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Peaches - Teaches of Peaches on pink vinyl
Re-formatted as a single album, and in time for the 10th anniversary, this slab of floor shaking, potty-mouth electro is available once again on vinyl. Dirty in sound, dirty in content but resplendently pretty in pink vinyl, let Peaches show you there’s a better way of pain relief than asprin.
Reformatted as a single album pressed on stunningly pink vinyl.
Teaches of Peaches is a crash course in punk-disco burlesque. The opening
manifesto “Fuck the Pain Away,” crystallizes Peaches’ sound and approach — her
music is equal parts sex, humor, rock, and dance, with her frank, hilarious lyrics
riding atop stark drumbeats, throbbing basslines, and repetitive but undeniably
rockin’ guitar riffs. Indeed, it’s quite possible to read all sorts of women’s studies
theories into Peaches’ music; she’s unrepentantly, triumphantly sexual and turns
the tables by objectifying guys.
Watch The Big Pink's 4AD Session
Ahead of the release of their second album, Future This, The Big Pink have recorded a set of five songs as part of the 4AD Sessions series. Bringing to life the anthemic qualities of the new album, the session is a showcase of the unabashed step towards stadium dynamics the band have made on Future This, while also displaying the often-curveball influences that continue to underpin their best work.
Filmed in 3 Mills Studios, the location was to have a coincidental resonance with the music. Based on Three Mill Island in Bromley-by-Bow, the island is London’s oldest surviving industrial centre with evidence to suggest that the mills it houses were listed in the Domesday Book. The grand historical associations and JG Ballard-esque setting appears fitting of the darkened, industrial undertones that course through even the most pop moments of The Big Pink’s music. Channeling the epic, immersive and other-worldy feel of the new album, the stark backdrop of the warehouse-like space was coupled with lasers used in a structural way to frame the band and change the physical surroundings.
Playing several tracks from Future This, alongside spiritual cousin ‘Velvet’, taken from the first album, the session captures what makes The Big Pink such an intriguing band. Effortlessly moving between the outré sounds of the underground and their love for shameless pop hooks, the band display the full scale of their creative ambitions.
TRACK LISTING:
Stay Gold
Hit The Ground (Superman)
Velvet
Rubbernecking
Give It Up
Lee Ranaldo – “Off The Wall”, First MP3 from the forthcoming ‘Between The Times & The Tides’
As mentioned in this space a few weeks ago, we’lll be releasing Lee Ranaldo’s first song-based solo full-length, ‘Between The Times & The Tides’ on LP, CD and digital formats on March 20.
While we’ve cited the songcraft, the “shimmering and melodic tapestry of sounds” the assembly of ‘a terrific new band right under our noses’, none of that does much good until you’re given a hint exactly what we’re shouting about.
Without further ado, here’s “Off The Wall”
Lee Ranaldo – “Off The Wall”
In the days ahead, tour dates for the Lee Ranaldo Band will be unveiled in this space. And other spaces.
Tanlines debut Mixed Emotions out on March 20th. Brothers MP3 now available
Brooklyn, NY’s Tanlines will release their debut album, Mixed Emotions, on True Panther Sounds on March 20th.
It was recorded in various NYC home studios and mixed in Miami by legendary mixing engineer Jimmy Douglass (Timbaland, Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, Television, Roxy Music).
Mixed Emotion’s first taste, “Brothers,” is available for download from their site streamed below.
Tanlines- Brothers
Anyone well-versed with New York City’s diverse music scene knows Mixed Emotions is a long time coming. Since their first song hit the web in 2008, Tanlines – comprised of Eric Emm (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Jesse Cohen (drums, keyboards, bass) – have been steadily releasing genius dance singles with labels across the globe, including True Panther, Young Turks and Kitsune. Their live show has taken them worldwide, playing at the likes of The Guggenheim, The Whitney and more in their hometown, as well as an opening slot on Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas’s solo tour in 2009. But it was an ill-fated European tour – filled with some of the most disappointing shows of their careers – that ultimately led to Mixed Emotion’s genesis.
The band spent long hours driving through Europe, listening to albums by R.E.M., skate punk records from the 80’s, Born in the USA, and more. As Eric explains it, “Listening to them, I became very aware of the lasting resonance of a good song. A good song transcends production trends. That’s what we were missing, and I wanted to start making songs that could last forever.”
The band returned from Europe only to be greeted with a larger problem: making such songs in Emm’s studio, which was not only the place where they created, but the place where they met prior to forming the band, would be impossible; the building that housed his eight year old studio had been sold. It is ultimately this sense of starting over that helps informs some of Mixed Emotion’s most palpable moments.
Mixed Emotions is a testament to the benefits and pitfalls of life’s changes, getting older, and being pushed out of one’s comfort zone. The band that was born out of a studio suddenly had to become, well, a band. Songs were written simply on a guitar, with the band later adding their palette of electronic and organic sounds afterwards. Emm honed his voice, a confident and tranquil baritone, and focused on lyricism, something he had not done seriously in the past. He sings stories about loss, the passage of time, and the lessons and warnings of accumulated knowledge gleaned by someone who has spent an entire lifetime in music. The process stretched the duo – Cohen likened making the album to that of making a film when it was done – and Mixed Emotions is all the better for it.
Sometimes painful, sometimes transcendent, and ultimately a very precise labor of love, Mixed Emotions simply feels vivid. Songs pulse and linger, filled with percussive textures, bright, warm synths and driving kick drums to juxtapose the album’s lyrical melancholia. The record obscures and blurs the lines between synthetic and organic, real and fake, happy and sad. It is the sound of stadium pop in small spaces. And it is one of the most remarkable debut albums you will hear in 2012.
Fucked Up to play Wavelength 12th Anniversary
2012 marks the 12th Anniversary of Toronto’s Wavelength Music Series. The massively influential concert series had it’s humble beginnings at Ted’s Wrecking Yard in February 2000, but it quickly became ground zero for the independent music explosion which brought the likes of Broken Social Scene, Constantines, Holy Fuck, Feist, Peaches, Caribou and Fucked Up to the world.
The Wavelength 12th Anniversary will mark another fantastic installment of Toronto’s finest curated music festival, with SPIN Magazine cover darlings Fucked Up playing Friday Feb. 17 @ Steam Whistle Brewing (255 Bremner Blvd.). Joining them that night will be Bonjay, CATL, Silver Dapple and Hut.
Not only commemorating the anniversary of Wavelength, the show will also serve to celebrate the release of their new EP, Year of the Tiger, available Feb 7th.
Tickets are on sale Jan. 17th for $17 adv or $20 door. 19+
