Zola Jesus + The Horn The Hunt + Model Warships ― Thursday 26, 2010
Zola Jesus is the endeavor of a solitary girl named Nika Roza Danilova to simultaneously combat and invoke the approaching apocalypse using the only weapon/offering she has; her voice. After a decade of opera study and a musical awakening involving such varied inspiration as Billboard bubblegum, classical arias, no wave, avant industrial, she was able to thread her influences into a sound uniquely her own.
Born and raised in the backwoods of Wisconsin, Nika Roza was literally raised by wolves (well proximally anyways). Trained as an opera singer from a young age, she applied to Julliard. At 10 years old. Rejection didn’t slow her down though as she went on to complete high school in three years and is set to graduate from university with a double major in French and philosophy in the same amount of time.
Beginning her musical output at the age of 16, she released: two 7”s, an EP, a live recording from WNYU, and a split with neighboring Madison headtrips Burial Hex, on Sacred Bones, Troubleman, Die Stasi, and Aurora Borealis respectively. It was her debut full length for Sacred Bones last summer, however, that suddenly grew Zola Jesus’ profile exponentially. Her video for “Clay Bodies” debuted on the Fader and her likeness was plastered all over the interblog. The Spoils made dozens of year-end lists including: The Wire, Pitchfork, The Fader, and Dusted.
EL GUINCHO live at Nation on Wednesday 3rd November ― Tuesday 31, 2010
El Guincho is Pablo Díaz-Reixa, a native of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria living in Barcelona, Spain. Also a member of Coconot, Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2007 album, Alegranza. His musical style relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of afrobeat, dub, tropicália and rock. If you imagine Animal Collective’s ‘Merriweather Post Pavillion’ mixed with Fools Gold you won’t be a million miles away.
+ guests TALL LIKE GIANTS
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Doors 8pm / Free Entry
Black Mountain come to Leeds this September ― Tuesday 24, 2010
Along with The Low Anthem, The Felice Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Rawlings Machine, Smoke Fairies, Lone Wolf and tons more. Their new album ‘Wilderness Heart’ is out on 13th September and Black Mountain play TJ’s Woodhouse Club on Sunday 12th September.
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The Neat & Broadcast Society play No Bones on Sat 14th August! ― Friday 6, 2010
The Neat are one of the most exciting live bands in the UK. Capturing the essence of early Joy Division with the aggression and confidence of Public Image Ltd. or Gang of Four. The gig next saturday is sure to be a brilliant and agressively exciting one. Doors are at 8pm and tickets are £4 advance from Jumbo, Crash and Seetickets.com. Click below for links….
Islet (live) at Nation / Wed 29th Sept / Free gig ― Saturday 19, 2010
Doors 8pm / Free entry
Islet are a four-piece Cardiff experimental rock band. Islet comprises of members (or past members) of The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Attack + Defend, Fredrick Stanley Star, and Them Squirrels. Their debut ‘mini album’, Celebrate This Place, was released on June 14th to positive reviews. Much was made in the press of the band’s success despite a lack of online presence, however Islet now have an official band website (isletislet.com). Since forming, Islet toured with Los Campesinos!, played Swn Festival 09, were part of Huw Stephens’ ‘Happy Huw Year’ Tour, have supported Teeth Mountain and Lovvers, and have featured on BBC Radio Wales and in the NME.
Iron Wagon & Limn Presents - Washed Out (live) + Small Black (live) ― Tuesday 18, 2010
Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Georgia (via South Carolina) who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative, like someone smeared Vaseline all over an early OMD demo tape, then stayed up all night trying to recreate what they heard. There’s a sense of longing and distance in Greene’s somber, filtered vocals, but it’s what he does compositionally that makes Washed Out stand out. Backed by gently pulsing, Balearic-tinged disco, Greene’s voice takes on a new dimension. Reminiscent of groups like The Glass and the Chromatics, Washed Out is the music to end your night with, when the city is quiet and the walk home, long.
Small Black is the Long Island duo of Josh Kolenik and Ryan Heyner, and they make the kind of hazy lo-fi we’ve been hearing a lot this summer (live, they add Pitchfork.tv contributors Juan Pieczanski and Jeff Curtin to the mix). But as much as the season is about goofy sunglasses and cold beer, it’s also about those garden-crippling late-month frosts. And these guys have that sense of yearning on lock. The pieces that comprise “Despicable Dogs” seem so Frisbee-friendly that you’d expect any emotional relevance to be rendered moot, from the tacky drum machine to the heavy processing on that tubular guitar noise, to the glossy melancholic key plunks. But it both warms and bruises at the same time. “Do it without me, do it when I’m gone,” goes the hook. Such gimmick-free sentimentality can often prove too difficult to finagle, but “Despicable Dogs” is a guaranteed soul-stirrer.
We at Limn are proud to host the afterparty of the Washed Out gig at Nation of Shopkeepers with FREE ENTRY From 10.30 onwards, we will be supplying visual and audible stimulus - overhead projectors, live art and a Serato crate full of electronica, idm, beat music and synth driven hip hop. Trust us, it’s stupid good.
Our guest artists for the night…
Crim Collective - http://www.crimcollective.co.uk/
Kristyna Baczynski - http://kriskicorp.blogspot.com/
Liam Alvy - http://liamalvy.wordpress.com/
jamajamajimjam - http://blackleafcompany.com
Tom Moore - N/A.
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Limited tickets (120) available now from SEETICKETS.COM
PIXEL by Patick Jean ― Wednesday 5, 2010
God this is just the best most original animation I’ve seen in a long time, its seamless too. I bet a million pounds that Patrick Jean is doing Sony ads this time next year, maybe sooner. Aaarrgh I wish i could do shit like this!!!!!
Harlem (live) at Nation of Shopkeepers June 15th ― Wednesday 5, 2010
Led by dual vocalists Michael Coomers and Curtis O’Mara (the duo switch between guitar and drums, both onstage and off) and recently joined by bassist Jose Boyer, Harlem have already generated a mountain of attention Stateside, both with their fantastic live shows and their recorded output.
Relocating from Tucson, AZ to Austin, TX, Harlem first came to people’s attention with their self-issued 2008 LP/CD, Free Drugs. Pitchfork’s Roque Strew hailed it “a marvel of cartoonishly masculine, crudely analog brevity”, Gorilla Vs. Bear considered it to be “super infectious, instantly endearing”, and kindly supplying a quote that we’ll gladly take out of context, the Austin Chronicle’s Audra Schroeder has fallen preil to the album’s “anxious, stuttering charm.” It might all sound highly suspicious, but anyone who’s heard Free Drugs or witnessed Harlem laying waste to any number of shoebox sized venues (some of which were, in fact, shoeboxes) can attest, the band’s casual virtuosity is only eclipsed by their otherworldly songwriting skills.
Harlem now make their Matador debut with Hippies, a sixteen track pop meisterwerk, recorded with the assistance of Mike McHugh, revealing the triumvirate to still be in fine fettle. The gents have really “knocked it out of the park” (as ice hockey fans are so fond of saying) with this one, and we remain confident that this will have great appeal even for those of you who’ve never laced ‘em up before.
Tickets on sale now HERE!!
www.myspace.com/harlemduh pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14093-hippies/
Beast Coast (live) Monday 10th May // FREE SHOW // FREE SHOW… ― Wednesday 5, 2010
Beach blanket lo-fi pop from Bethany Cosentino, (ex-Pocahaunted.) Inspired by Bethany’s longing for Los Angeles while spending her days in NY attending Eugene Lang College, Best Coast sprung forth during her first days back in California. She says we can expect “songs about summer and the sun and the ocean and being a lazy creep,” with “drums, beach boys bass lines, and other amazing things” added by her friend Bobb Bruno.
Support comes in the shape of French Kissing. Doors will open at 7.30pm, bring a friend, cuz its free!!
www.myspace.com/bestycoasty www.last.fm/music/Best+Coast www.myspace.com/frenchkissingband
Fickle Fate: New artwork to be displayed at Nation of Shopkeepers ― Thursday 15, 2010
Fickle Fate is Timothy Hunt, an illustrator with a keen eye for bold colours and simplicity, we completely love it and can’t wait to get some of his work up in the venue. Should be up in a week or two, but for now treat your eyes to some lovely stuff over at his website FICKLE FATE!
Short video about the new Jamie Lidell album “Compass” ― Saturday 27, 2010
Jamie Lidell talks about his new album Compass on Warp, Feist and producing music with Beck.
One to watch: Mike Crozier ― Friday 26, 2010
Mike Crozier is a Leeds based illustrator who is currently residing in Sweden (so he’s not actually Leeds based). This is an excerpt from a longer animated feature called RÄV which simply means Fox in Swedish. Its a nice short snippet of an artist who could promise some interesting work in the future, we’ll wait and see.
His websites pretty tight so have a butchers HERE!!
YACHT - The Afterlife (Official new video) ― Wednesday 24, 2010
Looking forward to seeing these guys with LCD Soundsystem next month in Leeds, hopefully this will be their year, they’ve been hammering out good songs for ages and they are cool as hell.
The Nextmen @ Nation of Shopkeepers - Fri 21st May 2010 ― Wednesday 24, 2010
The Nextmen are critically acclaimed Hip Hop DJs and producers they are Dom Search (aka Dominic Betmead) and Brad Baloo (aka Brad Ellis). The two members also run their own independent record label, Custom Records, a joint venture with Fat City Records. They have been prolific remixers since 2000, have been responsible for a string of popular Hip Hop Mixtapes, and are perhaps most well known for their 2 man, 4 turntable DJ sets (often fronted by an MC, usually MC Wrec or Dynamite MC) which include music from all genres and occupy the space between turntablism and club based DJing. Their first album “Amongst the Madness” (Scenario) was popular on the Hip Hop scene and included performances from MC’s from the US and UK. The second Album Get Over It, released in 2003, featured such artists as American Rapper J-Live and Cutty Ranks. It showed a marked change in their sound, with a more electronic production sound. Dom Search appeared on two Groove Armada albums, “Vertigo” and “Goodbye Country, Hello Nightclub”.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW HERE!
Vistit The Nextmen website HERE!
Yeasayer - O.N.E (official video) ― Wednesday 10, 2010
I just had to share this, amazing video, amazing songs, amazing band. Best thing out this year easily.
Toro Y Moi - Talamak (official video) ― Wednesday 10, 2010
Show me someone who doesn’t love Toro Y Moi and I’ll show you someone who has obviously got some sort of aluminium heart and lead ears. The king!
Pantha Du Prince (feat Panda Bear) - Stick to my side ― Wednesday 10, 2010
Those lucky people who have tickets to Four Tet at TJ’s this Friday will be double lucky now as you’ll also get to see Pantha Du Prince. Mega! A;so the official after party is at Nation of Shopkeepers on Fri 12th March, starts at 11pm - 3am.
Summercamp - Ghost Train ― Tuesday 9, 2010
New hot act on Moshi Moshi, lovely.
HUDSON MOHAWKE @ Nation of Shopkeepers 23rd April 2010 ― Monday 15, 2010
Scottish Hip Hop producer/DJ Ross Birchard aka Hudson Mohawke released his first full length LP ‘Butter’ last October on Warp much to the appreciation of music lovers and critics everywhere. After Hudson returns from his stint at SXSW in March, he will embark on a short run of live shows in the UK. As yet these dates haven’t been announced but he will be playing Leeds at Nation of Shopkeepers on Friday 23rd April.
Tickets on sale now from Jumbo Records - Click here!
www.myspace.com/hudsonmo hudsonmohawke.com/butterstargalactica/
New Shy Child video ‘Disconnected’ ― Wednesday 3, 2010
Shy Child are playing Nation of Shopkeepers on Wednesday 3rd March, tickets are selling quickly so buy them while their available, then settle down in your favourite chair with a cup of milky luke warm weak tea and watch their new video ‘Disconnected’.