This week's GIF brings the smackdown. Sometimes you just need Perfecto! and Ders to put someone in their place. And there's two girls falling into a funky wormhole.
From the video for "Georgio" off of the fabulous EP You Can't Run From The Rhythm.
Mark Dippel is a man of many hats, and when he is not handling Joyful's mail orders, he is working on his own music and preparing for his live shows.
Joyful Nick: What have you been listening to this week?
Marl Dippel: "WHAM! - Make It Big"
JN: Tell us a little about what your role is at Joyful Noise.
MD: "I do the Joyful Noise & Lil Bub mail orders and after that I help out with the rest of the fulfillment."
JN: What makes Joyful Noise special to you?
MD: "I've wanted to be in the music industry my whole life, and once I got hired on here at Joyful Noise it was the first time I had really been all the way in the business, so that is something special to me"
JN: What's the craziest thing that has happened in the mail room?
MD: "I got to put together the joyful noise gift bag for George Clinton!"
JN: If you had to describe yourself with a sandwich, how many pickles would it have?
MD: "ZERO! It wouldn't even be on the plate or in the same kitchen, and I'd prefer if they weren't in the same state."
JN: What was the last dream you had?
MD: "It was probably something to do with moving the warehouse"
JN: What kind of car fits your current mood?
MD: "The Back to the Future DeLorean"
JN: How did you get started making music?
MD: "My very first start was enjoying the middle school band, and from there I just kept learning more instruments and music and kept working on it from 6th grade on" You can listen to him on his SoundCloud here:
Thanks to Mark for all the work he's done and the chance to talk to him!
And the powerful. Big Business's latest single "Blacker Holes" from their upcoming release has us pinned against an alley wall, screaming, "I don't need your money. I just want to fuck you up."
They totally can and they totally will with music like this. Giving us the bass business is what they do best, and "Blacker Holes" is a nice return to basics for the duo, harkening back to the best of Kyuss and Nomeansno while managing to equal anything released in the Stoner-Rock genre for the last two decades.Stay tuned for more of the best loudness from Big Business.
Listen at your own risk. The test pressings did this:
In case you missed it, our buds at Tiny Mix Tapes premiered a video from the forthcoming collaboration between our friends and faves Jad Fair (of Half-Japanese), Hifiklub, and kptmichigan (you might know him as Michael Beckett). It's always nice to see people as excited as we are about the artists we love!
The song combined with Jad Fair's original animation feels like a live video feed into a David Lynch daydream. Just pour the man some more coffee already, geez.
Happy official first week of summer! This gif makes me wanna break out the grill!
From Kishi Bashi's video for "The Ballad of Mr. Steak" from the album "Lighght".
Returning to JNR with their second full-length LP is Dumb Numbers! This super group of sorts thrives on existing in flux. Featuring Adam Harding with such collaborators as: Lou Barlow (Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jr),Dale Crover (Melvins/Nirvana), David Yow (The Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid), Murph (Dinosaur Jr) and Bobb Bruno (Best Coast).
The album is an ambient journey through a foggy forest filled with discarded televisions and abandoned grunge mix tapes. The album is out August 19th and is available on standard black or an awesome purple LP, CD, or digital. The VIP edition, limited to 500 copies, comes with blue and magenta swirled vinyl, and includes a 7" with a track from Dinosaur Jrs Murph not available anywhere else.
Brooklyn Vegan just premiered the track "Girl On The Screen" and called it "a hazy dose of shoegazy rock." Check it out below!
From Surfer Blood's video for "Grand Inquisitor" from the album "1000 Palms".
This Saturday, CJ Boyd, Mark Dippel and Benny Sanders hit the stage at Joyful Noise's Murphy Building space!
CJ Boyd's most recent album, Precariat, was released in 2014. Live, Boyd has been immersing his audiences in an ocean of sound using stand-up bass and bass guitar loops as well as vocals for the past 8 years. Improv as well a variety of songs from his career are used to entrance audiences all over. Recently he was touring on the same bill as Sister Grotto, traversing the East Coast. In August he will be touring the west with his band Curve Choir and he has an upcoming tour where he will be playing bass for Chicharra. He says that if he was ice cream, the type of M&M he would want used to top him is black walnut. The wall of ambient sounds he creates is sure to engulf your being in a unique live experience.
Supporting Boyd is Indianapolis's own Mark Dippel. When not fulfilling mail orders at Joyful Noise HQ, Mark uses his guitar to save immigrants from hoards of pigeons. His music can be heard here.
Fountain Square legend Benny Sanders is also performing. Benny's a fan of Australian accents and says that if he was stranded on an island and could only eat one type of food he would top his Dutch baby pancakes with scallions and chorizo. Focusing more on visual art recently, his solo shows have been rare as of late. For this show he's going to be playing the songs he's written that he can remember, but there's a good chance you'll hear "My Favorite Tree", which is about a tree in Fountain Square. Thanks to his new guitar that will be , you have no need to worry about potentially perilous porcupine invasions at this show! His music is available for streaming and download on Music Family Tree.
Mark Dippel
Benny Sanders
Today we release the debut album from Saqqara Mastabas! This is a new project from Matthew Friedburger (The Fiery Furnaces) and Bob D'Amico (Sebadoh and The Fiery Furnaces). We are excited to bring to you the album "Libras," which is presently available on LP, CD, and digital.
This is an experimental and fun record filled with manic energy, weirdo mythology, and inspired sound landscapes. Now available in the JNR store. Give it a listen below:
We are very excited to announce this very special release: a brand new composition by Thurston Moore, created in collaboration with the Bernie Sanders campaign. Titled "Feel It In Your Guts," the track is a twelve-string acoustic piece laced with excerpts from Bernie Sanders' speeches, touching on topics like the worship of money, economic inequality, social justice, and the need for basic human rights for all people. (Arranged and mixed by our buddy Mike Bridavsky.) 
The release is limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies on square, white flexi-disc vinyl, with screenprinted cover art by David Kloc.
You can get yours today here: joyfulnoi.se/thurstonandbernie
Why do you have to jump through these hoops to order?
You see, we wanted this to be a benefit release, but Joyful Noise is a company... and that means Bernie won't accept a check from us. True story. So, we can't merely sell you the release and pass the donation to Bernie. Instead, you have to follow the ordering instructions and make a direct contribution to the campaign, prove you've donated by uploading a screenshot, and then proceed to checkout and claim your free limited edition flexi-disc.
