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with Deafheaven
03.15 - 03.18.2012 - Austin, TX - SXSW **
03.19.2012 - Dallas, TX - Queen City Hall ** ^^
03.20.2012 - New Orleans, LA - Big Top
03.21.2012 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar
03.22.2012 - Orlando, FL - Will’s Pub
03.23.2012 - Atlanta, GA - 529
03.24.2012 - Johnson City - The Hideaway
03.25.2012 - Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall
03.26.2012 - Raleigh, NC - Kings
03.27.2012 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter
03.28.2012 - Baltimore, MD - Golden West
03.29.2012 - Washington, DC - DC9
03.30.2012 - Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar
03.31.2012 - Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly
** Alcest only
^^ w/Hull, Mutilation Rites
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February 21st, 2012
Bunce is very proud to present:
w/Selebrities
Mala Strana
& special guest dj Emilie Friedlander (Ad Hoc, La Big Vic)
Back Room, Public Assembly
70 N6th Street, Brooklyn NY
$9 adv / $12 day of
9pm | 21+
http://adhoc.fm
http://slowmagic.bandcamp.com
http://malastrana.bandcamp.com
http://www.publicassemblynyc.com
http://www.soundcloud.com/selebrities
Buy your Tickets here
http://www.facebook.com/events/288309227888517
artwork by Mike Repasch-Nieves at Radar Visual
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You may know Sam Hillmer as the bearded saxophonist for the famed downtown avant-weird chamber punks Zs. He’s also the director of Representing NYC, a not-for-profit music series that pairs young Brooklyn hip-hop artists with indie luminaries like Excepter’s Zebrablood, Mr. Lif, and Prefuse 73.
Hillmer’s been kicking around a new solo project called Diamond Terrifier, named for the nine-faced, thirty-four-handed, sixteen-legged Buddhist deity Vajrabhairava. He’s working on a late-year LP for Northern Spy Records, but this March he’s dropping a cassette on Words+Dreams. It’s a 22-minute droned-out sax-and-outmoded-electronics masterpiece. According to Hillmer, “SHRINE FLU is the part of the Venn diagram representing our collective psyche where spiritual paranoia & materialism overlap with political and economic paranoia and materialism.” Good shit.
We’ve got an exclusive stream of the title track below, and if you’re in NYC you can catch Hillmer’s PRACTICE! series at Zeubulon on January 31, a free show featuring Parts & Labor’s Dan Friel, Rat Attack, and GDFX, the electronic psych project from the virtuosic ex-Liturgy drummer Greg Fox. I went last week and it was off the chain.
(2011, Northern Spy)
Alcest Reviewed on The Quietus -
When Alcest’s debut LP Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde dropped in 2007, no one in the metal world had heard anything quite like it. Neige, then the French band’s only member, had the audacity to stand with one foot firmly in the perceived hipster mecca of shoegaze and the other somewhere on the hillside from the cover of Burzum’s Filosofem. The album sent shockwaves through its ostensible genre that culminated in the inane (and still active) debate over what it means to be black metal and whether positivist philosophy and tremolo picking can peaceably coexist.
Two albums and five years later, Alcest are a fixture in the international black metal scene. Neige, full-time drummer Winterhalter, and session members Zero and Fursy Teyssier have toured the world twice and are about to embark on a third trip. 2009’s Écailles de Lune was heralded as a crossover masterpiece, beardy dudes bring their non-hesher girlfriends to Alcest shows, members of the corpse-painting community remain outraged, and all is as it is meant to be. The freshness that initially made Neige’s most personal project relevant has all dried up. The release of Les Voyages de L’Âme forces us to decide if Alcest music is good even when they’re no longer interesting.
Saturday March 17th, 2012
Bunce Presents
w/La Otracina
Back Room, Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn NY
$10 adv / $13 day of
830pm
21+
buy tix here
“Putting more rock energy into a single performance than a good proportion of bands do into a career’s worth of shows…” - TERRORIZER
After three solid albums and two European tours with the legends in “Fu Manchu” it is time for the next step in Truckfighters way to become “big”. 2012 will be the year when TF broadens their perspective and enter the widescreen for real.
Yes, Truckfighters from Örebro (SWE) is a band most people within the alternative rock genre – fuzzrock have heard about, all over the world. As the rumour goes TF is probably the best band in the world.
Live is the prime element where Truckfighters fully bloom. The three piece has a raw energy and they explode transferring their power to the audience. Now closing in on 300 live gigs all over Europe the time has come to the USA.
http://www.truckfighters.com
http://www.k2burn.com
http:// www.publicassemblynyc.com
http://www.facebook.com/LAOTRACINA
The New Yorker: GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN -
Jan. 18: Sam Hillmer, who is the saxophonist for the downtown avant-chamber group Zs, also leads Diamond Terrifier, a sax-and-electronics project named for Vajrabhairava, an irate Buddhist deity with nine faces, thirty-four hands, and sixteen legs. The group’s first album, comprising its long-form, drone-oriented songs, will be produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and released through Northern Spy Records this September. Hillmer and company open for the MIVOS Quartet, which premières a string quartet by Patrick Higgins. The piece, based on Proust’s reflections on memory and recollection, marks Higgins’s début as a classical composer; he is more well known as a gifted guitarist at home on the more brutal, punky fringes of the prog-rock community.
Diamond Terrifier in the New Yorker
Diamond Terrifier is introducing his new bi-weekly series, ‘PRACTICE!’ taking place at Zebulon every other Tuesday. This month it takes place on January 17 and 31, and he’s performing at and curating each one. The 1/17 show includes Lichens, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (of Liturgy who are opening for Zola Jesus at Webster Hall), LZA/Dutch E. Germ (of Gang Gang Dance), and DJ sets by Laurel Halo and The Oracle. The 1/31 show includes Dan Friel, GDFX, Rat Attack, and DJ sets by Chief Boima (of Dutty Artz) and The Oracle. All shows in this series are free.
Alcest's "Les Voyages De L'Âme" receives 5 Beards on BeardRock.com
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