Daily Thompson Post Cover and Release Date for Chuparosa LP

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 11th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

Not a ton of info here, but I don’t suppose there actually needs to be. You might recall this past December when German good-time-grunge heavy rockers Daily Thompson traveled to the far end of the US to record their sixth full-length, the title of which has been announced as Chuparosa, in Washington State with Tony Reed of Mos Generator producing. Noisolution will have the album out May 17, and that’s about the long and short of it.

Last heard from with later-2022’s Live at Freak Valley, the trio’s most recent studio offering was 2021’s God of Spinoza (review here), for which they’ve barely let up in terms of supporting it live. 2022 and 2023 were threads of successive tours, and even unto last Fall as they prepared to head abroad to record, they still found time to hit the UK for a string of shows and do club dates and festivals in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. To say they’ve put in their work would be underselling it.

There’s no audio from Chuparosa yet — the album taking its title from the shrub native to the Sonoran Desert — but most likely there will be before May 17, along with preorders and sundry other details/whatnot about it. The band posted the following on social media the other day, including the cover art with its photo by Jonas Wenz, who seems to have traveled with them at least in part to document the experience of making the record.

Here’s what they had to say, plus links and audio for further digging:

Daily Thompson Chuparosa

New record alert! Happy to present planet earth the cover of our new album „CHUPAROSA“

Out May 17th! 🌺🌲engineered and mastered by Tony Reed / HeavyHead Recording Company , cover photo by Jonas Wenz and layout by Florian Grass

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Daily Thompson, Live at Freak Valley 2022 (2022)

Daily Thompson, God of Spinoza (2021)

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Daily Thompson Finish Recording New Album

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 6th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

Daily Thompson (photo by Jonas Wenz)

Social media came through to warm the heart toward the end of last week as German heavy rockers Daily Thompson, who look like they’re having actual human fun while they’re playing and might actually be, traveled to Washington State way the hell in the far corner of the US to record their next full-length with none other than Tony Reed.

Ah, what could be better news? Good band doing the destination-recording thing with the guy who’s been fronting Mos Generator since the turn of the century and whose pedigree includes not only his own outfits Stone Axe, Twelve Thirty Dreamtime, Big Scenic Nowhere, on and on, but whose recording credits also involve the likes of Saint Vitus and Seedy Jeezus. A feather in the cap of any producer to have artists want to travel to work with you.

Daily Thompson spent six days in the studio following up 2022’s God of Spinoza (review here). I have no idea of Reed is mixing and/or mastering — one-stop shopping — or when the just-recorded offering might see release. They did have the Live at Freak Valley 2022 live album out this year. So next year for the next thing, presumably, and fair enough.

Before they leave the States, Daily Thompson will join Mos Generator and Kitsa on stage this Friday for a show that will obviously have some special significance to all involved in addition to being a good time. If you’re lucky enough to be anywhere near Port Orchard this weekend, it’s one to keep in mind.

The band announced they were finished thusly:

Daily Thompson (photo by Jonas Wenz)

6 days, 1 album, a super happy band and @tony_reed2112 ❤️‍🔥⚡️

We finished the recordings for our new album! So much happened and we can’t wait to tell you but for now we are very pleased and we are more than ready for this new chapter! Man what a journey and we still have this gig with Mos Generator and KITSA this Friday 🇺🇸🤯
Special thanks to @apl_recording

All pics by Jonas Wenz

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Daily Thompson, Live at Freak Valley 2022 (2022)

Daily Thompson, God of Spinoza (2022)

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Daily Thompson Start UK & European Tour Next Week

Posted in Whathaveyou on September 22nd, 2023 by JJ Koczan

daily thompson

Oh that? That’s just German good-vibes heavy rockers Daily Thompson heading out again for another two and a half weeks of touring. You know how they do.

The trio will hit up the UK this time supporting The Atomic Bitchwax — am I crazy thinking these two bands have toured together before? — and making stops through Sound of Liberation-related fests Up in Smoke in Switzerland, Keep it Low in Munich and Lazy Bones at Hamburg, where they’ll wrap the run. It’s the umpteenth tour or at least the fourth that the group have undertaken since the release last year of their God of Spinoza (review here) long-player, which they followed quickly with a live album recorded at last summer’s Freak Valley Festival (review here), titled suitably Live at Freak Valley 2022.

I may forever associate their friendly grooves with summer sunshine after seeing that set, but I have no doubt they do just fine in an autumnal context as well. And guess what? It’s more October tour dates! Who’d’ve thought?

From socials:

daily thompson euro uk

We`re ready when you are!

Next week the first leg of our Europe and UK tour starts and we are super happy to support The Atomic Bitchwax and play some rad festivals (every single line up rocks and we are thrilled to be part of it)

All tickets are up for sale: https://linktr.ee/tickets_dailythompson_live

These are our last shows for 2023, let`s party!

28.09. NL Nijmegen, Doornrosje*
29.09. NL Rotterdam, Baroeg*
30.09. CH Pratteln, Up In Smoke
06.10. DE München, Keep It Low
14.10. UK Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach*
15.10. UK Manchester, Rebellion*
16.10. UK Edinburgh, Bannermans*
17.10. UK Newcastle, Anarchy Brew Co*
18.10. UK Huddersfield, The Parish*
19.10. UK Milton Keynes, The Craufurd Arms*
20.10. UK Bristol, Lost Horizon*
21.10. UK London, Dingwalls*
24.10. DE Berlin, Cassiopeia*
25.10. DE Düsseldorf, Pitcher*
26.10. NL Amersfoort, Podium Fluor*
27.10. DE Fulda, Kreuz*
28.10. DE Hamburg, Lazy Bones Festival
*with TAB

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Daily Thompson, Live at Freak Valley 2022 (2022)

Daily Thompson, God of Spinoza (2022)

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Up in Smoke 2023 Makes First Lineup Announcement

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 31st, 2023 by JJ Koczan

Some pretty good inferences one might make looking at the first lineup announcement for Up in Smoke 2023, the annual Sound of Liberation festival held each year in Pratteln, Switzerland. It says The Obsessed will be on tour in Europe this Fall, which I’m pretty sure they’ve said anyway, but it might also be a clue as to the release of their next album. On the other hand, they might just be fucking touring because they’re The Obsessed and that’s what they do. Also it’s further expansion of Alabama Thunderpussy‘s reunion and since this festival is Sep. 29 to Oct. 1 and their prior confirmation was Keep it Low from Oct. 6 to 7, they’ll likely be on the road in Europe for the better part of at least two weeks. That’s not nothing.

Consider also Yawning Man heading abroad in Fall for their new album, announced yesterday. And did you hear that Dirty Sound Magnet record? I didn’t until now but it’s a ripper. New school oldschool blues heavy. Rad. And Eyehategod getting back at it too. It’s a cool bill, mix of newer acts and recognizable with Zeal & Ardor on top nothing to complain about.

Of course, there’s more to come here, but hell, I’d go to this. You? Festival in Switzerland in October? Why on earth would you say no to that?

Also note there’s a new Facebook page for the fest. From the PR wire:

Up in smoke 2023 first announcement second version

UP IN SMOKE 2023 – ZEAL & ARDOR, GRAVEYARD, THE OBSESSED & MANY MORE ANNOUNCED

Hey Smokers, the long awaited day has come. We’re stoked to finally reveal the first names for our 2023 edition. We hope you like it as much as we do!

Get ready for three days of finest heavy rock music… this is just the beginning.

Artwork: Brookesia Estudio

Festival info:
Up In Smoke Festival
29. Sep – 01. Oct 2023
@ Konzertfabrik Z7 // Pratteln (CH)

Tickets: www.sol-tickets.com

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1511229892691120/

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https://www.instagram.com/up_in_smoke_festival

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Dirty Sound Magnet, DSM-III (2022)

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Lazy Bones Festival 2023 Makes First Lineup Announcement

Posted in Whathaveyou on March 17th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

Last year was the first Lazy Bones Festival in Hamburg, Germany. Put on by Sound of Liberation — which also maintains Keep it Low in Munich and Up in Smoke in Switzerland while featuring artists on their booking roster prominently at Desertfest Belgium — it’s set for Oct. 28 and if the first eight names were the entire lineup, it would be an all-dayer well worth traveling to see. Elder and King BuffaloGreenleaf and The Atomic BitchwaxSlomosaDaily Thompson, and Gnome. Any one of those bands, on their own, is a good night.

Together, they make up what is referred to below as a “first batch,” so I guess there’s more coming. I’ll keep an eye out for a second one, to be sure, because in looking at this I’m not entirely certain what else you might need. Shit, this lineup should just tour. Package touring fests have to be due for a comeback, don’t they? Put these acts on the road for a couple weeks in the summer hitting major markets and I bet the shows sell out. You could do five dates in Germany alone.

As of now, however, it’s Hamburg-only. Info follows as per the PR wire:

Lazy Bones Festival 2023 first poster

LAZY BONES FEST in Hamburg Announces ELDER, KING BUFFALO, GREENLEAF, SLOMOSA & many more!

2023 will see the LAZY BONES FEST return to Hamburg, Germany, with an eclectic line-up that doubles down all expectations within the heavy stoner, psych, doom and fuzz rock scene! While the first edition of the indoor festival, presented by SOUND OF LIBERATION, was taking place in the summer of 2022 at Grünspan, LAZY BONES FEST has moved to iconic venue Markthalle in Hamburg.

A first batch of bands has just been announced, and October 28th will see the following, high class line-up rocking the stage of LAZY BONES FEST 2023:

Elder
King Buffalo
Greenleaf
The Atomic Bitchwax
Slomosa
Daily Thompson
Gnome

Tickets for LAZY BONES FEST are now available at:
https://www.sol-tickets.com/produkte/94-tickets-lazy-bones-2023-markthalle-hamburg-am-28-10-2023

Event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/233040959159151

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Elder, Innate Passage (2022)

King Buffalo, Regenerator (2022)

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Keep it Low 2023 Makes First Lineup Announcement

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 21st, 2023 by JJ Koczan

The ninth edition of the of the Munich-based Keep it Low Festival will be held on Oct. 6 and 7 at Backstage, and it has unveiled the first five acts who will take part. At the top of the bill is hometown heroes Colour Haze, who’ve been a steady presence through the years and are as close to a given as Keep it Low gets. Belzebong, Thronehammer and Daily Thompson between them showcase a range of heavy styles within the genre sphere, none unwelcome on any of Europe’s many, many festival bills. The big surprise of the bunch is Alabama Thunderpussy, who join the lineup for Keep it Low 2023 after playing a reunion show in December of last year (review here) in their native Richmond, Virginia.

I don’t know whether the resurgent ATP will tour Europe or are flying over for this one show, but I wouldn’t be surprised either way. Keep it Low is early in announcing for the Fall season — though it’s not the first to do so; Høstsabbat in Norway has been unveiling its lineup and Desertfest Belgium has been moving toward doing so as well, as it and Switzerland’s Up in Smoke have their dates set — so we’ll see in probably the next two months or so how it’s all going to shake out, who’ll be on tour and when, and so on.

The start of that process is always exciting, though I’ll note that we as a species are moving closer toward a time when festival season doesn’t exist and there’s just something happening every weekend somewhere throughout Europe. I won’t complain when we get there.

Word from Sound of Liberation follows:

Keep it low 2023 first poster

Hey Keepers,

we are super excited to present you the first bands for this year’s edition of the Keep It Low festival!

Please welcome:

Colour Haze
Alabama Thunderpussy
Belzebong
Thronehammer
Daily Thompson

& this is just a little glimpse of what we are cooking.

Get ready for a mighty 2023 line up!

Stay tuned!

Weekend tickets are available in our shop.
www.sol-tickets.com

Keep It Low Festival
6. & 7. October 2023
Backstage Munich

Cheers
Your Keep It Low Crew

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Alabama Thunderpussy, Live in Richmond, VA, Dec. 3, 2022

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Daily Thompson Announce Spring Tour Dates

Posted in Whathaveyou on January 17th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

Daily Thompson (Photo by Jonas Wenz)

Here’s a thing I know: Daily Thompson are a good time. I was lucky enough to learn this first-hand at last year’s Freak Valley Festival (review here) where they appeared supporting their 2022 LP, God of Spinoza (review here), which is a performance they apparently thought enough of to release it as a live album last month. Having been there, I can’t argue, and while the raw audio from that recording by Rockpalast can’t necessarily account for the visually-palpable fun the three-piece have on stage — not every band actually looks like the members enjoy each other’s company; Daily Thompson pretty clearly do — the songs themselves have plenty enough bounce to carry through a sense of the impression.

They’ve announced a live stint for the Spring that will take place in May, and that’s built around a slot at the prestigious Desertfest Berlin, which it feels redundant to say will be awesome having already noted the name of the festival. More likely than not, Daily Thompson will have more dates coming as they keep momentum on their side heading into the rest of this year. Perhaps a corresponding Fall tour would make sense and let them hit even more fests? Yeah, they might just want to go ahead and book it now, just to be safe.

Here’s their post and the ticket link, should you happen to be in the area when the time comes:

Daily Thompson tour banner

Welcome to 23, rock lovers!

We are super excited to announce our first tour and we are super excited for everything to come this year, it’s going to be a good one!

We are so excited to announce our first tour of the year!!! More to come, stay tuned!

Tickets (#128071#)
https://linktr.ee/TICKETS_dailythompson_live

25.03. – Erfurt / VEB Culture
04.05. – Aschaffenburg / Colossum
17.05. – Hannover / LUX
18.05. – Kiel / Showcase
19.05. – Bremen / Customs canteen
20.05. – Backnang / JUZE
21.05. – Berlin / Desertfest
23.05. – Leipzig / Moritzbastei
24.05. – Langenberg / KGB
26.05. – Open See Festival / Konstanz
27.05. – Karlsruhe / P8

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Daily Thompson, Live at Freak Valley 2022 (2022)

Daily Thompson, God of Spinoza (2022)

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Daily Thompson to Release Live at Freak Valley 2022 Dec. 2

Posted in Whathaveyou on November 3rd, 2022 by JJ Koczan

Daily Thompson

Yeah, this is gonna be one to check out. Particularly, I’ll be interested to hear if the smiles on the faces of Daily Thompson‘s members come through in the audio of what was their set at this year’s Freak Valley Festival (review here) as recorded by the legit-legendary Rockpalast, where the trio were clearly having at least a good a time as the crowd in that hot sunshine. It was quite a show, and kind of changed my impression of the band’s studio work as well.

So yes, let me go ahead and agree with myself twice for saying I am looking forward to hearing a live album of a show I was at. And please, stay tuned for more groundbreaking insights from The Obelisk. Your home for riffs and navelgazing, worldwide.

Or some such.

Daily Thompson also just wrapped up an 11-date tour were among those announced for Desertfest Berlin 2023 (info here) as well, so hey, right on. Before then, they’ll pay a visit Dec. 10 to Freak Valley X-Mas Fest, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more showed up before or concurrent to Desertfest either.

They announced Live at Freak Valley 2022 thusly:

Daily Thompson Live at Freak Valley 2022

DAILY THOMPSON – Live at Freak Valley 2022

Here we gooooo ⚡ this is the cover of our new record! We gonna release our very first live album “Daily Thompson live at Freak Valley 2022” December 2nd via Noisolution

It will be a super limited special edition, only 600 pieces! 300 on white (#129293#) and 300 on black vinyl (#128420#) There will be no repress, when gone it`s gone (of course it will be available on your favourite streaming platforms).

Next week we will start the preorder and of course we will have something to watch for you, but more kool things next week!

We have to say that it was a lie when we said last Saturday was the last show of the year, because the lovely FREAK VALLEY FESTIVAL Crew invited us to celebrate the release at their legendary Freak Valley Xmas Fest 2022 December 10th with a bunch of rad bands!

Huge thanks to FREAK Valley Festival, Rock Freaks , WDR Rockpalast and Tony Reed for mixing and mastering all the tracks. And of course to our label Noisolution!

Also thanks to everyone involved:
Artwork @rrandom.landd
Design Kabine 7
Pics by Jonas Wenz Django Foto and Robert Lesic Photography

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Daily Thompson, God of Spinoza (2022)

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