Hypercolor - Magda (preview)
Hypercolor has released a four-song preview EP. Led by Alexandra Spalding (Austin Thomas, The Razorektors) on 12-string guitar, banjo, and vocals, the band plays an assortment of experimental folk, lush pop moments, and garage rock. Spalding’s vocals are reminiscent of The Cowboy Junkies or chilled-out Joan Jett. The band also features Adrian Olsen (Montrose Recording, Tarrant), Keith Paul (bass, Guise, Dumb Waiter, Dirty Banners), Hugo Haggie and Cre Moore (drums, Lightfields, Dirty Banners).
Check out “Told You Once” for Southern Culture on the Skids-style attitude, distorted, sultry female vocals, and dissonant guitars. “Sparrow” finishes off the album on a sullen, whispered note. This band truly has versatility. We look forward to hearing the band hone their sound.
Come out to Hypercolor on Sunday, 5/19 @ Gallery 5 with RVA’s Silversmiths and Brooklyn’s Annie & the Beekeepers (Americana).
photo by Coldon Martin
photo by Tom Applegate
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HYPERCOLOR plays Gallery 5 w/ ANNIE & THE BEEKEEPERS and THE SILVERSMITHS Click the link for the facebook event.
Dumb Waiter - Is This Chocolate?
A fairly new fusion/math rock four-piece is in effect called Dumb Waiter. Comprising members of Street Pizza, Guise, The Jefferson Plane Crash, and The Jacob Spindel, Dumb Waiter has just released a masterful 7-track album. Tristan Brennis plays the saxophone, and he rocks out a la Skerik in Critters Buggin. Complicated rhythms and intense drumming (Nathaniel Roseberry) immediately stand out as key ingredients to this band’s potion. Sometimes half of the band will be furiously frenetic while the other half plays half-time downtempo, and it sounds perfect (“Rub-a-dub-dub-dub”). Brennis reaches into Morphine territories at this point.
The title of the album has happened to all of us at one point or another. You find something brown on a jacket or something and you’re like, is this chocolate? Please, lord, be chocolate. Only the most
stupiddaring taste it before sniffing.This record is for the adventurous, sure, but the timid will certainly find something to love as well. Even though the music is instrumental, the band switches things up so much that there is no way to get bored. Truth be told, this record is in the running already for our album of the year.
Come out to Dumb Waiter’s record release show tomorrow (5/2) @ Gallery 5 with Sea of Storms, Young Widows, and the former SnackTruck. 7 pm doors, 8 pm music, $10.
The DUMB WAITER album “Is This Chocolate?” is officially today on Bandcamp! Click the photo or click here.
http://dumbwaiterva.bandcamp.com/
Thank you and cheers!
YOUNG WIDOWS @ Gallery 5 Richmond, VA w/ SnackTruck, Dumb Waiter, and Sea of Storms. Tuesday May, 2
Click photo to link to the facebook event.
HYPERCOLOR is a new band from Richmond, VA that includes:
Alex Spalding (Annie and the Beekeepers)
Adrian Olsen (Montrose Recording Studio)
Cre Moore (Lightfields, Dirty Banners)
Keith Paul (Dumb Waiter, Guise)
Hugo Haggie (Hugo Haggie)
The first show ever is at The Camel in Richmond, VA on April 30th 8pm
FLAG (feat. 4 former members of Black Flag) performed a secret show in Redondo Beach. Watch a video of the set here! http://su.pr/30NV2c
