Crazy Eyes have announced their Spring 2016 US tour plans which follows on the heels of a new cassette release.  This is Crazy Eyes fourth US tour and takes them from their home in Seattle to the mid-west and east coast and back.  They are mainly sticking to the northern part of the US but will be putting on quite a few miles.  Here are the current dates, with a few more to be added in the coming weeks:

Crazy Eyes Spring 2016 US Tour

May 5 Crazy Eyes at Diabolical Records, Salt Lake City UT

May 6 Crazy Eyes at Syntax Psychic Opera, Denver CO

May 7 Crazy Eyes at Replay Lounge, Lawrence KS

May 8 Crazy Eyes at Lefty's, Des Moines IA

May 9 Crazy Eyes at The Frequency, Madison WI

May 11 Crazy Eyes at Frank's, Milwaukee WI

May 12 Crazy Eyes at Sylvie's, Chicago IL

May 13 Crazy Eyes at The Avenue Cafe, East Lansing MI

May 14 Crazy Eyes at Kelly's, Detroit MI

May 16 Crazy Eyes at Mohawk Place, Buffalo NY

May 17 Crazy Eyes at O'Brien's, Boston MA

May 18 Crazy Eyes at Pauly's Hotel, Albany NY

May 19 Crazy Eyes at Arlene's Grocery, New York, NY

May 20 Crazy Eyes at Red Hook Bait & Tackle, Brooklyn NY

May 21 Crazy Eyes at The Pharmacy, Philladelphia PA

May 24 Crazy Eyes at Rake's End, Cincinnatti OH

May 25 Crazy Eyes at The 5 Spot, Nashville TN

May 26 Crazy Eyes at Backspace, Fayetteville AR

May 27 Crazy Eyes at Outland Bar, Springfield MO

May 29 Crazy Eyes at Seventh Circle Music Collective, Denver CO

 

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Crazy Eyes have released a new video for the single "Cotton Candy Club" which turned out to be a massive project. The video was hand animated with over 10,000 sheets of Xerox'd copies over a 3-month period and was celebrated with a video release party at Knick Knack Records headquarters in Seattle on March 26.

Their US tour kicks off in just a couple of weeks.  Click here for a full list of tour dates:  http://knickknackrecords.com/pages/tour-dates  

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"So I'm stuck in the city where geeks are all kings / they got all the morals of Louis the 14 / they don't pay no taxes send their kids overseas / so they don't have to see the poor sleepin' on the street / makes it hard to be a man / but ain't I a man."

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If you haven't heard of Sindri Eldon you will soon. On December 25, 2015 Knick Knack Records is proud to present a new EP from the Icelandic musician and artist now making his home in Seattle.

The EP titled "Wheelhouse" includes 5 brand new tracks, 2 of which were engineered and mastered in Seattle at BLDGS Studio by Aaron Schroeder (Childbirth, Wimps, Guantanamo Baywatch) and 3 tracks that were recorded in Reykjavik.

Sindri moved to Seattle at the end of November following a series of stunning performances at this year's Iceland Airwaves Festival and is ready to share his prolific musical output with the rest of the world. You can expect a new full length album in the spring of 2016 followed by a US Tour, and more music in the fall.

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Teleferik's new album "Lune Electric" was featured in the latest edition of the Czech print zine Full Moon and we have a translation below.

by Jiří Vladimír Matýsek

"A Paris couple Eliz Mourad (voice, bass) and Arno Vincendeau (guitar) - backed with Olivier Hurtu on the drums - are the most prominent evidence of the fact, that intelligent melting of different cultural and stylistic influences can be, at least, interesting. After the three EP's, this October, they come with the full record, Lune Electric. Ten songs melting psychedelia together with blues and hard rock and spice all with a little bit of frech chanson. French is melted with english, an exotic ingredince in the coctail is arabic. Lune Electric is based on the dialogue of guitar and voice, under which there is bubbling bass. The voice of Eliz Mourad comes with a great scale of emotion. The influence of woman soul singers cannot be hidden, her voice can be gentle - and in a just one second could be unstoppable wild. Through the same, unpredictabble waves goes even the music. For all the time, there are middle tempos, but it's variability - if we count the sound - is holding a listener in the thrill and can also suprise him. We can't go far for an example - let's take the first song on the record, Beumont. The song goes from a gently, softly going song with a nice singing, to the dirty, psychedelic-hard rock wild thing. Some songs (Money Value, Behlam Fik), are decorated with the sound of the synthesiser, which should went straight from the deep seventees, where also led the roots of Teleferik. They are, in no way, stuck in the past. The Parisiens come with the record with present sound, record which is dynamic and very enjoyable. It is nothing for one-side lovers of pop and electro. It should draw an attention of listeners, who love intelligent music."

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Low Hums new EP "Adventuring In The Near and Far" was featured in the latest edition of the Czech print zine Full Moon and we have a translation below.

by Jiří Vladimír Matýsek

"American Seattle is most famous probably as a cradle of grunge, the musical scene of this six million city still gains attention: let's take Low Hums as an example. The band formed in 2009 around Jonas Haskins, an ex-guitarist of drone-metal band Earth released two LP's and several EP's. Among them is also their newest record, Adventuring in the near and far, an four-song record released digitally and on the casettes only.

The Low Hums music is based on many influencies. The most visible is psychedelia strongly rooted in the sixties, there are also influences of country and the dirtiness of garage rock. Adventuring… comes through the way of soft, non-complicated, alternative rock - which is not meant in a pejorative way. Sound of the EP is based on guitars and jingling banjo (especially on its second part), is little bit hidden in the echoes and is driven forward by simple, yet well working drums by Mike Bayer.

The opening ballad Bongs and Gongs is decorated by dirty, screaming saxophone, which went out of the waves of California surf rock. Others songs fulfill the form of melodically optimistic alt-rock. The tension on the record comes with layered guitars, which goes "in it's own way" over the rythmic section and melody. Many parts takes its listener to far, cosmic emptiness (Breakdown). So, it's the shame, that all the songs keeps the lenght around four minutes - especially, when Low Hums talks on their website about 45-minute jams. This EP is still great promise of things yet to come."

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We've got some great new music from our recent releases that we would like to share with you in our free digital music sampler.  You can download or stream it but we hope you'll go to the artist pages and buy the albums once you discover how good this is.

Take a listen below:

GravelRoad - Flesh and Bone

Teleferik - Behlam Fik

Low Hums - Breakdown

Crazy Eyes - Call of The Weirdos

The Foghorns - 400 Dollars

Ray Cashman - Whiskey, Weed and Women

Sweet Jesus - Young Blood

Aaron Semer - Bored Is The King of Israel

Download it here:  http://knickknackrecords.com/products/knick-knack-records-winter-2016-sampler 

 

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Use discount code HOLIDAZE at the checkout to receive 25% off any order of $50 or more through December 21.  Get you holiday shopping done early for all of your music loving friends and family.

We've got some great gift ideas here for the vinyl lover - check out these vintage vinyl journals...the fronts and backs of the journals are made from actual old albums. All journals are made from recycled materials and 100% acid-free paper. Each journal contains 240 high quality pages measuring 7-1/2"" x 7-1/2"" on 70 lb. paper. Adding to the uniqueness of each journal is a carefully handcrafted cover and finish work.

 

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Aaron Semer is celebrating the release of his new album "Love Amidst Collapse" on Thursday December 10 at Conor Byrne Pub with good friends and collaborators Michael Wohl and Coyote.  
On his new album, "Love Amidst Collapse," Aaron Semer strips his music down to the bare essentials – acoustic guitars, voice, some basic percussion, and a few shredding solos for good measure. This is a concept album loosely based around the collapse of society as we know it, and how we would go about moving forward after the fall. On a personal basis, it is a reset button – an attempt for Semer to get back to basics as a songwriter, and to address his own fears about the decline and possible collapse of America. "Songs are stories, stories are life," he says. "When you give up on the failing stories you have been telling yourselves as a society, what replaces them?"
Hopefully, songs like these.

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Teleferik have been on the road in France in support of their new album "Lune Electric" and have recently released another new video for "Mystic Machine" featured below.  This is another fantastic work of art from this Paris based band who only recently stunned us all with their beautiful video for "Behlam Fik".
City Arts Magazine has featured "Behlam Fik" in the November edition of 'Attractive Singles':
http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/articles/attractive-singles-november-2015

 

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