Archive for June, 2011

Watch the new video by Boris

Watch the new video by Boris

2 / June 28, 2011 1:57 pm

Japanese rock trio Boris are back with a new video ‘Hope / Riot Sugar’. Combining two very different tracks from their two most recently released albums Heavy Rocks and Attention Please. The videos were directed by Fangsanalsatan & Ryuta Murayama (Foodunited)

Tropicália Ever After

Tropicália Ever After

8 / June 28, 2011 6:49 am

Brazilian music after 1968′s Tropicalismo explosion by Joseph Pasztak Brazil has been a fantastic breeding ground for many diverse and influential styles of music. Samba, bossa nova and Brazilian roots all emerged from the country. But it was not only a genre [...]

The Good, The Bad & The Folk

The Good, The Bad & The Folk

2 / June 27, 2011 2:46 pm

Interview by Alex Hancock For two years Erland & The Carnival have been toiling with their mind-bending combination of traditional folk and psilocybin-pop. Initially a collaboration between folk-singer Erland Cooper and Simon Tong (guitarist: The Verve, Gorillaz, The Good, The Bad [...]

Don’t Look Back – Sarabeth Tucek

Don’t Look Back – Sarabeth Tucek

5 / June 27, 2011 12:44 pm

  Interview by Alex Hancock When Echo Magazine dropped in on Sarabeth Tucek she was getting ready to play her second gig after the release of Get Well Soon. The nerves were on show when we found her tucked away in [...]

Lucifer Rising

Lucifer Rising

2 / June 26, 2011 4:43 pm

The Roys alongside film icon Audrey Hepburn near Little Portland Street, 2011. Photograph: Bartolomy for Echo Magazine The soundtrack to being chased and beaten by voodoo priests and leather bound biker gangs after a white-knuckle motorcycle ride through hell. Born [...]

d-Yevski, Oscillation remix in the works

d-Yevski, Oscillation remix in the works

5 / June 16, 2011 8:06 pm

Brisbane based glitch-noise manipulators d-Yevski are to remix a track by The Oscillation, Echo Magazine can reveal. The up-and-coming electro outfit, a project formed by producer Lee Edwards with vocalist Chanel Monique, are currently working on a number of tracks for [...]

The Black Lips, The Raveonettes, Lydia Lunch set for 1234

The Black Lips, The Raveonettes, Lydia Lunch set for 1234

9 / June 13, 2011 5:15 pm

The line-up of this year’s 1234 Shoreditch Festival in London will juxtapose the psychotic extremes of discordant noise rock and trash punk with the glam and the glitchy. Among the names on the bill are Atlanta’s The Black Lips: hot on [...]

The Cult of Dom Keller announce UK tour dates

The Cult of Dom Keller announce UK tour dates

3 / June 9, 2011 8:18 pm

Nottingham based psych-rockers, The Cult Of Dom Keller, are to play several shows in the UK. Following on from their set at Austin Psych Fest 4, alongside The Black Angels and Roky Erickson, the group have been wasting no time [...]

Stephen Malkmus gets back to rock’n'roll basics. Listen to the new track online.

Stephen Malkmus gets back to rock’n'roll basics. Listen to the new track online.

/ June 9, 2011 12:37 pm

The former Pavement singer has released a new song free online. The track, ‘Senator’, is from his upcoming album Mirror Traffic, recorded with Beck in LA last year, see’s a return to more straight-up rock’n’roll, like Lou Reed cruising through [...]

The Black Ships set sail in London

The Black Ships set sail in London

2 / June 5, 2011 12:04 pm

Kicking off the summer with a debut show (June 2nd), The Black Ships, founded by guitarist Nick McCabe and bassist Si Jones (The Verve), string arranger and violinist Davide Rossi (Goldfrapp) and drummer Mig Schillace (Portishead), stormed the King’s College [...]