NEWS

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

16 August 2024

The Devil has all the best tunes! Ed Schrader’s Music Beat return today with vibey thrill ‘IDKS’, taken from their forthcoming album ‘Orchestra Hits’ (out Sep 20th on Upset The Rhythm). Double thumbs up to Tristan Wheeler for making such a wickedly FUN video!

‘Orchestra Hits’ is available to pre-order now!

ROMAN CANDLE

18 July 2024

Baltimore pop renegades Ed Schrader’s Music Beat return today with a rollicking new single entitled ‘Roman Candle’. It’s a driving powerhouse of nervy basslines, guitar glimmer and rabble-rousing vocals, taken from the group’s forthcoming ‘Orchestra Hits’ album, out on Upset The Rhythm (Sep 20th).

‘Orchestra Hits’ is available to pre-order now now digitally or on CD and as a limited transparent-blue vinyl version too!

SCREENSAVER - NEW SINGLE + TOUR

5 July 2024

What a fine day to share this new single from SCREENSAVER with the world! ‘Permanence’ is a terse thrill of a song, drawing on pent-up frustration and chronic intensity. ‘Permanence’ is out now digitally, including as this video that’ll make you wanna wield a baguette like a sword in future. Also just saying, not enough enough cat humanoids appear in music videos in general!

SCREENSAVER are hitting the autobahn in August, touring all over this Euro-portion of the globe, go see them if you can, their live show is wild! The band’s new album ‘Decent Shapes’ is out now on Upset The Rhythm too.

ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT

17 June 2024

Oh happiest of times! We’re unveiling ‘Orchestra Hits’ by Ed Schrader’s Music Beat today! ‘Orchestra Hits’ is the band’s first album with Upset The Rhythm in ten years, what? Time flies! The ever-evolving group have packed a ton of climbing bass grooves, percolating synth arpeggios and soaring vocals into these astonishing 9 songs, their best to date! We’re sharing first single ‘Daylight Commander’ here, part exercise in absurdity, part pop Trojan horse, enjoy!

‘Orchestra Hits’ will be released on Upset The Rhythm on September 20th and is available to pre-order now. The band are also hitting the road in the US/Canada later in the month with Future Islands so go witness the brilliance near the flame itself!

LOOM NO MORE!

14 June 2024

Massive moment today! Marcel Wave’s wonder of a debut album ‘Something Looming’ has unfurled into the world. These twelve immense songs are part trades club symphony, part itchy serenade and part wistful lament. Featuring the combined powerhouse talents of Sauna Youth and Cold Pumas players with the stunning addition of Maike Hale-Jones’ West Yorkshire brogue, Marcel Wave chronicle the hopes and dreams (often dashed) of the piping hot instant.

‘Something Looming’ is out now digitally and is also available on 180g black vinyl in all the best shops, including our own humble repository here.

Come join us tonight at MOTH Club in celebration of the record as the band, joined by The Pheromoans and The Plan treat us to a proper bash of an album launch.

PEG

5 June 2024

Marcel Wave’s stunning album ‘Something Looming’ comes out on June 14th, today we’re sharing pensive new single ‘Peg’. ‘Peg’ is an elegy for 1930’s actress Peg Entwistle and it’s accompanying vid is a technicolor tribute to her voiceless memory.

Come celebrate the release of ‘Something Looming’ with us at MOTH Club on Friday 14th June. Marcel Wave, The Pheromoans and The Plan will all be performing! Record launch o’clock!

EMPIRES INTO SAND

24 May 2024

Normil Hawaiians’ astonishing new album ‘Empires Into Sand’ is released today on digital platforms. CDs and LPs have arrived too, are they look / sound exceptional!

'Empires into Sand' is the first album of new material from Normil Hawaiians in 40 years. The group first refined their sound during the early 80s, hitting on a pastoral experimentalism that drew on ambient drone, motorik impulse and post-punk pep. 'Empires into Sand' came together in the familiar manner of their original three albums, with improvisation and nuance informing the blueprint of the tracks.

This is thought-provoking, boundary-bothering music. Honest in intent, a solidarity of vision. Listen and live! ‘Empires Into Sand’ is available to order from our webshop here.

PARSNIP - THE BABBLE & TOUR DATES

22 May 2024

Wow, this is the stuff that FUN is made of! Parsnip have an astonishing (and slightly psychotic) new video to share with you today for their latest single ‘The Babble’, they’re also coming on tour to Europe this October and playing London for us straight off the bat on October 1st at MOTH Club! You’re welcome!

Epic thanks to Puschen for whipping this tour into shape! Video made by Alex McLaren and filmed on the lands of the Wurundjeri people.

EARTH BALL - IT'S YOURS NOW!

17 May 2024

The sun has come out to shine on Earth Ball, check that spot-gloss on the sleeve!

Earth Ball’s immense album ‘It’s Yours’ is released today digitally and on this very fine crystal clear LP with printed inner sleeve, download card and accompanying painted art scrap from the band.

Musically this a mercurial record of energetic sax-flecked no wave spontaneity. Drums tumble over precipices, guitars grind along fluxing vortices and Jer & Izzy’s vocals usher wisdom and derision from the outskirts. Six mind-zapping transmissions from the Canadian underground trapped in aspic.

‘It’s Yours’ is available in all the best shops now, you can also pick up a copy from our webshop here ...or even better, grab a copy from the band directly when they tour the UK with Chris Corsano over the next fortnight:

May 20 - London - Cafe OTO

May 21 - London - Cafe OTO

May 22 - Manchester - White Hotel

May 23 - Bristol - Cube Cinema

May 24 - Shrewsbury - English Bridge Workshop

May 25 - Glasgow - Flying Duck

May 26 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend

May 27 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers

May 28 - Nottingham - The Chapel

May 29 - Lewes - Con Club

STOP/CONTINUE

8 May 2024

Marcel Wave return with effervescent bop ‘Stop/Continue’ today, a punctual new single owing much to decaying industrial backdrops to childhood. ‘Stop/Continue’ dwells on derelict mills, spooling rivers and the unfaltering sweep of the second hand. We very much like songs with a heavy dose of rumination at UTR and if they come with a trippy video of waterways, tunnels and some dancing too, then all the better!

‘Stop/Continue’ is out now digitally, it features on Marcel Wave’s debut album ‘Something Looming’ out June 14th on Upset The Rhythm. Dive in!

MOON FM

30 April 2024

Moon FM is the scorching opening track of Earth Ball's debut LP 'It's Yours', out May 17th through Upset The Rhythm. The saxophone is searing hot here, pulling us through vortex after vortex whilst the drums pin down the momentum amid gauzily warped guitars. The accompanying video was shot by John Brennan from the band and features him walking backwards over the Cambie Bridge in Vancouver at twilight, only reversed so the traffic zips oddly backwards. Revel in it!

PARSNIP - OUT NOW!

26 April 2024

Greet today with Parsnip’s shining new album ‘Behold’!

The Australian group are an spirited ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. This has all contributed in making ‘Behold’ such a joy. This is their first album in five years and it’s a riot of dazzling performances and whip-smart DIY pop. Parsnip have made a record that drinks deep with wonderment and their vision is genuinely refreshing and at times devastatingly honest. We’re overjoyed to share it with you.

‘Behold’ by Parsnip is out now digitally and on crystal-clear vinyl through Upset The Rhythm. Our great mates at Anti Fade are releasing ‘Behold’ down under too. Parsnip will touring Japan next month and are also coming to Europe this October, watch out world!

NORTH ATLANTIC

25 April 2024

We’re sharing ‘North Atlantic’ with the world today! Another gem from the jewellery box that’s Normil Hawaiians first album of new material in 40 years. ‘North Atlantic' is the meditative closer on ‘Empires into Sand’ and features reworked drum samples taken from a short track called ‘South Atlantic’ from 1984 (Normil Hawaiians - What’s Going On?). Only this time the bass refrain is reversed and the song takes on an entirely new life with an uncanny string arrangement, birdsong and lyrics about impermanence, dream states and long shadows. Drink deep!

‘Empires into Sand’ will be released by Upset the Rhythm on May 24th.

EARTH BALL & CHRIS CORSANO ON TOUR

24 April 2024

The stupendous Earth Ball are touring the UK this May in support of their forthcoming album 'It's Yours', out May 17th on Upset The Rhythm. Best news... Chris Corsano will be keeping them company too. Both acts are playing all over the landmass, roundabouts and back again. Go see them live, they are A+ spectacular!

May 20 - London - Cafe OTO

May 21 - London - Cafe OTO

May 22 - Manchester - White Hotel

May 23 - Bristol - Cube Cinema

May 24 - Shrewsbury - English Bridge Workshop

May 25 - Glasgow - Flying Duck

May 26 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend

May 27 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers

May 28 - Nottingham - The Chapel

May 29 - Lewes - Con Club

PARSNIP - THE BABBLE

11 April 2024

It’s time to start babbling with Parsnip, their incredible new single (out today) is packed with Kinks-ian panache and deceptive wordplay, beyond great! Their full album 'Behold' will be released on April 26th through Upset The Rhythm

MARCEL WAVE - SOMETHING LOOMING

4 April 2024

June 14th, what a prodigious day!

We will be releasing Marcel Wave’s inaugural album ‘Something Looming’, packed with eulogies for tragic actresses, ancient riverbeds and concrete obscenity. Marcel Wave (featuring members of Cold Pumas & Sauna Youth) are part trades club symphony, part itchy serenade and part wistful lament. This heady concoction of ‘Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ will be formally baptised on stage at MOTH Club that very same day (June 14th) with an album launch (featuring The Pheromoans + The Plan), now on sale.

Check out their first single ‘Barrow Boys’, a raucous ode to the death of the docklands. Out now digitally and available to study in this suitably wavy VHS promo. ‘Something Looming’ will be released on June 14th by Upset The Rhythm and Feel It Records (in the USA). It is available to pre-order now on 180g black vinyl too.

PARSNIP - TURN TO LOVE

19 March 2024

Don’t turn back! Parsnip explode into colour, costume and creativity with their incredible video for new single ‘Turn To Love’. Out today digitally and featured on their forthcoming album ‘Behold’ (out April 26th through Upset The Rhythm). Blooming marvellous effort from the Australian DIY pop quartet!

EMPIRES INTO SAND

14 March 2024

Huge day today! Normil Hawaiians’ first new album in 40 years will be coming out on Upset The Rhythm on May 3rd. Titled ‘Empires into Sand’, the record is an incredible patchwork cloak of ideas drawing on ambient drone, motorik impulse, folk idiom and a certain cosmic uncanny.

A Windswept album recorded in a windswept Scottish coastal retreat, ‘Empires into Sand’ swims with short wave radio interference and overheard satellite transmissions. These are winding rivers of song, peopled with the displaced, determined, downhearted yet hopeful. Swirling atmospheres, field recordings, tape-looped drums, rapid synth flights and soaring vocals all abound in this echo from the now.

‘Empires into Sand’ will be released on gatefold LP, CD and digitally on May 24th, it is available to pre-order now from our shop now.

Lead single ‘Exiles’ is released today, exploring the continuous movement of human beings, check out the video for more sublime signs from the firmament.

EARTH BALL START ROLLING

12 March 2024

Arise! It's time to take on Earth Ball! Earth Ball are a wild ride of an ensemble from Nanaimo (Canada); spontaneous, instinctual and eruptive inside out. When Earth Ball fire up the amps in their basement you can hear the voices of ghosts hum through the speakers.

Kellan's hued feedback, Izzy's sturdy basslines, Jer's paperbag guitar tone and rumble pack zaps, Liam's sheets of sound and Brennen's multidirectional drums are expansive, restlessly inventive and truly psychedelic.

Their debut LP ‘It’s Yours’ will be coming out on May 17th via Upset The Rhythm. Take a first listen to ‘A Need To Cool Down’ and reframe your brain.

‘It’s Yours’ is available to pre-order on clear 180g vinyl w/ a hand-painted insert from the band now.

Earth Ball are also touring the UK this May in support of this release with their friend-in-sound Chris Corsano, see you at a show!

May 20 - London - Cafe OTO

May 21 - London - Cafe OTO

May 22 - Manchester - White Hotel

May 23 - Bristol - Cube Cinema

May 24 - Shrewsbury - English Bridge Workshop

May 25 - Glasgow - Flying Duck

May 26 - Newcastle - Lubber Fiend

May 27 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers

May 28 - Nottingham - The Chapel

May 29 - Lewes - Con Club

WYRD PSEARCH OUT TODAY!

1 March 2024

March comes in like a lion carrying a copy of ‘Wyrd Psearch’ by The Pheromoans! Released today, lucky album 13 from the lo-fi peddlers has been hailed by Uncut magazine as a “sleek return of droll social commentary and DIY invention”, whilst The Quietus urged “the ghost of Mark E. Smith to crown them the kings of the sprechgesang gang.” Wow!

We’re celebrating the release of the album today by sharing this video for ‘Twibbon Wife’, a track musing on the legacy of The Stone Roses, Ellis-Bextor and armchair occultists.

‘Wyrd Psearch’ is available now in all the best shops and our own webstore here.

Cafe OTO will host an official album launch next Tuesday with The Pheromoans, Apostille and Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys all performing, lucky us. The band will also appear on deXter Bentley’s Hello GoodBye show on Resonance FM tomorrow from noon to chat more about the release, enjoy!

BEHOLD... PARSNIP!

13 February 2024

Green shoots have burst forth from Parsnip! The Australian group have a super-catchy single out today called ‘The Light’, taken from their sophisticated sophomore album ‘Behold’.

Drawing comparisons with Dolly Mixture, Sara Goes Pop and Look Blue Go Purple, Parsnip are an animated ensemble, full of life, emotional complexity and humour. On ‘Behold’ they explore both the inner and outer realms of consciousness with quick wits and some seriously quality jangle and jolt. Take a listen to ‘The Light’, a whip smart workout if there ever was one!

Upset The Rhythm will release ‘Behold’ on April 26th. There’s a limited transparent vinyl edition, available to pre-order (drum roll please)… now.

FAITH IN THE PHEROMOANS

6 February 2024

The Pheromoans roll up their trouser and consult with the master mason today as they rebound with a second single from their glorious upcoming ‘Wyrd Psearch’ album. ‘Faith in the Future’ “cautiously tugs at a thread of certain patterns, mishearings and misinterpreted gestures” according to vocalist Russell Walker.

The song is complemented here by the visual recordings of 11-year-old Hitchin resident Rowan Walker and his keen eye for transportation. ‘Wyrd Psearch’ will be released on March 1st by Upset The Rhythm and is available to pre-order now.

WYRD PSEARCH

9 January 2024

Puzzling times are upon us! Today we're unveiling The Pheromoans new album 'Wyrd Psearch', out on March 1st via Upset The Rhythm. This is lucky album number 13 for the deadpan DIY group and sees them on vigorously sceptical form. Lead single 'Downtown' is out now as a digital single, fans of Russell Walker and of panoramic Hitchin will find much to like in its accompanying video

'Wyrd Psearch' is available to pre-order now on 180g black vinyl. Remember to always check backwards on the diagonal!

UTR 20TH ANNIVERSARY

12 December 2023

Ho, ho, woah!

Tis the season for jolly merch!

Today we added to our webshop our Upset The Rhythm ‘20th anniversary’ t-shirts and risograph posters designed by the wondrous Meg Woof. Our new pin badges and stickers are up there too, joining this year’s UTR releases by Brontez Purnell, Screensaver, Me Lost Me, Vintage Crop, Water Machine, The Toads, Terry, Es and Historically F***ed. To celebrate we’re offering everyone here a festive 20% discount, just use the code UTR20 before January and get merry!

'CONFIRMED BACHELOR' RELEASED!

10 November 2023

Time to party!

Today we’re releasing a new album from supreme multi-talent Brontez Purnell! ‘Confirmed Bachelor’ is out now on crystal-clear vinyl and digitally everywhere, go check it out! These twelve songs are of the no-time-wasted variety. Fuzzed-out pop songs, hotly delivered from the heart, often sassy, sometimes sappy, always snappy! We’re talking about jagged riffs galore, bubblegum bounce and Brontez’s vocal racing to bopsome effect.

So much to celebrate! ‘Confirmed Bachelor’ is available to order now.

'DECENT SHAPES' OUT NOW!

20 October 2023

Exceedingly happy that our 158th release stormed into the world today! 'Decent Shapes' by Naarm/Melbourne synth-fogged post-punks Screensaver is a triumph of mood and function.

Pin-sharp dynamics, twisting melodies and seismic tremors of delirious urgency all jostle to stare deeper into the black mirror of now. Krystal Maynard’s dramatic / cavernous vocal is always on point and all ten songs shudder and shimmer into stark reality. Couldn't recommend anything more!

'Decent Shapes' is streaming everywhere from today + a glam gold-pressing is available on LP in all the best shops, including Upset The Rhythm's webshop too.

BACHELORS THEME

18 October 2023

Now we’re talking!

Brontez Purnell returns today with an absolute thunderclap of a single from his forthcoming album ‘Confirmed Bachelor’! ‘Bachelors Theme’ is out now digitally, accompanied by a video made by actor / sad clown / muse, Brandon Flynn. ‘Bachelors Theme’ opens the album and sets the scene perfectly with the heady rush and swoon of it all. Jagged riffs, bubblegum bounce and Brontez’s vocals effortlessly racing to dizzying effect. It’s a tour de force of bop and bravado.

'Bachelors Theme’ is taken from Brontez's cracking new record 'Confirmed Bachelor', out Nov 10th on Upset The Rhythm, available to pre-order now on crystal-clear 180g vinyl here.

SPRING IS IN THE AIR FOR VINTAGE CROP

1 September 2023

Two surprises!

Next Friday we’re releasing a Vintage Crop 7”, woah, secondly it is in praise of spring, OK it’s only just autumn here, but in the other hemisphere the birds are building nests again. Check out the ace video premiered by Raven Sings The Blues, featuring Jack Cherry in three parallel dimensions.

Vintage Crop’s ‘Springtime’ 7” will be released on September 8th by Upset The Rhythm, it's also available to pre-order now.

WATER MACHINE - BBC 6 MUSIC SESSION

1 September 2023

Listen again to the wondrous Water Machine live in session for Marc Riley last night.

Four amazing songs shared, plus top chat about car prangs, grannies and Pat The Dog! Enjoy!! Remember… Water Machine’s UK tour starts tonight in Manchester, check out the tour dates, London on Tuesday!

DRAINER - OUT TODAY!

23 August 2023

Here’s screensaver’s new single ‘Drainer’, a fiery anthem for those everyday frustrations that edge you into downer mode. Full video by Rebel Yell up on YouTube now in all its flickering VHS glory. ‘Drainer’ features on the band’s forthcoming album ‘Decent Shapes’, out October 20th through Upset The Rhythm and Poison City in Australia. Available to pre-order now, hup hup!

RAW LIQUID POWER NOW!

4 August 2023

Drink deep!

Water Machine’s sensational 7” EP ‘Raw Liquid Power’ surges into the world today. More whirlpool rapids than tepid puddle the Glasgow gang of four have gathered together spiky riffs, staccato singing and pounding bass / drums into four totemic anthems of art-punk weirdness that brim with irrepressible sincerity.

So much to soak up! ‘Raw Liquid Power’ is available digitally now and on transparent red vinyl from all the best shops and our webstore too.

BRONTEZ PURNELL ON UTR!

3 August 2023

Party hats on!

Today we’re announcing our new album from supreme multitalent Brontez Purnell! ‘Confirmed Bachelor’ (best album title ever award bagged) will be released on November 10th on crystal-clear vinyl and digitally. These twelve songs are of the no-time-wasted variety. Fuzzed-out pop songs, hotly delivered from the heart, often sassy, sometimes sappy, always snappy!

We’re sharing the first single from the album, a cover of a long-loved Julie Ruin song. ‘Stay Monkey’ is as lively and bopsome as it is lovelorn and restless. Enjoy the music, the cake and the rogue king of rock-n-roll, this is worth celebrating!

‘Confirmed Bachelor’ is available to pre-order now.

ANNOUNCING 'DECENT SHAPES'

28 July 2023

Behold the gold! Australian synth-punks screensaver return this October with an immense, brooding second album titled ‘Decent Shapes’. Loaded with simmering tension, ‘Decent Shapes’ finds screensaver exploring existence eeked out across an ever-growing trash heap of materialism and detachment.

Available on sardonic gold vinyl through Upset The Rhythm on October 20th. Check out first single ‘The Guilt’ now, a spirited call to arms for all who succumb.

ME LOST ME - 'RPG' RELEASED!

7 July 2023

What a privilege it has been to work with Me Lost Me on releasing her brightly alive ‘RPG’ album! Out today on Upset The Rhythm digitally, on CD and as a sky-blue or sky-pink LP, ‘RPG’ is a teeming marvel.

Casting the songwriter as role-play gamer (apologies to all rocket-propelled grenade enthusiasts out there) Me Lost Me works up her songs with folksong and electronics as the warp and weft. It’s an album populated with ancient trees, uncanny zones, mythic recollection and boundless ideas for a lore of tomorrows. Astonishing from every worldly angle, we hope you enjoy it!

‘RPG’ by Me Lost Me is available in all the best shops now, as well as our own modest web foundry here.

FEELING THE 'HEAT!'

21 June 2023

Post-Trash just premiered Me Lost Me's new single 'Heat!', what a solstice souvenir! Foreboding bass lines, chirping birds, flute trills and a powerful upbeat groove abound. 'Heat!' is out now digitally on all the usual platforms, taken from the album 'RPG' out July 7th on UTR.

THE TOADS - OUT TODAY!

9 June 2023

Absolute pleasure to release The Toads debut album today! ‘In The Wilderness’ is a gleeful clatter along the knife edge of life.

The Melbourne quartet have nailed down their sound with sardonic kicks, an expansive vision and ripping absolution from existential drift. The Toads delight in the dour, yet they still pack a punch and keep the whole record beguiling, full of twists, turns and toughing it out!

The Toads’ ‘In The Wilderness’ is out now digitally and on strikingly azure 180g vinyl courtesy of Upset The Rhythm!

WATER MACHINE 7" EP

7 June 2023

Let’s make some waves!

We’re releasing Glaswegian top tetrad Water Machine’s debut 7” this summer! Lead single ‘Water Machine Pt. II’ is released today; prickly yet playful punk, equal parts water and machine! Post-Trash kindly just premiered the gothic blitz of a video featuring a spectre stalking through woodland testing their powers of dehydration. Look out!

Water Machine’s ‘Raw Liquid Power’ EP will be released on August 4th through Upset The Rhythm on transparent red vinyl, ooooh! It is now available to pre-order now.

Go see Water Machine play live!

23/06/23 - London - Studio 9294

21/07/23 - Glasgow - The Rum Shack

01/09/23 - Manchester - Fuel

05/09/23 - London - New River Studios

07/09/23 - Brighton - Pipeline

08/09/23 - Oxford - Divine Schism

09/09/23 - Sheffield - Delicious Clam

FESTIVE TIMES

26 April 2023

Here’s another stunning glimpse into Me Lost Me’s forthcoming ‘RPG’ album! We’re sharing evocative new single ‘Festive Day’ with the world this week. Folk Radio are kindly premiering the official video too featuring the sea, embroidery and some choreographed Morris in the Cotswold tradition, get ready to caper!

SO LONG SOLD OUT!

21 April 2023

Well this is shaping up into quite the Friday! We now have Normil Hawaiians’ debut double-LP ‘More Wealth Than Money’ back in stock on white vinyl! Stone cold classic! If that was already enticing enough Es’ boisterous debut album ‘Less Of Everything’ has just been re-pressed on neon yellow vinyl too. Both in stock now from our shop and bandcamp, so long sold out!

CALL ME TERRY, TODAY!

14 April 2023

Nothing beats a Terry release day! ‘Call Me Terry’ is the Australian quartet’s fourth album of DIY politico-pop. It is a knockout. We’re talking classic Terry vibes here with pressing gang vocals, wobbly synths, rolling bass & drums and tack-sharp guitar lines. Like Abba, but with way more tremolo and a scrutinising eye for the failings of power.

‘Call Me Terry’ is available now on 180g red vinyl, black vinyl and CD from all the best shops and own humble foundry here. It’s also available digitally in all the expected places.

Pick up the phone!

Call me Terry!

FANTASTIC DAY!

7 April 2023

Amid flurries of festive bunnies and growing mountains of chocolate eggs a stupendous ‘Fantasy’ EP from Es hatched today! Propulsive, questing and unfaltering to an extreme Es have swirled some glowering pop into their gothic restlessness.

‘Fantasy’ is available digitally and pressed onto a neon-blue vinyl 7” disc courtesy of Upset The Rhythm now.

The group continue their UK spree of hocktide revelry tonight too:

07/04 - JT Soar, Nottingham

08/04 - Henrykk, Manchester

09/04 - Delicious Clam, Sheffield

29/04 - The George Tavern, London (EP launch)

TERRY - 'CENTURIES'

29 March 2023

Terry’s gripping new single ‘Centuries’ is released today! Post-Trash kindly premiered the video, featuring “a masked band of blindfolded, leather-clad toadies terrorizing a guitar player” before some pay-back is served up, six-string style! ‘Centuries’ is taken from Terry’s forthcoming album ‘Call Me Terry’, out April 14th, look out!

THE TOADS - DEBUT!

15 March 2023

Toads have no teeth so have to swallow their prey alive and in one gulp, they can’t hop or ribbit like frogs and they have been known to fall from the sky like rain when “weather gets weird!”

The Toads however are an extra-ace band from Melbourne who Upset The Rhythm are working with on their debut album ‘In The Wilderness’. Navigating the dross of modern life, whilst keeping one foot in a dream is the key to their nervy post-punk scuffle. Featuring members of The Shifters, The Living Eyes and Parsnip you’d be forgiven for guessing what The Toads sound like, but their mordant step and minor-key enchantment makes for an intriguing parry.

Today we’re releasing the group’s rapid first single ‘Nationalsville’, a rollicking toe-tapper of jaunty riffage, sprightly bass bounce and drums that get the blood pumping. Singer Miles' relentless observations spool through the song stitching together a glammy rush of monotony.

‘In the Wilderness’ will be released on June 9th through Upset The Rhythm, in partnership with our friends at Anti Fade Records. A limited edition sky-blue LP is available pre-order with glee here now!

ME LOST ME - RPG

2 March 2023

We're over the moon to tell you that Upset The Rhythm is teaming up with Me Lost Me for their exquisite new album 'RPG' (out July 7th). Sharing eerie first single 'Eye Witness' today. This is one of our favourite releases that we've ever worked on, it is stunning, so beyond excited to share it with you. 'RPG' is available to pre-order now in all the usual places!

ES - 'FANTASY' EP

1 March 2023

Watch out! Prepare to be swallowed whole! Frosty London synth punks Es return today with their staggering lead single taken from their forthcoming new 7” EP titled ‘Fantasy’!

‘Fantasy’ will be released digitally and as a neon-blue 7” record on April 7th, both are available to pre-order now.

What time is it? “It’s time to let go!”

TERRY - 'GRONKS' VIDEO

28 Feb 2023

Terry forgot to forget to remember! Terry’s new single ‘Gronks’ is about opportune wealth grabs, neo-imperialism and entrenched colonialism. Twiggy Forrest, Gina Rinehart, the ghosts of Macquarie, Flinders and Cook all sailing up the Parramatta River! “Greet me from the banks you gronks”!

‘Gronks’ is taken from Terry’s forthcoming album ‘Call Me Terry’, out on April 14th through Upset The Rhythm.

JOIN THE REVOLUTION!

3 February 2023

Upset The Rhythm's 150th release is propelled out into the world today, and it's an especially sprightly and nimble affair!

Historically F*cked's new album entitled ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’ is a tour de force of improvised, rock unhingement. Out now on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some worrisome sleeve artwork this record is not mere Sedentary Rock but Blasted Basalt, Frog worshipping cave-funk, harmolodic hullabaloo-wop, a musical game of “badger in the bag”.

The Quietus hit the nail on the head this week when they said: "It sounds like an unstoppable party! Sure, one for a selective clientele, who dig Fluxus methodology and Skin Graft Records catalogue obscurities and the well-spoken goofballs of post-AMM British free music – but those people might just dance you squares under the table."

‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’ is available to buy in all the best shops and our own webstore here! Join the revolution!

CALL ME TERRY

25 January 2023

Call me Terry!

It’s been a while! Pick up the phone and tell us about your new album. The Melbourne masters of politico-pop DIY wobble return this April with their fourth album ‘Call Me Terry’. Today you can hear their new single ‘Gold Duck’ and also pre-order the album on LP (180g red and black vinyl LP versions, CD and digital too), what a world! Terry says “Gold Duck is a song about how entitlement constrains change. Words are nice. Burn the flag."

Terry is ready, are you?

'Call Me Terry' is available to pre-order now on 180g red vinyl, black vinyl, CD and digital now, check out our shop here!

SHAKE CHAIN LP

7 December 2022

Shake Chain's monolithic debut slab of an album entitled 'Snake Chain' is now flying out of UTR headquarters! All pre-orders have been already dropped off at the festooned post office. These should be in your hands later today/tomorrow. Do Santa a solid and bag him one for Rudolph now!

REVOLTING MULE PEASANTS

2 December 2022

Three cheers! We’re working with Historically Fucked on their new album entitled (wait for it…) ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’. Out in early February this record is not mere Sedentary Rock but Blasted Basalt, Frog worshipping cave-funk, harmolodic hullabaloo-wop, a musical game of “badger in the bag”.

This is Rock and/or Roll as fertilizer, uncivilised and free, as if one were to imagine what the Plastic Ono Band would’ve hit upon if they had read ‘Riddley Walker’, the sound of an entire timeline of expression put back together back-to-front, misshapen and fully irradiated. ‘The Mule Peasants’ Revolt of 12,067’ is now available to pre-order on 180g black vinyl here!

KATE STABLES & HG20

11 July 2022

Very excited to let this cat out of the bag! The wondrous Kate Stables (of... This Is The Kit) will be headlining Monday 1st August's HG20 event at MOTH Club! I know!

Also here's a 90-minute 'Hello Goodbye' Resonance FM radio special featuring yours truly talking to Dexter Bentley about our upcoming HG20 event, so many brilliant tracks aired from past sessions and the present, HG20 discussed at length too! Enjoy!

KIBITZER-N-TOUR

4 July 2022

VINTAGE CROP's stunner of a new album 'Kibitzer' is out now in all the best shops PLUS they kick off the UK-leg of their tour this evening in Bristol, see you there! Look out London on Saturday night!

DARK WORLD LPs HAVE LANDED

24 May 2022

Our long-awaited Normil Hawaiians ‘Dark World’ compilation has finally arrived back from the plant on LP, only took 14 months to press up! ‘Dark World’ collects together choice material from Normil Hawaiians’ formative early years of 1979-1981. Tagging along with the band from their peppy post-punk origins (so brilliantly debuted on ‘The Beat Goes On’) into the looser, dubbier territories that laid the foundations for the group’s landmark album ‘More Wealth Than Money’. Pre-orders flying out the door today, available to buy from all top shops soon and from our webstore now.

Crack open a Guinness! Good things come to those who wait!

THE BLOODY WAR

16 May 2022

Everyday life ain’t easy, we’re all just soldiers negotiating flak. One day though we’ll catch the train to the lake, row amongst the ducks and work out everything. Until then check out Vintage Crop’s new single ‘The Bloody War’, out today digitally and taken from the group’s forthcoming massive listen of an album called Kibitzer (out June 24th). Suit up!

NEXT SHOW - MODEL HOME

10 May 2022

Our next show is a two-day residency at Café OTO with the incredible Model Home, one month to go! DC-based experimental hiphop meets glitched noise weirding. Check it! Horacio Pollard + Gaute Granli + Robin Stewart (of Giant Swan) and Dee Byrne all performing too. See you there!

SCREENSAVER - NEW 7" OUT NOW!

29 April 2022

What luminous portent!

Today Upset The Rhythm releases Screensaver's astute-n-snappy double A-side 7" on yellow lambent vinyl. 'Clean Current' is a thrill of nervy guitar, motorik beat and echoed ennui: "This minute is eternity"! 'Repeats' is a moody sister track, a gothic post-punk stomp pushed ever onwards by a gritty sawtooth synth and ascendent vocal. Hyper-limited to just 150 copies worldwide this 7" is only available in the best of shops and from our very own mailorder.

CLEAN CURRENT

20 April 2022

Rock out in the kitchen! Here’s Screensaver’s domestic hi-five of a video for ‘Clean Current’! “ A hip-shaking certified bop” according to Post-Trash who just premiered the single-shot cavort! ‘Clean Current’ is out now digitally and next week on a yellow-fluoro 7” via Upset The Rhythm.

THE DUKE

11 April 2022

Check out Vintage Crop’s sprightly new single ‘The Duke’, a song about indecision and distraction and not so much about inheriting the duchy! Premiered today by the wonderful Raven Sings The Blues.

REPEATS OUT NOW!

8 April 2022

Screensaver’s moody post-punk stomper ‘Repeats’ is released today digitally, the flipside of their AA single with ‘Clean Current’! Led by a gritty sawtooth synth, chorus-splashed guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocals, ‘Repeats’ gleefully languishes in the repetition allotted to much of modern life.

‘Clean Current / Repeats’ will also be released by Upset The Rhythm on a fluoro-yellow 7” in the coming weeks.

HG20

6 April 2022

Hurrah! Upset The Rhythm are helping to celebrate 20 stupendous years of deXter Bentley’s Hello Goodbye radio show on Resonance FM with this three-day extravaganza at the very end of July at MOTH Club! So many brilliant artists down to play, will be a proper knees-up, plus all profits from the event will go towards Resonance FM. What’s not to like? Ta-da!

KIBITZER!

17 March 2022

Geelong’s favourite sons Vintage Crop return this summer (June 24th) with their much-anticipated fourth album, ‘Kibitzer’. ‘Kibitzer’ sees the band define their field of play, more melodic at times, still bruising, forever droll. These ten tracks of ‘snappy as elastic’ Australian punk are packed with tensile riffage, hefty beats and witty refrains of everyman curiosity.

Today we’re sharing Double Slants with you, Vintage Crop’s first single from the ‘Kibitzer’. We’re also announcing that our pre-order for the album on sky-blue vinyl, black vinyl and CD is now up and running.

Dinked have kindly nurtured a lavish limited version of the LP on white vinyl with accompanying lyric zine, bookmark and live show flexi-disc! That can be chased down here.

CLEAN CURRENT

14 March 2022

Thanks Raven Sings The Blues! Screensaver’s neon flicker of AA single is announced today! Super limited quantities (150 copies) of these being made so well worth getting your pre-order on!

“Melbourne’s Screensaver follow quickly on their excellent album Expressions of Interest with a new single and the first cut out of the gate sees them sliding away from the darker corners of their debut and into a slackened, neon flicker of synth pop with a pogo pulse. With a crooked smile and a foaming wave of keys, the band cross-wires the maximalist sonic assault of Snapper with the nervy pounce of The Units or Starter.”

TAKE CONTROL OF IT

19 January 2022

Get your ostrich bop on with this wondrously odd new vignette from Robert Sotelo. 'Take Contol Of It' is taken from the album 'Celebrant', out now on Upset The Rhythm.

BERLIN TONIGHT!

15 January 2022

Lou & Iggy are given the inimitable Frobos treatment with today’s surprise digital single! ‘Berlin’ b/w ‘Tonight’ performed by Philip Frobos (Omni) featuring Greenscreen and Grace Bellury! Available now on all digital platforms, enjoy!

NICFIT OUT NOW!

14 January 2022

Kick, kick, kickstart 2022 with Nicfit’s wild debut album ‘Fuse’, out today on Upset The Rhythm!

Nicfit are a punk band from Nagoya, Japan. Comprising Hiromi on vocals, Charley on guitar, KenKen on bass and Kuwayama on drums the group are by turns melodic and menacing. Nicfit are a nervous itch, incessantly flipping between head-down tumbles of hardcore bounce and freaked feedback clamour. Boasting some total life-affirming trample packed with snappy vocals, metallic spikes and glammy undercurrents that soar out of the sprawl.

‘Fuse’ is available now digitally and in all the best records shops on 180g black vinyl, we also have copies of the LP in our webshop, yeh!

YULETIDE THANKS

12 December 2021

Seasons Felicitations! Upset The Rhythm turns 18 years old today and to celebrate with suitable festive panache we’re offering you all 18% off our entire catalogue for the next 18 days. Just use the code UTR18 at the checkout of our UTR webshop.

XMAS = SORTED

2021 saw Upset The Rhythm release an astounding armful of 9 records by Buffet Lunch, Screensaver, Philip Frobos, Robert Sotelo, Kaputt, Bertie Marshall, Clear History and Normil Hawaiians! We could not be prouder of these essential outpourings of underground culture. Thanks so much for all your kindness and support in making our record label and concerts possible this year, you put the baubles on our tree!

May merriment abound and all your Christmases be happy and healthy, UTR x

NICFIT - 'DEVIATION'

10 December 2021

Japanese group Nicfit have a restive (and decidedly not festive) new single out now called ‘Deviation’! Here’s the brilliantly tensile video. ‘Deviation’ is also streaming on all the usual digi-platz and features on the band’s debut LP ‘Fuse’, out Jan 14th through Upset The Rhythm.

KAPUTT - 'GONE WEST'

22 November 2021

Glasgow post-punks Kaputt return today with an early taste of their new album in the form of surprise digital single ‘Gone West’! A restless riot of sax breaks, fidgeting drums and guitar riffage that continually swims against the tide. Cal from Kaputt shared that “Gone West is about the migration of affluence, when industry clashed with the living standards of the wealthy. The smoke blows East, so the money moves West.” Such choice lyrical concerns and their pointed address are set off against ‘Gone West’s needling impulse to dance its way into your brain. ‘Gone West’ is just the tip of the iceberg though, Kaputt’s new album looks set to sink us all!

Kaputt will be going on tour this week check out our tour page for full info including their spell of dates with Squid in January.

EXHIBIT ON LP

21 November 2021

Best news! Bertie Marshall's stunning album 'Exhibit' is now available on vinyl! Available through all the best shops and our very own webstore too.

NICFIT - FUSE

19 November 2021

Announcing Nicfit's gleeful nervous itch of a debut album 'Fuse' today! Thanks to Post-Trash for sharing the group's first single. Nicfit are from Nagoya, Japan and flip between head-down tumbles of hardcore bounce and freaked feedback clamber. Debut LP 'Fuse' is released on UTR on Jan 14th. Available to pre-order now.

CELEBRANT OUT NOW

12 November 2021

Q. Who’s the man behind the mask?

A. Robert Sotelo!

Q. Did you know his incredible new album of pristine DIY pop 'Celebrant’ is released digitally today?

A. Now I do! I heard there’s a vinyl version coming in the next few weeks too!

Q. Shall we celebrate with this video for ‘The Currency is Love’?

A. You bet!

BERTIE ON RESONANCE FM

8 November 2021

Lovely in-depth chat with the inimitable Bertie Marshall featured in this Hello Goodbye special for Resonance FM, many tracks from ‘Exhibit’ featured and even a live bootleg from our Cafe OTO launch party too!

THE CHEEK OF IT

5 November 2021

This ones a grower! Here’s Buffet Lunch’s amazing vid for ‘Cheeks’, thanks to Joshua Roland for making it! It features not only claustrophobia but hummus too, enjoy! Buffet Lunch’s new 7” ‘Cheeks / Mild Weather’ is due on vinyl in the next week or two!

'DEAR RESIDENT'

27 October 2021

Follow the signs! ‘Dear Resident’ by Robert Sotelo is released today as a digital single. “We shall be together, somewhere out of time”. ‘Dear Resident’ appears on the forthcoming album ‘Celebrant’, out Nov 12th on Upset The Rhythm.

NEW RELEASES

25 October 2021

We have a total haul of new releases out now on Upset The Rhythm. Our first is Philip Frobos' delectably immersive book and official soundtrack to the novel on LP, entitled 'Vague Enough to Satisfy'.

Our second release of the week is a fantastic early-days (79-81) collection from Normil Hawaiians called 'Dark World'. 'Dark World' is out now digitally and on CD. An LP version is expected soon.

Our third new addition to the webshop takes the form of Screensaver's 'Expressions of Interest' LP, trapped in 180g heavy black vinyl and hellbent on turning your mind ablaze with its moody synth punk moves. Wonderful to have this record in stock finally.

'BUY / SELL / TRADE'

22 October 2021

Huge thanks to Raven Sings The Blues for premiering Screensaver's brand new (and immediately vintage) video for 'Buy/Sell/Trade'.

"Melbourne's Screensaver serve up a new video reveling in VHS psychedelics & a UHF chyron clutter. With a heavy beatdown of electronic drums & nodding synth swirl that move in motorik motion, the band’s “Buy/Sell/Trade” is synth-punk bliss!"

Screensaver's debut album 'Expressions of Interest' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.

'AUTHORESS' - BERTIE MARSHALL

20 October 2021

Everything looks better in the rain!

Here’s Bertie Marshall’s new single ‘Authoress’ (1990), taken from his debut album ‘Exhibit’ out next week. Bertie is playing at Cafe OTO on Saturday 30th October too, with Simon & Noel from Normil Hawaiians in his group. See you there!

MILD WEATHER FOR A BUFFET LUNCH

7 October 2021

Lo! Buffet Lunch return this November with a stonking new 7” single on Upset The Rhythm entitled ‘Cheeks / Mild Weather’. 'Mild Weather' was just premiered this afternoon + features Me Lost Me guesting to perfection on vocals too, what a world!

Thank you Raven Sings The Blues for premiering the video! Fans of the road network on the Isle of Mull are really treated to something special with the video.Buckle up!

‘Cheeks / Mild Weather’ is available to pre-order now, alongside much other glorious UTR produkt.

WE'RE BACK BABY!

27 August 2021

Hello everyone! Upset The Rhythm returns with our first London live concert in 16 months next week. We’re beyond excited! Next level of next level. On Thursday 2nd September we will be holding court at The 100 Club with truly the very best company: Trash Kit, Es and No Home.

Seems somewhat surreal and infinitely exhilarating at the same time. Trash Kit will be bringing their 110% polyrhythmic joy to help kick off our renewed live programme, accompanied by their fierce choir and bonus violinist too. It’s a total trip to invite Es to play too for the first time since we released their debut album last year and with No Home opening the show we’re in for the mightiest of treats, lucky us!

VACANT STREET

18 August 2021

Get busy!

Here’s ‘Vacant Street’, the second single from Philip Frobos’ forthcoming debut LP and novel ‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’! Released as digital single today, alongside ‘My Funny Valentine’ as the b-side, ‘Vacant Street’ is a fizzy trip of ‘Whammy’-era B52s groove, hooky basslines and enough muted meanderings to make you wanna join Philip in a sprightly skinny dip. Baker Street!

‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’ is released by Upset The Rhythm on LP, and published by Hex Enduction in novel form on October 1st. Look out!

EXPRESSIONS OF... SCREENSAVER

9 August 2021

Pulsate with ‘No Movement’, the dystopian first single from screensaver’s debut album ‘Expressions of Interest’ out on October 8th! Thrilled to be working with these Australian 'on point' post-punks and Heavy Machinery on this most gloriously brooding album of albums!

'Expressions of Interest' is available to pre-order now hither

CLEAR HISTORY

4 August 2021

What’s this? Another new release from up our busy sleeve! 'Solar Death Ray' is the debut single from Berlin group Clear History, a scorching post-punk trio intent on bringing a matchbox to the dancefloor. "Light a match and watch it drop, burn it down" they sing on this pulse-quickening single, which sounds equal parts Kleenex, Gang of Four and ESG.

'Solar Death Ray' is taken from the band's debut EP 'bad advice good people' out November 5th on Upset The Rhythm. Thanks to Ears To Feed for premiering the ‘Solar Death Ray’ video!

BERTIE MARSHALL - 'EXHIBIT'

28 July 2021

Make an exhibition of yourself! Bertie Marshall is best known as a punk memoirist, his book ‘Berlin Bromley’ is celebrated as an insider’s take on the lurid origins of punk. Bertie wasn’t just a face on the scene though, he also made music. Uncanny, mesmerising, affirming music!

From 1980-83, Bertie was the frontman for post-punk boundary-pushers Behaviour Red - they released one single, did a mini-tour and promptly broke up. Their sound was characterised by experimentation and drama, boasting at times tribal drumming, searing vocals, dazed guitars and feedback. Bertie continued sketching out atmospheric compositions afterwards too, walking a tightrope between bewildered pop and gothic folk. Central to everything is Bertie’s commanding voice; heartfelt, at times strident, always truthful.

This Halloween, Upset The Rhythm will release the fruits of Bertie Marshall's resolute labour. Entitled 'Exhibit', this debut album gathers Bertie’s exuberant songs together for the first time. ‘Exhibit’ will be released on limited 180g black vinyl, CD and digitally too. Today we’re releasing the single ‘Shaking Johnny’ to whet your appetite!

RATTLE - PERFECT SOUNDS

23 July 2021

James Acaster invited Isy Suttie onto his Perfect Sounds show to discuss Rattle's "totally engulfing" debut album 'Rattle'. Find out how "drumming is like snowboarding" and how Rattle made a "refreshing change" of an album by "serving their songs first by using percussion as a voice". Total proof that 2016 was the greatest year for music ever!

VAGUE ENOUGH TO SATISFY

21 July 2021

Send those parcels flying! Today we’re sharing the exciting news that Philip Frobos will release his debut solo album ‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’ with Upset The Rhythm on October 1st. This exquisite, lounge-inspired punk album acts as an original soundtrack to his debut novel of the same name (published by Hex Enduction Books).

‘No Packages Today’ is the sprightly first single from the album, proceeding with a hooky bassline, the cryptic sort that Frobos is known for as a member of Atlanta post-punks Omni. Sounding like the Au Pairs and Suicide refining an obsession with Bowie’s ‘Lodger’, Frobos opines “I’m afraid that you need more than I can offer”, bedecked by shuffling beats and burgeoning waves of saxophone. Here’s the full video, we promise to treat all pre-orders (including those bundled with the book) a lot better than Philip would seemingly!

‘Vague Enough to Satisfy’ is available or order now from our webshop.

DARK WORLD COMING!

13 July 2021

Best news! This September we’re releasing ‘Dark World’ by Normil Hawaiians, a compilation documenting the group’s formative years of 79-81. Covering acres of ground from peppy post-punk origins into the progressively wayward, dubbier territories, ‘Dark World’ gathers the group’s energetic 7” singles on Dining Out and Illuminated Records, their metamorphic ‘Gala Failed’ EP (Red Rhino) and a lively last-minute Peel session from 1980, alongside outtakes, rarities and demos.

‘Dark World’ is a snapshot of Normil Hawaiians in flux, finding their feet, stretching their limbs. These 22 tracks display all the glittering debris from their magpie’s nest of sound. Emergent, hopeful and resistant in both music and ethic.

Upset The Rhythm will release ‘Dark World’ on LP, CD and digitally on September 24th. It is available to pre-order in our webshop as of… now!

NEW UTR SHIRT & BADGES

12 July 2021

Our brand new 'Tools of the Trade' Upset The Rhythm t-shirt and 'Foggy eye / Foggy moon' badges are now available to purchase in our webshop, oooooooh!

ONWARDS & UPWARDS

14 May 2021

Today we jubilantly release Kaputt's 'Movement Now' / 'Another War Talk' EP. The Scottish six-piece have always dazzled us, zipping up their songs with a dizzy vim, lyrical punch and their own particular fidgety finesse but on this record they sound nigh thunderous. Framed by demands for much-needed change both tracks on this new record topple you headfirst into their serpentine tumult of sound.

'Movement Now' / 'Another War Talk' takes up its rightful place, front and centre of all the best record shops, as of today. It is available to stream through usual channels, whilst the brightly spinning blue 7" can also be sourced from own webshop here!

RELEASING THE POWER OF ROCKS

7 May 2021

Did you know there are eleven differently flavoured songs to choose from the Buffet Lunch? Blow the dust off that large plate and form an orderly queue because the Scots magpie-minded post-punks release their debut album on Upset The Rhythm today! Buffet Lunch line their nests with only the finest skittish riffage, poignant tangents and leaping absurdity. 'The Power of Rocks' is the glorious upshot, a goliath of wonky pop, frolicking in the melodic landslide of our dormant cerebella.

Available now on orange vinyl and digitally, 'The Power of Rocks' brims with nervy energy throughout its peculiar patchwork. These songs are gleefully led by a giddy compass but they also own their fair share of emotional heft at times too. 'The Power of Rocks' can be found looming in all the best record shops now and also in our very own webshop here.

DISCO SEAWEED

20 April 2020

Buffet Lunch unveil their new video for 'Bladderwrack', swimming and singing among the seaweed lapping the casio coast! Premiered today kindly by the brilliant Beats Per Minute. 'Bladderwrack' appears on Buffet Lunch's imminent debut album 'The Power of Rocks', out May 7th.

BERNIE SAID LISTEN!

26 March 2020

Listen to me, listen to me! Buffet Lunch return with another new single from their forthcoming 'The Power of Rocks' album, here's 'Said Bernie' premiered today on the excellent Ears To Feed!

GET YOUR MOVE ON!

24 March 2020

We're releasing a new 7” EP by Glasgow group Kaputt this May! High-tempo, bright, danceable pop hooks and technical, polyphonic rhythms abound. 'Movement Now' is available now on all streaming platforms and captured wondrously in this eye-popping video by Tash Lizak!

BEHAVIOUR RED

22 March 2021

Joy of joys! Happy to declare Upset The Rhythm will be working with the inimitable Bertie Marshall on a compilation later this autumn entitled 'Exhibit'. This will gather together the jewels & gems of his Behaviour Red project over the years. A brand new interview with Bertie just appeared in GQ mentioning the release and his forthcoming memoir too .

I'D PEBBLEDASH THAT!

3 March 2021

Get ready to dance to your favourite derogatory demographics! Here's Buffet Lunch's befuddlingly brilliant video for 'Pebbledash', out now digitally and taken from their scorching debut album 'The Power of Rocks', released May 7th through Upset The Rhythm.

THE POWER OF ROCKS

27 January 2020

Power up! Our first new release of 2021 will be a debut album of odd-pop from Scottish group Buffet Lunch! Punchy, often thoughtful and pleasingly surreal at times 'The Power of Rocks' is an album filled with imagery and humour, packed with zestful tunes and lyrical weight too. Buffet Lunch's songs are vigorous excursions, meandering into clattersome terrain as often as hiking up into the breezy, melodious foothills. The desire to lead the listener along on a curious tale helps tie things together. This is a debut LP of wide-ranging and personal themes, from irritation with out of touch politicians, to love letters to seaside living, to even the frailty and confusion of old age. No stone left unturned, if you pardon the pun. 'Red Apple Happiness' is the first single taken from the album, it's befuddlingly magnificent video (made by Iain McCall) just premiered on For The Rabbits.

'The Power of Rocks' is available to pre-order now through our online shop on limited 180g orange vinyl!

XMAS COMP

21 December 2020

The winner of our Xmas competition is Andrew Wilson for this sterling UTR pun-marathon year review (see below)! Honourable mentions to Saunativity Youth, Terry Christmas Everybody and Trash Kit’s a Wonderful Life, you lot are TOO FUNNY! Thank you to everyone for taking part! UTR x

"YIKES, well that all went T.I.T.S. up. THE WORLD in lockdown and MONOTONY has meant that all plans have gone KAPUTT. Nothing much to do other than to MUNCH MUNCH on lockdown snacks and dream of FUTURE ISLAND travels. There have been NO lockdown BABIES to report on although my NAKED ROOMMATE did end up with a SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS - less said the better! At least Upset the Rhythm have kept us entertained with a VINTAGE CROP of new bands and music. So, as we reach this festive time PLEASE remember your HYGIENE, don't feed the DOG CHOCOLATE, put on your festive GOWNS and HALO HALOs and head to CLECKHUDDERSFAX you LUCKY DRAGONS! Have a good Christmas, and a better music filled 2021!"

BBC 6MUSIC ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

15 December 2020

The wondrous Steve Lamacq has chosen Vintage Crop's scorcher of an album 'Serve To Serve Again' as his favourite album of the year for BBC Radio 6 Music's end of year list. THANK you! Tracks from the album will be featured all day today on 6 music!

THIS YEAR

1 December 2020

Well, 2020 had its challenges, but somehow in the midst of it all Upset The Rhythm still managed to release 8 records this year! We are immeasurably proud to have eased some of the tedium/stress of 2020 with incredible new music from Handle, Es, Primo!, Vintage Crop, Naked Roommate, Normil Hawaiians, Sleeper & Snake and The Green Child! We wanted to thank you all so much for supporting us as a label throughout the year, it really has meant the world to us. Bring on 2021 when we hopefully can turn on the live music tap again too. All the best with the increasing merriment!

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WATCH THIS VIDEO, REPEAT!

13 November 2020

Here's the trippy fx-laden video for Naked Roommate's acutely poignant ‘Repeat’! All the colours of the disco-rainbow, handclaps aplenty and a bathtub full of sliver tinsel! Thank you Oceans of Phantasy.

‘Repeat’ is taken from Naked Roommate’s debut album ‘Do The Duvet’ out now on Upset The Rhythm.

HELLO SHIMMERING BASSET!

30 October 2020

The Green Child's arresting new record 'Shimmering Basset' is released today on Upset The Rhythm! We’ve pressed this elegant album of electronic invention and 'daydreams in a new home' up as a special eco-minded edition: recycled card for the sleeve and inserts, natural dyes, compostible outer-sleeve and reclaimed 180g vinyl too, as green as it gets for The Green Child.

The Green Child have really climbed a ladder with 'Shimmering Basset', delivering a robust album of compelling melody, expanded vision and melancholic grandeur. These are songs that fully inhabit themselves, unfurling into a redolent dreamscape, subtly handled with poise and finesse. For our last UTR release of 2020 we’re going out on a high!

FRESCO SHED OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

23 October 2020

Sleeper & Snake invite you through the door of their ‘Fresco Shed’! Upset The Rhythm released the Melbourne duo’s new album today on popping blue vinyl and a sturdy black version too. Homespun vignettes of warbled keyboards, fizzed improv interludes, shifting layers of skewed harmony and wistful yet pointed lyrical pep is their measure. There’s a delicacy at play here too with cello, harmonica and even sarangi being employed in the foundation of these frothy concoctions of outsider folk and post punk hodgepodge.

Available to stream everywhere now + buy from all the best shops and our webstore!

SOHO RADIO SPECIAL

10 October 2020

Hold on to your party hats! Upset The Rhythm has a Soho Radio special available for your ears. Lots of crucial tracks from the past/present/future, plus insightful chat with Sleeper & Snake about Tudor buildings and Guy Smith from Normil Hawaiians on performing in Switzerland in the 80s. Also, we have The Green Child booked in to discuss extreme horticulture and their fave band Hot Chocolate, whilst Naked Roommate just do their own loopy dada cut and paste interview thing! Listen up!

DOUBLE LINES

7 October 2020

The 'Double Lines' video from The Green Child has just been unveiled courtesy of Brooklyn Vegan! 'Double Lines' is the dreamlike closing track from the Australian band's forthcoming second album 'Shimmering Basset', out this month on Upset the Rhythm!

LIVE FROM THE FRESCO SHED

6 October 2020

Sleeper & Snake treat us to a new video today, recorded live in lockdown from the Fresco Shed, here's 'Shoot Through'! The trains were filmed between Richmond and Flinders Street stations and the layering fx in the video were inspired by those gracing the Granada TV footage of Joy Division performing Shadowplay in 1978. 'Shoot Through' is taken from the band's forthcoming 'Fresco Shed' album, out soon on Upset The Rhythm.

THE GREEN CHILD IN THE 'FASHION LIGHT'

17 September 2020

Thanks to Gorilla Vs Bear for helping us announce The Green Child's new single 'Fashion Light'! Available to stream everywhere now, taken from the avant-pop duo's incredible, forthcoming ‘Shimmering Basset’ album, out in October.

IN THE STONE 7"

11 September 2020

What a day! The first new music from Normil Hawaiians for 35 years has arrived in the form of a 7". Today we released 'In The Stone / Where Is Living?', the fruitful upshot of a recording session in a windswept, coastal house on the Kintyre peninsula.

'In The Stone' is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by place, meaning and recurrent memory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside 'Where is Living?' is a decidedly more diaphanous affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged. Progressive, wordly and imbued with a cosmic uncanny this pair of songs is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future.

Available as a limited edition 7" from all the best shops and our webstore here

DO THE DUVET

4 September 2020

Naked Roommate's knockout of a debut album is released today! 'Do The Duvet', reminds us of Vivien Goldman meets Liquid Liquid, with some frazzled electronics worthy of Vanity Records thrown in for good measure.

The quartet from Oakland, California are time capsule brilliant, with the album sounding like it was unearthed from a biscuit tin planted in the ground circa 1981, boasting just the right amount of water-damage warble. 'Do the Duvet' sparks with originality though, whipping up twitchy, congealed grooves for Amber Sermeno's vocal to ride high atop, making for an alluring yet switchblade-dangerous performance in terms of wit and gaze. Available in all the best shops and our webstore here too

THE GREEN CHILD RETURNS

27 August 2020

Spectral pop o'clock! The Green Child return with an epic new album in October called 'Shimmering Basset'. The Green Child is the once long-distance, now based in the same house recording project of Raven Mahon (furniture maker and former member of Grass Widow) and Mikey Young (recording engineer and band member of Total Control, Eddy Current Suppression Ring). The band's self-titled album was a highlight of 2018 for us!

Here's the video for first single 'Low Desk : High Shelf' a classy slice of avant pop with Mikey’s synths criss-crossing through the straight-up beat, allowing Raven’s collected vocal to stitch its haunted path: “see the face and feel your body sway, in voluntary walk, intoxicating view, take it home, a photograph, a file final form, a token for the shelf or wait…”

Special thanks to Raven Sings The Blues for premiering the single, now available of all digital platforms. ‘Shimmering Basset’ is available to pre-order now in our webshop as a special eco-minded edition of the LP.

THE NEW NORMIL

17 August 2020

We're ecstatic to share with you today the news that Normil Hawaiians will be releasing their first new music since 1985 with Upset The Rhythm next month. Choosing the form of a 7" in which to appear, September 11th will witness the release of 'In The Stone / Where Is Living?'. The band encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland to set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling. The resultant 'In The Stone' 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future.

FUTURE ISLANDS - LIVE STREAM!

12 August 2020

In the twelve years since we shared Future Islands' magnificent debut album with the world, the Baltimore lords of synth pop have grown into one of the most successful acts out there, icons of indie no less. Back at the start of 2020 we were working on our largest concert to date for Future Islands in London, but then the pandemic came along with other ideas, so this October 9th (8pm British Summer Time) we're supporting Future Islands launch their new album 'As Long As You Are' (4AD) with a special livestream one-off performance from their hometown. This will be the band's only show of 2020 and your only chance to see the band on stage this year playing tracks from the new record alongside that back catalogue of classic epics. Tickets available here.

VINTAGE CROP OUT NOW!

7 August 2020

What a day! Serious congrats to Vintage Crop on their new album 'Serve To Serve Again'! Out today on Upset The Rhythm. Totemic bruisers of songs, fervent, rangy at times yet always assured in their intent to make sense of futility, criticise the chain of command and question privilege. A total long-legged leap for Vintage Crop into the delirious now, jump in!

SLEEPER & SNAKE RELEASE!

28 July 2020

Here's the catchiest song about corrupt, deregulated housing development you'll hear all year! Sleeper & Snake unveil their first single 'Flats Falling'! Sleeper & Snake are Amy Hill and Al Montfort, staunch champions of the Aus-underground, writing homespun, mordant watercolour pop. Warbled keys, fizzy sax interludes and pointed lyrical pep all at hand.

'Flats Falling' is a crystalline assembly of cello, drum machine and plucky bass which freewheels around, curlicues of sax sparking off amid the duo's matter-of fact vocal parade: "Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer. The place has a curse."

Forthcoming album 'Fresco Shed' is out on Sept 25th, a total triumph of substance over style from an endlessly creative duo determined on surprising all (themselves included) with each new song. Pre-order up now, including a highly limited baby-blue vinyl option.

VINTAGE CROP - THE NORTH

16 July 2020

Vintage Crop share their chilly vision of 'The North' here in this brand new vid! Try and get this icy blast of an anthem out of your head I dare you.

Thanks to Post-Trash for premiering the single. Vintage Crop's forthcoming belter of an LP, 'Serve To Serve Again', is out August 7th through Upset The Rhythm, enjoy!

ES GET SEVERED

9 July 2020

ES' new video 'Severed' just premiered on Post-Trash: "a quarantine video done right, full of kitchen, garden, and shower performances that are defiantly goofy but as deadpan as can be"! Now is the time to learn to drum using utensils! 'Severed' is taken from Es' phantastic debut album 'Less Of Everything', out now aptly, Nostradamus much?

NAKED ROOMMATE RECORD

25 June 2020

Roll on September 4th! We’ll be releasing ‘Do The Duvet’, the debut album from Naked Roommate. The Oakland quartet evoke the playful spirit of Vivien Goldman, Vanity Records and Liquid Liquid, whilst sparking with originality, all frazzled beats, devolved guitar work and minced electronic compost. The resultant congealed grooves are heaven-sent concoctions for Amber Sermeńo’s vocal to ride high atop, making for an alluring yet switchblade-dangerous performance in terms of wit and gaze.

Take a listen to wondrous first single 'Mad Love’. All proceeds from the track (this month and next) will be donated between People’s Breakfast Oakland and the Anti Police-Terror Project FYI.

‘Do The Duvet’ is available to pre-order on lemon-yellow vinyl now! Our friends at Trouble in Mind are releasing a version in the US too.

VINTAGE CROP SERVED UP

11 June 2020

Look out August 7th! We'll be releasing 'Serve To Serve Again' by Vintage Crop! A crusher of an album from the Geelong Aus-punks, their full-pelt bounce tempered with flailing guitar lines and sardonic commentary.

Have a listen to first track 'Gridlock' now, a timely nod to frustration - “the hustle and bustle of inner-city traffic is driving me nuts because the radios on static”. The most vigorous, glorious racket imaginable!

Available to pre-order on 180g white vinyl now.

A DAY FOR PRIMO!

17 April 2020

I hope you’re holding up OK with lockdown, at least the sun is shining, even though it appears to be still off down a tunnel. Something to cheer the spirits here though, today we’re releasing a new album entitled ‘Sogni’ by Melbourne quartet Primo! Primo! make music that explores the boundaries of everyday life with unruffled levity, tilted grace and a dose of grit, serving up insightful yet terse chorus and verse. Their glorious songs shift from unwound post-punk to rubber legged pop takes, chiming reflections to upbeat jangle.

‘Sogni’ by Primo! is available now digitally, it’s also obtainable on limited orange or black 180g vinyl, accompanied by an artful lyric insert too. ‘Sogni’ can be ordered online from all the best shops and of course from our very own webshop!

ES RELEASED

3 April 2020

We’re proudly releasing Es’ debut album ‘Less Of Everything’ today into this vastly different world, arguably experiencing less of everything! Es are a strident London quartet who have coined an uncanny sound over these last few years. Focused, tense and commanding, Es’ take on icy DIY punk creeps with gothic influence and nuanced intensity and this debut album proves eager to disrupt all sense of complacency.

‘Less Of Everything’ is available around the globe now digitally, it’s also available on transparent 180g vinyl, accompanied by a superb risographed insert too. This strikingly eldritch LP is available now to order online from our very own webshop here, fill your boots! More in our latest newsletter too!

MACHINE, MACHINE, MACHINE!

23 March 2020

PRIMO! put in some serious elbow grease with their new video for 'Machine'! Premiered by The Line Of Best Fit, 'Machine' is taken from the Melbourne band's forthcoming album 'Sogni' out April 17th!

NATION OF WEBSHOP-KEEPERS

20 March 2020

Whilst our live events are temporarily up in the air due to COVID-19, I'm happy to say that our webshop is still very much open for business. We have pre-order links up for forthcoming albums from Es and Primo! Both increds! Plus recent releases in stock now from Handle, Kaputt and Robert Sotelo, not to mention over 100 excellent back catalogue titles too. Hit our virtual crates and we’ll send you some vital sparks of life through the mail!

HANDLE - 'IN THREES' OUT NOW

6 March 2020

Handle’s next-level incredible debut album ‘In Threes’ is released today on LP, CD and digitally! ‘In Threes’ is an exercise in twisting post-punk into a wound-up spring. This is kinetic, instinctual future music of the highest degree! Elastic bass, an all-consuming dance riot of drums and percussion and an impressionistic lyrical flow that bobs and weaves throughout.

Available now from Upset The Rhythm & our friends Maternal Voice too! Listen to ‘Step By Step’ premiered by God Is In The TV.

HANDLE - 'RUBBER NECKS' PREMIERED

26 February 2020

"Handle are pushing at the boundaries of accessibility with 'Rubber Necks,' creating deranged punk that is essentially pop at heart, and yet world’s away from anything we'd classify as such. It’s brilliant!" New track premiered by Post-Trash! Debut album 'In Threes' is out March 6th on LP, CD and digitally.

PRIMO - 'SOGNI' ANNOUNCED

14 February 2020

Primo's incredible second album of breezy and terse, chorus and verse 'Sogni' is truly dreamy ('Sognante')! LP release announced for April 17th, new track 'Best & Fairest' shared by the awesome folks at Raven Sings The Blues Available to pre-order (including a special orange limited vinyl version) in our webshop as of... now!

ES - 'LESS OF EVERYTHING'

6 February 2020

Joy of joys, Es’ debut album ‘Less Of Everything’ will be released through Upset The Rhythm on April 3rd! The London quartet have coined an uncanny sound, sort of an icy DIY punk creeping with gothic influence and nuanced intensity. ‘Less of Everything’ revels in pointed anarcho tension and sub-zero twists of almost aquatic melody, its wondrously impactful and eldritch in equal measure. Check out the video for lead track ‘Chemical’ now, premiered by God Is In The TV!

‘Less Of Everything’ is available to pre-order in our shop now.

TRASH KIT ON TOUR

22 January 2020

Trash Kit are heading out on a European tour this Feb! You know where to be! Look out London, Feb 14th at The Lexington with Handle! x

HANDLE - 'IN THREES'

14 December 2019

Time for some good news then! Our first release of 2020 will be Handle's debut album 'In Threes'! Incorporating a diverse range of influences, from samba to no wave, Handle, a three-piece from Manchester make a uniquely minimal sound, buoyed by a startling poetic tenacity. Handle are made up of Giulio Erasmus and Nirvana Heire (former members of D.U.D.S) and Leo Hermitt, a genderqueer multidisciplinary artist. With this project they've trained their focus on looping, hypnotic synth lines, clangorous percussion and expeditious vocals that cordially sprint. 'In Threes' will be released on LP/CD and digitally through Upset The Rhythm and Maternal Voice on March 6th. Check this! 'Punctured Time' just premiered by Brooklyn Vegan!

ILM AND FUTURE ISLANDS 7"S

25 November 2019

Upset The Rhythm are heading to Coal Drops Yard this Saturday (Nov 30th) for the Independent Label Market's annual winter market. Join us from 11am until 6.30pm for some amazing Xmas deals, some UTR back catalogue rarities, all our new releases from Kaputt, Robert Sotelo, Lunch Lady, Normil Hawaiians, Trash Kit, Terry, Bamboo and Hygiene too! Plus we'll have some long out of print Future Islands 7" back in stock on very limited coloured vinyl repress!

'DAUGHTERS OF THE SKY' SINGLE

15 November 2019

OK, let's soundtrack your weekend! Hot from their UK tour BAMBOO release a brand new digital single through Upset The Rhythm today. Their new single 'Daughters Of The Sky' astounds with its affecting synth-pop swirl. The title track from their recent album on UTR, this single is accompanied by a earth-shifting Emma Gatrill remix and exclusive live track too, available to listen to on all digital platforms now, check it out, volume up!

ROBERT ON THE RUN

7 November 2019

Robert Sotelo's energetic race of a 'Run' video just premiered on For The Rabbits! 'Run' is taken from his new album 'Infinite Sprawling' out now on Upset The Rhythm. On tour next week too:

14/11 - Nottingham, UK @ JT Soar

15/11 - London, UK @ New River Studios

16/11 - Oxford, UK @ Deaf & Hard of Hearing Centre

17/11 - Bristol, UK @ The Lanes

DISCO IN CHURCH

23 October 2019

Check out this extraordinary video of Rattle performing 'Disco' at x-church in Gainsborough! Thank you Orange 'Ear for recording this!

KAPUTT OUT TODAY!

27 September 2019

Today we release Kaputt's energetic corkscrew of a debut album 'Carnage Hall' in all its feverish, intuitive glory! Hailing from Glasgow, Kaputt race away with the playful torn edge of no-wave song, blurting out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat.

There's a riot of fun at play in Kaputt's febrile racket, but there's also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too. 'Carnage Hall' is available on 180g vinyl in all good shops and from our webstore now!

BAMBOO VIDEO!

17 September 2019

Here's a first glimpse of the highly visually rewarding 'A World Is Born' video, up now on 20 Jazz Funk Greats! What a SONG!

TOUR DATES too:

Oct 5th - London, Servant Jazz Quarters

Nov 7th - London, EartH

Nov 8th - Northampton, The Garibaldi Hotel

Nov 9th - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, venue TBC

Nov 10th - Edinburgh, Henry's Cellar

Nov 11th - Manchester, Gullivers

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INFINITE SPRAWLING OUT NOW!

13 September 2019

Fantastic news! Today Upset The Rhythm releases 'Infinite Sprawling', Robert Sotelo's staggering new album! Sotelo is a cosmic pop melodist, a heartfelt multi-instrumentalist whose direct songs are curiously affecting and this third album from him really sets the songwriting bar high before vaulting clean over it! 'Infinite Sprawling' is available now digitally and on heavyweight dark-green vinyl from all good shops, including our webshop!

ROBERT SOTELO VIDEOS X2!

9 September 2019

Glasgow-based cosmic pop melodist Robert Sotelo has just had two new singles go live recently from his extraordinary 'Infinite Sprawling' album, out on Friday! The title track video just premiered on Clash: "a blistering slice of outsider songcraft with a vivid extra-dimensional pop element", whilst Raven Sings The Blues were kind enough to host his brand new 'Mister' video: "a fuzz-beset pop-skimmer, slinging twang and jangle equally!" Enjoy!

LUNCH LADY'S ANGEL RELEASED

23 August 2019

What a morning! Today we found a feather on the floor and released 'Angel' by Lunch Lady, a staggering debut album drawing on post-punk, kitsch and country balladry narratives to devastating effect! Available on LP (red vinyl and black vinyl versions), CD and digitally today through Upset The Rhythm, 'Angel' can be found in all the best stores as of now and from our very own website hither.

LUNCH LADY - SWEET ONE

2 August 2019

An angelic new video for Lunch Lady's second single 'Sweet One' just premiered on Post-Trash! "Sweet One is an intricately coiled slow burner that lurks in the shadows while retaining an unflinching shimmer."

Fully agreed! x

KAPUTT ARRIVE AT CARNAGE HALL

29 July 2019

KAPUTT are a recently hatched post punk act from Glasgow, Scotland. Racing away from the playful torn edge of no-wave song, Kaputt blurt out tracks with twitchy charisma, their catchy riffs circle with relish, allowing timely sax stonks and stop-start rhythms to drive things on. Vocals leap, guitars bluster and always the saxophone snakes, hypnotically drawn through the erratic beat. There's a riot of fun at play in their febrile racket, but there's also some deeply cerebral grooves and choice lyrical concerns evident too.

The songs on 'Carnage Hall', Kaputt's debut album released by Upset The Rhythm this September, were influenced by the maelstrom of political hypocrisy and confusion in the air, the offbeat happenchance of life in 2019, notions of surveillance, identity (personal as well as the biscuit-tin styled persona of the Scottish Highlands), industrialisation and family. In short a total corkscrew of an energetic album! 'Carnage Hall' is available to pre-order in our webshop now!

'Carnage Hall' is available to pre-order now in our webshop!

SOTELO RETURNS

26 July 2019

Cosmic pop melodist Robert Sotelo returns this September with his most expansive album yet! 'Infinite Sprawling' is Sotelo's first record since relocating from London to Glasgow and partly inspired by his new city's inclusive and collaborative musicverse. Recorded with Ruari MacLean (of Vital Idles, Golden Grrrls) and Edwin Stevens (Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa) at their home studio Namaste Sound, 'Infinite Sprawling' grew out of Sotelo's sketchbook of skeletal songs, with MacLean and Stevens developing their own drum, guitar and keyboard parts. These songs pulled together like a wakeful stretch on a Sunday morning, flowering with a lightness of touch, sounding both carefree and brisk. Check out 'Message Of Beauty', the video for the first single from the album! A relaxed ballad of drowsy farewells, swoons of violin and swirled clouds of organ drone, take a listen.

'Infinite Sprawling' is available to pre-order on dark-green 180g vinyl now at in our webshop.

'WHO'S TERRY?' RELEASED!

19 July 2019

Today Melbourne post-punk wags Terry return with their new EP 'Who's Terry?' on Upset The Rhythm. Following on from last year's huge-sounding 'I'm Terry' album, this third 7" EP from the band brings you right up to date with their wobbly politico-pop. 'Who's Terry?' encapsulates what Terry does best, the queasy marriage of the upbeat and traumatic, the catchy instant and the nagging distance. Their alliterative lyrics always sharp as tacks, their sense of melody and beat sunk deep in the heart of now.

'Who's Terry?' is available now on black vinyl in our webshop!

LUNCH LADY - ANNOUNCING 'ANGEL'

12 July 2019

We're over the harvest moon to announce that we'll be releasing Lunch Lady's debut album on August 23rd! Lunch Lady are a sparky group from Los Angeles redolent of the desert heat, pining hearts and that chorus-soaked cloak of sound held dear by followers of British early 80s post-punk. Numbering four, Lunch Lady consist of Rachel Birke (vocals), Juan Velasquez (guitar), Victor Herrera (bass) and Robert Wolfe (drums). The band began in 2017 when Velasquez asked Birke if she'd like to start a new music project with him, their respective other groups Abe Vigoda and Heller Keller having co-existed in LA's DIY orbit. Birke explains that they "immediately decided upon making the new band a kind of love letter to Kitsch." Lunch Lady's dreamy punk forays into country ballad territory certainly swoop into sentiment, but its the melancholy of artifice that defines their outlook.

Here's the band's first video, 'Window', a track that whirls by with all the flourish of a card trick! Lunch Lady's debut album 'Angel' is available to pre-order in our webshop now!

WHAT'S GOING ON?

12 July 2019

Last night we held a launch party at Cafe OTO with Normil Hawaiians to celebrate the re-issue of the group's 1984 album 'What's Going On?'. Today sees that release hit the shops on limited LP (with hand-numbered poster), CD and digitally, accompanied by a plethora of bonus tracks and copious liner notes explaining how the malaise that afflicted early 80's Britain resulted in a defiant cry from Normil Hawaiians that became 'What's Going On?'. Available in our web shop now!

HORIZON OUT TODAY!

5 July 2019

Trash Kit's third and absolutely monumental album of post-punk moves and bold self expression, 'Horizon', is released today on LP, CD and digitally. The perfect record for this sun-soaked Friday and a perfect record all round!

CONSTANT MONGREL RELEASED!

28 June 2019

Constant Mongrel's rollicking new 'Experts In Skin' record greets the world today! Here's the riotous aforementioned 7" trying to turn the lights on in broad daylight! Classic!

'Experts in Skin' is the Melbourne bands' little sister follow-up to 2018's 'Living In Excellence' LP. The A side single holds the familiar post-post punk angst Constant Mongrel is known for, only building ever higher with a triple saxophone flurry and singer Tom Ridgewell's mutters on the often awkward nature of mainstream consumerism.

'CONFIDENCE' RE-ISSUE

21 June 2019

We're re-issuing Trash Kit's incredible 2014 album 'Confidence' this July on white vinyl! New album 'Horizon' due out July 5th too!

"an album of a million small gestures arranged with jaw-dropping exactitude. It's 11 calamity-skirting post-punk tunes that teeter between control and chaos." PITCHFORK

"Disciplined yet eccentric, refined but raucous, Confidence is a bold and fantastically assured album!" LINE OF BEST FIT

"Each song feels like the sleek silhouette of a few hundred practices, a few hundred happy accidents coaxed right into place - aggressive and brave." TINY MIX TAPES

'DAUGHTERS OF THE SKY' RELEASED

14 June 2019

Daughters Of The Sky by Bamboo is released today on LP (180g, gold vinyl), CD and digitally! Check out this extraordinary album in all its glory, seriously transportive and beautifully rendered in sound!

BAMBOO - A WORLD IS BORN

31 May 2019

Today we're sharing Bamboo's brand new single 'A World Is Born'! This new song features Rachel Horwood's flawless, resonant folk cadence and Nick Carlisle's pristine synth production, whilst drum machines and samples lock together with acoustic drums. This surprise single, out today on all digital platforms, is taken from the group's forthcoming album 'Daughters Of The Sky' out June 14th through Upset The Rhythm. Accompanying this album track are remixes from Rozi Plain and Bas Jan that sound towering and ingenius. Enjoy!

NOTS VIDEO AND TOUR!

30 May 2019

Memphis powerhouse, Nots head out on their East-Coast American tour this weekend to celebrate they've just shared their new video in collaboration with WWW for 'Persona' too.

Here are the dates (many with Olivia Neutron John):

01/06: Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Punk Rock Flea Market 02/06: Cincinnati, OH - Northside Yacht Club 04/06: Chicago, IL - Subterranean 05/06: Detroit, MI - UFO Factory 06/06: Nelsonville, OH - Nelsonville Music Factory 08/06: Brooklyn, NY - Alphaville 10/06: Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle 11/06: Washington, D.C. - Songbyrd 12/06: Durham, NC - The Pinhook

HYGIENE RELEASED!

24 May 2019

Upset The Rhythm releases 'Private Sector' today! The long-awaited second album from Hygiene. 'Private Sector' runs riot with brooding melodies, choppy, politically-pointed songs all delivered in their pugnacious yet often droll style. Time is taken to stride down the Holloway Road and through its footnotes, whilst fixations on buses and trains rub shoulders with metropolitan elites. Hygiene take swipes at tax havens, privatisation and the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, but they also choose to look at zealous fitness regimes, dodgy cover-ups and the very fabric of Englishness too. "Keep calm and carry on aaaaaaaaaaaargh!"

WHO'S TERRY?

22 May 2019

"What to do with a spud like you?" Melbourne post-punk wags Terry return this summer with their new EP 'Who's Terry?' (July 19th). You can just make him out in his hobnail boots, peering from behind the sandwich board, wink, wink. Following on from last year's huge-sounding 'I'm Terry' album, this third EP from the band brings you right up to date with their wobbly politico-pop.

TRASH KIT ON THE HORIZON

16 May 2019

Trash Kit return with their third album on July 5th and it's nothing short of astonishing, totally alive and epic in sound and sensibility! Brooklyn Vegan have just shared first single and title track 'Horizon' to help us announce the album today, take a look/listen! Limited yellow vinyl version available to pre-order now.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

14 May 2019

This summer we'll be re-issuing 'What's Going On?' by Normil Hawaiians, their masterstroke from 1984, recorded in rural Wales and packed full of experiments in tape collage, long-form song and improvised modes of existence! Bonus tracks galore included with the 180g LP (+ booklet + hand-numbered poster) and CD versions. Available to pre-order now. Heres' the announcement, with first stream 'Market Place', up on The Quietus!

NOTS AND RED CHANNEL RELEASES!

10 May 2019

We're thrilled to share with you two new records out today on Upset The Rhythm. Red Channel's debut 7" and Nots electrifying new album '3' are both champing at the bit, synth pop to punk landslides both! '3' by Nots collects ten colossal songs into a dark, unpredictable, bold tour de force of a third record from the Memphis three. Pressed up on yellow and black 180g vinyl and available on CD and digitally too, Nots have infused '3' with a raucous intensity and improvisational energy that peels the paint from the walls.

Red Channel's 'Crazy Diamonds' 7" displays a willingness to wake-up in the unreal and see each moment reflected in the mirror. The Los Angeles' five-piece united through a shared post-punk sensibility and began experimenting with some angular drum and guitar give-and-take, layered with dueling keyboard refrains. It's an exhilarating rush of a song, both wistful, defiant and now stamped into black plastic!

DRECKSOUND OUT TODAY

26 April 2019

See how the sun shines on Hash Redactor's bruising debut album 'Drecksound', out today through Upset The Rhythm! Fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, Hash Redactor dive into territory that feels distinctly untethered. 'Drecksound' is a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert. A flailing, nihilistic quake of buckled, cathartic punk from Memphis trapped on heavyweight vinyl. Check out the whole record on Spotify now!

HYGIENE RETURN THIS MAY!

10 April 2019

Hygiene are back this May with their new album 'Private Sector'! This album finds them confronting the grim realities of the present, railing against the neoliberal madness of utility cartels, tax havens and privatised railways, seizing the moment as the current period of interregnum sees the old ideological certainties come into question. Proving nostalgia to be an inescapable trap, the band continue to hearken back to the kind of post-punk that existed before anybody knew to affix the 'post' prefix. The Quietus have just helped us announce the album with the first track 'Replacement Bus', all aboard!

UTR XV radio special!

26 March 2019

With our imminent 15th anniversary label tour on the horizon we thought we'd leg it down memory lane before hitching a ride 6 months into the future for this UTR XV radio special. 120 minutes of all things Upset The Rhythm. Think classic back catalogue, the glowing edge of now and lots of upcoming tracks that lead us into the summer from Trash Kit, Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, Hygiene, Nots , Lunch Lady, Robert Sotelo, Hash Redactor and Red Channel.

UTR XV LABEL TOUR

21 March 2018

Next week Upset The Rhythm will be marking its 15th anniversary with a label showcase tour around Britain. Representing a lot of our current UK roster, the tour will see the likes of DIY punk progressives Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo and Dog Chocolate perform alongside hypnotic drum and voice duo Rattle and Guttersnipe, a group who shredded their tonal territory into euphoria this year with their debut album. Come see us hit the road!

Wednesday 27th March - LONDON - The Dome Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Rattle, Guttersnipe, Dog Chocolate

Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe

Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo

Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

HELLO GOODBYE!

24 March 2018

We had a great time yesterday on Resonance FM's Hello Goodbye show! Upset The Rhythm radio special! Lots of quality chat with the esteemed deXter Bentley, exclusive new tracks from Trash Kit, Normil Hawaiians, Bamboo, Vital Idles and Red Channel aired, plus some solid live sets in the studio from Robert Sotelo and Hygiene!

RED CHANNEL DEBUT 7"

18 March 2019

We're releasing the debut 7" record by Red Channel this April 19th! Red Channel are five like-minds from Los Angeles who decided to start writing snappy, impactful songs together in early 2017. United through a shared post-punk sensibility they began experimenting with some angular drum and guitar give-and-take, layered with duelling synth refrains. Over this Melody and Casey worked-up their vocal harmonies through impulse. The pairs vocals drift through each track, punctuating the profound and guiding us through each song's uncanny terrain.

Check out new single 'Crazy Diamonds', Tiny Mix Tapes have just premiered the track, calling it "a lead track that ends up sounding smooth yet sharp, feeling wistful yet defiant. An ideal statement to introduce yourself with". 'Crazy Diamonds' 7" EP is available to pre-order now!

VITAL IDLES' EXTENDED PLAY

8 March 2019

Today we release Vital Idles' pristine new EP on shiny black 7" vinyl and digital bit-rates. It's the perfectly pensive follow-up to last year's immensely gratifying 'Left Hand' album. To celebrate, we've unveiled a 'flashy' new video for 'Careful Extracts' from the record for your enjoyment. It features a dark room, some "proximal furl" and all of Jessica's lyrics too. Get ready to lose yourself in an eventful 1 minute and 59 second visionary swell of sound.

NOTS & ALBUM NUMBER 3!

7 March 2019

Another day, another fantastic team-up with Goner Records! We're very pleased to announce that May 10th will see Upset The Rhythm release NOTS' third album entitled, wait for it... '3'. The Memphis trio have unearthed every writhing guitar squall, every raucous barrage and every piercing vocal melody at hand.

Melting buzzing, swirling waves of sound menace and hypnotise throughout too, making for a darkly liberating, bold tour de force of a third record, infused with a rampant intensity and improvisational energy. '3' will be released on limited coloured vinyl, black vinyl and digipak CD, check out our pre-order page in our webshop now!

Check out first single 'Half-Painted House', The Line Of Best Fit have just hosted.

HASH REDACTOR LP FOR APRIL!

6 March 2019

Triumphant news! We're teaming up with Goner to release Hash Redactor's debut album on April 26th, who they? Hash Redactor are fronted by guitarist Alec McIntyre of Ex-Cult, with NOTS rhythm warriors Meredith Lones on bass and Charlotte Watson on drums, plus George Williford on second guitar.

'Drecksound', is their debut LP, diving into territory that feels distinctly untethered from their era. It's a clattering, shambolic oasis in the sleek digital desert. A flailing, nihilistic quake of buckled, cathartic punk. Available to pre-order now, including a limited mint green vinyl version with bonus poster.

Listen to 'Good Sense' now, it just premiered on Clash!

NEW EP FROM VITAL IDLES

18 February 2019

VITAL IDLES return with an epic 7" extended player for Upset The Rhythm next month! Four astonishing tracks of intensity and momentum, carefree introspection and minimal pop practice. Here's the first listen, 'Break A', courtesy of Clash Magazine, pre-order live and European tour dates announced too!

XIU XIU - OUT TODAY

8 February 2018

OK OK! Today we release our first record of the year and what an album this is! Xiu Xiu's brand new full-length entitled 'Girl with Basket of Fruit'. It's a total thunderclap of a record infused with tense hooks, errant electronics, disturbed spoken word and voodoo techno, proving as unsparing and impassioned as ever!

Released today on 180g purple/black marbled vinyl and on an accompanying digipak CD with an 8-page booklet of lyrics and artwork, 'Girl with Basket of Fruit' can be found in all the best record shops and through our own webshop too.

Xiu Xiu will be touring Europe in support of the album too, London falls on March 26th at the Islington Assembly Hall, a date for your diaries!

15TH ANNIVERSARY LABEL TOUR

1 February 2018

Next March Upset The Rhythm will be marking our 15th anniversary with a label showcase tour around Britain. Representing a lot of our current UK roster, the tour will see the likes of DIY punk progressives Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo and Dog Chocolate perform alongside hypnotic drum and voice duo Rattle and Guttersnipe, a group who shredded their tonal territory into euphoria this year with their debut album. Within the last fifteen years UTR has organised over 1500 live events in London and racked up a back catalogue you'd have to ask a friend to help carry, 115 titles at point of writing. All about the 15! The big XV! Here are the dates!

Wednesday 27th March - LONDON - The Dome Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Rattle, Guttersnipe, Dog Chocolate

Thursday 28th March - GLASGOW - CCA Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

Friday 29th March - LEEDS - Brudenell Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Rattle, Guttersnipe

Saturday 30th March - MANCHESTER - White Hotel Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Vital Idles, Guttersnipe, Robert Sotelo

Sunday 31st March - CARDIFF - Clwb Ifor Bach Sauna Youth, Trash Kit, Robert Sotelo, Rattle

RADIO SHOW: EPISODE 10

30 November 2018

Alright! Episode 10 of our Upset The Rhythm radio show for CAMP is up here now, 120 minutes of our favourite tracks plus some live recordings from Rattle, Mary Lattimore and Terry, enjoy! LISTEN!

PUMPKIN ATTACK ON MOMMY AND DADDY

15 January 2018

Xiu Xiu share today Act II of their audiovisual companion for their new album 'Girl with Basket of Fruit'. The video for 'Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy' races along the thematic current of and utilises consistent imagery and symbols from the first video ('Scisssssssors') including reappearances of Xiu Xiu members plus performance artists Ron Athey and Elliot Reed. 'Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy' was written by Angela Seo with lyrical contributions from Elliot Reed and Jamie Stewart; inspirations for the track include Toilet Paper Magazine, works by Boyd McDonald, Korean Mythological Drawings and Alcohol. 'Girl with Basket of Fruit' is released on February 8th by Upset The Rhythm.

FIRST THREE SHOWS OF 2019

10 January 2019

We're kicking things off with The Stallion next week at Moth Club. Alastair Mackinven and Ben Wallers (of Country Teasers and The Rebel notoriety) comprise The Stallion and Friday week they'll be treating us to their warped take on Pink Floyd's canon. All looks set to be perfectly odd with promises of music, films and props too, plus we're lucky enough to have Evangeline Ling of Audiobooks DJ-ing throughout the night too, perfect!

At the very end of the month we also have prismatic pop planned from Air Waves and Upset Stomach, who play The Islington on Thursday 31st January. The following day, Friday 1 February, New River Studios witnesses the glorious excess of an Amor concert with The Golden Filter and Alexis Taylor (DJ set) booked in too. So there you go, our first three forays into live music promotion for the year!

BAMBOO GET FESTIVE!

8 December 2018

Are your eyes full of tinsel and fire yet? Well don't worry we've got the perfect festive jump start for you! Today we're releasing a surprise double A-side single by Bamboo suffused with the magical spirit of the season. Available now on all the most digital of platforms, the Xmas themed double header features a deeply resounding cover of Greg Lake's classic 'I Believe In Father Christmas', alongside a reworked version of their 'Stay Another Day' (East 17, as if you didn't know) smash from last year! Let's all hope we get the Xmas we deserve, stream 'I Believe in Father Christmas' now!

XIU XIU - 'GIRL WITH BASKET OF FRUIT'

6 December 2018

XIU XIU announce their new album 'Girl with Basket of Fruit' today with this outstanding first single 'Scisssssssors'! We have our pre-order link up for our limited edition purple, white, black marbled LP and for the accompanying CD version now, plus full European tour dates released for 2019 here. 'Girl with Basket of Fruit' will be released on February 8th through Upset The Rhythm.

RADIO SHOW: EPISODE 10

30 November 2018

Alright! Episode 10 of our Upset The Rhythm radio show for CAMP is up here now, 120 minutes of our favourite tracks plus some live recordings from Rattle, Mary Lattimore and Terry, enjoy! LISTEN!

RATTLE IN THE USA

27 November 2018

Nottingham's premier, hypnotic drum/voice duo Rattle are on tour in the US of A right now! Go see them play the following dates with Protomartyr and Preoccupations! Yeehaw!

RATTLE - *USA* *TOUR*

28/11 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw

29/11 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage

30/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry

01/12 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement

03/12 - Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place

04/12 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig

06/12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall

07/12 - Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room

08/12 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar

RATTLE RELEASED TODAY!

2 November 2018

Today we release our final record of 2018: Rattle's extraordinary sophomore album 'Sequence'. Talk about leaving the best til last! This stunningly-crafted, detailed deep-listen arrives in shops today on CD, 180g heavyweight black vinyl and digitally. Our webshop is shipping now! 'Sequence' is composed of just four tracks, each clocking in around 10 mins and focused squarely on a deeper resonance with the creative act, illustrative of how ideas build from scratch, of how music can grow out of repetition. It even feels like a trance or ritual if you give yourself to the recording. Rattle are seeking out a vivid array, an order from the noise, a pattern that unlocks the next.

GUTTERSNIPE OUT TODAY!

26 October 2018

We're also very proud to release Guttersnipe's debut album today with our friends Ouse Records! Entitled 'My Mother The Vent', it's an exquisite listen, occupying some gloriously wrought tonal territory. With just guitar, drums and a bunch of triggers Guttersnipe display full commitment to their flowmotive polyrhythms, underwriting their seared, nay fried, rainbow of noise with de-reasoned vocals. Six tracks, 35 minutes, stamped into 180g black vinyl. Available in all the best shops and online today, stream the whole album now up on The Quietus too.

'NO PERSONAL SPACE'

12 September 2018

Here's Sauna Youth's brand new video for 'Deaths' album track, 'No Personal Space', filmed in the last five minutes of a band rehearsal in a too-close-for-comfort studio in Peckham. Raven Sings The Blues just premiered it up on their website! New album, 'Deaths' is out now!

RATTLE - 'SEQUENCE'

8 September 2018

We're announcing Rattle's incredible new album, 'Sequence', today with their epic 11-minute long video for album track 'Signal'. Thank you to The Quietus for premiering it! 'Sequence' will be released on November 2nd.

DEATHS - OUT TODAY!

7 September 2018

It's a kinda Sauna Youth record release type of day today! What an incredible landslide of an album, alive with sound and entitled 'Deaths', out now through Upset The Rhythm!

I'M TERRY

31 August 2018

Today, with our new release in mind, I realise that there are two kinds of people in this world: not Terry, and Terry. I'm Terry. Melbourne quartet Terry return with their new album today and as always it's first-rate. 'I'm Terry' is an expression of a humbling kindness, and 2018 needs that more than ever! Terry has made time to put things right and now he's lending us his watch. 'I'm Terry' is available now in all the best shops and through our UTR webshop too.

TERRY - 'BUREAU' VIDEO

7 August 2018

TERRY's traffic-tunnel trip of a video for new track 'Bureau' just premiered on Raven Sings The Blues! Take a look!

SAUNA YOUTH - PERCENTAGES

19 July 2018

The first track from Sauna Youth's forthcoming album 'Deaths' just premiered on DIY. Check out 'Percentages' now, turn it up! 'Deaths' is out September 7th through Upset The Rhythm (yours truly) on LP, CD and digitally!

AMICI BY PRIMO OUT NOW!

13 July 2018

Lucky world! The weekend is fast upon us and with it comes the release of our fantastic debut album by Primo! Primo are a Melbourne trio specialising in breezy, up-tempo chorus and verse. Double guitar, drums, sound effects and a group vocal sensibility all help adorn their discourses into deconstruction. Entitled 'Amici', Primo's debut album is available now on LP and CD in all the best stores and our own webshop!

TERRY - THE WHIP

10 July 2018

It's fine, it's fine, it's fine! Check out 'The Whip', Terry's first track taken from their forthcoming head bop of a long-player 'I'm Terry' (out Aug 31st, through Upset The Rhythm). Poppermost!

VITAL IDLES - ON TOUR

4 July 2018

VITAL IDLES are taking to the road next week! Their music is as wonderfully acute as it is astute, smart and minimal in measures. This UK tour is in support of their fantastic debut album 'Left Hand', out now on Upset The Rhythm. Look out!

JULY

10/07 - Manchester, UK @ 57 Thomas Street Marble Beers

11/07 - Birmingham, UK @ Sunflower Lounge

12/07 - London, UK @ The Islington

13/07 - Brighton, UK @ Sticky Mike's Frog Bar

14/07 - Cardiff, UK @ The Moon

15/07 - Bristol, UK @ Hy Brazil Music Club

16/07 - Oxford, UK @ Common Ground Workspace

17/07 - Leeds, UK @ Wharf Chambers

19/07 - Nottingham, UK @ JT Soar

20/07 - Newcastle, UK @ Star & Shadow

+ Resonance FM session too on the morning of the 14th with Dexter Bentley.

APOSTILLE OUT NOW!

29 June 2018

Take heed that Apostille's hefty bounce of a new album 'Choose Life' is out now in all its vibrant red wax glory! Apostille is an artist who's torn through enough sound-systems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label, Glasgow native, Michael Kasparis has spent the last few years making forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this, his solo electronic venture, Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication!

SAUNA YOUTH & TERRY HAVE NEW ALBUMS DUE OUT THIS SUMMER!

28 June 2018

Extremely happy to say the Summer is going to get even hotter! We've got TWO top releases planned for the dog days: TERRY - 'I'm Terry' (out August 31st) and SAUNA YOUTH - 'Deaths' (out September 7th) through Upset The Rhythm. Both each band's third albums coincidentally! Both brimming with wild impulse! Pre-order links now up here!

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE NINE

15 June 2018

Here's episode 9 of our Upset The Rhythm radio show, lots of new tracks from Primo, Terry and John Maus, lots of old songs from Nauta, Alphonso Johnson and Trevor Wishart, lots of recent live recordings from Dog Chocolate, Rattle and Ed Schrader's Music Beat. Start the weekend early, tune in here now!

PRIMO! AMICI

5 June 2018

The wonderful Gorilla Vs Bear just helped us announce our debut album by PRIMO! by posting the band's first video from the album, check out 'Mirage' now! Primo are Xanthe Waite (also of Terry), Violetta DelConte Race (also of The Shifters) and Suzanne Walker (also of amazing film projects). As a trio from Melbourne writing up-tempo, terse chorus and verse, Primo make use of two guitars, drums, sound effects and a group vocal sensibility to ornament their enquiries into deconstructed post-punk.

Debut album 'Amici' is released on LP and CD this July 13th through Upset The Rhythm. Available to pre-order now too!

VITAL IDLES DEBUT ALBUM RELEASED!

1 June 2018

Vital Idles' remarkable debut album 'Left Hand' is released through Upset The Rhythm today! Hailing from Glasgow, Vital Idles mark out their sound within a chalk circle of first-though/best-though lyrical vision and primal-pop momentum. Here's what some adroit critics thought of the album . . .

BEAT

"Debut album, Left Hand, is something of a stripped to the bones statement of intent."

Brooklyn Vegan

"Splits the difference between Veronica Falls' moody jangle and The Pastels' detuned charm."

Clash

"a superb one chord thrash, somewhere between the oblique minimalist pop of Flying Nun and early Rough Trade signings such as The Raincoats."

The Skinny

"It's a taut, propulsive exercise in minimalism that doesn't waste a moment, barrelling across a series of vignettes tackling issues like one's place in the world, social complacency and the nature of music itself."

Available to order from our webshop and all great record shops as of now!

SCHOOL DAMAGE OUT TODAY!

25 May 2018

The time is meow!

Today we're releasing School Damage's new EP 'Sings... Four Songs About One Cat'! Hailing from Geelong & Melbourne and featuring members of Ausmuteants, Parsnip, Chook Race etc, School Damage have written a fantastic four track 7" of woozy head bop, jangle-pop all about their pet cat. This new song, 'Secret Beauty', captures Lumpy at her most serene, have a listen!

APOSTILLE - ON TOUR

21 May 2018

This Wednesday, Apostille will begin to tear around the UK in support of their forthcoming album, 'Choose Life', out June 8th.

Check them out at the following dates:

May

23/05 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen with Virginia Wing

24/05 - Nottingham, UK @ The Chameleon with Father Murphy

25/05 - Bristol, UK @ Stag And Hounds with Hounds Schwet x Dance Party

26/05 - London, UK @ The Victoria with Sauna Youth + Static Palm

27/05 - Brighton, UK @ The Pipeline

28/05 - Cardiff, UK @ The Undertone

31/05 - Leeds, UK @ The Fenton

June

01/06 - Newcastle, UK @ Star & Shadow

02/06 - Glasgow, UK @ The Art School with Happy Meals + Sacred Paws

'Choose Life' is available to pre-order now on LP and CD here.

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE EIGHT

18 May 2018

Hey there! We've got some staggering tracks from Apostille, Vital Idles and School Damage all featured in our new two hour mix for CAMP radio. Listen up, listen loud, enjoy!

MOODY BALLOON BABY OUT NOW!

11 May 2018

Dog Chocolate's stunning new album, Moody Balloon Baby, is released today in all its fervour! 180 grams of black plastic serving up all the rabble-rousing energy & eye-watering absurdity of the human condition in 2018, plus its got a big, green, scowling balloon baby on the cover, bonus!

Available in all the best shops worldwide and directly from us here now. Have a listen to the very first song kicking off this cavalcade of thought & song:

SOLID STATES

24 April 2018

Oblique art rock in a blue room! Vital Idles brand new video for 'Solid States' just premiered through BEAT, have a LOOK & LISTEN! 'Left Hand', the band's debut album, is available to pre-order through our webshop on LP now.

SCHOOL DAMAGE & ONE CAT

20 April 2018

May 25th is going to be a very good day as that Friday sees Upset The Rhythm release a new 7" EP from Australia's School Damage. School Damage write songs that demand the dizzy head bop, they make jangle punk of genuine charm, spontaneous errant pop! Featuring members of Ausmuteants, Parsnip and Chook Race, School Damage have put together an EP which follows it's no nonsense title, it's 'Four Songs About One Cat', and that cat is called Lumpy and sometimes Scump. 'Scump Damage 1' is the first track to escape the EP, the track just premiered through Raven Sings The Raven Sings The Blues, have a listen now!

School Damage's new EP is available to pre-order now.

TESCO FLAG

19 April 2018

This is the new video from Dog Chocolate, it's called 'Tesco Flag' and is set in Epping Forest and features a lot of anti-Brexit rhetoric, beans and the band dressed up as headlice. A quasi-future-medieval look to their costume ties in with references made later in the song to the book Riddley Walker. The lyrics deal with the knotty and unpleasant issue of English national identity. Filmed in the freezing cold, the band learned that dogs will eat beans straight out of liquid mud if they have to. Dog Chocolate's new album 'Moody Balloon Baby' will be released on May 11th through Upset The Rhythm, the album is available to pre-order here now.

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE SEVEN

23 March 2018

Alright there! Spring arrives with the seventh installment of our radio show for CAMP. Two hours of all our favourite sounds from Orbidoig to Paul Ngozi via Eric Chenaux. Lots of new Upset The Rhythm tracks from Apostille, Dog Chocolate and Vital Idles feature, plus some recent live snippets from Rattle, Chain And The Gang and Bill Orcutt & Chris Corsano, here you go!

VITAL IDLES - 'LEFT HAND'

20 March 2018

We're beyond excited to announce that we're releasing Vital Idles debut album entitled 'Left Hand' in a few months time. They've been one of our favourite UK groups since we saw them play with Vexx and Sauna Youth in Manchester a few years back, so we're thrilled to have this record in the works. Clash have just premiered the opening track from the album, have a listen to 'A Premise' now and catch your breath!

'Left Hand' is available to pre-order now on yellow and black vinyl editions here.

Catch Vital Idles at the following shows:

March

30 Liverpool The Buyer's Club *

31 Manchester Soup Kitchen *

April

1 Glasgow Mono *

3 Birmingham Hare & Hounds *

4 London Bethnal Green Working Men's Club *

6 York The Crescent Community Venue ^

* with No Age

^ with Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts

CHOOSE LIFE

14 March 2018

Apostille's incredible new album 'Choose Life' is announced today! Coming out on LP/CD this June 8th, it truly is a colossal pop album of substance, have a first listen to 'Feel Bad'! 'Choose Life' is available to pre-order through our webshop on limited transparent red vinyl, black vinyl and CD now.

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

9 March 2018

Great news! Today No Babies excellent, new album 'Someone To Watch Over Me' is released through Upset The Rhythm. Featuring thirteen tracks that implode and empower in equal measure it proves a truly jaw-dropping listen. This stunning LP is pressed on red marbled vinyl and is available now in all good record shops as well as through our webshop.

MOODY BALLOON BABY

26 February 2018

Here comes the Moody Balloon Baby! Dog Chocolate's forthcoming album for Upset The Rhythm, out May 11th, oh yeh! Have a listen to 'Dog Chocolate 1995', don some velvet and join the chorus: "When do I become the dog I'm meant to be!" Recommended if you like bonfires, hazelnuts, Supermalt, umbrella-themed weddings, lower back pain, Sweden and calculating your bmi!

'Moody Balloon Baby' is now available pre-order in our webshop.

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE SIX

25 February 2018

Look out! Upset The Rhythm return here with the newest installment of our radio show, the sixth so far in the series! We've compiled two hours of the finest audio imaginable, tracks from Reptile Ranch, Klein, The Shriek and Shannon Lay all featuring. There's exclusive new songs from Dog Chocolate and No Babies cued up too, a plethora of field recordings from our recent concerts, and even a bit where we talk over the music inaudibly, classic! Let's do this...

NO BABIES NEW ALBUM!

12 February 2018

Brilliant news! Oakland, CA's No Babies are back in business with a brand new album entitled 'Someone To Watch Over Me'. Upset The Rhythm will be releasing the LP next month on March 9th on red/blue marbled vinyl. 'Someone To Watch Over Me' follows on from the band's 2011 debut and its fleet of successive empowering/imploding 7"s. Here's an exclusive track to check out called 'The Weight'.

'Someone To Watch Over Me' is available pre-order now in our webshop here

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE FIVE

30 January 2018

Alright then! Here's Upset The Rhythm's brand new radio show for January, episode number five for arts hub CAMP. Two terrific hours that speed by in the company of Minimal Man, David Nance, No Babies, Yeah You and Dancing Did. We've even included some recent field recordings from our Moor Mother and No Home concert, listen up and listen loud!

THE GREEN CHILD RELEASED

19 January 2018

Today our new release from The Green Child sprints into a world of future sound. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Whilst, Raven's measured vocal flits like a will-o'-the-wisp through the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

'The Green Child' is released today through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl. It is available in all good shops and directly through our webshop here

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE FOUR

29 December 2017

Hey 2017! Before the year bows out, here's the fourth episode of our radio show for CAMP Radio. 120 minutes of lots of our favourite music from Arthur Lee Harper to Yura Yura Teikoku, including some recent live snippets from Richard Dawson and Spirit Fest, enjoy!

THE GREEN CHILD

11 December 2017

Noisey just helped us announce out next record, The Green Child's self-titled debut album, by premiering colossal closing statement 'Destroyer'! The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. 'The Green Child' is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

MORE WEALTH THAN MONEY

8 December 2017

What a brilliant day, flecked with snow and ice and sharp winter light. Thirty-five years ago Normil Hawaiians released their debut album 'More Wealth Than Money', today we're thrilled to re-release this stunning album so it can stride out into its unique field of sound again. 'More Wealth Than Money' takes the listener on a quest over its four sides of vinyl as the group's communal take on post punk starts sprouting leaves from its mouth, beginning to carve out a new furrow of dark psychedelia, industrial folk and a peculiarly British kosmische.

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE THREE

1 December 2017

Hello December! Pass the time away with our third installment of Upset The Rhythm's radio show for CAMP Radio. Spend two hours in our company whilst we play lots of favourite records alongside a plethora of live recordings from the past month's concerts too. Hope you enjoy the music!

INHERIT THE WIND

18 November 2017

Watch this truly mesmerising new video from Darlene Shrugg, one of our favourite tracks from their self-titled album out now through Upset The Rhythm! Thanks to Pop Matters for premiering.

DARLENE SHRUGG OUT NOW

5 November 2017

We're delighted to share with you our new album from glammed-up, high-intensity rock group Darlene Shrugg. Out now, the band's self-titled debut album is a concise blast of the sublime. Absorbing then inverting classic rock, this record brims with imaginative production, brash theatricality and uninhibited energy.

Darlene Shrugg represents a collaborative convergence, featuring Maximilian Turnbull (formerly Slim Twig), Meg Remy (U.S. Girls), Simone TB and Carlyn Bezic & Amanda Crist, also known for their electro-pop project, Ice Cream. This certain alchemy has helped to establish the unique force found on this debut album. 'Darlene Shrugg' is available now on LP and CD through Upset The Rhythm, our web shop is primed and ready here.

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE TWO

2 November 2017

We're taking off again with CAMP Radio! Listen to our second 120-minute radio show as Upset The Rhythm whilst we spin our favourite records & play some exclusive live recordings from our recent concerts. November 29th sees our next radio show air too, enjoy!

FIRST WORLD RECORD

17 October 2017

The World's debut album 'First World Record' is now shipping from our webstore and will be hitting the shops this Friday. Here's a photo of the LP in all its transparent glory taken during the glowering skies of yesterday's storm, hence the apples on the ground too! The World are touring Europe between Oct 23rd - Nov 12th too, check out our tour section to see if they're coming near you!

NAMASTE - THE WORLD

7 October 2017

Get your yoga on! Brooklyn Vegan have just premiered The World's new video for 'Namaste'!

RADIO SHOW - EPISODE ONE

5 October 2017

We've just started working with CAMP Radio on a brand new radio show as Upset The Rhythm, here is Episode 1, hope you enjoy it! Our next show will go live to air on November 1st at 10pm.

MORE WEALTH THAN MONEY

4 October 2017

Listen deep! Normil Hawaiians released their debut album 'More Wealth Than Money' in 1982, 35 years ago! We're so seriously thrilled to be helping this record stride out into its unique field of sound again.

December 1st sees Upset The Rhythm reissue the re-mastered version of MWTM alongside a further full-length collection of demos and unreleased tracks from the album's overlooked corners. Both the 2xCD and DLP versions also come with a booklet contextualizing the release, full of anecdotes and photos from all band members. It is truly a thing of beauty!

'HOT SHOPPER' BY THE WORLD!

20 September 2017

We're besides ourselves to share with you this new song from The World this morning! The World are five people from Oakland, California who write rambunctious dance music with a post punk tool kit and an insightful yet short attention span! 'Hot Shopper' is taken from the bands debut album out October 9th on Upset The Rhythm. Available to pre-order now! Watch this space for details of their imminent European tour too.

AND... GEN POP MAKES US 100!

15 September 2017

Our record label is 100 releases old today! Thank you for tagging along with us on this epic detour from conventional entertainment. UTR100 takes the form of this very brightly coloured and brightly sounding debut 7" from Olympia, WA's Gen Pop. Gen Pop play a fervent noise punk for this overstretched human era, spilling with impassioned vocals, needling guitars, winding energy and air-tight rhythms. Featuring Ian Corrigan and Maryjane Dunphe from VEXX, it's a pleasure to continue our relationship with both of them through this very special release. Gen Pop's debut 7" is available in all good record shops from today and also directly though our webshop here too!

ROBERT SOTELO OUT TODAY

1 September 2017

Upset The Rhythm are very honoured to release Robert Sotelo's debut album 'Cusp' today, it's available on 180g transparent vinyl and digitally too. To celebrate we're sharing a brand new video from the album today too, ahead of our two London concerts with the band next week!

DARLENE SHRUGG - ALBUM ANNOUNCED!

23 August 2017

Darlene is in the building! We're so happy to announce today our new album with Darlene Shrugg, Canada's unashamed r-n-r spectacle. Featuring members of Ice Cream, Slim Twig and U.S. Girls the band's self-titled debut album will be released on October 27th. Have a listen to the epic 'Strawberry Milk' the first track to soar into the sky, very kindly premiered by Tiny Mix Tapes

UTR100 IS GEN POP!

11 August 2017

This week Upset The Rhythm announced our 100th release. To mark this unimaginable milestone we'll be releasing on September 15th the debut 7" EP from Olympia, WA's Gen Pop, a new band erupting from the frenetic bedrock of Vexx. Have a listen now to caustic closing track 'Dear Jackie' in our playlist below, you won't be disappointed!

PIKACYU-MAKOTO OUT NOW

4 August 2017

Today we're releasing our new album from Pikacyu-Makoto entitled rather suitably 'Galaxilympics'. 'Galaxilympics' is a giant album of future-facing song and noise, where better to find harmony enthroned? Buy Galaxilympics now from our webshop!

ROBERT SOTELO - LET'S TRANSCEND

10 July 2017

We're thrilled to be working with Robert Sotelo on his debut album 'Cusp', out September 1st. Noisey have just premiered the brilliant first video from the record: Let's Transcend! 'Cusp' by Robert Sotelo is available to pre-order now here, look out!

REMEMBER TERRY RELEASED

30 June 2017

Terry released their second album 'Remember Terry' today! The album is full of wish fulfillment, critiqued characters, memorial muscle and historical hustle. Check out this week's live session for Marc Riley to get a scoop on how great they're sounding right now! Also look up their European tour dates that are happening as we speak.

CASA DE CIMA RELEASED

16 June 2017

'Casa de Cima' is the stunningly alive new album from Pega Monstro, out now on black 180g vinyl, CD and digitally. There's a sense of sisterly oneness and provision apparent in Pega Monstro's music allowing the album to sound instinctual and awash with ideas. 'Casa de Cima' is a record with its eyes firmly set on the heavens and courageous enough to climb mountains to get closer to them.

TERRY - GLORY VIDEO

15 June 2017

Off with their heads! Terry are back with a brand new song/video for 'Glory', taken from their forthcoming album 'Remember Terry' out June 30th through Upset The Rhythm. Thanks to Noisey for hosting the video along with their Euro tour dates.

THE DRAGON FLIES AWAY RELEASED

7 June 2017

Bamboo's excellent new album 'The Dragon Flies Away' is now available on blue 180g vinyl, gatefold CD as well as digitally. Here's a photo of the record looking as good as it sounds. Check out Bamboo's songs in our soundcloud playlist below too.

PEGA MONSTRO - NEW VIDEO

6 June 2017

Dancing shoes firmly on, here's Pega Monstro's wonderful choreographed video for the opening track from new album 'Casa de Cima'. Thanks to Raven Sings The Blues for premiering 'O Miguel'.

REMEMBER TERRY

18 May 2017

Stereogum have kindly announced our new album for Melbourne glam pop country bops Terry. The album is entitled 'Remember Terry' and will be released through Upset The Rhythm on June 30th. They will be touring Europe around the same time, so watch this space and also watch this brand new video for lead single 'Take Me To The City'.

LISTEN UP! 'CACHUPA' BY PEGA MONSTRO

17 May 2017

Wonderland have just premiered this excellent brand new track by Pega Monstro about a traditional stew called 'Cachupa' that's as hard to digest as a lot of modern life, check it out! 'Cachupa' is taken from the band's forthcoming album 'Casa de Cima', out June 2nd on Upset The Rhythm.

RATTLE - 'TRUE PICTURE'

15 May 2017

Watch Rattle's magnificent video for 'True Picture' premiering now on Tom Tom Mag! Features significant cameos from Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield. 'True Picture' is taken from last year's stunning debut album entitled 'Rattle', available here.

RAT COLUMNS - NEW VIDEO

11 May 2017

Get ready to vogue with David West, here's Rat Columns new video from their astonishing new album 'Candle Power', out now on Upset The Rhythm. 'Blinded By The Shadow' just premiered on the excellent Raven Sings The Blues.

BANISHING RITUAL RELEASED

2 May 2017

Feature's debut album 'Banishing Ritual' is now available on white 180g vinyl as well as digitally. Here's a photo of the record out in the wild so to speak. Check out their songs in our soundcloud playlist below too.

PEGA MONSTRO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, HAVE A FIRST LISTEN!

21 March 2017

Fantastic news! Portuguese dream-punk sisters Pega Monstro have a brand new album entitled 'Casa de Cima' planned for release on June 2nd. You can hear the immense 'Partir a Loica' taken from the album now as Loud & Quiet have just premiered the track. 'Casa de Cima' by Pega Monstro will be released on LP, CD and digitally through Upset The Rhythm & Cafetra Records and is available to pre-order now!

BAMBOO - NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCED!

6 March 2017

Very pleased to announce today that our pre-order link is now live for our upcoming new album by BAMBOO. The extraordinary album is entitled 'The Dragon Flies Away' and weaves Japanese/Korean folkloric myths into the personal fabric of being. Released on May 26th, the album is available to order on transparent blue vinyl and digipak CD as of now!

XIU XIU - FORGET RELEASED!

24 February 2017

Today we're thrilled to help shepherd Xiu Xiu's new album Forget out into the wider world. It's a total heart-quake of an album and we're extremely proud to be involved with its release. Forget was produced by John Congleton, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof and Xiu Xiu's own Angela Seo. Plus, it features guest appearances by fabled minimalist composer Charlemagne Palestine, L.A. Banjee Ball superstar commentator Enyce Smith, Swans guitar virtuoso Kristof Hahn and legendary drag artist and personal hero of Xiu Xiu, Vaginal Davis. Forget is available on LP, CD and digitally in shops worldwide as of today, including from us directly through our webshop!

STREAM 'FORGET' BY XIU XIU

21 February 2017

Our forthcoming Xiu Xiu album entitled 'Forget' is available to stream through Noisey now. 'Forget' will be released this Friday!

DEERHOOF POSTPONED

30 January 2017

Unfortunately our upcoming Deerhoof show at Village Underground has been postponed from February 6th to September 4th due to illness. September 4th's show will also take place at Village Underground. All tickets already purchased will remain valid for the new date and any ticket holders who would prefer a refund are welcome to one too. Our thoughts go out to the band and wish them a speedy recovery. Here is the band's official statement: "We are terribly sorry to announce that because of serious pneumonia, we are not going to be able to travel to Europe, nor rock once we arrive. Prognosis is good, but for now please accept our apologies for not being able to make this tour that we were so looking forward to."

VEXX - WILD HUNT LP NOW IN STOCK!

26 January 2017

Very pleased to shout from the rooftops that VEXX's 'Wild Hunt' mini-album is now in stock. All pre-orders have been posted out this morning! Looks great, sounds great! Life is great! The album is housed in a sturdy sleeve, with lyric sheet to accompany the black vinyl LP, available to purchase now from our webshop!

NEW RAT COLUMNS & FEATURE ALBUMS COMING OUT SOON!

19 January 2017

Upset The Rhythm are ecstatic to announce two new albums that we'll be releasing over the coming months! Rat Columns have a new album called 'Candle Power' due out in March, whilst Feature's debut record 'Banishing Ritual' will be released in early April! You can listen to tracks from both records and pre-order both titles in our webshop, as of now!

TERRY - '8 GIRLS'

5 January 2017

Our first release of the year has arrived at Upset The Rhythm HQ! Terry's '8 Girls' 7" on transparent vinyl, reverse-board sleeve with new artwork, after the 7"s initial Australian run! In shops from January 13th and available to pre-order now from our webshop here!

BAMBOO ON CD

9 December 2016

Our Bamboo 'Prince Pansori Priestess' CDs are now in stock with their amazing 'Live at Cafe OTO' bonus track album. Bamboo make music that's extremely vivid and poignant, locking into a magnetic attraction between a flawlessly resonant folk cadence and some decidedly pristine synth pop production. Their wonderful debut album is available from today for the first time on CD accompanied by a live album of their performance from our UTR label showcase earlier this year. Check out our webshop for more details!

XIU XIU WILL FORGET

16 November 2016

We're ecstatic to say that Upset The Rhythm will be releasing Xiu Xiu's next album, out February 24th, entitled FORGET! We've worked with Xiu Xiu ever since our fourth show way back in 2004 (Needles wine bar, oh yeh!) so it's a real dream-come-true scenario for us! Check out the first track from the record called 'Wondering' - it is staggering, a total heart-quake.

Our pre-order for FORGET is now open, including a clear/blue swirl LP version that is strictly limited to our mailorder! The pre-order link also has a close up of the calligraphic cover art and full tracklisting detailed!!

DEERHOOF UK EXCLUSIVE SHOW

15 November 2016

Upset The Rhythm are over the supermoon this morning to announce a special one-off UK show for Deerhoof next February. Deerhoof are an alchemy of '77 punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, spandex, shadows, and attitude. Poetry into noise, volume knobs into pleasure, friendship into rock band. Village Underground is our venue of choice and February 6th the date for your diary! Tickets on sale now!

RAVIOLI ME AWAY - 'GOBLIN TOWN' VIDEO

19 October 2016

Welcome to 'Goblin Town', a place populated with greasy estate agents, plastic babies and Costa coffee! You too can live here by watching Ravioli Me Away's new video. 'Living Is A Myth' will be released on LP and digitally on November 11th.

LIVING IS A MYTH

14 October 2016

Upset The Rhythm are ecstatic to announce the release of Ravioli Me Away's new album! 'Living Is a Myth' will be released worldwide on November 11th. The gatefold LP will be accompanied by an A1 poster of the band, an orange slice of vinyl and a lyric book with download code. "I'm nostalgic for now, I traveled far ahead, I'm looking back with great affection - at this moment" sing RMA on the album's title track. It's hard to imagine a lyric that more perfectly encapsulates what RMA are all about. Ravioli Me Away provide the commentary to our internal narrative as we edge through life from one nostalgic moment to the next. They witness, comment and thus help us identify the means by which we must escape ourselves. 'Living Is A Myth' is available to pre-order now!

RATTLE RELEASED

5 August 2016

Today sees the release of Rattle's debut album, so from this moment you can now pick it up from all the best shops around the world or directly through our mail order shop here. Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, their songs reveal themselves in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks on their self-titled debut album.

The fantastic 'The Girls Are' blog have just premiered the whole stream of the album too, here's the link, happy listening!

DEERHOOF DISPOSSESSED

25 July 2016

Thank yous go out to Clash Magazine for hosting our new Deerhoof video for their 'Dispossessor' track from new album 'The Magic'. Looking at actual, real, tangible magic in mathematics via The Banach-Tarski paradox and friend of the band Professor Appleblossom, the video is a whirlwind of mutations and replications with hula hoops, toothpaste and chalked equations all featuring! 'The Magic' is out now on Upset The Rhythm.

RATTLE - 'STRINGER BELL' VIDEO

14 July 2016

The good people at Gold Flake Paint have just premiered Rattle's first video from their forthcoming debut album. Whoever thought you could use a misted spray of water as a piece of percussion? Watch Rattle get to work with drums, vibraslap, bells and vocals galore now. 'Rattle' on LP and CD will be released on August 5th, pre-order available now!

TERRY - 'HOT HEADS' VIDEO

12 July 2016

Clash Magazine have just premiered the first video from TERRY's new album 'Terry HQ'! Loosen your wristwatch, don a Stetson and get your boots on, it's time for 'Hot Heads' to begin towing the line...

'TERRY HQ' OUT NOW

1 July 2016

After releasing Deerhoof's outstanding new album last week, today we're welcoming Terry into the world. Terry are a quartet from Melbourne specializing in misshapen glam pop, unraveled refrains and personal-made-political (and vice versa) gang vocals. 'Terry HQ' collects ten of the most addictively offbeat songs going and is released worldwide today on LP, CD and digitally. Go hunt this down in your local shop from now or buy it directly from us now!

THE MAGIC OF DEERHOOF

27 June 2016

We're positively running cartwheels around Upset The Rhythm HQ today as we＊re immensely proud to help guide Deerhoof's new album The Magic out into the world. Released now on Upset The Rhythm, The Magic is an album imbued with Deerhoof's sorcery; boldness, wonder, technical know-how, risk. 'The Magic' is an alchemy of '77 punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, spandex, shadows, and attitude. You can buy The Magic on LP (white 180g vinyl) or CD from shops right now or if you＊d prefer from out web-shop here. We also have the option of buying the record in combination with an exclusive cassette tape of Deerhoof covering all their favourite songs by the likes of Sonic Youth, Madonna, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Malaria, Van Halen and Def Leppard! Pour some sugar on that!

RATTLE RELEASE

29 May 2016

On August 5th we'll be releasing Nottingham drum/voice duo Rattle＊s self-titled debut album. In collaboration with our friends at I Own You, the beautifully minimal and hypnotic suite of songs will be appearing on LP (including some limited number on transparent vinyl), CD and digitally, pre-order here. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley, Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Rattle are at once magnetic, monastic and danceable, but don't take our word for it, check out the first track from the album, Stringer Bell now!

VEXX - 'WILD HUNT'

20 May 2016

We are very excited to announce this new record from VEXX, entitled 'Wild Hunt' the LP will be potently chasing all throughout the sky this Autumn! Our pre-order link is up for 'Wild Hunt' now on LP and CD. Showcasing the band utterly consumed in the moment, these six tracks blaze with giddy abandon, raging mere heartbeats away from oblivion.

CHRIS COHEN & COLIN SELF SHOWS

12 May 2016

Very happy to confirm two new shows this morning for Chris Cohen and Colin Self, both shows look set to be brilliant, look out below for the full listing and check our blog for more details and videos!

TERRY HQ OPENS FOR BUSINESS

1 May 2016

TERRY have an album ready, entitled 'Terry HQ', and we're ecstatic to announce its release on July 1st. It collects together ten of the greatest misshapen glam pop tunes Melbourne, Australia has to offer. You can pre-order 'Terry HQ' from our webshop now, whilst you can listen here to the first track, 'Don't Say Sorry', Siri, is death an illusion?

'THE MAGIC' OF DEERHOOF

19 April 2016

Today we are over the moon to announce that Upset The Rhythm will be releasing a new Deerhoof album entitled 'The Magic' on June 24th. The record will be available on white 180g vinyl housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, we're also releasing a CD and digital version too. These are possible to pre-order from our webshop now, including options for you to bag a bonus 'covers tape' of Deerhoof playing some of their favourite songs of others (Van Halen, Twisted Sister, Public Enemy, David Bowie, etc). Listen to lead track 'Plastic Thrills' now to get ahead of the curve!

HOWLING HEX POSTER

15 April 2016

Very pleased to share with you this wonderful poster made by Nick Scott (of Narcsville) for our upcoming Neil Michael Hagerty & The Howling Hex show next month!

STEP OUT INTO THE WORLD

1 April 2016

Today we release the extraordinary debut 7” EP by The World from Oakland California. The World are all about the double sax attack, the tremolo of dub guitar, and those spare and sturdy drums, anchored by the gravitational pull of a propulsive bass. Limited to just 500 copies on neon yellow vinyl, you can pick one up in all good record shops from now or from our very own webshop here if that’s more opportune.It’s contagious, utterly alive and a total pulse-grabbing cacophony, listen up!

THE OBLIVIANS IN LONDON

31 March 2016

Overjoyed to announce today that this Summer we've booked The Oblivians to play at Tufnell Park Dome! July 27th is the date and is the band's only UK performance on a very short Euro tour. Tickets are onsale now!

'SNACK FANS' LANDS

18 March 2016

Let the weekend bear down fast, like a canine in pursuit of a tasty morsel, as today sees the release of Dog Chocolate’s debut album ‘Snack Fans’ and you’ll need a few days to digest it. Comprised of 14 bite-sized songs, high in salt and sugar content, the LP comes in either a magenta or black vinyl option, with an accompanying bunch of extras including a glossy poster, lyric book, remix album and computer game.

DOG CHOCOLATE VIDEO

3 March 2016

Here's the wonderful new video by Dog Chocolate for new track 'Bent Wire Situation', taken from the band's debut LP 'Snack Fans', out on Upset The Rhythm on March 18th. The record will be available on black or magenta 180g vinyl, with some eye-popping artwork extras, including a poster and lyric book that can be pre-ordered here now.

TY SEGALL & THE MUGGERS ARE COMING TO LONDON!

19 February 2016

We're very excited to announce a brand new show for TY SEGALL, this time accompanied by his new band THE MUGGERS (featuring members of King Tuff, Wand, Cairo Gang). In support we have the incendiary Oz punks AUSMUTEANTS.

The show will take place at the o2 Forum Kentish Town on Friday 24 June, with tickets going onsale on Monday morning at 9am 'here'. This show is 14+ too!

BAMBOO'S NEW VIDEO

3 February 2016

Watch this terrific new video for "Hexagonal" by Bamboo - bejeweled hearts, silken robes and hologramatic swords galore!

The song is taken from recent LP 'Prince Pansori Priestess' and was released last Friday as a digital A-side single with 'Diamond Springs'. Enjoy this feast for the eyes!

LISTENING TO THE WORLD

22 January 2016

Look out April 1st as we're releasing this immense debut 7" by The World into the wild.

'Managerial Material' is the lead track from the EP, and it's a contagious as it is fun with a clear focus on wanting to make the whole room dance before leaving with its echoed message trapped inside their heads.

Check out new songs by The World and Dog Chocolate in our new releases mixtape below.

ANNOUNCING 'SNACK FANS'

21 January 2016

Thrilled to announce Dog Chocolate's debut LP 'Snack Fans' will be coming out on Upset The Rhythm on March 18th. The record will be available on black or magenta 180g vinyl, with some eye-popping artwork, including a poster and lyric book that can be pre-ordered here now. Here's the first track from the album, 'Emotionally Buff', filmed/edited by and starring all members of the band!Exciting times.

SAUNA YOUTH'S THE BRIDGE

7 December 2015

Here's the amazing new video for "The Bridge" from Sauna Youth - choreography, shorts and human letters all leaping out of the London gloaming.

The song is taken from recent LP 'Distractions' and will be released as a 7" early in the New Year. You can pre-order it now.

TWO NEW RELEASES OUT TODAY

20 November 2015

Today, our new records by The Wharves and Normil Hawaiians are hitting the shelves of shops near you.

'Return Of The Ranters' by Normil Hawaiians was originally recorded in 1985, and it’s taken 30 years to see a proper release for this lost magnum opus.

Their music is a hypnotic swirl of improvised avant-punk drifts and hymned mantras.

And it's keeping good company, as The Wharves 7" also released today sounds equally outstanding.

Side A boasts the plaintive yet powerful track "NAZ", while "My Will" on the flipside takes us back to a wintry past life, sounding practically medieval in its quietude.

You can take a listen to both in our new releases mixtape below.

NORMIL HAWAIIANS STREAMING AT THE WIRE

15 October 2015

You can stream Normil Hawaiian's forthcoming album, 'Return Of The Ranters', in full right now over at The Wire.

Originally written and recorded in 1985, the album is finally seeing a release next month on Upset The Rhythm.

It's already been described by Uncut as a "state-of-the-country address born of and directly critiquing Thatcher's iron grip on Britain".

You can find out more about the band and this remarkable record on our new Normil Hawaiians page, or start listening now at The Wire.

TWO NEW VIDEOS FOR TWO NEW 7"S

12 October 2015

In support of their new 7"s on Upset The Rhythm, Terry and The Wharves have both unveiled new videos this month.

First up, Australian four piece Terry give us "In The Bin" - one of three misshapen glam pop tunes from 'Talk About Terry', which is out right now.

Then London trio The Wharves offer up "Naz" - an emotional rollercoaster of a song/video that forms one side of a new single that's out in November.

TWO EXCELLENT NEW VIDEOS

12 June 2015

In support of their new albums on Upset The Rhythm, Pega Monstro and Sauna Youth have both unveiled some excellent new videos this week.

First up, the Portuguese duo of sisters, Julia and Maria Reis, perform "Branca" in front of a psychedelic background of stadium sports.

The track is taken from 'Alfarroba' which you can pre-order right now.

Then the London quartet give us "Transmitters" among the statues of Crystal Palace park.

Their album 'Distractions' is out this week.

PEGA MONSTRO'S 'ALFARROBA'

7 May 2015

We're excited to announced a new album from Pega Monstro called 'Alfarroba.'

The duo are sisters Julia Reis (drums) and Maria Reis (guitar, keyboard). Both sing!

Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, the duo's name translates as 'catch the monster', perfectly countering their striving dream-punk sound.

The first track from the record "Braco de Ferro" was premiered by Panda Bear over at Gorilla vs Bear today.

You can hear it in our mixtape below and pre-order the album right now.

WETDOG'S 'DIVINE TIMES'

4 May 2015

We're really overjoyed to announce today our new album for WETDOG.

Entitled 'Divine Times,' it's available to buy right now on 180g vinyl.

You can listen to the fruits of their labour straight away with the first outstanding track from the album, "Messages," streaming in our mixtape below.

Or check out the video for title track "Divine Times," as premiered over at Impose.

NEW T-SHIRTS

10 March 2015

We have some new T-shirts over in the shop, designed by Arrington de Dionyso and printed by The Positive Press

They're priced at £12 for Gildan Ultra-Cotton - go take a look.

SAUNA YOUTH'S 'DISTRACTIONS'

24 February 2015

We're excited to announce that we'll be releasing Sauna Youth's new album 'Distractions' on 8 June.

Their colossal new song "Transmitters" just premiered over at The Quietus. You can listen to it above, pre-order the record or read all about now.

DEERHOOF'S "BLACK PITCH"

1 February 2015

Ahead of their imminent European tour (full dates below), Deerhoof have just released the official video for "Black Pitch" from their recent 'La Isla Bonita' album.

It sees them take a boat journey along the River Thames and explore some lesser known spots on the foreshore.

The album is over in the shop right now and you can see Deerhoof in the following places shortly:

14.02 - Warszawa (PL), Dzik
16.02 - Berlin (DE), Lido
17.02 - Leipzig (DE), Conne Island
18.02 - Frankfurt (DE), Zoom
19.02 - Paris (FR), Petit Bain
20.02 - Mons (BE), Maison Folie
21.02 - Amsterdam (NL), Melkweg
23.02 - Bristol (UK), Marble Factory
24.02 - Glasgow (UK), Stereo
25.02 - Leeds (UK), Brudenell Social Club
26.02 - London (UK), Oval Space
28.02 - Saint Malo (FR), La Route Du Rock

ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT IN EUROPE

02 November 2014

Ed Schrader's Music Beat kick-off a European tour this week.

They are one of the most brilliantly bizarre and bizarrely brilliant live forces you will ever behold. Go check them out:

03.11 - Cherbourg - Bar Le Transat
04.11 - Brussels - Madame Moustache
05.11 - Utrecht - Acu
06.11 - London - Shepherd's Bush Empire
07.11 - Glasgow - Old Hairdresser
08.11 - Sheffield - Tye Die Tapes
09.11 - Manchester - Kraak
10.11 - London - The Lexington
11.11 - Amsterdam - Dokazaal
12.11 - Dresden - Groovestation
13.11 - Hamburg - Hafenklang
15.11 - Berlin - Schokoladen
16.11 - Prague - Basement Bar
17.11 - Vienna - Rhiz
18.11 - Esslingen - Komma
19.11 - Freiburg - Slowclub
21.11 - Lyon - Grrrnd Zero
22.11 - Paris - Point Ephemere

TRASH KIT'S 'CONFIDENCE'

3 October 2014

The long-awaited sophomore album from Trash Kit has been announced today.

The album is called 'Confidence' and will hit the shops on 1 December, though you can pre-order it now.

Full details are also up on the band's artist page.

ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT: NEW
VIDEO AND LIVE DATES

20 August 2014

Here's the beyond-awesome new video for "Televan" from Ed Schrader's Music Beat's most recent album 'Party Jail'.

Big thanks to The Quietus for premiering it and to Justin Barnes for directing the eyeball-popping visuals!

The band are presently on tour in the USA and coming to Europe very soon, with two stops in London.

DEERHOOF'S 'LA ISLA BONITA'

20 August 2014

Almost 11 years ago, we put on our first show by a band named Deerhoof. Now we're releasing their new album! It's also their 20th anniversary!

'La Isla Bonita' will come out on 3 November, with 10 new songs that alternate between minimalism and bombast, melody and dissonance, and dynamism and tranquility.

The first song to drop is "Exit Only", which you can hear in our 'Latest Releases Mixtape' below.

You can also find out more over at the blog and pre-order the CD or LP now for shipping later in the year.

VEXX'S 'VEXX' OUT SOON

10 August 2014

We'll be releasing VEXX's re-mastered debut record 'Vexx' on 29 September, as a joint venture with our friends at M'Lady's Records.

Living in and playing out of Olympia, Washington, VEXX have been devastating the Pacific Northwest music hubs for the last year now, so this mini album is one helluva death-defying listen.

You can stream it over at SoundCloud or pre-order the CD or LP now.

SPRAY PAINT'S 'CUSSIN'

17 July 2014

Our latest release is imminent - a fierce EP from Austin, Texas no wave punk outfit, Spray Paint.

Available on 7" or digitally, it's a solid slab of repeato-rock rapture - buzz-sawing guitars run headlong through labyrinthine tunnels of reverb, chased down by some wildly brain-bashing drums and a three-way jostle for the words.

You can pre-order it now in the shop, ready for shipping on August 11, or take a listen over at SoundCloud.

DOG CHOCOLATE / RAVIOLI ME AWAY

24 February 2014

The latest instalment in our split LP series is out today.

It teams up like-mindedly loopy, art-damaged Londoners, Ravioli Me Away and Dog Chocolate.

Inspired by an evening when both bands performed at London's DIY-hub Power Lunches, this LP came together through mutual appreciation, as well as gastronomic necessity.

You can grab a copy of the LP over in the shop right now or stream it below.

TRASH KIT ON TOUR

2 February 2014

Hurray! Trash Kit will return with a new album on Upset The Rhythm this year, working title "Confidence".

You should catch them on their quick UK gallivant ahead of their Euro dates with The Ex as part of their touring festival! Here are the dates...

25.02 - Glasgow - Old Hairdresser's
26.02 - Manchester - Gulliver's*
27.02 - London - The Grosvenor^
28.02 - The Hague - Paard Van Troje"
01.03 - Amsterdam - Paradiso"
02.03 - Utrecht - Tivoli"

* = w/ Sex Hands
^ = w/ As Ondas & Primetime
" = w/ The Ex, Thurston Moore & Han Bennink

'HALO HALO' OUT TODAY

8 July 2013

Halo Halo are three friends living in South London, writing a primal, hyper-melodic music that makes you want to dance into the mountains and throw a rope around the moon.

We're delighted to be releasing their eagerly-awaited, self-titled debut album today - you can get your hands on a copy over in the shop.

The album showcases their shared love of the naturalism of folk music and the freedom of punk.

But the 12 tracks are also shot through in clattering technicolour with traditional forms of Filipino music - the band are named after a very colourful, refreshing hotchpotch of a dessert from the Philippines, where Rachel Horwood's (vocals, banjo, also of the band Trash Kit) family are from.

You can read and hear more here or watch the video for "Taro Taro Taro" below for a glimpse of the album's sound.

CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA'S 'SHROUD'

24 June 2013

Our latest release is out today and you can order it in the shop right now.

It's the 'Shroud' LP from Baltimore resident and in-demand producer, Chester Endersby Gwazda. Chester began quietly writing and recording an ever-growing personal catalogue of pop-centric gems amidst his busy schedule realising the visions of others.

These songs have grown into his debut album 'Shroud', which is full of vocal harmonies, meticulous arrangements and precise timbres that bespeak his sensitive ear and fascination with pop music.

You can listen to 'Skewed' below to see what we mean - a track Pitchfork quite rightly describes as "trembling with vitality".

Skewed

ANNOUNCING YARD PARTY

9 June 2013

We're super excited to announce YARD PARTY - a three day music festival taking place at Hackney Wick's tremendous and intrepid Yard Theatre in August.

It'll focus on a wide variety of international underground music, from folk to noise by way of damaged romantic pop - scroll down for the full line-up.

YARD PARTY's intention is to haul the DIY concert out of its expected parameters and into 'interesting pastures new' - to enhance the potency of the music and its effect on the audience, and to deconstruct the passive nature of what witnessing live music in 2013 shouldn't be.

The festival will take place on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 August from 5:00 to midnight, and then on Saturday 17 August from noon to midnight, all-dayer style.

Tickets are £33 for the weekend, or £12, £10 and £15 for each day - you can buy them now.

JACCO GARDNER ADDED TO FUZZBOX

3 April 2013

Hot off the presses! We're adding the brilliant, baroque pop multi instrumentalist Jacco Gardner to our FuzzBox event at Tufnell Park Dome on 16 May.

Gardner creates a unique sound, combining the sounds of harpsichord, strings, flutes and other classical instruments with raw psychedelic effects.

Joining Purling Hiss, White Fence, Mikal Cronin and The Pheromoans, Jacco also keeps the best company!

FEBRUARY MAKES A BRIDGE

21 December 2012

On Saturday 16 February 2013, we're teaming up with Night School for a joint label showcase entitled 'February Makes a Bridge'.

It'll start at 1 in the afternoon at Hackney Wick's Yard Theatre, with 10 acts performing - that's Golden Grrrls, Apostille, Halo Halo, Acolytes, Trash Kit, Way Through, Peepholes, Bomber Jackets and Paco Sala.

Tickets are a mere £7 and available now.

PEEPHOLES' 'THE OVERSPILL' OUT TODAY

26 November 2012

Available on weighty 180g LP, CD and MP3, Peepholes' debut album 'The Overspill' is released today worldwide.

You can pick up a copy from all good record shops or our own webstore, or visit Dazed for a stream of the whole thing.

With the synth/drums duo treading a tightrope between underground punk and dance music, the album is full of cloaked anthems as likely to open celestial gates with keys of repetition as to soundtrack a Dark Age future.

ED SCHRADER'S MUSIC BEAT IN EUROPE

28 October 2012

Ed Schrader's Music Beat start their European tour tomorrow in London at The Victoria, Dalston.

Armed with just a floor tom (with a light bulb in it), bass guitar and set of lungs, they whip up a punk-dipped paranoid pop that's second to none.

You can catch them across Europe over the next few weeks or take a listen to a couple of tracks from 'Jazz Mind' - their recent LP for UTR - below.

29.10 - London - Dalston Victoria
31.10 - Leamington Spa - Zephyr Lounge
01.11 - York - Stereo
02.11 - Glasgow - Nice N Sleazy
04.11 - Manchester - Sounds Of The Other City
05.11 - Brighton - Sticky Mike's
06.11 - Ghent - Kinky Star
07.11 - Rennes - La Bascule
08.11 - Paris - La Mecanique Ondulatoire
09.11 - Karlsruhe - Kohi
10.11 - Stuttgart - PopNotPop Festival
11.11 - Lausanne - Oblo Sonic Cinema
12.11 - Lyon - Grrrnd Zero
13.11 - Giessen - AK44
14.11 - Wurzburg - Theater Ensemble
15.11 - Linz - Stwst
16.11 - Nurnberg - Musikverein
17.11 - Ilmenau - Baracke
18.11 - Dresden - Ostpol
19.11 - Prag - Club Final
20.11 - Halle - Huhnermanhattan
21.11 - Bielefeld - AJZ
22.11 - Brussels - Magasin 4
23.11 - Berlin - Schokoladen
24.11 - Erfurt - Woodstock

When I'm In My Car | Sermon

OUT NOW - THE PHEROMOANS & FUTURE ISLANDS

3 September 2012

We have two new records out today and thought you might like a quick preview.

The Pheromoans' 'Does This Guy Stack Up?' is in the shop on both heavyweight LP, which is limited to 500 copies, and CD.

The album sees the deadpan DIY six piece take a slight departure from their sound of old. The songs lean into a more pop-balanced realm and the band's experimental tape collage approach sounds more natural than ever. Here's the video for "Grab a Chair".

Meanwhile, 'Tomorrow / The Fountain' from Future Islands' is available on a lovely white 7".

"Tomorrow" is a soulful swoon, its light tread is mesmerising amongst the slow burning synth cycles and relaxed bass progress, while "The Fountain" is a luscious narrative sunk into a slow dance. Take a listen below.

'JAZZ MIND' OUT NOW

25 June 2012

Out today, our latest release is 'Jazz Mind' from Ed Schrader's Music Beat, who The Wire describe as "a crazily interesting Baltimore duo using bass, drum and vocals to do something very pummelsome in a punk way without cowtowing to any of the genre's cliches."

The record is available on digipack CD and white LP (take a look at some pics on the blog) for £10 in the shop.

To whet your appetite, here's a new video for the sprawlingly awesome "When I'm In A Car". And if you want to catch them live, they're on tour in the US throughout July and August - full dates here.

NEW SHOWS

2 May 2012

We have confirmed plenty of new shows in recent weeks, including Dan Deacon, Black Dice and Quintron and Miss Pussycat, which stretch out into autumn. Be sure to scroll down for the full details.

NTS RADIO SHOW 5

12 April 2012

The fifth episode of our monthly radio show for NTS is online now. It's an 'Easter Special' and features many joyous sounds for spring.

You can listen to it here or take a look at the track list on the here.

NEW NEWS

16 February 2012

Gentle Friendly, Way Through and Peepholes have just completed the UTR Kingdom Tour, performing in the near and far of the British Isles.

They blogged the experience, so you can find out more about the shows - and the sights seen along the way - over at Tumblr.

If you'd like something to listen to while you're at it, then check out the third instalment of our monthly radio show for NTS.

UTR'S 'KINGDOM TOUR'

18 January 2012

This February sees us hit the road with three incredibly inventive bands from our native soil.

Gentle Friendly, Way Through and Peepholes will be performing in a revolving line up, bringing their pastoral punk, junked rhythms and tribal synth dance parties to the near and far of the United Kingdom.

The full tour dates are below and all three bands have fresh releases over in the shop.

03.02 - BRIGHTON - Green Door Store
04.02 - MANCHESTER - Kraak Gallery
05.02 - CARDIFF - Undertone
07.02 - LONDON - Cafe Oto
08.02 - LEEDS - Brudenell Social Club
09.02 - NEWCASTLE - Teasy Does It
10.02 - GLASGOW - Nice N Sleazy
11.02 - LEAMINGTON SPA - Leamington Assembly
12.02 - CAMBRIDGE - The Portland

WAY THROUGH'S 'ARROW SHOWER'

2 October 2011

Way Through's debut album 'Arrow Shower' is due to hit record stores on Monday 10 October and is available for pre-order via our shop right now.

This pastoral punk duo - originally from Shropshire, now residing in London - are informed by the field as much as the flyover. They write songs which phase in and out with guitar, tapes, damaged drums and vocals.

Using wrong-footed repetition, rapid interplay and free-looping happenstance, 'Arrow Shower' is a ragged yet intuitive tapestry of sound, with songs that walk the streets of market towns, wait forever at bus stops and lose themselves in edgelands.

We're hosting a free, record release party too on Friday at The Victoria in Dalston, with a super line-up of supports and guest DJs.

But if you can't wait until then to hear them, here's the video for "Gallant Show". It captures the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - a ritual that's taken place in the Staffordshire village each September since 1226.

"OUT OF RUINS" VIDEO

29 August 2011

Here's a new video for KIT's song 'Out Of Ruins', taken from their recent album 'Invocation' on Upset The Rhythm.

The 16mm film by Steven Andrew Garcia sees a Predator-masked kid with a guitar-smashing complex trailing around Los Angeles fulfilling his primal urge to destroy.

If you like what you see and hear, 'Invocation' is in the shop right now.

YES WAY!

11 July 2011

We're very pleased to announce that we're holding our weekend festival, YES WAY, for the third time on Friday 12 - Sunday 14 August.

Building on the success of the last two year's sold out events, it will see 45 bands, representing the length and breadth of the British Isles, perform over two stages at Peckham art hub, The Bussey Building.

There'll also be a temporary DIY supermarket, tasty local and vegan food, and The Bussey Building's own rooftop barbeque.

Tickets are £5 for the Friday night, £8 each for the Saturday and Sunday, or £18 for the whole weekend via WeGotTickets.

Full line-up details are over at the YES WAY mini site.

JOHN MAUS' 'HEAD FOR THE COUNTRY'

23 June 2011

'Head For The Country' is the pivotal track from John Maus' eagerly anticipated third album 'We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves' which is released on Monday.

It was one of the last songs to make the album and with its elegiac disco bounce it leaves a lasting impression, meditating on human beings seeking salvation in the great outdoors.

John's just released the video for the song, directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford. It sees him heading out into snowy Minnesotan edgelands, driving to a mysterious radar base and communicating with space via flashing auras and spinning satellites.

You can check it out below, download the MP3 here and pre-order the CD and LP over in the shop. John's also on tour in the US right now - full details follow.

25.06 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *
26.06 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
28.06 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands *
29.06 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge *
30.06 - Boston, MA - Great Scott *
02.07 - Winooski, VT - Monkey House*
03.07 - Philadelphia, PA - Making Time @ Voyeur *
05.07 - Washington, DC - Black Cat Backstage *
06.07 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl *
07.07 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree *
08.07 - New Orleans, LA - Howlin Wolf *
09.07 - Austin, TX - Mohawk Inside *
12.07 - San Diego, CA - Casbah *
13.07 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar *
15.07 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *

* = w / Puro Instinct

BACK IN STOCK

5 June 2011

We have a couple of previously sold out releases back in stock in the shop right now.

Future Islands' 'Wave Like Home' has returned on CD, while you can pick up John Maus' debut album 'Songs' on LP once more (this time it's on white vinyl with subtly different cover art) and his second full-length 'Love is Real' on CD.

That's right - no need for eBay any more!

PLEASE / SPIN SPIN THE DOGS 'SPLIT'

8 May 2011

The next installment of our UK underground split LP series is out this week and it's an absolute corker with Please and Spin Spin The Dogs teaming up.

With a love of flipping the mundane on its head whilst running with the pulse of punk today, this record totally blows us away every listen. You can pick up the record from our webshop now.

It's £10 postage paid in the UK, comes on heavyweight black vinyl and features some enigmatic painted artwork inspired by Randy Newman.

PLEASE - Pass The Apple

SPIN SPIN THE DOGS - Jumbo

'NO BABIES' OUT TODAY

2 May 2011

Our newest record hits shops far and wide, as well as our humble webstore, today. It's No Babies self-titled debut LP.

This five piece friend army from Oakland, California have worked tirelessly since 2008 to develop a unique 'new punk' sound influenced by jazz, art music and hardcore, not unlike Old Skull playing Schoenberg, while Magma heckles from the audience.

The record perfectly showcases their chaotic abandon in fantasy pink 180g glitter vinyl, with a heavy card reverse board sleeve featuring puppets and models that were made by the band to demonstrate the corruption of power through time.

It's £10 postage paid in the UK.

NO BABIES - Morlocks Take Manhattan

'UPCOMING IDENTITY' MIX TAPE

21 April 2011

We just did an interview for i-D magazine and made them a virtual mixtape featuring some highlights from our forthcoming releases.

Take a listen below or over at Soundcloud for new songs from Gentle Friendly, Way Through, Spin Spin The Dogs, No Babies, Tune-Yards, Jelas, Thee Oh Sees, Please, Sun Araw and John Maus.

NO BABIES ON TOUR

11 April 2011

No Babies are beginning their first UK tour this coming Friday in London.

The five piece friend army from Oakland, California, will be bringing their unique 'new punk' sound - influenced by jazz, art music and hardcore - to the places below in preparation for the imminent release of their self-titled debut album on Upset The Rhythm.

14.04 - London - Corsica Studios
15.04 - Leamington Spa - The Old Library
16.04 - Leeds - The Cardigan Arms
18.04 - London - The Lexington
19.04 - Manchester - Islington Mill
20.04 - Glasgow - 13th Note
21.04 - Bristol - Mother's Ruin
22.04 - Liverpool - Don't Drop The Dumbells
23.04 - London - Power Lunches Arts Cafe
24.04 - Cardiff - Undertone

JOHN MAUS & PLUG ON TOUR

25 March 2011

John Maus is on tour around Europe right now, with PLUG joining him on dates in the UK and Paris.

Of course, they'll both be in London on Friday for our Spaghetti Tree festival too!

25.03 - Frankfurt - Globe
26.03 - Manchester - The Mill*
27.03 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club*
28.03 - Newcastle - Star & Shadow Cinema*
29.03 - Glasgow - Mono*
31.03 - Bristol- The Croft*
01.04 - London - Bussey Building
02.04 - Paris - La Fleche D'Or*
04.04 - Hamburg - Golden Pudel
05.04 - Nurenberg - K4
06.04 - Brussels - Les Ateliers Claus
07.04 - Tilburg - Incubate
09.04 - Berlin - HAU
10.04 - Prague - 007
22.05 - Cheshire - Friends Of Mine Festival

* = w / PLUG

KIT ON TOUR

18 March 2011

KIT are beginning a short jaunt around Europe this weekend in support on their latest UTR album 'INVOCATION'.

They were recently described by Rob Barber of High Places as "a strange intersection where Void meet Incredible String Band". This gives some insight into their wonderful muddling of genres - fast, short, defiant songs that mess with the ideas of pop music and wayward punk.

They'll be landing in London on March 22 and 28, with full dates as follows:

20.03 - Leeds - Packhorse
21.03 - Glasgow - Stereo
22.03 - London - The Lexington
23.03 - Cologne - Tsunami Club
24.03 - Berlin - Marie Antoinette
25.03 - Amsterdam - OCCII
26.03 - Leiden - SUB071
27.03 - Rotterdam - Poortgebouw
28.03 - London - The Old Blue Last

KIT - Cure Light Wounds

NEW JOHN MAUS DUE IN JUNE

2 March 2011

John Maus, the Minnesotan pop enigma, returns this June with his eagerly awaited third album entitled 'We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves'.

We'll be releasing the album in the UK, Europe, Australia and Japan on June 27, while North America will get it a day later via new imprint Ribbon Music.

The record breaks new ground for Maus, with the shirt pulling and air punching of his impassioned live performance finally captured in all its frenzied appeal alongside a tender inner space.

As a sneak preview, new track "Quantum Leap" is now available below or via iTunes. It's a song full of dead zones, glancing slaps and oscillating solos.

"Heart to heart, mind to mind, we are the ones who seem to travel through time," intones Maus resolutely through the mist.

For further information about the release, plus imminent live dates at SXSW and across the UK and Europe, click here.

JOHN MAUS - Quantum Leap

ANNOUNCING SPAGHETTI TREE

17 February 2011

April Fools' Day is an often maligned time of the year. Since the times of Chaucer the day has persisted in the unravelling of sanity, practical jokes and tomfoolery, even though nowadays we're lucky to notice a hoax in the papers before all fun is culled by noon.

This is why we have decided to celebrate the day in style, restoring the event to its anarchic origins with a 48 hour spectacle of fun and music taking place in Peckham Rye's old cricket bat factory, The Bussey Building.

The two day event is entitled Spaghetti Tree in homage to the 1957 Panorama broadcast which fooled the nation.

On Friday 1 April we're lucky enough to have US sonic eccentrics Dan Deacon and John Maus throwing down the gauntlet to the UK's finest keyboard-weirding acts including PLUG, Munch Munch and Design A Wave. After the revels we'll lead a procession into the darkness of the Rye in an attempt to see one of William Blake's childhood visions of an angel in a tree.

The next day things get blown further apart as logic continues to be defied, this time with No Age, Japanther, Ducktails, Ignatz, Please, Peepholes, Hygiene, Woolf, Smack Wizards and Eternal Fags all performing across the space's several rooms.

So yes, we're guaranteeing the most fun April Fools' Day ever, along with it's confused Saturday brother. Feeling hungry? Let's reap the Spaghetti grove!

KIT & PLUG ON FILM

2 February 2011

Here are two new videos for you, accompanying some of our latest releases.

KIT inspire a hell of a lot of headbanging with "Ambrosia" taken from the 'Invocation' album, while PLUG provide a spartan rendition of "Body Story" - a highlight of their self-titled debut full-length.

If you like what you see and hear, both records are in the shop right now.

THREE NEW RELEASES

19 November 2010

Three new albums from Cleckhuddersfax, Munch Munch and PLUG will be hitting stores over the next few weeks, but they're all available in our shop right now.

All three come in deluxe CD and LP versions and are £10 postage paid in the UK. Click the links above for full details on each or take a listen below.

CLECKHUDDERSFAX - The Numismatist

MUNCH MUNCH - Cyclorama

PLUG - Body Story

'NEW LOVE.' OUT TODAY

8 November 2010

'New Love.' - the sophomore album from Former Ghosts - is out today and available in our new look web shop.

With a back drop of claustrophobic synth-pop, the album sees Freddy Rupert search for a cure for the heartbreak and jealousy of the past, while beginning a new obsession - the need to replace the old love.

On the journey, he's joined by long-term collaborators Nika Roza Danilova of Zola Jesus and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, along with first-timer, Yasmine Kittles of Tearist.

It's available of CD and LP - both £10 postage paid in the UK. A sneak peak is below...

Chin Up

NEW TRASH KIT 7"

31 October 2010

Trash Kit have returned with a new 7" single bearing two of their finest tracks yet.

'Teenagers' is a triumph of immediacy, mixed emotions and thunderstorms, whilst double A-side 'How Do You Do?' is ultimately poignant with its mixture of handclaps and twisting melody.

The 7" is limited to 500 copies on transulcent orange vinyl and available in the shop right now and all good record stores on Monday.

The digital version is accompanied by an exclusive song entitled 'Happy New Year', taken from the same session as their album and included recently on their tour-only cassette compilation.

GUN OUTFIT ON TOUR

21 October 2010

Gun Outfit - Olympia, Washington's three-piece rippers - kick-off an England tour at The Grosvenor this evening.

Honing in on influences from past greats like Meat Puppets and Dinosaur Jr, Gun Outfit create their own sound that is equal parts melody, jangle, punk and pop. They will no doubt be playing songs from their PPM debut 'Dim Light'.

Full dates as follows...

21.10 - LONDON - The Grosvenor
22.10 - BRIGHTON - Cowley Club
23.10 - LEEDS - Packhorse
24.10 - MANCHESTER - Trof NQ
25.10 - BIRMINGHAM - The Vic
26.10 - LONDON - The Victoria

KIT'S 'INVOCATION' OUT NOW

17 October 2010

'INVOCATION' - the second full-length from Los Angeles quartet KIT - is out tomorrow and available in the shop right now.

Recorded at the Department of Safety in Anacortes, Washington by Phil Elverum, the album sees the band in a decidedly more reflective and considered mood.

Rooted in the occult and metaphysics, it's drenched in West Coast sunshine noir - a contradiction of excessive over-the-top speed-demon pop and ominous leviathans lurking right below the surface.

It's £10 postage paid in the UK. Have a listen below...

Cure Light Wounds

FREE MUNCH MUNCH DIGITAL SINGLE

17 October 2010

In late November, we'll be putting out Munch Munch's long-awaited debut album 'Double Visions'.

As a sneak preview, we're offering two tracks from the record as a free digital single, along with artwork by James Hines.

Click the links below to download them. Full album details will be coming soon.

Wolfman's Wife

Cyclorama

a.P.A.t.T. / PEEPHOLES AVAILABLE NOW

23 September 2010

The latest in our series of 'Split' releases hits all good records stores on Monday, but is available in our shop right now!

It sees Liverpool collective a.P.A.t.T. share a 12" circle of vinyl with Brighton / London duo Peepholes.

The former bring us mathy / synthy / Klezmery freak-outs, while the latter lay on party music for the lost at sea - swirling keyboard clusters, reverberating vocals and tribal drum batterings.

It's £10 postage paid in the UK. Check out the MP3s below for a brief taste...

a.P.A.t.T. - Village Idiot

PEEPHOLES - Sleep In The Shower

FUTURE ISLANDS, GRASS WIDOW & TRASH KIT ON TOUR

23 September 2010

Future Islands, and Grass Widow and Trash Kit are kicking-off tours next week.

They'll be starting in London on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, before heading off around the UK, Ireland, and on to Europe. Full details as follows...

FUTURE ISLANDS
29.09 - LONDON - CAMP Basement
30.09 - BRIGHTON - New Hero
01.10 - MANCHESTER - Islington Mill
02.10 - GLASGOW - 13th Note
03.10 - LEEDS - The Well
20.10 - DUBLIN - Workman's Club

GRASS WIDOW & TRASH KIT
30.09 - LONDON - The Old Blue Last
01.10 - BRIGHTON - Cowley Club
02.10 - BIRMINGHAM - Island Bar
03.10 - IPSWICH - McGintys
04.10 - MANCHESTER - Trof NQ
06.10 - SHEFFIELD - The Harley
07.10 - GLASGOW - 13th Note
08.10 - NEWCASTLE - Star & Shadow
09.10 - BRISTOL - Bristol County Sports Club
10.10 - LONDON - The Lexington*^
11.10 - PARIS - La Cantine de Belleville^
13.10 - AMSTERDAM - OT301^
14.10 - BERLIN - Marie-Antoinette^

* = w / Naked On The Vague & Wetdog
^ = No Trash Kit, Grass Widow only

PITCHFORK PREMIERES FORMER GHOSTS

23 September 2010

This week, Pitchfork is premiering the video for "New Orleans" - a fresh track from Former Ghosts' forthcoming sophomore album 'New Love.'

Directed by Michael Fierstein, the video features a young woman pushing away the idea of "love" that she fells she no longer wants and has been forced upon her. It was shot in the Silverlake and Echo Park districts of Los Angeles over the course of two days.

'New Love.' will be out in late October, but is available for pre-order from our shop right now.

UTR TELEVISION

6 September 2010

Episodes six and seven of Upset The Rhythm TV are available now.

They see John Maus pay a visit to the home of his hero, George Frideric Handel, and play a show at The Grosvenor, while Nika Roza Danilova of Zola Jesus challenges the media-constructed narrative of her identity as a goth and discusses her favourite sci-fi novelist.

DRUM EYES OUT NOW

19 August 2010

Drum Eyes' first long player is out now on UTR and available in the shop - £10 postage paid in the UK.

It sees DJ Scotch Egg's drum thunder worship gang whip up a hypnotic maelstrom of tribal trip-outs, sludgy doom and weirdo Krautrock. There's been some great reviews already too from the likes of Loud & Quiet, Drowned in Sound and even NME. Check out the MP3 below for a taster!

50/50

UTR TELEVISION

7 August 2010

Our friend, Charles Chintzer Lai, has been doing a great job with our fledgling web TV series. Episodes two, three, four and five are all available now, featuring Younger Lovers, Silk Flowers, Rachel Aggs from Trash Kit's annual Barn Party and No Age, respectively.

K.I.T AND CLECK TOURS

7 August 2010

K.I.T and Cleckhuddersfax, who both have new albums imminent on UTR, are on tour right now - on the West Coast and around the UK and Ireland respectively. Full dates are as follows...

K.I.T
07.08 - Oakland - 21 Grand *
08.08 - Los Angeles - The Smell *
17.08 - Los Angeles - The Smell ^
16.08 - Irvine - University of California

* = Zum Records 12 Year Anniversary Show
^ = w/ Fat Worm of Error, Foot Village, Tusk & Moses Campbell

CLECKHUDDERSFAX
07.08 - Belfast - Auntie Annie's Porterhouse
08.08 - Dublin - The Pint
12.08 - Liverpool - Shipping Forecast
13.08 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club*
14.08 - London - Auto-Italia^

* = w/ Normal Man, Astral Social Club & Beards
^ = YES WAY

YES WAY!

18 July 2010

After last year's thrills and spills, we're teaming up with Auto-Italia again for another YES WAY festival, taking place 13-15 August.

It's our aim to celebrate the best and brightest of the UK's art and music underground. We've just finished booking the live music element - 41 acts over Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday - and 10+ multimedia artists are also signed up, with more to be added.

It'll all take place at Auto-Italia's fantastic gallery and project space on Peckham's Old Kent Road.

Please visit the YES WAY mini site, for full line-up and ticket info.

UTR TELEVISION

11 July 2010

Our friend, Charles Chintzer Lai, who was responsible for the Trash Kit 'Cadets' video below, has begun work on an Upset The Rhythm pirate web TV series.

The first episode is available now and features an interview with the aforementioned band, plus live footage from The Scala and Matt Groening's ATP. Check it out below or over at Vimeo.

Look out for episode two very soon, involving a pyjama party and Brontez from the Younger Lovers - you have been warned!

BRILLIANT COLORS IN EUROPE

4 June 2010

Yes, we have another tour waking up Summer on our doorstep! Brilliant Colors are terrific - we saw them play in NYC last year and were blown away, so now they're here in Europe like an exotic bejewelled totem spilling out American drama, dreamy relationship introspection and joyous pop in abundance.

Here are the dates. Plunge in and stalk them all over our landmass.

05.06 - London - The Luminaire^
06.06 - Brighton - Cowley Club*
07.06 - Bristol - Mother's Ruin*
08.06 - Cardiff - Clwb Ifor Bach*
09.06 - Leeds - The Well*
10.06 - Glasgow - 13th Note*
11.06 - Newcastle - Star & Shadow*
12.06 - Nottingham - Spanky Van Dyke's*
13.06 - Manchester - Trof NQ*
15.06 - Paris - Le Pop In
16.06 - Lyon - Le Sonic
17.06 - Zurich - Binz
18.06 - St Etienne - L'assommoir
19.06 - Innsbruck - PMK
20.06 - Leipzig - Needle & The Damage Done
21.06 - Dresden - Ostpol
22.06 - Berlin - Bang Bang Club
23.06 - London - Scala"

^ = w/ Thee Oh Sees
* = w/ La La Vasquez
" = w/ Tune-Yards

ONEOHTRIX ON THE ROAD

27 May 2010

Our friends Daniel and Jan - better known Oneohtrix Point Never and Tomutonttu - are heading out on tour together today. There'll be returning to London on Monday for our show at Cargo. Full dates below...

27.05 - Brighton - Freebutt
28.05 - Leeds - The Cardigan Arms
29.05 - Glasgow - Arts School
30.05 - Manchester - Saki Bar
31.05 - London - Cargo

TRASH KIT'S "CADETS" VIDEO

16 May 2010

Trash Kit have made a super video for "Cadets" with director Charles Chintzer Lai and a cohort of day-glo line dancers.

It's premiering right now over at Stereogum or you can check it out in minature below.

The song's taken from their self-titled debut album, available in our shop on digipack CD or lovely green vinyl.

FORMER GHOSTS ON THE ROAD

16 May 2010

Former Ghosts and Parenthetical Girls are kicking off a tour of the UK today. They're starting in Brighton, taking in Wales, Ireland and the North, before heading back for our show at The Luminaire next Saturday. Full details below...

16.05 - Brighton - Freebutt
17.05 - Cardiff - Ten Feet Tall
18.05 - Manchester - Trof NQ
19.05 - Leeds - Common Place
20.05 - Dublin - Twisted Pepper
22.05 - London - The Luminaire

TRASH KIT ON SALE

26 April 2010

Trash Kit's much-anticipated, self-titled debut album is now available in the shop - £10 postage paid in the UK.

It comes in digipack CD and green LP versions, and has had some amazing reviews so far - check out the press bit on their artists page if you need convincing!

And here are two MP3s by way of a taster...

Cadets | Fame

TALK NORMAL IN THE UK

22 April 2010

We've booked a UK tour for Brooklyn's lightning-strike guitar-n-drums duo Talk Normal, which kicks-off on Monday.

Their debut album 'Sugarland' was one of our favourite records of 2009, so we thoroughly recommend you check them out while they're in your town! Full dates as follows...

26.04 - London - Cargo
27.04 - Brighton - Hector's House
28.04 - Sheffield - Penelope's
29.04 - Glasgow - 13th Note
30.04 - Newcastle - Star & Shadow
01.05 - Nottingham - The Chameleon
02.05 - Manchester - The Angel Centre
03.05 - London - CAMP Basement"

^ = w / Crystal Antlers & Teeth
* = w / Peepholes & Fair Ohs
" = w / Viv Albertine

COLD PUMAS 7" OUT NOW

20 April 2010

We have a new 7" out today from Brighton's Cold Pumas, which sees the trio at the zenith of their dance orientated weird-outs.

It contains two tracks of cyclical, harmonised guitar riffs, impressionistic vocals and interwoven, euphoric rhythms, all on a lovely slab of sky blue vinyl. It's in the shop now priced at £4.50 postage paid.

You can read more blurb here or stream one side known as 'Beat Mystery' over at their MySpace.

DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! AT SXSW

12 March 2010

Death Sentence: Panda! are playing a heap of dates at and around SXSW, along some with UTR label mates. A quick summary is below, but check their MySpace for full times and locations.

12.03 - Santa Cruz, Ca - 215 Storey
13.03 - Los Angeles, Ca - The Smell*
14.03 - Tempe, Az - YOBS
15.03 - Las Cruces, NM - The Trainyard
17.03 - Austin, Tx - Domy Books
18.03 - Austin, Tx - House Show
18.03 - Austin, Tx - Baby Blue Studio
19.03 - Austin, Tx - Victory Grill
20.03 - Austin, Tx - ROFL House
20.03 - Austin, Tx - House Show
23.03 - Lubbock, Tx - Bash Rip Rocks^
24.03 - Albuquerque, NM - Coalmine Collective^
25.03 - Thousand Palms, Ca - Oasis Bar
27.03 - Los Angeles, Ca - Echo Curio^

* = w/ Foot Village
^ = w/ K.I.T

U.S. GIRLS IN THE U.K.

20 February 2010

Here's an excited list of shows we set up for U.S. Girls, who is one of our favourite people and artists! Megan's new album slays and this trip starts kicking its legs today!

22.02 - Brighton - Cowley Club
23.02 - Nottingham - Chameleon
24.02 - Newcastle - Head Of Steam
25.02 - Glasgow - 13th Note
26.02 - Belfast - The Menagerie
27.02 - Dublin - Thomas House
28.02 - Birmingham - The Victoria
01.03 - London - Café Oto

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^
07.05 - Minehead - Matt Groening's ATP

* = 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.

NEW YEAR TOURS

4 January 2010

Gary War, Bird Names and Death Sentence: Panda! are all about to kick-off New Year tours. The former two are taking on the UK and Europe, while the latter is opting for the warmer climes of California, Arizona and Mexico! Full dates are as follows...

GARY WAR

05.01 - Manchester - Islington Mill
06.01 - Dublin - Upstairs at Whelans
07.01 - Belfast - Pavillion
08.01 - Glasgow - Cry Parrot
09.01 - Newcastle - Star & Shadow
10.01 - Cambridge - Portland Arms
11.01 - Brighton - Sex Is Disgusting
12.01 - London - The Lexington

DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA!

08.01 - Los Angeles - The Smell *
09.01 - Palm Springs - J Dees Landing *
10.01 - Irvine - Acrobatics Everyday, UCI *
11.01 - Mexicali - TBA *
12.01 - Tempe - Yob's *
15.01 - Los Angeles - Punky Reggae Party

* = w/ Piles

BIRD NAMES

12.01 - London - The Lexington
13.01 - Brighton - Hector's House
14.01 - Liverpool - Bumper
15.01 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club
16.01 - Glasgow - 13th Note
17.01 - Newcastle - Cumberland Arms
18.01 - Manchester - Retro Bar
20.01 - Cardiff - Buffalo Bar
21.01 - London - Barden's Boudoir
22.01 - Westcliff On Sea - Barlambs
23.01 - Metz - Le Caveau
24.01 - Lyon - Grnd 0
27.01 - Lausanne - La Dépendance
29.01 - Prague - Klub 007
30.01 - Wroclaw - CRK
31.01 - Berlin - HBC
01.02 - Hamburg - Hafenklang
02.02 - Bielefeld - AJZ Bielefeld
04.02 - Tournai - Water Moulin
05.02 - Ghent - Kraak
06.02 - Paris - La Flèche d'Or

NEW THINGS IN THE SHOP

5 November 2009

We have lots of new stuff in the shop available to buy right now or to pre-order for despatch in November, including a T-shirt from John Maus, debut full-lengths from Former Ghosts and Gentle Friendly, Gay Against You's latest LP, a split 7" homage to Morrissey from Xiu Xiu and Parenthetical Girls and The Sticks' sophomore album on both CD and double 7". Gasp!

FOOT VILLAGE IN EUROPE

5 November 2009

Yes, Foot Village return to Europe pretty much one year to the day since their first brave motions in our continent of odd languages and mixed-up meats. WE ARE VERY EXCITED, tell the world, spread the word!

05.11 - Amsterdam - Melkweg
06.11 - London - Barden's Boudoir
07.11 - Brighton - Freebutt
08.11 - Cardiff - Buffalo Bar
09.11 - Manchester - Trof
10.11 - Glasgow - CCA
11.11 - Newcastle - Head Of Steam
12.11 - Leeds - Cardigan Arms
13.11 - Liverpool - St Luke's
16.11 - Paris - Glazart
17.11 - Clermont-Ferrand - Raymond Bar
18.11 - Dudingen - Bad Bonn
19.11 - Lyon - Grnd Zero
21.11 - Prague - 007
22.11 - Berlin - West Germany
23.11 - Lille - Malterie

NEW SONGS AND VIDEOS

12 October 2009

Former Ghosts and Foot Village are premiering new songs and videos on Stereogum and Pitchfork respectively this week.

Former Ghosts offer up "Unfolding" - an MP3 teaser of what to expect from forthcoming LP 'Fleurs' - while Foot Village give us the visual accompaniment to "Anti-Magic" from the album of the same name, available here right now.

MAUS IN EUROPE (WITH A NEW SHIRT)

15 October 2009

John Maus hits Paris, France on Sunday for the first date of a European tour, as below.

To celebrate, we have a brand new 'I SAW JOHN MAUS LIVE!' T-shirt design. If you can't make it to the shows, you can pick one up in the shop right now, priced at £12 including worldwide postage.

18.10 - Paris - Panic Room
19.10 - Paris - The Truskel Bar
25.10 - Glasgow - The V Club
26.10 - Bristol - The Croft
27.10 - Manchester - The Trof
28.10 - London - The Rest Is Noise
31.10 - Berlin - West Germany
01.11 - Cologne - King Georg
02.11 - Leipzig - Skala
03.11 - Hamburg - Pudel Club

FORMER GHOSTS ON TOUR

29 September 2009

Former Ghosts have a totally hypnotic album entitled 'Fleurs' coming out next month on Upset The Rhythm and, in support of the release, the band - Freddy Ruppert, Jamie Stewart and Nika Roza - are hitting the road in the US epic-style...

01.10 - San Diego - Soda Bar
02.10 - Phoenix - Trunk Space
03.10 - Tucson - Solar Culture
05.10 - Austin - Mohawk Inside
06.10 - Houston - Orange Show
07.10 - Mobile - Alabama Music Box
08.10 - Atlanta - Drunken Unicorn
09.10 - Durham - Duke Coffeehouse
10.10 - Washington - Comet Ping Pong
11.10 - Wilkes-Barre - Café Metropolis
12.10 - Philadelphia - First Unitarian Church
13.10 - New York - Monkey Town
14.10 - Boston - Middle East Upstairs
15.10 - Montreal - Il Motore
16.10 - Toronto - Whippersnapper
17.10 - Chicago - Andrew Rafacz Gallery
21.10 - Vancouver - Media Club
22.10 - Spokane - Empryean College
23.10 - Seattle - Vera Project
24.10 - Portland - Lewis and Clark College
27.10 - Merced - The Partisan
28.10 - San Francisco - Hemlock
29.10 - San Jose - Works Gallery
30.10 - San Luis Obispo - Arts Center
31.10 - Los Angeles - Synchronicity Space

FUTURE ISLANDS & EAR PWR

7 September 2009

Future Islands begin their UK tour this evening, bringing their resolute synth-punk bounce to Glasgow before heading for Ireland and then England.

They'll be accompanied by fellow Baltimore residents, EAR PWR, on all dates - a fiery young duo, who blend Italo Disco, Baltimore Club and twee indie pop into a nuclear party grenade!

07.09 - Glasgow - Captains Rest
08.09 - Edinburgh - Sneaky Petes
09.09 - Dublin - Upstairs at Whelens
10.09 - Manchester - The Bay House
12.09 - Liverpool - Club Evol - Korova
13.09 - Leeds - Royal Park Cellar
14.09 - Nottingham - Bodega
15.09 - Brighton - Free Butt
16.09 - Bristol - Start the Bus
17.09 - Bournemouth - Ibar
18.09 - London - The Lexington

GENTLE FRIENDLY PREVIEW

9 August 2009

Exciting times are afoot at UTR as the master for the new Gentle Friendly album 'Ride Slow' has just been turned in and our cauldrons of vinyl and plastic are bubbling on standby for its release come Monday 19 October on LP / CD.

In celebration we wanted you to hear two of our favourite tracks from the full length called 'R.I.P. Static' and 'Clean Breaker'. You can download them for free below, along with cover art and lyrics. Digital single, anyone?

R.I.P Static | Clean Breaker

PLEASE RELEASE ME

8 August 2009

We have so many releases coming up, we wanted to make a general noise about them so you have the scoop first.

Hands On Heads have a new album out this week through us. It's called 'Tough Fun' and writes their name in the sky with unlucky stars. It's a brilliant, oft-pop record and is also a fitting goodbye, as they self-sacrifice at the end of this month.

Former Ghosts have just sent us the tapes of their new record called 'Fleurs' which is the most brutal and beautiful record we've heard in a long time.

Right now Trash Kit are recording their debut album for UTR in the countryside. There's a lot of one take wonders and more than 20 tracks in the can so it's looking more than promising!

If that wasn't enough, both Gay Against You and Foot Village have albums coming out imminently, while the first album proper from The Sticks will be released next month on CD and double 7" too.

True to our word there's lots going on. Look out for our Smiths tribute 7" from Xiu Xiu and Parenthetical Girls too. A cherry for every cake!

US of A

8 August 2009

We are finally putting together the photographs and video from our trip to the USA. Photographs of the shows are up on Flickr and we hope to get the videos on YouTube shortly. In addition, we are writing a tour report for the blog - the first episode is up already, with more to follow!

T.I.T.S, POCHAUNTED & SUN ARAW

12 June 2009

Yeah, we have two European tours kicking off this Saturday! The first is for T.I.T.S, which will see the four ladies of San Francisco bring their witchy, doom-laden pop first to the UK, then France and Germany, in support of sophomore LP 'Second Base' for UTR.

Secondly, Pocahaunted & Sun Araw are travelling the length and breadth Ireland, Scotland & England for the first time. Expect some seriously whirlwind voodoo performances! Full dates are as follows...

T.I.T.S

13.06 - Brighton - Cowley Club
14.06 - Cardiff - Buffalo Bar
15.06 - Manchester - Trof Northern Quarter
16.06 - Glasgow - 13th Note
17.06 - Sheffiled - The Shakespeare
18.06 - London - Barden's Boudoir
19.06 - Amesterdam - TBA
20.06 - Paris - TBA
21.06 - Lyon - Grrrnd Zero
22.06 - Berlin - TBA

POCAHAUNTED & SUN ARAW

13.06 - Dublin - The Joinery
14.06 - Belfast - The Menagerie
15.06 - Glasgow - Arc Studios
16.06 - Newcastle - Head of Steam
17.06 - Manchester - Islington Mill
18.06 - Sheffield - The Red House
19.06 - Nottingham - The Chameleon
20.06 - London - The Luminaire
21.06 - Cambridge - The Portland Arms

THREE NEW THINGS FOR SALE

6 May 2009

We have two brand new releases and a shirt available in the shop right now.

The first is the 'Feathers & Hallways' double A-side 7" from Future Islands. It offers us a glimpse at the poetic grandeur and heartfelt melody that their forthcoming second album is readying, and is the band's first release as a focussed three-piece.

Clasping beats and a buoyant bass and synth interplay set up the perfect backdrop for vocalist Sam Herring's extraordinary vocal delivery, at once tender, then joyous, then wounded - an impression of what true love can be when left to instinct.

The second is the fifth full-length album from Chicago's perfectly off-centre pop band Bird Names. 'Sings The Browns' is a sky's the limit album scribbled in loose, intuitive musicianship, reinforced by an ethos of radical unconscious play.

Inspired by street level living, emotional complexities and a quest to find a language to express the inexpressible, Bird Names like to cover a lot of ground - early female vocal pop, Fela Kuti, old folk, Patti Paige, honky tonk country, doo wop, swing, classic dub, kraut rock, Beefheart and 80s college rock. It's initially available on digipack CD with an LP version to follow shortly.

Aside from the music, we also have a new T-shirt design from Hands On Heads in the distro section. It's a super fine, two colour print combining archaic garments with shadow puppets. Lovely!

BIRD NAMES - People Should Get More Aware

THANK YOU!!!

30 March 2009

Just a quick note of thanks to everyone who came out to YES WAY this weekend, as well as to all of the artists who performed or exhibited, the lovely, lovely people at Auto-Italia, and our awesome sound crew!

We had much more fun than we could ever have imagined and we really hope you did too! Thanks so much to everyone involved!

T.I.T.S & WAVVES FOR SALE NOW

18 March 2009

We have two new awesome things in the shop right now! Firstly, 'Second Base' the sophomore release from the four ladies of San Francisco, T.I.T.S.

It follows their split album debut with Leopard Leg way back in 2006, drawing similarly from metal and doom, but stripping songs down to an icy core and pushing them into oblivion.

Chanted vocals, sparse, jarring guitars and a drum-centric focus all lend to a compelling sense of drama and impending ruin. Check out the 'Void' MP3 for a quick taster and then buy the beautiful, translucent blue LP here - £10 postage paid in the UK.

Secondly, we have a new T-shirt design courtesy of WAVVES's Nathan and Ryan. It features everyone's favourite teenage slogan "WAVVES 4 UPSET THE RHYTHM" accompanied by lots of good stuff like UFOs, bongs, CND signs and happy, sunny faces.

It's available in four sizes with pink print on a lovely cotton, sky blue shirt - £12 including worldwide postage.

T.I.T.S - Void

YES WAY

6 March 2009

We are super ecstatic to announce YES WAY - a two day festival celebrating the best and brightest of the UK's art and music underground, set to take place on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March.

The event is a collaboration between us and Auto-Italia - an artists' project space, currently residing in a former car showroom off the Old Kent Road, in Peckham.

Over the course of the weekend, 34 acts from all over the country will be performing, from noon