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March 3, 2025
yeule announces new album and headline tour with new single "Skullcrusher"
YEULE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM EVANGELIC GIRL IS A GUN DUE MAY 30TH VIA NINJA TUNE
ANNOUNCES UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
SHARES NEW SINGLE “SKULLCRUSHER” OUT NOW
yeule by Vasso Vu
Evangelic Girl is a Gun
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“Skullcrusher”
WATCH:
LISTEN:
https://yeule.lnk.to/Skullcrusher
(March 3, 2025) - Today, yeule announces a new album Evangelic Girl is a Gun due May 30th via Ninja Tune. Alongside the announcement yeule shares an early taste of the project with new single “Skullcrusher,” which was co-produced by yeule, Clams Casino and Fitnesss. The single also comes alongside a Neil Krug-directed video.
Evangelic Girl is a Gun is yeule’s most unrestrained and emotionally baring work yet, as they grapple with ideas of a self-destructive identity burning through the canvas of post-modernity. Accompanied by still visual artworks made in collaboration with artist Vasso Vu and a video for the latest single shot by the aforementioned Neil Krug, Ćmiel explores the duality of darkness, as well as their personal history to their role as the "painter.” Through the album’s hypnotic melodies, they present a portrait of the tortured artist trapped within an image, as Ćmiel’s haunting vocals act as an emotional chokehold atop dance beats.
“I wanted to bring homage to my life as a painter with this album,” Ćmiel says, explaining they’re influenced by the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. "For me, Beksiński portrays so beautifully, with utmost care, the entities that crawl through his dystopian, tranquil landscapes. The nature of painting as a medium is a reflection of my emotions, both violent and gentle. A fleeting moment of time in my life, transcribed with paint and trapped in time.”
Evangelic Girl is a Gun sees Ćmiel putting their own “cyborgian” spin on Bristol trip-hop and ‘90s gothic. The album features production from A.G. Cook, Chris Greatti, Mura Masa, Clams Casino, Fitnesss and Kin Leonn, Ćmiel’s trusted collaborator and co-executive producer of 2023’s softscars. yeule’s untreated vocals on the album also contribute to a sense of burning authenticity; rawness emerges as they abandon Auto-Tune. This jarring artistic styling is a turn from their glitchy previous works. As a counter to the emergence of AI, they wanted to imbue their vocals with a “raw, irreplaceable edge,” they explain.
“Skullcrusher” and previous single “Eko” follow their celebrated album softscars, which incorporated distorted guitars and alternative production. The arrival of softscars was met with immense critical acclaim earning their second ‘Best New Music’ stamp from Pitchfork, as well as applause from outlets such as The New York Times, The FADER, Stereogum, Alternative Press, NPR among others. The album followed their critically acclaimed 2022 release, Glitch Princess, which also received a Pitchfork ‘Best New Music’ stamp and overwhelming critical praise.
A chameleonic auteur guided by a multidisciplinary ethos, yeule crafts entire worlds and personas through their music, weaving together everything from the classical canon, hypermodern internet cultures, academic theory, the esoteric, and their own carnal desires.
Listen to “Skullcrusher” above, find album details below and stay tuned for more from the dexterous artist coming soon.
Tour Dates:
7/1 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2
7/2 - London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
7/5 - Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival
7/7 - Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Theatre
7/9 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
7/11 - Paris, France @ Le Trabendo
7/10 - 12 - Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival
Evangelic Girl is a Gun
May 30th 2025
Ninja Tune
1. Tequila Coma
2. The Girl Who Sold Her Face
3. Eko
4. 1967
5. VV
6. Dudu
7. What3vr
8. Saiko
9. Evangelic Girl is a Gun
10. Skullcrusher
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Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo Share Cover Of Jackson C. Frank's "Golden Mirror" || Announce New Album 'Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1)'
MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO SHARE COVER OF JACKSON C. FRANK’S "GOLDEN MIRROR"
ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
GOLDEN MIRRORS (THE UNCOVERED SESSIONS VOL. 1)
OUT 3/28 ON MUTE
Photo credit: Matthew Ellery
Today Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo have announced details of their new album Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1), the first in a series of projects investigating songwriters for whom Harvey and Acevedo have a particular predilection. Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1) is set for release on Mute digitally on March 28 2025, with an exclusive gold vinyl Australian edition (via Impressed Recordings) available on release. The album will precede a series of dates across Europe (full details below).
The new album sees the duo cover 11 songs by the American songwriter Jackson C. Frank, who passed March 3, 1999, and whose sole album release was produced by Paul Simon and who counted Laura Marling, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Mark Lanegan and Fairport Convention as fans.
Watch the video for the opening track, “Golden Mirror” HERE.
Harvey explains, “Amanda and I recorded ‘Milk & Honey’ for our first album together, Phantasmagoria in Blue. By complete coincidence, in the week of the single release, I was contacted by my friend, Guanluca, from Italy who was putting together a tribute to Jackson C. Frank for his ‘Love & Thunder’ collective project. We were more than happy to record a few more songs, Amanda in particular being a big fan of Frank’s work. We initially recorded three songs for the tribute project but we just kept going and eventually realised we could make our own album. The whole process was so enjoyable and the ideas just flowed. All the original recordings are just one or two guitars with singing and Frank’s later songs are only available as home recordings, non-studio demos or live. So the possibilities of expanding the songs through arrangements were huge, and that process was very rewarding and enjoyable.”
The pair will continue working on the Uncovered Sessions while producing an album of original material for release in 2026. This new album follows the duo’s 2023 release Phantasmagoria in Blue and Harvey’s 2024 solo outing Five Ways to Say Goodbye.
The album was recorded in Harvey’s music room in North Melbourne and mixed by Alain Johannes in LA, Spain and Chile, the tracks exude brooding, dark atmospheres with Harvey’s trademark stylings and Acevedo’s floating, expressive vocalizations.
Pre-order Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1) HERE.
Listen to Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo’s debut, Phantasmagoria in Blue HERE.
Mick Harvey is renowned as a musician, record producer and composer who has been active for the last 45+ years and is perhaps best known as a member of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds and for his long term collaborative work with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. Aside from scoring 10 feature films and numerous short films and documentaries, split almost evenly between Australia and Europe, Harvey has also released 10 solo albums in the last 2 decades and been the recipient of several Australian Music Industry Awards. He won the AFI Best Original Score for Suburban Mayhem in 2006 and in 2011 took out British Producer of the Year for his (co)production on PJ Harvey's Let England Shake.This is Mexican artist Amanda Acevedo’s second project in collaboration with Mick Harvey. After spending 2020/21 studying film in her home town of San Luis Potisí, Acevedo teamed up with one of her heroes to create a thematically-rich collection of duets and continues that work into 2025 with this new release. She is currently studying and working in Melbourne, Australia
MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO LIVE:
4/3/2025 - Ioaninna (GR) - Route 664/4/2025 - Ptolemaida (GR) - Mandrakoukos
4/5/2025 - Thessaloniki (GR) - Mylos
4/6/2025 - Athens (FR) - Tiki Bar
4/9/2025 - Vienna (AT) - Rote Bar
4/10/2025 - Bologna (IT) – Binario69
4/11/2025 - Savona (IT) - Raindogs (with screening of Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party at 8.30ppm)
4/12/2025l - Como (IT) – Joshua – tickets available on the door
4/13/2025 - Pordenone (IT) - Capitol
Track listing:
1. Golden Mirror
2. My Name is Carnival
3. The Night of the Blues
4. Cover Me with Roses
5. The Visit
6. Marcy’s Song
7. Blues Run the Game
8. I Want to be Alone (Dialogue)
9. Have You Seen the Unicorns
10. October
11. Juliette
Pre- order HERE.
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Intensive Care + The Body share caustic 'Was I Good Enough?' opener, “Mistakes Have Been Made”
Intensive Care + The Body share caustic Was I Good Enough? album opener, “Mistakes Have Been Made”
Their collaborative LP is out March 14th
"...a dose of desperate, apocalyptic, Godflesh-y industrial metal." - BrooklynVegan
"glacially noisy" - Metal Injection
"darkly intense, brooding, thick bodied" - The Organ
Photo by: Jake Ballah
Toronto duo Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island duo The Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) will release their brilliant collaborative album Was I Good Enough? on March 14th. Today, they've shared the album opener, "Mistakes Have Been Made." Intensive Care's Andrew Nolan says the song "...is probably the most traditional sounding song on the album, the idea was to have it start sounding close to a traditional Body song and as the album progresses to start devolving into something else. The song was slowed down 20%, then the drums were rerecorded at normal speed. The end of the song is an 808 playing through the Intensive Care bass rig."
With glitchy, bellowing vocals and an icy industrial backbone, Was I Good Enough? showcases the respective pedigrees of its creators while summoning a dynamic and dangerous beast through the distortion.
Listen / share "Mistakes Have Been Made"
The union of Intensive Care and The Body dates back to a tour in 2018 but the idea for a collaboration remained on the backburner until 2021. The Body established the framework for the album and shared it with Intensive Care, and all four musicians tinkered with it for the next year-and-a-half. Lee from The Body comments, “What started as years and years of admiration both musically and personally has led to us convincing IC into making our love into a concrete physical release." Bloomer says the collaboration was “based on our friendship and appreciation for The Body's approach—which is quite similar to ours." He continues, “In a conventional sense, we’re both grounded in heavy music. We all try to transcend the boundaries of the genre and redefine what heavy means to us.”
They did so by adopting a production technique widely used in hip-hop and originally popularized in Houston: chopped and screwed. They combined samples, instrumentals, drum loops, vocals, and other elements into a corrosive and caustic collage. “We took what The Body gave us and ran with it,” Bloomer recalls. “We were deliberately slowing parts down and doubling up to emphasize certain vocal lines. Hip-hop was a huge inspiration. We tried to lean on those techniques in order to create this record and put our own spin on it.” He concludes, “There’s a real contrast between our voices. You really hear the back-and-forth of two bands who have come together to make a record.”
Pre-order Was I Good Enough? here.
Was I Good Enough? , cover art:
Artwork by: Jon Kortland (Iron Lung / Pig Heart Transplant)
Was I Good Enough? , track listing:
Mistakes Have Been MadeSwallowed by the GodThe MisunderstandingAt Death's DoorThe Riderless MountCartography of SufferingUnwantedMandelbrot AnamnesisIntensive Care | Bandcamp | Instagram
The Body | Bandcamp | Instagram
Pixies North American Tour 2025 Adds 14 New Headline Shows
Pixies
North American Tour 2025 Adds 14 New Headline Shows
Tickets On Sale Beginning February 28 at pixiesmusic.com
Long revered as one of the most influential and impactful creative forces of the modern musical era, Pixies has announced a 14-date extension of its 2025 North American Tour. The newly announced headline shows will take the band from San Diego’s Gallagher Square on August 27 through to the Pinnacle in Nashville on September 17, with stops along the way including Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Greek Theatre in Berkeley and more. Support will come from Spoon and Fazerdaze. See below for a full itinerary.
Tickets for these dates will be on sale beginning Friday, February 28 at pixiesmusic.com.
The newly confirmed shows represent the latest installment of Pixies’ extensive North American trek supporting its latest studio album, The Night The Zombies Came. Released October 25 via BMG, Pixies ninth studio album (or tenth if you count 1986 debut mini-LP Come On Pilgrim) moved the likes of AllMusic to rave “Songs like these uphold Pixies’ brash, eccentric, oddly moving legacy brilliantly, and as a whole, The Night the Zombies Came ranks among their finest post-reunion music.” Prior to this newly unveiled run, Pixies — Charles “Black Francis” Thompson (vocals, guitar), Joey Santiago (guitar), David Lovering (drums) and Emma Richardson (bass, vocals) — will embark on a June 13—August 1 series of two-night engagements in 14 North American cities, playing classic albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in their entirety the first night, followed on night two by sets featuring staples from the band’s bottomless catalog alongside newer material including songs from The Night The Zombies Came.2025 promises to be yet another banner year for Pixies. One year shy of the 40th anniversary of the band’s 1986 formation, Pixies continues to mark milestones such as “Where Is My Mind?” from 1988’s immortal Surfer Rosa recently surpassing one billion plays on Spotify. The band’s peerless catalog — which spans from 1989’s platinum-certified breakthrough Doolittle to 21st century outings including Indie Cindy (2014), Head Carrier (2016), Beneath the Eyrie (2019), Doggerel (2022) and more — continues to grow in stature across successive generations. Drawing passionate throngs of fans new and longtime alike, 2025’s continuation of Pixies’ global touring agenda is sure to keep this multi-generational following enthralled with performances as incendiary as they are unique.
Pixies
2025 North American Tour
* New Dates in BOLD
JUNE 2025
13-14 Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas
16-17 The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ
20-21 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
23-24 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA
26-27 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC
JULY 2025
8-9 MTELUS, Montreal, QC
12 Ottawa Bluesfest, Ottawa, ONT
15-16 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY
18-19 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA
22-23 The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA
25-26 The Anthem, Washington, DC
28-29 The Fillmore, Detroit, MI
31 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN
AUGUST 2025
1 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN
22 Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON (with My Chemical Romance)
27 Gallagher Square, San Diego, CA
28 The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
30 McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, OR
31 Kettlehouse Amphitheater, Bonner, MT
SEPTEMBER 2025
2 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
4 Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK
5 ACL Live at the Moody Theater, Austin, TX
6 White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX
8 Avondale Brewing Company, Birmingham, AL
9 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
10 Asheville Yards Amphitheater, Asheville, NC
12 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
13 Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Louisville, KY
15 The Salt Shed – Fairgrounds, Chicago, IL
17 The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN
19 Shaky Knees Festival, Atlanta, GA
Kurt Vile supports June 13 through August 1
Spoon and Fazerdaze support August 27 through September 17
JUSTICE HIT #1 AT ALTERNATIVE RADIO
JUSTICE HIT #1 AT ALTERNATIVE RADIO WITH “NEVERENDER (FEATURING TAME IMPALA)”
ACHIEVEMENT MARKS THEIR FIRST TIME TOPPING THE ALTERNATIVE CHART AND TAME IMPALA’S SECOND
[image error]Justice press shot by André Chémétoff
French electronic standard-bearers Justice have just completed a slow and steady ascendancy to the #1 spot on the Alternative Radio chart with “Neverender (feat. Tame Impala),” marking their first time topping the chart on this format and Tame Impala’s second. The achievement follows hot on the heels of the song taking the honors for Best Dance/Electronic Recording at the Grammys (marking their third Grammy win and Tame Impala’s first), as well as their first dalliance with Billboard’s Hot 100 chart via their collaboration with The Weeknd, “Wake Me Up.”
The news hits as the band kick off the next North American leg of the massive ongoing Justice: Live tour, with upcoming appearances at Bonnaroo, Kilby Block Party, Electric Forest, a sold-out show at the iconic Red Rock Amphitheatre, and more. Find full tour dates below.
Watch the “Neverender” music video
https://justice.lnk.to/neverenderMV
Buy Justice: Live tour tickets
https://laylo.com/justice/m/justicelive2025
Listen to Hyperdrama
https://justice.lnk.to/hyperdrama
Justice: Live tour dates
March 5 - The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory - Dallas, TX *
March 6 - Moody Center - Austin, TX *
March 8 - M3F Festival - Phoenix, AZ
March 12 - Palacio de los Deportes - Mexico City, MX $
March 29 - Estereo Picnic - Bogota, Columbia
April 3 - Movistar Arena - Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 7 - Movistar Arena - Santiago, Chile
May 18 - Kilby Block Party - Salt Lake City, UT
May 21 - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium - San Francisco, CA ^ SOLD OUT
May 22 - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium - San Francisco, CA ^
May 23 - Santa Barbara Bowl - Santa Barbara, CA ^ SOLD OUT
May 25 - Red Rocks Amphitheatre - Morrison, CO % SOLD OUT
June 5 - Budweiser Stage -Toronto, ON
June 6 - Place Bell - Montreal, QC
June 7 - The Stage at Suffolk Downs - Boston, MA
June 10 - Stage AE - Outdoor - Pittsburgh, PA
June 12 - Merriweather Post Pavilion - Columbia, MD
June 14 - Bonnaroo Festival - Manchester, TN
June 17 - The Armory - Minneapolis, MN
June 19 - Electric Forest Festival - Rothbury, MI
June 28 - Lido Sounds Festival - Linz, Austria
July 4 - Open'er Festival 2025 - Gdynia, Poland
July 6 - Les Eurockéennes - Belfort, France
July 10-12 Mad Cool Festival - Madrid, Spain
July 11 - NOS Alive - Oeiras, Portugal
July 16-20 - Electric Castle - Bontida, Romania
July 17 - Colours of Ostrava 2025 - Ostrava 3, Czechia
August 6-11 - Sziget Festival - Budapest, Hungary
August 8 - Grape Festival 2025 - Trečín District, Slovakia
August 10 - Pula Arena - Pula, Croatia
Aug 17 - Pukkelopop Festival - Hasselt, Belgium
Aug 21-24 - V and Bar Fest - Chateau-gontier-sur-mayenne, France
Aug 23 - Rock en Seine - Saint-cloud, France
*w/ Maria
^ w/ The Dare
% w/ Fcukers
$ w/ Rey Pila
[image error]Justice Hyperdrama artwork by Thomas Jumin
For more information on Justice:
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IRON LUNG release powerful triptych singles/video "Purgatory Dust // Virus" - New album out April 18
Iron Lung Release Triptych Singles / Video:
"Purgatory Dust" / "Virus" / "Purgatory Dust (Finale)”
Adapting // Crawling Out April 18 via Iron Lung Records
What We Like Fest - Celebrating 18 Years of Iron Lung Records April 18 - 20 in Seattle + LA, SF and More
L-R Jon Kortland (Guitar / Vocals), Jensen Ward (Drums / Vocals)
Photo By Christina Hamilton
On Adapting // Crawling, the first new album in 12 years from hardcore / DIY vets IRON LUNG (duo Jensen Ward and Jon Kortland) take head shots at mental health with specific emphasis on the exacting tolls the past five years have taken on humanity. The “song-infected-with-another-song” concept behind Adapting // Crawling’s centerpiece and triptych singles “Purgatory Dust” / “Virus” / “Purgatory Dust (Finale)” was one IRON LUNG had always wanted to try. “At its core, ‘Purgatory Dust’ is about people not taking any precautions during the pandemic, causing even more of a spread and way more of a stupid panic,” Jensen explains. “Then we introduce ‘Virus’ in the middle of the tune and let it wreak havoc for almost too long. When ‘Dust’ comes back it deals with the fallout from infection be it death or long term illness. That behavior really freaked me out during Covid, probably because I have studied the Polio epidemic a ton over the course of this band and people behaved pretty much exactly the same way back in the 50s. The echoes of it are staggering really. Same idiocy. Same willful ignorance and hostility toward reason. Human nature is insane. I am surprised our species has lived this long.”
Listen / Watch / Playlist
"Purgatory Dust" / "Virus" / "Purgatory Dust (Finale)”
From the beginning, Iron Lung have ethically / sonically approached the world: Do It Yourself, obscure, extreme, maladjusted and utterly free from the constraints of “music” or, more widely, rules in general. Each record has been written around a concept.
Adapting // Crawling acts as a sliced cadaver with each song a newly peeled layer exposing the corrosive effects of deep depression, a failed healthcare system, heavy grief from multiple friends/family deaths, paranoia and distrust of government, meaningless existence and loss. So much loss. When time disappeared between 2020 and 2023, the loss of function, of relation, of drive, of everything was incalculable. Life goes on but we lose a little more each day. To help cope with that crushing reality, Iron Lung finally sat down and wrote about their pain.
In order to not be consumed by it, they built a wall around themselves utilizing an “us versus them” modality in the lyrics. All of the band’s points of view are from the “we” stance and are funneled through their long established lens of antiquated medical procedures and devices. The only times that mode breaks is when quoting an outsider view before rejecting and destroying it. The power belongs to Iron Lung and by association, to the allied listener.
Adapting // Crawling arrives April 18 via the band’s own esteemed imprint, Iron Lung Records. In addition to the release and performances confirmed throughout 2025, Iron Lung celebrate the label’s 18th anniversary simultaneously with a three day fest - What We Like - which takes over Seattle April 18 - 20. The weekend includes 26 exceptional bands from all around the globe, most of them with releases in the Iron Lung Records fam, plus two films, an art show and local cuisine. The event takes over three venues - all shows, all ages. Tickets and more info are here. For a full list of live dates, see below.
Pre-Order / Pre-Save Adapting // Crawling: Digital | Physical
Adapting // Crawling Track List:
01. Adapting
02. Internal Monologue
03. Lifeless Life
04. Shift Work
05. Poisoned Sand
06. Everything is a Void (Album Version)
07. A Veiled Eye
08. Perfect Ending
09. A Loving Act
10. Purgatory Dust
11. Virus
12. Purgatory Dust (Finale)
13. Acres of Skin
14. Hospital Tile
15. Cog II
16. HeLa Cells
17. Failure
18. Survived By…
Iron Lung Live Dates:
Mar 07: San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall #
Mar 15: Orlando, FL - Will’s Pub
Apr 18-20: Seattle, WA - The Vera Project * (WHAT WE LIKE Weekend)
Jun 13-15: Copenhagen DK - Ungdomshuset (K-Town Hardcore Fest)
Jul 11: Sydney, AU
Jul 12: Sydney, AU
Jul 13: Brisbane, AU
Jul 18: Melbourne, AU
Jul 19: Frankston, AU
Jul 20: Perth, AU
Jul 24: Sendai, JP
Jul 25: Tokyo, JP
Jul 26: Osaka, JP
Jul 27: Nagoya, JP
Jul 28: Yokohama, JP
Jul 29: Tokyo, JP
Sep 06: Los Angeles, CA - CY Fest
# w/ Ceremony
* w/ Slant, Bootlicker, Physique, Direct Threat and Crawl Space
BRUIT ≤ share new track & video "Data". Album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’ out April 25 on Pelagic.
- Album 'The Age of Ephemerality' out April 25th on Pelagic
- European tour with Alcest announced
Photo credit: Arnaud Payen “Everything that can be technically achieved will be. All possible combinations will be
exhaustively tested.” - Dennis Gabor’s Law
BRUIT ≤ have shared a second look at their forthcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release on the 25th of April via Pelagic.
As the ethics of major streaming services and social media outlets come to the fore, BRUIT ≤ prepare for the timely release of their colossal new album. A philosophical, poetic and political reflection on our insatiable fascination with technology, a dependence as reverential as it is increasingly alienating and exploitative, ‘ The Age Of Ephemerality ’ is a seismic collision of old and new, of sounds organic and electric, with the trailblazing four-piece capturing the resultant symphony in all its chaotic, confrontational glory.
Following previous single "Ephemeral", today BRUIT ≤ share the album's soaring second track, "Data", which takes ‘Ephemeral’s instrumental fury and reshapes it; cannibalising the grinding cacophony and spitting out a delirious, DnB-like dirge before this too implodes in a hail of scattered digital artefacts before a blissfully bittersweet piano motif plays us out; a haunting analogue of the track’s synthesised introduction.
The band comment: "Data explores the problem of mass surveillance and globalised manipulation through the digitisation of everything. Driven by an urgent drum & bass beat, the track confronts electronic elements, electric guitar and cello, with a brass ensemble and bicentennial organ, diluting what is organic and what's not. Through this process, we tried to illustrate the confusion we feel every day when faced with fake news, AI generated content or targeted advertising... What's still social about our network? What's still organic about our relationship with the world?"
Watch the video for "Data" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-gV13OnE0
'The Age of Ephemerality' album links: https://orcd.co/bruit
A cautionary sonic exploration of society’s deference to the algorithm; ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’ will not be available on major international streaming platforms. Much like the rest of the band’s discography, the album reinforces the collective’s staunch boycott of Spotify; a response to the platform’s consistently diminishing artist payout policies as well as billionaire CEO Daniel Ek’s recent investment in the arms trade. Written in the mountains and recorded in a church, the album is BRUIT ≤ experimenting with capturing the sound of physical space as if it were an instrument in its own right; as something that can never be artificially generated or digitally replicated.
Amplifying contemporary instruments, tools and tech in a building hundreds of years old; synths, drums, strings, an eight-strong electric guitar orchestra made up of friends and collaborators from the Toulouse scene (Slift, Plebian Grandstand, Mourir, Zelezna, Orme) and the original, 1864 church organ collide in an incendiary aural statement that spurns society’s reliance on technocratic tendencies in favour of celebrating togetherness, the power of community and the creative inspiration of the moment.
Afterwards, the band spent weeks between Toulouse’s Studio Capitole and their own Studio La Taniere, experimenting with an array of configurations and arrangements that push the idea of post-production to its limits. By layering contrasting compositional methods from different technological eras on top of a sprawling collection of sounds old and new, BRUIT ≤ deliver an astounding sonic choreography that forces the listener to confront the inequalities and injustices behind the casual convenience of the modern day music industries.
Just as BRUIT ≤ seek to expose how desperate things have become, ‘The Age of Ephemerality’ serves as a harrowing yet profound reminder that the only way to break algorithmic malaise and see real change is to resist, to do it ourselves.
BRUIT ≤ are:
Théophile Antolinos - Guitars, Banjo, Tapes, Soundscapes
Clément Libes - Bass, Baritone Guitars, Bass VI, Violin, Viola, Organ, Piano, Modular Synth, Programming
Luc Blanchot - Cello, Programming, Synth
Julien Aoufi - Drums
'The Age Of Ephemerality' track list:
Side A
1. Ephemeral - official video
2. Data - official video
3. Progress / Regress
Side B
4. Techno-Slavery / Vandalism
5. The Intoxication Of Power
BRUIT ≤ live dates (w/Alcest):
07/10/25 Rennes (FR) Antipode
08/10/25 La Roche-sur-Yon (FR) Quai M
09/10/25 Toulouse (FR) Interference
10/10/25 Barcelona (ES) Apolo
11/10/25 Montpellier (FR) Victoire 2
12/10/25 Istres (FR) L’Usine
14/10/25 Bordeaux (FR) Le Rocher Palmer
15/10/25 Tours (FR) Le Temps Machine
16/10/25 Le Mans (FR) Les Saulnières
17/10/25 Ris-Orangis (FR) Le Plan
19/10/25 Besançon (FR) La Rodia
21/10/25 Lausanne (CH) Les Docks
22/10/25 Lyon (FR) La Rayonne
23/10/25 Nancy (FR) L’autre Canal
24/10/25 Antwerp (BE) Trix
25/10/25 Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
'The Age of Ephemerality' artwork (click for high res):
Links:
BANDCAMP
PELAGIC ARTIST PAGE
March 1, 2025
Stereolab announces world tour + special reissuing of seven acclaimed albums
STEREOLAB ANNOUNCES WORLD TOUR WITH DATES ACROSS THE U.S., EUROPE & LATIN AMERICA
REISSUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR SEVEN STEREOLAB ALBUMS
Stereolab Courtesy of Warp Records
PRE-ORDER/PURCHASE:
https://duophonic.ochre.store/
TICKETS:
https://warp.net/stereolab-2025
(February 27th, 2025) - Stereolab announces their world tour. Launching May 25th in Brussels, Stereolab will be hitting the road across Europe with dates in Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris, among others. They’ll be kicking off the North American leg of the tour this coming October with shows across the United States before heading back to perform a string of shows across the UK. Tickets will be available for purchase starting February 28th at 10 am local time via https://warp.net/stereolab-2025.
In a special note to their devoted fanbase, they share:
Dear friends,
We have a full agenda today. The information is dense, so please read carefully and ask if anything is unclear.
I'll be brief with the words and get straight to the point/s of discussion:
We [Stereolab and myself] are heading back out onto the road. New keyboards and guitars have been purchased and will be put to use on the following dates.
Unless stated, all tickets will be on sale tomorrow [28th February 2025] at 10am local time.
All support acts are TBC. You can expect a full announcement in the future.
Alongside the announcement of the world tour, the band is including a special reissue of seven albums from their acclaimed discography. The special reissuing will include:
With immediate effect, all triple disk editions containing demos will be phased out and deleted. Starting tomorrow, the band will begin reissuing some of their most cherished bodies of work including a double-disk edition with reconfigured artwork as well as double-disk editions using the 2019 Calyx remasters. To mitigate any financial barriers that could limit fans from enjoying this special double disk reissuing, the band is maintaining a low price point to help fans and shops currently experiencing economic hardships.
All sleevenotes accompanied by the triple disk editions can be found here for reference. Separate from the triple disk editions, all compact disk editions containing demos will remain available along with demos currently accessible via DSPs. This reissuing will be paired with a special Spotify playlist containing Stereolab’s complete discography in chronological release order, amassing 365 songs with a run time of just over 26 hours underscoring the breadth of the band’s work as well as its influence on some of today’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Find a special unboxing preview of the reissued albums here.
To coincide with the reissues, Stereolab has developed seven T-shirts to correspond with each of the seven aforementioned albums. Created by Stanley & Stella in the Creator 2.0 style, each official Stereolab and Duophnoic shirt will use a bespoke label. All merchandise is available for purchase here.
Pre-order/save the special reissues above and find all tour dates below.
Stereolab EU tour poster
Stereolab North American tour poster
Stereolab North American and Mexico City tour poster
Stereolab UK tour poster
Upcoming Live Dates
Europe Dates
5/25 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique Les Nuits Botanique
5/26 - Köln, DE @ Gloria
5/28 - Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan
5/29 - Berlin, DE @ Huxley Neue Welt
5/30 - Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
5/31 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
6/1 - Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
6/3 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux
6/4 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon
6/5 - Bordeaux, FR @ Barbey
6/6 - Barcelona, ESP @ Primavera Sound
6/7 - Madrid, ESP @ Teatro Eslava
6/9 - Grenoble, FR @ La Belle Electrique
6/10 - Ferrara, IT @ Ferrara Sotto le Stelle
6/11 - Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus
6/12 - Munich, DE @ Hansa 36
6/14 - Zagreb, CR @ Tvornica Kulture
6/15 - Budapest, HU @ A38 Ship
6/16 - Vienna, AU @ WUK
6/17 - Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory
6/19 - Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur
6/20 - Luxembourg, LU @ Den Atelier
7/11 - Cagliari, SD, IT @ Siren Festival
North American Dates
9/13 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
9/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
9/16 - Miami, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell
9/18 - New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre
9/19 - Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre
9/20 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
9/21 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
9/23 - Washington, D.C. @ Howard Theatre
9/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
9/26 - Boston, MA @ Royale
9/27 - Portland, ME @ State Theatre
10/1 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
10/3 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
10/4 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield
10/6 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
10/7 - Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall
10/8 - Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron
10/9 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/11 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/12 - Iowa City, IA @ Hancher Auditorium at the Englert Theatre
10/14 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
10/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
10/18 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
10/19 - Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
10/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
10/24 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre
10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether
10/28 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park
10/30 - Marfa, TX @ The Capri
10/31 - Austin, TX @ TBC
11/1 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
11/2 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre
Latin American Dates
11/12 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!
UK Dates
12/5 - Brighton, UK @ Corn Exchange
12/6 - London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall
12/8 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
12/9 - Leeds, UK @ Project House
12/11 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
12/13 - Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy
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Shygirl releases 'Club Shy Room 2' EP ahead of 24-hour international takeover
SHYGIRL RELEASES CLUB SHY ROOM 2 OUT NOW VIA BECAUSE MUSIC
FEATURING JORJA SMITH, SAWEETIE, YSEULT, PINKPANTHERESS AND MORE
24-HOUR CLUB SHY TONIGHT BACK TO BACK VIA CLUB SHY WORLD
Club Shy Room 2 EP Artwork
Club Shy Room 2 EP
LISTEN:
Tickets & Livestreams:
https://shygirl.lnk.to/clubshyworld
(February 28th, 2025) - Today, Shygirl releases Club Shy Room 2 via Because Music. The project sees Shygirl continue to refine her sound and push boundaries as she leans into her deep-rooted affinity for the club and electronic music.
Room 2 isn’t just the second room of the club — it’s a vast, immersive virtual space where the club has found a global home, always online and everywhere. Shygirl invites some of the world’s most exciting guest artists to join the party, expanding her already eclectic club crew. Produced alongside Mura Masa, Oscar Scheller, with guest appearances from Nick León and Blue May, the project features musicians across the musical landscape including Jorja Smith, BAMBII and SadBoi. Room 2 also includes recently released singles; “Immaculate feat Saweetie,” “F*Me feat Yseult” and "True Religion ft Isabella Lovestory & PinkPantheress" - full track list can be found below.
To celebrate the release Shygirl is hosting a Club Shy world takeover with Club Shy events taking place in Melbourne, Bangkok, Miami, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Mexico City, inviting fans and clubbers to an electrifying and unforgettable experience. Each club night will feature a carefully curated lineup of DJs and special guests, personally selected by Shygirl. Full details on event locations and ticket availability can be found below.
All parties will be filmed and live-streamed so any fans who cannot make the IRL parties can join online. The streams will roll out back to back via shygirl.tv to create a 24-hour nonstop around-the-world club shy party.
2024 was a whirlwind year for Shygirl, with the release of her Club Shy EP and Club Shy RMX EP marking just the beginning. The project saw Shygirl bring the Club Shy world to life, curating sold-out shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and London — before even revealing the lineups — blurring the line between virtual and live performance. The Club Shy EP featured standout tracks like “tell me,” “thicc,” and “f@k€,” alongside the infectious single “mr. useless (ft. SG Lewis)”. Last year also saw Shygirl feature on the remix of Charli XCX's “365,” which the two electrified audiences together on the North American SWEAT tour, continuing that same energy through to the UK’s BRAT Arena tour. The series of live events underscores the entire world and community Shy has created around the music that will continue to dominate into 2025.
Listen to Club Shy Room 2 above and find livestream times below.
Club Shy World - International Takeover Livestream poster
ClubShy World - International Takeover Locations
TICKETS AND LIVESTREAMS
https://shygirl.lnk.to/clubshyworld
Melbourne, AU @ Sub Club
Bangkok, TH @ Katsu
Tokyo, JP @ Studio Freedom
Sao Paolo, BR @ Club Zig
Miami, FL @ Floyd
Mexico City, MX @ Bar Oriente
London, ENG in association with Boiler Room
Shygirl
Club Shy Room 2 EP
February 28th, 2024
Because Music
1. Je M'appelle
2. Flex (feat. BAMBII)
3. Immaculate (feat. Saweetie)
4. F*Me (feat. Yseult)
5. Wifey Riddim (feat. Jorja Smith & SadBoi)
6. True Religion (feat. Isabella Lovestory & PinkPantheress)
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Nico Vega shares riveting video for "Wasted On The Young"
NICO VEGA SHARE RIVETING VIDEO FOR
“WASTED ON THE YOUNG”
THE VIDEO, “A VISUAL ESSAY ON AGING,”
DIRECTED BY AWARD-WINNING FILMMAKER
MARK PELLINGTON
BAND ALSO UNVEILS SHORT DOCUMENTARY
ON THE MAKING OF THE VIDEO
“Infectious riffs…pop chops”
- Rolling Stone
“…unstoppable pop-rock hooks”
- Billboard
“Music’s best kept secret”
- Chicago Sun-Times
Los Angeles indie rock band Nico Vega has partnered with filmmaker Mark Pellington to create the riveting video for the band’s “Wasted On The Young,” out today.
WATCH “WASTED ON THE YOUNG”
The video, shot mostly in richly textured black and white, features elderly people from Miami of different races and sexes, musing on subjects including family, early life, and their impending demise, inter-spliced with a performance from the band. Pellington, who has worked with the likes of REM, Leonard Cohen, the Flaming Lips, Public Enemy, De La Soul, and whose video for “Jeremy” by Pearl Jam’s earned 4 MTV Music Video Awards and is one of the most viewed videos of all time says of his collaboration with the band:
"Nico Vega’s a special band and this is a special song. What we tried to create in this piece is a visual essay, exploring mortality, age, and the relationship between youth and the inevitable. A performance-driven video featuring blistering sonics and Aja [leadsinger Volkman], an incredible visceral performance surrounding portraiture, memories, and perspectives from lived lives. Real people experience their lives, their memories with glitches, and AI rendering of possibilities. Technology overwhelms us and can create images, unlike anything we’ve ever seen before … we were all young and hopefully we’ll all get old. It’s different for everyone and the video explorers and beautiful deep rich photography. The human soul, the human face the vulnerability of time and youth is wasted on the young."
The band’s lead singer Aja Volkman said about working with Pellington:
“He has an extremely strong perspective and is hands down one of the most intense humans you will ever meet. Mark has a unique ability to access his darkness and his light equally. And you can feel this complexity in his work."
Dan Epand, the band’s drummer adds:
"And this is someone who has made some of the greatest music videos in music video history. He is a real part of the culture and history of music videos and in an era where art is whittled down to ‘content’, and the strategy for success is to flood the internet with ‘stuff’, it becomes easy to lose sight of the artistry and that we are trying to make things that are great and will stand the test of time. That is exactly what Mark is after, that is the game he's playing."
In addition, the band has made a mini-documentary featuring the band and director Pellington. The video can be watched here.
Volk also talks about the origins of “Wasted On The Young,”
"We wrote the song right after my stepfather had a severe health diagnosis. He had carotid arteries and was at risk of having a heart attack at any time. I remember looking at him and thinking how we really are forced to live with the choices we make in this life. It’s that old concept: “I wish I knew what I know now when I was younger”. The idea of wishing you could have another shot, but with the added perspective of experience. And then what would you do with it? But that is the beauty of life; that you just can't go back!
“Wasted On The Young” is from the band’s Make It Out Alive EP which features Nico Vega’s first recording since original band member Michael Peña returned to the fold alongside singer Aja Volkman, guitarist Rich Koehler, and drummer Dan Epand. Peña, whose mother the band is named after, was the original drummer, but left early in the band’s history due to the demands of a burgeoning acting career which would see him get roles in movies such as End Of Watch, Narcos: Mexico, Crash, and Ant-Man. Peña currently plays bass with the band, which was his original instrument.
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