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July 9, 2014
Honeyblood Album Streaming Now on Pitchfork Advance
HONEYBLOOD'S DEBUT ALBUM STREAMING NOW ON PITCHFORK ADVANCE, OUT JULY 15TH ON FATCAT RECORDS
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS THIS MONTH
HONEYBLOODPhoto Credit: Laura Coulson
Glasgow two-piece Honeyblood will release their debut self-titled album on July 15th via FatCat Records. The album can now be streamed in full at Pitchfork Advance, who describe the duo's sound, saying they "combine elements of garage, shoegaze, and atmospheric pop, creating a sound that suggests Best Coast by way of Swervedriver." Stream 'Honeyblood' at Pitchfork Advance
NME have also premiered single "(I'd Rather Be) Anywhere But Here" this week, calling it a "song about goodbyes. Not the sad, sorry, tearful kind of so-longs, but the ones you relish and bask in as you bid farewell, having finally mustered the courage to leave behind "a city that's killing you.""
Hear "(I'd Rather Be) Anywhere But Here" at NME
In a recent interview, Noisey remarks that Honeyblood's sound is "a blend of blustery vocals and swirling guitars." You can check out the full interview here.
The two-piece will play a round of dates in North America, beginning later this month in NYC, with more to be announced for the fall. All tour dates are listed below.
Tour Dates / 07.24.14 - Pier 84 / River Rocks - New York, NY *07.25.14 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH07.26.14 - Subterranean - Chicago, IL07.27.14 - Wicker Park Festival - Chicago, IL07.29.14 - Milkboy - Philadelphia, PA07.30.14 - DC9 - Washington, DC
* w/ Teenage Fanclub
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS THIS MONTH
HONEYBLOODPhoto Credit: Laura CoulsonGlasgow two-piece Honeyblood will release their debut self-titled album on July 15th via FatCat Records. The album can now be streamed in full at Pitchfork Advance, who describe the duo's sound, saying they "combine elements of garage, shoegaze, and atmospheric pop, creating a sound that suggests Best Coast by way of Swervedriver." Stream 'Honeyblood' at Pitchfork Advance
NME have also premiered single "(I'd Rather Be) Anywhere But Here" this week, calling it a "song about goodbyes. Not the sad, sorry, tearful kind of so-longs, but the ones you relish and bask in as you bid farewell, having finally mustered the courage to leave behind "a city that's killing you.""
Hear "(I'd Rather Be) Anywhere But Here" at NME
In a recent interview, Noisey remarks that Honeyblood's sound is "a blend of blustery vocals and swirling guitars." You can check out the full interview here.
The two-piece will play a round of dates in North America, beginning later this month in NYC, with more to be announced for the fall. All tour dates are listed below.
Tour Dates / 07.24.14 - Pier 84 / River Rocks - New York, NY *07.25.14 - Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH07.26.14 - Subterranean - Chicago, IL07.27.14 - Wicker Park Festival - Chicago, IL07.29.14 - Milkboy - Philadelphia, PA07.30.14 - DC9 - Washington, DC
* w/ Teenage Fanclub
Whirr shares new single + Announces LP due 9/23
WHIRR SHARES "MUMBLE" VIA STEREOGUM
ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES
ANNOUNCES SWAY LP DUE 9/23 VIA GRAVEFACE
Credit: Ryan McClain STREAM: "Mumble" - https://soundcloud.com/graveface/whirr-mumble
Beautifully loud shoegazers Whirr have announced their second LP, Sway, and are sharing the lead single "Mumble". Never one to rest, band-founder Nick Bassett has spent much of the past year playing bass in Nothing and released an EP as Death of Lovers in conjunction with members of Nothing. Despite being on tour virtually all year, Bassett will get back on the road this fall with Whirr. Check out all of the tour dates below and get ready for the release of Sway on September 23rd via Graveface.
About Whirr:
When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr-a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse-pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that's heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders-Whirr's Nick Bassett and Nothing's Dominic Palermo-decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He's never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers' debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett's move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland's Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett's material, folding his songs into the album's presiding sense of dusky melancholy. "It's not conceptual, entirely, but it's intended to ebb and flow in a certain way-one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating," Bassett says. "We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. "
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless "Heavy" churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you've long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, "Sway" floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr's typical propulsion. Even here, during the record's prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids. "The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock," Bassett confirms. "There are these more aggressive punk elements - noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs."
"Clear" brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication-"I want words/to understand you," runs one plaintive, surging bit-in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes' drums and Eddie Saldago's orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that's the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.
Tour Dates:
ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES
ANNOUNCES SWAY LP DUE 9/23 VIA GRAVEFACE
Credit: Ryan McClain STREAM: "Mumble" - https://soundcloud.com/graveface/whirr-mumbleBeautifully loud shoegazers Whirr have announced their second LP, Sway, and are sharing the lead single "Mumble". Never one to rest, band-founder Nick Bassett has spent much of the past year playing bass in Nothing and released an EP as Death of Lovers in conjunction with members of Nothing. Despite being on tour virtually all year, Bassett will get back on the road this fall with Whirr. Check out all of the tour dates below and get ready for the release of Sway on September 23rd via Graveface.
About Whirr:
When Sway begins, you might at first press pause, reaching for your headphone wire or peeking behind your speaker cables to make sure nothing has come undone. The blister of distorted guitar that opens the album comes only from the right channel, howling and hanging there in irascible isolation until it seems that something must be wrong.
But be patient: After a dozen seconds, the rest of Whirr-a five-piece of blanketing rock focus and comforting pop finesse-pours in from the left channel. They meet the guitar in the middle, together racing headlong into a short section that's heavy as metal but pliable enough to be the springboard for the galloping shoegaze beauty that soon arrives.
For the next 36 minutes, you need not worry again about lost connections, split channels or anything else, really. More than any Whirr release to date, Sway creates a definitive sense of immersion, sculpting an environment that breathes you in instantly and breathes you out only when the record snaps into silence.
That bifurcated start is an appropriate image for Whirr in 2014. Last year, the band headlined a tour with the Philadelphia group and fellow admirers of heaviness and harmony, Nothing. Not only did the crews become fast friends, but their respective founders-Whirr's Nick Bassett and Nothing's Dominic Palermo-decided to start a group of their own, Death of Lovers. When the shared tour was finished, Bassett headed to Philadelphia for a month of writing and recording. He's never really left. He calls Philadelphia home now, so Whirr has become a bicoastal band.
In Philadelphia, Bassett worked on Death of Lovers' debut for Deathwish Inc., toured as the bassist for Nothing and steadily composed new material for the next Whirr album, their first full-length for Graveface. Back in Oakland, the rest of Whirr had committed to the project full-time, too, so the West Coast contingent wrote and rehearsed new material without Bassett. Joey Bautista took the lead on two songs, Loren Rivera on three.
Indeed, against most odds, Bassett's move made for a more democratic Whirr. In their salad days, Bassett had written most of the material and built the bulk of the arrangements, too, using the support only to enrich and enliven them. After a slew of splits and singles and EPs, Sway is the second Whirr LP, but it is only the first to be rendered by a fully functional rock band, having shaped the songs slowly and over some distance.
Before the quintet entered Oakland's Atomic Garden to work with longtime producer and collaborator Jack Shirley, they reworked the contributions of all three writers, massaging the material into a cohesive dynamo. Rivera, for instance, rewrote the words for Bassett's material, folding his songs into the album's presiding sense of dusky melancholy. "It's not conceptual, entirely, but it's intended to ebb and flow in a certain way-one song being aggressive, then dropping out and being pretty but devastating," Bassett says. "We tried to create an atmosphere, where you listen and get vibed into one tone. "
That rhythm presides over Sway, tying its distinct parts into a seamless unit. The restless "Heavy" churns somewhere between Godflesh and Gish, its lumbering beat and foreboding guitar buoyed by a melody that feels like a secret hymn for which you've long searched. Gorgeous and sprawling, "Sway" floats through luxuriating guitars and pillowed vocals, offering an impressionistic but intoxicating inversion of Whirr's typical propulsion. Even here, during the record's prettiest moment, Whirr maintains a righteous minimalism, emblematic of members who met one another as skateboarding high-school kids. "The aesthetic of the band is more aimed at mature punk rather than alternative rock," Bassett confirms. "There are these more aggressive punk elements - noisy feedback, a snare roll that just goes into super-punchy, driving songs."
"Clear" brilliantly paints its lyrical quest for lucid communication-"I want words/to understand you," runs one plaintive, surging bit-in music that takes up the same challenge. Whirr pushes past a pastel instrumental haze into a hangdog march, with near-whispered vocals bruised by Devin Nunes' drums and Eddie Saldago's orotund bass line. But as the end approaches, the band builds together, the riffs and the rhythm colliding into one triumphant, redemptive crest.
And that's the victory of Sway, too, an album written by five people on two coasts but executed with the force and splendor of, at last, a fully unified Whirr.
Graveface will release Sway on CD, LP and digitally September 23.
Tour Dates:
8/30/2014 - San Fransisco, CA @ The Rickshaw Shop !
9/1/2014 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar !
9/2/2014 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo !
9/3/2014 - Tempe, AZ @ 51 West !
9/5/2014 - Dallas, TX @ Sons of Herman
9/6/2014 - Austin, TX @ Holy Mountain
9/7/2014 - Houston, TX @ Mangos
9/9/2014 - Orlando, FL, @ Backbooth
9/10/2014 - Savannah, GA @ Graveface HQ #
9/11/2014 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Purgatory #
9/12/2014 - Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 503 #
9/13/2014 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter #
9/14/2014 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery #
9/15/2014 - Philadelphia, PA @The Barbary #
9/16/2014 - New York, NY @ The Studio @ Webster Hall #
9/17/2014 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs #
9/18/2014 - Hamden, CT @ The Space #
9/19/2014 - Montreal, QC @ Sala Rosa #
9/20/2014 - Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck #
9/21/2014 - Cleveland, OH @ Mahalls #
9/22/2014 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar #
9/23/2014 - Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen #
9/24/2014 - St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
9/26/2014 - Denver, CO @ 7th Circle Collective
9/27/2014 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Shred Shed
9/28/2014 - Boise, ID @ The Crux
9/29/2014 - Seattle, WA @ Vera Project ^9/30/2014 - Vancouver, BC @ The Electric Owl ^10/1/2014 - Portland, WA @ Slabtown ^! = w/ Sad Actor# = w/ Cloakroom^ = w/ Special Explosion
New Weezer Album “Everything Will Be Alright In The End"
Everything Will Be Alright In The End
(September 30th, 2014; Republic Records)
(photo credit: Emily Shur)
Los Angeles, CA’s Weezer will release their highly anticipated ninth album, Everything Will Be Alright In The End , on September 30th, 2014 on Republic Records. Produced by Ric Ocasek, who previously helmed production on the band’s first and third records (“The Blue Album” and “The Green Album”), Everything Will Be Alright In The End is the band’s first collection of new material in four years.
Since forming in 1992, Weezer has released a myriad of celebrated, chart-topping albums, selling over 13 million records worldwide. Following an intensely prolific couple years at the end of the aughts, the band chose to deliberately dial down the tempo in 2010, a move singer/guitarist Rivers Cuomo says allowed him to write at a slower pace, giving the songs he wanted to use for an album the time to gradually grow into their final forms. He started almost every song on the piano, eventually transferring them to the guitar before taking them to the band. When it came time to record the material, Weezer reunited with the man who helped them make some of their most iconic album-length work, Cars frontman Ric Ocasek. The resulting album, Everything Will Be Alright In The End, is a stand-out gem in Weezer’s vast and varied catalogue, a reflection of a much-loved band at their very best. Organized thematically around three groups of songs, it is an album that utilizes that sound from the band’s earliest days to tell new stories in 2014, creating some of the finest, most heartfelt songs Weezer has ever recorded.
An exclusive, first look at Everything Will Be Alright In The End will appear in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. PRESS HERE to read more about the band’s time in the studio, and watch this week’s #weezerwednesday webisode.
More information about Everything Will Be Alright In The End, including details about the album’s first single, will be available soon. Watch this space for more.
Weezer tour dates:
7/24/14 London, ON @ Rock The Park 2014
7/25/14 Belleville, ON @ Empire Rockfest
7/26/14 Rimouski, QC @ Les Grandes Fetes du St-Laurent
8/1/14 Las Vegas, CA @ The Cosmopolitan
8/2/14 Del Mar, CA @ Del Mar Thoroughbred Club Summer Concert Series
8/9/14 Bethlehem, PA @ Musikfest PNC Plaza
8/13/14 Southaven, MS @ Snowden Grove Amphitheater
8/14/14 Lake Charles, LA @ L’Auberge Casino Resort
8/31/14 Los Angeles, CA @ Made In America
9/6/14 Charlotte, NC @ 106.5 The End presents Weenie Roast ‘14
9/12/14 Paso Robles, CA @ Vino Robles Amphitheatre
9/13/14 Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival
9/14/14 Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
9/19/14 Denver, CO @ Riot Fest
July 8, 2014
Cloud Nothings @ The Roxy
photo Angel Ceballos
CLOUD NOTHINGS plays at the tonight at the Roxy, Tuesday, July 8th 2014.
Angus & Julia Stone Premiere Video
ANGUS & JULIA ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
PREMIERE VIDEO FOR OFFICIAL SINGLE ‘A HEARTBREAK’
Video Directed by Jessie Hill
AMERICAN RECORDINGS/REPUBLIC RECORDS DEBUT "ANGUS & JULIA STONE"
PRODUCED BY RICK RUBIN • TO BE RELEASED AUGUST 1, 2014
Watch the video and read the interview with Angus & Julia Stone and Rick Rubin via The New York Times here .
Watch/Share
"A Heartbreak"
Tickets go on sale Friday July 11th, 10AM local time at:
www.angusandjuliastone.com
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
10/06 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
10/07 – The Regent – Los Angeles, CA
10/08 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
10/10 – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver, BC
10/11 – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
10/12 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
10/14 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
10/15 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
10/17 – Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI
10/18 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
10/19 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
10/21 – Opera House – Toronto, ON
10/22 – Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre – Montreal, QC
10/23 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
10/25 – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue – Washington, DC
10/27 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
10/28 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
10/29 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
Album Available For Pre-Order Now: http://smarturl.it/AngusAndJuliaStoneiT
PREMIERE VIDEO FOR OFFICIAL SINGLE ‘A HEARTBREAK’
Video Directed by Jessie Hill
AMERICAN RECORDINGS/REPUBLIC RECORDS DEBUT "ANGUS & JULIA STONE"
PRODUCED BY RICK RUBIN • TO BE RELEASED AUGUST 1, 2014
Watch the video and read the interview with Angus & Julia Stone and Rick Rubin via The New York Times here .
Watch/Share
"A Heartbreak"
Tickets go on sale Friday July 11th, 10AM local time at:
www.angusandjuliastone.com
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
10/06 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
10/07 – The Regent – Los Angeles, CA
10/08 – The Independent – San Francisco, CA
10/10 – Vogue Theatre – Vancouver, BC
10/11 – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
10/12 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
10/14 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT
10/15 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
10/17 – Majestic Theatre – Madison, WI
10/18 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
10/19 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
10/21 – Opera House – Toronto, ON
10/22 – Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre – Montreal, QC
10/23 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
10/25 – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue – Washington, DC
10/27 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY
10/28 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
10/29 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
Album Available For Pre-Order Now: http://smarturl.it/AngusAndJuliaStoneiT
OFF! ANNOUNCE TOUR WITH MELVINS' DALE CROVER
HARDCORE POWER QUARTET SHARE NEW LIVE CLIP FROM RECORD RELEASE SHOW: http://youtu.be/YgLRdBXHv9s
Heavy-hitting hardcore torchbearers OFF! have announced a new run of dates this August, blanketing the southern quarter and east coast of the US in continued support of their latest and greatest LP Wasted Years , their second album in a row to crack the Billboard Top 100 on a majority of vinyl sales. In place of the group's usual drummerMario Rubalcaba (Earthless, Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes), is Dale Crover, the immense and unique talent that has driven Melvins' rhythm section since 1984. Joining the band for the tour are California punkers Bad Antics and Arizona hardcore ragers Gay Kiss, with the legendary Dwarves jumping on select Texas dates (full tour dates below).
Alongside the tour announcement, the band has shared footage from their release day show at Amoeba Records, a three-song taste of the ferocity of the band's live presence. Check it out at the link below.
WATCH OFF! PERFORMING LIVE AT AMOEBA RECORDS:http://youtu.be/YgLRdBXHv9s
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "RED WHITE AND BLACK":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFHZhe3Xmw&feature=kp
OFF! UPCOMING LIVE DATES
w/ Mario Rubalcaba:
7/11 - Milton Keynes Bowl - Milton Keynes, UK *7/17 - Indie Rocks! Forum - Mexico City, Mexico
w/ Dale Crover (all dates with Bad Antics and Gay Kiss):
8/6 - Lowbrow Palace - El Paso, TX 8/8 - Korova - San Antonio, TX +8/9 - Mohawk - Austin, TX +8/10 - Siberia - New Orleans, LA8/11 - Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA8/13 - Backbooth - Orlando, FL8/14 - Churchill's Pub - Miami, FL8/15 - Local 662 - St. Petersburg, FL8/18 - Drunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA8/19 - Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC8/21 - Rock and Roll Hotel - Washington, DC8/22 - Europa - Brooklyn, NY8/23 - Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA8/24 - Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH, MI
* with Pearl Jam+ with The Dwarves
Heavy-hitting hardcore torchbearers OFF! have announced a new run of dates this August, blanketing the southern quarter and east coast of the US in continued support of their latest and greatest LP Wasted Years , their second album in a row to crack the Billboard Top 100 on a majority of vinyl sales. In place of the group's usual drummerMario Rubalcaba (Earthless, Rocket From The Crypt, Hot Snakes), is Dale Crover, the immense and unique talent that has driven Melvins' rhythm section since 1984. Joining the band for the tour are California punkers Bad Antics and Arizona hardcore ragers Gay Kiss, with the legendary Dwarves jumping on select Texas dates (full tour dates below).
Alongside the tour announcement, the band has shared footage from their release day show at Amoeba Records, a three-song taste of the ferocity of the band's live presence. Check it out at the link below.
WATCH OFF! PERFORMING LIVE AT AMOEBA RECORDS:http://youtu.be/YgLRdBXHv9s
WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR "RED WHITE AND BLACK":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFHZhe3Xmw&feature=kp
OFF! UPCOMING LIVE DATES
w/ Mario Rubalcaba:
7/11 - Milton Keynes Bowl - Milton Keynes, UK *7/17 - Indie Rocks! Forum - Mexico City, Mexico
w/ Dale Crover (all dates with Bad Antics and Gay Kiss):
8/6 - Lowbrow Palace - El Paso, TX 8/8 - Korova - San Antonio, TX +8/9 - Mohawk - Austin, TX +8/10 - Siberia - New Orleans, LA8/11 - Spanish Moon - Baton Rouge, LA8/13 - Backbooth - Orlando, FL8/14 - Churchill's Pub - Miami, FL8/15 - Local 662 - St. Petersburg, FL8/18 - Drunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA8/19 - Kings Barcade - Raleigh, NC8/21 - Rock and Roll Hotel - Washington, DC8/22 - Europa - Brooklyn, NY8/23 - Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA8/24 - Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH, MI
* with Pearl Jam+ with The Dwarves
White Lung share new video and extend US tour!
WHITE LUNG SHARE NEW VIDEO "IN YOUR HOME"
EXTEND NORTH AMERICAN TOUR PLUS NYC SHOW
DEEP FANTASY OUT NOW ON DOMINO RECORDING CO.
Photo: Piper Ferguson Mish Way on "In Your Home": "This video was created by Justin Gradin and Ben Jacques. Justin has done all our album art since our first LP so "In Your Home" is funny, demented and uncomfortable, it's perfect. The star of the video is my dear friend Christina Kenton who pushes the baby cart and smiles at the end. She's an incredible artist herself. This video is filled with people way more talented than the four of us."
WATCH "IN YOUR HOME" ON YOUTUBE HERE
White Lung Live Dates:
7/22: Rickshaw Stop - San Francisco, CA7/23: Church On York - Los Angeles, CA7/25: Fuji Rock Festival - Niigata, Japan9/2: Great Scott - Boston, MA9/3: Glasslands - Brooklyn, NY9/4: DC9 - Washington, DC9/6: Hopscotch Festival - Raleigh, NC9/7: The Atlantic - Gainesville, FL #9/8: 529 - Atlanta, GA9/9: The End - Nashville, TN9/10: Subterranean - Chicago, IL9/13: Basilica Soundscape - Hudson, NY
# - w/ Merchandise
JUNGLE premiere new video for "TIME"
PREMIERE “
TIME
” VIDEODEBUT ALBUM STREAMING NOW VIA ITUNES
London collective Jungle has premiered the video for latest album cut “Time” today. Directed by Oliver Hadlee Pearchalongside the band's 'J', the “Time” video is available to watch right now
HERE
, it’s the latest in a series of successful collaborations between the pair (on Jungle's previous “Platoon”, “The Heat” and “Busy Earnin'” videos).The “Time” video arrives a week before the release of Jungle's highly anticipated, eponymous debut album out July 15 (14th in the UK) on XL Recordings. Identified by
Rolling Stone
as a “New Artist You Need To Know”,
Jungle
has already been described by
New York Times
as "a beguiling and promising introduction", by
NME
as " the pop-art album of the summer" and
Time Out
exclaims “the group's steamy, grooving, creeping neo-soul tracks are something pretty special.”
Jungle
is available to stream in full starting today, exclusively via
ITUNES
Meanwhile the collective will return to the states this fall with a seven-piece Jungle live experience that will perform on over 20 dates across North America, in the largest set of rooms the group has played to date. The group will also make stops at Lollapalooza, Treasure Island and Corona Capital Music Festivals. See full list of dates below.
JUNGLE North America Sept./Oct. Tour Dates Sat. 8/2 Chicago, IL LollapaloozaFri. 9/19 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda TheatreSat. 9/20 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up TavernMon. 9/22 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent BallroomWed. 9/24 Austin, TX The MohawkThurs. 9/25 Dallas, TX Fitzgerald’s Fri. 9/26 New Orleans, LA RepublicSat. 9/27 Atlanta, GA Terminal WestSun. 9/28 Nashville, TN Exit InTues. 9/30 Washington D.C. Black CatWeds. 10/1 Brooklyn, NY WarsawThurs. 10/2 New York, NY Irving PlazaFri. 10/3 Cambridge, MA The SinclairSat. 10/4 Montreal, QC Le BelmontMon. 10/6 Toronto, ON Danforth Music HallTues. 10/7 Pontiac, MI Crofoot BallroomWed. 10/8 Chicago, IL Thalia Music HallThurs. 10/9 Minneapolis, MN First AvenueSat. 10/11 Mexico City Corona Capital Music FestivalTues. 10/14 Vancouver, BC The ImperialWeds. 10/14 Seattle, WA The ShowboxThurs. 10/15 Portland, OR Wonder BallroomSat. 10/18 San Francisco, CA Treasure Island Music Festival
Cloud Nothings share "Psychic Trauma" video
CLOUD NOTHINGS SHARES "PSYCHIC TRAUMA" VIDEO
ON TOUR NOW
HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE OUT NOW VIA CARPARK/MOM + POP
Photo by Pooneh Ghana VIDEO: "Psychic Trauma" - http://youtu.be/KxeNn_O5u5E
Following this spring's release of their new album Here And Nowhere Else and in conjunction with their current sold out US tour, Cloud Nothings are back today to share the video for album highlight "Psychic Trauma." Directed by longtime collaborator Ryan Manning, the video features a warped version of the band performing the blistering track - making for a decidedly less unsettling product than their previous videos. In conjunction with the current tour and video's release, the band have hand-customized a limited number of Here and Nowhere Else LPs, available from indie retail stores across the West Coast now. Head over to the band's Facebook page for a full list of participating retailers, and call to check availability. Check out the video above and see below for all upcoming Cloud Nothings US tour dates as well as a selection of the hand-designed LP jackets. Tour Dates 07/07 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall07/08 Los Angeles, CA - Roxy07/09 Los Angeles, CA - Roxy07/10 Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room07/11 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar07/12 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom07/14 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge07/15 Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers07/16 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre07/17 St. Louis, MO - The Luminary Center for the Arts07/18 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern07/19 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
July 7-9 with METZJuly 10-18 with The Wytches
ON TOUR NOW
HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE OUT NOW VIA CARPARK/MOM + POP
Photo by Pooneh Ghana VIDEO: "Psychic Trauma" - http://youtu.be/KxeNn_O5u5EFollowing this spring's release of their new album Here And Nowhere Else and in conjunction with their current sold out US tour, Cloud Nothings are back today to share the video for album highlight "Psychic Trauma." Directed by longtime collaborator Ryan Manning, the video features a warped version of the band performing the blistering track - making for a decidedly less unsettling product than their previous videos. In conjunction with the current tour and video's release, the band have hand-customized a limited number of Here and Nowhere Else LPs, available from indie retail stores across the West Coast now. Head over to the band's Facebook page for a full list of participating retailers, and call to check availability. Check out the video above and see below for all upcoming Cloud Nothings US tour dates as well as a selection of the hand-designed LP jackets. Tour Dates 07/07 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall07/08 Los Angeles, CA - Roxy07/09 Los Angeles, CA - Roxy07/10 Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room07/11 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar07/12 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom07/14 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge07/15 Lincoln, NE - Knickerbockers07/16 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre07/17 St. Louis, MO - The Luminary Center for the Arts07/18 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern07/19 Chicago, IL - Pitchfork Music Festival
July 7-9 with METZJuly 10-18 with The Wytches
The Acid Streams on Pandora, Album Out Next Week
DEBUT FULL-LENGTHLIMINAL
OUT NEXT WEEK - JULY 15th, 2014
FULL ALBUM STREAM VIA PANDORA PREMIERES
WATCH THE “FAME” VIDEO HERE
“The Acid fuse indie with post-Burial bass music so seamlessly that you forget The XX ever existed.” – NME“A wonderful melding of the three artists’ talents.” – Pigeons and Planes
“If you have not checked out this band, you get our highest recommendation to do so.” – My Old Kentucky Blog
“Intimate, spine chilling vocals” - Dazed
The Acid will release their exceptional debut album Liminal on July 15th 2014 in the US/Canada via Mute. Infectious Music have released Liminal in UK/Europe this week. StreamLiminal via Pandora Premieres here.
The Acid came together from three separate worlds, joining together through a profound synchronicity. They are globe trotting, Grammy nominated DJ & Producer Adam Freeland, creator of subversive crossover hit 'We Want Your Soul', spearhead of a scene and label boss of Brighton's Marine Parade Records; Californian Polymath Steve Nalepa, whose time is split as a producer, composer, professor of music technology; and Australian, LA based artist and producer Ry X, whose ‘Berlin EP’ was released in late 2013 to softly bubbling acclaim, and who, with his other alter ego as one half of Howling, created an eponymous club smash and toured heavily through 2013’s festival circuit.
Ry and Adam, who had initially met in Australia several years prior, ran into each other at a mutual friend’s party in LA last year. They had both been on recent journeys of personal growth and a deeper exploration into art, which led to them collaborating together at Ry’s property in Topanga Canyon. As luck would have it, Freeland had a session booked with his friend Nalepa at his home studio the very next day, where they birthed the track “Animal” within 24 hours of this kizmetic collaboration. The full-length record was written in one more intensive session at Nalepa’s home studio space.
Quite the feat, but they all maintain this project has in many ways been remarkably effortless. As Nalepa reveals, “in the first couple of songs, we came up with our palette of sound. We had that moment where you realise, ‘we could do a whole body of work like this’.” Freeland continues, “Everything about this process has been very synchronistic. From making music, to getting a record deal: it’s just flowed. The Acid birthed itself.” He goes on, referencing Malcolm Gladwell’sThe Outliers, “Things come out of people being in the right place at the right time, but those people have to have done their ten thousand hours’ work on their craft and then hit that moment in time.” Buy Liminal Here
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