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The London SUEDE ‘HIT ME’ EP OUT TODAY.

 RELEASE SECOND OFFICIAL SINGLE FROM THEIR CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM ‘BLOODSPORTS’



‘HIT ME’ EP OUT TODAY.
BUY NOW ON iTUNESWATCH THE VIDEO EXCLUSIVELY ON PITCHFORK.TVSince the release of their 6th studio album and first in over a decade, ‘ Bloodsports ’ has received international critical acclaim, deservedly positioning the legendary Brit Pop band back into the top of the charts across the globe.

Their follow up single to the hugely successful ‘ It Starts And Ends With You ’ will be the soaring and infectious 6th track from ‘ Bloodsports ’ titled ‘ Hit Me ’, and was penned by front-man Brett Anderson, guitarist Richard Oakes and keyboardist Neil Codling.

Having recently sold out at the prestigious ten thousand capacity venue Alexandra Palace in London this spring, the five-piece will be embarking on a 5 day UK arena tour in October.
'HIT ME' EP TRACKLISTING
1. Hit Me
2. Falling Planes
3. What Violet Says
4. Hit Me (Radio Edit)
BUY NOW “Calling Bloodsports a comeback album almost seems to belittle just how strong a record it really is; it’s nearly as good as any they’ve put out before.”
 - Under The Radar Magazine

“Throughout Bloodsports, Suede consistently strikes the balance between decadence and elegance that marked their signature work.”   - Pitchfork

“Boasting strength, durability and psychic stability on comeback Bloodsports, Suede shows its true dramatic worth on pensive, atmospheric exhibitions.”
 - Magnet Magazine

“Bloodsports still thrums with the darkness and danger that made the fivesome’s early records so worthy of your absolute allegiance.”- FILTER Magazine

“Never once do they sound desperate on Bloodsports; they sound confident, and comfortable in the knowledge that this is where they all should be.” - Boston Globe

“(Suede) have returned to reclaim the Brit Pop crown with the excellent new album ‘Bloodsports”.
 - New York Post

“Full of the dramatic guitars and romantically anguished melodies that helped kickstart the British rock renaissance. - SPIN Magazine

‘The record powerfully disproves the idea that it’s impossible for veterans to re-ignite the spark…twenty years on, Suede are still jumping barriers. Reunion act turned resurrected creative force’- The Guardian

 ‘Swells with hook-laden guitars and pulsing bas and drums…no feeding off former glories here…they prove themselves vital and contemporary’- The Independent

‘A recalibration. Suede’s renewed charge is obvious’- Uncut

 ‘A galvanising return’- Mojo

 ‘An album of largely tremendous pop songs. Suede are still capable of taking you over’- Q Magazine' Bloodsports ' is available on
iTunes , Amazon , Spotify and in all good record stores across North America.  www.suede.co.uk Facebook Twitter YouTube

SUN ANGLE RELEASES VIDEO FOR "RASPBERRY"

SUN ANGLE RELEASES FACE-MELTING VIDEO FOR "RASPBERRY"PREMIERED VIA BLOODY DISGUSTINGDATES ADDED TO SPRING TOUR
"Punk rock for world music fans, and world music for the punks" - Consequence of Sound

  "Sun Angle have captured lightning in a bottle with Diamond Junk." - Portland Mercury  
New Moss Records is excited to release the video for Sun Angle's "Raspberry," available for posting HERE, off their debut album Diamond Junk . The clip, which premiered via horror site Bloody Disgusting, was hand-animated by bassist Marius Libman and features animated versions of classic scenes from 80's cult favorites  Poltergeist , Total Recall , Videodrome , Scanners , Raiders of the Lost Ark , and more. His first animation, Libman spent three months working on the video, averaging about an hour's work for each second of the clip. Libman explained his choice to use animation as the medium for this video, saying "Animation is, at it's core, a psychedelic medium. And I think of the noise we make as a band as a kind of a musical non sequitur, so it seemed fitting to create a music video that expressed that same psychedelic break-away from linear logic in animated form."
Sun Angle is currently in the midst of a spring tour in support of  Diamond Junk . The band is also thrilled to announce that they will wrap up the tour with a Los Angeles show at El Cid on June 6th. In conjunction with the tour, Sun Angle released a live video of their song "Time Snakes," available for posting HERE. Produced by Into the Woods, the video gives a glimpse of what to expect from the Portland trio's tour. Full tour dates are below.
Produced by Danny Seim from Menomena, Diamond Junk was recorded in a brief blip of space-time in a cabin lurking in the depths of Zigzag, Oregon -- musical immersion marked by the creative abandon of all-night psychotropic inspiration and oblique strategies. 
Known in their native Portland for their irreverent, expressive, spontaneous live shows-full of aggressive elation and gritty, raucous, surreal layers of sound, the trio channels that same epic, improvisational energy into their debut album. Diamond Junk creates, as the title suggests, exhilarating tension between beauty and chaos, propelled by artful, animalistic urgency.  
The synergistic three-piece consists of Charlie Salas Humara on vocals & guitar (Panther), Marius Libman on bass (Copy) and Papi Fimbres on drums (Paper/Upper/Cuts). Central and South American footsteps traverse through Sun Angle's veins, blending SST punk, Cumbia, and pop in a wash of psychedelic filth. Sun Angle ride the line between chaos and pop, making music all it's own. 
Sun Angle Tour Dates:5/30 - Eugene, OR - Luckey's *5/31 - Davis, CA - Sophia's Thai Kitchen *6/1 - Sacramento, CA - Bows & Arrows @6/3 - Santa Cruz, CA - The Crepe Place *6/4 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar *6/5 - Santa Barbara, CA - Warbler Records (4pm in-store)6/5 - Santa Barbara, CA - Muddy Waters *6/6 - Los Angeles, CA - El Cid *
* - w/ And And And@ - w/ And And And & Appetite

EMILY WELLS VIDEO FOR "DARLIN'"

BLACKBOOK PREMIERES LIVE EMILY WELLS VIDEO FOR "DARLIN'"
MAMA ACOUSTIC RECORDINGS OUT JUNE 11 ON PARTISAN RECORDS   Watch: "Darlin'" at BlackBook's premiere or on YouTube
Listen: Live in-studio performance at WNYC Soundcheck
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"Surprising and beautiful...the songs stripped bare and her voice morefragile than ever" -NPR
"She has a thin, moving voice and a boundless imagination." -The New Yorker
"Gorgeous and gut-wrenching." -BUST Magazine
"Raw and honest...as fragile as it is powerful" -BlackBook
BlackBook has premiered the stunning new video for the acoustic re-visioning of Emily Wells song, "Darlin." off her forthcoming album, Mama Acoustic Recordings (out June 11th). "The delicate and lovely track," says BlackBook, "soars with her ethereal voice and sparse guitar, creating a melancholic moment shown through the black-and-white video work of Ruben Woodin Dechamps and Bat On Ball Creations." Emily will soon embark on a European tour with Kurt Vile, returning stateside in June for performances on the West Coast, as well as a free show at New York City's Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Kronos Quartet.

Mama Acoustic Recordings is a kind of accidental album, recorded last year while Wells was on self-described "sabbatical" living with friends in Portland, Oregon. Wells began experimenting with her traveling reel-to-reel, recording gentle new versions of  "Mama's Gonna Give You Love" and "Johnny Cash's Mama's House" with just her voice and acoustic guitar (and beloved Fostex Spring Reverb unit). Peeling off her own ornate production, she revealed her songs to herself, exposing new meaning though stark minimalism.

Before long Wells had recorded 10 tracks - including one new song, single "Los Angeles." The naked renditions of Mama highlights like "Passenger" and "Fire Song" were both striking and subtle, reminiscent of such iconic works of pastoral folk as Karen Dalton's classic In My Own Time and Iron & Wine's The Creek Drank The Cradle (like Mama Acoustic Recordings, its hushed tone determined by others sleeping in the next room).

Wells' unaccompanied efforts were complimented by a series of collaborative undertakings alongside a remarkably varied range of artists. She penned "Becomes The Color" to serve as closing theme to Chan-Wook Park's acclaimed psychological thriller, Stoker, while her teaming with the film's score composer, Clint Mansell, "If I Ever Had A Heart," is featured as a bonus cut on the official soundtrack. As if that weren't enough, 2013 has also seen the long awaited release of Pillowfight, Wells' slinky partnership with the one and only Dan the Automator.  
 
Tracklisting:1. Passenger 2. Darlin' 3. Los Angeles 4. No Good 5. Johnny Cash's Mama's House 6. Mama's Gonna Give You Love 7. Let Your Guard Down 8. Fire Song 9. Dirty Sneakers & Underwear  10. Piece of It  Tour Dates:6/13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo6/14 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel6/15 - Davis, CA - Plainfield Station6/19 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile6/20 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge6/21 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive7/25 - New York, NY - Lincoln Center Out of Doors (Free)8/8 - Hart, MI - Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Main Stage)   
http://www.emilywellsmusic.com/http://www.facebook.com/emilywellsmusichttps://twitter.com/emilywellsmusichttp://instagram.com/emilywellsmusic/http://www.partisanrecords.com/files/promo/emilywells.html

WE ARE LOUD WHISPERS VIDEO FOR "GLOSSOLALIA"

WE ARE LOUD WHISPERS DEBUT NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "GLOSSOLALIA" 



VIDEO - "Glossolalia" [dir. Cassandra Hamilton]
MP3 - "This Time"
MP3 - "Western Town"

Today, Impose Magazine premiered the first music video from Seattle/Japan dreampop duo We Are Loud Whispers. "Glossolalia," a highlight of their debut LP Suchness (featuring vocals from Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service and Dntel), is given a wistful, wide-eyed interpretation in this narrative video from director Cassandra Hamilton (Deep Time's "Gold Rush," La Sera's "Break My Heart"). Click the link or .gif above to watch the clip. Review copies of Suchness are available upon request. 

Press quotes:

"Hazy electro-chamber pop lit by lovely pale fire." -- SPIN

"If you like your music miniaturized and full of heart, it will make you happy deep down inside." -- AllMusic (4/5 stars)

"[It] sounds like it’s coming straight from a futuristic music box...claustrophobia's sweetest antidote." -- DigBoston

About the record:

Can a song cross the ocean? Is music the universal language? Can a whisper be loud?

Absolutely, says Suchness, the debut LP from We Are Loud Whispers, a dreamy duo featuring Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu) and Ayumu Haitani (4 Bonjour’s Parties). Seattleite Westcott met Haitani—who lives in Saitama on the island of Honshu—when Arthur & Yu toured Japan in 2007. The two have not seen each other since and are separated by the world’s largest body of water, but that was no deterrent to forming a band together.

Assembled over email, Suchness transcended geographical and language barriers—and traditional ideas of what a “band” is—in its making.

“I've been so used to getting together with band mates a few times a week in a small practice room to rehearse songs, and the way we did things was much different, obviously, since we don't live in the same country,” says Westcott. “So we'd bounce ideas off each other over email. There's a little bit of a language barrier as well, but any sort of ideas I had Ayumu seemed to understand and vice versa.”

Haitani would write and record instrumentals, upload them, and send to Westcott. As she listened thousands of miles away, she would pen lyrics to his orchestration, meditations on feeling alone even when partnered, wanting to control the uncontrollable, and on the power and promise of reaching for someone’s hand. The song titles themselves tell a story: “Starcrossed,” “This Time,” “I Hate to Say Goodbye.” After writing lyrics, Westcott would record a vocal track, upload, hit send, and wait for these starcrossed halves to meet and become complete—a process reminiscent of The Postal Service’s Give Up (fitting since Jimmy Tamborello sings on track “Glossolalia”).

Despite the modern magic required to realize Suchness, and its intricacy of its electronic orchestration and parade of horns, timpani, loops and effects, the record breathes with an organic ease. The layers of complexity never sound cluttered, melding together in Zen simplicity. Westcott’s airy whisper floats above heartbeat percussion, evoking the emotive electro of Lali Puna and Notwist.

In “Modern World,” the 7th track on the album, Westcott and Haitani ask, “Will we last or will we fade away?” Suchness, an album made between continents and between genres, seems to answer with the same duality that informed its construction. We are as impermanent as we are timeless. We are songs already sung and ones yet to be imagined. We are loud whispers. We last and we fade away.

ALESSI'S ARK new album and new us tour in June

June 1 - Phoencia, NY - Mystery Spot Antiques  

June 3 - Seattle, WA at Sunset Tavern *

June 4 - Portland, OR at Holocene *June 6 - San Francisco, CA at The Chapel *June 7 - Los Angeles, CA at Bootleg Theater *June 11 - Evanston, IL at SPACE %June 14 - New York, NY at Mercury Lounge ~June 15 - New York, NY at Rockwood Music HallJune 16 - Philadelphia, PA at Johnny Brenda’s *June 18 - Putney, VT at Next Stage *June 19 - Boston, MA at TT’s *June 20 - Portland, ME at One Longfellow *

*supporting Sam Amidon %supporting Patterson Hood~supporting The Ludlow Thieves

DAFT PUNK'S RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DEBUTS AT #1

DAFT PUNK'S RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES DEBUTS AT #1 ON ALBUM CHARTS ACROSS THE WORLD
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES SELLS AN IMPRESSIVE 339,000 COPIES IN THE US
RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES SELLS OVER A MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE IN DEBUT WEEK
Internationally, the album hit the #1 spot on digital charts in 97 countries, dominated UK charts to become the fastest selling album of 2013 and had the biggest first week album sales in France since 2007, where the album is already triple platinum. Daft Punk also earned their first official #1 album in multiple countries, including the US, Germany, Australia & Japan. The album is also officially #1 in France, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Mexico, Italy, Belgium, Spain and others.  In the US, Random Access Memories sold 339,000 copies, with the vinyl version becoming the biggest selling vinyl album in SoundScan's LP Vinyl chart history.  Random Access Memories is the first album in Billboard's Electronic/Dance Song chart history to have every song debut simultaneously.
Incredible public demand for the album not only led to unprecedented album sales and radio charting, but also to a steady stream of critical acclaim from media worldwide including features in  The Wall Street Journal, Billboard, The New York Times, NME, Rolling Stone, Time, The New Yorker and many more.
"Get Lucky," the first single from Random Access Memories immediately shot to the top of charts all over the world- selling 2.5 million digital tracks worldwide to date.  It is the biggest selling single of 2013 in the UK, and the song is # 1 on national airplay charts across the globe.  In the US, "Get Lucky" has garnered airplay across 7 different formats of radio.
The new 13 track album from the French duo, their first since 2005's Human After All, features collaborations with Pharrell Williams, Julian Casablancas, Panda Bear, Nile Rodgers, Giorgio Moroder, Paul Williams, Todd Edwards, Chilly Gonzales, and DJ Falcon, amongst others.  
SELECT PRESS QUOTES:
"EDM is MIA as dance gods turn back the clock with a spacy, star-packed blow out... Random Access Memories is full of WTF moments... orbiting somewhere between Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Earth, Wind and Fire's 'That's The Way Of The World'... Its brilliance is often irrefutable"  - ROLLING STONE
"A headphones album in an age of radio singles; a bravura live performance that stands out against pro forma knob-twiddling ... It's also quite moving; melancholy runs through every song." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"By the time you make it to the album's astonishing final stretch, it's hard not to think that Daft Punk have succeeded at what they set out to do."  - PITCHFORK

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - AVAILABLE NOW iTUNES - http://smarturl.it/RAMiTunes

JUNIP @ The Troubadour

JUNIP: ON TOUR NOW! "Bring on the Armageddon-these tunes will withstand anything."-Under The Radar“This is music that easily goes anywhere.”-New York Times"These three men are able to sound like an entire orchestra and convincingly so."- SPIN"beautiful synth-pulse"- Stereogum“Really, there’s no doing it justice-just let it carry you off in all its oceanic splendor.”-BlackBook“I saw Junip in a tiny venue last year. For me, when he sings, the room goes away, the highest compliment I can pay to a performer.”-Val Haller, New York TimesToday Junip (Elias Araya, José González and Tobias Winterkorn) head out for their FIRST North American tour in support of their glowing self-titled sophomore release!This Swedish trio will kick off their first two shows with SOLD OUT back to back appearances at the historical Troubadour in Los Angeles as well as a live session as part of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic programming---be sure to tune into KCRW tomorrow morning to hear the guys perform new songs on the air.Stay tuned to Junip’s Twitter and Facebook for times for set-times and upcoming radio appearances with KEXP, WFUV and WXPN.
We could not be more excited to have them back and spreading their magical music with all of you. In case you need to re-visit the first two tracks they have shared off of Junip you can check out their SoundCloud page for “Your Life Your Call” and “Line of Fire” as well as their friends Tobacco remixing “Your Life Your Call”---it is pretty epic and perfect for any pre-concert festivities! JUNIP NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES: 5/29 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA **SOLD OUT**5/30 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA **SOLD OUT**5/31 – Rio Theatre – Santa Cruz, CA6/1 – Bimbos – San Francisco, CA6/2 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR6/3 – The Wild Buffalo – Bellingham WA---NEW DATE ADDED6/4 – Rio Theatre – Vancouver, BC6/5 – Neumos – Seattle, WA6/8 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN6/9 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL6/10 – Great Hall –Toronto, ON6/12 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA6/13 – Highline Ballroom – New York, NY6/15 - 9:30 Club – Washington DC6/16 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA 10/4 - 10/6 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX 10/11 - 10/13 – Austin City Limits Music Festival – Austin, TX  

"YES IS THE ANSWER" book celebration

Progressive Rock Party:
"YES IS THE ANSWER" book celebration
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GENESIS: LIVE (rare archival 35mm print!) Saturday, June 15th | 7:45pm




Crimson, Genesis, Pink Floyd, oh my! No stranger to the maligned and the misunderstood in the realm of cinema, Cinefamily is thrilled to now turn the lights up on one of our favorite musical dreamscapes -- one traditionally scoffed at by critics, and dismissed by the fairweather flock: vintage progressive rock. To celebrate the publication of �Yes Is The Answer�, the first literary anthology devoted to prog rock�s legacy (featuring contributions by acclaimed novelists Rick Moody, Wesley Stace, Seth Greenland, Charles Bock, and Joe Meno, as well as musicians Nathan Larson and Peter Case), it�s a heady stew of rare 35mm prints, excerpted readings from the book by its authors, and video rarities up the wazoo.


First up, the book�s local contributors read from their pieces, followed by killer footage of the bands in question -- and then it�s onto the evening�s archival film prints: 1977�s sublime 45-minute Genesis: In Concert, filmed in expansive Cinemascope and unscreened in Los Angeles for decades -- and 1983�s Kilroy Was Here, Styx�s 10-minute dystopian filmed �intro� to their worldwide tour of the same name. �Yes Is The Answer� is the first book that dares to thoughtfully reclaim prog rock as a subject worthy of serious consideration -- so take a Topographic Journey into the 21st Century Schizoid land of Prog-Lit!

Genesis: Live Dir. Tony Maylam, 1977, 35mm, 45 min.
Kilroy Was Here Dirs. Brian Gibson & Jerry Kramer, 1983, 35mm, 10 min. (Archival print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive)



This event is in conjunction with Skylight Books' live discussion of "Yes Is The Answer" with Marc Weingarten and Tyson Cornell, on Thursday, July 13th, 7:30pm!

SHIVAS ON TOUR WITH THE DANDY WARHOLS

The Shivas  are on tour with friends The Dandy Warhols for the next six weeks, playing their new record WHITEOUT (which you can stream in its entirety in the shop!) in beautiful venues across the country.  Get a taste of their incredible live set from their most excellent in-studio session of "Manimal" on KZME HERE!
DATES!5/29 - Washington, D.C. - 9:30 Club5/31 - New York City, NY - Terminal 56/01 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory6/02 - Boston, MA - The Wilbur Theatre6/04 - Montreal, QB - Club Soda6/05 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre6/06 - Toronto, ON - Silver Dollar Room6/07 - Cleceland, OH - Grog Shop6/08 - Chicago, IL - The Vic Theatre6/09 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue6/11 - Denver, CO - the Gothic Theatre6/12 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up Aspen6/14 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern6/15 - San Francisco, CA - The Filmore6/17 - San Francisco, CA - The Hemlock6/19 - Portland, OR - The Wonder Ballroom6/20 - Portland, OR - The Wonder Ballroom6/21 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox (and an in-studio @ KEXP)6/22 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
6/28 - Portland, OR - The Know (Homecoming Show!)

Ponderosa Stomp Releases "Riot On Sunset Strip" Mini-Doc

Ponderosa Stomp Releases "Riot On Sunset Strip" Mini-DocFeaturing the Feral Garage Line-up for 2013The Standells, Ty Wagner, The Sloths, Gaunga Dyns

Over the years, the Ponderosa Stomp has proudly presented the greats of rock n’ roll, from Link Wray and the Flamin’ Groovies to The Trashmen, Green Fuz, The Seeds, The Alarm Clocks and Dr Specs Optical Illusion. Unhinged pioneers of raw fury, these bands ignited teenage raves and rebellious rioting on stages across the US, becoming icons of a movement that continues to flower. 2013 is no exception, as stars of the Sunset Strip scene The Sloths, Ty Wagner and The Standells perform with proto-punk New Orleans rockers the Gaunga Dyns.

Watch "Riot on Sunset Strip" mini-doc here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3I9o05zMhQ


The Stomp brings The Standells to headline the Festival, which runs October 3-5 in New Orleans. Best known for their hit “Dirty Water,” the band personified the youth movement in Hollywood during the 60s, where the kids clashed with over-zealous cops while beatniks ran amuck.  The band appeared in the cult classic “Riot on Sunset Strip” as well as numerous other movies and TV shows, notably appearing as the “Love Bugs” on the Bing Crosby Show and as themselves on The Munsters. Other slices of leering, lecherous garage genius followed with “Try It” and “Why Pick on Me,” as well as the dark horse ode “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White.” The Standells legacy remains strong; “Dirty Water” is played after every home victory by the Boston Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins and it is listed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 songs that shaped rock n’ roll.

The Gaunga Dyns are one of the most lethal garage combos to blaze a trail of glory across the New Orleans scene in the ‘60s. With only two 45 records to their name, the band’s impact was huge compared to their output. Recorded by Cosimio Matassa for Minit Records imprint Busy-B, they were hardly your average teen rockers. “Rebecca Rodifer,” a vaguely shrouded tale of a teen girl who doesn’t survive an abortion, is twisted and terrifying.  “Clouds Don’t Shine” is a study in dark, moody intensity, while they bring the fuzz on “Stick with Her” and “No One Cares.”  The band’s tenure was short but sweet – their sides are hunted by collectors world-wide. Fans will find them featured in the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation’s exhibit, Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana Rock ‘n Roll at the Louisiana State Museum.Another short-lived, but much loved band of the era, was California’s the Sloths. The band’s lifespan lasted from only 1965 until 1966, but their sole 1965 recording with the sides “Makin’ Love” and “You Mean Everything” was a barnburner, ensuring they’d be unforgettable. The band laid down their instruments in 1966 and did not pick them up for 46 years. Through the efforts of a private detective, the band reformed and they retain the raw primitivity and unspoiled stomp that have made their records highly sought after almost 5 decades later.
Ty Wagner emerged from California in 1966 as front man of the Scotchmen and
the Ones, where he penned the ultimate proto-punk anthem “Slander” and his outsider anthem “I’m a No Count.” The sides were hits for Chattahoochee and Era Records respectively and were recorded at Gold Star Recording. Wagner did numerous TV appearances and was a stalwart of the 60s Sunset Strip scene, performing at It’s Boss, The Trip, the Brave New World, the Rendezvous and other nightclubs where rebel music fans danced.  Wagner performs at the 2013 Stomp in New Orleans in the wake of his first record in decades, a new 45 featuring two unreleased numbers from the mid-60s.
For more information about the Ponderosa Stomp Festival (and the full line-up), Music Conference, Record Shop, Hip Drop DJ Night and Film Events, visit:  www.ponderosastomp.com