puschen & little league shows prsnt:
MICHAEL BEACH / exp psych garage pop/folk, melbourne, australia
michaelbeach.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/michaelbeach___
+ DEAD FINKS / post-punk, bln/nz
deadfinkera.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/deadfinks
at Schokoladen. doors 19 Uhr, concert starts 20 Uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale -->
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After a year of downtime and writing, Michael Beach emerged in late 2024 with 'The Sea,' the first release from his upcoming LP on Goner/Poison City Records, and first of his recent collaborations mixing pulsing minimalism with post-punk/DIY approaches with Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Joe Talia (Oren Ambarchi, Ned Collette). A new 7" via Minneapolis label 25 Diamonds coincided with his recent US tour with Tropical Fuck Storm.
Known for his previous collaborations with members of Dirty Three, Tropical Fuck Storm, Comets On Fire, and brilliantly eccentric guitarist Charlie Megira, Beach is the architect of a sound that is both well-built and ramshackle, straightforward and indeterminably complex, out of the norm yet familiar in all the best ways.
Beach’s 2022 EP (Goner) saw him mix blown out rock and roll with his unique style of balladry, including collaborations with Lloyd Swanton on legendary Australian minimalists The Necks. His 2021 fourth full-length, Dream Violence (Goner) is an epic album that explores the duality of the human condition. Or, as Beach himself puts it, the album is about “human futility, passion, desire, anger, frustration, and the struggle to maintain hope in a somewhat hopeless time.”
Dream Violence unfolds like a revelation, filled with sonic tumbleweeds that reference Neil Young’s On the Beach, Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, the Velvet Underground’s Loaded, and the Go Betweens’ Before Hollywood. Influences ranging from the enigmatic outlier Megira to Glenn Branca to the Oblivians are combined to create a new, exhilarating sound, part of the path that Beach has been on since 2008’s Blood Courses. A veteran of year-end indie rock round ups beginning with Golden Theft in 2013 and continuing with Gravity/Repulsion, released in 2017, Beach distills the best of those early albums and adds sharpened intent.
At the Memphis-based Goner label, Beach joins an increasingly unique roster of international musicians that reaches far beyond garage or indie rock to encompass artists like gospel singer Rev. John Wilkins, Kentucky rockers Archaeas, New Orleans iconoclasts Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and no-wavers Optic Sink.
4 Stars – ‘existential dread exorcised through heady guitar rockers’ – NME
‘Beach is a great Melbourne guitarist…reminds me of early Kurt Vile, with it’s mix of aggression and looseness’ – Byron Coley, Wire Magazine
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DEAD FINKS is New Zealand-born duo Erin Violet and Joseph Thomas playing post-punk music in the tradition of Wire, Sonic Youth and Parquet Courts. Their current incarnation is a 4 piece band based in Berlin.
The band started gaining traction in 2021 when the video for their single “(My Human) Extinction” was premiered on the taste-making Harakiri Diät channel, becoming a modest hit in underground punk circles. They gained further attention after being hand-picked by Detroit post-punk stalwarts Protomartyr to support several dates of their 2022 EU tour, and went on to support Dry Cleaning on the entire European leg of their 2023 world tour.
Their most recent album is 2024’s “Eve of Ascension”, a “prelapsarian nine-track survey of suffering shot through with anxious belligerence, in which paranoid chants ring out with sputtering non-defeat and woozy caterwauling harmonies go toe-to-toe against insistently sclerotic drumming”. It is available now through Urge Records.
You may also like the following events from Little League-Shows:
- Next month, 8th July, 07:00 pm, BSÍ (lofi diy indie, reykjavík) & 13 YEAR CICADA (exp post punk, berlin) in Berlin
- Next month, 25th July, 07:00 pm, MINOR CITIZEN (alternative rock/grunge-pop, nl) + TOUGH MOTHER (alternative-grunge, bln) in Berlin
- This August, 20th August, 07:00 pm, ROLANDO BRUNO Y EL GRUPO AREVALO (cumbia trash, arg) & BERNAR GOMMA (psych, bln/bra) in Berlin
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