Monthly Archives: April 2011

TVD AP Ticket Giveaway! The Pietasters @ The Stone Pony!

By TVD | Published: April 25, 2011

Very few bands are around for more than a few years at best. The combination of long hours together, battling egos, travel sickness from incessant touring and other “creative differences” sink a lot of great acts after just a few albums. That’s why it’s insanely remarkable that The Pietasters have been together since 1990 and are still recording and touring, captivating diehard fans and newcomers alike.

Hailing out of independent rock mainstay Washington D.C., this ska-punk band gathered much of their inspiration from established acts in the same vein like The Mighty Might Bosstones, The Skatalites, Madness, and The Specials.

The Pietasters

After conquering the D.C. scene with regular performances in the city’s essential venues like the beloved 9:30 Club (where Henry Rollins recently emceed the guys anniversary show), the band took the next natural step and began touring nationally in support of acts like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, who they were only listening to a few short years before.

And woah boy, good thing they did because a pop/ska/punk paragon known as Tim Armstrong took a liking to the band’s instantly catchy sound and DIY commitment and signed them to Hellcat records, a subsidiary of the iconic Epitaph label during that fateful tour.

Bands like The Pietasters pull of a trick that many have executed poorly in the past, and that is the artful incorporation of reggae elements into a guitar/bass/drums rock format. Add a bright horn section, some catchy, accessible lyrics and a unwavering commitment to making the audience dance and you’ve got a great act with a sound that has lasted well over two decades now.

The Pietasters are veterans of AP, perhaps most notably in recent years with a performance at The Bouncing Souls Home For The Holiday’s Annual Extravaganza in ’09. They’re back again and are hitting The Stone Pony this Thursday, April 28th with great support acts Lost In Society, Bad Case Of Big Mouth, Political Party Crashers, and East Coast Black Out. And as a VERY SPECIAL TREAT, H.R. front man to the seminal punk group Bad Brains, will be giving a very special performance, too. I am predicting in my infinite rock wisdom that he will show up in The Pietasters set, more than likely. Sounds pretty historic to me!

The One, The Only, The Legendary H.R. Of Bad Brains

YOU can win a pair of tickets to the show by entering your name below! I’ve got 5 whole pairs to giveaway, so don’t say I never gave you anything! Winners will be chosen at random at noon on Wednesday. Good luck, and see you there!

The Pietasters @ The Stone Pony, Asbury Park, NJ
Thursday 4/28
Doors 6:30 PM/ All Ages

XOXO
Ang

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TVD Ticket Giveaway: Balkan Beat Box
at 9:30 Club, 4/29
LATE show

By Olivia | Published: April 25, 2011

What to say about Balkan Beat Box… When I originally talked about the show, I stole a 9:30 Club insider’s words:

“I am urging you all to trust me and buy tickets for this SOON! If you like Thievery Corporation you will love them. If you like Gogol Bordello, this guy [Ori Kaplan] was an original member in their band. Think big production salsa and Arabic sounds. Sold out last year and was awwwesome.”

And here I go again because this band is too hot for me to express in more than unladylike moans:

“An All-World Techno Explosion.” —NPR

“…an eclectic approach to music making helps push the BBB philosophy of a planet without borders where all share.” —BBC Radio 3

“…this is the dance party of the new millennium.” —Paste

“This cross-cultural crew of New York musicians… is guaranteed to propel any party into a hedonistic, sweaty mess.” —Entertainment Weekly

BBB comes to 9:30 Club this Fri (4/29) for a late show (11:00pm doors), and we have a chance for you to win a pair of tickets to “the dance party of the new millennium.”

To win the tickets, just tell us the song that turns you into a hedonistic, sweaty mess.

The winner will be selected at noon on Wed (4/27).

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Austin Record Convention This Weekend!

By Bobby Leath | Published: April 25, 2011

Hey folks,

In case you don’t already know, this weekend is the Austin Record Convention at the North Austin Event Center (10601 N. Lamar). Head on over an peruse over 300 tables full of vinyl goodies!

Here’s a list of dates, times, and admission:

Regular Admission: $5, good for both days

Saturday April 30th 10am – 6pm
Sunday May 1st 10am – 5pm

Early Shopper Admission: $25, good for all three days

Friday April 29th 10am – 6pm
Saturday April 30th 8am – 6pm
Sunday May 1st 10am – 5pm

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The TVD Preview Week: The First Annual Power Pop-a-licious Festival w/ The Spectacles!

By TVD | Published: April 25, 2011

If you’re like us, you’re loading up the car this weekend and heading up I-95N to Asbury Park, NJ to bask in the hook-laden scrum that will be the first annual Power Pop-A-Licious Festival at Asbury Lanes.

As we told you during this morning’s chat with the Festival’s founder and curator Paul Collins, all week here at TVD we’ll be cheking in with a number of the bands you’ll hear this weekend, and first up are three guys/four eyes—Silver Spring, MD’s The Spectacles!

Vinyl Memories, from The Spectacles
In the early 1980s I was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, playing drums in a power pop band called the Item and sharing an apartment with the band’s singer/guitarist, J.P. McDermott. Taking up nearly an entire wall of our apartment’s living room was a massive spring-loaded shelving unit. Along the bottom were our commingled LPs, an alphabetical vinyl monument to our musical tastes.

Nestled somewhere near the middle of the records was an interesting 10-inch disc. Its surface was totally smooth, not a single groove. It was a vinyl blank, of the sort a recording machine would cut into. These machines were once common in U.S. cities. (It’s what Elvis Presley made his first recording on, for his mama.) This particular empty disk was a placeholder, a reminder of where we’d put the Item record when it came out: after an Insect Surfers LP (on the local Wasp label) and before the heady triumvirate of Joe Jackson/the Jags/the Jam.

The Spectacles | All Torn Up Over Tina

One of us had picked up the strange artifact at a thrift shop, from whence many of our classic records came: scratchy Tamla 45s; Beatles singles, with the former owners’ names inked neatly on the swirly orange/yellow Capitol label; a “Frampton Comes Alive” double album, pot seeds still stuck in the gatefold between the two halves.

More modern music came from a tiny, poorly-stocked record store near our apartment. A guy named Greg used to come in every few weeks and try to sell the owner promotional copies of LPs he’d bought heap from hard-up DJs. You could always tell which ones had passed through Greg’s hands because there’d be a rectangular slice out of the cover, the place where he had razored out the embossed words “For radio station use only.” Sometimes he would try to hide the evidence behind a sticker that read “Factory sealed for your protection.” (I’m looking at one of those records now: The Greg Kihn Band’s “Glass House Rock,” on Beserkley.)

There was a whole constellation of vinyl emporia back then: Peaches, Waxie Maxies, The Wiz, Kemp Mill Records. You could get your Air Supply and your Queen, but you could also get your Elvis Costello and your Nick Lowe. Our tastes tended toward the latter.

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TVD’s Spring Vinyl Giveaways: Luke Rathborne’s Dog Years / I Can Be One Double EP

By TVD | Published: April 25, 2011

In the mere four years since twenty-two year old Luke Rathborne relocated to New York City from Brunswick, Maine, he’s earned the praises of Interview Magazine, NME, and BBC Radio 6 and been compared to a long list of legends including Elliott Smith, John Lennon, Tom Waits, Alex Chilton, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed.

Rathborne has played with Devendra Banhart and opened for The Strokes at SXSW just last month right before the release of his new double EP Dog Years / I Can Be One. On the EP, he worked with members of Antony and the Johnsons, and since it is a beautiful, sunny, spring day here at TVD HQ in Washington, DC, we feel like giving one of you a copy.

The 12″ double EP is on 180 gram vinyl and includes digital downloads and L.A., a book of poems penned by Mr. Rathborne himself.

To win the double EP, simply tell us your favorite song from your favorite legendary singer. We know that in another four years, Rathborne could very well top that list.

The winner will be selected one week from now, on Monday, May 2nd, and must have a mailing address in the continental US or Canada.

<a href="http://lukerathborne.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-be-one-e-p">I Can Be One E.P. by Luke Rathborne</a>

Oh, and hey, New Yorkers: If you like what you hear, Luke Rathborne plays NYC’s Pianos tonight!

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TVD’s Spring Vinyl Giveaways: Luke Rathborne’s Dog Years / I Can Be One Double EP

By Olivia | Published: April 25, 2011

The 12″ double EP is on 180 gram vinyl and includes digital downloads and L.A., a book of poems penned by Mr. Rathborne himself.

To win the double EP, simply tell us your favorite song from your favorite legendary singer. We know that in another four years, Rathborne could very well top that list.

The winner will be selected one week from now, on Monday, May 2nd, and must have a mailing address in the continental US or Canada.

<a href="http://lukerathborne.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-be-one-e-p">I Can Be One E.P. by Luke Rathborne</a>

Oh, and hey, New Yorkers: If you like what you hear, Luke Rathborne plays NYC’s Pianos tonight!

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April 25th – TVDUK/360dgm Track Of The Day: Kites ‘Art Tastes Better Blind’

By Laurence | Published: April 25, 2011

For a band still seeking publishing and recording deals, Kites are doing very nicely. The music press have already compared them favourably with New Order, Talking Heads and Patrick wolf, and tours of South America (this month), the UK and Europe in the summer, and Asia and Australia follow. The live show is intense and something of a spectacle, and has drawn rave reviews, with Vice, i-D and Time Out all waxing lyrical over this nattily dressed four piece.

Their latest EP, as yet untitled and in self-produced demo form, kicks off with the song ‘Art Tastes Better Blind’ which is our track of the day:

Kites Official / Facebook / Twitter

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My First Record w/ Tim Hinely

By Robert Ham | Published: April 25, 2011

For the past 24 years, Tim Hinely has been documenting the worlds of indie, punk, power pop, garage rock, and beyond in his self-published ‘zine Dagger. A peerless supporter of the above scenes, and the world of rock mags both big and small, Hinely is equally loud and proud about the things that he absolutely loves and the things that he can’t stand. In a word of waffling online writing that rides the fence lest the authors lose advertisers or hits to their pages, Hinely’s ideals have become far too rare, and should be celebrated.

I blame it on the neighbor kid, Scott Baker. This was in the mid-’70s in suburban southern New Jersey (Linwood to be exact). He was a few years older but had a sister my age and a brother a year older than me so we all hung out and played sports (that family was real big into sports). In between trading baseball cards and pickup games of whiffle ball, discussions of music would occasionally creep into the conversations. He told us about a band called the Electric Light Orchestra that we had to get into. “You have to get the record Ole ELO. It’s the best!” I bought that record and he was right, I was quite smitten with that band but it was his next suggestion that sent me over the top: The Beach Boys’ Endless Summer!

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The TVD Preview Week: The First Annual Power Pop-A-Licious Festival!

By TVD | Published: April 25, 2011

TVD is stoked as you brats say, to be a media partner for the very first Power Pop-A-Licious Festival in Asbury Park, NJ, curated by our friend Paul Collins. Paul’s assembled a roster of 18 bone shaking power pop acts from points east and west who’ll converge on my old stomping ground for a weekend of songs destined to be lodged in your cranium for years to come.

All week TVD will be talking to a cross-sample of bands converging at the Jersey Shore for this event—but up first, a few words with Paul himself, courtesy of TVD Asbury Park’s Angie Sugrim:

The weather is finally warming up out here in AP, the City By The Sea, and that means that more fun than you’ll know what to do with is about to be unleashed upon the masses in our little Rock-N-Roll resort town.

The big kick off event signifying the beginning of the season this year is without a doubt the highly anticipated Power Pop-A-Licious Festival created and executed by Paul Collins of indie heroes The Beat and The Nerves, in conjunction with the area’s illustrious DIY institution The Asbury Lanes. I had a chance to find out a more about all the excitement to come from Paul and from what he’s shared with me, this is going to be a multi-dimensional festival that is a must-see-do-hear-be-there for anyone who gets a thrill when pick is put to string, stick is put to drum, and mouth is put to mic. Check it out, from the man himself!

TVD: What can fans expect when they come to the Power Pop-A-Licious Festival?

Paul Collins: Fans will be treated to some of the best up and coming power pop/punk pop/garage pop bands from all over the mid west, the south, the east coast, and from as far away as Montreal and Ottawa!

What vision did you want to create when you thought of this weekend- long Pop Spectacular?

I was touring all over the country playing with all these great new bands who I really enjoyed and I thought to myself, “Why dont we have a big festival and bring them all together?!” The whole process has been really great and the bands have been so supportive and co operative it has been amazing. For me this is a whole new slant on the DIY ethic which I have been doing most of my professional career as far back as my first band The Nerves.

My motto now is “By the People for the People!” We are all stars at this festival all the bands are really great musicians who take their music very seriously but they also have fun which is what rock n roll is all about. Power Pop is a great and vastly unappreciated genre and I for one am doing everything in my power to make it much more visible.

I was just hanging with my bandmates and we were contemplating how perfect songs like The Cars’ “Just What I Needed” are actually really some of rock’s masterpieces, but often those sort of gems don’t seem to get the credit that they’re due for being so perfect. So, how did you go about creating the Festival? How did you end up choosing The Asbury Lanes as the venue? It’s one of my all time favorite institutions ever, by the way.

I had done a show last year at The Lanes and I was so impressed with the club and especially (club management, the brilliant and beautiful) Jenn (Hampton) and Laney (Lanes) and the way they treat bands that it was the first and only place I thought of to do this event. They in turn were so enthusiastic right from the beginning, it was the perfect match.

I agree, I don’t think you could have chosen a better venue to host this weekend! Like Jenn and Layney, you are incredibly passionate about music—what is your own background? Could you tell us a little about yourself as a promoter and musician?

Introducing… The Drift Record Shop

By Laurence | Published: April 25, 2011

The Drift is an independent record store in Totnes, Devon. One of the best shops in the country, and is to be cherished. We caught up with owner Rupert, and threw a few pointed questions at this passionate music fan:

What’s the best thing about running an independent music outlet in 2011?

I think we’re starting to now go full circle with how people are buying music. People want a physical product again, digital leaves everyone cold and more and more people are investing in packaging and artwork. For us, vinyl leads the market and I think the best thing is that all of our younger regular customers are buying vinyl.

It feels to me that the general public has suddenly realised (thanks in no small part to Record Store Day) that independent shops are fast disappearing and they hold now a sort of cultural importance. Whether people come in and buy something or not, maybe fifteen, twenty times a day we’ll get someone remarking ‘it’s just so nice to come into an actual record shop’

When it’s hard it does at least make you feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.

What’s the worst thing about running an independent music outlet in 2011?

It’s just tough sometimes. People want more albums than they can afford, the battle isn’t getting people turned onto new music… it’s getting them to afford it. I could gripe about online traders but it seems like an old rant to me; the internet has permanently changed the landscape, I think it’s now about trying to find your own little niche and connect with people. If you do what yo do well then you can build your community.

You rotate the store’s stock on a regular basis, name some albums that survived the cull and remain in stock.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – “Master and Everyone”
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Matt Sweeny – “Superwolf”
Caribou – “Andorra”
Bill Callahan – “Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle”
It’s always nice to re-stock things, so we do look backwards… there’s just an awful lot of new music for a small building to hold!

What’s your favourite record so far in 2011?

I’ve got a couple of real favorites so far;

Suuns – “Zeroes QC”
Kurt Vile – “Smoke Ring For My Halo”
Arbouretum – “The Gathering”

Tell us in one paragraph about your store.

We are placed right in the middle of hundreds of square miles of farming countryside; it’s a deeply inappropriate place to have an independent record shop but we’re all obsessed with new music and it’s important to us, if nothing else, that we keep stocking, playing and talking about all the amazing new music we get to hear.

The Drift Record Shop / Facebook

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The Radiators Get Lifetime Achievement Award

By Jay Mazza | Published: April 25, 2011

This evening is the Big Easy Entertainment Awards, which are presented by Gambit Weekly at the Harrah’s Theater. They are the New Orleans version of the Grammy awards. Everyone who’s anyone on the music scene gets dressed up to the nines and waits patiently to find out which nominees are winners.

Everyone except the five members of the Radiators who know in advance that after 33 years of playing music together they are getting the ultimate prize.

The award has been handed out since 1989. Here is the list of past winners—Germaine Bazzle, Aaron Neville, Eddie Bo, Ellis Marsalis, Irma Thomas, Harold Battiste, Art Neville, Sam Butera, Wardell Quezergue, Gatemouth Brown, Boozoo Chavis, Pete Fountain, Blue Lu Barker, Al Hirt, Harold Dejean, the Humphrey Brothers, Danny Barker Dave Bartholomew, Dr. John, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Cosimo Matassa—heady company indeed.

The Radiators just got back from their last performances in San Francisco. They played four nights in a row at the historic Great American Music Hall. They didn’t repeat a single song over eight sets of music.

The band is set to play numerous shows during the 10-day run of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival before closing the whole shebang on May 8 at the New Orleans Fairgrounds. They play their last three shows at Tipitina’s the second weekend in June.

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TVD Interviews: Gonzo Chicago’s John Yingling

By Brian | Published: April 25, 2011

As you hopefully already know, Chicago has been blessed with one the most active and exciting independent music scenes in the world. John Yingling, the man behind Gonzo Chicago, has taken it upon himself to document our vibrant scene, filming nearly 500 performances over the last four years. Recently, John decided to kick it up a notch, taking to indie fund raising site IndieGoGo, in an effort to raise to funds to replace and upgrade broken and outdated equipment, which will help him better capture the scene he (and we) love so much. We recently got to ask John a few questions, to find out a bit more about who he is, and what he does.

TVD: So, what made you pick up the camera and start filming bands?

JY: I grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, and started going to punk-rock shows 30 minutes away in Green Bay at a venue called Concert Cafe. When I was 16, my brother took me to see my first show (the Blue Meanies) and I’ve been in love with shows and live music ever since. Green Bay had a huge DIY scene back then. It was there I met Andy Junk, who’s been a good friend for over 10 years. He was in a band called The Fragments at the time. Andy invited me over for a show. I think it was The Fragments and Catholic Boys. Being so young, I didn’t know what a “basement show” was.

My mind was blown. A lot of those guys live in Milwaukee now, and are still in bands together, like Holy Shit!. I’ve always had a passion for photography and film, so I decided to combine two of my favorite things. I moved to Chicago, and it was just too spectacular to not try to grab something good from every happening around me. I like to try and capture the moments that make these shows and this scene so special. When you can see the sheer joy on people’s faces. I’d try to check out a band and I just could not find a single video or song of some of these bands, anywhere. How dare they not have instant, rapid accessibility! I just want to help people hear what these people, bands, and communities are pouring 100% of their hearts and souls into.

TVD: You’ve filmed literally hundreds of performances over the years, any that particularly stand out in your mind, good or bad?

JY: Endless amounts stick out immediately. Chinese Stars in a pitch-black art gallery in Pilsen. The cops came and left right before they played. Crazy paintings were hung sideways and strewn everywhere with this ominous glow from the lights they set up. Everyone was twisted, tired and you could literally feel the energy from them explode in the room. Jeremy Enigk playing solo at Abbey Pub + Bottom Lounge. People were actually giggling uncontrollably, because of Jeremy, up there alone, his voice, and a guitar. Pure musical energy, like The Walkmen at Schubas a year or two ago. I honestly thought my face was going to be stuck in a permanent shit-eating grin. Clues. Lightning Bolt at “Bitchpork”. Handsome Furs blowing everyone away with 75% unheard material at “Tommorow Never Knows” 2011. Nobody knew what to expect, and they just bust out these shimmering, new-wave, brainiac-meets-bowie synth-punk on everyone! Ridiculously great live band, nice people, with the best chemistry on stage.

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TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel

By Jon Meyers | Published: April 22, 2011

Greetings from Laurel Canyon!

Many months ago I took my son to a birthday party for a 2 year old boy named Kidd. How rocking is the concept of naming your kid…Kidd!? (Funny, I actually have a second friend who’s boy is named Kiddo.) So anyway, lil Kidd had a Thomas Train party and that was pretty cool. For party favors we all got a mix CD of favorite train songs to listen to with your son.

To be honest the first thing I thought was that Kidd’s Trains was such a cool mix, maybe I’d take a week off and just post Kidd’s mix as my Idelic for the week. Instead, I choose to pursue doing my own version of a mix dedicated to trains. After all, trains travel with soul, well so I think?

A while back I was hanging with Alex Ebert chatting about seeing the film Festival Express. The image of Pig Pen, Janis, Graham Parsons, and Delanie & Bonnie all riding high across the Canadian countryside is pretty cool. Hearing the amazing fact that Ebert somehow pulled off his own train ride festival, a railroad tour became the destination for this week’s Idelic Hour muse.

For many months I’ve been stashing aside records about trains. Finally, on the eve of The Railroad Revival Tour, I give you Idelic “All Aboard!”

In the mix, The Wailers are trying to stop it, while The Yardbirds keep it rolling, The Cure are jumping someone else’s, and Harry doesn’t think anyone cares?

All Aboard!

The Idelic Hit of the Week: Santigold | Go (Feat. Karen O.)

xosidealer
idelicsounds.com | @sidelic

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Local H Get Dirty With Jersey

By Angie Sugrim | Published: April 22, 2011

The last time I saw Local H was at the now defunct Birch Hill Night Club over a decade ago in Old Bridge, NJ. That club was a strange place; it sort of felt like you were in the middle of a junk yard in the woods. I remember seeing the Afghan Whigs there and Greg Dulli was like, “Where the Fook are we?!) And the bouncers! Oh man, they would lord over the crowd on risers and promptly throw out anyone they didn’t like with force that would make you think they were mercenaries from Blackwater.

I Wear The Exact Same Stockings When I Listen To Local H

What I fondly remember about Birch Hill was that they booked a lot of great acts that are still important today, and many of them while the bands were still just below the mainstream radar. System Of The Down, The White Stripes, Weezer, Incubus and Local H were all veterans of the club before they returned to NJ to later on in their careers to sell out much bigger, though decidedly less intimate, venues.

Birch Hill was a strange island of an indie rock haven amongst post-modern vistas of strip malls lit by sulfur street lamps, the kind that hum and flicker in the summer when you’re doing doughnuts under them in empty parking lots.

My Favorite Local H Video

They’ve since paved Paradise and put up a condominium complex, so now that Local H is returning yet again to Jersey, singer/guitarist/front man Scott Lucas decided to bring their distortion laden sludgy guitar sound, and sing-along swear filled melodies ( the best kind!) to The Brighton Bar tomorrow, Saturday 4/23. The act is currently in the middle of their “Singles Tour” ( hey man, if I ever have enough singles to constitute a tour, you bet I’ll be loading up the van and cashing those checks), and features the well-experienced Brian St. Clair on the drums.

Also playing will be The Dig from NYC, and yes, yours truly will be there glowing with adolescent nostalgia and making fun of dudes who have “ grand prize monster trucks” with this rowdy rock act come tomorrow evening.

See you there, you high-fiving mothertruckers!

XOXO
Ang

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TVD Ticket Giveaway: of Montreal at the
9:30 Club, 4/28

By Olivia | Published: April 22, 2011

of Montreal release their highly-anticipated new EP thecontrollersphere via Polyvinyl on Tuesday, April 26th, as a bright blue 12″ (oooh). Two days later, the Athens, Georgia-based collective hits up 9:30 Club, on Thurs (4/28), and we have a chance for you to win a pair of tickets.

Of the new EP’s five tracks, you can stream “Flunkt Sass vs the Root Plume” over at NPR, and Polyvinyl is offering “Black Lion Massacre” as a free download. NPR describes thecontrollersphere as “reliably weirder and grander,” which is how I would describe of Montreal’s frontman Kevin Barnes.

Kevin Barnes gets some help on that front from his brother David, who doesn’t play an instrument but is the Art Director for the band. David creates the album covers, videos projected on stage, and music videos for the band, and his newest creations include fat suits “with Glenn Beck’s face morphing out of the stomach so you’re just a big, loud, stupid head.”

You know you want to see them perform their psychedelic art-pop in those suits. I mean, C’MON!