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Galaxy Safari aren't a "cool" band, but that doesn't mean they aren't good. They play workingman hard rock, an area far removed from all hype, but fuck it, I like burly riffs paired with pop hooks so I like them just fine. So yeah, if you dig stonerrock, but can't hang with stoner clichés, you'll dig this. If you like it when Foo Fighters are at their heaviest, you'll like this too. The band they remind of most though, is Speedball, an obscure act from Detroit that I think I read about on Aversionline or some other zine way back when. Speedball's "Drive like hell" EP kicks ass in a very similar way and it's been a longtime standby for me in my collection and also, now that I've looked them up, I'm surprised to find out they're still together, so yeah- further investigation is most definitely needed! But anyway, getting back to Galaxy Safari: there's no clever press ploy here, no flash, no gimmicks. Just four dudes playing heavy rock'n'roll, though I suppose it doesn't hurt to mention that the band features members from Victims and Daybreak even if the connection barely impacts the music.
Galaxy Safari - Save me
Victims will be supporting Municipal Waste on tour across Europe in early 2010:
01/19 - Magnet Club, Berlin (GER)
01/20 - Juha West, Stuttgart (GER)
01/21 - Feierwerk, Munich (GER)
01/22 - Sottotetto Club, Bologna (ITA)
01/23 - New Age Club, Treviso (ITA)
01/25 - tba, Hamburg (GER)
01/27 - Debaser, Stockholm (SWE)
01/28 - Betong, Oslo (NOR)
01/29 - Garage, Bergen (NOR)
01/30 - Academy, Birmingham (UK)
02/01 - King Tuts, Glasgow (SCO)
02/02 - Cockpit, Leeds (UK)
02/04 - Scala, London (UK)
02/05 - Sneek, Bolwerk (NL)
02/06 - Milkweg, Amsterdam (NL)
Victims will have a new 2-song 7" on Deathwish Inc. released in time for their upcoming US tour with Black Breath and Trap Them. They'll also be playing a batch of UK shows in May:
05/01 - Grosvenor, London
05/02 - Chesters, Bristol
05/03 - 1in12 Club, Bradford
05/04 - Old Angel, Nottingham
Here are the dates for that Victims East Coast tour with Black Breath and Trap Them:
05/22 - Sonar (Maryland Death Fest), Baltimore, MD
05/25 - Lit Lounge, New York, NY
05/26 - Webster Underground, Hartford, CT
05/27 - Great Scott, Boston, MA
05/28 - Westcott Center, Syracuse, NY
05/29 - Forward Hall, Erie, PA
05/30 - Howards Club H, Bowling Green, OH
05/31 - Borg Ward, Milwaukee, WI
06/01 - Triple Rock, Minneapolis, MN
06/02 - Subterrenean, Chicago, IL
06/03 - Warsaw Arena, Cincinnati, OH
06/04 - TBA, Birmingham, AL
06/05 - Hi Tone, Memphis, TN
06/06 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
06/07 - Park, Charleston, SC
06/08 - Brewery, Raleigh, NC
06/09 - Hideaway, Johnson City, TN
06/10 - Talking Head, Baltimore, MD
06/11 - Charleston, Brooklyn, NY
06/12 - The Barbary, Philadelphia, PA
I don't normally hype US acts here, but Black Breath are kiiiiller. Don't snooze on this one!
Aversionline on the US release of Victims' latest record "Killer": http://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2009/02/19/victims-killer-cd/
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Saralunden - Les mains d'un autre
02. TALK 1
03. Agent Side Grinder - The screams
04. Victims - Victims in blood #5
05. The Garlands - Freedom
06. Livaventura - Keep on driving
07. TALK 2
08. Anna Ternheim - Better be
09. NEI - City of gold
10. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Lost & losing
11. TALK 3
12. A Camp - Golden teeth and silver medals
13. Leif Jordansson - Mellan drömmar och bränder
14. Mechanical Bird - Harbour me
15. Samtidigt Som - Vid min sida
16. TALK 4
17. Wolfbrigade - Deny tomorrow
18. Dismember - Beyond good and evil
19. Marvins Revolt - Deliberate deeds
20. Timo Räisänen - Sweet Marie
21. TALK 5
22. Voices Break the Silence - This awful friend
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Swedish d-beat champs Victims will be coming to the UK in May:
05/01 - London
05/02 - Bristol
05/03 - Bradford
05/04 - Nottingham
Victims have enlisted ex-Raging Speedhorn guitarist Gareth Smith and are now back to being a 4-piece. The new lineup already recorded a new song called "On our knees" for a split 7" with US act Kylesa that will be released by the German label La Familia. In other news, keep an eye out for a US East Coast tour in May/June with Another Breath, Trap Them and Black Breath. If that's the same Black Breath as the one up here in Seattle, it's sure to be a killer show. Actually, it'll be killer because it's Victims, but that full lineup is bonus.
Here's the playlist for this week's (all-punk/hardcore) radio show:
01. Darkthrone - Hiking metal punks
02. TALK 1
03. Ebba Grön - Staten & kapitalet
04. Massgrav - Jävla fittor
05. Disfear - Live the storm
06. Samtidigt Som - För jag tror att ingen annan kan känna såhär för dig
07. TALK 2
08. We Live In Trenches - Autonomy clinic
09. MABD - Kom kom
10. Black Sheep - Crazy world
11. C.Aarmé - Ti ca tu a
12. Sods - Television sect
13. TALK 3
14. No Hope for the Kids - Rainy day
15. Frivolvol - Take it from the beginning
16. Hanna Hirsch - Ingen kommer sakna oss
17. Silver - Drenched in comfort
18. TALK 4
19. Randy - Win or lose
20. Victims - Your division
21. Smalltown - Warning
22. Lögnhalsmottagningen - Bodybuilder
23. M:40 - Sista tiden
24. TALK 5
25. Hebosagil - Cosmic
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XM U. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers. Next week's show (December 28/29) will be all jazz.
Deathwish Inc. will be releasing Victims' latest album "Killer" in the US later this year. It originally came out via Combat Rock Industry in January.
Disfear and Victims will hit up Germany together in late October:
10/30 - Archiv, Potsdam
10/31 - Hafenklang, Hamburg
11/01 - AZ, Mulheim
Victims will do a few German dates in late October:
10/30 - Archiv, Potsdam
10/31 - Hafenklang, Hamburg
11/01 - AZ, Mülheim
Check out a trailer for the new "No One Is Illegal" DVD, due out on June 27: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMRjXy195tA
The film captures live footage and interviews from last year's Punk Illegal Fest in Sweden and features bands such as Avskum, Wolfbrigade, Victims, Uncurbed and more. All proceeds from DVD sales go to the No One Is Illegal asylum network for their help with refugee relief.
Victims have added new dates and details to their upcoming North American jaunt: http://www.victimsinblood.com/tour.htm
Somehow I almost forgot to post this week's radio show playlist:
01. Bloodbath - Blasting the virginborn
02. TALK 1
03. Håkan Hellström - Långa vägar
04. Montys Loco - Farewell Mr. Happy
05. Victims - Bomben har fallit
06. TALK 2
07. Death By Kite - Sweet M
08. Ef - Thrills
09. The Bombhappies - Nothing at all
10. TALK 3
11. Motorpsycho - The alchemyst
12. Marybell Katastrophy - Hidden agenda
13. TALK 4
14. In Flames - Moonshield
15. Maskinen - Alla som inte dansar (100dirty remix)
16. The Social Services - Baltic Sea
17. TALK 5
18. Peter Morén - Social competence
19. Lack - Bombing the moon
20. Dmitry Fydorov - Signal
21. TALK 6
22. Looptroop Rockers - The building
23. Six Guns - Think positive
24. Nybakat! - Limu limu lima
25. TALK 7
26. Saft - Sizzling
27. Electric Retard - Greenvalley High
28. Lukestar - The shade you hide
29. Samtidigt Som - Constant in motion
30. TALK 8
31. Bad Cash Quartet - Monday morning
32. Monkeystrikes - I'm sorry, but I'm very dramatic
33. Commando M Pigg - Shoeshine boy
34. Weeping Willows - Touch me
35. TALK 9
36. Pistol Disco - Beat of the tune