http://www.solidmelts.com/

Upcoming Katrina Stonehart performance in...

Mon, 27 May 2013 20:58:46 -0500

Upcoming Katrina Stonehart performance in Brooklyn

::: SHE WAS FREAKS 02 : Five Guitars :::

black fields of snow, skin that dissolves as quietly as snow. steel and blue lights on the face. blue autumn leaves, bags of photographs. the skin escapes you. second life. you feel an anticipation to move, to get somewhere else, to see something other, but you feel the pull of a room, active blue, of regret, and witness the comfort of excepting a current place as the only, the current person as the only thing left. iron castes above a bed. pale opium in a pile on a wooden table. a bedroom floor covered in full glasses of water, undisturbed.

Photography by:

JOSIE KEEFE

Perfomances by:

SILENT ISLE
KATRINA STONEHART (mems BBDDM)
ISN’T OURS
BLOOD REVENGE
SWEAT STICK (mems Tom Blacklungs)

May 31
Doors at 8
$5

Big Snow Buffalo Lodge
89 Varet Street, Brooklyn

Flyer by Alex Citrin

You are cordially invited to a special performance by Telecult...

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:51:42 -0500

You are cordially invited to a special performance by Telecult Powers on May 25, 2013.

Come over at noon; sounds will start around 1, and will wrap up early enough in the day for you to take your newly dog-haired self a few blocks over to Ende Tymes at Silent Barn.

Ginger Mint Juleps, Bloody JABs, beer, fruit and veggie skewers, and Legendary Grilled Shrimp will be served in our garden.

Tarot Readings offered by Kyle Eyre Clyde

$6

1358 Dekalb, Buzzer 1
(between Myrtle and Wilson)
Brooklyn, NY 11221

http://www.facebook.com/events/159850477519502/

bbddm: New record Think Tone I Don’t Know out July 9th via Fire...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:45:52 -0500

bbddm:

New record Think Tone I Don’t Know out July 9th via Fire Talk Records. Pre Order and stream the single “Saturday” below

http://firetalk.tumblr.com/post/49928777393/new-release-baby-birds-dont-drink-milk-think-tone

Coming Soon : Decursing Ritual I

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:16:17 -0600

Coming Soon : Decursing Ritual I

FIRE TALK + SOLID MELTS PRESENTSSATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND@ 252...

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:30:54 -0600

FIRE TALK + SOLID MELTS PRESENTS

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND
@ 252 NORMAN
9PM
$7

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Woodsman
http://woodsmanman.tumblr.com/

BBDDM
http://bbddm.tumblr.com/

Tonstartssbandht
http://tonstartssbandht.bandcamp.com/

Hex Breaker
https://soundcloud.com/hexbreaker

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www.firetalkrecs.com
www.solidmelts.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/129715737194378/

suavecitation: Lots of you don’t really know much about me...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:35:49 -0600

suavecitation:

Lots of you don’t really know much about me besides the fact that I write for this blog and work with music and art a little bit. So I thought I might use this review of the new Clearing tape “Let Go” (Solid Melts) as a place for a more in depth introduction to me and how this tape feels a little synonymous with where I live.

Lets get started, my name is Christian Filardo and I live in Tempe, Arizona in a house right next to a frat house. I go to art school at the world-renowned business school Arizona State University. I occasionally make art and play shows but often I stay inside my house and work on “me” stuff. My house backs up to a posh student living community with security cameras, a pool, gated bike racks, the works. Tempe is a surreal college town that isn’t really awesome when the students are in town and isn’t really awesome when the students are out of town. It just sort of “is”.

Akin to a lot of the Southwest, Tempe has a lot of strip malls, different burrito places ending in bertos, and too many motor vehicles per family. However, it’s not as bad as it sounds on paper. It’s sort of dream world, gridded out by highways and bogged down by political mistakes. Tempe is a place where you can essentially do anything you want and no one will bother you. I have been living in this house for three years and only this morning did I meet one of my neighbors because her dog escaped on New Years Eve. What I am getting at here is the fact that in this weird urban suburban hybrid concrete mess there are things happening. Which brings me back to this Clearing release. Clearing is straight up ambient music by Joseph Volmer, at least that is what it appears to be.

With music like this it is important as a listener to be open to the music taking you where it wants to take you. While “Let Go” may appear as the buy one get one free avant garde music special at the experimental wholesaler it is more than that. It is an ephemeral spirit soaker, an ambient baptism, a cleansing for your ears. In fact I would say this is the perfect album to get someone into experimental music. It’s much like Tempe in the sense that it is constantly covered in a haze that seems to slow everything. It seems one way but is actually another, a mirage of your past or a projection of your future, constantly moldable, constantly free but in the most oppressive way. What feels like forever disappears in a blink. Volmer is able to express how I feel a lot of the time in “Let Go”, and that is what makes it more than just synth pads, jangly ebow drifts, and distant delays. Let Go is a quiet influential ever changing concrete mess. That is perfect for drifting into the new year.

-CFIL

SOLID MELTS + TEEN RIVER PRESENTS ☼ Mind Dynamics (Brooklyn, NY...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 10:41:59 -0600

SOLID MELTS + TEEN RIVER PRESENTS

☼ Mind Dynamics (Brooklyn, NY - Solid Melts)

☼ Josh Millrod (Brooklyn, NY - Grasshopper/Hex Breaker)

☼ Julie Byrne (Chicago, IL - Orindal Records/Solid Melts/Teen River)

☼ Daniel Wyche (Chicago, IL - Teen River)

☼ Michael Meegan (Chicago, IL - Teen River recording artist)

☼ CS LUXEM (Kansas - Teen River)

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$5 // 9pm // Friday Dec 28

@ Dekalb Vision

1358 Dekalb Ave 1R || Brooklyn NY

http://solidmelts.com/
http://teenriver.tumblr.com/

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♥

SOLID MELTS PRESENTS ☼ Daniel Bachman ☼ Mister Matthews...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 13:03:00 -0600

SOLID MELTS PRESENTS

☼ Daniel Bachman

☼ Mister Matthews (Telecult Powers)

☼ Seabat

☼ Austin Vaughn

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☽ Treats by Mary Katherine

$5 // 9pm // Tues Dec 18

@ Dekalb Vision

1358 Dekalb Ave 1R || Brooklyn NY

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DANIEL BACHMAN
Daniel Bachman is a 22-year-old musician born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been playing what he describes as “psychedelic appalachia” since he was a teenager, releasing small run editions of tapes, CDs and LPs for the past three years, with a sound that evolved from drones and banjos to a now guitar centered focus. Touring off and on since the age of 17, Bachman has managed to cover thorough ground across the US, sharing stages with like minded folk such as fellow Fredericksburg native Jack Rose, for whom he fashioned the artwork for the posthumous release of ‘Luck In The Valley’. His newest effort is the full length LP ‘Seven Pines’, sprung from a year living and working in the city of Philadelphia. The sound results in a combination of homesick worried blues and the ecstatic buzz of fresh experience and a new life in unknown territory. Familiar and known, but also seeking to access memories from lives past, dead and gone.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14401-seven-pines/

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SEABAT

Seabat is the project of multimedia artist John Also Bennett often in collaboration with musician and film composer Forest Christenson. Seabat explores synthesized sounds and ambient textures aimed to create immersive, cinematic surrealist sound environments. They draw from a range of influences spanning the history of electronic music, from German kosmische, synthesist and film composer Vangelis, Micro-House, contemporary American noise and the avant garde. Seabat has recorded four full length albums, performed nationwide, and recently released a full length LP and DVD of 5.1 surround sound compositions.

www.seabat.bandcamp.com
http://weedtemple.tumblr.com/post/31089588876/review-seabat-crescent-parc

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AUSTIN VAUGHN

Austin Vaughn is a musician who plays the drums and has a day job. In solo situations he makes acoustic music for drumset that celebrates the phenomena of vibration.

https://vimeo.com/46291391
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBvGLGrBZU

♥

Ninguém É Como Tu - Reworks “When I did “Ninguém É...

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:12:43 -0600

Ninguém É Como Tu - Reworks

“When I did “Ninguém É Como Tu” (tape, Solid Melts, 2012) I got an idea: to propose some of the most talented Portuguese musicians (they’re also my friends, which is awesome) to remix its tracks. The results are here and I’m very happy and surprised by the greatness of what they did.” Branches

Streaming/download: http://branchesbranches.bandcamp.com/album/ningu-m-como-tu-reworks

1. Canção para o Luís (Robert Foster rework)
2. Para-peito (The Astroboy rework)
3. Barco para Zamami (Cangarra rework)
4. Na Descontra (Ondness rework)
5. Ninguém É Como Tu (PCF Moya rework)

Clearing - Trust (Let Go, Solid Melts 2012)

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:24:39 -0600

Clearing - Trust (Let Go, Solid Melts 2012)

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO” Music By - Joesph Volmer ...

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:43:00 -0600

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO”
Music By - Joesph Volmer
Photo and Design by - Jan van der Kleijn

Edition of 150

Pre-Order now Available / Ships Nov 27
$7.00 ppd US / $8.00 ppd CAN/MEX / $10.00 ppd World

www.solidmelts.com

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO”Music By - Joesph VolmerPhoto and...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:06:12 -0600

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO”
Music By - Joesph Volmer
Photo and Design by - Jan van der Kleijn

Edition of 150

Pre-Order now Available / Ships Nov 27th

$7.00 ppd US / $8.00 ppd CAN/MEX / $10.00 ppd World

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO” Music By - Joesph Volmer...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:05:00 -0600

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO”
Music By - Joesph Volmer
Photo and Design by - Jan van der Kleijn

Edition of 150

Pre-Order now Available / Ships Nov 27th

$7.00 ppd US / $8.00 ppd CAN/MEX / $10.00 ppd World

Now Available for Pre-Order SM 025: Clearing “Let...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:16:12 -0600

Now Available for Pre-Order

SM 025: Clearing “Let Go”

Music By - Joesph Volmer
Photo and Design by - Jan van der Kleijn

Pro-Dubbed | Edition of 150

Ships Nov 27th

$7.00 ppd US / $8.00 ppd CAN/MEX / $10.00 ppd World

‎2nd wave of Branches cassettes arrived to Portugal! for those...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:04:51 -0500

‎2nd wave of Branches cassettes arrived to Portugal!

for those in the rest of the world,we still have a few copies available for mail order!

SM 017 : Branches “Ninguém É Como Tu”

Cassette by Portugal’s Pedro Rios aka Branches
Pro-Dubbed + Pro-Imprinted | Full Color art by Ricardo Martins | Edition of 150

$6.00 ppd US / $7.00 ppd CAN / $9.00 ppd World

or Purchase Digital Version

Branches “Canção para o Luís” from SOLID MELTS on Vimeo.

Katrina Stonehart is packing 3 suitcases of twizzlers and...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:51:45 -0500

Katrina Stonehart is packing 3 suitcases of twizzlers and leaving for tour. Couldn’t be more stoked, just enabled 200 free downloads of SM 022: Katrina Stonehart + Potions Stoney Islands. Tour dates below.

&amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://solidmeltsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/katrina-stonehart-potions” data-mce-href=”http://solidmeltsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/katrina-stonehart-potions”&amp;amp;gt;Katrina Stonehart + Potions by Solid Melts&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt;

All dates w/ CS LUXEM, any additonal information or booking help can be gathered by writting katrinastonehart(at)gmail(dot)com

Fri Sept 7 —- Chicago, IL @ ANIMAL KINGDOM

w/ Quick Sails + Famous Laughs

Sat Sept 8 —- Eau Claire, WI - TBA

Sun Sept 9 —- Minneapolis @ METRO DOME II

w/ Vacation Dad + In Boil

Tue Sept 11 —- Iowa City, IA @ PIZZA ON DUBUQUE

Wed Sept 12 —- Omaha, NE @ MIDDLE HOUSE

Thurs Sept 13 —- Kansas City, KS @ KAW Collective

Fri Sept 14 —- Lawrence, KS @ STUDIO B

w/ Agent X12

Sat Sept 15 —- Paxico, KS @ WOODMAN HALL (BLUSE FEST AFTER FEST)

Sun Sept 16 —- Columbus, MO @ THE DOME

Mon Sept 17 —- St. Louis, MO @ TBA

Tues Sept 18 —- Indianapolis, IN @ TBA

Wed Sept 19 —- Columbus, OH @ TBA

w/ Pet Rock

Sat Sept 22 —- Brooklyn, NY @ DEKALB VISIONS

w/ Vehicle Blues

http://www.csluxem.info/

http://www.katrinastonehart.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/events/261781263939163/

Brand new comp featuring C V L T S, BBDDM, and many other...

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:39:00 -0500

Brand new comp featuring C V L T S, BBDDM, and many other friends of Solid Melts now available from Lillerne Tapes

http://www.lillernetapes.com/ll32.html

new Sandhogs tape in the making // out soon on Solid Melts

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:00:58 -0500

new Sandhogs tape in the making // out soon on Solid Melts

Recently discovered a copy Yoda’s House long out of print...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:37:38 -0500

Recently discovered a copy Yoda’s House long out of print cassette THEN EATS THEM /// $8.00 + shipping - message solidmelts@gmail.com if interested ♥

BRANCHES “Canção para o Luís” on Tiny Mix...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 15:56:31 -0500

BRANCHES “Canção para o Luís” on Tiny Mix Tapes

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-branches-can-o-para-o-lu-s

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I knew a guy in my college town in Iowa who worked the overnight shift at the convenience store by my house. I used to drink free fountain soda and talk to him about all the weird stuff he collected. Of all the random things, his collection of old commercials was by far the most fascinating. (Apparently, there exists a whole network of people, single-handedly keeping blank VHS sales alive by cataloging, dubbing, and trading old commercials.) I never saw his collection because he was always a little reluctant to even talk to me about it, as if I were some stranger asking to flip through his family’s old photo albums. And in a way, he was right. Those shelves of hand-labeled VHS tapes represented this guy’s entire childhood — decades of old TV filler he had never managed to let go — and I came along fascinated in my nostalgia haze, as nearly forgotten memories of old fast food commercials playing between episodes of daytime TV dramas came flooding back to me.

Somewhere between our two perspectives of the past lies this video for Branches’ “Canção para o Luís.” Watch the video, go scour garage sales for old VHS tapes, and then buy the whole cassette, Ninguém É Como Tu, from Solid Melts.

• Branches: http://branchesbranches.bandcamp.com

• Solid Melts: http://solidmelts.com

http://www.solidmelts.com/

Upcoming Katrina Stonehart performance in...

You are cordially invited to a special performance by Telecult...

bbddm: New record Think Tone I Don’t Know out July 9th via Fire...

Coming Soon : Decursing Ritual I

FIRE TALK + SOLID MELTS PRESENTSSATURDAY FEBRUARY 2ND@ 252...

suavecitation: Lots of you don’t really know much about me...

SOLID MELTS + TEEN RIVER PRESENTS ☼ Mind Dynamics (Brooklyn, NY...

SOLID MELTS PRESENTS ☼ Daniel Bachman ☼ Mister Matthews...

Ninguém É Como Tu - Reworks “When I did “Ninguém É...

Clearing - Trust (Let Go, Solid Melts 2012)

Clearing - Trust (Let Go, Solid Melts 2012)

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO” Music By - Joesph Volmer ...

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO”Music By - Joesph VolmerPhoto and...

SM 025: CLEARING “LET GO” Music By - Joesph Volmer...

Now Available for Pre-Order SM 025: Clearing “Let...

‎2nd wave of Branches cassettes arrived to Portugal! for those...

Katrina Stonehart is packing 3 suitcases of twizzlers and...

Brand new comp featuring C V L T S, BBDDM, and many other...

new Sandhogs tape in the making // out soon on Solid Melts

Recently discovered a copy Yoda’s House long out of print...

BRANCHES “Canção para o Luís” on Tiny Mix...

BRANCHES “Canção para o Luís” on Tiny Mix Tapeshttp://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-branches-can-o-para-o-lu-s

BRANCHES “Canção para o Luís” on Tiny Mix Tapes

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/watch-branches-can-o-para-o-lu-s