Long time Bad Brains fan and friend Jack Rabid of Big Takeover interviews Darryl Jenifer about his new album “In Search of Black Judas“, his influences and the upcoming Bad Brains documentary:
It felt like a natural progression for me to explore and experiment with dub based ideas in my O.G’ness, but I have always been a fan of rebel music, all music.
Read the rest of the interview here.
Posted January 13th, 2011 in press shows
Lots of Bush Tetras tidbits in the press this week… New York Magazine asks “The Greatest Song: “New York State of Mind,” “Across 110th Street,” or “Too Many Creeps”?” Of course you know what our answer is… and we hope it’s yours too!
NPR also has featured the Bush Tetras in their great women in post-punk mix, dedicated to Ari Up of The Slits. Speaking of Ari Up, I hope you’ve heard about the Ari Up Punky Reggae Birthday Party this Sunday at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Full details after the jump…
Posted January 11th, 2011 in press
Even though our Bad Brains album isn’t an unofficial bootleg and we certainly don’t consider it a “Lost” album, we’re pretty stoked to read Dave Grohl talk about the Bad Brains S/T on NME’s 100 Great Lost Albums!
From the Foo Archive:
The Bad Brains studio albums are great, but for me ‘ROIR’, this unofficial bootleg, comes closest to capturing their live sound on tape. I was living in DC in the early ’80S and got into the hardcore scene, but nobody else blew me away as much as Bad Brains. I’ll say it now, I have never ever, ever, ever, ever seen a band do anything even close to what Bad Brains used to do live. Seeing them live was, without a doubt, always one of the most intense, powerful experiences you could ever have. They were just… Oh God, words fail me… incredible. They were connected in a way I’d never seen before.
They made me absolutely determined to become a musician, they basically changed my life, and changed the lives of everyone who saw them. Rage Against The Machine are about the only band who get near to them, but even they aren’t in the same league.
Bad Brains are one of those bands where everyone who’s ever heard them live has come away with a real extreme reaction, one of either love or hate. I loved ‘em. The fact that there were four black guys coming on to a predominately white scene that they then just surpassed and absolutely destroyed with everything they did, just staggered you.This is as close as I’ve heard to a record capturing that.
Get Bad Brains’ “Bad Brains” on CD, LP, cassette or picture disc vinyl here.
Posted December 13th, 2010 in press
ROIR’s very own Nick Cooper talks to Kevin McGowan at The Ruckus on Rabble.ca about the beginnings of ROIR and Kevin spins some classic ROIR tracks.
Part 1 of 3. Listen to it here.
Posted November 4th, 2010 in press shows
We had a “Legendary” weekend with the ‘Pink Dots here in NYC (har har har). For those of you unlucky enough to miss the WFMU.org live stream on Tuesday, Brian Turner & his gang are offering the entire set as a free download at the Free Music Archive. Download it here!
Edward Ka-Spel at WFMU with cookie baked by Floyd.
Brooklyn Vegan also did a great story on the Legendary Pink Dot’s show Sunday at Irving Plaza with the Dresden Dolls that include some great photos…. read it here.
The Silverman & Amanda Palmer…. eh?
Last but not least, here’s a video from the ‘Pink Dot’s Friday show!
Posted October 22nd, 2010 in new press sale
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Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer’s debut solo album “In Search of Black Judas” will be in all good record stores this Tuesday. But you can pre-order it now at the Bad Brains Official Store!
It’s available on CD, LP & MP3… and it’s on SALE! Darryl recently talked to Alternative Press about his upcoming album “In Search of Black Judas” and the state of music today. Read the interview here. |
Posted October 4th, 2010 in press shows
We’re stoked that PopMatters digs our new releases so much they’re premiering a bunch of videos! This one is by Legendary Pink Dots, whose 30th Anniversary album “Seconds Late for the Brighton Line” is now available for pre-order!
We also have another special announcement from the Legendary Pink Dots…. it’s no secret that Amanda Palmer loves the Legendary Pink Dots but what we’ve not been able to tell anybody until now is that Amanda has asked them to play the Dresden Dolls very special Halloween show at Irving Plaza!
Dresden Dolls
10th Bandiversary Halloween Show
with The Legendary Pink Dots
Oct 31 @ Irving Plaza, New York, NY
This photo is clearly not Photoshopped.
Of course, since this show is extra special, tickets are already sold out… But fret not, the Legendary Pink Dots are also playing another NYC show on Oct 29 at (Le) Poisson Rouge (tix here). Hell, they’re playing a bunch of other shows across the continent too.
Posted September 30th, 2010 in press ROIR
Read it here or if you’re in the Park Slope/Gowanus area, pick up a copy at your local coffee shop, restaurant, bar etc. etc.
Posted September 15th, 2010 in new press sale shows
“Harvest The Beast” is the debut album from Nashville’s Bad Cop. It’s uncompromising. It’s unique. It’s fresh and it will rock your ass off and it’s out now on CD!
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IMPOSE MAGAZINE SAYS: “It’s a soulful, greasy, howlin’ whiteboy kind of rant-rock that’s even greater than the sum of all its crazy parts, a frantic, no-holds-barred, “fuck the rules” kind of album that we desperately need right now… Let’s just say that what we have here is one of the albums of the year, mos def, and leave it at that.” |
Watch it at PopMatters.
Download it at eMusic.
eMusic says:
Hailing from Nashville, Bad Cop are a young band associated with the likes of Jemina Pearl/Be Your Own Pet and JEFF The Brotherhood. Their sprawling debut LP, Harvest The Beast, is full of dirty blues riffs, lively chants and usually-hazy vocals, and at times they channel the likes of the Strokes or the Arctic Monkeys… They might be young, but when frontman Adam Moult sings, “I don’t know if I’ll live tomorrow/ It’s quite a rush to live this way” in album opener “Amores Perros,” it sounds like they’re having a good enough time that getting old is the least of their concerns.
Wed 9.15 – Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville, VA (w/ Turbo Fruits)
Thurs 9.16 – Spazzatorium, Greenville, NC (w/ Turbo Fruits
Sat 9.18 – Go Bar, Athens, GA
Sat 9.25 – Don Pedro, Brooklyn, NY
Sun 9.26 – The Space, Hamden, CT
Thurs 9.30 – L’Abreuvoir, Montreal, QC (POP MONTREAL w/ Turbogeist & Devil Eyes)
Fri 10.1 – Silver Dollar Room, Toronto, ON
Fri 10.8 – The Nightlight, Chapel Hill, NC
Sat 10.9 – The Tin Roof, Charleston, SC
Mon 10.11 – Douglas Corner Cafe, Nashville, TN (w/ Turbogeist & Pujol)
Thurs 10.14 – The Whistler, Chicago, IL
Fri 10. 15 – Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA
Sat 10.16 – Plaines Project, Chicago, IL
Sat 10. 23 – Spike Hill, Brooklyn, NY (Deli Magazine CMJ Showcase)
Posted September 8th, 2010 in press
Tattoos & rum are two things that many of us here are personally fond of. So that’s why we’re stoked the masters of both, Sailor Jerry, are fond of us too. By us, I mean Bad Cop’s new album, but close enough?
What makes this debut such a keeper? Well, it’s a bit hard to put my finger on, as is the band’s music. Songs alternate between dept store guitar-drenched, moody, post-punk snippets and balls-out, 70’s rock n’ roll riffs. It’s these interesting juxtapositions of seemingly incompatible styles and techniques that lift this record out of the genre dumpster and place it up on the repeated listens shelf.
Read the rest of the review here
Catch Bad Cop tonight at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia, PA with Thomas Function and Moon Women (a member of which we hear is a Sailor Jerry blogger). We’re stoked that they’re finally coming to NYC tomorrow (at Lit Lounge)!
