Continuing our time honoured tradition of booking bands that make your search engines go mad, we are proud to present, for their first time in Athens, Thee Oh Sees. AKA The OhSees AKA OCS AKA Orange County Sound AKA Orinoka Crash Suite. Well anyway, Mr. John Dwyer and friends…

 Hailing from the US East Coast, Mr Dwyer moved to San Fransisco, CAin the late 1990′s and has since been trying to put a face to the term “human music making machine”. From Pink And Brown to Coachwips and The Hospitals, not forgetting tons of other more or less ephemeral bands and collaborations, The Oh Sees seem to be the perfect haven for Dwyer to fulfil his musical obsessions, both on the personal as well as the band level.

 A reality well proven by Thee Oh Sees two releases in 2011 (both on In The Red Records): the psych pop experimental Castlemania (on which Dwyer recorded almost all instruments himself) and the “tight garage rock chaos” of Carrion Crawler/The Dream ( with the full band in studio and the addition of a 2^nd drummer elevating their sound).

 One this is for certain: a Thee Oh Sees live show is something to be experienced. Energy, pathos, dancing and litres of sweat pepper the memories of those lucky enough to have seen the band live. And what better setting to see them live for the first time inAthens, following their Barcelona Primavera Sound appearance than AN CLUB in Exarcheia…

Opening the show will be Baby Guru, one of (if not THE) best bands to have emerged from the local Greek scene in these past years. With last year’s Baby Guru LP (Inner Ear, 2011), as well as their other projects, Baby Guru (Sir Kosmische, Prins Obi, King Elephant) have proven that they have the makings of a varied and always riveting band. Their 2^nd LP, Pieces, will be released in September on the Inner Ear label.

Their impressive live shows, their roots in garage rock, the Kosmische German music of the 1970s and psychedelia promise an exhilarating on stage meeting with Mr. John Dwyer and Thee Oh Sees.

Admission: 15 euros

Doors: 21:00

http://www.anclub.gr/

The capital of Washington State, Olympia, has long been a factory of independent music. From K Records to Kill Rock Stars, from Beat Happening to Sleater-Kinney, this city of 50.000 people has long been a beacon of independent music and independent thinking. It is therefore with great pleasure that we present, for the first time in Athens, another singular band hailing from that city, the quartet that is Milk Music.
Milk Music doesn’t make any pretensions about inventing a new way to make music. They simply build on their influences (The Wipers, Neil Young, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du) and come out with a sound that is both thrilling and also reminds you of something familiar, but haven’t heard for a long time.
Their only official release up to now, “Beyond Living” EP (2011, self-released), is packed with tunes that, in a parallel distorted world, could be stadium anthems. What’s more, much like their road friends The Men and mid-1980s SST Records bands, this is a group constantly in search of new ways to interpret their influences. Their next official release, expected sometime in 2012, promises more of the same, or perhaps something completely different. The beauty lies in not knowing.
Because that’s another refreshing thing about Milk Music. In an age where new music is a click away on your computer, Milk Music don’t really care about promoting what they do: self-released and self-distributed records, no social media presence, a few scattered interviews. If you want to hear them, well make the effort to search them out. Chances are you probably won’t regret it.
Now isn’t that refreshingly new? Or does it remind you of something you used to do?

Anti-conformist post-garage rockers, The Mongrelettes will warm up the stage before Milk Music with a hearty music realism full of experimental fun and a moving and shaking refreshing tempo.
Five gifted musicians, four sweeping women coordinate Titto’s melodic farfisa with French pop essence and psych-power dance moves. The freshness of their sound horizon was recently imprinted on the “Mon Mec A Moi “ EP (2011, Fuzz Overdose) that besides the title track also includes the songs “My Baby’s Gone”, “You Got Me Cryin’ “ and “Take It Easy” . Marika Yé Yé, Mariloo, Calamity and Silver Bruise use their pop charms to effortlessly shoot oxygen to the unyielding garage music scene.

Pocket Full of Sand, a new quartet consisted of four young, versatile musicians will open the show by animating their rhythmic education with virtuoso personal references to the lo-fi scene. They will raise the db meter with their own version of musical climax and let the wave once again to be their guide

Admission: 12 euros

Starts: 21:30

http://www.sixdogs.gr

The self-described “orchestral garage rock” band, A WHISPER IN THE NOISE gives an extremely humble and personal touch to gorgeous, string-laden music. Their instrumentation includes cello, violin, French horn, synth/electronic keyboards, bass and percussion in some variation, resulting minimalist expression, unique arrangement of instruments, and the inclusion of visual media elements for live performances.

Since their inception 10 years ago, their three critically acclaimed albums , “Through The Ides Of March” (2003), “As The Bluebird Sings” (2006) and “Dry Land” (2008) showcased the band’s remarkable growth and ability to challenge themselves to greater heights with each new phase. AWITN began their musical career sounding like a combination of Nine Inch Nails and “Kid A” era Radiohead, but by the time 2006 rolled around, they had more in common with a male fronted version of The Dresden Dolls, merging a gothic saloon flavor with a dark cabaret aesthetic, culminating all in the 2007 release “Dry Land”, produced by long-time friend Steve Albini.

2012 will see AWITN as new incarnation, consisting only of two members -West Thordson(drums, percussion, keyboards, electronic, piano) and Sonja Larson (violin, strings). Together they create new, riveting mix of sounds that consists of different layers of synthesizer and samplers.

This year’s album “To Forget” (released by Exile On Mainstream Records) finds AWITN engaged in an unconditional playfulness with a melancholic natural environment which brings memories of another era.

Post Rock/ Dream Pop NO CLEAR MIND move inside the same musical labyrinth. They collect musical images from bothAthensandCreteand evolve through a space-time improvisational journey that begun six years ago and culminated with the completion of their debut album “Dream Is Destiny”.

Their musical coherence is casting a spell on numerous blogs around the world and is documented by hundreds of thousand hits on YouTube. Their album is available for free downloading on the Internet and has surpassed the number of 8.000 downloads so far.

NO CLEAR MIND with path the way for A WHISPER IN THE NOISE and together they will give us an evening of dreamy sound and image.

Admission: 10 euros
Starts: 21.30
http://www.sixdogs.gr

This is hardcore! A seismic genealogy will take place at An Club on February 11. Brooklyn’s finest, THE MEN just a few days before releasing their new hybrid titled “Open your heart” and playing at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin, Texas come to Athens to drive the Greek noise-rock scene on a frenzy!

The impetuous shoegazeness of the magnificent single “Bataille” will meet the drone sludge awesomeness of “L.A.D.O.C.H” on An Club’s stage.  Get ready to be blown away by “Night Landing”’s enthralling drum machine and bad ass punk guitars and get goosebumbs by the raging majesty of “()”. With three explosive albums on their trunk and hundreds of gritty, seismic live shows they promise to give us a legendary night.

Acid Baby Jesus will ride along on their colorful psychedelic journey. Their endless, irresistible dose of adrenaline found creative expression with the release of their self-titled album by Slovenly and the super successful “to the bone” tour of Europe andU.S.

Passages of fuzzy guitar and drums in trance skillfully distort their vocals and turn songs like “Tooth to toe”, “It’s on me” and “Mesmerized” into favorite “dance until exhaustion” numbers for every stoner pirate.

“Four wall freedom” is the name of the exceptional new album by Ruined Families and they will set up the dark hardcore beginning of the evening.

Clear sound and straightforward lyricism reveal an out of control stage presence. Consistent live performances in and out of Athens reinforced a tight-knit ensemble led by an explosive singer and an infallible guitarist that will open the page with violent black soundcolours

2L8 return toAthensto debut their new album “New Battles, without Honor and Humanity”. With 8 musicians on stage they will give life to their brand new double disk and in earlier compositions.

Their new sound is closer to the raw acoustic debout “Armed Angels…” but still faithful to the theatrical atmosphere of the “He & She…”. On January 2o they will initiate us on this bizarre musical world of 2L8.

Double drums mixed with distorted guitar sounds meet sometime harmonious and sometime discordant strings and pianos. From minimalist, repetitive addictive patterns to eccentric orchestrations.

From form to disarray or even organized chaos. From silence to noise and back again.

And all these are just the musical carpet for a voice that sings about resistance to what is happening around us. Sings about equality, freedom, love.

The concert will open with Pockets Full of Sand, one of the best new bands inAthensand the closest thing we got to Californian slackerdom with Pavement and Sonic Youth influences. Don’t’ miss their disarming live show.

2L8 w / Pockets Full of Sand

@

BIOS

Friday January 20, 2012

Starts: 22.30

Ticket price: 10 euros

Presale here:  http://www.bios.gr/tickets

At the 1976 Olympics, in front of a stadium buzzing with voices and staring eyes a young girl made history. With cat-like grace and a framework more suited for a butterfly than a tumbler, Nadia Comaneci enchanted, danced and floated between the parallels becoming the first gymnast to ever score a perfect 10.
Comaneci entered everyones heart in that stadium, and in 2002 started to share her meaningful appellative with this punk acoustic outfit from Ravenna, Italy.
Comaneci issued two self-titled EP in 2004 and 2005, the albums _volcano_ in 2007 and YOU A LIE in 2009. They played many shows throughout Italy, Europe and Usa; a precious collaboration with director S. Mordini for the soundtrack of his film Provincia Meccanica also presented at the Berlin Festival (OST available on EMI).
Francesca Amati – Classical guitar, vocals
Glauco Salvo – Electric guitar, banjo

Soviet Soviet were born in 2008 between Pesaro and Fano, Italy.
After a year they refine a bunch of singles gathered toghether and
published, in 2009, in their first self-produced EP recorded at Waves
Studio of their long time friend Paolo Rossi who still captures and
cures the band’s sounds.
With the first live gigs and the spread of the songs on the internet,
they start to receive positive feedbacks and, in Semptember 2009, they
are reviewed on Pitchfork.

In 2010, Soviet Soviet, toghether with the anglo-french Frank (Just
Frank), publish their second EP for the Mannequin Records, then quoted
by Simon Reynolds in his new work “Retromania”. After a french tour,
the three guys discover a vocation for the european stages and the
number of live exibitions grows: they start to play all over Europe,
even in many important festivals.
In February 2011, the Tannen Records label, from Verona, cures the
digital release of “Nice”, a collection of the two EP. In May 2011,
the song “Restless” is published by Discipline in the compilation “A
Contemporary Picture of the Obscure Italo Music Movement”. Later, the
band lands in eight different countries of the Eastern Europe thanks
to a new crowded tour.
In June 2011, the song “Lokomotiv” is selected as opening track for
the berliner compilation “Death # Disco – Volume I”.
In the same month, the Tannen Records seals the union with the band by
publishing the EP “Summer, Jesus” that collects a lot of good reviews
from national and international media.

“What did I just saw?” It’s a common question after a John Maus live show. The seemingly shy philosophy professor from Minnesota is so powerful when on stage that you think he is possessed by an 80s synth pop demon. He screams, hits, bounces and ultimately pulls his audience into his dreamy, retro-futuristic universe. Hence the legendary music lovers’ t-shirts with the motto «I saw John Maus live!»

His constant search for the “truth of pop” and the universal values of love and truth through a mutually intelligible language brought him next to the side of Ariel Pink and Panda Bear, and urged him to reconstruct DIY new wave through three extremely personal albums.
This year’s “We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves” is undoubtedly his greatest achievement so far and claims a high place on the 2011 best albums lists.

The support artist is The Boy /Alexanderos Voulgaris and he could be considered as an intellectual brother of John Maus, The Boy draws a deep line of concrete meaning and sends Black Blood (the first book of the same title, released along with this year’s album “Hliotherapeia”) to the front line of Greek lyricism. He works as a link between parallel worlds that lay bare in front of our eyes on a daily basis. He reinforces his message by talking face to face and exposing a loud domestic violence that does not redeem but speaks of an uncertain future.

Admission: 12 euros
Starts: 21.30

http://www.sixdogs.gr

Erika M. Anderson was formerly known by few as the frontwoman of Gowns, the Californian drone folk band that disbanded after the release of a remarkable album and a string of legendary live shows.

This year, however, her name caused a sensation in all major international musical media and found a distinctive position next to the names of PJ Harvey, Cat Power and Kim Gordon.

Through the release of her first solo album ‘Past Life Martyred Saints’, Erika leaves aside the unsettled bliss of older times and pays tribute on the raw lyricism of scarring relationships and the experimental noise scene that stretches from the ominous graveyards of South Dakota to the outskirts of Seattle. She composes a thrilling collage of built-up sound and simple everyday standards that juggles between her 6ft tall figure and her deep distinctive voice. Her Viking ancestor, Eric-Blood Axe can only comply with the burning lyrics “I’m 22 and I don’t mind dying. “, cleverly borrowed from the epic song “Who Do You Love”.

EMA is coming to Athens for the first time to present her explosive live show along with three members of her band and the swagger of riot grrrls in her pocket.

The concert will open with Monovine, the tight-knit prolific band from Patras that this year released their first album “CLICHÉ” through Inner Ear Records. They masterfully lead harmony to noisy cognitive paths through their pious grunge riffs and compose an orgiastic rock history that tackles the space between the birth and death of… sound.
The concert will take place on the outer room of Bios that has a capacity of up to 350 people.

Ticket price: 16 EUR

http://www.bios.gr/tickets/713/

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