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Billie Eilish Releases "idontwannabeyouanymore" in Count Down to EP Release. North American Headlining Tour Announced.

BILLIE EILISH COUNTS DOWN TO DEBUT EP RELEASE WITH NEW TRACK “idontwannabeyouanymore”

“dont smile at me” EP out August 11
(DARKROOM / INTERSCOPE RECORDS)

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED
TICKETS ON-SALE TODAY
LOS ANGELES DATE SOLD OUT
LISTEN
“idontwannabeyouanymore”
iTunes | Apple Music | Spotify | Google Play | Amazon | VEVO

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
10/4 - Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
10/5 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
10/7 - Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA
10/9 - Holocene - Portland, OR
10/10 - The Crocodile - Back Bar - Seattle, WA
10/12 - Schubas Tavern - Chicago, IL
10/14 - The Drake - Toronto, ON
10/16 - Baby’s All Right - Brooklyn, NY
10/19 - Sonia - Cambridge, MA
10/20 – World Café Live – Upstairs – Philadelphia, PA
10/21 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington, DC

FOSTER THE PEOPLE’S NEW ALBUM SACRED HEARTS CLUB OUT TODAY; SET TO PERFORM ON THE LATE LATE SHOW

FOSTER THE PEOPLE’S NEW ALBUM 
SACRED HEARTS  CLUB  OUT TODAY

SET TO PERFORM ON THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN ON JULY 24

BAND ON TOUR NOWPress Assets:  https://sm01.app.box.com/v/FTPsacredheartsclub

“It's a wild feeling releasing something that's been living inside the safe corridors of my heart for the last few years. Like releasing a bird that has finally earned its right to fly. I think it's important for you to know we made this record with joy and musical freedom. Any time the idea of past expectations, pressure to perform, or commerce came into the creative picture, we tried our best to push it out and lock the door.

We live in a trying time right now. Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and religious persecution are more rampant than ever. This record was made in defiance against those cancerous ideas. Hopefully it makes you feel as it made us feel when we were working on it - that life is beautiful. And love will always be bigger than politics.”

With love,
Mark
 Grammy-nominated band Foster the People has released their new album  Sacred Hearts Club  today. Praised byThe Associated Press for its “joyous melodies with thought-provoking content,” the 12-song album features previously released tracks “Sit Next To Me,” “Loyal Like Sid & Nancy,” Pay the Man,” “SHC,” and “Doing It For The Money” – see full track list below. Sacred Hearts Club is available physically and digitally now, and will be available on vinyl August 11. Special packages that include the new album are also available in the band’s merch store.

In celebration of the new album, which Newsday says “is well crafted from start to finish," the band will perform “Sit Next To Me” on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday, July 24. Fans can tune in to CBS at 12:37a.m. / 11:37p.m. ct to catch the performance. Additionally, the band is set to play an exclusive “Sacred Hearts Club” live set at Club Bahia in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 25.

Foster the People are currently on tour and will appear at many major festivals throughout the summer and fall including Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot Festival and The Meadows Music & Arts Festival. The band will also play a full set of headline shows, stopping in major markets including Denver, Boston and Atlanta before wrapping with an appearance at the Austin City Limits music festival on October 13. Tickets are available now and additional dates will be announced soon. For tour and ticket information please visit www.fosterthepeople.com. 
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Founded in in 2009, Foster the People achieved success with the 2011 release of its debut album  Torches , which has sold nearly two million albums and over nine million singles worldwide. Torches features the #1 hit single “Pumped Up Kicks,” which was declared “the year’s anthem” by SPIN, and also spawned the chart topping singles “Don’t Stop (Color On The Walls),” “Houdini,” and “Helena Beat.” Foster the People garnered three Grammy nominations for its monumental debut, including Best Alternative Album, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Pumped Up Kicks” and Best Short Form Music Video for “Houdini.”  Supermodel  was the second full-length record from Foster the People. Influenced by frontman Mark Foster’s world travels and shifting perspective, the album was recorded in studios around the world and features fan favorites including "Coming of Age" and "Best Friend."


2017 TOUR DATES 7/27/2017Columbus, OHNewport Music Hall 7/28/2017Ontario, CanadaWayhome Music & Arts Festival 7/29/2017Detroit, MIMo Pop Festival 7/31/2017Nashville, TNRyman Auditorium 8/1/2017Memphis, TNMinglewood Hall 8/2/2017Chicago, ILThe Vic Theatre 8/4/2017Chicago, ILLollapalooza 8/6/2017Montreal, QCOsheaga Music & Arts Festival 8/19/2017Long Beach, CAAlt 98.7 Summer Camp @ Queen Mary Park 9/1/2017Seattle, WABumbershoot Festival9/2/2017Portland, ORKNRK 94.7’s The Best Show Ever @ McMenamins Edgefield9/3/2017Spokane, WAThe Knitting Factory 9/5/2017Salt Lake City, UTComplex 9/6/2017Denver, COOgden Theatre 9/8/2017Kansas City, MOKRBZ Buzz Beach Ball 9/9/2017Madison, WIOrpheum Theater 9/10/2017Louisville, KYIroquois Amphitheater 9/13/2017Boston, MAHouse of Blues 9/15/2017Norfolk, VANorva 9/16/2017Richmond, VANational 9/17/2017New York, NYMeadows Music and Arts Festival 9/18/2017Philadelphia, PAThe Fillmore 9/27/2017Miami, FLFillmore Miami Beach 9/28/2017Tampa, FLThe RITZ Ybor 9/29/2017Orlando, FLHard Rock Live 9/30/2017Atlanta, GATabernacle 10/2/2017Charlotte, NCFillmore Charlotte 10/3/2017Birmingham, ALIron City 10/6/2017Austin, TXAustin City Limits Festival 10/8/2017Washington, D.C.All Things Go Fall Classic 10/13/2017Austin, TXAustin City Limits Festival

Holy Fuck Release "Bird Brains" EP Today - DL & Stream Here

HOLY FUCK SHARE NEW BIRD BRAINS EPOUT NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE
 
FOR PRESS PURPOSES  DOWNLOAD & STREAM 
Toronto based noise-band Holy Fuck are releasing their 4-song EP  Bird Brains  today via LA's Innovative Leisure, their first since 2016's much lauded LP  Congrats . Bird Brainswas recorded live at various studios over the past few years. The EP represents the ongoing creative process of a band whose members live in different cities (in both Canada and the US) yet insist their music should be a collaborative process. 
These four songs aim to capture the raw energy of four people, not apart as bedroom producers, but together as a spirited exchange of ideas, a dynamic interaction that comes from years of friendship. While Bird Brains was largely self-produced, a few very talented Engineers/Producers aided greatly in that process, including Shawn Everett (John Legend, Warpaint, Alabama Shakes), who recorded the song "Chains" at The Banff Centre for the Arts, and David Wrench (Caribou, FKA Twigs, The XX) who mixed the song "New Dang".
Accompanying the EP is the visual piece for the title track an incredibly charismatic bird hosts a party wilder than anything you'll see all summer. Director Allison Johnston wanted "to explore the idea of mass hysteria, and how easily a group will follow the most confident person in the room. The party in the video is what I grew up believing they always were before I had ever been to one. I wanted every party to be Nelly's "Hot in Herre."
Bird Brains is available here.
WATCH "BIRD BRAINS" HERE
Holy Fuck Bird Brains  July 21, 2017Innovative Leisure 1. Bird Brains2. Chains3. Raymond4. New Dang

MOCA Music at MOCA Geffen featuring Zola Jesus, Lawrence Rothman, Smerz

Psychedelic Furs @ Commodore July 19th

                                               All Vancouver photos by Bev Davies.

Slayer to Perform on The Tonight Show

"THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON"THURSDAY, July 27, 2017LOS ANGELES, CA -- Thursday, July 20, 2017 -- Two-time Grammy-winning thrash/metal legend Slayer will make its 11:35PM late-night television debut on Thursday, July 27 when the band performs its iconic "Raining Blood" on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."  The show airs at 11:35PM ET/PT and 10:35PM CT on NBC.
Immediately following Thursday's taping of "The Tonight Show," Slayer will head over to New York's Theatre at Madison Square Garden where the band will headline as part of its summer U.S. tour. Remaining tour dates are below.
JULY20   Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC21   St. Augustine Amphitheater, St. Augustine, FL23   Electric Factory Outdoors, Philadelphia, PA 25   Blue Hills Bank Pavilion, Boston, MA27   Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY28   Pier Six Pavilion, Baltimore, MD30   Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN
AUGUST  1   Providence Medical Center Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, KS  2   1stBank Center, Denver, CO  4   The Joint, Las Vegas, NV  5   The Forum, Los Angeles, CA  8   Vina Robles Amphitheater, Paso Robles, CA  9   Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA11   The Cuthbert Amphitheater, Eugene, OR12   WaMu Theatre, Seattle, WA14   Encana Events Center, Dawson Creek, BC  CANADA15   SMS Equipment Stadium, Fort McMurray, AB  CANADA17   KettleHouse Amphitheater, Missoula, MT19   Isleta Amphitheater Albuquerque, NM20   Comerica Theater, Phoenix, AZ
L-R:  Paul Bostaph, Tom Araya, Gary Holt, Kerry King
Photo credit:  Martin Hausler

Ice Balloons (TVOTR, Samiam, Surfbort) Drops a NSFW "Anti-Disney" Video + Tourdates

Ice Balloons Premieres Video for 

“Fallen Family”

WATCH NOW via

 BROOKLYN VEGAN

Tour Dates Announced
Fiesta  is out on August 11th 2017 via  Volar Records
 
“Fallen Family” is a two minute twisted tale directed by the “anti-Disney” animator Jim Trainor. 



“The noisy, atonal song sounds like a bad acid trip and the creepy animated video is the perfect visual accompaniment.” – Brooklyn Vegan

The graphics complement the song’s distinct undertones of relationships within families. Trainor’s stark, choppy animation, initially all hand-drawn cells painstakingly traced with sharpies, dives into an enigmatic worldly familial symbolism with mysterious wryness.
 

 
The song itself is about failed Christmas gathering where family goodwill has been entirely replaced.
 
From the minds of mischief makers, no-wave, noise-punk band Ice Balloons - Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio), Sean Kennerly (Samiam), Sean Powell (Fuckemos, Surfbort), Giselle Reiber (Midnight Masses), Dan Scinta (Wild Yaks) and BA Miale.

SHARE/WATCH VIDEO FOR “FALLEN FAMILY” 

Fiesta  is out August 11 on limited color vinyl and all digital formats on Volar Records.
Preorders of the vinyl are available at the Volar Bandcamp.

ICE BALLOONS ARE TAKING FLIGHT! 
TOUR DATES

8/7/17 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right
8/23/17 – Brooklyn, NY – Secret Project Robot
8/26/17 – Frenchtown, NJ – The Space
9/18/17 -  Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
9/20/17 - Chattanooga, TN - Sluggos^
9/22/17 - Austin. TX - Hotel Vegas^
9/23/17 - El Paso, TX  - The Monarch^
9/24/17 - Tucson, AZ - Hotel Congress^
9/25/17 - San Diego, CA - Helmuth Projects^
9/27/17 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon^
9/29/17 - Oakland, CA - Land And Sea Gallery^
10/1/17 - Arcata, CA - OuterSpace^
10/3/17 - Seattle, WA - The Central Saloon^
10/5/17- Boise, ID - Neruolux
10/617 - Salt Lake City, UT -  Metro Music Hall*
10/7/17 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake
10/9/17 - Omaha, NE - O'Leavers
10/10/17 - Chicago, IL- The Empty Bottle
10/12/17 - Columbus, OH -  Double Happiness
10/13/17 - Philadelphia, PA - Everybody Hits
 
^ w/ Sun Foot
* w/ King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 

CUT COPY'S "AIRBORNE" VIDEO IS OUT TODAY

CUT COPY'S "AIRBORNE" VIDEO IS OUT TODAY 

"a disco-pop odyssey that sounds like, well, soaring through the sky, before eventually blasting off into psychedelic bliss" -Stereogum Two New U.S. Headline Shows Announced GRAMMY®-Nominated Band Will Also Perform At Luna Lights,CRSSD, Austin City Limits And Splendour In The Grass Festivals View "Airborne" Here: https://CutCopy.lnk.to/AirbornevidPR The midnight munchies meet magical realism in Cut Copy's official video for "Airborne," which was released today. Director Gerson Aguerri (The Vaccines,Breakbot) of the Barcelona-based production company CANADA weaves a tale that begins with a mysterious light shooting across the sky, unbeknownst to Cut Copy lead vocalist Dan Whitford, who is composing a new song on his keyboard. Whitford's quest for a late-night snack turns cosmic as he hits the city streets. View "Airborne"  HERE . Dan Whitford says, "The video for our song 'Airborne' is probably the most interesting and most challenging that I've ever been involved in. It was shot in Barcelona, all through the night for three days running and culminated with a final scene with me having not slept for 24 hours and playing a piano on the back of a moving truck. To say it was a once in a lifetime experience is no understatement! Despite the sleep deprivation, Gerson and his team at CANADA did a fantastic job bringing this surreal story to life." "Airborne" - Cut Copy's first official single in four years - gives fans an early glimpse of the new material the GRAMMY-nominated Australian band has been recording in studios around the world. Available for streaming and download HERE, the song was produced by Ben Allen (Deerhunter, Animal Collective) and marks Cut Copy's first release on Astralwerks. PASTE Magazine called "Airborne" "infectious" and noted, "The track is an airy, confident, synth-disco-driven pop gem that you'll want to listen to on repeat, exemplifying Cut Copy's effortless appeal to both those rave-y/club kids and more song-based listeners." Noisey observed, "'Airborne' percolates with baubles of percussion, Nile Rodgers-esque disco guitars, and vocal samples all buffed to a sheen. It is classy as shit, and it's definitely a 'match your steps to the tempo of the song as you walk down the street' kind of jam." SPIN said, "the track is a guitar-driven dance effort with spacey drum machine rhythms and soaring, reverb-drenched synth lines" and Stereogum hailed Airborne" as "a disco-pop odyssey that sounds like, well, soaring through the sky, before eventually blasting off into psychedelic bliss." Cut Copy announced two additional U.S. headline dates - October 3 at Tricky Falls in El Paso, TX and October 4 at The Jones Assembly in Oklahoma City, OK. Cut Copy will also perform at several U.S. festivals this fall, including Luna Lights, CRSSD and Austin City Limits. The band's summer Australian tour will wrap up with an appearance at the Splendour in the Grass Festival tomorrow. See below for itinerary. In the past decade, Cut Copy has truly become an international act, headlining massive sold-out shows and gaining prime slots at prestigious festivals such as Coachella, Ultra and Lollapalooza in the U.S.; Primavera in Spain, Pitchfork in Paris; Summer Sonic in Japan; and Big Day Out in Australia. Initially a bedroom recording project by frontman Dan Whitford, Cut Copyevolved into a full-fledged band with guitarist Tim Hoey, drummer Mitchell Scott, and bass player Ben Browning. The quartet's four studio albums include 2011's Zonoscope, which won two ARIA Awards and was nominated for a GRAMMY, and 2013's Free Your Mind, which Under The Radar awarded 8 out of 10 stars.
The band's songs have been licensed for use in television, games and commercials, including Chevrolet, Netflix, Amazon and Levi's® #LiveinLevis campaign. DJing and mixes have also been a big part of Cut Copy's identity - from the band's famed Fabric mix, Fabriclive.29, to the 2014 Melbourne dance compilation, Oceans Apart.  Cut Copy - Tim Hoey, Mitchell Scott, Dan Whitford, Ben Browning      Photo Credit: Jimmy Fontaine
Cut Copy - Upcoming Tour Dates Fall U.S. Dates9/30 - Darlington, MD @ Luna Lights Festival10/1 - San Diego, CA @ CRSSD Festival10/3 - El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls10/5 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Jones Assembly10/7 - Austin, TX @ Zilker Park - Austin City Limits) Summer Australian Dates7/20 - Melbourne. AUS - The Croxton7/21 - Byron Bay, AUS - Splendour In The Grass Festival 

Wolf Parade to release Cry Cry Cry, the group’s thunderous fourth album, worldwide on October 6th + listen to "Valley Boy" now

Wolf Parade to release Cry Cry Cry, the group’s thunderous fourth album, worldwide on October 6th

Shares anthemic new track “Valley Boy” Photo credit: ShaneMcCauleyYouTube (animated loop visual):https://youtu.be/lRslooNX4Js
Spotify (audio): http://u.subpop.com/2uE2BXj


2017 tour dates include Capitol Hill Block Party (July 21st) and direct support for Arcade Fire this September (select dates)

Cry Cry Cry available on CD / 2xLP / DL / CS
worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada via
Universal MusicWolf Parade will release the thunderous Cry Cry Cry, the band’s first new album in seven years (and fourth full-length overall), on CD / 2xLP / DL / CS worldwide from Sub Pop on Friday, October 6th, 2017. The album will be available in Canada from Universal Music.

The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are proudly on display over the course of Cry Cry Cry. These elements are captured on the album's anthemic lead single “Valley Boy” [listen here] and additional standouts “You’re Dreaming,” “Artificial Life” and “King of Piss and Paper. ” Cry Cry Cry was produced by John Goodmanson at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York.

Wolf Parade announced its return to the live stage in early 2016, after a five-year hiatus, scheduling multi-night residencies that May in New York, London, and Toronto to support of Apologies to the Queen Mary, the reissue of its classic, Sub Pop debut. Tickets sold out within a matter of hours.  As the May shows neared, Wolf Parade surprised fans again, with a self-titled-and-released EP’s-worth of new material.  The excitement surrounding the band’s return led to marquee festival appearances and late night TV performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan and Last Call with Carson Daly.

Wolf Parade’s previously announced tour schedule for 2017 resumes later this week, with a performance at Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party on Friday, July 21st. In August, the band will also appear at Ponderosa Music & Arts Festival in Rock Creek, BC on August 18th-20th. Then from September 5th through September 28th, Wolf Parade will act as direct support for The Arcade Fire (select dates). There will be additional live dates announced soon.

Jul. 21 - Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
Aug. 18-20 - Rock Creek, BC - Ponderosa Music & Arts Festival
Sep. 05 - Quebec City, QC - Videotron Center*
Sep. 06 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre*
Sep. 09 - Ottawa, ON - Canadian Tire Center*
Sep. 21 - Duluth, GA - Infinite Energy Arena*
Sep. 22 - Tampa, FL - USF Sun Dome*
Sep. 23 - Coral Gables, FL - Watsco Center*
Sep. 24 - St. Augustine, FL - St. Augustine, FL Amphitheatre*
Sep. 26 - New Orleans, LA - UNO Lakefront Arena*
Sep. 27 - Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center*
Sep. 28 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center*
*w/ Arcade Fire

Cry Cry Cry is now available for pre-order worldwide from Sub Pop [link here], in Canada from Universal Records [link here] and Wolf Parade’s webstore [link here]. LP pre-orders through megamart.subpop.com and select independent retailers in the U.S. will receive the limited loser edition on creme colored vinyl (while supplies last). A new t-shirt design will also be available.

About Wolf Parade’s Cry Cry Cry:
The soaring choruses, rousing anthems, sprawling guitars and chaotic keys that make up Wolf Parade are on proud display over the course of Cry Cry Cry, the band’s thunderous first album in seven years.

Wolf Parade’s unique combination of sounds and influences, spearheaded by electric co-frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner—is a complex yet relatable, energetic brew of glam, prog, synth-rock, and satisfying discomfort—helped define 2000s indie rock with three critically celebrated albums, and propelled a growing Wolf Parade fandom even after the band went on a then-indefinite hiatus in 2010.

Cry Cry Cry is their first album to be produced by Pacific Northwest legend John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Unwound) at Robert Lang Studios outside of Seattle, and is accompanied by a renewed focus and the creativity of a band that took their time getting exactly where they needed to be. It’s also a homecoming to Sub Pop, which released all three of the band’s previous albums.

“The band itself is almost a fifth member of the band, something more or at least different than the sum of its parts,” says Spencer Krug. “We don't know who or what is responsible for our sound, it's just something that naturally and consistently comes from this particular combo of musicians.”

“Once we got back together, I was playing guitar, writing and singing in a way that I only do while I'm in Wolf Parade,” says Dan Boeckner, who shares primary lyrical and singing duties with Spencer. “It’s just something that I can't access without the other three people in the room.”

In the time apart, the band scattered geographically and focused on family and other work--Spencer on his solo project Moonface, Dan on his bands Handsome Furs, Operators, and Divine Fits (with Spoon’s Britt Daniel), and Dante De Caro on records with Carey Mercer’s Frog Eyes and Blackout Beach. And that time allowed for an even stronger, tighter band to emerge.

Eventually, Spencer, Dante, and Arlen found themselves all back living on remote Vancouver Island, accompanied by a population density less than that of Alaska, and the tranquility that leads to creative emanations like a government-sponsored bathtub race. With Dan on the same coast in Northern California, discussions began about picking things up where they left off.

“All of our albums are always a reaction to our last one,” says Arlen. “Expo 86 (2010) was about as sparse as we get, which is usually still pretty dense, and this time we wanted to make the palette a little larger.” Adds Dante, “Expo was a real rock record. We just sort of banged it out, which was kind of the point.” Cry Cry Cry, on the other hand, is more deliberate in its arrangements and embrace of the studio process. “If a part was going on for too long it would get lopped, you know?” says Dan. “That being said, there are two very long songs on the record and I don't think it would be a Wolf Parade record if it didn't have some kind of prog epic.”

“I think we're actually a better band than we were when we stopped playing music together,” says Arlen. “A little bit more life experience for everybody, and people having made a bunch of records on their own.”

The result of this new consciousness is songs like “Valley Boy,” a Bowie-inflected anthem for which Spencer wrote lyrics after Leonard Cohen died the day before the 2016 election (“The radio’s been playing all your songs, talking about the way you slipped away up the stairs, did you know that it was all gonna go wrong?”). “You’re Dreaming,” also influenced by the election and the spinning shock that followed, is driving, urgent power pop that draws from artists like Tom Petty and what Dan calls one of his “default languages” for writing music. The swirly, synth-heavy crescendo of “Artificial Life” takes on the struggle of artists and at-risk communities (“If the flood should ever come, we’ll be last in the lifeboat”).

The album carries a sense of uprising that is not unrelated to Wolf Parade’s renewed determination to drive the band forward in uncertain times. Welcome toCry Cry Cry.

Erasure Reveals Boxed In Remix of "World Be Gone"; List to Unreleased B-Side

ERASURE

REVEALS BOXED IN REMIX OF  “WORLD BE GONE”

LISTEN TO UNRELEASED B-SIDE  “I NEED YOU NOW”

NEW ALBUM  WORLD BE GONE  OUT NOW
Photo by Doron Gild “…tragic and triumphant…” – Stereogum

"...topical, poignant tunes worried about the state of the world but hopeful love can still make a difference." – Associated Press

“A triumph of achingly beautiful pop protest music.” – MOJO
 ERASURE release their new single, “World Be Gone,” on July 28 and have unveiled Boxed In’s remix of the track. Boxed In is the Oli Bayston, a British songwriter and producer who has previously remixed Public Service Broadcasting, Ghostpoet and Blossoms. Listen to his “World Be Gone” remix now atPopMatters.

The duo have also just announced details of a very special ARTE TV Berlin Live show which will be streamed live on Monday, July 24. The free show will be taking place at a small club in Berlin. The band is currently giving away tickets via their Facebook and Twitter. Further details here.

The new single aches with gorgeous melancholy for “the loss of our souls” and finds Andy Bell and Vince Clarke, the BRIT and Ivor Novello winning songwriting duo, in a reflective mood giving the world and recent political upheavals a thoughtful examination. The album’s artwork directly references the track, showing a ship's masthead rising up after being submerged in stormy waters, looking optimistically forward to the future. Tunespeak is currently running a contest for fans to enter to win an actual painting of the World Be Gone cover. Further details here.

“World Be Gone” is a new mix of the title track of the band’s latest album. World Be Gone, released last month, entered the UK Official Album Chart at #6 and is the band’s first Top 10 studio album in 20 years.

The digital EP will feature remixes of “World Be Gone” from producer Gareth Jones and Boxed In plus “Oh What A World” remixed by fan favorites GRN and Manhattan Clique as well as House of Labs’s take on “Just A Little Love.” In addition, a brand new bonus track will be included. Listen to “I Need You Now”here.

Erasure’s current stadium tour with Robbie Williams continues throughout the summer and a recently announced headline tour of the UK and Europe – many of the dates sold out on the day of release – starts in Dublin in January 2018. February will see Erasure travel throughout the UK, finishing up with a return to London’s Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, before heading to Germany. Full details below.

WORLD BE GONE DIGITAL TRACKLISTING World Be Gone - Single MixI Need You NowWorld Be Gone - Giant Mix by Gareth JonesWorld Be Gone - Boxed In RemixOh What A World - GRN RemixOh What A World - Manhattan Clique RemixJust A Little Love - House Of Labs Club Remix ERASURE TOUR DATES
July 22 – Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion *   
July 25 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne *   
July 26 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne *   
July 29 – Stockholm, Sweden – Tele2 Arena *   
August 1 – Trondheim, Norway – Granåsan Arena *   
August 4 – Bergen, Norway – Bergenhus Fortress *            
August 7 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Telia Parken *   
August 10 – Tampere, Finland – Ratina Stadium *   
August 16 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Vingis Park *   
August 19 – Prague, Czech Republic – Airport Letnany *   
August 23 – Budapest, Hungary – Groupama Arena *   
August 26 – Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadium *         
August 29 – Klagenfurt, Austria – Wörthersee Stadium *   
September 2 – Zurich, Switzerland – Letzigrund Stadium *   
September 7 – St. Petersburg, Russia – Ledovi Dvorets Palace *   
September 10 – Moscow, Russia – Olympiski *
January 29 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia (SOLD OUT)
January 30 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia (SOLD OUT)
January 31 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia (SOLD OUT)
February 2 – Dundee, Scotland – Caird Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 3 – Edinburgh, Scotland – Usher Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 4 – Newcastle, England – City Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 6 – Liverpool, England – Philharmonic (SOLD OUT)
February 7 – Hull, England – City Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 8 – Manchester, England – O2 Apollo (SOLD OUT)
February 10 – Cambridge, England – Corn Exchange (SOLD OUT)
February 11 – Birmingham, England – O2 Academy (SOLD OUT)
February 12 – Nottingham, England – Royal Concert Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 14 – Ipswich, England – Regent
February 15 – Southampton, England – O2 Guildhall (SOLD OUT)
February 16 – Cardiff, Wales – St David’s Hall (SOLD OUT)
February 18 – Aylesbury, England – Friars Waterside Theatre
February 19 – Brighton, England – Dome (SOLD OUT)
February 20 – Guildford, England – G Live
February 22 – Norwich, England – UEA (SOLD OUT)
February 23 – London, England – Eventim Apollo
February 24 – London, England – Eventim Apollo
February 27 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk
February 28 – Hamburg, Germany – Mehr Theater
March 1 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
March 3 – Leipzig, Germany – Haus Auensee
March 4 – Munich, Germany – Tonhalle
March 5 – Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp
March 7 – Hanover, Germany – Capitol

* with Robbie Williams
 Stream World Be Gone here.
Listen to “World Be Gone” here.
Listen to “Love You To The Sky” here.
Listen to “World Be Gone” (Boxed In Remix) here.
Listen to “Love You To The Sky” (Matt Pop Remix) here.
Listen to “Love You To The Sky” (Adam Turner Remix) here.