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Formed in 2005, Screaming Females is singer/guitarist, Marisa Paternoster, bassistMichael Abbate and drummer, Jarrett Dougherty.

On the cusp of celebrating 10 years as a band, Screaming Females announces Rose Mountain, the New Jersey DIY-punk trio’s sixth LP due 23rd February on Don Giovanni Records. The band self-produced their previous releases (with Steve Albini engineering their 2012 LP Ugly and the 2014 concert album Live at the Hideout) but overturned the long-standing, self-imposed rule this time by bringing in Matt Bayles (Mastodon, the Sword) as a producer.  Setting out with a vision so clear that it almost became a studio mantra, the resulting songs are concise, crisp and melodic, in essence creating at once their most complex and accessible record to date.

Experience the live ferocity of their stage shows as Screaming Females will be heading to our shores this April – UK dates below:

Sunday 19th April – Brighton, The Hope 
http://www.seetickets.com/Event/screaming–females/the-hope/844880

Monday 20th April – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
– http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk/

Tuesday 21st April – Manchester, The  Roadhouse 
http://www.seetickets.com/event/screaming–females/the-roadhouse-manchester/844868

Wednesday 22nd April –  Glasgow, Broadcast
http://www.seetickets.com/event/screaming–females/broadcast/844867

Thursday 23rd April  – Bristol, The Exchange
http://www.exchangebristol.com/

Friday 24th April  – London, The Lexington
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/305073

California X‘s highly anticipated sophomore album Nights in the Dark will be released 2nd February 2015 in Europe via Don Giovanni Records. The new record not only stimulates the senses but it allowed the quartet to delve deeper into more conceptual work, the contrast between light and dark, contentment and longing.  A follow up to their critically acclaimed eponymous debut, Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr, Speedy Ortiz) once again helms the engineering deck, ensuring the new record retains all the distorted overdrive of the band’s characteristic fuzzed out, hard guitar-driven sound.

Drawing on influences from 70s rock to 90s alternative, “Hadley, MA” is an epic ballad with emotive lyrical harmonies and tremendous guitar solos. Yet another example of the indie rock scuzz-meets-growling grunge that the band is revered for.

Formed by friends Lemmy Gurtowsky and Dan Jones upon relocating to Amherst, MA,California X have crafted a more mature sophomore record, that find solace in a heavy, lush and melodic home with the addition of Zach Brower on guitar and Cole Lanier on drums.  An introspective vision is confronted as the band maneuvers, seamlessly as ever, from fuzzy power chords to conceptual ballads.

When Commune, the follow-up album to GOAT”s World Music was announced, the internet exploded in a frenzy of excitement. ‘Hide From The Sun’, the first single from the new album, was Track Of The Day on QMusic, appeared in NMEs Essential Tracks, Mojo’s and Uncut’s Playlist and was given 4.5/5 by Artrocker, and has been posted, cross-posted, re-posted and discussed throughout the music press.

Commune will be released on CD/LP/DL on 22nd September 2014 via Rocket Recordings (Stranded Rekords in Scandinavia and Sub Pop Records in North America).

The first public airing of Goat’s new album Commune will take place on Friday 15 August at The Alibi in Dalston, London, as part of the ‘Nothing is…’ night.

The evening will begin at 9pm with the first ever playing of GOAT’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album, Commune, one month before its release on 22nd September.  Commune is the follow-up to GOAT’s hypnotic 2012 debut, World Music, which received widespread acclaim and placed in many top-ten lists.  The mysterious, masked group continued to awe the world with their intense live shows which was captured on their Live Ballroom Ritual double-album.

Following that, the ‘Nothing is…’ regulars will be bringing their eclectic mix kraut, psych, cosmic disco, biker funk, psych jazz, spacey techno, afro rock, and all other strange sounds in-between.
 
Nothing is…
Cage &Aviary (Emotional Especial/DFA)
Cherrystones (Brutal)
Little Dirty (Hed Nod)
Chris Reeder (Rocket Recordings)
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Swedish rock collective GOAT will release their highly-anticipated second album,Commune on CD/LP/DL on 22nd September 2014 via Rocket Recordings (Stranded Rekords in Scandinavia and Sub Pop Records in North America).

You can now listen to the lead single, ‘Hide From the Sun’, which Stereogum calls, “beautifully psychedelic…[their music] crosses borders at will and speaks its own language.”    

Commune is the follow-up to GOAT‘s hypnotic 2012 debut, World Music, which received widespread acclaim and placed in many top-ten lists. The mysterious, masked group continued to awe the world with their intense live shows which was captured on their Live Ballroom Ritual double-album.

GOAT will be presenting new songs from Commune on festival stages throughout the summer before embarking on their first full European tour which finishes with a massive show at London’s Roundhouse.

There is no direct association between mysterious Swedish psychedelicists GOAT and revered Argentinian master of magical realism, Jorge Luis Borges. Yet their mission appears to be the same. Borges generated his ideas from historical curiosities across the globe—gaucho knife duels on the South American plains, Middle Eastern heresiarchs plotting treacheries in secret libraries, Chinese pirates waging wars against the Emperor—and twisted them into fictions that blurred the lines between fortified footnotes and outright fantasy.  GOAT’s sound is the sonic manifestation of this principle, as evidenced in their aptly-named debut album, World Music, which incorporated elements of Nigerian afrobeat, German krautrock, Anatolian funk, and a host of other global micro-niches into a hallucinatory cultish celebration of rock’s diverse manifestations. Deprived of the requisite band biography, early experiencers World Music’s electrified tribalism and lysergic compositions had the inevitable questions regarding the origin and timeframe of the recordings. The truth only became knottier every time the elusive GOAT collective provided their cryptic answers.

Ultimately, it is GOAT’s music that speaks the most about them, and, on their sophomore album, Commune, GOAT deliver a heavy dose of acidic grooves, hypnotic incantations, and serpentine guitar lines.