About Me

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PUBLICITY

tim(at)terrorbird.com
"Cockles" at Market Hotel, Brooklyn
When We Were Thrash?
These Our Powers Improv Performance at Silent Barn, Ridgewood
With guests Ryan Sawyer and Austin Stawiarz
PUNKCAST video "Little Sisters of Beijing" at Death By Audio, Brooklyn
"Untitled (Garbarge Bird)" video
"Silver Lung" video directed by Joe Krings

THESE ARE POWERS THESE OUR POWERS

These Are Powers make music like cashmere lightning.
We are free. We are a language of sound. We are hymns piggybacking on noise collages, club beats and ragas. We are a celebration. We are present in dreams and energy. We are the dynamics of being and the infinity of possibility. Union and improvisation strengthen us.
We are future primitives who tour lots and live in Brooklyn and Chicago.

THESE ARE POWERS THESE OUR POWERS

WITNESSES SOME PEOPLE WE HAVE PLAYED WITH:
Aa, An Albatross, The Apes, Athletic Automaton, Best Fwends, Bird Names, The Boggs, Boris, Calvin Johnson, Chinese Stars, Christy and Emily, Citay, CLIPD BEAKS, Dan Deacon, The Deathset, Dirty Projectors, Ecstatic Sunshine, Excepter, Ex Models, The Fall, The Fugue, Flying, Golden Birthday, Google Earth, Gowns, High Places, Indian Jewelry, Juiceboxxx, Knyfe Hyts, MAHJONGG, Magik Markers, Mika Miko, Memes, Modey Lemon, More Teeth, Mythical Beast, Neptune, NO AGE, Old Time Relijun, Oneida, Our Brother The Native, Parts & Labor, People, Phosphorescent, Pterodactyl, Rings, Ryan Sawyer, Soft Circle, Sun Circle, SIDS, Sightings, Sword Heaven, Taaiga!, Telepathe, Thee Scarcity of Tanks, Tickley Feather, Tirra Lirra, Tussle, USAISAMONSTER, WZT Hearts
AFFIRMATION

THESE ARE POWERS THESE OUR POWERS

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Member Since: 6/25/2006
Band Website: thesearepowers.com
Band Members: ooANNA BARIEoo
ooPAT NOECKERoo
ooBILL SALASoo

Previously Ted McGrath

Click on these pictures. They are secret doors.
Influences: futurists, zeitgeists, earthships
Sounds Like: RELEASES

NEW!!! TARO TAROT 12"

on Sweden's DELETED ART! Edition of 500! Collector's dee-lite!

TARO TAROT CD EP

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM HOSS RECORDS

6 new jams born in a Chicago summer and recorded during a Brooklyn Halloween. Testament to a new musical community with William Salas II, aka Brenmar. This is the futuress and you can dance to it.

"Sweat-soaked off their late-2007 release, Terrific Seasons (Hoss), Brooklyn'strembling post-punk trio These Are Powers spurt out another hot mess on their supplemental EP, Taro Tarot (Hoss). From the get-go, the record lurches forward with a disjointed war drum that ominously rumbles from the heart of some perilous darkness on "All Night Services." Pat Noecker (ex-Liars) lends a tinge of comfort in the wake of so much hopelessness and despair, finding new ways to shout a whispered secret despite the blight unraveling before him. While known for their physically demanding live shows and startling polyrhythm contortions, the trio is best understood through a volume-up approach. Even with your headphones mashed to your skull, you'll have trouble fully experiencing the waves of punishing subsonic bass and underlying knee-buckling. At times, stand-out track "Chipping Ice" sounds like industrial waste on the march, as its repetitive bassline advances with rank-and-file left-left-left-right-left cadence. Tandem howls by Noecker and guitarist Anna Barie recall a jackal's acknowledgment of the Fall recapitulated. The 20-something-minute runtime makes this EP seem like a full-length, but, then again, the sound of an impending apocalypse is usually pretty grueling."--CMJ

With amazing album art by Holly Stevenson!

OUT NOW!!

TERRIFIC SEASONS CD and 2XLP

Vinyl NOW AVAILABLE!!!
500 copies on 180 gram vinyl w/gatefold, silkscreened covers. Double LP, with art printed directly on side D.
Get it at Cake Shop, Kim's, and Soundfix in NYC Permanent and Reckless Records in Chicago!

"What first strikes me about the TAP sound is the starkness of it. If Terrific Seasons were a Christmas Tree, it wouldnâ€™t be one of those numbers with a Lionel train track running around it, expensive Hallmark hangings, and a star the size of Israel at the top. This is the X-mas tree you always dreaded as a kid: old, dusty, natural branches, frayed pine needles, a dusty birdhouse full of live birds, and the smell of gun powder hanging in the air. Now, just for gits and shiggles, imagine yourself running down the stairs as a kid and seeing a tree like the latter in your living room. Then, imagine yourself NOT being disappointed in the least."--Tiny Mix Tapes

Tiny Mixtapes (Full) Review of Terrific Seasons
Treble Zine Review of Terrific Seasons

SILVER LUNG/FUNERAL XYLOPHONE 7" "Silver Lung" / "Funeral Xylophone", "Crows of Troy"

Available on ELSIE & JACK RECORDINGS or from us when we come to your town.

Mixed by Ivan Julian (Richard Hell and The Voidoids)

Super heavy white vinyl, BLACK ON BLACK laser-etched covers, illustrated braille titles (different than pictured).

Recorded in a haunted boxing gym in Troy, NY by wizard Ross Goldstein (United States of Belt, occasional Bunnybrains).

LOVE AND CIRUITS COMPILATION on CARDBOARD RECORDS

PRESS

â€œ..barrel-ass drumming, comic-panel style song construction and general thrub. Very pleasing.â€ -- The Wire

"These Are Powers is probably the closest we will ever get to hearing cult on tape. They sound awesome...only in a wonderfully scary way. Listening to their dark, repetitious guitars; tribal, ominous drums and battle-cry vocals, images of dancing circles and raging fires are conjured without strain. The high priestess, Anna Barie, is a former Knife Skills member while bass shaman Pat Noecker used to be in Liars. Bill Salas completes the unholy trinity (drums, percussion, electronics) to carefully concoct a sound they have deemed â€œGhost-punk.â€ This tribe, indigenous to Brooklyn, New York, is quite enchanting but beware--those whose ears are subject to their powers may not want to hear anything else."--URB Magazine

"These Brooklyn art-rockers transplanted to Chicago for the summer (to induct a new drummer, Bill Salas of Brenmar Someday) and it's a shame they ain't staying. The band is best known as the new outfit helmed by Pat Noeker, formerly of Liars. The co-ed trio is all about polyrhythmic pummel; guitars imitate industrial noises, drums clack and grind like fixed gears -- they describe themselves as "ghost-punk," but the band's caustic heaves, shudders and sighs are more mechanical than ethereal. Singer/guitarist Anna Barie is the focal point of the band; her vocalization sounds like a witchy incantation over her harsh torrent of plinking, beeping, screaming guitar. The band is propulsive and post-modern to the core."--Jessica Hopper, Chicago Tribune

"These are Powers have been running around Brooklyn for a while now, playing the Todd P circuit, and generally spoiling the mood with their noisy, vaguely improvisational brand of noise punk."--Impose
Record Label: HOSS, Deleted Art, Elsie + Jack Recordings
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

TAP on VBS Practice Space

Oh man, high kicking, mic stealing (with apologies to Andrya) and music genre ruminating on VBS' Practice Space! The real nitty gritty about what $775 a month rent in South Williamsburg gets you. Chec...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST

TAP luvs EVR ((EAST VILLAGE RADIOOO)) + Taro Tarot Party Pics!

2/3 TAP! on EVR's LOCAL ONLY show!DJs L Train and F Train break us in, break it down, speed it up to 45 RPM (oops)!We play musicsss by our friends from all over the earth!! Live on podcast?http://www....
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:12:00 PST

L.A. hearts these are powers hearts L.A.

I could use an L.A. taco truck right now. Heyyy!Watch--These Are Powers on the very great VIDEOTHING!and this student documentary on The Smell and the bands and kids that love it! ...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:04:00 PST

Some Pictures We Lost in Wyoming

So, I didn’t ever get around to finishing this, which I think is a fitting tribute to the impermanence of memory and digital photos. Our friend Tim was kind enough to fed ex his spare camera (!)...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

Taro Tarot ^^ NEW TOUR DATES!

We are stoked on 2008!APRIL 1st (!!), we are releasing our brand new Taro Tarot EP digitally and on CD with HOSS Records in the U.S.Then Sweden's Deleted Art will be releasing the vinyl. Like we've s...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:07:00 PST

blog love

Some say blogged today, gone tomorrow. We say thrash today, blog tomorrow!Thanks for the love! xo ^^TAP *NEW* Great in '08 ! Pitchfork Forkcast for "Cracks in the Lifeline" Cheap and Plastique Zine I...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:31:00 PST

Terrific Seasons Track Listing

UPDATE!THE CDS ARE OUT NOW! VINYL SOON!http://hossrecords.comalso avail through Thrill Jockey and Revolver!whoop!We have tour cds! These babies are limited edition screenprinted digipaks. The official...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:35:00 PST

Brightest Young Things Interview

Small puff of purple smoke when we fart!DC blog interview and streams to a few songs off Terrific Seasons!Brightest Young Things...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:13:00 PST

one of these

One of these guys has decided to sublet our apartment in Brooklyn, but hasn't paid rent and insists on shitting under the toaster.None of us has the balls to tell him to leave, though!We leave for tou...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:31:00 PST

Communards in Chicago

Hey y'all, Pat and I are going to live in Chicago for the hott month of August! Ted has left the band in pursuit of his burgeoning art career and will continue to play music as FMold and in other pro...
Posted by THESE ARE POWERS on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:38:00 PST