Black Dice

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...!

hold hands is my 2nd or 3rd faveourite. its kinda the crucial bridge between the early singles and b+c

haha, it'd be awesome if they had a record called hold hands.

lol yah ooops

new one is weird

http://images.emusic.com/music/images/album/282/116/346/11634606/600x600.jpg

heard the show the other night with wolf eyes/growing was a sweat lodge

lol emusic

I should ask about Growing, I saw them open for someone, maybe Fuck Buttons? It was pretty good.

this new song (Pinball Wizard) is sweet!

http://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/black-dice-pinball-wizard

sweet is not the right word. it definitely is heavy though.

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

Wow, hardcore/jungle breakdowns!

way to make 13/8 boring

i like that its percussive & prefer the first half

Yeah, first half and the transition are cool. Not so into that zany swiggly guitar thing at the end :(

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?

Do Black Dice still exist as a band? It's been a while.

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...

new song. it's good

https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s/black-dice-big-deal-lies-72

ha i quite like this buttrockin thing going on here, all just slightly sour and flat

sounds boiled

"#Tweaker jams"

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

Ha, listening to a promo of the full album now myself. Pretty good!

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.

Deep and comprehensive Oral History of the band:

https://know-wave.com/m_index.html

Already about 20% through, loads of nostalgia triggered.

Awesome. Excited to read this.

Whoa--looking fwd to reading this! The scans of different ephemera look great.

This piece is hilarious!

Also, big snowfall journalism to sell $120 sweatshirts is pretty smart

Of course, Whiney is right re: the advertorial lols of it all--that bunny T-shirt is a great BD graphic, though, IMO

Were they part of the Fort Thunder scene in Providence?

i like their music but they sound like they were lame destructive morons!! fuck off

lame destructive morons

noize borad slander

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.”

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

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"

I mean I’ve read similar stuff from many a punk band, it doesn’t seem so unusual for rock ‘n roll.

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.

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

BD >>>>> any of the wackass emo hardcore bands they opened for. Thank god for the Copelands

Only got to see them live in the later mutant dance days. They were fucking great.

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

pfftt

the early ‘00s still had some crossover from that time

seeing a show with both the locust and the rapture was an interesting bill

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

i laughed at the thank you to M1ke S1monett1, who was notorious for not paying bands on his label back in the day

xp exactly

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