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OC Rewind Fest Brings the Ultimate 80s Experience to Huntington Beach This Weekend (September 27)! Set times announced!

OC Rewind Fest Brings the Ultimate 80s Experience to Huntington Beach on September 27, 2025

Featuring Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins), Men Without Hats, Missing Persons, Bow Wow Wow with Annabella Lwin, Naked Eyes, Jay Aston's Gene Loves Jezebel, Flashback Heart Attack, Clive Farrington (When In Rome), Time Polecat, Gary G. Myrick, Knievels and more!

September 27, 2025 | Huntington Beach Sports Complex 12 PM – 10 PM

Unlimited Beer Tasting Options Available Noon-4PM

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Huntington Beach, CA — September 25, 2025 — The Huntington Beach Sports Complex will be transformed into Southern California’s ultimate 80s time machine this weekend as OC Rewind Fest returns with a full day of legendary music, craft beer tastings, vintage rides, throwback games, and delicious food. From noon to 10 PM, fans of all ages can relive the decade—or experience it for the very first time.

Get ready to party like it’s 1985 with some of the most iconic names in new wave, synth-pop, and post-punk:

Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins) – Delivering timeless hits including “Hold Me Now” and “Doctor! Doctor!”

Bow Wow Wow ft. Annabella Lwin – The original frontwoman returns with the global smash “I Want Candy.”

Men Without Hats – Dance if you want to! The “Safety Dance” pioneers join with new music and classic anthems.

Naked Eyes – The British duo behind “Always Something There to Remind Me.”

Missing Persons – Fronted by the unmistakable Dale Bozzio with “Walking in L.A.” and more.

Jay Aston’s Gene Loves Jezebel – Gothic-glam legends performing “Desire” and “Jealous.”

Flashback Heart Attack – The world’s #1 80s cover band, bringing neon-drenched energy to the stage.

Clive Farrington (When In Rome) – Performing “The Promise” and joining a star-studded All-Star Jam Session with surprise guests.

Time Polecat, Gary G. Myrick, Knievels, and more!

Tickets & Experiences

General Admission: $50

VIP Experience: $75 (exclusive viewing areas, VIP bar + bathrooms)

Show + Craft Beer Tasting Combo: $75

Craft Beer Experience Only: $50 (Unlimited tasting noon–4 PM)

The Craft Beer Experience

From 12–4 PM, enjoy unlimited pours from 25+ acclaimed breweries, including AleSmith, Allagash, Ballast Point, Bear Republic, Founders, Four Sons, Santa Monica Brew Works, SweetWater, Hangar 24, HB Brew Co., Green Flash, Woodchuck Cider, and more.

Beyond the Music

Surf City VWs Car Show – Showcasing vintage and custom Volkswagen rides.

Amazing Food Vendors – Gourmet eats spanning all flavors.

Interactive Games & Retro Retail – A throwback shopping and activity zone for fans of all ages.

Event Details

Location: Huntington Beach Sports Complex
18100 Goldenwest Street, Huntington Beach, CA 92648
hbsportscomplex.com
Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 12 PM – 10 PM
Facebook Event Page

Relive the decade. Rewind your life. See you this Saturday!

Set Times:

Francis Of Delirium returns with new single "Little Black Dress"

FRANCIS OF DELIRIUM
RETURNS WITH INFECTIOUS NEW SINGLE
“LITTLE BLACK DRESS”

LISTEN HERE
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

SEVEN DATE TOUR WITH BLONDSHELL ENDS TONIGHT IN COLOGNE

Photo Credit: Shade Cumini

 

"The debut album from Luxembourg-based Jana Bahrich – aka Francis of Delirium – is an absolute knockout”  - KEXP

"Jana Bahrich showcases a remarkably contemporary approach to songwriter-rock on her debut, reflecting a sensibility akin to the music of Boygenius, Wolf Alice, or Soccer Mommy.”  

- Rolling Stone Germany

“A project as thematically poignant as it is sonically captivating” - Paste

“Capturing a similar melancholy sparkle to indie favourites such as Japanese Breakfast and Snail Mail, its 11 tracks encapsulate both bittersweet, desperate yearning and a breathless new romance”  - NME

 

Today (25 Sept) Francis of Delirium, AKA Luxembourg's breakout indie star Jana Bahrich, makes a triumphant return with new single “Little Black Dress”, out now via Dalliance Recordings. The new track is Francis of Delirium’s first new music since critically acclaimed debut album Lighthouse. The release of “Little Black Dress” coincides with the final night of a seven date EU tour with Blondshell.

LISTEN HERE

“Little Black Dress” is a soaring slice of power pop that’s as catchy as it is cathartic. In singular Francis of Delirium style, guitars and drums crescendo with sugar-rush vocal melodies. A sting of Gen-Z melancholy reminds why Jana’s heart-on-sleeve, emotionally intelligent songwriting forms such a strong connection with her fans.

Speaking on “Little Black Dress” Jana says:

“'Coming home fresh off a tour opening for bôa, playing to all these kids excited about guitar music, and heading into the Blondshell dates, I wanted to put out a song that captures the energy and messiness of playing live and being on stage. It’s a song about the anticipation of going out, the hope, the desperation, and the ultimate disappointment.”

Watch the video to “Little Black Dress” Above

It’s been a whirlwind 18 months for Francis of Delirium since their debut album Lighthouse was released in March 2024. Named as one The Guardian’s Readers Favourite Albums of 2024, proclaimed “Luxembourg’s first Indie Queen” by Uncut, whilst NME lauded the band for “putting Luxembourg on the map”.

Without stopping to catch a breath, Francis of Delirium undertook an extensive EU and UK tour, followed by 11 headline dates in the US and Canada, during which time she stopped in for an electric KEXP live session of single “Give It Back To Me” as well as winning over the team at NPR.

After a summer of festivals including a huge set at Primavera Sound, Francis of Delirium was back in the UK this June supporting bôa, the band having reformed following an incredible TikTok renaissance for their track “Duvet”. Soon after was a bucket-list support slot with no other than Alanis Morissette on home turf in Luxembourg, Francis of Delirium now play the final night a seven day run with US alt-rock icon Blondshell, having played to fans in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and finishing tonight in Cologne.

In July 2025 the opening track from Lighthouse - Ballet Dancers (Never Love Again) - was featured in Lena Dunham's hit Netflix series Too Much.

 

THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE releases new mini-album 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' today via The Leaf Label & announces European tour.

THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE- Releases mini-album 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' today via The Leaf Label
- European tour dates announced
 

Photo credit: Bella Keery

Earlier this year, The Sick Man of Europe released debut self-titled album and today returns with 'Fade/Form (The Bunker Tapes)' out now via The Leaf Label. It is a live document of The Sick Man Of Europe’s evolution from the studio to the stage and is accompanied by a full-length performance video. It is released as a 4-track digital mini-album, and as a limited edition 5-track cassette. The Sick Man Of Europe will tour the UK and Europe in October and November 2025.

Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4E09qBKmKE

In this summer of discontent, The Sick Man Of Europe meet in secret in a room beneath a factory on a hill. Crushed by the weight of brick and steel, and consumed by the relentless hunger for progress - here to document change. It’s an escape from the city and from the history unfolding in front of our eyes. These times are transient and our ideals are called into question at every juncture.

Five bodies stand in this room. An engineer and three operatives. They look towards the foreman. The spokesperson. For guidance and clarity where there is none.

“These ideas have evolved into something I never thought they would,” explains The Sick Man Of Europe. “Through exposure they have accumulated weight. The meanings have warped and twisted and they’ve become something else entirely - something more urgent. Repetition has deepened the grooves and cut into the earth. They are now beyond my careful control. Captured for posterity.”

A mechanical clank and the whir of magnetic tape. A voice from the depths.

“Transitions only exist when they are observed. Each document, when mapped to time, is nothing but a measurement of change. See this as snapshot, somewhere between the death of one idea and the birth of another. It is both the beginning and the end.”

The Sick Man Of Europe live:
1st Oct - The Attic, Leeds, UK
2nd Oct - Golden Lion, Todmordon, UK
3rd Oct - Flying Duck, Glasgow, UK
4th Oct - Zerox, Newcastle, UK
18th Oct - Sŵn Festival, Cardiff, UK
23rd Oct - Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
24th Oct - Left Of The Dial Festival, Rotterdam, NL
25th Oct - Vera Downstage, Groningen, NL
26th Oct - Rabataz, Halle (Saale), DE
27th Oct - Neue Zukunft, Berlin, DE
28th Oct - Altes Volksbad, Mannheim, DE
29th Oct - They're Gonna Be Big Festival, Paris, FR
30th Oct - Cafk, Nantes, FR
31st Oct - Creative Seeds, Rennes, FR
6th Oct - Club Cheek, London, UK
7th Oct - Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
8th Oct - Simple Things Festival, Bristol, UK

Fade/ Form (The Bunker Tapes) tracklist (Digital/ Cassette):

1. ⁠A1. Sanguine
2. A2. ⁠Obsolete
3. A3. Profane Not Profound ⁠
4. B1. Transactional
    B2. Moderate Air Quality

Fade/ Form (The Bunker Tapes) artwork:


Quotes:
“Blends pulsating motorik beats, nagging basslines and droning electronics into all-consuming atmospheres. Fronted by foreboding vocals that sit somewhere between Ian Curtis’ melancholic baritone and something more experimental, phrases are repeated over and over like mantras, slowly building in intensity until the words take on entirely new meanings” - Electronic Sound
"The Sick Man Of Europe blend Krautrock aspects with charred remains of post-punk, tying this together by tapping into the UK’s current dystopian darkness" - CLASH
"An eight-track album that commands your attention and keeps you there for all of its run" - When The Horn Blows
"Precise, intense and experimental post-punk executed with confident conviction" - Soundsphere Magazine
"A compelling musical manifesto" - NARC

Links:
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Announce All-New, Jerry Douglas-Produced EP, Night After Night

For Immediate Release—

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Announce All-New, Jerry Douglas-Produced EP, Night After Night

Out on October 24th; Hear the title track, “Night After Night,” today

Nashville, TN - September 25, 2025 - When Grammy-winning artist, guitarist, and producer Buddy Miller calls you up and says, “Hey, I’ve got a song you oughta hear,” anyone in their right mind would have a listen. In this case, the voice on the other end of the line was Nitty Gritty Dirt Band co-founder Jeff Hanna, and boy, what a song it turned out to be. “Night After Night,” the Dirt Band’s new single and the first listen from the group’s upcoming EP of the same name, is a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-eque rocker perfectly suited to kick off their first release of all-new music since 2009’s Speed of Life and a follow-up to their critically-acclaimed 2022 release, Dirt Does Dylan. “My friend, Buddy Miller, sent me the tune ‘Night After Night,’ written by two of my favorites: Paul Kennerley and Daniel Tashian,” remembers Hanna. “The band’s response was an immediate ‘Oh, hell yes!’”

Produced by fellow Grammy-winner and dobro master Jerry Douglas—who first met the Dirt Band at the age of 19 and went on to play on the group’s first number one single, “Long Hard Road”—“Night After Night” finds Hanna joined by bandmates Jimmie Fadden (drums), Bob Carpenter (harmony vocals, Hammond organ), Jaime Hanna (electric guitar, harmony vocals), and Ross Holmes (mandolin) plus guest musicians Viktor Krauss on acoustic bass and Tic-Tac bass and Douglas on lap steel guitar. “Night after night, I’m so blue / Can’t even dream my dreams of you,” sings Hanna with his signature, ever-cool delivery while the freight train groove of the band never lets up. “It’s right in our wheelhouse, and it’s pretty easy to tell what a blast we had playing and singing it,” Hanna exclaims. 

Due out on October 24, 2025, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Night After Night EP was recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, and The Tractor Shed Studio in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and was mixed by Sean Sullivan alongside Hanna and Douglas. The new EP is a family affair for Hanna who co-wrote three of the new songs. “Nashville Skyline” was co-written by Hanna, his wife and celebrated songwriter, Matraca Berg, and his son and bandmate Jaime. While Jeff Hanna takes on lead vocals on three of the five tracks, Jaime steps up to the center microphone on the other two. 

Fans can stream or purchase “Night After Night” right now at this link and pre-order or pre-save the Night After Night EP right here. A very limited number of vinyl copies of Night After Night—with music on one side and a special etching on the other—as well as CDs are available for pre-order at the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band online store. 

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band are in the middle of their ALL THE GOOD TIMES: The Farewell Tour and will hit the stage again on October 3rd for a very special set at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco, California. A full list of tour dates can be found below or at nittygritty.com/tour.

Watch the official lyric video for "Night After Night" below:

Night After Night Tracklist:

Night After Night

Nashville Skyline (feat. Matraca Berg)

If You Hang Around Long Enough

Peace and Quiet

For All The Good It Did

Catch Nitty Gritty Dirt Band On Tour:

October 3 - San Francisco, CA - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 15 - Hamilton, ON - FirstOntario Concert Hall

October 16 - Kitchener, ON - Centre In The Square

October 17 - Orillia, ON - Casino Rama Resort Entertainment Centre

October 19 - Saginaw, MI - Theater at Dow Event Center

October 21 - Newark, OH - The Midland Theatre

October 22 - Northfield, OH - MGM Northfield Park

October 24 - Effingham, IL - Effingham Performance Center

October 25 - Muskegon, MI - Frauenthal Center

October 26 - Wabash, IN - Honeywell Center - Ford Theater

October 28 - Nashville, TN - Grand Ole Opry (Grand Ole Opry House)

March 20–25, 2026 - Miami, FL - Outlaw Country Cruise

About Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band—formed in 1966 as a Long Beach, California jug band that scored its first charting single in 1967 and embarked on a very successful self-propelled ride through folk, country, rock 'n' roll, pop, bluegrass, and Americana—is currently on the second year of its All The Good Times: The Farewell Tour. For nearly six decades, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has entertained audiences with their top-shelf musicianship, groundbreaking trilogy of Will The Circle Be Unbroken albums and timeless hits such as "Mr. Bojangles," "Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)," "Modern Day Romance," "Workin' Man (Nowhere To Go)," and "Fishin' in the Dark." Now with its farewell tour, the CMA and IBMA Award-winning band that has carried a torch for American country and roots music for nearly 60 years is in the process of saying so long to the highways and byways they've crossed an unimaginable number of times throughout their career while simultaneously celebrating their artistry and staying power with the release of new music.

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SOFIA ISELLA RELEASES NEW SINGLE “OUT IN THE GARDEN”; NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS OCTOBER 11

SOFIA ISELLA RELEASES NEW SINGLE

“OUT IN THE GARDEN” 

LISTEN HERE

YOU’LL UNDERSTAND MORE, DICK. NORTH AMERICAN TOUR STARTS OCTOBER 11th 

SINGLE ART: Otis Monteny

20 year old independent music phenom SOFIA ISELLA today releases new single “Out In The Garden,” a shadowy industrial influenced track where haunted whispers unravel into a massive, cathartic rock chorus — intimate yet towering in scope. Co-written and co-produced by SOFIA and Mr Hudson (Miley Cyrus, Frank Ocean, Coldplay, Jay-Z), the song challenges blind followers whose piety is intertwined with and relies on evil.  Her ruminations walk boldly into the light, with a confident snarl:  “How beautiful it must feel to be so sure, I don’t know anything, Hannah, I don’t know anything anymore. But how pretty to be praying to nothing. That gorgeous pill of sugar you swallow like it’s something”emphasizing why the world is quickly becoming obsessed with this young feminist icon. Sofia shares, "I got called demonic for the first time . I call it, losing my demonic virginity . It’s coming for us all, ladies ." LISTEN & WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE: https://sofiaisella.lnk.to/outinthegarden

The release follows the video for “Muse,” an intensely cinematic piece of surrealist horror that deepens the unsettling world SOFIA has spent the past few years building. A classically trained violinist and poet, ISELLA draws inspiration from Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, with musical touchstones ranging from Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead to Fiona Apple and Lana Del Rey. Her background in literature and music fuels a style that fuses visceral storytelling with layered, cinematic production — a duality of discipline and raw expression that has become her signature.

Next month, SOFIA will resume her You’ll Understand More, Dick tour in North America, where many shows are already sold out. Starting in Minneapolis on October 11th the 22-date tour will hit Chicago, Toronto (SOLD OUT), New York (SOLD OUT), Philadelphia, Austin and more before wrapping up in The Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on November 16th. 

Since 2024, ISELLA has released I Can Be Your Mother and 2025’s I'm camera., building an early catalog defined by dark textures, arresting melodies, and unflinching commentary on identity and power. Her song “Hot Gum” has accumulated more than 19 million streams, cementing her growing global audience. Alongside her recorded work, ISELLA’s live presence continues to build momentum—she has opened for artists such as Taylor Swift and Glass Animals.

LISTEN TO “OUT IN THE GARDEN”

https://sofiaisella.lnk.to/outinthegarden

YOU’LL UNDERSTAND MORE, DICK. TOUR

with Ayleen Valentine

https://www.sofiaisella.com/tour

October 11 - Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater *LOW TICKETS*

October 12 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave

October 14 - Chicago, IL @ Metro *LOW TICKETS*

October 17 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount *SOLD OUT*

October 19 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House *SOLD OUT*

October 21 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza *SOLD OUT*

October 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl Philly

October 24 - Boston, MA @ Royale *LOW TICKETS*

October 25 - Silver Spring, MD @ The FIllmore Silver Spring

October 27 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre 

October 28 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte - The Underground

October 30 - Charleston, SC @ Charleston Music Hall

November 1 - Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live

November 2 - Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues Orlando

November 5 - Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall

November 6 - Austin, TX @ Empire Control & Garage *LOW TICKETS*

November 8 - Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre *LOW TICKETS*

November 10 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex - The Grand

November 12 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom *SOLD OUT*

November 13 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox

November 15 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades 

November 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre *LOW TICKETS*

PHOTO: Jasper Graham

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JULESY Shares New Single + Video "Never Never" ft. fantasy of a broken heart via The Big Takeover | 'Flip the Bed' LP Out 10/17 via Strong Place Music

JULESY Shares New Single + Video "Never Never"
feat. fantasy of a broken heart via The Big Takeover

Read New Noise Magazine and Reverie Online Features

Flip the Bed Out October 17th Via Strong Place MusicPhoto Credit: Charlie HymanPRE-SAVE: JULESY - Flip the Bed

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: JULESY - "Never Never" 
Stream | Watch

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: JULESY - "Blue Lie" 
Stream | Watch

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: JULESY - "Heart On The Line" 
Stream | Watch PRAISE FOR JULESY

"Intimate yet edgy, polished yet raw, JULESY is an artist making her presence known in NYC’s indie space and her latest offering is stunning proof of her allure"
- Earmilk

"...JULESY’s music occupies a space where emotional complexity meets experimental sound. On Flip the Bed, she leans into vulnerability and contradiction, crafting a debut that feels bold, genre-blurring, and strikingly real."
- The Big Takeover

"powerhouse vocal performances and stark lyrical honesty"
- New Noise Magazine

"With influences ranging from Imogen Heap and They Might Be Giants to Alex G, JULESY’s debut explores the liminal emotional spaces many artists leave untouched."
-Northern Transmissions

"Brooklyn-based alt-indie pop act Julesy are quickly making a name for themselves as one of the most compelling new voices emerging from New York’s indie-pop scene."
- Reverie Online

"That balance—between the heavy and the playful, the devastating and the hooky—is already becoming JULESY’s signature."
- Mundane Mag

"With sonic nods to Imogen Heap and Alex G, Flip the Bed promises to be a magnetic debut — an unfiltered document of growth, disruption, and the delicate beauty of being in-between."
- That's Good Enough for Me

This summer, Brooklyn-based alt-indie pop artist JULESY announced her debut full-length album, Flip the Bed, out October 17 via Strong Place Music. Known for her soaring, evocative vocals and confessional songwriting, JULESY has already drawn comparisons to artists like Soccer Mommy and Snail Mail. Blending dreamy folk-pop textures with raw punk energy, she’s quickly emerging as one of the most compelling new voices in New York’s vibrant indie scene.

Today, the genre-defying artist shares her latest single, “Never Never,” an ethereal, hazy anthem featuring her signature tender, melancholic vocals, joined by Bailey Wollowitz of fantasy of a broken heart. The two artists’ echoing harmonies create an emotionally resonant duet that deepens the track’s introspective tone. 

On the track, JULESY shares:
"Never never is an ode to losing yourself to self criticism. I’m prone to making songs that feel heavy to me and sound really fun, I realize. This song started out as a full fledged demo, with a drum machine and lots of vocoders. Taylor Wallace made this song what it is by transforming a machine sound onto the kit, which is a huge feat. The other thing that makes the song so special is Bailey from Fantasy of a Broken Heart on background vocals. When they sent me the take, it brought the whole song together. Given that the lyrics are a sort of conversation between me and my brain, it’s fitting to have another voice on the track.”

With influences ranging from Imogen Heap and They Might Be Giants to Alex G, JULESY’s debut explores the emotional spaces many artists leave untouched. Flip the Bed promises to be a bold, genre-blurring introduction to a young artist unafraid to be fully in-process — messy, honest, and magnetic.

“Never Never” drops September 25th via Strong Place Music. Flip the Bed arrives October 17.

JULESY "Never Never" (Official) FLIP THE BED TRACKLISTING

1. “Heart On the Line” 

2.  “Blue Lie” 

3.  “Wendy” 

4.  “Amber” 

5.  “Water”

6.  “Michael Gibson”

7.  “Never Never”

8.  “Missing Muse”

JULESY BIO

JULESY is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter whose debut album, Flip the Bed, captures the unraveling and aftermath of a six-year relationship with melodic clarity and emotional precision.

Written during the final two years of that relationship — and in the uncertain space that followed — the album traces a mid-twenties life in flux, where heartbreak, identity, and creative renewal bleed together. Influenced by Imogen Heap, They Might Be Giants, and Japanese House, JULESY writes melody-first songs that blur genre boundaries while staying emotionally direct. Her voice slips easily between pop gloss and lo-fi intimacy — drawing you in, then breaking something open. 

She describes her songwriting as “candid and right on the nose,” often realizing what a lyric really means long after it’s written. “It’s how I process things I don’t fully understand yet,” she says. “I’ll write something and think it’s just a song — then months later, I realize it’s exactly what I was going through at that moment.”

Music runs deep in her DNA: her dad is a film composer, her mom a voice teacher. Growing up, JULESY took marimba classes instead of dance, surrounded by instruments in a house where creativity and critique flowed freely. Flip the Bedwas co-produced by Sahil Ansari and performed by her band, which includes her twin brother Cal on keys and vocals. “Some things, he just gets — more than any collaborator could,” she says. “We can read each other’s minds a little bit.”

The album’s title comes from a ritual she still finds herself repeating — moving her bed around the room to try and shift something inside. “I was either trying to change my perspective, understand someone else’s, or being forced into a new one,” she says. The songs were written from that place: not quite heartbreak, not quite healing, but something messier in between.

Across Flip the Bed, JULESY threads sharp introspection through deceptively catchy, sometimes whimsical forms. The opener, “Heart on the Line,” sets the tone — a propulsive, harmony-rich anthem about emotional overexposure and the futility of trying to be “chill” when you're anything but. On “Blue Lie,” she reflects on staying in a relationship even as she and her partner began to grow in different directions. “I wasn’t happy and didn’t realize it,” she says. “I didn’t know how to pursue my life without him.”

“Wendy,” one of the oldest songs on the record, shifts focus from romance to family. It reflects the complex dynamics of a post-divorce household where boundaries blur and roles invert. “It’s about being kind of parentified as a kid,” she says, “and having to form individual relationships with your parents while they’re kind of in opposition to each other.”

Elsewhere, “Water” explores self-erasure in relationships, and “Never Never” flips the album’s central breakup on its head — trading grief for something closer to sardonic defiance. On “Amber,” one of the album’s most delicate tracks, she folds in a note of queer longing, drawing inspiration from Amber Bain of Japanese House. “It’s that feeling of wanting to be someone and be with them at the same time,” she reflects. The final track, “Missing Muses,” zooms out entirely — a meta-ballad about creative paralysis and the slow, private work of finding your voice again.

Throughout, Flip the Bed lives in contradiction: heartbreak and humor, structure and blur, sharp truths and unresolved questions. “I’m not really trying to write about my life,” JULESY says. “I’m writing through it — as a way to make sense of what I can’t say any other way.”JULESY LINKS
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Florence + the Machine debut "One Of The Greats," Everybody Scream out 10/31

FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNVEIL
“ONE OF THE GREATS”NEW ALBUM EVERYBODY SCREAM OUT OCTOBER 31 Press photo, credit Autumn de Wilde September 24, 2025—Florence + the Machine unveil a new song, “One Of The Greats,” today from Florence Welch’s forthcoming sixth album,  Everybody Scream . Listen here and watch the visualizer here. The new album is set for release on October 31, preorder it here.Florence notes:I don’t really know how to explain myself with this one, it was sort of a long poem about the cost of greatness. Who gets to decide what that is? Why do I even want it? Why am I never satisfied? I feel like I die a little bit every time I make a record, and kind of literally nearly died on the last tour. Yet I always dig myself up to try again, always trying to please that one person who doesn’t like it, or finally feel like I made something perfect and I can rest. Early in my career, I was consistently ridiculed and derided for the bigness of my expression. I was thrust into the spotlight but also told again and again I didn’t deserve it, or that because it wasn’t to their taste it wasn’t good. So maybe this is a 15-year outpouring of frustration. But also, a lot of the lines I just left in because I thought they were funny. Me and Bowen from IDLES wrote it in one take. He played the guitar and I just sang it straight from the page. We meant to re-record it but the first take just had this amazing energy. Then Aaron Dessner helped us take it to a truly transcendent place. I wanted it to feel like you were disintegrating into nothing at the end. Which is sometimes what the creative process feels to me. Death and resurrection over and over.“One Of The Greats” follows the album’s title track, released last month with a video directed by Autumn de Wilde to rapturous praise. The New York Times declared Welch “Pop’s glorious enchantress” while Stereogum called the song “a grand, gothic, synth-powered anthem with the kind of chorus a whole arena could easily pick up on.”Florence wrote and produced Everybody Scream with a close-knit circle of collaborators including Mark Bowen of IDLES—who appears in the video for “Everybody Scream,” Aaron Dessner and Mitski.After needing lifesaving surgery on the Dance Fever tour, Florence’s recovery took her down the path of spiritual mysticism, witchcraft and folk horror as she felt the limits of her body and explored what it means to be “healed.” The album treads through womanhood, partnership, aging and dying; exposing the murky in the mundane.Across five albums—2009’s Lungs, 2011’s Ceremonials, 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, 2018’s High As Hope and 2022’s Dance Fever—Florence has become one of the most monumental artists of a generation, with multiple U.S. and U.K. #1 albums and countless awards. Known for her earth-shattering live show and singular, iconic voice, Florence has sold out shows and headlined festivals the entire world over. She has collaborated and shared stages with icons—The Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift among them—and published a book of lyrics, poetry and drawings, Useless Magic. Album cover, credit Autumn de Wilde

ALL THINGS GO TORONTO: RENEÉ RAPP, KACEY MUSGRAVES, REMI WOLF, ROLE MODEL, CHARLOTTE CARDIN etc. OCTOBER 4 and 5 SET TIMES

ALL THINGS GO 2025 ANNOUNCES SET TIMES 
FOR INAUGURAL TORONTO EDITION

RENEÉ RAPP, KACEY MUSGRAVES, REMI WOLF, ROLE MODEL,  HEADLINING
PLUS: RAVYN LENAE, CHARLOTTE CARDIN, NOAH CYRUS etc.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 & SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5
@ BUDWEISER STAGE

 

ALL THINGS GO: 10 YEARS COMPILATION OUT 11/7
BENEFITTING THE ALLY COALITION  PRESAVE / PREORDER HERE
 

TORONTO (September 24, 2025) – Today, All Things Go Festival reveals the set times for the inaugural 2025 Toronto edition, details below. Headliners include Reneé Rapp, Kacey Musgraves, Remi Wolf, Role Model. The two day festival features a total of 16 artists, including Special Guest Charlotte Cardin, Noah Cyrus, Ravyn Lenae, Chelsea Cutler, Blondshell, Valley, Joy Oladokun etc.

Beginning on Saturday, October 4 and Sunday, October 5th, the festival will launch at the waterfront, at Budweiser Stage in downtown Toronto. Tickets start at $156 CAD and are available at https://allthingsgofestival.com/toronto.

The expansion to Toronto, Canada, continues the steady growth of All Things Go, which in 2024 simultaneously celebrated 10 years of the festival in the Washington DC area and launched a New York festival. In 2025, the Washington, DC and New York editions will each expand from 2 days to 3 days. All Things Go has continued to grow in scale, ambition, and attendance, while staying true to its mission to intentionally focus on female and non-binary-led lineups, and its ongoing commitment to cultivating diverse, inclusive spaces within the music community. For the inaugural All Things Go Toronto Festival, the ATG team is partnering with Live Nation Women to deliver the best possible festival experience for fans.

The weekend before ATG Toronto, All Things Go returns to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD and Forest Hills Stadium in New York with another stacked lineup highlighting female and LGBTQ+ artists.

Recently, All Things Go proudly announced the first installment of its forthcoming benefit compilation ALL THINGS GO: 10 YEARS. The compilation is out November 7 with 100% of the proceeds going to their longtime collaborators at The Ally Coalition (TAC), a leading nonprofit dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ youth, founded by Jack and Rachel Antonoff.  The compilation features Kesha, Maren Morris, Rachel Chinouriri, Medium Build, Bartees Strange, Maude Latour, Joy Oladokun, EMEI, jasmine.4.t and many more artists from the All Things Go community. Preorder/presave it here. 

ALL THINGS GO TORONTO SET TIMES

SATURDAY 10.4:
Reneé Rapp - 9:30 PM
Remi Wolf - 7:45 PM
Ravyn Lenae - 6:15 PM
Chelsea Cutler - 4:45 PM
Blondshell - 3:30 PM
Julia Wolf - 2:20 PM
ELIO - 1:20 PM
EMEI - 12:30 PM
Doors open at 12PM EST

SUNDAY 10.5:
Kacey Musgraves - 9:30 PM
Role Model - 7:45 PM
Charlotte Cardin (Special Guest) - 6:15 PM
Noah Cyrus -  4:45 PM
Valley - 3:30 PM
Joy Oladokun - 2:20 PM
Alemeda - 1:20 PM
Baby Nova - 12:30 PM
Doors open at 12PM EST

Pachyman kicks off co-headline tour with MNDSGN

PACHYMAN
KICKS OFF CO-HEADLINING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH MNDSGN 

IN SUPPORT OF NEW ALBUM
ANOTHER PLACE

PLAYING NYC ON OCTOBER 8 +
TWO NIGHTS IN LA ON OCTOBER 31 & NOVEMBER 1

PRAISE FOR PACHYMAN & ANOTHER PLACE

“A kaleidoscope of influences only Pachyman could put together in such a fluid package."
Associated Press

“Combines the heavy, reverb-drenched grooves of classic 1970s dub reggae with the big synthesizers and keyboard sounds of Krautrock.”
GRAMMY.com

“Refreshing…a deep meditation on the moment.”
NPR’s Alt.Latino

“Galactic dub reggae…a funky, blissed-out good time.”
CREEM

“Taken the dub sound system approach and tweaked it with elements of synth-pop and psychedelia.”
WNYC

“Building on his love of dub reggae by morphing it ever further into mind bending sonics.”
KCRW

“A futuristic fever dream filled with all the right vibes.”
KEXP

“Much like LA, the soundscape embraces its influences of traditional sounds from dub, synth-pop, and reggae while digesting it into new, innovative outputs.”
Remezcla

“Vital and sincere…a sonic sculptor whose loyalty to one genre does not limit him.”
PopMatters

“Retains a homespun feel while nonetheless expanding what the Pachyman sound might be.”
Aquarium Drunkard

“Bridges dub’s hypnotic roots with everything from post-punk to vaporwave."
METAL

“Has a unique knack for merging the echo-laden space boom of Jamaican dubplates with playful, contemporary melodies and grooves…It’s all designed to make bodies move, and it succeeds wildly.”
Treble

Tomorrow, Pachyman — the musical project of Puerto Rican-born, Los Angeles-based dub reggae auteur Pachy Garcia — starts a 28-date North American co-headlining tour with Stones Throw artist MNDSGN. The tour kicks off on September 25 in San Diego and concludes with a pair of hometown dates at The Lodge Room in Los Angeles on October 31 and November 1. Find all tour dates below, and purchase tickets here.

Listen to Pachyman and MNDSGN's dublab guest DJ set here .

This tour is an extension of Pachyman's worldwide live dates in support of his new album Another Place, which was released this spring on ATO Records. Earlier this year, Pachy had a run of live shows in New Zealand and Australia, Europe and the UK, as well as a run of West Coast dates alongside Darkside.

Another Place is Pachyman’s most daring project to-date, one that builds upon its forebears by leaning into the idiosyncratic elements lurking beneath previous projects. In doing so, it synthesizes the myriad scenes that have recontextualized the methods and aesthetics of dub — from pioneering synth-pop weirdos like William Onyeabor and Yellow Magic Orchestra to Basic Channel’s amniotic dub techno — into a sound that, while still anchored in dub reggae’s glorious walls of sound, is undeniably Pachyman’s own.

Listen to Another Place here .

The VHS-warped video for "In Love" introduced a new quartet lineup that will  be joining the upcoming tour dates: Pachy on drums and vocals, Javier Perez on guitar, Jordan Brooks on bass, and Diego Gaeta on keys. Watch the "In Love" video here.

“Calor Ahora,” which he describes as "the backbone of the record" and the moment when he "achieved a new sound that I had never encountered in my music before.” The track is rippling, minimal dub that incorporates sparkling, alien synthesizers and a koan-like vocal. Watch the video for "Calor Ahora" — a goofy, direct-to-VHS-style send-up of LA noir mysteries — here.

Lead single "Hard To Part" is a skeletal drone workout that doubles as "a funky dub reggae love letter to Los Angeles" (Remezcla). KCRW called it "funky-spooky-cool" and put it at #2 on their Top 30 chart, adding: "ESG fans, take note." Watch the video for “Hard To Part” here.
 

PACHYMAN x MNDSGN TOUR DATES
Sept 25: San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
Sept 26: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Sept 27: Albuquerque, NM @ Sister
Sept 29: Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co.
Sept 30: Austin, TX @ Antone’s
Oct 1: Houston, TX @ White Music Hall
Oct 3: Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
Oct 4: Atlanta, GA @ The EARL
Oct 5: Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
Oct 6: Washington, DC @ Union Stage
Oct 8: Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 9: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Oct 10: Amherst, MA @ The Drake
Oct 11: Baltimore, MD @ Union Craft Brewery
Oct 13: Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
Oct 15: Toronto, ON @ Longboat Hall
Oct 16: Detroit, MI @ The Loving Touch
Oct 17: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Oct 18: Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar
Oct 21: Denver, CO @ Meow Wolf
Oct 22: Salt Lake City, UT @ The State Room
Oct 24: Vancouver, BC @ The Biltmore Cabaret
Oct 25: Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
Oct 26: Portland, OR @ The Den
Oct 28: San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Oct 29: Santa Cruz, CA @ Felton Music Hall
Oct 31: Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
Nov 1: Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room

PACHYMAN N.A. TOUR DATES
Dec 12: San Juan, PR @ Respuesta
Dec 14: Miami, FL @ ZeyZey

 

NYC band S.C.A.B. announces new LP, shares "Red Chair" single/video

NYC band S.C.A.B. announces new LP, shares "Red Chair" single/video
 

VIDEO: "Red Chair" -
YouTube

Download Hi-Res Photos & WAV file HERE

Grind Select is pleased to announce the new LP from Ridgewood's finest rock outfit, S.C.A.B. The new album, Somebody In New York Loves You!, will be out November 21.

"Singing along to Sugar Ray in the back of my dad’s Subaru Outback. No job. Rent's due. Time to move. I pay them to keep us together. Forever I love you. I’ll buy you anything. What do you want? You want the moon?” -Sean Camargo, S.C.A.B. on "Red Chair" 

LISTEN/SHARE: "Red Chair"
 All DSPs / Bandcamp / YouTube

S.C.A.B. is the sound of a city cracked open and buzzing with late-night possibility. Formed in Ridgewood, Queens, the band channels the lived-in tension of New York life into something both urgent and reflective. Frontman Sean Camargo writes like someone pulling moments out of thin air: soft subway collisions, the weight of a partner’s silence, the slow grief of change. The band’s name, once just an acronym, now feels more like a symbol of regeneration, a hardened edge formed by years of personal and collective growing pains.
 
On their new album, Somebody In New York Loves You!, S.C.A.B. turns inward and stretches wide. The songs lean into vulnerability without retreating into abstraction, drawing inspiration from Camargo’s psychedelic-fueled realizations, intimate journal entries, and moments of raw emotional rupture. From the blissed-out confessions of “Strawberry Jam” to the anthemic ache of “Red Chair,” the record explores love in all its forms: romantic, familial, and self-directed, with a clarity that’s both wide-eyed and world-weary. “The only truth I could really feel was love,” Camargo says, “and everything I did was either trying to run away from it or get closer.”
 
Much of the album was written in a creative surge following a psychic reading that left Camargo feeling oddly affirmed, and fantastical. That sense of magical realism runs through the record’s DNA: a cassette player, worn book of matches and Coney Island ride card on a messy desk, dreams of lost parents returning, and sonic callbacks to early-2000s stadium rock filtered through New York’s post-punk alleys. At times, the band sounds huge, like they’re aiming to fill a field - and at others, eerily close, like a voice memo you weren’t meant to hear.
 
With Somebody In New York Loves You!, S.C.A.B. makes space for that contradiction: songs that are personal but big, naive but knowing, imaginative but grounded. After a long stretch of false starts, rain-soaked gigs, and artistic doubt, they emerge sounding clear-headed and ready. The result is an album that doesn't just reflect New York; it breathes with it, holds your gaze, and says, without flinching, somebody here loves you.

TOUR DATES

10/11 - Medford, MA @ Deep Cuts
10/12 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101
10/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar 

 

S.C.A.B.
Somebody In New York Loves You!
(Grind Select)
Street date: Nov. 21, 2025
Pre-order it HERE 

Track List:

1. 7:47
2. Strawberry Jam
3. I Hate Expectations
4. LOVE
5. Red Chair
6. L.A.A.Y.G.S.G.M.
7. MK
8. 4th of July
9. Star
10. Erika
11. Never Comes Around
12. Nothing More
13. How Long Has It Been?

S.C.A.B. LINKS:

Instagram
Bandcamp
Facebook