
Death from Above 1979
Death from Above 1979 made an immediate splash upon debuting in 2004 with You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. Bassist/synth player Jesse F. Keeler and drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger hail from Toronto, where they met and formed Death from Above in 2001. (The "1979" was added later, after a spat with U.S.-based music collective DFA.) Without a guitarist -- or any other bandmember, for that matter -- Keeler and Grainger were free to push their rhythmic sound as far as it would go, and they eventually arrived at a severely overdriven rush of punk, {\hip-hop...[more]
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#69 Seller of 2005! Of course there have been two-piece bands before: Simon and Garfunkel, the Chemical Brothers, the Carpenters, Sonny and Cher. But it's fair to say that none of these previous two-pieces have managed to make quite as much noise with as little instrumentation as Death From Above 1979. Death From Above 1979 are two friends who met in prison -- Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger -- who live in a funeral parlor in Toronto. To hear them on record, it's hard to believe that the only instrum [ read more ]
CD $13.99
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The follow up to their Heads Up EP and a precursor to their full-length due in August 2004. The Toronto duo -- Sebastien Grainger on vocals/drums and Jesse F. Keeler on bass and synth -- bequeath us with three songs and one mega-hot re-re-re-remix. Tight as hell, freaking loud, with a groove that makes us want to get dirty. This is our kind of new wave punk.
CD $8.99
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Romance Bloody Romance features remixes and 2 b-sides from DFA79's debut album You're A Woman, I'm A Machine, featuring Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Phones, Erol Alkan, Alan Braxe, MSTRKRFT (Jesse from Death From Above 1979) and more. TRACKLIST: Better Off Dead (La Peste cover) // Blood On Our Hands (Justice Remix) // Romantic Right (Erol Alkan's Love From Below Re-Edit) // Black History Month (Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix) // Little Girl (MSTRTKRFT Edition) // Romantic Right [ read more ]
CD $14.99
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ONE BASSIST AND ONE DRUMMER; LOUD ENOUGH TO MOVE THINGS IN YOUR PANTS. The first offering from Toronto's Death From Above has been captured on this overloaded CD. Featuring members of Femme Fatale, these six songs will pummel you with rock 'n' roll intensity while making you lick the dance floor at a Stooges show. Hear two instruments make sounds louder then any 4-piece band ever could. Hear tales of lost friends, sluts, and cocaine. Hear pop music get stripped naked, smashed to pieces, and reassembled into [ read more ]
CDep $9.99
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This is a 12" x 18" Death from Above 1979 poster on 100 lb matte stock for the October 13, 2005 show with Mean Reds and Illuminati at the El Rey Theater. Designed by Ivan Minsloff.
Poster $19.99
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Of course there have been two-piece bands before: Simon and Garfunkel, the Chemical Brothers, the Carpenters, Sonny and Cher. But it's fair to say that none of these previous two-pieces have managed to make quite as much noise with as little instrumentation as Death From Above 1979. Death From Above 1979 are two friends who met in prison -- Jesse F. Keeler and Sebastien Grainger -- who live in a funeral parlor in Toronto. To hear them on record, it's hard to believe that the only instruments (with the excep [ read more ]
MP3 $9.99
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Death From Above 1979 makes their considerable racket with only bass, drums, and the occasional Moog squelch assist. This isn't a gimmick -- between Sebastien Grainger's frantic wail and the overdriven bass riffs of Jesse F. Keeler, the duo's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine pulses with a steady, sweaty energy that's punctuated with arena-sized hooks. "Blood on Our Hands" boils dance-punk nearly all the way down, leaving only a relentless hi-hat cymbal, while "Turn It Out" and {&"Cold W [ read more ]
CD $22.78
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Death From Above 1979 makes their considerable racket with only bass, drums, and the occasional Moog squelch assist. This isn't a gimmick -- between Sebastien Grainger's frantic wail and the overdriven bass riffs of Jesse F. Keeler, the duo's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine pulses with a steady, sweaty energy that's punctuated with arena-sized hooks. "Blood on Our Hands" boils dance-punk nearly all the way down, leaving only a relentless hi-hat cymbal, while "Turn It Out" and {&"Cold W [ read more ]
CD $39.88
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With You're a Woman, I'm a Machine and the resulting run of sweaty live shows Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler proved that Death from Above 1979's bass/Moog/drums/vocals setup fulfills both sides of the dance-punk hyphenate. So it's no surprise that Romance Bloody Romance is more intent on reinterpretation -- on showing off the diversity of the source material -- than offering straight remixes exclusively for dancing. There are four versions each of "Romantic Rights" and {&"Bla [ read more ]
CD $23.73