Wednesday, February 10, 2010

"they came from planet d"


cassettes records presents

KRANG


Edmonton, Alberta's KRANG is a behemoth of sorts: a monstrous, slithering trainwreck of bass, drums, distortion, stewing in a pit of dehydrated psychedelic stew. The sound of Black Sabbath and Hawkwind filtered through the 90s lo-fi 4-track revolution, with a lunatic noise wizard at the helm steering the spaceship into oblivion. If you took the deformed, inbred brainchild of Wolf Eyes, Guided By Voices, and Sunn0))) you might be getting close to the mutated monstrosity that is KRANG...but even then, you'd be in some distant land, wandering through the desert, tempted by Satan, sucking on some pebble in hopes of pathetically seeing it all through.

"They Came From Planet D" is KRANG's first Cassettes Records offering, recorded live off the floor in an attic somewhere in the frozen winter labyrinth of downtown Edmonton. This is the feeling of being cooped up in a season. "Sometimes," says Parker James Thiessen, assigned to commandeering KRANG's barrage of digital noise and destruction; "when we jam, it's so loud, that I see spots when we're done."

Well if that ain't mean, I don't know what is.


KRANG - "They Came From Planet D"
CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!
@ Likwid Lounge, Feb 27 2010
$3 cans of Lucky Lager!!!!


Thursday, January 28, 2010

"i need a little help from my friends"



"Born On A Train"
(Magnetic Fields)

Darrek Anderson - pedal steel
Tom Murray - double bass
Scott Zubot - violin

Live @ The Haven, Jan 23 2010

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"we found things to do in stormy weather"

Photobucket

Harmonica rack with coathanger, guitar pickups, elastic band, chopstick, bulldog clip.

Patent pending.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

"how to get ahead when the centre is bleeding"



Live at the Haven Social Club, January 23rd 2010
Darrek Anderson - pedal steel
Tom Murray - double bass
Scott Zubot - violin

Video by Owen Strasky

Friday, January 22, 2010

"i am the electric farmer"





KRANG! record "They Came From Planet D" is done. Keep your ear to the ground for a CD release show coming up.

For now check out some tracks here:

www.myspace.com/krangtheband

"johnny's gonna die"



In case anyone forgot.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

"if there is something that i might find"



Expect Speed Freaks Bastards & No Sleep to be out on Cassettes Records pretty soon. It's going to be a mixtape of live stuff from the past three years. To be released on cassette. Very limited copies available.

Pick up Orphanland from some of Edmonton's best record stores right now.

May is confirmed for going overseas again.