The Big Takeover Exclusive EP Stream: DEATH by Bloody Knives.

 

The Big Takeover

Exclusive EP Stream:

DEATH by Bloody Knives

Saint Marie Records has just released “DEATH”, the third EP from Austin’s Bloody Knives. Written and recorded in a week, the EP is an explosion of metallic noise, grimy ambience, pummeling beats and ethereal vocals. The record was engineered specifically for release on 7” vinyl. 

This limited edition of 250 (100 red and 150 black) also includes a download coupon. All tracks exclusive to this 7” vinyl w/ download release only: no iTunes, no Amazon, no Spotify, etc. However, in an exclusive arrangement with The Big Takeover, you can hear it now!

CLICK HERE TO STREAM DEATH 

by BLOODY KNIVES

WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight on Strangeways Radio. This Week's Gaze: Still Corners.

 WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight 

on the Strangeways Radio Blog: 
A Weekly Gaze.

About this week's spotlight: 
Who: STILL CORNERS
What: WTSH Shoegaze Spotlight feature
Where: Strangeways Radio blog
When: Weekly

Every week WTSH will present a shoegaze/dream pop band on Strangeways' blog, highlighting how very awesome the band is and how you should be listening to them and buying their music and supporting them because they deserve it.

This week's focus:

 STILL CORNERS

 

Still Corners is the musical project of songwriter/producer Greg Hughes and vocalist Tessa Murray. The London-based duo’s story began 10 years ago, when Greg Hughes (a native of Austin, Texas and the driving force behind Still Corners) was preparing to move to Brooklyn to further his musical ambitions. Fate intervened, as it often does, when he fell in love with an English girl and crossed the Atlantic to begin a new adventure. It was in London, after getting off a train at the wrong station, that Hughes’ path first crossed with that of vocalist Tessa Murray, and after this suitably cinematic encounter, the missing piece fell into place and Still Corners was born.

After a self-released 2008 mini-album, Remember Pepper (heavily influenced by nouvelle vague cinema and Ennio Morricone soundtracks), a handful of well-received singles and a series of spectacular live shows, Still Corners caught the attention of Sub Pop, who signed them and set about releasing the critically lauded single “Cuckoo,” followed by the equally extolled Creatures of an Hour (NME called it “indulgently seductive”; Drowned in Sound declared it “an astounding debut”)...

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Strange Factoid: Before she was a shoegaze goddess, who was truly outrageous as the voice of an 80's animated series?

Strange Factoid:

Before she was a shoegaze goddess, Britta Phillips was truly outrageous as the voice of an 80's animated series. Read on to find out more....

Cross posted from Strangeways Radio blog

Click here to read WTSH's interview with Britta Phillips

Britta Phillips is an American musician, songwriter, actress and voice actor. In the music community, she is best known as a member of shoegaze bands The Belltower and Luna, as well as one half of the duo Dean and Britta; both Luna and Dean & Britta are music projects with her husband Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500 frontman). Her most recent album under the moniker Dean & Britta began as a commission by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to write and perform live beneath 13 of Warhol’s short films, shot between 1964 and 1966. Subjects included Dennis Hopper, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgewick and Nico. 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests was released as a CD and DVD in 2009. Dean and Britta also score films together, most notably Noah Baumbach’s The Squid & The Whale. 

But before all of that...

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