Just finally picked up the Cold Hands EP the other day. Have yet to listen, but I've not been able to find that one until now. I think this may complete my Black Dice 2" or so of shelf space...!
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
hold hands is my 2nd or 3rd faveourite. its kinda the crucial bridge between the early singles and b+c
― plax (ico), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, it'd be awesome if they had a record called hold hands.
― mizzell, Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
lol yah ooops
― plax (ico), Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
new one is weird
http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/282/116/346/11634606/600x600.jpg
― i never promised you a (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
heard the show the other night with wolf eyes/growing was a sweat lodge
― kamerad, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
lol emusic
I should ask about Growing, I saw them open for someone, maybe Fuck Buttons? It was pretty good.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this new song (Pinball Wizard) is sweet!
― flopson, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/black-dice-pinball-wizard
― flopson, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
sweet is not the right word. it definitely is heavy though.
― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 5 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
i am undecided, sort of feels like they're treading water even tho ~percussive~ is a good black dice mode. the latter half is great tho
― ogmor, Monday, 5 March 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, hardcore/jungle breakdowns!
― MikoMcha, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
way to make 13/8 boring
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
i like that its percussive & prefer the first half
― flopson, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, first half and the transition are cool. Not so into that zany swiggly guitar thing at the end :(
― MikoMcha, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Does Eric Copeland have a new record coming out on DFA this year? There's a new song called "Cannibal World" on this DFA sampler I got with the new Guerilla Toss LP. Totally missed out on the Jesus Freak record that came out in December, was that Europe only?
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Do Black Dice still exist as a band? It's been a while.
― Position Position, Monday, 7 March 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
Good question. Bjorn lives in LA and Eric still lives in New York. I'm sure they'll put out another record eventually, but from the looks of their website, they've been busy with solo stuff...
― flappy bird, Monday, 7 March 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
new song. it's good
https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s/black-dice-big-deal-lies-72
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
ha i quite like this buttrockin thing going on here, all just slightly sour and flat
― linee, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 07:22 (eight years ago) link
sounds boiled
― oculus lump (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 12:49 (eight years ago) link
"#Tweaker jams"
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Bummed we never got more than the 12" last year. I gotta find that, it was really good...
meanwhile Goofballs, Eric Copeland's fourth album in a year, comes out in September. First single is nice: https://ericcopeland.bandcamp.com
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 July 2017 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Ha, listening to a promo of the full album now myself. Pretty good!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 July 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
I really liked the pop rock of Black Bubblegum, he wrote (and apparently played solo once at Palisades in BK) all those songs on an acoustic guitar. this new one seems more in line with his most recent two: dance, techno, more of a focus on bass.
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 July 2017 03:10 (seven years ago) link
Deep and comprehensive Oral History of the band:
https://know-wave.com/m_index.html
Already about 20% through, loads of nostalgia triggered.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 28 March 2019 23:10 (five years ago) link
Awesome. Excited to read this.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 28 March 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
Whoa--looking fwd to reading this! The scans of different ephemera look great.
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
This piece is hilarious!
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:27 (five years ago) link
Also, big snowfall journalism to sell $120 sweatshirts is pretty smart
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
Of course, Whiney is right re: the advertorial lols of it all--that bunny T-shirt is a great BD graphic, though, IMO
― Rad Macca (Craig D.), Friday, 29 March 2019 00:58 (five years ago) link
Were they part of the Fort Thunder scene in Providence?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2019 01:41 (five years ago) link
i like their music but they sound like they were lame destructive morons!! fuck off
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:19 (five years ago) link
lame destructive morons
noize borad slander
― mh, Friday, 29 March 2019 02:29 (five years ago) link
I love this quote:“I knew about music but I had no idea how to do it. I didn’t realize the rate that someone was counting off was going to set the tempo for the fucking song. I thought you started at the same time, and played at the same speed, and then ended at the same time, and that was playing together. It didn’t occur to me that you could play in time to a beat, actually timing a note or a chord so that it lined up with a specific drum.”
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 March 2019 03:08 (five years ago) link
And also“And then at the end of the show, everyone who had offered us a place to stay withdrew those offers and the promoter came up to me and was like, ‘it would be a better idea, and make everyone happy, if you just left town tonight.’”
xp: not gonna lie, there's a little part of me that hates that a guy who ever thought something that dumb still gets to be a musician, and even successful at it, just like people who actually have some basic clue about music, and there's also a little part of me that loves that about music
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 March 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
It's a little like hearing a quarterback saying "When I first got to Alabama, I didn't even realize that those little x's and o's meant something, that you could actually draw a picture in advance that would tell the players where to go"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 29 March 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
I mean I’ve read similar stuff from many a punk band, it doesn’t seem so unusual for rock ‘n roll.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
I wanna know what embarrassing indie rock shirt Bjorn was wearing lol. There's some speculation between a few private weird twitter accts who are cozy with the band but I'm not sure their speculation was considered indie at the time.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 29 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
they're a noise group, lots of noise people don't know "basic music stuff" or whatever, I still think they should "get to make music" because noise rules
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 March 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
BD >>>>> any of the wackass emo hardcore bands they opened for. Thank god for the Copelands
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 March 2019 04:08 (five years ago) link
Only got to see them live in the later mutant dance days. They were fucking great.
― circa1916, Saturday, 30 March 2019 04:53 (five years ago) link
I suppose mic-smashing and affected bad attitudes and screeching post-hc noise was novel to nyc hipsters who'd somehow never heard the thousands of screamo bands all over the United States that preceded Black Dice. I will admit that repackaging Gravity Records chaos-core / power violence for the wealthy and fashionable was a stroke of genius, though
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
pfftt
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:47 (five years ago) link
the early ‘00s still had some crossover from that time
seeing a show with both the locust and the rapture was an interesting bill
― mh, Saturday, 30 March 2019 15:37 (five years ago) link
lots of noise people don't know "basic music stuff" or whatever
very true. it's one of the things that make it a kinda folk/populist genre and allows for diversity, as opposed to other "rock"-related genres that have certain educational requirements that serve as barriers to entry
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
i laughed at the thank you to M1ke S1monett1, who was notorious for not paying bands on his label back in the day
― sarahell, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
xp exactly
― brimstead, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
he's quoted in the piece too, talking about how he never thought about or was concerned with whether or not a release would make money
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link