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Mike Patton Joins Dead Cross (Dave Lombardo/Justin Pearson/Michael Crain)

MIKE PATTON JOINS DEAD CROSS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BAND FEATURES DAVE LOMBARDO, JUSTIN PEARSON AND MICHAEL CRAINDec. 12, 2016, LOS ANGELES – Dead Cross, the Southern California outfit featuring Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Misfits), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox, Head Wound City) and Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer), have added Mike Patton as the band's singer.

Dead Cross is currently working on their debut album with a 2017 release coming via Ipecac Recordings.
Lombardo is the guest drummer on Late Night with Seth Meyers this week (Dec. 12 to 15).


Dead Cross on FacebookPhoto credit: Michał Bukolt Fotografia

THE GROWLERS Spring 2017 Tour On Sale Now / The Wiltern Dec 21 / Holiday Sale

The Growlers have announced a run of City Club Spring 2017 tour dates. These dates include festival performances at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound (June 2), Florida’s Okeechobee Music & Arts (March 5) and Boise’s Treefort Music (March 24), plus the band’s first Austin, Texas, headline show in nearly three years (Feb 25), their debut at Minneapolis’ legendary First Avenue (March 9), a return to Chicago’s Metro (March 10) and a two night stand at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (May 5 + 6). The tour kicks off in Santa Cruz (Feb 17) with a run of California shows that includes Sacramento (Feb 18) and San Luis Obispo (Feb 19).

Following their sold out Electric Brixton London performance earlier this year, The Growlers return to the UK to play Glasgow (May 30), Leeds (May 31) and an encore performance at London's Coronet Theatre (May 25). The current list of tour dates is below with more dates to be announced soon.

 Order the new studio album, City Club, at TheGrowlers.com or download the album at iTunes or stream at Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud and TheGrowlers.com.

The Growlers Spring 2017 Tour is on sale now at TheGrowlers.com.

The Growlers Spring Tour 2017
2/17 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA
2/18 Ace Of Spades, Sacramento, CA
2/19 Fremont Theater, San Luis Obispo, CA
2/21 Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ
2/22 Lowbrow Palace, El Paso, TX
2/23 Trees, Dallas, TX
2/24 Paper Tiger, San Antonio, TX
2/25 Emos, Austin, TX
2/26 White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX
2/28 Saturn, Birmingham, AL
3/1 The Mill & Mine, Knoxville, TN
3/2 Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
3/3 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
3/4 Backyard at St. Augustine Amphitheater, St. Aug, FL
3/5 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, Okeechobee, FL
3/7 Hi Fi, Indianapolis, IN
3/8 Majestic Theatre, Madison, WI
3/9 First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
3/10 Metro, Chicago, IL
3/14 House Of Blues, Anaheim, CA
3/22 The Hi-Fi, Eugene, OR
3/23 Roseland Theater, Portland, OR
3/24 Treefort Music Festival, Boise, ID
3/25 Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA
5/5 Vinyl at The Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
5/6 Vinyl at The Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
5/25 The Coronet Theatre, London, UK
5/30 St. Luke’s, Glasgow, UK
5/31 Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
6/2 Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain Only A Few Tickets Remain....
KROQ Presents
The Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, California
December 21, 2016
The Growlers return to Los Angeles for the first time in nearly two years. The historic Wiltern Theatre will host three holiday shows on December 21, 22 and 23. TheDecember 22 and 23 shows are sold out. There are only a few tickets that remain for the December 21 show Presented by KROQ 106.7FM. Purchase tickets now atTheGrowlers.com.

Alessi Returns - New Video

ALESSINEW VIDEO - WIVES - ONLINE NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCq6ZftQ228&app=desktop  Alessi 'Wives'www.youtube.comDirected by Luke Barham Superfan99records.com
Single release 13th January 2017, on  Super Fan 99  http://superfan99.bigcartel.com/product/alessi-wives-8-lathe-cut-vinyl
Three years on from her final album as Alessi’s Ark, Alessi Laurent-Marke prepares for the release of her new album with the single Wives. Wistful with trademark melodies and hooks, Wives is a winsome assertion of female independence. 
"Wives is a meditation on womanhood and the powerful roles, responsibilities and loving duties all women strive to fulfil in their lifetimes. Inspired by women in my own family, in my close circle of friends and in widely woven feminine collective.”  says Alessi. 
Contrary to what the song title may suggest, Wives is a call to self-reliance and respect, rather than the pursuit of validation through others. “The idea of being someone's wife inspires me to no end. Recently I've come to believe that to be married to oneself, to be committed to nurturing our own spirits, will give us the best chance at growing truly loving relationships with our partners. Who are we if we're aren't present and loving to our own divine thread in this web?”
Wives is the first single from new album released in the new year. Her folk pop has evolved over the years from it’s humble bedroom beginnings and these days has more in common with Cocteau Twins or Charlotte Gainsbourg than the somewhat lazy Joanna Newsom comparisons of old.

Alessi explains this coming of age process, “After a year of touring in support of 'The Still Life', I parted ways with Bella Union and worked in different environments; markets, shops, child minding, making art, healing courses whilst writing new music.”
From uploading home recordings to Myspace to working with Bright Eyes in Nebraska and touring the US with Jenny Lewis and M.Ward it’s been a long and winding road for Alessi which has no doubt shaped her songs. Wives sounds like a very British tale being told in a California desert setting. It’s a beautifully produced and expertly executed taster from the new record which will no doubt excite fans both old and new.
The single release features another new album track 'DLD’ and will be released on download and an extremely limited 8" lathe cut vinyl, manufactured for Super Fan 99 in Tuscon Arizona. 


“The understated arrangements suggest you’re listening to a woman with impeccable taste” -MOJO“Singing like a cross between Hope Sandoval and Bjork, Laurent-Marke has made a record of deceptive simplicity” - BBC“It takes several plays to appreciate all the small touches that make each delicate piece” -THE GUARDIAN“The old school songwriting and airy, summery production will leave you utterly spellbound” -CLASH

Leopold and His Fiction Release New Single Waves (Golden) Today + Leonard Cohen Cover

Leopold and His Fiction Release New Single “ Waves (Golden) ” Today



U.S. Tour Dates Announced
 
Watch + Share Cover of Leonard Cohen’s
“Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye”

New Album Darling Destroyer Coming January 27, 2017

 
The Austin-based Leopold and His Fiction have released their latest single “Waves (Golden)” via Allmusic. Allmusic praises its "hard-edged, stomping psychedelic garage sound, with some Motown energy mixed in for good measure." The song appears on their new album  Darling Destroyer  coming out January 27, 2017. Preorder Darling Destroyer and receive “Waves (Golden)” here.
 
Daniel Leopold speaks of the inspiration behind “Waves (Golden)”: "Don't sell yourself short. You're more valuable than you recognize just yet. A nod to the weight it takes to believe in yourself." Watch Daniel talk more about the making of “Waves (Golden)” here.
 
Leopold and His Fiction have also released their cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye,” done in tribute after his recent passing. Watch the video and read Daniel’s thoughts on the song here.
 
Throughout  Darling Destroyer , Leopold and His Fiction reveal their gritty ingenuity by merging delicately crafted lyrics with blistering guitar work. Co-produced by Daniel,Vance Powell and Chris “Frenchie” Smith (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Ringo Deathstarr, Jet), Darling Destroyer proves Daniel’s easy prowess as a frontman, his vocals endlessly shifting from brutal wail to tender serenade.
 
Leopold and His Fiction will support the release of Darling Destroyer with a U.S. tour this winter. See below for announced dates with more to come.



Preorder Darling Destroyer Here
 
Tour Dates
12/31 - Austin, TX - Paramount Theatre w/ Bob Schneider
1/7 - Austin, TX - Spiderhouse Ballroom
1/19 - Dallas, TX - Sundown at Granada Theatre
1/20 - Waco, TX - Truelove
1/21 - San Antonio, TX - Limelight
1/25 - Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ
1/26 - Corpus Christi, TX - House of Rock
1/27 - San Angelo, TX - Deadhorse
1/28 - El Paso, TX - Low Brow Palace
1/29 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge
1/30 - Las Vegas, NV - Bunkhouse
1/31 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
2/1 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent 
2/3 - Portland, OR - Analog Lounge
2/4 - Seattle, WA - The Central Saloon
2/7 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge
2/9 - Denver, CO - Cervantes' Other Side
2/10 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck
2/11 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
2/12 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Hall
2/14 - Maquoketa, IA - Codfish Hollow Barnstormers (Indoors)
2/15 - St. Louis, MO - TBD
2/16 - Milwaukee, WI - Shank Hall
2/17 - Madison, WI - Mickey's Tavern
2/18 - Chicago, IL - Dunn Dunn Festival @ Beat Kitchen Supporting Steepwater
2/19 - Ferndale, MI - Loving Touch
2/21 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
2/22 - Philadelphia, PA - Milkboy
2/23 - New York, NY - Bowery Electric
2/24 - Boston, MA - PA's Lounge
2/25 - Asbury Park, NJ - Wonder Bar
2/26 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
3/2 - Charlotte, NC - Petra's
3/4 - Nashville, TN - The End
3/5 - Atlanta, GA -  Vinyl
3/7 - New Orleans, LA - Siberian
3/9 - Little Rock, AR - Stickeyz Rock n Roll Chicken Shack
3/10 - Memphis, TN - Young Ave Deli
3/14 - 3/19 - Austin, TX - SXSW
 

The Regrettes announce debut album "Feel Your Feelings, Fool" + Holiday song!

  The Regrettes release cover of "Marshmallow World"+ announce debut record "Feel Your Feelings Fool!"  available 1/13 via Warner Bros. Records ​​​​​​​ +  upcoming tour dates with Cherry Glazer +  hype from Vogue, Noisey, Consequence of Sound + more        interested in hearing the new record? get in touch      Perfectly imperfect - that’s one way to describe LA based punk act, The Regrettes. Writing songs that proudly bear a brazen and unabashed attitude in the vein of acts Courtney Barnett or Karen O - with a pop aesthetic reminiscent of 50’s and 60’s acts a la the Temptations or Buddy Holly - the LA based four piece create infectious, punk driven tracks.
Today, the band announce their debut record, "Feel Your Feelings Fool!", available January 13, 2017 via Warner Bros. Records. Alongside the announcement, the band share a special cover of classic, "Marshmallow World," just in time for the holidays and will be available on 7 inch vinyl as part of Record Store Day.
Lead by outspoken front woman, Lydia Night, and comprised of Genessa Gariano on guitar, Sage Chavis on bass and drummer Maxx Morando, the group have left the rock scene floored, managing to capture the hearts of jaded rock critics while opening for acts like Sleigh Bells, Kate Nash, Jack Off Jill, Bleached, Pins and more. With a handful of singles released, the group have already caught the attention from outlets like NPR, Brooklyn Vegan, The Observer, Vogue, Noisey and more, with NYLON heralding them as a “punk act you should be listening to”.
From the opening moments on a track by The Regrettes, we’re greeted with a wall of guitars, infectious melodies and a wistful nostalgia that continues right until the final notes. Taking cues from acts like Hinds and Hole, there’s a wistful sense of youth and vulnerability that lies at the heart of each song.
A song by The Regrettes is, essentially, a diary entry into 16 year old Lydia’s life. “My music is a spectrum of every emotion that I have felt in the last year, and you can hear that when you hear the songs. Everything that is happening in my life influences me. It’s everything from boys, to friends, to being pissed off at people, to being really sad. Just everything.”
The most intoxicating draw of The Regrettes is their bashful, heart-on-your-sleeve temperament - writing urgent and fast-paced pop songs with a punk rock mentality. “The way that we write, it’s all based on honesty,” muses Lydia on the group’s punk aesthetic. “If I finish a song, I’ll just leave it - I won’t really go back to it. I like things to feel in the moment and I don’t want it to be perfect. If I work on something too much I lose it and get bored and I want to do the next one..”     + Hype for The Regrettes + 
“Their music sounds like a lively blend of lo-fi surf rock meets The Strokes with a strong female lead—a combination sought by many but well executed by few.”Vogue
“9 New Punk Bands You Should Listen To”Nylon
“Based in Los Angeles, Night’s tongue-in-cheek garage-pop uses humor and nuance to transform ’60s pop into soul-baring, therapeutic rock songs.”Rookie Mag
“the track’s real barbs can be found in its lyrics and Night’s confrontational, DGAF delivery, as she takes on all detractors and critics who’ve dismissed her over the years simply because of her age and womanhood”Consequence of Sound
“LA quartet the Regrettes make an infectious brand of punk with ’50s and ’60s pop leanings, and they beam with a youthful exuberance and raw vulnerability that result in deceptively provocative songs. Stereogum
“While The Regrettes are still fairly new, it’s clear that Night and her crew are a swiftly developing force to be reckoned with."Noisey
“The Regrettes kick serious ass in every single respect.”Clash    "Feel Your Feelings Fool" album art    Upcoming Tour Dates:Dec 28th – Santa Barbara CA - Velvet Jones - w/ Cherry GlazerrDec 29th – Pomona CA - The Glass House - w/ Cherry GlazerrJan 13th – Los Angeles CA - Album Release Show @ The EchoFeb 18th – San Diego CA - You Are Going 2 Hate This Fest (w/ The Frights) - SOMAFeb 25th – San Francisco CA - Noise Pop Festival - w/ The Chapel The Frights + The Garden  

Brodka Shares New Music Videos On RBMA || 'Clashes' LP Out Now On Play It Again Sam

Brodka Debuts New Music Videos On RBMA Playing SXSW 2017 Clashes  LP Out Now On Play It Again SamPhoto Credit: Zuza Krajewska for Harper’s Bazaar
“Orchestral chamber pop with a distinctly dark, cosmic edge.” – FADER “ Otherworldy folk,” – Cool Hunting“A beguiling, witchy Cowboy ballad with galloping drums, '70s pop hallmarks, and a sense of feral danger.” – Line Of Best Fit “ Artful, intelligent and wildly ambitious,” – CLASH
Following the recent release of her standout debut English LP  Clashes  (through Play It Again Sam) and the sharing of the striking video for “Up In The Hill”, Polish pop singer Brodka is pleased to share four stunning new videos for tracks “My Name Is Youth”, “Haiti”, “Holy Holes” and “Funeral”. The videos were made in collaboration with a roster of different directors and in conjunction with Red Bull Music Academy’s “20 Before 17” initiative. They can be viewed  here.   Brodka was also recently announced as being part of the official 2017 SXSW Music Festival Lineup.
Watch the video for “My Name Is Youth”Directed by: Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan SmagaWatch the video for “Haiti”Directed by: BownikWatch the video for “Holy Holes”Directed by: Janek SimonWatch the video for “Funeral”Directed by: Kevin Bray
Having already released three acclaimed albums in her native Poland, including 2010’s double-platinum Granda, Clashes marks her first release in English, and-furthermore-her most diverse and ambitious album to date. Clashes dazzles with Brodka’s singular blend of orchestral pop and cosmic poetry that’s undercut with hint of brooding darkness. Even in a language that’s not her first, she asserts her informed approach to songwriting in a way that’s emotionally engaging. Dramatic without being overwrought, Clashes is a widescreen and determined listen from an artist in constant forward motion.“I am a car-crash girl…”, resounds the opening line of lead single “Horses”, referencing Kim Gordon’s description of Courtney Love in her autobiography and hinting at Brodka’s musical and artistic interests. Despite the rich textures present on the record, she is as equally influenced by New York no wave, jazz and R&B. Additionally, her early experiences of church services have heavily impacted the depth and melodrama that charges throughout Clashes. 

This interest in religion and spirituality has also influenced the visual themes running throughout her artwork, photography and ornate sense of style. “For this album the big inspiration was liturgical outfits,” she explains. “I wanted to take the colors - silver, gold, white, purple, blue – and the shapes of some of these clothes and turn them into something more modern. I am always trying to take some of the meanings of the subjects that I am interested in, chew them up, digest them, and throw up something that is more my kind of thing.”

Operatic and intelligent, palpable and profound, Clashes isn’t just a step forward for Brodka, it’s a bound, and promises only the expansion of a global audience for such a truly remarkable artist.


Brodka Clashes Tracklisting:1. Mirror Mirror2. Horses3. Santa Muerte4. Can’t Wait For War5. Holy Holes6. Haiti7. Funeral8. Up In The Hill9. My Name Is Youth10. Kyrie11. Hamlet12.  Dreamstreamextreme
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OAKLAND UNITED: A BENEFIT SUPPORTING OAKLAND FIRE RELIEF

OAKLAND UNITED: A BENEFIT SUPPORTING OAKLAND FIRE RELIEFThe Oakland fire tragedy shook many of us to the core. Not only did we lose family, friends, and loved ones, we lost many talented souls that helped make our Bay Area community colorful, unified, and vocal through the arts. Please join us for a night of remembrance and community with Oakland United: A Benefit Supporting Oakland Fire Relief. Featuring music and stories from: Primus, Tune-Yards, Tycho, Dan Deacon, Hieroglyphics, Thao Nguyen, Sidecar Tommy, Boots Riley, Geographer, Rogue Wave, Gabe Meline (KQED), Sam Lefebvre, Jay Som and more. The event will take place December 14th at the Fox Theater. All proceeds will be donated to the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Oakland Fire Fund. Tickets on sale Tomorrow.
MORE INFOPHASE 2 MUSIC LINEUP ANNOUNCED!

Midnight Mass 2 set times

Midnight Mass 2 at The Packard LBCThe Packard 205 east anaheim streeet @ Long Beach blvd

THE GARDEN // THE SPITS (OFFICAL) // The Buttertones // Audacity // FeelsPeach Kelli Pop // The MemoriesCumstain // Saccharine Trust WALTER // Terry Malts // Prettiest EyesThe High Curbs // PITY PARTY GIRLS CLUB //The Red PearsBeach Bums // Clit Kat // Nectarines (Members of So Many Wizards)

Presale sold @ Midnightmass2.brownpapertickets.com
2 for $25 Very limited amount of Presale tickets sold at a record store near you! 

205 e Anaheim St Long Beach, Ca
$20 Presale // $25 Door // $5 Parking
Doors @ 1pm // Full Bar for 21+ and Beer garden by Pabst Blue Ribbon

DJ's

Jim Smith (The Smell)
Chris Ziegler (LA RECORD)
Rudy de anda
Top Acid
Musty boyz
Slop stomp
Cool tite
Chris baker (Fingerprints Music)
High voltage (Hip Hop / Funk / Soul)
The Good Foot (Latin / Funk / Soul)
Simon Weed'n (4th st vine)
Benny jets

Vendors Available!

Shady Grove Foods
Third Eye records
Porch Party Records
Penniback Records
Markos Treats


ALL AGES w/ a FULL BAR for 21 + & Beer Garden by Pabst Blue Ribbon

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The Molochs Premiere "You And Me" Video Via Noisey

The Molochs Premiere "You And Me" Video Via Noisey, Top Spot On Hype Machine's Stack 120

Playing Primavera Sound Festival, Add Dates To 2017 Tour

New Album 'America's Velvet Glory' Out 1/13 Via
Innovative LeisurePhoto Cred: Jeff Fribourgh WATCH & SHARE: The Molochs - "You And Me"
  Today The Molochs premiered the video to their second single "You And Me" on Noisey. When talking about the video director Laura Lynn Patrick said, "You & Me parodies modern romance, through home video clips of a young woman on her honeymoon filmed by her love in Niagara Falls.  We see the happy moments and the sheer innocence of young love, but deep down there is a sadness in her, an unescapable void in the romance. She escapes, and slips away into the rapid and powerful falls of Niagara. Inspired by the 50's Marilyn Monroe film Niagara.". "You And Me" was also featured as the top pick on Hype Machine's Stack 120. It is the second single from the band, following their first single "No More Cryin'". Both tracks will be featured on 'America's Velvet Glory' out 1/13/17 via Innovative Leisure.First, let’s meet Moloch. You remember him, right? The ancient god, the child eater, the demander of sacrifice, the villain in Ginsberg’s Howl(and also real life) and now the personal antagonist of singer and songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who named his band the Molochs because he knew he’d have to make sacrifices to get what he needed, and because he always wanted a reminder of the Ginsbergian monster he’d be fighting against. And so this is how you make a record right now: you fight for every piece, and when Moloch takes apart your relationships and career potential and leaves you sleeping on couches or living in terrifying apartments and just about depleted from awful people involving you in their awful decisions, you grab a bottle of wine (and laugh at the cliché) and put together another song. And once you do that eleven hard-won times in total, you get a record like America’s Velvet Glory: honest, urgent, desperate and fearless because of it. Fitzsimons came to his calling in an appropriately mythic way, born in a historic city not far from Buenos Aires and raised in L.A.’s South Bay—just outside of Inglewood—where he was immersed in the hip-hop hits on local radio. (Westside Connection!) The summer d before he started middle school, a close friend got an electric guitar, and Fitzsimons felt an enirresistible inexplicable power: “I'd go back home and I’d look up guitar chords on the internet—even though I had no guitar—and just imagine how I WOULD play them. I was slowly getting obsessed.” When he was 12, his parents took him back to Argentina, and on the first night, he discovered a long-forgotten almost-broken classical guitar in the basement of his ancestral home: “It sounds made-up, but it’s true,” he says. “I didn't put the guitar down once that whole trip—took it with me everywhere and played and played. When I got back to L.A., I bought my first guitar practically as the plane was landing.” This started a long line of bands and a long experience of learning to perform in public, as Fitzsimons honed intentions and ideas and tried to figure out why that guitar seemed so important. After a trip to India in 2012, he returned renewed and ready to start again, scrapping his band to lead something new and uncompromising. This was the true start of the Molochs: “It didn't make any sense to not do everything exactly the way I wanted to do it,” he says. “I was so shy and introverted that singing publicly sounded like a nightmare come true. But I didn't have a choice—I heard something inside of me and I needed to be the one to express it.” The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Fitzsimons’ guitarist/organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013 on his own label—named after a slightly infamous intersection in their then-home of Long Beach—and was twelve songs of anxious garage-y proto-punk-y folk-y rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs made so far: “I wanted to spend less time figuring out HOW we were gonna do something and just actually do it.” The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip ’66 stormer “No More Cryin’” or the “Little Black Egg”-style heartwarmer-slash-breaker “The One I Love”—but like one of Foster’s and Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it. You can hear where songs bend, where voices break, where guitars start to shiver and when strings are about to snap; on “You And Me,” you can almost hear Lou Reed’s ghost call for a solo, and on “I Don’t Love You,” you get that subway-sound guitar and find out what happens when Jonathan Richman’s G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N goes wrong. And of course there’s the charismatic chaos of bootleg basement-tape Dylan—always Dylan, says Fitzsimons—and the locked-room psychedelia of Syd Barrett, especially on “Charlie’s Lips,” Fitzsimons’ ode to—or antidote to—those times when he felt the bleakness completely: “Then a bird lands on a branch nearby, you hear leaves fluttering, you hear a child laughing … all of a sudden things don't seem so bad anymore.”
So Moloch might still be out there, devouring his sacrifices, but the Molochs are still fighting, too. And that’s why Fitzsimons picked the band name—it’s so he remembers what he’s up against. He’s not celebrating the destroyer of youth and individuality and creativity, he says: “I’m just keeping him in sight so that he doesn't win.” – Christopher ZieglerTOUR DATES
12/9 - Pappy & Harriets - Pioneertown, CA
1/9 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
1/16 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
1/23 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
1/30 - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA
2/9 - Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
2/10 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
2/24 - Noise Pop Festival - San Francisco, CA
2/25 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA
3/13 - 3/20 - SXSW - Austin, TX
5/22 - The Shacklewell Arms - London UK
5/23 - The Montague Arms - London, UK
5/31 - 6/4 - Primavera Sound Festival - Barcelona, SPAmerica's Velvet Glory - TRACKLISTING
01. Ten Thousand
02. No Control
03. Charlie's Lips
04. That's the Trouble with You
05. The One I Love
06. Little Stars
07. No More Cryin
08. You and Me
09. New York
10. I Don't Love You
11. You Never Learn

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Sarah Bethe Nelson announces new album for Burger Records

SARAH BETHE NELSON
ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM OH, EVOLUTIONSHARES ALBUM OPENER "HAZY" PREMIERED VIA CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
OH, EVOLUTION DUE FEBRUARY 24, 2017ON BURGER RECORDSCredit: Justin Frahm STREAM // EMBED "HAZY"
"The point of [Fast Moving Clouds] is in the ways Ms. Nelson makes the songs gradually move from one definition to another, drawing your attention to its repetition or simplicity, then expanding the context or otherwise defying your expectations." -  The New York Times
"Fast-Moving Clouds benefits immensely from its mid-fi, almost homemade sound,which lends weight to her inventive pop flourishes." -  Pitchfork "Fast-Moving Clouds is... full of striking realizations and vignettes
painted in expert strokes." -  Stereogum
Burger Records is excited to announce  Oh, Evolution , the sophomore album from San Francisco singer-songwriter Sarah Bethe Nelson. Her second full-length for the venerated Orange County label,Oh, Evolution will see a release on February 24, 2017. The first taste of the music comes in the form of album opener " Hazy ," about which  Consequence of Sound  noted, "If Nelson doesn't seem much like the self-aggrandizing type in person, she's even more modest on record, preferring to let the listener search for the jewel of a melody at the center of each song. With " Hazy ", that search is a pleasure." The track is available to stream or embed  HERE , and Oh, Evolution is available for pre-order  HERE .
The poet Frank O'Hara wrote, "Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous." Think of the eight songs on Oh, Evolution, then, as the catchy beat from a '60s AM radio, driving along the sun-kissed California coast, where all sadness melts away into the ocean. You're on a road trip with Sarah Bethe Nelson, who's at the wheel, meditating on her adventures with Mission District drag queens, DIY garage rockers, beer-logged poets, and romantics. The top's down, you're feeling the warm wind across your face as you escape the claustrophobic anxiety of cosmopolitan life. It changes you; the vibrations give you clarity. 
Since releasing her debut  Fast-Moving Clouds  on Burger Records last year, Nelson's kept her job as Mission District bartender. She's also been on the road with her band writing Oh, Evolution with her self-referential Polaroids of a local Bay Area "Sugar Factory" (a fuzzy romantic allegory, perhaps), or resolving existential turmoil with bratty simplicity, "I Don't Care," which deliciously blends '70s adult-contemporary with glossy indie-pop. Nelson's clear alto is the guiding light on the album's first track, the lead single, " Hazy ," where her gorgeously detached vocals flicker over jangling guitars that sparkle as she says, "You were lying. And I was crying." The track showcases Nelson in her natural state on this record, where melancholic lyrics are glued onto a notebook covered in glitter and primary colors. It's a departure from Fast-Moving Clouds, where the songs were reminiscent of '90s "slowcore." There's the opposite effect, too, on the track "Sugar Factory," where the sweet nostalgia in her words are clouded by fuzzed-out guitars and a brooding beat.
Juxtapositions aside, thematically, Oh, Evolution is centered on pulling back the shades on the regularity and stagnation of adulthood. It's a musical exhale by Nelson who casts the light in different directions, from the Midwestern rootsiness of Sheryl Crow on "Bright Thing," to '60s girl-group elements on "Hazy." The two ballads, "Face the Waves" and "Deadbolt" are both intensely emotional songs that deal with loss and decaying romance. It's Nelson in her preferred state on a record that's both self-aware bubblegum, and a fistful of crumbled love letters. Oh, Evolution was recorded at San Francisco's El Studio and engineered by Phil Manley.      Oh, Evolution tracklist:1.  Hazy 2. Evolution3. I Don't Care4. Sugar Factory5. Bright Thing6. Face The Waves7. Out Of My Reach8. Deadbolt
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