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September 9, 2025
LA's Vijunns shares new single, "Tessellation" ahead of new LP
LA's Vijunns shares new single, "Tessellation" ahead of new LP
STREAM / VISUALIZER - "Tessellation" -
YouTube
Vijunns is the audio-visual project of LA-based music producer and art director Jeremy Raskin. Since 2018, Raskin has explored the terrain between ambient and techno, carving out a space beyond rave euphoria and the contemplative depths of electronica rich with lucid imagery and immersive storytelling.
Today, Vijunns shares new single "Tessellation," from their forthcoming new LP, Collapse, which is out on Sept. 23. Raskin gives some context for the track:
“'Tessellation' marks a turning point in the album. While it is an ambient track, it feels rhythmically abrasive. It’s sonically & emotionally a tone shift in the story of Collapse. This track emerged through pure experimentation and pushing myself to create something outside my comfort zone.”
This unity of sound and concept reveals new territory for Raskin on Collapse, a self-described 'soundtrack to the end of the world' that explores the tensions defining our current socio-political epoch.
Raskin continues to expand his post-IDM palette with modular and 90s-era digital synthesis, lacing the sonics of his prior works with an undertone of darkness, which lends a weighty grit to his trademark sound. Rather than indulge in IDM's solipsistic introspection, he instead applies its sharp edges and diffuse vapors to render a world in disarray.
Collapse unfurls cinematically, establishing an expansive, desolate space. On "Industry," sinuous chords shift and simmer while booming bass and insistent percussion apply the pressure. "Undone" introduces soft, tender bodies; delicate melodies and gentle timbres winding through the ruin. "Tessellation" brings us somewhere sacred and mythic, where supernatural sounds and abstract rhythms induce a sense of transcendental purpose.
Ultimately, Collapse arrives. Heart rending, gut-wrenching, potent, and final. As the credits roll, we are treated to Auragraph's remix of "Industry," where the prolific darkwave mainstay morphs the original into a slab of club-ready breaks which maintains every ounce of the atmosphere established over the course of the LP.
Raskin’s visual sensibility is a statement within itself. The artwork provokes meditations on mass surveillance, emergent technologies, and the infinite feedback loop of content that primes a world teetering between a liberated, high-tech future and an alienated, inhuman dystopia.
Press photo by Jay Martinovitch
Vijunns
Collapse
(Hyperreal Projects)
Street Date: Sept. 23, 2025
Track List:
TotalityIndustry
Undone
Tessellation
Gradient
Afterthought
Collapse
Industry (AURAGRAPH Remix)
VIJUNNS LINKS:
Instagram / Blue Sky / Bandcamp / Official Site
HOME FRONT announce new album - Release "Light Sleeper" single / video - 'Watch It Die' out Nov 14 via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos
HOME FRONT
Announce New Album Watch It Die
Coming November 14 via La Vida Es Un Mus Discos
Release Lead Single / Video “Light Sleeper”
Performing in LA 2 Nights at Hollywood Palladium
w/ Cock Sparrer & Dillinger Four - November 22-23
Photo By Lyle Bell | L-R Clint Frazier, Graeme MacKinnon
Home Front holds on to a particular kind of passion. The sort of thing that guides you - like a climbing vine steadily blanketing your bests and worsts, cutting through changes and impasses; victory and loss. This passion, their drive, is what makes a record like Watch It Die, their latest full-length for La Vida Es Un Mus, feel just right. For decades the duo’s Graeme MacKinnon and Clint Frazier have embedded themselves in grass roots music making, community building, and the overpowering ebbs and flows of diy punk. With Home Front, formed in 2020, they’ve given their lifetime of experience a chance to distill and then power into this musically omnipotent project which equally conjures textured Tangerine Dream sounds in a film montage, or the pummelling soundtrack to the first steps taken towards winning the fight of your life.
Its lead single “Light Sleeper” sends energy waves rattling through speakers with all the urgency and volume of post punk/new wave/street punk. The track is available today alongside a video which features a cast of characters including Home Front touring members Brandi Strauss (bass), Ian Rowley (guitar), and Warren Oostlander (drums).
Listen / Share / Playlist “Light Sleeper” | Official Music Video
Home Front’s nod to influences and the themes of their lyrics are direct and detailed while maintaining enough creative distance to feel universal and unique. The production has again been bolstered by a team of long time confidants making a huge and unique record under the humble and hard working circumstances of remote pre-production and choosing to do their recording in home studios in their home town in Edmonton, Alberta.
The architecture of Watch It Die is simple - 12 songs of danceable, hummable, rousing and honest music that only Home Front could make. The emotion of this LP is what solidifies these musical notions into meaningful art. “For us, ultimately, this is music that comes out of loss and heartbreak and failure, but I hope people have a good time listening to us. You can get rowdy, you can get emotional, you can do whatever you want, but maybe with all of that freedom, we all take a second to reflect on all our fallen brothers and sisters and friends who may have slipped away.”
On previous revered recordings Games of Power (2023) and Think of the Lie (2021), Frazier and MacKinnon gave us a snapshot of a cynical and alienating world. A place where hope was tempered by insignificance, exhaustion takes us, and where 2,000,000 voices screaming in unison can still go unheard. Watch It Die instead of asking us why and how we got here, struggling to cope with the sadness of a desperate world, brings us their “step forward” moment. A dose of optimism and ownership in the bleakest of times in which maybe it doesn’t have to feel so bad to be alone or desperate. Where the passage of time is not coloured by the nostalgia of a lost youth but more toward the celebration of wisdom earned. Watch it Die owns the ills it describes and catapults us alongside its creators who have the confidence and presence of mind to live beyond their limitations.
Watch It Die is a road map of hope. MacKinnon and Frazier state: “For all of us in Home Front, ‘Watch It Die’ comes at a very transformative time. Geopolitically, musically and in our personal lives. With friends and close family members dying, to massive uncertainty around the world, this album encapsulates what it’s like for us to step into a ‘new world’ where all the old adages of ‘everything is gonna work out fine’ feel like a joke. We watch rich people get richer while the rest of us struggle just to get by. We watch colonizers kill without consequence and in an age of information at our finger tips we watch people choosing to be ignorant to what’s going on around them. ‘Watch It Die’ speaks about our own humanity, a rebirth into a new world and how we can never go back to the way things were. We suffer for their dreams, but in saying that we must recognize the importance of our own community and look to energize them to build a better way of life. We have always been an anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-peace band. We are against crimes to human rights and all of those struggling through the horrors of imperialism. We stand with the people of Palestine and we stand with the Canadian Indigenous communities who struggle to uphold treaty rights as well as basic human rights like clean drinking water and generational trauma. One takeaway from our music is to make a safe space where our community can come together to air out grievances and find a better way to a new future.”
Pre-Order Physical | Pre-Save Watch It Die
Watch It Die Tracklist:
01 - Watch It Die
02 - New Madness
03 - Light Sleeper
04 - Between The Waves
05 - Eulogy
06 - The Vanishing
07 - For The Children (F*ck All)
08 - Kiss The Sky
09 - Always This Way
10 - Dancing With Anxiety
11 - Young Offender
12 - Empire
Home Front Live Dates:
Nov 22: Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium #
Nov 23: Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium !
# w/ Cock Sparrer, Dillinger Four and Castillo
! w/ Cock Sparrer, Dillinger Four and Generacion Suicida
September 8, 2025
Ora the Molecule Shares Nolan Gray Remix Of "Løveskatt" || Supporting Cut Copy On Fall US Tour
ORA THE MOLECULE SHARES
NOLAN GRAY REMIX OF
“LØVESKATT”
NEW ALBUM DANCE THERAPY
OUT NOW ON MUTE
Photo credit: Sarah Fuchs
Today Ora the Molecule has shared a new remix of “Løveskatt” by LA-based artist, producer, DJ and professor of sound Nolan Gray, celebrated for his bespoke analog techno. He transforms the beloved track from her recently-released album Dance Therapy (out now via Mute) from the shimmering, disco-inflected original and injects it with a glitched-out, spacy playfulness that’s equally demanding of the dancefloor.
Ora The Molecule is also a mere few months away from starting a November US tour supporting Cut Copy. All dates are listed below.Listen to “Løveskatt (Nolan Gray Remix)” HERE.
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Speaking on the remix, Ora the Molecule says: "Love the bass on this remix - Nolan Gray brought "Løveskatt" to the basement and I'm planning on dancing there for a while!”
Nolan Gray adds: “I wanted to create a remix that connected with Ora’s parallel audience, the Interdimensional Dancers. I imagined being in a 70's Italo BathHouse and going through the bubble wall with pink light flashing underneath, and how I’d hear the music I was dancing to melt into the adjacent space as the bubble sealed behind me revealing a mysterious new dance floor.”
US TOUR DATES:
11/10/2025 - Seattle, WA - Showbox*
11/11/2025 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom*
11/13/2025 - San Francisco, CA - The Regency Ballroom*
11/14/2025 - Los Angeles, CA - Bellwether*
11/18/2025 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer*
11/19/2025 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club*
11/20/2025 - Buffalo, NY - Electric City*
11/21/2025 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel*
11/22/2025 - Pittsburgh, PA - Roxian Theatre*
11/23/2025 - Chicago, IL - Ramova Theater*
11/25/2025 - Miami, FL - ZeyZey (Zaku Stage)*
*supporting Cut Copy
Tickets are on sale now. See more info HERE.
Nora Schjelderup, the creative mind behind the Ora The Molecule moniker, comments: "It was written from a dark place, and a light place, it gives some sort of solution for when you tend to nihilistic thinking. The song is about letting go of fear and the self-awareness that dictates and controls our experience on this planet. I hope you find the song as you need it."
Dance Therapy is Schjelderup as a lone mastermind, conceiving a new world all her own. On this album, she wrote, recorded, and produced everything, save a handful of co-production contributions from Mathias Risdal.The driving force behind Dance Therapy stems from Schjelderup’s experience as a DJ, a career that has steadily ascended since the pandemic. She imagined herself being behind the decks, while simultaneously seeing herself in the audience, and asking: “What would I play for that Nora in the crowd to make her day just a little bit better?” Fueled by classic late ‘70s club sounds and Italo-disco, this became the retro-futuristic fever dream of Dance Therapy.
As in the past, she decamped to her studio, located in a cabin in the woods outside of Oslo. There, she processed a series of severe losses, the therapy of the album’s title becoming literal.
Dance Therapy became deeply conceptual, with Schjelderup working off a prompt: If we encountered intelligent life in outer space, how would she present herself? “Would I be this mundane shit — I’m constantly heartbroken, I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up,” she says. “Or will I try to rise and be the highest version of myself possible? To be as glamorous and fabulous as I could?”
Schjelderup’s intergalactic vision drew upon a broad array of references. While exploring a “study” of electronic pioneer Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia, she began favoring digital reproductions of various modular synths and theremin. Italo disco star Raffaella Carrà inspired Ora The Molecule becoming a more full-blown character separated from but symbiotic with Schjelderup herself, while the music of Annie Lennox helped shape Dance Therapy’s narrative heft.
The resulting body of work is rife with ebullient, infectious dance music, but also remarkably complex meditations on grief, mortality and heartbreak - all transmuted through the lens of Ora’s cosmic inner journey to discover her own sense of self, human or otherwise.
And, at the end, Schjelderup has finally created a new transcendence: both Nora and Ora but neither, a deeper sense of herself and the disco superhero she has willed into being, a new identity from everything that came before.
Dance Therapy is out now on limited edition hand-numbered white vinyl, black vinyl, cassette and digitally. Purchase it HERE.
“Løveskatt (Nolan Gray Remix)” art
Dance Therapy album art
Dance Therapy track listing:
1. Becoming A Human
2. Intergalactic Dance
3. Løveskatt
4. Prince Of The Rhythm
5. Is This Love?
6. Nobody Cares
7. If I Believed
8. Cyber Fever
9. Evig Ung
10. New Years
11. Let Me Dance
12. Becoming Ora
Purchase or stream Dance Therapy HERE.
Watch the video for “Løveskatt” HERE.
Watch the video for “Intergalactic Dance” HERE.
Watch the video for “Nobody Cares” HERE.
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Pompey Shares "Surrounded" Single + Video via FLOOD | New Album 'I'm Scared' Out September 15th
New Album I'm Scared Out September 15th
Credit: Monse MuroLISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pompey - "Surrounded"Stream | YouTube
LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pompey - "I'm Scared"
Stream | YouTube
LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Pompey - "Really Really Really Big Sweater"
Stream | YouTube
Montreal singer-songwriter Pompey today has shared his new single "Surrounded." The track, which premiered earlier today via FLOOD, is the final preview of his new LP I'm Scared, which is out September 15th. Buzz has been building around Pompey–this year, his music has taken off on TikTok, with a recent post of his previous single earning over 4.8 million views, and another teaser earning 3.1 million views.
I'm Scared, Pompey's fourth full-length LP, is a deeply earnest record about fear, togetherness, comfort and anxiety. The 12 tracks are a lush, honest, enveloping, exploration of his own fear, but with the completion of the new record, Pompey is ready to let that fear go.
Pompey will play his record release show at this year's Pop Montreal. It will take place on September 27th at La Sala Rossa with support from Fanclubwallet, Katy Pinke, and Cedric Noel.
Pompey has been a fixture on the Montreal music scene since 2012, mainly playing as a musician for artists such as Thanya Iyer, Emilie Kahn, Eve Parker Finley, Common Holly, and more. The album was co-produced by Pompey and Thanya Iyer, and engineered, mixed, and mastered by Pompey. It features Cedric Noel on drums and backing vocals, Thanya Iyer on violin, backing vocals, piano and synth, Emilie Kahn and Brigitte Naggar on backing vocals, Eric Maillet on drums, and Zach Bachand on acoustic guitar.
New single "I'm Scared" is out today. I'm Scared LP is out September 15th.
Pompey - "Surrounded"
I'm Scared - Tracklisting
I’m Scared Did you ever care about me?Really Really Really Big SweaterPut me in a boxPaint me a homeDefeatEveryone is PeopleMomentChamomileSurroundedI’m just a little babySocial Anxiety
Pompey BIO:
Pompey is a singer-songwriter who has been a fixture on the Montreal music scene since 2012 mainly as a side musician for artists such as Thanya Iyer, Emilie Kahn, Eve Parker Finley, Common Holly and others. More recently, Pompey’s own music has found it’s own way into the spotlight through posting super personal and relatable snippets of songs to social media. What started as a way to fill the show-shaped hole in Pompey’s life, brought on by the pandemic, has turned into an opportunity to connect to people all over the world who relate and find comfort in the shared experience of living in an imperfect body with an imperfect mind. Pompey’s music is as hopeful as it is sad and as optimistic as it is a realistic depiction of life in 2025. I’m Scared will be Pompey’s 4th full-length album since 2020. When performing live, the band consists of Thanya Iyer and Emilie Kahn both on bass and Cedric Noel on drums.
POMPEY LINKSInstagram | YouTube | TikTok | Facebook | Bandcamp | Website
Duff McKagan to Release Live Album; Shares First Single/Video
DUFF MCKAGAN UNVEILS LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON
ALL-NEW 19-SONG LIVE ALBUM AND FULL-LENGTH CONCERT FILM
CAPTURED DURING LAST YEAR’S SOLD-OUT LIGHTHOUSE TOUR ‘24
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE A SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE
FROM SEX PISTOLS CO-FOUNDING GUITARIST STEVE JONES
UNFORGETTABLE LIVE PERFORMANCE OF LONGFEATHER PREMIERES TODAY – LISTEN
OFFICIAL LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO STREAMING NOW – WATCH
LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON
ARRIVES ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
PRE-ORDERS/PRE-SAVES AVAILABLE NOW
Photo Credit: Luke Shadrick
Duff McKagan has unveiled LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON, an all-new live album and full-length concert film recorded last October during his sold-out Lighthouse Tour ’24. The 19-track collection will be available in a wide variety of formats, including digital, CD Digipak, CD + Blu-ray Digipak (with live audio and the complete LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON concert film), 2LP 180g Black vinyl (with gatefold sleeve and ticket replica), and limited edition 2LP 180g Black vinyl (with live audio, complete concert film, gatefold sleeve, and autographed ticket replica signed by McKagan). LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON arrives on Friday, October 31. Pre-orders/pre-saves are available now via duffmckagan.com.
Recorded and filmed October 5, 2024, before a sold-out crowd at London, England’s historic Islington Assembly Hall, LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON sees McKagan and his band performing songs from throughout the iconic musician-songwriter’s legendary career, including stellar renditions of tracks originally found on his critically acclaimed third solo album, 2023’s LIGHTHOUSE. Among the live album’s many highlights is an unforgettable take on the plaintive fan favorite, LONGFEATHER, premiering everywhere today alongside an official live performance video streaming now on YouTube.
Photo Credit: Luke Shadrick
Lighthouse Tour ’24 saw McKagan lighting up sold-out houses across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom, joined by his murderer’s row of musicians, guitarist Tim DiJulio, guitarist/keyboardist Jeff Fielder, bassist Mike Squires, and drummer Michael Musburger, with live sound engineered by longtime collaborator Martin Feveyear. Recorded and mixed by Feveyear, LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON collects electrifying in-concert versions of such McKagan originals as I SAW GOD ON 10TH ST., LIGHTHOUSE, and the volatile CHIP AWAY (a personal favorite of Bob Dylan himself), along with breakneck performances of The Stooges’ I WANNA BE YOUR DOG, The Crickets’ (by way of The Bobby Fuller Four and The Clash) I FOUGHT THE LAW, and Guns N’ Roses’ classic YOU’RE CRAZY. What’s more, LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON features a very special guest appearance by Sex Pistols co-founding guitarist Steve Jones that sees the two friends (and Neurotic Outsiders bandmates) joining forces for once-in-a-lifetime renditions of Johnny Thunders’ CAN’T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY and David Bowie’s HEROES, the latter of which can be viewed now at McKagan’s official YouTube channel.
WATCH HEROES (LIVE FROM LONDON) FEAT. STEVE JONES
Photo Credit: Luke Shadrick
For more than 40 years, Duff McKagan has been an unstoppable creative force, spanning a multitude of bands, tours, collaborations, writings, and an ongoing solo body of work that includes such critically acclaimed albums as 2019’s Shooter Jennings-produced TENDERNESS and 2023’s soul-searching LIGHTHOUSE. Starting at just 15, McKagan has been a part of such diverse and influential bands as The Vains (1979), The Fastbacks (1980), The Living (1982), The Fartz (1990), 10 Minute Warning (1993), and Loaded (1998), along, of course, with his historic role as founding member of both Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver. In addition to his prolific musical efforts, McKagan is the New York Times best-selling author of 2011’s It’s So Easy: And Other Lies and 2015’s How to Be a Man: (And Other Illusions), and the co-host (with Susan Holmes McKagan) of the popular Three Chords & The Truth radio show, airing in North America on Sirius XM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38). In addition, Three Chords & The Truth airs weekly on stations around the globe including the UK’s Planet Rock, Denmark’s myROCK, Finland’s Radio Rock, Germany/Switzerland/Austria’s Rock Antenne, Iceland and Canada’s x977, and Poland’s Antyradio. For showtimes, please visit duffmckagan.ffm.to/threechordsandthetruth.
# # #
DUFF MCKAGAN
LIGHTHOUSE: LIVE FROM LONDON
Release Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Tracklist:
1. FORGIVENESS
2. CHIP AWAY
3. THIS IS THE SONG
4. I SAW GOD ON 10TH ST.
5. TENDERNESS
6. FEEL
7. HOLY WATER / I WANNA BE YOUR DOG
8. I JUST DON'T KNOW
9. FALLEN ONES
10. FALLEN
11. WASTED HEART
12. LONGFEATHER
13. JUST ANOTHER SHAKEDOWN
14. I FOUGHT THE LAW
15. YOU'RE CRAZY
16. LIGHTHOUSE
17. CAN'T PUT YOUR ARMS AROUND A MEMORY (FEAT. STEVE JONES)
18. HEROES (FEAT. STEVE JONES)
19. DON'T LOOK BEHIND YOU
CONNECT WITH DUFF MCKAGAN
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September 7, 2025
NEIL YOUNG and The Chrome Hearts @ Deer Lake Park | Burnaby, Canada Saturday Sept 6th 2025
All photos taken in Vancouver by BEV DAVIES
September 6, 2025
Personal Data Show @ Huntington Beach Art Center SATURDAY Sept 6th 2025 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE
All photos taken by Alexander Laurence
September 5, 2025
The Last Dinner Party Release New Single And Video For "The Scythe"
For Immediate Release September 5, 2025THE LAST DINNER PARTY RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘THE SCYTHE’
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE
“FROM THE PYRE” TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 17th
VIA ISLAND RECORDS
credit Cal McIntyre
Today, The Last Dinner Party share “The Scythe,” the band’s second preview of forthcoming album From The Pyre (10/17 via Island Records). First conceived as a breakup song in Abigail Morris’ teens, the poised slow burn of ‘The Scythe’ exhibits the considerable songwriting range possessed by The Last Dinner Party, who first caught worldwide attention through their brand of potent theatrical rock. Listen to “The Scythe” here and watch the music video, directed by Fiona Jane Burgess, here.
Abigail Morris on ‘The Scythe’:
“This song began 9 years ago, like a prophecy. I wrote it before I had known anything of grief or heartbreak, how a relationship ending feels exactly the same as that person dying. Once you know how it feels to lose someone you enter a new realm from which you can never return. You’re trying to reach them telepathically through psychics or song lyrics (sometimes those two become the same) and sometimes they give you a reply. It can take 9 years to realise you’re even grieving at all but once you do you see them everywhere - in a robin, in a street fox, in a Wim Wenders film. The Scythe comes for everyone and you shouldn’t be afraid about what’s on the other side.”
“The music video for ‘The Scythe’ is one of our proudest and most intimate. From one angle it’s a celebration of all the relationships that make it so far you both feel like you can live forever, from another it’s the fantasy of imagining what it would look like if your parents had been able to grow old together.”
“The Scythe” is the second track to be shared from The Last Dinner Party’s forthcoming second album From The Pyre, following the July release of western-flecked “This Is The Killer Speaking” – listen here. Pre-order From The Pyre here.
The London five-piece headed into the studio early 2025 with Grammy Award winning producer Markus Dravs (Wolf Alice, Florence & The Machine, Bjork) to start work on the follow-up to their number 1 debut album, 2023’s Prelude to Ecstasy. From The Pyre is the sound of a band having a lot of fun rather than feeling any innate pressure to follow-up on what was an explosively successful debut record. It’s also the sound of a young band developing and maturing their songwriting together, as tight a unit as the endless months out on the road pay testament to.
The Last Dinner Party on From The Pyre:
“This record is a collection of stories, and the concept of album-as-mythos binds them. ‘The Pyre’ itself is an allegorical place in which these tales originate, a place of violence and destruction but also regeneration, passion and light.
“The songs are character driven but still deeply personal, a commonplace life event pushed to pathological extreme. Being ghosted becomes a Western dance with a killer, and heartbreak laughs into the face of the apocalypse. Lyrics invoke rifles, scythes, sailors, saints, cowboys, floods, Mother Earth, Joan of Arc, and blazing infernos. We found this kind of evocative imagery to be the most honest and truthful way to discuss the way our experiences felt, giving each the emotional weight it deserves.”
“This record feels a little darker, more raw and more earthy; it takes place looking out at a sublime landscape rather than seated an opulent table. It also feels metatextual and cheeky in places, like a knowing look reflected back at ourselves.”
With two BRIT Awards to their name (including Breakthrough Artist earlier this year), and having sold out virtually every show they played right across the globe (including three sold-out hometown shows at London’s Eventim Apollo), The Last Dinner Party’s arrival and subsequent worldwide success was one of the most thrilling introductions to a new British band in decades, and From The Pyre’s opening introduction suggests that unparalleled success story shows no signs of relenting.
Tickets for The Last Dinner Party’s UK/EU tour are available here
Outstore Live Dates:
15th October – Pryzm, Kingston (w/ Banquet Records) *Matinee* - SOLD OUT
15th October - Pryzm, Kingston (w/ Banquet Records) *Evening* - SOLD OUT
17th October – The Level, Nottingham (w/ Rough Trade) *Matinee* - SOLD OUT
17th October - The Level, Nottingham (w/ Rough Trade) *Evening* - SOLD OUT
19th October – 1865, Southampton (w/ Vinilo Records) – SOLD OUT
20th October – HMV Empire, Coventry (w/ HMV) – SOLD OUT
22nd October – Live House, Dundee (w/ Assai) – SOLD OUT
23rd October – The Dome, Liverpool (w/ Rough Trade) – SOLD OUT
UK Headline Tour:
14th November – 3Arena, Dublin
17th November – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
20th November – O2 City Hall, Newcastle
23rd November – Bridlington Spa, Bridlington
26th November – Aviva Studios, Manchester
29th November – The Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
30th November – The Prospect Building, Bristol
2nd December – Utilita Arena, Cardiff
4th December – Plymouth Pavilions, Plymouth
5th December – Brighton Centre, Brighton
7th December – O2 Academy Brixton, London
8th December – O2 Academy Brixton, London
2026
10th January – Red Hill Auditorium, Perth
13th January – AEC Theatre, Adelaide
15th January – Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
17th January – ICC Sydney Theatre, Sydney
19th January – Riverstage, Brisbane
22nd January – Spark Arena, Auckland
8th February – Colisieu dos Recreios, Lisbon
10th February – Sala La Riviera, Madrid
11th February – Razzmatazz, Barcelona
13th February – Fabrique, Milan
14th February – The Hall, Zurich
16th February – Zenith, Munich
17th February – Forum Karlín, Prague
19th February – Gasometer, Vienna
20th February – COS Torwar, Warsaw
22nd February – UFO im Velodrom, Berlin
23rd February – Palladium, Cologne
25th February – Le Zénith, Paris
27th February – Forest National, Brussels
1st March – AFAS Live, Amsterdam
3rd March – Vega, Copenhagen
4th March – Fållan, Stockholm
6th March – Sentrum Scene, Oslo
From The Pyre Tracklisting:
Agnus Dei / Count The Ways / Second Best / This Is The Killer Speaking / Rifle / Woman Is A Tree / I Hold Your Anger / Sail Away / The Scythe / Inferno
MACHINE GIRL ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'PSYCHO WARRIOR (MG ULTRA X)'
MACHINE GIRL ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM PSYCHO WARRIOR (MG ULTRA X) FOR OCTOBER 24TH;
LISTEN TO NEW TRACK “RABBIT SEASON”
NYC RECORD RELEASE SHOW SET FOR OCTOBER 30TH KNOCKDOWN CENTER
Credit: Yulissa Benitez
Machine Girl, the newly trio’d New York-based electronic hardcore project helmed by Matt Stephenson, have announced a new album Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) for October 24th via Future Classic. New single “Rabbit Season” arrives with the announcement, a brain-rattling crafted beat with neon keys and a snappy hook. A reference to Looney Tunes, Stephenson notes, “With Machine Girl’s lyrics, I’ll take some dystopian or dark subject matter and flip it into something more lighthearted. I took the concept of conspiracy rabbit holes and used it to make a bouncy dance track. It discusses the cartoonish world of conspiracies and false, subjective realities people are trapping themselves inside of.” The song follows “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data,” which has already amassed half a million streams. The record release show has been announced for their annual Halloween Weekend Show October 30th at Brooklyn’s Knockdown Center. More info can be found here.
All streaming to “Rabbit Season”
Pre-order the album HERE
Watch the video for “Come On Baby, Scrape My Data”
Their second album in two years, Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) is part of the same arc as 2024’s incredibly successful MG Ultra, an album that garnered 15+ million streams and sold 55,000 tickets on the subsequent tour. Whereas MG Ultra explored mind control, Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) delves into the collective unconscious. Stephenson explains, “I’d been reading analytical psychology and the writings of Joseph Campbell and Jung,” recalls Matt. “There’s a concept of the collective unconscious and these archetypes that we innately have. We adopt different personae in order to get through the day. In essence, you complete yourself by facing your shadow self. To do so, you must accept the less savory aspects of who you are. There’s a lot of validity to these theories. Right now, we’re a very psychologically damaged culture and society. We’re being pushed over the edge with social media and technology. Any chance of resistance against these systems starts in the mind, so this was the genesis of Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X).”
Machine Girl carved out an incomparable lane upon arrival in 2012. Stephenson’s 2014 full-length debut LP, Wlfgrl, achieved bona fide cult status, shocked to life by “Out by 16, Dead on the Scene,” “Ghost,” and “Mg1,” which have reeled in north of 43 million Spotify streams and counting. Their sound proceeded to completely reinvent itself across each LP that followed—Gemini (2015), …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For (2017), The Ugly Art (2018), U-Void Synthesizer (2020), and 2022’s two-part Original Soundtrack for the video game Neon White. Most recently, 2024’s MG Ultra incited the most enthusiastic critical applause of the band’s career so far.
Psycho Warrior (MG Ultra X) Tracklist
We Don't Give A Fuck
Come On Baby, Scrape My Data
Ignore The Vore
Rabbit Season
Creeping Up From The Pit
Psychowar
Innermission
Dual Wield
ID Crisis Angel
Down To The Essence
Despite Having No Money At All I’m Just Another
Phantom Doom
Dread Architect (Feat. Drumcorps)
I-Void Destroyer
MACHINE GIRL LIVE DATES
October 30 - Knockdown Center, NYC (Annual Halloween Show)
November 1 - Levitation Halloween Freakend
November 20 - The Fonda Theatre, LA
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Girl Tones reel against the forbidden fruit on new single "Cherry Picker"
GIRL TONES REEL AGAINST THE
FORBIDDEN FRUIT ON NEW SINGLE
“CHERRY PICKER” — STREAM / WATCH
OUT TODAY VIA PARALLEL VISION X BIG LOUD ROCK
UPCOMING FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES AT SHAKY KNEES,
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS + DATES WITH
CAGE THE ELEPHANT — SEE ALL TOUR DATES HERE
“While the White Stripes — their most obvious comparison — were about controlled
energy, Girl Tones are proudly imperfect.”
“Girls Tones—the duo of mononymous sisters Kenzie and Laila—have shown us their garage-rock mettle over the past couple years with a slew of singles that reflect the gritty revivalism of The White Stripes’ early run of records.”
“I could try and weave together a blanket of colorful words to describe Girl Tones and how talented they are but I’m just gonna say Girl Tones is f***** dope, dude.”
The rock duo with all eyes on them, Girl Tones, today releases their next single — the ripping “Cherry Picker” out now via Parallel Vision x Big Loud Rock. Being misled by forbidden fruit and fighting to see things as they truly are, the chorus anthemically insists “I bit the hand that feeds me / It tastes like hypocrite / A wolf hides in sheep’s clothing / And feels like bitter death” — Stream / Watch the visualizer.
Singer Kenzie shares that, “‘Cherry Picker’ is the distortion of reality and the uncomfortability of death. I love this song because it’s a reminder to me that anyone, including myself, is susceptible to distortion.”
Press photo by Kate LaMendola
Harnessing the undeniable momentum from a triumphant festival debut at Lollapalooza last month and the steady release of new music, Girl Tones have cemented themselves as a new act to keep an eye on. Their previous single “Got It” received nods from FLOOD, Flaunt and more while “Blame” continues to see radio success after gaining national traction and charting on Triple A and Alternative radio.
Having just wrapped up a tour run alongside Silversun Pickups, Girl Tones have no plans of staying off the road. Up next, they will join Cage The Elephant for more shows together and play at Shaky Knees, Austin City Limits, 97x’s Next Big Thing and Legends and more. See all upcoming dates here and below.
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
September 17 - Clearwater, Florida - 97x Next Big Thing and Legends @ The Baycare Sound^
September 18 - Hollywood, FL - Hard Rock Live*
September 20 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees^
October 4 - Monticello, KY - Black Mountain Jamboree^
October 6 - Houston, TX - 713 Music Hall*
October 8 - Corpus Christi, TX - American Bank Center Arena*
October 10 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits^
October 11 - Durant, OK - The Grand Theater - Choctaw Casino & Resort*
October 13 - Tulsa, OK - Tulsa Theater*
* supporting Cage The Elephant
^ festival date
All info here
