BADBADNOTGOOD get assists from Arthur Verocai & Karriem Riggins on "Beside April"

Watch the video for "Beside April" off BADBADNOTGOOD's new album Talk Memory out Oct 8th via Innovative Leisure/XL

One For The Weekend: Nick Waterhouse

Check out "Very Blue" off Nick Waterhouse's forthcoming Promenade Blue album due April 9th from Innovative Leisure.  

Here's the scoop on Nick's new single "Very Blue" b/w "Medicine"...

A very special Valentine's release from Nick Waterhouse that was recorded in Memphis & Co-Produced by Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, Devendra Banhart) featuring two agape-style love songs that capture Waterhouse’s relentless spirit and mesmerizing brand of jittering, crystalline doo wop, jazz and blues alongside a weeping string arrangement from JB Flatt best known for his work with Eli "Paperboy" Reed. Lower-than-low gospel chants and refrains by The Sensational Barnes Brothers lend both energy and emotional weight, conjuring a whole new mythic world for Nick’s compositions. Watch the video for "Very Blue" below. 
 

Jonah Yano + MONEYPHONE @ The Drake Hotel, August 7

Toronto's Jonah Yano hooked up with BADBADNOTGOOD and MONEYPHONE for his new Nervous EP out now.

Meet Jonah Yano, the Toronto native who wrote and recorded his first release through his cellphone in 2016.  Three years later, the studio replaced the cell and his debut EP for Innovative Leisure features a lush mixture of slow burning ballads, hip hop beats with subtle electronic and jazz influences.  BADBADNOTGOOD, Toronto duo MONEYPHONE, and Vancouver producer Nono all lend their eclectic hands in creating a genre-blurring, emotionally impactful experience unlike any other.

Jonah Yano joins MONEYPHONE for a show at The Drake Hotel on Wednesday, August 7th – get tickets right here. Check out "Nervous" featuring BADBADNOTGOOD below.

Whaddya mean you don't know Khun Narin

The debut album from Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band is being released by Innovative Leisure August 26.

It all started over a year ago with the caption “MINDBLOWING PSYCHEDELIA FROM THAILAND”—the Youtube video that accompanied this headline on the Dangerous Minds Blog was exactly that. Here was a group of Thai musicians being filmed parading through a remote village hundreds of miles away from Bangkok playing some of the heaviest Psych known to mankind out of a crazy homemade soundsystem. Who were these men and how on earth was this not some unearthed archived footage from the ‘60s or ‘70s?! The Youtube clip quickly made its rounds amongst music enthusiasts leaving many in the Western hemisphere to question who was this group of contemporary Thai villagers loosely named Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band.


Six months after that first encounter with Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band, a Los Angeles music producer named Josh Marcy used Facebook and some unlikely interpreters at his local Thai restaurant to get in contact with the band and inquire whether they’d be interested in having him travel to their town to record their music for a global audience. At first the band was naturally suspicious, but
through subsequent interactions the group’s leader and namesake Khun Narin (also known simply as “Rin”) warmed to the idea of having Marcy come visit. And so began the journey of uncovering who these mysterious men from an obscure blog post actually were.

Khun Narin’s Electric Phin Band’s membership is always in rotation and spans several generations, from high school kids to men well into their 60s. A standard engagement has the band setting up at the hosting household during the morning rituals, playing several low-key sets from the comfort of plastic lawn chairs occasionally working in a cover version of a foreign classic (The Cranberries ‘Zombie’ is a recent favorite) while the beer and whiskey flow freely. After a mid-day banquet, they start up the generator and lead a parade through the community to the local temple, picking up more and more partiers along the way.

The music they play is called phin prayuk. The first word refers to the lead instrument, a 3-stringed lute known as the phin. Beer, the phin player, uses a string of Boss effects pedals, including a phaser, distortion and digital delay to get his sound. He also builds his own instruments, installing Fender pickups into hand-carved hardwood bodies, with elaborate mythical serpents adorning the headstock. The band takes pride in their custom PA system, as well as an imposing tower of 8 loudspeaker horns atop a huge bass cabinet.

To capture the essence of the group and their sound, Marcy recorded th em in their natural environment by doing a proper field recording, literally in a field outside the city of Lom Sak, in the valley of mountains that form a rough border between Thailand’s North and Northeast. The result was 40 minutes of hypnotizing psychedelia filled with heavy drum breaks that sounds like something RZA would sample for a Quentin Tarantino film. Pre-order the album right here.

One For The Weekend: Nick Waterhouse

In the snazzy video for Nick Waterhouse's Some Place – taken from his swingin' new Time's All Gone (Innovative Leisure) album that came out Tuesday – our man picks up a bunch of Japanese "Salarymen" types just landed in Los Angeles and it's Nick's job to take them out for a night on the town. Before the evening's done, they hit the notorious Cha Cha Lounge and about five or six other drinking establishments as you'll see in the entertaining clip below.

According to director Phil Pinto (Black Lips, Bruno Mars, Sleigh Bells), some of the prop champagne bottles used for the shoot we're "accidentally" swapped with magnums of the real stuff which significantly bumped up the level of fun and frivolity. Watch for a Nick Waterhouse show in Toronto to be announced soon.

LINKS
Nick Waterhouse site
Time's All Gone on iTunes
Phil Pinto site

Hear the new Lazer Sword album!

The highly anticipated self-titled Lazer Sword debut album from the electro-crunk duo of Antaeus Roy (aka Lando Kal) and Bryant Rutledge (aka Low Limit) will be officially released on November 2 by Innovative Leisure, a new boutique label launched by Stones Throw employee Nate Nelson. But thanks to the FACT music and art magazine, you won't have to wait any longer to hear what future blap is all about.
FACT – who circulated Lando Kal's enjoyable Lazer Sword drank sippin' mixtape a few months back (see below) – is currently streaming the entire 15-track Lazer Sword album that Roy and Rutledge recorded in the land of the Giants, San Francisco where they both once lived before moving to Berlin and Los Angeles respectively.
Unfortunately there are no crazy cameos by any of the now infamous Bad News Beards but it does feature some stoopid wild contributions from Anti-Pop Consortium’s M. Sayyid, Freestyle Fellowship’s Myka 9, Zackey Force Funk and Bay Area hyphy holdout Turf Talk.
Check out the Lazer Sword album for yourself right here and then head over to the Stones Throw site and grab a copy of the limited-run double vinyl edition.


Lazer Sword (Innovative Leisure)

Tracklist:
1.Tar
2. Agrokrag
3. Surf News
4. I’m Gone ft. Turf Talk
5. Batman
6. Topflights ft. M Sayyid
7. 4Loko
8. Machine ft. Zackey Force Funk
9. Web Swag
10. Skybox
11. Def Work
12. FUBU
13. Owl Tats
14. Cosmic Ride ft. Myka Nyne
15. Beast’s Reprise




LINKS
Lazer Sword FACT mix
Stones Throw Records http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2010/10/lazer-sword