NEW VINYL

4 February 2010

It's taken a while, but we finally have Bird Names' 'Sings The Browns' and Foot Village's 'Anti Magic' in the shop on vinyl. Both LPs are £10 postage paid in the UK.

TRASH KIT LIVE ACTION

4 February 2010

In support of their eponymous debut full-length, which is due to drop on UTR in March, Trash Kit have a bunch of shows coming up - both in London and further afield.

04.02 - London - The Windmill
06.02 - London - The Good Ship
15.02 - London - Cargo*
20.02 - Madrid - The Costello Club
29.03 - Paris - Les femmes s'en melent Festival
02.04 - London - The Stag's Head^

* = w/ Tune Yards
^ = w/ Bo Ningen

If you can't wait to hear them in the flesh, then here are two MP3s as a taster...

Cadets | Fame

POSTERS FOR SALE

1 February 2010

Over the last few years, our friend Diego Mena has been producing some beautiful, screenprinted posters for our shows. Six of his designs are now for sale on a new page dedicated to merch in the shop - there's badges and shirts too!

The posters - for shows including Lightning Bolt, Omar Souleyman, Mika Miko, Old Time Relijun, NO AGE and WHY? - are all limited to 50 each, are handscreened in a variety of colours, sizes and paper stocks, and range from £10 to £20. Check them out here.

2010 BADGE SET BY GIRL MOUNTAIN

4 January 2010

To celebrate the New Year / decade, the latest addition to the shop is the "Upset The Rhythm 2010" badge set, designed by Girl Mountain.

The sets feature four badges and a miniature comic strip, which pay curious homage to cartoon and musical luminairies such as Meg & Mog, Garfield, JLS and La Roux.

They're limited to just 100 editions and cost £2.50 including postage worldwide, so grab one while you can.

TUNE-YARDS is Merrill Garbus - a one-woman DIY workshop concocting an impressively assured sort of lo-fi World (as in World Music) pop world (as in her own secret territory) by mixing tenor ukulele, digital loops, toms and (most importantly) a powerful, shape-shifting voice. At times, she's a self-contained Sublime Frequencies compilation, jumping between blues, African tunes, shiny reggae-esque sprawls, and folk. Her debut album 'Bird-Brains' was released on Marriage Records and 4AD last year to much acclaim, and anyone who has seen her perform can attest to her captivating and ingeneous live show.
www.myspace.com/tuneyards

TRASH KIT are a gang of facepainted flag-bearers who have a wild feel for melody and a heartfelt kick inside each song. Mixing chaos, considered songcraft and overlapping harmonies in equal measure, the female trio sound as joyful as they are focussed. Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray formed the band in early 2009, and since then have been lighting up London, energising the UK underground with their raw performances. There's a stripped back quality to their music that packs the bravest of punches. Both Rachels tangle their vocals with each other whilst expressive drumbeats and impulsive guitar and bass lines pin down the songs. Trash Kit sound both urbane and primal, drawing on the potential of punk and the naturalism of an internal folk music and as a result sound like nothing else. The band's self-titled debut album will be released on CD/LP through Upset The Rhythm in March.
www.myspace.com/trashkit

THINK ABOUT LIFE bring the party like no other band operating in Montreal area. Their recordings, like their live show, consist largely of party anthems from start to finish. The trio keep things short and sweet, all high-energy action, no filler. The band is led by Graham Van Pelt, a multi-instrumentalist (also of Miracle Fortress), recording studio proprietor and one of the main organisers behind Montreal's super-hip palace, the Friendship Cove. With Matt Shane on drums and Caila Thompson-Hannant (also of Shapes & Sizes and Miracle Fortress) on keyboards, vocal duties are led by Martin Cesar, the main man behind Dishwasher and formerly Donkey Heart's front person. Their debut album, as well as last year's record 'Family', were both released by Alien 8 recordings.
www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife