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September 12, 2013
ICONA POP PREMIERE THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
ICONA POP PREMIERE THE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY VIDEO
FOR NEW SINGLE ‘ALL NIGHT’
DEBUT ALBUM ‘THIS IS… ICONA POP’ OUT 09/24
(Artist Company TEN / Big Beat / Atlantic Records)
WATCH ‘ALL NIGHT’ HERE
In the countdown towards Icona Pop’s debut album release of ‘ THIS IS… ICONA POP ’ on 09/24 via Artist Company TEN / Big Beat / Atlantic Records, the pop duo unleashes an official documentary video for their new single ‘All Night’ today. The five and a half minute docu-music video -- made in collaboration with Absolut TUNE -- is a celebration of the downtown scene and culture, paying homage to the classic 80’s cult movie ‘Paris Is Burning’.
Icona Pop is currently on the road in North America (with K. Flay and Sirah) – soon to make pit stops in Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Columbia, Philadelphia, New York City and Brooklyn. The band will also be making TV appearances on NBC’s The Today Show on 09/26, CBS’s The Late Show With David Letterman on 09/25 and have more special TV appearance announcements coming later today.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ‘THIS IS… ICONA POP’ here
ICONIC TOUR DATES
09/12 - Chicago, IL – Metro*
09/13 @ KCLive!/Power & Light District Outdoor Stage
09/14 - Detroit, MI – Laneway Festival
09/15 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues*
09/19 - Boston, MA – Paradise*
09/20 – New York, NY – Webster Hall*
09/21 - Columbia, MD - Virgin Mobile Freefest
09/22 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts*
09/25 - Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg*
*w/ K.Flay & Sirah
[image error]1) I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)
2) All Night
3) We Got The World
4) Ready For The Weekend
5) Girlfriend
6) In The Stars
7) On A Roll
8) Just Another Night
9) Hold On
10) Light Me Up
11) Then We Kiss
FOR NEW SINGLE ‘ALL NIGHT’
DEBUT ALBUM ‘THIS IS… ICONA POP’ OUT 09/24
(Artist Company TEN / Big Beat / Atlantic Records)
WATCH ‘ALL NIGHT’ HERE
In the countdown towards Icona Pop’s debut album release of ‘ THIS IS… ICONA POP ’ on 09/24 via Artist Company TEN / Big Beat / Atlantic Records, the pop duo unleashes an official documentary video for their new single ‘All Night’ today. The five and a half minute docu-music video -- made in collaboration with Absolut TUNE -- is a celebration of the downtown scene and culture, paying homage to the classic 80’s cult movie ‘Paris Is Burning’.
Icona Pop is currently on the road in North America (with K. Flay and Sirah) – soon to make pit stops in Chicago, Kansas City, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Columbia, Philadelphia, New York City and Brooklyn. The band will also be making TV appearances on NBC’s The Today Show on 09/26, CBS’s The Late Show With David Letterman on 09/25 and have more special TV appearance announcements coming later today.
PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ‘THIS IS… ICONA POP’ here
ICONIC TOUR DATES
09/12 - Chicago, IL – Metro*
09/13 @ KCLive!/Power & Light District Outdoor Stage
09/14 - Detroit, MI – Laneway Festival
09/15 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues*
09/19 - Boston, MA – Paradise*
09/20 – New York, NY – Webster Hall*
09/21 - Columbia, MD - Virgin Mobile Freefest
09/22 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts*
09/25 - Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg*
*w/ K.Flay & Sirah
[image error]1) I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)
2) All Night
3) We Got The World
4) Ready For The Weekend
5) Girlfriend
6) In The Stars
7) On A Roll
8) Just Another Night
9) Hold On
10) Light Me Up
11) Then We Kiss
September 11, 2013
FILTER mag's Culture Collide 2013
We at FILTER magazine and FILTER Creative Group could not be more excited to announce the latest additions to our 4th annual music festival, Culture Collide and 2nd annual, coinciding Creative Summit, both of which are set to sprawl across Echo Park in Los Angeles this Oct. 10 - 12.For starters: Moby is on board to kick-off the Creative Summit with a keynote speech, prior to diving head-first into the all-new Innovators Panel, where he'll be joined by the likes of Shepard Fairey and Dhani Harrison and more. Also newly announced are additional headliner bands, Bleached(US) and Duologue (UK) - daily performance schedules coming soon!
Father John Misty Shares “I’m Writing A Novel” Video
Father John Misty Shares “I’m Writing A Novel” Video With PitchforkPlus Updated Tour Dates
Father John Misty has premiered a new video for “I’m Writing A Novel,” the 5th video from his critically acclaimed 2012 album Fear Fun. The new visual, directed by Noel Paul (“Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”; Bat For Lashes, Austra) melds documentary-style and performance footage filmed while on the road during his mammoth tour in support of the album (see Pitchfork news story September 11th).
Father John Misty will close out 2013 with a headlining solo variety tour in support of Fear Fun this fall, which begins on October 3rd in San Francisco, CA at Slims and ends on November 2nd in Los Angeles, CA at the Wiltern. The tour will feature support from comedian Kate Berlant. Please find a full list of tour dates below.
In related news, Father John Misty recently took over Magnet’s website as a guest editor. You can peruse his wonderfully witty posts, as well as his recent cover story, here. Additionally, Father John Misty has contributed to the last two issues of Filter’s Good Music Guide as their festival editor. Read those hilarious missives here.
What People Have Said About Father John Misty: “A mischievously warm collection of folky-indie rock bliss.” [#2/The Must List] – Entertainment Weekly
Our favorite rock album of the year-- A shaggy dog story of Cali boho hedonism. [Rock 'N' Roller of The Year 2012] GQ
“A captivating listen” [8/10] – Magnet
“Tillman varies things up on Fear Fun, reveals an adventurous palette, and makes what may be his best album to date.” - Pitchfork
“It is a thing of madcap, mushroom-inspired Laurel Canyon genius, all done with a 1970s soft-rock smile.” [5/5] – The Independent
“It's clear from the start with the gorgeous opener, "Funtimes in Babylon", that Tillman's is a singular talent, and, thankfully, one that won't require much encouragement: "Look out Hollywood, here I come.” [8/10] – Under The Radar
Tour Dates Oct. 03 - San Francisco, CA - Slims* Oct. 06 - Seattle, WA - The Moore Theatre * Oct. 07 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theatre * Oct. 08 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore * Oct. 11 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue* Oct. 12 - Chicago, IL - The Vic * Oct. 13 - Madison, WI - Capitol Theatre * Oct. 14 - Pontiac, MI - Crofoot * Oct. 15 - Toronto, ON - Queen Elizabeth Theatre* Oct. 16 - Montreal, QE - Corona Theatre * Oct. 20 - Somerville, MA - Somerville Theatre * Oct. 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer * Oct. 23 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club * Oct. 24 - Richmond, VA - The National * Oct. 25 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cat’s Cradle * Oct. 26 - Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre * Oct. 28 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues * Oct. 29 - Austin, TX - Emo’s * Oct. 31 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent * Nov. 01 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues * Nov. 02 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern * * w/ Kate Berlant
New Darkstar Video For "A Day's Pay For A Day's Work"
DARKSTAR ANNOUNCE VIDEO FOR THE SINGLE “A DAY’S PAY FOR A DAY’S WORK”
Watch "A Day's Pay For A Day's Work" Here: http://youtu.be/9KbSq5_FVuE
“Composed with luminous synths and melodic vocal lines, the U.K. trio's latest album is an unabashed venture into warped pop music. – NPR Music
“highly emotive, harmonically sound trip through digitized music that moves to a genuine human heartbeat” - SPIN
“achingly pretty warmth” - FADER
Darkstar are pleased to share the video for their most recent single “A Day’s Pay For A Day’s Work” off of News From Nowhere, released earlier this year.
Filmed in a community center in South London, the video captures the trio taking part in numerous trust-building exercises and activities, ranging from falling backwards into the arms of others to taking part in a conga drum ensemble. Directed by London-based writer/director Lucy Luscombe (http://lucyluscombe.com), it’s a beautifully apt visual accompaniment to a stirring single that candidly touches on the subjects of confidence, self-esteem and relationships.
The band are also set to announce a series of remix EPs, that sees several News From Nowherestand out tracks reworked by the likes of Zomby, Motor City Drum Ensemble, the band themselves and more. Expanded details to come soon!
Tera Melos debut track via SPIN from remix EP
Tera Melos debut track from forthcoming remix EP via SPIN, headline Sargent House tour with Zorch and Fang Island
Listen to Jason Bartell of Fang Island's remix of "Weird Circles" HERE
Watch original mix "Weird Circles" video:
"Tera Melos' most accessible work by a large margin"
-- Pitchfork
"X'ed Outis chock-full of great ideas and impressive executions -- an interlocking pile of barbs and briars and jigsaw pieces that all manage to vibrate at just the right frequency." -- SPIN
Tera Melos debut the first track from the forthcoming X'ed Out Remixes EP today via SPIN.com . The song is a reworking of Tera Melos' "Weird Circles" by Jason Bartell of Sargent House label mates Fang Island. Listen/share via SPIN and Soundcloud.
Tera Melos also launch Fall tour dates in October with Sargent House label mates Zorch on all shows and Fang Island joining the bill on the East Coast leg. This extensive U.S. trek follows shortly after Tera Melos' current run with Minus the Bear. Please see complete dates below and specific details (tickets, times, etc) HERE .
Tera Melos also recently premiered a new video from their latest album, X'ed Out via SPIN.com. Watch the clip for "Weird Circles" HERE (YouTube HERE), directed by Behn Fannin.
X'ed Out Remixes EP will be available on limited edition rainbow-sparkle 10" vinyl at shows in October and pre-order via the band's merch store HERE. The EP will also be available for digital download on October 8th.
X'ed Out was released April 16th, 2013 on LP, CD and download via Sargent House.
MINUS THE BEAR // TERA MELOS // THE NEW TRUST Tour: Sept 11 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern Sept 13 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee TheatreSept 14 - Santa Fe, NM @ Railway Sept 16 - Austin, TX @ Emo's East Sept 17 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues Sept 18 - New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's Sept 19 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre Sept 20 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre Sept 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot Sept 24 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
TERA MELOS // ZORCH Tour:Oct 15 - Boise, ID @ The CruxOct 17 - Denver, CO @ Larimer LoungeOct 19 - Columbia, MO @ MOJOOct 20 - St. Louis, MO @ The DemoOct 22 - Columbus, OH @ The BasementOct 23 - Chicago, IL @ SubterraneanOct 24 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind PigOct 25 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog ShopOct 26 - Buffalo, NY @ Tralf *Oct 27 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt *Oct 28 - Hamden, CT @ The Space * Oct 29 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street *Oct 30 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *Oct 31 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *Nov 01 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *Nov 02 - Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel *Nov 03 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter Nov 05 - Charlotte, NC @ Visulite TheatreNov 06 - Asheville, NC @ Isis Music HallNov 07 - Athens, GA @ New Earth Music HallNov 08 - Birmingham, AL @ BottletreeNov 09 - Broussard, LA @ The Station Nov 13 - Tucson, AZ @ Club CongressNov 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour Nov 16 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop Nov 17 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe PlaceNov 20 - Spokane, WA @ The CenterNov 21 - Bellingham, WA @ The ShakedownNov 22 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
* w/ Fang Island
Listen to Jason Bartell of Fang Island's remix of "Weird Circles" HERE
Watch original mix "Weird Circles" video:
"Tera Melos' most accessible work by a large margin"
-- Pitchfork
"X'ed Outis chock-full of great ideas and impressive executions -- an interlocking pile of barbs and briars and jigsaw pieces that all manage to vibrate at just the right frequency." -- SPIN
Tera Melos debut the first track from the forthcoming X'ed Out Remixes EP today via SPIN.com . The song is a reworking of Tera Melos' "Weird Circles" by Jason Bartell of Sargent House label mates Fang Island. Listen/share via SPIN and Soundcloud.
Tera Melos also launch Fall tour dates in October with Sargent House label mates Zorch on all shows and Fang Island joining the bill on the East Coast leg. This extensive U.S. trek follows shortly after Tera Melos' current run with Minus the Bear. Please see complete dates below and specific details (tickets, times, etc) HERE .
Tera Melos also recently premiered a new video from their latest album, X'ed Out via SPIN.com. Watch the clip for "Weird Circles" HERE (YouTube HERE), directed by Behn Fannin.
X'ed Out Remixes EP will be available on limited edition rainbow-sparkle 10" vinyl at shows in October and pre-order via the band's merch store HERE. The EP will also be available for digital download on October 8th.
X'ed Out was released April 16th, 2013 on LP, CD and download via Sargent House.
MINUS THE BEAR // TERA MELOS // THE NEW TRUST Tour: Sept 11 - Solana Beach, CA @ Belly Up Tavern Sept 13 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee TheatreSept 14 - Santa Fe, NM @ Railway Sept 16 - Austin, TX @ Emo's East Sept 17 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues Sept 18 - New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina's Sept 19 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre Sept 20 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre Sept 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot Sept 24 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
TERA MELOS // ZORCH Tour:Oct 15 - Boise, ID @ The CruxOct 17 - Denver, CO @ Larimer LoungeOct 19 - Columbia, MO @ MOJOOct 20 - St. Louis, MO @ The DemoOct 22 - Columbus, OH @ The BasementOct 23 - Chicago, IL @ SubterraneanOct 24 - Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind PigOct 25 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog ShopOct 26 - Buffalo, NY @ Tralf *Oct 27 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt *Oct 28 - Hamden, CT @ The Space * Oct 29 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street *Oct 30 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *Oct 31 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *Nov 01 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *Nov 02 - Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel *Nov 03 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter Nov 05 - Charlotte, NC @ Visulite TheatreNov 06 - Asheville, NC @ Isis Music HallNov 07 - Athens, GA @ New Earth Music HallNov 08 - Birmingham, AL @ BottletreeNov 09 - Broussard, LA @ The Station Nov 13 - Tucson, AZ @ Club CongressNov 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour Nov 16 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop Nov 17 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Crepe PlaceNov 20 - Spokane, WA @ The CenterNov 21 - Bellingham, WA @ The ShakedownNov 22 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
* w/ Fang Island
Forest Fire's "Waiting In The Night" Video
Stereogum Premieres Forest Fire's "Waiting In The Night" Video New Album Screens Out Now On FatCat Brooklyn Record Release Show October 5 At Glasslands 
"Forest Fire recall the coterie of bands who either worked with Dave Fridmann or took cues from his production tactics in the late 1990s and early '00s-- groups that created studio-intensive, computerized folk that interacted with electronics while still being wary of their effect on human nature." - Pitchfork "The upcoming LP Screenshas been recorded with an outside engineer in a studio for the first time, making their washed-out sound more focused than ever before." - The Line Of Best Fit
"Expanding and refining on the best parts of Staring at the X, these songs have one foot in classic New York indie and the other in the synth-driven pop of the 2010s." - Allmusic
Watch: "Waiting In The Night" via Stereogum or YouTube
Listen: "Waiting In The Night" via SoundCloud
Stereogum has premiered Forest Fire's new track "Waiting In The Night" from the band's new album Screens out now on FatCat. The track is also available to post and share via SoundCloud. The video was filmed in Crown Heights, NY at a vintage store called Cool Pony. Director Jordan Alexandersays, "We considered having a live audience, but quickly opted to go without, which, while filming, it gave me this odd feeling like it was a performance people would've really liked to be at, if they'd have known about it, but they ended up missing out. Like people do. He added, "Here's this band playing a brilliant piece of music in some cool underground New York venue, and you would love it, but instead you're stuck at home watching reruns of your favorite show. Fortunately, the band had it filmed for you. And now your "Screen" will conveniently allow you to visit their world. Like a portal to an alternate reality, if you will, which is in-keeping with Mark's other worldly but grounded lyrics and (for me) is the feeling you get when listening to the album." Forest Fire has a Brooklyn record release show coming up on October 5 at Glasslands. New York City's Forest Fire, led by vocalist/songwriter Mark Thresher, return this fall with Screens. With their third full-length, Forest Fire - now the quartet of Thresher, Natalie Stormann, Galen Bremer, and Robert Pounding - have found it.
"It" has been hinted at in previous releases - e.g. the howling languor of "Slow Motion", from the band's debut Survival (named one of Rough Trade Shops' top album of the year for 2010), or vitreous mid-tempo dejection ballad "The News" from 2011's FatCat issued Staring at the X ("You won't get far," Thresher sang, "with that look in your eyes") - but Screens is pure lightning.
After some lineup adjustments that left the band leaner and more centered, Forest Fire partnered with engineer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Dirty Beaches) possibilities they'd before only touched on, and to enable their new songs to breathe and stretch out.
That stretching out is quite literal in the case of album centerpiece "Annie," an eleven- minute track that is wide but not sprawling, buoyed by motorik lope and ornate synths, that the band acknowledges owes a debt to the late '70s output of not only Kraftwerk but Yoko Ono, Joy Division, Laurie Anderson, and their ilk; Sandy Skoglund's iconic 1977 photograph Pink Sink is the cover.
From its darker, sparser, sonic landscapes, obsession with analog instrumentation, and movement-focused, heavily metaphorical lyrics, Screensfinds Forest Fire hewing to this mood. But for all the record's gratitude to the past, its aesthetic is just as much forward-looking, able to embrace the sunrise hooks of anthemic album opener "Waiting in the Night" and the Suicide-spooky synth-drone of "Cold Kind" as easily as "Alone with the Wires"'s jangly stride and Leonard Cohen-frosted vocal delivery.
Screens Track List
1. Waiting in the Night 2. Yellow Roses3. Passengers4. Monorail 5. Cold Kind 6. Fixation7. Annie8. The Great Wall 9. Alone with the Wires10. Never Far
For more info, please visit:
http://www.fatcat-usa.com/ http://forestfirenyc.com http://www.facebook.com/forestfirenyc
"Forest Fire recall the coterie of bands who either worked with Dave Fridmann or took cues from his production tactics in the late 1990s and early '00s-- groups that created studio-intensive, computerized folk that interacted with electronics while still being wary of their effect on human nature." - Pitchfork "The upcoming LP Screenshas been recorded with an outside engineer in a studio for the first time, making their washed-out sound more focused than ever before." - The Line Of Best Fit "Expanding and refining on the best parts of Staring at the X, these songs have one foot in classic New York indie and the other in the synth-driven pop of the 2010s." - Allmusic
Watch: "Waiting In The Night" via Stereogum or YouTube
Listen: "Waiting In The Night" via SoundCloud
Stereogum has premiered Forest Fire's new track "Waiting In The Night" from the band's new album Screens out now on FatCat. The track is also available to post and share via SoundCloud. The video was filmed in Crown Heights, NY at a vintage store called Cool Pony. Director Jordan Alexandersays, "We considered having a live audience, but quickly opted to go without, which, while filming, it gave me this odd feeling like it was a performance people would've really liked to be at, if they'd have known about it, but they ended up missing out. Like people do. He added, "Here's this band playing a brilliant piece of music in some cool underground New York venue, and you would love it, but instead you're stuck at home watching reruns of your favorite show. Fortunately, the band had it filmed for you. And now your "Screen" will conveniently allow you to visit their world. Like a portal to an alternate reality, if you will, which is in-keeping with Mark's other worldly but grounded lyrics and (for me) is the feeling you get when listening to the album." Forest Fire has a Brooklyn record release show coming up on October 5 at Glasslands. New York City's Forest Fire, led by vocalist/songwriter Mark Thresher, return this fall with Screens. With their third full-length, Forest Fire - now the quartet of Thresher, Natalie Stormann, Galen Bremer, and Robert Pounding - have found it.
"It" has been hinted at in previous releases - e.g. the howling languor of "Slow Motion", from the band's debut Survival (named one of Rough Trade Shops' top album of the year for 2010), or vitreous mid-tempo dejection ballad "The News" from 2011's FatCat issued Staring at the X ("You won't get far," Thresher sang, "with that look in your eyes") - but Screens is pure lightning.
After some lineup adjustments that left the band leaner and more centered, Forest Fire partnered with engineer Jonathan Schenke (Parquet Courts, Dirty Beaches) possibilities they'd before only touched on, and to enable their new songs to breathe and stretch out.
That stretching out is quite literal in the case of album centerpiece "Annie," an eleven- minute track that is wide but not sprawling, buoyed by motorik lope and ornate synths, that the band acknowledges owes a debt to the late '70s output of not only Kraftwerk but Yoko Ono, Joy Division, Laurie Anderson, and their ilk; Sandy Skoglund's iconic 1977 photograph Pink Sink is the cover.
From its darker, sparser, sonic landscapes, obsession with analog instrumentation, and movement-focused, heavily metaphorical lyrics, Screensfinds Forest Fire hewing to this mood. But for all the record's gratitude to the past, its aesthetic is just as much forward-looking, able to embrace the sunrise hooks of anthemic album opener "Waiting in the Night" and the Suicide-spooky synth-drone of "Cold Kind" as easily as "Alone with the Wires"'s jangly stride and Leonard Cohen-frosted vocal delivery.
Screens Track List
1. Waiting in the Night 2. Yellow Roses3. Passengers4. Monorail 5. Cold Kind 6. Fixation7. Annie8. The Great Wall 9. Alone with the Wires10. Never Far For more info, please visit:
http://www.fatcat-usa.com/ http://forestfirenyc.com http://www.facebook.com/forestfirenyc
Trentemøller Debuts New 'Candy Tongue' Video
Trentemøller Debuts New 'Candy Tongue' Video at Stereogum
Third Album Lost Featuring Blonde Redhead, The Raveonettes, The Drums, Low and more Due September 24th
"wide-ranging visionary dance tunes...[shifting] from shoe-gazey introspection to stripped-down club tunes with surf beats." - TIME 'Scandinavian Band You Should Listen To Now'
"Lost is one to watch out for." - Société Perrier 'Album To Fall For This Fall'
Watch the video for 'Candy Tongue feat. Marie Fisker' at Stereogum
Watch the Video for 'Never Stop Running (feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums)' at Noisey
Danish electronic artist Anders Trentemøller has debuted a new video for 'Candy Tongue feat. Marie Fisker' at Stereogum. Directed by Thomas Jessen, the track features Danish singer/composer Marie Fisker, and, "uses a lot of time to visualize the atmosphere in the music. No fast edits and cuts, but only these stirred, hypnotic bodies, old and young," according to Anders. It follows first single, 'Never Stop Running feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums' (Noisey), and is taken from his third album, Lost , out September 24th on In My Room. A more streamlined and intricate musical tapestry woven over sleepless nights in his Copenhagen studio, the album features a host of Anders' esteemed peers, personal influences and sprouting talent, Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead), Jana Hunter (Lower Dens), Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes), and Low, among others. Though the Trentemøller sound is left intact, as a whole, this album doesn't sound like anything he's ever produced before.
Trentemøller was handpicked to open for Depeche Mode this past June on a European tour, and has spent the summer headlining festival dates. His music "transcends genres with cinematic scope" says NME who describe his "captivating complexity" of his music and sound design. It's been a long and exciting way from his debut LP, The Last Resort, alongside projects like The Trentem øller Chronicles and Remixed/Reworked , to his 2010 record Into The Great Wide Yonder , which gained praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, XLR8R , and more.
After a groundbreaking performance at Coachella in 2011, which had Yahoo! calling him the "ultimate underdog, stunning all onlookers and becoming the toast of the fest...the biggest revelation of the entire weekend," Trentemøller embarked on a set of coast-to-coast US tours with his full live band, featuring guest appearances by expert theremin player Dorit Chrysler and Coco Sumner (I Blame Coco), concluding with the band's late night TV debut on Late Night with Carson Daly. Stay tuned for details on Trentemøller's return to the US to follow.
01. The Dream (feat. Low) 02. Gravity (feat. Jana Hunter of Lower Dens) 03. Still On Fire
04. Candy Tongue (feat. Marie Fisker) 05. Trails 06. Never Stop Running (feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums) 07. River Of Life (feat. Ghost Society)
08. Morphine
09. Come Undone (feat. Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead) 10. Deceive (feat. Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes) 11. Constantinople
12. Hazed For more info, please visit: http://www.anderstrentemoller.com
http://www.facebook.com/trentemoller ;
http://www.hfn-music.com/inmyroom/ ;
Third Album Lost Featuring Blonde Redhead, The Raveonettes, The Drums, Low and more Due September 24th
"wide-ranging visionary dance tunes...[shifting] from shoe-gazey introspection to stripped-down club tunes with surf beats." - TIME 'Scandinavian Band You Should Listen To Now'
"Lost is one to watch out for." - Société Perrier 'Album To Fall For This Fall'
Watch the video for 'Candy Tongue feat. Marie Fisker' at Stereogum
Watch the Video for 'Never Stop Running (feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums)' at Noisey
Danish electronic artist Anders Trentemøller has debuted a new video for 'Candy Tongue feat. Marie Fisker' at Stereogum. Directed by Thomas Jessen, the track features Danish singer/composer Marie Fisker, and, "uses a lot of time to visualize the atmosphere in the music. No fast edits and cuts, but only these stirred, hypnotic bodies, old and young," according to Anders. It follows first single, 'Never Stop Running feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums' (Noisey), and is taken from his third album, Lost , out September 24th on In My Room. A more streamlined and intricate musical tapestry woven over sleepless nights in his Copenhagen studio, the album features a host of Anders' esteemed peers, personal influences and sprouting talent, Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead), Jana Hunter (Lower Dens), Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes), and Low, among others. Though the Trentemøller sound is left intact, as a whole, this album doesn't sound like anything he's ever produced before.
Trentemøller was handpicked to open for Depeche Mode this past June on a European tour, and has spent the summer headlining festival dates. His music "transcends genres with cinematic scope" says NME who describe his "captivating complexity" of his music and sound design. It's been a long and exciting way from his debut LP, The Last Resort, alongside projects like The Trentem øller Chronicles and Remixed/Reworked , to his 2010 record Into The Great Wide Yonder , which gained praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, SPIN, XLR8R , and more.
After a groundbreaking performance at Coachella in 2011, which had Yahoo! calling him the "ultimate underdog, stunning all onlookers and becoming the toast of the fest...the biggest revelation of the entire weekend," Trentemøller embarked on a set of coast-to-coast US tours with his full live band, featuring guest appearances by expert theremin player Dorit Chrysler and Coco Sumner (I Blame Coco), concluding with the band's late night TV debut on Late Night with Carson Daly. Stay tuned for details on Trentemøller's return to the US to follow.
01. The Dream (feat. Low) 02. Gravity (feat. Jana Hunter of Lower Dens) 03. Still On Fire
04. Candy Tongue (feat. Marie Fisker) 05. Trails 06. Never Stop Running (feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums) 07. River Of Life (feat. Ghost Society)
08. Morphine
09. Come Undone (feat. Kazu Makino of Blonde Redhead) 10. Deceive (feat. Sune Rose Wagner of The Raveonettes) 11. Constantinople
12. Hazed For more info, please visit: http://www.anderstrentemoller.com
http://www.facebook.com/trentemoller ;
http://www.hfn-music.com/inmyroom/ ;
Ólafur Arnalds Returns to the US for Fall Tour
Ólafur Arnalds Returns to the US for Fall Tour
For Now I Am Winter LP Available Now "One of the year's finest new albums." - Rolling Stone "If you crave morose, impressive beauty, it's here." - Pitchfork
"...stunning, perfect music."- Bob Boilen, NPR All Songs Considered Stream/Embed title track 'For Now I Am Winter (feat. Arnór Dan)'
Watch the new video for 'This Place Was A Shelter' Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds will return to the US for a fall tour in support of his latest release,
For Now I Am Winter
, available now on Mercury Classics. The album, featuring arrangements from Nico Muhly and vocals from Arnór Dan, has spurred performances ranging from one of NPR's "Top 15 Essential Moments" at SXSW (watch at
Baeble
) to his unforgettable performance at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC this past spring bolstered by a full 28 piece orchestra (watch at
NPR
), followed by a summer run of tour dates including an intimate performance at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles.
Arnalds continues to steadily build a reputation as one of the world's most bright and able young composers, currently scoring the music for BBC's critically acclaimed #1 hit drama Broadchurch, which debuted in the US this past August on BBC America. The New York Times aptly wrote in the review of their program, "What Broadchurch has to offer is mood: a tasty icing of gloom and foreboding that leans heavily on the music of Ólafur Arnalds." More recent television exposure for Arnalds includes an installment of The Colbert Report, as well as his song 'Old Skin' being featured on the hit TV show 'So You Think You Can Dance' in July, causing For Now I Am Winter to return to significant standing on the US iTunes Classical Chart. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Classical Traditional Chart upon its release in the spring to great praise and critical accolades, including SPIN , who gave it a 7/10 saying, "Winter is easily his most straightforwardly accessible and mainstream-leaning effort to date. Which is impressive," FILTER , who added that the album, "demonstrates several key growths in Arnalds' development as a songwriter," and Interview Magazine , who said, "at 26, Icelandic multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds has already accomplished more than many musicians do in a lifetime."
Since the release of his 2007 debut, Eulogy for Evolution , the 26-year-old, has put his name to a variety of projects and collaborations ranging from Emma Watson to Peter Broderick to Nils Frahm. Since 2009 he has scored films and TV shows including Another Happy Day , the feature film Gimme Shelter (Starring Vanessa Hudgens), as well as having tracks featured on the soundtracks to Hollywood hits The Hunger Games and Looper .Purveying a neo-classical style with an array of influences which range from electronica to minimalism, Arnalds is an artist who draws from a variety of sources whilst maintaining his own unique sound.
Ólafur Arnalds Fall US Tour
Wed 9/25 Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club Fri 9/27 Seattle, WA - Nordstrom Recital Hall Sat 9/28 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios Sun 9/29 San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom Tue 10/1 Los Angeles, CA - First Unitarian Church Wed 10/2 La Jolla, CA - The Loft at UCSD Thu 10/3 Chicago, IL - Althaneauem Theater Fri 10/4 Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center Sat 10/5 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sun 10/6 Pittsburgh, PA - New Hazlett Theater Tue 10/8 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
For Now I Am Winter LP Available Now "One of the year's finest new albums." - Rolling Stone "If you crave morose, impressive beauty, it's here." - Pitchfork
"...stunning, perfect music."- Bob Boilen, NPR All Songs Considered Stream/Embed title track 'For Now I Am Winter (feat. Arnór Dan)'
Watch the new video for 'This Place Was A Shelter' Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds will return to the US for a fall tour in support of his latest release,
For Now I Am Winter
, available now on Mercury Classics. The album, featuring arrangements from Nico Muhly and vocals from Arnór Dan, has spurred performances ranging from one of NPR's "Top 15 Essential Moments" at SXSW (watch at
Baeble
) to his unforgettable performance at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC this past spring bolstered by a full 28 piece orchestra (watch at
NPR
), followed by a summer run of tour dates including an intimate performance at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles.Arnalds continues to steadily build a reputation as one of the world's most bright and able young composers, currently scoring the music for BBC's critically acclaimed #1 hit drama Broadchurch, which debuted in the US this past August on BBC America. The New York Times aptly wrote in the review of their program, "What Broadchurch has to offer is mood: a tasty icing of gloom and foreboding that leans heavily on the music of Ólafur Arnalds." More recent television exposure for Arnalds includes an installment of The Colbert Report, as well as his song 'Old Skin' being featured on the hit TV show 'So You Think You Can Dance' in July, causing For Now I Am Winter to return to significant standing on the US iTunes Classical Chart. The album debuted at #1 on Billboard 's Classical Traditional Chart upon its release in the spring to great praise and critical accolades, including SPIN , who gave it a 7/10 saying, "Winter is easily his most straightforwardly accessible and mainstream-leaning effort to date. Which is impressive," FILTER , who added that the album, "demonstrates several key growths in Arnalds' development as a songwriter," and Interview Magazine , who said, "at 26, Icelandic multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Arnalds has already accomplished more than many musicians do in a lifetime."
Since the release of his 2007 debut, Eulogy for Evolution , the 26-year-old, has put his name to a variety of projects and collaborations ranging from Emma Watson to Peter Broderick to Nils Frahm. Since 2009 he has scored films and TV shows including Another Happy Day , the feature film Gimme Shelter (Starring Vanessa Hudgens), as well as having tracks featured on the soundtracks to Hollywood hits The Hunger Games and Looper .Purveying a neo-classical style with an array of influences which range from electronica to minimalism, Arnalds is an artist who draws from a variety of sources whilst maintaining his own unique sound.
Ólafur Arnalds Fall US Tour
Wed 9/25 Vancouver, BC - Fortune Sound Club Fri 9/27 Seattle, WA - Nordstrom Recital Hall Sat 9/28 Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios Sun 9/29 San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom Tue 10/1 Los Angeles, CA - First Unitarian Church Wed 10/2 La Jolla, CA - The Loft at UCSD Thu 10/3 Chicago, IL - Althaneauem Theater Fri 10/4 Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center Sat 10/5 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sun 10/6 Pittsburgh, PA - New Hazlett Theater Tue 10/8 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
TRAAMS Debut Album Grin Streaming At SPIN
TRAAMS Debut Album Grin Streaming At SPIN Grin Out September 24 On FatCat Records 
"Stu Hopkins' flat, nasal honk is fetching enough from a melodic standpoint, yet it's those brief pockets where the guitars go silent amidst the steady drums that are just as hooky." - Pitchfork
"The album successfully captures the raw energy of TRAAMS' frenzied and sweaty live performances, as witnessed at The Great Escape, Tallin Music Week and gigging with Parquet Courts and Hookworms" - Contact Music
"a noisy, joyous racket" - This Is Fake DIY
Listen: TRAAMS GRIN via SPIN Magazine
UK-trio TRAAMS' debut full-length, Grin is set to be released September 24 on FatCat. SPIN is running a full stream of the album and said, "the upcoming LP collects 11 tracks of tunefully deranged, remarkably giddy guitar-pop that reimagines early Modest Mouse as a Krautrock-fluent crew." Earlier this summer NME premiered the new video for the album's lead single "Flowers" which was directed by James Burgess this summer, featuring TRAAMS being drenched in psychedelic goo. The video is available to post and share via YouTube.
Grin is the follow-up the recently released Ladders EP and was recorded throughout 2012 and 2013 with producers Rory Atwell and MJ from Hookworms, the aptly-titled Grinis eleven tracks of pure distorted joy. The album successfully captures the raw energy of TRAAMS' frenzied and sweaty live performances, as witnessed supporting bands like Parquet Courts, Fildar, Hooded Fang, Dope Body and many others.
TRAAMS formed in summer 2011 in Chichester, West Sussex after meeting at a club night that vocalist and guitarist Stu Hopkins started as a reaction to the city's limited nightlife. The only options previously available to him and his friends were "boring clubs and bars which only played boring club music." At his club night Hopkins would mainly play records by Wire, New Order and Le Tigre, supplemented with mainstream pop and hip-hop. Similarly, there is a pop immediacy coexisting with an expansive, experimental element inside the music they make themselves. Incorporating the two sides are vital when writing a TRAAMS song, as Hopkins elaborates; "we really want to push both those areas as far as we can. We like seeing people dance and having fun but we also want to be noisy and aggressive. It's fun trying to strike a balance and seeing how far we can push it." The band claim Mclusky, Abe Vigoda, Pavement, Television, and Women as influences. Hopkins specifically cites Stephen Malkmus, Iggy Pop, and Tom Verlaine as songwriters he admires because they all make what he calls "skewed pop", a term that fits TRAAMS' sound snuggly.
The band's debut full-length, Grin, is the sound of a band finding true solace in music as a driving force. Bassist Leigh Padley has noted that the three members of the band felt compelled towards music as the only means to escape the mundanity of their hometown; "We had to start a band."he says, "It was all we had." As such, the album is bristling and vital - a sonic escape. The band has both a both a pop immediacy and a more expansive, experimental element and incorporating the two sides is essential when writing a TRAAMS song. Hopkins elaborates, "We really want to push both those areas as far as we can. We like seeing people dance and having fun but we also want to be noisy and aggressive."
That tenuous balance is what keeps TRAAMS' music endlessly exciting and keeps us coming back so often to dig into each new song with anticipations high.
For more info, please visit:
http://traams.tumblr.comhttp://www.fatcat-usa.com/ ;
"Stu Hopkins' flat, nasal honk is fetching enough from a melodic standpoint, yet it's those brief pockets where the guitars go silent amidst the steady drums that are just as hooky." - Pitchfork "The album successfully captures the raw energy of TRAAMS' frenzied and sweaty live performances, as witnessed at The Great Escape, Tallin Music Week and gigging with Parquet Courts and Hookworms" - Contact Music
"a noisy, joyous racket" - This Is Fake DIY
Listen: TRAAMS GRIN via SPIN Magazine
UK-trio TRAAMS' debut full-length, Grin is set to be released September 24 on FatCat. SPIN is running a full stream of the album and said, "the upcoming LP collects 11 tracks of tunefully deranged, remarkably giddy guitar-pop that reimagines early Modest Mouse as a Krautrock-fluent crew." Earlier this summer NME premiered the new video for the album's lead single "Flowers" which was directed by James Burgess this summer, featuring TRAAMS being drenched in psychedelic goo. The video is available to post and share via YouTube.
Grin is the follow-up the recently released Ladders EP and was recorded throughout 2012 and 2013 with producers Rory Atwell and MJ from Hookworms, the aptly-titled Grinis eleven tracks of pure distorted joy. The album successfully captures the raw energy of TRAAMS' frenzied and sweaty live performances, as witnessed supporting bands like Parquet Courts, Fildar, Hooded Fang, Dope Body and many others.
TRAAMS formed in summer 2011 in Chichester, West Sussex after meeting at a club night that vocalist and guitarist Stu Hopkins started as a reaction to the city's limited nightlife. The only options previously available to him and his friends were "boring clubs and bars which only played boring club music." At his club night Hopkins would mainly play records by Wire, New Order and Le Tigre, supplemented with mainstream pop and hip-hop. Similarly, there is a pop immediacy coexisting with an expansive, experimental element inside the music they make themselves. Incorporating the two sides are vital when writing a TRAAMS song, as Hopkins elaborates; "we really want to push both those areas as far as we can. We like seeing people dance and having fun but we also want to be noisy and aggressive. It's fun trying to strike a balance and seeing how far we can push it." The band claim Mclusky, Abe Vigoda, Pavement, Television, and Women as influences. Hopkins specifically cites Stephen Malkmus, Iggy Pop, and Tom Verlaine as songwriters he admires because they all make what he calls "skewed pop", a term that fits TRAAMS' sound snuggly.
The band's debut full-length, Grin, is the sound of a band finding true solace in music as a driving force. Bassist Leigh Padley has noted that the three members of the band felt compelled towards music as the only means to escape the mundanity of their hometown; "We had to start a band."he says, "It was all we had." As such, the album is bristling and vital - a sonic escape. The band has both a both a pop immediacy and a more expansive, experimental element and incorporating the two sides is essential when writing a TRAAMS song. Hopkins elaborates, "We really want to push both those areas as far as we can. We like seeing people dance and having fun but we also want to be noisy and aggressive."
That tenuous balance is what keeps TRAAMS' music endlessly exciting and keeps us coming back so often to dig into each new song with anticipations high.
For more info, please visit:
http://traams.tumblr.comhttp://www.fatcat-usa.com/ ;
