Results tagged “suicidesqueeze”

Suicide Squeeze Records have announced their SXSW '09 showcase, including performances from These Arms Are Snakes, Past Lives, Human Highway, Cotton Jones, and The Coathangers.

Minus The Bear’s third full-length, Planet Of Ice was released this past August on Seattle based Suicide Squeeze Records. The album was produced by (former keyboardist) Matt Bayles and Chris Common. Minus The Bear formed in 2001 and has since developed a knack for churning out experimental indie-rock enhanced by complex time signatures and abrupt rhythm changes, as well as occasional employment of jazz standards. Add to this Dave Knudson’s distinct two-handed tapping style...

Minus the Bear Planet of Ice (Suicide Squeeze)

Avoid the Noid. Or if you're Oxford Collapse, jump off of the side of a swimming pool and tackle the shit out of the (inflatable toy) Noid. A presumably tanked gentleman is depicted as doing such on the cover of the band’s most recent release, Remember the Night Parties (Sub Pop). In it, OxC reminds us that hard-hitting bands who know how to bring it 80s-style without simply ripping off Joy Division do, in...

Eric Elbogen’s Say Hi To Your Mom matches sweetly conjured melodies with self-produced perfection to reach an indie-emo hybrid more common than not these days. His Euphobia Records has been home to 4 releases under the SHTYM moniker, with themes ranging from vampires to self-reflection. DC-area based Metal Hearts open with their collage of softly produced sounds. Supplementing their strengths, the band’s precise arrangements on their Suicide Squeeze release, Socialize builds on articulate instrumentation, and the Austinist wants you to watch them produce live. Win tickets here:

Hey, did you hear that Google bought YouTube? No? Well, then go buy some records. Damien Jurado And Now That I'm In Your Shadow (Secretly Canadian) October's releases seem to be in touch with the temperature drop (however small) and shift of mood. Damien Jurado's latest offering is the perfect example: dark, sparing treatments on the decline of romance in the Midwest, a disagreement between friends in the back of a pickup truck, and...