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Daedelus European Tour Dates | 04/2009 | Daedelus will be playing all over Europe starting in May and performing through July, with one warm up gig in LA before he takes off. Live performance information can be found on the shows page. |
K-The-I??? Hip-Hop Connection Mix | 04/2009 | Hip-Hop Connection asked K-The-I??? to put together a short mixtape for their Crazy Mixed Up World section. His mix features some of his favorite - and arguably some of the best - conscious rap from the last few years. |
Her Space Holiday And PCP Show | 04/2009 | Her Space Holiday will be in Los Angeles performing at an artist retrospective for Tokyo-based PCP. The name may sound familiar to those who have seen the brilliant artwork from XOXO, Panda and the Sleepy Tigers single. Besides the Her Space Holiday performance, the evening will feature a Q&A with the artist and a reception. For more information, check out the Poketo Studio's website and a show preview from XLR8R. We've added this event to our shows page. |
Clue To Kalo Track Licensed For Motion Picture | 04/2009 | "Ignore The Forest Floor" from Clue To Kalo's Mush release One Way, It's Every Way, has been licensed for use in the independent film I Am The Bluebird. The film is premiering at the Atlanta Film Festival on April 17, before moving on to the Sunscreen Film Fest in St. Petersburg, FL on April 30. For more info on future screenings, or about the film in general, check the I Am The Bluebird website. |
Her Space Holiday Split Single, Just In Time For Tour | 04/2009 | Her Space Holiday have just put out a split single with tourmates/backing band City Lights. The single, which has been released by Banter Records, features the bands covering each other. City Lights' "All You Demons" gets the Marc Biachi touch, and "The New Kid Revival" from XOXO, Panda gets a reworking by Her Space Holiday. The single is available now on iTunes. |
Head Like A Kite Spring Dates | 04/2009 | Head Like A Kite will be touring the West Coast this Spring in support of their Mush release There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere. Catch them in a town near you. Check out a preview for the Seattle show from Three Imaginary Girls. We've added information for the nine dates to our shows page. |
Clue To Kalo Splicing Profile | 04/2009 | Mark Mitchell - the eye of Hurricane Clue To Kalo (or Monsoon when he's in Perth) - has recently been profiled in Aussie webzine Splice Today. |
Lymbyc Systym US Dates | 04/2009 | Lymbyc Systym have booked a handful of dates between their newly adopted hometowns of New York and Austin. Check them out in a city near you. These dates have been added to our shows page. |
Her Space Holiday Hot Coffee | 04/2009 | Australia's Gloria Jeans' Coffee company has licensed Her Space Holiday's track "Just Another Day" from XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival for their new spot. |
Dance Party Revivalists | 03/2009 | San Francisco public access, fun-fest Dance Party Revival, has been playing a huge collection of Mush music. In the first three episodes, they have played the Magnificents' "Ring Ring Oo Oo," Busdriver's "Avantcore" and Curse Ov Dialect's "Bury Me Slowly." For an entertaining listen, click the link. |
New Clue To Kalo Clip | 03/2009 | Mark Mitchell, the mastermind behind Clue To Kalo, has sent us his latest video for the track "The Infinite Orphan, By The Familiars" from the new Lily Perdida album. The clip was directed by Beatrice Pegard, who has directed past clips for Architecture In Helsinki and Institut Polaire. |
Bibio Answers To Pop Matters | 03/2009 | Bibio has taken some time to give some in-depth answers to Pop Matters' 20 Questions. A very engaging, informative look at an artist who has not been oft interviewed. |
Her Space Holiday And Lymbyc Systym Play Harvest Of Hope | 03/2009 | Her Space Holiday and Lymbyc Systym will be participating the Harvest For Hope Festival at St. John's County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine, FL in March. The lineup will be huge, including Bad Brains, The Faint, Girl Talk, The National, Broken Social Scene, and many, many more. Tickets and camp sites are still available for the weekend. |
cLOUDDEAD Sighting | 03/2009 | The members of cLOUDDEAD have put together a track for the Themselves (cLOUDDEAD's Doseone and super-producer Jel) mixtape. Pitchfork has put an excerpt from the mixtape, called FREEHoudini, in the Forkcast section. |
Her Space Holiday Hits XLR8R's Inbox | 02/2009 | XLR8R has profiled Her Space Holiday in the Inbox section of their website. The interview consists of numerous rapid-fire questions aimed at getting under the pomegranite skin of Marc Bianchi. |
Head Like A Kite Take San Francisco | 02/2009 | Head Like A Kite have rolled into San Francisco for the latest episode of On The Brink, their reality-based mobile show. In order to find out where they are gigging the band must overcome and solve the challenges that await them. |
Her Space Holiday Australia Tour | 02/2009 | Her Space Holiday will be playing four shows in Australia with backing band 4 Bonjour's Parties. Be sure to catch any one of these shows; the Her Space Holiday/4 Bonjour's Parties combination is truly a fun experience. Here are some previews from Australia's Liveguide and from Her Space Holiday's Australian label Pop Frenzy. Tour dates are listed on our shows page. |
Bibio Music In Friday The 13th Trailer | 02/2009 | Congratulations to Bibio, whose track "Abberiw" from his upcoming Vignetting The Compost full-length, has been licensed for use in the trailer for Paramount's new movie release Friday The 13th. |
Bibio Videos | 01/2009 | Bibio has delivered three videos for his latest album, Vignetting The Compost. The clips provided are for the tracks "Mr. & Mrs. Compost," "Torn Under The Window Light" and "Top Soil." Bibio, aka Stephen James Wilkinson, directed and shot all three works. |
Ten Years Of Mush Records: FREE Double Album Mixed By Thavius Beck! | 01/2009 | Celebrate Ten Years Of Mush Records with a FREE continuous DJ selection (split into two forty minute mixes) fractured, transformed and reconstructed by producer Thavius Beck! Simply enter your email address to download and enjoy a journey through Mush. |
Daedelus Tours Australia in the Summer/Winter | 01/2009 | Daedelus will be playing three stops of the St. Jerome's Laneway Festival in Australia this month. Tour dates can be found on Mush's Shows page. |
Lymbyc Systym Alarm Q&A | 01/2009 | Lymbyc Systym discussed all of their upcoming movements with Alarm Magazine. The profile focuses mainly on how they've managed to stay so busy and complete a new album. |
Lymbyc Systym Supports Broken Social Scene | 01/2009 | Fresh upon their return from Europe, Lymbyc Systym will be playing three live dates in Texas with Canadians Broken Social Scene. |
Her Space Holi-who? | 01/2009 | "Sleepy Tigers" strikes again. The track by Her Space Holiday has been licensed for use on ABC TV's comedy Samantha Who? The episode airs on April 2, so make sure to tune in and check out Her Space Holiday's music on the show. |
Head Like A Kite Rock Los Angeles | 01/2009 | Head Like A Kite's fourth episode of On The Brink has hit the web. This episode finds the lads hitting Hollywood Blvd. and Venice Beach shooting videos with their cell phones and finally playing a show. |
Lymbyc Systym On CSI | 01/2009 | Lymbyc Systym's track "Rest Easy/Age Kindly" has been licensed for use on CSI: Miami, for the episode "Smoke Gets In Your CSIs." The show will air on February 2nd nationwide, so make sure you catch it and the track. |
Thavius Beck Demonstrates | 01/2009 | Taking a short break from the Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow world tour, Thavius Beck will be providing demonstrations and tutorials on the hugely popular music software Ableton Live. The majority of these events will be at NAMM, which require passes, while one event will be Thavius live-scoring a film with Live. If you have been trying to get into the program and are having a hard time, all pertinent information has now been posted on the shows page. |
Head Like A Kite Takes Vegas To The Brink | 01/2009 | The third episode of Head Like A Kite's On The Brink series has reached the internet. If you've missed the last two, let us bring you up to date, the band have been forced to complete Herculean tasks with the only reward being that the are told venue information for their next gig. Check out the newest episode at On The Brink. |
Thavius Beck And K-The-I??? Tour A Significant Portion Of The Western World | 01/2009 | Thavius Beck and K-The-I??? are hitting the road together in the US and Europe in support of K-The-I???'s latest album, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, and Thavius upcoming Mush release. We've posted the 20+ dates to our shows page. |
Eliot Lipp Back To Work Across The US | 01/2009 | Eliot Lipp has quietly amassed a ton of live experience over the last few years, and 2009 promises to be no different; with 25 live shows posted for the United States through winter and into spring.
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Mush Records Italian Profile | 01/2009 | The history of Mush Records has been spotlighted in the Etiqette column of Italian magazine Rumore. The piece features a look at some of Mush's most important releases as well as a bit of history on the label, unfortunately for the English speakers out there, it's in Italian. |
Lymbyc Systym Euro Tour | 01/2009 | Lymbyc Systym is travelling to Europe in the new year for a series of dates with Arms & Sleepers as well as El May. We've added the info for all 15+ dates to our shows page. |
Head Like A Kite Back On The Brink | 12/2008 | The second episode of Head Like A Kite's On The Brink quest is online. This time, the lads of HLAK are at the opposite end of the west coast in San Diego playing live on the air. |
Clue To Kalo Australian Press | 12/2008 | The Australian press campaign for Clue To Kalo's latest album, Lily Perdida, is in full force, album reviews have already been uploaded, including features dating from Clue To Kalo's album release tour, and features from The Age, Bobbysix, Mess & Noise and Australia Network. |
4 Bonjour's Parties Obscurity In Sound | 12/2008 | 4 Bonjour's Parties were featured in Obscure Sound, a music blog curated by Mike Mineo, a regular contributor to Pop Matters. The feature provides an informative insight into the band's influences and personal stylings. Mineo waxes lyrical about 4 Bonjour's Parties debut, Pigments Drift Down To The Brook, accrediting them with creating "something that is magnificiently cohesive and dazzingly gratifying". An absolute must read. |
K-The-I??? Profiled On Ragged Words | 12/2008 | After getting a great review from the site, Ragged Words has asked K-The-I??? to create a list of records that have influenced his life. The collection is called "My Life In Records" and is a great read into what influences an artist (and even, dare we say, a person). |
Head Like A Kite Imaginary Show Review | 12/2008 | Seattle blogettes Three Imaginary Girls checked out the Head Like A Kite show at Neumo's and wrote up a great review of the show, which was opened by Seattle electronic group Truckasaurus. |
James Rutledge AKA Pedro Sells Radiohead Videotape Remix For Charity | 12/2008 | James Rutledge has composed a four-hour remix of Radiohead's track "Videotape." In association with the UK charity, Missing People, Pedro is selling the only existing copy - which has since been signed by all the members of Radiohead - on eBay. Pitchfork has an article about the sale, including links to the eBay auction. |
K-The-I??? On The Cover Of The L.A. Record | 12/2008 | Rapper/romantic K-The-I??? was featured on the front page of the L.A. Record. The artcile deals a bit in his music, but dwells much more heavily on his foreign language skills and romantic prospects, and is entitled KoNichiWa Wack Rapper! |
Her Space Holiday Cracks Top 5 On The CMJ Top 200 | 12/2008 | Her Space Holiday's latest, XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival has cracked #5 on CMJ's Top 200 chart this week. A huge thanks to all of the DJs that are playing this record and all of the music directors programming it. Also, a huge thanks to everyone who is calling to request the album at their local stations. If you haven't heard XOXO, Panda on your local station, give them a call and request it. |
Head Like A Kite Vs. The Bionic Ear | 12/2008 | Seattle-based Indie Rock Reviews has created an ingenious online feature called the Bionic Ear Session in which an act performs while a crew shoots them and they film a quick one-off music video for the performance. They recently shot a Bionic Ear Session with fellow Seattlites(?) Head Like A Kite for the track "We Were So Entangled." |
Better Propaganda's Best Of The Decade | 12/2008 | Better Propaganda is counting down a list of the 100 Top Artists of the first decade, of the twenty first century. Among those listed are Mush Record's very own: Daedelus, Busdriver, Aesop Rock and Nobody; and, keeping them company are some of the most influential and prevalent artists of our time: Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Jay Z, and The White Stripes. Congratulations on a truly accomplished, accreditation and a huge thank you to those who voted. But, the commendations don't end there, Daedelus gain more recognition on the list of Top 100 Albums coming in at #10 with Denies The Day's Demise. In similar news, Better Propaganda listed their choices for the decade's Top 50 Labels, which included such heavyweights as XL, Merge, Matador, Domino, and none other than your very own Mush Records. Thanks to Better Propaganda for the nod! |
Her Space Holiday In His Own Words | 11/2008 | Marc Bianchi, aka Her Space Holiday, was profiled in the In Their Words section of this month's Rock Sound, one of the UK's premier music magazines. |
Head Bites A Bike, Eliot Gets A Machine | 11/2008 | Head Like A Kite's frontman, Dave Einmo was featured in the latest issue of URB magazine telling a sordid tale of his First Morphine experience as it coincided with, his presumably first experience of being stripped naked by paramedics on a mountain. Is it a coincidence that Kool Keith spins the yarn of his first time in a strip club merely one page before? You decide. Eliot Lipp appears in the issue as well, waxing electronic about his First Sampler. True-love weights, y'all. |
Her Space Holiday On Dirty Sexy Money | 11/2008 | Her Space Holiday's "The New Kid Revival," from XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival, has been licensed for use on ABC TV's hit Dirty Sexy Money. The track will play at the beginning of Episode 208, which airs Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 10pm. |
Head Like A Kite Does Weekend America | 11/2008 | If you're driving around this weekend, try to find the week's "Weekend America" radio show on your Public Radio station (the show airs on Saturday Nov. 22nd at various times depending on your local station's schedule). Head Like A Kite cap off a west-coast tour with an interview on this nationwide program. The people at "Weekend America" have also added a feature to their website with the interview. |
K-The-I??? In NME | 11/2008 | The New Musical Express has profiled K-The-I??? (and shown a bit of love for Thavius Beck as well) in the Radar section of their latest issue. |
Her Space Holiday KCRW Exclusive Film | 11/2008 | Continuing in his run of short films based on music from XOXO, Panda..., Her Space Holiday has put together a short film exclusively for KCRW's music director Nic Harcourt. Check out the episode in both audio and video at the KCRW site. |
K-The-I??? Album Release Party | 11/2008 | K-The-I??? and Thavius Beck will be performing at LA's Low End Theory at a special album release party for Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Also on the bill will be electronic producer Dibia$e. |
The Scottish Legion Of Illuminated Magnificents | 11/2008 | The Magnificents, KFM Records, and Mush Records are pleased to announce a joint venture, The Scottish Legion Of Illuminated Magnificents. The label will handle the release of the Magnificents' latest album Year Of Explorers, as well as their back catalog of EPs and full-length releases. Year Of Explorers will be released next month and the label will continue to issue releases through the first half of 2009. |
K-The-I??? Ghetto Blaster Mixtape Spot | 11/2008 | Ghetto Blaster Magazine has begun to put together mixtapes of their favorite songs every month. The Mixes are downloadable from their site, and this month's features our own K-The-I???'s track "Decisions" from Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. It also features Deerhoof, Roots Manuva, The Sea & Cake, and more. |
Daedelus Back In The USA | 11/2008 | Daedelus has a select amount of upcoming dates in the US and Mexico. He's been touring hard the last couple years and his live show continues to grow increasingly more energetic. If you have not seen him, please be sure to catch him on these dates. |
Her Space Holiday For Sony Playstation Network | 11/2008 | Her Space Holiday has licensed a track from an upcoming release to Sony, for use in a spot for their Playstation Network. The spot is now available to watch. |
Her Space Verite | 11/2008 | Her Space Holiday recently sat down with the folks from Indieoma to discuss the state of the record business. On the panel with him were Warp artist Jimmy Edgar, Kevin Morris of World's Fair, and Nate Krenkel of Team Love Records. Check out Vox Verite and hear what these guys have to say about why people aren't buying records as much as they used to, and who's fault that may be. |
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