Rage Peace (as channeled by Prince Rama). Photo credit
Samantha Casolari
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It's 2012, and Prince Rama has made the Top Ten
Hits of the End of the World. Conceived as a pseudo-compilation album,
the Brooklyn duo invented ten different pop bands that died during the
apocalypse, channeling the ghosts of each one to perform the various
songs. Spanning genres and stylistic eras from across the globe, Top
Ten Hits explores pop music's relationship to memory, nostalgia, and
the spirit world. Incorporating influences as disparate as cosmic
disco, motorcycle rock, new-wave, grunge, tribal goth, Arabic pop, and
ghost-modern glam, Prince Rama filters each sound through the destroyed lens
of a post-apocalyptic future looking back at the wonders of its sonic
past. Recorded half with Tim Koh in Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's
studio and mixed with Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls,
Arcade Fire), Top Ten Hits of the End of the World isn't
just a pop album, it's a retrospective requiem of all pop albums ever
made. Nothing like this has ever been attempted by a single band, and
its residual echoes will continue to haunt this world and the next.
In addition to the new album and single, Prince Rama have
just announced a European tour this November with Animal Collective. See
below for a list of all upcoming Prince Rama tour dates.
About Rage Peace:
Rage Peace formed as a small protest band in the early 90s
and before they knew it they were the Bob Dylans of a whole generation of
angry youth. They became founding members of the Rage Peace movement, based
on the principle of nihilism as the only true order, and wrote songs with
violent messages placed in seemingly saccharine pop structures. The band was
notorious for staging organized acts of violence and destruction, burning
cars and sometimes buildings in the name of chaos. When the end came, their
bodies were found locked inside a limousine they had set on fire. The license
plate read "HEY U".
MP3: Rage Peace (as Channeled by Prince Rama) -
"So Destroyed" -
Prince Rama
Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
(Paw Tracks)
11/06/12
1. "Blade of Austerity" - Guns of Dubai
2. "Those Who Live For Love Will Live Forever" - I.M.M.O.R.T.A.L.I.F.E. 3. "No Way Back"- Nu Fighters 4. "So Destroyed" - Rage Peace 5. "Receive" - Taohaus 6. "Radhamadhava" - Goloka 7. "Fire Sacrifice" - Black Elk Speaks 8. "Welcome To The Now Age" - Hyparxia 9. "Exercise Ecstasy" - The Metaphysixxx 10. "We Will Fall In Love Again" - Motel Memory
TOUR DATES
US
8/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Body Actualized Center (Single
release party! Info here)
8/11 - Hudson, NY - Basilica Music Festival
8/17 - Brooklyn, NY - DUMBO Summer Friday
9/23 - Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent *
EUROPE (all dates w/ Animal Collective)
11/01 - Utrecht - Netherlands - Vredenburg Leidsche rijn
11/03 - Srasbourg - France - La Latiere 11/04 - London - UK- Roundhouse 11/06 - Dublin - Ireland - Vicar Street 11/07 - Glasgow - Scotland - ABC1 11/08 - Manchester - UK -The Warehouse Project 11/09 - Tourcoing - France - Le Grand Mix 11/10 - Antwerp - Belgium - Trix 11/13 - Gothenburg - Sweden - Pustervik 11/14 - Stockholm - Sweden - Debaser Medis 11/15 - Oslo - Norway - Sentrum Scene 11/16 - Lund - Sweden - Mejerjet 11/18 - Berlin - Germany - Astra 11/19 - Lausanne - Switzerland - Les Docks 11/20 - Zurich - Switzerland - X-Tra |
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