring ANGIE BROWN - Firefly / You Can Drum But You Can't Hide
BLANCK MASS - D7 - D5
FLASHER - Flasher EP
ES - Object Relations EP
STEPHEN'S SHORE - Stephen's Shore
WILD DAUGHTER - Get Gone
ABATTOIR BLUES - Sense
BRYDE - EP2
IS BLISS - Velvet Dreams EP
THE SHACKS - The Shacks EP
THE HISTORY OF COLOUR TV - Wreck
GRIEF TOURIST - Strigoi
THE AR-KAICS - Just My Life / It's Her Eyes
BABA NAGA - Pina Krvy / DeificYen
DAVID BAZAN - Christmas Bonus EP
LAZY DAY - Disappear / All the Time
MASS DATURA - Feel Me Human
HELLO CASANOVA - I'll Be Waiting

Goat Girl - Country Sleaze

Sad13 - < 2

Sunday, November 06, 2016

It's Plisskën time again!


All has been quiet on the Athens live music front since the summer, but thankfully things are going to get loud again! We are less than a month away from the 2nd Winter edition of Plisskën Festival, one of the best live music events you can find in the Greek capital.

Last summer we enjoyed the 5th and most ambitious edition of the festival so far, featuring the likes of Savages, Waxahatchee, Sleaford Mods, ..And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Mudhoney, Thee Oh Sees (just to mention some of my favorites performances -  check them all out here and here).

This year, on December 2nd and 3rd, we are expecting to see over 40 international and local artists representing a broad spectrum of genres and styles, who will play on 4 stages in 3 different locations all dotted next to each-other, creating a street festival atmosphere.

Some of the names that stand out include Death In Vegas, Tuxedomoon who will be performing their classic debut "Half-Mute" in full, Prefuse 73, Zomby, La Femme and Psychic Ills. Check out the complete line-up below and visit plisskenfestival.gr for more details:



And here are videos for few of the songs we are hoping to enjoy live in less than four weeks:

Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat

Tuxedomoon - What Use? (live @ Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels, May 12th, 2016)

Psychic Ills - I Don't Mind (Feat. Hope Sandoval)