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'This World' works as interface between the acoustic landscapes of Grails and Slint, the two closely related bands that qualify Watter as – excuse the marketing-speak – supergroup. First and foremost though, Zak Riles, Tyler Trotter and Britt Walford made their debut a beautiful and mystically surreal voyage through the bluring borderlands of post- and krautrock. To ease the waiting time for their Euro tour at the start of 2015 (with dates in Linz on Feb 12th and Vienna on Feb 14th), Mr. Riles tell us about his favourite records of the year for the Heavy Pop advent calendar.
After the two consecutive successes '‘Im Schwindel‘‘ and 'Die Unsichtbaren‘, 2014 had to be endured without a new album by Messer, but fortunately not without other releases: while Record Store Day ’14 showed the groups changeableness with 'TCM Tones‘, last months 'Ein Film ist zuende, nur ein Film‘ succeeded with its balancing act between art piece and driving rock improvisation. Either way: no Heavy Pop Advent calender without being kicked off by Messer!
"After a nine year lag, it’s time to get back on the wagon!" The California punk veterans Lagwagon are back with their new, long-awaited record 'Hang', which will be released on October 28. Heavy Pop talked to lead singer Joey Cape about the powerful sound of the album, his tribute song to Tony Sly and why the punkrock multi-talent doesn't like to appear in music videos.
On their third European tour the electric/acoustic punk rock band Get Dead finally made it to Austria. Heavy Pop met Sam (singer) and Tim (bass) right before their concert on May 26th at dasBach in Vienna to talk about their tour, the life on the road in general and future plans.
Der aktuell mitunter großartigste Storyteller Amerikas gleitet wieder durch Ohio und wunderbar einfühlsame Geschichten voller totgeweihter Charaktere und kleinen Weisheiten des fortschreitenden Alters. Musikalisch führt 'Benji' jedochvor allem die vielen Aufbruchsstimmung-Ansätze der letzten Jahre geschickt weiter.
On 01st of december 2013 Klaus Zwinger met with the american singer-songwriter Koji right before and musician and activist opened the Into It. Over It. gig at the Arena in Vienna to talk among other things about the recent tour and future plans.
"I may be an optimist" declares Josh Mann on 'Bright Lights', and not without reason: on their sophomore album (and their first on Uncle M) 'The Smoke Will Clear' , the Australian quartet Paper Arms honoured every promise their debut 'Days Above Ground' made to predict them as one of the up and coming young punk rock bands. So while Paper Arms can view into the future quite optimistically, singer/guitarist Josh Mann took his time for the Heavypop Advent calender to compile his favourite 5 records of the past year 2013.
Old Lines is a Hardcore Band from Baltimore. Mitch Roemer plays the guitar, Jake Berry the drums, Matt Taylor sings and Pat Martin handles the bass. You can purchase their first album 'الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام' at their bandcamp.
