March 2012
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Death Grips - The Fever (Aye Aye)
Death Grips - The Fever (Aye Aye) from “The Money Store” out April 24, 2012 on Epic Records
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Death Grips - Lost Boys (practice)
DEATH GRIPS
November 2011
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Boredoms Announce 111 Boadrum For 11/11/11
Like they did on 7/7/07 with 77 Boadrum, 8/8/08 with 88 Boadrum, ’09 with Boadrum 9, and last year with, you got it, Boadrum 10, the numerological experimentalist heroes of Boredums will assemble another world-class drum circle this year, on the corresponding date, with an appropriate number of percussionists. This site has details (via P4K) These things are an incredible amount of fun — I...
October 2011
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Hella Q&A with Rock A Rolla Magazine
Zach Hill Q&A with Rock-A-Rolla Magazine out in Issue 33. Click photo to enlarge
September 2011
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Death Grips Go On Tour, Now You Know It
Death Grips Go On Tour, Now You Know It
This latest Death Grips video is for “Known For It”, one of the more esoteric songs off of the Ex Military mixtape. This is something of a jazz-hip-punk blended concoction, it’s difficult to dance to, not a song you yell to, but both are possible with the right syncopated mind set.
Death Grips are also going on tour, hitting up Montreal, one city...
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Sargent House Zach Hill September Release Sale
In honor of our love of all things Zach Hill we thought it appropriate to share his bounty. So we made a Vinyl and CD deal so you can have all three of the releases Sargent House has put out of his for a mighty fine price! All this month we will have the Zach Hill Ultimate bundles in Effect!
Featuring Hella - Tripper ( The New Album from Hella! Zach Hill & Spencer Seim) Zach Hill - Face Tat...
August 2011
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NPR Song of the Day : Hella "Headless"
Hella: Scribbling Outside The Lines
Hella’s Zach Hill and Spencer Seim don’t just color outside the lines of rock ‘n’ roll — they scrawl all over the page, across the tabletop and into the next room. Depending on your perspective, the result is either a dazzlingly unruly abstraction or an unholy mess.
The Sacramento instrumental duo has basically one setting, and...
July 2011
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Death Grips: Beware
Adding even more heat to their mind-melting track, ”Beware,” Death Grips have come up with an equally explosive video. Filmed in the California High Desert, the video starts with a sequence of fire-infused day shots on top of an epically disturbing sample from a Charles Manson interview. After some trippy night shots of the running Death Grips MC, he’s showered with...
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The Quietus: Relentless Raw Movement: Death Grips...
Death Grips are the singularly most exciting new thing we have heard in 2011. John Calvert asks Flatlander about their methodology, hip hop, Odd Future, California and mental illness. Image courtesy Death Grips.
Brutal, bodacious, ugly like twisted-metal, obnoxious as a shot-out kneecap, completely barmy. Lightning Bolt are great aren’t they? If only they made hip hop like that. And as if...
Many Moods - Collaboration with Delicate Steve for...
Steve Marion aka Delicate Steve and Zach Hill have collaborated and created the song Many Moods to benefit The Japan Chernobyl Foundation.
<a href=”http://delicatesteve.bandcamp.com/album/many-moods” _mce_href=”http://delicatesteve.bandcamp.com/album/many-moods”>Many Moods by Delicate Steve</a>
** All Proceeds...
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Interview with Midtown Monthly
I’m just going to say it: Zach Hill is the most extreme musician in Sacramento. A self-taught drummer and founding member of the deconstructionist duo Hella, Hill has earned accolades and fans both here and abroad for his signature brand of hyperkinetic drum destruction.
Hill’s double-kick crunch has found him collaborating with a veritable who’s-who of indie-rock: Marnie Stern, Wavves,...
June 2011
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Hella Tripper - Pre Orders
Hella Tripper Vinyl or CD or Special Bundles are now up and available for Pre-Order. 275 Limited 11x17 Album art posters to the first orders of bundle packages. Orders will ship before release date. You can also order the new Hella Tripper shirt individually.
May 2011
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Death Grips "Spread Eagle Cross the Block"
Death Grips - Spread Eagle Cross The Block
no stock footage — 916 ripping it Directed by: Terroreyes / Contributers: Sean Stout, Danny Seo, Abner Requanna Skaters: Tristen Moss, Vincent Thor Kenney, Shane Headlock, Kyle Duval, Rob Mason, Taylor Bingaman, Brent Wilson, Apollo Cuts & Cody McEntire
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Stereogum premieres First Track from new Hella...
In 2007 I wrote a brief, less-than-positive review of Hella’s There’s No 666 In Outer Space, the record where the Sacramento noise-rock duo expanded to a quintet and started sounding like a rootsy Mars Volta. It appeared inSPIN. The guys gamely turned the pith into a t-shirt. My issue with There’s No 666 was (what I saw as) the aimlessness created by those extra members — i.e. the shift...
April 2011
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FADER: Death Grips "Guillotine It Goes Yah"
When you get an email that says INTENSE AVANT HIP HOP in the header you don’t think, you click on it and cross your fingers in hopes that it lives up to the claim. Sacramento crew Death Grips definitely does just that, for better or worse. “Guillotine It Goes Yah” and the accompanying Ex-Military mixtape proves that things really do go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown was once amping...
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Death Grips - EX Military Mixtape FREE DL
Death Grips - Exmilitary Mixtape by deathgrips
“We we’re pretty excited when the first Death Grips track dropped, and this is pretty much more of the same raw-ass shit from the likes of Zach Hill & Company: Angry and aggro, anarchic and dead pan, pushing the instrumentals to new levels of grit and industrial damage.
There’s also the non-sequitor Major Lazer-biter...
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Inside the Drums of Death Grips
Inside the drums of Zach Hill recording Death Grips. Brought to you by Thirdworlds.net directed by Flatlander.
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Death Grips - Lord of The Game
After dropping their first single, “Full Moon (Death Classic),” Sacramento hip hop-noise hybrid Death Grips (featuring Zach Hill) just posted a new video for “Lord of the Game.” VHS-driven visuals continue to dominate DG’s aesthetic; a grainy, tornado-like spiral scrambles night shots of city streets and night clubs. Like “Full Moon,” a multi-faceted...
March 2011
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Death Grips
Five months ago, Zach Hill started jamming with some friends and neighbors around his hometown of Sacramento, CA. Overtime, their hangouts slowly mutated into a full-fledged hip hop project called Death Grips, which features two other collaborators, judging from the image at the bottom of their website, thirdworlds.net. The site launched earlier this month and has a staggering amount of...
3 Unrleased Wavves with Zach Hill Tracks
Zach Hill produced and played drums on a never released album with Wavves here are 3 of those songs.
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Zach Hill Designs Two Shirts for Altamont
Lil Scuzzy Scuzzball
Zach Hill
Name an accomplished drummer whose playing, without any other clues or context, you can recognize within a few measures of any given song. John Bonham? Keith Moon? Dave Lombardo? Elvin Jones? Point taken, but anyone familiar with Zach Hill’s rabbit-footed self-taught expressionistic approach to the kit would have to add the...
February 2011
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Horse Shoes
here’s a free download link to a track Zach did with Nathan from Wavves called Horse Shoes.
37 Drawings....
xachhill.tumblr.com ”i started a tumblr , my first post is an entire notebook of (new)drawings done while waiting and wandering around all over the place….37 drawings”
January 2011
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Primitives Talk CHLLNGR Remix Video
Zach Hill - Primitives Talk - CHLLNGR Remix Shot and Directed by Ryan Todd Animated GIF art by David Ope Remixed by CHLLNGR
December 2010
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ZACH HILL, CARSON MCWHIRTER - JAMAICAN FITNESS...
Thanks to themusicsessions.com
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New Hella Album - Spring 2011
HELLA is in the studio recording a new album. Now, it’s been a while since the duo of Zach Hill & Spencer Seim got together. We are pretty excited about all this and will have loads more Hella news, in the mean time make sure to join up with the FB page if you want to stay on top of the latest developments. Posted by Sargent House
November 2010
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WIRED Feature Second Life Video
Virtual Reality Overloads in Zach Hill’s ‘Second Life’ Video
You might need an online companion to catch all the swirling allusions to The Lawnmower Man, surrealism, The Red Shoes and too much more in the new video for Zach Hill’s psychedelic tune “Second Life.” You also might need some acid or Advil, depending on your head-trip.
Directed by Christian “Megazord” Oldham, acclaimed drummer...
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DECOY Music Review
Zach Hill may just be the hardest working man in the industry. His spastic and triumphant drumming has been featured in countless projects with everyone in the indie world clamoring to borrow his talents for as long as they can hold onto him. As a founding member of instrumental math rock heroes Hella, Hill has also contributed stellar work in each of his other bands including The...
October 2010
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Submerge Magazine Interview
One Man, and Unstoppable Force
Zach Hill discusses his new album and his Tao of Drumming Words by Joe Atkins • Photo by Sean Stout
If Zach Hill is anything, he’s prolific. The definitive characteristic of his drum style is constant movement, an unrelenting source of rhythm. The list of musicians he has performed with extends across the globe. This year alone, his name will accompany a drum...
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WFMU - Interview
Total Recall: An Interview With Zach Hill
Zach Hill is an innovator. Booming out of Sacramento in the late 90s to make a name for himself playing drums with Hella, Marnie Stern, Wavves, Team Sleep, Boredoms, and countless others, Hill plays the drums like David Lynch writes movies—- frantic, perplexing, troubling—- but ultimately, completely euphoric. Earlier this month, Hill...
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NY TIMES REVIEW
Zach Hill - Face Tat “The Sun City Girls’ blenderizing of intent and influence, mixing shock and comedy, lies somewhere in the background of “Face Tat,” Zach Hill’s new album on the label Sargent House. Mr. Hill is a virtuosic, hammer-blow, fast-footed drummer who puts his best playing in scuffed, shattered, strobing, overdriven songs and soundscapes. A mind-boggling video of one song...
Face Tat Comes Early
The new album from Zach Hill called “Face Tat” will be out everywhere on October 19, 2010. The European release date is December 13, 2010 but because we don’t really like to follow rules, nor do release dates really mean anything to us we wanted you to all hear it now. Of course we know you have the option to go and steal it and all we can ask of you is to consider helping, if...
September 2010
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The Primitives Talk Video
Pitchfork premieres the latest video from Zach Hill directed by the fantastic Steph D for The Primitives Talk (Free DL on Amazon). Trip out. Best Nail salon ever…
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WatchThis is a 40 minute improv session with Zach Hill and Carson McWhirter. Please watch with HD on, Full Screen. Beautiful mayhem… A2B2 studio, Sacramento, Ca 9.12.10 Video and Audio: Sean Stout
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Interview with I Heart Noise
Your upcoming album is called “Face Tat” – why was it named that way?
the title is loosely based on the idea of individual platforms. how we all find them and use them differently . i think a facial tattoo is a very extreme way to use your own body as a platform. committing to a projection to that degree is something that i find interesting and metaphorical on many levels .
Talking...
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Korea & Japan Tour
Zach Hill will be heading to Asia for some shows in Korea and Japan. Joining him on guitar for the shows will be Carson McWhirter. check the video of them tracking the song Face Tat from the upcoming new album of the same name.
ZACH HILL feat/ CARSON MCWHIRTER Sep 16 - Bar Guess - Daegu/Korea Sep 17 - Vinyl Underground - Busan/Korea Sep 18 - Super Sketch @ Theater 0 - Seoul/Korea Sep 22...
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"The Primitives Talk" Free DL
For the whole month of September the new track “The Primitives Talk” from the upcoming Face Tat is a free download and is featured in the Top 30 New Artists to watch. Face Tat will be out on Sargent House on October 19, 2010. And if you missed it you can also Download another new track called ” Memo To The Man”.
In other news, looks like that album with Wavves might...
August 2010
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Face Tat - Pre Orders & New Merch
New store with Pre-Order for Face Tat CD and or Vinyl now in effect
Click on Image to enlarge - New Shirts!
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RCRD LBL: Free Download "Memo To The Man"
Drummer solo albums are rarely good–this much Ringo taught us. But when the drummer in question plays like virtually no one else alive (our only reference point being Keith Moon, if he’d been into prog) and is known as a consummate collaborator (see: Hella, Marnie Stern, Boredoms, Wavves, etc.), those reservations can be comfortably cast aside. Such is the case with Zach...
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INTERVIEW: Performer Magazine
“Zach Hill is a well-known drummer of technical skill in the progressive music scene. Over the past decade, he has developed an intense cult following to the magnitude of which he probably doesn’t yet realize. Predictably unpredictable, Mr. Hill is known for being on numerous releases within a year, which sometimes stretch over varying genres and styles. In this interview, I talk to...
July 2010
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MEMO TO THE MAN (Press Release)
Massively talented and incessantly collaborative drummer Zach Hill (see a semi-comprehensive list of projects here) has announced a fall 2010 release for his second solo album, Face Tat via Sargent House. The 13-track disc features an impressive list of contributors, including Devendra Banhart, No Age (Dean Spunt and Randy Randall), Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73), Greg Saunier ...
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VIDEO: The Sacto Smile
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Marnie Stern Album News & MP3
DOWNLOAD MP3: Marnie Stern: “For Ash”
Guitar wizard Marnie Stern famously titled her BNM’ed 2008 sophomore album (deep breath) This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That. So copy editors everywhere will breathe a sigh of relief to learn that Stern’s newest album is named simply Marnie Stern. That...
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Face Tat.Video.Art.Tracklisting
Artist: Zach Hill Album: Face Tat Release Date: October 19 Label: Sargent House
Tracklist:
01 Memo to the Man 02 The Primitives Talk 03 Ex-Ravers 04 The Sacto Smile 05 Green Bricks 06 House of Hits 07 Jackers 08 Burner in the Video 09 Dizzy From the Twins 10 Gross Sales 11 Total Recall 12 Face Tat 13 Second Life
“New solo album from this tentacle-armed Hella drummer and...
ZACH HILL / FACE TAT IS COMING!!!!!!!!!
sargenthouse:
Just got the new album master for Zach Hill’s album Face Tat. To say my mind is blown would be an understatement. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised, delighted and frankly overwhelmed when they hear how fine this piece of art is. Stay tuned for many more details and news about Face Tat. What we can tell you now is it’s coming out on October 19th on Sargent House. Oh...
June 2010
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VIDEO: Green Bricks
Green Bricks coming on 7” vinyl on Life’s Blood
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VIDEO: Boredoms /Sense of Wonder 2010
Boredomns “EYE” YOSHIMI YO2RO Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle) Zach Hill (HELLA) Butchy Fuego (Pit Er Pat, NA FUEGO) Kid Millions (Oneida) Jeremy Hyman (Ponytail) Shinji Masuko (DMBQ)
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UNEARTHING
MP3: Alan Moore:Crook&Flail: “Unearthing (excerpt)”
Unearthing, the new project from legendary comic writer Alan Moore, isn’t a comic book at all; it’s a box set. On the audio recording, Moore reads his story aloud, while Crook&Flail— the duo of Fog main man Andrew Broder and Themselves/Subtle avant-rap guy Doseone— provide the score. Various other...
May 2010
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VIDEO: Boredoms / All Tomorrows Parties
Zach Hill’s induction ceremony to the Boadrum performance. Recorded at All Tomorrow’s Parties May 2010 curated by Matt Groening