Updated shows for Finland's Echo Is Your Love:
11/22 - HDJ, Leverkusen (GER) w/Endearment
11/23 - Subversiv, Berlin (GER) w/Moho
11/24 - Rote Flora, Hamburg (GER)
11/25 - Ut Connewitz (Iskra-Festival), Leipzig (GER) w/Turbostaat, etc.
01/19 - Bar 15, Seinäjoki (FIN) w/Fun
Finland's Echo Is Your Love on tour in Germany:
11/22 - tba
11/23 - Subversiv, Berlin
11/24 - Rote Flora, Hamburg
11/25 - Ut Connewitz, Leipzig w/Turbostaat
Nomethod has revealed that besides from new full-length albums and digital singles from both Mixtapes & Cellmates and Aerial, they'll be doing a comp this winter featuring a large cast of exciting Scandinavian artists. Names confirmed so far include Bobby Baby, Mixtapes & Cellmates, Kuryakin, Most Valuable Players, Aerial, Tar...Feathers, Echo Is Your Love, Cat Burglar, Penny Century, We Are Soldiers We Have Guns, Otur, Audrey and KVLR. More details to come!
Updated US tourdates for Finland's Echo Is Your Love:
05/15 - Lennys, Atlanta w/Technine, Parsec
05/16 - tba, Nashville, TN w/Maps, A Poet Named Revolver
05/17 - Lemp Arts, St. Louis, MO
05/18 - The Valhalla Gallery, Kansas City, MO
05/19 - Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines, IA
05/20 - Big Vs, Minneapolis, MN
05/21 - The Party Awesome House, Milwaukee, WI
05/22 - The Secret Location, Indianapolis, IN
05/24 - The Mr. Roboto Project, Pittsburgh
05/25 - Sidebar, Baltimore w/New Brutalism, Yukon
05/26 - Goodbye Blue Mondays, Brooklyn, NY
05/27 - tba, New York w/Kiss Kiss, Deathtrap
05/28 - 120 Hamilton, New Brunswick, NJ
05/29 - AS220, Providence w/Spheres
05/30 - PA's Lounge, Somerville, MA w/Forbes Graham (Kayo Dot), Tristan Da Cunha
05/31 - Flywheel, Easthampton, MA w/Death to Tyrants
06/01 - The Veggieplex Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
06/02 - Warehouse Next Door, Washington DC
06/03 - tba, Richmond, VA w/Souvenir's Young America
06/04 - tba, Chapel Hill/Durham, NC w/Cantwell, Gomez & Jordan
06/05 - tba, Charlotte, NC w/Calabi Yau
Esteemed Finnish label If Society has confirmed that Echo Is Your Love's new album "Humansize" will be released on May 3, just in time for their US tour. Download two mp3s here: http://www.ifsociety.com/news.php#90
Coming up next will be a new full-length from Finns Valse Triste.
The new album from Finnish noiserockers Echo Is Your Love will be out on May 3, just in time for their US tour.
Finland's Echo Is Your Love will tour the US in May with US act Blame Game. Dates so far:
05/15 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
05/17 - Lemp Arts, St. Louis, MO
05/21 - Party Awesome House, Milwaukee, WI
05/24 - Mr. Roboto Project, Pittsburgh, PA
05/26 - 517 Milltown, Wilmington, DE
06/01 - Veggieplex Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
The latest edition of Norse Code from frequent IAT contributor Kevin Renick is now online: http://www.playbackstl.com/Norse/index.html
Artists covered include Avarus, Lau Nau, Echo is Your Love, José González and a rare interview with Schtimm.
Tons of new stuff added to mailorder department, including both albums from Danish hardcore act The Psyke Project and a huge selection of If Society's recent releases including records from Viola, Frivolvol, Echo Is Your Love, Fun and more. Start shopping!
Check out pics from the recent Fun/Echo Is Your Love European tour: http://www.noisecorewalze.com/text_template.php?text=fun_echo_tour_2005
The upcoming Fun/Echo Is Your Love tour has been mostly confirmed. Here's the latest:
04/15 - Zabadaks, Kuldiga (LAT)
04/16 - tbc, Klaipeda (LIT)
04/17 - tbc, Kaunas (LIT)
04/18 - tbc, Kurow (POL)
04/19 - tbc, Krakow (POL)
04/20 - tbc, Wroclaw (POL)
04/21 - Waldschloss, Potsdam (GER)
04/22 - Frûh Auf!, Leipzig (GER)
04/23 - Kulturbunker Mühlheim, Cologne (GER) w/Hinterlandt
04/24 - Tower Bar, Bremen (GER) w/Hinterlandt
04/25 - tbc, tba (GER)
04/26 - Metropol, Hengelo (HOL) w/Hinterlandt
04/27 - ACU, Utrecht (HOL) w/Hinterlandt
04/28 - OCCII, Amsterdam (HOL) w/Hinterlandt
04/29 - tbc, tba (GER)
04/30 - Paramount DIY, Roskilde (DK)
Some new, mostly tentative dates for Finland's Echo is Your Love:
04/15 - tba (LAT)
04/16 - tba (LIT)
04/17 - tba (LIT)
04/18 - Kurow (POL)
04/19 - Krakow (POL)
04/20 - tba (POL)
04/21 - Potsdam (GER)
04/22 - Leipzig (GER)
04/23 - tba (GER)
04/20 - Cologne (GER)
04/25 - Bremen (GER)
04/26 - Hengelo (NL)
04/27 - Utrecht (NL)
04/28 - Amsterdam (NL)
04/30 - Roskilde (DK)
As some of you might know, Echo Is Your Love record almost completely without rehearsals, trying to keep thing as spontaneous as possible. Other bands have done similar things, most notably Spazz who never rehearsed a note, and others would like to sound like they did. EIYL somehow keep it relatively together despite their self-imposed limitations (but nowhere as tight as Spazz have been, by the way). Of course, they keep the music as wisely focusing on one area of rock music as possible not drifting away from their Sonic Youth-ish dirty rock direction. Surprising results.
- Simon Thibaudeau