I will be filling in on guitar for Dangerbird for a four day stint in August. We are touring with Gholas. The dates are:
Friday, August 6th @ Secret Art Space, Bethlehem, PA
Saturday, August 7th @ New Wave Cafe, New Bedford, MA
Sunday, August 8th @ The New Hawaii, Southington, CT
Monday, August 9th @ The Lit Lounge, Manhattan, NY
I neglected to include this in the previous blog post because I wasn’t sure if it was happening or not, but after seeing a tweet from @RelapseRecords I checked the iTunes store and sure enough you can buy the deluxe version of Mose Giganticus’ Gift Horse. What’s included in the deluxe version, you ask? It includes the entire demo version of the album that I recorded at Red Planet before the signing to Relapse, plus the Japanese bonus track and a digital booklet. The entire package is $11.99 for all 15 tracks. If you’ve already purchased the standard version of Gift Horse, you can purchase each bonus track individually for $0.99 each. The track list is:
01. Last Resort
02. The Left Path
03. Demon Tusk
04. Days Of Yore
05. The Great Deceiver
06. White Horse
07. The Seventh Seal
08. Aftermath (Japanese Bonus Track)
09. Last Resort (Demo)
10. The Left Path (Demo)
11. Days Of Yore (Demo)
12. Demon Tusk (Demo)
13. The Great Deceiver (Demo)
14. White Horse (Demo)
15. The Seventh Seal (Demo)
Gift Horse is available in North America today on CD/Digital via Relapse Records! Check out below for a full list of stores and to search a store near you head to wheresthemetal.com. Additionally, you can listen to the full album now thanks to Alternative Press at altpress.com
National Chains
FYE
Online Retailers
Amazon.com
Bestbuy.com
Criminalatl.com
Deepdiscount.com
Fye.com
Gohastings.com
Homersmusic.com
Ltcds.com
Newburycomics.com
Relapse.com
Tower.com
Vvinyl.com
Regional Chains
Bull Moose
Dimple
Down in the Valley
Electric Fetus
Gallery of Sound
Grey Whale
Hastings
Homers
Independent Records
Newbury Comics
Plan 9
Rasputins
Record Town
School Kids
Streetlight Records
The Exclusive Co.
Value Music
Zia Records
Indies
Amoeba
Angelos
Boo Boos
Cactus
Cd City
Cheapo Discs
Criminal Records
Crossroads
Dearborn
Disc and Dat
Ear X Tacy
Earshot
Easy Street
Eides
Fingerprints
Grimeys
Heavy Metal Shop
House of Guitars
J&R Electric
Jackpot
Jack’s Music Shoppe
Kim’s
Looney Tunes
Lou’s
Lunchbox Records
Mad Rhino
Magnolia Thunderpussy
Melody Record Shop
Millenium
Monster Records
Music Box
Off the Record
Painted Smiles
Park Ave
Permanent Records
Poco Hi-Fi
Pure Pop
Repo
Resurrection
Rolling Stone
Salzers
Second Ave Records
Shake it
Silver Platters
Slackers
Sonic Boom
The Disc Exchange
The Sound Garden
Twist and Shout
Vintage Vinyl (St.Louis)
Vintage Vinyl (NJ)
Von’s Record Shop
Waterloo
Digital
Amazon.com
I-Tunes
Napster
Rhapsody
Thinkindie.com
Shockhound.com
Seafrost’s Waves In The Atmosphere has arrived. As the brainchild of Harry Benson, Seafrost is a wonderful blend of shoegaze and 90’s alt rock with haunting melodies and layers of effect laden guitars. The entire album is available as a whole or in parts on the Seafrost Band Camp page as a pay-what-you want (or not at all…) download. An excerpt from the page:
After almost a year of off and on recording, I am happy to finally be able to share Waves In The Atmosphere with you! For the past few years I’ve been playing solo creating instrumental songs ranging from folk to ambient. Seafrost marks the first project to feature drums, vocals and professional recording 
The inspirations for this spawned from my memories of 90’s alternative music and my adoration for shoegaze and psychedelic music. Now, with the help of Evan and Carla, Waves In The Atmosphere is ready to enter your eardrums! Physical copies may become available eventually, but as of now there are no solid plans.
Take a listen to “Rainbow Static” here, or go to the Band Camp page to hear the whole album.
I’m sure you’ve never heard of my old band Alyosha, but I recently had our 2006 record {ghosts} remastered. Dave Downham at Gradwell House did it and it sounds pretty great. The remaster is available for free as a digital download in both high quality 320kbps MP3 and also lossless FLAC format (available in 2 separate zip folders), both with high resolution artwork. What does the album sound like? Well I’m never very good at describing my own bands so maybe this review excerpt from Origivation Magazine will help:
“This fast-paced, high-energy indie rock disc is totally defined by the challenging guitar melodies. Everything else is gravy. Luscious, sweet, heavy, gravy that is absolutely complimentary to the rich and thought-provoking guitar work. The songs are all broken into succinct movements – even the tracks that are mostly ambient noise are tiny journeys. As beautiful as it is exploratory, and exciting as it is experimental, {ghosts} demands and commands complete attention from the first second of track 1 to 4 hours after you’ve finished track 13.”
Click here to go to the download page.
It’s been quite a long while in the making, but Evan Wall, better known as +Church+, finally brings us his debut album I Did A Horrible Thing To Meet You. The album consists of ten tracks that perfectly blend dark folk, alternative rock, and metal inspirations into a ball of emotional chaos. Recorded over a very, very long period at Red Planet, and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, I Did A Horrible Thing… is one of 2010’s albums you wont want to miss. Check out one of the record’s more rocking songs below, along with photo’s of the packaging. The CD is available for purchase now at live performances or through the +Church+ Myspace page.
Starting on May 1st, Mose Giganticus will play a couple one off shows that will kick of our May tour. Some shows are still being worked out, I think. Here is a mostly complete tour schedule:
May 1 Ithaca, NY @The Haunt (as part of Big Day In Fest)
May 8 Philadelphia, PA @Danger Danger Gallery
May 9 ZRadio Performance
May 11 Richmond, VA @The Camel
May 12 Roanoke, VA @The Bazaar
May 13 Greenville, NC @Tipsy
May 14 Wilmington, NC @Soapbox Laudrolounge (as part of Rad Fest)
May 16 Charlotte, NC @The Milestone
May 17 Knoxville, TN @The Pilot Light
May 21 Columbus, OH @Legion of Doom
May 23 Cleveland, OH @Weapons of Mass Creation Fest
May 27 Baltimore, MD @The Hexagon
The past two Fridays, Decibel Magazine’s Deciblog posted teasers about a mysterious signing from Relapse Records entitled “Guess Who Relapse Records Signed (parts 1 & 2).” The first post included only two cryptic images from the upcoming release, while the second post included two more images and a complete mp3 for their readers to download. Most everyone who read these posts was stumped as to who the band could be. A lot of the comments are very funny. I encourage you to read through both postings.
Well today I am happy to report that Relapse has finally announced that the band is none other than Mose Giganticus. The album, entitled Gift Horse, will be released on July 20th and is available for pre-order right now at relapse.com, so head on over there and check it out. Also, check out the newly revamped Mose Giganticus Myspace Page.
Here are some excerpts from the press release and images from the Deciblog posts:
Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of Philadelphia, PA’s MOSE GIGANTICUS.
MOSE GIGANTICUS’ Relapse debut Gift Horse is set for a July 20th North American release date and is the follow-up to the band’s 2008 EP release Commander!. Gift Horse was recorded at Skylight Studios (CIRCA SURVIVE, NONE MORE BLACK, TURMOIL, HOT CROSS) with engineer Vince Ratti and is available for pre-order at this location. The first preview track from Gift Horse, “The Left Path”, was posted via Decibel Magazine’s Deciblog last week along with previews of the album’s artwork. “The Left Path” can also be heard online now via the newly redesigned MOSE GIGANTICUS MySpace page: MySpace.com/MoseGiganticus.
“I’m definitely excited about the release of Gift Horse on Relapse,” says MOSE GIGANTICUS’ Matt Garfield, “The album itself has been two-years in the making and its much heavier than what people have heard from Commander! and Invisible Hand. Relapse is just the optimal place to release it.”
MOSE GIGANTICUS, who tours in a converted shuttle bus that runs on recycled vegetable oil, has announced a run of May tour dates. This run of dates will include stops at a handful of d-i-y festivals including Ithaca, NY’s Big Day In Fest, Wilmington, NC’s Rad Fest, and Cleveland, OH’s Weapons of Mass Creation. A complete listing of tour dates and cities can be found in the tour section with more to be announced soon.
Gift Horse is very close to being completed. Matt did eventually get all of his drums recorded, despite the horrible weather. The following sessions were spent on his vocals, my vocals, and mixing. Singing on this record was pretty difficult for me. Matt wanted my vocals in a high octave which, for most of the songs, was at the very top end of my vocal range. Let’s just say I’m thankful for studio magic. Last I heard, Matt is still working on his vocals, though he is almost finished. Vince has been working on mixes as we’ve been tracking and the mix I heard of the song “Last Resort” sounds pretty amazing. Below are a few pictures from our vocal recording sessions.
Way back in June 2009 Deathbeds came back into the studio and recorded 3 songs that would eventually be released as a 7″ entitled No Funeral. This time, Chris Grigg (Woe, Near Dark) stepped in to co-engineered the project with me. After rejecting the first test press, No Funeral was finally released last month on Younglungs Ltd. It was pressed on 300 beautiful clear-green pieces of vinyl. Each record comes with a digital download card. The rejected test press was also released in late 2009 which was limited to 30 copies. Check out the photos below, read the blog on the Younglungs site (or better yet, buy the record from them), and listen to the song “Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death” also posted below.
Deathbeds - Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death
