This Month in Modern Drummer

The August issue of Modern Drummer hit newsstands nationwide yesterday. The significance here is that the issue contains an interview with Larry Herwig (the drummer of Pelican) and also Aaron Harris (the drummer of Isis). Larry's interview is regarding the recording of Pelican's most recent full-length, "City of Echoes." Aaron's interview, aside from the Tre Cool centerfold, is just another reason to pick up the issue. 

You should be able to find more info here.

Its A girl!

On July 1st, 2009 Hydra Head proudly welcomed a new member into the family. Her name is Haley Gallant Foley (most excellent name) and she is the offspring of Jill and Justin Foley (Justin is of Austerity Program fame). 

From Justin: 

"Hazel is 8 lbs even and 20 inches long... Max says Hazel is cute"

I Just Like Listening to Stephen Brodsky Talk.. What About You?

Happened upon some pretty killer Brodsky clips.. if you have the time (if your reading this its safe to assume you do) check them out!

Some More Brodsky Clips:

Stephen Brodsky-"Down the Drain"

Stephen Brodsky & Audrey Ryan-"Tribute to Frank Black"

Tour Press: Harvey Milk in Miami New Times

MP3 of the Day: "Death Goes to the Winner" by Harvey Milk, Playing Churchill's This Saturday

"this sludgy, experimental noise-rock-type act spews forth the kind of weirdness that could only come from Athens, Georgia. Formed in the early 1990s, the fivesome remained mostly a cult act there, the Southern gothic vibe of its hometown seeping into the foggy textures of its many seven-inch singles."

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Cave In Announce "Planets Of Old" 12-inch * Release "Retina Sees Rewind" Digital Single!

Announce "Planets of Old" 12-inch Details * Release "Retina Sees Rewind" Digital Single Available Today Through iTunes!

Few bands are capable of weathering so much change while remaining so consistent. - Pitchfork.com

Here's a band who have changed markedly from album to album and have never once repeated themselves. - MetalSucks.net

CAVE IN, The insurmountable Hydra Head all-star traveling team has... yep, you guessed it... officially un-disbanded! Unless you're the type to follow a band's wikipedia page closely enough to notice an update the moment it occurs, this news is of the breaking variety... and what's more, Hydra Head has got 4 brand newCAVE IN tracks for those of you, who after four years of radio silence, still wear your now rusted-over Jupiter pins with pride... 

The entire 4 song E.P, "Planets of Old," will be made available only as a limited 12," (well... for now anyway) on July 28th. BAD NEWS: this one-hundo-eighty gram specimen is guaranteed to enter the endangered rankings upon inception... GOOD NEWS: the band will have many a twelve inch on their persons at their upcoming performance in Allston, MA (details below)... So you know what they say (or maybe we just overheard some asshole kid who eventually became an intern say this in San Diego) "One for me, one for ebay." I think he thought it rhymed...

* "Retina Sees Rewind," one of four new tracks from the band, has been made available as a digital single TODAY via iTunes, click here to download!

Planets of Old-Tracklisting:
1. Cayman Tongue
2. Retina Sees Rewind
3. The Redtrail 
4. Air Escapes

Cave In Live!
7/19 Allston, MA @ Great Scott's w/ Disappearer, Phantom Glue



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/cavein
www.hydrahead.com

Keelhaul: New Tour Dates

New Tour Dates: 

August 1st, Richmond VA @ Nara Sushi

July 31st, Washington DC @ the Velvet Lounge

Previously Announced Tour Dates:

8/2 Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly w/ Minsk, Stats

8/3 Boston, MA @ Great Scott w/ Doomriders 

9/12 Indianapolis, IN @ Melody Inn

Pitchfork News: GREYMACHINE

Basic physics: When the frontmen of two of the heaviest bands in the world get together, they are guaranteed to make something extremely fucking heavy.

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GREYMACHINE- "Disconnected," Out August 4th on Hydra Head

Announce Debut Album, "Disconnected," out August 4th on Hydra Head!

GREYMACHINE is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most realized collaborative effort between Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Godflesh, Napalm Death, Final, Techno Animal, Head of David, God, Curse of the Golden Vampire etc..), Dave Cochrane (Head Of David, God, Ice), Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner (ISIS, House of Low Culture, Mamiffer, Jodis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters, Drawing Voices, The Hollomen, Union Suit etc..) ever! If you're a fan of Godflesh, or have even a fleeting interest in the band, this bud's for you; if you subscribe to The Aural & Visual Art of Aaron Turner this shit's a pool party. 

Disconnected, the album in question, is at once jarring and ethereal.... which is, as you may already know, the kind of combination that results in entire city blocks bobbin' their heads to dis... In summation, GREYMACHINE sounds like a serious case of cyberbullying through the mind of an extremely autistic child living in an ever-shifting hadean landscape thronged with mindless militants, dilapidated cityscapes and ephemeral phantoms... so to summarize the summation, Disconnected is haunting and modern sounding... In a good way.

Disconnected Track Listing
1. Wolf At the Door
2. Vultures Descend 
3. When Attention Just Ain't Enough
4. Wasted 
5. We Are All Fucking Liars 
6. Just Breathing 
7. Sweatshop 
8. Easy Pickings 

For more information, visit:
www.avalancheinc.co.uk/greymachine.html

"Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity" Out Aug. 18th on HH

Announces New Album, "Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity," Out August 18th On Hydra Head Records * Plays Pitchfork's Show No Mercy Series August 2nd at The Public Assembly in New York!

Complex, chaotic, heavy, and never dull - Punknews

A band you've ignored for far too long. - Scenepointblank

Kellhaul have written an album that not only moves the band to the next level but the whole genre that they represent. - Apeshit.org

Keelhaul is like the one friend that you're actually looking forward to seeing when you fly home for the holidays... Still smoking weed in the parent's basement, but, try as you might, you can't fault him for doing it because ultimately you're fucking convinced he's got some shit figured out that you're still years away from. Basically, this guy Keelhaul is a solid dude and maybe part of you wants to be him, no shame in it... most people are susceptible to societal pressures... you wanted to be an adult and you thought you knew what that meant... trips to the wine store... you should kick your own ass. 

Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity, is not just a clever name for an album title marking a band's return from obscurity, it's an album title for a band's release marking that same band's return from obscurity. init? Chris Smith, Aaron Dallison, Dana Embrose, and Will Scharf have been at it as Keelhaul for over ten years and it shows. This record picks up on the band's progression as if they were steadily releasing records throughout their six year hiatus. The pace is precise, the instrumentation is masterful and the guitar tones are absolutely appropriate. Look, your old pal Keelhaul knows what he's doing and he ain't affiliated with no williamsburgers, so he feels no need to overcompensate by adding strings, vibes, horns, boners (well maybe boners), harps and/or electric flutes... to his compositions... which is a god damn breath of fresh air if you ask me. 

Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity Track Listing: 

1. Pass the Lampshade * download exclusively @ BrooklynVegan.com!
2. Glorious Car Activities 
3. Everything's a Napkin 
4. High Seas Viking Eulogy 
5. THC for one
6. The Subtle Sound of an Empty Milkshake 
7. El Matador 
8. Kirby Wurm 
9. Bandolero de Perros De Maiz 
10. Waiting for the Moon to Speak 
11. Brady's Lament 
12. KFB

Keelhaul Live!
Aug 2 2009 Public Assembly Brooklyn, NY part of the Show No Mercy series w/ Minsk, STATS, + Special Guests
Aug 3 2009 Great Scott Boston, Massachusetts w/ Doomriders 
Sep 12 2009 Melody Inn Indianapolis, Indiana

New KEELHAUL MP3 on Brooklyn Vegan

If there is such thing as justice, maybe Keelhaul's ironically titled new album, Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity will have just the opposite effect. Due via Hydra Head on August 18th, Triumphant Return (is what I am calling it) marks their fourth LP in their ten years as a band, and their first LP since 2003's Subject To Change Without Notice.

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Kayo Dot Recording New Full-Length Album!

Enter Studio/ Begin Recording Fourth Full-Length Album To Be Released on Hydra Head Records!

Led by Toby Driver and Mia Matsumiya, the NYC sextet just released their third album Blue Lambency Downward on Isis man Aaron Turner's Hydra Head records. The opening, title track is a mysterious 10-minute meandering of bells like crickets, bursts of patient guitar, jazzy drum fills (kept to a toppling spaciousness), electronic pulses, and chiming vocal melodies. It kinda feels like a psychedelic boat trip piloted by Ghost, albeit it with bigger "pop" tendencies. - Stereogum

Fresh off of a US tour opening for Trey Spruance's amazing SECRET CHIEFS 3, KAYO DOT has arrived in Seattle to begin recording their second full length release for Hydra Head Industries. 

Throughout the tour, they performed and refined the new compositions, bringing them to new audiences and honing them for the upcoming recording, with Toby Driver also picking up bass duties for SECRET CHIEFS 3 each night. The new music features another sonic shift in the ever-evolving sonic lexicon of KAYO DOT. Expect a more visceral rhythmic sound with overdriven chorus basses, cave-echoed horns, vocals and strings, tuned struck metal, and a purveying melodic darkness threaded delicately throughout the sound of the music. Once again, the record will be recorded by Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Six Organs Of Admittance) who also recorded KAYO DOT'S critically acclaimed Hydra Head release from 2008, BLUE LAMBENCY DOWNWARD. Expect the release of the new music on Hydra Head in Fall of 2009, with a September / October European tour and US tour to follow the album release! - Toby Driver / Kayo Dot

Stream Kayo Dot's 2008 album, "Blue Lambency Downward," here!



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/kayodot
www.hydrahead.com