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June 3, 2016
Speedy Ortiz' 'Foiled Again' EP Out Today, National Headlining Tour
SPEEDY ORTIZ
Foiled Again EP Released Today via Carpark Records
On National Tour w/ The Good Life
Photo credit: Bob Gruen
“Although “Death Note” was cut from the quartet’s sophomore record Foil Deer, its alert vocals, rolling guitars, and skidding distortion would have fit in perfectly between “Raising the Skate” or “Puffer.”
- Pitchfork
“[Emma O] is stupid awesome. It’s a medium simmer with exquisitely intertwined guitar lines, textured drums, and Sadie Dupuis’ purely gorgeous vocal wafting nonchalantly above.’
- Stereogum
“[Open Mike Eagle] the Chicago hip-hop artist was able to ... morph and bend the track into something with more grooves and beats, all while retaining the enchanting quality of the original.
- VICE’s Noisey
“Lazerbeak’s reimagining of “Puffer” ... coupled with Lizzo’s sway leaning flow and soulful vocal flourishes transform the original from a distortive ode to aggression into a alleyway night club mix, without foregoing the centrality of lead singer Sadie Dupuis’ seductive vocal delivery.”
- Earmilk
“Combining jaw-dropping majesty and sonic invention, Open Mike Eagle showcases the band’s inimitable vision and talent fully modernized with a pure adrenaline rush.”
- Kick Kick Snare
“One of rock’s most compelling young voices”
- NPR
“Off-kilter, hypercatchy pop-rock”
- Rolling Stone
“effortlessly cool”
- SPIN
An addendum to 2015’s critically acclaimed Foil Deer , Speedy Ortiz is thrilled to release the Foiled Again EP today! This digital-only four track collection features two outtakes from the Foil Deer sessions, “Death Note” which was unleashed via Sirius XMU and “Emma O” which debuted with Zane Lowe’s World First . It also includes two remixes of Foil Deer’s “Puffer” — one version featuring rapper Lizzo with edits by Doomtree Collective memberLazerbeak and another by hip-hop artist Open Mike Eagle .
Never ones to shy away from a relentless touring schedule, Speedy recently wrapped up a run with Philly rockers Hop Along and have kicked off a co-headlining tour with The Good Life and others, finally landing at Forecastle Festival on July 16 and 17. For a full list of live dates, see below or click HERE.
Purchase Foiled Again - iTunes | Carpark
Stream - Apple Music
Speedy Ortiz Tour Dates:
6/3: Fresno, CA @ Strummer's #
6/4: Ventura, CA @ Large Marge #
6/5: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex #
6/6: Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom #
6/7: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad #
6/8: El Paso, TX @ Bowie Feathers #
6/10: Austin, TX @ Barracuda #
6/11: Mcallen, TX @ Yerberia Cultura #
6/12: Houston, TX @ Walter's Downtown #
6/13: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada #
6/14: Norman, OK @ The Opolis #
6/16: St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
6/17: Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness
7/15: Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo
7/16-17: Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
# = w/ The Good Life
Foiled Again EP Released Today via Carpark Records
On National Tour w/ The Good Life
Photo credit: Bob Gruen
“Although “Death Note” was cut from the quartet’s sophomore record Foil Deer, its alert vocals, rolling guitars, and skidding distortion would have fit in perfectly between “Raising the Skate” or “Puffer.”
- Pitchfork
“[Emma O] is stupid awesome. It’s a medium simmer with exquisitely intertwined guitar lines, textured drums, and Sadie Dupuis’ purely gorgeous vocal wafting nonchalantly above.’
- Stereogum
“[Open Mike Eagle] the Chicago hip-hop artist was able to ... morph and bend the track into something with more grooves and beats, all while retaining the enchanting quality of the original.
- VICE’s Noisey
“Lazerbeak’s reimagining of “Puffer” ... coupled with Lizzo’s sway leaning flow and soulful vocal flourishes transform the original from a distortive ode to aggression into a alleyway night club mix, without foregoing the centrality of lead singer Sadie Dupuis’ seductive vocal delivery.”
- Earmilk
“Combining jaw-dropping majesty and sonic invention, Open Mike Eagle showcases the band’s inimitable vision and talent fully modernized with a pure adrenaline rush.”
- Kick Kick Snare
“One of rock’s most compelling young voices”
- NPR
“Off-kilter, hypercatchy pop-rock”
- Rolling Stone
“effortlessly cool”
- SPIN
An addendum to 2015’s critically acclaimed Foil Deer , Speedy Ortiz is thrilled to release the Foiled Again EP today! This digital-only four track collection features two outtakes from the Foil Deer sessions, “Death Note” which was unleashed via Sirius XMU and “Emma O” which debuted with Zane Lowe’s World First . It also includes two remixes of Foil Deer’s “Puffer” — one version featuring rapper Lizzo with edits by Doomtree Collective memberLazerbeak and another by hip-hop artist Open Mike Eagle .
Never ones to shy away from a relentless touring schedule, Speedy recently wrapped up a run with Philly rockers Hop Along and have kicked off a co-headlining tour with The Good Life and others, finally landing at Forecastle Festival on July 16 and 17. For a full list of live dates, see below or click HERE.
Purchase Foiled Again - iTunes | Carpark
Stream - Apple Music
Speedy Ortiz Tour Dates:
6/3: Fresno, CA @ Strummer's #
6/4: Ventura, CA @ Large Marge #
6/5: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex #
6/6: Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom #
6/7: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad #
6/8: El Paso, TX @ Bowie Feathers #
6/10: Austin, TX @ Barracuda #
6/11: Mcallen, TX @ Yerberia Cultura #
6/12: Houston, TX @ Walter's Downtown #
6/13: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada #
6/14: Norman, OK @ The Opolis #
6/16: St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
6/17: Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness
7/15: Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo
7/16-17: Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
# = w/ The Good Life
June 2, 2016
Faith No More Reissue Landmark Debut Album, We Care A Lot, on Aug. 19
FAITH NO MORE REISSUE LANDMARK DEBUT ALBUM, WE CARE A LOT, ON AUG. 19 VIA KOOLARROW RECORDS
LONG OUT OF PRINT RELEASE GETS DELUXE TREATMENT WITH NEW MIXES, DEMOS AND LIVE RECORDINGS; PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW
“With We Care A Lot, I always felt like I was part of something new and different than anything else out there at the time. It made me feel privileged to be a part of it. The other guys were so cool, and there was so much camaraderie. And that came across in the music; Bordin’s drums battling it out with Billy’s bass in antagonistic harmony, Roddy’s melodic atmosphere, swallowed up by Jim’s crunchy metal riffs. I found my place somewhere between them all, and when the album was finished, it didn’t sound like anything else.” – Chuck Mosley
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2016 – Faith No More’s landmark debut, We Care A Lot, which was initially released in 1985 and has been out of print for 20 years, sees an Aug. 19 reissue via Bill Gould’s Koolarrow Records.
“This was an album that started as a demo, before any label had any interest in us,” explained Faith No More bass player Bill Gould. “There were a couple of reasons we decided to release this now: first of all, it’s been 20 years since it has been commercially available. Secondly, when cleaning out my basement, I discovered the original master reels, and we all thought that resurrecting this from the original tapes would be a great way to reintroduce We Care A Lot into the world. Lastly, this has been a band effort; we are releasing this in the same way as we recorded it, deciding everything amongst ourselves and getting our hands deep into the nuts and bolts… just like we used to.”
The original 10-song album, remastered by Maor Appelbaum via the original reels Gould eluded to, is enhanced with nine bonus tracks including demo versions (taken from the original 8-track tapes) of “Greed,” “Mark Bowen,” “Arabian Disco” and “Intro,” live versions of “The Jungle” and “New Beginnings” and new mixes, via Matt Wallace, of “We Care A Lot,” “Pills for Breakfast” and “As The Worm Turns.” Liner notes from keyboard player Roddy Bottum and behind-the-scenes photos will be included with the physical release. We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) is available now for pre-order on CD (http://hyperurl.co/WeCareALotCD), digital (http://geni.us/WeCareALotDigital) and vinyl (http://hyperurl.co/WeCareALotLP).
We Care A Lot arrived in November 1985 via Maximum RocknRoll editor Ruth Schwartz’s Mordam Records. The seminal album, boasting the timeless title track, which can still be heard daily on radio stations worldwide, confounded music fans and critics alike. As Pitchfork said in a 2015 article dubbed “The Misunderstanding of Faith No More,” the unpredictable and hard-to-define band “had radically altered the parameters of popular music years before the fabled alternative revolution.” Rolling Stone called it a "raw punk album" while Select Magazine dubbed it "a lustful marriage of mutoid metal and dance floor verve."
“When strangers ask what Faith No More is I’ve always said, ‘well, it’s kind of an art band…’ I say that mostly to distance us from the hard rock world that we’re often times lumped into. I mean, hard rock, sure, that was part of it, but our roots most definitely and pointedly stem from a specific freakout art time and place in San Francisco, a time that no longer exists. In 1982, the hippies mingled with the punks, the artists hung out with the musicians, the dance people and the punks were one and the Satanists and the sexual pioneers… all part of the same scene,” Bottum explains, colorfully setting the scene for the original inspiration for the band and We Care A Lot. “That weird SF window provided a platform from which we were free to express and cultivate a really uniquely odd sound experience. In Los Angeles, no one really cared much, but SF was always super supportive, encouraging us, directly and not, to get our collective freak on.”
“We felt like it was time to take the next step,” adds drummer Mike Bordin. “We raised as much money as we were able and booked time at Prairie Sun Studios just north of San Francisco. I can’t remember how long it took us to record the album, but not a lot, maybe a few days. The songs were sharp from having played most of them at various shows. Very stripped down, basic as could be. The place was on a farm in chicken country (Petaluma). Hard work, but a ton of fun too.”
We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) track list:
1. We Care A Lot
2. The Jungle
3. Mark Bowen
4. Jim
5. Why Do You Bother
6. Greed
7. Pills for Breakfast
8. As The Worm Turns
9. Arabian Disco
10. New Beginnings
11. We Care A Lot – 2016 Mix
12. Pills for Breakfast – 2016 Mix
13. As The Worm Turns – 2016 Mix
14. Greed – Original Demo
15. Mark Bowen – Original Demo
16. Arabian Disco – Original Demo
17. Intro – Original Demo
18. The Jungle – I-Beam, SF, 1986
19. New Beginnings – I-Beam, SF, 1986
LONG OUT OF PRINT RELEASE GETS DELUXE TREATMENT WITH NEW MIXES, DEMOS AND LIVE RECORDINGS; PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW
“With We Care A Lot, I always felt like I was part of something new and different than anything else out there at the time. It made me feel privileged to be a part of it. The other guys were so cool, and there was so much camaraderie. And that came across in the music; Bordin’s drums battling it out with Billy’s bass in antagonistic harmony, Roddy’s melodic atmosphere, swallowed up by Jim’s crunchy metal riffs. I found my place somewhere between them all, and when the album was finished, it didn’t sound like anything else.” – Chuck Mosley
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2, 2016 – Faith No More’s landmark debut, We Care A Lot, which was initially released in 1985 and has been out of print for 20 years, sees an Aug. 19 reissue via Bill Gould’s Koolarrow Records.
“This was an album that started as a demo, before any label had any interest in us,” explained Faith No More bass player Bill Gould. “There were a couple of reasons we decided to release this now: first of all, it’s been 20 years since it has been commercially available. Secondly, when cleaning out my basement, I discovered the original master reels, and we all thought that resurrecting this from the original tapes would be a great way to reintroduce We Care A Lot into the world. Lastly, this has been a band effort; we are releasing this in the same way as we recorded it, deciding everything amongst ourselves and getting our hands deep into the nuts and bolts… just like we used to.”
The original 10-song album, remastered by Maor Appelbaum via the original reels Gould eluded to, is enhanced with nine bonus tracks including demo versions (taken from the original 8-track tapes) of “Greed,” “Mark Bowen,” “Arabian Disco” and “Intro,” live versions of “The Jungle” and “New Beginnings” and new mixes, via Matt Wallace, of “We Care A Lot,” “Pills for Breakfast” and “As The Worm Turns.” Liner notes from keyboard player Roddy Bottum and behind-the-scenes photos will be included with the physical release. We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) is available now for pre-order on CD (http://hyperurl.co/WeCareALotCD), digital (http://geni.us/WeCareALotDigital) and vinyl (http://hyperurl.co/WeCareALotLP).
We Care A Lot arrived in November 1985 via Maximum RocknRoll editor Ruth Schwartz’s Mordam Records. The seminal album, boasting the timeless title track, which can still be heard daily on radio stations worldwide, confounded music fans and critics alike. As Pitchfork said in a 2015 article dubbed “The Misunderstanding of Faith No More,” the unpredictable and hard-to-define band “had radically altered the parameters of popular music years before the fabled alternative revolution.” Rolling Stone called it a "raw punk album" while Select Magazine dubbed it "a lustful marriage of mutoid metal and dance floor verve."
“When strangers ask what Faith No More is I’ve always said, ‘well, it’s kind of an art band…’ I say that mostly to distance us from the hard rock world that we’re often times lumped into. I mean, hard rock, sure, that was part of it, but our roots most definitely and pointedly stem from a specific freakout art time and place in San Francisco, a time that no longer exists. In 1982, the hippies mingled with the punks, the artists hung out with the musicians, the dance people and the punks were one and the Satanists and the sexual pioneers… all part of the same scene,” Bottum explains, colorfully setting the scene for the original inspiration for the band and We Care A Lot. “That weird SF window provided a platform from which we were free to express and cultivate a really uniquely odd sound experience. In Los Angeles, no one really cared much, but SF was always super supportive, encouraging us, directly and not, to get our collective freak on.”
“We felt like it was time to take the next step,” adds drummer Mike Bordin. “We raised as much money as we were able and booked time at Prairie Sun Studios just north of San Francisco. I can’t remember how long it took us to record the album, but not a lot, maybe a few days. The songs were sharp from having played most of them at various shows. Very stripped down, basic as could be. The place was on a farm in chicken country (Petaluma). Hard work, but a ton of fun too.”
We Care A Lot (Deluxe Band Edition) track list:
1. We Care A Lot
2. The Jungle
3. Mark Bowen
4. Jim
5. Why Do You Bother
6. Greed
7. Pills for Breakfast
8. As The Worm Turns
9. Arabian Disco
10. New Beginnings
11. We Care A Lot – 2016 Mix
12. Pills for Breakfast – 2016 Mix
13. As The Worm Turns – 2016 Mix
14. Greed – Original Demo
15. Mark Bowen – Original Demo
16. Arabian Disco – Original Demo
17. Intro – Original Demo
18. The Jungle – I-Beam, SF, 1986
19. New Beginnings – I-Beam, SF, 1986
Death Valley Girls Share 'I'm A Man Too' On Noisey / 'Glow In The Dark' Album Out June 10 On Burger Records
Death Valley Girls Share "I'm A Man Too" On Noisey "Glow In The Dark" Album Out June 10 On Burger Records
Pre-order HERE Upcoming Shows Include Burger Boogaloo Plus 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.” "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
Pre-order HERE Upcoming Shows Include Burger Boogaloo Plus 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.” "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
BRONCHO's "Double Vanity" Now Streaming, Album Out Next Week!
BRONCHO'S DOUBLE VANITY NOW STREAMING
OUT JUNE 10 ON DINE ALONE RECORDS
ON TOUR NOW
LISTEN TO DOUBLE VANITY
BRONCHO's new album Double Vanity -- out next week -- is now available to stream in advance. SPIN premiered the advance stream, calling it "perfection refracted" and stating, "The hooks are still there, buried under hairpin-bent notes and a blanket of reverb that would make anyone but the Jesus & Mary Chain blush." Double Vanity is out June 10 on Dine Alone Records and is available for pre-order here.
BRONCHO is currently on a North American headlining tour. All dates below.
TOUR DATES:6/02: Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ
6/03: Casbah - San Diego, CA
6/04: Teragram Ballroom - Los Angeles, CA
6/05: Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
6/06: Catalyst Atrium - Santa Cruz, CA
6/07: Independent - San Francisco, CA
6/09: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
6/10: Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
6/11: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC
6/13: Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
6/14: Walnut Room - Denver, CO
6/16: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
6/17: Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL
6/18: Wicker Park Green Music Festival - Chicago, IL
6/20: Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
6/21: Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC
6/22: Great Scott - Boston, MA
6/23: Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
6/24: Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
6/25: DC9 - Washington, DC
6/26: Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
6/29: Hi Watt - Nashville, TN
6/30: Outland - Springfield, MO
8/03: Riot Room - Kansas City, MO
8/04: Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
8/05: Cosmic Charlie's - Lexington, KY
8/06: Hi Fi - Indianapolis, IN
8/07: Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
8/08: The Basement - Columbus, OH
8/09: Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
8/10: Majestic Cafe - Detroit, MI
8/11: Mohawk - Buffalo, NY
BRONCHO - DOUBLE VANITY:Blasted grassland, the thin ribbon line of the freeway unspooling beneath wheels, skies stretched wide between mountaintop. It is dream music, foggy, atmospheric, the melodies you hear while you gazing out through fingerprint smeared windows into a constantly moving, metamorphosing landscape....
It makes sense then, that BRONCHO was born out of out a film project, its initial incarnation sparked when founder Ryan Lindsey was asked to create music "to set to an early 80s punk film." "That's all I knew about it," he remembers, "they were looking for songs that touched this era. And songs kept coming to me and turned something on inside of me artistically." Lindsey found himself in the midst of prolific run of songs and he liked the idea "of starting out there and seeing where it could go."
What's evolved from those first tracks there has been a steady run of success, critical accolades and two full-length albums: 2011's Can't Get Past the Lips and 2014's Just Enough Hip to Be Woman. And beneath it all, the music has been constantly mutating and ceaselessly experimental. From that first inception as a soundtrack in 2010, BRONCHO has taken on a life of its own. The initial inspiration is still there, but now pushing far beyond the stiff confines of score. What began as an ode to ramshackle, high-energy early punk has become something deeper, weirder, and much more nuanced. The undercurrent of early 1980s punk is still there, but The Ramones pogo has been replaced more often by a kind of Love and Rockets-inspired, honeyed, cotton-mouthed drift.
Double Vanity is Lindsey and bandmates Ben King, Nathan Price and Penny Pitchlynn steadily moving ahead, transforming the raw angst of the first record into a sound decidedly more layered and complex. Tracks like "New Karma" or "Two Step" riff off the later explorations of punk, culling up refracted images of John Hughes prom nights, love songs echoing from a boombox held high. "Jenny Loves Jenae" and "Speed Demon" strut with a 80s-meets-50s swagger, discord transformed into a jagged, frenetic pop. "Señora Borealis" is all bad boy sneer - sensual, moody, with a sly and predatory swagger. "I Know You" is simultaneously infectious and brooding, somehow both exalting and heartsick.
The result is a record that veers gleefully from BRONCHO's roots, moving from graffiti sprayed backrooms into a sleeker, plusher sound, a place bright with the polished gleam of chrome and bleached white sunlight. Close your eyes and what you feel is the raw wound pulse of adolescence; what you see behind your lids is suburban shopping mall wastelands, glazed eyes, dead grass, lips glossed in bubblegum pink. There is the burst chest thump of teenage longing, the smell of hairspray and cigarettes. There is glow of neon and the glint of streetlight rolling across hood.
Double Vanity evokes a shared nostalgia for the past and for the unknown future, as BRONCHO takes a turn off the wide freeways and into a world of intimate, intricate - but always universal - emotion.
Photo credit: Pooneh Ghana
BRONCHO
DOUBLE VANITY
DINE ALONE RECORDSJUNE 10, 2016
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1. All Time2. Fantasy Boys3. I Know You4. Jenny Loves Jenae5. Highly Unintentional6. Senora Borealis7. New Karma8. Speed Demon9. Soak Up The Sun10. Two Step11. Wanna Wake Up
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OUT JUNE 10 ON DINE ALONE RECORDS
ON TOUR NOW
LISTEN TO DOUBLE VANITYBRONCHO's new album Double Vanity -- out next week -- is now available to stream in advance. SPIN premiered the advance stream, calling it "perfection refracted" and stating, "The hooks are still there, buried under hairpin-bent notes and a blanket of reverb that would make anyone but the Jesus & Mary Chain blush." Double Vanity is out June 10 on Dine Alone Records and is available for pre-order here.
BRONCHO is currently on a North American headlining tour. All dates below.
TOUR DATES:6/02: Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ
6/03: Casbah - San Diego, CA
6/04: Teragram Ballroom - Los Angeles, CA
6/05: Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA
6/06: Catalyst Atrium - Santa Cruz, CA
6/07: Independent - San Francisco, CA
6/09: Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
6/10: Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
6/11: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC
6/13: Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
6/14: Walnut Room - Denver, CO
6/16: 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN
6/17: Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL
6/18: Wicker Park Green Music Festival - Chicago, IL
6/20: Horseshoe Tavern - Toronto, ON
6/21: Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC
6/22: Great Scott - Boston, MA
6/23: Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA
6/24: Bowery Ballroom - New York, NY
6/25: DC9 - Washington, DC
6/26: Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
6/29: Hi Watt - Nashville, TN
6/30: Outland - Springfield, MO
8/03: Riot Room - Kansas City, MO
8/04: Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
8/05: Cosmic Charlie's - Lexington, KY
8/06: Hi Fi - Indianapolis, IN
8/07: Zanzabar - Louisville, KY
8/08: The Basement - Columbus, OH
8/09: Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA
8/10: Majestic Cafe - Detroit, MI
8/11: Mohawk - Buffalo, NY
BRONCHO - DOUBLE VANITY:Blasted grassland, the thin ribbon line of the freeway unspooling beneath wheels, skies stretched wide between mountaintop. It is dream music, foggy, atmospheric, the melodies you hear while you gazing out through fingerprint smeared windows into a constantly moving, metamorphosing landscape....
It makes sense then, that BRONCHO was born out of out a film project, its initial incarnation sparked when founder Ryan Lindsey was asked to create music "to set to an early 80s punk film." "That's all I knew about it," he remembers, "they were looking for songs that touched this era. And songs kept coming to me and turned something on inside of me artistically." Lindsey found himself in the midst of prolific run of songs and he liked the idea "of starting out there and seeing where it could go."
What's evolved from those first tracks there has been a steady run of success, critical accolades and two full-length albums: 2011's Can't Get Past the Lips and 2014's Just Enough Hip to Be Woman. And beneath it all, the music has been constantly mutating and ceaselessly experimental. From that first inception as a soundtrack in 2010, BRONCHO has taken on a life of its own. The initial inspiration is still there, but now pushing far beyond the stiff confines of score. What began as an ode to ramshackle, high-energy early punk has become something deeper, weirder, and much more nuanced. The undercurrent of early 1980s punk is still there, but The Ramones pogo has been replaced more often by a kind of Love and Rockets-inspired, honeyed, cotton-mouthed drift.
Double Vanity is Lindsey and bandmates Ben King, Nathan Price and Penny Pitchlynn steadily moving ahead, transforming the raw angst of the first record into a sound decidedly more layered and complex. Tracks like "New Karma" or "Two Step" riff off the later explorations of punk, culling up refracted images of John Hughes prom nights, love songs echoing from a boombox held high. "Jenny Loves Jenae" and "Speed Demon" strut with a 80s-meets-50s swagger, discord transformed into a jagged, frenetic pop. "Señora Borealis" is all bad boy sneer - sensual, moody, with a sly and predatory swagger. "I Know You" is simultaneously infectious and brooding, somehow both exalting and heartsick.
The result is a record that veers gleefully from BRONCHO's roots, moving from graffiti sprayed backrooms into a sleeker, plusher sound, a place bright with the polished gleam of chrome and bleached white sunlight. Close your eyes and what you feel is the raw wound pulse of adolescence; what you see behind your lids is suburban shopping mall wastelands, glazed eyes, dead grass, lips glossed in bubblegum pink. There is the burst chest thump of teenage longing, the smell of hairspray and cigarettes. There is glow of neon and the glint of streetlight rolling across hood.
Double Vanity evokes a shared nostalgia for the past and for the unknown future, as BRONCHO takes a turn off the wide freeways and into a world of intimate, intricate - but always universal - emotion.
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Kelsey Lu Premieres 'Dreams' Video & Announces Church EP - Released July 8th
RISING ARTIST, PRODUCER AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST KELSEY LU'S "DREAMS" VIDEO PREMIERES TODAYBreakDEBUT EP CHURCH DUE JULY 8 ON
TRUE PANTHER SOUNDSBreakPLAYING SELECT HEADLINE SHOWS THIS SUMMER, PLUS OPENING SHOWS FOR GRIMES, FLORENCE + THE MACHINE AND KENDRICK LAMARBreak
BreakRising artist and multi-instrumentalist Kelsey Lu premieres a new video for "Dreams" today, watch ithere - https://youtu.be/eJ9nmbN5rd4. The track is taken from her debut EP
Church
, set for releaseJuly 8 on True Panther Sounds. Preorder Church on vinyl here and on iTunes, with an instant download of "Dreams," here.The EP's title comes from its unique recording process—Kelsey Lu recorded live in a single take at the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cello, her voice and her loop pedal.To celebrate the release, Kelsey Lu will play select shows this summer, including two nights opening for Florence + the Machine and Grimes at Brooklyn's Barclays center, and a very special Church show June 16 at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, where the EP was recorded. Kelsey Lu will also play at London's Hyde Park July 2 alongside Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington and Jamie xx.Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kelsey Lu left home at 18 to study cello. Now based in New York, she has collaborated with, and contributed to albums from, many of her peers including Blood Orange, Kelela, Wet and Organized Noize.The video for "Dreams" was conceived by Kelsey Lu, directed by Alix Brown and shot in California's Joshua Tree National Park.BreakKELSEY LU LIVEJune 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center*June 15 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center*June 16 - Brooklyn, NY - Holy Family Roman Catholic ChurchJuly 2 - London, UK - Hyde ParkJuly 11 - London, UK - Waiting RoomBreak
Break
TRUE PANTHER SOUNDSBreakPLAYING SELECT HEADLINE SHOWS THIS SUMMER, PLUS OPENING SHOWS FOR GRIMES, FLORENCE + THE MACHINE AND KENDRICK LAMARBreak
BreakRising artist and multi-instrumentalist Kelsey Lu premieres a new video for "Dreams" today, watch ithere - https://youtu.be/eJ9nmbN5rd4. The track is taken from her debut EP
Church
, set for releaseJuly 8 on True Panther Sounds. Preorder Church on vinyl here and on iTunes, with an instant download of "Dreams," here.The EP's title comes from its unique recording process—Kelsey Lu recorded live in a single take at the Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with her cello, her voice and her loop pedal.To celebrate the release, Kelsey Lu will play select shows this summer, including two nights opening for Florence + the Machine and Grimes at Brooklyn's Barclays center, and a very special Church show June 16 at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, where the EP was recorded. Kelsey Lu will also play at London's Hyde Park July 2 alongside Florence + the Machine, Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington and Jamie xx.Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Kelsey Lu left home at 18 to study cello. Now based in New York, she has collaborated with, and contributed to albums from, many of her peers including Blood Orange, Kelela, Wet and Organized Noize.The video for "Dreams" was conceived by Kelsey Lu, directed by Alix Brown and shot in California's Joshua Tree National Park.BreakKELSEY LU LIVEJune 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center*June 15 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center*June 16 - Brooklyn, NY - Holy Family Roman Catholic ChurchJuly 2 - London, UK - Hyde ParkJuly 11 - London, UK - Waiting RoomBreakBreak
Public Access T.V. Release "Patti Peru" Music Video
Public Access T.V. Release "Patti Peru" Music Video
"Breakout stars of SXSW." - Entertainment Weekly "Public Access TV just released their debut EP to sweeping accolades, with critics across the genre asserting that the band's quick hit post-punk is what New York rock should sound like." - Fader "Ultimately, the day belonged to Public Access TV. The NYC band brought a sizzling swagger to their evening set at the Mohawk, and provided a sneak peak at the tracks that will comprise their debut album. " - NME
Public Access TV shared the official video for their track "Patti Peru" via Noisey (HYPERLINK), who called it [FILL IN W QUOTE]. Talking about the video, lead singer John Eatherly says, "The band and I spend 90% of our time together. We all live right next to each other so we're constantly hanging even when we're off tour. Like brothers this means we fight a lot both physically and emotionally. For this video we figured a good way to get out some tension would be to kill each other on screen... it's always love though."The track will be featured on their upcoming debut album this fall. A full album announcement will be coming in the next few weeks. This summer the band will again return to Europe for a string of live shows and festival appearances, as well as making their debut on the U.S. Festival Circuit. Full list of summer 2016 dates are below. PATV LIVE UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
June 3 - Governor's Ball Music Festival - New York City, NY
June 4 - Brooklyn Bowl - New York City, NY *Supporting Albert Hammond Jr.*
June 10 - Bonnaroo Music Festival - Manchester, TN
July 10 - i-Days Music Festival - Milan, Italy
July 12 - Brixton Electric - London, UK *Supporting Fidlar*
July 16 - Truck Music Festival - Oxfordshire, UK July 23 - Old Blue Last - London, UKJuly 30 - Soup Kitchen - Manchester, UK
July 30 - Y Not Music Festival - Derbyshire, UK
+ More shows being announced soon...
Over the last year the band has kept very busy - they released their debut EP and several singles to critical acclaim, toured the US and UK extensively sharing stages with acts such as Weezer, Gang of Four, The Strokes, Wavves, Fidlar, Palma Violets, Twin Peaks, Hinds, and performed at festivals throughout Europe.
"Breakout stars of SXSW." - Entertainment Weekly "Public Access TV just released their debut EP to sweeping accolades, with critics across the genre asserting that the band's quick hit post-punk is what New York rock should sound like." - Fader "Ultimately, the day belonged to Public Access TV. The NYC band brought a sizzling swagger to their evening set at the Mohawk, and provided a sneak peak at the tracks that will comprise their debut album. " - NMEPublic Access TV shared the official video for their track "Patti Peru" via Noisey (HYPERLINK), who called it [FILL IN W QUOTE]. Talking about the video, lead singer John Eatherly says, "The band and I spend 90% of our time together. We all live right next to each other so we're constantly hanging even when we're off tour. Like brothers this means we fight a lot both physically and emotionally. For this video we figured a good way to get out some tension would be to kill each other on screen... it's always love though."The track will be featured on their upcoming debut album this fall. A full album announcement will be coming in the next few weeks. This summer the band will again return to Europe for a string of live shows and festival appearances, as well as making their debut on the U.S. Festival Circuit. Full list of summer 2016 dates are below. PATV LIVE UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
June 3 - Governor's Ball Music Festival - New York City, NY
June 4 - Brooklyn Bowl - New York City, NY *Supporting Albert Hammond Jr.*
June 10 - Bonnaroo Music Festival - Manchester, TN
July 10 - i-Days Music Festival - Milan, Italy
July 12 - Brixton Electric - London, UK *Supporting Fidlar*
July 16 - Truck Music Festival - Oxfordshire, UK July 23 - Old Blue Last - London, UKJuly 30 - Soup Kitchen - Manchester, UK
July 30 - Y Not Music Festival - Derbyshire, UK
+ More shows being announced soon...
Over the last year the band has kept very busy - they released their debut EP and several singles to critical acclaim, toured the US and UK extensively sharing stages with acts such as Weezer, Gang of Four, The Strokes, Wavves, Fidlar, Palma Violets, Twin Peaks, Hinds, and performed at festivals throughout Europe.
Steady Holiday To Release Under The Influence on June 24th via Infinite Best Recordings
Steady Holiday To Release Under The Influence
on June 24th via Infinite Best RecordingsJune Residency at the Satellite in Los Angeles and Santa Monica Pier show with Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announced"Under The Influence" is a film score reinvented; it contains the movie's troubled mood and themes, turning them into a slinky ode to instability and imperfection. - THE FADER
Steady Holiday will perform live every Monday in June at The Satellite in Los Angeles in support of their forthcoming album Under The Influence, out June 24th via Infinite Best Recordings. The shows will be supported by Alina Bea, Fakers, Elle Belle and more. The full residency schedule is listed below. Additionally, the band will join Unknown Mortal Orchestra on September 1st for a Twilight Concert at the Santa Monica Pier. June 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite Presented by New Professor:Elle Belle, Alina Bea, Bedouine & DJ #GREGKATZ
June 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatellitePresented by Free Bike Valet:with Sweet Bump It, VOX, Karoshi Mode & DJ Tarkus
June 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatellitePresented by Buzzbands LA:Fakers, Willoughby, Ryan Golden Kirkpatrick, DJ Homicide Life on the Streets
June 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellitewith Water Slice, The Bulls, Honey Child Choir & DJ Karene Daniel (KCRW)
LISTEN: "Under The Influence"
WATCH: "Open Water" Video
Steady Holiday shared the title track from the forthcoming album with THE FADER . "I wrote the song almost immediately after seeing the film A Woman Under the Influence," explains Dre Babinski."That movie flipped me upside down, it's so stark and has one of the most interesting characters I'd ever experienced. The song meanders a bit like the lead character, Mabel, and details the mood and some of the imagery from the film. It was the first song I had written in that manner, as an interpretation of another medium." Listen to "Under The Influence" HERE.
Until now you could find Steady Holiday's Dre Babinski playing in bands around LA, making a record with some friends from Dr. Dog, and opening for big tent stuff like Fitz and the Tantrums and Fun. She enjoyed the sideman life, but longed for an outlet of her own, writing and recording in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself. Steady Holiday is her coming out party.
On June 24, 2016, Steady Holiday will release Under The Influence via Infinite Best, the debut featuring Josh Adams (Jenny Lewis) and produced by Gus Seyffert (The Black Keys, Beck). Infinite Best Recordings has been releasing records since 2009, including the debut releases by artists like (Mr) Twin Sister, Ava Luna, and Roman a Clef.
The seductive "Open Water" follows earlier album cuts "No Matter" and "When I See Color," the former is a slow-burning fuse, snaking its way "deeper down the path" before realizing "there’s no rush to end when the cycles repeat." The latter is playful but melancholy, nodding towards Nilsson by way of Father John Misty, asking "do you ever put something on a list just to check it off?" and disintegrating in a swirl of minor key bass and violins played by Dre herself.
Steady Holiday Tour Dates
June 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
June 7 - San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
June 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
June 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatelliteJune 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatelliteSept 1 - Santa Monica, CA @ Santa Monica Pier (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
on June 24th via Infinite Best RecordingsJune Residency at the Satellite in Los Angeles and Santa Monica Pier show with Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announced"Under The Influence" is a film score reinvented; it contains the movie's troubled mood and themes, turning them into a slinky ode to instability and imperfection. - THE FADER
Steady Holiday will perform live every Monday in June at The Satellite in Los Angeles in support of their forthcoming album Under The Influence, out June 24th via Infinite Best Recordings. The shows will be supported by Alina Bea, Fakers, Elle Belle and more. The full residency schedule is listed below. Additionally, the band will join Unknown Mortal Orchestra on September 1st for a Twilight Concert at the Santa Monica Pier. June 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite Presented by New Professor:Elle Belle, Alina Bea, Bedouine & DJ #GREGKATZ
June 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatellitePresented by Free Bike Valet:with Sweet Bump It, VOX, Karoshi Mode & DJ Tarkus
June 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatellitePresented by Buzzbands LA:Fakers, Willoughby, Ryan Golden Kirkpatrick, DJ Homicide Life on the Streets
June 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellitewith Water Slice, The Bulls, Honey Child Choir & DJ Karene Daniel (KCRW)
LISTEN: "Under The Influence"
WATCH: "Open Water" Video
Steady Holiday shared the title track from the forthcoming album with THE FADER . "I wrote the song almost immediately after seeing the film A Woman Under the Influence," explains Dre Babinski."That movie flipped me upside down, it's so stark and has one of the most interesting characters I'd ever experienced. The song meanders a bit like the lead character, Mabel, and details the mood and some of the imagery from the film. It was the first song I had written in that manner, as an interpretation of another medium." Listen to "Under The Influence" HERE.
Until now you could find Steady Holiday's Dre Babinski playing in bands around LA, making a record with some friends from Dr. Dog, and opening for big tent stuff like Fitz and the Tantrums and Fun. She enjoyed the sideman life, but longed for an outlet of her own, writing and recording in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself. Steady Holiday is her coming out party.
On June 24, 2016, Steady Holiday will release Under The Influence via Infinite Best, the debut featuring Josh Adams (Jenny Lewis) and produced by Gus Seyffert (The Black Keys, Beck). Infinite Best Recordings has been releasing records since 2009, including the debut releases by artists like (Mr) Twin Sister, Ava Luna, and Roman a Clef.
The seductive "Open Water" follows earlier album cuts "No Matter" and "When I See Color," the former is a slow-burning fuse, snaking its way "deeper down the path" before realizing "there’s no rush to end when the cycles repeat." The latter is playful but melancholy, nodding towards Nilsson by way of Father John Misty, asking "do you ever put something on a list just to check it off?" and disintegrating in a swirl of minor key bass and violins played by Dre herself.
Steady Holiday Tour Dates
June 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
June 7 - San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
June 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
June 20 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatelliteJune 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ The SatelliteSept 1 - Santa Monica, CA @ Santa Monica Pier (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra
June 1, 2016
of Montreal announces new album + shares single
OF MONTREAL SHARES NEW SINGLE VIA ZANE LOWE
DETAILS NEW ALBUM VIA PITCHFORK
INNOCENCE REACHES DUE AUGUST 12TH VIA POLYVINYL
of Montreal by Kelli McGuireSTREAM: "it's different for girls" -https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/of-montreal-its-different-for-girls-1
Innocence Reaches begins with a query. "How do you identify?" coos a robotic voice over a strikingly modern mix of bright synthpop and surging rave. The question too feels very of its time-as outdated ideas about gender and attraction are being overturned-but it's also a fair ask whenever of Montreal debuts an album.
The project's 14th LP follows two full decades of mercurial creative mania: swallowing up '60s psych-pop, Prince-ly funk, and glammy prog in turn; morphing freely between full-band affair and cloistered confessional booth; comprising lyrics both painfully personal and absurdly fantastical; and recently drawing site-specific inspiration from culture capitals like San Francisco or New York City. The thread that runs through it all is Athens, GA's Kevin Barnes, and Innocence Reaches finds him at his most light-hearted in years, working a Parisian stint, Top 40 sounds, and his newfound single status into the kaleidoscopic swirl. Even as he continues to sift the sonic and emotional detritus of his past, Barnes sums up his current mood in the opener's title: "let's relate."
The most immediate surprise is the sound. Innocence Reaches is touched by contemporary electronica, indie pop, and EDM. For the first time in his career, Barnes tuned into now. "Forever I've been detached from current music," he says. "I got into this bubble of only being in some other time period. I came up picking apart the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and symphonic pieces. But last year, I was hearing Jack Ü, Chairlift, Arca, and others, thinking about low end and sound collage. It was an extra layer to geek out on."
Paris helped with that. Barnes lived in a friend's studio for two weeks. It was in an apartment complex and, as he prefers to work at night, he couldn't thrash loud instruments for fear of noise complaints from the neighbors. But the in-house arsenal of vintage synthesizers and drum machines was fair game-check the skittering beats of "a sport and a pastime" and thick hum of "chap pilot."
By day, Barnes wandered Père Lachaise Cemetery, sat at cafés and wrote poems, read Jeans Ganet and Cocteau, or eavesdropped on conversations he couldn't translate. "Being in that place where no one looks at me twice and I can't even understand the language was like entering a parallel universe," recalls Barnes. "It was cathartic and inspiring to amputate myself from my normal life and feel like an individual outside of all the baggage and memories."
Enjoying anonymity, he sorted through the inner wreckage left by his divorce two years prior, and took stock of the briefer relationships since. "my fair lady" bids adieu to a familiar figure over sax-streaked disco-funk, but we soon meet Sarah from Detroit on darkwave dream "ambassador bridge," and Gabrielle the Athenian Beach Goth amid the trappy space-glitch of "trashed exes." In "les chants de maldoror," our hero cooly declares, "We only act nicely when we're ruining hotel beds/I greeted you in a hundred doorways." Innocence Reaches continues of Montreal's recent autobiographical streak, which finds Barnes "fetishizing reality," as he puts it.
But he's concerned with a broader reality as well. "it's different for girls" is an exploration of the "dilemme féminin". Combining Daft Punk's aptitude for groove with LCD Soundsystem's wit-an endlessly quotable track that has Barnes outlining the dangers inherent in binary gendering: "It's different for girls,from when they are children they're de-personalized, aggressively objectified..." and later Barnes sings "It's different for girls, they are mercurial creatures, not a masculine dissonance or sexual currency". The song is less feminine anthem and more pop exegesis of societal codes. "though some women are demons all of them are God". Indeed.
Apropos, Innocence Reaches' cover design was an attempt by a new first-time father - Kevin's brother David - to express his "wonderment for the female anatomy." And the aforementioned "let's relate" was indeed inspired by trans issues, a subject dear to Barnes' heart. "I have a history of gender-bending in performances, but that's also always been a part of my identity as a human," he says. "I'm thankful to have an outlet for that, to express that and not get chased out of town or beat up. I think we're moving in the right direction now." The song is a call to find common ground in simply being human: "I like that you like you/I think that you're great/I want to relate," he sings cheerily.
Innocence Reaches features darker moments to be sure-isolation, anger, indifference, and the feeling that, like a Truffaut film, madness lurks just outside the frame-but as Barnes explains, "Epiphany comes from breakdown. If you can stay open and vulnerable, the nebulous becomes transparent. That's one of the magical aspects of writing from personal life."
Sometimes you've gotta intentionally court a little chaos in order to make one of the best, weirdest, brightest, catchiest, and most inventive albums in your already incredible catalog.
Today of Montreal is sharing the first taste of Innocence Reaches in the form of "its different for girls," which premiered earlier today on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show as his World First. In addition to sharing the single, the band is detailing all of Innocence Reaches, which is due on August 12th via Polyvinyl Records. Check out "its different for girls" above now and see below for all Innocence Reaches info.
PRE-ORDER: Innocence Reaches - polyvinylrecords.com/innocencereaches
of Montreal Innocence Reaches (Polyvinyl Records)August 12, 2016
1. let's relate2. it's different for girls3 gratuitous abysses4. my fair lady5. les chants de maldoror6. a sport and a pastime7. ambassador bridge8. def pacts9. chaos arpeggiating10. nursing slopes11. trashed exes12. chap pilot
DETAILS NEW ALBUM VIA PITCHFORK
INNOCENCE REACHES DUE AUGUST 12TH VIA POLYVINYL
of Montreal by Kelli McGuireSTREAM: "it's different for girls" -https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/of-montreal-its-different-for-girls-1
Innocence Reaches begins with a query. "How do you identify?" coos a robotic voice over a strikingly modern mix of bright synthpop and surging rave. The question too feels very of its time-as outdated ideas about gender and attraction are being overturned-but it's also a fair ask whenever of Montreal debuts an album.
The project's 14th LP follows two full decades of mercurial creative mania: swallowing up '60s psych-pop, Prince-ly funk, and glammy prog in turn; morphing freely between full-band affair and cloistered confessional booth; comprising lyrics both painfully personal and absurdly fantastical; and recently drawing site-specific inspiration from culture capitals like San Francisco or New York City. The thread that runs through it all is Athens, GA's Kevin Barnes, and Innocence Reaches finds him at his most light-hearted in years, working a Parisian stint, Top 40 sounds, and his newfound single status into the kaleidoscopic swirl. Even as he continues to sift the sonic and emotional detritus of his past, Barnes sums up his current mood in the opener's title: "let's relate."
The most immediate surprise is the sound. Innocence Reaches is touched by contemporary electronica, indie pop, and EDM. For the first time in his career, Barnes tuned into now. "Forever I've been detached from current music," he says. "I got into this bubble of only being in some other time period. I came up picking apart the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and symphonic pieces. But last year, I was hearing Jack Ü, Chairlift, Arca, and others, thinking about low end and sound collage. It was an extra layer to geek out on."
Paris helped with that. Barnes lived in a friend's studio for two weeks. It was in an apartment complex and, as he prefers to work at night, he couldn't thrash loud instruments for fear of noise complaints from the neighbors. But the in-house arsenal of vintage synthesizers and drum machines was fair game-check the skittering beats of "a sport and a pastime" and thick hum of "chap pilot."
By day, Barnes wandered Père Lachaise Cemetery, sat at cafés and wrote poems, read Jeans Ganet and Cocteau, or eavesdropped on conversations he couldn't translate. "Being in that place where no one looks at me twice and I can't even understand the language was like entering a parallel universe," recalls Barnes. "It was cathartic and inspiring to amputate myself from my normal life and feel like an individual outside of all the baggage and memories."
Enjoying anonymity, he sorted through the inner wreckage left by his divorce two years prior, and took stock of the briefer relationships since. "my fair lady" bids adieu to a familiar figure over sax-streaked disco-funk, but we soon meet Sarah from Detroit on darkwave dream "ambassador bridge," and Gabrielle the Athenian Beach Goth amid the trappy space-glitch of "trashed exes." In "les chants de maldoror," our hero cooly declares, "We only act nicely when we're ruining hotel beds/I greeted you in a hundred doorways." Innocence Reaches continues of Montreal's recent autobiographical streak, which finds Barnes "fetishizing reality," as he puts it.
But he's concerned with a broader reality as well. "it's different for girls" is an exploration of the "dilemme féminin". Combining Daft Punk's aptitude for groove with LCD Soundsystem's wit-an endlessly quotable track that has Barnes outlining the dangers inherent in binary gendering: "It's different for girls,from when they are children they're de-personalized, aggressively objectified..." and later Barnes sings "It's different for girls, they are mercurial creatures, not a masculine dissonance or sexual currency". The song is less feminine anthem and more pop exegesis of societal codes. "though some women are demons all of them are God". Indeed.
Apropos, Innocence Reaches' cover design was an attempt by a new first-time father - Kevin's brother David - to express his "wonderment for the female anatomy." And the aforementioned "let's relate" was indeed inspired by trans issues, a subject dear to Barnes' heart. "I have a history of gender-bending in performances, but that's also always been a part of my identity as a human," he says. "I'm thankful to have an outlet for that, to express that and not get chased out of town or beat up. I think we're moving in the right direction now." The song is a call to find common ground in simply being human: "I like that you like you/I think that you're great/I want to relate," he sings cheerily.
Innocence Reaches features darker moments to be sure-isolation, anger, indifference, and the feeling that, like a Truffaut film, madness lurks just outside the frame-but as Barnes explains, "Epiphany comes from breakdown. If you can stay open and vulnerable, the nebulous becomes transparent. That's one of the magical aspects of writing from personal life."
Sometimes you've gotta intentionally court a little chaos in order to make one of the best, weirdest, brightest, catchiest, and most inventive albums in your already incredible catalog.
Today of Montreal is sharing the first taste of Innocence Reaches in the form of "its different for girls," which premiered earlier today on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 show as his World First. In addition to sharing the single, the band is detailing all of Innocence Reaches, which is due on August 12th via Polyvinyl Records. Check out "its different for girls" above now and see below for all Innocence Reaches info.
PRE-ORDER: Innocence Reaches - polyvinylrecords.com/innocencereaches
of Montreal Innocence Reaches (Polyvinyl Records)August 12, 2016
1. let's relate2. it's different for girls3 gratuitous abysses4. my fair lady5. les chants de maldoror6. a sport and a pastime7. ambassador bridge8. def pacts9. chaos arpeggiating10. nursing slopes11. trashed exes12. chap pilot
Treasure Island Music Festival Announces Dates For 10th Anniversary - October 15 & 16, 2016
TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY IN THE BAY AREA OCTOBER 15-16, 2016
-- Lineup, Tickets, and Details Coming Soon --
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 1, 2016) – Treasure Island Music Festival, produced by Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment, will return to the San Francisco Bay Area for its tenth anniversary with a weekend of music and entertainment on October 15-16, 2016.
At Treasure Island Music Festival (TIMF), there are no overlapping sets, so festivalgoers never miss a beat of their favorite artists. The Festival location adds to the unique musical experience where guests enjoy soaring performances with stunning panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay. In addition to the music, each year TIMF brings an array of fun activities and delicious food to the Festival grounds, including the iconic 60-foot Century Ferris Wheel, an eclectic mix of interactive art installations and roaming performers, and some of the best cuisine the Bay Area has to offer. Additionally, the Festival will present a well-curated lineup of official night shows after the park closes with a mix of nationally acclaimed and up-and-coming acts at venues around town.
Since its inception in 2007, TIMF has offered attendees an eclectic mix of music performances with the likes of Beck, Outkast, Justice, Vampire Weekend, LCD Soundsystem, The xx, Atoms For Peace, The Flaming Lips, Belle & Sebastian, Modest Mouse, Die Antwoord, Major Lazer, Disclosure, MGMT, Empire of the Sun, Public Enemy, Chromeo, Massive Attack, Alt-J, James Blake, and Grimes all having previously played the festival. Additionally, last year’s lineup included memorable performances from The National and CHVRCHES (who also joined together on stage), Deadmau5, Run the Jewels and Big Grams (who also performed several songs together), FKA Twigs, Father John Misty, STS9, The War on Drugs, Drive Like Jehu, and more.
TIMF will be announcing the full music lineup along with other Festival details in the coming weeks. Additionally, stay tuned as GA and VIP weekend and single-day tickets also become available. For more information on the Festival, go to treasureislandfestival.com. Follow TIMF at facebook.com/treasureislandfestival, on Twitter @timfsf, and on Instagram @timfsf for updates and special promotions. The Festival’s official hashtag is #TIMF10.
