Alexander Laurence's Blog, page 2431
July 22, 2014
The Coathangers extend tour again!
THE COATHANGERS ADD NORTH AMERICAN DATES!
HEADLINING BURGERAMA'S CARAVAN OF STARS TOUR
ANDY ANIMAL'S MORE CONFIRMED
CHECK OUT THEIR SPIN OF THE GO GO'S "WE GOT THE BEAT" ON A.V. UNDERCOVER
Photo Credit: Ryan Russell
The Coathangers have added many more dates and chances have it they'll be in your town soon! They've just been confirmed as headliners for the last half of this year's Burger Records' Caravan of Stars Tour; Cherry Glazerr and Together Pangea will join! The ladies are also set to co-headline Burger-a-go-go Fest with Dum Dum Girls, Bleached, Best Coast, Shannon and the Clams and White Fang will join in on all gigs in between.
Back in April, The Coathangers stopped into A.V. Undercover to film their spin on The Go Go's "We Got The Beat" - watch / listen HERE. Their latest, critically acclaimed albumSuck My Shirt (out now on Suicide Squeeze), proves the trio to be on fire as they push out on the road once again, supporting their fourth, most deliberate and hard hitting album yet!
THE COATHANGERS LIVE DATES:
7/24: Siberia - New Orleans, LA %7/25: Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX %7/26: Red 7 - Austin, TX %7/27: Club Dada - Dallas, TX % 7/28: Ten Eleven - San Antonio, TX %7/30: Sisters - Albuquerque, NM %7/31: 191 Warehouse - Tucson, AZ # 8/1: Soda Bar - San Diego, CA %8/2: Burger-a-Go-Go - Los Angeles, CA $ 8/6: The Echo - Los Angeles, CA %8/10: House Show - Santa Rosa, CA %8/11: Don Quixote's - Santa Cruz, CA %8/12: Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA %8/13: Holland Project - Reno, NV % 8/14: Doug Fir - Portland, OR % 8/15: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC % 8/16: Pizza Fest - Seattle, WA % 8/18: Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT % 8/19: Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO8/20: Czar Bar - Kansas City, MO8/21: Firebird - St. Louis, MO8/23: JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN9/5: Andy Animal's Meltasia - La Fayette, GA10/23: 7th Street Entry -- Minneapolis, MN * 10/24: Logan Square Auditorium -- Chicago, IL * 10/25: Southgate House Revival Room -- Newport, KY * 10/26: The Blind Pig -- Ann Arbor, MI * 10/27: The Mod Club -- Toronto, ON * 10/29: Brighton Music Hall -- Allston, MA * 10/30: Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY *
% - w/ White Fang# - w/ Ceremony, Nothing and White Fang $ - w/ Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Bleached, Shannon and the Clams* Burger Records - Caravan of Stars Tour w/ Together Pangea, Cherry Glazerr more!
The Coathangers are:Julia Kugel (Crook Kid Coathanger - guitarist)Meredith Franco (Minnie Coathanger - bassist)Stephanie Luke (Rusty Coathanger - drums)
SUCK MY SHIRT SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS WATCH "FOLLOW ME" HERE FEATURING MASTODONLISTEN TO "SPRINGFIELD CANNONBALL" HERE"this time around, the band are firing on all cylinders" - Pitchfork
"their punk rock beats have been the perfect soundtrack to our weekend shenanigans for the past seven years." - NYLON "as urgent and primal as on earlier releases but with its hooks sharper than ever." -The Boston Globe
"tightly controlled sense of menace and impending chaos" - Paste
THE COATHANGERS THE COATHANGERS ON FACEBOOK THE COATHANGERS ON BANDCAMP THE COATHANGERS ON TWITTER
HEADLINING BURGERAMA'S CARAVAN OF STARS TOUR
ANDY ANIMAL'S MORE CONFIRMED
CHECK OUT THEIR SPIN OF THE GO GO'S "WE GOT THE BEAT" ON A.V. UNDERCOVER
Photo Credit: Ryan Russell The Coathangers have added many more dates and chances have it they'll be in your town soon! They've just been confirmed as headliners for the last half of this year's Burger Records' Caravan of Stars Tour; Cherry Glazerr and Together Pangea will join! The ladies are also set to co-headline Burger-a-go-go Fest with Dum Dum Girls, Bleached, Best Coast, Shannon and the Clams and White Fang will join in on all gigs in between.
Back in April, The Coathangers stopped into A.V. Undercover to film their spin on The Go Go's "We Got The Beat" - watch / listen HERE. Their latest, critically acclaimed albumSuck My Shirt (out now on Suicide Squeeze), proves the trio to be on fire as they push out on the road once again, supporting their fourth, most deliberate and hard hitting album yet!
THE COATHANGERS LIVE DATES:
7/24: Siberia - New Orleans, LA %7/25: Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX %7/26: Red 7 - Austin, TX %7/27: Club Dada - Dallas, TX % 7/28: Ten Eleven - San Antonio, TX %7/30: Sisters - Albuquerque, NM %7/31: 191 Warehouse - Tucson, AZ # 8/1: Soda Bar - San Diego, CA %8/2: Burger-a-Go-Go - Los Angeles, CA $ 8/6: The Echo - Los Angeles, CA %8/10: House Show - Santa Rosa, CA %8/11: Don Quixote's - Santa Cruz, CA %8/12: Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA %8/13: Holland Project - Reno, NV % 8/14: Doug Fir - Portland, OR % 8/15: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC % 8/16: Pizza Fest - Seattle, WA % 8/18: Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT % 8/19: Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO8/20: Czar Bar - Kansas City, MO8/21: Firebird - St. Louis, MO8/23: JJ's Bohemia - Chattanooga, TN9/5: Andy Animal's Meltasia - La Fayette, GA10/23: 7th Street Entry -- Minneapolis, MN * 10/24: Logan Square Auditorium -- Chicago, IL * 10/25: Southgate House Revival Room -- Newport, KY * 10/26: The Blind Pig -- Ann Arbor, MI * 10/27: The Mod Club -- Toronto, ON * 10/29: Brighton Music Hall -- Allston, MA * 10/30: Bowery Ballroom -- New York, NY *
% - w/ White Fang# - w/ Ceremony, Nothing and White Fang $ - w/ Dum Dum Girls, Best Coast, Bleached, Shannon and the Clams* Burger Records - Caravan of Stars Tour w/ Together Pangea, Cherry Glazerr more!
The Coathangers are:Julia Kugel (Crook Kid Coathanger - guitarist)Meredith Franco (Minnie Coathanger - bassist)Stephanie Luke (Rusty Coathanger - drums)
SUCK MY SHIRT SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS WATCH "FOLLOW ME" HERE FEATURING MASTODONLISTEN TO "SPRINGFIELD CANNONBALL" HERE"this time around, the band are firing on all cylinders" - Pitchfork
"their punk rock beats have been the perfect soundtrack to our weekend shenanigans for the past seven years." - NYLON "as urgent and primal as on earlier releases but with its hooks sharper than ever." -The Boston Globe
"tightly controlled sense of menace and impending chaos" - Paste
THE COATHANGERS THE COATHANGERS ON FACEBOOK THE COATHANGERS ON BANDCAMP THE COATHANGERS ON TWITTER
M83 Reissues Early Catalogue, B-Sides and Remixes
M83
REISSUES FIRST THREE ALBUMS
ON AUGUST 25TH, 2014
REMIXES AND B-SIDES EPS
OUT SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Four years on from the Grammy nominated, critically acclaimed release
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
(featuring platinum selling single “Midnight City”), French electronic act M83 re-issues their first three albums in addition to two digital EPs featuring remixes and B-sides from those albums. After several years of being out of print,
M83
(2001), Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts (2004), and
Before the Dawn Heals Us
(2005) will be released August 25th, 2014 on CD, vinyl, and digital download via Mute.
Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts Remixes and B-sides
and
Before The Dawn Heals Us Remixes and B-Sides
will be available digitally September 9, 2014 on Mute.
M83 has become a household name amongst music lovers due to extensive success across many formats. Since Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, not only has M83’s Anthony Gonzalez scored two films:Oblivion (featuring Tom Cruise) and You and the Night (directed by his brother Yann Gonzalez), but his music has been used across a plethora of movies, television shows and commercials, most recently in films The Fault In Our Stars, The Vampire Diaries, and 22 Jump Street. Huffington Post even reported, “few recent albums have had a bigger impact on movie music than M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” At radio, M83 reached #1 on the CMJ charts, #1 at Commercial Specialty, and #5 in Commercial Alternative Radio, while receiving rave reviews from publications across the world, including Pitchfork, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, XLR8R, Filter, and countless others.
Now, after being unavailable for the past several years, fans can access M83’s organic beginnings:
Aptly titled M83, this album served as the French electropop outfit’s debut release in 2001 on Gooom. Recorded as a duo by founding members Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau, the album was described by Pitchfork as “how it feels to live inside a triumphal music box.” The track names can be read in order to describe a boy/girl meeting at a party. Taken in tow with the sampled movie dialogue throughout, the album serves as a poignant soundtrack for the simplest of scenarios.
M83 TRACKLISTING:
Last Saturday
Night
At The Party
Kelly
Sitting
Facing That
Violet Tree
Staring At Me
I’m Getting Closer
She Stands Up
Caresses
Slowly
My Face
I’m Happy She Said
Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts was M83’s second release, and first to be released in the US, on Mute. Originally released in 2003 in Europe, Mute released the album in 2004 in North America to critical acclaim. Included in Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s, Dead Seas was noted for what Filter Magazine called an “organic component that coexists along with the machines, giving them a warmth few acts have been able to unearth.” This was the last album featuring Nicolas Fromageau.
Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts TRACKLISTING
Birds
Unrecorded
Run Into Flowers
In Church
America
On A White Lake, Near A Green Mountain
Noise
Be Wild
Cyborg
0078h
Gone
Beauties Can Die
Before The Dawn Heals Us is M83’s third studio album, and perhaps the one that catapulted their success in North America. Lauded by Spin as one of 2005’s Next Big Things, with glowing press from Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Vice, Pitchfork and a myriad of other publications, M83 saw their first major television commercial with “Don't Save Us From The Flames” featured in a Pontiac ad. 2005 also saw M83 perform at the prestigious Lollapalooza, Coachella, Austin City Limits, and headlining KEXP’s Benefit Concert in Seattle.
Before The Dawn Heals Us TRACKLISTING:
Moonchild
Don’t Save Us From The Flames
In The Cold I’m Standing
Farewell Goodbye
Fields Shorelines and Hunters
Asterick
I Guess I’m Floating
Teen Angst
Can’t Stop
Safe
Let Men Burn Stars
Car Chase Terror
Slight Night Shiver
A Guitar And A Heart
Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun
Containing all remixes and B-sides from the Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts release, this collection features the notable Cyann and Ben Version of “In Church” used in Stranger Than Fiction.
Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts TRACKLISTING:
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Tsubasa
God of Thunder
Gone (Live)
In Church (Cyann & Ben Version)
Run Into Flowers (Abstrackt Keal Agram Remix)
Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson)
Run Into Flowers (IG FarbenVorschlang Remix by KG)
Before The Dawn Heals Us Remixes and B-Sides combines material from the album’s single releases, including the rapturous B-side “Until The Night Is Over,” an acoustic version of “Night” from the self-titled debut. Pitchfork continued to champion M83 here claiming, “everyone with ears should drop 99 cents at iTunes for the Superpitcher remix.”
Before The Dawn Heals Us TRACKLISTING:
Addicted to Self Mutilation
Until The Night Is Over
Teen Angst (Montag Remix)
Don’t Save Us From The Flames (Boom Bip Remix)
Don’t Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix)M83: WEBSITE | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | SOUNDCLOUD
ON AUGUST 25TH, 2014
REMIXES AND B-SIDES EPS
OUT SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Four years on from the Grammy nominated, critically acclaimed release
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
(featuring platinum selling single “Midnight City”), French electronic act M83 re-issues their first three albums in addition to two digital EPs featuring remixes and B-sides from those albums. After several years of being out of print,
M83
(2001), Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts (2004), and
Before the Dawn Heals Us
(2005) will be released August 25th, 2014 on CD, vinyl, and digital download via Mute.
Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts Remixes and B-sides
and
Before The Dawn Heals Us Remixes and B-Sides
will be available digitally September 9, 2014 on Mute. M83 has become a household name amongst music lovers due to extensive success across many formats. Since Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, not only has M83’s Anthony Gonzalez scored two films:Oblivion (featuring Tom Cruise) and You and the Night (directed by his brother Yann Gonzalez), but his music has been used across a plethora of movies, television shows and commercials, most recently in films The Fault In Our Stars, The Vampire Diaries, and 22 Jump Street. Huffington Post even reported, “few recent albums have had a bigger impact on movie music than M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.” At radio, M83 reached #1 on the CMJ charts, #1 at Commercial Specialty, and #5 in Commercial Alternative Radio, while receiving rave reviews from publications across the world, including Pitchfork, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, XLR8R, Filter, and countless others.
Now, after being unavailable for the past several years, fans can access M83’s organic beginnings:
Aptly titled M83, this album served as the French electropop outfit’s debut release in 2001 on Gooom. Recorded as a duo by founding members Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau, the album was described by Pitchfork as “how it feels to live inside a triumphal music box.” The track names can be read in order to describe a boy/girl meeting at a party. Taken in tow with the sampled movie dialogue throughout, the album serves as a poignant soundtrack for the simplest of scenarios. M83 TRACKLISTING:
Last Saturday
Night
At The Party
Kelly
Sitting
Facing That
Violet Tree
Staring At Me
I’m Getting Closer
She Stands Up
Caresses
Slowly
My Face
I’m Happy She Said
Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts was M83’s second release, and first to be released in the US, on Mute. Originally released in 2003 in Europe, Mute released the album in 2004 in North America to critical acclaim. Included in Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s, Dead Seas was noted for what Filter Magazine called an “organic component that coexists along with the machines, giving them a warmth few acts have been able to unearth.” This was the last album featuring Nicolas Fromageau. Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts TRACKLISTING
Birds
Unrecorded
Run Into Flowers
In Church
America
On A White Lake, Near A Green Mountain
Noise
Be Wild
Cyborg
0078h
Gone
Beauties Can Die
Before The Dawn Heals Us is M83’s third studio album, and perhaps the one that catapulted their success in North America. Lauded by Spin as one of 2005’s Next Big Things, with glowing press from Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Vice, Pitchfork and a myriad of other publications, M83 saw their first major television commercial with “Don't Save Us From The Flames” featured in a Pontiac ad. 2005 also saw M83 perform at the prestigious Lollapalooza, Coachella, Austin City Limits, and headlining KEXP’s Benefit Concert in Seattle. Before The Dawn Heals Us TRACKLISTING:
Moonchild
Don’t Save Us From The Flames
In The Cold I’m Standing
Farewell Goodbye
Fields Shorelines and Hunters
Asterick
I Guess I’m Floating
Teen Angst
Can’t Stop
Safe
Let Men Burn Stars
Car Chase Terror
Slight Night Shiver
A Guitar And A Heart
Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun
Containing all remixes and B-sides from the Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts release, this collection features the notable Cyann and Ben Version of “In Church” used in Stranger Than Fiction.Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts TRACKLISTING:
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Tsubasa
God of Thunder
Gone (Live)
In Church (Cyann & Ben Version)
Run Into Flowers (Abstrackt Keal Agram Remix)
Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson)
Run Into Flowers (IG FarbenVorschlang Remix by KG)
Before The Dawn Heals Us Remixes and B-Sides combines material from the album’s single releases, including the rapturous B-side “Until The Night Is Over,” an acoustic version of “Night” from the self-titled debut. Pitchfork continued to champion M83 here claiming, “everyone with ears should drop 99 cents at iTunes for the Superpitcher remix.”Before The Dawn Heals Us TRACKLISTING:
Addicted to Self Mutilation
Until The Night Is Over
Teen Angst (Montag Remix)
Don’t Save Us From The Flames (Boom Bip Remix)
Don’t Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix)M83: WEBSITE | TWITTER | FACEBOOK | YOUTUBE | SOUNDCLOUD
Axxa/Abraxas Shares Video for "I Almost Fell"
Axxa/Abraxas Shares Video for "I Almost Fell"
Fall Tour with Beach Fossils and Heavenly Beat
Self-Titled Debut Out Now
Today Axxa/Abraxas (aka Ben Asbury), shares the video for his single "I Almost Fell", from his recently released S/T debut. With the help of newly formed friends in Asheville (Asbury recently relocated to the city), the video came together, piece by piece over several weeks. When asked to describe the video, this is what he said...
Monotony, reflexive, the same, unchanging.
Habitual existence, societal, normative. Just world beliefs abounding.
No Control. The future's never sound.
Blind step, guided externally, cultivate faith in acceptence.
As you pass through the stages and grow weary, distorted, grapsing into emptiness
and find, in splendid truth, the freeing of the illusion
and there is no future
follow yr bliss.
Watch the video HERE and follow yr bliss
Coming up next, Asbury hits the road with label mates Beach Fossils and Heavenly Beat, check those dates below.8/29 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
9/26 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right*
9/27 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right*
9/28 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle*
9/29 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall’s*
9/30 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge*
10/02 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge*
10/03 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court*
10/04 - Reno, NV - Holland Project
10/05 - Sacramento, CA - TBD Festival
10/06 - Los Angeles, CA - Regent*
10/07 - San Diego, CA - The Irenic*
10/9 - Phoenix @ Last Exit**
10/10 - Dallas @ The Double Wide**
10/15 - New Orleans @ The Beatnik**
10/16 - Mobile @ Alabama Music Box**
10/17 - Atlanta @ 529**
10/19 - Raleigh @ Neptunes**
Fall Tour with Beach Fossils and Heavenly Beat
Self-Titled Debut Out Now
Today Axxa/Abraxas (aka Ben Asbury), shares the video for his single "I Almost Fell", from his recently released S/T debut. With the help of newly formed friends in Asheville (Asbury recently relocated to the city), the video came together, piece by piece over several weeks. When asked to describe the video, this is what he said...Monotony, reflexive, the same, unchanging.
Habitual existence, societal, normative. Just world beliefs abounding.
No Control. The future's never sound.
Blind step, guided externally, cultivate faith in acceptence.
As you pass through the stages and grow weary, distorted, grapsing into emptiness
and find, in splendid truth, the freeing of the illusion
and there is no future
follow yr bliss.
Watch the video HERE and follow yr bliss
Coming up next, Asbury hits the road with label mates Beach Fossils and Heavenly Beat, check those dates below.8/29 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle
9/26 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right*
9/27 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right*
9/28 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle*
9/29 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall’s*
9/30 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge*
10/02 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge*
10/03 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court*
10/04 - Reno, NV - Holland Project
10/05 - Sacramento, CA - TBD Festival
10/06 - Los Angeles, CA - Regent*
10/07 - San Diego, CA - The Irenic*
10/9 - Phoenix @ Last Exit**
10/10 - Dallas @ The Double Wide**
10/15 - New Orleans @ The Beatnik**
10/16 - Mobile @ Alabama Music Box**
10/17 - Atlanta @ 529**
10/19 - Raleigh @ Neptunes**
HTRK Share New Short Film/Music Video
HTRK collaborate with Exceptor's Nathan Corbin
on new short film/music video for "Chinatown Style"HTRK "Chinatown Style"
[WATCH via The FADER / YouTube]HTRK
"Chinatown Style"
Psychic 9-5 Club
Directed by Nathan Corbin
11:35 min
Short film for New York City starring Chinatown.
Year of the Horse.
Nathan Corbin - "I worked as a delivery boy in Manhattan in my early twenties. It’s an intimate way to experience the city. The delivery is a conduit into an extended, physical exchange. It can be erotic and psychedelic; the repetition of ‘opening‘ in a city full of guarded skyscrapers and locked doors. You float invisibly, drifting from one ambiance to the next.
In NYC there is fluidity between everyone. You’re constantly 'encountering' people. Always entering. The energy can vary wildly with successive shifts from light to dark to light like yin-yang. You found luck! You find yourself in a utopian center: a Psychic 9-5 Club.
People are dancing.
I chose to work with people I didn’t know for the most part..so that our interaction was new, innocent..like a delivery.
The cinematography concept was crucial. Shoot with a wide angle lens to create that innocence. You see everything so the ‘gaze’...the obsessive and voyeuristic part of looking is reduced. The eye of an open heart."
Credits:
Directed by Nathan Corbin
Co-Directed by Tony Lowe
Produced by Video Dub
Costumes and Styling by Jenni Hensler
Additional Cinematography by Rafe scobey-Thal
Stunt Driver-Elizabeth Jaeger
Mixed at Channel Uno, NM
Tracklist
01. Give it Up
02. Blue Sunshine
03. Feels like Love
04. Soul Sleep
05. Wet Dream
06. Love is Distraction
07. Chinatown Style
08. The Body You DeserveHTRK's latest LP Psychic 9-5 Club out now
Purchase at The Ghostly Store / iTunes
The Casket Girls release "Secular Love" remix
The Casket Girls Release "Secular Love" RemixSummer Tour Dates AnnouncedSophomore Album True Love Kills The Fairy Tale Out Now On Graveface Records 
"The Casket Girls' brand of goth pop is definitely dark, but it's a perfect mixture of doom and optimism that keeps you hanging on every word." - Bust
"This is about as close to a Top 40 record as Graveface Records is ever gonna get, albeit one that's spiked with strychnine and bittersweet melodies." - eMusic
"Think '60s girl group, if they wore all-black and performed at seances." - Nylon
Listen: "Secular Love" Strange Majik Remix via Earbuddy or SoundCloud Listen : "Secular Love" via SoundCloud
The Casket Girls have announced a summer tour in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album True Love Kills The Fairy Tale available now on CD, LP and cassette on Graveface Records. The tour will kick off on July 28 in the band's hometown of Savannah, GA at the Graveface HQ and will include a performance in NYC at the South Street Seaport. All upcoming shows are listed below. More info on the tour and tickets links are available here. The Casket Girls also released a remix of "Secular Love" by Amazing Radio's Strange Majik. The track premiered on Earbuddy who said, "Strange Majik has transformed the electro-goth pop original into a more reggae-influenced summery jam" and is available to post and share via SoundCloud.
So many pieces of Savannah, GA three-piece The Casket Girls seemed to happen by accident. From their beginning - when electronic sound-shaper Ryan Graveface (Graveface Records, Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow) found sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene under a tree in one of Savannah's many squares, playing Autoharp and singing bizarre songs - to the night they composed their sophomore album, True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, under circumstances that fall somewhere between séance and dream state, nearly everything about The Casket Girls seems to have been inspired by some kind of spooky happenstance. But then again, the Greene sisters don't believe in accidents.
"I dropped off a shit ton of songs to the girls to work on one night," Graveface says of the genesis ofTrue Love, the follow up to Casket Girls' critically acclaimed 2012 debut. "I went back to check on their progress, because they weren't answering their phones. I don't know if they dropped acid or what, but I walked in and Elsa was sobbing and reciting poetry while Phaedra was just staring straight ahead writing it all down, like catatonic. The next day they dropped off a CD and said, 'We don't even know what's on this. You can throw it in the garbage if you want.' I sat down and listened all the way through and cried. I was like, 'Holy shit! They actually wrote a record like that!' I booked studio time and had them re-record every note just as it was on the demo. They really didn't remember any of it. Had to learn the songs as if someone else had written them entirely. Very bizarre."
Phaedra and Elsa had filled the disc with lilting, almost whimsical melodies about chemical hazes and love gone sour like a couple of fucked up Shangri-las, to which Graveface added a bevy of grinding, multi-dimensional psych-rock keys that will be familiar to anyone with a Graveface LP in their collection. The title track speaks like an unknown voice in a lucid dream - perhaps the one that conveyed these songs through the veil in the first place -beckoning, "True love kills the fairy tale... until heart and lungs fail." It's this twisted and comforting charm, which set in motion the Graveface-Greene love affair in the first place, that relieves us from fear.
The Casket Girls have gained momentum and a substantial cult following due to the unflagging catchiness of their songwriting and the compelling development of their live stage show. They spent the last year and a half touring in support of BMSR and The Faint before growing into headliners in their own right.
The Casket Girls Upcoming Tour Dates
07.28 - Savannah, GA at Graveface HQ (MUST RSVP to attend - mail@graveface.com)07.29 - Carboro, NC at Cat's Cradle Backroom07.30 - Baltimore, MD at Holy Frijoles 07.31 - Kingston NY at BSP Kingston08.01 - New York, NY at The South Street Seaport 7pm FREE/ALL AGES (
RSVP
)08.02 - Pittsburgh, PA at Club Cafe 08.03 - Cincinnati, OH at MOTR Pub08.04 - Louisville, KY at Zanzabar08.05 - Chicago, IL at Subterranean08.06 - St Louis, MO at The Demo08.07 - Kansas City, MO at Czar Bar08.08 - Denver, CO at Lost Lake Lounge08.09 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister 08.10 - Norman, OK at The Opolis08.11 - Austin, TX at The Mohawk08.12 - Denton, TX at Dan's Silver Leaf08.13 - Memphis, TX at Hi Tone Cafe08.14 - Nashville, TN at The End08.15 - Birmingham, AL at Bottletree 08.16 - Athens, GA at Rooftop at Georgia
For more info, please visit:
http://www.casketgirls.org/http://www.facebook.com/casketgirls
http://twitter.com/casketgirls http://www.graveface.com/
"The Casket Girls' brand of goth pop is definitely dark, but it's a perfect mixture of doom and optimism that keeps you hanging on every word." - Bust
"This is about as close to a Top 40 record as Graveface Records is ever gonna get, albeit one that's spiked with strychnine and bittersweet melodies." - eMusic
"Think '60s girl group, if they wore all-black and performed at seances." - Nylon
Listen: "Secular Love" Strange Majik Remix via Earbuddy or SoundCloud Listen : "Secular Love" via SoundCloud
The Casket Girls have announced a summer tour in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album True Love Kills The Fairy Tale available now on CD, LP and cassette on Graveface Records. The tour will kick off on July 28 in the band's hometown of Savannah, GA at the Graveface HQ and will include a performance in NYC at the South Street Seaport. All upcoming shows are listed below. More info on the tour and tickets links are available here. The Casket Girls also released a remix of "Secular Love" by Amazing Radio's Strange Majik. The track premiered on Earbuddy who said, "Strange Majik has transformed the electro-goth pop original into a more reggae-influenced summery jam" and is available to post and share via SoundCloud.
So many pieces of Savannah, GA three-piece The Casket Girls seemed to happen by accident. From their beginning - when electronic sound-shaper Ryan Graveface (Graveface Records, Dreamend, Black Moth Super Rainbow) found sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene under a tree in one of Savannah's many squares, playing Autoharp and singing bizarre songs - to the night they composed their sophomore album, True Love Kills the Fairy Tale, under circumstances that fall somewhere between séance and dream state, nearly everything about The Casket Girls seems to have been inspired by some kind of spooky happenstance. But then again, the Greene sisters don't believe in accidents.
"I dropped off a shit ton of songs to the girls to work on one night," Graveface says of the genesis ofTrue Love, the follow up to Casket Girls' critically acclaimed 2012 debut. "I went back to check on their progress, because they weren't answering their phones. I don't know if they dropped acid or what, but I walked in and Elsa was sobbing and reciting poetry while Phaedra was just staring straight ahead writing it all down, like catatonic. The next day they dropped off a CD and said, 'We don't even know what's on this. You can throw it in the garbage if you want.' I sat down and listened all the way through and cried. I was like, 'Holy shit! They actually wrote a record like that!' I booked studio time and had them re-record every note just as it was on the demo. They really didn't remember any of it. Had to learn the songs as if someone else had written them entirely. Very bizarre."
Phaedra and Elsa had filled the disc with lilting, almost whimsical melodies about chemical hazes and love gone sour like a couple of fucked up Shangri-las, to which Graveface added a bevy of grinding, multi-dimensional psych-rock keys that will be familiar to anyone with a Graveface LP in their collection. The title track speaks like an unknown voice in a lucid dream - perhaps the one that conveyed these songs through the veil in the first place -beckoning, "True love kills the fairy tale... until heart and lungs fail." It's this twisted and comforting charm, which set in motion the Graveface-Greene love affair in the first place, that relieves us from fear.
The Casket Girls have gained momentum and a substantial cult following due to the unflagging catchiness of their songwriting and the compelling development of their live stage show. They spent the last year and a half touring in support of BMSR and The Faint before growing into headliners in their own right.
The Casket Girls Upcoming Tour Dates
07.28 - Savannah, GA at Graveface HQ (MUST RSVP to attend - mail@graveface.com)07.29 - Carboro, NC at Cat's Cradle Backroom07.30 - Baltimore, MD at Holy Frijoles 07.31 - Kingston NY at BSP Kingston08.01 - New York, NY at The South Street Seaport 7pm FREE/ALL AGES (
RSVP
)08.02 - Pittsburgh, PA at Club Cafe 08.03 - Cincinnati, OH at MOTR Pub08.04 - Louisville, KY at Zanzabar08.05 - Chicago, IL at Subterranean08.06 - St Louis, MO at The Demo08.07 - Kansas City, MO at Czar Bar08.08 - Denver, CO at Lost Lake Lounge08.09 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister 08.10 - Norman, OK at The Opolis08.11 - Austin, TX at The Mohawk08.12 - Denton, TX at Dan's Silver Leaf08.13 - Memphis, TX at Hi Tone Cafe08.14 - Nashville, TN at The End08.15 - Birmingham, AL at Bottletree 08.16 - Athens, GA at Rooftop at GeorgiaFor more info, please visit:
http://www.casketgirls.org/http://www.facebook.com/casketgirls
http://twitter.com/casketgirls http://www.graveface.com/
Kimbra Announces Fall US Tour + New Track 'Miracle'
KIMBRA ANNOUNCES FALL U.S. TOUR
TOUR KICKS OFF ON OCTOBER 20TH AND INCLUDES APPEARANCE AT LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL FESTIVAL IN LAS VEGAS
GRAMMY-WINNING POP SINGER DEBUTS NEW TRACK ' MIRACLE ' OFF FORTHCOMING ALBUM, THE GOLDEN ECHO, DUE AUGUST 19TH ON WARNER BROS. RECORDS
July 22nd, 2014 - NZ/LA-based artist Kimbra will hit the road this fall for a U.S. headlining tour. The tour, supported by electro-pop artist Empress Of, kicks off on October 20th in San Francisco and stops in major cities across the country through November 9th. Tickets go on sale on July 25th. Kimbra will also perform at the Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas, which takes place October 24th-26th. (For more info, visit http://lifeisbeautiful.com/.)
Kimbra is touring in support of her new album The Golden Echo, which will be released on August 19th via Warner Bros. Records. Her celebratory new track, ' Miracle ,' debuted yesterday. Produced by Kimbra and Rich Costey, it features contributions from acclaimed bassist Thundercat, Daniel Johns (Silverchair) and legendary drummerJohn JR Robinson (Michael Jackson, Daft Punk). The album is available for pre-order from all participating retailers. Those who pre-order will receive three instant downloads of the album tracks " 90s Music ," " Love In High Places " and " Nobody But You ."
The ultimate modern pop record, The Golden Echo is ambitious, sophisticated, and complex, just like its creator. The New Zealand-born singer and songwriter wrote the songs in her bedroom studio on a farm in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, where she was surrounded by sheep and lambs owned by her landlady. A riot of genres, from Prince-like funk, to sing-songy electro-pop, to eerie space-age hip-hop, The Golden Echo was produced by Kimbra alongside Rich Costey (Foster The People, Interpol, Muse), and features further contributions from R&B singer Bilal to Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Michael Shuman, as well as famed string arranger Van Dyke Parks.
The Golden Echo is Kimbra's second album. Her 2011 debut, Vows , bowed at No. 14 on the Billboard Top 200 and was certified platinum in Australia and New Zealand. Kimbra exploded into the public consciousness that same year with "Somebody That I Used To Know," a duet with Gotye that earned her Grammy Awards for "Record of the Year" and "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance." The song topped Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 2012 and was the best-selling song of that year in the U.S. It has sold more than 13 million copies.
Kimbra's Fall Tour dates are as follows:[Tickets On Sale Friday, July 25th]
10/20 San Francisco, CA - The Independent*10/23 Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy*10/24 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory*10/25-10/26 Las Vegas, NV - Life Is Beautiful Festival10/27 Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue*10/28 Denver, CO - Sherman Street Event Center*10/30 Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line Music Café11/01 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall11/06 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom*11/07 Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live - Downstairs*11/08 Washington, DC - U Street Music Hall*11/09 Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall*
* w/ Empress Of
www.kimbramusic.com https://www.facebook.com/kimbramusic https://www.youtube.com/user/kimbramusic https://twitter.com/kimbramusic http://instagram.com/kimbramusic# http://kimbramusic.tumblr.com/
July 21, 2014
Johnny Marr Announces New Solo Album "Playland"
JOHNNY MARR ANNOUNCES SECOND SOLO ALBUM "PLAYLAND" - OUT OCTOBER 7 VIA WARNER MUSIC GROUP
ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES AND AMAZON
Johnny Marr has announced the release date for his second solo album "Playland,"which is set for release on October 7 via Warner Music Group, and available for pre-order now on iTunes andAmazon. Last year, the legendary guitarist for The Smiths enjoyed a monumental start to his solo career with an abundance of critical acclaim (including the honor of being named NME's 'Godlike Genius') for his Top 10 debut solo album "The Messenger." Meanwhile, his shows were celebrated for his ability to combine the best of his new material with select highlights from The Smiths, plus others from his extensive back catalog.
Johnny Marr's upward trajectory continues unabated with the release of "Playland." Work on the album commenced in London in spring 2014 as soon as the year of touring in support of 'The Messenger' came to a close. It finds Marr continuing the creative connection that was forged on 'The Messenger' with collaborator and co-producer Doviak, as well as the other musicians who performed on the album and accompanying tour.
As Johnny states,"When 'The Messenger' came out I kept on writing. I liked that the band had a momentum going on tour and a connection with the audience, and I thought that energy would be good to capture on the new record."
Written around a common theme of "songs that move at the speed of life," 'Playland' captures much of the spirit that made 'The Messenger' so memorable with energetic, post-punk songwriting complemented by Johnny Marr's characteristic guitar style, thought-provoking lyrical ideas and poised vocal phrasing. "It's important to sound like your environment and on this record that's London and Manchester," he adds. "The feeling of the cities and the people make it into the music."
The title "Playland" is inspired by Homo Ludens, a 1938 book by the highly influential Dutch cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, which explores the concept of play as a precursor and principal element of cultural development.
One of Marr's favorite performances of 2014 to date came when he performed at the premiere ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York City. His contributions to the film's soundtrack (scored by Hans Zimmer) included a songwriting collaboration with Pharrell Williams, while he also performed the closing credits theme song "It's On Again" with Alicia Keys and KendrickLamar on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Johnny toured extensively in support of 'The Messenger' with highlights including three sold-out shows in Manchester; major London dates at The Roundhouse and the O2 Shepherd's BushEmpire; as well as festival appearances including Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and T in the Park. His next UK headline tour includes his largest London solo headline show to date at the O2 Academy Brixton and also features a homecoming show at the O2 Apollo Manchester.
"Playland" track listing:1.) Back In The Box2.) Easy Money3.) Dynamo4.) Candidate5.) 25 Hours6.) The Trap7.) Playland8.) Speak Out Reach Out9.) Boys Get Straight10.) This Tension11.) Little King
His current UK tour schedule runs as below:
OCTOBER13 - Lincoln, The Engine Shed14 - Southend, Cliffs Pavilion15 - Bexhill, De La Warr17 - Wolverhampton, Civic Hall18 - Cardiff, Great Hall20 - O2 Academy Bournemouth21 - Cambridge, Corn Exchange23 - O2 Academy Brixton London24 - Bath, Pavilion25 - O2 Apollo Manchester27 - O2 Academy Glasgow28 - O2 Academy Newcastle29 - O2 Academy Leeds
ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES AND AMAZON
Johnny Marr has announced the release date for his second solo album "Playland,"which is set for release on October 7 via Warner Music Group, and available for pre-order now on iTunes andAmazon. Last year, the legendary guitarist for The Smiths enjoyed a monumental start to his solo career with an abundance of critical acclaim (including the honor of being named NME's 'Godlike Genius') for his Top 10 debut solo album "The Messenger." Meanwhile, his shows were celebrated for his ability to combine the best of his new material with select highlights from The Smiths, plus others from his extensive back catalog.
Johnny Marr's upward trajectory continues unabated with the release of "Playland." Work on the album commenced in London in spring 2014 as soon as the year of touring in support of 'The Messenger' came to a close. It finds Marr continuing the creative connection that was forged on 'The Messenger' with collaborator and co-producer Doviak, as well as the other musicians who performed on the album and accompanying tour.
As Johnny states,"When 'The Messenger' came out I kept on writing. I liked that the band had a momentum going on tour and a connection with the audience, and I thought that energy would be good to capture on the new record."
Written around a common theme of "songs that move at the speed of life," 'Playland' captures much of the spirit that made 'The Messenger' so memorable with energetic, post-punk songwriting complemented by Johnny Marr's characteristic guitar style, thought-provoking lyrical ideas and poised vocal phrasing. "It's important to sound like your environment and on this record that's London and Manchester," he adds. "The feeling of the cities and the people make it into the music."
The title "Playland" is inspired by Homo Ludens, a 1938 book by the highly influential Dutch cultural theorist Johan Huizinga, which explores the concept of play as a precursor and principal element of cultural development.
One of Marr's favorite performances of 2014 to date came when he performed at the premiere ofThe Amazing Spider-Man 2 in New York City. His contributions to the film's soundtrack (scored by Hans Zimmer) included a songwriting collaboration with Pharrell Williams, while he also performed the closing credits theme song "It's On Again" with Alicia Keys and KendrickLamar on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Johnny toured extensively in support of 'The Messenger' with highlights including three sold-out shows in Manchester; major London dates at The Roundhouse and the O2 Shepherd's BushEmpire; as well as festival appearances including Glastonbury, Reading, Leeds and T in the Park. His next UK headline tour includes his largest London solo headline show to date at the O2 Academy Brixton and also features a homecoming show at the O2 Apollo Manchester.
"Playland" track listing:1.) Back In The Box2.) Easy Money3.) Dynamo4.) Candidate5.) 25 Hours6.) The Trap7.) Playland8.) Speak Out Reach Out9.) Boys Get Straight10.) This Tension11.) Little King
His current UK tour schedule runs as below:
OCTOBER13 - Lincoln, The Engine Shed14 - Southend, Cliffs Pavilion15 - Bexhill, De La Warr17 - Wolverhampton, Civic Hall18 - Cardiff, Great Hall20 - O2 Academy Bournemouth21 - Cambridge, Corn Exchange23 - O2 Academy Brixton London24 - Bath, Pavilion25 - O2 Apollo Manchester27 - O2 Academy Glasgow28 - O2 Academy Newcastle29 - O2 Academy Leeds
JOEL GION on tour in UK + France
JOEL GION on tour in UK + France
Rejoice!
Joel Gion will be touring UK and France this week, with almighty members of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and support from The Hanging Stars (+ Tess Parks on selected dates).
Check below the nearest venues and dates.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
The Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20561428-joel-gion-at-green-door-store
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Exchange, Bristol, UK
https://www.facebook.com/events/238634123003626/
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20690353-joel-gion-at-exchange
Thursday 24 July 2014
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20420078-joel-gion-at-brudenell-social-club
Friday 25 July 2014
The Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20411938-joel-gion-at-shacklewell-arms
Saturday 26 July 2014
Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris, France
https://www.facebook.com/events/653610768061102/
https://www.yesgolive.com/la-mecanique-ondulatoire/joel-gion-from-bjm-the-hanging-stars
Joel Gion
(The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Committee To Keep Music Evil, San Francisco, USA)
After spending a long and strange career as the legendary “Tambourine Man” for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, tambourinist/percussionist Joel Gion has emerged with his debut LP “Apple Bonkers”, an armload of his own music done his own way.
“With all the BJM members now living so spread out across the world, I found myself increasingly missing the album making process. This feeling of disconnect is what kick started me into exploring my own song writing process and turned out to be a hugely important piece of self discovery. No more time for my beloved laziness. So I made my own music with a with bunch of friends in the studio coming and going and having a great time creating. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised by this album. “
As might be expected, there are plenty of classic 1960s sounds, but the sonic pallette spans every decade since, colored with timeless touchstones of Joel's record collection - shoegaze, post-punk, psychedelia, alt-country and mod/beat music, it's all there.
Co-produced by current BJM members Collin Hegna and Rob Campanella, “Apple Bonkers” also features contributions by Jonestown members Daniel Allaire and Matt Hollywood, along with former BJM members Jeffrey Davies and Miranda Lee Richards. Also along for the ride: Pete Holmstrom of The Dandy Warhols, Ryan Van Kriedt of the The Asteroid #4/Dead Skeletons and Jason “Plucky” Anchondo of the Warlocks/ Spindrift.
Much more than getting by with a little help from his friends, “Apple Bonkers” sees Gion leading the trip to a psychedelic land of honest-to-goodness rock and roll.
Links:
http://joelgion.com/
https://www.facebook.com/joelgionapplebonkers
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/overthrow-single/id868771724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOFPcmH0xsM
Rejoice!
Joel Gion will be touring UK and France this week, with almighty members of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and support from The Hanging Stars (+ Tess Parks on selected dates).
Check below the nearest venues and dates.
Tuesday 22 July 2014
The Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20561428-joel-gion-at-green-door-store
Wednesday 23 July 2014
Exchange, Bristol, UK
https://www.facebook.com/events/238634123003626/
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20690353-joel-gion-at-exchange
Thursday 24 July 2014
Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20420078-joel-gion-at-brudenell-social-club
Friday 25 July 2014
The Shacklewell Arms, London, UK
http://www.songkick.com/concerts/20411938-joel-gion-at-shacklewell-arms
Saturday 26 July 2014
Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris, France
https://www.facebook.com/events/653610768061102/
https://www.yesgolive.com/la-mecanique-ondulatoire/joel-gion-from-bjm-the-hanging-stars
Joel Gion
(The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Committee To Keep Music Evil, San Francisco, USA)
After spending a long and strange career as the legendary “Tambourine Man” for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, tambourinist/percussionist Joel Gion has emerged with his debut LP “Apple Bonkers”, an armload of his own music done his own way.
“With all the BJM members now living so spread out across the world, I found myself increasingly missing the album making process. This feeling of disconnect is what kick started me into exploring my own song writing process and turned out to be a hugely important piece of self discovery. No more time for my beloved laziness. So I made my own music with a with bunch of friends in the studio coming and going and having a great time creating. I think a lot of people are going to be surprised by this album. “
As might be expected, there are plenty of classic 1960s sounds, but the sonic pallette spans every decade since, colored with timeless touchstones of Joel's record collection - shoegaze, post-punk, psychedelia, alt-country and mod/beat music, it's all there.
Co-produced by current BJM members Collin Hegna and Rob Campanella, “Apple Bonkers” also features contributions by Jonestown members Daniel Allaire and Matt Hollywood, along with former BJM members Jeffrey Davies and Miranda Lee Richards. Also along for the ride: Pete Holmstrom of The Dandy Warhols, Ryan Van Kriedt of the The Asteroid #4/Dead Skeletons and Jason “Plucky” Anchondo of the Warlocks/ Spindrift.
Much more than getting by with a little help from his friends, “Apple Bonkers” sees Gion leading the trip to a psychedelic land of honest-to-goodness rock and roll.
Links:
http://joelgion.com/
https://www.facebook.com/joelgionapplebonkers
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/album/overthrow-single/id868771724
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOFPcmH0xsM
The Unicorns Reissuing 'Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?'
The Unicorns Reissuing Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?Digital Remaster (w/ Bonus Tracks) Out July 29th (pre-order), CDs Out August 26th & Limited-Edition Vinyl Out October 7th
Previously Unreleased Cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship” Streaming via Pitchfork / Soundcloud
Reunion Shows w/ Arcade Fire Kick Off on 8/1, Playing POP Montreal on 9/21
With live dates opening for Arcade Fire coming up next month, The Unicorns have announced a reissue of 2003’s acclaimed Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?, their third and final album. The digitally remastered version, due out July 29th, contains four bonus tracks: a live version of “Haunted House,” recorded March 29, 2004 at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe, a previously unreleased cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship,” “Let Me Sleep,” a never-before-released track from the WWCOHWWG? sessions, and “Evacuate the Vacuous,” an outtake from the WWCOHWWG? sessions that was originally released as part of the 2014 EP by Suicide Squeeze and has been remastered for this release.
The Unicorns’ cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship” is currently streaming over at Pitchfork, and is available to stream & post via Soundcloud. You can pre-order the digital reissue of WWCOHWWG? here.
The physical reissue consists of CDs to be released on August 26th and limited-edition vinyl— 1000 copies on pink & black vinyl and 1000 copies on 180 gram black vinyl— to be released on October 7th. Both the digital and physical reissues are being released on the band’s own Caterpillar Records, via Redeye Distribution.
The Unicorns reunite next month for the first time in a decade, for five live dates opening for Arcade Fire: two at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA, and three nights at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center. In addition to these five shows, they’ll also be performing live at POP Montreal in September. See below for a list of dates, along with WWCOHWWG’s track listing.
Live Dates :* w/ Arcade Fire & Dan Deacon8/1: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*8/2: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*8/22: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*8/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*8/24: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*9/21: POP Montreal - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre (Tickets)
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? Track Listing :1. I Don’t Wanna Die2. Tuff Ghost3. Ghost Mountain4. Sea Ghost5. Jellybones6. The Clap7. Child Star8. Let’s Get Known9. I Was Born (A Unicorn)10. Tuff Luff11. Inoculate the Innocuous12. Les Os13. Ready to DieBonus Tracks (digital version only): Rocketship, Let Me Sleep, Evacuate the Vacuous, Haunted House (live)
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Previously Unreleased Cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship” Streaming via Pitchfork / Soundcloud
Reunion Shows w/ Arcade Fire Kick Off on 8/1, Playing POP Montreal on 9/21
With live dates opening for Arcade Fire coming up next month, The Unicorns have announced a reissue of 2003’s acclaimed Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?, their third and final album. The digitally remastered version, due out July 29th, contains four bonus tracks: a live version of “Haunted House,” recorded March 29, 2004 at Seattle’s Crocodile Cafe, a previously unreleased cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship,” “Let Me Sleep,” a never-before-released track from the WWCOHWWG? sessions, and “Evacuate the Vacuous,” an outtake from the WWCOHWWG? sessions that was originally released as part of the 2014 EP by Suicide Squeeze and has been remastered for this release.
The Unicorns’ cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Rocketship” is currently streaming over at Pitchfork, and is available to stream & post via Soundcloud. You can pre-order the digital reissue of WWCOHWWG? here.
The physical reissue consists of CDs to be released on August 26th and limited-edition vinyl— 1000 copies on pink & black vinyl and 1000 copies on 180 gram black vinyl— to be released on October 7th. Both the digital and physical reissues are being released on the band’s own Caterpillar Records, via Redeye Distribution.
The Unicorns reunite next month for the first time in a decade, for five live dates opening for Arcade Fire: two at The Forum in Los Angeles, CA, and three nights at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center. In addition to these five shows, they’ll also be performing live at POP Montreal in September. See below for a list of dates, along with WWCOHWWG’s track listing.
Live Dates :* w/ Arcade Fire & Dan Deacon8/1: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*8/2: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*8/22: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*8/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*8/24: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*9/21: POP Montreal - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre (Tickets)
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? Track Listing :1. I Don’t Wanna Die2. Tuff Ghost3. Ghost Mountain4. Sea Ghost5. Jellybones6. The Clap7. Child Star8. Let’s Get Known9. I Was Born (A Unicorn)10. Tuff Luff11. Inoculate the Innocuous12. Les Os13. Ready to DieBonus Tracks (digital version only): Rocketship, Let Me Sleep, Evacuate the Vacuous, Haunted House (live)
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Bo Ningen Announce Fall Tour With Kasabian
Bo Ningen Announce Fall Tour With Kasabian, Playing New Orleans Voodoo Festival"III" LP Out Now On Stolen Recordings
Photo Credit: Cat Stevens
Tour Dates:Sep 26 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA *
Sep 27 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY *
Sep 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC *
Sep 30 - Sound Academy - Toronto, CAN *
Oct 01 - Metro - Chicago, IL *
Oct 04 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA *
Oct 06 - Fox Theater - Oakland, CA *
Oct 08 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA *
Oct 09 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA *
Oct 31 - Voodoo Festival - New Orleans, LA * w/ Kasabian
Praise For Bo Ningen"The songs on III encompass majestic processionals, droney space rock, whipsaw distorted funk, and songs in which it's best simply to hang on for the ride" -- The New York Times""Fast sludge rock that will likely pound Foster The People and their ilk into the turf, Bo Ningen will leave some bruises in its wake." -- LA Times"if I had to describe them in five words it would be "what the hell was that?" In a good way"- --Brooklyn Vegan"Their shows are already legendary experiences that invariably conclude with a finale of destruction as the band merges into a mess of hair, limbs, and guitars" --ViceTheir ability to wring multiple surprising moments out of one monster riff is one of the things that make Bo Ningen so thrilling"--Guardian
Photo Credit: Cat Stevens
Tour Dates:Sep 26 - Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA *
Sep 27 - Terminal 5 - New York, NY *
Sep 28 - 9:30 Club - Washington, DC *
Sep 30 - Sound Academy - Toronto, CAN *
Oct 01 - Metro - Chicago, IL *
Oct 04 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA *
Oct 06 - Fox Theater - Oakland, CA *
Oct 08 - The Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA *
Oct 09 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA *
Oct 31 - Voodoo Festival - New Orleans, LA * w/ Kasabian
Praise For Bo Ningen"The songs on III encompass majestic processionals, droney space rock, whipsaw distorted funk, and songs in which it's best simply to hang on for the ride" -- The New York Times""Fast sludge rock that will likely pound Foster The People and their ilk into the turf, Bo Ningen will leave some bruises in its wake." -- LA Times"if I had to describe them in five words it would be "what the hell was that?" In a good way"- --Brooklyn Vegan"Their shows are already legendary experiences that invariably conclude with a finale of destruction as the band merges into a mess of hair, limbs, and guitars" --ViceTheir ability to wring multiple surprising moments out of one monster riff is one of the things that make Bo Ningen so thrilling"--Guardian
