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May 21, 2025
Yaya Bey shares new single + new LP out June 20th
YAYA BEY SHARES NEW SINGLE “RAISINS”
NEW ALBUM DO IT AFRAID OUT JUNE 20TH
VIA DRINK SUM WTR
PLAYING GOVERNOR’S BALL IN NYC NEXT MONTH
US TOUR BEGINS IN SEPTEMBER
Yaya Bey by Cody Lidtke
“Addictive”
ELLE
"Bey has created a seat for herself at the proverbial table, where many artists seek a chair"
ESSENCE
"Relaxed but not reluctant"
The New York Times
"a boogie awakening"
New Yorker
"Creating a nightclub atmosphere in the daylight"
Rolling Stone
“raisins”
WATCH: https://youtu.be/wmv9jCUVzyA
LISTEN: https://drinksumwtr.lnk.to/yaya-bey-raisins
Do It Afraid
PRE-SAVE: https://drinksumwtr.lnk.to/yaya-bey-do-it-afraid
(May 21, 2025) - Today, Yaya Bey shares new single and music video “raisins”. The final offering ahead of her forthcoming new album do it afraid, out June 20th via drink sum wtr, this new single embodies the anchoring sentiment of the album. Produced by the Grammy-nominated DJ Harrison (Steve Arrington, Pink Siifu, Joyce Wrice), “raisins” expresses the bravery that it takes to dream, and succeed, in the face of the sobering realities of a career as an artist.
“It’s hard to sum up ‘raisins in a small burb but it’s the pursuit of love, joy and freedom with the full knowing that there will also be pain,” Yaya says of the song. “It’s a surrender. It’s me giving myself permission to dream. It might not happen. But maybe the real joy is not in the materialization but in the dreaming itself. The name is inspired by a Langston Hughes poem called Harlem where he says ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?’”
Following a hometown set at Governor’s Ball Festival next month in NYC, Yaya will take the album on tour in September across the East & West Coasts, concluding on September 27th at the Lodge Room in LA. Remaining tickets for Yaya’s tour are available now HERE.
Do it afraid’s power rests in its pleasures, embracing life as it comes and finding peace in the power of human movement and connection. More than ever Yaya’s journey to finding peace in that duality has led her to do it afraid, a collection of resolutely fun, full-hearted and clear-eyed songs that draw from R&B, hip-hop jazz, soul and dance music. On the album, Yaya worked with a wider cast of co-producers including BADBADNOTGOOD, Exaktly and Virginia musical collective Butcher Brown, with additional guest features from Rahrah Gabor, Nigel Hall, and others.
Yaya has steadily risen as one of the most important voices in R&B, finding a true breakout with her beloved 2022 album Remember Your North Star. Her subsequent full-length followup Ten Fold, which was a wholehearted showcase of all of the various nuances that make her the artist she is, was awarded Pitchfork's Best New Album in a glowing review. Ten Fold was also praised by the likes of Elle, ESSENCE, and Paste Magazine, who described the album as "Bey's most liberating music to date." Yaya also performed a stunning Tiny Desk concert last Spring, which NPR described as “truly healing to experience” and noting “Not a dry eye was left in the building.”
Check out “raisins”, and pre-save do it afraid above, see below for Yaya’s full run of headlining tour dates and the do it afraid tracklist & cover artwork, and stay tuned for more from Yaya Bey.
Yaya Bey 2025 Live Dates
6/7 - New York, NY @ Governor’s Ball Festival
9/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
9/11 - Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
9/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ 99 Scott
9/13 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage
9/16 - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
9/18 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
9/19 - Urbana, IL @ PYGMALION
9/23 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos
9/24 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
9/26 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
9/27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
Yaya Bey
Do It Afraid
June 20, 2025
drink sum wtr
1. wake up b*tch
2. end of the world (feat. Nigel Hall & Butcher Brown)
3. real yearners unite
4. cindy rella
5. Raisins
6. spin cycle
7. dream girl
8. merlot and grigio (feat. Father Philis)
9. breakthrough
10. a surrender
11. in a circle
12. aye noche (feat. Rahrah Gabor & Exaktly)
13. no for real, wtf?
14. blicky
15. ask the questions
16. bella noches pt1
17. a tiny thing that’s mine
18. choice
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David Franklin Courtright Announces New LP, Shares "Boy" Single + Video I LP Release Shows in LA (8/2), NYC (8/7) + ATL (8/14) l LP Out 8/8 via TODO
Shares "Boy" Single + Video Out Now via Magnet
Read Earmilk and Americana Highways Features
Record Release Shows in LA (8/2, St. Athanasius Chapel) and NYC (8/7, Union Pool), Atlanta (8/14, Commune)
Brutal Tenderness LP Out 8/8 via TODO
Photo by David-Simon DayanWATCH/LISTEN & SHARE: David Franklin Courtright - "Boy"Stream | YouTube
WATCH/LISTEN & SHARE: David Franklin Courtright - "feels" ft. Julianna Barwick
Stream | YouTube
David Franklin Courtright today has announced his debut LP Brutal Tenderness, out August 8th via TODO Records. To coincide with the announcement, he has also shared his serene, beautifully stripped-back single "Boy."
"I wrote 'Boy' a few months after I moved to Los Angeles in early 2019. I met this boy that I had really intense feelings for and on our second date I was so nervous (and made the mistake of getting stoned) that I was so in my head I could barely participate in the date," Courtright explains. "I even had to go to his bathroom and like give myself a pep talk in the mirror. This song came out of that feeling of panic, being so in your own head that you don’t know who you are around someone or think maybe the person that you truly are won’t be lovable or attractive. It’s an ode to being a shy guy and all the feels that come with falling in love."
Brutal Tenderness, taken from a line in Frank O’Hara’s poem “River,” is the debut album of David Franklin Courtright. It is a work about radical tenderness and joy in the face of sadness, loss, and fear. Written and recorded over a span of eight years and three continents, the work seeks to explore the seemingly opposing forces (or bipolarity) of brutality and tenderness, to guide the listener through a deep-hearted journey of love and grief, of fractures and healing. It is a kaleidoscope of emotional and kinetic soundscapes.
Brutal Tenderness is a process of reckoning with a life as a queer boy who couldn’t pass and was never allowed to hide, of setting free that gleefully expressive cartwheeling child who was put into hiding, locked beneath a veneer of false masculinity, and entombed in a character to avoid persecution. It is a triumphant and harrowing reclamation.
The new record is a love poem to that child-self, and to the person today who can exist in these realms of sadness without the compulsion to run from them or bury or hide them from the world, and in that patient practice, can touch and inhabit and know those sadnesses while being able to also know and touch and inhabit joy, and love, and inner peace.
"Boy" by David Franklin Courtright is out today via TODO.
Release Shows:
8/2 - Los Angeles, CA - St. Athanasius Chapel
8/8 - New York, NY - Union Pool
8/14 - Atlanta, GA - Commune
DAVID FRANKLIN COURTRIGHT LINKS
Soundcloud | Instagram | YouTube
Frankie and the Witch Fingers share new single with original video game
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
SHARE NEW SINGLE “GUTTER PRIESTESS”
ALONGSIDE FULLY-PLAYABLE ORIGINAL VIDEO GAME
ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS
IN LONDON, NEW YORK CITY & LOS ANGELES
HAVE ALL SOLD OUT
CURRENTLY ON EUROPEAN LEG OF HEADLINE WORLD TOUR
NEW ALBUM TRASH CLASSIC DUE JUNE 6, 2025
VIA THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY / GREENWAY RECORDS
Photo Credit: James Duran
"The quartet has gradually become a heavy hitter
in the underground rock, punk, and psychedelic circles…"
- SPIN Magazine
"Frankie will make any fan of punk-influenced psych-rock’s heart skip a beat."
- CREEM Magazine
"Frankie and the Witch Fingers walk the line between chameleonic and commanding,
wielding endless inventiveness as a weapon to outsmart artificial intelligence."
- Exclaim!
Today, influential Los Angeles psychedelic punk rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared “Gutter Priestess,” the last single before the release of their new album Trash Classic (June 6, 2025 // The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records). In lieu of a music video, the band partnered with FolksPat Media to release a fully-playable “Gutter Priestess” video game – try it HERE. The creators of the free-to-play browser game have also contributed to titles like Alien: Rogue Incursion, Creed: Rise to Glory VR, Dead by Daylight, Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and more.
LISTEN TO “GUTTER PRIESTESS”
PLAY THE VIDEO GAME
PRE-ORDER TRASH CLASSIC
Screenshot from “Gutter Priestess” video game
“‘Gutter Priestess’ felt filthy from the get,” the band’s Dylan Sizemore says. “I was hooked up to Burroughs and his junk-sick energy, romanticizing my own bad decisions and dark thoughts, cutting up lyrics, letting meaning rearrange itself. The whole thing turned into a brown, sharded nightmare but with a seductive dancey pulse.
When we went to record it, everyone leaned into the crust. The parts feel barbed and sharp - like they crawled out of a drainpipe with glass in their gums. Hopefully the lighter synth lines in the chorus add a sugary sweetness to all the rot and decay.”
The white-hot demand to see the band live knows no bounds, and has since carried over to the intimate album release shows they announced in London, New York City, and Los Angeles – all three have sold out. See below for more information on these shows, as well as their other headline world tour dates.
“Gutter Priestess” single artwork [Download hi-res]
Hooks so infectious they rot on impact. Trash Classic marks a feral mutation for Frankie and the Witch Fingers—a record that snarls with proto-punk venom, angular melodies, and electronic textures that cough and sputter like dying neon lights under a poisoned sky.
This record pushes the Witch Fingers’ sound to a razor's edge. Wiry and twitching, it bends into synth-punk and fractured new wave, with fragments of industrial grime caked under its nails. Guitars detonate and slice like cinder blocks through glass, while gnashing basslines slither through the sludge, alive and seething. Buzzy synths take the forefront, driving relentless rhythms that crack and pop, drenched in a chemically saturated sheen—part bug-eyed speed-freak pogo, part dance-floor delirium. The vocals cut through like static-laced transmissions—balancing both smirk and sneer—layering playful unease over themes of escapism, decay, and overindulgence.
The songs were born in the grime of Vernon, Los Angeles—a wasteland littered with gutted RVs and rusting machinery, where the air tastes like asphalt and dog food. But the real alchemy happened in Oakland, at Tiny Telephone Studio, where producer Maryam Qudus (La Luz, Spacemoth) helped transmute the tracks into their final forms. Unhinged tones, unconventional recording experiments, and wild sonic detours transformed the songs into something alive and unpredictable.
Every day of recording began with cartoons blaring at full volume—a Looney Tunes ritual that turned the madness of the recording process into something child-like. Late at night, sugar-fueled candy binges kept the energy spiking, pushing the sessions into a fever dream of jittery, spastic playfulness.
The result is a raw, twisted monument to rot and excess—toxic glamour and nihilistic salvation. Trash Classic isn’t just a record; it’s an auditory dumpster bible—a gutter gospel for those ready to dive into its filth.
About Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Los Angeles psych-punk shapeshifters Frankie and the Witch Fingers have spent the last decade mutating their sound into bold, electrifying new forms. Their latest release, Trash Classic (via Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society), plunges into a sewer-slick fusion of proto-punk venom, fractured new wave, and industrial grime. Brimming with wiry synths, angular melodies, and grooves that squirm and bite, it’s all delivered with a sly, playful wink. Fueled by relentless global touring and a fierce DIY ethos, the band has shared stages with OFF!, Ty Segall, Oh Sees, Cheap Trick, and ZZ Top, cementing their place as one of the most unforgettable live acts around. Frankie and the Witch Fingers continue to morph, dragging listeners into whatever warped direction their experimental journey takes next.
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
TRASH CLASSIC
Release date: June 6, 2025
(The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records)
Track list:
1. Channel Rot
2. T.V. Baby
3. Dead Silence
4. Fucksake
5. Economy
6. Eggs Laid Brain
7. Out of the Flesh
8. Total Reset
9. Conducting Experiments
10. Gutter Priestess
11. Trash Classic
FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
ON TOUR 2025
5/21 - Biarritz, FR - Atabal
5/22 - Rouen, FR - Le 106
5/23 - London, UK - Wide Awake Festival
5/25 - Berlin, DE - Desertfest
5/27 - Cherbourg, FR - Le Circuit
5/28 - Brighton, UK - Daltons
5/30 - London, UK - Shacklewell Arms ^
5/31 - Bristol, UK - Strange Brew
6/01 - Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
6/05 - Berlin - New York, NY ^
6/07 - Permanent Records Roadhouse - Los Angeles, CA ^
7/15 – Felton Music Hall – Felton, CA °
7/16 – The Chapel – San Francisco, CA °
7/19 – The Den – Portland, OR °
7/20 – The Pearl – Vancouver, BC °
7/23 – Shrine Social Club – Boise, ID °
7/24 – Urban Lounge – Salt Lake City, UT °
7/25 – Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO °
7/26 – Underground Music Showcase – Denver, CO
7/27 – Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM °
7/29 – Hotel Congress – Tucson, AZ °
7/30 – Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ °
7/31 – Swan Diver – Las Vegas, NV °
8/01 – Belly Up – Solana Beach, CA °
8/02 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA °
8/31 – Bumbershoot Music Festival – Seattle, WA
9/19 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY *
9/20 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA *
9/21 – Songbyrd – Washington, DC *
9/23 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC *
9/24 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA *
9/26 – Chelsea’s Live – Baton Rouge, LA *
9/27 – Dan Electros – Houston, TX *
9/28 – To Be Announced – Austin, TX
9/29 – Tulips – Fort Worth, TX *
10/1 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL *
10/2 – Turf Club – Minneapolis, MN *
10/3 – X-Ray Arcade – Cudahy, WI *
10/4 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH *
10/5 – Third Man Records – Detroit, MI *
10/7 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON *
10/8 – Foufounes Électriques – Montréal, QC *
10/9 – Oxbow Brewing – Portland, ME *
10/10 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA *
10/11 – Lark Hall – Albany, NY *
^ - intimate album release show
° with Iguana Death Cult
* with Population II
CONNECT WITH FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | BANDCAMP
May 20, 2025
Stereolab shares final single ahead of album release this Friday
STEREOLAB SHARES NEW SINGLE AND VISUALIZER “TRANSMUTED MATTER”
FIRST ALBUM IN 15 YEARS INSTANT HOLOGRAMS ON METAL FILM OUT THIS FRIDAY
2025 WORLD TOUR LAUNCHING MAY 24TH
Photo credit Joe Dilworth
“Transmuted Matter”
LISTEN: https://stereolab.ffm.to/transmuted
WATCH: https://youtu.be/6mHKS8psgm8
Instant Holograms On Metal Film
PRE-SAVE/ORDER: https://stereolab.ffm.to/instant-holograms
TICKETS:
https://warp.net/stereolab-2025
(May 20, 2025) - Today, Stereolab share “Transmuted Matter”, the final single ahead of the release of the group’s first album in 15 years - Instant Holograms On Metal Film, this Friday. The album was announced 15 years to the day after Stereolab announced they were going on hiatus back in 2010.
Speaking on the album’s creation, Tim Gane says: “The idea to record a new LP came into focus around spring/summer 2023 and we started recording in January 2024. There were no rehearsals, as usual. We started again from scratch. “Always a beginner” is my attitude to things, just feeling my way through. Music is just an exciting adventure and I don’t have any trepidation about doing it or presenting it to others. What comes out comes out.” Laetitia Sadier adds: “I see everything as a continuum with no determined sections, that bears no relation to what has come before or will come after. In the case of Stereolab, Tim is primary composer. On this LP, I did, however, have much more musical input than before. And indeed I had had some practice through developing my own music over the past years, which surely nourished the sound and general configuration.”
To celebrate the album’s release, Stereolab will be holding listening events at select retailers around the world on release day, with a limited number of value-add exclusives available at each, comprised of:
1 - A Button/Pin/Badge featuring art based on the cover of Instant Holograms On Metal Film
2 - A two-sided print with Instant Holograms On Metal Film / Catalog titles on the back.
3 - A Stereolab logo sticker.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film is co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks, and Warp Records. Featuring thirteen songs written by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane; performed by Laetitia, Tim, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, who comprise the current touring line-up of the band and guest contributions by Cooper Crain and Rob Frye (Bitchin Bajas), Ben LaMar Gay (International Anthem), Ric Elsworth, Holger Zapf (Cavern Of Anti-Matter), Marie Merlet and Molly Hansen Read.
On working with Cooper Crain, Tim comments: “I’m a big fan of Bitchin’ Bajas and we had toured with then in the US in 2019 so got to know them well. When we decided to make a new record, he was the only person I had in mind and luckily he could do it. Just like (previous collaborators) John McEntire and Jim O’Rourke, he is an inventive musician as well as a great engineer/producer, and that’s what we like.”
In terms of the subject matter, lyric writer Laetitia summarises: “As the world falls apart, whether we are aware of it or not, we are already planting the seeds of what will come next. I think it is important to keep in sight what powerful creators we are, and how there is power available to us at this stage to choose what outcome we would like to see for this yet undefined future. The words seek to expose that this is what we do: we create. Our imagination is here to serve that purpose, and is the power we have to choose whatever it is we want to see come about. Some privileged people do not like the idea of sharing this power with the people at large.”
“Transmuted Matter” single artwork
Global Listening Events
Global Listening Event Value Adds
Ahead of the album’s official announcement, some fans of the band received a package stamped “unsolicited Stereolab material”. Inside was a 7” single containing “Aerial Troubles” on one side, an instrumental version on the flip, with a cryptic wordsearch insert. At the same time, posters with the band’s name appeared in a number of major cities with the same word grid printed on. Several attempts had been made to solve the wordsearch, with much online speculation about how the words go together, and whether the single did indeed contain new music, or something uncovered from the band’s archives.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film wordsearch
And in lieu of a description of the music, the band are inviting fans, detractors, and journalists alike to provide their own adjectives on a fill-in-the-blanks sheet.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film Fill-in-the-Blank Puzzle
Instant Holograms On Metal Film Wordsearch
Alongside “Melodie Is A Wound”, the group released a cryptic crossword puzzle compiled by Alan Connor, who works as the crossword editor for The Guardian and sets the cryptic crossword for The Observer, has been question editor for TV shows House Of Games and Only Connect, and is the author of books including 188 Words For Rain. Alan is also a fan of Stereolab:
“Writing this puzzle I felt an unfamiliar sensation, at first in my knees. A recovered memory of Stereolab in a venue which sent the groop's noise bursts - bass? sub-bass? whatever might be under that? - directly inside each of us in the crowd, reshaping us in wonderful ways. No one else has done that, but then no one else has done the alchemic things Stereolab has done. Happily for me, this is a band fond of titles which read just like fragments of cryptic clues. So long, that is, as your brain has been suitably warped by puzzles. Happily, mine has been warped this way - as well as my body by Stereolab. Thank you for the warping, thank you Warp and thank you Stereolab. By the way, I sincerely believe that anyone in public life would do public life better if they listened to Emperor Tomato Ketchup's “Tomorrow Is Already Here” a few times. What was then the future has borne out that one plenty.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film Product Photos
The album art was first slowly revealed on the Lab Report sign-up page of the band’s website, with different layers gradually appearing. The 7” started landing with people on 2nd April 2025, sixteen years to the day after the group announced they were going on indefinite hiatus. In 2019, the band released expanded and remastered editions of seven of their studio albums, coinciding with Stereolab playing live for the first time in nine years. They have continued to tour sporadically since then, and have augmented their catalogue further with the release of the compilations Electrically Possessed [Switched On Vol 4] in 2021, and Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Vol 5] in 2022.
Pre-save Instant Holograms On Metal Film, listen and watch “Transmuted Matter” above, check out the tour dates, and find full album details below.
Instant Holograms On Metal Film album art
Stereolab
Instant Holograms On Metal Film
Duophonic UHF Disks / Warp Records
May 23, 2025
1. Mystical Plosives
2. Aerial Troubles
3. Melodie Is A Wound
4. Immortal Hands
5. Vermona F Transistor
6. Le Coeur Et La Force
7. Electrified Teenybop!
8. Transmuted Matter
9. Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
10. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt.1
11. Flashes From Everywhere
12. Colour Television
13. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt.2
Stereolab EU tour poster
Stereolab North American tour poster
Stereolab North American and LATAM tour poster
Stereolab UK tour poster
Upcoming Live Dates
Europe Dates
+ = Astrobal
* = TBC
5/24 - Dover, UK @ The Booking Hall * SOLD OUT
5/25 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique Les Nuits Botanique
5/26 - Köln, DE @ Gloria
5/28 - Hamburg, DE @ Grunspan
5/29 - Berlin, DE @ Huxley Neue Welt
5/30 - Frankfurt, DE @ Zoom
5/31 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
6/1 - Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
6/3 - Nantes, FR @ Stereolux +
6/4 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon + SOLD OUT
6/5 - Bordeaux, FR @ Barbey +
6/6 - Barcelona, ESP @ Primavera Sound + SOLD OUT
6/7 - Madrid, ESP @ Teatro Eslava + SOLD OUT
6/9 - Grenoble, FR @ La Belle Electrique +
6/10 - Ferrara, IT @ Ferrara Sotto le Stelle
6/11 - Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus +
6/12 - Munich, DE @ Hansa 36 +
6/14 - Zagreb, CR @ Tvornica Kulture +
6/15 - Budapest, HU @ A38 Ship +
6/16 - Vienna, AU @ WUK +
6/17 - Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory +
6/19 - Schorndorf, DE - Manufaktur +
6/20 - Luxembourg, LU @ Den Atelier +
7/11 - Cagliari, SD, IT @ Siren Festival
North American Dates
+ = Memorials
@ = Dorothea Paas & Bitchin’ Bajas / Natural Information Society
* = Bitchin’ Bajas
^ = TBC
9/13 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl +
9/14 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse +
9/16 - Miami, FL @ Miami Beach Bandshell +
9/18 - New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre +
9/19 - Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre +
9/20 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel +
9/21 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom SOLD OUT +
9/23 - Washington, D.C. @ The Howard Theatre +
9/24 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer SOLD OUT +
9/26 - Boston, MA @ Royale SOLD OUT +
9/27 - Portland, ME @ State Theatre +
10/1 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel SOLD OUT +
10/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel @
10/3 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground SOLD OUT @
10/4 - Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Beanfield SOLD OUT @
10/6 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall SOLD OUT @
10/7 - Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall @
10/8 - Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron @
10/9 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT @
10/10 - Chicago, IL @ Metro SOLD OUT
10/11 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue @
10/12 - Iowa City, IA @ Hancher Auditorium at the Englert Theatre SOLD OUT @
10/14 - Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre @
10/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre *
10/18 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre SOLD OUT *
10/19 - Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom SOLD OUT*
10/21 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom SOLD OUT *
10/22 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom ^
10/24 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Rio Theatre SOLD OUT *
10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT *
10/26 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Bellwether SOLD OUT ^
10/28 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park *
10/30 - Marfa, TX @ The Capri SOLD OUT *
10/31 - Austin, TX @ TBC
11/1 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall *
11/2 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theatre *
Latin American Dates
11/4 - Buenos Aires, ARG @ Complejo Art Media
11/7 - Santiago, CHI @ Fauna Primaversa
11/9 - São Paulo, BRA @ Balaclava Festival
11/12 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks! SOLD OUT
11/13 - Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks!
UK Dates
12/5 - Brighton, UK @ Corn Exchange SOLD OUT
12/6 - London, UK @ Royal Festival Hall SOLD OUT
12/8 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3
12/9 - Leeds, UK @ Project House
12/11 - Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
12/12 - Wolverhampton, UK @ University of Wolverhampton at the Wulfrun Hall
12/13 - Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy SOLD OUT
12/14 - London, UK @ Brixton Electric
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Passion Pit Announce US 2025 Dates, NYC Residency Continues This Week | Look Out For New LP Later This Year
Passion Pit Announce US 2025 Dates
NYC Residency Continues This Week + More Shows Added
Look Out For New LP Later This Year
Passion Pit, the recording moniker of Michael Angelakos, today has announced 2025 U.S. tour dates, including shows at Allston, MA's Brighton Music Hall (6/17, 6/18, 6/24, 6/25), and Austin, TX's Austin City Limits (10/5 and 10/12). He's currently in the midst of a residency at NYC's Deluxx Fluxx–he'll be playing the two shows this week on May 20th and 21st. Two more shows have been added to the NYC residency on June 4th and 5th–tickets will be on sale tomorrow.. He will be debuting new songs from his upcoming record
Nine Times Your Torch Song
, reimagining old favorites, and delivering unexpected covers—all live, all heartfelt. Surrounded by analog synths, acoustic guitars, and vintage keyboards, Angelakos creates a spontaneous, ever-evolving set each night.Currently, Michael Angelakos is returning to how it all began: working and performing solo, experimenting with his sound and staying true to himself, while challenging conventions and outmolded structures. To that end, Passion Pit’s latest album, Nine Times Your Torch Song , will be released in iterative phases, and through unique recordings of live performances with additional collaborators, directly to fans. For more information, subscribe to Passion Pit’s Substack at: . Tickets and more information for all of Passion Pit forthcoming live dates can be found HERE.
Passion Pit - LIVE
5/20/25 - New York, NY - Deluxx Fluxx (Residency)
5/21/25 - New York, NY - Deluxx Fluxx (Residency)
6/4/25 - New York, NY - Deluxx Fluxx (Residency)
6/5/25 - New York, NY - Deluxx Fluxx (Residency)
6/17/25 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
6/18/25 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
6/24/25 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
6/25/25 - Allston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
9/19/25 - Redmond, OR - Cascade Equinox Festival
10/5/25 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Festival
10/12/25 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits FestivalPassion Pit LINKS
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Passion Pit began as the solo project of singer-songwriter-producer Michael Angelakos. Michael would create music alone in his dorm room in Boston, and then in an apartment in Cambridge where he lived with four other friends in 2006. The songs would be shown to his roommates and friends. Angelakos self-released the Chunk of Change EP, which included the songs “Batty Lashes” and “Tons of Guns,” and sold them for approximately seven dollars at his first show on March 20th, 2007 in the Cabaret at Emerson College. Unfortunately for the few purchasers of the EP, Angelakos had hastily applied a sticker that was meant to be used to label folders, not cds. The rectangular sticker damaged several customers’ computers, but none of them asked for money to repair the computer. He did, however, give them a new disc. He still owes his friend Colin Pratt approximately $250 for the printing and overnighting of the record sleeves.
Ian Hultquist and Adam Lavinsky, who at the time were Angelakos’ friends and frequent collaborators, spent months convincing him to make a band. Months later, he acquiesced, and the band went on to sell out every show they played in Boston. Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Jeff Apruzzese, And Nate Donmoyer joined Michael as Passion Pit for live performances from there on out. They were named Best New Band by the Boston Phoenix, released a 7” featuring “Sleepyhead” and “Better Things,” (which would replace “Batty Lashes and “Tons of Guns” on the official release of Chunk of Change), and toured with far too much heavy equipment. And little discipline, to boot.
Following the 7” release, in 2008, and after being picked up by Frenchkiss, Chunk of Change was officially released. This release, and its hit "Sleepyhead," solidified Passion Pit and launched the band into years of success and near-constant evolution. “Sleepyhead” has remained an iconic track, going 3x Platinum; a Passion Pit x Sofi Tukker remix of the song was released in March of 2025 to instant success.
In the spring and early summer of 2008, while working on demos for what would become Passion Pit’s debut album Manners with Grant Wheeler, Matthew Young, and Angelica Bess in Brooklyn--and a three-week Piano’s residency in Manhattan--Michael signed to Sony Music Entertainment for worldwide and Columbia Records for US releases respectively for three full-length records as Passion Pit. The licensing of the initially self-released Chunk of Change gave Michael extraordinary leverage and creative control while working with Sony.
Passion Pit released Manners on his birthday on May 19th in 2009. It sold over 30,000 copies in the first week. With a rapidly-increasing live following, leading to three Terminal Five shows, being a highlighted band on the Big Day Out Tour in Australia and New Zealand (where Manners went gold in its first week), and to what many have considered to be among one of the most iconic sunset-slot performances at Coachella in 2010, the band toured for what seemed like forever.
The follow-up, Gossamer, was released in 2012 and landed number four on the Billboard charts in the US, as well as Top 20 in Australia and Canada. Michael and his tumultuous in both his life leading up to and in making Gossamer were painfully portrayed in Pitchfork’s first Cover Story feature by Larry Fitzmaurice. While he was interviewed at a time when he was unwell and doesn’t reflect who he truly is, it was the first time Angelakos opened up about his life with the disorder. His advocacy would later earn him the Didi Hirsch Erasing the Stigma Award in 2013.
“Take A Walk”, Gossamer’s standout single well over 2x platinum and the album itself was officially reported as Gold in 2020. The music video for “Carried Away,” directed by Brewer was a highlight for Michael, as well as the video for “Cry Like a Ghost” directed by the Daniels (The Zebro theme song, a bonus on the EPs in physical form, was form a comedy troupe that included Daniel Schienert, who had Michael score a few projects of his while they both attended Emerson).
Passion Pit's third album, Kindred, was released in April 2015, landing in the Top 3 in the U.S., and top 30 in Australia and the UK.
Throughout his success and creative evolution as an artist, Angelakos faced the challenges of managing bipolar disorder (or Manic-Depression) amidst a chaotic and taxing industry that any artist, with or without a mental disability, typically finds just as difficult. He became, and continues to be, a leading mental health advocate and dedicates much of his energy to helping others. In 2017, he formed the Wishart Group, an organization created to provide support for musicians’ mental health. Also in 2017, Passion Pit released Tremendous Sea of Love for free via Twitter with the hashtag #weneedscience, to raise awareness for the Wishart Group– a viral campaign that trended worldwide.
Currently, Michael Angelakos is returning to how it all began: working and performing solo, experimenting with his sound and staying true to himself, while challenging conventions and outmolded structures. To that end, Passion Pit’s latest album, Nine Times Your Torch Song, will be released in iterative phases, and through unique recordings of live performances with additional collaborators, directly to fans. For more information, subscribe to Passion Pit’s Substack at: .
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PIONEER GARY WILSON RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM AND A FRESH WEALTH OF WEIRDNESS
Los Angeles, California: In the years since his emergence with 1977’s cult classic You Think You Really Know Me, iconic underground hero Gary Wilson’s outsider pop sensibility has spawned a devout following that includes the likes of Beck (who name-checks Wilson on “Where It’s At”) and hip hop collective Odd Future!
Now, with his latest album Come On, Mary due to street on June 13, the Endicott, NY, legend unveils the title track as both his new single and a positively trippy video, both telling the story of Mary herself.
And what a story it is! “Mary lived not far from Endicott,” explains Wilson. “In a place called outer space. In the summer Mary would take the bus and visit me. I still dream of Mary”.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ZA6jMIGqKrE
SINGLE: https://orcd.co/garywilson_comeonmarysingle
Come On, Mary itself packs 11 all original new songs, each one furthering Wilson's trademark blurring of the line between the bizarre and the heartfelt, and offering some of his more strangely catchy and emotional songs to date!
And Mary herself is a tangible presence throughout the song cycle, from “Alone in Endicott” to “Mary, Won’t You Dance For Me,” and on to the magnificent finale “I Woke Up Into A Thousand Dreams.”
Track list
1. Lisa Wants To Talk To You
2. Feel The Breeze
3. Alone In Endicott
4. Come On Mary
5. As I Walk In The Night
6. Mary, Won't You Dance For Me
7. Run Through The Woods
8. Study For Three
9. Your Dream Is Not My Scene
10. Sandy
11. I Woke Up Into A Thousand Dreams
CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=gary+wilson+come+on
DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/garywilson_comeonmaryalbum
Charlotte de Witte unveils New Single feat. XSALT - Out May 29th
Charlotte de Witte’s unrelenting single ‘No Division’ featuring XSALT drops digitally on May 29th while she plays six NYC shows in four days – with different DJ sets across venues from small and intimate to big and uncompromising. The vinyl version (including the Original Mix and Instrumental Mix as a B-side) gets an early release and will be on sale at the shows.
Why the NYC connection? Says de Witte: ‘Launching this single while I’m in New York feels symbolic. There’s something about the city, its chaos, its diversity, its constant movement, that perfectly mirrors the spirit of ‘No Division’. It’s a place where differences collide and coexist.’
‘No Division’ is the second single from Charlotte’s eponymous long-awaited debut album (out November 7th). ‘This track is another chapter of my upcoming album, and like the others, it reflects a part of who I am. ‘No Division’ is both a call and a celebration. It’s a reminder of what’s possible when we lose ourselves in the music and come together on the same frequency. It reminds us that we are one.’
‘No Division’: Brimming with an overwhelming, penetrating techno power, this track demands our full attention, with spacey hoover sounds, piercingly hooky main theme, a classic organ sound and hissy robotic spoken vocal lyrics like ‘…cut the wire/break the system/fight the fire/no division…’ It’s a manifesto you can dance to. Charlotte de Witte has an agenda as well as making a killer track; ‘‘No Division’ comes from a place of unity and the understanding that when we come together through music, the barriers between us start to dissolve. It’s about erasing the invisible lines that separate us, whether cultural, emotional, or personal.’
XSALT was previously sampled by de Witte on her tracks ‘Overdrive’, ‘High Street’, ‘Roar’ and ‘How You Move’. Here he provides exclusive vocals for her for the first time.
Charlotte de Witte feat. XSALT - ‘No Division’ drops May 29th on KNTXT. Get it here: https://go.kntxt.be/NoDivision
Charlotte de Witte Tour Dates:
https://charlottedewittemusic.com/tour
Wed 21.5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records (sold out)
Thu 22.5 - Brooklyn, NY @ Superior Ingredients (sold out)
Fri 23.5 - New York @ SECRET LOCATION tba
Fri 23.5 - Brooklyn, NY @ 99 Scott (sold out)
Sat 24.5 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Ruins at Knockdown Center (sold out)
Sat 24.5 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Great Hall at Avant Gardner (low tickets)
Sun 25.5 - Detroit, MI @ Movement Festival (headline)
Fri 6.6 - Stockholm, SE @ Department Festival
Sun 8.6 - Amsterdam, NL @ 909 Festival
Sat 5.7 - Munich, GER @ Greenfields
Sun 6.7 - Turin, IT @ Kappa Futur Festival
Fri 11.7 - Lodz, PL @ Audioriver Festival
Sat 12.7 - Paris, FR @ Peacock Society
Sun 13.7 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Awakenings
Sat 19.7 - Boom, BE @ Tomorrowland
Sun 20.7 - Dour, BE @ Dour Festival
Sat 26.7 - London, UK @ Junction 2
Thu 7.8 - Viana Do Castelo, PT @ Neopop
Fri 8.8 - Valencia, EP @ Medusa Festival
Sat 9.8 - Saalburg, DE @ SonneMondSterne
Sun 10.8 - Cannes, FR @ Plages Électroniques
Fri 22.8 - Le Tourquet-Paris-Plage, FR @ Tourquet Music Beach Festival
Sat 30.8 - Copenhagen, DN @ Karrusel Festival
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TURNSTILE shares new single "LOOK OUT FOR ME"
TURNSTILE SHARE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SONG “LOOK OUT FOR ME”
TURNSTILE: NEVER ENOUGH VISUAL ALBUM
SET TO DEBUT AT TRIBECA FESTIVAL 2025
NEW ALBUM NEVER ENOUGH ARRIVES JUNE 6TH
Turnstile by Alexis Gross
"LOOK OUT FOR ME"
LISTEN: https://turnstile.lnk.to/lofm
NEVER ENOUGH
PRE-SAVE/ORDER: https://turnstile.lnk.to/NEVER-ENOUGH
(May 7, 2025) – TURNSTILE have shared “LOOK OUT FOR ME,” a new song from their eagerly awaited album NEVER ENOUGH, which is set to arrive on June 6th. Available today across all streaming platforms, “LOOK OUT FOR ME” arrives with a music video directed by the band’s own Brendan Yates and Pat McCrory - watch it HERE.
The “LOOK OUT FOR ME” music video is included in TURNSTILE: NEVER ENOUGH, a 14-song visual album which serves as a stirring counterpart to the forthcoming LP. Announced earlier this month, the film is directed by Yates and McCrory, and is set to make its world premiere as an official selection at New York’s Tribeca Festival 2025 on June 5th. An official trailer for TURNSTILE: NEVER ENOUGH, along with dates and ticketing information for upcoming screenings at Tribeca Festival 2025 can be found HERE.
Recorded between Los Angeles and their homes in Baltimore, NEVER ENOUGH is produced by TURNSTILE’s Brendan Yates. The expansive collection is a restless and exhilarating evolution of the band’s genre-defying sound. A transformative journey, both fearless and alive, by one of the most forward-thinking and influential bands of their generation. The highly anticipated collection is led by the album’s title track and double single “SEEIN’ STARS” / “BIRDS”, and marks the band’s first new album since 2021’s GLOW ON, which earned the band four GRAMMY nominations. NEVER ENOUGH is available for pre-order / pre-save, with several limited edition vinyl color variants available in the band’s store.
TURNSTILE recently wrapped a pair of sold-out west coast dates at Los Angeles’ Ukrainian Cultural Center and Oxnard’s Elks Lodge. The two night stand followed TURNSTILE’s historic hometown show at Baltimore’s Wyman Park Dell, which drew over 10,000 attendees and raised upwards of $50,000.00 to benefit the local non-profit organization Healthcare for the Homeless. The band’s previously announced New York record release show is set to happen on June 5th at Under The K Bridge in Brooklyn, NY, and will see them joined by special guests Teezo Touchdown, Boy Harsher, and Big Boy. The band will then head overseas for a run of European and UK dates this summer, which include headline performances and festival appearances at: Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain (6/7), Outbreak Fest in London, United Kingdom (6/13), Primavera Sound in Porto, Portugal (6/14), Hellfest in Clisson, France (6/21), Jera On Air in Ysselsteyn, Netherlands (6/28), Glastonbury in Somerset, United Kingdom (6/29). Additionally, TURNSTILE have a handful of North American festival dates planned for the summer and fall including: Ottawa Blues festival in Ottawa, Canada (7/12), Aftershock in Sacramento, California (10/3), and III Points in Miami, FL (10/17-10/18) [itinerary below]. For tickets and more information, visit www.turnstilehardcore.com.
TURNSTILE is Brendan Yates (Voice / Synth / Keys ), Franz Lyons (Bass), Pat McCrory (Guitar), Daniel Fang (Drums), and Meg Mills (Guitar). Since forming in 2010, TURNSTILE have never stopped moving forward.
Upcoming Live Dates
* Headline EU/UK dates
6/5 - Brooklyn, New York @ Under The K Bridge
6/7 - Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound 2025
6/11 - Athens, Greece @ Teatro Petras*
6/13 - London, United Kingdom @ Outbreak Fest London 2025
6/14 - Porto, Portugal @ Primavera Sound Porto 2025
6/18 - Vienna, Austria @ Gasometer*
6/19 - Prague, Czech Republic @ Velky Sal Lucerna*
6/21 - Clisson, France @ Hellfest 2025
6/23 - Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg @ Rockhal*
6/25 - Warsaw, Poland @ Letnia Scena Progresji*
6/27 - Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique*
6/28 - Ysselsteyn, Netherlands @ Jera On Air 2025
6/29 - Somerset, United Kingdom @ Glastonbury Festival 2025
7/12 - Ottawa, Canada @ Ottawa Blues Festival 2025
10/03 - Sacramento, California @ Aftershock 2025
10/17 - 10/18 - Miami, Florida @ III Points 2025
NEVER ENOUGH album artwork
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Nation of Language Signs To Sub Pop! Watch the “Inept Apollo” Official Video And 2025 Headlining International Tour Dates
Sub Pop will be the new home for Nation of Language – the Brooklyn, NY-based trio composed of Ian Richard Devaney (lead vocals, guitar), Aidan Noell (synthesizer), and Alex MacKay (bass guitar) – to release their new music worldwide in 2025 and beyond. Today, we’re celebrating the announcement by sharing the dioramic official video for the ebullient new single “Inept Apollo,” directed by John MacKay. The song is available today on all DSPs worldwide from Sub Pop.
Devaney offers this on the “Inept Apollo” song and video:
“Work is a respite from pain. Whether it’s a paying job or just the thing you pour yourself into, having a direction to move in, finding a flow state, it can move focus away from the heaviness of the heart. So after life’s losses, in moments of despair, we resolve time and time again to dive headfirst into the work as best we can. But the artistic process also tends to be when imposter syndrome rears its ugly head - when I find my inner monologue spiraling: ‘this is the best coping mechanism I have at my disposal and I’m not even qualified to be doing it.’
“Accompanying the song is a killer music video by our friend and brother John MacKay: it is an homage to creative pursuits, and in some ways came to represent the feeling of living in a city as an artist. The video feels like walking through an old warehouse in Brooklyn, full of practice spaces and studios, each room occupied by artists striving to express and understand themselves and their place in the world. No matter how bizarre the act may seem or how much self-doubt or pain runs through the mind of the creator, the beautiful thing is the striving and continuing on, rather than the final product or any notion of “success.” The power of creation belongs to all of us; requires the approval of none.”
Nation of Language is also announcing international headlining tour dates in North America, the EU, and the UK for the fall of 2025.
The North American shows begin Thursday, August 21st in Hamden, CT at Space Ballroom and run through Thursday, October 30th in Washington, DC at 9:30 Club. Highlights for this leg include a hometown, three-night stand September 18th-20th at Brooklyn’s Warsaw.
Their UK and EU trek starts Friday, November 7th in Dublin, IE at Opium and ends Friday, November 28th in Lisbon, PT at LAV. Nation of Language will headline some of their largest UK/EU venues to date on this run, including The Roundhouse in London on Wednesday, November 8th, and Columbiahalle in Berlin Friday, November 21st.
Support for the North American and UK/EU shows will come from Safe Mind (Aug. 21st-23rd), Deathwish Inc.’s Greet Death (Sep. 21st-Oct. 5th), Sub Pop labelmates Deeper (Oct.17th-30th), and Partisan Records act Westerman (Oct. 8th-13th + Nov. 8th-22nd).
North American fan presales (Pass: APOLLO) are live now, with tickets on sale to the general public on Friday, May 16th at 10 am (local). Meanwhile, UK/EU presale tickets (Pass: APOLLO) are also live now, with tickets on sale to the general public on Friday, May 16th at 10 am (BST) / 11 am (CEST).
This weekend, Nation of Language will perform at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, CA, on Saturday, May 17th, and at Kilby Block Party on Sunday, May 18th.
Preceding the late summer/fall headline run, Nation of Language will also support Death Cab For Cutie on its Plans: 20th Anniversary Tour in Seattle at the Climate Pledge Arena (Thu. Jul. 31st + Sat. Aug. 2nd) and two sold-out shows in Chicago at Chicago Theatre (Tue. Aug. 5th + Wed. Aug. 5th). Please find a complete list of dates below.
Nation of Language has attracted a rapidly growing and devout international audience via their danceable and impassioned take on new wave, post-punk, and shoegaze. They’ve released three albums, including Introduction, Presence (2020), A Way Forward (2021), and Strange Disciple (2023). They’ve seen coverage from Billboard, The New York Times, Document Journal, Brooklyn Vegan, MOJO, NME, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and have performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Nation of Language’s most recent release, Strange Disciple and its singles appeared on multiple “Best of 2023” lists, earning “Album of the Year” from UK retailer Rough Trade and coming in at #2 on KEXP’s annual listeners’ list. Recently, “Weak In Your Light” was featured in the series finale of the Netflix hit You.
Nation of Language has become a favorite on the international festival circuit, winning over crowds at festivals like Austin City Limits Festival, Desert Daze, Pitchfork Festival, Primavera Sound, Pukkelpop, Corona Capital, Outside Lands, and Bonnaroo, among many others.
Spring & Summer 2025 Festival + Support Shows
Sat. May 17 - Los Angeles, CA - Cruel World Fest
Sun. May 18 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Block Party
Thu. Jul. 31 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena **
Sat. Aug. 02 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena **
Tue. Aug. 05 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater ** [Sold Out]
Wed. Aug. 06 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater ** [Sold Out]
August - October 2025
North American Headline Shows
Thu. Aug. 21 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom !
Fri. Aug. 22 - Woodstock, NY - Bearsville Theater !
Sat. Aug. 23 - Portland, ME - State Theatre !
Thu. Sep. 18 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
Fri. Sep. 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
Sat. Sep. 20 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw
Sun. Sep. 21 - Boston, MA - Royale #
Tue. Sep. 23 - Detroit, MI - The Majestic #
Wed. Sep. 24 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall #
Fri. Sep. 26 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue #
Sat. Sep. 27 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Ballroom #
Mon. Sep. 29 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown #
Tue. Sep. 30 - Kansas City, MO - The Truman #
Thu. Oct. 02 - Denver, CO - The Gothic Theatre #
Sat. Oct. 04 - Boise, ID - Knitting Factory #
Sun. Oct. 05 - Missoula, MT - Top Hat #
Wed. Oct. 08 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl ^
Sun. Oct. 11 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall ^
Mon. Oct. 13 - San Francisco. CA - The Fillmore ^
Fri. Oct. 17 - San Diego, CA - Music Box *
Tue. Oct. 21 - Austin, TX - Mohawk *
Wed. Oct. 22 - Dallas, TX - The Studio at The Bomb Factory *
Thu. Oct. 24 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall *
Sat. Oct. 25 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse *
Sun. Oct. 26 - Chapel Hill, NC - Cat’s Cradle *
Mon. Oct. 27 - Richmond, VA - The Broadberry *
Wed. Oct. 29 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
Thu. Oct. 30 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
November 2025
UK/EU Headlining Shows
Fri. Nov. 07 - Dublin, IE - Opium
Sat. Nov. 08 - Manchester, UK - O2 Ritz Manchester ^
Sun. Nov. 09 - Glasgow, UK - St. Luke’s ^
Tue. Nov. 11 - Cardiff, UK - Tramshed ^
Wed. Nov. 12 - London, UK - The Roundhouse ^
Fri. Nov. 14 - Paris, FR - Elysee Montmartre ^
Sat. Nov. 15 - Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg ^
Sun. Nov. 16 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje ^
Tue. Nov. 18 - Cologne, DE - Gloria ^
Wed. Nov. 19 - Hamburg, DE - Uebel & Gefährlich ^
Fri. Nov. 21 - Berlin, DE - Columbiahalle ^
Sat. Nov. 22 - Munich, DE - Technikum ^
Sun. Nov. 23 - Milan, IT - Magazzini Generali
Wed. Nov. 26 - Barcelona, ES - Razzmatazz
Thu. Nov. 27 - Madrid, ES - La Riviera
Fri. Nov. 28 - Lisbon, PT - LAV
** w/ Death Cab For Cutie
! w/ Safe Mind
# w/ Greet Death
* w/ Deeper
^ w/ Westermann
The Untold Story Of OC Punk in New Book ft. Stories About The Legendary Bands Behind The ‘90s Explosion Of The Scene
TEARING DOWN THE ORANGE CURTAIN:
How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World
OUT TODAY VIA DA CAPO - MORE HERE
New Book By Nate Jackson & Daniel Kohn
Tells The Untold Story Of OC Punk
ft. Stories About The Legendary Bands Behind The ‘90s Explosion Of The Scene inc. Social Distortion, The Offspring, No Doubt, Sublime,
The Adolescents & More
Book Events Include May 28th at The Grammy Museum in LA with Adrian Young (No Doubt), Joe Escalante (The Vandals) & Jim Guerinot
ROLLING STONE (book excerpt): “Social Distortion’s Mike Ness Looks Back on Orange County Punk: ‘The Reaction Wasn’t Friendly’”
LOS ANGELES TIMES (book excerpt): “OC’s original punks describe the birth of the world-famous ‘Orange County sound’”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: “A spirited portrait of an influential subculture.”
ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK: "How Social Distortion Inspired a Punk Rock Explosion"
Out today, new book TEARING DOWN THE ORANGE CURTAIN: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World (Da Capo) from journalists Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn explores the trajectory of punk and ska from their humble beginnings to their peak popularity years, where their cultural impact could be felt in music around the world. The 400-page book can be purchased HERE.
Jackson and Kohn interviewed many of the movement’s most influential players and will be heading out on the road for a book tour in conjunction with release. The tour will include Q&As with the artists featured in the book including a May 28th stop at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum for an event with No Doubt’s Adrian Young, The Vandals’ Joe Escalante, legendary manager Jim Guerinot, and moderator Kat Corbett. A talk with Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses, Loaded, Velvet Revolver) has also just been confirmed for a Seattle event. See McKagan’s recent book testimonial here:
See all upcoming book events below and look for more this summer, including stops at Warped Tour and more.
BOOK EVENTS
5/20 Fullerton, CA - Fullerton Museum Center
w/Noodles of the Offspring, Georgette Collard and Jim Washburn
5/21 Long Beach, CA - Fingerprints Records
w/Jim Ruland
5/25 Las Vegas, NV - Punk Rock Museum
w/Jonny 2 Bags (Social Distortion, Cadillac Tramps)
5/28 Los Angeles, CA - Grammy Museum
w/Adrian Young (No Doubt), Joe Escalante (The Vandals), Jim Guerinot (former manager of Social Distortion, No Doubt, the Offspring, Gwen Stefani and many more) and moderator Kat Corbett
5/30 Reno, NV - Shea’s Tavern
w/Bud Gaugh of Sublime
8/21 Seattle, WA - Easy Street Records
w/ Duff McKagan
When it comes to punk communities across the world, the Orange County punk scene stands out as an undeniable trendsetter that helped define the sound and style of the rapidly evolving genre. From hard luck storytellers Social Distortion and multi-platinum sellers like The Offspring to cult heroes like The Adolescents and T.S.O.L., there’s so much insight to gain from the story of this widely-popular-though-often-misunderstood music scene.
TEARING DOWN THE ORANGE CURTAIN delves deep into the personal and professional lives of bands like Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Offspring, and their ska counterparts No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and more, and gives readers a deeper look into the very human stories of these musicians, many of whom struggled with acceptance, addiction, and brutal teenage years in suburbia.
Through many exclusive and first-hand interviews with the principal personalities, TEARING DOWN THE ORANGE CURTAIN brings the 20-year period of OC punk and third-wave of ska (1978-2000) to life, focusing specifically on the historical and musical roots of this creative explosion. Thought-provoking, meticulously researched, and refreshingly candid, this book presents a compelling narrative of how a suburban wasteland turned into a hub for rock-n roll culture, just over 30 miles away from the bright lights of L.A.
TEARING DOWN THE ORANGE CURTAIN
May 20, 2025 • Hardcover • Da Capo • 400 pages
ISBN: 9780306832963 • $30 US • Nonfiction / Music / Genres & Styles / Punk
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