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These Are Powers – Candyman 12″

Candyman has been one of my favorite songs since the band first sent it to me a long time ago and now it will finally end up up wax together with two other brand new songs and two remixes.
The 12″ is being released on Rvng.

/ David

Kill All Redneck Pricks

I remember back in 1999 and I was listening to a tape a friend had left behind in my car. After driving for a while I heard this ugly feedback emanating from the shitty car speakers.  Then came some muddy distorted guitars and a killer riff that pretty much instantly carved its own little place into my brain. A gruff  screaming voice declared that we should “forget the minions” and that they were “on their own” . The song, clocking in around four minutes, gave me the beating of my life. The minute I came home I dialed the number to my friend (this was almost pre-cell phone-era and there was a good chance that you were not going to get ahold of the person you were looking for). I needed to know who this band was. No one picked up! I kept dialing throughout the day and finally there was a voice in the other end of the line. “KARP? Who? Well, give me the record! I need it more than you do!”.

KARP has since been a steady friend of mine and I’ve followed the steps of Jared, Chris and Scott (who sadly died a couple of years ago) ever after. Several years later I was standing outside a venue in my new hometown of Gothenburg waiting to catch Tight Bros From Way Back When, the sweaty cock n’ roll band Jared formed with some people from Behead The Prophet (No Lord Shall Live) and Gene Defcon. For some reason the promoter failed to get his/her shit together and the venue owner had no idea that the band was supposed to play. We stood outside in the rain and Jared and Co. played video games upstairs (or so I was told).

I got the chance though to witness a robe-clad Jared punching his bass and screaming into a saliva-drenched mic on a bill with Big Business and The Melvins. It was, and I’m not fucking around, the best show I had seen in many, many years.

Though it’s probably not news anymore I was so glad to hear that KARP was going to have a documentary made of them by director Bill Badgley. I honestly can’t fucking wait!

/Born Springsteen

Ps Is there anyone out there who can verify if it’s really Jared who performed as Fashio and released the track “Smooth as Ice” on a 7″ compilation called Today The Planet, Tomorrow The World (Thin The Herd)?

Fire! at Inkonst 14/1-2010

Deleted Art & Inkonst proudly presents: Fire!

Ljudbilden & Nosordobesten + Deleted Art Crew // 14 jan // 21.00 (on stage 22.00) // Klubben // 90:-

This time we got the opportunity to invite Swedish Fire! Of course we didn’t want anything else then to see this band perform on stage. The difference of age and the members backgrounds makes them musically spread like nobody else.

Legendary saxophone player Mats Gustafsson (solo/The Thing!/Original Silence/Diskaholics Anonymous Trio, played with The Ex, Zu, Jim O’ Rourke, David Grubbs, Sonic Youth amongst others) in company of Johan Bertling (tape/record labelHäpna/livemusician for El Perro Del Mar, Taken By Trees) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums/Tonbruket). Together they create some sort of rock indiejazz which could be appreciated by all with a wider music interest.

Influenced by jazz cats such as Sonny Rollins, Kraut geniuses like Can or even the latest release on the alternative metal label Southern Lord. A really well-turned-out mix that seems to good to be true.

For this evening we even managed to lure out our friends Kristofer Ström (Lemko Hall/Ljudbilden & Piloten) &Tomas Melinder (Nosordo/AA). Together they are Ljudbilden & Nosordobesten which will entertain you with their good taste before the show!

/ Deleted Art

Blessure Grave – Open Or Shut

Ecstatic Peace – Turned On

Imagine the dudes in Baltimore band Ecstatic Sunshine explaining this video to their moms. “Ok, Ma, so this song is about space robot boners and we illustrated that by having silhouettes of melting technology and streams of artificial light. Also it is wordless because the energy of the guitars properly speaks our vibes.” If this track were called anything but “Turned On” we might think differently, like “hey this song is about saving the environment!” but as is, we’re getting horny nerd vibes as filtered through the prism of cascading scales. Someone listens to a lot of free jazz! Not sure if Joe Williams aka White Williams is a horny nerd or a free jazz fan, but either way, he played on this song and the record it came from, Yesterday’s Work, released this past Tuesday on Hoss Records. – Fader

/ David

Ambling Alp video

Video for Yeasayer’s song Ambling Alp! Pretty stoned.

/ Dave

Yoke & Yohs + Pistol Disco @ Deleted Art, Inkonst Malmö

Friday (4/12) show with Yoke & Yohs and Pistol Disco at the Deleted Art club at Inkonst Malmoe.

Scissor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liars.

Liars have just posted a new song on their Liars site that’s probably named after the new album. It’s called Sisterworld anyway. Go over and sign up on the newsletter and download the song.  The song is called Scissor and sounds amazing, beautiful, dark and pounding in parts. Won’t do a comparison after a few listens, but I’ll say this: the rock as we heard it on the last albums seems to be gone. Thanks guys.  

/ Mikael Nordlander.

 

BiG A little a, Malmö 27/11