More great Tee Pee news

New releases from both Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound and The Warlocks. Super cool - I can hardly wait for this ...

Tee Pee Records | Assemble MySpace | Warlocks MySpace

High on Fire - Live From the Relapse Contamination Festival

This is a concert recorded back in 2003 - why it's been under way for so long I don't know, because it's a damn fine recording. The sound is amazing with a very good balance between the different instruments. What could be expected is of course that the guitar is in front cutting through everything like an axe and the vocal is clear and haunting. Matt Pike delivers some furious riffing and some vicious solos. But the backing group is also clear and well mixed with clear compressed drums and a thundering bass. The set includes songs like "Blood from Zion", Hung, Drawn and Quartered" with monster drumming and also a cover of the Venom's "Witching Hour" complete with a short chaotic Venom style guitar solo. Frightening, fast and heavy - Matt is coming to kill you...

High on Fire website | Relapse Records | Sleep reunited ...

The Telstar Sound Drone

"Copenhagen based artist-group. "Les Après L'amour Sonnes" is creating and working with anything from music to words, visuals & art installations. The band part of Les Après L'amour Sonnes is presented as "The Telstar Sound Drone"."

Les Après Lamour Sonnes | BetaClub Records

Henry's Funeral Shoe

"Henry's Funeral Shoe was formed by two brothers in 2008 from South Wales, inspired and influenced by many of the albums that singer/guitarist Aled Clifford had looted from his father's vinyl collection when he was growing up. The Who, CCR, Peter Green, Robert Johnson and the Beatles were favourites, and Aled quickly became a gifted guitar player, aided and taught by Ned Edwards, a long time collaborator of Van Morrison. Aled soon played with various bands, eventually doing some recording sessions for producer Ian Grimble, and even recording at the legendary Abbey Road studios. His younger brother Brennig started playing drums at nine. At fifteen he joined a local band, learning his trade by performing covers of The Clash and Thin Lizzy before moving on to writing original material. The dexterous brothers have finally joined forces to create some of the loudest soulful rock'n'roll to come out the UK in a long time. Their debut album "Everything's For Sale" scheduled for release in March 2009 is a fun and raucous mix of heavy rock and psychedelic blues which reminds us that the U.K can produce more than great pop music, but also some amazing rock'n'roll. Don't lose the rhythm!"

MySpace | Alive Records | Wales at Wiki

UNIDA - 1999-11-05 - Vienna, Austria - Radio FM4 matrix

Amazing soundquality - Download from Dimeadozen >>

TK Web and the Visions ...

Website | MySpace | Kemado Records

Ahymsa – Demo 2009

Here we have four new tracks from the Londoners Ahymsa who play progressive acid rock with strong references to the early 70’s. The music in these four tracks at first seems quite laid-back with very strong vocal arrangements, but the heavy elements are also present. The music in itself is flowting away pleasantly with cool shifts and breaks. The band really handles the difficult art of making progressive rock arrangements without getting lost in pure showoff and the band always keep the hard hitting elements in the back of their hand as like in track two “Numbers” which ends with some very cool fuzzorma. Track 3 “Green Orange Buddha Juice” starts out real mellow with acoustic guitar and nice cord shifts before a very clear electric guitar leads into the song itself. In the last track “The Singularity” there’s really something heavy going on and the song has a cool keyboard in the middle and towards the end of the song. Because of the many layers in the music, this band is to be listened to carefully and with much concentration. The handwritten liner notes state that this demo is recorded in bedrooms! Wow, quite cool bedrooms I guess – please let me sleep over some time …

If you dig: Siena Root, Carpet Knights, Danava

Ahymsa @ MySpace | meefo | LowCut Magazine

Teeth of the Sea – Orphaned by the Ocean

I’m really not fond of post-rock – I find it quite pretentious. I also don’t really like all the drone stuff that’s so fucking popular in indie circles nowadays. Avant-garde gives me the creeps more than anything – I find the labeling so misused although a band like Sunburned Hand of the Man do hit it right from time to time with all their circus show on top.

So when I recently stumbled over this London band I was quite surprised. Teeth of the Sea is out on the great label Rocket Recordings. They play instrumental music with strong elements of post-rock and drone. Extremely layered and what you musically will call “epic” and they build what we with the biggest cliché will call “soundscapes”. I was therefore almost happy when I read this statement in an interview: “We were all sick to death of going to avant-garde and noise shows and being bored to tears by either uncharismatic self-important post-rock style muso behavior or dull laptop-staring showmanship.” Well, a bit out of context, but the meaning is clear, right!


This is some fucking serious heavy stuff, man! I love this music! It’s so layered and creates so many different expressions. And the trumpet … I mean the trumpet?!? How often do you hear a clear, sorrow Morricone style trumpet lead the music when it comes to swirling dark epic psychedelia? But, it’s the trumpet man – the trumpet made me loose control of my inner senses. And it’s right from the start of the CD. Everything starts out with the heaviest drone, strange synth sounds and then the trumpet. These guys fuck the socks off all the pretentious crap out there. The sound is so wide and scary with layers of layer of feeding guitars and God damn heavy bass. Put Neurosis to bed and come out for a black mariachi sabbathi. In many ways this music sounds like the background noisy part of Torche’ “Amnesian” put in front and pushed to the extreme. The music is all instrumental, but there’s some real scary use of voices like in the beginning of “Sentimental Journey” before the band drones you out for almost five minutes – and then the bass comes in with a heavy Joy Division’ish groove, only to get lost in a swirl of noise at the end. End of record - fucking WOW!

So glue on your headphones and float away with the band, don’t resist when you feel like your loosing control. Let the airborne acid-waves get to your inner ear and cross the membrane to the very deepest part of your crippled mind. Don’t be scared, it’s only music – but you will for sure get addicted – he, he, he ...

If you dig: Boris, Torche, Nadia – then this is for you!

@ MySpace | Rocket Recordings | LowCut Magazine

The Prisoner opening titles

The Prisoner | Prisoner Online | Patrick McGoohan

Julian Cope's Danskrocksampler

I love Julian Cope, he's a crazy acid-head and writes completly fucked up reviews of all the music that I love. Funny though I had not seen that he's got a Danskrocksampler on he's All Ugly Radio complete with the Christiania logo. Anyway, some great Danish hippie rock is streamed for your pleasure. Pretty commen knowledge for a dane - but hey!

Danskrock | Head Heritage | Christiania

RIP Ron Asheton (1948-2009)

"The legendary Stooges guitarist just died, 60 years old. Mr. Asheton is probably the most influential proto-punk strummer of the them all, I think around 70% of all the music we review here is directly or indirectly inspired by his immortal work with The Stooges. We're many who had the pleasure of seing him and The Stooges at Roskilde in 2004, in the pouring rain we witnessed that Ron still had it, that lethal, primal and sonic 6-string assault that changed the world back in the days of happy-go-lucky hippie bliss. A true American original has left the building to join Dave Alexander in the great beyond." By: Jens >>

What's the best way to pay tribute to this great guitarist? Almost all media have it's RIP Ron Asheton - right! But I guess that the best tribute I've heard about is WFMU's radioshow playing every version of "Loose" from "The Complete Funhouse Sessions". What a "fun" way ... allthough the host Kenny G is a complete jerk.

WFMU| Complete Funhouse Sessions | Download

The Shivas

This is without doubt the coolest young lads I've ever heard about. Go to their MySpace and listen to their great vintage psychedelig grooves.

MySpace | Website | Youtube Channel | World in Sound

Zach Hill - Multi-artist

Art Exibition | MySpace | Wiki

Mondo Drag

Mondo Drag MySpace | Explorationiowa | Flickr

Black Box Massacre

Out of the ashes of magical Spaceship Landing and Coogans Bluff we have Black Box Massacre rising. The music is as freaked out and trippy as Spaceship Landing. Great news

"Das Debut des Fusionprojektes THE BLACKBOXMASSACRE (Coogans Bluff & ex-Spaceship Landing) IST NUN DA!!! ...und für 12euro hier oder unter steffenpeterschneider@web.de zu ordern"

Black Box MySpace | Spaceship Landing | Coogans Bluff

The obligatory End of Year list

Concerts/Festivals:
Roadburn Festival - Tilburg
Rise Above 20 Year Anniversay - ULU, London
Neil Young - Roskilde Festival
OM - Loppen, Christiania
The Bellrays - Loppen, Christiania
Graveyard - Dragens Hule, Copenhagen
Witchcraft - Loppen, Christiania
Sgt. Sunshine - Bodoni, Malmö
C.Aarmé - Lades, Copenhagen
QOTSA - KB Hallen, Copenhagen

Best Danish bands live:
Aron - Loppen, Christiania (with OM)
The GT-81 Concert - Rockmaskinen, Christiania
Causa Sui - Dæmonens Port, Copenhagen
Baby Woodrose + On Trial - Pusher Street, Christiania
Los Retardos - Stengade 30, Copenhagen
Death Token - Loppen, Christiania
Aron - Lowcut R'n'R Radio
Highway Child - Dragens Hule, Copenhagen
Øresund Space Collective - Dragens Hule (The Tea Party)
Dirty Grass - Stengade 30, Copenhagen

Top Ten Records - "Mainstream":
Black Mountain - In the Future
Danava - UnonoU
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend
Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
Colour Haze - All
Wooden Shjips: Volume 1
Brant Bjork - Punk Rock Guilt
Buffalo Killers - Let it Ride

Close, but no cigar list:
Entrance Band - Prayer of Death
Earthling Society - Beauty And The Beast
Weird Owl - Nuclear Psychology
Darker My Love - 2
Heavy Hands - Smoke Signals
La Otracina - The Risk of Gravitation
Distortions - Psychic Reverb
Serpentina Satelite - Nothing to Say
Dungen - 4
Nudity - The Nightfeeders
Zaphire Oktalogue - S/T
White Denim - Workout Holiday
Black Hollies - Casting Shadows
Tame Impala - S/T

Danish Top 5 Records:
Causa Sui - Summer Sessions
Dragontears - Tambourine Freak Machine
The Hors d'Oeuvres - Yeast
Beta Satan - Girls
Highway Child - On The Old Kings Road

Carol Hoorn Fraser

Happy New Year - yeah right, damned hangovers.

Jottings | A lot to read about her