after their latest album in August American garage rock band THEE OH SEES is going to release a companion album titled „An Odd Entrances” on 18 November by CASTLE FACE RECORDS (US)

contemplative songs for the mornings

quick buyers get a bonus flexi with one more song

the band plans on donating half of their profits from the first pressing to Elizabeth House, a local charity in Pasadena that specifically helps homeless women with children get back on their feet

LC PUMPKIN comes from a shambolic low-fidelity musical attempt Les Cactus & The Rumpy Pumpkins, somewhere from Brighton. He makes funny tinker music with fuzz banjo, piano, sampler, cut & paste backbeats. It rattles and clicks. As if every sound would be clinched together loosly. He has made an EP with four Thee Oh Sees covers. Of course these are very particular covers, would be hard to recognize the original ones:

1. The Gouger (Sucks Blood, 2007)
2. Tidal Wave (7″ single 2009).
3. Koka Kola Jingle (The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In, 2008)
4. Make Them Kiss (Demos EP, 2007)

Published with kind permission from John Dwyer. He said they’re „interesting takes of the tunes”. FREE DOWNLOAD

You can see LC PUMPKIN with Samara Lubelski and Stephen Steinbrink on 4th of October at The Lexington in London.

This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store – the staff, the customers, and the artists – to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day, hundreds of artists make special appearances and performances since 2007. Record Store Day will be on April 19 this year.

Thee Oh Sees announced their hiatus in December, but there happened something because the new album „Drop” will be released on Record Store Day by Castle Face Records. 70s psychedelic rock from Beatles to Black Sabbath via glam station.

The band formed as a side project in 1997 by John Dwyer. Then he was in the Coachwhips (wild garage punk, disbanded, re-united this year), The Hospitals (noise rock, quit) and Pink and Brown (noise punk, disbanded). Maybe John Dwyer is an hyperactive person, because there was a solo album under the name of Damaged Bugs in February.

“I believe in the Lord, but the blues speaks to life, too. Blues has a feeling just like gospel; they just don’t have a book” –  said Leo ‘Bud’ Welch. Born in 1932, Sabougla, Mississipi. Big family: 5 brothers and 7 sisters. Learning to play on guitar, harmonica and fiddle by himself. Working as a logger. Singing gospel in churches and playing blues whenever he gets chance up to this day. A blues, Praise His Name

from his debut album, Sabougla Voice by Big Legal Mess, and it’s so good. Ahhh

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Damaged Bug is the solo project of John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees in a little different style than the usual

Hubba Bubba LP by Castle Face Records in February

Yesterday I caught them in Liverpool at a festival. According to the locals too the Thee Oh Sees gig was the concert of the year till now. I have shot these there:

I Was Denied, The Dream, Contaption and Soul Desert live at the Kazimier, Liverpool Sound City 03.05.2013.

THEE OH SEES WESTERN EURO TOUR

24. 07. Vienna, 25.07. Zagreb

Thee Oh Sees formed as a side project in 1997 by John Dwyer. Then He was in the Coachwhips (wild garage punk, disbanded – you can found all the albums for download on mediafire, just google it:  name of album, mediafire!), The Hospitals (noise rock, quit) and the Pink and Brown (noise punk, disbanded). 12th studio album. Psych pop hard fuzz garage rock:

Toe Cutter/Thumb Buster 

Western euro tour in May. The dates are on their website. Eastern euro tour in July/Aug. The dates are coming soon.

The Zoltars. Live Like A Dragon 7”. Their first release since their debut LP. Simple, minimal, great:

by CQ Records