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May 16, 2025
Wolf Alice Announce North American Tour
WOLF ALICE ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOURNEW ALBUM THE CLEARING OUT AUGUST 29 – PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE
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‘BLOOM BABY BLOOM’ OUT NOW
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THE CLEARING (ALBUM)
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
Sep 10 - Atlanta, GA - Buckhead
Sep 12 - Washington, DC - 930 Club
Sep 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
Sep 19 - Brooklyn, NY - Paramount
Sep 20 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
Sep 22 - Montreal, QB - Beanfield Theatre
Sep 23 - Toronto, ON - History
Sep 25 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall
Sep 26 - Chicago, IL - The Vic
Sep 27 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
Sep 30 - Austin, TX - Emo's
Oct 1 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
Oct 3 - Denver, CO - Ogden
Oct 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Complex
Oct 6 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
Oct 7 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
Oct 8 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
Oct 10 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theatre
Oct 11 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre
Oct 13 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
Wolf Alice have shared details of a huge headline tour in celebration of their recently announced fourth studio album The Clearing ,due out on August 29. The 20-date North American leg of the tour starts on September 10 in Atlanta, GA, taking the quartet across the east coast, south and mid-west before winding up on the west coast in Los Angeles at The Wiltern. For more information and tickets go to https://www.wolfalice.co.uk
This tour will also be their most ambitious to date, playing the biggest and most coveted stages of their decade-long career, including the O2 Arena in London. Wolf Alice will perform at Radio 1’s Big Weekend and Glastonbury this summer before the mammoth tour of North America, Europe and the UK runs through from mid-September to mid-December 2025.
Announcement of the tour follows the release of vivacious first single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ yesterday - accompanied by the iconic Colin Solal Cardo-directed video (watch HERE, listen HERE). The track marked the beginning of an exciting new era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing , it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of music in three years, is a whip-smart de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock. “I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” Ellie Rowsell notes. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the 'girl singer in band' trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”
The video for ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ is a collaboration with noted alt-pop director Colin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix. The video deconstructs a classic rock performance by drawing on Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, featuring a brilliant performance from Ellie in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia, Kenzo + Margaret Qualley). Watch HERE.
Written in Seven Sisters, London and recorded in LA with Grammy®-winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record.
Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. Today, Wolf Alice’s fourth album The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy-nominated ‘Moaning Lisa Smile’, both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, 2018’s follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s Number 1 album, Blue Weekend and its resultant Brit Award for Best Group.
Photo credit: Rachel Fleminger Hudson 
UNITED KINGDOM
May 24 - Liverpool, UK - Radio 1’s Big Weekend
Jun 29 - Somerset, UK - Glastonbury Festival
EUROPE
Nov 5 - Stockholm, Sweden, Annexet
Nov 6 - Copenhagen, Denmark, KB Hallen
Nov 7 - Hamburg, Germany, Georg Elser Halle
Nov 9 - Warsaw, Poland, Progresja
Nov 10 - Prague, Czech Republic, Lucerna Great Hall
Nov 11 - Budapest, Hungary, Barba Negra Red Stage
Nov 13 - Milan, Italy - Alcatraz Club
Nov 14 - Lyon, Villeurbanne, France - Le Transbordeur
Nov 15 - Toulouse, France - Bikini
Nov 17 - Cologne, Germany - Palladium
Nov 19 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
Nov 20 - Munich, Germany - Tonhalle
Nov 21- Luxembourg City, Luxembourg - Den Atelier
Nov 23 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - AFAS Live
Nov 24 - Brussels, Belgium - Forest National
Nov 25 - Paris, France - Le Zénith
UNITED KINGDOM/IRELAND
Nov 28 - Manchester, England - AO Arena
Nov 29 - Birmingham, England - Utilita Arena
Dec 1 - Cardiff, Wales - Utilita Arena
Dec 3 - London, England - The O2
Dec 5 - Leeds, England - First Direct Arena
Dec 7 - Glasgow, Scotland - OVO Hydro
Dec 10 - Dublin, Republic of Ireland - 3Arena
Pre-save/order/add The Clearing HERE
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Lola Young shares new single + video "One Thing"
LOLA YOUNG TEASES NEXT MUSICAL ERA WITH NEW SINGLE + VIDEO
CHECK OUT “ONE THING” NOW
Lola Young by Lily West & Eliana Shymansky
“One Thing”
LISTEN: https://lolayoung.lnk.to/onething
WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9SOv_Y61s
What the press is saying about Lola Young:
“Young’s acrobatically tortured, increasingly raspy voice defines her”
The New York Times
“alt-pop heroine primed to make it even bigger this year”
Rolling Stone
“a rock sound and bolder lyrics that deal with the chaos of life”
Billboard
“unreal vocals and give-no-fucks attitude”
HommeGirls Magazine
(May 16, 2025) - American Music Award, three time Ivor Novello and Brit-nominated South London singer / songwriter Lola Young shares her new single “One Thing,” today. Anchored by fluttery guitar melodies and a head-bobbing dub groove, “One Thing” showcases Lola’s provocative gift for spoken word and tremendous vocal ability. Speaking about her new song, Lola shares, “It’s a song that on first listen sounds like I’m talking about one thing. Sex. Which I am, of course. However sex in itself is never about one thing.”
Accompanied by a music video captured by revered director Dave Meyers (Little Simz, SZA, Sabrina Carpenter), the cleverly-cut visual brings Lola’s much-adored tongue in cheek humour to life on screen. Lola shares, “I wanted to make a song and music video that is thought-provoking and highlights sex being both a fun and light thing, not always meaningful, as well as showing how gender roles can be reversed.” Built around different scenarios; a first date, an all-girls class room, remaining undefeated in a boxing ring with ex-lovers and Lola making out with herself for good measure, “One Thing” ushers a new era for the South London artist.
Boasting over 1 billion all-time streams globally across her catalogue of releases, Lola Young continues to achieve tremendous success. Her platinum-certified #1 single “Messy,” which The New York Times described as “one of the most legitimately viral and popular songs of 2025” from her acclaimed 2024 album, This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway, recently hit #1 on the Billboard Pop Airplay chart, #1 at Hot Adult Contemporary, #1 on the Alternative Rock Billboard chart as well as reaching the upper regions of the Billboard Hot 100. Lola Young is the first female artist to have a debut single go #1 at both Pop and Alternative since Lorde’s “Royals.” “Messy” also held the top spot in the UK for four consecutive weeks, making Lola one of only two British female artists to reach #1 in the UK Singles Chart within the last year.
Last month, Lola made her debut performance at the iconic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where she premiered “One Thing,” and was nominated for an American Music Award for Social Song of the Year for “Messy.” Additionally, Lola has been nominated for 3 Ivor Novello awards (Best Album: This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway, Best Song Musically and Lyrically: “Messy” & Rising Star Award), following her “Best Pop Act” nomination at this year’s BRIT Awards. Lola was also named as a Future 25 artist with Rolling Stone, performed her track “Conceited” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, spoke with NPR about her breakout and sat with The Los Angeles Times to discuss her rise and debut Coachella performance.
Lola has since collaborated with Tyler, The Creator (“Like Him”), and Lil Yachty (“Charlie”) and continues to make a global impact with her music and compelling personality. She will open for Billie Eilish in Paris during her Hit Me Hard and Soft headline tour before an exciting Summer festival run including Glastonbury and All Things Go in New York and Washington, D.C.
Check out “One Thing” above, see full live dates below and stay tuned for more from Lola Young coming soon.
Upcoming Live Dates
* = headline show
5/25 - BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend @ Liverpool, UK
6/4 - La Madeleine @ Brussels, Belgium *
6/5 - Georg-Elser-Halle @ Hamburg, Germany *
6/10 - Accor Arena @ Paris, France [Billie Eilish Support]
6/11 - Accor Arena @ Paris, France [Billie Eilish Support]
6/15 - Capital FM Summertime Ball @ London, UK
6/17 - Meltdown Festival @ London, UK
6/27 - Glastonbury @ Somerset, UK
7/3 - Open’er Festival @ Poland
7/4 - Rock Werchter @ Werchter, Belgium
7/5 - Roskilde Festival @ Roskilde, Denmark
7/17 - Gurtenfestival @ Bern, Switzerland
7/18 - Lollapalooza Paris @ Paris, France
8/7 - Øya Festival @ Oslo, Norway
8/9 - Way Out West Festival @ Gothenburg, Sweden
8/10 - Flow Festival @ Helsinki, Finland
8/14 - Paredes De Coura @ Paredes de Coura, Portugal
8/16 - MS Dockville @ Hamburg, Germany
8/17 - Lowlands Festival @ Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands
9/27 - All Things Go Festival @ Forest Hills, New York
9/28 - All Things Go Festival @ Columbia, MD
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PELICAN RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS
PELICAN RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN SIX YEARS, FLICKERING RESONANCE VIA RUN FOR COVER
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FLICKERING RESONANCE MARKS FIRST ALBUM FROM FOUNDING LINEUP SINCE 2009
Pelican photo credit Mike Boyd
Chicago rock institution Pelican have released their first full length in six years, Flickering Resonance, via Run For Cover. With founding guitarist Laurent Schroeder-Lebec rejoining the band for his first full length since 2009’s What We All Come To Need, the album’s eight songs tap into the spirit of their formative era when Schroeder-Lebec teamed with fellow guitarist Trevor Shelley de Brauw and brothers Bryan and Larry Herweg (on bass and drums respectively) during the heyday of Chicago’s all ages hub Fireside Bowl. The venue’s variegated booking style would often result in post-hardcore, space-rock, indie, metal, and emo bands sharing bills, unwittingly providing a vast template of influences for the young band.
Though Pelican’s thick sonic backbone remains intact, via a recording by longtime ally Sanford Parker (a collaborator as far back as their first EP), the songs on Flickering Resonance demonstrate a more humanistic side of the band. Songs like “Pining For Ever” and “Indelible” tease Pelican’s doom-metal bonafides while feeling equally ebullient and earnest - playing like a downtuned Texas Is The Reason transmuted to a post-rock landscape. Meanwhile songs like the searing lead single “Cascading Crescent” act as an appreciation for the glimmers of joy that occur even in the bleakest landscapes, as represented by an opening cavalcade of heavy riffs that pivot mid-song to a sugar rush of pastoral melodies.
Tickets for their summer tour in support of the album are on sale now. Kicking off in Cleveland on July 17th the east coast and midwest jaunt will make stops in DC, Brooklyn, Toronto and more before culminating in a hometown show at Chicago’s Thalia Hall. See full dates below.
All streaming to Flickering Resonance
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Pelican tour dates
Jul 17 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom +
Jul 18 Washington, DC - DC9 +
Jul 19 Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts +
Jul 20 Brooklyn, NY - The Meadows +
Jul 21 Boston, MA - The Sinclair +
Jul 22 Montreal, QC - Bar le Ritz PDB +
Jul 23 Toronto, ON - Lee’s Palace +
Jul 24 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme +
Jul 25 - Indianapolis, IN - POST Fest +
Jul 26 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall +
Aug 8 Jaromer, CZ - Brutal Assault Festival
Aug 9 Sinzendorf, DE - Void Fest
Aug 10 Bochum, DE - Bahnhof Langendreer
Aug 11 Tilburg, NL - Hall of Fame
Aug 12 London, UK - The Dome
Aug 13 Manchester, UK - YES
Aug 14 Bristol, UK - Arctangent Festival
Aug 16 Carhaix Plouguer, FR - Motocultor Festival
* supporting Russian Circles
+ with Porcelain
Flickering Resonance track list
1. Gulch
2. Evergreen
3. Indelible
4. Specific Resonance
5. Cascading Crescent
6. Pining For Ever
7. Flickering Stillness
8. Wandering Mind
FOR ALL PRESS INQUIRIES CONTACT RYAN CUNNINGHAM / BIZ 3: ryanc@biz3.net
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Alice Phoebe Lou unfolds every layer until she reaches "The Surface"
WITH JUST HER VOICE AND A GUITAR,
ALICE PHOEBE LOU
UNFOLDS EVERY LAYER TO REACH
“THE SURFACE” — STREAM
CONTINUING ALONG HER ENCHANTING
HEADLINE TOUR OF EUROPE
— SEE ALL DATES HERE
“Soft, sweet, and wistful…As dreamy as it sounds, Lou also imbues the songs with a warning to snap us back to reality.”
“Between sweet folk and indie pop that is both angry and delicate, Alice Phoebe Lou's compositions evoke radiant lives and dull lives, the beginnings and ends of the most beautiful love stories.”
“Her ethereal vocals ground each song while also making the melodies around them soar. She can sound like Judy Garland, Kate Bush, or Angel Olsen, but mostly, Lou’s voice is
distinctly her own.”
Continuing to open her treasure trove of tucked away storytelling from the last decade, globally adored singer-songwriter Alice Phoebe Lou today releases “The Surface.” A story told in reverse, the acoustic offering unfolds like a rose, petal by petal, until the heart is on full display. In all forms, Alice Phoebe Lou no longer feels the need to fear vulnerability — Stream.
“‘The Surface’ is a stream of conscious love song about the deep and contradictory feelings that rise up when exploring a connection with someone you feel strongly about,” she articulates. “It goes through the many phases of holding back and then giving in, starting at the end when someone is finally all in. It talks of the hardships that one has gone through in order to arrive at a place where there is promise of a future and a deep connection and trust. It’s the melting away of our hard outer shells to reach the softer place beneath where we let go and allow ourselves to love and be loved. With just voice and guitar, the music is stripped down and bare like the song.”
Press photo by Caroline Bertolini
In April, Lou made her first ever self-produced release with the tender “You and I.” She shared that these are, “Songs that didn’t make it into other albums, some songs I never thought would see the light of day. I am embarking on the brave and thrilling journey of recording these songs as they are, with love and playfulness, simple and all my own. Leaning into imperfection and taking inspiration from some of my biggest influences who have made timeless folk acoustic albums.”
Last month, Lou also played 3 sold-out nights in Los Angeles before joining Remi Wolf at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. She is now on her European tour, playing magical sold-out shows across the continent. In 2024, Lou toured alongside Clairo on the strikingly intimate Charm Tour with headline shows of her own mixed in. See all upcoming dates here.
ABOUT ALICE PHOEBE LOU
Like thread through an ethereal labyrinth, Alice Phoebe Lou’s songs have always felt tethered directly to what fuels her heart—tracing the strings from her guitar back through her memories and emotions. And on her dreamlike new self-produced singles, the singer-songwriter invites the listener along on that wander. The stripped back love songs return to the busking simplicity of Alice Phoebe Lou’s early career, but the songwriting shows the maturity and directness of a woman reaching a new radiance.
Alice Phoebe Lou’s music journey began in earnest when she moved to Germany from her native South Africa, playing guitar on Berlin street corners and exploring her songwriting strength. She grew immensely from those modest origins, having now reached 2.7 million listeners each month on Spotify. Now after a decade in Germany, she’s relocating to warmer climes—and her new music appropriately reflects on the end of a meaningful life phase and the start of bigger things to come.
“I became who I am in Germany, and busking was a big influence, the basis for everything I’ve done,” she says. “Now I’m paying tribute to the girl that bravely played the guitar and sang by herself, showing gratitude for that period of my life.” To that end, Alice Phoebe Lou’s voice and lightly strummed acoustic act like a hypnotic core on “You And I”, light synth flourishes and wavering keys filigreeing the frame. “I have known for a while/ That there’s nothing better than hoping, wondering,” she sighs, the track a hauntingly beautiful hint at where Alice Phoebe Lou is headed next.
That beatific candor will be on full display as the singer-songwriter hits the road. She had a trio of sold-out shows at Los Angeles’s Lodge Room and a spot opening for Remi Wolf at the legendary Red Rocks in Colorado in early April, with a spring tour through Europe following. Those shows will take a step beyond her already astounding run of live dates opening for Clairo in 2024, amplifying her already deeply emotional connection with audiences.
By taking ownership of the production process and tapping into influences like Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen, Alice Phoebe Lou is diving back into her nexus, stripping away any excess that could shield her from herself. These new releases feel necessary, opening and examining chapters of her life to strengthen her sense of self and breathe further vitality into her art.
“It was important to share my heart in this playful, gentle, vulnerable way that isn’t striving for perfection. That helped me focus on the song and what it needed,” she says. “Being so open is painful and it’s beautiful, and helps you be grateful for where you are and where you’re going.”
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Regina Spektor reissues five albums on limited edition color vinyl, Midsummer Daydream Tour 2025 this summer
REGINA SPEKTOR REISSUES FIVE ALBUMS ON LIMITED EDITION COLOR VINYLNEW PLATINUM AND GOLD CERTIFICATIONS FOR
BEGIN TO HOPE, FAR + MOREAVAILABLE EVERYWHERE TODAYMIDSUMMER DAYDREAM TOUR 2025 THIS SUMMER,
INCLUDING TEXAS SHOWS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A DECADE
“our generation’sJoni Mitchell”
photo credit: Emily Paige Pereira May 16, 2025—Regina Spektor has reissued five of her acclaimed albums on limited edition color vinyl, all available everywhere today. More info/purchase HERE . Ahead of these reissues, she has earned a host of new RIAA certifications— Begin to Hope is now RIAA Platinum-certified, Far is RIAA Gold-certified, amongst other notable achievements. Further below.The reissues include Begin to Hope (Yellow Flame LP), Far (Velum Clear LP), What We Saw From The Cheap Seats (Translucent Red LP), Remember Us to Life (Black Clouds 2LP), and Live in London (Curacao 2LP). Far and Live in London are both seeing their return to vinyl, having been out of print for several years.Several newly remastered HD music videos are also available today including “ Fidelity ,” “ Man of A Thousand Faces ,” “ Dance Anthem of the 80’s ” and “ Better ” with more to come.“So grateful to everyone who made these records and songs go platinum and gold,” says Spektor. “It’s fun to see how a song that’s been around for a while can suddenly meet new listeners. I loved seeing how beautifully everyone was signing “Two Birds” in ASL. I hope songs keep getting discovered in surprising and creative ways- and that for now, all the colorful new vinyl reissues can express some of my gratitude!”Spektor first saw commercial success with Begin to Hope (2006). Her breakout album, it includes hit singles “On the Radio,” “Better” and the now RIAA Gold Digital Single “Samson,” as well as now RIAA Platinum Digital Single “Fidelity,” which climbed the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.She followed up Begin to Hope with Far (2009)—which features now RIAA Gold Digital Single “Two Birds”—and What We Saw from the Cheap Seats (2012). Both albums debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 albums chart.The repressing also includes Remember Us to Life (2016), Spektor’s seventh studio album, and Live in London (2009), her first live album, which features twenty-two songs spanning her extensive catalog at the time and including three unrecorded tracks that have only ever been performed live.Spektor will return to the road this summer on her Midsummer Daydream Tour, beginning July 22. The tour includes two sold-out nights in Portland and one in Seattle, with additional stops in San Francisco, Denver and more. The tour will also include four stops in Texas, where she hasn’t performed in over a decade. See below for a complete list of dates. Tickets available HERE.
TOUR DATESJuly 22—San Francisco, CA—The MasonicJuly 24—Jacksonville, OR—Britt Festival Pavilion
July 25—Portland, OR—Revolution Hall
July 26—Portland, OR—Revolution Hall
July 28—Seattle, WA—Woodland Park Zoo
July 29—Spokane, WA—Martin
Woldson Theater at The Fox
July 31—Boise, ID—Revolution Concert House
August 1—Sandy, UT—Sandy Amphitheater
August 3—Denver, CO—The Mission Ballroom
August 5—Austin, TX—ACL Live
August 6—Dallas, TX—Majestic Theatre
August 8—San Antonio, TX—The Tobin Center
August 9—Houston, TX—Bayou Music CenterBOLD = SOLD OUTLast year, Spektor formally released her fan favorite second album, Songs , for the first time. Previously sold exclusively at her live shows on homemade CD-Rs, the remaster saw Songs' first commercial release on vinyl and streaming, and was celebrated with a series of sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.Her latest studio album, Home, before and after , was released in 2022 to critical praise from The New York Times , NPR Music and more.ACCLAIM FOR REGINA SPEKTOR: "UP THE MOUNTAIN"
NAMED A #1 FAVORITE SONG OF THE YEAR“[‘Up The Mountain’ is] the most striking
song I’ve heard in 2022.”
“her piano studies take on colorful shapes,the rigidity of classical tutelage giving way to
improvisation and willful flashes of personality”
[of “Up The Mountain”] “It’s mystical and earthy, moving from tollingpiano to implacable beat, with strings and horns ganging up”
Cautious Clay releases new album + focus track "Promises (9am)" and album visualizers, NA + EU/UK tour this Fall
CAUTIOUS CLAY
SHARES NEW ALBUM
VIA CONCORD RECORDS
WITH FOCUS TRACK + OFFICIAL ALBUM VISUALIZERS
LISTEN/WATCH ALBUM VISUALIZERS HERE
INTERNATIONAL TOUR BEGINS THIS FALL
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Photo credit: Travys Owen
Today, singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Karpeh aka Cautious Clay shares his new album, The Hours: Morning, via Concord Records. A visualizer for the project’s focus track, “Promises (9am)” – a song he’s been evolving since 2017 with over 80 versions – drops alongside the album, with official visualizers for all tracks. The album follows a string of acclaimed singles including “Father Time (10am),” “Tokyo Lift (5am),” and “No Champagne (6am)”, which have earned press praise from Hypebeast, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vibe and more.
This Fall Cautious will embark on his international The Hours Tour. The North American leg kicks off in Boston at The Sinclair on September 30th and will take him throughout the country with stops in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco before wrapping in Los Angeles on October 24th at The Regent. The tour will continue overseas with a UK and European Winter leg, making stops in five cities including London, Amsterdam, and Brussels (full dates below). For more information and tickets visit https://cautiousclay.com/#tour.
Cautious Clay ushers in a new phase with The Hours: Morning, a conceptual eight-track project that’s equal parts mixtape and emotive timetable, exploring the feeling, color, and emotional landscape of each morning hour. Created after relocating to Philadelphia and establishing new creative routines, the project transcends genre and blends pop precision with elements of alternative R&B, jazz, and indie rock with open-ended reflection. It marks a fresh chapter for the genre-blending artist, following the success of his jazz-infused album KARPEH. From the calm of dawn to the energy of late morning, The Hours: Morning showcases Cautious’ versatility and evolving sound.
Beyond his own artistry, Cautious has established himself as a highly sought-after songwriter and producer, collaborating with Billie Eilish, John Mayer, John Legend, Khalid, Kavinsky, Melanie Martinez, Remi Wolf, and most recently, Tycho. Following the release of his acclaimed EPs Resonance and Table of Context, he delivered his full-length 2021 debut Deadpan Love, a nuanced exploration of the complexities of human connection that earned him praise from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Fader, PAPER, and more. With his 2023 album KARPEH, Cautious reached new artistic heights, delivering a more intentional and sonically rich project. This bold evolution offered an intimate portrayal of his journey, his past, and his family life, solidifying his place as a singular voice in modern music and one to watch. Stream the new album, catch him live this fall, and stay tuned for more news to follow.
WATCH THE OFFICIAL VISUALIZER FOR “PROMISES (9AM)”
WATCH THE OFFICIAL ALBUM VISUALIZERS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdCU8agbjJppzPvC3nj8O2TSIosOG9D73
STREAM/PURCHASE THE HOURS: MORNING
https://found.ee/CC-TheHoursMorning
Cautious Clay The Hours: Morning (Concord Records)
Tracklist
1. Tokyo Lift (5am)
2. No Champagne (6am)
3. Traffic (7am)
4. The Plot (8am)
5. Promises (9am)
6. Father Time (10am)
7. Amber (11am)
8. Smoke Break (12pm)
The Hours Tour Dates
North America Fall Live Dates
September 30 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
October 2 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
October 4 - Washington, DC - Atlantis
October 7 - Toronto, ON - Axis
October 10 - Chicago, IL - Outset
October 11 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line
October 13 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
October 15 - Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell
October 17 - Seattle, WA - Showbox
October 18 - Vancouver, BC - Hollywood
October 19 - Portland, OR - Roseland
October 21 - San Francisco, CA - Bimbo's
October 24 - Los Angeles, CA – Regent
UK/EU Winter Live Dates
December 4 - Manchester, UK - Blues Kitchen
December 5 - London, UK - Jazz Cafe
December 9 - Amsterdam, NL - Tolhuistuin (Paradiso Noord)
December 10 - Rotterdam, NL - LantarenVenster
December 11 - Brussels, BE - Botanique - The Rotonde
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Ben Frost's 'Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions' Is Out Today On Mute
BEN FROST
UNDER CERTAIN LIGHT AND ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONSOUT NOW ON MUTE
LISTEN TO “PRISM INVERSION, PANTANAL/LA HABANA”
photo credit: Topper Komm
Today Ben Frost shares a new 7-track release, Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions , via Mute.
The album is built upon two years of live shows, soundcheck improvisations and field recordings. It is a 38-minute dreamspace of jetlag, melatonin supplements, roaring crowds and failing technology.
Listen to “Prism Inversion, Pantanal/La Habana” HERE.
This follows the release of tracks “Black Thread, ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ,” a mesmerizing piece with roots in a live performance in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2024, and “Permcat, Ки́їв”, which features crashing waves of synths and environmental recordings taken from his 2024 performance in Kyiv.
The album approaches live performance as both an ephemeral event and an archival construct mediated through the predatory veil of DSP servers, where “live” is simply another hashtag aesthetic in an ecosystem of fake music and fake news. Documenting stage extracts from locations including Havana, Naarm and Kyiv, these artifacts exist somewhere between memory and simulation, capturing not just a singular reality but multiple.
The Scope Neglect tour finds Frost joined by Greg Kubacki of Car Bomb (who also features prominently on the album) and sound designer Carlos Boix, whose recordings of the past year of live performances Frost has seamlessly woven into the album. The tour, which recently presented a blistering performance at EartH in London, continues with a show in Uzbekistan in May. Full details below.
Three of the tracks,”Tritium Bath”, “Chimera” and “Turning The Prism” come directly from Scope Neglect, while the remaining cuts “‘Permcat”, “Trancelines”, “Black Thread”, and “Prism Inversion” (with their roots in Ukraine, India, Mongolia and Brazil) are previously unreleased.
Throughout 2024’s acclaimed album, Scope Neglect, there are touches of metal, sitting alongside crackling electronics, field recordings, breathing animals and deeply contemplative explorations, resulting in something impossible to pigeonhole.
The presence of Greg Kubacki’s guitars, which unfold in sequences that smoulder relentlessly over time, echo the tape loop fantasies of Terry Riley. Through this meditative focus, frenetic logic gives way to an almost transcendental calm.
Scope Neglect is a deliberate opposition in terms, a dualistic game of obfuscation and obliteration, a sonic universe stripped to its most elemental core where the mechanics are reconfigured, reengineered, old energies diverted and redirected, scope expanded, contracted and dissolved.
Frost's diverse impact reverberates across film, television and opera, earning acclaim for his score for Julia Leigh's Palme d’Or-nominated Sleeping Beauty and scores for TV series such as 1899, Raised By Wolves, Fortitude and the cult series Dark. His opera creations, including The Wasp Factory for London's Royal Opera House and The Murder of Halit Yozgat at the Hannover Staatsoper, have cemented his position in the world of contemporary music and live arts.
Recent exhibitions for Broken Spectre, his latest collaboration with Richard Mosse, have run at London's 180 Studios, Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria, SFMOMA, Photo Elysée, The Momentary Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas in 2023, and New York’s Jack Shainman Gallery. Two solo installation works A Predatory Chord and Among The Petals have been staged in the past two years.
BEN FROST LIVE DATES:
5/29/2025 - 5/31/2025 - Muynak, Stihia Festival (UZ)
Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions track listing:
1. Tritium Bath, 克拉玛依2. Permcat, Ки́їв
3. Trancelines, वाराणसी
4. Chimera, Naarm
5. Black Thread, ᠤᠯᠠᠭᠠᠨᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠤᠷ
6. Turning The Prism, واحة سيوة
7. Prism Inversion, Pantanal/La Habana
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Tennis Share Final Release with "Neutral Poetry: First Recordings, Unreleased Demos 2009-2010"
TENNIS SHARE FINAL RELEASE WITH
NEUTRAL POETRY: FIRST RECORDINGS, UNRELEASED DEMOS 2009-2010 — STREAM
BOOKENDS TIME AS A BAND WITH MINI LP OF ARCHIVED MUSIC FROM FORMATIVE YEARS
FAREWELL HEADLINE TOUR BEGINS TONIGHT IN LAS VEGAS + UPCOMING FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES
AT KILBY BLOCK PARTY & BUMBERSHOOT — SEE ALL DATES HERE
Press photo by Darren Vargas
After releasing their final studio album in April, Face Down In The Garden, acclaimed indie-pop duo Tennis share their last release today. Neutral Poetry: First Recordings, Unreleased Demos 2009-2010 is a new EP of previously unheard tracks from the very beginning of their artistic career. The eight-song collection perfectly bookends their time as a band, bringing it all back to where it first began. The EP includes early versions of such fan favorites as “Cape Dory,” “Marathon,” “South Carolina,” “Baltimore,” and “Pigeon,” along with exclusive demo recordings of the never-before-available songs, “Key Largo,” “April and It’s Still Snowing,” and “One Day This Will Be a Good Songgg” — Stream.
Tennis announced the news of their indefinite hiatus mid-April with the release of the single “12 Blown Tires” ahead of Face Down In The Garden. Met with an outpouring of love over the bittersweet news, the duo’s Alaina Moore shed additional light on the duo’s decision:
“When we recorded ’12 Blown Tires’, I had the sense of distilling the past 15 years into four minutes of music. It felt like the end of something, though I wasn’t sure what. Patrick and I spent most of our 20s and all of our 30s focused on Tennis. It has been the most joyous, bewildering, challenging, and humbling experience. After finishing Face Down In The Garden, it became clear that we had said everything we wanted to say and achieved everything we wanted to achieve with our band. This will be our last studio album, at least in this configuration as Tennis. We are ready to pursue other creative projects and to make space in our lives for new things. In that light, the upcoming tour feels more poignant, like a concluding thought. These two kids from Denver who only ever dreamed of playing a few house shows are very fulfilled. Perhaps we’ll see you on the road. As always, thank you.”
Tennis will both celebrate this moment in time and say farewell to fans with a wide-ranging North American headline tour beginning tonight at Las Vegas, NV’s Swan Dive and then traveling into early September. Throughout the tour, they will be supported by an array of talent including Husbands, Billie Marten, Cults, Real Estate and Hovvdy. Along the way, they will also make festival stops at Kilby Block Party and Bumbershoot before heading to London for a show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town on October 23. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit tennis-music.com.
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TENNIS – FACE DOWN IN THE GARDEN TOUR 2025
MAY
16 – Las Vegas, NV – Swan Dive *
17 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall *
18 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party #
21 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue †
23 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed †
24 – Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI Annex †
25 – Cleveland, OH – Globe Iron †
27 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall †
29 - Woodstock, NY - Bearsville Theater †
30 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner †
31 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall †
JUNE
1 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 †
3 – Washington, DC – The Anthem †
5 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz †
6 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern †
7 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl Nashville †
9 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum †
10 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs) †
11 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater †
AUGUST
18 – San Diego, CA – Humphreys Concerts by the Bay ^
20 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre ^
22 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy + Harriet’s ^
23 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
24 – Santa Fe, NM – The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing Co. ^
26 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom +
28 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall +
29 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Grand Lodge +
30 – Vancouver, BC – Malkin Bowl +
August 31 — Seattle, WA — Bumbershoot #
SEPTEMBER
2 – Sacramento, CA – Channel 24 &
4 – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery &
OCTOBER
23 — London, UK — O2 Forum Kentish Town
* w/ Special Guests Husbands
† w/ Special Guest Billie Marten
^ w/ Special Guest Cults
+ w/ Special Guest Real Estate
& w/ Special Guest Hovvdy
# Festival Appearance
TENNIS
NEUTRAL POETRY: FIRST RECORDINGS, UNRELEASED DEMOS 2009-2010
(Mutually Detrimental)
Release Date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Tracklist:
South Carolina (Demo Version 11.5.09)
Marathon (Demo Version 01.14.10)
Baltimore (Demo Version 09.03.09)
Pigeon (Demo Version 08.26.09)
Key Largo (Demo 08.20.09)
April and It’s Still Snowing (Demo 09.01.09)
Cape Dory (Demo Version 11.03.09)
One Day This Will Be a Good Songgg (Demo 01.19.10)
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May 15, 2025
Wolf Alice Return With 'Bloom Baby Bloom' + Album Announce
WOLF ALICE RETURN WITH BRAND NEW SINGLE AND OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO – ‘BLOOM BABY BLOOM’ OUT TODAYANNOUNCE DETAILS OF FORTHCOMING ALBUM,
THE CLEARING OUT AUGUST 29 [RCA RECORDS]
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Photo credit: Rachel Fleminger Hudson
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‘BLOOM BABY BLOOM’
PRE-ORDER/ADD/SAVE
THE CLEARING (ALBUM)
Seminal British band Wolf Alice return today with new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ alongside highly anticipated news of their fourth studio album The Clearing , confirmed for release on August 29 via RCA Records. Written in Seven Sisters, North London, England and recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy Award® winning, master producer Greg Kurstin last year, The Clearing reveals where Wolf Alice stand sonically in 2025, delivering a supremely confident collection of songs bursting with ambition, ideas and emotion; The Clearing is a truly timeless record.
‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ marks the beginning of an exciting new era for Wolf Alice. A fiercely powerful and fervent introduction to The Clearing , it’s an arresting ode to growth, evolution and expansion in life, music and art. With its rolling bass riff, this first piece of music in three years, is a whip-smart de-testosteroned twist on heavy rock. “I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,” Ellie Rowsell notes. “I’ve used the guitar as a shield in the past, playing it has perhaps been some way to reject the 'girl singer in band' trope, but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it’s been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don’t feel like I need to prove that I’m a musician.”
The video for ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ is a collaboration with noted alt-pop director Colin Solal Cardo, famous for collaborations with Charli XCX, Robyn, Christine & The Queens and Phoenix. The video deconstructs a classic rock performance by drawing on Bob Fosse and All That Jazz, featuring a brilliant performance from Ellie in the middle of a host of dancers choreographed by Emmy Award-winning choreographer Ryan Heffington (Euphoria, Sia, Kenzo + Margaret Qualley). Watch HERE .
Wolf Alice have come a long way since the North London quartet first emerged in 2013 as a young band holding a mirror up to their own emerging generation. Today, Wolf Alice’s fourth album The Clearing finds them at the peak of their powers, grown into a band of generational importance. While the bruised euphoria of their debut My Love Is Cool, which featured the Grammy®-nominated ‘Moaning Lisa Smile,’ both captured and perfectly soundtracked the experience of youth first cutting their musical teeth, 2018’s follow up Visions Of A Life cemented their rise with a Mercury Music Prize, before the precious hurt of 2022’s UK Number 1 album,Blue Weekend and its resultant Brit Award for Best Group. In the process, lead singer Ellie Rowsell has grown into a storytelling icon, weaving cautionary tales of how your twenties will hurt you, but in valuable ways. Wolf Alice have also toured the world multiple times headlining sold out tours, gracing numerous festival stages and supporting an array of key artists including pop icon Harry Styles. This summer so far sees them performing at Radio 1’s Big Weekend followed by a top spot at Glastonbury.
Both playful and serious, ironic and straight-talking, The Clearing is a progressive shift from a band whose exploration of love, loss and human connection has already articulated the coming-of-age experience for a whole generation. It’s a classic pop/rock album that nods to the ‘70s while remaining rooted firmly in the present. If Fleetwood Mac wrote an album today in North London, you’d get somewhere close to this run of effortlessly grand tracks, each as distinct as the last. Sonically, there is no waste, no fuss, with more authoritative melodies than the band has ever crafted before. This is a new beginning, and each of the band feels it as keenly as listeners will.
Front and centre of The Clearing is Rowsell’s ever-evolving poetic storytelling alongside an innate desire for Ellie, Joff, Theo and Joel to have fun, secure in their ambition and ability at this unique moment in time. The Clearing encapsulates that freeing feeling of finding a moment of peace and clarity, having survived the freewheeling frivolity of your 20s, emerging into your future and is a portrait of Wolf Alice standing on the precipice of a new decade in both life and art.
Pre-save/order/add The Clearing HERE
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TEI SHI 2 special nights in SoCal ~ last minute reminder🌠
CALIFORNIA! <3
I have a show today and tomorrow just 4 u...
I'll be in Santa Ana tonight and the desert tomorrow night. This is your only chance to catch me live for now, and I'll be performing your favs across all my albums and some very exciting new (maybe unreleased) music...I’d love if you could make it ♡TICKETS
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