FEATURED: Wierd Celebrates Five Year Anniversary On 11/21 + Downloads
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This Friday, 11/21 at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg, the cats behind the weekly NYC shindig Wierd and its accompanying label will be throwing a righteous five-year-strong bash. Celebration is in order, a lot of great minimally-minded synth bands and deejays have rolled through their doors and appeared on their releases over the years, and running a weekly party for five years in New York City deserves commendation in its own right. Four bands from the label will chop it up on stage--Blacklist, Xeno & Oaklander, Led Er Est, and Opis Finis--while deejays Pieter and Glenn will spin afterward until 4AM. Flyer after the break. Download a track from each band playing below, and if you can't make it to the big one this Friday, Wierd Wednesdays happen every week at Home Sweet Home in Manhattan.
Download: Blacklist - Blue Shifted
Download: Xeno and Oaklander - Blue Flower
Download: Led er Est - Woman in a Cafe
Download: Opus Finis - Perplexed Pathos
VIDEO: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
Last Friday we dropped a download of Cruel Black Dove's single "Offer" and now we have the visual accompaniment for your viewing pleasure. Directed by lead singer Anastasia Dimou, the video is pretty dark and mildly sadistic and kind of reminds us of Hostel and that one Black Rebel Motorcycle Club video that was shot in Bulgaria. Tomorrow the band plays at the Iceland Airwaves festival in Reykjavik so if by SOME CHANCE you live there, head out and check their first international gig. For those a little closer to home, the band will also be playing at Brooklyn's Vanish Point on October 24th.
Cruel Black Dove's RCRD LBL Page
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Download: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
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Like Placebo if they’d lost the whole androgyny shtick and linked up with Shirley Manson, Cruel Black Dove’s “Offer” is a bit of post-industrial pop music for people who really like to wear black, music that's dark but not morose and still danceable. The RCRD LBL band will board a plane next week for Rejkjavik, Iceland, where they’re due to play their first shows outside the States at the Iceland Airwaves festival with bands like White Denim and Crystal Castles. After that their next show is an unofficial CMJ party at Vanishing Point in Brooklyn on the 24th. Full info for both is over at their MySpace. We’ll be premiering the video for “Offer” sometime in the next week or so, so make sure to check back if you’re digging what you hear.
Sounds like: Placebo, Nine Inch Nails, Garbage
Download: Cruel Black Dove - Offer
Cruel Black Dove's RCRD LBL Page
Previously:
Download: Cruel Black Dove - Love Song
Exclusive Download: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
Brooklyn art-goth group Cruel Black Dove will be playing Club NME tomorrow at The Annex in New York and in advance of the show the RCRD LBL signees have shot over a new remix of their tune “Come On Over” from NY/Detroit duo The Clapp. According to their MySpace the two guys in The Clapp communicate entirely through the internet and have yet to actually meet in person, so their remix of the tune is a predictably digifried Detroit throwback, boasting the big synth crescendos and circuitous Pac-Man programming. Grab the remix below alongside Cruel Black Dove’s single “Love Song”, and check out more info on the show right here.
Sounds like: Gui Borrato, Matthew Dear, The Field
Exclusive Download: Cruel Black Dove - Come On Over (The Clapp Remix)
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CONTEST: Win tickets to see Blacklist at the Mercury Lounge this Friday
As most of you know, we’re big fans of NYC-based dark wave band Blacklist, whose RCRD LBL single “Blue Shifted” has been getting mad airplay in our offices. The band will be bringing their Joy-Division-meets-The-Cure sound to the Mercury Lounge on Friday to perform with desert rock outfit the Warlocks. We except mascara and gloomy ideals to be abundant in the crowd, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be extremely fun. We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the show to one lucky RCRD LBL reader, all you need to do is join our email newsletter if you haven’t already (field to your right), and email us at contests@rcrdlbl.com with “BLACKLIST CONTEST” in the subject. Winners will be chosen randomly. Good luck!
Blacklist just released their new video, “Language of the Living Dead”, which was directed by esteemed documentarian Eva Aridjis. Check it out:
FEATURED: Blacklist play the Annex in NYC March 20
We posted last week about Blacklist, the NYC Brit-pop band who sound like the Cure sucking face with Bono circa 1981. Pretty much exactly what the world needs right now, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway, it has just come to our attention that Blacklist will be performing at The Annex in NYC this Thursday, March 20, as part of the official afterparty for the Cribs’ show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Here’s some info:
Club NME @ The Annex Offical Cribs aftershow...
11pm BLACKLIST
10pm DEATH OF FASHION
9pm HOLLY MARILYN
DJs 3A (Ultragrrrl, Brandon Reilly from Nightmare of You, Gurj Bassi), and DJ NJD. • Hosted by Sam FTW! • Happy Hour 12am-1am $3 beer & well
Also, Blacklist’s debut EP Solidaire is out now on Brooklyn's own Wierd Records, so make sure to cop that one for more gothy rock vibes!
FEATURED: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Sound the bells of rapture, it's been announced that Nick Cave will play this year's Plug Independent Music Awards, March 6th at Terminal 5 in NYC! Nick and his unmerry men hardy ever set foot Stateside (they didn't even bring their last tour, for the Abattoir Blues album, to America) but when they do, you can be sure all the mega fans make it their business to be there. Indie blog Leaky Sparrow have some more Nick Cave tidbits for you to chew on.
FEATURED: The Muggabears
We’ve been a little slow on the uptake on Brooklyn buzz band The Muggabears—people from Stereogum to Gothamist have been crying genius for the better part of 2007, but the catchy goth pop vibes of their EP Night Choreography are kind of only now beginning to hit us, in a grand sort of way (especially the fuzzy shoegaze of “Dead Kid Kicks”). Built on a Weak Spot just wrote a pretty large review of the EP.
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