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Adele Announces New Single "When We Were Young"

ADELEAnnounces New Single"When We Were Young"Adele releases her new single "When We Were Young" today - available digitally and on streaming services worldwide. "When We Were Young" is the latest track to be taken from Adele's third album, '25,'and was co-written with Tobias Jesso Jr. & produced by Ariel Rechtshaid. This month Adele will embark on a sold-out tour of the UK and Europe, which commences on Monday February 29th in Belfast. Her sold out tour will continue in the US, Canada and Mexico later in 2016 - all dates can be found on her website: adele.com/live   Adele is set to perform at the 58th annual GRAMMY Awards taking place in Los Angeles on February 15th to be broadcast live on CBS.  She will also be performing live at the 2016 BRIT Awards in London on February 24th live on ITV1.

LAURA MVULA RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO FOR "OVERCOME" FEAT. NILE RODGERS

RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO FOR 
“OVERCOME”
FEATURING NILE RODGERS Since catapulting into the limelight with her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Sing To The Moon’and touring the world, British songstress Laura Mvula is back with new single “Overcome.” Featuring the legendary Nile Rodgers, the new single is available now HERE. Fans can also view the “stunning” video for the single, as dubbed by FADER, HERE.  It’s rare to come across an artist with such undeniable uniqueness and music so lyrically poetic that it simply speaks for itself.
 When your heart is broken down
And your head don’t reach the sky
Take your broken wings and fly

When your head is heavy, low
And the tears they keep falling
Take your broken feet and run

With the world upon your shoulders
Nowhere left to hide
Keep your head up carry on

It ain’t no time to die
Even though we suffer
Come together we pray
Produced By Troy Miller who has worked with the likes of Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson and Rumer, and co-produced by Laura, “Overcome” sees Laura in a new found light - still reflecting her distinctive signature sound but showing the progression of an artist who has come in to her own. Having formed a friendship through their love of music and each other’s work, Laura initially sent Nile the first version of “Overcome” and he loved it so much he asked to add some of his magic to the final version. Combining Nile’s upbeat sounds with Laura’s characteristic thrilling harmonies layered beneath stunning tribal beats may come as a surprise to many, but the final product is a true testament to both artists’ musical talents and a clear development from Laura’s debut album.

ABOUT LAURA MVULA
Since announcing the release of her debut EP in 2012, Laura has been picking up critical acclaim and support from some of the biggest tastemakers out there. Laura's unique sound has entranced critics, leading The New York Times to proclaim, “She’s a musical architect,” while The Wall Street Journal praised her debut as “quietly yet forcefully brilliant.” Her debut album,  Sing To The Moon , made many critics’ year-end lists, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, LA Times, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, NPR, Vulture, the New York Daily News,Buzzfeed, and more. The album reached the Top 10 in the UK, Won 2 Mobo Awards for Best Female and best R and B Soul Artist and received Mercury, Ivor Novello and Brit Awards nominations.

Laura is graduate from the Birmingham Conservatoire with a degree in composition and started writing songs on her laptop while working as a supply teacher in a Birmingham secondary school. As one of the most exciting musical talents to come out of the UK, Laura has certainly come a long way since writing songs on her laptop. Now critically acclaimed, her unique character and musical mind has broken the boundaries of music once again.

Immersion Analogue Creatures 10” (vwm50)

Immersion Analogue Creatures 10” (vwm50) - 5th Feb 2016[image error]  The 1st new Immersion material of the 3rd Millennium! In a move which may surprise some Immersion is back with a new 10" / digital release which both harks back to it's roots and looks forward to the future. You may stream it here on SPINAnd order it via our Mail OrderAnd also browse the Immersion back catalogue here (more on that later)

Malka Spigel and Colin Newman’s Immersion came into being in the early 1990s, against the backdrop of the European minimal techno scene. This offered an immediate context for them to pursue the instrumental electronic work on which they had already embarked, driven primarily by Spigel’s natural affinity for abstract, non song-based structures — a creative area she’d been exploring as far back as the mid-1980s in Brussels, on home recordings with Minimal Compact band mate Rami Fortis.

Energized by techno’s renewed DIY ethos, the couple founded their own label, Swim, as an outlet for their projects. The first two releases were Spigel’s Rosh Ballata (1993) and Tree (1994) by Oracle — a collaboration between Newman, Spigel and Minimal Compact’s Samy Birnbach. The next Swim release would be their debut Spigel-Newman album but, rather than use their own names, they adopted a strategy that was very much of its time. “We had two records out on the label,” explains Newman, “and we needed to do more. So we had to have a new identity, and we made a group up. This was deep in the techno period, when making up identities was de rigueur: people did compilations where they were all the artists. They had lots of different names on them, but it was the same person. I was kind of inspired by that idea of making up a mysterious group and nobody knowing who they are.”

Immersion was such a group. “We originally said in the press releases that they were German,” laughs Newman. “You could get away with that sort of thing in those days.” Spigel remembers that the subterfuge went beyond their fake provenance: “We also did some publicity photos with wigs, masks and dark glasses. It was really stupid!” Even so, it did the trick: “That first Immersion album actually sold quite well in Germany,” says Newman. “It got a certain amount of attention there — not so much in Britain, because Germany was techno central at that point in the early ’90s.”

        

The duo’s first record,  Oscillating , came out in 1994, followed a year later by Full Immersion, a collection of remixes by a diverse global cast of DJs and producers, including Claude Young, Mick Harris, Gez Varley, Mark Gage, Fred Giannelli and Trawl (Robin Rimbaud/Scanner). A third record, Low Impact (its title inspired by architectural design theory, not aerobics), appeared in 1999. Immersion hit their stride on Low Impact, particularly with epic, layered ambient dronescapes like “Days Under the Sun,” “Self Portrait” and “Expanded Now.” For Newman, such tracks best capture the essence of Immersion, encapsulating something of the broader nature of this synth-centric collaboration with Spigel over the years: “Immersion is the purest ‘version’ of Malka and me, because it’s not her project, and it’s not my project: it’s our project. And musically, it’s also got a kind of purity. You can’t tell who’s playing or what’s playing.” Spigel concurs, emphasizing the fluid set-up of Immersion: “There’s no fixed roles in terms of the instruments we play.”

The fact that Immersion found favour with German listeners also made sense insofar as some of Spigel and Newman’s more abstract, beatless explorations resonated with the earliest work by Popol Vuh, Tangerine Dream and Cluster. But while much of that groundbreaking German electronic psychedelia was devoted to spaced-out, ethereal ambiences, the aural environments constructed by Immersion feel more grounded, often rooted in the material space of the contemporary cityscape: timeless and yet completely modern, Immersion’s sound is perhaps best described as urban kosmische.

Although Immersion made a few live appearances after Low Impact, the first decade of the new millennium saw Newman and Spigel refocus their attention on song- based music: the avant-pop supergroup Githead, Newman’s Wire and Spigel’s solo work.

So why have they reactivated Immersion? And why now?

As Spigel tells it, the quick answer is that they went shopping: “We were in New York in May 2015, at the end of a Wire tour, and Colin bought an analogue synth — an Arturia MicroBrute. When we got home, we decided to try it out, and it started from there.” Newman agrees that it was all very simple, that there was no preconceived plan: “It developed just like that, without any real objective in mind.” However, what they heard as they were tinkering with the MicroBrute soon began to sound like Immersion. This set them thinking about how a project dormant since the late 20th century might fit with their current creative orientation, as well as with the wider musical landscape.


The possibilities were immediately apparent to Newman, and he believed it made perfect sense to return to Immersion: “It felt like the right moment to do something with analogue synthesis again, and it felt like it could work to do something with instrumental, free-flowing music, music without verses, choruses and sections — particularly because it’s a good contrast to our song-based work with Githead and Wire. Their records exist in a world of pop and rock, whereas Immersion doesn’t. It exists on its own logic...and it’s very easy to do!”

The methodology behind Analogue Creatures remains fundamentally similar to Immersion’s intuitive modus operandi of the ’90s. “It’s all about analogue synthesizers and layering,” says Newman. “You begin with one part and then play on top of it, pass after pass, building up a track with loops of synthesizer and making an arrangement out of it. It’s very organic: there’s not a real sense of direction, it’s just the shape it comes out.”
Spigel and Newman feel that this predominantly analogue, manual approach streamlines and accelerates the composition and recording processes, avoiding some of the opportunity overload and option paralysis that can come with working in the digital domain: “You can make all this stuff in the digital world,” Newman allows, “but there’s something quite fast about doing it analogue: it’s hands-on. That’s what’s good about it.”

The Korg MS-10 synthesizer is the cornerstone of Immersion’s analogue architecture as far as Newman is concerned: “The distinctive thing about Immersion is the MS-10. There’s always the Korg in there somewhere, in every record.” Nevertheless, the duo recognize that it’s a machine with an obstinate, willful personality. “It’s so unpredictable,” says Spigel. “You never know what mood it’s going to be in.”
The MS-10 is central to “Mechanical Creatures.” With its hypnotic, revolving drone, this is classic Immersion, building and morphing almost imperceptibly as it runs its austere course. “It was the first thing we did for the record,” Spigel recalls. “It was like nothing had happened in between the last Immersion and the new one. It was like it was a sonically updated version — but with exactly the same atmosphere as an early Immersion track.”
Despite that continuity, there’s also some departure from Immersion’s original synthesized template. Spigel explains: “There was no guitar ever on early Immersion — it was all synth. That was how we started, but I had a strong feeling this time that we couldn’t just repeat the same Immersion that we did a long time ago. I felt it should make a step forward and do something it hadn’t done before, which is what it did with the guitars.” Underscoring the fluidity and interchangeability of the musicians’ roles in Immersion, it’s actually Spigel, a bassist, who contributes several guitar parts. On the mesmerizing, Roedelian “Slow Light,” she plays Newman’s electric 12-string through an organ pedal, in the process mysteriously transforming the guitar into a spine t.
In addition to guitars, Newman and Spigel have introduced some other new instruments to Immersion 2016. One of these is a Vermona analogue synthesizer, played by guest Guy Schneerson. This makes its distinctive presence felt in the arpeggiated patterns of “Organic Cities,” alongside the droning moan of the MicroBrute. Still, it’s not all analogue synthesis on Analogue Creatures, and a couple of virtual tools are also put to use: a Waves Element synth and a G-Force M-Tron Pro plug-in, both of which have seen recent action on records by Wire, Githead and Spigel.

Although the track titles came after the completion of the work and were only randomly assigned, they’re not without significance — offering glimpses of the natural environment that’s currently inspiring Newman and Spigel. After a quarter of a century in London, they’ve just completed their first year in Brighton, on England’s south coast, and the new surroundings have certainly made an impression, filtering into their creative sensibilities. “We’re so close to the sea,” says Spigel. “It’s less than 10 minutes away, and it’s different each time you see it. You notice the light and the quality of the air. It’s something we experience when we walk every day. Every hour it looks different. And we’ve also been inspired by sound — the natural sounds in particular, like the seagulls.”
In the context of these observations, titles like “Always the Sea,” “Shapeshifters” and the synesthetic “Slow Light” make perfect sense. Ultimately, however, the titles resist any fixed meaning and simply gesture towards the broader appeal of these tracks, with their open-ended, kaleidoscopic identities. “Shapeshifters” is a case in point: maybe it alludes to sea- and cloudscapes in constant flux or to the subtly changing patterns of Spigel and Newman’s quiet, trance-inducing electronic canvases, or perhaps something else entirely. Whatever, it embodies the essential character of Immersion: “ ‘Shapeshifters’ is a title that fits us as well,” Spigel says. “We always do something different.” 
Swim ~ Vinyl & Immersion Back Catalogue
       Swim ~ have only ever released one 10" before so the format is mainly a novel one for us, however we'd like for this to be the start of a 10" series, nothing too planned but we have some ideas. We would not imagine to do another Immersion CD album until we have enough material, Analogue Creatures is limited to vinyl & digital. All the original Immersion CD releases are avaiable through Swim Mail Order, they have recently been joined by a digital only version of  Backflip , the "extra" CD which came with the CD version of Low Impact.We are also adding to the store some of the original swim 12" vinyl releases which have not been available anywhere for years, 3 of which are Immersion related. Needless to say there are only very small quanities of these.
Oscillating / Earth  (Vwm1) - Oracle remixes, actually the first Immersion release (and the first swim vinyl release). The remixes are credited to Oscillating & Earth but in fact they are all Immersion mixes.Immersion Remixes Vol.1 (Vwm 4.1) with Mark Gage (Vapourspace/ Cusp), Intens (actually another Immersion "persona"), Trawl (Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner) & Craig Wharton.2nd Immersion (Vwm12) the Immersion release that came out between Oscillating & Low Impact.
Also  Voice  the Colin Newman EP from 1995 usually seen as the precursor to 1997's Bastard. We are also making this one available digitally but the process may not have completed by the time you read this.
ILM - Saturday 2nd April 2016The Independent label Market (ILM) for those unfamiliar with it is kind if like a craft market but for Independent labels. It's held at many venues around the world but in April will return once again to Spitalfields market. Malka & Colin will be manning a swim ~ / pinkflag stall and we'll try to have some rarities and secial items available.

THE BLACK LIPS announce unique London show with Fluffer Records, May 21st

FLUFFER RECORDS & FLUFFER MUSIC PROMOTIONS PRESENTS:
THE BLACK LIPSAT

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THE BLACK LIPS. 1 SECRET WAREHOUSE. STAGE IN MIDDLE. CROWD 360.SAT 21st MAY, HACKNEY WICK, LONDON
London’s premiere DIY label, Fluffer Records have announced the long-awaited return of The Black Lips, Atlanta’s finest rock band. They’re planning a live music experience like no other, merging their ‘Pit Party’ formula of surrounding bands by their crowd in secret warehouse locations, with this legendary band.
This all day warehouse party will be The Black Lips London date before they head into mainline Europe, and it looks to be one for the history books with this fully immersive show.
Support will come from special guests. Bands from 2pm till 2am plus a whole host of special guest DJ’s playing the best in garage/punk and psych.
Al Brown, Fluffer Records founder said, “The Black Lips are one of the greatest bands in the world, ever! They loved the concept of crowd 360, playing in the middle and are well up for doing something different and having a big all day party in a warehouse with loads of other bands. Gig of a life-time.”
VENUE: SECRET HACKNEY WICK WAREHOUSEDATE: SAT 21st MAYTIME: 2PM-2AM
Ticket links:
dice.fm/fluffer-pit-parties-the-black-lips
https://billetto.co.uk/en/events/fluffer-pit-parties-present-black-lips
http://www.seetickets.com/event/fluffer-pit-parties-present-the-black-lips/secret-east-london-warehouse-london/950611
www.pitparties.com
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Ane Brun "When I'm Free" out today, Plays only US tour date at Housing Works Cafe TONIGHT

ANE BRUN’S “WHEN I’M FREE”
OUT NOW ON
BALLOON RANGER RECORDS
PLAYS HOUSING WORKS “LIVE FROM HOME” SERIES TONIGHT 
“best record yet…her most sonically ambitious…”—NPR Music “All Songs Considered” Sweden-based Norwegian artist Ane Brun’s sixth studio album  When I’m Free  is out now on Balloon Ranger Records. To celebrate, Brun will play her only U.S. tour date this year tonight at New York’s Housing Works Bookstore Cafe as part of their “Live From Home” series. NPR Music calls the new release “worldly, adventurous and gleeful.” They recently premiered Brun’s new video “You Lit My Fire” as part of their Songs We Love series. View post  HERE  and share via YouTube  HERE . The site also included the track “All We Want Is Love” as part of their “All Songs Considered” podcast saying the track has “moments of classic beauty.” The album is receiving many accolades abroad and tops the charts in Scandanavia and Benelux. U.K.’s  Sunday Times  calls the record “Sensational” while  Uncut  says, “best of all is the spell-binding, soul-jazz intensity of ‘You Lit My Fire’ which is the kind of track you’ve been waiting for Lauryn Hill to make for years.”  Mojo  gave the album four stars. When I’m Free  follows nearly two years of touring across the globe as a solo artist and with a full band, and succeeds the release of collections  Songs 2003-2013  and  Rarities.  She recently had a Top 5 hit in the U.K. that reached #1 on their Dance Chart with Dr. Kucho!and Gregor Salto for the song “Can’t Stop Playing (Makes Me High).” Brun wrote many of the songs for the new album in her Stockholm studio. She sought to employ new techniques including an app from her iPhone in order to feature more rhythm and bass within the intimate recordings that she has become known for. For the sessions, Brun collaborated again with producer Tobias Fröberg, who handled production duties on her album It All Starts With One. This time, Brun took on the role of co-producer and the two worked together over eight months at Stockholm’s Atlantis Studios, GIG Studios and Brun’s own home studio space. The new album seeks to explore new musical arenas for Brun, including the trip hop influenced “Directions” and the Eastern-tinged “Shape Of A Heart.” She employs musicians that she spent much of 2013 touring across the world with including bassist Dan Berglund (previously part of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio), pianist Martin Hederos (Soundtrack Of Our Lives), drummer Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) and guitarist Johan Lindström (Tonbruket). Other guests on the album include Lars Skoglund (Lykke Li) and Ola Hultgren on drums; Tobias Gabrielsson (electric bass); Linnea Olsson, Nina K and Sabina Ddumba (additional vocals) and John Eriksson (of Peter, Bjorn & John), rounding out the mix on timpani for “Directions” and providing percussion and mallets for “Black Notebook.” When I’m Free was inspired by the forced cancellation in late 2012 of a North American tour with Peter Gabriel that Brun was to take part in. As she has occasionally struggled with health concerns, Brun found that in the past she has let them weigh her down, whereas this time she had an epiphany. She recalls, “One night, I woke up and thought, ‘Why are you so afraid? It doesn’t help you in any way. Let your mind and body rest so it can heal.’ When I recovered, I experienced an almost bliss-like feeling. I’d replaced all the worrying and fear with gratitude, and the feeling lingered. So somehow, since 2012, I’ve been able to approach life very differently than before.” Brun has recorded and released ten albums over the last ten years on her own imprint Balloon Ranger Recordings. In 2005, her second album A Temporary Dive earned her critical acclaim at home and abroad, winning the Norwegian Grammy for Best Female Artist. Her fifth album, Changing Of The Seasons, was recorded in Iceland by Valgier Sigursson. The New York Times said the album “offers the kind of comfort that only well-versed singer-songwriters can give. An album full of sad songs to revel in as the days grow shorter and colder, Seasons is Brun’s strongest work yet.” Brun released It all Starts With One in 2011 and Rolling Stone called the lead track “Do You Remember” a “knockout single.” It was followed by the collections Songs 2003-2013, which celebrated Brun’s most beloved tracks and songwriting achievements and Rarities (2013), which navigated the lesser-known corners of her catalog.
“Live From Home” is Housing Works Bookstore Café’s award-winning benefit concert series. All proceeds from this event go to Housing Works, Inc.’s efforts to end AIDS and homelessness in NYC through advocacy, health care, housing, job training and other services. $20 General Tickets guarantees admission but not seating, $35 Guaranteed Seating and priority entrance and $55 VIP includes guaranteed seating and an exclusive meet & greet before the show. All tickets are nonrefundable donations to Housing Works, Inc. Doors at 7:30P.M., show at 8P.M. at 126 Crosby Street New York, NY 10012.

Moderat Presents Debut Single "Reminder" off , Out April 1 on Mute

MODERAT
(MODESELEKTOR + APPARAT)
PRESENTS “REMINDER,” DEBUT SINGLE OFF III
OUT APRIL 1ST ON MUTE/MONKEYTOWN
Photo credit: Flavien PrioreauModerat, the alliance of Berlin’s electronic heavy weights, Modeselektor and Apparat, fuse rousing basslines and intense breakbeats with gripping songs and a highly individual voice. The trio were initially brought together by Berlin’s now legendary rave scene, and with this as their common foundation, new album III signifies Moderat’s maturation in modern pop and mastery of the group. They’ve updated the songwriting tradition with an intriguing palette, born of careful attention and skill, informed by their 25 years of experience with the sounds of sub-and-club culture.

Leading into the album’s release, Moderat give a first impression of  III  with the strikingly beautiful debut single, “Reminder.” “Reminder” shows Apparat taking his vocal style to another level, while developing a very personal combination of modesty and honesty. His lyrics deal with how assuming responsibility can potentially lead to a new beginning. Modeselektor underpin Apparat’s beautiful vocals with subtle percussive grooves surrounded by the sounds of gleaming synthesizers.

With the exclusive B-side, ”Fondle,” Moderat expose a seldom seen side of their music. The slow, heavy groove alternates between a deep Chicago house sound and hypnotic, drifting dubstep. As a counterbalance to this deeply felt rhythmical heartbeat, Modeselektor present elegiac, spherical soundscapes, while Apparat drifts off in a remote and dreamy state.

Two powerful remixes from Special Request (aka Paul Woolford) and Answer Code Request take the track to very different dance floors. In his "Special Request Rework,” Woolford recreates the song with a highly determined, imperious bass drum, saving the vocal for an even more effective appearance in the break of the track. Pursuing the opposite approach from his British colleague, Berlin’s Answer Code Request develops his music from the emotional realm of the track, working with not only the groove, but also the atmosphere.

Moderat’s III is out April 1st on Mute/Monkeytown. “Reminder” is out Feb 19th on Digital Bundle, 10” out Feb 26th and 12” out March 18th. “Reminder” is available from today on streaming services and as an instant grat download with all iTunes preorders. The trio will take their impressive live show all over Europe and North America in support of this release. Renowned artist-collective and Moderat longtime creative collaborators Pfadfinderei will take the reins with visual direction. As many shows have already sold out, some shows are being moved to larger venues. All dates are below.
"Reminder" Single ArtworkStream Moderat’s “Reminder”:
https://youtu.be/Gk21PS7gedI
http://smarturl.it/ModeratReminderSptfy
http://smarturl.it/ModeratReminderAM

“Reminder” 10” Tracklist (out February 26)
A1 Reminder
B1 Fondle

“Reminder-Remixes” 12” Tracklist (out March 18)
A1 Reminder - Special Request Rework
B1 Reminder - Answer Code Request Remix

Pre-order Moderat’s III and “Reminder”:
via iTunes - http://smarturl.it/ModeratIII
via Amazon - http://smarturl.it/ModeratIIIAmazon
via Google Play - http://smarturl.it/ModeratIIIGooglePlay

Moderat Tour Dates (tix on sale via www.moderat.fm.):
Mon. March 28 - Paris, FR @ L’Olympia – SOLD OUT
Tue. March 29 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso – SOLD OUT
Wed. March 30 - Leipzig, DE @ Haus Auensee
Thu. March 31 - Munich, DE @ Zenith
Fri. April 1 - Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
Sat. April 2 - London, UK @ St John of Hackney – SOLD OUT
Sun. April 3 - Bristol, UK @ Motion – SOLD OUT
Tue. April 5 - Glasgow, UK @ ABC
Wed. April 6 - Dublin, IE @ Victar Street
Thu. April 7 - Brighton, UK @ Corn Exchange
Fri. April 8 - Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royale – SOLD OUT
Sat. April 9 - Hamburg, DE @ Sporthalle
Sun. April 10 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega – SOLD OUT
Thu. April 21 - Poznan, PL @ Hala 2 MTP
Fri. April 22 - Warsaw, PL @ Progresja – SOLD OUT
Sat. April 23 - Wroclaw, PL @ Eter Club
Sun. April 24 - Budapest, HU @ Akvarium
Tue. April 26 - Graz, AT @ Orpheum
Wed. April 27 - Zürich, CH @ X-TRA
Thu. April 28 - Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
Fri. April 29 - Rome, IT @ Spazio900
Sat. April 30 - Marseille, FR @ Cabaret Aléatoire
Sun. May 1 - Toulouse, FR @ Le Bikini
Mon. May 2 - Bordeaux, FR @ Le Rocher Palmer
Tue. May 3 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux        – SOLD OUT
Thu. May 5 - Lausanne, CH @ LesDocks – SOLD OUT
Sat. May 7 - Basel, CH @ Volkshaus
Sun. May 8 - Stuttgart, DE @ LKA Longhoorn
Thu. May 19 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Fri. May 20 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis – SOLD OUT
Sat. May 21 - Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
Mon. May 23 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Tue. May 24 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Thu. May 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre
Fri. May 27 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Sat. May 28 - Bradley, CA @ Lightning in a Bottle Festival
Mon. June 6 - Berlin, DE @ Velodrom
Sat. August 13 - Bochum, DE @ Jahrhunderthalle Ritournelle
Wed. Sep. 28 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
Thu. Sep. 29 – London, UK @ Brixton Academy
Fri. Sep. 30 – Brussels, BE @ Forest National
Sat. Oct. 1 – Amsterdam, NL @ Heineken Music Hall MODERAT:  WEBSITE  |  FACEBOOK  |  TWITTER  | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE

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Twin Limb Announces Sweeping US Tour; Anything Is Possible And Nothing Makes Sense Out Now!

TWIN LIMB ANNOUNCES SWEEPING US TOURSUPPORTING ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND NOTHING MAKES SENSE OUT NOW!
SUPPORTING MY MORNING JACKET + BASIA BULATPERFORMANCES AT SHAKY KNEES, OKEECHOBEE, AND SXSW

Twin Limb are about to take their breathtaking live show across the United States on the band's most daunting tour yet, spanning four months and twenty-seven dates. The vast tour includes dates at prominent festivals SXSW, Shaky Knees, and Okeechobee; the former having been a massive success for the trio after they inspired awe at the the Tumblr IRLevent last year, and the latter being a stage shared with Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Fetty Wap, and Ween.
The tour, in support of the band's rising record Anything Is Possible and Nothing Makes Sense also sees the band sharing the stage for ten dates with Canadian media darling, Basia Bulat, with one of the final dates being in Twin Limb's hometown of Louisville where they will be direct support for the peerless My Morning Jacket. 
Twin Limb's recent success comes off the snowballing buzz around their latest LP and videos, which stamp the trio as one of America's current most talked about new bands, with the thorough tour aiming to capitalize on the mass of positive reactions they have gained so far.
Anything Is Possible and Nothing Makes Sense is out now via Spotify and Apple Music.

WATCH/SHARE: “Don’t Even Think”WATCH/SHARE: “Long Shadow"
TWIN LIMB US TOUR DATES: 02/27 Louisville KY - The New Vintage (Tickets)03/05 Jacksonville FL - Jack Rabbits (Tickets)
03/06 Okeechobee FL - Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival (Tickets)
03/08 Orlando FL - The Social (Tickets)
03/09 St Petersburg FL - Local 662 (Tickets)
03/11 Bluffton SC - Roasting Room Lounge and Listening Room (Tickets)
03/12 Savannah GA - Savannah Stopover Music Festival (Tickets)03/14 New Orleans LA - Gasa Gasa (Tickets)
03/15 Austin TX - SXSW 2016 (Info)03/21 Dallas TX - Three Links* (Tickets)
03/22 Birmingham AL - Saturn Birmingham* (Tickets)
03/24 Nashville TN - High Watt* (Tickets)
03/26 Asheville NC - Grey Eagle* (Tickets)
03/28 Raleigh NC - King’s Barcade* (Tickets)03/29 Washington DC - Rock & Roll Hotel (Tickets)
03/30 Philadelphia PA - Boot & Saddle* (Tickets)
04/01 New York NY - The Bowery Ballroom* (Tickets)
04/02 Cambridge MA - The Sinclair* (Tickets)
04/03 Portland, ME - One Longfellow Square* (Tickets)
04/04 Burlington VT - Higher Ground* (Tickets)
04/06 Indianapolis IN - The Hi-Fi (Tickets)04/07 Chicago IL - The Empty Bottle (Tickets)
04/08 Covington KY - Madison Live (Tickets)
04/09 Knoxville TN - Rhythm N Blooms Music Festival (Tickets)05/12 Louisville KY - Iroquois Amphitheater^ (Sold Out)05/13 Louisville KY - Iroquois Amphitheater^ (Sold Out)
05/14 Atlanta GA - Shaky Knees Festival (Tickets)
* w/ Basia Bulat^ w/ My Morning Jacket

Bear Family Records Celebrates Release of Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records: The Collected Works

Bear Family Records Celebrates Release of
Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records: The Collected Works


 Holste-Oldendorf, Germany (February 5, 2016) – Jerry Lee Lewis and Sun Records are two terms that just go together naturally. For many years, if collectors wanted the entire Sun catalog of the singer, you would have to purchase several anthologies to complete the collection. Now, that mission has become a lot easier.

German-based Bear Family Records has just released Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records: The Collected Works, an eighteen CD & 2 book collection that tells the story of one of the most original and unique artists of all time. Spanning the years from 1956 until 1963, the set contains a staggering 623 tracks of Lewis at his piano-thumping greatness!

The set contains every surviving recording from the Sun master collection – and every single take! Included on the discs are such Lewis classics as “Crazy Arms,” “You Win Again,” as well as his two biggest hits, “Great Balls Of Fire,” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On,” which topped the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1957 and 1958, respectively.

Lewis was born September 29, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana. With cousins that included Jimmy Swaggart and future Country superstar Mickey Gilley, music struck a chord in the singer at a very early age. His mother enrolled him in Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas, so he would be singing only Gospel and Inspirational songs, but was expelled for adding his own boogie-woogie touch to a version of the classic “My God Is Real.” Also unsuccessful was a trip he made to Nashville in 1955 to drum up interest in himself as a recording artist. However, executives in Music City turned Lewis away, suggesting that he might take up the guitar instead.

As it turned out, Lewis found his home at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis – the home of Sam Phillips’ Sun Records. The maverick producer loved the singer exactly the way he was, and quickly signed him to a record deal in November of 1956. By the mid-way point of 1957, Lewis was well his way to making musical history. “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” became his first hit – peaking at No. 3 on the Hot 100. “Great Balls Of Fire” was next, and it became even bigger – spending four weeks at No. 2 on the hit parade.

Besides the hits Lewis cut for Phillips at Sun, many songs that you might not be aware the singer cut for the label are included in Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records: The Collected Works, including “I Forgot To Remember To Forget” (made famous by Elvis Presley originally, “I’m Throwing Rice” (a hit from the Eddy Arnold catalog), as well as “Be-Bop-A-Lula” (an iconic Pop hit from Gene Vincent.

The set – as well as the two books in the collection - follows the Lewis story through his controversial marriage to his first cousin once removed, Myra Gale Brown. Though the chart successes came to an end for the singer (save his 1960 raucous take on “What’d I’d Say”), Lewis continued to record for the label for several more years, recording such gems as “Money,” “I’ve Been Twistin,” and “Seasons Of My Heart.” The music also comes along with a pair of exclusive hardbound books – one with a complete Lewis On Sun discography, as well as another full of historical photos of the singer – many never published anywhere!

Jerry Lee Lewis At Sun Records: The Collected Works serves as an excellent companion piece to Mercury Smashes, a ten-CD set that Bear Family released in 2000, that chronicles the classic Country recordings of Lewis between 1968 and 1977.

Bear Family Records continues to plow new musical ground. For a detailed listing of all of their releases, go to www.bear-family.com

CAVEMAN — ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM OTERO WAR AND SHARE FIRST TRACK "NEVER GOING BACK" VIA FADER

CAVEMAN ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM OTERO WAR OUT VIA CINEMATIC MUSIC GROUP SUMMER 2016

"NEVER GOING BACK" REVEALED VIA FADER HERE
photo credit: Philip Di Fiore
Today New York's Caveman announce their upcoming album Otero War, to be released via Cinematic Music Group this Summer. FADER reveals their first track "Never Going Back" here, which is available digitally everywhere tomorrow.

FADER calls it: "an optimistic, anthemic jam called "Never Going Back" that contains shades of Springsteen."

Since Caveman first formed in 2010 they’ve claimed a spot for themselves at the center of the New York music scene, become in-demand DJs, toured the world (sharing stages with The War on Drugs, Jeff Tweedy, and Weezer), and received critical praise from the most prestigious media. Now the band–Matthew Iwanusa, lead guitarist James Carbonetti, bassist Jeff Berrall, keyboardist Sam Hopkins and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Prescott Clark–is aiming higher.

Caveman have their sights set on bigger goals, so on their third time around they made their biggest-sounding, most ambitious album yet.

Otero War  was created over the course of three years, completely inverting the ramshackle methods used to make 2011’s  CoCo Beware  and their 2013 self-titled LP. This time frontman Matthew Iwanusa has taken the wheel of the creative process, bringing to it a level of patience, precision, and quality that exceeds anything he’s ever done before. Iwanusa wrote most of these songs in the back of tour vans with a laptop and a portable keyboard, then spent years rewriting, examining every part to make sure it was exactly right, and eventually abandoning an album’s worth of insufficiently killer songs before hitting the studio with the band. There the group refined the songs even further, filling them out with arrangements that bring together their distinctive musical personalities into one united whole, showing off the seemingly effortless collaborative energy that only comes with years of hard work. To help achieve the grander sound they were after, they brought in their ideal mixer, Michael Brauer (Coldplay, My Morning Jacket) to elevate the album even further. 

While Iwanusa’s stepped further out front as a songwriter, arranger, and singer,  Otero War  is still a group effort made with contributions from the band’s entire unofficial extended family. Longtime friend and New York punk-scene legend Johnny T, who over the years has employed members as bartenders and DJ’s at his bars, helped the band get signed as the first rock act on Cinematic Music Group, home to rappers Joey Bada$$, G Herbo and Cam'ron. Albert Di Fiore, who engineered their last album, returns with an expanded role to produce alongside the band. Iwanusa’s father even contributes string arrangements.

It was more work, but worth it. The result is a whole new Caveman: The songs are stronger and more spacious, with carefully constructed melodies and a more judicious use of folksy four-part harmonies and washes of synthesizer pads, leaving more room for Iwanusa’s instantly memorable vocal parts. Iwanusa’s lyrics have also evolved from vaguely sketching a typical twenty-something’s romantic frustrations to examining larger, more broadly existential matters, like figuring out your place in the world.

Otero War will be released on Cinematic this summer. The band will tour extensively in support of the album, including festival appearances at SXSW, Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, GA, Forecastle in Louisville, KY and more to be announced very soon.

Caveman Tour Dates
Mar 15-20 - Austin, TX - SXSW
May 15 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
July 15 - Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival

Nada Surf release first video from new record

NADA SURF RELEASES FIRST VIDEO FROM NEW RECORD  THE OFFICE-MEETING-GONE-RIGHT CLIP FOR "COLD TO SEE CLEAR" AVAILABLE NOW VIA THE  WALL STREET JOURNAL   NEW ALBUM,  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE , OUT MARCH 4   NORTH AMERICAN TOUR TO BEGIN MAY 12
  (New York, NY) -- Nada Surf has released the first video from their new album  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE . The euphoric clip directed by Spencer Gentz depicts a typical corporate office meeting being transformed into joyful mayhem. It was appropriately picked up by the  Wall Street Journal  who gave the video its premiere today.  WATCH THE "COLD TO SEE CLEAR" VIDEO VIA WSJ.COM  Out March 4,  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE  is Nada Surf's eighth record and fifth for Barsuk. It was produced by long-time comrade Tom Beaujour at Nuthouse Recording n Hoboken, NJ, and marks the band's first as an official quartet with the core unit - singer/ songwriter/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot - joined by Doug Gillard on guitar. Fans can pre-order the record now. AmazonBarsukGoogleiTunes "Cold To See Clear" is already getting traction across the country at stations like KCRW, KEXP, WFUV, KCSN and more. The band premiered the album track "Believe You're Mine" with the announcement of the forthcoming release of  YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE  last month on KEXP's  John In The Morning  and  Morning Becomes Eclectic  on KCRW simultaneously.  The track shot to the top of the HypeMachine charts, was picked up by influential blogs like  STEREOGUM  and  BROOKLYN VEGAN  and was playlisted by  MOJO  who said "swooning with melody, this 'up' heartbreaker from the band's forthcomingYou Know Who You Are album charms as it mines emotional voids." Nada Surf has confirmed the first leg of a North American tour that begins in Chicago, IL, on May 12, 2016 and ends in Boston, MA, on June 4. The complete tour dates are below. NADA SURF YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE  TRACKLISTING: Cold to See ClearBelieve You're MineFriend HospitalNew BirdOut of the DarkRushingAnimalYou Know Who You AreGold SoundsVictory's Yours NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES: MAY12 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall13 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line14 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room17 - Vancouver, BC - Venue18 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre19 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom20 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall21 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram22 - San Diego, CA - Irenic24 - Denver, CO - Bluebird25 - Kansas City, MO - Crossroads27 - Austin, TX - Parish28 - Dallas, TX - Granada29 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall JUNE1 - Washington, DC - 930 Club2 - Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live3 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace4 - Boston, MA - Paradise
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