The Destruction Unit have about a month left until their recently announced Negative Feedback Resistor LP finally hits the streets via Sacred Bones Records. Earlier this summer the band announced the album simply with a manifesto of sorts, declaring that there is no chance of Destruction Unit slowing down, or obeying any set of 'rules' when it comes to making this music. Out of left field came the first 'single' from the album, "If Death Ever Slept," which took what you'd imagine a followup track to their beloved Deep Trip LP would sound like and spun it on its head. It's faster, meaner, and the entire track set at a blitzkrieg pace.
This past weekend saw the band play Berserktown Festival in Santa Ana, CA as "Destruction Unit & Friends," boasting a lineup of nine individuals on stage. This is no unusual act for the band. The lineup featured Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches, Last Lizard) and Don Bolles (The Germs) who both appear on the upcoming album, as well as many others.
Today the band are sharing album closer "The Upper Hand," which is another uncompromising audio assault -- if Motörhead took too much acid and bought some wah pedals and met up with Discharge to make a track, this is what it might sound like.
The band was recently in NYC for a weekend of shows and spent a chunk of that time with SPIN Magazine. You can read their profile on the band and listen to the new track here. For everything else, including tour dates and album info, see below!
TOUR DATES
9/4/15 - Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman (Resurrect Cali Fest)
9/13/2015 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom (Record Release Show)
9/18/2015 - Tilburg, Holland @ Incubate Festival
9/19/2015 - Angers, France @ Levitation France
9/20/2015 - Kortrijk, Belgium @ The Pit's
9/21/2015 - Groningen, Holland @ Vera Downstage
9/23/2015 - Liege, Belgium @ La Zone
9/24/2015 - London, United Kingdom @ The Shacklewell Arms
9/25/2015 - Liverpool, United Kingdom @ Liverpool Psych Fest
9/27/2015 - Brussels, Belgium @ Magasin 4
9/28/2015 - Paris, France @ Espace B
9/29/2015 - Lyon, France @ Le Sonic
9/30/2015 - Luzern, Switzerland @ Sedel Club
10/1/2015 - Münich, Germany @ Kafe Kult
10/2/2015 - Vienna, Austria @ Arena
10/3/2015 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Klub 007 Strahov
10/4/2015 - Leipzig, Germany @ Goldhorn
10/5/2015 - Berlin, Germany @ Chesters
10/6/2015 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Loppen
10/7/2015 - Malmö, Sweden @ Inkonst
10/8/2015 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Vieille Montagne
10/9/2015 - Oslo, Norway @ Oslo Psych Fest
10/10/2015 - Aarhus, Denmark @ Aarhus Psych Fest
10/11/2015 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang
10/16/2015 - Brooklyn, NY - CMJ Festival
10/17/2015 - Brooklyn, NY - CMJ Festival
Described as one of the hardest-hitting prison dramas in British screen history A Sense Of Freedom, the striking true story about notorious reformed Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle, comes to DVD courtesy of Odyssey.
Charged with murder twice and cleared when barely into his twenties, Jimmy Boyle was Scotland’s most feared gangster – a Gorbals ‘hard man’ notorious for his extreme violence. Then he got a taste of his own medicine when he was sentenced to life in a Scottish prison where the regime, with its punishment beatings and solitary confinement, was every bit as brutal as that on the street. Yet out of this bleak and seemingly dead-end system of crime and punishment came an extraordinary chance of redemption, which drove Boyle to make something positive of his life in ways that neither he nor anyone else could ever have imagined.
Directed by John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday) and featuring a sensational lead performance from Trial & Retribution star David Hayman, the BAFTA-nominated A Sense of Freedom remains one of the most searing, shocking and thought-provoking prison dramas ever seen and is released on DVD on 12 October 2015, in both its blistering original version and a controversial later dubbed and edited version.
Made shortly after the equally intense prison drama Scum, A Sense of Freedom is based on Boyle’s autobiography of the same name and also stars leading Scottish acting talent including Fulton Mackay (Porridge), Jake D’Arcy (Tutti Frutti), Alex Norton (Taggart), Sean Scanlan (Rab C. Nesbitt), Jimmy Yuill (Wycliffe), John Stahl (Game of Thrones) and outrageous Scottish comedian Hector Nicol (Just A Boys’ Game).
The BIMFEST 2015 line-up is complete and here is the full line-up! THE ARCH (B) Belgian Electro-Wave Cult band presenting new album & classics. BETTINA KÖSTER (D) Founding member of Neue Deutsche Welle cultband MALARIA! performing Malaria songs & solo work. DESTIN FRAGILE (SE) 100% Synthpop by Spetsnaz masterminds Pontus & Stefan enforced by Daniel Malmlöf. HONEYMOON COWBOYS (B) Friday headliner!!! Feat. ex-SIGLO XX members, Playing 50% Siglo XX tracks exclusivily @ BIMFEST! THE JUGGERNAUTS (B) Belgian NU-EBM. LIVINGTOTEM (HU)
THE RETURN- digital restored on both DVD and Blu-ray
Release on 25th August 2015
Golden Lion For Best Film in Venice 2003
Golden Globe Nomination For Best Foreign Film
Director:Andrey Zvyagintsev
Writers:Vladimir Moiseenko, Aleksandr Novototskiy-Vlasov (as Aleksandr Novototskiy)
Stars:Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
THE RETURN- digitaal gerestaureerd -
Release op 25 augustus 2015
Het intense, visueel verbluffende debuut van Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) nu te ontdekken in een gerestaureerde versie.
Gouden Leeuw voor Beste Film Filmfestival Venetië 2003
Golden Globe nominatie voor Beste Buitenlandse Film
Synopsis:
De broers Ivan en Andrei zijn opgegroeid zonder vader. Wanneer die na 12 jaar afwezigheid weer opduikt in hun leven, gaan de broers radicaal anders om met de turbulente emoties die zijn terugkeer opwekt. In een brutale poging om zich op te werpen als rolmodel, neemt de vader zijn zonen mee op vakantie naar een afgelegen eiland. Onderweg escaleert deze poging om nieuwe banden te smeden al snel tot een moeilijke confrontatie, die uitmondt in een mannelijkheidstest van haast mythische proporties.
Technische specificaties DVD:
Rusland, 2003 | Duur: 105 min. | Taal: Russisch | Ondertiteling: Nederlands of Frans of Franse versie | Formaat: 1.85:1 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Technische specificaties Blu-ray:
Rusland, 2003 | Duur: 105 min. | Taal: Russisch, Franse dub | Ondertiteling: Nederlands, Frans | Formaat: 1.85:1 | Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Their album (the seventeenth instalment of our tape series, released on CD as 'Headache') has received across-the-board acclaim from most of the major music commentary outlets (The Quietus, Louder Than War, Tiny Mix Tapes, etc) and has struck several kinds of minor chords with the psychedelia/garage/shoegaze/krautrock experts across a throng of niche blogs and websites.
To remind you how great this album really is, the label commissioned noise musician and artist Jason Williams (Hysteresis, Mothers of The Third Reich, Aeliopile, etc) to produce a video for the swirling, bad-tempered 10-minute title track from the album.
Edited from rescued footage the filmmaker found of a childhood horror film he attempted with some friends, the barely-legible super 8 - all choked up with damage to the negative - forms a narrative with the previous video for Headache's opener, Snow.
The film stutters and bleeds, occasionally lapsing into acid-trip flashbacks, while the music of Headache glides gracefully forever over the fucked-up visuals - a fatalist mantra.
Trupa Trupa are from Gdansk and are fronted by the award-winning Polish poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski.
