dingus khan

over the past month or so there has been sporadic communication between tye die towers and a band of undoubted taste, dingus khan. in what has been the internet equivalent of those awkward conversations where nobody talks for ages and then, when you manage to summon up the courage to talk, you both fumble for words at exactly the same time, we’ve come to the conclusion that we’re putting out a tape by them. at some point anyway. 

i’d love to regale you with humourous anecdotes about the khan’s adventures and personality quirks but the truth is that i don’t know anything about them. i do know that their music ranges from storming, dissonant marches through 90s indie-rock to sebadoh-esque acoustic simplicity, by way of quoting terrence and phillip with a lot of huge riffs thrown in!

they’re unlikely to be playing anywhere near you at any point in the future (distant or otherwise) so watch the brilliant video to “how do you like me now?” on their fantastically chaotic myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/wilburalanltd

http://soundcloud.com/mick_squalor/sets/smallest-room-in-regent-st-recordings-06-10-10

ethiopians

ethiopians have simply the best name. and judging by the photo the best shirts too. what started out as one of those one-man-band things we hear about, the addition of a drummer has made them a two-sie (i sense i a tye die theme.). marty brass (the chap standing up) was one of our first releases, and are we proud! he sold out an e.p. and a split with bhurgeist.

his latest offerings are a more mature progression from his previous work. the stand out being, 'just relax' which is a snarling tune that at first brings to mind ty segal, but not in the way of a shameless rip off but by way of a homage, add to this a tinge of the fall and you see how they have managed to make their mark in an over saturated genre and still retain their individuality.

http://www.myspace.com/iamethiopians

sealings

at tye die tapes h.q. we have a car, this car is quite possibly the best car in existence. it's a car that you could imagine fidel castro driving around post revolutionary cuba in. it's red, it's long and it pulls to the left, yet the car isn't the focus of this post. what is the focus is the band whose tape that has been lodged in the tape deck for the past few months. now this isn't a shameless plug of them in order to sell a few tapes. we don't need to do that. they flew off of our proverbial shelves.

sealings are a two-sie and a drum machine, which you could take as an excuse to forgive them for any short comings. but there aren't any. if you were one of the lucky devils who snapped up the tape you'll have heard 'panadol' and 'bowling alley' and you'll agree they are instant driving classics. fuck 'cream' put this on, it makes any driving experience instantly bad-ass. well at least for the 11 minutes it runs for.

everything is pushed into the red. its loud. it's angry. it's tight. it makes me think of how 'tad' would sound if they cut out all the bullshit and were just heavy.

in fact if you're so inclined you can go here and download the tape, courtesy of that's punk put it on your ipod or mp3 device burn it onto a cd, dub it to a tape. put it in your car and drive!


n.b. tye die tapes accepts no responsibility for driving fines incurred.

http://www.myspace.com/sealings

que será será

we have a strange affinity with ohio, cleveland to be exact. one of our first releases came from ethiopians , the work of marty brass. through marty we got put on to kristen ward, the brains behind que será será. i’d come across kristen before in the great band 'shiny penny', their favourite track of mine being 'lez luv'. however they did what all good bands do and split up, and i was bummed out.

but every cloud has a silver lining, or whatever the saying is.

we heard about her new incarnation, and it blew us away. i went weeks, maybe longer calling the track off of her myspace 'fear of performance'. adam only corrected me this morning, but that doesn't matter. what matters is how perfect this track is (and the others we've heard). it's been in my head since day one, and it has the strangest effect on me. it makes me wish i was a girl, not for all the reasons you'd expect (you know, the usual boob fondling and staring at myself naked in the mirror), but so i could be in a riot grrrl band, or do this kind of music with so much conviction.

calling que será será “riot grrrl” would be an easy way out, but it’s more than that. it’s pop music about all the usual stuff; love, bitterness and all the kind of stuff that moves you to write a song. they/she constantly tip their hat to the likes of sebadoh, polvo and the breeders. they pull off that whole late 80's/early 90's feel easily, without sounding hammy and contrived. i love it.

tl;dr que será será are a very, very, very good band. i'm a rubbish writer, possibly in love with the idea of myself as a woman, and i don't know the difference between columbus and cleveland.

we're putting out their tape out in the near future, but until then you can expect to hear 'fear of permanence' on the tye die sample tape coming out this month.


http://www.myspace.com/queseraseracleveland