SOW, Anna Wildsmith’s long-running alternate project with PIG, is returning with their first album in 12 years, entitled ‘Dog‘. It’s just the third studio album in 20 years, co-produced and co-written by Raymond Watts (PIG, ex-KMFDM), Rob Henry (Euphonic, Children Of The Bong) and Anna Wilsmith (SOW) and features guest appearances from Steve White (KMFDM, 16 Volt) and Mike Watts (PIG).

It is currently available for direct pre-order at the newly-launched official SOW website.

Also available is a new free SOW MP3, ‘Victim‘, featuring music by Raymond Watts.

It will be available on CD / digital on March 16, 2010 via US label I, Absentee.

SOW – Dog
SOW is Anna Wildsmith of France, with a revolving line-up of backing musicians. Previously on Martin Atkins’ Invisible Records, Anna also toured as both a live member and show opener for his legendary Pigface group. However, SOW is primarily known for her work with Raymond Watts (PIG, ex-KMFDM). Other notable past SOW players have included Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM), J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus), Jon Caffery (Einstuerzende Neubauten, Kids On TV), Guenter Schulz (ex-KMFDM, Pigface, Slick Idiot) and many more. For just her third studio album in 20 years, Anna once again enlisted Raymond Watts and Rob Henry (Euphonic) to write the music. The album is produced by PIG, SOW and Euphonic and sees Wildsmith steer into more up-tempo directions. Dog marks the first release from SOW in a staggering 12 years, recorded over the span of a decade.

There’s been a bit of a shitstorm surrounding a blog announcing Amanda Fucking Palmer and Jason Webley’s project Evelyn Evelyn. A lot of it had to do with people demonstrating the magical power to know someone’s thought process, intention and indeed, entire fucking persona from a bunch of text. We’ll leave all of that controversy at its source and wish Amanda and Jason our best hopes for pit-high waders to present what really is a fantastic record and a little smoke and mirror action which is precisely what we want and need to witness. Sadly, there is no bastard way I’ll be able to attend one of their London shows but I WILL be buying the album. If you go, love it twice as hard for me.

We love the one track we’ve been able to hear, “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?” and it’s been added to the Radio Hydrogen playlist, so keep an ear out for it.

The backstory:
“EVELYN and EVELYN NEVILLE are dicephalus conjoined twins, sharing between them three legs, two arms, three lungs, two hearts, and a single liver. Born on September 11, 1985 on a small farm on the Kansas-Colorado border, the Evelyns have lived in Georgia, Manitoba and South Dakota, and have traveled the greater part of North America performing with “Dillard & Fullerton’s Illusive Traveling Show”. They are fluent in chicken and their favorite colors are purple and yellow.”

From Amanda’s blog, here are the details on the live shows:

the order of the evening will go something like this:

-doors-
a short set by JASON WEBLEY
a short set by AMANDA PALMER
a short set by SXIP SHIREY
-intermission- (GO BUY MERCH!!)
an hour-long set by EVELYN EVELYN
-end-

the whole evening will last between 2-3 hours, depending on the venue.

note: **jason, sxip and i will be signing stuff on any nights where there isn’t an absurd curfew or we don’t all need to fly out at 6am the next day.**

we tried to get the most high-class, comfortable venues possible, because we really want people to pay attention to what the twins are doing onstage.
if you’re coming to any of the shows, please respect the twins’ wishes that no photograph be taken of them unless you’ve been formally informed that it’s ok. (but take all the photos you want of me, jason, and sxip; we love it)

and get tickets NOW — with the three shows in london being an indication of what’s to come, these will no doubt sell out like hotcakes…fast.
send these dates to ANYONE you know in these territories! here’s a link to tweet (feel free to edit/repost a similar link on facebook, myspace, etc): TOUR DATES for @AMANDAPALMER, @JASONWEBLEY, @SXIPSHIRY, and @EVELYNEVELYN up NOW at http://bit.ly/seeEElive

USA:
April 12 – OBERON in Cambridge, Massachusetts
April 13 – OBERON in Cambridge, Massachusetts

EUROPE:
April 17 – Òran Mór in Glasgow, Scotland
April 19 – The Academy in Dublin, Ireland
April 22 – Koko in Camden (London), UK
April 23 – [SOLD OUT!] Bush Hall in London, UK
April 24 – [SOLD OUT!] Bush Hall in London, UK
April 25 – [SOLD OUT!] Bush Hall in London, UK
April 27 – L’Europeen in Paris, France
April 28 – Melkweg in Amsterdam, Holland
April 29 – Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany
May 1 – Babylon in Berlin, Germany
May 3 – Gloria in Köln (Cologne), Germany
May 4 – Arenbergschouwburg in Antwerp, Belgium

So there you have it. For all the info including ticket buying link mojo, go see the show list on Amanda’s site.

Unbelievable double bill of some of the genre’s daddies. This image will be automatically refreshed with the latest info, so check back!

The creative strength of Peter Spilles is inexhaustible. With the brilliant PROJECT PITCHFORK album ‘Dream, Tiresias!’ still ringing in our ears, he follows it up with the EP ‘Rocket Heart’ from his unconventional project SANTA HATES YOU.

Stomping beats, driving sequencers and apocalyptic sounds are skilfully mixed with dark, aggressive vocals. Peter Spilles und his Italian partner in crime Jinxy give us, in an unexpected and seductive way, a musical kick up the arse which lends the whole an unnaturally sexy character.

SANTA HATES YOU are loud, aggressive, dark, rebellious, threatening, danceable, moving, passionate and intelligent. An alluring yet wild playground of electronic music, upon which the protagonists let off steam with lascivious poses and innocent expressions in order to clobber the listener around the ears with the concentrated strength of their beats and sounds, which nearly take your breath away.

The EP is packaged in an elegant digipak and is strictly limited to 2,000 copies. In addition to a cover version of the AND ONE hit “Deutschmaschine”, it also contains remixes from STRAFTANZ, SOMAN und REAPER plus a further bonus track. A must-have for every PROJECT PITCHFORK fan. Indispensable for all fans of hard as nails electronic music! If this particular Santa hates us, you¹d gladly unwrap this present and it’s good that this is the case. It is an enrichment among the gifts that is worth discovering. Let yourselves be seduced! SANTA HATES YOU are utterly cunning, brutish and so disturbingly sexy that they deliver the perfect soundtrack for nights danced away in clubs!

ORDER:
http://www.poponaut.de

SANTA HATES YOU @ MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/santahatesyou

SANTA HATES YOU @ www:
http://www.santahatesyou.com

DJ Zarabella Ming
Playlist from Monday, November 16, 2009
19:00 – 22:00 at Hydrogen
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Marilyn Manson — Running To The Edge Of The World (Album Version) [Explicit]
Suede — The Next Life
Dave Gahan — Down
Fever Ray — Keep The Streets Empty For Me
Woven Hand — Ain’t No Sunshine
Jon Crosby — Flames
Blue Foundation — Eyes On Fire

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DJ Obsolete Aeon
Playlist from 13th November 2009
15:00 – 18:00 at Hydrogen
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Calexico – Ballad of Cable Hogue
16 Horsepower – American Wheeze
Doves – The Outsiders
Nada Surf – Blizzard Of ‘77
Eels – Flyswatter
Garbage – I think I´m paranoid
The Flaming Lips – Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
The Vandals – Flowers Are Pretty
The Killers – Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll

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DJ Zarabella Ming
Playlist from Tuesday, November 10, 2009
19:00 – 21:00 at Hydrogen
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Dax Riggs — High Monster
Agents Of Oblivion — The Hangman’s Daughter
Okkervil River — For Real
Concrete Blonde — Everybody Knows
IAMX — I Am Terrified
IAMX — The Great Shipwreck Of Life
Gary Numan, Rico — Crazier [Version]

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DJ Damon Dollinger
Playlist from 9 November 2009
21:00 – 23:00 at Hydrogen
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Cocteau Twins — Beatrix
Big Black — Colombian Necktie
Eels — I Need Some Sleep
Gavin Friday — why say goodbye
Creatures — Willow
Gang of Four — Damaged Goods
Naz Nomad and the Nightmares — Kicks

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