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Growing Announce Tour, Hit Up Al’s

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Kenny Bloggins
on March 4, 2010
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growing Growing Announce Tour, Hit Up Als

Sheeeeeeeit, guess I know what I’m doin’ on May 13th. I saw the Growing bros open for Mogwai in 2006, so I can attest – see them! They ripped open a hole in the sky approximately six meters above the crowd’s head. It was gnarly. Wasn’t sure if it was a portal or not, but I wasn’t about to find out – kinda like the theory that the post-mortem light at the end of the tunnel is actually a trick…

04-06 Brooklyn, NY – COCO66
04-08 Winooski, VT – Monkey House
04-10 Montreal, QC – Casa del Popolo
04-11 Toronto, ON – The Garrison
04-12 London, ON – Call the Office
04-14 Detroit, MI – Contemporary Art Museum
04-15 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
04-16 Madison, WI – Project Lodge
04-17 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
04-18 Fargo, ND – The Aquarium
04-21 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
04-22 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
04-23 Olympia, WA – Northern
04-24 Portland, OR – Berbatis Pan
04-26 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
04-28 Oakland, CA – The Parish
04-29 Santa Cruz, CA – Brookdale Lodge
05-02 Irvine, CA – UC Irvine
05-04 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture
05-07 Austin, TX – Mohawk
05-10 New Orleans, LA – Circle Bar
05-11 Atlanta, GA – E.A.R.L.
05-12 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
05-13 Lexington, KY – Al’s
05-15 Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks
05-16 Huntington, WV – Pleasant 123
05-18 Baltimore, MD – Floristree
05-19 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie

No word on support yet, but I’m sure it shall rule as well.

MP3 :::
Growing – Hormone
Growing – Innit

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Videoettes from Growing’s Upcoming Album ‘PUMPS’

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Michael Hansen
on February 18, 2010
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growingart-550x481 Videoettes from Growings Upcoming Album PUMPS

We’re about as excited for Growing’s new album PUMPS as we are for the Lost finale, the second coming of Christ, or our tax refunds. Luckily, the good kids at Vice produced a visual feast to tide us over until then, with four video “vignettes” to accompany songs from the new lp. Their trippy, seizure-worthy, archival, stop-motion madness is further proof that Growing “still want to stick their dick in your brain,” according to Bloggins, and I concur. 3D glasses not required. PUMPS is out April 6th.

“Hormone”

“Drone Burger”

“Massive Dropout”

“Short Circuit”

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New Growing – “Hormone”

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Kenny Bloggins
on January 5, 2010
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growing_pumps_cover New Growing - Hormone

Awwwwwwwwwww shit, ya’ll! Growing is back like a Mac Attack. “Hormone” showcases a more choppy, tinty, bit-crushed electronic feel compared to the body buzz-inducing aquatic growl of All the Way. This is the first track released off of the forthcoming Pumps, out April 6. Saying “growing” and “hormone” close together in the same sentence kinda conjures some unsavory imagery, but the beautiful glitch on this track is nothing but good vibes.

Remarkable album cover as well, dudes.

MP3 :::
Growing – Hormone

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Massive Spring Mix Part Two

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Kenny Bloggins
on March 31, 2009
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ssm4 Massive Spring Mix Part Two

Last week, I had part one of the 26-song, seasonally-inspired, massive clusterfuck mix. Guess fucking what! This is part dos, just in time to send March off like a lion (or a lamb, depending on where you are I suppose). Spring rules, and I want you to have the jams I’m cranking in my car with the windows down and rims still spinnin’. Below are 15 more songs that are one million times better than the new Phoenix or St. Vincent or Lykke Li albums (or whatever the other blogs are poppin’ boners for). Fuck that shit. String Band, Meadow, Growing, Yoko, the Banke, Lilys, some Ghost Box, some insane old and obscure psych… I even put ol’ Ginger and Eric on here. I mean, Jesus, I wish someone had made me a mix like this.

No annotations just time. Just enjoy the jams. As always, if you think these shits is tight, support the artist and grip their album(s).

As a visual aside, I took some photos yesterday evening of the beautiful seasonal unfurling in the Old Louisville neighborhood. For our readers in the area, you should grab this mix (as well as the samples from the new Akron/Family and Lotus Plaza albums), load the tracks onto your iPod, iPhone, iCranial RFID chip, pipe ‘em through some big headphones (not shitty earbuds), and take a stroll down South 2nd Street between Magnolia and Lee Streets for a most transcendental time. Nature owns.

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MP3 :::
The Incredible String Band – Koeeadi There
Penny Arkade – Woodstock Fireplace
Tower Recordings – Other Kinds Run
Belbury Poly – Scarlet Ceremony
Dungen – Familj
Dead Meadow – Stacy’s Song
Cream – Passing the Time
Growing – Wrong Ride
Margo Guryan – Sun
High Places – Namer
The Left Banke – Desiree
The Free Design – Now is the Time
Lilys – FBI and Their Toronto Transmitters
Sun City Girls – The Flower
Yoko Ono – Mind Holes

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The Decibel Tolls Best Albums of 2008

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Kenny Bloggins
on December 10, 2008
in Praise and Malaise and Year-End Action
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playin The Decibel Tolls Best Albums of 2008

Oh good, glad to see you like my illustration.  Yeah, I had some downtime and wasn’t feelin’ too creative or too much in my graphic design game as far as doing something special for The Decibel Tolls year-end list.  So Lana and I started talking, and it came to us that it would be hysterical to do a collage with people like Bradford Cox eating that Ezra Comma dude from Frankenstein Weekday or whoever, and Franz Ferdinand… stuff like that.  I didn’t have time to add Lil’ Wayne.  And then I had to make, like, the fuckin’ universe as the backdrop.  That’s how we roll here at the Decibel Tolls – no fun, tasteful graphic to designate this article as the accumulative best-of list.  Nope, just crude images of artists I like with their heads detached eating shitty bands.  I’m additionally thrilled that I was able to describe the image even further despite the fact that it’s already annotated.  I rule.

I put some serious thought into this list, and did a bunch of narrowin’ down.  There were other jam hives I was rather infatuated with this year, such as releases from Magik Markers, Burning Star Core, and Vivian Girls.  But I wanted to do just the standard top ten this time around.  No reason to not do things standard every now and again… Continue reading ‘The Decibel Tolls Best Albums of 2008′

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Growing at ATP

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Kenny Bloggins
on October 13, 2008
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growing-live-wfmu Growing at ATP

Good gawd, ya’ll. The bootlegs keep coming in, but this time from the official source. WFMU just posted their archive of Growing’s performance at the absolutely immaculate All Tomorrow’s Parties. The attractive photo above is also from your menacing friends at Beware of Blog. Continue reading ‘Growing at ATP’

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News Roundup: Growing, Brightblack Morning Light, Rick Wright, Black Moth, Other Stuff

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Kenny Bloggins
on September 15, 2008
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newsonthemarch News Roundup: Growing, Brightblack Morning Light, Rick Wright, Black Moth, Other Stuff

All the news that’s fit to print. Continue reading ‘News Roundup: Growing, Brightblack Morning Light, Rick Wright, Black Moth, Other Stuff’

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10 Million Strong and Growing

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Kenny Bloggins
on August 20, 2008
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growing 10 Million Strong and Growing

Not to be one of those morons that likes to be nostalgic about the ’80s even though your hippocampus was not developed enough to hold many memories of it because you were fuckin’ five years old… BUT, if you were born in 1984 like me, the Flintstones Vitamins jingle has been permanently burned into your cerebral cortex. The person who wrote it made a lot of money, I’m sure. As such, every time I think of the band Growing, this melody pops in my head. Not exactly the tune you want to have circulating in your dome whilst Growing is ripping a hole in the sky immediately above you. Continue reading ‘10 Million Strong and Growing’

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