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April 15, 2025
Divide and Dissolve Unleash "Withholding" Video | LP out Friday via Bella Union
Divide and Dissolve
Insatiable LP Released This Friday via Bella Union
Insatiable album purchase link
Unveil Final Preview Track, “ Withholding ” Single/Video
NPR “Into Music” | Talkhouse “One Great Thing”
"Like waking up from a vivid dream" - The Guardian
"as potent and unshakable as the power structures it seeks to dismantle" - Pitchfork
“sprawling compositions, whose wordless depths convey a deep, raw emotional force that's difficult to
describe and even harder to resist … work like hers still seems like magic to me” - Salvo , Kim Kelly
"music that weighs, and ultimately defies, society's stacked odds" - Bandcamp (Album of the Day)
Singles: “
Monolithic
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Provenance
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Grief
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Withholding
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Credit: Brandon McClain @eathumans
Helmed by Black and Cherokee composer and multi-instrumentalist Takiaya Reed, Divide and Dissolve release their new album Insatiable this Friday, April 18 via Bella Union. The collection has earned acclaim spanning Decibel Magazine, FLOOD Magazine, NPR “Into Music” podcast, Talkhouse “One Great Thing”, Salvo, BrooklynVegan, New Noise Magazine, Punknews.org, Guitar Girl Magazine and much more. Takiaya lent vocals to the first ever D//D song on recent single “Grief” which showed her softer, contemplative side. Today’s new single “Withholding” puts the project’s rib-rattling doom metal depths on full display. Takiaya shares, “‘Withholding’ is about a place where change can be perceived. Where it is felt materially spiritually emotionally physically. It is about navigating the dynamics and tensions of push and pull.”
The album title Insatiable came to Takiaya in a dream. She had a vision of a better world, one that gelled seamlessly with the optimism of her take on heavy music: “I saw and have felt the impact of people committing great acts of harm, causing pain in a never ending cycle. I have also seen and felt the strength and power of people committing great acts of love,” she says. For Takiaya, this is what it means to be “insatiable”; it’s the way we choose either a path of destruction or one of compassion, and experience it to its fullest. “It’s an album about love, and it feels important to experience this, now more than ever.”
Divide and Dissolve's music is an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence, it honours ancestors, opposes white supremacy and calls for indigenous sovereignty. Already legends on the international doom metal scene, the new album is an evolution of sound and intricacy. Strapped with thunderstorms of crashing cymbals, crunchy feedback, stomach-churning riffs and neo-classical inflections, the new collection delves into the idea of freedom through impermanence and destruction vs compassion, an urgent call to imagine a better world before it’s too late. Listen to it, digest it, and become insatiable.
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The Darkness Announce North American Leg of Dreams On Toast Tour
THE DARKNESS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN LEG OF DREAMS ON TOAST TOUR 
Photographer: Simon Emmett LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 15, 2025 – Multi-platinum UK rock legends
THE DARKNESS
– singer/guitarist Justin Hawkins, guitarist Dan Hawkins, bassist Frankie Poullain, drummer Rufus Taylor — announced North American tour dates in support of their new album Dreams On Toast released on March 28th via Cooking Vinyl. The Darkness will ignite stages across North America on their two-part Dreams On Toast Tour kicking off on August 29th in Pryor, Oklahoma through September 21st that resumes on November 7th in Houston, Texas and wraps on November 22nd. Tour Pre-sale starts Wednesday, April 16th at 10am local time and General on-sale commences Friday, April 18th at 10am local time HERE. Highly praised by critics and fans, Dreams On Toast flawlessly captures The Darkness at their peak, celebrating their influences and strengthening their sound, while also embarking on avenues never before heard from the band. It’s an indisputably grand display from the inspired and passionate quartet. Purchase Dreams On Toast HERE. With a back catalogue overflowing with sonic masterpieces and a live reputation that most bands can only dream of, The Darkness have established themselves as one of the most exciting live bands. More than 20 years after The Darkness burst on the scene with their debut confection of rock brilliance, Permission To Land, the band’s cheeky, spandex-clad anthems continue to dazzle and amaze. With Dreams On Toast, The Darkness produced another triumphant collection of solid gold rock bangers and are set to deliver heart exploding concerts that promise to be glorious spectacles of foot-stomping, guitar-wailing, high-octane joy. Rolling Stone UK gushes that The Darkness have “Incredible live presence,” Music Connection raves, "There really is nothing like a Darkness show, the band is great, the songs are great, and they leave the fans wanting more," while Live Music News and Review enthuses, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that The Darkness are guaranteed to melt your face during one of their live performances." Music Existence proclaims, "This band is in a class of their own and shouldn’t be missed if you’re able to see them live," Music City Magazine shares, “They are truthfully one of the best live acts out there,” Top Shelf Music Magazine lauds, "In terms of pure high-energy rock and roll, nobody has ever rocked harder than The Darkness" and My Global Mind declares, “Their show is EXACTLY what a rock and roll show should be!”
DREAMS ON TOAST NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:
8/29 Pryor, OK Pryor Creek Music Festival Grounds8/30 Saint Louis, MO The Pageant8/31 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl 9/2 Atlanta, GA Masquerade - Heaven Stage9/3 Huntsville, AL Von Braun Center - Mars Music Hall9/5 Norfolk, VA The NorVa9/6 Richmond, VA The National9/7 Washington, DC Lincoln Theatre9/9 Allentown, PA Archer Music Hall9/10 New York, NY Irving Plaza9/12 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre9/13 Kitchener, ON Elements9/14 Montréal, QC Club Soda9/16 Indianapolis, IN Egyptian Room at Old National Centre9/17 Detroit, MI Saint Andrew's Hall9/19 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater9/20 Milwaukee, WI The Rave/Eagles Club - The Rave Hall9/21 Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre and Ballroom11/7 Houston, TX Warehouse Live Midtown11/8 Austin, TX Emo's11/9 Dallas, TX The Echo Lounge & Music Hall11/12 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern11/13 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore11/15 Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House11/17 Portland, OR Revolution Hall11/18 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom11/19 Seattle, WA The Showbox11/21 Salt Lake City, UT The Depot11/22 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall 
Dreams On Toast album artwork designed by Grammy nominated artist Perry Shall
http://www.thedarknesslive.com/https://www.facebook.com/thedarknessofficial/https://twitter.com/thedarknesshttps://www.instagram.com/thedarkness/https://www.youtube.com/user/TheActualDarknessThe KVB Remix of A Place To Bury Strangers "Bad Idea"/ On Tour Now!
APTBS 2025 SYNTHESIZER TOUR2025 Synthesizer European TourApril 10 - Le 106 - Rouen, France April 11 - QUAI M - La Roche-sur-yon, FranceApril 12 - L'Astrolabe - Orleans, FranceApril 13 - La Gaîté Lyrique - Paris, FranceApril 15 - Magasin 4 - Brussels, BelgiumApril 16 - Trix - Antwerpen, BelgiumApril 17 - Vera - Groningen, NetherlandsApril 18 - Doornroosje - Nijmegen, NetherlandsApril 21 - Plan B - Malmö, SwedenApril 22 - Parkteatret Scene - Oslo, NorwayApril 24 - Kuudes Linja - Helsinki, FinlandApril 25 - Paavli Kultuurivabrik - Tallinn, EstoniaApril 26 - Tallinas Kvartāla Angārs - Rīga, LatviaApril 27 - Kultūros kompleksas SODAS2123 - Vilnius, LithuaniaApril 29 - Klub Gwarek - Kraków, PolandApril 30 - fuchs2 Hlavní Město - Praha, CzechiaMay 02 - ARCH Club - Live Stage - Athina, GreeceMay 03 - Block 33 - Thessaloniki, Greece 2025 Synthesizer North American TourMay 14 - Higher Ground - South Burlington, VTMay 15 - Bar Le Ritz PDB - Montreal, CanadaMay 16 - Lee's Palace - Toronto, CanadaMay 17 - The Magic Bag - Ferndale, MIMay 18 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OHMay 20 - Ace of Cups - Columbus, OH May 21 - Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL May 22 - Empty Bottle - Chicago, ILMay 23 - Headliners Music Hall - Louisville, KYMay 24 - The Blue Room - Nashville, TNMay 27 - Richmond Music Hall - Richmond, VAMay 28 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MDMay 29 - Ukrainian American Citizens' Association (Ukie Club on Franklin) - Philadelphia, PAMay 30 - ROCKS OFF - New York, NY 
Album Reviews of Synthesizer The Alternative album Review:The mean streak of talent that has distinguished A Place to Bury Strangers continues unabated. Vicious and vivid, they continue to dominate the loudest corner of the music world, reminding us why we fell in love with rock music. Under The Radar album review 8.5"Fusing elements of noise rock, electronic dark wave, and even goth-tinged post punk, A Place to Bury Strangers have created a record that covers all bases. Whether that be the full throttle, sonic assault of opener 'Disgust,' similarly sculpted aural attack that’s 'Bad Idea,' pulsating throb of 'Have You Ever Been In Love,' or extra-sensory collision course of 'Fear of Transformation,' which combines the whole lot, Synthesizer proves to be another worthy addition to the band’s canon of sonic expeditions." - Under The Radar Paste album review"Ackermann’s mission—to defend his beloved gear that supplements creativity instead of supplanting it—gives shape and purpose to the album. For a notoriously loud band, A Place to Bury Strangers sound clear-headed on Synthesizer." - Paste"When [Ackermann] unleashes [his guitar], it’s a white-hot geyser, shocking and powerful. The best songs on Synthesizer are studies in contrast. They save the full potential of the band’s chaos and noise for the moments when it feels most earned." - Paste FLOOD album review"Each song on the noise-rockers’ seventh LP is distinct in style and substance, allowing Oliver Ackermann to tap into his emotional self as if looking through a slowly twisted kaleidoscope." - FLOOD All Music album reviewSynthesizer delivers the noise for which A Place to Bury Strangers is known and quite a bit more. Post-Trash ReviewA Place To Bury Strangers’ - currently consisting of Oliver Ackermann, John Fedowitz, and Sandra Fedowitz - nail everything from top to bottom “to a tee” on their latest album, Synthesizer. With an insistence to continually experiment, a wide-ranging combination of styles, mesmerizing vocals, louder-than-hell guitars, and mayhem-filled atmospheres, the record continues to show why APTBS remain one of the best. Album opener “Disgust” is a fantastic combination of noise rock, synth-pop, and punk. Harsh guitars screech and howl as if they are in agonizing pain. There is just something so appealing about the wild, weird, and frantic energy of this song, that continues throughout the entire record. About SynthesizerSynthesizer is the title of A Place to Bury Strangers' seventh album. It is also a physical entity, a synthesizer made specifically for A Place to Bury Strangers’ seventh album. A synthesizer that you too, can own (in part), if you buy the record on vinyl. “It’s pretty messed up, chaotic,” says frontman Oliver Ackermann, “But it feels really human.” In an era of making music where so little is DIY and so much is left up to AI, to never setting foot in a practice room or a home studio, making something that feels deliberately chaotic, messy, and human, is entirely the point. Synthesizer is a record that celebrates sounds that are spontaneous and natural, the kind of music that can only come from collaboration and community. The writing sessions for Synthesizer started in 2022 in the band’s Queens studio, shortly after the release of See Through You. A Place to Bury Strangers re-formed with a new lineup, Ackermann still at the helm, now featuring friends John and Sandra Fedowitz. This new iteration of the band was inspiring for Ackermann, “It felt like a fresh new thing,” he says, “I wanted to write songs everyone was excited about playing.” Indeed, the sense of connectivity is everywhere on the record. Synthesizer very much feels like a record of reinvention, of taking a carefully honed aesthetic and sound and cracking it wide open, gutting it, reimagining it. And of course, to ever so slightly reinvent one’s sound, one must also build a new instrument, thus again the synth in question. The resulting record is one that is romantic, colorful, loud as hell. In practice, Synthesizer is a study on walls of noise and sound. It explores what it means to twist and bend gear to its limits, to search for what Ackermann jokingly and also not jokingly calls the “most epic sound journey.” Take “Fear of Transformation,” as one such offering, a snarling gothic techno punk track that feels like getting body slammed by a wave out at sea. Here, the synthesizer has an almost alien effect. It is sweaty and strident. Ackermann views the song as a conversation with the devil, to break out whatever cage of fear that you’re inhabiting and do something kind of artfully evil. Elsewhere, like on “Have You Ever Been in Love,” the vibe is hypnotic, easy to get swept away. The song was written by everyone in the band, born out of its tribal drum beat, its open spaces. It was written quickly, “In a moment, in an afternoon,” Ackermann says, “Maybe even in an hour.” It felt exciting to write, exciting to make. And it is beautiful to listen to, the spotlight on Sandra’s beautiful vocals. It is unsteady like new love is unsteady. Scary like taking a chance on someone is scary. Synthesizer, which is out digitally October 4 and physically October 25 via Ackermann’s Dedstrange label, is one of A Place to Bury Strangers’ most live sounding records to date. This is a band that is meant to be witnessed in a live setting, where the songs take on a new energy in the presence of a crowd. “Disgust,” the record’s lead single, captures that live essence perfectly. The song is all open strings, so that way Ackermann can perform it with his fist raised in the air, so he can play it live with one hand. It’s a tongue-in-cheek move, almost as tongue-in-cheek as the decision to start the song with a high-pitched battle cry from the guitars, which Ackermann jokes is to “turn people off from listening to the record.” That playful approach to making music and intentionality around live performance makes sense in the historical context of the band. Ackermann founded the storied DIY space (and now effects pedal factory) Death By Audio. DBA, as a venue, had a collaborative, creative spirit of chaos and collectivity. That essence appears all over the band’s work. “We’re artists,” Ackermann says, “Going to shows and bringing that imperfect and beautiful DIY ethos is important.” Imperfect and beautiful — that’s a good way to sum up Synthesizer. It is a raw collection of songs, wild and loud and fucked up just like the instrument itself. 
About A Place To Bury StrangersFans all over the globe know: Oliver Ackermann always brings surprises. The singer and guitarist of New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers has been delighting and astonishing his audience for close to two decades, combining post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde music in startling and unexpected ways. As the founder of Death By Audio, creator of signal-scrambling stomp boxes and visionary instrument effects, he’s exported that excitement and invention to other artists who plug into his gear and blow minds. In concert, A Place To Bury Strangers is nothing short of astounding — a shamanistic experience that bathes listeners in glorious sound, crazed left turns, transcendent vibrations, real-time experiments, brilliant breakthroughs. And just as many of his peers in the New York City underground seem to be slowing down and settling in, Ackermann’s creativity is accelerating. He’s launched a label of his own: Dedstrange, dedicated to advancing the work of sonic renegades worldwide. He’s also refreshed the group’s lineup, adding bassist John Fedowitz and drummer Sandra Fedowitz, and the band has never sounded more current, or more courageous, or more accessibly melodic. The Hologram EP is the first release from the new lineup — and the first on Dedstrange — and it’s no overstatement to say that the reaction has been ecstatic. Ghettoblaster wrote that the band’s racket outpaced everything to emerge from New York City in the past decade. Brooklyn Vegan praised Ackermann’s “terrific, emotive” singing, and lauded the group’s recent commitment to foregrounding its melodies and lyrics. Pitchfork, Flood, AllMusic: they’ve all lined up to call Hologram an example of the best work of a tireless band with a deep discography and an unquenchable drive to create challenging, unprecedented music. A Place To bury Strangers released their highly anticipated sixth album See Through You February 4, 2022 to on their newly formed label Dedstrange to critical acclaim and have been touring incessantly since then. 2024 brings the release of ‘The Sevens’: four 7”s featuring unreleased tracks from ‘See Through You’ released monthly starting in February with Album #7 due in the fall. 
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ALL THINGS GO 2025 ANNOUNCES DC LINEUP: NOAH KAHAN, DOECHII, LUCY DACUS, CLAIRO, KESHA, THE MARÍAS, AND MORE ON 9.26, 9.27 AND 9.28
ALL THINGS GO 2025 ANNOUNCES DC LINEUP
NOAH KAHAN, DOECHII, LUCY DACUS, CLAIRO, KESHA,
THE MARÍAS HEADLINING
SPANNING THREE DAYS, THE FESTIVAL BRINGS TOGETHER OVER 40 ARTISTS, INCL: MARINA, DJO, LOLA YOUNG, JULIEN BAKER & TORRES, FAYE WEBSTER, ROLE MODEL, WALLOWS, GRIFF, AND MORE.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
IN COLUMBIA, MD @ MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION
FAN PRE-SALE STARTS THURSDAY, APRIL 17 @ 10AM
PUBLIC ON-SALE STARTS FRIDAY, APRIL 18 @ 10AM
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WASHINGTON, DC (April 15, 2025) – Today, All Things Go Festival 2025 reveals the lineup of the 11th DC-area edition, with headliners including Noah Kahan, Doechii (performing her first-ever festival headline show), Lucy Dacus, a returning ATG alum, Clairo, Kesha, and The Marías. The exciting expanded three-day event features artists such as MARINA, DJO, Julien Baker & Torres, Lola Young, and many more playing across 2 stages.
Set for Friday, September 26 – Sunday, September 28, the festival returns to its iconic venue Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. The fan presale is set for Thursday, April 17 @ 10am, and the public on sale is Friday, April 18. Tickets will be available at https://allthingsgofestival.com
The lineup announcement for ATG Festival 2025 in New York at Forest Hills Stadium is right around the corner.
All Things Go always strives to deliver a unique, diverse lineup while elevating underrepresented voices. This year's All Things Go Festival lineup promises another year of incredible performances from established and emerging artists across a myriad of genres, with the majority of artists identifying as women or non-binary. The festival has come a long way from its humble beginnings in 2014, more than doubling in size year-over-year since 2018 to accommodate more artists, more fans, and more music.
In 2023, the festival expanded to two days for the first time, with Lana Del Rey, Maggie Rogers, boygenius, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more. It sold out immediately, with fans from more than half the states in the U.S. and multiple countries attending, highlighting the festival's growing international appeal and reputation. Last year’s headlining artists – Janelle Monáe, Hozier, Laufey, Reneé Rapp, MUNA, Ethel Cain, and Julien Baker – were joined by a slew of heavy-hitters and emerging talent, presenting the biggest ATG lineup to date at Merriweather Post Pavilion, with 36 artists across two days and multiple stages.
Newcomers, especially, always get a warm welcome from the avid, curious, and dedicated ATG audience. All Things Go fosters a strong sense of community among attendees, creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for music lovers to come together and celebrate their shared passion. Some artists and fans have given ATG loving and cheeky nicknames, including “Gay-chella”, “All Things Gay” and “Lesbopalooza.” The upcoming year’s festival is set to be its biggest yet.
ALL THINGS GO 2025 @ MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Noah Kahan
The Marías
The Last Dinner Party
The Beaches
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
Lucius
Caroline Kingsbury
Joy Oladokun
Sunday (1994)
Gates open at 3PM
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Lucy Dacus
Clairo
Wallows
Faye Webster
Backseat Lovers
Julien Baker & Torres
Orion Sun
Hippo Campus
Gigi Perez
G Flip
Hazlett
Zinadelphia
Paris Paloma
Bartees Strange
Hey, Nothing
Carol Ades
Gates open at 11AM
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Doechii
Kesha
DJO
Lola Young
Role Model
MARINA
Ashe
Rachel Chinouriri
Griff
Aces
Alemeda
Molly Grace
Maude Latour
Michelle
Peach PRC
Jasmine.4.t
Gates open at 11AM
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Adult Mom Share Pensive Acoustic Single “Benadryl”
Adult Mom Share Pensive Acoustic Single “ Benadryl ”
From New Album ‘ Natural Causes ’ Out May 9 Via Epitaph
Photo Credit: Bao Ngo
Today, indie rock quartet Adult Mom release their new single, “Benadryl”, a stark & deeply affecting meditation on illness, isolation, and the quiet terror of survival. Another preview of their upcoming record, Natural Causes out May 9 via Epitaph, the album was born from years of personal and global upheaval where grief and rage burn bright enough to guide the way forward.
Over a strummed acoustic guitar and a mournful French horn, vocalist Stevie Knipe (they/them) delivers a performance that feels almost unbearably intimate. “Benadryl is a song about going through chemotherapy when I first got diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021,” Knipe reflects. “I wanted the writing and production to reflect the distinct isolation that comes from cancer treatment and illness, and how little by little, things start to feel a little bit brighter, and then dark again.”
“Benadryl”- LISTEN
On their fourth record Natural Causes, Knipe, the group's principal songwriter and lead vocalist, wrote the songs between 2020 and 2023 during a period of both global tumult and personal upheaval. Arriving in the wake of intensive cancer treatment in their late twenties, the experience brought them into direct confrontation with their own mortality. As they started writing songs from that vantage, they found they could stare down difficult memories of abuse and toxic relationships with a new ferocity.
"Feeling like you’re a prisoner in your own body to medical professionals makes you very sad, but also very angry. There were nights where I would have full tantrums. I felt like a 13-year-old just from the pure anger of it," says Knipe. "You revert to this childlike state of, “This is not fair!” It unlocks those other moments in your life when you were like, “This is not fair.”"
Though Knipe has been out as queer and non-binary since Adult Mom's debut, their relationship to their identity, like many queer artists', has evolved and revealed itself in long waves. They came out as a lesbian after writing Adult Mom's lauded 2021 album Driver, and many of the songs on Natural Causes cut through the knots of compulsory heterosexuality and coerced gender normativity. Getting more deeply in touch with your own queerness can feel liberating and thrilling; it can also thaw out oceans of anger you never knew you had from all the times you had to stay alienated from yourself to survive.
After years of deep friendship and creative collaboration, the members of Adult Mom cultivated an environment of powerful trust that allowed them to play, experiment, and take risks while recording. They invited additional musicians to join them at Artfarm Recording studio in New York's Hudson Valley in order to weave orchestral flourishes into the record. James Richardson stopped by to play horns, Maeve Schallert layered strings, and Andrew Hoben -- Knipe's former neighbor -- contributed piano. The band folded each of them into their communal artistic practice, inviting them to compose and arrange their parts onsite rather than working from pre-written sheet music.
"It was a very communist practice of making a record. It was the whole band and our engineer Chance [Milestone], and we were all making choices as a unit," says Knipe. "Every guitar tone, every sound that you hear was all decided together. We’re all the collective producer. I’ve never made a record like that before."
With Natural Causes, Adult Mom hammer home the revelation that self-knowledge is not a destination. It's an active movement, and it's one you can't embark on by yourself. Each of us emerges, suffers, and heals in relationship to other people; to really get to know ourselves, we must reach beyond our own edges.
Adult Mom is Stevie Knipe, Olivia Battell, Allegra Eidinger and Lily Mastrodimos
Natural Causes Tracklisting
1. Door Is Your Hand
2. 21
3. Benadryl
4. Crystal
5. Burned Off
6. Matinee
7. You In June
8. How About Now
9. Headline
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Patrick Wolf Shares New Track 'Hymn Of The Haar' - Chicago Added To USA/Canada Fall Tour - New Album Crying The Neck Out June 13
Patrick Wolf Shares New Track 'Hymn Of The Haar'New Album Crying The Neck Out June 13 Chicago Added To USA/Canada Fall Tour
April 15, 2025 - New York, NY: Patrick Wolf shares a new track today, 'Hymn Of The Haar' from his much-anticipated new album Crying The Neck out June 13 via Apport/Virgin Music.
Wolf discusses the song: "I wrote Hymn of the Haar over three years of writing walks and researching the history and psychogeography of the White Cliffs of Dover near where I live and work in East Kent. Studying from the romantic mythologising aspect of Alice Duer Miller's famous work and the cliffs famous wartime anthem to observing Dover relentlessly exploited as the centre of "crisis" after "crisis" within the British media. I felt the need to write this, my own private relationship with of this beautiful and bewildering stretch of land, bringing me so much solace over the years, its antidote. Ultimately it became a song that accepts, as I have at my age, that we can only learn how to live alongside our miseries in order to be temporarily free of them, arriving and departing, temporarily obscuring our path and vision in the hymn of the passing mist of cloud, the sea fret, the haar. It was with this song I began to make out a relationship between Crying the Neck and my second album Wind in the Wires, where at 21 I was fighting to be free by being free of my sorrows but 20 years later I finally achieved that freedom in the acceptance of living alongside them. The final line is taken from a 10th Century poem written in Old English called "The Wanderer": "Oft him anhaga are gebideð" translating to "Often the solitary one finds mercy" Listen to 'Hymn Of The Haar' on YouTube:
Wolf also recently announced USA and Canadian live dates to follow his UK and EU shows. A Chicago date has just been added for November 1 at Gman Tavern: "It was so heartening to be adding new dates to the USA tour after a reaction I wasn't prepared for on announcing my first tour over the Atlantic in thirteen years and to be asked to play Chicago was an honour, I've instant recall of the spirit of the shows I've done there. This will be a standing room show, so one of the nights I'll be carrying the night by the electronic arm my work, with a setup not too distant to the roots of my first shows playing night clubs in 2002, except with 7 albums of work to choose for the setlist, not just four songs!"All live dates are listed below. Tickets on sale now. The USA and Canadian wing of the “Stations of The Sun Tour” will see Patrick returning to his very early Lycanthropy days of touring the states in the back of his Tennessee manager's car, yet this time driving himself coast to coast with a car full of instruments on what is set to be a solo roadtrip of an adventure, re-connecting to an audience not seen for a decade and meet those who’ve discovered his work in the meantime. The setlist will span both his best known work and the new album, acknowledging the twenty year anniversary of his much loved second album Wind in the Wires and exploring its relationship to Crying the Neck. Some nights of the tour will be seated and some will be standing, so Wolf is developing two shows for the tour, one to explore his more electronic work, conjuring the magic of his beat-driven setlists and seated evenings that will lend themselves more to the classical, electro-acoustic and folk roots of his work.
The aftermath of addiction, crisis, bankruptcy, recovery and survival shaped
The Night Safari
, Patrick Wolf’s 2023 return to music after ten years lost to creative impasse and personal upheaval. Now, with seventh studio album
Crying The Neck
, the 41-year-old has created a confident and hopeful record inspired by the transfiguring power of grief at the death of his mother, rehabilitation, local folklore and the East Kentish landscape.Crying The Neck is the first new album in thirteen years and the first in a planned four album series, was written and recorded in the Kent coastal town of Ramsgate that Wolf now calls home. Here, he has a peaceful studio in the garden, the place in which he was able to find his voice again. In a period of rebuilding, Crying The Neck was entirely written, composed, produced and arranged by Wolf himself, with Brendan Cox brought in as co-producer and engineer in the last three years to help finish an album a decade in the making. Patrick Wolf is one of the most talented and idiosyncratic musicians of his generation, with a run of critically hailed albums, starting with Lycanthropy in 2003 to Lupercalia in 2011 which saw him incorporating everything from viola, celtic harp, dulcimer, baritone ukulele, piano, harpsichord, analog synthesizers and re-sampled field recordings in his music and collaborating with the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Tilda Swinton, Angelo Badalamenti and Patti Smith, among others. He most recently released The Night Safari EP two years ago was his first body of work in ten years and Crying The Neck is his first studio album in thirteen years. Live Dates: UK/EUMay 8 - Manchester, UK - Gorilla May 10 - Gateshead, UK - The Glasshouse May 11 - Glasgow, UK - St Luke’s May 13 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club May 15 - London, UK - HERE at Outernet May 16 - Bristol, UK - The Lantern May 20 - Cologne, DE - Gebaude 9 May 21 - Hamburg, DE - Grunspan May 22 - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz May 23 - Berlin, DE - Heimathafen May 24 - Warsaw, PL - Niebo May 26 - Ghent, BE - Club Wintercircus May 27 - Amsterdam, NL - Tolhuistuin May 28 - Paris, FR - Trabendo May 29 - Zurich, CH - Dynamo May 31 - Milan - IT - Santeria Toscana 31 June 1 - Bologna. IT - Locomotiv June 3 - Munich, DE - Ampere June 4 - Prague, CZ - Lucerna Music Bar June 6 - Vienna, AT - Theater Akzent
North AmericaSeptember 17 - Vancouver, Canada - Fox Cabaret
September 20 - Seattle, WA - Woodlawn Hall
September 24 - Portland, OR - Mission Theatre
September 27 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Lodge
October 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
October 9 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah
October 12 - Las Vegas, NV - The Griffin
October 16 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
October 19 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theatre
October 23 - Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar
October 25 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel
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Greet Death announce new LP ‘Die In Love’, share “Country Girl” video
Greet Death announce new album Die In Love
Share music video for single "Country Girl"
Die In Love is out June 27 on Deathwish Inc.
Photo by: Kat Nijmeddin
True to the band’s name, death creeps into nearly all of Greet Death’s songs. And yet, through this ever-present certainty, the band finds the absolute core of what it means to be alive.
Since 2011, elementary school friends Logan Gaval and Harper Boyhtari have been writing songs full of big ideas and everyday details. Their music, loud and full of melodic sensibility, draws from shoegaze, doomgaze, and a little-bit-of-everything-gaze, creating an emotionally maximalist palette. Writing separately but playing together (think of them as small-town Michigan’s Tom DeLonge and Mark Hoppus), they’ve been drawing in a devoted crowd ever since their unexpectedly successful debut Dixieland in 2017, followed by their next-level opus New Hell in 2019. You’d be hard-pressed to find albums with such heart: ones flooded both with full-bloom feelings and the dumb stories we tell ourselves in order to get through the day.
Returning six years later with Die In Love, their third and best album, Greet Death face the great human problem—that we must go on living despite knowing we’re going to die, and loving despite knowing we’re going to lose it all—with great sensitivity, humor, and flourish. With this album, Greet Death have found a way to anthemize our suffering, to turn it into one great, big, beautiful singalong.
Today, the the album's new single "Country Girl" arrives with a brilliant music video by Chromatone Studios, written + produced by Harper Boyhtari and L Morgan / starring Greet Death's Harper Boyhtari and Logan Gaval. Harper says the song is about "...identity, alienation, and detachment. It’s like trying to solve a murder mystery and finding out you were the killer the whole time.”
Watch / share "Country Girl" music video
Greet Death recorded Die In Love in Harper’s parents’ basement in Davisburg, Michigan, the place where she and Logan spent much of their preteen and adolescent years. They cut their teeth in that basement, learning how to be a band around the time School of Rock came out and inspired in aughts kids a new possible life path. Logan and Harper covered Metallica and Blink-182 and wrote songs about batteries and frozen yogurt. Returning to that basement well over a decade later to record their third album felt like the back-to-basics moment they needed, something that would take the pressure off after years away from the studio.
Ever since they were kids, music has been the primary form of communication for Logan and Harper. Between them, they’re able to mine the absolute essence of everything both through big picture ideas and small vignettes of life. In Logan’s songs we hear the former, and in Harper’s the latter.
Die In Love asks how we can possibly cope with all the inevitable loss we’ll experience in this life. How on Earth can anyone survive it? The point is that none of us do. So, enjoy the bullshit Eagles songs while they last; the cheap beer, the disappointing New Year's Eve celebrations, the family members and the lovers who choose to stay a little while.
“Pain and loss. Everyone feels it, it’s a very human thing,” says Logan. He continues: “At the end of the day, we’re lucky to lose people we care about."
Pre-order Die In Love here.
Die In Love, cover art:
Die In Love, track list:
Die in LoveSame But Different NowCountry GirlRed RocketEmptiness is EverywhereAugust UndergroundSmall Town CemeteryMotherfuckerLove Me When You Leave
Photographic Memory announces new album due 6/30 via deadAir + shares lead single & video
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM
SHARES LEAD SINGLE + VIDEO
“I HEARD YOU”
I LOOK AT HER AND LIGHT GOES ALL THROUGH ME
OUT MAY 30TH VIA deadAir
SUPPORTING DIIV IN LOS ANGELES ON MAY 25TH
Photographic Memory by Elsa Gottvall
“I Heard You”
LISTEN: https://stem.ffm.to/iheardyou
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D48vgvWq7lc
(April 15, 2025) - Los Angeles’s own Photographic Memory announces the forthcoming album I look at her and light goes all through me due May 30th via deadAir. Alongside the album announcement, Photographic Memory shares the lead single “I Heard You,” which arrives with a glitchy Ryder McLaughlin-directed video of Photographic Memory in an apartment with his friends and collaborators, including a cameo from Wisp frontwoman Natalie Lu.
I look at her and light goes all through me is the third full-length body of work from Photographic Memory, the alias of Max Epstein. The 18-track project flows like a stream of consciousness or string of memories, fluttering from droning guitars to heavy breakdowns to beat-driven bangers, pushing the boundaries of what one album can contain. Speaking about the flow of the album, Max shares, “It’s mostly because I can’t sit still. I could make one sound if I wanted to, but I’d rather switch it up every day.”
I look at her… is an ode to Max’s city of Los Angeles, where he and his studio are a sanctuary and creative hotbed for a wide-variety of notable contemporary artists including julie, Fleshwater, HEALTH, Basement, daine, quannnic and Wisp, who are featured on the forthcoming album. Along with his writing and production work in the studio, Max has performed in the live ensemble of various bands – Militarie Gun, Jane Remover and Wisp, to name a few. Though often the wizard behind the curtain, Max has been a pivotal figure in the modern rock sound and his forthcoming album as Photographic Memory brings listeners directly into his sonic realm.
Photographic Memory will support DIIV on May 25th in Los Angeles at Teragram Ballroom. When DIIV frontman Zachary Cole Smith saw a Photographic Memory live show for the first time, he was enamored by the collaborative atmosphere. A Photographic Memory show is not only for Max and his musical output, but also for his creative hive, as he will allow time for his friends to hop on stage and perform a track or two of their own, as well. Tickets are on sale now HERE.
Pre-order / save I look at her and light goes all through me and check out “I Heard You” above, see full album details and upcoming live dates below, and stay tuned for more from Photographic Memory coming soon.
I look at her and light goes all through me album artwork
Photographic Memory
I look at her and light goes all through me
May 30th, 2025
deadAir
1. Emo Tour Track
2. We Made It
3. Paint Your Silver
4. Winter
5. I Heard You
6. Butterfly
7. LA
8. Clearly
9. In Every Lifetime
10. Born 7:7
11. Heartstyle feat. Wisp
12. Love In My Heart
13. Recently
14. Song 7
15. LA But A Forest
16. Outlaw Star
17. Spill
18. Light Goes Through Me
Upcoming Live Dates
*supporting DIIV
5/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom*
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April 14, 2025
ANTHRAX JOINS LINE-UP FOR BLACK SABBATH’S “BACK TO THE BEGINNING” CONCERT
ANTHRAX JOINS LINE-UP FOR BLACK SABBATH’S “BACK TO THE BEGINNING” CONCERT
Anthrax Also Joins Slayer This Summer for Two UK Shows
ANTHRAX, L-R: Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Scott ian, Joey Belladonna, Jonathan Donais
Photo credit: Ignacio Galvez
LOS ANGELES, CA (Monday, April 14, 2025) — For the first time in twenty years, Anthrax will share a stage with Black Sabbath when the band performs at Sabbath’s “Back to The Beginning” concert set to take place on Saturday, July 5 at Villa Park in Birmingham, England. Anthrax toured with Black Sabbath on the band's 1986 “Seventh Star Tour," which was also Anthrax’s first arena tour. The last time they were on the same bill as Sabbath was in 2005 at the Download Festival in the UK.
“I’m a huge Black Sabbath fan,” said Charlie Benante, “and Black Sabbath was so, so instrumental in the sound of Anthrax back in the day. Back in ’86, when we were working on our third album, we wanted to do a B-side of a Black Sabbath song. ’Sabbath Bloody Sabbath’ was the song that we chose. We did it as a B-side, we played it live, and it became a big thing for us. Growing up Catholic, in a Catholic household, my mom did not appreciate Black Sabbath. One day when I came home, my sister took me to the record store and I got one of those iron-on Black Sabbath t-shirts, it was the cover of ’Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath.’ I got it home, my mother saw it, she made my sister take me back to the store and return it. She would not have it in the house because it had the ‘666’ on it. I was still a Black Sabbath fan so I had to kind of keep it hidden from my mom.”
“I discovered Black Sabbath when I was about eight years old, sitting in my uncle’s room at my grandparents’ house," said Scott Ian. “My uncle was 17 or 18, had a big vinyl collection and blacklight posters all over his walls, and I thought he was the coolest dude in the world. I would go through his albums, pull records out and he’d play them for me. I remember pulling out this record that said ‘Black Sabbath’ on it, the album cover was kind of scary, so I asked him ‘what’s Black Sabbath?' And he said, ‘oh, they’re acid rock…” and I didn’t know what that meant…I thought maybe that was the terminology back then for a genre. And then he put the album on. Everyone knows how that record starts, with the sound effects and the rain and the bell, and then the band kicks in…there’s nothing like it. At that point in time, the scariest, heaviest thing I’d ever heard in my life. Maybe still to this day, when that song ‘Black Sabbath’ kicks in, there’s just nothing like it. I started playing guitar when I was about 10, and Tony was definitely an influence, so I’d try and figure out how to play ‘Iron Man’ or ‘Paranoid.’ Just listening to the records, Tony Iommi was essentially my guitar teacher.”
“I’m definitely a huge Sabbath fan," said vocalist Joey Belladonna, "and over the years I have covered many Sabbath and Ozzy songs. We toured with Sabbath on the ’86 tour, and it was so electric. That was a huge tour for us, and we were just overwhelmed to be part of it. That Anthrax was asked to be part of Sabbath’s ‘Back To The Beginning’ concert is quite a big honor.”
“I heard about Sabbath through my friends at school," remembers Anthrax’ Frank Bello, "who said the band was great. Plus, I thought the album cover was scary as hell. Although I love most Black Sabbath albums, that first one, Black Sabbath, is still my favorite because it was my introduction to them, and the songs are still amazing. I’m also a HUGE Geezer fan, I grew up on his playing, and I’m honored now to say he’s a friend. Geezer was and still is one of my main influences on bass. He always puts beautiful musicality & melody into everything he plays. His bass lines make you want to play bass. He is also an amazing person. "It’s an honor to be part of this show and I’m very grateful to Black Sabbath & Sharon Osbourne for asking us to be part of it.”
“I’m absolutely, 100% a Black Sabbath fan,” admitted Anthrax guitarist Jon Donais. “I was an Ozzy fan first because I grew up in the ‘80s, and of course, Ozzy was on MTV all the time, so he’s who I got into first. And then, my teen years were in the 90s, and I started getting into Black Sabbath. When I start to lean into a band, I usually get the band’s greatest hits or some kind of compilation. But my first Black Sabbath album was Sabotage, which is actually my favorite Sabbath record. Sabotage was a little darker than the others, and I would listen to it all the way through as soon as I put it on. A good friend of mine and I went to the same college, and we’d be up until three or four in the morning just listening to Sabotage and then having to get up for school the next day, and that sucked.”
Anthrax’s upcoming concert dates are as follows:
JULY
3 Blackweir Arboretum, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Line-Up: Slayer, with Special Guest Anthrax
5 Villa Park, Birmingham, UK •
Line-Up: Black Sabbath, "Back to the Beginning," w/ Anthrax
6 Finsbury Park, London
Line Up: Slayer, with Special Guest Anthrax
MADISON MCFERRIN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'SCORPIO'; NEW SINGLE + VIDEO OUT NOW
MADISON MCFERRIN ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM SCORPIO
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE
PRESS PRAISE FOR MADISON MCFERRIN
“Madison McFerrin is ready to begin a new era. “Ain’t It Nice,” a sleek house-infused soul track that explores the allure of new infatuation across a swirling mixture of groovy drum loops and twinkling synths, finds McFerrin flaunting her intimate understanding of vocal dynamics and pacing.” - BILLBOARD
“Meticulously calculated to promise delight” - THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Madison McFerrin sounds ready for stardom” - THE FADER
"A grandeur of waterfall runs and harmonies" - NYLON
"Madison McFerrin stacks the harmonies sky-high and obscures the secular/sacred line" - OKAYPLAYER
“A magnetic performer who’s a decade in and can have a crowd in the palm of her hand, ready to be crushed by each vocal run or devastating turn of phrase” - VINYL ME PLEASE
"If you don’t know who Madison McFerrin is by now, you ought to be ashamed of yourself because since she burst out to the mainstream in 2019, she’s been that one person who you can’t wait to hear music from." - AFROPUNK
“Velvet soul and rhythmic elasticity...There’s a touch of jazz in the arrangement, while the arresting vocal puts us in mind of Erykah Badu in its emotive opulence." - CLASH
"Ethereal and a joy to hear." - SOUL BOUNCE
Today, independent artist, producer, and musician Madison McFerrin announces her highly anticipated sophomore album SCORPIO, set to release June 24. With the announcement comes a new single and cinematic video for “I Don’t” - a hypnotic, heart-spilled elegy for a love unraveled, just before delivering on its ultimate promise. Co-produced by WILLOW, “I Don’t” traces a powerful tension between ritual and reality, and sonically builds a quiet storm of regret and release through dreamy melodies, jazzy piano chords, understated guitar riffs, and mesmerizing vocal runs. The music video, produced and directed by Vincent Martell and Jordan Phelps of VAM STUDIO, features ghostly veils and burning bouquets to match the song’s haunting lyrics while contrasting its soulful sound. Listen to “I Don’t” HERE and watch the official music video HERE.
Mcferrin says, “SCORPIO is by far the most personal music I’ve ever written and I couldn’t be more grateful for it. There’s nothing like a breakup to get the best out of you — it was as if the music demanded it of me. “I Don’t”brought me to the other side of heartbreak, I was honored that WILLOW loved the song enough to co-produce it with me. SCORPIO is for everyone who has ever felt lost, fought like hell to find themselves, and for those who are still summoning the strength to do so.”
“I Don’t” is the second single from McFerrin this year following “Ain’t It Nice”, a sultry and enigmatic track that delves into themes of deception and the complexities of relationship, and the first new music since her critically acclaimed debut, 2023’s I Hope You Can Forgive Me. Known for her singular sound where intimate vocal layering, warm harmonies, and minimalist production meet the emotional depth of soul and the exploratory edge of electronic music, Madison McFerrin’s music floats at the intersection of soul and spirit, where the human voice becomes both instrument and incantation. With little more than breath, tone, and looped whispers, she can weave cathedrals of sound—hymns to vulnerability, resilience, and grace. Her style, dubbed “future soul,” feels less like a genre and more like a celestial language: rooted in the echoes of jazz and gospel, but pulsing with the shimmer of tomorrow. Each track is an offering, intimate as a secret, expansive as a sky—music that doesn’t just ask to be heard, but felt, deeply and wholly.
Across her fruitful independent career, spanning three EPs, a debut album and multiple collaborations, Madison has earned accolades from the likes of The New York Times, Billboard, NPR, FADER, Nylon, Vulture, BET and Pitchfork, who named her a Rising Artist in 2018. Her artistry has led to Questlove dubbing her early sound “soul-appella.” In addition to stirring performances on the renowned COLORS series and KEXP’s Live on KEXP series, Madison has also performed at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Joshua Tree Music Festival, Central Park SummerStage and BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, and shared stages with the likes of Robert Glasper, Jamila Woods, De La Soul, Gallant, and The Roots. Off the stage, Madison’s music has been featured in one of this year’s most celebrated films thus far One of Them Days, as well as episodes of Comedy Central’s Broad City and HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness. Over the course of her career, she has mesmerized crowds at packed out shows nationwide and overseas, which she will continue this month in London on April 27 at Rough Trade East, and in NYC on June 27 at The Rockaway Hotel to celebrate the highly anticipated release of SCORPIO.
LISTEN/STREAM “I DON’T”
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/madisonmcferrin/i-dont
WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “I DON’T”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyM4kQtBS4E
LISTEN/STREAM “AIN’T IT NICE”
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/madisonmcferrin/aint-it-nice
WATCH THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO FOR “AIN’T IT NICE”
https://youtu.be/nsTEar1ebYQ?feature=shared
PHOTO CREDIT: VAM STUDIO
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