Alexander Laurence's Blog, page 53
July 15, 2025
APTBS Release Test Plan Remix & Announce Mexico/South America Tour
Upcoming APTBS Shows:Sat 7/19 Brooklyn @ Marie Hernandez ParkSat 7/26 Indianapolis @ Post FestivalSun 7/27 Grand Rapids @ T-Rex FestivalThu 9/4 Querétaro @ Museo de la CiudadFri 9/5 Guadalajara @ Foro Independencia Sat 9/6 Mexico City @ Foro Indie Rocks Sun 9/7 San José, Costa Rica @ Amon Solar Tue 9/9 Buenos Aires, Argentina @ UniclubWed 9/10vLima, Peru @ Vichama ConciertosFri 9/12 Santiago, Chile @ Matucana 100Sat 9/14 São Paulo, Brazil @ FabriqueSun 9/28 Austin, TX @ Levitation FestivalSat 10/10 Berlin @ 8mm FestivalFri 10/31 San Francisco @ Substance FestivalSat 11/8 Los Angeles @ Substance FestivalTickets About test plantest plan are looking for the sweet spot between dancing and moshing. Formed by Rory Dickinson, Michalis Fragkiadakis, and Max Mason, the London-based DIY trio cultivate a ferocious blend of noise-rock, dance-punk, and post-hardcore. Winds of overloaded guitar feedback and distortion are punctuated by crunching drums and throbbing bass, all bound together by howls of angst and chaotic energy. Their dynamic live performances beckon a meeting point where volume and energy collide - intense, visceral, and unfiltered, hitting like a punch in the gut: sweat-soaked, teeth-rattling, and gloriously unhinged. 
About A Place To Bury StrangersFans all over the globe know: Oliver Ackermann always brings surprises. The singer and guitarist of New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers has been delighting and astonishing his audience for close to two decades, combining post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde music in startling and unexpected ways. As the founder of Death By Audio, creator of signal-scrambling stomp boxes and visionary instrument effects, he’s exported that excitement and invention to other artists who plug into his gear and blow minds. In concert, A Place To Bury Strangers is nothing short of astounding — a shamanistic experience that bathes listeners in glorious sound, crazed left turns, transcendent vibrations, real-time experiments, brilliant breakthroughs. And just as many of his peers in the New York City underground seem to be slowing down and settling in, Ackermann’s creativity is accelerating. He’s launched a label of his own: Dedstrange, dedicated to advancing the work of sonic renegades worldwide. He’s also refreshed the group’s lineup, adding bassist John Fedowitz and drummer Sandra Fedowitz, and the band has never sounded more current, or more courageous, or more accessibly melodic. The Hologram EP is the first release from the new lineup — and the first on Dedstrange — and it’s no overstatement to say that the reaction has been ecstatic. Ghettoblaster wrote that the band’s racket outpaced everything to emerge from New York City in the past decade. Brooklyn Vegan praised Ackermann’s “terrific, emotive” singing, and lauded the group’s recent commitment to foregrounding its melodies and lyrics. Pitchfork, Flood, AllMusic: they’ve all lined up to call Hologram an example of the best work of a tireless band with a deep discography and an unquenchable drive to create challenging, unprecedented music. A Place To bury Strangers released their highly anticipated sixth album See Through You February 4, 2022 to on their newly formed label Dedstrange to critical acclaim and have been touring incessantly since then. 2024 brings the release of ‘The Sevens’: four 7”s featuring unreleased tracks from ‘See Through You’ released monthly starting in February with Album #7 due in the fall. 
LISTEN TO HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE (test plan remix) HERELISTEN TO THE OTHER REMIXES HERE FIND APTBS ON:Spotify | Bandcamp | Instagram | Website About Dedstrange:Dedstrange is a freaky record label built from the smoldering decay of the music industry and now supporting the new flesh of the scene to let their pure unadulterated passion hit the streets. It is formed by people who have played the game, got beaten down over and over again, but just have to go on because this music has power.Dedstrange is Death By Audio / A Place To Bury Strangers' Oliver Ackermann, basement bongo disco freak Mitchell O' Sullivan, and the manager with the golden heart, Steven Matrick. Music to Melt Your Earbrain! Stay tuned for more news on APTBS and the rest of the chaos over here on 
L.A. Industrial Act 3TEETH Releases Cover Of Guns N’ Roses “Civil War,” Offering A Fresh Take Of 1991 Hit At A Crucial Time In America
3TEETHReleases Cover Of Guns N’ Roses “Civil War,”Offering A Fresh Take Of 1991 HitAt Crucial Time In America Hear the track
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“Civil War” Is The Latest Cover From L.A. Industrial Act,Following Previously Released Takes On“Pumped Up Kicks,” “Ballroom Blitz,”“You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” &“Everybody Wants To Rule The World”
Industrial provocateurs 3TEETH are back with a new cover, this time taking on Guns N’ Roses’ loaded 1991 hit “Civil War,” giving the 7-plus-minute epoch a fresh – and heavy – polish at a time the song’s message takes on renewed meaning. Hear the track
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Says frontman Alexis Mincolla of the track, “’Civil War’ always hit me as a song about how people get torn apart, not just by governments or ideologies, but by the lasting ripple effects of conflict itself. It was written over 30 years ago, and somehow nothing’s changed except the tools of perception management have gotten way more sophisticated. Sure, the faces may change, the flags may change, but the playbook stays the same. History loops like a low-effort rerun, and the remote’s nowhere to be found because the people writing the script want you tuned in and operating at a very low frequency.” Mincolla adds, “We didn’t cover this track out of nostalgia. We did it because humanity has this uncanny habit of investing more in ideology than in each other, and that makes us easy prey for the psyops. This cover is a mirror to that cycle. Same bullshit, just in higher resolution.” 3TEETH’s take on “Civil War” follows a series of other unexpected covers from the L.A-based act, with previously released versions of Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz,” Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” and Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule the World.” The latter appeared on 3TEETH’s most recent album EndEx, released via Century Media Records, which was hailed as a “champion[ing] industrial metal” (Blabbermouth), “an album of the year contender for the genre” (Razor’s Edge), and the “band's weirdest, most expansive offering yet” (Revolver). 
(Photo credit: Michael Mendoza) ABOUT 3TEETH3TEETH first manifested their cybersocial intentions as early as 2013: a musical entity born out of Mincolla’s Downtown L.A. weekly gatherings known as “Lil’ Death” With Xavier Swafford (keys, synth), Chase Brawner (guitars) and Andrew Means (bass, synth) joining Mincolla. 3TEETH released their first self-titled album the following year. Alliances with the likes of TOOL and Rammstein resulted in the collective’s first live performances and a rise to further notoriety with the release of 2017’s album shutdown.exe. which took 3TEETH to global stages. Working alongside producer and mixer Sean Beavan (NIN) at new label home, Century Media, 3TEETH upped their own sonic arms race with Metawar (2019) and entered a new echelon of cultural consciousness with a collection of tracks including the biting “President X” and their haunting take on Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks.” In 2023 came EndEx, with handiwork from the accomplished sound designer Mick Gordon (best known for his work on the gaming phenomenon DOOM) that showcased the modern industrial act at their most raucous yet, unveiling bold revelations of humanity’s technosocial disintegration behind a brutal soundtrack that sounds all the alarms. 3TEETH is:Alexis Mincolla – vocalsChase Brawner – guitarsAndrew Means – bass
Xavier Swafford – keyboards
Michael Levine – drums Find 3TEETH OnlineWebsite: https://3teeth.org/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/3TeethTwitter: https://twitter.com/threeteethInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/3teeth/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUZ81wDL5GF_v0XUOyJRSg
Upchuck Announce New Album 'I’m Nice Now,' Out October 3 on Domino
UPCHUCK
Announce New Album I’m Nice Now
Out October 3 via Domino
Release Dual Singles & Videos “Forgotten Token” & “Un Momento”
On Tour in the US, UK, EU This Fall
Photo credit: Michael Tyrone Delaney
“Absolute mayhem… like punk Beastie Boys” NPR
“A sonic cannon, set to maximum destruction” Rolling Stone
Today Upchuck, the Atlanta punk quintet of vocalist KT, guitarists Mikey Durham and Hoff, bassist Ausar Ward, and drummer/vocalist Chris Salado, announce their third LP and Domino debut I’m Nice Now, due out October 3. The album was produced and mixed by Ty Segall at Sonic Ranch Studio and mastered by Heba Kadry.
As KT puts it, there’s never been a moment when she didn’t have rage. As the singer of Upchuck, the Georgia punk band whose music is as sharp as a scythe, KT has felt fierce energy inside her well before she had the band as an outlet through which to channel it. As a Black woman in America, rage has been the tint on the window through which she’s had to view the world. The experience of listening to Upchuck is to feel a distillation of that existence, all of its pain, sorrow, anger, and fear translated through raw punk music.
Perhaps, after so many years of wading in the muck, KT is over it. Upchuck’s Domino debut is I’m Nice Now. But don’t mistake newfound niceness for weakness. It’s self preservation. “In this world of constant distractions and stressors it’s important to keep your mind, body, and spirit sane and sound enough to continue through this seemingly never-ending fight,” she says.
Today the band shares two singles from the album, “Forgotten Token” and “Un Momento,” both with videos directed by Ian Cone.
On “Forgotten Token,” KT addresses the sudden loss of her sister during the recording of I’m Nice Now and the way in which she was undervalued in her life and, in her death, by some, she became commodified. The song is a perfect expression of the mixture of anger and exasperation meticulously transformed into a taut punk song. “I just feel/Cuz I’m Black/It gets stacked/In a lost closet/Forgotten token,” sings KT. Of the song she says, “It’s just like another soft yell/yearn for remaining aware of how you're treating others and what people mean to you. You can lose things easily and not care, thinking you'll just get another one. But people aren't objects." The video underscores the dark side of gentrification and, in keeping with the song’s familial theme, features cameos from KT’s mother, grandmother, and brother.
“Un Momento” is one of three songs on the album featuring vocals from Chris. It starts with a thunderous drum roll, one that comes from his experience growing up performing cumbia music. He aims to blend that sound with Upchuck’s traditional punk to fuse something unique. The video co-stars his father and his son and is a celebration of his North Atlanta neighborhood of Little Mexico. The day after the video was shot, the neighborhood was raided, door to door, by ICE; people in the area are still afraid to go to work and leave their families. “Dame un momento,” Chris sings on the track, “para sufrir… para vivir… para pensar.. para volar.” Give me a moment, to suffer, to live, to think, to fly.
Watch the “Forgotten Token” video here.
Watch the “Un Momento” video here.
Stream “Forgotten Token” & “Un Momento” here.
I’m Nice Now, which also includes the previously released single “Plastic,” is available to pre-order on limited-edition Silver vinyl, standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. All physical formats come with a foldout poster. Pre-order here: DomMart | Digital
I’m Nice Now album art
Tracklist:
1. Tired
2. Plastic
3. New Case
4. Fried
5. Homenaje
6. Kept Inside
7. Pressure
8. Un Momento
9. Forgotten Token
10. Kin
11. Lost One
12. Slow Down
13. Nowhere
UPCHUCK ON TOUR
8/7: Le Pub – Newport, UK
8/8: The Social – Blackpool, UK
8/9: Nice N Sleazy – Glasgow, UK
8/10: The Grove – Newcastle, UK
8/14: Congés Annulés, Rotondes – Luxembourg, LU
8/15: Cabaret Vert - Charleville, FR
8/16: Pukkelpop Festival – Hasselt, BE
8/17: Green Man Festival – Brecon, UK
8/19: The Lanes – Bristol, UK
8/21: Slachthuis – Haarlem, NL
8/22: VERA – Groningen, NL
8/23: Utrecht Loose Ends Festival – Utrecht, NL
8/28-30: Muddy Roots Festival – Cookeville, TN
9/29: Levitation – Austin, TX
9/29: Ruins – Dallas, TX
10/1: Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
10/2: The Underground (Nile) - Mesa, AZ
10/3: The Whistle Stop – San Diego, CA
10/4: Sardine – San Pedro, CA
10/5: The Echo – Los Angeles, CA
10/6: Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
10/8: Star Theater – Portland, OR
10/9: Black Lodge – Seattle, WA
10/10: Shrine Social Club Basement – Boise, ID
10/11: The DLC at Quarters – Salt Lake City, UT
10/13: Moe’s Original BBQ & Bowl – Denver, CO
10/15: Subterranean – Chicago, IL
10/16: Third Man Records – Detroit, MI
10/17: Bottlerocket Social Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
10/18: Elsewhere (Zone One) - Brooklyn, NY
10/20: Foto Club – Philadelphia, PA
10/21: DC9 – Washington, DC
10/22: Static Age – Asheville, NC
10/31: Goat Farm – Atlanta, GA
11/4: Hare & Hounds – Birmingham, UK
11/5: Pitchfork Festival @ Village Underground – London, UK
11/6: Wharf Chambers – Leeds, UK
11/8: Simple Things Festival – Bristol, UK
11/9: YES – Manchester, UK
11/11: Brussels Botanique – Brussels, BE
11/12: Point Ephemere – Paris, FR
11/13: Skate Cafe – Amsterdam, NL
11/14: Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE
11/15: Copenhagen Loppen – Copenhagen, DK
11/16: Berghain Kantine – Berlin, DE
11/18: Bumann & Sohn – Cologne, DE
11/19: Bad Bon – Dudingen, CH
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The Warlocks Share “You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart” Ahead Of Album The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks
Los Angeles, California: The Warlocks return with their 14th studio album The Manic Excessive Sounds Of, released on August 1 on Cleopatra Records. Today they share new single and video “You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart.”. “Sometimes one has to wonder if marriage can really work in these modern times,” says frontman Bobby Hecksher, as he discusses new single “You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart.” “Everything is 24-7 stress, work, band, friends/text/social media, toss a baby in there and things can get fried pretty fast. This song is about exactly that. Everything melting and on display and all you’re trying to do is pick up the pieces and make everything work. My favorite line is “A normal circumstance for me well, what do we do again? To make us feel blue again, to make us fall in love again.” SINGLE: https://orcd.co/thewarlocks_youcantloseabrokenheart VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZoK...
photo Piper FergusonVeteran purveyors of a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground, the LA band unleash their manic excessive sounds on what might be their wildest, weirdest offering yet! A journey into the ether and outer limits, The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks was written, says Hecksher, in a single day, hence its title. A gear shifting, mind melting, twist and turn bending of genre and expectations, it is the sound of The Warlocks exploring our paranoid times through huge rock chords and choruses, delicious distortion through a modern psychedelia lens. The opener ‘Its A Fucked-Up World’ says it all, while the band’s forthcoming single ‘You Can’t Loose A Broken Heart’ offers everyone a sneak peek into the mayhem that’s to come. But, Hecksher continues, “This album is a positive one, and it totally rocks in the best way, too. It’s about cherishing the things that matter – the ones around you, the people you love and dealing with those relationships that are oh so frail. Hopefully this album gives one inspiration, ammunition and hope to navigate the insane backdrop of our modern times.” The Warlocks are certainly well placed to deliver such a creed. Having grown up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, FL, Bobby moved to L.A. at age 16. There he swiftly found kindred spirits, jamming with Beck on his Stereopathetic Soulmanure album and moonlighting in The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Warlocks’s debut album Rise & Fall, on the legendaryBomp label in 2000, set out their template, but it was the band's signing to a worldwide deal with Mute and the release of Phoenix (2003) that truly kicked everything into gear. Subsequent albums (including 2005’s Surgery, 2007’s Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, 2009’s The Mirror Explodes, and 2020's The Chain) raised the temperature even higher, whilerelentless international touring and the sheer power of The Warlocks’ gigantic live sound has built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified. But The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks takes everything to an entirely new level. Backed by J.C. Rees (guitar), Earl V. Miller (guitar), Marlena Schwenck (bass), Oscar Ruvalcaba (drums), Rob Campanella (Organ) and Elina Yakubova (tambourine & percussion), Hecksher throws everything bar the kitchen sink into the seething sonic cauldron, emerging with what has to be one of the psych-freak albums of the era. In other words, he’s completely off his rocker on this one. His mind has melted and his psyche, like Elvis, has left the building. But only in the best possible way. You have been warned.
photo Piper FergusonCD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=the+warlocks+manic+excessiveDIGITAL: https://orcd.co/ykzj8yj Track listing1. It's A Fucked-Up World2. You Can't Lose A Broken Heart
3. We Are All Lost
4. A Duel Between You And I
5. Stars On Sunset
6. The Dotted Line
7. Don't Blame It On The Band
8. Don't Blame It On The Jam CLEOPATRA RECORDS, INC.Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | YouTube | Spotify | Cleopatra Records Store www.CleopatraRecords.com
Freezing Cold Unleash “Eclipse” ft. Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster | LP out 8/1 via Don Giovanni | US Tour
Freezing Cold
Confront Moving Forward & Slipping of Time
with Anthemic New Single, “ Eclipse ”
ft. guitar by Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster
Treasure Pool LP due out 8/1 via Don Giovanni Records
US Tour Kicks Off This Month
Tour dates below + here
7/31: Malden, MA @ Faces Brewing
8/1: Providence, RI @ Daisy Cutter
8/2: Holyoke, MA @ Holyoke Media
8/3: New Brunswick, NJ @ In the West
8/20: New York, NY @ Trans Pecos
8/21: Lehigh Valley, PA @ National Sokols
8/22: Richmond, VA @ Another Round
8/23: Philadelphia, PA @ God's Autobody
8/24: Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Singles: “Backlight” “Eclipse”
"a vigorous but moody rock song with vocal hooks aplenty." – Stereogum
“'Backlight' is a very nice dose of melodic, emotional indie-punk." – BrooklynVegan
"Heartland-style punk at its most infectious” – New Noise Magazine
"Try to get those melodies unstuck from your head." – Post-Trash
“Freezing Cold’s languid sense of melody contrasted with tightly-written, but dynamic songs
calls to mind a Built to Spill for heartland punk.” – Viking’s Choice
Credit: August Stadnik
Freezing Cold has released their electrifying, anthemic new single “Eclipse” featuring wailing guitar from Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females. Following the acclaimed lead single “Backlight,” this is the latest track off their sophomore album Treasure Pool due out August 1 via Don Giovanni Records. “Eclipse” hits like an immediate indie rock classic with powerful clashing guitar, dueling vocal harmonies, stomping percussion and a catchy melodic refrain. Commenting on the story behind the song, vocalist/guitarist Jeff Cunningham shares, “The woods can feel like a little bubble where time stops behaving the way it’s supposed to and that inspired the setting of "Eclipse," which is actually the first song we wrote for Treasure Pool. No matter how much I’ve thought I was on a path or knew what I was doing, there have been plenty of times that felt like aimless wandering, moving forward just hoping an epiphany might eventually show up. We’ve all spent time fixated on forks in the road from our pasts while feeling like we’re in limbo in the present; there’s a quiet pull between feeling lost and still somehow heading somewhere, even if the path is not clear in either direction. The song also has the special benefit of the guitar wizardry of Marissa Paternoster (co-engineer, guitar), who Angie has collaborated with many, many times over the years.”
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Freezing Cold has a penchant for diving into the familiar, relatable moments of being alive. Inspired by '90s alternative and indie sounds, the NYC indie rock three-piece effortlessly layers catchy guitar, airy keys, textured synths and woodwinds with ethereal three-part harmonies and poignant lyrics. Initially planned as an EP and derailed by COVID, as so many records were, the band used the space and time to build what would eventually become Treasure Pool. With the addition of bassist Leanne Butkovic, the band created a new microcosm of collective creativity bringing even more intention to the songwriting process and building spectacular new 3-part vocal harmonies.
Freezing Cold was co-founded in 2017 by seasoned indie-punk musicians Angie Boylan (touring/session drummer in Sleater-Kinney, Aye Nako, Cheeky) on drums and Jeff Cunningham (Bridge & Tunnel, Ordinary Lives) on guitar and vocals, now joined by bassist Leanne Butkovic who brings a new perspective and fresh energy to the band. They tracked the 10 songs over two years and three separate sessions at Lakehouse Recording Studios in Asbury Park, NJ with friends Eric Bennett and Marissa Paternoster (Screaming Females).
The concept of Treasure Pool was inspired by a trip Angie had recently taken to the Oregon Coast where tide pools appeared at dusk, revealing so many creatures and habitats that you didn’t know were there just minutes before. She shares, "I read a description that called them 'unique habitats teeming with life, offering a window into the marine world.' There’s some metaphor here about being in a band, surely. You create this world together, are vulnerable and bare your ideas and creative expression to one another. Pool everything together onto an album." The world Freezing Cold has created in Treasure Pool is a collection of masterfully written rock songs about getting older, finding new ways forward, and staying curious.
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Hard rock band SEA HAGS announce previously unreleased 1985 album 'Dead & Gone'
SAN FRANCISCO HARD ROCK BAND SEA HAGS RISE FROM THE DEEP WITH THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEAD & GONE
AFTER DEMO SESSIONS WITH KIRK HAMMETT OF METALLICA, SEA HAGS SIGNED TO CHRYSALIS RECORDS IN 1987 AND RECORDED THEIR SELF-TITLED DEBUT WITH PRODUCER MIKE CLINK (GUNS N’ ROSES’ APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION)
DEAD & GONE CAPTURES THE BAND’S ORIGINAL LINEUP OF RON YOCOM, CHRIS SCHLOSSHARDT AND GREG LANGSTON PERFORMING LIVE BEFORE A STUDIO AUDIENCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | July 15, 2025 — Liberation Hall returns to the San Francisco underground with the announcement of Dead & Gone, a previously unreleased 10-song live set from the hard rock band Sea Hags. Dead & Gone arrives in stores September 12 on CD & digital from Liberation Hall, distributed by MVD Entertainment Group (USA) and Wienerworld (UK).
Pre-order Dead & Gone at Bandcamp. First digital single “Doghouse” is out today.
Sea Hags formed on New Year’s Day, 1985, comprising singer/guitarist Ron Yocom, bassist Chris Schlosshardt, and drummer Greg Langston. Yocom and Schlosshardt had previously played together in Santa Rosa trio the Tearaways. Upon relocating to San Francisco, they drafted in drummer Greg Langston, already a scene veteran with such groups as Tuxedomoon, No Alternative, Fade to Black, and Beast featuring ex-Cramps guitarist Bryan Gregory.
By May, Sea Hags were gigging regularly. “I came from the punk scene,” said Langston. “Initially, Sea Hags were playing slower, ‘riff-rock’ oriented stuff, a kind of proto-grunge.” The group’s tempos eventually sped up as they opened shows for Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Johnny Thunders, Circle Jerks, X, Suicidal Tendencies, and Motörhead.
Sea Hags’ first cassette demo, the six-song The Hag of the Sea was produced in early 1986 by Sylvia Massy and Kirk Hammett; the Metallica guitarist played on two of the tracks. Distributed on cassette at shows, it sold out quickly. As the band improved, soon a second demo was needed.
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On September 3, Sea Hags were firing on all cylinders when they stepped in front of an audience of 60 enthusiastic fans at CD Studios. It’s this live demo recording that is now making its official debut on CD & digital. Dead & Gone captures Sea Hags delivering a type of sleaze rock that would soon be highly bankable on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. Opener “Huntin’ for Dad” gets pulses racing with Yocom’s snarling vocals, followed by additional newly-discovered nuggets like the swaggering “Happy Hours with You,” the “too much junkie business” grind of “Dead and Gone,” the metallic blues of “King Bee Blues,” and the tense and atmospheric “Cock Eyed Crow.”
Despite its low budget, the demo served its purpose. Sea Hags were signed to Chrysalis Records in December 1987. But at the label’s insistence, Langston would be replaced, and a second guitarist was added. The original trio was defunct as Sea Hags entered the studio with producer Mike Clink (Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction) to record their eponymous debut album. That album would include new versions of “Doghouse” and “Back to the Grind,” two tracks which appear in earlier versions on Dead & Gone.
Within ten months of the release of the Sea Hags’ major label debut, the band had splintered. “I missed the crash and burn,” recalled Langston. By the time he stepped off the drum stool on April 28, 1988, he had played over 300 shows with the band. Langston continues to be a gigging Bay Area drummer with No Alternative, Screaming Bloody Marys, and the Next.
Dead & Gone features a new liner notes essay by Bill Kopp, author of Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave (HoZac Books, 2021).
SEA HAGS - Dead & Gone (CD/DL: LIB-2104)
TRACKLIST: 1. Huntin’ for Dad | 2. Happy Hours with You | 3. Dead and Gone | 4. Chicken Boys | 5. Ridin’ Out | 6. Doghouse | 7. Back to the Grind | 8. Love Kills | 9. King Bee Blues | 10. Cock Eyed Crow
All songs by Yocom/Schlosshardt.
All recordings previously unreleased.
Produced by Paul Rat. Engineered by Sylvia Massey & Gary Hobish.
(L to R): Ron Yocom, Greg Langston & Chris Schlosshardt of SEA HAGS |Photo by Vicki Berndt
Peter Frampton extends North American "Let's Do It Again!" tour, new dates kick off in October
photo credit: Allison MorganJuly 15, 2025—Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Award-winning guitarist, Peter Frampton, will continue his extensive “Let’s Do It Again!” headline tour through this fall with newly confirmed stops at Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, New Orleans’ Saenger Theatre, Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre and more. Tickets for the new dates will be available for pre-sale starting tomorrow, July 16, at 10:00AM local time with general on-sale following on Friday, July 18 at 10:00AM local time. Full details can be found at Frampton.com.The upcoming performances arrive on the heels of the legendary musician’s “Never Say Never,” “Never EVER Say Never” and subsequent “Positively Thankful” tours. Despite announcing a farewell run in 2019 due to a diagnosis of the degenerative disease inclusion-body myositis, Frampton has spent the last few years touring the country over, appearing on stages across America, sitting in with the house band at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, with the aptly named “Let’s Do It Again!”, Frampton is back with nine new dates to close out the tour’s third leg. “…the veteran singer-songwriter is finally getting his due on many levels.”—Ultimate Classic Rock“Frampton’s musical journey is a testament to his unparalleled talent and versatility, and last night its culmination was on full display.” —Relix “Despite the medical setbacks he’s faced in recent years, it’s obvious that Frampton still has a lot of fight left in him and that he’s not ready to hang up his guitar just yet.” —Creative Loafing “[Frampton] and his four-piece backing band were subject to adulation (and standing ovations) the whole night. No one in the room let up.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer“It was a performance that left no soul untouched.” —Grateful Web “Iconic Brit shows us the way to keep playing with grace, humor, and some damn fine music.” —Santa Barbara Independent Peter Frampton is one of the most celebrated artists and guitarists in rock history. In 2007, Frampton won a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Album for Fingerprints and in 2014 was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame. He received the prestigious Les Paul Innovation Award at NAMM’s TEC Awards in 2019 and most recently received the 2024 Les Paul Spirit Award at the Gibson Garage Nashville. Last fall, the iconic guitarist was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. In 2020, Frampton was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, his autobiography, Do You Feel Like I Do?: A Memoir, debuted on The New York Times Bestsellers list and he appeared on Dolly Parton’s latest album, Rockstar, as the only artist featured on two tracks.In 2023, Frampton unveiled Frampton@50 on Intervention Records, a numbered limited-edition vinyl box set featuring Frampton’s essential 1972-1975 studio releases Wind of Change, Frampton’s Camel and Frampton. He also received The Myositis Association’s Heroes in the Fight 2023 Patient Ambassador Award and unveiled his historic performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall as a live album via UMe—listen here. After 50 years, Frampton Comes Alive! remains one of the top-selling live records of all time, selling over 17 million worldwide.PETER FRAMPTON LIVEOctober 17—New Orleans, LA—Saenger TheatreOctober 19—San Antonio, TX—Majestic TheatreOctober 21—Grand Prairie, TX—Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand PrairieOctober 23—Tulsa, OK—The Cove at River Spirit Casino ResortOctober 25—Memphis, TN—Orpheum TheatreOctober 27—Atlanta, GA—Cobb Energy Performing Arts CentreOctober 29—St. Augustine, FL—The St. Augustine AmphitheatreOctober 31—Clearwater, FL—Ruth Eckerd HallNovember 2—Hollywood, FL—Hard Rock LiveFIND PETER FRAMPTON ONLINEFacebook | Website | Instagram | Spotify | Twitter
✨ISABELLA LOVESTORY ANNOUNCES VANITY WORLD TOUR ⭐
ISABELLA LOVESTORY ANNOUNCES
VANITY WORLD TOUR
VANITY OUT NOW VIA
GIANT MUSIC / LOVESTORY INC.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY
LISTEN TO VANITY HERE
TICKETS FOR THE VANITY WORLD TOUR HERE
“a pure assertion of dominance from a pop star at the top of her game”- The FADER
“absurdly sexy”
- Office Magazine
Los Angeles, CA (July 15th, 2025) – Honduran experimental popstar Isabella Lovestory announces the Vanity North American and European Tour. In support of her critically-acclaimed sophomore album Vanity, Isabella will bring her captivating live show, which recently graced festival stages at Paris’ We Love Green, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound and New York’s LadyLand Festival, to venues across North America and Europe. Her North American run will span 18 dates across the continent beginning Friday, September 12th in Miami, followed by her European leg, which begins on October 26th in Lisbon, Portugal and runs through November 17th.
Local and Spotify presale ticket sales begin July 16th at 12PM local time, with all tickets on sale beginning Friday, July 18 at 10AM local time. Isabella will be joined by pop upstart Cece Natalie and burgeoning DJ and producer Ali RQ in North America.
Vanity is a definitive artistic statement of a sophomore album for Isabella, praised by the likes of The FADER, NPR, Office Magazine, and more. Isabella is breaking the mold as a multidisciplinary creative and interrogating the dualities of contemporary life as an artist - the horror of beauty, the luxury of trashiness and the infinite portal embedded in a handheld mirror. “Each song is a different side of me dealing with vanity itself,” Isabella says of the album. “A haunted house of mirrors - where you can’t tell if the shine comes from diamonds or aluminum foil.”
With production assistance from frequent producers Chicken and Kamixlo, along with newcomer Mechatok and a guest appearance from Argentine rapper Taichu, Vanity is a chronology of the music touch points that are both dreamy and guttural. The melancholy of New Order is combined with the industrial rawness of Plan B - creating an unapologetic and fragile sense of debauchery and a sharp eye on the contemporary idea of beauty’s inevitable decay.
Listen to Vanity and for the full run of tour dates and more album details see above. Stay tuned for more from Isabella coming very soon.
Credit: Elif Gunduz
Vanity World Tour Dates:
9/12 - Miami, FL @ Club Space - The Ground
9/14 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
9/17 - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
9/18 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
9/21 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Hall
9/23 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
9/24 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison
9/26 - Montreal, QC @ Piccolo Rialto
10/7 - Houston, TX @ House of Blues Houston - Bronze Peacock Room
10/8 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
10/9 - Austin, TX @ The Parish
10/11 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
10/12 - Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
10/14 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
10/15 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
10/16 - Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory - Constellation Room
10/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
10/19 - San Francisco, CA @ Independent
10/26 - Lisbon, Portugal @ Casa Capitao
10/28 - Madrid, Spain @ Nazca
10/29 - Barcelona, Spain @ La Nau
10/31 - Turin, Italy @ Club to Club
11/1 - Paris, France @ Bellevilloise
11/2 - Cologne, Germany @ die Garagen
11/4 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet
11/5 - Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
11/7 - London, UK @ XOYO
11/9 - Hamburg, Germany @ Bahnhof Pauli
11/12 - Copenhagen, Denmark @ Small VEGA
11/13 - Berlin, Germany @ Schwuz
11/15 - Bern, Switzerland @ United Queer Feminist Festival at Reitschule
11/17 - Warsaw, Poland @ Hydrozagadka
High Vis announces headline North American tour
HIGH VIS ANNOUNCES HEADLINE
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
KICKS OFF THIS SEPTEMBER
GUIDED TOUR OUT NOW
VIA DAIS RECORDS
photo credit: Nat Wood
Guided Tour
What the press is saying about High Vis:
"High Vis have never followed the rules”
Stereogum
"a rousing Britpop manifesto that transmutes grime and drudgery into raw-nerved power ballads.”
Pitchfork
“High Vis are for the people”
Revolver
(July 15, 2025) - London’s High Vis announces their headline North American tour slated to kick off this September. The 19-date tour will include support from No Warning, Pissed Jeans, Cold Gawd, Radioactivity, Secret World, Locked Shut, Gag and more on select dates with a stop at Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 18th at 10am local time HERE. High Vis’ North American headline dates follow their shows across the United Kingdom and Europe where they will perform with Fontaines D.C. in Cardiff Castle along with sets at Pukkelpop and Reading and Leeds Festival, as well as support TURNSTILE across the entirety of their UK/EU tour later this fall. Today’s North American tour announcement comes on the heels of the band wrapping a 6-show run with Deftones across Europe. Earlier this year, High Vis was added to the BBC 6 Music A-List and was highlighted in a feature with Rolling Stone about the current rise of hardcore.
High Vis’ forthcoming headline tour follows last fall’s release of their lauded album Guided Tour, which arrived in October via Dais Records. Guided Tour was praised by Pitchfork, Alternative Press, Revolver, Stereogum, and more upon its release and includes the singles “Guided Tour,” “Drop Me Out,” “Mob DLA,” and “Mind’s a Lie.”
On Guided Tour, High Vis sounds like a band reaching for new heights, bristling with energy. Recorded across a few weeks at Holy Mountain Studios in London with producer Jonah Falco and engineer Stanley Gravett (the pair also helmed the sessions for High Vis’ Blending), the results feel dynamic and dialed-in, like anthems burned into sense memory through sweat and repetition. The album’s 11 songs span the spectrum of contemporary guitar music, sharpened by experience, camaraderie, and societal frustrations. From swaggering street punk to jangling indie sneer to heavy alt to shoegazey spoken word, the group’s chemistry transmutes any style to their unique intensity.
Since 2018, High Vis has polished their progressive hardcore sound with shades of post-punk, Brit pop, neo-psychedelia, and even Madchester groove, mapping a middle ground between hooks and fury, melodies and mosh pits. In 2019, High Vis released their debut album No Sense No Feeling, which broadened the scope of the hardcore veterans beyond scene while creating self-described “post-industrial-Britain misery punk.” The celebrated follow up, 2022’s Blending includes the tracks “Talk For Hours” and “Trauma Bonds” and not only expands upon the sonic breadth of High Vis, but vocalist Sayle opened his chest cavity through his lyrics discussing social issues and political miseries while reaching a hand out to folks listening to give a message of hope.
Check out Guided Tour above, see full tour routing and album details below, and stay tuned for more from High Vis coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
*= Radioactivity
^= No Warning
$= Secret World
+=Locked Shut
**=Pissed Jeans
&=Cold Gawd
++= Crush Your Soul
%= Locked Shut
^^ = Bullshit Detector
~= Gag
!= Touch Girl Apple Blossom
7/30 - Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Castle w/ Fontaines D.C.
8/15 - Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival 2025
8/22 - Reading, UK @ Reading Festival 2025
8/23 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival 2025
9/20 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk *^^!
9/21 - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves *^^!
9/23 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw
9/24 - Seattle, WA @ Nuemos ^~&
9/25 - Portland, OR @ Wonder ^~&
9/27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Regent ^$&
9/28 - Dana Point, CA @ Ohana Festival
9/30 - Las Vegas, NV @ Swan Dive/The Wall $&
10/1 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge &
10/2 - Denver, CO @ HQ +&
10/3 - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck +&
10/4- St. Louis, MO @ Red Flag $+&
10/5- Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge $+&
10/6 - Detroit, MI @ Edgeman $+&
10/8 - Boston, MA @ Paradise ++$&
10/9 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw ++$&
10/10 - Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Music Hall ++
10/11 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts **$&
10/12 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar **$&
w/ TURNSTILE
10/31 - Dublin, IE @ The National Stadium
11/2 - Glasglow, UK @ O2 Academy Glasgow
11/3 - Manchester, UK @ Depot Mayfield
11/5 - North London, UK @ Alexandra Palace
11/9 - Hamburg, DE @ Sporthalle Hamburg
11/10 - Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live
11/12 - Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
11/14 - Berlin, DE @ UFO Berlin - Konzerthalle
11/16 - Paris, FR @ Zenith Paris - La Villette
11/18 - München, DE @ Zenith Spectrum
11/20 - Dusseldorf, DE @ Mitsubishi Electric HALLE
11/24 - Barcelona, ES @ Sant Jordi Club
11/26 - Lisboa, PT @ LAV - Lisboa Ao Vivo
11/27 - Madrid, ES @ Palacio Vistlegre
July 14, 2025
KATY PERRY @ Honda Center July 13th 2025 // THE PORTABLE INFINITE
All photos by Alexander Laurence
