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SWANS To Headline Roadburn Festival 2011

Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Roadburn is very proud to report that New York’s legendary and recently resurrected SWANS have been confirmed as the headliner at Roadburn Festival 2011.

Featuring band members Michael Gira (original SWANS), Norman Westberg (original SWANS), Christoph Hahn (mid-period SWANS and most Angels of Light ), Phil Puleo (final SWANS tour and most of Angels of Light), Chris Pravdica (Flux Information Sciences / Services/ Gunga Din) and Thor Harris (Angels of Light, currently Shearwater), SWANS will headline Roadburn on Saturday, 16 April 2011.

Emerging from the New York underground in the early 80s, SWANS made their mark with a series of highly influential dark, abrasive, brutal and growling noise albums that served as an outlet for their unsettling ruminations on alienation, depression and the depravity of man.

After 15 years of touring and constant productivity SWANS disbanded in 1997. The band’s recent revival finds Michael Gira seamlessly shifting from Angels Of Light mode to the more heavier and noisier origins of SWANS, as showcased on the band’s forthcoming album, My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky, which basically starts where Soundtracks For The Blind/Swans Are Dead left off.

According to Stereogum.com: “The purists may want to crucify me, but Swans’ first studio album since Soundtracks is also one of SWANS’ best, most relentlessly dark and beautiful albums to date. Gira remains angry/venomous, but he’s introduced a kind of time-won wisdom (and guest spot via his three-year-old daughter) you wouldn’t find in the nihilistic ’80s” -Brandon / Stereogum.

Roadburn Festival regards SWANS as the single biggest influence on the burgeoning doom / sludge / drone scene aside from the obvious likes of Black Sabbath. SWANS‘ canon of work can be heard and felt throughout the entire festival and in most of the bands invited to perform. It is a massive understatement to say that we are looking forward to the formidable and brutal sonic waves and the extreme volume levels that SWANS will bring to the festival. We are still pinching ourselves that the fever dream of this highly anticipated resurrection has become a reality.

(First, SWANS will head to Vera, Groningen to perform their gorgeous sonic poetry and crushing brutality on 23 November 2010. SWANS will also be playing Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht, Holland on November 24th).

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Sunn O))) To Curate Roadburn Festival 2011

Posted on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Roadburn festival is thrilled to unveil the curator for the 2011 edition of Roadburn: Sunn O))). The band, to be specific Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley, has agreed to curate our festival on Friday, April 15th, 2011 and host a special event. As curator, Sunn O))) will personally select the bands that will play during their special event as well as perform a headline show. Sunn O))) will be Roadburn’s fourth curator, following David Tibet in 2008, Neurosis in 2009 and Triptykon’s Tom Gabriel Warrior at this year’s festival. Right now, Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley are gearing up for ...read more

Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line: Russian Circles, Monkey3, Darkspace, Orange Sunshine And More!

Posted on Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted additional on-demand audio streams for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. Online now! Performances by Russian Circles, Monkey3, Darkspace, Orange Sunshine, Dive, Noneuclid and more are currently available on-demand. Enjoy! In other related news, also on line! Performances by Church of Misery ( Main Stage, Friday, April 16th), Church of Misery (Roadburn Afterburner), Ancestors, Altar of Plagues, Monarch!, Karma To Burn (Friday, April 16th, Midi Theatre), Mouth of The Architect, Suma, Troubled Horse and Witchfynde.

Roadburn 2011: What’s Going On?

Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010

With the volcano a hazy memory and the post-Roadburn 2010 sleep deprivation dealt with, it’s time to start thinking about Roadburn 2011 (set for April 14 – 17 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre, Tilburg, The Netherlands). Not just thinking, but doing! So what’s going on? Right now we are talking to our two chosen curators who will be hosting a special event on Friday, April 15th, 2011 at the festival’s 013 venue. Roadburn will be in charge of the shows scheduled in the Midi Theatre. We are overjoyed that both curators were interested in working with us. They ...read more

Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line: Church of Misery, Ancestors, Altar of Plagues, Suma, Mouth of the Architect and more!

Posted on Friday, July 16th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted more additional on-demand audio streams for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. Online now! Performances by Church of Misery ( Main Stage, Friday, April 16th), Church of Misery (Roadburn Afterburner), Ancestors, Altar of Plagues, Monarch!, Karma To Burn (Friday, April 16th, Midi Theatre), Mouth of The Architect, Suma, Troubled Horse, Witchfynde and more are currently available on-demand. Enjoy! In other related news: Also On line! Performances by Sons of Otis (performing Templeball), Night Horse, Fatso Jetson and Oceana Company .

Roadburn 2010 audio streams now on line: performances by Sons of Otis (performing Templeball), Night Horse, Fatso Jetson and more!

Posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted more additional on-demand audio streams for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. Online now! Performances by Sons of Otis (performing Templeball), Night Horse, Fatso Jetson, Oceana Company and more are currently available on-demand. Enjoy! Formed in Toronto as Otis in 1992, Sons of Otis has followed Detroit-born guitarist Ken Baluke’s original vision to play thick sludge riffs underpinned by a pounding rhythm section and heavily reverbed vocals. The result is slow, spacey, hypnotic blues rock, seemingly too heavy to be real. ...read more

Neurosis Live at Roadburn 2007 Audio Stream

Posted on Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

For those who want to relive Neurosis live at Roadburn 2007 –we have put up the VPRO 3voor12 on-demand audio stream for your listening pleasure! “Emotion plus volume. This music comes from the stomach. Listen to the washes at the back of “Water is Not Enough.” Listen to the grimacing cries of “At the End of the Road,” the mortal desolation of “A Season in the Sky.” You’ll hear it or you’re a fool. Imagine what it must have been like to have Neurosis step out on that stage. The 013 Popcentrum, Tilburg. Roadburn. An event unlike anything else the ...read more

Ahkmed: Roadburn 2010 audio stream on line!

Posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted the additional on-demand audio stream of AHKMED, along with CAPITAL SENTIMENTAL for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. Ahkmed, have taken Kyuss-infused space jams as a jumping  off point and melded them with the sonic experiments of Pink Floyd and Hawkwind to create a unique antipodean stoner / post rock hybrid. Careful listening will also reveal a hint of Loop and Mogwai in their musical universe as they specialize in juxtaposing heavy riffs with  mellow soundscapes and layered effects, all stretched ...read more

Eyehategod: Roadburn 2010 audio stream now on line!

Posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted the additional on-demand audio stream of EYEHATEGOD for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. With its hateful, hopeless, anguished vocals set against extra-slow Iommi-inspired riffing, EYEHATEGOD are credited with founding sludge-core, one of the most vital new genres of metal to emerge from the 1990′s. Countless bands have followed their footsteps, and after almost 20 years of creating some of the most corrosive, vile music known to man, EYEHATEGOD still hasn’t lost the piss and vinegar, propaganda, and despair that fueled them ...read more

Comus: Roadburn 2010 audio stream now on line!

Posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

We are pleased to announce that VPRO 3voor12, which is the leading cultural media network in the Netherlands, has posted the additional on-demand audio stream of COMUS for your Roadburn 2010 listening pleasure. The inspiration for Opeth and countless others in the contemporary dark psychedelica, drone and even avant-garde metal scenes, Comus  presented their seminal album First Utterance (released in 1971) in its entirety with the original six-piece line up. In other related news:  Online now! Performances by Eyehategod,  Jex Thoth (Saturday, April 17th), Jex Thoth (Roadburn Afterburner), Astra, Sons of Otis (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle Twin (Thursday, April 15th), Eagle ...read more

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