The 23-year old from Kent, Ohio first performed with her family band One Way Rider at the age of 8. At age 15, she recorded her first album White Lies in her brother’s bedroom, printing only 100 copies. One of those copies fell into the hands of Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys). After an introduction, Mayfield and Auerbach hit the studio, laying the foundation for her debut album With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. Says Auerbach of the recording experience, “I think she’s dark and moody in a mysterious way.” He adds, “I’m just always really excited to make music with her.”
Mayfield’s second and most recent album, Tell Me, is a stunningly forthright 11-song set that addresses late night longing, serial heartbreak, and intoxicatingly dangerous liaisons conducted in dimly lit barrooms or roadside motels. By the end, the only heart intact is Mayfield’s own. It’s as if she’d stripped the sentimentality and ruefulness from a bunch of classic country songs, leaving only stark emotion. Auerbach also produced and engineered Tell Me at his Easy Eye Sound System studio in Akron, Ohio, matching Mayfield’s candor with eerily minimal, brilliantly constructed tracks that keep her mesmerizing, unadorned voice front and center.
The New York Times hailed the album a Critics’ Pick, while the Associated Press calls Tell Me “the portrait of a precocious girl growing into self-assured womanhood and a producer reaching the peak of his powers. It is a dark and moody album, full of delights throughout, and if it doesn’t make Mayfield a star, that too will be heartbreaking.”
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LOOP was formed in Croydon, London, 1986 by Robert Hampson (vocals/
guitar) and partner Beki Stewart (Bex) on drums. After finding Glen Ray
on bass, through an advert in Melody Maker, they began to perform live
and were quickly signed to HEAD Records run by Jeff Barrett (Heavenly)
who released their feedback-drenched debut 12” 16 Dreams.
Following line-up changes – the arrival of new drummer John Wills, new
bassist Neil MacKay and James Endeacott on second guitar the band were
to take a more primal rhythmic foundation captured on their impressive
debut full-length Heavens End (1987).
The band managed to hypnotise all with their discordant trance-like
spell which served as an antidote to the prevailing trend in British pop
at the time – they resurrected the concept of loud out there-rock for a
new era, creating droning soundscapes of bleak beauty and harsh
dissonance, loosely influenced by bands such as The Velvet Underground,
The Stooges, The MC5, but retaining an avant-garde and experimental edge
from Can, Faust, Neu!, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca and minimalist
systems music, to name but a few. Live shows were revelatory, Loop,
allowing LOUD as a constant descriptive term, they pushed PAs to the
very edge of their existence, creating a sonic pummel not really
experienced since.
A collection of singles and B-sides, The World in Your Eyes, appeared on
HEAD in 1987 and after the departure of Endeacott the band signed to
the Chapter 22 label, releasing the Collision 12” as well their more
sparse and discordant second full-length, Fade Out.
Portland's legendary garage-punk trio Dead Moon, fronted by the husband-wife team of Fred and Toody Cole, conjures images of hard-luck easy riders and lovers against the world. While their sound alternates between moody and aggressive, it is always remarkably genuine and energetic.
Fred began his enduring musical career at the very young age of 15. Many years and many bands later (after living through experiences as varied as homesteading in Alaska, dodging the Vietnam War draft, and hunting bears), the two formed a punk band called the Rats. Later, after adding Andrew Loomis on drums, Dead Moon was formed in 1987.
For almost a decade, Dead Moon released LPs on their own Tombstone label. All of those releases are vinyl-only and were cut on the same lathe that the Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" was cut on back in 1963. In 1991, they began to re-release the vinyl-only albums onto CD through Music Maniac in Europe and eMpTy in the United States, an effort that continued into the new millennium. Sub Pop released the retrospective Echoes of the Past, a collection of Dead Moon songs handpicked by Fred Cole, in 2006.
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