Heaven's Gate Premiere 'Screams' On Noisey Debut LP "Transmuting" Out September 24th On Inflated Records + Announce NY Shows

NY Shows: 9/14 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall Of Williamsburg # 9/28 - Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent (Record Release Show)* # w/ Screaming Females, Waxahatchee & Tenement * w/ California X, The Dreebs & Blanche, Blanche Blanche "Transmuting" Track Listing: 1. Roll The Dice 2. Drone 3. Fight 4. Clean 5. Lex Vision 6. I'm Forgetting 7. Screams 8. Iron Black 9. Always 10. Transmuting 11. Sun City Pre-Order "Transmuting" Here! Praise For Heaven's Gate: "The details are wonderful; especially the guitar work which jumps between fuzzy chaos and dark clarity, but it’s all tied together by front-woman Jess Paps and her incredible voice. At the best moments in "Drone," she takes the common "wordless vocals,"trend so often associated with shoegaze and makes it sound muscular and brutally aggressive. There is nothing you would call a coo here; Paps is not fucking around. " -–Stereogum "Paps' sharp-tongued twang lends fiery credence" -- Spin "Armed with ragged, airsick guitars, this self dubbed "powergaze" quintet from Brooklyn hurtle forward at an impressive rate" -- NME  "Somewhere between noisey motorik and jangly pop-punk, these Brooklyn spazzes layer on the heavy, bawdy shit-gaze we’ve fallen in love with over and over…and over."--Impose "Brooklyn has some new badasses, and their name is Heaven's Gate" --Noisey Photo Credits: Marland Backus Listen To 'Screams' And Read An Interview With Heaven's Gate On Noisey! Listen To 'Drone' On Stereogum! Transmuting... is the debut LP from Heaven’s Gate. After releasing a 7" EP on Fire Talk last year, the Brooklyn five-piece will deliver this candy-coated muscle relaxer to your eardrums on September 24, 2013. There are echoes of bands like The Raincoats, My Bloody Valentine, and Wire, but Jess Paps (vocals), Michael Sheffiled (guitar), Alex Cvetovich (bass), Jack Wolf (guitar) and Patrick Stankard (drums) have created a frightening new energy. Recorded at a house in Englewood, NJ with Scott Andrews, there are an abundance of layers on each track- synths, pianos, experimental electronics, loops, feedback. But the record is also deeply personal; you get a sense of the warmth of the house it was recorded in against a backdrop of an isolated wintertime, when most of the songs were written. There is a feeling that there is no escaping the winter and the album embodies this eerie spatiality. Transmuting... is about the process of tearing out of symbiosis and moving forward from loss. Raucous punk, polyrhythmic percussion, rich melodies and a wash of buzzsaw effects decorate each track. The songs deal with fading memories, reoccurring nightmares, facing demons, and the exorcism of the self. Piercing and meditative, dissonant and familiar, sparse yet mired, human yet digital; Transmuting serves as the long awaited bridge between the group's birth and their self-actualization. Links: Inflated Records Heaven's Gate Facebook Heaven's Gate Bandcamp

NOCTUM Reveal Album Artwork and Track Listing for New Full-Length Album Final Sacrifice

Available October 29th on Metal Blade Records Swedish rockers NOCTUM have confirmed an October 29th release date for their Metal Blade Records debut Final Sacrifice.  Today the artwork and track listing have been revealed. The cover art was painted by Timo Ketola (Sunn o))), Arktau Eos) and fits perfectly with the album's raw, natural sound. In the town of Uppsala, Sweden in the year 2009 a band called Séance was formed.  Moving at breakneck speed the band formed in September, recorded a two-song demo after adding guitarist Per Wikström to the lineup in October, and by November had changed their name to NOCTUM. Within those three months, the band signed an LP deal with High-Roller Records, and a CD deal with Stormspell Records. NOCTUM's debut album, The Séance, was released in September 2010 via High-Roller and in December by Stormspell. The band finally embarked on their first European tour in July of 2011, and followed that up with a new EP, The Fiddler. By August of 2011, NOCTUM created enough buzz in the underground to gain the attention of Metal Blade Records, which led to a new worldwide record deal. With a new record deal in place with a global label, NOCTUM spent the majority of 2012 refining their sound and writing new songs. Their search for original and interesting material led them to a heavier and darker sound. The progression came very naturally for the band and differs from the typical 70's vibe. The new material successfully evokes a heaviness and emotion one might not expect from a "retro" sounding band. Noctum toured Europe again in 2012, and then welcomed the addition of drummer Fredrik Jansson after Gustaf's departure. Jansson, who spent time in Witchcraft, Count Raven, and Abramis Brama, was added to the lineup in time to record Final Sacrifice in April 2013. Final Sacrifice is a fictional horror story where each song communicates a portion of the overall narrative. The "final sacrifice" is like a red thread that ties the songs together and is the concept behind the art. Final Sacrifice is an analog piece of art in both audio and visual aspects. The track "Liberty in Death" can be previewed HERE. Final Sacrifice Track Listing: 1. Conflagration 2. Liberty in Death 3. Resurrected in Evil 4. Deadly Connection 5. Void of Emptiness 6. The Revisit 7. A Burning Will 8. Temple of the Living Dead 9. Azoth Noctum Lineup: David Indelöf - Guitar/Vocals Daniel Johansson - Guitar Tobias Rosén - Bass Fredrik Jansson - Drums For More Info Visit: http://www.noctumofficial.com https://www.facebook.com/Noctumofficial http://www.metalblade.com

Pillars & Tongues Premiere 'Points Of Light' On Brooklyn Vegan Chicago "End-dances" LP Out September 17th On Empty Cellar Records & On Fall Tour With Angel Olsen

Chicago's very own Pillars and Tongues have just released their new track 'Points Of Light' which premiered on Brooklyn Vegan Chicago. Frontman Mark Trecka's even baritone glides above a thick bass line, as he's colorfully countered by co-vocalist Beth RemisPillars and Tongues have just announced a Fall tour with Angel Olsen. Their new LP "End-dances" is out September 17th on Empty Cellar Records. Photo Credit: Sarah Derer Listen To 'Knifelike' On Diffuser! Read The Lyrics To 'End-dances' Here!! 'End-dances' Track Listing: 1. Knifelike 2. Dogs 3. Bell + Rein 4. Points of Light 5. Medora 6. Travel 7. Ends 8. Ships   Tour Dates: Sep 20 - Chicago, IL - The Chicago Cultural Center Sep 21 - Cleveland, OH - Ingenuity Festival Sep 24 - Pittsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum * Sep 26 - Toronto, ON - The Drake Hotel * Sep 27 - Montreal, QC - Pop Montreal Festival Sep 28 - Portland, ME - Space Gallery* Sep 29 - Hudson, NY - Basilica * Oct 1- Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall * Oct 2 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's * Oct 4 - Boston, MA - Museum Of Fine Arts * Oct 5 - Purchase, NY - The Stood * Oct 6 - Washington, DC - DC9 * Oct 7 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter * Oct 8 - Athens, GA - Normaltown Hall * Oct 10 - Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlies * Oct 11 - Indianapolis, IN - White Rabbit Caberet * Oct 12 - Chicago, IL - The Burlington * w/ Angel Olsen   Praise For Pillars And Tongues: “Singer Mark Trecka has a deep, sonorous baritone that can carry the long notes . . . with a wizened authority. The band uses vocals almost like stringed instruments, which become even more noticeable when violins are added to their chanting" --Pitchfork "Pillars and Tongues’ music always has one foot in the avant-garde, while never completely abandoning pop, which in this case is gloomy, dark, and dreamy, almost cinematic, evoking pictures of lost and doomed landscapes." ---Henning Lahmann, No Fear of Pop" "Pillars and Tongues cite Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas, W.G. Sebald, and Interstate 25 among their primary influences. It's an eclectic list, but one indicative of the furrowed contemplation and entrancing horizon lines conjured by these Chicago experimentalists" --San Francisco Bay Guardian “Mark Trecka, Elizabeth Remis and Evan Hydzik create a communication between themselves and the spirits and it sometimes sounds like two old windmills talking to each other in code. It sounds like slow, wavering flames of fire and the cool air of an abandoned cave" -- Daytrotter What makes Chicago’s Pillars and Tongues so enchanting is the disarming alchemy with which the ensemble stirs up its otherworldly song. Straddling the vocal out-of-body keening of Daniel Higgs and the levitating musical atomic peace of Alice Coltrane at her most drone-leaning" -- Baltimore City Paper Listen To 'Points Of Light' On Brooklyn Vegan Chicago! End-dances is the new album by Pillars and Tongues on Empty Cellar Records. Although from Chicago, Beth Remis, Ben Babbitt, and Mark Trecka have spent much of the last few years traveling, performing music in a wide variety of contexts, exploring the severe and sublime landscapes of America, and returning to or refusing to return to variations on the theme of home. Recorded by Theo Karon, End-dances leaps forward in the direction implied by the last full-length, The Pass and Crossings, and the recent cassette, If Travel is Asked of Me. Long-form compositions are coerced into considered and patiently constructed songs, resulting in their most pop-oriented work to date. But in that, the work allies with the darker, stranger side of the pop realm, evoking the drama and atmosphere of Dead Can Dance, and the art-prog experimentation of Peter Gabriel’s 4. The characteristic harmonium and violin blend with enveloping synths, undulating loops and gated rhythms of hazy origin. Karon's adventurous engineering is apparent throughout the record; the band’s attention to the expressive potential of the sounds themselves is supported by mesmeric tape loops, saturated vocal echoes, and vibrant tones coaxed from radically transformed sources. Points of intersection between the acoustic and the electronic are embraced, calling the assumed organic nature of a drum and the artifice of a synthesizer into question. Loping, hypnotic rhythms give way to cinematic ambient passages, receding to reveal, again and again, the voices, with Trecka’s bold baritone in the lead. Remis’ voice -- central and refined  -- conjures, floats, and skitters, at varying points harmonizing with and countering Trecka’s lead, as both chant against Babbitt’s croon. The lyrics are poetic, exploring themes of ambivalence, health and the acts of writing and singing.  ‘Knifelike’ reads like a less optimistic version of Kate Bush’s ‘Love and Anger’, flirting with tender descriptions of metaphorical violence: “My lines, knifelike impressions of your life / give teeth to timelines / cut knuckles testify”. ‘Bell + Rein’ is an acknowledged homage to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Take This Longing’, reiterating an infamous desire to not desire. ‘Medora’ and ‘Travel’ are both hallucinatory descriptions of travel as an act of self-actualization. “I ride through / to follow / where I go”. ‘Ends’ evokes the elegiac melancholy of William Basinski, pitting a single thin and unadorned violin against a torrent of tape-garbled pianos. Pitchfork conceded in 2010 that “it’s difficult to talk about influences or genres with Pillars and Tongues, and almost as hard to talk about their sound.” And The Chicago Tribune has said that the group “defies easy categorization, unless you're looking in that bin marked ‘essential.”  While affinities may be noted with contemporaries like Julia Holter, Liars and others working creatively with tone, texture, and ambience, in the context of voice-driven songwriting, Pillars and Tongues cuts a singular path through the contemporary musical landscape. 'End-dances' is released on September 17th on Empty Cellar Records (US) and Murailles Music (Europe). Links: Empty Cellar Records Pillars And Tongues Tumblr Pillars And Tongues Facebook Pillars And Tongues Bandcamp

HALCYON WAY Announce World Premiere of video at ProgPower USA

Atlanta Metallers HALCYON WAY are currently in the final stages of mixing for their new album.  The band recently completed work on a video for the song "Web Of Lies".  The video will receive its exclusive premiere on Saturday September 27th at 7:45 PM at ProgPower USA XIV in Atlanta, GA. HALCYON WAY will be hitting the road this September and October alongside Saxon and Fozzy.  The tour kicks off September 12th in Patchouge, NY and runs through October 19th in Vancouver, BC.  A complete list of dates can be found below. Guitarist Jon Bodan gave some insight on the new album: "Thanks to the support of the many fans that contributed to our IndieGoGo campaign, we are in the final stages of editing our first 'proper' music video, for a track called "Web Of Lies" off our upcoming new record.  The video is coming out amazing, and the song is killer - it's heavy, technical yet accessible, and it has the giant hook that defines the HW sound."    "We're naming the new album "Conquer" as a result of the adversity that we have faced as a band since we released our last couple of albums.  We've been through many ups and downs over the last few years, and they would have destroyed many other bands.  We've overcome life-threatening illnesses, lineup changes, and all sorts of gutpunches, but we persevere.  We are extremely proud of this new record, and we think that it will help to inspire people going through similar hard times." The album was produced by Jon Bodan & Lasse Lammert (Alestorm, Gloryhammer) with additional vocal production by Seth Von Paulus (Linda Perry, Alicia Keys, Crash Kings, Smashing Pumpkins).  Art will again be handled by the legendary Travis Smith at Seempieces."    Known for their explosive live shows, instantly catchy melodies, precise vocal harmonies, incendiary guitar work, intricate yet pounding drums, and great showmanship, they dominate the live scene.     Aurally combining the heaviness of bands like Testament, the technical prowess of Dream Theater, the power metallic attitude of Evergrey and soaring vocal melodies, HALCYON WAY will leave you awestricken by their punishing riffs and unforgettable hooks. Visit the HALCYON WAY webshop at: http://www.halcyonway.com/webshop  HALCYON WAY With Saxon and Fozzy: 9/12: Patchouge, NY @ The Emporium 9/13: New York, NY @ BB Kings 9/14: Montreal, QUE @ Corona Theater 9/15: Toronto, ON @ Phoenix 9/17: Reading, PA @ Reverb 9/18: Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's 9/19: Dayton, OH @ McGuffys 9/20: Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop 9/21: Joliet, IL @ Mojoes 9/22: Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave Basement 9/24: Waterloo, IA @ Reverb Rock Garden 9/26: Dallas, TX @ House of Blues 9/27: San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live 9/28: Houston, TX @ House of Blues 9/29: Oklahoma City, OK @ Chameleon Club 10/1: Tempe, AZ @ Club Red 10/2: Las Vegas, NV @ Count's Vamp'd 10/3: Ramona, CA @ Ramona Main Stage 10/4: Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues 10/5: Corona, CA @ M15 10/6: San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge 10/8: Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven 10/9: Portland, OR @ Alhambra Theater 10/10: Vancouver, BC @ The Venue DISCOGRAPHY: 2011 - INDOCTRINATION - Nightmare Records 2010 - BUILDING THE TOWERS - Nightmare Records 2008 - A MANIFESTO FOR DOMINATION - Nightmare Records HALCYON WAY: http://www.halcyonway.com (Official Website) http://www.twitter.com/halcyonway (Twitter) http://www.facebook.com/halcyonway (Facebook)

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North Coast Music Festival 2013

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Chicago, IL 60607

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The Locals Record Release at Double Door THIS Friday

Chi, IL Live Shows on our radar:

Double Door Welcomes

The Locals (Record Release!!!)

Hemmingbirds, The Sweeps, Lights Alive

Friday, August 30, 2013

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm

$7.00 - $12.00

Chicago band The Locals will celebrate their ninth release, an EP entitled Stereostatic Funicular, at Double Door on August 30. The EP was produced by Steve Gillis and features background vocals by Bob Mould/Robert Pollard sideman Jason Narducy. 

Record release show (w/ Hemmingbirds as direct support) 

The Locals are an alt-rock, power pop three piece based in Chicago. Fans of The Pixies, The Whigs and Yeah Yeah Yeahs dig The Locals. They have been steadily gaining more fans with their latest release "SALT". Produced by Steven Gillis (Filter), The Locals' latest effort delivers guitar heavy sumptuous alt-pop through and through.

The Locals tour extensively in the midwest, and have played in clubs and festivals all over the US including: Schubas (Chicago, IL),Lincoln Hall (Chicago, il), House of Blues (Chicago, Il),Southgate House (Newport, KY), Halsted Market Days (Chicago, IL), EAT'em Music Conference (Las Vegas), Invasion of The Go Girls (SXSW) Austin TX, GOGO Festival (Kent, United Kingdom). The band did their first UK tour in 2011.

THE LOCALS ARE:

Yvonne Doll: Vocals, Songwriter, Guitar

Christy Nunes: Bass

Tommy Oerding: Drums

SOME INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE LOCALS:

• The Locals were the subject of years of public resentment from The Matches (formerly The Locals, Oakland California) who had to change their name because of a trademark conflict. They released their first record on Epitaph Records and named it "E.Von Dahl Killed The Locals".
• Yvonne was just featured in Guitar World Magazine as one of the top "10 Female Guitarists You Should Know".
• Yvonne is a photographer best known for her cell phone photo project, "SleepyUrbanite". (sleepyurbanite.com cell photos of people sleeping on the el train in Chicago) The project was featured on The Today Show, NBC News, Chicagoist, TimeOut, VoxPop magazine (France), Newstalk Radio (Ireland)
• Christy Nunes (co-founder, bass player) originally hails from San Diego. Christy began playing professionally at the age of 14. She once shoved a kid during a job as the Chuck E. Cheese mascot when he kept kicking her and pulling her tail.
• When hen he's not drumming for The Locals, Tommy Oedering makes custom drums at the custom drum shop "Chicago Custom Percussion".

PRESS:

What people are saying about "SALT": "Doll proves she has the alt-rock style of singers like Karen O, but also exhibits a unique blend of sultry sounds that definitely sets her apart and makes this track noteworthy. With a blend of old and new sounds and lyrics about letting go, the songs on "Salt" prove to be worthy contenders for Chicago indie anthems..." --Time Out 

"The chorus to 'Away From Here' is epic" MTV via Twitter

"Obvious skill occompanied by a punky attitude" -- Guitar Player Magazine "Top Female Musicians You Should Know" 

“The EP ‘SALT’ will have listeners craving more than four exceptionally crafted songs….” — Rock Wired Magazine 

"I feel that The Locals light up each track on 'Salt' with an energy that parallels that of early punk artists" ---- Nufutur.com

“I simply love the style The Locals provide on Salt because it seems to be music that pushes along consistently while never letting up..."----Skope Magazine

Chicago alt-pop, indie-rock trio The Locals will celebrate the release of their new EP, Stereostatic Funicular, with a hometown show at The Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave, on Friday, August 30th. 

Stereostatic Funicular, which was produced Steven Gillis at Chicago's Transient Sound and features guest musicians Jason Narducy (Verbow, Bob Mould's band), Vijay Tellis-Nayak (The Steak House Mints) and Joanna Vassilatos (Radio Vago), follows 2010's critically acclaimed SALT.

Stereostatic Funicular is described by The Locals as a "transitional album," as it was recorded with longtime drummer Kirk Snedeker, who moved to Northern California before the EP was finished. The EP's title was inspired by a trip to Spain, specifically by the "stereostatic" chain models that Anton Gaudi created to calculate the height/width of each column of the Sagrada Famila and "Funiculars," trams that whisk riders up to the tops of high mountains.

Stereostatic Funicular's songs include "Inventio," the story of a love triangle between the Ocean, the Moon and the Sun, and "Running Toward the Sound," which is about trying to harness the unbridled instinct of hearing a sound and running full-on toward it.

Fronted by Yvonne Doll, who was featured in Guitar World Magazine as one of the top "10 Female Guitarists You Should Know," the Locals boast a killer rhythm section comprised of bassist Christy Nunes, who began playing professionally at the age of 14, and new drummer Tommy Oedering, who also makes drums for Chicago Custom Percussion. The Locals have been a part of the Chicago music scene for the last decade. They have played extensively in the Midwest and completed their first UK tour in 2011.

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