MAGIK MARKERS - HOLY SHIT!

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This band is so raging, has anybody else heard them? The lead singer was railing about like some lunatic hotdog gobbler what with her guitar smashing and kook-screeching, etc while leggy girl decides between prissy school girl or jilted ex-lover tearing the shit out of your face while sweet Pete Nolan pounds out drum construction like JC tied to a metronome. Pretty much bands 1-10 on my top ten list for this week. And Byron C. is going to put out their next LP? Fuck yes.

― Chad Channing, Friday, 15 October 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yah, they played live on my radio show, it was the rats. old cassettes are boss, but really quietly recorded. cdr on slippytown sparklin like diamonds in my brain.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 15 October 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that shit. I NKOW.

― IAMIAMIAM, Saturday, 16 October 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.magikmarkers.com/mother.jpg

Friday June 24th
10pm

MAGIK MARKERS
WATERSPORTS

the Tonic
107 Norfolk St
New York, NY

― Russell (Russell), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

tell them to come to new orleans and play at quintron's

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

snappy has a crush on elisa.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

She's smoking out the spider behind the Guggenheim in Bilbao up there.

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

listening now. this is dreadful - why is this good?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

It isn't.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

BECAUSE ITS AWESOME! DUHHHH!

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

see live show.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

it's the most i-dont-give-a-fuck music around right now. they're a shameless glorious mess. what's not to like?

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

i really enjoyed them when they opened for dinosaur jr.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I love the album, just pure spontaneous energy and no fear of failure.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

cutty remark seconded. if i hadn't seen them first, i would never have vouched for them. what i've heard recorded is just awful though. how could I Trust My Guitar etc. have been recorded at Rare Book Room and come out so hideous?

― b8a, Thursday, 11 August 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.poptones.co.uk/interviews/qod_magik.htm

they rule! fuck the numbers, the markers all the way!

― doomie x, Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

doing atp!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

see live show.

-- cutty (holle...), August 10th, 2005.

Yeah, cutty's right -- I'm indifferent about the releases, but seeing them at ArthurFest was a trip.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

doing atp!

twice!

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

see 'em more than thrice, yeah

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

"doing their guitars"
twice!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Magik Markers are horribly overrated. All hype, nothing of sonic interest. I mean, come on, compare them to a million other noise rock bands out there. It's just Sonic Youth followed by music journo types hyping this band. OMG they bled on stage! I'd rather see Gwar for real entertainment.

Though they're young, I suppose there's always room for improvement.

― Dare (Dare), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

trofl

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's just Sonic Youth followed by music journo types hyping this band.

Oh my.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

it's not so much about the blood as it is the semen.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if they can actually play chords or anything. That would be pretty funny yet cool if they couldn't.

Either way, one of the best live acts I've seen in the last couple years.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do those girls ever get naked on stage? I'd pay to see that at least.

― Dan Abraham, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, you should probably try Afrirampo or AIDS Wolf for your noizeploitation kicks.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Girl's hot; band sucks

― Reggie, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's my point. Guys get excited cause it's girlz noize. When I saw them live, they looked completely lost on stage, like, 'uh, how many ways can I vary hitting the guitar with my fist? Maybe I'll stomp on it!' There's a sort of virtuosic familiarity that even noise musicians develop with their instrument, and these kids don't have it. Go for the theatrics, if you like.

― Dare (Dare), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

what you are confusing as a lack of virtuosity is in fact an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT form of said technicianship.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 19 January 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

shawoman

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ned, I saw you watching them at Arthurfest! I was watching you, watching them! You were 7 rows in front of me! I didn't say "hello"!

― San Carlos, Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

AIDS Wolf gave me AIDS but Gang Wizard gangraped me

― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 19 January 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

y'all are just sexist. girls noise differently than boys.

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Thursday, 19 January 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say "hello"!

Then you is a punk! (Say hi next time gawdammit.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 January 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand

i have no idea what this title means but this album actually sounds awesome. clean, even

― Rizz (Rizz), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I'm reviewing this for my radio station right now. It's definitely the best recording of theirs so far (and I've heard pretty much all of them). The production isn't so shitty and they actually sound somewhere near as powerful as they are live on disc for once.

― methanie tanner, Tuesday, 14 February 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

for the comedy and range of fun voices (and belgians chanting "bleed bleed bleed"), the Live in Belgium CD-R is also good. plus i actually can say that i listen to the second track on it, probably about once a week.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

I fucking love 'I Trust My Guitar Etc', and am hugely looking forward to seeing them live on Thursday. So there.

― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 7 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think they're playing on Thursday.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

They totally are:

http://myspace-726.vo.llnwd.net/00683/62/74/683004726_m.jpg

At Bunkers Hill, Nottingham, UK. £4 advance. Bargain.

http://myspace-726.vo.llnwd.net/00683/62/74/683004726_l.jpg = larger image.

― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 7 May 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well, good! Enjoy yourself.

― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Sunday, 7 May 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

Will do. Lightning Bolt (w/ Blood Red Shoes and Lords (UK Lords that is)) as well, two days after. It's a good week.

― boney (b0n3y), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

"I Trust My Boobs And Vagina To Sell Records, Etc".

― Tam Arden, Monday, 8 May 2006 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Just saw them last night. The last song blew my socks off!!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Very excited about the show tonight!

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

From the Ecstatic Peace website:

June 16, 2006
From Elisa: "The bets are in that the month long US Pillage Tour won't last more than a week and a half, and we're hoping to beat the spread. With stridently pro-gay rights roughneck trio Lambsbread, the online-slots-addicted Markers plan a swath of rust and airplane glue fueled invection to pay back their gambling debts, with 'vitamin shots' from their own Dr. Feelgood, Steve Gunn of GHQ. Tastemaker David 'D' Arby' Keenan had this to say of the 'Bread: 'amphetamine-hyped Mainliner gobbling speed-balls of beaming white light' and one kid this one time was like, '...whoa, I didn't know they were playing no fun.' But play they did, lathering the beer-gummed masses into an intense, stomping ecstasis and speeding up Schumann Resonance with just one show. The Magik Markers: well, we think some douchebag on a message board said it best when he posted, '"I Trust my Boobs and Vagina to sell Records, etc."' Amen Brother! So put on your leather shorts, fasten up your Antares Auto-Tune Pitch Correcting Plug-In, wheel yourself down to your local BPOE and catch Pillage Fever. Catch it!"

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 6 July 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ha-ha!!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 6 July 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's not too surprising, since a member of MM apparently showed up on this thread and responded to my assessment of the one show I saw:

DC tonight: NOISE AGAINST FACISM

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 7 July 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

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They never start to surprise me. New kids, old noise.

― Nubbelverbrennung, Friday, 19 October 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

all the things i looked for in Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex = BOSS

― rizzx, Friday, 19 October 2007 08:32 (eighteen years ago)

Lee Ranaldo has turned Thee Magik Markers into a 3rd rate Cat Power. Those drums sound like cardboard boxes.

― Homework Undone, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but they've now perfectly ressurected the spirit of 1985.

This sounds intriguing. How is it like 1985?

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 19 October 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

This band is so raging

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 October 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

yo kyle in response to your comment of many years ago they are playing NO tomorrow

― adam, Saturday, 20 October 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Homework Undone--did Lee record the album? I'm not being a prick...I really don't know.

― brightscreamer, Saturday, 20 October 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― dmr, Saturday, 20 October 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

BOSS

― dmr, Friday, 23 November 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

fuckin love this album

― dmr, Friday, 23 November 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I am the secular pentecost / squeezing out the blue snake

― dmr, Friday, 23 November 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

That's about pooping.

― Homework Undone, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Boss is great. Get the vinyl dave?

― ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

lo-fi handmade covers with semi-gloss photo inesrt = intentionally funny?

― ian, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Is the vinyl out already?!

― brightscreamer, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

Get the vinyl dave?

not yet but i will. (yes it's out)

― dmr, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

BOUCE

― chinchillas they can fit on gorillas, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 22:32 (seventeen years ago)

THNAK U FOR THIS REVIVE

― wilter, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

― rizzx, Thursday, 15 May 2008 06:41 (seventeen years ago)

yes, yes, and yes...i will never understand all this, "its just this" talk. confusion is sex is only 30odd minutes..you don't want more?! esp if its not that at all?! pulling boss out for todays walk

― bb, Thursday, 15 May 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)

i wish Rick Ross was on this album though

Controversial change of direction for new Magik Markers album:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025SAA.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 15 May 2008 13:23 (seventeen years ago)

the first three tracks on this absolutely slay

― chinchillas they can fit on gorillas, Thursday, 15 May 2008 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

can anyone point me to free MM live mp3s online? having a hard time finding any

― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 16:38 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

The Lighter Side of ... Hippies

― dmr, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

BONFIRE has some HOT LICKS

― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 13 November 2013 21:21 (twelve years ago)

TASTY LICKS AT THAT

― the haxan 5 (get bent), Thursday, 14 November 2013 04:05 (twelve years ago)

I love the current Markers action, they are just a great band.

Pretty good interview with Elisa in Rookie Mag of all things (no slight, just don't read it much and this is the first time I have been pointed their way for a weirdo music thing): http://rookiemag.com/2013/11/magik-markers-mirrorless/

― grandavis, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:21 (twelve years ago)

This album feels....really pro forma how

I want an Elisa solo album ala Jim Morrison's An American Prayer, where it's mostly just voice

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:27 (twelve years ago)

Haven't even heard the record yet, just relating to the last few shows I have seen, which I loved. Gotta go listen to the record I guess.

― grandavis, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:31 (twelve years ago)

new album is killer

― tylerw, Monday, 25 November 2013 23:47 (twelve years ago)

raymond, have you heard the 200 Years records..? Elisa & Ben Chasney, mostly vocals & acoustic guitar. really nice. they were great live, too.

― ian, Tuesday, 26 November 2013 02:34 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

really like 200 years thanks for mentioning that i didnt know it existed. still need to hear the new 1

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 02:40 (twelve years ago)

ten months pass...

Man, Elisa's new record is great. Not sure what I was expecting, but kind of hits on everything I would hope she would get up to on a solo record. Catchy as hell but some really cool moves to dig into as well.

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/stream-elisa-ambrogios-debut-full-length-the-immoralisthttp://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/stream-elisa-ambrogios-debut-full-length-the-immoralist

― grandavis, Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:43 (eleven years ago)

Yep, loving this. Of course, Elisa can do no wrong in this house.

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:54 (eleven years ago)

Hah yeah Elisa is the greatest. I mean, watching her play guitar live is one of my favorite show experiences in the world, as she is an alchemist and magician and I have no idea how she does it but it is astounding every time. So cool to see the songwriting side manifest itself so well too though.

― grandavis, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:01 (eleven years ago)

This album is so, so, so good.

― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:55 (eleven years ago)

I like it better than the last couple MM albums for sure, need to spend more time with it.

Funny, when I reviewed the last MM I openly begged for Elisa to do a solo joint, then she totally DID.

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 24 October 2014 01:58 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

new one (out in a few weeks i think) sounds great! all over the place, but all killer.

― tylerw, Thursday, 1 October 2020 16:09 (five years ago)

Wild thread! Hadn't seen! Glad for new album, and here's a brief review-as-preview I wrote in 2010 for Columbus OH altweekly long ago:
The Magik Markers
3/23 @ The Summit
“America’s past pays America’s rent,” Elisa Ambroglio sneers amidst the lost highway traffic of Balf Quarry, the Magic Markers’ current album. Familiar images and sounds of rebellion are too easy to fall into. So the Markers trace a place where sludge keeps speeding up, punk and metal elements turn pop and back, while busts of gutless dreamers seem headed for the mirror. The tension continues as Ambroglio’s voice and guitar spell out the lottery slogan, ”You can’t win/If you don’t play”, like a neon sign in the smog.
Woody G salutes you, Markers!

― dow, Thursday, 1 October 2020 17:31 (five years ago)

stoked, i didnt know abt the recent ep either

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 1 October 2020 18:00 (five years ago)

Indeed -- also, they've been going nuts with Bandcamp Fridays putting up both tons of their old out of print CDRs and otherwise unreleased and/or side project efforts via their Arbitrary Signs label:

https://arbitrarysigns.bandcamp.com/

Plenty to dig into! Presumably they'll be adding more tomorrow.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 October 2020 18:15 (five years ago)

Yesss stoked to check all that new shit out. Magik Markers keep it lit

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Saturday, 3 October 2020 16:54 (five years ago)

That Dream (Shitty Beach) is such a rugged lil jam i keep that one on repeat for a while

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Saturday, 3 October 2020 17:00 (five years ago)

one month passes...

^^^ - rizzx otm, this was already really good, but that pushed the album to a new level. Loving this.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 15:24 (five years ago)

Yay...the album starts off great like that with a couple of hazy burners until it leads to the shitty beach where they roll around in the sand and it gets in their guitars and they have a great time. Still taking in the sweeter parts of the album, they haven't clicked as much for me

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Thursday, 5 November 2020 09:05 (five years ago)

Headphones! I find myself dancing along to Find You Ride and kitchen pogoing to That Dream while the rest of the album is great to zone out to. Headphones!

― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Thursday, 5 November 2020 09:45 (five years ago)

two months pass...

this is pretty much sold out everywhere on vinyl already

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 January 2021 18:57 (four years ago)

i bet drag city will press more ... man, what a great record, though!

― tylerw, Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:12 (four years ago)

yeah I respect that Drag City doesn't play games with creating artificial scarcity, like for ex. when they repressed Purple Mountains as fast as they could

oldies.com has 8 copies left after I ordered

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 January 2021 19:26 (four years ago)

one month passes...

2020 is such a perfect rock record for these times, all weird and insular and shut-in and downbeat

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:59 (four years ago)

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