Lords of Acid will be returning to the US in March for the SonicAngel 2011 tour. The line-up will be slightly different than on their visit last year, with guitar player Virus (Dope) and vocalist DJ Mea (Me and My Machine) in the band now. The tour is tied to the US launch of SonicAngel, a new music promotion/funding/production venture co-founded by Lords of Acid founder Praga Khan. Tour dates are as follows:
March 2 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
March 3 San Francisco, CA DNA Lounge
March 4 Portland, OR Dante’s
March 6 Seattle, WA Studio 7
March 8 Salt Lake City, UT Club Sound
March 9 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
March 10 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar
March 11 Chicago, IL Cubby Bear
March 12 Minneapolis, MN Ground Zero
March 15 Cincinnati, OH The Mockbee
March 16 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
March 17 St. Petersburg, FL State Theatre
March 18 New Orleans, LA State Theatre
March 19 Houston, TX Scout Bar
March 20 San Antonio, TX Backstage Live
March 22 Dallas, TX Trees
March 23 Tulsa, OK The Marquee
March 24 Austin, TX Emo’s
March 25 El Paso, TX Club 101
March 26 Phoenix, AZ Venue of Scottsdale
Throbbing-gristle.com has announced that on November 24th, 2010, Peter Christopherson passed away “peacefully in his sleep” at his home in Bankok. Peter was part of pioneering industrial band Throbbing Gristle, who emerged in 1975.� When that group initially broke up in 1981, he briefly joined bandmate Genesis P-Orridge in Psychic TV before forming the highly prolific Coil. Among other things, Peter was also well known as a video director, working with artists ranging from Front 242 to Hanson. Most recently, he was part of the re-united Throbbing Gristle. The group was forced to rebrand themselves as “X-TG” for a series of concerts without Genesis, who mid tour said he was returning home to NY (not quitting the band.) Several recordings X-TG here made available on their website. Peter also had an album in the works for his solo project The Threshold HouseBoys Choir.
Mark Moore (S’Express) has made available ‘Last Mission Helsinki,’ a track he was working on with the late Ian B Loveday aka EON. Profiled in Chaos Control back in 1993, EON was behind such techno / rave classics as “Spice” and “Basket Case.” Moore posted the following to members of his facebook group.:
“Here is the track that I was working on with Ian B just before he passed away. For a long time I wasn’t able to go back and finish it but here it is now. It’s the last track Eon recorded and I figured it would be good to put it up for all to download. Please feel free to pass it around, I’m sure Ian would be happy to give it out to everyone. (Thanks to Leila Arab and Paul Freegard for post-production tweaks)”
Mortiis has made a new album, “Perfectly Defect,” available as a free download. While the still in-progress “The Great Deceiver” is the ‘true’ follow-up to 2004’s “The Grudge,” this release serves as a bridge between the two.
“When we were writing and working on ‘The Great Deceiver’, we were coming up with all sorts of inspired stuff, a really varied collection of music,” Mortiis explained in a press release. “Some of it was far too varied and experimental to be included in such an angry, dark album as ‘The Great Deceiver’ so we created a brand new album that is the introductory element to the more intricate world of ‘The Great Deceiver.’”
Front Line Assembly have canceled their planned U.S. tour, which was to have started on October 31.
“We have had too many problems putting the tour together, and the bottom line is if we can’t put on a good show for you the fans, then it’s just not worth it. We apologise to all of you,” said founding member Bill Leeb in a press release.
The group is looking to instead hit the road in 2011. For more information on Front Line Assembly and their recent “Improvised. Electronic. Device.” album, be sure to check out our interview with Leeb.
Bjork’s “The Comet Song” is now available on iTunes, with all proceeds going to UNICEF to aid flood victims in Pakistan. The song is from the new Moomin movie, “The Moomins and the Comet Chase.”
If you’re in the US, you might be asking yourself – what is a Moomin? They are a family of ‘trolls’ who some people say look like hippos, and the central characters in a series of books and comic strips by Finish author / illustrator Tove Jansson. While they are collectively referred to as “Moomins,” the main character is named Moomin, with his father referred to as Moominpappa and his mother Moominmama. The books are available in this country, but the characters have never been as well known as they are in places like Europe and Japan.
“The Moomins and the Comet Chase” is based on the book “Comet in Moominland” and is compiled from episodes of the 1977–1982 Polish stop-motion Moomins TV series. This material was restored, re-voiced, and converted to 3D. The film was released on August 6 in Finland, but so far I have not read anything about it coming to the US. There IS an English language version, though, with Alexander Skarsgård (Eric from “True Blood”) voicing Moomin.
The see the Moomins in action, check out the video below!
