Grimble Grumble

Space Waves

Soft Bombs

Fredrik (Sweden)
The melodic, experimental folk three-piece consisting of one songsmith (F), one sound-painter (O) and one conceptual artist (A). All three of them mostly live and work in Malmö, Sweden and create music in a secluded 19th-century garden shack with the help of “darkness, voices, quiet instruments, curiosity, nightmares, melodies and terrible weather”, reportedly striving towards “impulsive beauty” and trying to avoid “rationalization, self-consciousness and irony”. Some people call their music surreal. A lot of people call the music soothing. Almost everyone says it makes them think of trees.

Fredrik return this spring with their third full length album, Flora. Recorded in their ramshackle garden studio last summer, Flora marks a departure from the wintry moods of the band’s first two outings as according to Fredrik, flower season is anything but limonades and hammocks. The music paints a vision of summer as the darkness beneath, a busy, feverish, sprawling organic chaos. The three members build songs from dense, wavering textures of voice, strings, brass and twinkly home-made folk instruments, all couched on top of a smattering of haywire orchestral drums and swirly electronics. In keeping with all their previous work, there’s the attention to detail, the unfailing knack for melody-making and the misadventures in hyper-soprano singing, not to mention Fredrik Hultin’s restful, abstract storytelling. (bio)

Fox & Woman

Terry Malts (record release)
Attention Public,

After careful, weeklong consideration, Terry Malts (San Francisco, CA) have decided to go forth and record a debut LP as per the request of Slumberland Records. Displaying a slick, intelligent take on modern chainsaw pop, KILLING TIME certainly lives up to its name!

Who is/are/was/will be Terry Malts? A yellow-pages private dick has gleaned the following: Corey Cunningham (guitar, backing vox), by way of Dickson, TN-cum-cardboard-box-in-Toronto, was asked to housesit in Fresno, CA. Duties fulfilled, he shot north on a graffiti trip to 924 Gilman St. and immediately bonded with fellow men's room "artists" Phil Benson (bass guitar, lead vox) and the unfortunately-named Nathan Sweatt (drums, backing vox).

Hands shook, vibes exchanged; the trio felt compelled to distill their energy into a unified voice. Terry's gospel is succinct, direct, sincere, and timed expertly with next year's looming apocalypse: life is hopeless, enjoy! (bio)

Airfix Kits
The Airfix Kits tribute forum is an independent forum dedicated to the making and history of Airfix Kits rock band models in a safe and friendly environment. It is open to modellers of all skills and ages, male and fem­ale, to discuss their models, share experiences and to display their builds.

The forum has a large focus on group builds inspired by the band's songs, for example, Heavy Bombers. Also prominent is the History of Airfix Kits section, where a brief history, box-art and built examples of every kit Airfix Kit record ever issued are compiled. Other categories are devoted to the band's various aircraft, vehicles, ships and boats and many more subjects. These are backed up with reference sections and members' Picture Galleries for each category too.

There are also sections on tools, tips and techniques, demo-builds, reviews, conversions etc. Elsewhere you can read the latest news from Airfix Kits, discuss your favourite songs and live show moments, read features written by members and a host of other modelling and non-modelling subjects including racy fan-fiction. The forum also raises funds for charity through various fundraising activities and organises trips to museums etc.

Midnite Snaxxx
Screw the bridge closure, this show is ON!! Come by and buy Rich from Total Punk/ Florida's Dying a drink and see the show for FREE! Show is over by 8:15pm, so get there early!!!! First band (Glitz) on shortly after 6pm.

Outdoorsmen
"San Francisco's Outdoorsmen are back with another 7" of GG inspired hate. Two quick blast of crude trashy punk that are over almost as quickly as they began. No time for guitar solos or self reflection, this is Total Punk pure and simple." - Total Punk

Victory and Associates

Police Teeth

Donovan Quinn (record release)
Honky Tonk Medusa is Donovan Quinn’s first album that he’s both recorded and produced since the Skygreen Leopards’ adventurous Life & Love in Sparrow’s Meadow. Along with Quinn’s work on vocals, guitar and synth, the album also employs San Francisco musicians Jason Quever (Papercuts), Michael Tapscott (Odawas), along with his regular rhythm section of Nick Marcantonio and Michael Carreira. Working in reverse order to many current acts, the sound of Honky Tonk Medusa is molded to each individual song; letting the lyrics and spirit of the song dictate the instrumentation and style with the lyrical narrative tying it all together. The story of the album is one of decaying American cities, Internet age entropy, and equal parts romance and loneliness. (bio)

Colossal Yes

HeadCavern

Punk Rock Sideshow

Sutekh Hexen (record release, Thrill Jockey)
"The platonic form of catharsis. That is Larvae by Sutekh Hexen, who have grown over this last year to become a leader in noise-addled black metal. Layering their din over barely audible drums, treble-firey guitars and a murderous approach to vocals are all just the starting blocks. What ascends from beneath the raging waves of sound is nothing short of uplifting, transcendent. Larvae is the crowning achievement of this rising star. Album opener ‘Isvar Savasana’ is a ritual clothed in blinding white robes and weaves a tale of release. What begins as ambience soon layers into a ritual of clear guitar and peace. The calm before the storm. The coupling of black metal and noise has never reached such a plateau of intensity. It lunges at your ribcage like a bastion of knives." - Lurker's Path

Meridians
Meridians' open-form ballads are alternately driving and hypnotic, exploring the overtones, dissonances, and consonances created by voice and guitar.

There are echoes of British folk, minimalism and the more cinematic strains of krautrock as the two combine intricate electric and 12-string guitar melodies over pulsing loops of flute, violin, found objects and oscillators. (bio)