Heavy Rotation

Why, that's iRonic

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

My Bloody Valentine reunion confirmed*

Kevin Shields, the mercurial and elusive leader of My Bloody Valentine, confirmed that the legendary band has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, and that an album release is forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year. In an exclusive interview set to air Monday, Nov. 12 on VBS.tv, Shields speaks at length with Ian Svenonious on Soft Focus about his career and art, including some tantalizing hints about the next phase of My Bloody Valentine.

When The Daily Swarm first reported on the upcoming My Bloody Valentine reunion in August, their sources insisted on remaining anonymous, and Kevin Shields’ own statements came only in the form of fans’ personal encounters culled from a variety of message boards. Some accused TDS of rumormongering, but were confident in their work and that after years of false starts and dashed hopes, one of the most innovative guitar bands (second only to SY) of all time was truly gearing up for a return to action.

Watch Part One of the interview here

November 06, 2007
SOURCE: The Daily Swarm*

The Gardener

SOURCE: iwantsomecouch

StarWarz: In One Act

SOURCE: iRonic Productions Presents, 2007

Twenty-Three Minutes Over Brussels

How do you introduce Alan Vega?

One half of the seminal electronic duo Suicide, Alan Vega was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career as a visual artist, gaining notoriety in the early 70s for his radical light sculptures and through the mid-80s had numerous one-man art exhibitions at OK Harris and the Barbara Gladstone galleries in Manhattan. Also in the early 70s, Vega co-founded a lower Manhattan art & music forum, ‘the Project of Living Artists’ in a large warehouse space in SoHo. It was there he met Martin Rev and together they formed Suicide, whose minimalist music, a fusion of Rev's ominous, repetitive keyboards and Vega's rockabilly snarl, helped paved the way for the electronic artists of the future.

Five years in the making, Vega's tenth solo release, Station, is a blistering statement of intent from a rock'n'roll shaman whose work has always stretched parameters, managing to defy expectations at every turn.

As Vega himself says, “Station represents a kind of culmination point for me. It gathers up many of the elements that have been in my previous work and takes them all the way. In many ways, it's my most truthful record in that I'm now at the age where it’s easier for me to listen to my own heart-beat and act on it creatively.”

'Station' is out now on Mute.

SOURCE: AlanVega.com

Perpetuum Mobile

Einstürzende Neubauten is the first and only band which successfully uses the Internet productively to gather and concentrate activities of their fans from around the world. Einstürzende Neubauten launched their official website www.neubauten.org in 2002, and made it the center of their musical activities. Entire albums are financed by registered Supporters via subscription. The principle is simple: their Supporters buy the next Einstürzende Neubauten album before it’s recorded. With this funding in hand the band has time to work in peace rather than wasting time and energy in endless discussions with record companies about marketing and “brand identity” – irksome intrusions into the artistic process! In return Supporters world-wide have exclusive access to Einstürzende Neubauten’s internal working processes.

New release, Alles Wieder Offen (pronounced: ah-llus vee-der off-en), out now.

Find out more here.