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Life is Beautiful Fest Adds Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MUSIC ACTS
Music, Food, Art & Learning Festival in Downtown Las Vegas adds:
Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes, Janelle Monae, Cults, Joey Bada$$and others to music lineup
Las Vegas, NV (July 30, 2013) - Life is Beautiful (L.I.B.) Festival announces the addition of 14 music acts to their lineup for the inaugural festival taking place Saturday, October 26th and Sunday, October 27th, 2013. These acts include Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes, Janelle Monae, Cults, Joey Bada$$, Smith Westerns, Nico Vega, The Dig and Dreamers. In addition, L.I.B. and Red Bull Sound Select collaborated to curate a group of emerging artists on the Sound Select platform, including Wildcat! Wildcat!, Chancellor Warhol, The Kingston Springs, Children of the Night and Tink, to perform at the inaugural Festival. Over the course of the two days, the festival will feature an eclectic lineup of over 50 internationally established and emerging bands on four stages and several indoor venues.
The current lineup features:
The Killers, Kings of Leon, Beck, Imagine Dragons, Pretty Lights, Empire of the Sun, Passion Pit, Jurassic 5, Childish Gambino, Zedd, STS9, Purity Ring, Big Gigantic, Portugal. The Man, Earl Sweatshirt, Danny Brown, Dawes, Andrew McMahon, The Joy Formidable, Charli XCX, Living Colour, Allen Stone, HAIM, Youngblood Hawke, twenty one pilots, ZZ Ward, Poolside, Family of the Year, Robert DeLong, Wallpaper., Five Knives, Capital Cities, Cayucas, Cosmic Suckerpunch, Knocked Up Kids, and many more.  The full current music lineup can be seen at www.lifeisbeautifulfestival.com
"It is with great pleasure we announce the addition of these twelve bands to our already stellar music line-up," states Rehan Choudhry, CEO of Aurelian Marketing Group, the promoter of the festival.  "We are looking forward to producing an amazing festival for Las Vegas and plan to announce more festival programming in the coming weeks."
With more than 50 musical acts, 60 chefs and restaurants, special performances by Cirque du Soleil and other theatrical productions, world renowned artists and over 25 noted speakers, L.I.B expects to attract tens of thousands of people to Downtown Las Vegas.
Sponsors of the inaugural Life is Beautiful Festival include Wirtz Beverage Nevada, Heineken USA, Esquire Magazine, Las Vegas Review Journal, Sub-Zero Wolf, Westar Kitchen & Bath, Las Vegas Events, Cirque du Soleil, Zappos.com, Red Bull, El Cortez Hotel & Casino, the D Las Vegas, Toyota, Whole Foods Market, Airstream 2 Go, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and Flamingo Las Vegas.*Sponsors listed are current as of release date.
L.I.B. is being developed by Aurelian Marketing Group in partnership with Another Planet Entertainment, MAKTUB Marketing and Downtown Project.Visit www.lifeisbeautifulfestival.com and sign up to receive information updates via email. Connect with the Life is Beautiful team socially at Facebook.com/LIBFestival and Twitter.com/LifeIsBeautiful.

HUNTERS video 'Seizure'

http://www.stereogum.com/1418622/hunters-seizure-video-stereogum-premiere/video/
http://www.thefader.com/2013/07/16/hunters-seizure-mp3/ 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3J4rTbsbMM&feature=em-upload_owner
 


HUNTERS ON TOUR
August 9thAugust 10thAugust 11thAugust 13thAugust 14thAugust 15thAugust 16thAugust 17thAugust 19thAugust 20thAugust 21stAugust 22ndAugust 23rdPhilaMoca / Philadelphia PAComet Ping Pong / Washington D.C.Ottobar / Baltimore MDJack Rabbits / Jacksonville FLThe Social / Orlando FLThe Bottletree / Birmingham ALDrunken Unicorn / Atlanta GAExit Inn / Nashville TNCactus Club / Milwaukee WISubterranean / Chicago ILMagic Stick Lounge / Detroit MIHard Luck Bar / Totonto ONBrighton Music Hall / Boston MA

Deap Vally Release "Bad For My Body" from Debut Album Sistrionix

Deap Vally Release "Bad For My Body"From New Full-Length Album Sistrionix To Be Released on October 8th
Band To Support Queens of the Stone Age On Two Canadian Dates
Band Playing Lollapalooza This Weekend
  
Los Angeles based rock-duo Deap Vally release their song "Bad For My Body" via iTunes today. The song was premiered by SPIN Magazine yesterday. The Jess Holzworth-directed music video for "Bad For My Body" will premiere on Vevo on August 5 Check out the song at the links below:
SPIN Premiere: http://www.spin.com/articles/deap-vally-bad-for-my-body-sistrionix-stream/  Soundcloud: http://snd.sc/19nIfBd  iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BadForMyBody  

"Bad For My Body" is one of the tracks on the duo's upcoming debut album Sistrionix, which will be released on October 8 via Cherrytree/Communion/Interscope/Island. Sistrionix was released in the UK to acclaim, with The Guardian hailing it as "a thoroughly unironic, seriously fun, rock record," and All Music Guidesaying the band "...sound like the White Stripes or the Black Keys made over from the female side of things, with a sound that hits the same crunchy, thumping, swampy groove and looseness."
The girls will be hitting the road soon for a handful of tour dates across North America, including two shows opening for Queens of the Stone Age in Edmonton and Calgary. Deap Vally have already made quite a name for themselves opening on the road for Mumford & Sons, Muse, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Check out their full itinerary below.
Sistrionix Track Listing1. End of the World2. Baby I Call Hell3. Walk of Shame4. Gonna Make My Own Money5. Creeplife6. Your Love's A Lie7. Lies8. Bad For My Body9. Women of Intention10. Raw Material11. Six Feet Under/Spiritual
DEAP VALLY ON TOURAug 02 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza FestivalAug 05 - Sturgis, SD @ Easyriders SaloonAug 07 - Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Center (with QOTSA)Aug 08 - Calgary, AB @Stampede Corral (with QOTSA)Aug 09 - Squamish, BC @ Squamish Valley Music FestivalAug 11 - San Francisco, CA @ Outsidelands FestivalAug 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ The TroubadourOct 05 - Austin, TX @ Austin City LimitsOct 12 - Austin, TX @ Austin City LimitsOct 13 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Corona Capital FestivalOct 20-24 - Miami, FL @ Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man Cruise VII

HAWKS TOUR W/ BUILDINGS KICKS OFF IN LA AUGUST 13TH

HAWKS TOUR WITH BUILDINGS KICKS OFF IN LA AUGUST 13TH WITH TWO SHOWS!
ALBUM OUT NOW THROUGH LEARNING CURVE RECORDS Hawks have been practicing the art of carelessness and reckless abandon, taking what they have learned and shoving it into your face. Their efforts in mangled detached noise have come to a full head on Push Over, the band’s debut release on Learning Curve Records. The Atlanta quartet has been mashing out menacing boot stomps since 2007, building a rich and devoted following by continuing to release challenging material and putting on twisted and downright menacing live performances.
Dark raconteur, weaving tales of masochistic need, failed hopes, and frustrations into each epic fable. The twisted nature of Hawks hymns will have you rethinking the line of what makes good and evil. Blurring it with a haze of sonic obliteration, guitars that sound like rusted wires stretched over the frets, rhythms that pull you into a trance moving like a fire moves thru a burning building. All topped with primal narrative blending into bedlam and entropy. Bellicose and indomitable is what the Hawks portray on Push Over. It is the soundtrack of a ominous sinister sideshow of life. Listen to 'White Crosses' here Watch 'Borne Of Wasps/Shitfist' here
Next month, they hit the West Coast for select dates with Minneapolis faves, Buildings. Dates are as follows.
Aug 13th - Origami Vinyl (6pm) and The Smell (9.30pm) - Los Angeles, CA
Aug 14th - Hemlock Tavern - San Francisco, CA
Aug 15th - Club 21 - Portland, OR
Aug 16th - Total Fest - Missoula, MT
Aug 17th - Total Fest - Missoula, MT
Aug 18th - Chop Suey - Seattle, WA
Aug 19th - The Crux - Boise, ID
Aug 20th - Burt's Tiki Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 21st - Lost Lake - Denver, CO
All dates w/ Buildings

FYF FEST 2013

 



FYF FANZINE CONTEST:Last year we held a mixtape contest. The concept was simple, make a mix tape and send it to us. The reason we did this is that we wanted you to create something. The response was massive and over 700 mix tapes were sent in. This year we decided to work off that idea, for you to create something but instead made it into a fanzine contest.
Fanzines were a huge part of my life and actually were how FYF started. In 2000, my friends and I put out our first fanzine called the Blacklist. I came up with the name but I didn't tell them I got it from a song by Rancid. For four years, we released issues of teenage angst and, well, yeah a lot of that. We didn't know what we were doing but it was an excuse to get together, come up with bad ideas (try to stay in a 24hr Donut Store for 24hrs for example) and then attempt to write about it. It never came out the way we wanted it to, but it was fun and captured that moment in our lives.
Anyway, this is your opportunity to get together with your friends and create something. It can be about anything. Doesn't matter: coffee, hiking, bike riding, dogs, records etc. Just as long as it's you. The grand prize is 5 VIP Passes to FYF Fest and a $500 Gift Certificate to Origami Vinyl. Three runner ups will receive a 4 Pack of Weekend Passes to FYF. All details about the FYF Fanzine Contest can be found here. Can't wait to see what you come up with. 



 FYF + Goldenvoice Present:Friday, August 23rdThe BreedersTweensat the El Rey$27 / 8:00pm / All AgesTicket Link (On Sale Saturday, 8/3 at 10am)
FYF & Goldenvoice Present:August 24th & 25thFYF FESTLos Angeles, CAwww.fyffest.com
FYF Presents:Wednesday, August 28thStones Throw LA Soul ShowPeanut Butter WolfDam-FunkStepkidsMyron & EPlus Special Guest (DJ) Mayer Hawthorneat Jewel's Catch One (4067 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles)$20 / 9:00pm / 18+Ticket Link

JAMES BLUNT SET TO RELEASE HIS FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM

AWARD WINNING MULTI-PLATINUM
SINGER AND SONGWRITER JAMES BLUNT SET TO RELEASE HIS FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM MOON LANDING NOVEMBER 5, 2013 ON ATLANTIC RECORDS
FIRST SINGLE “BONFIRE HEART” OUT TODAY
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Multiple Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter James Blunt will release his fourth studio album MOON LANDING in the U.S. on November 5th. The highly anticipated new album was produced by Tom Rothrock (Beck, Moby, Foo Fighters), who worked with James on his multi-platinum selling debut BACK TO BEDLAM.  MOON LANDING also features production from Martin Terefe (KT Tunstall, Martha Wainwright, Jason Mraz).  The album’s anthemic first single, “Bonfire Heart,” which was released today was co-written and produced by Ryan Tedder and can be heard here:http://youtu.be/rZB5LnNC-e0
“This is a much more personal album, and also quite back to basics,” commented Blunt. “It’s about me and Tom, the producer, finding where the story all started and where we are now.  It’s an album about dreams, longing, first love.”  About looking in the mirror and seeing the boy you were, the man you are – and learning to be comfortable with that, flaws and all. About getting back to basics and rediscovering the power of music to communicate emotion directly and honestly, without too much polish or complication.Since BACK TO BEDLAM was released in 2004, James has had four number one singles and won countless awards including two BRITs, two Ivor Novello Awards, 5 Grammy nominations and a host of MTV awards. He has sold nearly 17 million albums and 20 million singles worldwide and toured around the globe several times over.

Jeremiah Jae Signs to Warp Records

JEREMIAH JAE DROPS ‘BAD JOKES’ MIXTAPE
SIGNS TO WARP RECORDS


 Listen/download: https://soundcloud.com/warp-records/sets/jeremiah-jae-bad-jokes-mixtape

‘Bad Jokes’ is the new mixtape from the latest Warp Records signing, rapper/producer Jeremiah Jae. It features fellow Black Jungle Squad crew Israel and Oliver the 2nd. Production comes from Jae, Jonwayne, Oliver the 2nd, and Flying Lotus. Jokes told by Jonwayne, Samiyam, Richard Pryor, and special guests.

As founding member of Black Jungle Squad, Jae recently dropped 'RawHyde' with Oliver the 2nd, YBP's 'Gesus', ‘Raw Money Raps’ on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label.

TRACKLIST -
01 Evil Laugh - prod. by Jeremiah Jae
02 King Raid - prod. by Jeremiah Jae
03 Seventy 8 - prod. by Jonwayne
04 Oatmeal Face - prod. by Flying Lotus
05 Soul Yoga (Indian Man) ft. Isreal - prod. by Oliver the 2nd
06 Pervert - prod. by Jeremiah Jae
07 Bad Jokes - prod. by Jeremiah Jae
08 Guns N Butter ft. Oliver the 2nd - prod. by Jeremiah Jae
09 Court Jester - prod. by Jeremiah Jae



jeremiahjae.tumblr.com/
rapgenius.com/JeremiahJae
http://warp.net/records/jeremiah-jae
www.facebook.com/pages/Jeremiah-Jae/111580498919269?fref=ts
twitter.com/Jeremiahjae

RJD2 Shares "Her Majesty's Socialist Request"

RJD2 ANNOUNCES & SHARES "HER MAJESTY'S SOCIALIST REQUEST,"FIRST SINGLE OFF MORE IS THAN ISN'T, OUT OCTOBER 8TH ON RJ'S ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS  It is increasingly rare for artists in the sphere of hip-hop and electronic music to maintain a presence 15 years into a recording career, a feat even more impressive considering RJD2 (aka RJ Krohn) has only released music via independent labels. More Is Than Isn't , RJD2's 5th full-length LP (and 2nd on his own label, RJ's Electronic Connections), is truly a culmination of RJ's 15 years as both a producer and composer. It sees RJ incorporating new production techniques and approaches while still keeping an eye on the basic aesthetic that has always driven him: soulful, melodic, beat-oriented music. Conceptually, the album is tied together by three instrumental pieces that are different explorations of the same harmonic theme. It captures a dynamic range not seen before on an RJD2 album, ranging from subdued jazz-tinged pieces to bombastic club music, and a lot of funk in between. Evident through debut single, "Her Majesty's Socialist Request," the ethereal, beat-driven vibes of his debut album also make appearances now and again, with textural usage of gritty drum breaks, lush analog synths and his ever-distinctive use of the MPC sampler.
"Her Majesty's Socialist Request" is available via iTunes now . More Is Than Isn't follows on October 8th.
LISTEN TO/SHARE RJD2'S "HER MAJESTY'S SOCIALIST REQUEST" - http://snd.sc/19sQThV    RJD2 TOUR DATES:Thu. Aug. 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Morgan's PierSat. Aug. 31 - Indianapolis, IA @ Warm FestFri. Sep. 13 - Kansas City, MO @ Dancetopia - Downtown Riverfront ParkFri. Sep. 28 - Norridgewock, ME @ Great North Music and Arts Festival - Last Breath FarmFri. Oct. 4 - New York, NY @ Hard NYCFri. Oct. 11 - Adams, TN @ Fly Free FestFri. Nov. 8 - Sun. Nov. 10 - Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
"Her Majesty's Socialist Request" purchase link - http://smarturl.it/hermajestysDownload hi-res album art and press images - www.pitchperfectpr.com/a_rjd2.html

POND 'HOBO ROCKET' STREAMING VIA NPR

POND 'HOBO ROCKET' STREAMING VIA NPRALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

The beast has been unleashed. Pond's fifth psych freak-out exploration, Hobo Rocket, is now streaming via NPR's First Listen, ahead of its US release next Tuesday, August 6th. 
For those in the UK, NME is hosting a stream of the album here.
STREAM 'HOBO ROCKET' VIA NPR'S FIRST LISTEN
Pre-order the album via iTunes or Amazon.
Hobo Rocket is the fifth LP from Perth, Australia based five-piece Pond. Made up of Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Cam Avery, Joseph Ryan and Jamie Terry, the band set out to make a record that captures a portion of rock music's great, decadent history through a personal lens. Known for their brutally raucous live shows, Pond have captured that intensity on record, cramming as much loose, live emotion into a 40 minute album as possible. TRACKLISTING01. Whatever Happened To The Million Head Collide02. Xanman03. O Darma04. Aloneaflameaflower05. Giant Tortoise06. Hobo Rocket07. Midnight Mass (At The Market Street Payphone)
"unforgettably blistering pop jams" - NPR
"blissed out verses, fiery hooks, harmonized riffs" - Stereogum
"freaky and raw and catchy" - SPIN
"The Hottest New Band in the World" - NME
Hobo Rocket will be out Aug 2nd (AUS), Aug 5th (UK/EU), Aug 6th (USA).

No Age show on Aug 16 at the Hammer Museum

NO AGE @ THE HAMMER
Post-able MP3: An ImpressionPost-able MP3:  C'mon StimmungArtist Page on Subpop.com (w/ Artists Photo & Bio): http://www.subpop.com/artists/no_age

About No Age:
With An Object, their fourth full-length album, No Age has forgone the straight and narrow route, landing in a strange and unexpected place, feet planted in fresh, fertile soil. This new LP finds drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt exploding from behind his kit, landing percussive blows with amplified contact mics, 4-string bass guitars, and prepared speakers, as well as traditional forms of lumber and metal. Meanwhile, guitarist Randy Randall corrals his previously lush, spastic, sprawling arrangements into taught, refined, rats' nests. Lyrically Spunt challenges space, fracturing ideological forms and complacency, creating a striking new perspective that reveals thematic preoccupations with structural ruptures and temporal limits.
As the title An Object suggests, these eleven tracks are meant to be grasped, not simply heard. Whether in the fine grit of Randall’s sandpaper guitar scrapes on "Defector/ed," or Spunt's percussive stomp and crack on "Circling with Dizzy" and "An Impression," these are songs that pivot on the sheer materiality of music-making, incorporating the process every step of the way.
Still, this is hardly a work of avant garde noise music. These songs are hummable, political, recognizably rooted in underground rock, and informed by an understanding of sound as a material to be shaped, handled, and worked over. It is an aesthetic in which the relationships between guitar, percussion, and vocals—as well as those between rhythm and melody—become relationships between things.
These relationships are built into An Object at every level. In collaboration with friend and Grammy-nominated designer Brian Roettinger (5 E.P.'s, Nouns, Losing Feeling, Everything In Between), the band prepared and assembled the physical packaging of An Object, including jackets, inserts, and labels, fusing the roles of manufacturer, artist, and musician into one. It is this sense of the total work of art that underlines An Object as the culmination of two years of touring, writing, and performing, finding No Age moving into new terrain at the height of their powers.
An Object was recorded by longtime No Age collaborator Facundo Bermudez and No Age at Gaucho's Electronics in Los Angeles.


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