We will release Ring Them Bells’ full-length album No One’s Dead / We’re Just Dressed In Black on cd, cassette, and digital on 24 April 2015. Here’s the debut single “Lose Yourself.” You can also pre-order the album on cd or cassette now. :::scott:::
The debut ep from Ring Them Bells is available today in iTunes. The band played two events in Copenhagen this past week to celebrate the official release of the vinyl and Mikkeller beer, as well as to celebrate the opening of a new Mikkeller pub. I was in Copenhagen for a few days and was excited to see the LP and beer available at the Kihoskh: :::scott:::
Noise + beer! It’s official: we are releasing a vinyl and a beer! We’ve been working on a special project for quite some time with Ring Them Bells from Copenhagen. In the fall of 2011, after a visit to their excellent and quite cozy pub in Copenhagen, our dear friend Mikael started a conversation about a vinyl/beer collaboration with Mikkeller, one of the premier international craft brewers. The band met with Mikkel to come up with a beer recipe that would match the sounds and feel of the record. The result is a slightly hoppy imperial porter with coffee. The beer and the record will be unveiled at a party to celebrate the new Mikkeller bar on 18 March in Copenhagen. Vinyl orders will also ship just before this party. Ring Them Bells’ sound is influenced by noisy guitar bands such as Spacemen 3, Jesus and Mary Chaing, and Velvet Underground and the EP includes six songs. The LP features an etching done by our good friend (and teetotaler!) John Ringhofer (Half-handed Cloud) with the complete recipe for the Ring Them Bells beer. Ambitious home brewers can re-create the recipe. Several of us met in late December and brewed up a few batches of the…