DEAP VALLY "Gonna Make My Own Money"

Deap Vally Announce 7 Inch Release of "Gonna Make My Own Money"

Out July 31^st On Ark Recordings

Band Releases Music Video 

 

"Think a hippie Karen O fronting Black Sabbath and
you're somewhere in the caustic,
blues-riffing ballpark as these Los Angelinos.
A hollerin', howlin', hell-raising duo."  NME  

"Their spit 'n' blood rock makes Joan Jett and Jack
White sound like the Disney Club." THE INDEPENDENT

Los Angeles based band Deap Vally are excited to announce the release of their debut single, "Gonna Make My Own Money," on Ark Recordings on July 31st. The song is a raucous and energetic blues rocker with an infectious chorus that puts this all-girl group on the map as heirs apparent to the throne left vacant by West Coasters Sleater Kinney and Bikini Kill. You can listen to and host the song via the SoundCloud link below.

http://soundcloud.com/deap-vally/gonna-make-my-own-money 

The band also released a video for "Gonna Make My Own Money," directed by Pablo Balderas. The video's style fits the song perfectly, presenting a hazy day-in-the-life aesthetic to what appears to be a scorching day in Los Angeles (is there any other type?), complete with lighting reminiscent of today's retro Instragram-style, car rides, and breaks to swim in the pool. Check out the video at the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PWXsTaBoD7A 

Bringing rock-hard grit and all-girl soul from the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, Deap Vally is made up of the howl of Lindsey Troy and the rhythm of Julie Edwards. Together, the duo break blues down to its simplest, most fundamental form: beat, melody, and meaning, while their scorching live shows are fast becoming the stuff of legend.

Deap Vally first met at a needlework class - yes, really - last year. Bonding over their crochet hooks with a love of the blues, first demos and videos of the girls' live shows have been cropping up online with increasing frequency over the past few months, playing w/ Soundgarden at Hyde Park in London this summer, and they've even caught the ears of one Josh Homme, whose Eagles of Death Metal invited the girls to open for them in LA.

The Raveonettes "She Owns The Streets"

THE RAVEONETTES PREMIERE NEW SINGLE SHE OWNS THE STREETS ON PITCHFORK   The Raveonettes are excited to premiere their first single "She Owns The Streets" - from their upcoming album "Observator" out September 11th on Vice Records - on Pitchfork.  Check it out here: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13849-she-owns-the-streets/  Click here to download "She Owns The Streets." Inspired by their surroundings, The Raveonettes have always been able to capture the experiences and emotions of every day life. "She Owns The Streets" is a perfect example of this. Songwriter Sune Rose Wagner says, "The real people I'd met and experiences I had over the last year in NY and Venice, CA all bled into these new songs. 'She Owns The Streets' for example is about a New York City street dancer. I've noticed her before dancing wildly on Bowery, running crazily in the street among the cabs and horrified passers-by. A friend of mine introduced me to her and we struck up a friendship. In 20 minutes I had written a song about the pleasures and pitfalls of being perceived as either a drug-crazed girl or an insane individual, simply because she dares to defy the laws of civility and conformity. Isolation can be a wonderful thing, but it doesn't afford you this kind of inspiration." Click here to purchase "She Owns The Streets" on iTunes. http://www.theraveonettes.com    http://www.facebook.com/theraveonettes    http://twitter.com/theraveonettes    www.vicerecords.com Tour Dates (more to be announced): August 4                         Osheaga Music and Arts Festival    Montreal, QC September 21               Hawthorne Theatre                             Portland, OR September 22               Neumo's                                                  Seattle, WA September 23               Venue                                                       Vancouver, BC September 26               Triple Rock                                               Minneapolis, MN September 27               Lincoln Hall                                              Chicago, IL September 28               The Firebird                                             St. Louis, MO September 29               A&R Bar                                                    Columbus, OH September 30               Magic Stick                                              Detroit, MI October 2                        Phoenix Concert Theatre                   Toronto, ON October 3                        Corona Theatre                                     Montreal, QC October 4                        Union Transfer                                      Philadelphia, PA October 5                        Webster Hall                                          New York, NY October 6                        Black Cat                                                 Washington, DC October 7                        Paradise Rock Club                              Boston, MA October 8                        El Rey Theatre                                        Los Angeles, CA October 11                      Belly Up Tavern                                    Solana Beach, CA October 12                      Bimbos 365 Club                                 San Francisco, CA

Ernest Borgnine RIP 1917-2012

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST BORGNINE
by Alexander Laurence


January 24, 1917 it begins virtuous. He has a bad day at black rock. Parents of the law out of the labyrinth of the forest. He dies within the fiery walls of The Poseidon. He dies for a fervid love. He can’t live without her. Without Ernest, the body transforms into a morass of debris, toxic commodities unrelated to meaning. Here, take it. Grasp it. This is the tactile future, and virtual transgression cleans all.

Travel to the end, journey to the center of the earth. Ernest is the pilgrimage’s limit or its sex, the second fiddle to whoever has the war face, the basement jaunt of the world. “You may know where dreams come true....” His new movie. And “new” movie means everything. I was the cowboy who marched on the red plains of Tunisia. I am the cop who hijacked a rebel satellite.

New York City is my prison and I’m its cab driver. He lived in Milan. But no one who drives a cab is from America. An over-achiever. A cowboy of capitalism. Squarish patterns of grimy plaster, pitted opening / chess moves. The way for a true homosexuality next to the fake ones depicted on Channel 11. The noon bell rings repeatedly. And there are beautiful boys in the alley sucking each other. They eat and drink, swallow and Ernest is in leather. It’s late, after the depraved clubs have closed. No one pays any attention to them. They exist in that space in skull I call “nowhere’s ville.”

Beautiful eyes are filled with tears. Ernest lowers his head into that quagmire of sores and latent tendencies. He’s on equity wage, he has a family. News has come of his father’s death, crucified in the mountains of Albania. He is erect and feels the rise of testosterone on the planet. Distended endings. Advertisement of addiction.

The opaque surfaces of Ernest’s cheeks. The billboard goes up, a new movie, a way of thinking is arranged. I said a “new” movie! Let’s fight this war, and let’s get laid. We have our ugly wives, army groupies, and young boys who love to fuck. Short, twisting, aggressively, between two alleys, the sight of the boy’s face.

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Shepherd's Bush Empire
London, England July 7th 2012 (Photo by Bev Davies)

Cate Le Bon @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

Cate Le Bon @ Shepherd's Bush Empire
London, England July 7th 2012 (Photo by Bev Davies)

Hallock Hill news: summer 2012

HALLOCK HILL NEWS

WFMU

23 July at 9:00pm. I'm honored to have been asked by Dan Bodah to perform on his show, the Airborne Event, on Monday, July 23rd. The show will be broadcast from The Costello Plan in Brooklyn (1213 Cortelyou Road). It would be great to see any and all of you there. For those who cannot attend, you can listen to WMFU's live stream of the show at http://www.wfmu.org. Years ago when he was on the Sunday morning shift from 6 to 9am, Dan almost single-handedly got me back into music with this show. His diverse taste is second to none, so it is a real thrill for Dan to invite me for this. 

THE 1794 MEETING HOUSE

11 August at 7:30pm. The 1794 Meeting House in New Salem, Massachusetts has developed a new series for August: Northern Routes - 4 Adventures in New Music. I'm excited to be one of those adventurers, and will be opening for Bunwinkies and Marissa Nadler. You can find details about tickets, directions, etc. at http://1794meetinghouse.org/. Other dates will have performances by 200 Years (featuring Ben Chasny), Son of Earth, MV & EE, P.G. Six, Crystalline Roses and Red Heart the Ticker. Promises to be an excellent series of shows. 

THE UNION | A HEM OF EVENING

My first album The Union will be re-released by MIE Music on August 20th as a double LP with my third album A Hem of Evening. Originally released on CD by Hundred Acre Recordings last May, The Union contains pieces for acoustic and electric guitar. A Hem of Evening is all acoustic and is accompanied by a book of prose poems and photographs. It is now available for pre-order at MIE: http://miemusic.co.uk/releases.html. There will be US distribution -- email me if you're in the US and want to know when that's available. Might save you a few on postage that way.

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

Brian Jonestown Massacre @ Shepherd's Bush Empire
London, England July 7th 2012 (Photo by Bev Davies)