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Video Premiere: Fire By Songs For Sabotage

Post author By Alice Teeple
Post date February 5, 2020

Songs For Sabotage are on a mission to create deep, danceable music within the pop spectrum.

FROM THE BAND:

Lina Sophie (lead vocals and guitar) and Richey Rose (bass and beats), the emerging duo called Songs For Sabotage, recently dropped their first, self-produced single, Fire. It’s a shadowy, cinematic gem with an undeniably infectious hook and guitar riffs paired with hypnotic vocals from Sophie.

The Stockholm raised, charismatic frontwoman sings with a subtle urgency over Rose’s bewitching bassline, especially on the chorus:

I’d set myself on fire for you / There’s not a single thing that you can do to convince me that I shouldn’t walk away.”

The lushly atmospheric b-side remix of “Fire” by Chris Huggett (formerly of Dragonette) features ‘80s horror flick synths and a moonlit-night-ride feel. The “Fire” music video was shot at Milk Studios in New York and directed by Mark Seliger’s first assistant, Nick Bean.

Fire is just one of the seven dark and very danceable songs off of the outfit’s debut album, ‘Deep Fake,’ due to be released later this year.

Songs for Sabotage’s story began in late 2018. The two musicians met when Rose was the featured DJ at Night of Joy, A few months later, they started writing and recording music in Rose’s home studio in downtown Manhattan. The band was largely born out of Sophie and Rose’s mutual love for Swedish pop, ‘80s new wave, and ‘00s electro.

“We want to offer more in regards to memorable songwriting, especially when it comes to a clever, classic pop hook,” explains Rose. The duo began collaborating around the same time their respective previous bands were breaking up. “One day we were at the Strand and saw this book of artwork titled Songs for Sabotage – we found it both an appropriate and humorous title for our then pet project.” says Sophie.

Though it’s barely been a year since they’ve joined forces, Songs For Sabotage have already played an impressive list of New York venues including The Sultan Room, Mercury Lounge, and Berlin.

Songs for Sabotage’s debut single Fire is available now on all streaming platforms.
They will be releasing a new single/b-side remix in February and March, and their 7-song debut LP ‘Deep Fake’ in early summer.

Enjoy the premiere of Fire here:

Upcoming Live Appearances:

Sunday, January 26th @ Otto’s Shrunken Head – NYC
Friday, February 7th @Home Sweet Home – NYC
Sunday, February 23rd @ Berlin Under A – NYC

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Tags atmospheric, Guitar, Lina Sophie, music video, Nick Bean, premiere, Richey Rose, Songs For Sabotage

Music

Video Premiere: Eve Minor Sends Out Third Eye Transmissions With “Who Are You?”

Post author By Alice Teeple
Post date February 4, 2020

Eve Minor manifests her mirror soul in a bizarrely intriguing surrealist art piece, Who Are You? released on 02/02/2020.

Who Are You? is the second single (after Lazarus) released from her upcoming experimental post-punk record 3:33 (to be released 03/03/2020). It is a concept album of visual/performance art. The album is currently available for pre order on Bandcamp.

Eve Minor is ready to change the game and start a musical revolution. After a few particularly ugly encounters with predatory producers, Minor got fed up with the nonsense of the pop music industry and vicious cycles of social media, taking matters into her own hands. She enjoys the freedom of openly expressing herself in an honest, creative way, and has zero patience for the PR machine of branding, artificiality, or personality control. In fact, she’s actively fighting it.

Minor made headlines for her recent PASTE Magazine performance, where she appeared in a mesh mask and a dress made of a garbage bag to protest the abusive treatment from record producers and the disposable nature of pop music. She was accompanied by a trans interpretive dancer, a looming figure in a monk cowl, and her faithful companion “Jack,” a skeleton operating her laptop.

Minor is fiercely independent and proficient in a vast array of instruments. She uses her skills to push boundaries and blur lines between artistic mediums by relentlessly researching, tinkering, and sonically carving out her unique sound that her fans have termed “screwgaze.” Minor is authentic punk through and through; a true survivor and hellraiser. Minor is having fun with the freedom of complete artistic control, taking her own portraits, designing her own albums, and directing her own videos.

The result is fascinating. In 3:33, Eve Minor turns the tables on the concept of trap by mixing it with neoclassical, industrial, and pop nuances; topped off by her bluesy, soulful voice. Described as “experimental and cinematic with a hint of horror” by Analogue Trash, Minor sprinkles her beats with unusual elements: hertz tones, whispering voices, Morse code, screaming, and numerology, for starters.

“3:33 is an aural collage blurring the lines of what you know – and what you think you know,” says Minor.

Featuring demons and night creatures, the video is a full third-eye transmission in an attempt to call out her missing half from the ether. According to Eve Minor, she has felt a presence pulling towards her for the past 5 months, which is where 3:33 comes from.

Watch it here:

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EveMinor.com

Instagram.com/eveminor

Facebook.com/eveminormusic

Twitter.com/eve_minor

For more information contact: eveminor@gmail.com

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Featured Music

Premiere: “Motorcycle” By Lucky Witch and the Righteous Ghost

Post author By Alice Teeple
Post date January 29, 2020

“Motorcycle, there’s no god tonight. Only streetlights.”

Staten Island’s Lucky Witch and the Righteous Ghost is an eclectic group of erstwhile poltergeists.

LWRG formed in 2016 when vocalist/guitarist E. Niveous Rayside sought electronic sounds for the grunge-inspired music he was making. He started a musical partnership with his girlfriend (now wife), R. Brookes McKenzie, later rounding out the sound with bassist Eric Novak and drummer Jay Ackley. The quartet earned a cult following at the late SideWalk Café in the East Village.

“LWRG is driven by a strong muse to create,” says Niveous. Since 2016, the band has released a studio album called Spiderdust, as well as a live album chronicling their times in the East Village open mic scene called Night Owls. In 2019, they released an EP called All Hard Feelings, and they started off the year releasing their second studio album New Ways To Make Mistakes. Now the band is already crafting songs for album #3.

Motorcycle is the first single release from their second studio album, New Ways To Make Mistakes.

Self-described as “a concentrated ball of pure awesome,” LWRG is a rock n’ roll lineup with heavy grunge and garage influences, sprinkled with the ethereal chimes of a Suzuki Omnichord. “We have heard our sound referred to as “sunshine goth” and “What if the Cramps were Jefferson Airplane?” says Niveous. “We like to call it sparklegrunge. I write music for the sad kids.”

Motorcycle, inspired by the music of Curve, was written in the back of an Uber on the way to the studio to record LWRG’s first album. The dreary day inspired the song’s tale of a doomed motorcyclist. The video game Black Emperor by Jose Tomas Vicuna also served as inspiration.

The band worked with Alice Teeple to direct a live performance video with superimposed stock footage. Motorcycle was filmed on location in the cellar of a Gothic revival mansion in Hamilton Park, Staten Island. The eerie stone walls and psychedelic lights, straight out of the Addams Family, complement the dark lyrics of Motorcycle.

Downtown is pleased to present the premiere of Motorcycle.