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February 13, 2025
Goldenvoice Presents April 2025 Concert Series
GOLDENVOICE PRESENTS APRIL
2025 CONCERT SERIES
INTIMATE PERFORMANCES IN SOCAL VENUES BY ARTISTS PERFORMING AT COACHELLA
CONFIRMED IN VENUES THROUGHOUT
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
DJO, LOLA YOUNG, GLORILLA, THE GO-GO'S BEADADOOBEE, BASEMENT JAXX (LIVE), BETH GIBBONS
AND MANY MORE!
VISIT WWW.GOLDENVOICEPRESENTSAPRIL.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A CHANCE TO WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO COACHELLA WEEKEND 2
Los Angeles, CA – Today, Goldenvoice unveiled the highly anticipated return of Goldenvoice Presents April 2025 concert series featuring intimate shows by artists playing at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival this spring. Music lovers can look forward to seeing their favorite performers in a range of venue settings throughout Southern California.
Kicking off on April 9th, 30+ shows will take place across Los Angeles, Pomona, and San Diego County. Tickets will go on sale over the course of two weeks, starting on Friday, February 21 at 12pm PT.
Fans are encouraged to visit www.GoldenvoicePresentsApril.com to learn more and be entered to win a pair of 2025 Coachella Weekend 2 passes and a pair of Golden tickets that grant access to every Goldenvoice Presents April show this year!
Participating Southern California venues include The Roxy Theatre, El Rey Theatre. Fonda Theatre, The Novo, Fox Theater Pomona, The Glass House Pomona, The Orpheum, Sound Nightclub, Belly Up, Music Box, and The Sound.
For the most up to date on sale information, please visit: www.GoldenvoicePresentsApril.com
GVPA Show List:
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MILL VALLEY MUSIC FEST REVEALS DAILY LINEUP W/ GARY CLARK JR., NILE RODGERS & CHIC, & MORE: Single-Day Tickets On Sale Now
MILL VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL REVEALS DAILY LINEUP
FEATURING GARY CLARK JR. & NILE RODGERS & CHIC AS HEADLINERS
WITH SINGLE-DAY TICKETS NOW ON SALE
FESTIVAL ALSO ANNOUNCES SPECIAL GUESTS JOINING JASON CROSBY
INCLUDING WIDESPREAD PANIC COFOUNDER DAVE SCHOOLS, AMONG OTHERS
NorCal’s Award-Winning Boutique Outdoor Music Festival Returns May 10-11, 2025
For 4th Anniversary Celebration in Mill Valley, California
MILL VALLEY, CA (February 13, 2025) - Local festival organizers behind Mill Valley Music Festival, Noise Pop Industries and The Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce, are excited to reveal the daily performance lineup as the independently-owned-and-operated weekend event returns May 10-11, bringing headliners Gary Clark Jr. and Nile Rodgers & Chic to Northern California alongside a handful of incredible music acts.
Having announced the highly-anticipated fourth anniversary lineup just last week following fervent fan demand, Mill Valley Music Festival is celebrating this year’s incredible roster of talent by releasing single-day tickets for fans, available now at MillValleyMusicFest.com. Interested fans can snag one-day tickets to either Saturday or Sunday, addition to two-day GA passes and VIP packages on sale now.
DAILY LINEUP OF PERFORMERS
Kicking off the weekend-long party on Saturday, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter/musician and legendary guitarist Gary Clark Jr. will headline the main stage with an epic evening performance filled with his most popular hits as well as songs from his recently released fourth studio album, JPEG Raw. His can’t-miss set will be preceded by crowd-pleasing afternoon performances from funk maestros and jazz pioneers with the likes of Crosby Collective featuring Jason Crosby, Vieux Farka Touré and Ghost-Note, not to mention NorCal’s own Elliott Peck.
Furthermore, Mill Valley Music Festival just announced several special guests set to join the talented multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby’s new musical collective featuring a medley of accomplished and award-winning touring musicians. This includes co-founding member of the iconic jam band Widespread Panic, Dave Schools; Lamar Williams Jr., son of the late Lamar Williams known for touring with The Allman Brothers-fame for many years and who himself later worked alongside greats like the North Mississippi Allstars and The New Mastersounds; and Greg Leisz, who's performed alongside the likes of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ray LaMontagne; in addition to John Kimock, Tom Guarna, Alethea Mills, Andre Washington, and Jeremy Jeffers.
On Sunday for Day 2, sounds of blues and soul from acclaimed acts such as Monophonics, Sister Nancy, Thee Sinseers, and Mission Delirium will flood the sunny valley that encompasses Friends Field before headliner Nile Rodgers & Chic - the iconic rock-disco band led by Grammy Award-winning Rock-and-Roll-Hall-of-Fame inductee Nile Rodgers - close out an unforgettable festival weekend with a career-spanning set featuring popular hits from the band’s four-plus decades together.
The full music lineup is outlined below while also available online at MillValleyMusicFest.com:
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2025:
Gary Clark Jr.The Crosby Collective with Special GuestsDave SchoolsLamar Williams Jr.Greg LeiszJohn KimockTom GuarnaAlethea MillsAndre WashingtonJeremy Jeffers& more to be announced!Vieux Farka TouréGhost-NoteElliott PeckSUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025:
Nile Rodgers & ChicMonophonicsSister NancyThee SinseersMission Delirium“More than anything, it’s the sounds that emanate from this thrilling group of musicians who ultimately make the Mill Valley Music Festival what it is,” says Jim Welte, Executive Director of the Mill Valley Chamber. “We hope attendees will recognize some favorites on this bill. But more than anything, we want you to to revel in the wonders of sonic discovery, and pass those earworms onto friends near and far. There’s something for everyone, and your horizons are about to expand exponentially."
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE
Beyond just the music lineup, Mill Valley Music Festival is meant to serve as an annual springtime celebration of NorCal arts, culture and community, perfectly suited for both local residents and music-lovers of all ages from across the country.
Coming off the success of an incredible third edition last spring which boasted 10,000+ total attendees, 40+ local businesses, and nearly 20 music acts, Mill Valley Music Festival will return to Friends Field, a Redwood-lined destination less than an hour from the heart of San Francisco offering ample greenspace perfect for dancing, dining, drinking, shopping, and soaking up sunrays.
As always, this year’s fourth annual event will host a diverse lineup of programming in order to offer a taste of the good life in Mill Valley. Come May, festival attendees can explore the region’s best artisans, food vendors, and philanthropic causes through an extensive vendor market; plus family-friendly activities including the Kids Village, immersive art installations, large-scale sponsor activations, and roaming local performers; as well as local vintners, craft brewers, and special Mother’s Day Weekend surprises.
More programming is still to be announced, including the local vendor market, family-friendly activity schedule, nonprofit beneficiaries, and all-ages activities spread throughout the festival grounds.
For more announcements, fans can visit the festival’s official website at www.MillValleyMusicFest.com and follow along on social media at @MillValleyMusicFest.
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Tindersticks Announce 7" Single Feat. Unreleased Song Ahead of First North American Tour in 16 Years
Featuring Unreleased Song “Soft Tissue” and “Don’t Walk, Run (Edit)”
First North American Tour in 16 Years Kicks Off March 27 in New York City, Making Stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and more
Performing at Big Ears Festival on Sunday, March 30
Critically Acclaimed New Album Soft Tissue
Out Now via City Slang Records
Credit: Neil Fraser
“From ‘70s soul to glowing strings, the cult outfit continue to illuminate the fringes of pop music,
celebrating the beauty in small things” – The Guardian ★★★★ “Album Of The Week”
"Beautifully arranged and bursting with drama and emotion… They are a band with a catalog worth getting lost in and Soft Tissue stands as one of their finest moments." – AllMusic ★★★★
"One of their best… It works so well that it’s hard to believe it took Tindersticks 30 years to make a record like this."
– BrooklynVegan, Indie Basement #1 Album of the Week
“Tindersticks singer/songwriter Stuart A. Staples is the consummate baroque pop singer.”
– Vogue
February 13, 2025: Just in time for their first U.S. tour since 2008, Tindersticks have announced a limited edition 7” single featuring the A-side “Don’t Walk, Run” (Edit) from their critically acclaimed new album Soft Tissue, and B-side "Soft Tissue” – the previously unreleased title track that never made the album’s final cut. Pre-order it HERE.
Tindersticks will kick off their U.S. tour with two back to back shows at New York City’s Sony Hall on March 27 and 28 before playing Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN on March 30. They will continue on with stops in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. Find a full list of tour dates below or visit their website.
Stream/embed “Soft Tissue” via YouTube.
Stream/embed “Don’t Walk, Run” via YouTube.
Listen to “Don’t Walk, Run” (Edit) / “Soft Tissue”
Stuart Staples explains, “‘Soft tissue’ was always a gem within the recordings we made for the album of the same name. It was a little heartbreaking when, in the end and when push came to shove, it was a choice between ’Soft tissue' and ‘Soon to Be April’ as the closing song of the album. These hidden decisions when making an album are painful ones. Time will reveal if this was a correct one. I am still unsure.”
"The song came from a small idea thrown into the room of a recording session. The band played it twice – a special moment that we were able to catch in a recording. We listened to the playback and no one needed to say anything, there was such a powerful feeling in the room. Months of writing and arranging followed to form it into its shape as a song. But that moment when it all kicked off at the beginning is something that speaks of the essence of the album.”
Last September, Tindersticks released their 11th studio album Soft Tissue via City Slang Records. The album received early acclaim from outlets like BrooklynVegan, KCRW, Stereogum, Under The Radar and Vogue, who deemed frontman Stuart Staples “the consummate baroque pop singer.” In their 4 star review, Mojo proclaimed, "Soft Tissue is a magnificent reminder that few people know better how to arrange life’s broken pieces, how to orchestrate the chaos,” while Uncut declared the collection is “Stuart Staples’ crew at their best.”
North American tour dates:
03.27 – New York, NY – Sony Hall - Tickets
03.28 – New York, NY – Sony Hall - Tickets
03.30 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival - Tickets
04.01 – Montreal, QC – Outremont Theatre - Tickets
04.02 – Montreal, QC – Outremont Theatre - Tickets
04.04 – Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Tickets
04.06 – Los Angeles, CA – Belasco Theatre - Tickets
04.08 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore - Tickets
04.10 – Chicago, IL – Athenaeum Center - Tickets
Keep up with Tindersticks:
Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitter
"London Calling New York New York - Two Songs, Two Cities" Book from Trouser Press Books
TROUSER PRESS BOOKS TO PUBLISH
LONDON CALLING NEW YORK NEW YORK,
TWO SONGS, TWO CITIES
NEW BOOK BY LATE BRITISH JOURNALIST PETER SILVERTON
COMING OUT MARCH 12, 2025
979-8-9898283-5-7 paperback
979-8-9898283-6-4 eBook
$20.00 (paper rrp)
Advance praise for London Calling New York New York:
"Hinged around a pair of epochal songs, Pete Silverton's tale of two cities is a masterpiece that you will read right through to the end without putting down. This multi-faceted, compulsively readable work: complex in both structure and erudite (but never pedantic) thought ranges across the entire 20th century and before and beyond.
Part autobiography (but without a hint of unseemly narcissistic ego), Silverton's role in the tale is as an enlightened Greek chorus. Often through the experiences and words of others — his wife, his kids, his friends, lesser and greater name archetypes — he unravels his (our!) culture and himself.
I always knew Pete was a great writer. But I didn't know he was this good."
—Chris Salewicz, author of Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
"Equal parts music biography, personal memoir, autoethnography, and psychogeography, London Calling New York New York is ultimately unique. It crackles with the energy that the two eponymous cultural capitals demand of their habitants, yet it maintains a tourist-like inquisitiveness for the various side streets, delivering minute urban details and anecdotes that even this London-raised New Yorker was entirely unaware of. A special book."
—Tony Fletcher, author of The Clash: The Music That Matters
and All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music From the Streets of New York 1927–77
"Pete Silverton's passionate voice about music lives ever on in this transatlantic voyage between two seminal ports of rock and roll call and response. Illuminating paired music scenes through their iconic anthems, he reveals similarities and differences with a fan's ear-witness to the process of creation
and how geography affects the geology of rock as it begins to roll.
—Lenny Kaye, author, producer, musician
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How’s this for a surprising musical coincidence: Frank Sinatra cut his version of "New York, New York" within weeks of the Clash recording "London Calling" in 1979. That nearly simultaneous expression of optimistic striving and dystopic modernity is the jumping-off point for London Calling New York New York, a tale of two cities and two songs that came to exemplify them.
Peter Silverton, the veteran English author and journalist who died in 2023, did numerous interviews and in-depth research to dig deep into the history and impact of the two songs on their respective cities. Combining musical scholarship, cultural analysis and personal memoir, London Calling New York New York is rich with wit, fascinating detail, and scholarly insight.
Although the book is about two popular songs from two different cultures, it also addresses nostalgia, mythmaking, family, crime, war, art, terrorism, politics, film, fidelity, and propaganda. From the Great Fire of London to a White Castle in the Bronx, from the Thames to the Hudson, Joe Strummer to George Gershwin, Noel Coward to Jay-Z, Primrose Hill to Yankee Stadium, Maggie Thatcher to Fiorello La Guardia, Silverton marshals connections and coincidences to illuminate the creative process and its enduring cultural impact.
As Silverton writes in his author’s note,
“This is a story about two songs and the cities they came to represent, those songs’ writers, the two cities’ many other emblematic songs (and their writers) and the two metropolitan cultures: their differences and their similarities. It’s also a personal story: mine. It reaches back to my decades-long light friendship with Joe Strummer, my presence at several significant early performances of ‘London Calling’
and at Joe’s West London cremation in December 2002.”
Bully Shares Reworked Version Of “Atom Bomb- Electric Version”
Today, February 13th, Bully (aka Alicia Bognanno) has released a reworked version of her stand-out single, “Atom Bomb - Electric Version.” Initially released a year ago in Feb. 2024, this newly retooled single was a fan favorite at her live performances throughout last year.
Bognanno shares, “I think that if a song is written well enough at its core, it should be able to translate a similar emotion regardless of its form. I wanted to test that theory with Atom Bomb. Releasing a solo piano song for the first time and playing it live 10 years into my career to a room full of strangers falling silent without request resurrects a sense of boundlessness in me that reinstates what I try to tell myself anytime I find myself fearful of stepping outside of the box people expect to remain in, and that is - if I really want to grow I should stop fearing what I don’t know. I still have nights where my mind goes blank from performance anxiety, and I have to pause mid-song to regain my composure, but even when I feel like I couldn’t have fallen apart more on stage, I still can recognize that I survived and that it’s okay. I played and mixed all of this version of Atom Bomb in my room except for drums which were recorded and played by JT Daly. Coming from an analog background, it feels good to release something that I know isn’t autotuned or on a grid; it’s genuine and imperfect in a way that I feel suits the song best. Whether or not it translates well is subjective, but regardless, I was fulfilled by the process and experimentation of it all.”
Spending most of last year on the road touring to support her 2023 release, Lucky For You, Bully opened SOLD-OUT shows for Suki Waterhouse and Grouplove. She was also featured on the standalone Blondshell single “Docket.” She’s currently hard at work writing her new album. Bully has a headline show confirmed at Friday Cheers in Richmond, VA, on May 9th.
THOM YORKE & MARK PRITCHARD SHARE "BACK IN THE GAME"
MARK PRITCHARD & THOM YORKE SHARE NEW SINGLE "BACK IN THE GAME" ON WARP RECORDS
VIDEO DIRECTED BY JONATHAN ZAWADA
“Back In The Game” single artwork credit Jonathan Zawada
Today, the pioneering electronic musician and producer Mark Pritchard and The Smile and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke share a new collaborative single, "Back In The Game.” Debuted on the first night of Thom Yorke's Everything solo tour in Christchurch, New Zealand and a mainstay of setlists across further dates in Australia, Japan and Singapore, the new single is the second time the two have collaborated on record, following the acclaimed "Beautiful People,” which appeared on Mark Pritchard's Under The Sun solo album for Warp Records in 2016.
Pritchard is a luminary of 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.
As with "Beautiful People", "Back In The Game" sees Yorke's vocals digitally distorted by Pritchard, this time using the H910 Harmonizer, one of the world's earliest devices for audio digital effects, surfing across his already impressive range, another malleable instrument in the greater make-up of the track.
The song is paired to a video by Jonathan Zawada, a visual artist known for his multi-faceted approach that incorporates both analogue and digital techniques. Zawada also has a working history with Pritchard going back over a decade and created imagery and an installation around the release of "Under The Sun.”
He had the following to say about the visuals:
"On first hearing the original demo of ‘Back In The Game’ I was immediately struck by the deranged bassline that made me think of the final scene of Staying Alive where John Travolta is cockily strutting through the New York streets but I saw it with a more sinister overlay. Slowly a version of that visual arose around a character wearing a kind of giant parade head with a fixed expression of mania stuck on their face, such that you couldn't tell if their endless march was one of aggression or celebration. The more I paid attention to the lyrics the more details began to fill themselves out and the overall concept began to form of parade of many characters marching past a building from within which everything was being thrown out of a window and into a giant bonfire.
Ultimately the film for ‘Back In The Game’ ended up depicting a sort of blind celebration taking place as civilization slowly deteriorates around it, a kind of progression through regression. Overlaid onto this is an exploration of how and where we choose to place value in our collective cultural expression and how we collectively confront major cultural shifts in the 21st century."
Stream “Back In the Game”
https://markpritchard.ffm.to/backinthegame
Watch the “Back In The Game” video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Ta7...
Bonnie Trash share final pre-release single from new album 'Mourning You', out Feb 28 on Hand Drawn Dracula
BONNIE TRASH- Share final new track & lyric video "Haunt Me (What Have You Become)"
- Forthcoming album ‘Mourning You’
out February 28th on Hand Drawn Dracula
Photo credit: Dana Bellamy (click for higher res)Today Guelph, Ontario hell-raisers Bonnie Trash share a final look at their forthcoming new album, ‘Mourning You’, which is set for release on February 28th on Hand Drawn Dracula.
‘Mourning You’ finds Bonnie Trash, twins Emmalia & Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor, embracing a newfound sense of urgency. The album is, put bluntly, an album about death. Not death in the macabre, violent, or outrageous sense, but death as you or I might know it. A spectre lurking around the corner. Capricious, indiscriminate, and unexpected. Ordinary and all the more terrifying for it. Real. Fear in the eyes of a loved one about to die, and the fear in your eyes – staring back. This is sorrow not as a lingering bruise, but a gushing wound.
Their final new track ahead of the album's release comes alongside a lyric video today. A soaring and crashing crescendo, "Haunt Me (What Have You Become)" speaks of life after losing a loved one. The band comment: "Your misery consumes you. And you torture yourself. You’ve changed in ways that no-one can recognize – you can’t even recognize yourself. The guilt haunts you everyday. You wonder what you could have done to help – to care more, to love more, to hold them in your arms one last time. You think about what you could have done differently; maybe if you visited more it would have made a difference. You blame yourself for everything and death has become you.
"Haunt Me (What Have You Become) is a conversation with oneself on how we change when we experience the loss of life, yet it also questions the life after the death of a loved one. Where is my love? When will I see them again? How will I see them again? Confronting sorrow and heartache is difficult, yet it can also ignite beautiful memories, longing for one more day to be with them again."
“Haunt Me (What Have You Become)” lyric video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4yqc6pAKk
‘Mourning You’ album pre-order/pre-save links: https://ffm.to/mourningyou
A lifelong project christened in 2017 with the release of ‘Ezzelini's Dead’, the band's debut EP which found the pair mining the Trevisan dialect and archaic Italian folklore of their heritage to grisly effect. Where their first full length, ‘Malocchio’ (2022), shrouded Bonnie Trash's nightmares in dusky dreamlike reverb, ‘Mourning You’ is vivid and immediate. Emboldened by the addition of Emma Howarth-Withers on bass and Dana Bellamy on drums – whose thunderous rhythms sharpened 2024's ‘My Love Remains the Same’ EP into a fine-edged blade – ‘Mourning You’ is less a post-mortem fantasia than a sudden, swift dagger to the heart.
Sarafina, the band's singer and lyricist, has described the album as being about "losing someone you love. It's about the horrors of grief, haunting you every day." Inspired, largely, by the passing of Nonna Maria – who provided interstitial narration across the band's early work – it's these intimate details which render the songs on ‘Mourning You' so devastating. The record explores love and grief as kindred spirits. Grief as love with nowhere to go. Love determined by the fear of its loss. A blood pact. A life for a life. The gnarled claw of remorse gripping you in twilight's terror.
Though inspired by the shocking iconography of horrorshows, slasher flicks, and psychological thrillers, Bonnie Trash turns cinematic tropes on their head. Rather than fashioning nightmares into reality, the band paints reality as a nightmare, rife with pain, suffering, and gothic theatre. Bonnie Trash understands that everyday atrocities haunt the periphery of our lives. A black cloud looming on the edge of our vision. Curses abound. You can't ward them off. You'd best make an unholy racket.
‘Mourning You’ is out February 28, 2025 on Hand Drawn Dracula.
Bonnie Trash live dates:
Feb 27 - Toronto, ON - Wavelength Winter Fest w/ The OBGMs, pHoenix Pagliacci, Cadence Weapon
Mar 01 - Guelph, ON - ArtBar
Mar 08 - Kitchener, ON - The Union
April 25 - Toronto, ON - The Sound Garage w/ Change of Heart
April 26 - Toronto, ON - The Sound Garage w/ Change of Heart *SOLD OUT*
‘Mourning You’ track list:
1. Grief
2. Veil of Greed - official video
3. My Love Remains the Same (Kisses Goodbye)
4. Hellmouth - official video
5. Haunt Me (What Have You Become) - lyric video
6. and in the end, I’ll wait for you
7. Poison Kiss
8. Your Love is My Revenge
9. it eats shadows.
‘Mourning You’ artwork:
Links:
https://www.tiktok.com/@bonnietrash?_t=8rmuHaixj3Y&_r=1
https://www.handdrawndracula.com/artists/bonnie-trash/
https://www.instagram.com/bonnietrashband/
https://twitter.com/bonnietrashband
of Montreal Announces 'The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition)' Reissue | NEW Tour Dates | Rolling Stone + Song Exploder
of Montreal
Announces The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition)
Remastered Vinyl Digital Package Reissue
due out March 14 via Polyvinyl Record Co.
The Sunlandic Twins reissue pre-order
Talks Reissue and Tour w/ Rolling Stone | Song Exploder
Unveils Remastered " Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games ”
with Original Music Video – Now in 4K
Original Album Bonus EP Track “ Family Nouveau ”
New Dates Added To North American Tour
Kicking Off March 20 in Athens, GA
Tour dates below here
[image error]The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition) artwork
Art-rock heroes of Montreal have announced the 20th anniversary remastered vinyl special digital package reissue of their seminal album The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition) due out March 14 via Polyvinyl Record Co. Celebrating the occasion, the band today shares the new 2025 Remaster of their beloved hit single "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games”– as recently featured on Song Exploder, alongside a new Hi-Definition 4K rendering of its classic music video, and the newly uncovered album B-Side “Family Nouveau,” originally released as a Bonus EP track, now available digitally for the first time. Having closed out 2024 supporting The B-52’s in Athens, of Montreal will also kick off a North American tour next month, delighting audiences with a dynamic performance of the groundbreaking album in full. Tickets and dates here.
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"Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games” (Remastered 2025) 4K Video
Remastered by Glenn Schick, who was the mastering engineer on the album’s original release, this momentous release will include a physical 2-LP remastered package pressed at 45 RPM from a Half-Speed Master, cut at Abbey Road Studios. It is lovingly packaged within a Wide Spine Jacket on Gold Holographic Stock that features printed cardstock innersleeves, and a large-format 12-page booklet with new liner notes and track-by-track commentary from Kevin Barnes, as well as never-before-seen art sketches by David Barnes. The special 4-disc digital package includes the Remastered 2025 edition of The Sunlandic Twins 13-song album 40 bonus tracks (b-sides, rarities, remixes, and a live set recorded in 2006 in Norfolk, VA).
[image error]Photo credit: Dave Barron
Originally released in April 2005, The Sunlandic Twins marked a significant turning point for of Montreal, showcasing Barnes’ evolving songwriting and a shift towards a more electronic and dance-oriented sound. It became the band’s most commercially successful album to date and set Barnes on a path to becoming one of the most influential songwriters in independent pop music. The album’s success paved the way for more critically acclaimed releases, numerous late-night TV appearances—including The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon—and brilliant collaborations with artists such as Solange, Janelle Monáe, and Jon Brion. of Montreal went on to perform across the globe, gracing festival stages at Coachella, Sasquatch!, Pitchfork Music Festival, and beyond, while also amassing hundreds of millions of streams worldwide.
Tour Dates
3/20: Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
3/21: Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
3/22: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club %
3/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel %
3/24: Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace %
3/25: Boston, MA @ Royale %
3/26: Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall %
3/27: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts %
3/28: Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
3/29: Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
7/15: New Orleans, LA @ The Howlin Wolf #
7/16: Austin, TX @ Radio/East #
7/18: Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole #
7/19: Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco #
7/20: Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre #
7/21: Bend, OR @ Volcanic Theatre Pub #
7/22: Seattle, WA @ Neumos #
7/23: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom #
7/24: Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall #
7/26: Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre #
7/27: Kansas City, MO @ recordBar #
7/28: Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line #
7/29: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall #
7/30: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom #
7/31: Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme #
8/01: Cincinnati, OH @ Woodward Theatre #
8/02: Birmingham, AL @ Saturn #
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The Sunlandic Twins (20th Anniversary Edition) Reissue
Digital Package Tracklisting
Part 1 – The Sunlandic Twins (Remastered 2025)
1. Requiem for O.M.M.2 (Remastered 2025)
2. I Was Never Young (Remastered 2025)
3. Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games (Remastered 2025)
4. Forecast Fascist Future (Remastered 2025)
5. So Begins Our Alabee (Remastered 2025)
6. Our Spring Is Sweet Not Fleeting (Remastered 2025)
7. The Party’s Crashing Us (Remastered 2025)
8. Knight Rider (Remastered 2025)
9. I Was A Landscape in Your Dream (Remastered 2025)
10. Death of a Shade of a Hue (Remastered 2025)
11. Oslo in the Summertime (Remastered 2025)
12. October is Eternal (Remastered 2025)
13. The Repudiated Immortals (Remastered 2025)
Part 2
1. Art Snob Solutions
2. The Actor’s Opprobrium
3. Keep Sending Me Black Fireworks
4. Everyday Feels Like Sunday
5. Family Nouveau
6. Psychotic Feeling
7. Kristiansand
8. Micro University
9. Subtest Read, Nothing New
10. Noir Blues to Tinnitus
Part 3
1. Forecast Fascist Future (IQU Remix)
2. The Party’s Crashing Us (I Am The World Trade Center Remix)
3. Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games (Broken Spindles Remix)
4. I Was A Landscape In Your Dream (Grizzly Bear Remix)
5. Requiem for O.M.M.2 (United State of Electronica Remix)
6. I Was Never Young (Supersystem Remix)
7. Forecast Fascist Future (Demix)
8. Daniel [Bat For Lashes Cover]
9. Crazy For You But Not That Crazy [The Magnetic Fields Cover]
10. Whale Horn
11. Hypnotic Agents [Unreleased Blikk Fang Track]
12. Little Bird [Beach Boys Cover]
13. Back To School [Royal Trux Cover]
Part 4 – Live in Norfolk, VA 2006
1. Intro (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
2. Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
3. I Was Never Young (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
4. Suffer For Fashion (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
5. Forecast Fascist Future (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
6. Old People In The Cemetery (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
7. jamzzzings/B.P's band intros (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
8. My British Tour Diary (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
9. Requiem for O.M.M 2 (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
10. She's A Rejector (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
11. Rapture Rapes The Muses (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
12. Oslo In The Summertime (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
13. Cato As A Pun (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
14. Bunny Ain't No Kind Of Rider (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
15. Disconnect The Dots (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
16. Party's Crashing Us (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
17. So Begins Our Alabee (Live in Norfolk, VA 2006)
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Intensive Care + The Body share “The Riderless Mount”
Intensive Care + The Body share “The Riderless Mount”
Their collaborative album Was I Good Enough? is out March 14
Photo by: Jake Ballah
Toronto duo Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island duo The Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) have joined forces for the brilliant collaborative album Was I Good Enough?. With glitchy, bellowing vocals and an icy industrial backbone, these eight tracks showcase the respective pedigrees of their creators while summoning a dynamic and dangerous beast through the distortion.
Today, the album's pummeling second single "The Riderless Mount" has arrived. Andrew Nolan from Intensive Care shares that the song is both groups "ode to different eras of hip hop. We stripped the song back as much as possible for this, deciding that the first half should be carried primarily by vocal performance and an amplified Roland TR 808 drum machine, at the halfway point when The Body takes over the guitars were slowed down significantly, imported into a sampler, and chopped up and rearranged on the pads." He continues, "Chip's vocals were recorded in the green room on Nolan's iPhone before a show that both bands were playing."
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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 ahead of the album's March 14th release date.
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
