Alexander Laurence's Blog, page 128
March 27, 2025
FKA twigs shares "Childlike Things" music video featuring North West
FKA TWIGS SHARES “CHILDLIKE THINGS” MUSIC VIDEO STARRING NORTH WEST
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR LAUNCHES APRIL 6TH IN MEXICO CITY
EUSEXUA OUT NOW VIA ATLANTIC RECORDS/YOUNG
“Childlike Things” video still
EUSEXUA
“Childlike Things”
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax54o...
What the press is saying about EUSEXUA:
“On Eusexua, though, the focus is complete freedom and impulse, [twigs] recharges and transforms, becoming stronger and at times even unrecognizable. Hearing such a transformation is all the more powerful, given how vulnerable she’s been in the past.”
Rolling Stone
“Twigs’ third album brings club music into her sensual, supernatural world. It’s a masterful pop-star moment for the artist.”
Pitchfork, Best New Music
"Eusexua offers a soundtrack for bedrooms and basements fit for balling and bawling sessions."
Vulture
“Eusexua” tests how much she can remain herself within pop’s constraints. The answer: quite a bit.
The New York Times, Critic’s Pick
“FKA twigs has become one of the music industry’s foremost iconoclasts, blurring the lines between singer, dancer, producer, visual artist, collaborator, actor, spokesperson, and activist.”
The FADER
"FKA twigs' third full-length is a triumph"
Consequence
“she has engineered a kind of euphoria that's difficult to touch, and even harder to hold.”
Resident Advisor
(March 27, 2025) - Amid her EUSEXUA World Tour, FKA twigs shares the Jordan Hemingway-directed, Jeremy O'Harris-written music video for “Childlike Things” featuring North West. Following the release of EUSEXUA this past January, the track has quickly become a standout from the critically acclaimed album.
North West’s inclusion on “Childlike Things” represents a full circle moment for twigs, given that she first penned the lyrics to the song when she was only 13 years old – context she offered on socials just last week. “Childlike Things” marks the 4th visual from EUSEXUA, following “Striptease,” “Drums of Death” and the album’s title track, the last of which was celebrated as one of the best songs of 2024 by several publications. The album garnered widespread praise upon its release from the likes of The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Consequence and Variety, who dubbed her “One of Music’s Great Innovators,” as well as Vulture who has already included EUSEXUA in their list of one of the best albums of 2025.
The EUSEXUA World Tour has garnered significant praise since launching in Paris earlier this month, with The Independent saying, "Twigs’s star power is unmistakable, and every facet of her extraterrestrial artistry is on display tonight," and The Guardian calling the show “A stunning surprise-filled spectacle.” On April 6th twigs will kick off the North American leg of the tour with a performance at Axe Ceremonia in Mexico City, with additional performances slated for Coachella, San Francisco, New York City, Primavera Sound in Barcelona, We Love Green in Paris, Chicago, Berlin and Prague.
Eusexua is a word of twigs’ own making, which she defined as the “moment before an orgasm: pure nothingness but also pure focus in a state of eusexua. That’s kind of the way I want to live my life right now” in her April 2024 cover story for British Vogue. A “love letter to how dance music makes [her] feel,” EUSEXUA was executive produced by twigs herself alongside longtime collaborator Koreless and features additional production from Dylan Brady, Eartheater, Ethan P Flynn, G-Dragon, Jeff Bhasker and Nicolas Jaar, among others.
Watch the “Childlike Things” music video and listen to EUSEXUA and above now.
Upcoming tour dates
4/6 - Mexico City, MX @ Axe Ceremonia
4/11 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
4/18 - Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
4/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Center
4/23 - New York, NY @ Knockdown Center
4/24 - New York, NY @ Knockdown Center
5/30 - Berline, DE @ Uber Eats Hall
5/31 - Prague, CZ @ Fórum Karlín
6/4 - Barcelona, ESP @ Primavera Sound
6/8 - Paris, FR @ We Love Green
6/19-21 - Lisbon, PT @ Kalorama Festival
6/24 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed
6/25 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed
7/3 - Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
7/4 - Gdynia, PL @ Open’er Festival
7/4-6 - Beuningen, NL @ Down The Rabbit Hole
EUSEXUA album artwork
FKA twigs
EUSEXUA
Atlantic Records/Young Recordings
January 24, 2025
1. Eusexua
2. Girl Feels Good
3. Perfect Stranger
4. Drums of Death
5. Room of Fools
6. Sticky
7. Keep It, Hold It
8. Childlike Things
9. Striptease
10. 24hr Dog
11. Wanderlust
Connect with FKA twigs:
COCOROSIE RELEASE “NOTHING BUT GARBAGE” AHEAD OF ALBUM LITTLE DEATH WISHES (3.28 VIA JOYFUL NOISE)
COCOROSIE RELEASES “NOTHING BUT GARBAGE” TODAY HERE
AHEAD OF TOMORROW’S ALBUM RELEASE
LITTLE DEATH WISHES VIA JOYFUL NOISE HERE
ALBUM TRACK “GIRL IN TOWN” FT. CHANCE THE RAPPER
LIVE IN NEW YORK TOMORROW: COCOROSIE’S JUBILATION BALL: A TITS OUT ECSTATIC RAVE CELEBRATION @ ROLLER SKATING RINK XANADU HERE
CocoRosie: (L) Sierra Casady, (R) Bianca Casady - photo credit - Daria Miasoedova
Tomorrow, CocoRosie, the sister duo of Bianca and Sierra Casady, release their eighth studio album Little Death Wishes (Joyful Noise), and today they share another taste, “Nothing But Garbage,” here. In advance of their 42-date European tour, they will celebrate the album release in New York tomorrow with an event aptly titled: CocoRosie's Jubilation Ball: A Tits Out Ecstatic Rave Celebration at rollerskating rink Xanadu here.
CocoRosie announced Little Death Wishes with the existentialist and meaning-seeking songs "Cut Stitch Scar,” “Yesterday,” and “Least I Have You,” and the album includes the genre-bending track “Girl In Town” with Chance the Rapper.
Late last year, CocoRosie started the next chapter with the single and video “Least I Have You,” an ecstatic ode to sisterhood and the purest distillation of CocoRosie’s 20-year-long career to date, alongside the announcement that they would be joining Joyful Noise Recordings (Deerhoof, ONEIDA, Kishi Bashi, WHY?, etc).
About Little Death Wishes:
For just over twenty years, Bianca and Sierra Casady have transmuted the love, hardship, and ecstasy of sisterhood into some of the most daring, dangerous, and wildly original music our increasingly sanitized culture has known. CocoRosie has been a project consistently at the musical vanguard, influencing countless musicians while inspiring and creating refuge for the “criminal queers” of the world. Above all, CocoRosie has been a conduit for irrepressible artistic self-realization.
Little Death Wishes is as open and tenderhearted as anything they’ve ever created. The songs tell a kaleidoscopic story of the generational hardship of women and the shattered realities of their lives, the precarious and precious nature of being human, of being done wrong by love, and a final wish to be unbroken. It boils everything CocoRosie down to its most brutal essence: turning pain into knowledge, sisterhood into polemic, trash into treasure, and recalcifying kitsch and cliché into fresh truths.
The duo’s 8th long player exists in its own musical lexicon. It is both primordial and tawdry, a rich bricolage of dusted-over pop culture signifiers that the sisters contort into their own sense of temporality. Contributing to the avant garde, yet unbeholden to contemporary trends, CocoRosie collects musical detritus from other times, which they fashion into their own baroque, theatricalized creations. With the sisters’ hands deep in every layer of their music, each song on Little Death Wishes feels transportive and transformative.
“CocoRosie has been the center of our lives for such a long time now,” says Bianca. In those years, the sisters have been infantilized and revered, fetishized and mirrored, misogynized and adored; at times willfully misunderstood by the press—which has failed to reduce the group into mere perverse whimsy. Despite it all, CocoRosie has continuously pursued the bravest and boldest routes, uplifting the rawest, unveiled, and most tender strands of humanity and nudging us toward the light.
CocoRosie has released seven studio albums to date: Put The Shine On (2020), Heartache City (2015), Tales of a Grasswidow (2013), Grey Oceans (2010), The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007), Noah’s Ark (2005), and La maison de mon rêve (2004). In addition to CocoRosie tours and festival performances worldwide, CocoRosie has composed original scores for four full-length theatrical works by acclaimed director Robert Wilson; Peter Pan, Pushkin's Fairy Tales, Edda, and Jungle Book - with another project underway. They have also worked with the Kronos Quartet at their Jazz Festival in San Francisco for two seasons, creating a new collection of songs that will become a collaborative album with Kronos.
As a visual artist, Bianca Casady has mounted solo art exhibitions internationally, including at Deitch Projects (2007) and Cheim & Read Gallery (2012). As an experimental theater director, Bianca has created several plays, including NightShift (2012) at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany, Mother Hunting (2015) at the National Theater in Oslo, Norway, and The Angel Show (2017) at the National Theater Academy in Norway. Bianca hosts an ongoing experimental poetry course titled Remembering The Miracle and in 2023, the artist published her first poetry book, Au bord du ciel: Heaven bound. Sierra Casady has arranged and performed music globally, including with the Symphony Orchestra of Amsterdam, The ICA in London and The Sydney Opera House and created “Soul Life,” an Opera staged at the Donau Festival in Krems.
CocoRosie - Little Death Wishes - tracklist:
01. Wait For Me
02. Cut Stitch Scar - music video
03. Yesterday
04. Luckless
05. Paper Boat
06. It Ain't Easy
07. Nothing But Garbage - video
08. Least I Have You - music video
09. Girl In Town (feat. Chance the Rapper)
10. No Need For Money
11. Pushing Daisies
12. Unbroken
CocoRosie on tour:
3/28 - New York, NY @ Xanadu (album release show event)
5/13 - Orléans, FR - Astrolabe
5/14 - La Roche sur Yon, FR - Quai M
5/15 - Annecy, FR - Brise Glace
5/16 - Audincourt, FR - Moloco
5/18 - Clermont Ferrand, FR - La Coopérative de Mai
5/19 - Paris, FR -Trianon
5/20 - London, UK - Earth Hall
5/21 - Cambridge, UK - Cambridge Junction
5/22 - Bristol, UK - Trinity Center
5/23 - Brighton, UK - Concorde 2
5/24 - Lille, FR - Aeronef
5/25 - Nuremberg, DE - Z Bau
5/27 - Klagenfurt, AU - Klagenfurt FestivalBurghof open air
5/28 - Trieste, IT - Teatro Miela
5/30 - Milano, IT - Circolo Magnolia
5/31 - Bern, SW - Muhle Hunziken
6/1 - Zurich, SW - Kaufleuten
6/2 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green
6/3 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green
6/4 - Koln, DE - Gloria
6/6 - Munich, DE - Muffathalle
6/7 - Frankfurt, DE - Zoom
6/9 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Main Room
6/10 - Rotterdam, NL - LantarenVenster
6/11 - Antwerp, BE - De Roma
6/12 - Tours, FR @ Aucard de Tours
6/13 - San Sebastian, ES - Dabadaba
6/14 - Barcelona, ES - Parallel 62
6/16 - Marseille, FR - Espace Julien
6/17 - Geneve, CH - PTR/L'Usine
6/18 - Wien, AT - Simmcity
6/19 - Bratislava, SK - Cultural Center A4
6/20 - Budapest, HU - House of Music
6/21 - Katowice, PL - Nowa Muzika Festival
6/22 - Prague, CZ - Palac Akropolis
6/23 - Hamburg, DE - Kampnagel
7/26 - Toulouse, FR - Le Bikini
7/27 - Luxey, FR - Musicalarue Festival
7/28 - Roma, IT - Summertime Casa Del Jazz
7/29 - Genova, IT - Lilith Festival
8/3 - Cēsis, LV - Koncertzāle Cēsis
8/8 - Castelbuono, IT - Ypsigrock Festival
http://www.cocorosiemusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/CocoRosie/
https://www.instagram.com/cocorosie_official/
https://www.tiktok.com/@cocorosieofficial
https://twitter.com/larealcocorosie
https://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/
https://www.instagram.com/joyfulnoiserecs/
Poolside Teams Up With Satin Jackets For “Pull Together” Out Today, March 27 -- LA Wildfire Benefit Tour Underway Now
POOLSIDE
–THE RECORDING PROJECT OF PRODUCER, SONGWRITER
AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST JEFFREY PARADISE–
NEW SINGLE
POOLSIDE & SATIN JACKETS
“PULL TOGETHER”
OUT TODAY, MARCH 27
LISTEN HERE
Poolside & Friends: DISCO NEVER DIES - LA Wildfire Benefit Tour
Underway Now with Stops In Kauai, Honolulu, Austin, Dallas, Sacramento and Chicago
In 2023, Poolside, the recording project of producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradise, released his fourth studio album Blame It All On Love which was recorded at his home located in the remote enclave of Malibu Hills. Enter 2025 sadly his hilltop paradise and all his belongings were lost to the blaze of the Los Angeles wildfires. For his new single – the first since the destructive tragedy- Poolside teams up with Satin Jackets (German producer Tim Bernhardt) for “Pull Together” out today, March 27 on Ninja Tunes’ Counter Records.
Listen to Poolside x Satin Jackets’ “Pull Together” here:
https://poolside.lnk.to/pullPR
The sunny, daytime disco vibes Poolside is known for are not lost here. “Pull Together” is a heartfelt, uplifting track, drenched in danceable, finger-snapping beats and sweet groove basslines. Its message is clear, tapping into the need for coming together to ‘pull together.’
Wishing like these dreams would last forever
Way up in the hills, we found our treasure
Holding tight to keep it all together
We’ll pull together—put back together
Wishing like these dreams would last forever
Drifting in the wind, lost like feather
Watching as these dreams get torn and scattered
We’ll pull together—put back together
You’ve got me feeling up —
We’re gonna keep rising to the top
“Tragedy and art have always been old friends. I understood that before, but now—I live it,” shares Poolside. “Losing a home changes you, but it also opens a door to create something from the ruins. What started as loss became a cycle—pain feeding art, art feeding healing. And now, the beginning of the new beginning—for me, and for Poolside. I could throw in a cliché about rising from the ashes, but I’d rather just look ahead…I’m dropping a single with my friend Satin Jackets to mark the start of this next chapter. It’s called “Pull Together” —inspired by…the way Los Angeles has Pulled Together to help each other out.”
Shared the Los Angeles Times on their reporting of musicians who lost their homes to the fires, “Jeffrey Paradise, founder of the L.A. electronic act Poolside, had moved his home and recording studio into the Malibu hills three years ago. His house was a favorite hangout of the Grateful Dead in the ’70s, built with wood salvaged from the Venice Beach pier. He loved hosting musician friends from Highland Park for weekendlong writing sessions. ‘We’ve been on tour for years, so this was our sanctuary whenever we got back,’ Paradise said. ‘Bob Dylan had a place nearby. I’d run into Anthony Kiedis at cafes. Gene Simmons and Seal were my neighbors. We absolutely loved this house.’ But now his street is ‘a war zone, I’ve never seen anything like it, just an acid-trip nightmare hellscape,’ Paradise said. ‘Everything is gone. The enormity of it all is hard to comprehend. I can’t even feel it yet. This is going to be our reality for years.’ Read more of the story here.
While in search of a new home and preparing to record the next Poolside album, Jeffrey Paradise is currently DJing shows on the Poolside & Friends: DISCO NEVER DIES - LA Wildfire Benefit Tour with stops in Kauai, Honolulu, Austin, Dallas, Sacramento and Chicago, with more dates to be announced soon. All current dates are:
Poolside & Friends: DISCO NEVER DIES - LA Wildfire Benefit Tour:
Mar 27 – Porter Pavilion – Kauai, HI
Apr 04 – Republik – Honolulu, HI
Apr 18 – Kingdom – Austin, TX
Apr 19 – It’ll Do – Dallas, TX
Apr 25 – Channel 24 (w/ Tycho) – Sacramento, CA
May 04 – The Playground at Recess – Chicago, IL
*all Poolside tour dates are DJ sets
Poolside photographed by @Rileywestgaard
About Poolside
Poolside is the recording project of producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jeffrey Paradise. In 2011 Poolside set out to produce appropriately chill music for summer soirees, a light but danceable kind of music with sunny vibes and liquid rhythm that he dubbed "Daytime Disco." Since then, Poolside has released four acclaimed albums – Pacific Standard Time (2012), Heat (2017), Low Season (2020) and Blame It All On Love (2023) – remixed countless high-profile acts such as Billy Idol, Jack Johnson & Milky Chance, DRAMA, Miami Horror, L'impératrice, Purple Disco Machine, Big Wild and more. Poolside has also recently collaborated with Todd Edwards, NEIL FRANCES, Brijean and Buscabulla. Poolside’s live band has supported Kacey Musgraves, Earth, Wind & Fire and Tycho along with performing at major music festivals including Coachella, Primavera, Outside Lands, Lollapalooza and Corona Capital. Poolside’s cover of Neil Young’s classic “Harvest Moon” - which they made a one-of-a-kind 12-inch just for James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and halted the pressing of the album to include in on their debut album Pacific Standard Time – has been streamed over 107M times.
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Björk: Cornucopia - Trailer out today and tickets on sale now!
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
GET TICKETS HERE
Photograph: Santiago Felipe. Graphics: M/M Paris.
March 27, 2025—The highly anticipated concert film Björk: Cornucopia is now on sale, with the official trailer having just been released. Watch the trailer HERE. This visually stunning experience will be available in cinemas worldwide starting May 7th, 2025, for a limited time only, distributed by Trafalgar Releasing.Presented in 4K and Dolby Atmos, Björk: Cornucopia showcases Björk’s most elaborate live performance to date, blending cutting-edge visuals and immersive sound. Running at approximately 1 hour and 53 minutes, the film features a full concert performance and three exclusive music videos curated by Björk herself. This cinematic event offers fans a unique chance to experience the magic of Cornucopia in an entirely new way.The film will be available exclusively in over 500 cinemas across 30 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the US, the UK, and more. Specific release dates include May 8th in Spain, May 9th in Canada, and May 11th in France.Tickets are now available. Visit bjorkcornucopia.com for more details and to find your nearest cinema.
About Björk:
Björk is one of the most innovative and influential artists of her generation. Known for her groundbreaking music, visual art, and performances, Björk’s career has constantly pushed boundaries in music, technology, and activism. With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, she continues to inspire and challenge audiences with her bold creative visions. From her critically acclaimed app album Biophilia to the immersive Vulnicura VR, Björk has always embraced new technology to enhance her artistry. With Cornucopia, she continues to redefine what it means to be a performer in the 21st century, blending music, theater, and visual art to deliver a message of environmental hope and resilience.About Trafalgar: Trafalgar Releasing, the global leader in event cinema distribution, harnesses the power of cinema to bring fans together in more than 15,000 cinemas across 132 countries. A subsidiary of Trafalgar Entertainment, Trafalgar Releasing’s operations include production, acquisition, marketing, and distribution of live or pre-recorded content to cinemas worldwide led by an international team based in the UK, US and Germany. Featuring live concerts, music documentaries, world-class opera, award-winning theatre, and more from leading names in entertainment such as Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, BTS, Metallica, Oasis, Coldplay, Billie Eilish, the Royal Opera House and others, Trafalgar Releasing has repeatedly shattered event cinema box office records, most recently with international distribution for TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR, the highest-grossing concert film of all time. Information about Trafalgar Releasing can be found at www.trafalgar-releasing.com. About Mercury Studios
Mercury Studios is a full-service production studio, focused on telling compelling stories through the lens of music. Current and recent projects include Oscar and BAFTA award nominated American Symphony, directed by Matthew Heineman for the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions/Netflix, If These Walls Could Sing, directed by Mary McCartney for Disney+, My Life as a Rolling Stone for the BBC and MGM+, Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl for Netflix, This Town, a six-part series for the BBC from writer, creator, and executive producer Steven Knight, Linda Perry: Let it Die Here, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and the recently announced One to One: John & Yoko from Oscar and BAFTA award winning director, Kevin Macdonald. Mercury Studios also produced Sam Smith: Live at the Royal Albert Hall for BBC, Billie Eilish’s Overheated at the O2 London and Lang Lang Plays Disney for Disney+. Editorially independent, Mercury Studios is powered by Universal Music Group and represents the world’s leading catalogue of music-related content, consisting of thousands of hours of premium music-driven film and television programming.
Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine Members Gatecrash Lollapalooza Book Tour; Book Out Now
LOLLAPALOOZA:
THE UNCENSORED STORY OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK’S WILDEST FESTIVAL
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"A riotous oral history of the granddaddy of alterna-tours...
it’s a firecracker of a book."
– The Washington Post
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INCLUDES ORIGINAL INTERVIEWS WITH PERRY FARRELL AND JANE’S ADDICTION,
PEARL JAM, SOUNDGARDEN, NINE INCH NAILS, METALLICA, SONIC YOUTH,
TOOL, SMASHING PUMPKINS, ICE-T, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE,
GREEN DAY, PATTI SMITH, ALICE IN CHAINS, AND MORE
FOREWORD BY KIM THAYIL OF SOUNDGARDEN
"Recounts the wild festival of music and activism that helped redefine rock."
– NPR Morning Edition
LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival (St. Martin’s Press) is out today. The new book sees New York Times bestselling authors Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour (Nothin’ But A Good Time) telling the no-holds-barred history of the iconic music festival. Through hundreds of new interviews with artists, tour founders, festival organizers, promoters, publicists, sideshow freaks, stage crews, record label execs, reporters, roadies and more, LOLLAPALOOZA chronicles the tour’s pioneering 1991-1997 run, and, in the process, alternative rock’s rise – as well as the reverberations that led to a massive shift in the music industry and the culture at large.
LOLLAPALOOZA features a foreword by Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil along with original interviews with some of the biggest names in music, including Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Sonic Youth, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Ice-T, Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, Patti Smith, Alice in Chains, Metallica, and many more.
LOLLAPALOOZA: THE UNCENSORED STORY
OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK’S WILDEST FESTIVAL
Book Signing Event at Town Hall Seattle
L to R: Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Tom Beaujour, Rich Bienstock
Book Signing Event at Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
L to R: Rich Bienstock, Tim Commerford (Rage Against the Machine), Tom Beaujour
Conceived by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction, Lollapalooza’s inaugural outing across the U.S. in the summer of 1991 helped to coalesce an ideology and aesthetic that not only washed over popular music but seeped into fashion, film, television, literature, food, politics and more. Throughout the decade, Lollapalooza offered a vast and diverse ensemble of bands, breaking barriers of genre and uniting alternative rock, heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, industrial, goth, avant-garde, spoken word, electronic dance music and other styles under one big tent, and setting the template for the modern American music festival and the scores of other contemporary destination fests that are now an integral part of how audiences experience live music.
Unorthodox not just in music, Lollapalooza also spotlighted visual arts, nonprofit organizations, political outfits, and even the occasional freak show, offering a tantalizing cocktail of culture, art, and activism that, taken together, defined the alternative mindset that dominated the 1990s. Echoes of its impact reverberate strongly today – cemented by annual sell-outs at destination events all over the world, an estimation of 400,000 attendees at the flagship Chicago fest each summer, and a spot among the world’s largest and longest-running music festivals.
A nostalgic look back at 1990s music and culture, LOLLAPALOOZA traces the festival’s groundbreaking origins, following the tour as it progresses through the decade, and documenting the action onstage, backstage, and behind-the-scenes in detailed and uncensored and sometimes shocking first-person accounts. This is the story of Lollapalooza and the 1990s alternative rock revolution.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
RICHARD BIENSTOCK is a journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Billboard, SPIN, and other publications. He is a former senior editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored and co-authored several books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. He is also the New York Times bestselling co-author of Nothin’ But a Good Time.
TOM BEAUJOUR is a journalist as well as a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Revolver, America’s premier hard rock and heavy metal monthly. Beaujour has produced and mixed albums by Nada Surf, Guided by Voices, the Juliana Hatfield Three, and many others. He is also the New York Times bestselling co-author of Nothin’ But a Good Time.
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LOLLAPALOOZA: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival
By Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour
St. Martin’s Press
Hardcover: 9781250283702 I $32.00 USD I $42.00 CAD
eBook: 9781250283719 I $15.99 USD I $16.99 CAD
Digital Audio: 9781250379009 I $26.99
DOPE LEMON Shares "Sugarcat" | Psych Rock Band Perform at Bonnaroo, Bottle Rock & more this Spring
DOPE LEMON
RELEASES NEW SINGLE “SUGARCAT” - LISTEN HERE
GOLDEN WOLF - NEW ALBUM OUT MAY 2 VIA BMG
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF MAY 19 &
INCLUDES PERFORMANCES AT BONNAROO & BOTTLE ROCK
Today, Dope Lemon releases their new single “Sugarcat,” from their highly-anticipated fifth album Golden Wolf, out May 2nd via BMG. The award-winning project led by acclaimed Australian psych-rock hero Angus Stone will also return to North America this spring for a headline tour and festival stops at Bonnaroo and Bottle Rock – see dates below.
Latest single “Sugarcat” represents a new sonic realm within the multilayered odyssey of Golden Wolf. “‘Sugarcat’ moves into a new chapter stylistically for my writing with Dope Lemon,” notes Angus. “This one’s made to make you move deeper into the daydream we hope to continue creating for our lemon fans out there.”
Listen to “Sugarcat” here: https://dopelemon.lnk.to/sugarcatPR.
LISTEN & SHARE "SUGARCAT"
Blending introspective reflection with expansive sonic landscapes, Dope Lemon’s forthcoming album Golden Wolf offers a unique blend of indie rock and psychedelic soul, showcasing the band at their most honest and vulnerable. The album invites listeners to reflect on the choices they’ve made, the paths left behind, and those still to come. Following four previous studio albums — including the ARIA-nominated Kimosabè — Golden Wolf peels back layers of memory and imagination, crafting a rich, evocative listening experience. Hear the album’s previous singles, “Golden Wolf” and “Electric Green Lambo.”
Golden Wolf shifts from the retrospective themes of Kimosabè to explore what lies ahead. Seamlessly blending sun-soaked rock with shimmering nocturnal grooves, the album encourages listeners to savour the journey rather than rush to the destination. Like a vast desert landscape, it is both stark and stunning — a place where time slows, and you can lose yourself completely.
Golden Wolf will be out everywhere on May 2nd via BMG. Pre-order here: https://dopelemon.lnk.to/GoldenWolfPR.
DOPE LEMON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
May 19 Vancouver, BC - Malkin Bowl
May 20 Seattle, WA - Showbox
May 21 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater
May 23 Napa Valley, CA - Bottlerock Festival
May 24 Los Angeles, CA - The Novo
May 25 San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park
May 27 Phoenix, AZ - Van Buren
May 28 Santa Fe, NM - Lensic Performing Art Center
May 29 Denver, CO - The Fillmore
May 31 Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
June 01 Chicago, IL - Metro
June 03 Philadelphia, PA - Brooklyn Bowl
June 04 New York, NY - Brooklyn Steel
June 06 Boston, MA - Royale
June 07 Montreal, QC - MTELUS
June 08 Toronto, ON - History
June 10 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
June 12 Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore
June 13 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage
June 14 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
"GOLDEN WOLF" OFFICIAL VIDEO
"ELECTRIC GREEN LAMBO" OFFICIAL VIDEO
About Dope Lemon:
Since its debut in 2016 with the critically acclaimed album Honey Bones, Dope Lemon—the project of celebrated Australian artist Angus Stone—has built a reputation for blending dreamy, laid-back grooves with deeply introspective lyricism.
Dope Lemon’s rich, immersive sound has resonated with global audiences. Albums like Smooth Big Cat (2019) and Rose Pink Cadillac (2022) have not only topped the ARIA charts, frequently ranking #1 in independent and vinyl categories, but have also earned a devoted international following, achieving notable success in Germany, Switzerland, and beyond. The most recent album, Kimosabè (2023), continued this momentum, securing the #9 spot on the ARIA charts and the #2 position for Australian Albums.
With more than 565,000 album equivalents sold and over 700 million streams, Dope Lemon has seen impressive commercial success. The single ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ became a fan favourite, landing a spot in triple j’s Hottest 100. Meanwhile, the project’s discography has been Shazamed nearly 2 million times, a testament to its magnetic appeal.
On the live front, Dope Lemon has headlined sold-out tours across Australia, North America, and Europe, performing at prestigious music festivals like Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits. In 2023, the project joined Post Malone on the Australian leg of his arena tour. Additionally, Dope Lemon has collaborated with renowned Australian bands such as Winston Surfshirt and co-writing credits with the likes of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.
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HTRK release new single "Swimming Pool" + b-side "Puddles on my Pillow"
"Few Australian bands have been as influential as HTRK." — The Guardian "Over the course of their two decades, their music has retained its core sound...singing of the pleasure and pain of romance in all its complexity over understated, cracked rhythms." — The Quietus "The Melbourne group's music has grown lighter, gentler, and more inviting with every release." - Pitchfork HTRK, the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, walked into their 21st year on reflective terms. Alongside a series of performances and installations throughout 2024, sharing the covers/remixes EP
String of Hearts
featuring artists like Loraine James and Liars, and announcing a repress of their 2009 full-length debut,
Marry Me Tonight
, as well as their most recent album, 2021’s beloved
Rhinestones
. Now, HTRK share their first sign of new material in several years, the drifting, sensuous ooze of "Swimming Pool," a slow dissolution into serenely uncertain and diaphanous depths, and its stunning B-side, "Puddles on My Pillow." Stream (smartlink) As ever in their world, the states are polarised on "Swimming Pool" — romance versus lonerism, racing heart versus churning mind, charged simplicity versus disarming complexity — all untethered from meaning and reduced to pure, unfettered feeling. A dappled noir grandeur teeming with uncertainty, a singular depiction of unperturbed bliss littered with the suggestion of spectres beneath the ripples. "Swimming Pool" is a momentary dose of calm, or perhaps a harbinger of tumult to come. Always in flux, always poised to melt, HTRK continue to sound out splendid turmoil as only they can. HTRK 2025 Shows
03.30 New York, NY - Knockdown Center
04.02 Kingston, NY - Tubby's04.04 Philadelphia, PA - TRANSCENDENTAL Secret Location
04.06 Miami, FL - The Ground Miami04.08 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever04.09 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever04.30 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Melbourne05.10 Castlemaine, Australia - Theatre Royal
HTRK online:
Official site
Ghostly site
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Tortoise are back: listen to "Oganesson" now
TORTOISE SHARE FIRST NEW RECORDING IN NEARLY A DECADE: NEW SONG, “OGANESSON”
BAND PERFORMS NEW MUSIC AT BIG EARS FESTIVAL IN KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, TONIGHT
“TORTOISE NOT ONLY SET THE BAR FOR [POST-ROCK], THEY LEAPED RIGHT OVER IT.”
— PITCHFORK
“NOT JUST PIONEERS BUT PARAGONS.”
— RESIDENT ADVISOR
Photo by Todd WeaverToday, the iconic and influential Tortoise share their first new music since 2016: the digital single “Oganesson,” in anticipation of a larger body of work to be released soon via International Anthem & Nonesuch Records (details TBA).
The track is out just hours before the group perform at the adventurous and esteemed Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, playing several new pieces of music in addition to classics from their more than three decades-deep catalog of boundary-defying, vanguard-defining music.
Listen to “Oganesson” here .
Tortoise is widely considered one of the most influential music groups of the last 40 years, with a wide-reaching impact on the contemporary music scene. Pitchfork says: “Imagine a graphic showing all the bands the five members of Tortoise were in before they came together and then all the bands they went on to play with after. At the top of the funnel you have groups ranging from dreamy psych-rock to earthy post-punk crunch, including Eleventh Dream Day, Bastro, Slint, and the Poster Children; on the 'post-Tortoise' end are groups focusing on electro-jazz and twangy instrumental rock like Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, and Brokeback. In this graphic, Tortoise is the choke point, the one project that has elements of all these sounds but is never defined by nor committed to any of them. Instead, Tortoise floats free, a planchette moving over a Ouija board guided by 10 sets of fingers, where everyone watches the arrow float in one direction but no one is quite sure how it gets there or who is doing the pushing.”
The band, which originally formed in Chicago, comprises Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire.
Photo by Todd Weaver
Initially hailed as pace-setters of the then-emerging, so-called “post-rock” sound, the Chicago Tribune called Tortoise’s sound “mood music that refuses to be shoved into the background, as inviting as it is challenging.” Releasing just seven albums since 1990 — including classics like 1996’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1998’s TNT, and 2001’s Standards — Tortoise has steadily and intuitively evolved across its life, creating genreless music that is as timeless as it is ahead of the curve.
The band’s legacy goes beyond its recorded output, as well. Per the New York Times: “While Tortoise's albums have experimented with the editing and overdubbing possibilities of the studio, the band thrives performing in real time.” Rolling Stone deems Tortoise “a live marvel,” while Pitchfork further says the band’s performances reveal that “at heart, they’re a supremely fun band, wide open to all sorts of sonic possibilities.”
"Oganesson" is out now, buy/stream it here.
CREDITS
Composed & Performed by:
Jeff Parker - Guitar
Dan Bitney - Synthesizers
Douglas McCombs - Bass
John Herndon - Percussion, Electronic Percussion
John McEntire - Drums
Produced by Tortoise.
Recorded by John McEntire at 64 Sound (Los Angeles CA), Electrical Audio (Chicago IL), Flora Recording and Playback (Portland OR).
Mixed by John McEntire at Soma Electronic Music Studios (Gladstone OR).
Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters (Los Angeles CA).
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March 26, 2025
ALABASTER DEPLUME @ The Regent Tuesday 03.25.25 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE
All photos taken by Martin Worster
THOM YORKE & MARK PRITCHARD ANNOUNCE 'TALL TALES' FILM SINGLE DAY SCREENING EVENT
MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE ANNOUNCE "TALL TALES” ONE NIGHT SCREENING EVENT - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW
“TALL TALES” IS A FILM BY JONATHAN ZAWADA
DEBUT COLLABORATIVE ALBUM & VISUAL EXPERIENCE TO BE SCREENED ONLY IN THEATRES/CINEMAS ON MAY 8
ALBUM OUT MAY 9 ON WARP RECORDS
Following the announcement of their debut collaborative record Tall Tales (out May 9 via Warp Records), pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile / Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke have shared details of a special global cinema event on May 8, in which fans will be able to hear the album alongside its accompanying feature film a day ahead of release - dates may vary for certain locations.
More info and tickets are available from Tall-Tales.info.
An effective third member of the group, visual artist Jonathan Zawada - whose multi-faceted approach to melding analogue and digital techniques have seen him work alongside the likes of Coachella, Flume, The Avalanches, Royksopp, and Dua Lipa – directed, animated, and edited the Tall Tales visual experience.
The groundbreaking production was developed over the past few years in tandem with the evolution of the music, juxtaposing it with uneasy landscapes of natural beauty and the brutal aesthetics of a dystopian world. Through Yorke’s lyrics, Pritchard’s atemporal compositions and Zawada’s visuals, Tall Tales questions where our insatiable appetite for ‘progress’ might have landed us. A prophetic cinematic experience, Tall Tales has been years in the making, but delivered right on time.
Watch the trailer for Tall Tales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFe9znS9hI
Some lucky fans that attend the screenings will also receive a zine compiled and designed by Zawada, which gives a unique insight into the concepts and inspirations running through the film and album. Alongside the announcement of the event, he has shared an enigmatic snippet of the zine examining the theft of the well-known sculpture, ‘The Thinker’. Read an extract here.
Two previews from the film have already been released in the form of music videos over the past couple of months. These came alongside the first two singles to be lifted from the album "Back In The Game" and "This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice", the latter of which is currently A-listed on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Watch the video for “This Conversation Is Missing Your Voice”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKaei11LulE
Watch the video for “Back In The Game”
https://youtu.be/s4Ta7n_Eyjo?si=lSdByZbDNeYTfTXO
Watch the video for “Back In The Game - Live From Sydney Opera House”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv9kaiyVZwE
Pritchard is a luminary of 90s UK electronic music with his projects Reload, Link and as one half of the production duo Global Communication alongside Tom Middleton. In 2011 he released two remixes of Radiohead's "Bloom" and across an eclectic career that has incorporated many styles and various guises, he has remixed further material from the likes of Aphex Twin, Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey, and Slowdive.
Tall Tales, Yorke's first release on Warp Records, is a multi-layered, richly textured record that channels both multiple narratives and multiple genres. Across its eclectic 12 song runtime, the record showcases Pritchard's mastery of archaic machines unearthed in synthesizer archives, guiding the music down unexpected and experimental paths. Yorke meanwhile delivers a haunting and expansive vocal performance, delving into dark, introspective storytelling.
As well as digitally, the album will be available in a standard black vinyl 2LP gatefold edition and as a limited special black vinyl 2LP edition including a 36-page booklet featuring a wealth of images from the project and lyrics to all the tracks, carefully designed by Jonathan Zawada. There will also be both a standard CD edition and a limited special CD accompanied by the 36-page booklet.
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Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
Tall Tales
Out May 9th on Warp Records
A Fake in a Faker's World
Ice Shelf
Bugging Out Again
Back in the Game
White Cliffs
The Spirit
Gangsters
This Conversation is Missing Your Voice
Tall Tales
Happy Days
The Men Who Dance In Stags' Heads
Wandering Genie
