26.01.12. – It’s done! 

The upcoming Baby Woodrose album Third Eye Surgery is finally in the can. The final touches were made last weekend and the master has already been sent to print. First single, Nothing is Real, is online 20.02.12. As a whole the album is really trippy so be prepared to be spaced out! Lorenzo Woodrose has written a final blog about the making of the album here http://www.babywoodrose.wordpress.com 

17.01.12. – New Baby Woodrose shows

The ”Tour dates” section has been updated. New Baby Woodrose shows in Finland, Holland, Sweden and Denmark listed

09.01.12 – Bad Afro profile on Wikipedia
Yes, finally we have a profile on Wikipedia including probably the most reliable discography of Bad Afro Records possible. Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Afro

24.12.11. – News on Third Eye Surgery

Lorenzo Woodrose spills the beans on the upcoming Baby Woodrose album in several comments on the BW web: http://babywoodrose.wordpress.com/ The album is due out April 16th, 2012.

19.12.11. – The Defectors are back!

After touring in Spain, Norway, France, Germany and Russia and playing selected festival jobs in Denmark in 2008 throughout 2010 The Defectors took a break in 2011. Now they are back with a new line-up featuring Mort Harder (vocals), Martin Budde (organ), Yeah! (drums), Rune P (bass) and Nik (guitar) and plan to have new material ready in 2012.

The Defectors played their first show with the new line-up at the Monorama Horrornight in Aarhus November 19^th and two more shows are now booked for January in Aarhus and Copenhagen. See tour dates section for more details. New dates by Cosmonauts and The Flaming Sideburns listed too.

09.12.11. – Nothing is happening

If you feel like that nothing is happening on Bad Afro at the moment you are absolutely right! The fact is that all the planned 7”s are delayed at once for various reasons so all planning has gone down the drain. The Vambourines 7” has been delayed since the band (nor the label involved) did not really like the mixes that Mike McHugh did and now they are re-recoding some parts of the songs as well as mixing them by themselves. Royal Baths recently signed to the US label Kanine (Grizzly Bear, Surfer Blood etc.) and relocated to New York at the same time so they have to find their own feet before recording the announced 7” on Bad Afro. The Cosmonauts 7” is just late in general and The Dolly Rocker Movement will record their upcoming 7” here in December to be released some time in the spring. Which leaves us with the Baby Woodrose album Third Eye Surgery due out in April 2012 and the above singles when they are ready. Stay tuned!

21.11.11. – Baby Woodrose LPs back in stock

Baby Woodrose – Baby Woodrose LP and Baby Woodrose – Love Comes Down LP are back in print. Both are on green vinyl and limited to 500 copies. Two other BW LPs are unfortunately sold out now – Mindblowing Seeds and Disconnected Flowers LP and Money For Soul LP. There will probably be reprints later on.

17.11.11. – News from The Dolly Rocker Movement

The Dolly Rocker Movement will enter a studio in December to record two exclusive songs for an upcoming 7” on Bad Afro due to be released in the spring 2012. A-side will be the beautiful and catchy “Your Side of Town” while the B-side will be the moodier, more spaced out “Down With You”. The demos sound fantastic so no doubt this will be a great 7”. The artwork will be done by Kiryk who also made the artwork for the previous The Dolly Rocker Movement releases on Bad Afro; Our Days Mind the Tyme LP/CD and “Our Brave New World 7”. The LP has been sold out for quite some time and we hope to be able to do a reprint soon.

After his return from the US to Australia main man Daniel Poulter has worked on a movie score and also found time to start a new band with three girls called Kill City Creeps. They recently released their debut EP and you can hear some of it here:http://www.myspace.com/killcitycreeps

04.11.11. – Upcoming Baby Woodrose tour in Germany

Baby Woodrose will embark on yet another tour in Germany in a couple of weeks to support the re-issue of Love Comes Down. This is their 3rd tour in Germany in 2011 and it includes a performance at the sold out Psychedelic Network Festival in Würzburg as well as a headlining appearance at the DUSTOWNfestival in Berlin. Here are the dates:

16.11.2011 – (DE) Hamburg, Hafenklang

17.11.2011 – (DE) Frankfurt am Main, Ponyhof

18.11.2011 – (DE) Stuttgart, Zwölfzehn

19.11.2011 – (DE) Berlin, DUSTOWNfestival @ Festsaal Kreuzberg + Okta Logue

23.11.2011 – (DE) Bielefeld, Kamp

24.11.2011 – (DE) Nürnberg, Zentralcafé @ K4

25.11.2011 – (DE) Psychedelic Network Festival, Würzburg

26.11.2011 – (DE) Solingen, Cobra

31.10.11. – Bad Afro t-shirts for children available exclusively from Vibrashop.com

The last remaining stock of the Bad Afro t-shirts for children we printed for the Roskilde Festival are now available exclusively at vibrashop.com. White logo print og black t-shirt. Sizes: 1-2 years, 3-4 years, 5-6 years and 9-11 years. Vibrashop.com also carries male t-shirts in S, M, L, XL and XXL and girly shirts in S and M. And some hoods too. Check it out here

24.10.11. – Love Comes Down LP has left the building

Today the re-issue of the Baby Woodrose album Love Comes Down from 2006 has been released on LP/CD and as download. The limited first print on LP on black vinyl including a free 7″ is all gone from the Bad Afro headquaters which means that right now is the right time to obtain a copy at your vinyl pusher. A second press on red vinyl without the 7″ is also out….but it’s not quite the same. A lot of positive reviews have already been written about this album and this one below will appear in the upcoming issue of Shindig:

“Back in 2006 whilst Scandinavian Garage Rock was enjoying a high profile due to the likes of Dungen and Soundtrack of Our Lives, Danish ensemble Baby Woodrose managed to land a deal with the sizeable Playground Music. Unfortunately as bigger labels tend to do, they increased the recording budget and then failed to distribute the album effectively thereby creating one of the bands best but hardest to find recordings. Now thanks to the eminently improved distribution of Bad Afro the album has been reissued. Fans of On Trial will recognise band leader Lorenzo Woodrose’s song writing and vocals which flourish here on the beautiful ‘Lights are Changing’ the powerful garage fuzz rocker ‘It’s all over now’ and the trippy and spacey title track. Not many bands have a catalogue as impressive as Baby Woodrose and it’s great to see this little number back in the fold. LP version features a single with two unreleased tracks”. Richard Allen

20.10.11. – Third Eye Surgery

As told earlier, Baby Woodrose is recording their coming album this fall/winter at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen and now the new baby has a name. The 6th studio album (excluding the cover album “Dropout”, the live album “Live at Gutter Island” and the collection of Blows Your Mind demos “Mindblowing Seeds”) will be called Third Eye Surgery and it’s due out in April 2012 on LP, CD and as download. Lorenzo Woodrose was recently quoted for saying that it will become a totally psyched out space rock album with a few twisted pop songs included for good measure. What that means time will tell – but the plan is to release the first single for radio and download in January. And maybe as a 7″ too…..that has not been decided yet.

06.10.11. – Tripping with Spids Nøgenhat

Goddamn, the sold out Spids Nøgenhat show at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen last Saturday was a blast!! Unfortunately there is no videos online from that show yet. But here’s a video of “Hvad Har Du Taget” from their show in Aalborg the day before. The audience seems quite carmer than at the Copenhagen concert but the jamming is tip top. Check it out here

27.09.11. – Brand new Baby Woodrose interview on Cosmic Lava

There’s a brand new Lorenzo Woodrose interview published on the cool German website Cosmic Lava - news about the upcoming album, the re-issue of Love Comes Down and the Spids Nøgenhat shows coming up this weekend. Interesting enough there is also a link to view Lorenzos private record collection.

 

24.09.11. – Little Steven vs. Baby Woodrose

Little Steven has chosen “What Ya Gonna Do” from the upcoming Baby Woodrose re-issue of Love Comes Down as “Coolest Song of the Week” on this weeks show. We could not ask for better promotion of the album since the show is broadcastet on about 120 radio stations all over the world with up to a million listeners. You can see the playlist and listen to the show right here It’s actually the second time a Baby Woodrose song has been nominated as the “Coolest Song of the Week” on the Underground nation network and the 4th time for a Bad Afro band as it also happend to The Defectors and Sweatmaster some years ago. Thanks Steven!

19.09.11. – Telstar Sound Drone on the radio

On Thursday the 22nd of September Telstar Sound Drone will visit the radio program Mod Strømmen between 18.00 and 20.00. If you live in the Copenhagen area tune into 98.9 FM or 98.8 Hybrid. The show will also be podcastet here

12.09.11 – The Vambourines 7” delayed

The debut 7” by The Vambourines was originally scheduled for September but things didn’t really work out that way. The band and Bad Afro for that sake were not satisfied by the mix of the songs and time has been spend on finding someone to mix and master the 7”. Mike McHugh (Ty Segall, Black Lips, Vivian Girls and a lot of In The Red stuff) from California was chosen for the task and as he works 100% analogue everything has taken some extra time. The band had to send a hard disc with the songs that was then converted to tape before McHugh could start working. Right now it’s impossible to give an exact release date but it should still be during 2011.

On a better note, The Vambourines will play at the upcoming Gutter City festival at Loppen in Copenhagen September 23rd. A good chance to check out the band before the 7” arrives.

05.09.11. – Spids Nøgenhat pre-sale tickets available

After the very successfull show at this years Roskilde Festival Spids Nøgenhat will play 3 shows in Denmark in a few weeks. Pre-sale tickets are available here:

30.09.11 – Studenterhuset, Aalborg (tickets)

01.10.11 – Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (tickets)

27.10.11 – Train, Aarhus (tickets)

The show at Roskilde was recorded by the National Danish Radio and will result in a live LP released by Orpheus Records at a still unknown date this fall. Read a full bio about the band here Spids Nøgenhat has an identical line-up to Dragontears: Lorenzo Woodrose, Aron, Hobitten, Moody Guru and Fuzz Daddy.

02.09.11. – Meet the Cosmonauts

Bad Afro is very proud to introduce the first 7″ on the label with an American band. And what a great and especially LOUD release it is. Cosmonauts was formed in 2009 and resides in Orange County in sunny southern California and sound like a bunch of kids that don’t like the beach too much and spend their time inside taking drugs and complaining that it never rains. They have a huge buzzing sound that rely on broken amps and not pedals that most bands use to make noise. Derek Cowarts vocals appears as an instrument in itself that resembles the way that David Yow used to influence the sound of Jesus Lizard (although Cosmonauts does not sound like Jesus Lizard).The 7″ includes the two exclusive songs Emerald Green and Motorcycle One and will be released later this year.

Cosmonauts released their great selftitled debut album in 2010 on Permanent Records in Chicago although it was originally released on tape on Burger Records (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Black Lips and much more). They also have a 7″ out on the Italian label Goodbye Boozy. They have recently completed the recordings of their second album which will be released on Burger Records.

You can listen to the upcoming 7″ on the Cosmonauts bandcamp And there’s a video for Yer So Rad from their debut album below:

26.08.11 – Waiting for the War? Lorenzo speaks about the new Baby Woodrose LP

I’m almost ready to start recording the new album. I have a whole bunch of new songs with working titles such as Waiting For The War, Light Up Your Mind, The Harbinger, Love Like A Flower and It’s Just A Ride. Four days have been booked in my favourite Black Tornado Studio starting next week. I hope to finish most of the backing tracks and get an idea how much more work is needed. I also need to come up with a cool title. Been thinking about THE DEATH OF AQUARIUS or THE ESCHATON as the album is set for release in 2012. I’m starting to get a slight adrenaline rush anyway, looking forward to get some work done.

Read more on the Baby Woodrose web. Three more Baby Woodrose shows have been added to the list:

06.10.11 – Salzhaus, Winthertur, Switzerland

07.10.11 – Reitschule, Bern, Switzerland

29.10.11 – Gimle, Roskilde, Denmark

08.08.11. – Baby Woodrose will record a new studio album soon + new tourdates

At the end of August the first studio sessions for the upcoming Baby Woodrose studio album will take place. At the moment not much info is available regarding the recordings and what direction the band will take. But they are back in the Black Tornado studio – that much is sure at this point. The still untitled album is set for release in the spring 2012.

Baby Woodrose has added some German shows to their tour plan this fall which so far looks like this:

12.08.11 – Baby Woodrose – Saupzipf Festival, Austria (A)

31.08.11 – Baby Woodrose – Klubi, Tampere (FI)

01.09.11 – Baby Woodrose – Tavastia, Helsinki (FI)

02.09.11 – Baby Woodrose – Höyryturbiini Festival, Turku (FI)

03.09.11 – Baby Woodrose – Royal Night, Vaasa (FI)

08.09.11 – Baby Woodrose – Gutterball Festival, Oslo (N) (Lorenzo Woodrose solo)

09.09.11 – Baby Woodrose – Gutterball Festival, Oslo (N)

16.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Hafenklang, Hamburg (DE)

17.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Moonshake Party @ Ponyhof, Frankfurt (DE)

18.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Zwölfzehn, Stuttgart (DE)

19.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – DUSTOWNsounds @ Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin (DE)

24.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Zentralcafé @ K4, Nürnberg (DE)

25.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Psychedelic Network Festival, Würzburg (DE)

26.11.11 – Baby Woodrose – Cobra, Solingen (DE)

More shows are to be added later.

26.07.11. – Coloured vinyl

There has been some confusion about the coloured vinyl on Bad Afro and the colour of the first press of the LP’s. Apparently Bad Afro does it differently than most other labels. Since 1997 the first print has been on black vinyl, the second print on red vinyl, 3rd print on green vinyl and recently it has been decided that 4th press is on purple vinyl. Of cource there has been some fuck ups along the way like the Baby Woodrose LP Money For Soul which has been printed 4 times but still is on black vinyl and probably some others too. But general rule is black, red, green and then purple. Future reprints on Bad Afro will have a sticker indicating what colour the vinyl is. Pretty nerdy but handy when the LPs are shrinkwrapped.

18.07.11. – Love Comes Down re-issued on LP and CD on Bad Afro in October

On October 24rd Bad Afro Records will re-issue the Baby Woodrose album Love Comes Down. For many people this can be considered the “lost” Baby Woodrose album. It was originally released in 2006 and followed the succesful Money For Soul album. At the time Love Comes Down was only released in Scandinavia and not many people outside here ever got the chance to hear it. Which is a shame as it contains a great mix of pretty straight forward garage rockers mixed with beautiful moodier stuff.The vinyl version was only released in 500 copies which makes it the most rare Baby Woodrose LP to date.

But that will change now when Bad Afro will release it again – this time with extra material included. The 1st press of 500 copies on black vinyl will include a free 7” single on 33 1/3 rpm with two exclusive songs recorded at the same sessions as Love Comes Down. We are talking two hard stoner rock songs called Cherry Bomb and The Keeper that together clocks in at more than 12 minutes. Guest appearances by Eduardo Martinez (The Flaming Sideburns) and Yebo (The Tremolo Beer Gut).

Love Comes Down featured the original Baby Woodrose line-up: Lorenzo Woodrose on guitar/vocals, Fuzz Daddy on drums and The Moody Guru on bass (the two last mentioned also play with Lorenzo in Dragontears and Spids Nøgenhat these days).

11.07.11. – On Trial artwork

In case you wonder how the artwork looks like on all the different On Trial 2×7″s here’s a link showcasing the entire collection of singles

04.07.11 – Spids Nøgenhat live at Roskilde Festival

Spids Nøgenhat played an awesome show at Roskilde Festival last Saturday which was recorded by the National Danish radio who kindly enough have broadcastet it on their website Spids Nøgenhat have the same line-up as Dragontears but they only play songs in Danish. Their sole album “En Mærkelig Kop Te” has just been released again on vinyl in a remixed version on Orpheus and is highly recommendable.

20.06.11. – Roskilde Festival here we come!

As a cool tradition Bad Afro and about 20 other Danish independent labels are sharing a shop in the Yourspace tent at the Roskilde Festival. The tent is placed right next to the Pavillion stage and is easy to find. Here we hang out, sell vinyl and merchandice at cheap prices and generally just having a good time. Here’s your chance to find wild, weird and wonderful music from the Danish underground and beyond.

As a new thing some of the labels are offering free downloads of artists like Telstar Sound Drone, Trust, Spids Nøgenhat, Baby Woodrose, Dragontears, Hjertestop, Cola Freaks, Dolly Rocker Movement, Aron, Rising and many more on soundcloud.

The shop is open 12.00 to 24.00 during warm up and 12.00 to 02.00 during the actual festival. From Sunday June 26th to Sunday July 3rd.

Besides the usual stuff Bad Afro will also be bringing some rare records and merchandice like the very last 10 copies of the otherwise deleted On Trial 2 x 7”, Dragontears – Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!! LP including the 7” and on red vinyl (this version is limited to a 100 copies). There is also the very limited and very cool Bad Afro slipmat and finally there’s a restock of the Bad Afro t-shirts for children that have been sold out for so long. It’s back in these sizes: 1-2 years, 3-4 years, 5-6 years and 9-11 years.

18.06.11 – Telstar Sound Drone live at Drone June 23th

Telstar Sound Drone will be playing their first gig after the release of the Mirror Pieces 7″ on Bad Afro. The concert will take place at Drone Bar in Copenhagen Thursday june 23rd at 22.00. Doors are 21.00. Lorenzo Woodrose will be spinning some obscure psych as DJ and there is free entrance. Below is a new video for Mirror Pieces.

 12.06.11. – Dragontears Roadburn show broadcasted on Dutch radio

The Dutch radio station VPRO recorded one of the Dragontears shows at Roadburn. It’s the concert from the Green Room stage Sunday April 17th. Featuring two Pandemonica songs where especially “Neon Headed Demon” totally kicks ass. This is a recording of the last Dragontears show ever and I already miss them. Fuzz on brothers!!! There are still LP copies available of their debut album 2000 Micrograms From Home (green vinyl) and their second album Tambourine Freak Machine. Their last album Tune In Turn On Fuck Off is sold out for the moment. You can listen to the full show here

06.06.11. The Vambourines – Upcoming 7″ and concert at Drone Bar

In September Bad Afro will release the debut 7” by The Vambourines which is a new Danish duo featuring Line (Drums/Vocals) and Søren (Guitar/Vocals). The band are right now finishing their first album and the first single outtake in shape of “Change in Direction” will be out on Bad Afro with an exclusive b-side.

The Vambourines will play a show at Drone Bar in Copenhagen on Thursday June 9th at 21.00 if you wanna check them out before the release of the 7”. You can listen to a demo version of Change in Direction right here

06.06.11. – On Trial 2×7″ sold out!

The On Trial farewell release is now sold out and deleted. So visit your local vinyl pusher soon if you want a copy. There is a list of online shops listed at the Mailorder & Distribution page. In Copenhagen you can pick it up in Route 66, Soundstation, Repo Man and Insula.

29.05.11. – On Trial and Bad Afro on the radio

Wedsnesday june 1st at 12.00 On Trial will be interviewed on Danish National Radio channel P6 Beat. They have been asked to present their 3 favourite On Trial songs as well as songs from bands they have played with during the years. You can listen here or listen to the podcast later.

On Thursday June 2nd yours truly can be heard on the air on “Mod Strømmen” on Christianshavns Kanal between 18.00 and 20.00. Tune into 98.9 FM or 98.8 Hybrid if you live in Copenhagen. There’s a podcast too here I will be spinning some Bad Afro stuff as well as bands I am listening to right now. Could be Royal Baths, Ghost Rocket, Ty Segall, Blacktop, Baby Woodrose, Goatsnake, Telstar Sound Drone, On Trial, Cosmonauts, Moon Duo, Woods….or something.

27.05.11. – On Trial Forever!!!

Finally got my hands on my share of the On Trial singles today. Wow, some of them are really fantastic. They are all handmade by On Trial and friends (50 of them are made by school girls though) and all 500 copies are different. Packed in a gatefold sleeve with 5 mm spine and including insert signed by each member and it’s handnumbered too. And there’s an On Trial sticker. What’s not to like? The band will be selling them at Loppen when they play their last show on Friday the 3rd of June. No pre-sale so be early.

26.05.11. – 3 releases out on Monday

On Trial – On Trial 2 x 7″, Telstar Sound Drone – Mirror Pieces 7″ and Baby Woodrose – Blows Your Mind LP on purple vinyl is out on Monday May 30th.

23.05.11. – Telstar Sound Drone release party

Telstar Sound Drone will celebrate the release of their new 7″ Mirror Pieces at the bar “Kronborgggade 3″, Kronborgggade 3, 2200 Copenhagen N on Monday May 30th at 19.00. Fuzz Daddy and DJ Nix will be spinning vinyl and there is free beer. www.sounddrone.com

13.05.11. – Baby Woodrose live at Loppen in Copenhagen tomorrow

As a small teaser, here’s a video recorded live at the Helldorado Club in Vitoria in Spain just recently…March 5th 2011 to be exact.

05.05.11. – Blows Your Mind LP back in print soon

The Baby Woodrose debut album Blows Your Mind will be available on vinyl again May 30th. This time on real funky purple vinyl limited to 500 copies. On a personal note I met the guys from Malleus at Roadburn and I got the original Blows Your Mind poster on real thick cardboard….made me happy!!

27.04.11. – The Vambourines 7” coming up

Bad Afro will be releasing a 7” called ”Change in Direction” by The Vambourines. This new Danish duo hails from Lyngby north of Copenhagen and are currently finishing their debut album at Studie 73 in collaboration with Johan Lei Gellett (Baby Woodrose, The Setting Son and many more). We are aiming for a release in September. You can listen to a demo version of “Change in Direction” here

20.04.11. – New Baby Woodrose album out April 25th

The new Baby Woodrose album Mindblowing Seeds and Disconnected Flowers will be released next Monday the 25th of April. Someone at the office must have smoked too much weed the day the release date was set `cause the 25th is a national holiday here in Denmark…..making Bad Afro one of the VERY few labels releasing records when no shops are open. Or rather…one shop is open. Route 66 in Copenhagen will be open extraordinarily between 12 and 16 where you can purchase the LP.

Route 66 is located at Fælledvej 3, 2200 Copenhagen N.

The release party for the album is also taking place the same day at Cafe Svejk, Smallegade 31, 2000 Frederiksberg at 19.00. I have to say it again, they have some of the best beer in town.

19.04.11. – R.I.P. Dragontears

Phew, finally back from Roadburn – at least psysically. Mentally it will probably take awhile before things are normal again. Dragontears played their last concert at the Green Room on Sunday April 17th and did a great show. Below is a video of the Pandemonica song Neon Headed Demon from the above concert. The sound quality could be better as if the recorder couldn’t really cope with the massive sound of 3 screaming guitars. But you’ll get the picture.

14.04.11. – New On Trial and Telstar Sound Drone songs on Myspace

Yeah, everybody hates Myspace…but still, you can now listen to songs from the upcoming On Trial and Telstar Sound Drone 7″ singles on Bad Afro’s myspace profile. On Trial – 13 is Just a Number and Telstar Sound Drone – Mirror Pieces. Check it out here

12.04.11. – Baby Woodrose release party

The release party for the new Baby Woodrose album Mindblowing Seeds and Disconnected Flowers will take place at Cafe Svejk the 25th of April. Uhmm, they have some of the best beer in town. The reception is at 19,00 at Svejk, Smallegade 31, 2000 Frederiksberg.

08.04.11. Mirror Pieces – New 7” by Telstar Sound Drone

Telstar Sound Drone formed in 2007 when Hans Beck convinced Mads Saaby to join him in a project called Les Aprés L’amour Sonnes, an artist collective working with media such as sound and video. The first project was to add sound to old educational movies, playing along with the projections. With the addition of Sean Jardenbæk and Mads Løwe the project turned into a band and settled with the name Telstar Sound Drone.

The band recorded a self-titled EP that led to a show at Roskilde Festival in 2009. After that Telstar Sound Drone took a break while internal problems almost destroyed the band. At one point Hans Beck was the only member of the band playing all the instruments. The problems were solved and in early 2011 they recorded two brand new songs at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen with this single in mind.

Telstar Sound Drone cleverly blend shoegazer, drone and psychedelic rock and even though the noise breaks are quite breathtaking the music is always melodic making this release one of the most promising singles on Bad Afro for a long time. Release = May 30th.

The Telstar Sound Drone line-up is: Sean Jardenbæk (Vocals, Guitar), Mads Løwe (Bass), Mads Saaby (Guitar) and Hans Beck (Drums). The two last mentioned also play in Baby Woodrose.

Listen to Mirror Pieces here: www.telstarsounddrone.com

03.04.11. – Final On Trial release coming up

After more than 25 years on the outskirts of the Danish rock scene On Trial have decided to pull the plug. No more On Trial. On Trial have more than a handful of albums out on labels like Tee Pee, Delerium and Bad Afro and have played their own kind of stonerrock years before the term was even invented. Members of On Trial have also given birth to other projects like Baby Woodrose, Dragontears, Spids Nøgenhat and Aron.

Their final release is a 2×7” including 4 songs. Bolt of Force and No Beginning were recorded some time ago as the first session for a new album that never was finished. 13 is Just a Number and Flaws were recorded only just recently and mark the final On Trial recordings ever.

The single is delivered in a gatefold 7” sleeve and all 500 copies will have unique artwork. On Trial will be silkscreening and painting each individual sleeve so no sleeve will be identical. Destined to become a collectors item on the release day May 30th. No reprint garanteed.

On Trial will play their last show June 3rd 2011 at Loppen in Copenhagen.

27.03.11. – Dragontears Roadburn shows scheduled

The two Dragontears shows at Roadburn have now been scheduled. First show will take place at The Midi Theatre Friday the 16th of April at 20.45. At the Afterburner show the day after Dragontears will play at the Green Room stage at 17.15. Don’t miss it!!

16.03.11. – Spids Nøgenhat to appear at Roskilde Festival 2011

Today Roskilde Festival has announced that Spids Nøgenhat has been confirmed for this years festival. Same line-up as Dragontears: Lorenzo Woodrose, Hobitten, Aron, Fuzz Daddy and Riky Woodrose, but different setlist with mostly Danish lyrics.

11.03.11. – Win tickets for OUTERSPACE II!!

Today the Roskilde Festival has a competition on their webpage where you can win tickets and really nice goody bags from the labels involved in OUTERSPACE II. The event will take place 24th and 25th of March at Stengade in Copenhagen. Thursday the 24th feature The Setting Son, Papir, Green Pitch and A Tree of Night and Friday Obstacles, Radio Saigon, The City Kill and Aron are on the bill. Tickets are 60 DKK each day and doors are 21.00. First band on stage at 22.00 sharp. No pre-sale.

For the past 6 years a group of Danish underground labels have shared a shop at the Roskilde Festival in the Yourspace tent right next to the Pavillion stage. The Yourspace tent functions as a sort of meeting place for musicians, labels and people interested in the alternative part of the Danish music scene. And yes, it’s also a shop with rare vinyl, CDs and all kinds of merchandice.

For the second year in a row 6 of the labels represented in the Yourspace tent hosts the showcase concert OUTERSPACE with bands they wish to have appearing at the Roskilde Festival. OUTERSPACE II are presented by Play/Rec, Red Tape, Bad Afro, Orpheus, Pony Rec and Hjernespind.

03.03.11. – The first reviews are coming in of the upcoming Baby Woodrose album Mindblowing Seeds and Disconnected Flowers. Here’s a nice one from Richard Allen in the new issue of Shindig – one of the coolest magazines around today.

“Lorenzo the drummer of Danish Psychedelic Rock band ‘On Trial’ – who contributed some of their best songs – was having a pretty rough time in 1999. Fearing the demise of his band, with no girlfriend and no place to go, he ended up crashing on the couch at the house of his friend, and fellow On Trial member Hobbit. Experimenting with some Hawaiian Baby Woodrose seeds (a natural psychedelic) he had a vision which inspired a new project. Baby Woodrose the band, was the result and has since recorded some of the best neo-garage psychedelia of the last 20 years. This album compiles their first demos, recorded solo on a small multi-track tape recorder by Lorenzo in the autumn of 1999. It’s some of the most soulful and passionate garage rock you are ever likely to hear, filled with dramatic power and a singular fuzz rock vision, that was born from a moment of pure inspiration”.

25.02.2011. – Baby Woodrose is now on bandcamp. Here you can listen to songs from all the Baby Woodrose albums as well as Lorenzo Woodrose sideprojects like Dragontears and Spids Nøgenhat. Also, the three very rare Pandemonica albums and the 12” are now available for download for the first time on the bandcamp site. Pandemonica was a Lorenzo Woodrose solo project which he recorded from 1993 to 1996. Equally as interesting is the three Baby Woodrose download-only albums called Unreleased Rarities 1, 2 and 3. They includie alternative mixes, outtakes, demos + rare stuff by Dragontears, Spids Nøgenhat and On Trial. Finally, therë’s also the Unreleased Realities download-only album which ended up as the soundtrack to the experimental movie Strange Artifacts of the Celebral Cortex. Bandcamp allows you to listen to the full songs before you decide if you wanna download and the word on the street is that bandcamp will become a serious contender to Myspace – who seem to be dying because of their own incompetence.

18.02.11 – OUTERSPACE II

For the past 6 years a group of Danish underground labels have shared a shop at the Roskilde Festival in the Yourspace tent right next to the Pavillion stage. The Yourspace tent functions as a sort of meeting place for musicians, labels and people interested in what is going on in the alternative part of the Danish music scene. And yes, it is also a shop with vinyl, CDs and all kinds of merchandice.

For the second time in a row 6 of the labels represented in the Yourspace tent hosts a showcase concert with bands they wish to have appearing on the Roskilde Festival. In 2011 it will be a 2 two day event with 4 bands playing each night. The shows will take place at Stengade in Copenhagen Thursday 24th and Friday 25th of March. Doors are 21.00 and first band will be on stage at 22.00. Entrance is 60 DKK each day and there is no presale. The labels behind this event are Play/Rec, Red Tape, Bad Afro, PonyRec, Orpheus and Hjernespind. Check flyer for bands appearing – this year including two Bad Afro bands; Radio Saigon and The Setting Son.

14.02.11. – Dragontears played their last shows in Denmark this weekend. The full show from Aalborg 11.02.11. can now be found at the Dragontears “artists” page.

11.02.11. – It’s now possible to download music from Bad Afro AND support charity at the same time…..and you decide the price! 25% will go to charity. Check it out here: http://www.fairtrademusic.eu Includes albums from Baby Woodrose, The Defectors, The Setting Son, Dragontears, The Dolly Rocker Movement and On Trial.

10.02.11. – Baby Woodrose will be playing shows in Spain, Germany and Denmark the next couple of months. Here are the dates:

03.03.11 – Gruta 77, Madrid, Spain

04.03.11 – Sixties Rock Weekend, Castellon, Spain

05.03.11 – Helldorado, Vitoria, Spain

15.03.11 – Peter Weiss Haus, Rostock, Germany

16.03.11 – Rosenkeller, Jena, Germany

17.03.11 – Underground, Cologne, Germany

18.03.11 – Nachtleben, Frankfurt, Germany

19.03.11 – Lila Eule, Bremen, Germany

25.03.11 – Huset, Aalborg, Denmark (Lorenzo solo)

29.04.11 – Kulisselageret, Horsens, Denmark

13.05.11 – Rytmeposten, Odense, Denmark

14.05.11 – Loppen, Copenhagen, Denmark