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The Growlers share unreleased, Dan Auerbach produced single "California"

THE GROWLERS SHARE UNRELEASED TRACK "CALIFORNIA"PRODUCED BY DAN AUERBACH

THE GROWLERS SIX FESTIVAL KICKS OFF THIS WEEKEND
STREAM CALIFORNIA HERE In celebration of the end of their tour and the kick off  to their Growlers Six festival, The Growlers have shared an unreleased track produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys / The Arcs."California" was recorded in 2012 in Nashville while the band was working on a full-length record with Auerbach. Though the record was never released, this is the first official recording from those sessions.Stream "California" now.Additionally, the band's festival The Growlers Six kicks off in San Pedro this weekend at the LA Waterfront.The Growlers Six lineup:The Growlers (both nights)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Modest Mouse
Dan Auerbach
Butthole Surfers
Beth Ditto
Danny Brown
The B-52s
Girl TalkJulian Casablancas and the Voids
Bad Brains
Guided By Voices
Geto Boys
Hepcat
Steel Pulse
Chiquis Rivera
Fear
Mike Watt & the Secondmen
Alice Glass
Nice As Fuck
Beach Fossils
Tinariwen
Frankie Cosmos
Rostam
Amber Coffman
Girlpool
Mystikal
Sly + Robbie
DJ Seinfeld
Juvenile
Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins on the Drums
Cigarettes After Sex
Big Sandy + his Fly Rite Boys
The Weirdos
The Warlocks
Antibalas
Ought
Delicate Steve
Romare
Grateful Shred performs Dark Star
Personal & the Pizzas
La Luz
The Regrettes
The Paranoyds
Baby Shakes
Culture Abuse
Cat Signs
Billy Changer
Froogy's Groovies
Doja Cat
Zen Mother
DJ Johnny Basil

Fever Ray Returns With New Album "Plunge"; Out Friday

FEVER RAY RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM
PLUNGE

OUT OCTOBER 27, 2017

STREAM “TO THE MOON AND BACK” NOWTomorrow, Fever Ray will release a new album,  Plunge , the first release in eight years since the celebrated self-titled debut in 2009.

Plunge was largely recorded in Karin Dreijer’s Stockholm studio in collaboration with the producers Paula Temple, Deena Abdelwahed, NÍDIA, Tami T, Peder Mannerfelt and Johannes Berglund.

Karin Dreijer is one half of the electronic duo The Knife along with her brother, Olof Dreijer.

Plunge will be released on vinyl and CD formats on February 23, 2018 via Mute and Rabid Records. Preorder here.

Fever Ray will embark on a live tour in 2018.

Plunge  Tracklist and Credits
1. Wanna Sip
Written by Karin Dreijer and Peder Mannerfelt. Produced by Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.
2. Mustn't Hurry
Written by Karin Dreijer. Flutes by Aldo Arechar. Produced by Paula Temple, Johannes Berglund and Karin Dreijer.

3. A Part Of Us
Written by Karin Dreijer and Tami T. Produced by Tami T, Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer. Additional production by Johannes Berglund.

4. Falling
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.

5. IDK About You
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by NÍDIA and Karin Dreijer. Additional production by Johannes Berglund.

6. This Country
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.
7. Plunge
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.
8. To The Moon And Back
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Johannes Berglund, Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.
9. Red Trails
Written by Karin Dreijer. Violin by Sara Parkman. Produced by Paula Temple and Johannes Berglund.
10. An Itch
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Deena Abdelwahed, Peder Mannerfelt and Karin Dreijer.
11. Mama's Hand
Written by Karin Dreijer. Produced by Paula Temple and Johannes Berglund.
Mixed by Johannes Berglund.                        
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studios.

The decision to fall is harder than the fall itself
It is a joy to meet you. I don’t know how to feel about that. But already my repetitions are beginning. Do I confuse itch and ache? Here’s this helpful quiz to discover which it is, dedicated to a global team of heartbroken self-diagnosers that stretches from the threadbare social democracies in the north to the liberated markets in the west. The object of the song is love and the subject of the song is loss, or object and subject are genetically alike. This is how it sounds, the excavated voice, the archaeological dig one thousand or eight years into the future, when the bodies preserved in this auditory mud have become exemplary of their time and can no longer hurt or help each other. Then I will know how to love you and be loved by you.

The song, the lover, is interested in objectifying itself, herself. The lover objectifies herself as music. The song is a prosthesis that extends like a limb into the gut and pulls out the half-digested heart, it’s kind of gothic and kind of a shame. I learn gratefully in music that the decision to fall is harder than the fall itself, the anticipation of falling; I’m embarrassed by gravity is what I mean by “I put on weight”. The parent and the lover momentarily blurring, then some kind of travel sickness, and later I am home without remembering what happened. It used to bother me that violence is as intimate as love, but I see that you have resolved that problem by dissolving the two each into the other. Whatever is important to hide must be important. Whatever is important to forget.


Listen! I’m looking for a girl who stands 10 feet tall and has teeth like razors; I’m looking for a girl who could play the bored receptionist in the lobby of the afterlife, crossing the river of forgetting every morning and evening and back into the world of the living, where I will wait with flowers and an assortment of adult toys. Could this be you? I’m looking for a girl to affirm my reality, or cancel it. Me: I am beautifully dressed. I am a reflective surface. I am the president. Welcome to my body, my building, the border. The escalators only go up. You get down again by throwing yourself off the roof. And the song’s refrain there to catch you if you’re lucky. 

Listen! Sex is work, love is work, work is sex, work is love, the magical conversion of “is” given impossible power by its delivery in music. We have travelled together these minutes and years now and I am hopeful that we have finally solved this complicated problem of how to become… Even now at my age, preserved as an example in this perfect slab of ice, can you believe I am still waiting to become real? I had a plan for how sex or at least some kind of heartfelt physical intensity could save us but I threw it off the roof along with the body and it fell into the silence that limns the edge of the song.

Inside the architecture of repetition that constitutes both a song and a life, taken objectively and not subjectively, there are resonances, assurances, bonds and securities. Sex and music stand guard over a shared silence under the noise, either because there is nothing or too much to say. It is still possible to negotiate between pain and pleasure, on the vanishing edges of pain and of pleasure, as if cutting a deal, the best deal, a beautiful deal. There are no simple binaries, and I don’t only mean gender, that’s old news; I mean that I am radiating and obsessed with the daydream hurt that I imagine your voice alone could cause me, now that I live in its zone, and I am too far gone to distinguish between sharpness and softness. 


Baby, I hope one of us will hypnotise the other. Then the one less hypnotised will kill the other. Then after everyone is dead and we establish the scene, the next beginning, ending, beginning, ending. A pattern can only last its own forever and the song on repeat follows me around the city. The heart is the bloodiest organ and its rhythmic pacing and growling troubles the perception like movement at the edge of the vision mistaken for a creature. It is too early to fall in love, but all of history has happened and now there seems to be only the remainder to be arranged and rearranged. “We waited far too long.” It’s OK, everyone is here now. FEVER RAY: WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | TWITTER

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High Waisted shares fiery new video for "feminist rock and roll war cry"

NYC-based rockers
High Waisted
release new video
"Firebomb" "The new offerings build on the group’s mix of lo-fi garage rock and vintage surf music...The band has never sounded more confident." - Billboard Today, High Waisted are sharing a new video for their recently released single, "Firebomb."

The video premiered via  Uproxx  where the band shared, "This video is about the struggle to find the confidence to be your boldest self. It’s sex-positive and celebrates female strength. We also tried to play homage to powerful frontwomen of the 90’s."

Listen: High Waisted - “Free Throw” + “Firebomb”
 (Brooklyn, NY) One of the most notorious bands in the NYC underground, rockers High Waisted have made a name for themselves with their wild live shows and Jessica Dye’s (lead vox, guitar) style and feminist swagger. As GQ so succinctly described, “High Waisted is a lot of things: a surf-rock band that throws raucous Lower East Side parties, friends and roommates, a group of people who stay up late and get up early. Their whirlwind energy gets channeled into creating a boisterous atmosphere just as much as into the music.”

With a Tad Kubler (The Hold Steady) produced sophomore album in the works for Spring 2018, the band rounded out by Jono Bernstein (drums) Richey Rose (bass) and Stephen Neilsen (guitar / vox) will be road testing hard this fall with a new split single in tow.

“Free Throw” and “Firebomb” saw release on September 15th as part of a split with The Coax via Little Dickman Records.

The two singles tease a blazing path forward for High Waisted, moving towards a fuller sound with Arun Bali of Saves the Day handling mixing duties.

Look for “Free Throw” and “Firebomb” out now via Little Dickman Records and be sure to follow High Waisted on any of their social channels detailed below.
 High Waisted tour dates:
 10/18: Total Drag - Sioux Falls, SD10/19: Icehouse - Minneapolis, MN10/20: Red Herring Lounge - Duluth, MN10/21: Ed’s No Name Bar - Winona, MN10/23: Boone and Crockett - Milwaukee, WI10/24: Shuba’s Tavern - Chicago, IL10/25: PJ's Lager House - Detroit, MI10/26: Happy Dog - Cleveland, OH10/27: The Bushnel - Pittsburgh, PA10/28: The Barbary - Philadelphia, PA11/2: Space Camp - Syracuse, NY11/3: One Caroline - Saratoga Springs, NY11/4: Rough Trade - New York, NY

Frankie Rose Premieres "At Night," Off Full Album Cover of The Cure's "Seventeen Seconds"

FRANKIE ROSE PREMIERES "AT NIGHT"
OFF FULL ALBUM COVER OF THE CURE'S SEVENTEEN SECONDS
OUT OCTOBER 27 EXCLUSIVELY VIA TURNTABLE KITCHEN'S SOUNDS DELICIOUS VINYL SERIES
Photo credit: Erez Avissar
LISTEN / SHARE: "AT NIGHT"
Frankie Rose released her cover of The Cure's "At Night," off her forthcoming full album cover of the band's Seventeen Seconds. Rose calls the track "a favorite off of the original album. I tried to change as little as possible, giving it a only slightly more modern fidelity. How can you mess with the perfection of the original without destroying it? It's my best offering."
Billboard premiered the cover, saying, "The guitars are a bit less crunchy, and tones have a sort of woozy echo that brings the 1980 song into 2017."
Frankie Rose's Seventeen Seconds is out tomorrow, October 27 exclusively via Turntable Kitchen's Sounds Delicious vinyl series. The record, which also features the previously released "A Forest," will be limited to 1000 copies on vinyl only and will feature the below artwork. Pre-orders are available now.
 
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SOUNDS DELICIOUS is a first-of-its-kind monthly vinyl subscription service. SOUNDS DELICIOUS will offer full-length cover albums - exclusively featuring music not available anywhere else - on limited edition vinyl. 
Participating artists were asked to choose any full-length album they love and reimagine it from front to back. SOUNDS DELICIOUS will produce the recordings on limited edition vinyl packaged in beautifully designed jackets and exclusively release them to members of its subscription service every month. 
Also coming in 2017 from SOUNDS DELICIOUS:The Pains of Being Pure at Heart with Kristin Kontrol & members of Titus Andronicus covering Tom Petty's Full Moon FeverGEMS covering John Lennon's ImaginAva Luna covering Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody NelsonA special collaboration featuring Local Natives, Chris Chu (POP ETC), Evan Voytas, Andy Breihan (Guards/SACCO), and other TBA special guests covering Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean BlueMany more to come!

Jade Bird covers Johnny Cash's "I've Been Everywhere" + U.S. tour dates

ROLLING STONE  COUNTRY PREMIERES JADE BIRD’S COVER OF JOHNNY CASH’S “I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE”TOURING THE U.S. WITH SON LITTLETHIS FALLSOMETHING AMERICAN OUT NOW


photo credit Shervin LainezRising British artist Jade Bird recently covered Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere.” The live performance video is premiering today on  Rolling Stone Country  who hails, “she’s already a globally minded woman, filling Something American’s five songs with a mix of British soul, Delta blues and indie-country.” Watch/share here: http://bit.ly/2xppvAl.Jade continues to support the release of her debut EP  Something American —she will return stateside this month, touring with Son Little throughout the fall. See below for complete details.Something American, released in July via Glassnote Records, continues to receive widespread critical praise:“U.K. country music breakout”— Entertainment Weekly “Her phrasing and accent feel as if they’d be as at home in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York as they would on Nashville radio.”— NPR Music “Bird’s debut EP,  Something American , taps into the spirit of Americana that artists like Margo Price mine from, but what separates her from her peers across the pond is her voice. She possesses a crystalline soprano so pure that it calls to mindbubbling spring water and untouched snowfall.”— Pitchfork “A young Londoner’s spin on modern Americana and stripped-down soul, driven forward by killer pipes and an acoustic guitar.”— Rolling Stone “Bird’s lyrics tell specific stories in the manner of the best country songs”— W Magazine “The EP features simple instrumentation and production that showcases Jade Bird’s powerful vocals and impressive songwriting… She’s genuine, charming, and her passion for music and songwriting comes through powerfully in performance.”— Baeble Music Additionally, Jade made her network television debut performing her single “Cathedral” on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Watch here: http://bit.ly/2wNvFK6.Born in Hexham, U.K., Jade’s early life was spent mainly in flight as an “army brat,” with time spent in South Wales, Germany and Chesterfield. One of life’s few constants proved to be the influence of strong working women. At first via her mother and grandmother, who largely raised her, but later the female role models within the musical subcultures Jade become obsessed with: from troubled but empowering country heroines like Loretta Lynn to iconic alternative songwriters like Patti Smith, and following a thread through folk and Americana to incorporating such confessional, undiluted songwriting into pop music (Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill was a similarly early touchstone).Something American twists those genres’ themes—disillusionment, divorce, cheating, sorrow—into the realities of an independent-minded, modern British teenager in 2017. Produced by Simone Felice (The Lumineers, Bat For Lashes, Conor Oberst) with co-production and mixing by David Baron (The Lumineers, Bat For Lashes), the 5-song EP was recorded at Clubhouse Studio in Rhinebeck, NY and features Matt Johnson (Jeff Buckley, St Vincent) on drums and Sara Lee (B-52s) on bass. SOMETHING AMERICAN 1. Something American2. Good Woman3. Cathedral4. Grinnin’ In Your Face5. What Am I Here ForJADE BIRD LIVEOctober 31—Austin, TX—Antone’s*November 1—Dallas, TX—Dada*November 3—Phoenix, AZ—Valley Bar*November 4—San Diego, CA—Soda Bar*November 5—Santa Ana, CA—Constellation Room*November 7—Los Angeles, CA—Troubadour*November 8—San Francisco, CA—The Chapel*November 10—Portland, OR—Doug Fir Lounge*November 11—Vancouver, BC—Biltmore Cabaret*November 12—Seattle, WA—Tractor Tavern*November 14—Salt Lake City, UT—The State Room*November 15—Denver, CO—The Globe Hall*November 17—Omaha, NE—Reverb Lounge*November 18—Minneapolis, MN—Turf Club*November 19—Chicago, IL—Lincoln Hall*November 21—Toronto, ON—Horseshoe Tavern**with Son Littlehttp://www.facebook.com/JadeBirdMusic

III Points Brings Björk to Miami for Very Special Engagement December 5

III POINTS BRINGS BJÖRK TO MIAMI FOR VERY SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT DECEMBER 5ICONIC ARTIST’S FIRST-EVER FLORIDA APPEARANCE KICKS OFF FIFTH ANNUAL ART BASEL CONCERT SERIESMIAMI, FL—October 26, 2017—On the heels of a massively successful fifth installment of III Points Music, Art & Technology Festival, Miami cultural powerhouse III Points will bring Björk to Mana Wynwood for a special musical engagement—and her first ever appearance in Florida—December 5as part of their fifth annual Art Basel Concert Series. Tickets are available here.The iconic Icelandic artist, whose ninth studio album is out later this year, will curate a DJ set in the 100,000 square foot warehouse Mana Wynwood, at the heart of Miami’s vibrant Wynwood Arts District.For the past five years, the III Points team has produced coveted Art Basel concerts includingJames Blake, Jamie xx, A$AP Rocky, fkaTwigs, Nick Murphy and Kendrick Lamar.III Points Presents is an experience-based concert production company committed to curating vanguard talent, non-traditional venues and artist installations for unique and unreplicable events. Challenging the conventional experience of live music, III Points Presents has a roster of highly curated events ranging from intimate shows to the signature III Points Music Art & Technology festival in October. This years’ sold out festival featured a lineup anchored in diversity, with headlining sets from Gorillaz, The xx, Nicolas Jaar, Richie Hawtin, Kaytranada and Bonobo.
Facebook: fb.com/iiiPoints | Twitter: @iiiPoints | Instagram: @iiiPoints | SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/iiipoints | Snapchat: @iiiPoints | www.iiipoints.com#iiiPoints

Watch METZ's "Drained Lake" video + EU tour kicks off next week

Experience the transient nature of time and space, through cutlery, in the new METZ video for “Drained Lake”
Watch:  "Drained Lake"
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0lBQdzSQSaI
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Strange Peace , the excellent new METZ album, is available now from Sub Pop Records (Worldwide, ex-Canada) and Royal Mountain Records (in Canada).In METZ’s new video for “Drained Lake,” director Shayne Ehman (who also directed the band's video for “Cellophane”) highlights no less than the transient nature of time and space, through cutlery and kitchen wares. You can watch the new video now [view here]. “Drained Lake” is one of the standouts from the new METZ albumStrange Peace. And the song is a propulsive, jagged thing; heavy 21st-century post-post-punk, with an infectious sea-sick synth line added for good measure. METZ will begin the European leg of their 2017 international tour in support of Strange Peace on November 2nd in Prague at the Futurum. The dates will run through November 25th in Brighton, UK at the Haunt. These European shows will bring METZ to Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, and the UK.

The band returns to North America December 7th, with a show in Seattle at Neumos, with newly signed Sub Pop artists Moaning opening. The band will close out a busy year of touring with a show on December 15th in Austin at the Mohawk. Along the way, METZ will play shows with Protomartyr (November 2nd-8th), Brian Case (November 9th), Drahla (November 12th-24th), Moaning (December 7th - 15th), and Cherubs (December 15th). All of their current tour dates follow:

Nov. 02 - Prague, CZ - Futurum !
Nov. 03 -  Wroclaw, PL - Klub Firlej !
Nov. 04 -  Warsaw, PL - Klub Hydrozagadka !
Nov. 06 - Berlin, DE - Bi Nuu !
Nov. 07 - Copenhagen, DE - Loppen !
Nov. 08 - Hamburg, DE - Knust !
Nov. 09 - Zwolle, NL - Poppodium Hedon  ^
Nov. 10 - Kortrijk, BE - De Kruen (Sonic City Festival)
Nov. 11 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who? Festival
Nov. 12 - Le Havre, FR - Le Tetris %
Nov. 14 - Nimes, FR - La Paloma %
Nov. 15 - Bordeaux, FR - Theatre Barbey %
Nov. 16 - Toulouse, FR - Club Metronum %
Nov. 17 - Barcelona, ES - La (2) De Apolo %
Nov.  18 - Madrid, ES - Moby Dick %
Nov. 20 - Nantes, FR - Pole Etudiant %
Nov. 21 - Paris, FR - Le Trabendo %
Nov. 22 - London, UK - The Garage %
Nov. 23 - Bristol, UK - The Fleece %
Nov. 24 - Leeds, UK - Brudenell Social Club %
Nov. 25 - Brighton, UK - The Haunt
Dec. 07 - Seattle, WA - Neumos **
Dec. 08 - Vancouver, BC - Cobalt **
Dec. 09 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir **
Dec. 11 - San Francisco, CA - Independent  **
Dec. 12 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram **
Dec. 13 - San Diego, CA - Casbah **
Dec. 15 - Austin, TX - Mohawk & **

!w/ Protomartyr
^ w/ Brian Case
% w/ Drahla
& w/ Cherubs
** w/ Moaning

Laibach Release New Live Video For "Vor Sonnen-Aufgang"

LAIBACHRELEASE NEW LIVE VIDEO FOR 
"VOR SONNEN-AUFGANG"

EUROPEAN TOUR BEGINS NEXT WEEK

NEW ALBUM  ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA  OUT NOWPhoto: Miro Majcen “Laibach at their most stentorian and intense…” –  The Quietus

"When a band can conjure such bleakness with such power and with so few gestures, it’s seriously impressive." –  The Stranger

"...a sonic masterpiece...a truly mind-altering journey put to record." –  Cryptic Rock
LAIBACH unveil a new live video for “Vor Sonnen-Aufgang” ahead of their European tour which starts on November 4 in Budapest and includes a London performance on November 23 – full details below.

The video, directed by Tomislav Gangl, features Laibach with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, recorded earlier this year for a very special live performance at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, Croatia. Watch the video here.

The track is taken from Laibach’s latest album,  Also Sprach Zarathustra , out now on Mute. The music was originally composed for a theatrical production of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, based on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel of the same name. Watch a teaser for the album featuring “Ein Verkündiger” and footage from the production here.

Laibach’s infamous North Korean tour (in 2015, on the anniversary of the DPRK’s liberation from Japan) is documented in Liberation Day, a film directed by Morten Traavik and described by MOJO as“a humorous, disturbing, illuminating and sometimes moving immersion into an anomalous communist mirror-world …” while Vulture Hound said, "Imagine George Orwell directing Spinal Tap and you’re somewhere close to the mark." The film is currently screening at film festivals worldwide. For the latest screenings and details go to http://www.liberationday.film/

The Museo Reina Sofía (home of Picasso’s Guernica) in Madrid is currently hosting a retrospective of Laibach art and the NSK. Laibach Kunst 1980 + Neue Slowenische Kunst 1984 - 1992: From Kapital to Capital will run until January 8, 2018. Watch a short film about the retrospective here.

On November 26, Laibach will hold a special event at the museum with a lecture and performance, re-enacting the 1983 show from the Music Biennial Zagreb.

Thirty-five years on from their genesis in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town Trbovlje, Laibach are still the most internationally acclaimed band to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Founded in the death year of the country’s founding father Tito, and rising to fame as Yugoslavia steered towards self-destruction, Laibach can make you think, dance and march to the same music.

ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA  TOUR
November 4 – Budapest, Hungary – A 38
November 5 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palace Akropolis
November 6 – Vienna, Austria – Arena
November 8 – Sittard, Netherlands – Poppodium Volt
November 9 – Malmö, Sweden – Moriska Paviljongen
November 10 – Oslo, Norway – Vulcan Arena
November 11 – Stockholm, Sweden – Kraken
November 13 – Helsinki, Finland – Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo
November 15 – Tallin, Estonia – T.R.Theatre of Estonia
November 16 – Riga, Latvia – Palladium Riga
November 17 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Loftas Club
November 19 – Wroclaw, Poland – Stary Klasztor
November 20 – Berlin, Germany – Kesselhaus
November 21 – Dresden, Germany – Reithalle
November 22 – Bochum, Germany – Christuskirche
November 23 – London, England – O2 Academy Islington
November 24 – Paris, France – Trabendo
November 26 – Madrid, Spain – Museo Reina Sofía
November 27 – Leira, Portgual – Teatro Miguel Franco
November 28 – Madrid, Spain – Sala Mon
November 29 – Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz
December 8 – Ljubljana, SIovenia – Kino Šiska
December 9 – Ljubljana, SIovenia – Kino Šiska
December 15 – Zagreb, Croatia – Tvornica Culture

Note: The European tour will not feature an orchestra. Visit http://www.laibach.org/future-events/ for full details.
 Watch the live orchestra video for “Vor Sonnen-Aufgang”
Watch the video for “Vor Sonnen-Aufgang”
Listen to “Das Nachtlied I”
Stream and purchase Also Sprach Zarathustra

Poppy Ackroyd shares new single ‘THE CALM BEFORE’ via Stereogum

Shares new single 'The Calm Before' via Stereogum
Track taken from brand new album 'Resolve' out early 2018 

One Little Indian RecordsLink: 
https://soundcloud.com/poppyackroyd/the-calm-before/s-p0hDO

"Poppy Ackroyd can conjure whole worlds of sound out of the barest essentials.”
Stereogum

"It's a beautiful, elongated five minutes or so and Ackroyd makes the whole thing seem completely effortless.”
Line of Best Fit

“It’s great to see the minimal music of pianist Poppy Ackroyd getting some love”
London In Stereo

"…a musical talent that straddles both old and new, harnessing the power and range of two very versatile instruments along with innovative use of samples and manipulation through technology. A must for fans of Silvain Chauveau, Dustin O'Halloran and Max Richter.”
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“…staggering lovely”
Stereogum

"A composer of real talent, she's able to work in softly advancing measures, tackling each project with real finesse.”
Clash

“Clicking, whirring, and lots of other onomatapoeia-ing goes on as soft piano and somber violin trace an intricate emotional arc.”
Spin

“Talented”
Ransom Note

"Ackroyd paints with sound, revealing strange and complex tonal shifts...”
The SkinnyToday, breath-taking post-classical artist Poppy Ackroyd shares her brand new single ‘The Calm Before’ taken from her first full-length album with One Little Indian Records, Resolve – out early 2018. A classically trained pianist, violinist, producer, and composer, Ackroyd turned heads in the neo-classical world with her previous works Escapement and Feathers, as well as her involvement in Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts).

Having played alongside giants of the genre, Hauschka and Nils Frahm, the unique musician has returned, newly signed to Bjork’s label One Little Indian Records, fresh off the back of a mini-album Sketches, and set to release her brand new self-produced full-length record - her most ambitious and progressive piece of work to date.

Poppy said: "The Calm Before is almost entirely made up of clarinet sounds. The percussion was created using layers of clicking clarinet and bass clarinet keys, starting with a looped and chopped rhythm taken from an improvisation that appears throughout."

The ground-breaking track and the new album explores life's constant challenges, and many of the songs are extremely personal to Poppy. In her own words: “Resolve is about the determination to embrace the good things in life whilst dealing with unexpected and challenging difficulties. Finding the light in the dark, facing sadness and loss head on, and developing a growing inner strength.”

In contrast to Ackroyd's previous albums, for which the artist manipulated field recordings, Ackroyd has this time employed guest players on the record, in conjunction with her trademark and unique use of unconventional studio methods. Ackroyd creates percussive textures from traditional classical instruments, and the result is almost the emulation of an entire orchestra, using very few instruments combined with the artist’s incredible production skills.

Ackroyd plays a combination of both upright and grand piano, and even plays the inside of the instrument using fingers, drumsticks and plectrums – and then arranges and multi-tracks the resulting sounds. The artist employed the same technique to record herself playing violin, pianino, harmonium and spinet, as well as record other musicians who played cello, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and hang. Describing this process, Poppy said: “With the other musicians, I asked them to explore the instrument and to create as many weird and wonderful sounds as they could. I then spent hours sifting through the recordings and choosing sounds and short percussive ideas that I could rearrange and build the track from. The opening of ‘The Calm Before’ is built out of the clicking of clarinet keys and ‘Quail’ starts with eerie sounding harmonics.”

Although a keen collaborator outside of her solo work – having created soundtracks for film, dance, physical theatre and radio – this is the first record for which Poppy has written for and employed other players, including Manu Delago (Bjork, Cinematic Orchestra, Anoushka Shankar) playing hang, Mike Lesirge (Bonobo, Andreya Triana) playing clarinets and flute, and Jo Quail on cello.

Through studying contemporary classical piano works and listening to electronic music, Ackroyd quickly developed her signature compositional style on previous albums, using contemporary pianistic ideas whilst also inhabiting the world of sound beyond the keyboard, using extended techniques to 'play' other parts of the instruments as well. The intelligent artist works by recording improvised contemporary classical piano motifs and then rearranging and manipulating these sounds digitally. The result is a fantastic fusion of acoustic and electronic in a post-classical setting.
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Morrissey Reveals New Track and Further Album Launch Pop-Up Details

Morrissey Reveals New Track and Further Album Launch Pop-Up Details"LOW IN HIGH SCHOOL" Out November 17, 2017 on Etienne Records/BMG
LISTEN TO 'I WISH YOU LONELY': https://morrissey.lnk.to/IWYLPR
PRE-ORDER 'LOW IN HIGH SCHOOL': https://morrissey.lnk.to/LiHSPR
POP-UP SHOP ARTWORK: https://we.tl/ILceQQJWrEMorrissey has revealed new single "I Wish You Lonely" from 'Low in High School'. Marrying synths with crunching bass, the lyrics rage "Monarchy! Oligarch! Head of State! Potentate!" and is available now as an Instant Grat and available on all DSPs.Further merchandise details for Morrissey's album pop-up shops in Camden, London and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles have been announced. Both Camden Market, London and at 8250 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles will have 100 album Test Pressings available for purchase on a first come, first served basis each day (40 on Friday and 30 on Saturday and Sunday). These will also be one of the only physical stores stocking all of the Language Edition colored LPs and the 7" limited edition boxset. There will also be photo opportunities in the shops with special artwork backdrops.Additionally, there will be exclusive 'Low in High School' merchandise and numbered prints, with more details to come.The London shop will be at Provender Building, Camden Market, and will open at 8am on Friday, November 17. The Los Angeles shop will be at 8250 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90048.'Low in High School' will be released digitally and in physical formats: CD, colored vinyl and limited edition cassette. Limited vinyl formats and bundles will be available via the Mporium, with the vinyl in different colours with lyrics and sleeve notes in French (blue), Spanish (transparent orange) and Japanese (transparent yellow). The Mporium will also stock a limited edition 7" box set with clear vinyl.'Low in High School' will be Morrissey's first studio album since 2014 and his debut for BMG. The album will see BMG partnering with Morrissey on the new release and on the launch of his new label, Etienne Records. Low in High School was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in France and in Rome at Ennio Morricone's Forum Studios. The record is produced by Joe Chiccarelli (who has worked with Frank Zappa, The Strokes, Beck and The White Stripes to name a few).On October 31, Morrissey embarks on a US tour at Portland, OR's Schnitzer Hall. He plays two night's at LA's storied Hollywood Bowl, with the first night sold-out featuring special guest Billy Idol. Full itinerary below.
'Low in High School' TRACK LIST 1. My Love I'd Do Anything For You2. I Wish You Lonely3. Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On The Stage4. Home Is A Question Mark5. Spent The Day In Bed6. I Bury The Living7. In Your Lap8. The Girl From Tel-Aviv Who Wouldn't Kneel9. All The Young People Must Fall In Love10. When You Open Your Legs11. Who Will Protect Us From The Police?12. Israel 
Morrissey Fall 2017 TourTue Oct 31 - Portland, OR - Schnitzer Concert HallThu, Nov 2 - Seattle, WA - Paramount TheatreSat, Nov 4 - San Francisco, CA - Masonic AuditoriumSun, Nov 5 - Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles AmphitheatreFri, Nov 10 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl w/ Billy Idol (SOLD OUT)Sat, Nov 11 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl w/ Billy IdolThu, Nov 16 - Phoenix, AZ - MarqueeSat, Nov 18 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kingsbury HallMon, Nov 20 - Denver, CO - Paramount TheatreWed, Nov 22 - St. Louis, MO - Peabody Opera HouseSat, Nov 25 - Chicago, IL - Riviera TheaterTue, Nov 28 - Detroit, MI - The Fillmore DetroitThu, Nov 30 - Washington, DC - The AnthemSat, Dec 2 - New York, NY - Theatre at Madison Square GardenMon, Dec 4 - Philadelphia, PA - The FillmoreThu, Dec 7 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre