Oaken Throne #6 now in stock!

You like black metal. You like to read. You want the new issue of Oaken Throne 'zine.

Issue #6 is finally here! 96 pages. And it comes with a bonus compilation cd. We'll review it on our next list of course, but if you want one now, we've got 'em. $10.98 is your cost.

In this issue and on the cd: Akitsa, Aluk Todolo, Avsky, Dead Raven Choir, Dialing In, Gnaw Their Tongues, Immolation, IXXI, Lugubrum, Necros Christos, Necorvation, Throneum, Vargr.

New Arrivals list #313

Is up... here.

Records Of The Week being these three:
Neko Case "Middle Cyclone" (Anti) cd $16.98
Already blowing up big, the new record from our long time fave alt-country chanteuse.
Serge Gainsbourg "Histoire De Melody Nelson" (Light In The Attic) cd $16.98
The long-awaited domestic reissue of this groovy French psych classic.
Tim Hecker "An Imaginary Country" (Kranky) cd/lp $14.98/$17.98
The wonderful new album from a true droney electronic pop ambient genius.

Some other upcoming shows of note

We just posted about how excited we are that Bohren & Der Club Of Gore are finally coming to play in San Francisco on April 1st. But there's some other shows coming up locally soon too that we should also mention...

Sunday, March 15th @ the Great American Music Hall
Tindersticks
with Kira Lynn Cain

Thursday, March 26th @ the Great American Music Hall
Nurse With Wound
with irr.app.(ext.) / Jim Haynes (of AQ!) / Iridea Abtan

Saturday, March 28th @ Slim's
Pelican
with Wolves In The Throne Room / Tombs

we'll also be doing free ticket giveaways for those, so watch the New Arrivals list for info on that.

and then there's also this show, even sooner:


That's Wildildlife / Gunslingers / White Pee at the Hemlock, Thursday March 12th! For folks going to SXSW, it'll sort of be a teaser for the showcase we're co-sponsoring there with WFMU, as both Wildildlife and Gunslingers are on the bill for our SXSW extravaganza.

This better not be an April Fools joke

We're excited to pass along the news that one of our all time AQ-fave bands, that we've NEVER seen play before, are coming to San Francisco on tour soon!

That'd be Germany's Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore!

First US tour we're pretty sure. They'll be in SF on April 1st, at the Great American Music Hall. Opening will be Void Ov Voices - the solo project of none other than Attila Csihar, from Mayhem, SUNNO))), Tormentor, etc.

We're happy to "co-present" this show with our friends at KFJC. Meaning, we'll have some free tickets to give away, so watch the AQ list for details when the time comes.

Here's our review of Bohren's latest album for Ipecac, "Dolores", to whet yr appetite:

Imagine a blackened, funereal dooooooom band like Skepticism or Nortt morphed into the jazz idiom (after having kissed a frog, or some fairytale scenario like that), playing their slow, sad music in a smoky Berlin jazz club. The sound is jazz (electric piano, organ, vibes, sax, double bass, trap kit...) but the feeling is doom. That's our usual shorthand for describing the unique music made by longtime AQ fave, Germany's Bohren & Der Club Of Gore. Here at last is their eagerly anticipated 5th album, Dolores (not named after the San Francisco street near us, presumably). If you're fans like we are, you know what to expect, it's just as ponderously "heavy" as a "jazz" band can be. No, not loud, not harsh, not noisy. The opposite of all that. Rather, whisper-quiet, glacially slow, and spacious, with sparse snare hits keeping time like a wound-down clock ticking off the eternity between 2 minutes to midnight and the witching hour itself. Doomsday so slowly arrives on a velvety bed of somnolent deep bass notes, and the cool slinky tones of vintage Fender Rhodes. Cymbals shiver in a dark haze of ambient drones near to silence. Several of the songs are infused with the warmth of tenor or baritone sax breathes gorgeous expiring breaths. It's all so sad and woeful and achingly beautiful, Bohren nodding off, their fragile melodies trickling like tears, and by the end you may find you have shed a few too.
This newest Bohren differs mainly from their previous Ipecac outing Geisterfaust by being composed of somewhat shorter, sweeter tracks, ten in all, in about an hour. But it is, again, an-ever-more-perfected example of why Bohren is one of our all time favorite bands, especially at twilight and late at night...

It ain't no skweee...

...but we're still sorta intrigued/amused by "donk".

What the Guardian UK calls "bouncy techno meets terrible rapping".

As in Blackout Crew's "Put A Donk On It", the YouTube video of which has interrupted our work day many times.

So we were interested to find that Vice's vbs.tv has produced a five-part "donk-umentary" you can check out here, if you dare.

Also

Those Doktor Kettu's are now out in the store. Entitled "Soft Delirium", it's the first cd (after a several cd-rs some years ago) from the mysterious Finnish drone-rock outfit, released by Ektro subsidiary Super Metsa. Ektro being the label of our fave Finns, Circle... one or more of whom play in Doktor Kettu! They're $14.98, and should be reviewed on next week's AQ-list #313...

Also, fyi, we just got a restock on one of our fast-selling Records Of The Week last time, Night Control's "Death Control". But they're going quick (we already ordered more, though). And, "Pop Ambient 2009" is back in stock as well.

Nitsch niche

This just in, from Vinyl-On-Demand:

Hermann Nitsch "Die Geburt des Dionysos Christos" 3lp wooden box $155

We have two (2) copies of this limited edition item in stock, & don't expect to get any more. Maybe it'll be reviewed on next week's list... if we still have one.

This is the blurb from VOD about it:

"VOD is very proud and honoured about this release. Excellent minimal and drone recording of Hermann Nitsch performed on the Brucknerorgel linz as well as at the Organ at his private Castle in Prinzendorf at the Zaya, Austria, both in 1986. The original has been released on edition hundertmark in a strictly limition edition (200 copies), absolut famous recording."