Thursday, February 23, 2012

PODCAST: February 23rd, 2012

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This episode brings new music from Naiades, the brand new album/art collection from Monica Richards. You should recognize her name and art style from her work with Faith and the Muse. The new release is available as a book/CD combo HERE.

Finally making it to the show this time around is the single "Take Forever," which is a collaboration between Irish electronic act The Japanese Popstars (your guess is as good as mine) and Robert Smith (of The Cure). It did, in fact,"take forever" for me to get this one on the show, but it's well worth the wait.

The release of the debut full-length from one of the greatest doom bands in the US, Pallbearer, is finally here. Sorrow & Extinction, released by Profound Lore Records, will no doubt top many year-end lists for 2012 -- but before then, opportunities to catch their live show are stacking up. Dates in New York and Texas have just been announced, and this weekend will bring a pair of official CD release shows, first in their home state of Arkansas (details HERE), then Saturday night in Nashville (details HERE). Both shows will also feature Loss on the bill.


Speaking of Nashville's music scene: This episode's local spotlight is thrown on the debut EP from a newly-transplanted industrial act that now calls Nashville home: Frontal Boundary. You can check out the sounds of "Electronic Warfare" HERE.

New sounds from the forthcoming Locrian & Mamiffer dark noise collaboration will also filter in, alongside tracks from the latest releases by The Beauty of Gemina and The Frozen Autumn. We'll also peel back another layer of Alcest's latest, Les Voyages De L'âme. All that, plus: A rare home studio demo from Corpus Delicti, a seldom-heard US-darkwave collaboration, a pair of listener requests, a gushing live-show review, cool new-release announcements, and loads of current and classic dark music.


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PLAYLIST
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]
(each band name is also a website link)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
Show date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2012


Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]


Zola Jesus - Avalanche  [Conatus, 2011]
Sex Gang Children - Sugar Pill  [Medea, 1993]
Monica Richards: Infra Warrior - We Go On  [Naiades, 2012]
Gropius - Tents of Kedar  [Indelicate, 2000] ^RQ^
Corpus Delicti - Out of Steam (unreleased home studio demo) [A New Saraband of Sylphes, 2007]
Jeniferever - Deception Pass  [Silesia, 2011]
Dekoder - Refuse  [Dekoder, 2011]
Wire - It's a Boy  [A Bell Is A Cup… Until It's Struck, 1988]
Stendhal - War Song  [Stendhal, 2000]  ^RQ^
The Beauty of Gemina - Haddon Hall  [Iscariot Blues, 2012]
Pins and Needles - Bright Lights in Cascades  [Victims, 2008]
Killing Joke - Darkness Before Dawn  [Night Time, 1985]
The Wake - Audrey  [Masked, 1993]
The Frozen Autumn - The Last Train  [Chirality, 2012]
Cinema Strange - Rat Catcher  [Quatorze Exemples Authentiques Du Triomphe De La Musique Décorative, 2006]
The Japanese Popstars (Featuring Robert Smith) - Takes Forever  [Controlling Your Allegiance, 2011]
The Last Dance - Terribly When (Ego Likeness Mix)  [Reflections of Rage, 2004]
Frontal Boundary - Time To Heal (C/A/T remix)  [Electronic Warfare, 2012]  [N]
:Wumpscut: - Dying Culture (Second Movement)  [Bunker Gate Seven, 1997]
Psyclon Nine - Under the Judas Tree  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You  [Bless Them That Curse You, March 6th, 2012]
Alcest - Faiseurs De Mondes  [Les Voyages De L'âme, 2012]
Miserere Luminis - Miserere Luminis  [Miserere Luminis, 2009]
Swallow the Sun - Through Her Silvery Body  [The Morning Never Came, 2003]
Mournful Congregation - The Catechism of Depression  [The Book of Kings, 2011]
Goblin - L'alba die Morti Vi ["Dawn of the Dead" (soundtrack) 1978]
Pallbearer - An Offering of Grief  [Sorrow and Extinction, 2012]


KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist

(exc.) = excerpt

^RQ^ = requested
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Friday, February 10, 2012

PODCAST: February 9th, 2012

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This week's show begins with another new live track from Dead Can Dance, who have just released Part III in their free, online series, Live Happenings. The series is designed to whet fans' appetites for their forthcoming new album and tour. To learn more, or grab these EPs for yourself, click HERE.

Brand new to the show this week is Bulgarian band Voyvoda, whose atypical sound combines elements of Balkan folk music and Eastern Orthodox chants with cold wave and post-punk influences. Their new album is called Изток (Iztok), and you can stream it HERE.

Also appearing for the first time on this episode are Italy's Chemical Waves, whose new single "The Origin" can be streamed HERE. It's an unusual piece of post-punk experimentation, chronicling a journey through the history of mankind's cruelty unto itself, through an act like a holocaust.

Other new entries include: A remix from the latest Aesthetic Perfection single, Inhuman; a deeper look into one of the three new albums from ROME; a second look at the new EP from Puerto Rico's The Dead Souls, and two more new dark ambient tracks from Norway's Plague Machinery and Psychomanteum (USA).

The regional concert spotlight for this episode is thrown on two acts that will be hitting the greater TN/AL area in the next week: Zola Jesus, who will be playing in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday, February 11th; and VNV Nation, who will play Nashville's Exit/In on February 15th. On a side note, you will catch me at both of these shows. For the VNV Nation show, I will be DJing (along with DJ Jimmy) before and between the bands.

Also on this episode: Songs from the vaults, in the form of rescued deathrock classics, sadly forgotten regional music, and a war-torn lullaby from one of the most contentious plots of land in world history. That, and plenty of other current and classic dark music upon which to feast your ears.



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PLAYLIST
Format: Band Name - Song Title [Album Title, Year]
(each band name is also a website link)



"Out ov the Coffin" w/ Ichabod
Show date: Thursday, February 9th, 2012


Opening Theme:
Elliot Goldenthal - Libera Me [from "Interview with the Vampire" (soundtrack), 1994]


Dead Can Dance - Dreams Made Flesh  [Live Happenings, Part III, 2012]
Plague Machinery - Anti-Clockwise Rotation  [Saur Maas, 2011]
The Dead Souls - The Highest Hill [Ambition, 2011]
ROME - You Threw It At Me Like Stones [Die Aesthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit - Band 3: Aufgabe]
Myssouri - Devil On My Shoulder  [Furnace Songs, 2001]
Miranda Sex Garden - Cover My Face  [Fairytales of Slavery, 1994]
Siiiii - Speaking in Tongues  [Ancient, 2006]
Zola Jesus - Vessel  [Conatus, 2011]
Bear McCreary - Season 2 Music Medley  ["The Walking Dead" (soundtrack) 2011]
Nosferatu - Entwined  [Wonderland, 2011]
Rubella Ballet - Tangled Web  [At Last It's Playtime, 1986]
Skeletal Family - Promised Land (extended version)  [single, 1985]
Ulterior - The Emptiness We Share  [Wild In Wildlife, 2011]
Voyvoda - Stefan the Vlach's Son  [Изток (Iztok), 2012]
Chemical Waves - The Origin  [single, 2012]
Phillippe d'Aram - L'Amour Des Deux Filles ("Fascination" 1979) ["The Films of Jean Rollin" 1994]
VNV Nation - Further  [Burning Empires, 2000]
Front 242 - Waste  [06:21:03:11 Up Evil, 1993]
Aesthetic Perfection - Inhuman (Panic Lift Remix)  [Inhuman, 2011]
Necro Facility - Explode  [Wintermute, 2011]
Psyclon Nine - There But for the Grace of God  [We The Fallen, 2009]
Psychomanteum - The Existential Collapse and Rebirth  [Saur Maas, 2011]
Profanum - Gates of Armageddon  [Flowers of Our Black Misanthropy, 1996]
Primordial - Among the Lazarae  [Spirit the Earth Aflame, 2000]
Lycus - Resonance In Aether  [demo, 2011]
Electric Wizard - Black Mass  [Black Masses, 2010]
Cam España - (untitled)  ["Black Candles" (soundtrack) 1982]
Sleepless - Sands of Time  [demo, 1999]


KEY:
[N] = Nashville artist

(exc.) = excerpt

^RQ^ = requested
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