The new End CD “A Girl Called Trouble” is out today! It’s distributed by Ryko and should be available at finer record stores everywhere. Additionally you can get it via iTunes or Amazon Download. Or order it from our online shop. You can preview the album on End’s MySpace or Last.fm.
Read End’s interview with Rocksellout.com here.
After three years missing in action, apocalyptic sample-based band End returns! A Girl Called Trouble is a collection of blistering electronic garage rock — dirty synths, jagged guitars, and pounding drum machines ram home a retro 60s vibe that sounds something like Big Black trying to play the Batman theme song. A teaser for a forthcoming full-length, this release is crammed with tracks and remixes by the likes of Melt Banana, Messer Chups and more. Also included is the award-winning animated music video of the title track, a brilliant trek through dozens of classic grind-house and b-movie posters!
End is a little band out of New York City. It’s possibly the illegitimate love-child of one Charles Peirce. He’s not talking. But whatever it is, it’s been around for awhile.
End sounds like one of these new hipster electronic bands. Like Justice or somebody. Being mugged. In a back alley. By a surf-rock band.
End live shows are weird. They’ve featured everything from piñatas to jazz ensembles to fist-fights to dancing Furries. Seriously. There’s no telling what might happen.
End has toured with Fantomas and Melt Banana and Jason Forrest and Drop The Lime and Snog. Played everywhere from The Stone to the Knitting Factory to Irving Plaza to the Fillmore to dingy European squats to Russian boxing rings. Done remixes for Foetus and Snog and Kaada and The Icarus Line and more. Put out records on Ipecac and Tigerbeat6 and Hymen and a bunch of other places all over the world.
Did we name drop enough there? Did we mention Mike Patton? In large 24-point font? We should have.
Anyway, like we said, End is a little band out of New York City. They have a new record. It’s called A Girl Called Trouble. You should probably check it out.
AeroCCCP Recordings, Ice Cream Disco, and MUCO folks in Moscow are very proud to present the FSoR Festival!!! It’s going to take place at two Moscow nightclubs 16 Tonn on Nov. 6 and Club Gogol on Nov. 8. Plus, AeroCCCP’s own Maxim Nazarov and Denim Venom are flying to Moscow to DJ at these events. Full on motherfucking dancefloor bullets guaranteed! Also, the festival will be accompanied with the re-release of the FSoR compilation in Russia!
16 Tonn line-up, Nov. 6:
21.00-21.30 Be Quiet And Dive
21.45-22.30 Dairy High
22.45-23.30 Punk TV
23.45-00.30 Bajinda Behind The Enemy Lines
00.30 Dj Maxim Nazarov Vs. Denim Venom
Club Gogol line-up, Nov. 8:
19.15-19.45 Be Quiet And Dive
20.00-20.45 Hot Zex
21.00-21.45 A Headphones
22.00-22.45 Wonderkid
23.00-23.45 Love-Fine
FUCK LAME TOP 40 COMPILATIONS! FUCK CHRISTMAS SPECIAL CDs! FUCK DISCOUNTED U2 AND COLDPLAY ALBUMS!
This holiday season the best music release is Halloween of Bloody Nightmares - an eclectic alt-holiday compilation of Halloween and horror-inspired tunes for all of the advanced listeners out there.
It is less of a typical music CD and more of a spine tingling musical story or a soundtrack to a non-existing horror film, with the variety of songs and spooky sound effects within them.
It features international stars like Otto von Schirach (Ipecac, Schematic), End (Tigerbeat6, Ipecac, AeroCCCP), Messer Chups (Ipecac, AeroCCCP), Candie Hank (Sonig), DJ Donna Summer (Cock Rock Disco), Snog (Metropolis, Psy-Harmonics), Monster Zoku Onsomb! (Death $ucker, Rat’s Milk) and many, many others. The artists create a macabre world while traveling through hybrid music genres - from experimental to industrial, from electro to sample-based horror-surf, from rock to rave.
This CD is not for everyone and it would be best to categorize it as “other/weird music.” It may take a while for some people to get into, but it is totally worth the effort!
Surreal and slightly disturbing artwork was conceived by the St. Petersburg-based art-hooligans and our frequent collaborators Doping-Pong. It derives from the Russian folk tale about Baba Yaga – a very nasty senior citizen woman who liked to torture little children in her creepy house in the woods.
ALBUM AVAILABLE FROM AEROCCCP, ITUNES, AMAZON CD, AMAZON DOWNLOAD
Look, we’re going to be completely honest with you. Future Sound of Russia is the best collection of new music you’re going to hear all year. Hell, it’s probably the best compilation to come out in the last five years, and we’re betting on the next five too. It’s that fucking good.
Future Sound of Russia is the best of the best of the contemporary Moscow and St. Petersburg scenes. If you’re young and hip in Russia right now, this is what you’re into. If you want to be ahead of the curve here in America, this is what you’re about to be into.
Future Sound of Russia is — Indie dance-rock. Electro club-monsters. Italo-disco grooves. Shoe-gazer distortion worthy of My Bloody Valentine. Jangly pop-hooks that recall the likes of Suede. And indie-electro-dance numbers that rival the best of The Faint or The Rapture. Future Sound of Russia is a compilation of 18 of the most exciting and most awesome, from festival headliners to the newest and edgiest underground bands.
Future Sound of Russia is — A Collection of Indie-Hipster-Electronic-Perfection, smuggled out of the motherland through a black-market operation that cost a good friend more than a couple of fingers. We’re talking a month in a Siberian Gulag, enough Vodka to kill a whale, and getting banned from China for life. We’d hate for all that to have been in vain, so come join the party and check out The Future Sound of Russia.
ALBUM AVAILABLE FROM AEROCCCP, ITUNES, AMAZON CD, AMAZON DOWNLOAD.
A HEADPHONES (Moscow)
A Headphones – accidental selection of randomness… any note, filled with hexogen, every track undergoes the light reflecting reward in the strawberry stream, combines everything in the single hologram, which expands the brain… There is imitation, sticky like scotch tape, which is used to attach your head to your shoulders, there is tomato juice regenerated from concentrate and therefore there is skill of playing without notes, but for currency, simple and understandable, what underlines metabolism and feeling of sticky scotch tape on your shoulders, bright and clear. This is not “brit”, this is not “indie”, but “techno”… this is THE, this is A, this is THE A, this is A THE = A HEADPHONES.
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Alien Delon (Moscow)
The galactic ranger Alien Delon, came from deep space to mix all unmixable styles into the one killer-electro-funky-twist cocktail. Landed in Moscow in the end of 20th century, he started working with Oleg Kostrow on “Supersonic Future” project. Now Alien working on his solo style and producing two projects - U.R.A.N. and EULALIE.
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Bajinda Behind the Enemy Lines (Samara)
“Bajinda Behind the enemy lines” - a unique Russian band gathered two years ago. A very special style created by the band has a propensity for indie-rock but still one can not describe it by giving the name of a single trend in modern music. Yet to determine the musical proximity to the well-known styles it should be said that the musicians grasped the creative work of such musical bands as Placebo and New Order in rock, U.N.K.L.E. in trip-hop, SPANK ROCK, N.E.R.D and THE STREETS in hip-hop as the most valuable material existing in world’s music. The creative conception of «Bajinda Behind the enemy lines» - the active mixing of different elements of different genres, traditions in the network of western culture on the border of intellectual “alternative” music and pop cliché; (that is called NINJA POP + KARATE ROCK!) formed under the influence of everything happening in modern culture and in pop music as its most active part. The musicians of «Bajinda Behind the enemy lines» attain an especially high for a Russian band quality of sound; they aim at creating a unique mood.
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Cheese People (Samara)
Cheese People are the heroes of the loudest hype in Russia – suddenly this quartet of bashful unremarkable students from the banks of Volga River became the most fashionable disco-punk band in the country. Cheese People already had participated in a few important international festivals and shared the stage with Datarock, Solex and Junior Boys, and played a lot of crazy club shows. It’s hard to believe that all of 11 frisky tracks on their debut album were recorded in the bedroom of Anton Zalygin. This no-budget self-produced record sounds more powerful and groovy than all Russian major hits. Their music combines catchy melodies, senseless lyrics, a thorough work with samples and unusual meow-style vocal by Olya Chubarova. This band can become a first international indie-pendent hit-braker from Russia since TaTu. They are really too good to be true, and too ambitious to fail. Probably, the only thing can prevent their success is Russian mafia (Cheese People already had some problems) and disgusting temper of good-looking front woman –when this cheese people babe is in bad mood, she can just tear off someone’s head.
www.myspace.com/cheesepeopleband
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FPRFproject (Novosibirsk)
The band originated in 2005 by two brothers Evgeny and Mikhail Gavrilov. The basis of their compositions is harmonic blend of live and synthetic sound. On one hand, there is tender, melodic “shoe gaze” which became very familiar on the open ranges of Siberia, on the other hand – optimistic and slightly naïve synthesizer motives and wandering electronic rhythms. In 2008 FPRFproject released its debut album titled 2.5D Sketch.
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Manicure (Moscow)
Manicure is one of the most exciting and fresh bands on the Moscow indie scene. The band consists of two sisters and two dudes. It is one of the few bands in Russia that sings predominantly in English. Their sound is very new wave / post punk – what the kids often call “dance punk” nowadays. Russian press has compared them to Interpol and The Horrors; however this is a very narrow framework for this young band, unafraid to experiment and bring something new into the mix. Their debut single “Another Girl” differs with serious approach and four distinct-sounding tracks. The band is planning to release a full-length album sometime by the end of this year.
www.myspace.com/manicuremoscow
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Mujuice (Moscow)
Under the influence of Chopin’s waltzes, which were played by his mother in early childhood, Roma Litvinov began his musical experiments with composing small piano pieces. In his teen years, he played in a hardcore band. His exploration of alternative ways in electronic music resulted in the fact that it started prevailing over rock music. From the very beginning of working with electronics, Roma started utilizing the “micro-sampling” method, which he still prefers to the dry and cold sound of the digital synthesizers. At the moment Roma is one of the most in-demand Russian producers in the glitch/electronic scene.
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Punk TV (Moscow)
Punk TV defines its musical style as “indie-tronica”– a mixture of air and movement with guitar riffs, solid rhythm, and occasional vocals. Their sound is soft, yet at the same time dynamic, with diffused chord structures and melodies of electronic romanticism. The band claims that it was a natural choice to write lyrics in English and not Russian. All band members grew up going to the same school in Novosibirsk. Together they studied advanced English and were influenced by the foreign music like American indie-rock, Brit-pop and electronica. Their debut self-titled album was released on AeroCCCP in the winter of 2007 with lots of critical acclaim in the U.S. Here’s what Playboy Magazine said about Punk TV: “Excellent album… beauty that seems to be found only in groups from places not on the musical map.”
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Sevidov (Moscow)
Anton Sevidov is a jazz pianist, vocalist, and sound engineer. He has worked with the front man of IAMX Chris Corner. Together they recorded an album under the name Neonavt. Anton often works with the Russian band Bi-2, for which he records most of the tracks. At the moment very busy doing remixes and sound production, while at the same time working on his own album with his new band.
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U.R.A.N. (Moscow)
U.R.A.N.I.U.M (element) U.R.A.N.U.S (the 7th planet). Catalepsy of reality catapults the spirit, salvaging it for the proceeding games with the red-star fire. Flying past the phantasmal kaleidoscopes, meteorically blended into a strip, manifesting the distinctive genus of trajectories of discombobulation. A post-informational wail-whisper is amplified by an electro-contrivance in the labyrinth of power lines where the Minotaur controls the atomic generator. He is raising a galaxy – a fantastic mushroom cloud. But no… It is just a magnificent flower…
