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GOOD CHARLOTTE Premiere Video For "40 oz. DREAM" on HotTopic.com

POP-PUNK ICONS PREMIERE VIDEO FOR "40 oz. DREAM" ON HOTTOPIC.COM PRESS HERE TO WATCH SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM  YOUTH AUTHORITY  TO BE RELEASED JULY 15TH"40 oz. DREAM" Video StillJune 9, 2016 - Multi-platinum selling pop-punk icons GOOD CHARLOTTE have premiered the video for"40 oz. Dream" today on Hot Topic, which Benji Madden describes as, "A little tribute to our favorite show and the God, Will Forte". PRESS HERE TO WATCH. The song is the first single from their sixth studio album  Youth Authority  due out Friday, July 15, via the Madden Brothers' own label MDDN, distributed worldwide through Kobalt Label Services. "For us '40oz. Dream' was the perfect song to kick off our new album. It's got all the sarcasm and humor we've always loved, and lots of affection for the past and present," Benji Madden told Rolling Stone who hailed the song as "colorful and nostalgic". Those who pre-order the album ( PRESS HERE ) will be rewarded with instant grat downloads of "Makeshift Love", "40 oz. Dream" and "Life Changes". Special album pre-order bundles including exclusive merch items are available  HERE .

After performing a handful of sold-out east coast dates, GOOD CHARLOTTE have announced special shows on the Vans Warped Tour this summer. Also confirmed are live dates in the UK including this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals August 26-28. More dates will be announced soon. Catch GOOD CHARLOTTE at the following dates below:VANS WARPED TOUR7/19       Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center7/20       Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center7/21       Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center7/22       Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills7/23       Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre7/24       Shakopee, MN @ Canterbury Park7/26       Milwaukee, WI @ Henry Maier Festival Park7/27       Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre7/28       Kansas City, KS @ Providence Medical Center AmphitheaterEUROPEAN TOUR DATES8/18       Hasselt, BE @ Pukklepop8/20       Cologne, DE @ Live Music Hall8/21       Eindhoven, NL @ Effenaar8/26       Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival8/28       Reading, UK @ Reading Festival

THE PYGMALION FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2016 LINEUP

THE PYGMALION FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2016 LINEUP
MUSIC FESTIVAL LINEUP INCLUDES FUTURE ISLANDS, VINCE STAPLES, WOLF PARADE, LOUIS THE CHILD, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, ALVVAYS, AND MORE
LITERARY FESTIVAL LINEUP INCLUDES JEAN THOMPSON, TYEHIMBA JESS, EULA BISS, NEIL STEINBERG, LITERARY DEATH MATCH, BOOKFORT AND MORE
FESTIVAL PASSES AND DAY PASSES ON SALE FRIDAY JUNE 10, 2016 10:00 AM CDT http://www.thepygmalionfestival.com/tickets/
2016 PREMIERES BRAND NEW FOOD FESTIVAL TO PYGMALION
DETAILS FOR TECH, MADE, AND FOOD ANNOUNCING JULY 2016
ENTIRE FESTIVAL RUNS SEPTEMBER 16 - 24 MUSIC SEPTEMBER 22 - 24
Coming back for its 12th annual festival, the organizers of  The Pygmalion Festival  are excited to unveil the MUSIC and LIT lineups for 2016.  This year's festival  - which takes place in Champaign-Urbana, IL - kicks off on Friday, September 16 and runs through Saturday,September 24, 2016.  This year's The Pygmalion Festival is happening over a record 8 days; the music portion kicks off Thursday, September 22 and concludes on Saturday,September 24.  
Baltimore-based synth pop outfit FUTURE ISLANDS will headline this year's festival and they will be joined by rising L.A. hip hop star VINCE STAPLES, newly reformed indie rock royalty WOLF PARADE, progressive EDM wunderkinds LOUIS THE CHILD, Scottish rockers FRIGHTENED RABBIT, and Canadian fuzz pop band ALVVAYS. 
Festival Passes, Day Passes, and Single Show tickets to all MUSIC events go on sale on Friday June 10, 2016 at 10:00 AM CDT/11 AM EST and the link to buy tickets is here.  
The 2016 LIT lineup features literary stars and former University of Illinois professors JEAN THOMPSON and TYEHIMBA JESS who will join their award-winning former students in KIM CHINQUEE and MATTHEW MINICUCCI. National Book Critics Circle Award winner EULA BISS will take center stage and Chicago Sun-Times columnist and critically acclaimed authorNEIL STEINBERG will read from his forthcoming memoir. Other features include BOOK FORT, a Chicago-based roving book fair, and LITERARY DEATH MATCH, considered by  The  LA Times to be "the most entertaining reading series ever".
Other artists and authors of note include CAR SEAT HEADREST, POSTER CHILDREN, PRINCE RAMA, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, KIM CHINQUEE, AJJ, THE HOOD INTERNET, FOXING, LUCY DACUS, ALOHA, MATTHEW MINICUCCI, THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE, JOAN OF ARC, MILD HIGH CLUB, and many more.
The Festival, which added a TECH component in 2015 and will expand upon it in 2016, has yet again added to its cultural arsenal by debuting a second weekend to the festival in order to include an outdoor FOOD festival, featuring some of the best local chef-driven restaurants in the area. In its first year, the festival will be experimenting with the concept by working with just a small number of kitchens and chefs in order to create the blueprint for a much larger event in the years to come.  The Pygmalion FOOD Festival will take place in Downtown Champaign onSeptember 16-17, 2016.
TECH, FOOD, LIT, and MADE are open to the public, FREE to attend and all ages. 
http://www.thepygmalionfestival.com/

The Church & Psychedelic Furs - Five Shows In CA In July

 The Psychedelic Furs & The ChurchAnnounce Summer 2016 U.S. Tour   15 Shows Together Beginning On July 15th   June 8, 2016 – Following last year’s sold out jaunt, The Psychedelic Furs and The Church will team up again this summer for 15 shows in North America beginning on July 15th in Flagstaff, AZ and wrapping in Sioux City, IA on August 6th.Originally from the U.K., The Psychedelic Furs scored major hits with “Love My Way,” “Pretty In Pink,” “Heaven,” “The Ghost In You,” and “Heartbreak Beat,” releasing seven studio albums and several compilations over the course of their career.  Over the past three decades, Furs’ concerts have become must-see events as they continue to sell out venues worldwide.The Church are touring in support of their 25th studio album,  Further/Deeper , which was released in North America last year to rave reviews.  2015 was a wildly successful year for the band with performances at SXSW,Primavera Sound in Spain, two North American tours and their first European tour in eight years.“Sometimes rock ‘n’ roll has really good double bills where there are two likeminded acts and the audience can go away very happy they got their moneys worth,” The Church’s Steve Kilbey commented.  “This is how it is with The Church and Psychedelic Furs I believe; and because the last lot of shows went so well we couldn't help but want to keep it going.”Tickets for most shows will go on sale this Friday morning.For up to date information on both bands visit: http://www.thepsychedelicfurs.comhttp://thechurchband.netThe Psychedelic Furs  & The Church 2016 – North American Tour Dates7/15               Flagstaff, AZ                Pepsi Amphitheater 7/16               Las Vegas, NV             Brooklyn Bowl          7/17               Costa Mesa, CA          Pacific Amphitheater           7/19               San Diego, CA             Humphrey's at the Bay7/20               Los Angeles, CA          Teragram Ballroom (CHURCH ONLY) 7/22               Santa Cruz, CA            The Catalyst  7/23               Berkeley, CA               UC Theater   7/26               Portland, OR                Revolution Hall         7/27               Seattle, WA                  Benaroya Hall           7/28               Missoula, MT              The Wilma    7/30               Salt Lake City, UT       Rockwell at The Complex7/31               Arvada, CO                 Arvada Center                                  8/2                 Lincoln, NE                 Rococo Theatre8/4                 St. Louis, MO              Ready Room8/5                 Kansas City, MO         CrossroadsKC           8/6                 Sioux City, IA              Hard Rock Hotel & Casino   

The Kills Cover Rihanna's 'Desperado' + Perform on Conan

The KillsCover Rihanna's 'Desperado' for SiriusXMUPerform 'Heart Of A Dog' on CONAN
Ash & Ice Out Now on Domino   (Photo Credit - Kenneth Cappello)
"The most reliably great and sexually charged duo in blues- rock thrive onstage, stalking each other in a heady whirl of guttural screams and sharp cheekbones."  -  The New York Times
"Beyond their considerable swagger, the Kills are also some of the best in the business musically, from Mosshart's snarling vocals to Hince's exhilaratingly perverse take on blues guitar." -  Entertainment Weekly
"On Ash & Ice, Hince and Mosshart...polish their edgy sound, built on his caustic riffs and her witchy wail. But the difference on this LP, the band's fifth, is all in the beats... there are new production sounds, paired with catchy guitar and vocal riffs." -  Rolling Stone
Last week saw The Kills (Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart) release their eagerly anticipated fifth full-length album,  Ash & Ice . The band, in speaking to Entertainment Weekly in the lead up to the album's release, had this to say about the record they made:
Hince: I hope (people) can see that electric guitar music is the future! That it's not stuck in the past, or nostalgic. I hope it makes them want to dress up and start a guitar band. And join our gang.
Mosshart: The aim was to be open and we pushed ourselves to write in a way that could be understood and mean something to other people. Human topics and feelings - love, joy, pain, loss, confusion, and those moments of feeling wildly, wildly happy and inspired beyond any sense of reason. The classic stuff! It's an honest record.
The Kills recently performed a cover of Rihanna's 'Desperado' during a SiriusXMU session, LISTEN HERE. The entire session premieres tonight on SiriusXM's SiriusXMU at 9pm Eastern, and will replay on Thursday, June 9th at 3am and 4pm ET, Friday June 10th at 9am ET and again on Sunday at 12pm ET.
The Kills just completed a coast-to-coast tour of North America, finishing up on Monday in California, where the band performed a rousing version of the album's second single 'Heart Of A Dog' on  Conan  - Watch Here.The album's lead single 'Doing It To Death' took the band to the stage of  The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon  last month.
Watch the video for 'Siberian Nights', directed by Giovanni Ribisi, HERE.Watch the video for 'Heart Of A Dog', directed by Sophie Muller, HERE.Watch the video for 'Doing It To Death', directed by Wendy Morgan, HERE.
The Kills continue to tour the globe and will return to the US in September. All upcoming North American dates below - tickets are on sale now.
The Kills Tour Dates9/2        Pomona, CA - Fox Theater9/3        Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern9/4        San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park9/7        Dallas, TX - Granada Theater9/8        Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater9/9        Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall9/12      New Orleans, LA - House of Blues9/13      Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theater9/14      Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works9/17      Milwaukee, WI - The Rave9/18      Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's9/20      Portland, ME - State Theatre9/21      Montreal, QC - Metropolis9/23      New York, NY - Terminal 5

Mick Harvey Shares New Video, Album Out June 24

MICK HARVEY
SHARES VIDEO FOR 
“DON’T SAY A THING” FEAT XANTHE WAITE

VOLUME 3 OF SERGE GAINSBOURG
TRANSLATED COVER VERSIONS
DELIRIUM TREMENS
OUT JUNE 24, 2016Photo credit: L.J.Spruyt / L.J.Spruyt PhotographyMick Harvey has released the video for “Don’t Say A Thing” featuring Xanthe Waite, his translation of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Ne Dis Rien.”

The track is taken from the forthcoming album,  Delirium Tremens , out on June 24, 2016.

Watch the video, filmed and directed by Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt,  HERE .

Delirium Tremens  is the third volume of Mick Harvey’s Serge Gainbourg translations and follows the recent reissue of the first two volumes - Intoxicated Man and Pink Elephants - as a double album in 2014. Following the reissue, Harvey began playing select shows in Australia and Europe (including shows at Primavera and London’s Union Chapel) and the enjoyment factor was so high, it led inevitably to speculative discussions as to whether it was time to resume and expand the project.

The intervening years have, of course, been full of activity and dozens of releases including four solo albums and several albums as a member of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and in collaboration with PJ Harvey. So what led to the rekindling of interest in the songs of Serge?

Delirium Tremens  brings us another wide cross-section of Gainsbourg material. From 1976’s “The Man With The Cabbage Head” (L’homme à Tête De Chou) all the way back to early songs such as “Deadly Tedium” (Ce Mortel Ennui) and “Coffee Colour” (Couleur Cafe) from the late 50s and early 60s. There is even a version of “SS C'est Bon” (Est-ce Est-ce Si Bon), from Gainsbourg’s controversial album Rock Around The Bunker, an album drenched in black humor and bad taste, coming as it does from a French man with Jewish ancestry.
In addition, Harvey presents a selection of five songs from the TV special “Anna” (starring Anna Karina) – including “Don't Say A Thing” (Ne Dis Rien) - with the female parts here executed with enormous charm by Xanthe Waite who has been joining Harvey on his recent shows. The album is rounded out by a beautiful rendering of the late period Jane Birkin duet “The Decadance” (La Décadanse) with Harvey joined on vocals by his wife Katy Beale.

Work began in late 2015 on what will be Volumes 3 and 4. Recording in Melbourne with his Antipodean-based core live band, 10 songs were tracked at Birdland Studios. The project then relocated to Berlin where a further nine songs were recorded with Toby Dammit (The Stooges, The Residents) and Bertrand Burgalat (of French label Tricatel) who was the string arranger on the first two volumes.

The resultant recordings served to whet Harvey’s appetite for more and almost immediately work continued back in Melbourne in order to have enough material to fill two new volumes. Along with Melbourne based musicians J.P.Shilo, Glenn Lewis and Hugo Cran, Harvey has enlisted a half dozen female singers to help complete Volume 4 which will be released as Intoxicated Women later in 2016.

DELIRIUM TREMENS TRACKLISTING
The Man With The Cabbage Head (L’homme à Tête De Chou)
Deadly Tedium (Ce Mortel Ennui)
Coffee Colour (Couleur Cafe)
The Convict's Song (Chanson de Forçat)
SS C'est Bon (Est-ce Est-ce Si Bon)
I Envisage (J’envisage)
A Day Like Any Other (Un Jour Comme Un Autre)
A Violent Poison (That's What Love Is) (Un Poison Violent C’est Ça L’amour)
More and More, Less and Less (De Plus en Plus De Moins en Moins)
Don't Say A Thing (Ne Dis Rien)
Boomerang (Boomerang)
The Decadance (La Décadanse)

Praise for Volume 1  Intoxicated Man  and Volume 2 Pink Elephants

Uncut  – It’s a confident musician who messes with the legacy of a cultish iconoclast, but Harvey has serious form and so these records sound confident and casually eloquent…
Record Collector  - …the translations are masterful, retaining Serge’s rhyme schemes and meter without losing any of the lyrics’ meaning.
The Quietus  – As an Anglophonic entry point - which was the initial intention - this re-release is the perfect preface to the stunning oeuvre of the sloshed genius.
Popmatters  – orchestral, emotional, dark, and endlessly clever…radiant enough to ensure Harvey’s place as one of music’s greatestMICK HARVEY : WEBSITE  |  FACEBOOK
 

Death Valley Girls 'Glow In The Dark' Album Streaming On Consequence Of Sound

Death Valley Girls 'Glow In The Dark' Album Streaming On Consequence Of Sound Out June 10 On Burger Records
Pre-order HERE Upcoming Shows Include Burger Boogaloo & Record Release Show At The Echo Photo: Darian Zahedi Think of Death Valley Girls as an acid-tripping science experiment that’s been buried alive, and resurrected as a sexually liberated dystopian chain-gang. A cosmic scar, if you will, on the hills of Echo Park, where the experiment began in 2013 by proto-punk Bonnie Bloomgarden and guitarist Larry Schemel — who got lost in the desert, returned to their haunted garage in Echo Park, and pieced together their vision with shopworn images of sexploitation babes, a blood-soaked Iggy Pop, and Bloomgarden’s series of phantasms, the result of spending a year in a mental institution, where she planned her neon-glowing odyssey by listening to Black Sabbath and UFO, reading about alien conspiracy theories, and deriving her band’s moral compass from a line she saw in a movie:

“Everybody’s gotta be in a gang,”  from campy sexploitation romp Switchblade Sisters (1975).

L.A. Weekly referred to them as the city’s unofficial proto-metal boogie band. That was in 2014-15, when their debut Street Venom resurrected the bygone spirit of sleazy rock and roll based on urban ills, tabloid nudes, dangerous sex, and the next generation of girl gangs.

Backstory: Bonnie Bloomgarden once belonged to New York rock band The Witnesses, who emerged from the early 2000s scene made famous by The Strokes. They had a record produced by Tommy Ramone. They lived on a farm for most of that time.

Their drummer is a doe-eyed blonde with a mean streak, a derby girl and cult femme fatale, known simply as “The Kid,” Bloomgarden’s ace. Bassist Nikki Pickle, unearthed in the Arizona desert, recently joined the gang after they recorded their second full-length album Glow in the Dark, which includes guest appearances by Jessie Jones (ex-Feeding People) Bobby May (ex-Gap Dream) Alana Amram and Laena Geronimo of Feels; an album influenced by Bloomgarden’s conspiracy theories and mummy sightings in Echo Park, but mostly it’s their master plan to rev-up their collective, The Cosmic Underground, how they hope to bring together likeminded maniacs under one umbrella of dopey happiness and the glammed-up punkness of Rodney’s English Disco. 
ABOUT “GLOW IN THE DARK”:
Recorded in Echo Park’s Station House recording studio, Glow in the Dark is a Burger Records production that includes 10 tracks of bluesy, electric rock that’s both danceable punk and oozing with psychedelic slime; like a doped-up Elvis, had he been an alien and a member of L.A. garage rock pioneers The Seeds. The album will be released on June 10, 2016. Notable tracks include the single, “Glow in the Dark,” “I’m a Man Too,” and “Disco.” "'I'm A Man Too' blocks your path and folds its arms." New York Times "In a scene where a lot of bands are cutting their teeth, Death Valley Girls bare theirs; their punk-metal is the stuff of slash-band-burn guitars, baked-by-the-sun production and slap-you-up"side-the-head attitude." Buzzbands LA 

"Glow in the Dark, the band’s second full-length, is a striking record, all brazen fury and bratty beats, something resembling hard rock before Sabbath. And “I’m a Man Too,” with its blues progression and lip-curled vocals, would be a standout if it weren’t for the record’s remarkable consistency." Noisey "Echo Park’s rawest boogie electrocutes old-school psychobilly into a punk frenzy, mixed with Black Sabbath–like elements of the occult. Their gang mentality keeps them insulated from the rest of the L.A. garage-rock scene. This should be their year of domination, as they plan to release a ripping new album titled Glow In The Dark and then start a cult, the Cosmic Underground, in an effort to metastasize from a band into a religion." Art Tavana/LA Weekly UPCOMING SHOWS: Burger Boogaloo - Mosswood Park - Oakland, CA - June 26Album Release - The Echo - Los Angeles, CA - June 30
Pappy & Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA  - July 17Great American Music Hall -  San Francisco, CA - July 21 

Watch Band of Skulls' "Bodies" video!

BAND OF SKULLS’ VIDEO FOR “BODIES” PREMIERES AT BILLBOARD
BAND TO PERFORM ON “LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS” JUNE 20
BY DEFAULT RELEASED TO CRITICAL ACCLAIM
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR CONFIRMED 
[image error]Photo credit: Andy Cotterill 
The video for “Bodies,” the lead single from Band of Skulls’ latest release By Default, is premiering today via  Billboard . The footage is taken from the band’s Electric Ballroom in London and Paris gigs earlier this month. Watch/share the clip here: https://BoS.lnk.to/BodiesVevo.
In addition, the band will perform “Bodies” on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” June 20. By Default continues to receive widespread critical acclaim both stateside and abroad: “Band of Skulls rip and roar, the song a wily mix of clashing guitars, vocals that both rocket high and dip low, and a fierce chorus that is the sonic equivalent of being stared down by some imposing authority. Think a savage hybrid of Modest Mouseand Jack White.”—Consequence of Sound “…each song packs a punch…they've always had a certain swagger in their music but here you can really feel an authority and confidence…”—The Independent
“I hear a new attitude behind it…shows them sharpening their sound.”—KCRW “A crisp return.”—Clash
“Band of Skulls have delivered a gorgeous album, a beautiful combination of blues, indie and rock…By Default is, start to finish, a no lose situation.”—MXDWN To further support the release, Band of Skulls has confirmed North American dates this fall. The tour will kick off September 6 at Boston’s Royale and will make stops at Chicago’s Metro, San Francisco’s The Fillmore, Los Angeles’ Wiltern and New York City’s Terminal 5 among many others. In addition, New York area fans will have a chance to catch Band of Skulls ahead of the fall tour at a very special acoustic performance and signing on Sunday, June 19 at Rough Trade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fans will receive two wristbands to the show by purchasing By Default at Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/events/2016/6/2289. Produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith) and recorded at Rockfield Studios, By Default finds the band—Emma Richardson (bass, vocals), Russell Marsden (guitar, vocals) and Matt Hayward (drums)—following up on their acclaimed 2014 release, Himalayan, by making a conscious decision to take a step back from their relentless world-wide touring schedule, having never spent more than a month off the road in the last two years. “We went back to square one,” says Hayward. In the church—between visits from the vicar, bringing tea and biscuits on his trolley—they found the new songs in hours of woodshedding on ratty old practice amps. “It’s definitely a new era,” says Marsden. “The first three records were like a trilogy, a piece of work in of themselves. We wanted to do those things, and we did them all. We took a breath, took a look at what we’d done, and started from scratch again.”  [image error] BAND OF SKULLS LIVEJune 19—Brooklyn, NY—Rough Trade (Acoustic)September 6—Boston, MA—RoyaleSeptember 7—Montreal, QC—Corona TheatreSeptember 8—Toronto, ON—The Opera HouseSeptember 9—Columbus, OH—Skully’s Music DinerSeptember 10—Chicago, IL—MetroSeptember 11—Minneapolis, MN—Fine Line Music CaféSeptember 13—Denver, CO—Gothic TheatreSeptember 14—Salt Lake City, UT—Urban LoungeSeptember 15-18—Victoria, BC—RifflandiaSeptember 16—Vancouver, BC—The Vogue TheatreSeptember 18—Seattle, WA—The ShowboxSeptember 19—Portland, OR—Revolution HallSeptember 21—San Francisco, CA—FillmoreSeptember 23—Los Angeles, CA—WilternSeptember 23-25—Las Vegas, NV—Life is BeautifulSeptember 24—Solana Beach, CA—Belly UpSeptember 26—Tucson, AZ—Rialto TheatreSeptember 28—Austin, TX—Antone’sSeptember 29—Dallas, TX—TreesSeptember 30—Memphis, TN—Minglewood HallOctober 1—Nashville, TN—Exit/InOctober 2—Atlanta, GA—Terminal WestOctober 3—Durham, NC—Motorco Music HallOctober 4—Washington DC—Black CatOctober 6—New York, NY—Terminal 5October 7—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer    By Default  Available Now:iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultITAmazon CD: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultCDAmazon Vinyl: http://smarturl.it/ByDefaultLP

Eagulls share new video for "Velvet"

EAGULLS SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR "VELVET" VIA THE FADER
LAUNCH NORTH AMERICAN TOUR THIS WEEK
ULLAGES OUT NOW VIA PARTISAN RECORDSWATCH: "Velvet" - https://youtu.be/WcNotrB0s4Y
"[If] Eagulls' debut was effectively a group exorcism performed in a sweaty, overcrowded basement punk dive...Ullages opens up a greater sense of space for Eagulls to soar"- Pitchfork
"An intriguing new direction for the young band"  - Stereogum
"Textured, energetic post punk"  - Noisey 
"A pounding, anthemic cry"  - Consequence of Sound
On the heels of releasing their sophomore album Ullages in May, Eagulls are back today to share a hypnotic new video for album standout "Velvet". Its release comes in conjunction with the band launching its North American tour this week, starting on Thursday at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn.
Speaking about the video's concept, Eagulls' lead singer George Mitchell says, "I was a fan of John Mintons work that he'd created for Portishead and was lucky enough to get him to work with me on this video. We both share interests in old cinema and we saw Saul Bass and Fernand Leger as inspirations on the visual elements. John was able to adapt these inspirations into a modern take with a theme of love loss running throughout."
Check out the video above now and see below for all upcoming Eagulls tour dates and Ullagesdetails. 
Tour Dates
6/9 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right6/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle6/11 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel6/13 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern6/14 - Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room6/15 - Columbus, OH @ The Basement6/16 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean6/17 - Davenport, IA @ Daytrotter6/18 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club6/20 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge6/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court6/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teregram Ballroom6/25 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill

SLEIGH BELLS Release New Single "Rule Number One"

SLEIGH BELLS:  "RULE NUMBER ONE"
(Photo Credit : Pooneh Ghana) 
Sleigh Bells have released a new song today entitled "Rule Number One."  The song is the first new material from the band since December 2015's release of the track "Champions of Unrestricted Beauty."  Sleigh Bells spoke with Zane Lowe at Beats 1 this morning about the new song, which is Beats 1's World Record today.  PRESS HERE  to listen to the interview.   LISTEN TO "RULE NUMBER ONE" NOW: ITUNES: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1116032849?ls=1&app=itunes APPLE MUSIC: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1116032849 SPOTIFY: http://open.spotify.com/album/6a1UmPGck0uPQYgAaB2p3k SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/sleighbells/rule-number-one YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/8YFTh0Rrc18   Sleigh Bells have also confirmed their first live shows for 2016, including sets at this year's Billboard Hot 100 Festival (Aug 20-21), the North Coast Festival (Sept 2-4), and Riot Fest in Denver, CO (Sept 2-4). 

BLOOD ORANGE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM FREETOWN SOUND

BLOOD ORANGE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM FREETOWN SOUND DUE OUT JULY 1, 2016 ON DOMINO RECORDSPhoto Credit: Michael Lavine
Blood Orange - aka Devonte Hynes - will release his highly anticipated new album, Freetown Sound, on July 1st, 2016 on Domino Records.  Written and produced by Hynes,Freetown Sound is a tour de force, a confluence of Hynes' past, present, and future that melds his influences with his own established musical voice.  A sneak peek into the album's world (including brief glimpses of new songs and maybe even an album guest or two) can be seen HERE. 
PRESS HERE to pre-order Freetown Sound via iTunes or here to pre-order the deluxe edition LP available exclusively through the Domino Mart. The deluxe contains the album on double LP housed in a wide spine jacket, and a bonus 10" with two additional non-album tracks "Do You See My Skin Through The Flames" and "Sandra's Smile," as well as a double sided 24x36 poster. The CD and LP are available August 19th. In Hynes' own words: "I have just finished making an album about my life, my upbringing, being black in England, being black in America...my movement to this country at the age of 21, the same age that my mother moved from Guyana to London, and my father from Sierra Leone to London.Freetown Sound, the name of my album, is taken from Freetown where my father was born." For well over a decade, Devonté Hynes has proven himself a virtuoso of versatility, experimenting with almost every conceivable musical genre under a variety of monikers. After moving to New York City in the mid-2000s, Hynes became Blood Orange, pluming the oeuvres of the city's musical legends to create a singular style of urgent, delicate pop music.  Freetown Sound, which follows 2011's Coastal Grooves and 2013's breakthrough Cupid Deluxe, builds upon everything Hynes has done as an artist, resulting in the most expansive artistic statement of his career.  Drawing from a deep well of techniques and references, the album unspools like a piece of theater, evoking unexpected communions of moods, voices, and eras.  Freetown Sound derives its name from the birthplace of Hynes' father, the capital of Sierra Leone. Thematically, it is profoundly personal and unapologetically political, touching on issues of race, religion, sex, and sexism over 17 shimmering songs. Hynes's solo project lives in tandem with his in-demand role as a songwriter/producer for hire, working with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Solange Knowles, FKA Twigs, and Sky Ferreira. He is also an established composer, scoring films (Gia Coppola's Palo Alto, 2014) and artworks (Alex Da Corte's Easternsports, 2016) alike. In 2015, his evermore-multifaceted career was crystallized on stage, where he invited his collaborators to take part in two sold-out performances at the Apollo Theater, with all proceeds benefiting Opus 118 Harlem School of Music. Blood Orange is playing the following shows this summer in support of Freetown Sound. More shows will be announced soon.Blood Orange 2016 Tour DatesFri June 10 || Bonnaroo || Manchester, TN Thurs June 30 || Roskilde || Copenhagen, DE  Sat July 2 || Hyde Park || London, UK Tues July 5 || Koko || London, UK - TICKETSThurs July 7 || Festival Moderno, Circolo Magnolia || Milan, IT Sat July 9 || Ruisrock || Turku, FI  Sat July 16 || Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park || Chicago, IL  Sat July 23 || Panorama Festival, Randall Island || New York, NY  Sat Aug 27 || Greek Theater ||| Berkeley, CA  Sun Aug 28 || FYF || Los Angeles, CA