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Pharmakon shares video for "Somatic", announces U.S. & EU tour dates

PHARMAKON SHARES VIDEO FOR "SOMATIC"
WATCH IT  HERE
ANNOUNCES U.S. & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
CONTACT OUT TOMORROW, MARCH 31 ON SACRED BONES RECORDS (LP / CD / DIGITAL)                                                                                                    photo courtesy of Caroline Schub
 "The music hammers with industrial heft, vibrates with nervous pulse, and envelops with tactile atmosphere. Even when her songs achieve moments of transcendence, they still strike you directly in the gut." - Pitchfork
 On the eve of the release of  Contact , the third full length LP from Pharmakon, a boundary collapsing
new video emerges for album track "Somatic", created by Latex Lucifer and Pharmakon.

About the video Latex Lucifer comments:

"Somatic is our interpretation of the mind attempting to leave its vessel. An infusion of latex, viscous fluids and bodies shown in its raw and simple form." 

Watch it and find Pharmakon's U.S. / EU tour dates below! 
 WATCH: Pharmakon - "Somatic" (dir. Latex Lucifer & Pharmakon)YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaxmYOjNXzQ&t=3s

LISTEN: Pharmakon - Contact (full album stream)
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/03/27/pharmakon-contact-interview/
 PRE-ORDER: Pharmakon - Contact
hyperurl.co/Contact

 TOUR DATES

04/1/17 - The Hague, NL @ Rewire Festival
04/14/17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Bazaar (Record Release Show)
04/20/17 - Paris, FR @ Instantes Chavires
04/22/17 - Berlin, DE @ Ausland
04/23/17 - Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
04/25/17 - London, UK @ ELECTROWERKZ
04/26/17 - Brighton, UK @ The Haunt with Blanck Mass
04/27/17 - Nottingham, UK @ Chameleon
04/28/17 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
04/29/17 - Bristol, UK @ The Exchange
05/3/17 - Lisbon, PT  @ ZDB
05/4/17 - Madrid, ES @ La Boite
05/5/17 - Barcelona, ES @ Upload
05/6/17 - Krems, AT @ Donau Festival
5/18/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
5/19/17 - Baltimore, MD @ The Crown
5/20/17 - Durham, NC @ Moogfest
5/21/17 - Durham, NC @ Moogfest (Transfiguration screening)
5/22/17 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
5/23/17 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Shop
5/24/17 - Cincinnati, OH @ The Mockbee
5/25/17 - Chicago, IL @ The Metro
5/26/17 - Detroit, MI @ El Club/Trip Metal Fest
5/27/17 - Toronto, ON @ The Music Gallery
5/31/17 - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
6/1/17 - Buffalo, NY @ Sugar City
6/2/17 - Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
6/3/17 - Hamilton, ON @ Strangebarn
6/4/17 - Rochester, NY @ Bugjar
6/5/17 - Hudson, NY @ The Halfmoon
6/6/17 - Boston, MA @ TBD
6/7/17 - Providence, RI @ AS220

Reptilians share video for "Olive Boy" New single "Prequel" b/w "Olive" Out 3/31 via Captured Tracks

REPTALIENS RELEASING FIRST SINGLE FOR CAPTURED TRACKS
"PREQUEL" B/W "OLIVE BOY" OUT TOMORROW, MARCH 31 
VIDEO FOR "OLIVE BOY" PREMIERES ATUNDER THE RADAR

As previously announced, Portland, Oregon's dream pop purveyors Reptaliens have signed to Captured Tracks. Tomorrow, March 31, the band release their first single for the label "Prequel," b/w "Olive Boy."  Today the video for "Olive Boy" premiered at   Under The Radar who noted, "A lovely ennui flows naturally from Portland, Oregon's Reptaliens and their melancholic pop has the kiss of a quiet breeze."  The band told the magazine that the video, directed by their drummer Tyler Vergian, is "about the life and making of a serial killer. It takes you through the Olive Boy's childhood, his adult life, and into a frenzy of his uncontrollable urge to kill. It was inspired by the beautiful olive groves of SoCal. After our last tour we came home and went straight into Julian's basement to write the song instead of celebrating our return. Doug Russel plays the olive boy and was cast as soon as the video concept was created. We all laughed about how he was the first and obvious choice for the part because he looks like a serial killer, but he's actually one of the sweetest and kindest humans we know- and he conveniently had a super creepy trap door on his back deck."
Watch the video for "Olive Boy" here and streaming links for both tracks below. 

Stream Prequel via Soundcloud hereStream "Olive Boy" via Soundcloud here Stream "Prequel" b/w "Olive Boy" via Soundcloud here
Pre-order "Prequel" b/w "Olive Boy" here.
"'Prequel' is a beautifully off-kilter wisp of dream pop bliss, with fizzing melodies and Bambi Browning's gorgeously affecting vocals." Line Of The Best Fit
"An...innocence presents itself amid the lo-fi instrumentation and angelically comforting vocals from Bambi, allowing their songs to easily sway from flirty bedroom pop songs to surrealistic dream daze productions." Deli Magazine
Reptaliens is the husband and wife team of Bambi and Cole Browning. The couple met on a basketball court while filming a music video for a mutual friend's band that didn't exist. After dating for six months, the two married under a blanket of smoke from the season's forest fires. 
Named in reverence for their interests in cult mentality, transhumanism, and conspiracy theories, Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi's lulling vocals. Inspired by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick and FM-2030 and music ranging from Paul McCartney and Wings to African artists Francis Bebey and Nahawa Doumbia, the band creates lo-fi chameleonic dreamscapes that fall sonically and visiually somewhere between abstract expressionism and surrealism.
As long time, active participants in the Portland music scene, Bambi and Cole call on a number of talented musicians for Reptaliens' recordings and live performances, including Julian Kowalski (guitar), Bryson Hansen (synth), and Tyler Vergian (drums).  The band enraptures audiences with their sincere and theatrical performances.
Photo: Salina Ladha
Find Reptaliens here:Instagram -- Facebook -- Twitter

Lift to Experience Shares New Video, Wows SXSW

LIFT TO EXPERIENCE
SHARE NEW VIDEO

DEFINITIVE BOX SET OUT NOW

SXSW PERFORMANCES RECEIVE CRITICAL ACCLAIM
Photo by Breanne TrammellPRAISE FOR LIFT TO EXPERIENCE AT SXSW
“Lift to Experience was an ocean of sound: monumental guitar drones, leviathan bass riffs, drums creating titanic surges.  The lyrics sketched storms and revelations…” – Jon Pareles, New York Times

“Lift to Experience still deliver a heaven that deserves more time on earth.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone
Fresh off the heels of their critically acclaimed live performances at SXSW, Lift to Experience are pleased to share their definitive box set reissue of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads is out now, re-mixed and re-mastered as God intended.

With rejuvenated artwork, an homage to the Texas-based graphics design studio Pen & Pixel,  The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads  is available on double red and blue colored vinyl, 2CD crucifix packaging, as well as a deluxe 4-piece vinyl box set with foil blocking, limited to 1000 copies.

The box set includes the original and new mix of the album, the first EP (available for the first time on vinyl), the legendary 2001 Peel session (previously unreleased) as well as a large format photo and lyric book and a digital copy of all the audio.

Watch a short film that shows Lift to Experience’s history as well an inside look into the reformation of this cult status band  HERE .

The band will perform at the legendary Green Man Festival this August 17-20 in Wales.  Click  HERE  for more information.

Lift To Experience formed in Denton, Texas, at the end of the last millennium by Josh T. Pearson, Andy Reginald Young and Josh 'Bear' Browning. Their rise was fast and their reign was short. Following the release of their long-form masterpiece, the band imploded at the peak of their career due to a series of cruel tragedies. In this short time, however, Lift To Experience achieved high critical acclaim and were so beloved by John Peel that he invited them to record three Peel sessions in just five months, and the band were included in the Best 125 Peel Sessions of all time. The full-tracklisting:

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads Double LP
LP1 - Texas
1. Just As Was Told
2. Down Came The Angels
3. Falling From Cloud 9
4. With Crippled Wings
5. Waiting To Hit
6. The Ground So Soft

LP2 - Jerusalem
1. These Are The Days
2. When We Shall Touch
3. Down With The Prophets
4. To Guard And To Guide You
5. Into The Storm

VINYL BOX SET EXTRAS:

- Peel Session:
Side A
1. Falling From Cloud 9
2. The Ground So Soft

Side B:
1. Just As Was Told (7.52)
2. With The World Behind (3.57)

- EP:
Side A:
1. Falling From Cloud 9
2. With The World Behind

Side B:
3. Arise and Shine
4. Liftin On Up Listen to  The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads here

ORDER LINKS
Digital  |  Physical

LIFT TO EXPERIENCE:  FACEBOOK  |  INSTAGRAM  |  TWITTER

Norwegian Indie-Folk Songbird Siv Jakobsen Shares Single ft. Andrew Davie of Bear’s Den

Norwegian Indie-Folk Songbird Siv Jakobsen 
Shares “ Like I Used To ” Single 
ft. Andrew Davie of Bear’s Den Today

New Album Coming In 2017, Details Coming Soon
 

photo credit: Jørgen Nordby
 
"...ruthlessly emotive to the point it should come with a warning label"  – The Line of Best Fit

“The songwriter strips down barriers… a rare sense of intimacy”  – CLASH

“Hypnotizing”  – Earmilk  
 
The new single from Siv Jakobsen, ”Like I Used To”, is the first offering from the new full-length debut LP, slated for release later this year. Both the single and album were recorded over the summer at London’s Urchin Studios, under the masterful hand of producer Matt Ingram (Laura Marling, The Staves) and engineer Dan Cox (Thurston Moore, Lianne La Havas). With a warmth disparate to the sub-zero climate from which she hails, “Like I Used To” embraces the pending Spring bloom. Featuring Andrew Davie of Bear’s Den, the strikingly intimate single is a testament to Siv’s bold lyricism and stunning vocal-ability, transporting the listener into her world from the very first note.

“Like I Used To” is available  HERE .

Jakobsen was raised in Asker, just outside of Oslo and went on to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. An international commodity, her 2015 debut The Lingering EP, was earned accolades from BBC Radio 6 Music, The Line of Best Fit, Clash & Paste Magazine and has been streamed over seven million times on Spotify alone. Siv has performed at prestigious festivals such as The Great Escape (UK) & Eurosonic (NL), and has announced a UK Spring tour including an appearance at Live At Leeds on April 29.Stay tuned for opportunities to experience Siv Jakobsen live in the US.

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UK/EU 2017 Tour
31 Mar, Tallinn Music Week, Tallinn
22 Apr, Ancienne Belgique Huis 23, Brussels
24 Apr, Tuinzaal Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam
26 Apr, The Garage Attic Bar, Glasgow
29 Apr, Live at Leeds, Leeds
1 May, Gulliver’s, Manchester
3 May, St. Pancras Old Church, London
4-7 May, SPOT Festival, Aarhus

String Cheese Incident's SPRING CHEESE 2017 Tour | Kyle's Brew Fest | BELIEVE out April 14 via SCI Fidelity

STRING CHEESE INCIDENT
SPRING CHEESE 2017 TOUR STARTS NEXT WEEK

JERRY HARRISON (TALKING HEADS) PRODUCED ALBUM BELIEVE OUT APRIL 14
VIA SCI FIDELITY RECORDS
LAST CHANCE FOR EXCLUSIVE PLEDGEMUSIC CAMPAIGN ITEMS

New York, NY (March 30, 2017) – The String Cheese Incident will release  Believe , their seventh studio album, on April 14 via SCI Fidelity Recordings. The album is the first to come out of the band's recently-opened Sound Lab Studio and was produced by Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison.
SCI has teamed up with PledgeMusic to offer fans access to exclusive bonus content, limited edition items and VIP experiences available only to “pledgers” who pre-order the record. A single $10 pre-order gets you an instant download of six tracks off the album, an unreleased, non-circulated soundboard from 10/30/99 in Hamilton, NY, the Sedona Sessions demo tapes, an acoustic VIP set from NYE 2016 and an opportunity to win two tickets and a chance to meet the band!  That's over five hours of music with the Pledge pre-order as well as a slew of video updates from the band. Pre-order Believe at PledgeMusic HERE.

“My One And Only”, penned by keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth, is slated to hit radio on April 3rd. The lead track from the album is a long-distance letter to a loved one and features Bonnie Paine of Elephant Revival on vocals. Both "My One And Only" and sing-along single, "Sweet Spot" are available for sharing below.
Hear / Share
“My One And Only” @ Soundcloud
"Sweet Spot" @ Soundcloud
In addition to the enthusiasm that the members of SCI share surrounding the recording process and hitting the road, there is also a strong collective desire to explore other forms of artistic, intellectual and creative expression, which finds the guys constantly engaged in a variety of outside but closely tied projects.
In addition to releasing studio albums via their own label, SCI Fidelity, SCI also curates and produces annual festivals like Electric Forest (featuring My Morning Jacket, Thievery Corporation, Odesza, Bassnectar and more) in the Summer and Hulaween in the Fall, interspersed by assorted Incident  collaborations with the likes of Lauryn Hill, the Doobie Brothers, Big Gigantic and the Zac Brown Band.

Hollingsworth is a longtime homebrewer and loves to blend his passions of brewing and music. Over the past decade, Kyle has brewed with more than 25 breweries across the country, releasing three nationally distributedcollaborative beers and hosting 15 of his own beer festivals. Last year, he hosted the first-ever major craft beer cruise from Miami to the Caribbean and every year Kyle looks forward to joining an all-star panel of brewers and musicians at Great American Beer Festival in Denver, one of the most prominent beer events in the U.S. 
We are excited to announce that the 8th annual Kyle’s Brew Fest will live as the pre-compression party for the band’s Red Rocks dates this Summer, benefiting SCI's longtime charitable partner Conscious Alliance, and taking place on July 20th in Denver, CO. 

The April Spring Cheese 2017 shows start next week with festivals running through the summer along with a three night stand at Red Rocks.  A full list of tour dates can be found below.

SCI Tour Dates
Apr 05 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
Apr 06 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre
Apr 07 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theatre **Sold Out**
Apr 08 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theatre **Sold Out**
Apr 13 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s
Apr 14 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s **GA Tix Sold Out**
Apr 15 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s **GA Tix Sold Out**
Jun 16 - 18 – Hunter, NY – Mountain Jam
Jun 22 - 25 – Rothbury, MI – Electric Forest Festival
Jun 29 - Jul 02 – Rothbury, MI – Electric Forest Festival
Jul 07 – Atlanta, GA – Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Jul 08 – Atlanta, GA – Chastain Park Amphitheatre
Jul 21 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks
Jul 22 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks
Jul 23 – Morrison, CO – Red RocksAug 04 - 06 – Princeton, BC – Element Music Fest
Aug 10 - 13 – Darrington, WA – Summer Meltdown
Aug 17 - 23 – Crook County, OR – Oregon Eclipse
Aug 24 - 27 – Arrington, VA – Lockn’ Festival

INVSN Unleashes Video for "Immer Zu" via Stereogum

INVSN
 
“IMMER ZU” 

WATCH NOW via STEREOGUM
 
THE BEAUTIFUL STORIES  OUT JUNE 9 VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS
 
“…a rhythmically charged rock track with verses that swagger and sway and a chorus that tips over into punk-rock intensity.” 
--  Stereogum
 


“There’s darkness in INVSN that is seemingly spawned by the barren Scandinavian landscapes of their rural base.”
– Clash Music
“… the bursts of noise and bits of electronica provided by the band give INVSN a punchy edge that keeps us from becoming too comfortable.”
– Pop Matters
“…a mean & thunderous storm of sound that keeps things neat while making no apologies & pulling no punches.”
-- Impose
“INVSN once again shows why they’re the vanguard of Swedish post-punk. It pulses of repressed anger and frustration and is a targeted punch in the face of our mendacious society.”
– Woah Dad!
 
WATCH "IMMER ZU" HERE
 
INVSN releases the video for “Immer Zu,” a track featuring Sara Almgren and Christina Karlsson on lead vocals and acting as a sonic totem for the band’s forthcoming LP,  The Beautiful Stories .
 
The video, shot in black and white film, is the perfect accompaniment to the song’s angsty theme and pounding rhythm. Frontman Dennis Lyxzén is no stranger to incorporating political themes like feminism into his work, from his days fronting Refused to (international) Noise Conspiracy to INVSN.
 
 Lyxzén has frequently been quoted speaking out about feminism. “We try to do whatever we can and we try to talk about it every night and make people aware of the problem with the patriarchal system,” he stated. "Music for us has always been rooted in the idea of resistance. [It] always worked as a soundtrack to a different kind of life,” Lyxzén spoke of the band.
 
Explains frontwoman Sara Almgren, "Since we had written a song about what power and especially patriarchal power means to women, we wanted the video to represent that idea. We asked two friends who never done videos before to come up with an idea and a representation of strong women. We wanted the whole process, from idea to finished video, to be an empowering process with only women involved! The guys had to stay at home, and we made a video with women, for women, by women, about what it means to be a woman in this world."
 
“Immer Zu” serves as the opening track for the band’s sophomore album  The Beautiful Stories,  set to be released June 9th via Dine Alone Records.
 
WATCH "IMMER ZU" HERE
 
About INVSN:
Few other bands than INVSN have better conducted the heritage of the now legendary 90’s hardcore scene in Umeå.
 
Its members have come together from a wide variety of influential Swedish bands. Sara Almgren hails from Masshysteri, Christina Karlsson from Tiger Forest Cat, Anders Stenberg alongside playing with Lykke Li is also a member of Deportees, André Sandström was in DS-13 and Dennis Lyzxén started out in the seminal punk outfit Refused before playing in The (International) Noise Conspiracy with longtime collaborator Almgren.
 
INVSN has always had a political message, but few other songwriters have the ability to add additional dimensions of existential struggle and soul-searching like Dennis Lyxzén. In our time, when many moral and deeply humanistic values are being challenged by right-wing movements all over the world, INVSN is a necessary outcry from a counter-culture that has far from given up. Their music might be rich in anger, but the belief that a change could be carried out is never far away. Recorded by Adam "Atom" Greenspan (Nick Cave, The Veils) at Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, the album, which buzzes with eclecticism, wherein catchy indie rock with pop sensibilities exists alongside industrial electronics. This is post-punk underpinned by repressed anger and frustration serving as a punch in the face of a mendacious society.
 

 
Of The Beautiful Stories, Dennis Lyxzén says,
 
 "Music is in many ways a young person's game. That first debut-record. The youthful exuberance and violence. But there are other things that might matter as much. Experience and hard work. Putting in the miles.
The collective effort of this band is beyond anything I've witnessed before. 
 
I can't even begin to fathom the hours we spent record music, playing live and just living this life. Somehow it feels like it lead to this; this glorious piece of music that I have to say is one of the most exciting and experimental and genuine works of art I ever been a part of. 
 
The process of writing and creating is often harder than we would like to admit and it doesn't really get easier with age. But when the end result comes out as thrilling as this all those hours spent rehearsing and playing, all those hours on the road and all those records that came before, are totally worth it!"
 
Preorder the Album Here
 
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Wilco Announces New Tour Dates, Solid Sound lineup

 NEW WILCO SUMMER TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

SOLID SOUND FESTIVAL LINEUPS FOR MUSIC, COMEDY REVEALED photo by Zoran OrlicEasthampton, MA – March 30, 2017 – Wilco has announced an early summer tour in the lead up to the band’s own Solid Sound Festival, which takes place at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA on June 23-25. Newly announced dates include concerts in Rochester Hills, MI, Pittsburgh, Louisville, KY, Indianapolis, Rockford, IL and Milwaukee. The band also headlines Eaux Claires on June 17. Tickets for upcoming shows are on sale Friday via wilcoworld.net. Three-day passes for Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival are also available now via solidsoundfestival.com.
Created by Wilco in 2010, Solid Sound features three days of music, comedy, art and family programming and takes place at MASS MoCA - the largest contemporary art museum in America - located in the scenic Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Wilco headlines two nights and are joined by Television, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Robert Glasper Experiment, Dawn of Midi, Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin with the Guilty Ones, Kevin Morby, Joan Shelley, Big Thief, Peter Wolf & the Midnight Travelers, Deep Sea Diver, Andy Shauf, Alloy Orchestra, Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids, Kacy & Clayton, Daniel Bachman, Nancy and Beth, Jeff Parker Trio, The Shaggs, and Max Hatt & Edda Glass. Wilco member’s side projects including Tweedy, The Autumn Defense, On Fillmore, The Nels Cline Four and Quindar will also perform.

Solid Sound’s always-popular comedy stage features three distinct sets on Saturday, June 24 from MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center. Hosted by John Hodgman in production with Pretty Good Friends, performers include Michael Ian Black, Eugene Mirman, Aparna Nancherla and Nick Offerman plus Jean Grae's The Show Show with DJ Quelle Chris.
For more information on Wilco:
visit wilcoworld.net, facebook.com/wilcohq or follow on Twitter @Wilco.


For more information on Solid Sound: 
visit solidsoundfestival.com, facebook.com/solidsoundfestival, follow the festival on Twitter @solidsoundfestival, Instagram @solidsoundfestWilco Tour DatesJune 7Meadow Brook AmphitheatreRochester Hills, MIJune 8Stage AEPittsburgh, PAJune 11Iroquois AmphitheaterLouisville, KYJune 13White River State ParkIndianapolis, INJune 14Coronado Performing Arts CenterRockford, ILJune 16-17Eaux Claires Eau Claire, WIJune 18 Riverside TheaterMilwaukee, WIJune 23-25Solid Sound Festival North Adams, MA   

alt-J releases "In Cold Blood" from their upcoming record RELAXER

 ALT-J RELEASES NEW SINGLE "IN COLD BLOOD" RELAXER OUT JUNE 2 VIA CANVASBACK MUSIC  alt-J have announced that "In Cold Blood" the first single from their upcoming album RELAXER , is now available for stream, download and as an instant grat with album pre-order now. The band have set June 2 as the release date for their third album, which will be available in North America via Canvasback Music. The song "3WW" was made available earlier in the month and Rolling Stone wrote that the song "showcases how much Alt-J has matured musically since their debut five years ago and their ability to go platinum despite their non-traditional song structure." RELAXER is the follow up to the band's Grammy nominated album This Is All Yours, and finds the band working with producer Charlie Andrew for the third time. The band had previously announced some dates of a North American tour this summer and are happy to add that they will be playing Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 5.  RELAXER  tracklisting1. 3WW2. In Cold Blood3. House of the Rising Sun4. Hit Me Like That Snare5. Deadcrush6. Adeline7. Last Year8. Pleader Listen to 'In Cold Blood': https://alt-j.lnk.to/RelaxerPR
Watch the 'In Cold Blood' visualizer:
https://alt-j.lnk.to/ICBatPre-order  RELAXER :  https://alt-j.lnk.to/RelaxerPR
alt-J are Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Green.  Their first album An Awesome Wave won the prestigious Mercury Prize in the UK and sold Gold in the US and Canada. The band have headlined festivals across the globe and sold out London's O2 arena and New York's Madison Square Garden on their last tour. alt-J live 2017July 27, 2017 - Merriweather Post Pavillion - Columbia, MDJuly 28, 2017 - Blue Hill bank Pavillion - Boston, MAJuly 29, 2017 - Panorama Music & Arts Festival - New York, NYJuly 30, 2017 - MoPOP Music Festival - Detroit, MIAugust 1, 2017 - Jacobs Pavillion - Cleveland, OHAugust 3, 2017 - Starlight Theater - Kansas City, MOAugust 4, 2017 - Hinterland Music Festival - St. Charles, IAAugust 5, 2017 Lollapalooza - Chicago, ILAugust 7, 2017 - Red Rocks Amphitheater - Morrison, COAugust 9, 2017 - Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles, CA See www.altjband.com for details.

British Sea Power's "Let The Dancers Inherit The Party" LP Out Friday, Preview "Electrical Kittens", New Videos, + More!

British Sea Power
Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
LP Out Digitally March 31st / CD + Vinyl Out April 28th 
On Golden Chariot (via Caroline International) Stream / Share: 
"Bad Bohemian" - Video
“Keep On Trying” (Sechs Freunde) - Video
"Electrical Kittens" - Audio Clip “Defiantly positive” –  Q – ★★★★
“Here be poetry...Their best album for years”  – Mojo – ★★★★
“Fittingly surreal – a breakneck montage of Dada-esque fever dream imagery” – NME
"Another terrific British band is returning " – WNYC 
“A smooth and swaggering album” – Artist Direct
“A triumphant return" – Spectral Nights 
"A cosmic run through space” – DIY All 3 Above Tracks Avail As Immediate Downloads w/  Album Pre-Order

British Sea Power’s first new material since 2013’s Machineries of Joy,  Let The Dancers Inherit The Party  is a melodic call to arms, direct and brimming with emotional urgency. It’s an album where rock muscularity joins inseparably with pop immediacy like a crate of bubbly exploding inside a Marshall stack.

Featuring lead singles singles Bad Bohemian & Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde) , this new 12-track collection sees British Sea Power return to the exhilarating, bright-minded guitar music that earned them their breakout nomination for the 2003 Mercury Music Prize as they cover subject matter ranging from the stars in the night sky to the methodology of media manipulation.

The album art, videos, and single art feature typography and imagery influenced by the German Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters, whose work BSP’s two vocalists, Yan and Hamilton Wilkinson, discovered while growing up on the edge of the English Lake District.

Recorded in Sussex, London and on the Isle of Skye,  Let The Dancers Inherit The Party  follows the band’s five studio albums for the great Rough Trade Records – a catalogue of releases that saw BSP become the longest continually-signed band in the label’s history. Rough Trade remain a vital part of the BSP story and will continue to do so, but the new album is being licensed from the band’s own Golden Chariot label to Caroline International.The entire recording of the album was funded by the band’s remarkably dedicated audience


 (credit Mayumi Hirata)

British Sea Power is based in Brighton, UK; the band members live in Sussex, Kendal and on the Isle Of Skye. The band is Yan Wilkinson (vocals / guitars), Neil Hamilton Wilkinson (vocals / guitars), Martin Noble (guitars), Matthew Wood (drums), Abi Fry (viola), Phil Sumner (keyboards / cornet).
 

NINET Premieres Music Video for "Elinor" on Paper Magazine; Debut USA Album Out Now

NINET PREMIERES MUSIC VIDEO FOR “ELINOR” ON PAPER MAGAZINE

CLICK HERE TO WATCH

Debut USA Album, Paper Parachute is Out Now
iTunes  |  Amazon (Photo Credit: Ido Iszak)
 
“Ninet Tayeb is an Israeli singer whose rock star vibes come through both in the studio and her stage show. She has a real stadium presence.” – NPR

“Ninet Tayeb Evolves From 'Israeli Idol' Into L.A. Rock Goddess” –Billboard

“Watch Ninet prove you can be whoever you want…” – Paper Magazine 

"...for every head bopper [on Paper Parachute], there is a slower track that puts Ninet’s breathy old-school vocals at the forefront. The combination strikes a great balance which will leave you hooked all the way through the album." – NYLON

"She comes brandishing a singular blend of blues twang and Middle Eastern instrumentation, Lana Del Rey melancholy and the fiery fierceness of Alison Mosshart. Throw in a few not insignificant doses of sensuality and soulfulness, and it’s not hard to imagine American audiences falling for her.”  – BlackBook

"Since her arrival, Tayeb has been devouring the expansiveness of Los Angeles’ bustling music scene with delirious hunger... As a fan of the grunge and rock scenes, it’s clear that Tayeb has a tendency towards wildly impassioned performances... Sweaty, hot, burning with fiery deliverance, Tayeb isn’t just catharsis and release, she’s the aftermath as well, electrifying in the afterglow of the agony and the ecstasy." – Grimy Goods
March 29, 2017 – Rock singer/songwriter Ninet is thrilled to share her new music video for the song “Elinor.”  CLICK HERE  to watch exclusively on  Paper Magazine .  “Elinor” is off her debut USA album,  Paper Parachute  (out now).

Ninet says, "In life, we always have a choice. We choose our own way, we choose the path we're walking on every single day....This video reflects the many possibilities we have. It's kinda like taking a walk in my mind and in yours and wondering about what and where would I be 'if...”

In support of her new album, Ninet just wrapped up some shows at SXSW and will be heading to New York to do an acoustic show at Rockwood Music Hall on May 11th. You can purchase tickets  HERE .  More tour dates to be announced soon.

Ninet Tayeb is more than a household name — the acclaimed singer/songwriter/actress is arguably the biggest entertainment figure in her home country of Israel.  But the road here — to her fifth album, which is the first to be released in the U.S. — has been anything but comfortable and straightforward. Even a cursory listen to these new songs reveals an artist with deep resilience, fierce determination, and disarming vulnerability. Along with an unflinching vision of her own path, those are traits that have allowed Ninet to emerge as the wild and free voice you hear on this record.

Already recognized as one of the most influential musicians in Israel, Ninet was determined to bring her distinctive sound overseas, fusing elements from her wide array of influences which include PJ Harvey, Bjork, and Jeff Buckley.
Heralded by NPR, Paste Magazine, Rolling Stone, and many more for her solo performances as well as her involvement with Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson, Ninet is no stranger to the States and has made L.A. her home base and just released  Paper Parachute . The full-length (which includes singles  “Subservient ”,  “Superstar” , and “Child” ) is available now.

NINET Tour Dates 
May 11 – New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
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