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The Icarus Line's new song up on Myspace.com
13/03/07The Icarus Line’s latest and greatest installment in their glorious recording catalog “Black Lives at the Golden Coast” is set to be released on May 14th in the UK/Europe on V2 records. With the vinyl being out on Poptones on the 14th of May. Subsequently, Black Lives will be released on June 4th in the US on Dim Mak records.
Get the fuck in! And now check their latest song ‘Get Paid’ now up on myspace.com
Read the latest review of Icarus Line opening up for Wolfmother...
05/03/07And remember that we are doing the vinyl on the 24th of May and the cd is coming out on V2
Wolfmother performed Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown during the extended encore for its set Saturday night in the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion. It was considerably less surprising than, say, Fall Out Boy choosing Zeppelin. The various influences evident in the young Australian band’s sound also include Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer and even artier late-1960s groups such as Spirit.
In fact, as he fronted the power trio for the opening Dimension, lead singer and guitarist Andrew Stockdale looked a bit like Spirit’s guitarist Randy California in his big Afro and gnarly facial hair. The tune not only featured a bridge that Spirit might have written but a guitar solo that sailed with harmonic accents and a tone as solid yet quicksilver as California’s own.
Then again, it suggested Cream and Blue Cheer, as well. Like listening to the band’s self-titled 2006 debut, hearing Wolfmother live could easily have been sunk by an over-eager ear for musical precedents. White Unicorn would have been reduced to its Rush-like vocal line, Woman wouldn’t get past its School’s Out chords, Black Sabbath would be heard everywhere and even Yes might be found.
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Joe from the Icarus Line interviewed for Straight.com
23/02/07And remember folks and freaks, the CD is coming out on V2 on the 24th of May. And Poptones is doing the Vinyl. Dim Mak is out with their US version on the 21st of June. And man ... the album rocks.
Icarus Line’s songs are designed to challenge
Music Previews By Mike Usinger
Publish Date: February 22, 2007
The last couple of years haven’t been great for the Icarus Line, and not just because the band’s former record label, V2, doesn’t exist anymore and one of its guitarists was poached by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. What’s more disconcerting to singer Joe Cardamone is the way the listening habits of the world have changed in the wake of the iTunes revolution.
“People don’t really buy albums as a whole piece anymore, so what’s the point of making them as a whole piece?” the frontman asks, on the line from his Los Angeles home. “When people are so busy putting together their own play lists and sequencing songs on their computers, they lose their taste for albums the way that they were meant to be listened to. They’re no longer able to appreciate songs that were meant to be experienced in a certain order.”
How does this affect the Icarus Line? Well, as evidenced by last year’s Black Presents EP, the band doesn’t traffic in easily digested singles. In the tradition of 2005’s V2-released Penance Soiree , the disc delivers a designed-to-challenge roar of dark-garden grunge, Stooges stun metal, and amphetamine-charged art-pop. All mega-drone guitars and fever-moan vocals, “Watch Your Step” dares to imagine alt-rock as something sexy and dangerous, while “Fshn Fvr” updates the apocalypse-now mope-pop of the Jesus and Mary Chain for modern junkies. With its feedback fire squalls, tribal-thump drums, and utterly indecipherable lyrics, the synapse-frying “Black Presents” can’t be accused of pandering to the masses, but give the Icarus Line’s songs some time and they eventually prove addictive.
read more... The Icarus Line vinyl coming out soon! And Wolfmother news...
05/02/07 Los Angeles-based hard rock band, The Icarus Line just announced their first tour dates in 2007 – a two-week tour with Wolfmother in the U.S. and Canada. The band recently made their Dim Mak Records debut with the release of their Black Presents EP in November 2006. Black Lives At The Golden Coast, The Icarus Line’s third full-length, will be released on Dim Mak on June 5th, 2007. With the vinyl coming out on Poptones.
Joe from the Icarus Line writes in...
15/01/07Poptones just heard from Joe Cardomone—as some of you know—Poptones is releasing the vinyl-only version of the Icarus Line’s album ‘Black Lives on the Golden Coast’ and guess what? The record is done, mastered and ready to go-go-go—and what you may not know is that the new Icarus Line record is genius. A classic of Californian Soul.
In the meantime, just click below for a reliving of the moment when the Icarus Line wrote $ucking Dick$ on the side of the Strokes tour-bus. Its a golden youtube.com moment!
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All this time we've been making plans and documentations for 2007...
17/12/06Poptones Wishes You a Merry Christmas...!
And we wish to thank everyone that has played our records, wrote about our records, took our emails and our calls, visited the website, bought our records, downloaded our stuff. We love you all.
And whilst we are on holiday, we just want to drop some news about what is happening in 2007 and what to look forward to at Poptones Recording Corporation towers.
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Joe Cardamone of Icarus Line and Souls She Said GRILLED...
06/09/06Someone passed on this on and we are passing it back to Poptones Nation. Click below to read Joe’s thoughts and feelings about the forthcoming Icarus Line epic (we are doing teh vinyl version don’t you know—V2 for the UK and Dim Mak for USA) and the forthcoming Souls She Said album coming out on 9th of October—which you can easily pre-order by clicking here.
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