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As the release of Lodestar  - Shirley Collins’ first album in 38 years - draws closer, Shirley is pleased to share a third track, ‘Pretty Polly’, from the forthcoming record. 

The song ‘Pretty Polly’ comes from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, Shirley says of the song: “I recorded this myself from the singing of Mrs Ollie Gilbert in 1959, on the field trip with Alan Lomax”. 

Directed by Layla Atkinson, the video was given one stipulation by Shirley, to incorporate a very special kind of puppet, a jig doll. These puppets come to life when jigged on a vibrating board and have been popular street entertainment for hundreds of years. Inspired by ‘Pretty Polly’ and these jig dolls, Atkinson decided to handcraft all the scenes in the video from cardboard and timber and shot it on 16MM on the hottest September day of the last 100 years.

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Lodestar – to be released on November 4^th through Domino Records - is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16^th Century to the 1950s, recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown of Cyclobe and produced and musically directed by Ian Kearey. 

Collins previously shared ‘Cruel Lincoln’ and ‘Death and the Lady’ from the album and you can watch a track by track description of both songs by Shirley here. 

Additionally, Shirley Collins will be performing at two record shops next month to launch the album – Rough Trade East in London alongside a Q&A with Pete Paphides and Union Music Store, Lewes where she will be joined by Brighton Morris Men.

Born in Hastings in 1935, Shirley was fascinated by folk songs as she was growing up, songs she heard on the radio or sung by her grandparents in Anderson shelters. She left home for London to immerse herself in the burgeoning folk scene; at a party held by Ewan MacColl she met Alan Lomax, and in 1959 she joined him in the USA on the renowned field trip ‘Southern Journey’, recording American folk songs and blues, a formative journey for her personally and professionally.

On her return to England, Shirley cemented her role at the forefront of the Folk Revival,  recording over a dozen albums including the influential Folk Roots, New Routes with avant-garde guitarist Davy Graham, and No Roses, from which The Albion Country Band was formed. However, in the 1980s, Shirley lost her singing voice – later diagnosed as a form of dysphonia - and withdrew from performing live. It was only in 2014, after coaxing from David Tibet (Current 93), that Shirley sang in public for the first time since 1982. 

Though Shirley Collins (MBE) has been absent from the music scene for many years, her impact has not diminished, the likes of Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood, Stewart Lee and Angel Olsen laud her and a documentary The Ballad of Shirley Collins is currently in progress. Additionally, she was given the ‘Good Tradition’ award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2008, elected President of the English Folk Dance & Song Society in the same year and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Sussex University this year. Shirley released her first memoir, America Over the Water, in 2004 and is currently working on her second book.

Now Shirley Collins has sung once more (with a mischievous delight in defeating expectation), the accepted canon of her great recordings will have to be comprehensively recalibrated, yet again. 

“Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and yet utterly humble” Stewart Lee

Friday 4^th November

Shirley Collins @ Union Music Store, Lewes

For more information, click here.

Monday 7^th November

Shirley Collins in conversation with Pete Paphides + live performance @ Rough Trade East, London

For more information, click here.

Last month, King Creosote released Astronaut Meets Appleman, a beautiful addition to his repertoire and an exploration of the tension and harmony between tradition and technology that invoked a feeling, KC says, of “being caught between heaven and earth”. 

Otherwise known as Kenny Anderson, KC is now pleased to share the video for ‘Love Life’. The glorious ‘Love Life’ showcases Kenny’s knack for a killer couplet: “Her jealous accusations know no bounds / Scarlett Johansson was never in my house”.

Directed by Euan Robertson, watch the video for ‘Love Life’ below.

Following on from his sold out show in London last month, Anderson will be heading out on a full UK tour in January 2017 and will be joined by his 8-piece band at several of the shows including London’s Barbican.

Astronaut Meets Appleman follows KC’s breakthrough record From Scotland With Love (2014) and his Mercury-nominated collaboration with Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine (2011).

The KC idiom – equal parts geometry, self-deprecation, cosmic wonder and seafaring poetry – remains intact on Astronaut Meets Appleman. But there is a renewed sense of space and letting the music breathe (lead, even) on the album – all the better to showcase a stunning ensemble cast that includes Catriona McKay (harp), Mairearad Green (bagpipes), Gordon Maclean (double bass), Hannah Fisher (violin, vocals), Sorren Maclean (guitar, vocals) and Pete Harvey (cello), alongside KC's regular rock diviners, and his baby daughter Louie Wren (on ambient reverie, 'Peter Rabbit Tea'). 

“I wanted to push myself songwriting-wise, so I went in with hardly anything and had to wing it,” KC reveals. “I wanted to try and flip the clock all the way back to sound like a younger me – or a less cynical me. In the past, I've been fixated on twisting and wrenching every line, but here I've let that go a bit, and I hope that lets you concentrate more on the music; on what’s going on around it.”

“I always feel I’m reaching for something, but I never get there, I wanted to get out of the usual places” KC muses, and this is reflected in the album's geography, which is more far-flung than usual. It was variously recorded at Analogue Catalogue in Ireland's County Down, An Tobar on the Isle of Mull, and Glasgow's Chem19 studios (HQ of long-time ally Paul Savage, who co-produced the LP with KC).

On Astronaut Meets Appleman, King Creosote is still upsetting apple-carts and dealing with the fallout, still appraising love and life, the moon, the stars; tide tables, bagpipe scores, zeros and ones; mathematics, ticking clocks and the beat of our hearts. 

Upcoming live dates

21^st October – Brye Theatre, St Andrews

5^th December – Le Pop Up du Label, Paris

7^th December –Sodra Teatern , Stockholm

9^th December – Ingensteds, Oslo

10^th December – Gruner Salon, Berlin

12^th Jan – Bogbain, Inverness

13^th Jan – Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld

14^th Jan – Woodend Barn. Banchory

16^th Jan – RNCM Concert Hall, Manchester *

17^th Jan – Open, Norwich *

18^th Jan – Corn Exchange, Cambridge *

20^th Jan – Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool ~

21^st Jan – Town Hall, Birmingham ~

22^nd Jan – Barbican, London ~

23^rd Jan – Colston Hall, Bristol ~

24^th Jan – Tramshed, Cardiff ~

25^th Jan – Sage Gateshead, Gateshead ~

27^th Jan – Old Fruitmarket (Celtic Connections), Glasgow

Support from * Charlie Cunningham ~ Modern Studies

Dirty Projectors, the beloved, decade-plus-long recording pursuit of producer, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist David Longstreth, has today released the first new music since 2012’s Swing Lo Magellan.

Stream ‘Keep Your Name’ HERE.

Download ‘Keep Your Name’ HERE.

Introducing London band Little Cub, whose debut single ‘Loveless’ is streaming now and officially released on 11th November 2016. 

Little Cub are Dominic Gore, Duncan Tootill and Ady Acolatse.

Merging a wry, worldly and subversive form of self-effacing, diarist lyricism with sumptuously evocative electronic production, ‘Loveless’ announces  the arrival of a band at once deeply in tune with the greatest traditions of progressive, homespun British pop music and at odds with the increasingly vacuous pop culture they are born to.

Little Cub’s burgeoning reputation as one of the city’s finest new exponents of electronic pop has seen them sell out a four-night headline residency at Peckham’s Copeland Estate off the back of the release of their debut ‘Breathing Space’ EP.

‘Loveless’ showcases Little Cub at their direct best, harnessing Tootill’s astute production work – which has seen him work with the likes of George Fitzgerald, Lil Silva and more – to frontman Gore’s refreshingly self-reflexive, honest and occasionally uncomfortable poetics. Watch the video for ‘Loveless’, directed by visual artists Dexter Lander and Nick Pomeroy, now.

With a melody by Acolaste, the lyric of ‘Loveless’, was written by Gore about a relationship Acolatse was in at the time. "Did we really lose our hearts?” the soaring chorus ponders with an odd and infectious kind of triumphant melancholy.

"I was perceiving this relationship between two great people", Gore says, "but could see it was kind of becoming less than the sum of its parts. It was neither party's fault but it was clear that both were becoming colder through the very nature of being together. It's something I've perceived a lot, these situations where if it were merely a friend going through that pain then you'd automatically feel empathy but in a romantic setting those feelings in someone else gradually come to seem ridiculous or embarrassing or even grotesque.

It's about how every time you have a relationship like that it seems to remove a part of you. You can lose your heart a little. Of course this should be horribly sad, and in a way it is, but I also think it might be in a way necessary and so the song's not completely mourning that loss."

Listen to Loveless on Spotify HERE

Listen to Loveless on Apple Music HERE

‘Loveless’ will be released on 11th November as part of the ‘Loveless’ 12” including 3 reworked versions of the track. Pre-order the EP via Dom Mart.

Loveless 12” Tracklist:

Loveless (Single Version)

Loveless (Beatless Version)

Loveless (Late Night Edit)

Loveless (Dark Edit)

The band’s debut tracks, ‘Breathing Space’ – leading the tracks on its accompanying EP - and ‘Intent’, are available for free download now via their website http://wearelittlecub.com/ and streaming now on Spotify and Apple Music.

Forthcoming Little Cub live dates:

Thurs 29th Sept Kamio (formerly Red Gallery), London w/ Boxed In

Tuesday 15^th November Electrowerks, London (headlining show)

Little Cub Online

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Spotify | Apple Music

Shirley Collins – legendary folk singer and one of England’s most respected song collectors –  has announced her return to recording after 38 years. The new album, Lodestar, will be released on November 4^th, and with it, Shirley has created the unlikeliest release of the century so far. 

Lodestar is a collection of English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16^th Century to the 1950s, recorded at Shirley’s home in Lewes by Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown of Cyclobe and produced and musically directed by Ian Kearey.

The first track to be shared from Lodestar is ‘Cruel Lincoln’. Shirley explains the history of the song: “This is an ancient ballad, found only rarely in England. The theory is that Cruel Lincoln was a mason who was not paid for the work he did for ‘the Lord of the Manor’ and so extracted a terrible revenge”. It also features bird song recorded at the back of Shirley’s cottage. 

Born in Hastings in 1935, Shirley was fascinated by folk songs as she was growing up, songs she heard on the radio or sung by her grandparents in Anderson shelters. She left home for London to immerse herself in the burgeoning folk scene; at a party held by Ewan MacColl she met Alan Lomax, and in 1959 she joined him in the USA on the renowned field trip ‘Southern Journey’, recording American folk songs and blues, a formative journey for her personally and professionally.

On her return to England, Shirley cemented her role at the forefront of the Folk Revival,  recording over a dozen albums including the influential Folk Roots, New Routes with avant-garde guitarist Davy Graham, and No Roses, from which The Albion Country Band was formed. However, in the 1980s, Shirley lost her singing voice – later diagnosed as a form of dysphonia - and withdrew from performing live. It was only in 2014, after coaxing from David Tibet (Current 93), that Shirley sang in public for the first time since 1982. 

Though Shirley Collins (MBE) has been absent from the music scene for many years, her impact has not diminished, the likes of Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood, Stewart Lee and Angel Olsen laud her and a documentary The Ballad of Shirley Collins is currently in progress. Additionally, she was given the ‘Good Tradition’ award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2008, elected President of the English Folk Dance & Song Society in the same year and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from Sussex University this year. Shirley released her first memoir, America Over the Water, in 2004 and is currently working on her second book.

Now Shirley Collins has sung once more (with a mischievous delight in defeating expectation), the accepted canon of her great recordings will have to be comprehensively recalibrated, yet again.  

“Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and yet utterly humble” Stewart Lee

Lodestar will be available on limited edition deluxe vinyl with a 24 page 12” booklet featuring song notes by Shirley Collins and sleeve notes by Stewart Lee and a signed print (signed print is available exclusively via Dom Mart), limited edition deluxe CD with 28 page booklet and standard vinyl. For more details visit Dom Mart.

Listen to the album's first two songs, 'Cruel Lincoln' and 'Death and The Lady', below now.

The Magnetic Fields is songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Stephin Merritt. His three-hour magnum opus 69 Love Songs is to be reissued on vinyl on October 7^th through Domino Records. Comprised of 6 x 10” vinyl, the box set will include a full size 24-page colour booklet with liner notes by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) including an in-depth interview and a track-by-track with Merritt. The box set will be limited to 1000 copies.

69 Love Songs was released in 1999 and 17 years later, it is still a singular achievement - a bold undertaking by one of pop music’s most innovative and acclaimed songwriters. Originally conceived by Merritt to be a live musical revue of 100 songs, Merritt realised that 100 songs, even at 2 minutes each, would be far too long a show and decided upon the next meaningful number, 69. 69 songs about life, loss, hope and beauty.  69 songs about the pursuit of that ever elusive and patently undefinable holy grail, love.

Stephin Merritt wrote all 69 songs but enlisted the help of numerous friends to record the album including long-time collaborator Claudia Gonson, guitarist John Woo, cellist Sam Davol and Daniel Handler. 24 of the songs feature guest vocals from LD Beghtol, Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms and Gonson.

A career-defining work (as Merritt intended it to be), 69 Love Songs routinely ranks in Best Albums of All Times lists and has earned cult status. It is a celebration to the beauty, magic, humor, frustration, longing and tenderness of the human condition. 

Pre-order the 69 Love Songs box set here. 

Praise for 69 Love Songs:

“One of the most remarkable records ever made” The Sunday Times

“A major achievement” The Guardian

“The greatest songwriter of his generation” Time Out

“An undoubted genius” NME

“A masterwork. You’ll probably think these songs are about you” Spin

‘‘Ludicrously talented and unfeasibly prolific” The Independent

“5/5 ‘An imposing landmark” Uncut 

Tracklisting:

Volume 1

1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Don't Believe In The Sun
3. All My Little Words
4. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5. Reno Dakota
6. I Don't Want To Get Over You
7. Come Back From San Francisco
8. The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11. I Think I Need A New Heart
12. The Book Of Love
13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
14. How Fucking Romantic
15. The One You Really Love
16. Punk Love
17. Parades Go By
18. Boa Constrictor
19. A Pretty Girl Is Like...
20. My Sentimental Melody
21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22. Sweet-Lovin' Man
23. The Things We Did And Didn't Do

Volume 2

1. Roses
2. Love Is Like Jazz
3. When My Boy Walks Down The Street
4. Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old
5. Very Funny
6. Grand Canyon
7. No One Will Ever Love You
8. If You Don't Cry
9. You're My Only Home
10. (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy
11. My Only Friend
12. Promises Of Eternity
13. World Love
14. Washington
15. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
16. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17. Papa Was A Rodeo
18. Epitaph For My Heart
19. Asleep And Dreaming
20. The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
21. The Way You Say Good-Night
22. Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan
23. I Shatter

Volume 3

1. Underwear
2. It’s A Crime
3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
4. I’m Sorry I Love You
5. Acoustic Guitar
6. The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure
7. Love In The Shadows
8. Bitter Tears
9. Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
11. Experimental Music Love
12. Meaningless
13. Love Is Like a Bottle Of Gin
14. Queen Of The Savages
15. Blue You
16. I Can’t Touch You Anymore
17. Two Kinds of People
18. How To Say Goodbye
19. The Night You Can’t Remember
20. For We Are The King Of The Boudoir
21. Strange Eyes
22. Xylophone Track
23. Zebra

Aaron Maine’s Porches follows the release of this year’s acclaimed Pool with the Water EP – a special opportunity to experience the music that formed the melodic skeleton of Pool in its raw state, alongside a pair of previously unreleased songs ‘Black Dress’ and ‘Black Budweiser T-Shirt’. Recorded solo in his adopted home of New York City, the Water EP strips Maine’s work down to its core, opening the curtain on his musical metamorphosis from previous releases Slow Dance In The Cosmos and those of his alias, Ronald Paris, into the Porches of today.

Stream Water EP HERE

Coinciding with the release of Water, Porches has shared a video for previously unreleased song ‘Black Dress,’ one of the new tracks from the EP.  Watch the video HERE.

Maine on Water:

I spent the first year after releasing ‘Slow Dance In The Cosmos’ teaching myself how to record music. I ended up with a bunch of pretty realized demos for songs that ended up on ‘Pool’ during that process. It was a loose and explorative time for me. I wanted to release a select few of these “demos” because I always find the excitement captured by recording a song when you first write it to be almost impossible to recreate later down the line. I chose to rerecord all of the songs that were to be on ‘Pool’ because I felt like by the time I had a batch of songs that I felt would make an album, I had grown as a producer and wanted to give them another pass. Either way, it’s fun to listen back to these earlier versions of the songs and remember how they first existed.

Water is available digitally today, stream it HERE, and will be on sale as a limited edition cassette during Porches upcoming autumn tour dates. It can also be purchased online, in limited quantities, through Bandcamp and the Domino Mart.

Purchase Water: Dom Mart || Bandcamp || iTunes 

Porches commence new live dates with a US headline tour throughout September, supported by Japanese Breakfast and Rivergazer, before arriving in the UK and Europe for a run of dates which include a London headline date at Tufnell Park Dome on Monday 24^th October as well as appearances at Pitchfork Paris and London Calling at the end of the month. 

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Sat Sept 03 || Philadelphia, PA|| Made in America Festival – Fairmount Park

Sun Sept 04 || Washington, DC || Rock and Roll Hotel *

Mon Sept 05 || Richmond, VA ||Strange Matter *

Tue Sept 06 || Durham, NC || The Pinkhook *

Wed Sept 07 || Atlanta, GA || Masquerade – Purgatory Room *

Sat Sept 10 || Houston, TX || Walter’s *

Sun Sept 11 || Austin, TX || Barracuda *

Tue Sept 13 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel *

Thu Sept 15 || San Diego, CA || Irenic *

Fri Sept 16 || Los Angeles, CA || Echoplex *

Sat Sept 17 || Berkeley, CA || UC Berkeley *

Sun Sept 18 || San Francisco, CA || The Independent *

Tue Sept 20 || Portland, OR || Analog Theater *

Wed Sept 21 || Olympia, WA || Obsidian *

Thu Sept 22 || Seattle, WA || Crocodile *

Sat Sept 24 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court *

Mon Sept 26 || Denver, CO || Larimer Lounge *

Tue Sept 27 || Omaha, NE || Milk Run *

Wed Sept 28 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry *

Thu Sept 29 || Madison, WI || High Noon *

Fri Sept 30 || Chicago, IL || Subterranean *

Sat Oct 01 || Detroit, MI || El Club *

Sun Oct 02 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern *

Mon Oct 03 || Montreal, QC || Bar Le Ritz *

Tues Oct 04 || Burlington, VT || ArtsRiot *

Wed Oct 05 || Boston, MA || The Sinclair *

Tue Oct 18 || Brighton, ENG || Sticky Mike’s

Wed Oct 19 || Leeds, ENG || Brudenell Social Club

Thu Oct 20 || Dublin, IRL || Whelans

Fri Oct 21 || Glasgow, SCT || The Hug & Pint

Mon Oct 24 || London, ENG || The Dome

Tue Oct 25 || Lille, FR || La Péniche

Wed Oct 26 || Reims, FR || La Cartonnerie

Thu Oct 27 || Eindhoven, NL || Dutch Design Week @ Strommhuis

Fri Oct 28 || Paris, FR || Pitchfork Festival

Sat Oct 29 || Amsterdam, NL || London Calling @ Paradiso

* w/ Japanese Breakfast, Rivergazer

Tracklisting

01 Mood (Water Version)

02 Pool (Water Version)

03 Glow (Water Version)

04 Car (Water Version)

05 Shaver (Water Version)

06 Security (Water Version)

07 Black Dress

08 Black Budweiser T-Shirt

Domino are pleased to share news of a summer sampler; named after the first single from Wild Beasts new album, Get My Bang! showcases the sharpest cuts from Domino’s 2016 releases. 

Alongside the likes of Blood Orange – at his most personal and political on the recent Freetown Sound, The Kills – still simmering with tension on their fifth record, Baltimore’s finest Animal Collective, the beloved King Creosote and of course, Wild Beasts, there is also a slew of newer artists from the Domino stable to delve into including Kansas-based Taryn Miller aka Your Friend, Sam Coomes (The Quasi man’s first solo album), NYC’s Porches, and the shadowy, psychedelic adventurers Higher Authorities.

Get My Bang! is available free with every order placed at Domino Mart and there’s a 20% discount available across the catalogue (excluding pre-orders until September 1^st).  Plenty of bang for your buck!

Shop here: http://smarturl.it/DominoSale

Full tracklisting:

1.       Wild Beasts – Get My Bang

2.       Blood Orange – Best To You

3.       Motion Graphics – Lense

4.       Sam Coomes – Stride On

5.       The Kills – Doing It To Death

6.       Bob Moses – Before I Fall

7.       Porches – Hour

8.       Night Moves – Carl Sagan

9.       King Creosote – You Just Want

10.   Higher Authorities - … And Why Not

11.   Your Friend – Come Back From It

12.   White Lung – Below

13.   The Range – Florida

14.   Animal Collective – FloriDada

15.   Yorkston Thorne Khan – Little Black Buzzer

16.   Villagers – That Day (live version)

Superimpose, the documentary exploring the voices on The Range’s 2016 album Potential, is out today. You can watch the documentary via the Pitchfork TV YouTube, or via The Scene, the Conde Nast video hub.

Alongside the documentary release, The Range has today released Superimpose (Music From The Documentary) EP. It is available to stream or buy now via all good digital retailers.

Watch Superimpose here

Stream the Superimpose EP here

Download the Superimpose EP here 

The Range is performing today as part of THUMP’s live-streamed DJ set series Sunsets. Tune in via THUMP Facebook Live HERE at 5:30pm ET today to watch The Range debut tracks from the Superimpose EP. 

The Range will be appearing on SiriusXMU tomorrow (Friday) night, hosting an hour-long Complete Control show. He’ll be playing songs off the EP, and will have some surprises in store for fans who tune in. The guest host set airs at 7pm ET and again at 11pm ET.

Additionally, The Range’s ‘Midnight In A Perfect World’ mix for KEXP airs tomorrow, Friday August 5^th at midnight PT / Saturday 3am ET.  

SUPERIMPOSE screenings + events

Thurs Aug 4 || Brooklyn, NY || THUMP Sunsets Live-stream (DJ set, with thanks to Serato) || via THUMP YouTube or Facebook

Thurs Aug 4 || New York, NY || Ludlow House (Screening + Q&A + Live Set)|| Private Event

Fri Aug 26 || Berlin, Germany || YouTube Space, Berlin || (Screening + Q&A + DJ Set)

SUPERIMPOSE explores the making of The Range's new album Potential, which exclusively uses the voices of people who posted videos of themselves on YouTube. The documentary sheds light on the unique and varied human stories of the people featured on the album who were completely unknown to The Range (Brooklyn-based electronic producer James Hinton) when originally selected. The documentary travels to off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods of New York City, NY; Kingston, Jamaica and London, England to tell the stories of a wide range of unique people - from Kai, the shy Brooklyn teenager who loves singing Ariana Grande covers; to Damian “Naturaliss” Gordon, the charismatic Jamaican correctional officer by day, dancehall singer by night; to Ophqi, the determined Brixton rapper and dutiful father with a difficult past who is still waiting for his moment to succeed as a musician; and more. Directed by the gifted young filmmaker Daniel Kaufman whose resume includes short films and music videos for DJ Khaled, Waka Flocka Flame, OT Genasis, The Decemberists, and more.

SUPERIMPOSE is soundtracked by music from the Range’s critically acclaimed 2016 album Potential as well as unreleased new material made specifically for the documentary. A seven song EP - Superimpose (Music From the Documentary) EP - featuring new material from the documentary and a reworked version of Potential album standout ‘Superimpose’ is being released digitally to coincide with the documentary release.

The Range live dates

Fri Aug 12 || Way Out West Festival || Gothenburg, Sweden

Sat Aug 20 || Lowlands Festival || Biddinghuizen, Netherlands

Sat Aug 27 || Reading Festival || Reading, UK

Sun Aug 28 || Leeds Festival || Wetherby, UK

Thurs Sept 22 – Mon Sept 26 || Symbiosis Gathering || Oakdale, CA

Fri Oct 21 || House Of Blues || Boston, MA *

Sat Oct 22 || Hammerstein Ballroom || New York, NY *

Mon Oct 24 || The Fillmore || Philadelphia, PA *

Tues Oct 25 || 9:30 Club || Washington, DC *

Wed Oct 26 || 9:30 Club || Washington, DC *

Fri Oct 28 || The Ritz || Raleigh, NC *

Sat Oct 29 || The Fillmore || Charlotte, NC *

Sun Oct 30 || The Mill & Mine || Knoxville, TN *

Mon Oct 31 || Marathon Music Works || Nashville, TN *

Wed Nov 2 || Buckhead Theater || Atlanta, GA *

Thurs Nov 3 || Joy Theater || New Orleans, LA *

Sat Nov 5 || Bomb Factory || Dallas, TX *

Fri Nov 4 – Sun Nov 6 || Sound On Sound Festival || Bastrop, TX

* = with Phantogram

On turning 60, legendary producer Clive Langer decided it was time to get a band together.

Previous to that moment, Clive’s CV read like a route map of the last four decades of the very best British music. As a member of legendary rock’n’roll misfits Deaf School, Langer had helped influence a generation of kids who’d go on to form bands as diverse as Madness and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Later on - with studio partner Alan Winstanley – he helped steer everything from One Step Beyond to Kilimanjaro; Too-Rye-Ay to Shipbuilding (a co-write with Elvis Costello) with stop offs for the Attractions, the Commotions, Morrissey, Roddy Frame and even the Dame himself (Bowie’s timeless classic Absolute Beginners). But something about that significant age set him on a different path.

Formed two years ago, The Clang Group are that band. Their first LP is called Practice.  It comes out on Domino on Friday the 30^th of September.

Recorded at Iguana Studio in Brixton with musician mates and long time cohorts (including Suggs and Roxy Music’s Andy Mackay), Practice is jagged, melodious, ingenious, impulsive and exhilarating. Usually all the same time. Driven by a frantic and restless energy, it’s exactly the kind of record you’d hope someone would make if they woke up aged 60 thinking, “Fuck it, I’m going to start a rock’n’roll band.” Yes, that good.                                                

Tracklisting: Concertina / Acre Lane / Amsterdam / I’m Sorry / Bike / Had A Nice Night / Heaven Calls Another Name / Picture Postcard Paradise / Knock Me Off / Out Of Time

Practice will be available on CD (WIGCD372), Vinyl (WIGLP372) and Digitally (WIG372D). Vinyl and digital versions come with a digital bonus  EP featuring Rhoda / Places & Things / Breaking Out / Shipbuilding. You can buy the album on iTunes or via Dom Mart – special limited edition signed vinyl with a physical bonus 12” is also available exclusively via Dom Mart.   The video for first single ‘Acre Lane’ was directed by Edwin Burdis in a secret location in East London – watch it HERE.  You can stream the track HERE.  

Pre-order Practice on signed 12" vinyl via Domino Mart HERE

Pre-order Practice on standard 12" vinyl via Domino Mart HERE

Pre-order Practice on digital download HERE

The Clang Group will play live in support of the album this autumn. 

Having shared its latest cut ‘Tough Guy’ earlier this week, Wild Beasts are streaming their acclaimed fifth album, Boy King, in full now. Featuring the singles ‘Get My Bang’ and ‘Big Cat’, listen to Boy King via Apple Music now HERE.

Listen to Wild Beasts ‘Reincarnations’ playlist HERE

Watch the visualizer for Tough Guy HERE

Watch the official video for Get My Bang HERE

Watch the official video for Big Cat HERE

Boy King will be released on heavyweight 12” vinyl including album download card, with a deluxe edition including a bonus 7” of two bonus songs available via the Wild Beasts online store. The album will also be released on standard and deluxe CD formats, with the deluxe edition including a 12-page booklet, as well as digital download. 

All deluxe editions include bonus material, Boy King Trash.

Pre-order the deluxe 12” of Boy King via Wild Beasts’ online store HERE

Pre-order the standard 12” of Boy King via Domino Mart HERE

Pre-order the deluxe CD of Boy King via Domino Mart HERE

Pre-order the standard CD of Boy King via Domino Mart HERE

Forthcoming Wild Beasts live dates are as follows with UK dates highlighted bold. All tickets are on sale now via the band’s website HERE.

Fri 29 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market

Fri 05 Aug 2016 UK, London Rough Trade East [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Wed 10 Aug 2016 USA, New York City Baby’s All Right

Thu 18 Aug 2016 UK, Green Man Festival

Thu 25 Aug 2016 UK, London Banquet Records [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Fri 26 Aug 2016 UK, UK Electric Fields

Sat 27 Aug 2016 Finland, Helsinki Modern Sky Festival

Fri 02 Sep 2016 Netherlands, Into The Great Wide Open

Sun 04 Sep 2016 Ireland Electric Picnic

Sat 24 Sep 2016 Germany, Reeperbahn Festival

Wed 28 Sep 2016 UK, Bristol Motion

Thu 29 Sep 2016 UK, Oxford O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 30 Sep 2016 UK, Margate By The Sea Festival

Sat 01 Oct 2016 UK, Sheffield The Foundry

Mon 03 Oct 2016 UK, Cambridge The Junction

Tue 04 Oct 2016 UK, London The Roundhouse

Fri 07 Oct 2016 UK, Newcastle Northumbria Uni

Sat 08 Oct 2016 UK, Glasgow QMU

Sun 09 Oct 2016 UK, Manchester Academy

Wed 12 Oct 2016 Belgium, Brussels Botanique Orangerie

Thu 13 Oct 2016 France, Paris La Gaîté Lyrique

Fri 14 Oct 2016 France, Tourcoing Le Grand Mix

Sat 15 Oct 2016 France, Strasbourg La Laiterie

Sun 16 Oct 2016 Germany, Cologne Luxor

Tue 18 Oct 2016 Denmark, Copenhagen Pumpehuset

Thu 20 Oct 2016 Germany, Berlin Kesselhaus

Fri 21 Oct 2016 Czech Republic, Prague Lucerna Music Bar

Sun 23 Oct 2016 Switzerland, Zurich, Rote Fabrik

Tue 25 Oct 2016 Italy, Milan, Magnolia

Wed 26 Oct 2016 France, Lyon Epicerie Moderne

Sat 29 Oct 2016 Spain, Bilbao BIME

Ahead of the release of Sam Coomes’ first ever solo album Bugger Me – due August 19^th on Domino Records - he is pleased to share another cut from the record.  

Listen to ‘Fordana’ below, a heartfelt song that only Coomes could make with its glitchy and melancholic organ stabs. 

Coomes is probably best known as half of the long running underground pop duo Quasi, the other half being Janet Weiss, herself better known as the drummer for Sleater-Kinney. Alongside bandmate Janet Weiss, Quasi have released nine albums over the last two decades and toured all over the world. Concurrently, Sam Coomes has played and recorded with the likes of Built to Spill, Elliott Smith and Jandek, worked as a producer and scored numerous soundtracks for underground films and art installations. In short, he is not a newcomer to the scene.

Coomes previously shared ‘Stride On’. Listen here. 

Bugger Me in Coomes’ own words is “Suicide meets The Beach Boys. Not the sophisticated ‘Pet Sounds’ Beach Boys, but more like ‘Surfer Girl’ stuff. More conscious reference points were Chris Montez or Timmy Thomas.” He wanted to make “entertainment music, but entertainment music meant for those not served by more mainstream entertainment music.  Maybe one might want to take a break from Sheer Hellish Miasma & enjoy some simple tunes that maybe speak to the same sense of the absurd, that likewise reject commercialism & market-based aesthetics, & even now & again pay a little homage to the raw synthesizer noise we have grown to love & even crave. Maybe timeworn themes such as love & war still resonate in the dusty backrooms of your mind (indeed maybe they are the only themes which do so).” 

Accompanied only by his organ and ‘Conny’ – a mid-‘60s rhythm box (non-programmable, “not even really a drum machine”), Coomes made a conscious choice to pare things back. He explains: “In a time where anyone with a computer & enough time on their hands can micro-manage a given piece of music to the nth degree; can process, arrange, edit & otherwise wheedle a song into a state-of-the-art showcase of outclevering the next guy… maybe allowing a song to exist at its most basic level is a means to not only subvert market-based (or, almost equivalently, technology-based) standards of production, but also a means to keep the music & the performance of the music honest.  This is assuming of course that honesty is a good thing, or at least is considered a good thing by those unmoved by mainstream entertainment music, which often reeks of dishonesty.  Whether this is a safe assumption, who knows?  Actually, I’m suspicious of people proclaiming their own honesty – so forget it.  Certainly, its artifice.  But the intent is honest artifice – like the original King Kong, as opposed to the remakes.  If King Kong for you means Willis O’Brien rather than Dino De Laurentis or Peter Jackson, then you probably have an idea of what I’m driving at.”

Following the release of the first two singles, Wild Beasts have given us even more insight into their forthcoming Boy King, out August 5^th on Domino, with album stunner ‘Celestial Creatures’ – listen HERE. Where ‘Get My Bang’ and ‘Big Cat’ showcased a bold new direction, ‘Celestial Creatures’ channels classic Wild Beasts and features Hayden Thorpe’s angelic voice front-and-centre.

Listen to Celestial Creatures on Spotify HERE

Listen to Celestial Creatures on Apple Music HERE

This follows the videos for ‘Get My Bang’, which can be viewed HERE, and ‘Big Cat,’ which can be viewed HERE. Last week, the foursome gave fans a glimpse into the making of the ‘Big Cat’ video, watch the behind-the-scenes footage HERE.

The band have also announced two in-store appearances to coincide with the album’s release at London’s Rough Trade East on the day of Boy King’s release, Friday 5^th August, as well as Banquet Records on Thursday 25^th August.

Where 2014's Present Tense album found Wild Beasts in reflective mood, absorbing a fascination with online culture and electronic music, Boy King has them, as Fleming puts it, "back to being pissed off". The quartet’s ever-present knack for sensual melody via Hayden Thorpe and Fleming's dueting vocals, Ben Little's sinuous guitar groove and Chris Talbot's potent rhythm section carries in Boy King an aggressive, snarling and priapic beast that delves into the darker side of masculinity and Thorpe's own psyche. As Hayden himself says, "After five records there had to be an element of 'what the fuck?'".

The raw pop of Boy King's songs are the perfect foil to Thorpe's libidinous lyricism: "it became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering male," he says. "I'm letting my inner Byron fully out, I thought I'd tucked him away, but he came screaming back like the Incredible Hulk." Here lies Boy King's greatest success. Between the slide of prowling aggression and interior darkness, there are glorious, gorgeous moments. It’s yet another incomparable Wild Beasts record; a visceral, sensual and jolting body of work that acts as a remarkable soundtrack to the early 21st century male malaise. Or as Thorpe puts it: "I think Boy King is an apocalyptic record. It's about swimming in the abyss. When you think about sex, you've got to think about death, they're one and the same.” 

Forthcoming Wild Beasts live dates are as follows with UK dates highlighted bold. All tickets are on sale now via the band’s website HERE. 

Tue 26 Jul 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club

Weds 27 July 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club

Thu 28 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market

Fri 29 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market

Fri 05 Aug 2016 UK, London Rough Trade East [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Wed 10 Aug 2016 USA, New York City Baby’s All Right

Thu 18 Aug 2016 UK, Green Man Festival

Thu 25 Aug 2016 UK, London Banquet Records [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Fri 26 Aug 2016 UK, UK Electric Fields

Sat 27 Aug 2016 Finland, Helsinki Modern Sky Festival

Fri 02 Sep 2016 Netherlands, Into The Great Wide Open

Sun 04 Sep 2016 Ireland Electric Picnic

Sat 24 Sep 2016 Germany, Reeperbahn Festival

Wed 28 Sep 2016 UK, Bristol Motion

Thu 29 Sep 2016 UK, Oxford O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 30 Sep 2016 UK, Margate By The Sea Festival

Sat 01 Oct 2016 UK, Sheffield The Foundry

Mon 03 Oct 2016 UK, Cambridge The Junction

Tue 04 Oct 2016 UK, London The Roundhouse

Fri 07 Oct 2016 UK, Newcastle Northumbria Uni

Sat 08 Oct 2016 UK, Glasgow QMU

Sun 09 Oct 2016 UK, Manchester Academy

Wed 12 Oct 2016 Belgium, Brussels Botanique Orangerie

Thu 13 Oct 2016 France, Paris La Gaîté Lyrique

Fri 14 Oct 2016 France, Tourcoing Le Grand Mix

Sat 15 Oct 2016 France, Strasbourg La Laiterie

Sun 16 Oct 2016 Germany, Cologne Luxor

Tue 18 Oct 2016 Denmark, Copenhagen Pumpehuset

Thu 20 Oct 2016 Germany, Berlin Kesselhaus

Fri 21 Oct 2016 Czech Republic, Prague Lucerna Music Bar

Sun 23 Oct 2016 Switzerland, Zurich, Rote Fabrik

Tue 25 Oct 2016 Italy, Milan, Magnolia

Wed 26 Oct 2016 France, Lyon Epicerie Moderne

Sat 29 Oct 2016 Spain, Bilbao BIME

Canadian punk band White Lung has topped numerous “Best Album So Far” lists this year including Stereogum, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, FACT and NME for Paradise, their fourth and most mature record to date. Now the band – comprised of Mish Barber-Way, Kenneth William and Anne-Marie Vassiliou - have been shortlisted for the Polaris Prize alongside artists including Carly Rae Jepsen, Grimes, and Kaytranada.

Now, White Lung are pleased to unveil the music video for ‘Dead Weight’. Directed by John Stavas, the clip features lead singer Mish Barber-Way head-banging her way through the track in hyper-kinetic fast forward. Much like the song, it’s an all-out assault on the senses and not for the faint of heart.

Following the announcement of new album Boy King, released 5^th August 2016 on Domino, alongside its first single ‘Get My Bang’, Wild Beasts have released the video for the album’s second single, ‘Big Cat’. Filmed in several locations outside of Barcelona, Spain and directed by Pablo Maestres, watch the video now HERE as premiered earlier today via The Guardian.

“If ‘Get My Bang’ was a song of the id then ‘Big Cat’ is the super ego,” says lead vocalist Hayden Thorpe of ‘Big Cat’, Boy King’s menacing opening track. “It marked a breakthrough in the writing process for the album, defining the swagger and attitude that would come to shape Boy King. He is all powerful, but at what price?” 

Listen to Big Cat on Spotify HERE

Listen to Big Cat on Apple Music HERE

Where 2014's Present Tense album found Wild Beasts in reflective mood, absorbing a fascination with online culture and electronic music, Boy King has them, as Fleming puts it, "back to being pissed off". The quartet’s ever-present knack for sensual melody via Hayden Thorpe and Fleming's dueting vocals, Ben Little's sinuous guitar groove and Chris Talbot's potent rhythm section carries in Boy King an aggressive, snarling and priapic beast that delves into the darker side of masculinity and Thorpe's own psyche. As Hayden himself says, "After five records there had to be an element of 'what the fuck?'". 

The raw pop of Boy King's songs are the perfect foil to Thorpe's libidinous lyricism: "it became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering male," he says. "I'm letting my inner Byron fully out, I thought I'd tucked him away, but he came screaming back like the Incredible Hulk." Here lies Boy King's greatest success. Between the slide of prowling aggression and interior darkness, there are glorious, gorgeous moments. It’s yet another incomparable Wild Beasts record; a visceral, sensual and jolting body of work that acts as a remarkable soundtrack to the early 21st century male malaise. Or as Thorpe puts it: "I think Boy King is an apocalyptic record. It's about swimming in the abyss. When you think about sex, you've got to think about death, they're one and the same.” 

Wild Beasts will support the release of Boy King with a run of UK and European live dates in autumn 2016, including two nights at London’s Roundhouse on Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5^th October. The dates follow summer festival appearances including a headline slot at Green Man Festival in August, with those dates preceded by two short residencies in Leeds and Brighton in July.

The band have also announced two in-store appearances to coincide with the album’s release at London’s Rough Trade East on the day of Boy King’s release, Friday 5^th August, as well as Banquet Records on Thursday 25^th August.

All tickets are on sale now via the band’s website HERE. Pre-order in-store tickets as part of a Boy King album package via Rough Trade HERE and Banquet Records HERE.

Forthcoming live dates are as follows, with UK live dates highlighted bold: -

Tue 26 Jul 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club

Weds 27 July 2016 UK, Leeds Brudenell Social Club

Thu 28 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market

Fri 29 Jul 2016 UK, Brighton Hove Old Market

Fri 05 Aug 2016 UK, London Rough Trade East [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Thu 18 Aug 2016 UK, Green Man Festival

Thu 25 Aug 2016 UK, London Banquet Records [IN STORE PERFORMANCE]

Fri 26 Aug 2016 UK, UK Electric Fields

Sat 27 Aug 2016 Finland, Helsinki Modern Sky Festival

Fri 02 Sep 2016 Netherlands, Into The Great Wide Open

Sun 04 Sep 2016 Ireland Electric Picnic

Sat 24 Sep 2016 Germany, Reeperbahn Festival

Wed 28 Sep 2016 UK, Bristol Motion

Thu 29 Sep 2016 UK, Oxford O2 Academy Oxford

Fri 30 Sep 2016 UK, Margate By The Sea Festival

Sat 01 Oct 2016 UK, Sheffield The Foundry

Mon 03 Oct 2016 UK, Cambridge The Junction

Tue 04 Oct 2016 UK, London The Roundhouse

Fri 07 Oct 2016 UK, Newcastle Northumbria Uni

Sat 08 Oct 2016 UK, Glasgow QMU

Sun 09 Oct 2016 UK, Manchester Academy

Wed 12 Oct 2016 Belgium, Brussels Botanique Orangerie

Thu 13 Oct 2016 France, Paris La Gaîté Lyrique

Fri 14 Oct 2016 France, Tourcoing Le Grand Mix

Sat 15 Oct 2016 France, Strasbourg La Laiterie

Sun 16 Oct 2016 Germany, Cologne Luxor

Tue 18 Oct 2016 Denmark, Copenhagen Pumpehuset

Thu 20 Oct 2016 Germany, Berlin Kesselhaus

Fri 21 Oct 2016 Czech Republic, Prague Lucerna Music Bar

Sun 23 Oct 2016 Switzerland, Zurich, Rote Fabrik

Tue 25 Oct 2016 Italy, Milan, Magnolia

Wed 26 Oct 2016 France, Lyon Epicerie Moderne

Sat 29 Oct 2016 Spain, Bilbao BIME

Porches return with a tropical-feeling avant-garde video for track ‘Car,’ a standout single from the group’s latest album Pool, released in February of this year. Watch it now below.

‘Car’s video was co-produced by Urban Outfitters as the 26^th installment of their UO Music Video Series. Check out their blog for behind the scene photos and an interview with video director Daniel Brereton. Over the past 5 years, the UO Music Video Series has helped produce music videos for bands including Empress of, Petite Noir, Ariel Pink, Perfume Genius, and Spoon.

Aaron Maine, Porches’ frontman, recently made his way down to Philadelphia to do a session with Out Of Town Films. Being just Maine and his guitar, the session is personal and intimate. Watch it HERE.

Pool is available to buy now on vinyl, CD, and digital download. A translucent pink cassette version of the record will also be available on the road this fall, with limited online availability right now through the Domino Mart.

Get Pool: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

To coincide with the new video, new European and UK live dates have been announced for October, including a London headline date on Monday October 24^th at Tufnell Park Dome and appearance at Pitchfork Paris Festival, alongside new US tour dates through the autumn.

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Sat Sept 03 || Philadelphia, PA|| Made in America Festival – Fairmount Park

Sun Sept 04 || Washington, DC || Rock and Roll Hotel

Mon Sept 05 || Richmond, VA ||Strange Matter

Tue Sept 06 || Durham, NC || The Pinkhook

Wed Sept 07 || Atlanta, GA || Masquerade – Hell Room

Sat Sept 10 || Houston, TX || Walkter’s

Sun Sept 11 || Austin, TX || Barracuda

Tue Sept 13 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel

Thu Sept 15 || San Diego, CA || Irenic

Fri Sept 16 || Los Angeles, CA || Echoplex

Sat Sept 17 || Berkeley, CA || UC Berkeley

Sun Sept 18 || San Francisco, CA || The Independent

Tue Sept 20 || Portland, OR || Analog Theater

Wed Sept 21 || Olympia, WA || Obsidian

Thu Sept 22 || Seattle, WA || Crocodile

Sat Sept 24 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court

Mon Sept 26 || Denver, CO || Larimer Lounge

Tue Sept 27 || Omaha, NE || Milk Run

Wed Sept 28 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry

Thu Sept 29 || Madison, WI || High Noon

Sat Oct 01 || Detroit, MI || El Club

Sun Oct 02 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern

Mon Oct 03 || Montreal, QC || Bar Le Ritz

Tues Oct 04 || Burlington, VT || ArtsRiot

Wed Oct 05 || Boston, MA || The Sinclair

Tue Oct 18 || Brighton, ENG || Sticky Mike's

Wed Oct 19 || Leeds, ENG || Brudenell Social Club

Thu Oct 20 || Dublin, IRL || Whelans

Fri Oct 21 || Glasgow, SCT || The Hug & Pint

Mon Oct 24 || London, ENG || The Dome

Tue Oct 25 || Lille, FR || La Péniche

Wed Oct 26 || Reims, FR || La Cartonnerie

Fri Oct 28 || Paris, FR || Pitchfork Festival

Sat Oct 29 || Amsterdam, NL || London Calling @ Paradiso

We're happy to announce that the following Domino classics are back in stock on high quality vinyl and available now through Domino Mart or at your local record store. And if that doesn't make you toss your hat in the air, our special price offers across the entire Pavement catalogue sure as hell will.

Animal Collective Strawberry Jam

As giddy as an unplanned run down a hill with clusters of synths, loping rhythms and lyrical bursts of high pitched filigree rushing to fall over each other. 

Clinic Internal Wrangler | Walking With Thee

Since the tail end of the '90s, Clinic have beamed in other-worldly psychedelic-pop transmissions from their own parallel dimension. Twisting and twining through paths that pass through the seldom visited regions of dub and '60s garage, Clinic keep it arty and groovy in equal measures. 

The Fall Your Future, Our Clutter

Your Future Our Clutter is The Fall at their most rampant, most forward moving, bone shaking best. 

Four Tet Ringer | There Is Love In You

Two classic LPs from the extraordinary Four Tet , now back in print. The 32 minute Ringer , a four-track excursion into the kind of wide-open spaces you might find if you set out to make techno with an afrobeat / krautrock sensibility. There Is Love In You - regarded as his best record in some quarters, this is a dance-inspired masterpiece.

Cass McCombs Wit's End | Catacombs

Imagine a Hal Ashby or Terrence Malick film as scored by Mark Hollis... light in its darkness, claustrophobic in its panorama, distant in its intimacy, present in its timelessness.

Owen Pallett Heartland

A panoramic and orchestral work oscillating between 19th century military music, '70s analog synth-pop, often in the space of a few bars.

Robert Wyatt Comicopera | Shleep

" Robert Wyatt is one of my favourite singers, writers, makers of wonderful music." - Alexis Taylor / Hot Chip. We can't say fairer than that!

Pavement Bundles | The Secret History Vol. 1 | Brighten The Corners | Terror Twilight | Wowee Zowee

Pavement were the first in their class, the band that spawned a myriad of imitators and released several classic albums, Slanted & Enchanted, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Wowee Zowee, Brighten The Corners and Terror Twilight. Actually, we'll correct that, they didn't make several classic albums, they made five classic albums. Go fill in the gaps in your Pavement collection: hurry, they're going, going...

Last week saw The Kills (Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart) release their eagerly anticipated fifth full-length album, Ash & Ice. The band, in speaking to Entertainment Weekly in the lead up to the albums’ release, had this to say about the record they made:

HINCE: I hope (people) can see that electric guitar music is the future! That it’s not stuck in the past, or nostalgic. I hope it makes them want to dress up and start a guitar band. And join our gang.

Mosshart: The aim was to be open and we pushed ourselves to write in a way that could be understood and mean something to other people. Human topics and feelings - love, joy, pain, loss, confusion, and those moments of feeling wildly, wildly happy and inspired beyond any sense of reason. The classic stuff! It’s an honest record.

The Kills recently performed a cover of Rihanna’s ‘Desperado’ during a Sirius XMU session. The entire session premieres tonight on SIRIUS XMU at 9pm Eastern, and will replay on Thursday, June 9th at 3am and 4pm ET, Friday June 10th at 9am ET and again on Sunday at 12pm ET.

The Kills just completed a coast-to-coast tour of North America, finishing up on Monday in California, where the band performed a rousing version of the album’s second single ‘Heart Of A Dog’ on Conan - Watch Here. The album’s lead single ‘Doing It To Death’ took the band to the stage of The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last month.

Watch the video for ‘Siberian Nights’, directed by Giovanni Ribisi, HERE.

Watch the video for ‘Heart Of A Dog’, directed by Sophie Muller, HERE.

Watch the video for ‘Doing It To Death’, directed by Wendy Morgan, HERE.

The Kills continue to tour the globe and will return to the US in September. All upcoming North American dates below - tickets are on sale now.

The Kills Tour Dates

9/2        Pomona, CA - Fox Theater

9/3        Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

9/4        San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park

9/7        Dallas, TX - Granada Theater

9/8        Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater

9/9        Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall

9/12      New Orleans, LA - House of Blues

9/13      Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theater

9/14      Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works

9/17      Milwaukee, WI - The Rave

9/18      Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's

9/20      Portland, ME - State Theatre

9/21      Montreal, QC - Metropolis

9/23      New York, NY - Terminal 5

Ash & Ice is available now on 2xLP, CD, and digital download via The Kills / Dom Mart / iTunes

Ash & Ice Tracklist

1. Doing It To Death

2. Heart Of A Dog

3. Hard Habit To Break

4. Bitter Fruit

5. Days Of Why And How

6. Let It Drop

7. Hum For Your Buzz

8. Siberian Nights

9. That Love

10. Impossible Tracks

11. Black Tar

12. Echo Home

13. Whirling Eye

Blood Orange - aka Devonte Hynes - will release his highly anticipated new album, Freetown Sound, on 1^st July, 2016 on Domino. Written and produced by Hynes, Freetown Sound is a tour de force, a confluence of Hynes’ past, present, and future that melds his influences with his own established musical voice.  A sneak peek into the album’s world (including brief glimpses of new songs and maybe even an album guest or two) can be seen HERE.

Press here to pre-order Freetown Sound via iTunes or here to pre-order the deluxe edition LP available exclusively through Dom Mart. The deluxe contains the album on double LP housed in a wide spine jacket, and a bonus 10” with two additional non-album tracks “Do You See My Skin Through The Flames” and “Sandra’s Smile,” as well as a double sided 24x36 poster. The CD and LP are available 19^th August.

In Hynes’ own words:

“I have just finished making an album about my life, my upbringing, being black in England, being black in America…my movement to this country at the age of 21, the same age that my mother moved from Guyana to London, and my father from Sierra Leone to London. Freetown Sound, the name of my album, is taken from Freetown where my father was born.”

For well over a decade, Devonté Hynes has proven himself a virtuoso of versatility, experimenting with almost every conceivable musical genre under a variety of monikers. After moving to New York City in the mid-2000s, Hynes became Blood Orange, pluming the oeuvres of the city’s musical legends to create a singular style of urgent, delicate pop music.  Freetown Sound, which follows 2011’s Coastal Grooves and 2013’s breakthrough Cupid Deluxe, builds upon everything Hynes has done as an artist, resulting in the most expansive artistic statement of his career.  Drawing from a deep well of techniques and references, the album unspools like a piece of theatre, evoking unexpected communions of moods, voices, and eras.  Freetown Sound derives its name from the birthplace of Hynes’ father, the capital of Sierra Leone. Thematically, it is profoundly personal and unapologetically political, touching on issues of race, religion, sex, and sexism over 17 shimmering songs.

Hynes’s solo project lives in tandem with his in-demand role as a songwriter/producer for hire, working with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Solange Knowles, FKA Twigs, and Sky Ferreira. He is also an established composer, scoring films (Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto, 2014) and artworks (Alex Da Corte’s Easternsports, 2016) alike. In 2015, his evermore-multifaceted career was crystallized on stage, where he invited his collaborators to take part in two sold-out performances at the Apollo Theater, with all proceeds benefitting Opus 118 Harlem School of Music.

Blood Orange is playing the following shows this summer in support of Freetown Sound. More shows will be announced soon.

Fri 10 June || Bonnaroo || Manchester, TN
Thurs 30 June || Roskilde || Copenhagen, DE
Sat 2 July || BST Hyde Park Festival || London, UK
Tues 5 July || Koko || London, UK
Thurs 7 July || Festival Moderno, Circolo Magnolia || Milan, IT
Sat 9 July || Ruisrock || Turku, FI
Sat 16 July || Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park || Chicago, IL
Sat 23 July || Panorama Festival, Randall Island || New York, NY
Sat 27 Aug || Greek Theatre ||| Berkeley, CA
Sun 28 Aug || FYF || Los Angeles, CA

Sam Coomes will release his first ever solo album Bugger Me on August 19^th. Coomes is probably best known as half of the long running underground pop duo Quasi, the other half being Janet Weiss, herself better known as the drummer for Sleater-Kinney. 

Coomes is pleased to share the first track from the forthcoming record, ‘Stride On’, all murky drum machines and gnarly organ stabs. Listen to 'Stride On' now below.

Additionally, watch the album trailer here. 

Alongside bandmate Janet Weiss, Quasi have released nine albums over the last two decades and toured all over the world. Concurrently, Sam Coomes has played and recorded with the likes of Built to Spill, Elliott Smith and Jandek, worked as a producer and scored numerous soundtracks for underground films and art installations. In short, he is not a newcomer to the scene. 

Bugger Me in Coome’s own words is “Suicide meets The Beach Boys. Not the sophisticated ‘Pet Sounds’ Beach Boys, but more like ‘Surfer Girl’ stuff. More conscious reference points were Chris Montez or Timmy Thomas.” He wanted to make “entertainment music, but entertainment music meant for those not served by more mainstream entertainment music.  Maybe one might want to take a break from Sheer Hellish Miasma & enjoy some simple tunes that maybe speak to the same sense of the absurd, that likewise reject commercialism & market-based aesthetics, & even now & again pay a little homage to the raw synthesizer noise we have grown to love & even crave. Maybe timeworn themes such as love & war still resonate in the dusty backrooms of your mind (indeed maybe they are the only themes which do so).”

Accompanied only by his organ and ‘Conny’ – a mid-‘60s rhythm box (non-programmable, “not even really a drum machine”), Coomes made a conscious choice to pare things back. He explains: “In a time where anyone with a computer & enough time on their hands can micro-manage a given piece of music to the nth degree; can process, arrange, edit & otherwise wheedle a song into a state-of-the-art showcase of outclevering the next guy… maybe allowing a song to exist at its most basic level is a means to not only subvert market-based (or, almost equivalently, technology-based) standards of production, but also a means to keep the music & the performance of the music honest.  This is assuming of course that honesty is a good thing, or at least is considered a good thing by those unmoved by mainstream entertainment music, which often reeks of dishonesty.  Whether this is a safe assumption, who knows?  Actually, I’m suspicious of people proclaiming their own honesty – so forget it.  Certainly, its artifice.  But the intent is honest artifice – like the original King Kong, as opposed to the remakes.  If King Kong for you means Willis O’Brien rather than Dino De Laurentis or Peter Jackson, then you probably have an idea of what I’m driving at.”

Bugger Me is available to pre-order now on vinyl, deluxe vinyl, CD and digital download. The vinyl, deluxe vinyl and CD all come with a black and white 16-page booklet and the deluxe LP is coloured black and white.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / iTunes / Stream

With less than two weeks until the release of their sixth full-length album, Ash & Ice, The Kills (Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart) are pleased to share the video for ‘Siberian Nights’, the third song from the record to be heard ahead of the June 3 release. ‘Siberian Nights’ was written by Hince, during a solo journey on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express. Directed by Giovanni Ribisi, the video reflects Hince’s “icy, paranoid” vision for the song. 

Says Ribisi:

"I've always looked at videos from a cultural perspective. Whether it's about a single, cultural event or some facet of the band. Over the course of making this video, what was there evolved into being something more abstract. However, during its early conception, I was enamored with a John Houston film called The Misfits. Ernst Haas was there during the making of it, taking photographs. His pictures were some of the many references for the video. The Kills have always been one of my favorite bands. Their music is undeniable. It was a pleasure and a privilege for me to work on this."

The Kills continue to tour the globe, previewing songs off the forthcoming release. All upcoming dates below, and tickets are on sale now.

May 25 || Minneapolis, MN || First Avenue
May 26 || Kansas City, KS || Midland Theatre
May 27 || Denver, CO || Ogden Theatre
May 28 || Salt Lake City, UT || The Depot
May 31 || Vancouver, BC || Commodore Ballroom
June 1 ||Seattle, WA || Showbox SoDo
June 2 || Portland, OR || Roseland Theater
June 4 || Oakland, CA || Fox Theater
June 9-12 || Newport, UK || Isle of Wight Festival
June 14 || Clermont-Ferrand, France || La Cooperative De Mai
June 16 || Madrid, Spain || Mad Cool Festival
June 29 || Euch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg || The Rockhal
July 1 || Marmande, France || Garorock Festival
July 2 || Normandy, France || Festival Beauregard
July 3 || Belfort, France || EUROCKEENNES
July 6 || Kiev, Ukraine || U-Park Festival
July 9 || Moscow, Russia || Park Live Festival
July 14 || Carhaix, France || Festival Les Vieilles Charrues
July 15 || Benicassim, Spain || Benicassim
July 22 || Byron Bay, Australia || Splendour In The Grass
July 23 || Melbourne, Australia || Forum Theatre
July 26 || Sydney, Australia || Enmore Theatre
July 28 || Auckland, New Zealand || Powerstation
July 29 || Wellington, New Zealand || Shed 6
Aug 6 || Katowice, Poland || Off Festival
Aug 7 || Prague, Czech Republic || Roxy
Aug 8 || Leipzig, Germany || Taubchenthal
Aug 9 || Copenhagen, Denmark || Vega
Aug 11 || Oslo, Norway || Oya Festival
Aug 12 || Stockholm, Sweden || Way Out West Festival
Aug 13 || Helsinki, Finland || Flow Festival
Aug 18 || Hasselt, Belgium || Pukkelpop
Aug 20 || St. Polen, Austria || Frequency Festival
Sept 2 || Pomona, CA || Fox Theater
Sept 3 || Los Angeles, CA || The Wiltern
Sept 4 || San Diego, CA || The Observatory
Sept 7 || Dallas, TX || Granada Theater
Sept 8 || Austin, TX || ACL Live At The Moody
Sept 9 || Houston, TX || White Oak Music Hall
Sept 12 || New Orleans, LA || House Of Blues
Sept 13 || Atlanta, GA || Buckhead Transfer
Sept 14 || Nashville, TN || Marathon Music Works
Sept 17 || Milwaukee, WI || The Rave
Sept 18 || Cincinatti, OH || Bogart’s
Sept 20 || Portland, ME || State Theatre
Sept 21 || Montreal, QC || Metropolis
Sept 23 || New York, NY || Terminal 5
Sept 29 || Manchester, UK || Albert Hall
Sept 30 || Glasgow, UK || 02 ABC
Oct 1 || Leeds, UK || Beckett Students Union
Oct 2 || Nottingham, UK || Rock City
Oct 4 || Oxford, UK || 02 Academy 1
Oct 5 || Bristol, UK || Anson Rooms
Oct 6 || Birmingham, UK || 02 Institute 1
Oct 7 || London, UK || Roundhouse *SOLD OUT
Oct 18 || Paris, France || Olympia *SOLD OUT
Oct 19 || Paris, France || Olympia
Oct 22 || Berlin, Germany || Tempodrom
Oct 23 || Hamburg, Germany || Große Freiheit 36
Oct 25 || Cologne, Germany || E-Werk
Oct 26 || Munich, Germany || Tonhalle
Oct 27 || Zurich, Switzerland || Volkhaus
Oct 29 || Milan, Italy || Fabrique
Oct 31 || Lyon, France || Le Radient
Nov 3 || Lisbon, Portugal || Lisbon Coliseum
Nov 8 || Nantes, France || Le Stereolux
Nov 9 || Brussels, Belgium || Arenbergschouwburg 

Wild Beasts have announced their new album Boy King. Their most direct and vital collection to date, the album is set for release on 5^th August 2016 with its first single ‘Get My Bang’ also released today. The video for ‘Get My Bang’ was shot in Belgrade and directed by Olivier Groulx (Arcade Fire, alt-J, Scott Walker) featuring vocalist Hayden Thorpe’s twisted routine of Justin Timberlake-meets-Trent Reznor choreography.

Watch the video for new single ‘Get My Bang’ HERE

Listen to ‘Get My Bang’ on Spotify HERE

Listen to ‘Get My Bang’ on Apple Music HERE

Where 2014's Present Tense album found Wild Beasts in reflective mood, absorbing a fascination with online culture and electronic music, Boy King has them, as Tom Fleming puts it, "back to being pissed off". The quartet’s ever-present knack for sensual melody via Hayden Thorpe and Fleming's dueting vocals, Ben Little's sinuous guitar groove and Chris Talbot's potent rhythm section carries in Boy King an aggressive, snarling and priapic beast that delves into the darker side of masculinity and Thorpe's own psyche. As Hayden himself says, "After five records there had to be an element of 'what the fuck?'".

A newfound creative friction between Thorpe and Fleming proved key to unleashing the unique pop sensibility of Boy King - Fleming’s more visceral experimentation unlocking new dimensions in Thorpe’s own writing. After spending a whole year finessing this new found impetus in East London, the band emerged with a collection of songs ready to take to Dallas and producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans, The War on Drugs). Both Thorpe and Fleming credit that trip to Dallas with teasing out the raw power of Boy King. In the studio, the band kept up the intensity of the office hour routine they'd employed during writing sessions and, they say, responded well to Congleton's sober discipline. "He made us get in there, get on and do it," Fleming says. "English politeness never featured."

The raw pop of Boy King's songs are the perfect foil to Thorpe's libidinous lyricism: "it became apparent that that guitar almost became the character within the songs, that phallic character, the all-conquering male," he says. "I'm letting my inner Byron fully out, I thought I'd tucked him away, but he came screaming back like the Incredible Hulk." Here lies Boy King's greatest success. Between the slide of prowling aggression and interior darkness, there are glorious, gorgeous moments. It’s yet another incomparable Wild Beasts record; a visceral, sensual and jolting body of work that acts as a remarkable soundtrack to the early 21st century male malaise. Or as Thorpe puts it: "I think Boy King is an apocalyptic record. It's about swimming in the abyss. When you think about sex, you've got to think about death, they're one and the same. 

The Last Shadow Puppets have shared the video for new single ‘Miracle Aligner’ – watch it now HERE. Taken from the number one album Everything You’ve Come To Expect, the new video was filmed in London and is the final video of the triptych from director Saam Farahmand, which included the videos for ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ (watch HERE) and ‘Aviation’ (watch HERE).

‘Miracle Aligner’, plus singles ‘Aviation’ and ‘Bad Habits’, feature on the band’s second album Everything You’ve Come To Expect which was released 1^st April 2016. The new album finds Alex Turner and Miles Kane reunited with James Ford (production and drums) and Owen Pallett (string arrangements) and joined by Zachary Dawes (Mini Mansions) on bass, recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘The Age Of The Understatement’ at Shangri La Studio in Malibu.

You can buy the album now via The Last Shadow Puppets store,  Dom Mart or iTunes.

The Last Shadow Puppets are also set for an extensive run of live dates, including festival appearances, as listed below : -

25 May: Ireland, Dublin – The Olympia Theatre

26 May: Ireland, Dublin – The Olympia Theatre

27 May: Ireland, Dublin – The Olympia Theatre

30 May: UK, Newcastle – City Hall

31 May: UK, Leicester – De Montfort Hall

2 June: France, Clermont Ferrand – Europavox Festival

3 June: Spain, Barcelona – Primavera Festival

5 June: Greece, Athens – Rockwave Festival

24 June: UK, Bristol – Lloyd’s Amphitheatre

22 – 26 June: UK, Pilton - Glastonbury

27 June: Germany, Cologne – E-Werk

28 June: Germany, Dresden - Schlachthof

29 June: Poland, Gydnia – Open’er Festival

1 July: France, Belfort – Eurokeennes Festival

3 July: Belgium, Werchter – Rock Werchter

5 July: Italy, Ferrara – Piazza Castello

6 July: Italy, Milan – Alcatraz

7 July: France, Lyon – Les Nuits de Fourviere

9 July: Scotland, Strathallan – T In The Park

10 July: UK, Manchester – Castlefield Bowl

12 July: UK, Bridlington – The Spa

13 July: UK, Bournemouth – BIC

15 July: UK, London – Alexandra Palace

16 July: UK, London – Alexandra Palace

10 August: Norway, Oslo – Oya Festival

16 August: Hungary, Budapest – Sziget Festival

19 – 21 August: Holland, Biddinghuizen - Lowlands Festival

23 August: Germany, Berlin – Columbiahalle

26-28 Aug: France, Paris – Rock en Seine

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan recently released the beautiful Broken Wave Live EP. The songs were taken from the Broken Wave Live sessions recorded at The Square Studio in East London. These sessions afforded the band an opportunity to showcase brawsome live versions of three songs from the band’s acclaimed debut album Everything Sacred – released earlier this year.

YTK are now pleased to share the video for ‘Song for Thirza’, the band’s reading of legendary songwriter and singer Lal Waterson’s original.

Elsewhere on the EP, ‘Broken Wave (A Blues for Doogie)’ is James Yorkston’s tribute to Doogie Paul – a powerful, tender lament to his old bass player and friend whilst Jon Thorne takes the lead on his yearning composition and album title track ‘Everything Sacred’.

You can catch the band live at the following shows:

Friday 6^th May – Guildford, Boileroom

Saturday 7^th May – Kirkcaldy, Adam Smith Theatre

Friday 20^th May – Brighton, The Great Escape

Saturday 11^th June – London, Field Day

Tuesday 2^nd August – Cork, Cyprus Avenue

Wednesday 3^rd August – Kilkenny, Cleeres Bar & Theatre

Thursday 4^th August – Galway, Roisin Dubh

Friday 5^th August – Waterford, Phil Grimes

Saturday 6^th August – Belfast, Crescent Arts Centre

Sunday 7^th August – Dublin, The Workman’s Club

Wednesday 10^th August – Edinburgh International Festival

18^th – 21^st August – Brecon Beacons, Green Man

Friday 26^th August – Totnes, Sea Change

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan are an experimental group that includes James Yorkston, one of the most “influential singer/songwriters on the Scottish folk scene”, Suhail Yusuf Khan, award winning sarangi player and classical singer from New Delhi and Jon Thorne, best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb. 

Buy the Broken Wave Live EP here. Buy the Everything Sacred CD/LP here.

With just a week to go before the release of their forthcoming album, Paradise, out on Domino on May 6th, White Lung has unveiled the video for single ‘Below.’ "This is my Stevie-Nicks-meets-Celine Dion ballad," said lead singer Mish Barber-Way. "I needed to try to do a ballad about glamorous women. It's based on a quote by Camille Paglia, 'Beauty fades. Beauty is transient. That is why we value it,' she said. 'Feminism's failure to acknowledge that beauty is a value in itself, that even if a woman manages to achieve it for a particular moment, she has contributed something to the culture.' It's a song about the preservation of glamour and beauty."

Directed by Richard Bates Jr., the video stars AnnaLynne McCord along with other Marilyn Monroe look-alikes.

Richard Bates Jr. is known for his films Suburban Gothic and Excision. Bates said of the video, "White Lung play for an audience of impersonators who come to the realization that they've betrayed themselves in the pursuit of fame. ‘Below’ is a love-letter to influential female artists from the past. Our video serves to reinforce the notion that what makes an artist special cannot be manufactured." Both AnnaLynne McCord and Mish Barber-Way appear in Bates' most recent film Trash Fire.

White Lung have shared two tracks so far from their forthcoming album. The first, ‘Hungry,’ "is a tightly-wound, catchy-as-fuck invective played at a polished, breakneck velocity," said Pitchfork, who proclaimed it 'Best New Track.' And ‘Kiss Me When I Bleed,’ which also received the BNT distinction. Now with ‘Below’ the trio has given fans yet another taste of their deepest and most mature effort to date. They will tour extensively throughout Europe and North America this summer. Full list of dates below. 

For the making of Paradise, vocalist Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou reconnected in Los Angeles to work with producer Lars Stalfors (HEALTH, Cold War Kids, Alice Glass). White Lung spent a month in the studio, working closely with Stalfors to challenge what could be done with their songs. Bringing all the energy, unique guitar work and lyrical prowess the band are known for to the studio, White Lung curated their songs with a new pop sensibility, focusing in on making a record for the present - "I wanted a record that sounded like it was made in 2016", said William. Mixed by Stalfors and later mastered by Joe LaPorta, Paradise is their smartest, brightest songwriting yet. 

Mish Barber-Way and Kenneth William sat down with Annie Clark aka St. Vincent to discuss the making of the album and their creative process. The entire conversation can be read here.

Paradise is available to pre-order now on limited edition deluxe colored vinyl, limited edition tri-glitter cassette, CD, and digital download.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

White Lung 2016 Tour Dates:

May 6 || Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground (Canadian Music Week)

May 7 || Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right (SOLD OUT)

May 24 || Brighton, UK - Green Door Store

May 25 || Bristol, UK - Start The Bus

May 26 || London, UK - Victoria

May 27 || Birmingham, UK - The Flapper

May 28 || Leeds, UK - Brudenell Games Room

May 29 || Manchester, UK - The Star & Garter

May 31 || Paris, France - Le Point Éphémère*

June 1 || Liege, BE - La Zone*

June 2 || The Hague, NL - Paard (Small Hall)*

June 3 || Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso*

June 4 || Berlin, Germany - Torstraßen Festival

June 5 || Antwerp, BE - Trix

June 17-18 || Vancouver, BC - Levitation

July 8 || Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom

July 9 || San Diego, CA - Casbah

July 10 || Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar

July 13 || Austin, TX - The Sidewinder

July 14 || Dallas, TX - Club Dada

July 16 || St Louis, MO - The Firebird

July 18 || Bloomington, IN - Bluebird^

July 19 || Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom

July 20 || Detroit, MI - El Club

July 22-24 || Oro-Medonte, ON - WayHome Music & Arts Festival

July 24 || New York, NY - Panorama Music & Arts Festival

July 29-31 || Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival

July 30 || Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall

August 1 || Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle

August 2 || Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel

Aug 3 || Pittsburgh, PA - Club Cafe

August 4 || Columbus, OH - Big Room Bar

Aug 5 || Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Restaurant

August 6 || Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

August 8 || Winnipeg, MB - The Good Will

August 10 || Calgary, AB - Commonwealth

August 12 || Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

August 13 || Seattle, WA - Neumos

August 15 || San Francisco, CA - The Independent

*=w/No Joy
^=w/Unknown Mortal Orchestra

We are delighted to announce that Villagers’ Darling Arithmetic has been nominated in the category ‘Album Award’, at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards. 

Conor O’Brien previously won the ‘Best Song Musically and Lyrically’ Ivor Novello Award in 2011, for his track ‘Becoming A Jackal’ taken from the debut album of the same name.

Released in April 2015, Darling Arithmetic is the third full length album from Villagers. O’Brien wrote, recorded, produced and mixed the album at his home – the loft of a converted farmhouse that he shares in the coastal town of Malahide, north of Dublin. It was a more pared-back, intimate journey compared to the multi-faceted arrangements of 2010’s Becoming A Jackal and 2013’s {Awayland} and revealed a single-minded artist at the peak of his already considerable songwriting powers.

Previously nominated twice for the Mercury Music Prize and winner of Ireland’s Choice Music Prize, O’Brien is currently working on his fourth album.

Villagers will be playing a string of festivals this summer across Europe and North America.

Villagers live dates

Fri 1^st July – Vida Festival, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain

Fri 1^st-Sun 3^rd July – Castlepalooza, Laois, Ireland

Thurs 14^th July – Super Bock Super Rock, Lisbon

Sat 16^th July – Colours of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Sat 23^rd July – Le Poisson Rouge, New York

Sun 24^th July – Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI

The Kills have unveiled the second music video from their highly anticipated fifth album, Ash & Ice. “Heart Of A Dog” premiered on the Coachella festival live stream immediately before the band’s blistering energetic performance on Friday evening. The video was directed by Sophie Muller who has worked with the band in the past (“U.R.A Fever,” “Cheap and Cheerful,” “Last Days of Magic” and “Satellite”). Ash & Ice will be released on June 3rd through Domino.

The band adds: We are very very especially pleased to release our new music video for “Heart of A Dog!” It was shot all day and into the night in Los Angeles by our dear friend, the tremendous talent, Sophie Muller. We love this video. We love it because it’s fucking fun. Muscle cars and backflips. Palms trees and cacti. Dogs and dice. Neon and sunshine. We hope you love it as much as we do. VROOM VROOM. Love, The Kills. 

Over their almost decade-and-a-half career, The Kills have released four records. Each one a restless, reckless enigmatic art statement that bristled with tension, anxiety, sex, unstudied cool and winking ennui, yet not one of them sounded like the previous one. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011’s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making. 

The Kills’ forthcoming European run in May is now sold out.  The band will be returning in the autumn, for shows including London’s Roundhouse on the 7^th of October  - general on-sale for the new dates is on Friday at 10am CET. All dates are listed below.

The Kills Tour Dates

April 18 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre (SOLD OUT)

April 19 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory

April 22 Indio, CA - Coachella (SOLD OUT)

May 1 Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg (SOLD OUT)

May 3 Paris, FR - La Cigale (SOLD OUT)

May 4 London, UK - Village Underground (SOLD OUT)

May 13 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival

May 14 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

May 15 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club

May 19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club (SOLD OUT)

May 21 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall

May 22 Detroit, MI - St Andrew’s Hall

May 23 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre

May 25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue

May 26 Kansas City, KS - Midland Theatre

May 27 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

May 28 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot

May 31 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom

June 1 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo

June 2 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater

June 4 San Francisco, CA - Fox Theater

June 9 - 12 Newport, UK - Isle of Wight Festival

June 14 Clermont-Ferrand, France – La Cooperative De Mai

June 16 Madrid, Spain - Mad Cool Festival

June 29 Euch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – The Rockhal

July 1 Marmande, France – Garorock Festival

July 2 Normandy, France – Festival Beauregard

July 3 Belfort, France - EUROKEENES

July 6 Kiev, Ukraine - U-Park Festival

July 9 Moscow, Russia - Park Live Festival

July 14 Carhaix, France - Festival Les Vieilles Charrues

July 15 Benicassim, Spain - Benicassim

July 22 Byron Bay NSW, Australia - Splendour In The Grass

August 6 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival

August 7 Prague, Czech Republic – Roxy

August 8 Leipzig, Germany – Taubchenthal

August 9 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega

August 11 Oslo, Norway – Oya Festival

August 12 Stockholm, Sweden – Way Out West Festival

August 13 Helsinki, Finland – Flow Festival

August 18 Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop

August 20 St. Polen, Austria – Frequency Festival

September 29 Manchester, UK - Albert Hall*

September 30 Glasgow, UK - O2 ABC*

October 1 Leeds, UK - Beckett Students’ Union*

October 2 Nottingham, UK - Rock City*

October 4 Oxford, UK - O2 Academy 1*

October 5 Bristol, UK - Anson Rooms*

October 6 Birmingham, UK - O2 Institute 1*

October 7 London, UK - Roundhouse*

October 18 Paris, France - Olympia*

October 22 Berlin, Germany - Tempodrom*

October 23 Hamburg, Germany - Große Freiheit 36*

October 25 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk*

October 26 Munich, Germany - Tonhalle*

October 27 Zurich, Switzerland - Volkhaus*

October 29 Milan, Italy - Fabrique*

October 31 Lyon, France - Le Radient*

November 3 Lisbon, Portugal - Lisbon Coliseum*

November 8 Nantes, France - Le Stéréolux*

November 9 Brussels, Belgium - Arenbergschouwburg*

*on sale April 22nd at 10am local time

Ash & Ice is available to pre-order now on 2xLP, CD, and digital download. Pre-order digitally and receive “Doing It To Death” and “Heart Of A Dog” instantly. Pre-order: The Kills / iTunes

Your Friend is currently wrapping up a tour with Porches and Alex G in support of her debut album, Gumption, out now on Domino.  Ahead of her last week on the road in the United States, The FADER has premiered a new video for title track, “Gumption,” directed by Dan Huiting.

On the video’s concept, Huiting explains, “When I first heard this song I immediately had two images come into my mind. One was person trudging through the snow from overhead, and second was an overhead shot of that person stopping in front of a burning car. There's something about fire that is so mesmerizing to me.”

Taryn Miller aka Your Friend elaborates on the making of the “Gumption” video, “"I feel really fortunate to have worked with Dan. I've been a fan of his work for a long time. It was wild getting to see the fire footage after the fact since I was facedown in the ice for those shots. It was painfully cold but I would get hit with this wave of heat as the flames grew and it felt amazing in this strange way. In that, I couldn't see but only experience it physically."

TOUR DATES (new dates in bold):

Thu. Apr. 14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *

Fri. Apr. 15 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom *

Sat. Apr. 16 - Harrisburg, PA @ MakeSpace

Sun. Apr. 17 - Columbus, OH @ Rumba

Mon. Apr. 18 - Champaign, IL @ Accord

Tue. Apr. 19 - St. Louis, MO @ The Stage

Fri. Apr. 22 - Lawrence, KS @ Urban Outfitters

Mon. May 2 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada ^

Tue. May 3 - Austin, TX @ The Parish ^

Thu. May 5 - Kansas City, MO @ Middle of the Map Festival

* with Alex G & Porches

^ w/ San Fermin

Purchase Gumption:

Dom Mart /  iTunes

The trio of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan return with the beautiful new ‘Broken Wave Live’ EP.  The tracks on the EP are taken from the Broken Wave Live sessions recorded at The Square studio in east London. These sessions afforded the band an opportunity to showcase poignant live versions of three songs from the band’s acclaimed debut album ‘Everything Sacred’.

Lead track ‘Broken Wave (A Blues For Doogie)’ is James Yorkston’s tribute to Doogie Paul– a powerful, tender lament to his old bass player and friend. You can watch the Liam Saint Pierre directed video for the song, shot at The Square during recording, HERE.   Jon Thorne then takes the lead on his yearning composition and album title track ‘Everything Sacred’, followed by the band’s sensitive reading of legendary songwriter and singer Lal Waterson’s ‘Song For Thirza’.  

Buy the ‘Broken Wave Live’ EP HERE.

You can catch the band live at the following shows:

Friday 6^th May – Guildford, Boileroom

Saturday 7^th May – Kirkcaldy, Adam Smith Theatre

Thursday 19^th May – Saturday 21^st May – Brighton, The Great Escape

Saturday 11^th – Sunday 12^th June – London, Field Day

5^th August – 29^th August – Edinburgh International Festival

Sunday 7^th August – Dublin, The Workman’s Club

Thursday 18^th – Sunday 21^st August – Brecon Beacons, Green Man

The launch of James Yorkstons’ new novel ‘Three Craws’ will take place at The City Café in Edinburgh on Thursday the 28^th of April – more information about the novel can be found HERE and the event HERE

Domino are proud to reissue Quasi’s first three studio albums, 1997’s R&B Transmogrification, 1998’s Featuring “Birds” and 1999’s Field Studies on June 10^th.

Stream R&B Transmogrification’s ‘Ballad of Mechanical Man’, Featuring “Birds”’s ‘The Poisoned Well’ and Field Studies ‘Birds’ here.

Some bands – not every band – hit a hot streak. A year or two, or three, where they can’t do wrong for doing right; where every song suggests another two; where all the mistakes are in tune and in time, and the bandmembers are finishing each other’s riffs and fills. Talking Heads, 1978–80. The Fall, 1979–82. Sonic Youth, 1986–88. Wu-Tang, 1994–97.

Quasi, 1997-1999: R&B Transmogrification, Featuring “Birds”, Field Studies.

Indie rock had seen power duos before: Guv’ner, Royal Trux, Buckingham-Nicks, the Carpenters – but they’d never sounded like Quasi. Drumming like a controlled detonation; mutant blues coming out of an electric harpsichord or guitar by turns. Backwards through the backwoods of AM pop and Pebbles psych to create a new form: bar-room baroque. Honey-golden multitracked vocals and some of the bleakest, black-eyed, black-hearted lyrics put to paper since Lou Reed woke up in a bad mood. And all played with the kind of ramshackle ease that only comes from weeks of practice, months in the van, and serious chops.

Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes first collaborated in 1990 as Motorgoat, but by 1993 they had become Quasi. These initial excursions would later be re-released as Early Recordings, but 1997’s R&B Transmogrification is where they define their double act. On drums and harmonies, Weiss is all low-key Bonham-ie, power with poise. On top Coomes’ Roxichord makes you wonder how the electronic harpsichord never took off, its low-end crunch with top notes sounding like Ray Manzarek with a Superfuzz. A treacherous lyrical undertow is always there, catching you as you sing along to sweet pop hooks about death, hopelessness – or the illusions of the atomic family on ‘Mama, Papa, Baby’: “One plus one plus one is nothing.” Yet musically Coomes and Weiss are always greater than the sum of their parts. They just fit together, like a two-piece jigsaw puzzle. You float out of R&B Transmogrification on the dislocated cosmic guitars of ‘Clouds’, a little transmogrified yourself.

From Weiss’s opening salvo, and the first action-painting splatter of Coomes’ keyboard on ‘Our Happiness is Guaranteed’, Featuring “Birds” is Quasi at their peak, melding jams-kicking rock’n’roll, punk action, and chord shifts that feel like the change of a season. The success of Weiss’s other group, Sleater-Kinney, in the meantime was clearly only firing up, rather than undercutting Quasi. The songs slide from science fictional dystopia on ‘Our Happiness is Guaranteed’ and ‘I Never Want to See You Again’, to wage-slave class war on ‘The Happy Prole’ and ‘Sea Shanty’. As for ‘It’s Hard to Turn Me On’ and ‘California’, how can songs about anhedonia, the inability to experience pleasure, feel so good? Mixing uppers and downers isn’t usually advised, but Weiss and Coomes use it to make a musical space that feels unique to Quasi. 

Closing in on the millennium, both feet on the pedals, Field Studies arrives in 1999. Organ edges out the Roxichord, making for a sound less jagged and more floating – like the protagonist of ‘The Star You Left Behind’, drifting out into an infinite void.  Does Field Studies have an Elliott Smith turn to the harmonies? They do share that heady hit of sweet-sour power-pop – or maybe both Quasi and Smith have a Heatmiser influence, given that’s the Portland band that Coomes and Smith had played in together. As one of their biggest fans, ‘Clouds’ was one of Smith’s favourite live covers. And Smith plays bass on three of Field Studies’ tracks, returning the favour for the many live shows in which Weiss and Coomes were his backing group. “I live underground on the dark side of town”, sings Coomes, but Field Studies is brilliantly lit with tunes that positively glow, and if the settings and arrangements are little more orderly than Featuring “Birds”, it’s only to heighten those accents.

The rest is history: Sword of God, Hot Shit!, When the Going Gets Dark, American Gong, and, most recently in 2013, Mole City, the late-arriving Tusk of the American indie tradition, four sprawling sides of old joys and new directions. Don’t stop; never stop. “You won’t live long / but you may write the perfect song” sings Coomes on ‘The Poisoned Well’. Quasi wrote more than a few, so if you don’t know these three albums, come on in: your happiness is guaranteed. 

These three seminal albums will be reissued on vinyl and CD plus will be available on all digital formats. All three albums are available packaged together exclusively through Domino Mart.

Pre-order the Quasi bundle on vinyl from Dom Mart.

Pre-order R&B Transmogrification from Dom Mart.

Pre-order Featuring “Birds” from Dom Mart and buy it digitally here.

Pre-order Field Studies from Dom Mart and buy it digitally here.

Having recently confirmed her biggest headline show to date in the UK – at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London on November 14^th – Julia Holter is now pleased to announce the rest of her European tour with further UK stops at Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol, Newcastle and Brighton. Tickets for the new shows go on sale Friday 15^th April at 10am GMT. Circuits Des Yeux has been announced as the tour support from Nov 11^th – Nov 21^st.

Julia Holter will be playing a string of festivals this summer including Green Man Festival, Primavera Sound, Pitchfork Music Festival (Chicago), La Route Du Rock and Iceland Airwaves.

Additionally Holter will release live favourite ‘Sea Calls Me Home’ as a single on May 21^st, taken from her dazzling & widely acclaimed fourth album Have You In My Wilderness.

Upcoming live dates

15^th May – FORM: Arcosanti, Mayer, AZ TIX

19-21^st May – Moogfest, Durham, NC TIX

30^th May – Sasquatch Festival, Georgia, WA TIX

2^nd June – Kilbi Festival, Düdingen, Switzerland TIX

4^th June – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona TIX

6^th June – Le 106, Rouen TIX *

7^th June – Les Nuits De Botanique Festival, Brussels TIX *

9^th June – NOS Primavera Sound Festival, Porto TIX

23^rd June – Sled Island Music & Arts Festival, Calgary, AB TIX

15-17^th July – Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL TIX

6 & 7^th August – Pickathon, Happy Valley, OR TIX

11^th August – Øya Festival, Oslo TIX

12^th August – Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg TIX

13^th August – Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern-Rees, Germany TIX

14^th August – La Route Du Rock Festival, Saint-Malo TIX

16^th August – Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam TIX *

18^th August – DR Studio 2, Copenhagen TIX *

21^st August - Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons TIX

28^th August – FYF Festival, Los Angeles, CA TIX

31^st August – The Chapel, San Francisco, CA TIX *

1^st September – The Old Redwood Barn, Sonoma, CA TIX *

3-6^th November – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavik TIX

8^th November – Arts Carmarlis Festival, Katowice TIX

11^th November – Gaite Lyrique, Paris TIX * ^

12^th November – Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht TIX  ^

14^th November – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London TIX * ^

15^th November – Cathedral, Manchester TIX * ^

16^th November – The Sage, Newcastle TIX * ^

17^th November – Art School, Glasgow TIX * ^

 19^th November – Vicar Street, Dublin TIX * ^

20^th November – Anson Rooms, Bristol TIX * ^

21^st November – Concorde 2, Brighton TIX * ^

* = Headline shows

^ = Support from Circuits Des Yeux

Animal Collective have shared “Hounds of Bairro,” a track from their Gnip Gnop / Hounds of Bairro 7” available on the deluxe physical edition of their recent tenth studio album Painting With, which was released February 19 2016 on Domino. Stream the song below now and find both tracks, b-sides from the Painting With recording sessions, on digital services here.

The band’s European tour began this past weekend, with further UK live dates now confirmed for September following the band’s shows next week at London’s Troxy (Tuesday April 12) and Manchester’s Ritz (Wednesday April 13). Animal Collective will also headline this year’s End of The Road Festival and have announced further US live dates.

The band will be performing on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic this coming Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Tune in at 9pm PST/12pm EST. 

Animal Collective Tour Dates (UK live dates in bold)

Apr 04 || Hamburg, Germany || Uebel & Gefahrlich || TIX ^

Apr 05 || Berlin, Germany || Postbahnhof || TIX ^

Apr 07 || Milan, Italy || C2C Festival @ Magazzini Generali || TIX ^

Apr 08 || Stans, Switzerland || Stanser Musiktage Festival @ Kollegi || TIX

Apr 09 || Paris, France || La Cigale || TIX ^

Apr 12 || London, UK || The Troxy ||TIX ^

Apr 13 || Manchester, UK || 02 Ritz || TIX ^

Apr 28 || Fayetteville, AR || George’s Majestic Lounge || SOLD OUT +

Apr 30 || Austin, TX || Levitation || TIX

May 01 || Tulsa, OK || Cain's Ballroom || TIX +

May 03 || St. Louis, MO || The Pageant || TIX +

May 04 || Royal Oak, MI || Royal Oak Music Theatre || TIX +

May 06 || Nashville, TN || Marathon Music Works || TIX +

May 07 || Atlanta, GA || Buckhead Theatre || SOLD OUT +

May 08 II Asheville, NC || Orange Peel || SOLD OUT +

May 10 II Washington, DC || 9:30 Club || SOLD OUT +

May 11 II Washington, DC || 9:30 Club || SOLD OUT +

May 13 || Wilmington, DE || World Café Live at the Queen || SOLD OUT +

May 14 || Sayreville, NJ || Starland Ballroom || TIX +

Jun 03 || Barcelona, Spain || Primavera Sound || TIX

June 05 || Lyon, France || Le Transbordeur || TIX

June 06 || Bordeaux, France || Le Rocher de Palmer || TIX

June 07 || Madrid, Spain || Joy Eslava || TIX

Jun 09 || Porto, Portugal || Nos Primavera Sound || TIX

Aug 22 II Honolulu, HI || The Republik || TIX

Sep 2-4 || Dorset, UK || End of The Road Festival || TIX

Sep 03 || Liverpool, UK || O2 Academy Liverpool || TIX

Sep 2-4 || Laois, Ireland || Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival || SOLD OUT

Sep 06 || Glasgow, UK || O2 ABC Glasgow || TIX

Sep 07 || Leeds, UK || Leeds Uni Stylus || TIX

Sep 8-11 || Isle of Wight, UK || Bestival || TIX

Sep 20 || San Diego, CA || The Observatory North Park || TIX %

Sep 21 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory || TIX %

Sep 23 || Big Sur, CA II Fernwood Resort || SOLD OUT

Sep 24 || Big Sur, CA II Fernwood Resort || SOLD OUT

Sep 26 || Eugene, OR II McDonald Theatre || TIX %

Sep 27 II Vancouver, BC II Vogue Theatre || TIX %

Sep 29 || Calgary, AB II Macewan Hall Ballroom || TIX %

Sep 30 || Edmonton, AB || Union Hall Night Club || TIX %

Oct 03 || Sioux Falls, SD || Orpheum Theatre || TIX %

Oct 05 || Indianapolis, IN || Egyptian Room at Old National Centre || TIX %

Oct 06 || Morgantown, WV || Mainstage Morgantown || TIX %

Oct 07 || Pittsburgh, PA || Mr. Smalls Theatre || TIX %

Nov 02 || New York, NY || Terminal 5 || TIX

Nov 03 || Baltimore, MD || Rams Head Live! || TIX

Nov 04 || Richmond, VA || The National || TIX

Nov 05 || Carrboro, NC || Cat's Cradle || TIX

Nov 07 || Tallahassee, FL || The Moon || TIX

Nov 08 || Tampa, FL || The Ritz Ybor || TIX

Nov 10 || Miami Beach, FL || The Fillmore at Jacki Gleason || TIX

Nov 11 || Orlando, FL || The Beacham Theatre || TIX

Nov 12 || Jacksonville, FL || Mavericks || TIX

Nov 14 || New Orleans, LA || The Civic Theatre || TIX

+ w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

% w/ WIFE

^ w/ GFOTY

Fresh off of a victorious SXSW, White Lung release another stellar track off their upcoming fourth studio album Paradise, due out May 6^th on Domino. Front woman Mish Barber-Way explains “’Kiss Me When I Bleed’ is about pride. That kind of steadfast, I-don't-give-a-fuck-I'm-in-love pride in that we all wish we had for someone. This song is my fairytale. Riches to rags and happily ever after because nothing else in this world really matters except love."

Listen to 'Kiss Me When I Bleed' here

Surprisingly, the track features no synthesizers – it’s all Kenny William’s guitar. He has reworked and re-pitched his parts resulting in what Annie Clark (St. Vincent) compares to evil mosquitoes - a bit off and unsettling.

This second cut, follows on from 'Hungry', which received 'Best New Track' from Pitchfork, who said "propelled by ringing guitars and Way's piercing vocals, the track is a tightly-wound, catchy-as-fuck invective played at a polished, breakneck velocity." Also, noting the band is "ostensibly teetering on the edge of a major breakthrough."

White Lung will tour extensively throughout Europe and North America this summer. Full list of tour dates below.

For the making of Paradise, vocalist Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou reconnected in Los Angeles to work with producer Lars Stalfors (HEALTH, Alice Glass). In October of 2015, White Lung spent a month in the studio, working closely with Stalfors to challenge what could be done with their songs. Bringing all the energy, unique guitar work and lyrical prowess the band are known for to the studio, White Lung curated their songs with a new pop sensibility, focusing in on making a record for the present - "I wanted a record that sounded like it was made in 2016", said William. Mixed by Stalfors and later mastered by Joe LaPorta, Paradise is their smartest, brightest songwriting yet.

Mish Barber-Way and Kenneth William sat down with Annie Clark aka St. Vincent to discuss the making of the album and their creative process. The entire conversation can be read here.

White Lung 2016 Tour Dates:

May 6 || Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground (Canadian Music Week)

May 7 || Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right

May 24 || Brighton, UK - Green Door Store

May 25 || Bristol, UK - Start The Bus

May 26 || London, UK - Victoria

May 27 || Birmingham, UK - The Flapper

May 28 || Leeds, UK - Brudenell Games Room

May 29 || Manchester, UK - The Star & Garter

May 31 || Paris, France - Ephemere

June 1 || Liege, BE - La Zone

June 2 || The Hague, NL - Paard (Small Hall)

June 3 || Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso

June 5 || Antwerp, BE - Trix

June 16-18 || Vancouver, BC - Levitation

July 8 || Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom

July 9 || San Diego, CA - Casbah

July 10 || Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar

July 13 || Austin, TX - The Sidewinder

July 18 || Bloomington, IN – Bluebird (w/ Unknown Mortal Orchestra)

July 19 || Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom

July 20 || Detroit, MI - El Club

July 22-24 || Oro-Medonte, ON - WayHome Music & Arts Festival

July 24 || New York, NY - Panorama Music & Arts Festival

July 29-31 || Montreal, QC - Osheaga Festival

July 30 || Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall

August 1 || Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle

August 2 || Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel

August 4 || Columbus, OH - Big Room Bar

August 6 || Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club

August 8 || Winnipeg, MB - The Good Will

August 10 || Calgary, AB - Commonwealth

August 12 || Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios

August 13 || Seattle, WA - Neumos

August 15 || San Francisco, CA - The Independent

Since releasing her fourth album last year, the dazzling & widely acclaimed Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter has been busy playing sold out tours across North America, Australia, Japan, China and Europe. She is now pleased to announce her biggest headline show to date in the UK, at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London on November 14th. Tickets will go on sale here Friday 25^th March at 10am.

Holter will also be playing a string of European festivals including Primavera Sound, Green Man and Iceland Airwaves.

Upcoming live dates

15th May – FORM: Arcosanti, Mayer, AZ, USA

19-21st May – Moogfest, Durham, NC, USA 

30th May – Sasquatch Festival, Georgia, WA, USA

2nd June – Kilbi Festival, Düdingen, Switzerland

4th June – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona, Spain

6th June – Le 106, Rouen, France *

7th June – Les Nuits De Botanique Festival, Brussels *

9th June – NOS Primavera Sound Festival, Porto, Portugal

23rd June – Sled Island Music & Arts Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada 

15th July – Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL, USA

4-7th August – Pickathon, Happy Valley, OR, USA 

11th August – Øya Festival, Oslo, Norway 

12th August – Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden 

13th August – Haldern Pop Festival, Haldern-Rees, Germany 

21st August - Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, UK

31st August – The Chapel, San Francisco, CA, USA *

1st September – The Old Redwood Barn, Sonoma, CA. USA *

3-6th November – Iceland Airwaves, Reykjavik, Iceland 

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14th November – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, UK *

Tickets on sale for Shepherd’s Bush Empire at 10am on 25th March HERE.

* = Headline shows

James Hinton’s The Range has shared the latest cut from forthcoming new album Potential, out March 25th on Domino, in the form of ‘Copper Wire’. Listen to it now below.

Hinton says of ‘Copper Wire’, which features vocals from a young London rapper called Kruddy Zak:

“I think a lot of my favorite lyrics on Potential allude to coming to terms with a difficult time in your life - that moment of acceptance when you finally allow yourself to drop your guard and admit you’ve been hit with something hard. Zak's verse has a piece in it that states '09 was emotional / it's a memory / I wish that everything was still the same' and that hit me particularly deeply as that was the year I lost my mom. Writing this song was the first time I ever talked about that moment in my music, and I think it was an important step in dealing with how I was feeling to finally get some words about it down on paper.”

Additionally, the track ‘1804’ featuring Jamaican rapper Naturaliss will be premiering tonight on Sun City Radio in Jamaica at 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time / 9:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. 

As its backbone, the album Potential utilizes a series of vocal samples that Hinton found in the deep corners of YouTube. The new single, “Five Four”, finds Hinton exploring his love of early ’00s grime and mid ‘00s electronica while bringing it to a new sonic and emotional whole.  The music video, directed by Daniel Kaufman, features the London, UK-based grime MCs Ophqi and Superior Thought, the musicians from the original YouTube sourced clip that Hinton used to write and produce “Five Four.”

In addition to the forthcoming album Potential, a documentary titled Superimpose, directed by Daniel Kaufman, out this spring, will look at the human stories behind Ophqi, Superior Thought, and the other unknown artists included on the album. As Hinton states, “I am very conscious that these people who I have sampled elevate what I do, just as much as my record brings their work somewhere else.”

Watch the video for ‘Five Four’ HERE

Listen to ‘Florida’ HERE

Watch the trailer for album documentary Superimpose HERE

The Last Shadow Puppets have launched the video for their new single ‘Aviation’.  The single is available to download now HERE and stream HERE.  The video for ‘Aviation’ was created by Saam Farahmand with Black Sheep Studios, and is best viewed alongside the video for ‘Everything You’ve Come to Expect’ which was launched last week.

‘Aviation’ and recent single ‘Bad Habits’ feature on the band’s second album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ which will be released on Friday 1^st April.  The album finds Alex Turner and Miles Kane reunited with James Ford (production and drums) and Owen Pallett (string arrangements) and joined by Zachary Dawes (Mini Mansions) on bass, recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘The Age Of The Understatement’ at Shangri La Studio in Malibu. 

You can pre-order the album via The Last Shadow Puppets store,  Dom Mart or iTunes.

The Last Shadow Puppets will be playing the following live shows, including recently announced shows at The Dome in Brighton on Wednesday the 30^th of March and Lloyd’s Amphitheatre in Bristol on Friday the 24^th of June.  The band’s live dates, including festival appearances, are as follows:

24 March: UK, Cambridge – The Corn Exchange

25 March: UK, Middlesbrough – The Town Hall

26 March: UK, Edinburgh – Usher Hall

29 March: France, Paris – Olympia

30 March: UK, Brighton – The Dome

1 April: UK, London - Hackney Empire

2 April: UK, Liverpool – Olympia

3 April: UK, Sheffield – City Hall

7 April: Netherlands, Amsterdam – Paradiso

10 April: USA, Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer

11 April: USA, NYC, NY - Webster Hall

15 April: USA, Indio, CA - Coachella

17 April: USA, San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore

18 April: USA, Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst

20 April: USA, Los Angeles, CA – The Theatre at Ace Hotel

22 April: USA, Indio, CA – Coachella

24 April: Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico – Pepsi Centre

27 April: Japan, Tokyo – Studio Coast

26 May: Ireland, Dublin – The Olympia Theatre

27 May: Ireland, Dublin – The Olympia Theatre

2 June: France, Clermont Ferrand – Europavox Festival

3 June: Spain, Barcelona – Primavera Festival

5 June: Greece, Athens – Rockwave Festival

24 June: UK, Bristol – Lloyd’s Amphitheatre

29 June: Poland, Gydnia – Open’er Festival

1 July: France, Belfort – Eurokeennes Festival

3 July: Belgium, Werchter – Rock Werchter

5 July: Italy, Ferrara – Piazza Castello

6 July: Italy, Milan – Alcatraz

9 July: Scotland, Strathallan – T In The Park

10 July: UK, Manchester – Castlefield Bowl

12 July: UK, Bridlington – The Spa

13 July: UK, Bournemouth – BIC

15 July: UK, London – Alexandra Palace

16 July: UK, London – Alexandra Palace

10 August: Norway, Oslo – Oya Festival

16 August: Hungary, Budapest – Sziget Festival

19 – 21 August: Holland, Biddinghuizen - Lowlands Festival

Alex G is pleased to share the video for ‘Mud’, taken from last year’s stunning Beach Music. Shot in his hometown of Philadelphia, and featuring Alex and a cast of his friends - including Emily Yacina, the other vocalist on the track - the video is a sweet glimpse into the charmingly low-key life G inhabits. Watch the video now below.

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 9^th March), Alex G and tour-mates Porches and Your Friend kick off their extensive US tour, starting on the East Coast before swinging through Austin for SXSW then onwards to the West Coast.

Current schedule of SXSW shows is below, with Porches and Your Friend dates listed further below. 

Wednesday 3/16

2:00 PM - Urban Outfitters x Domino @ Space24  || FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC

5:00 PM - Hype Hotel @ Fair Market Building || RSVP

9:00 PM  - Noisey / JanSport Party @ Cheer Up Charlie’s || RSVP

Thursday 3/17

5:00 PM  - End of An Ear in-store || FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC

Friday 3/18

1:00 PM - Brooklyn Vegan @ Cheer Up Charlie’s, 900 Red River Street

4:00 PM  - FLOOD x Domino @ Cedar St. Courtyard || RSVP

ALEX G / PORCHES / YOUR FRIEND TOUR DATES

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel ^

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Matter ^

Fri Mar 11 || Carrboro, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom ^

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival ^

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth ^

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder ^

Wed Mar 16 || Houston, TX || Walters ^

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest ^

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake ^

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court ^

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest ^

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café ^

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project ^

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt ^

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop ^ SOLD OUT

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room ^

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café ^

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge ^

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || Rio Bravo Brewing Company ^

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown ^

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry ^

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union ^

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge ^

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge ^

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café ^

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern ^

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs ^

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg ^

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer ^

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom ^ SOLD OUT 

Bill Ryder-Jones today shares a brand new song in ‘Out of the Dark’, taken from a bonus edition of his acclaimed recent album West Kirby County Primary.

The new song – previously only available as part of a bonus 7” included in the now sold-out deluxe vinyl edition of the album – features as part of a digitally re-packaged bonus edition of West Kirby County Primary, available now through all digital retailers. The bonus edition also includes the 7”’s other previously unreleased track, ‘Even Good Things Break My Heart’.

Ryder-Jones is currently on tour in support of West Kirby County Primary. The dates include a run of UK headline dates in March, including London’s Scala on March 3^rd, as well as support dates in May with Mumford and Sons. All dates listed below, with UK dates highlighted bold: -

Tues 1st Mar 2016 - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

Weds 2nd Mar 2016 - The Green Door Store, Brighton [SOLD OUT]

Thurs 3rd Mar 2016 - Scala, London

Fri 4th Mar 2016 - Deaf Institute, Manchester [SOLD OUT]

Sat 5th Mar 2016 - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham [SOLD OUT]

Tues 8th Mar 2016 - Stereo, Glasgow

Thurs 10th Mar 2016 - Arts Club, Liverpool

Fri 11th Mar 2016 - Moon Club, Cardiff

Sat 12th March – Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland

Thurs 17^th March – Sidecar, Barcelona, Spain

Fri 18^th March – Astillero Ondartxo, San Sebastian, Spain

Sun 20^th March – Las Armas, Zaragoza, Spain

Thurs 7^th May – Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland*

Mon 9^th May – Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden*

Tues 10^th May – Spektrum, Oslo, Norway*

Thurs 12^th May – Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark*

Fri 13^th May – Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany*

Sat 14^th May – ISS Dome, Düsseldorf, Germany*

Mon 16^th May – Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland*

Tues 17^th May – Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany*

Thurs 19^th May – Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria*

Fri 20^th May – O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic*

Sun 22^nd May – Zenith, Paris, France*

Mon 23^rd May – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands*

Tues 24^th May – Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium*

Sat 4^th June - Lunar Festival, Tanworth in Arden

Sun 4th Sept – End of The Road Festival, Dorset

Fri 7^th Oct – Rockaway Beach Festival, Bognor Regis

West Kirby County Primary (Bonus Edition) is available digitally now. The standard edition is also available on CD (WIGCD346), digital (WIG346D) and LP (WIGLP346). Buy the album via Dom Mart HERE and via iTunes HERE.

West Kirby County Primary (Bonus Edition) tracklisting:

1. Tell Me You Don't Love Me Watching
2. Two To Birkenhead
3. Let's Get Away From Here
4. Daniel
5. Put It Down Before You Break It
6. Catharine and Huskisson
7. Wild Roses
8. You Can't Hide A Light With The Dark
9. Satellites
10. Seabirds
11. Out of the Dark (Bonus Edition)
12. Even Good Things Break My Heart (Bonus Edition)

The Kills have unveiled details of their highly anticipated fifth album. Entitled Ash & Ice, the album will be released on June 3rd through Domino. Accompanying today’s announcement is the video for brand new single ‘Doing It To Death’, directed by Wendy Morgan (Janelle Monae, Laura Mvula) and shot in Los Angeles last month. 

Over their almost decade-and-a-half career, The Kills have released four records. Each one a restless, reckless enigmatic art statement that bristled with tension, anxiety, sex, unstudied cool and winking ennui, yet not one of them sounded like the previous one. Ash & Ice is the follow up to 2011’s critically lauded Blood Pressures and was five years in the making in part due to Jamie Hince’s five hand surgeries, which resulted in him having to re-learn how to play guitar with a permanently damaged finger. 

Unlike earlier albums, which have largely been written and recorded at Key Club Studio in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the bulk of the recording for Ash & Ice took place in a rented house in LA and at the world famous Electric Lady Studios in NYC. The album was produced by Jamie Hince and co-produced by John O’Mahony (Metric & The Cribs), and mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Arcade Fire, Amy Winehouse) and Tchad Blake (Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys).

It was during Hince’s recuperation from surgery that he first started sketching out what would become the songs for the album. To shake up the writing process, Hince booked a solo trip on the infamous Trans-Siberian Express for inspiration while Alison Mosshart, now residing in Nashville, TN, wrote some of the most affecting, poetically candid lyrics that she ever has, painting word pictures that mine the dangerous terrain between romantic obsession, prophecy and tough love. Where previous albums had an air of detachment and emotional austerity, underpinned by an uneasy self-awareness and unexpressed anger, the 13 songs on Ash & Ice are more understated, less tempestuous and more affecting because of that, exposing the kind of push-pull you feel when you find yourself in a complicated but all-consuming relationship. Ash & Ice is The Kills at their emotionally charged, arresting best. Prepare to be slayed.

The album details come with additional tour dates, including dates in DC, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and San Francisco. All dates are listed below, and new shows go on sale this coming Friday, March 4. 

March 16 Mexico City, MX - House of Vans 50th Anniversary (SXSW)

March 17 Austin, TX - Culture Collide/StubHub Showcase (SXSW)

March 18 Austin, TX - Spotify House (SXSW)

April 7 Nashville, TN - Exit/In (Sold Out)

April 8 Louisville, KY - Headliner’s Music Hall

April 9 Columbus, OH - CD 102.5 Day (Sold Out)

April 11 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer

April 12 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw (Sold Out)

April 13 Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw (Sold Out)

April 15 Indio, CA – Coachella (Sold Out)

April 18 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre

April 19 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory

April 22 Indio, CA - Coachella (Sold Out)

May 1 Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg

May 3 Paris, FR - La Cigale

May 4 London, UK - Village Underground

May 13 Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival

May 14 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

May 19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club

May 21 Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall

May 22 Detroit, MI - St Andrew’s Hall

May 23 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre

May 25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue

May 26 Kansas City, KS - Midland Theatre

May 27 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

May 28 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot

May 31 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom

June 1 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo

June 2 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater

June 4 San Francisco, CA - Fox Theater

June 9 - 12 Newport, UK - Isle of Wight Festival

July 6 Kiev, Ukraine - U-Park Festival

July 9 Moscow, Russia - Park Live Festival

August 6 Katowice, Poland - Off Festival

Ash & Ice is available to pre-order now on 2xLP, CD, and digital download. Pre-order: The Kills / Dom Mart / iTunes

Ash & Ice Tracklist

1. Doing It To Death

2. Heart Of A Dog

3. Hard Habit To Break

4. Bitter Fruit

5. Days Of Why And How

6. Let It Drop

7. Hum For Your Buzz

8. Siberian Nights

9. That Love

10. Impossible Tracks

11. Black Tar

12. Echo Home

13. Whirling Eye

Following the release of the first single “Florida” from his forthcoming album Potential, Brooklyn, NY-based musician The Range (AKA James Hinton), has shared the second single, “Five Four”, with an accompanying video. Watch it below now.

As its backbone, the album Potential utilizes a series of vocal samples that Hinton found in the deep corners of YouTube. The new single, “Five Four”, finds Hinton exploring his love of early ’00s grime and mid ‘00s electronica while bringing it to a new sonic and emotional whole.  The music video, directed by Daniel Kaufman, features the London, UK-based grime MCs Ophqi and Super Thought, the musicians from the original YouTube sourced clip that Hinton used to write and produce “Five Four.”

Hinton had the following to say about the inspiration behind the song, and how it incorporates Ophqi and Superior Thought’s lyrics:

“Five Four is about the frustration of not being able to change the circumstances of a situation.

I think ST captures it well - “Scarred from the hard tasks and dreams that never came to pass … And yet he tried to walk the straight and narrow path but he fiend for the lights and the drama need an arsenal and an armor to inflict the force and cause trauma.”  

In addition to the forthcoming album Potential, a documentary titled Superimpose, directed by Daniel Kaufman, out this spring, will look at the human stories behind Ophqi, Super Thought, and the other unknown artists included on the album. As Hinton states, “I am very conscious that these people who I have sampled elevate what I do, just as much as my record brings their work somewhere else.”

In addition to recently being announced on the lineups of Osheaga Festival, Pitchfork Music Festival, and FORM Arcosanti, The Range will be playing a handful of pre-release shows this month in Los Angeles, New York City, London and Austin for SXSW. More dates to be announced soon.

The Range Tour Dates

03-01 Los Angeles, CA - Resident

03-05 New York, NY – Berlin NYC

03-09 London, UK – Pickle Factory

03-15 to 03-19 Austin, TX – SXSW

05-13 to 05-15 Arcosanti, AZ – FORM Arcosanti

07-15 to 07-17 Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival

07-30 Montreal, QC – Osheaga Festival

Aaron Maine’s Porches has announced new live dates through the UK and Europe in support of new album, Pool.

The dates – which follow an extensive US tour with Domino label mates Alex G and Your Friend – include appearances at The Great Escape festival in Brighton as well as a headline date at London’s Oslo on Monday May 23^rd. The UK dates are as part of a co-headlining tour with long time collaborator Frankie Cosmos.

Alongside the announcement, a new live video for Pool album track ‘Car’, including footage from the band’s recent trip to the UK, can be seen below.

Full live dates are as follows, with the new UK and European dates highlighted bold : -

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel*

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Matter*

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom*

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival*

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth*

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder*

Wed Mar 16 - Fri Mar 18 || Austin, TX || SXSW*

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest*

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake*

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court*

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest*

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café*

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project*

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt*

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop*

Tues Mar 29 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo*

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room*

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café*

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge*

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || The Co-Op*

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown*

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry*

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union*

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge*

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge*

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café*

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern*

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs*

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg*

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer*

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom*

Tues May 17 || Amsterdam, Netherlands || De School

Weds May 18 || Brussels, Belgium || Nuits Botaniques+

Thurs May 19 || Brighton, UK || The Great Escape Festival

Sat May 21 || Manchester, UK || Deaf Institute+

Sun May 22 || Bristol, UK || Exchange+

Mon May 23 || London, UK || Oslo+

Weds May 25 || Paris, France || Point Ephemere

Tues May 31 || Berlin, Germany || Berghain Kantine

Sun June 5 || Nimes, France || This Is Not A Love Song

Night Moves today share the second single from their forthcoming album Pennied Days (out April 8th on Domino) – the album opener ‘Carl Sagan’. Listen to ‘Carl Sagan’ below.

Additionally, the band is pleased to announce an extensive US tour in support of Pennied Days. The tour kicks off with an album release show in their hometown of Minneapolis, on April 14, and will see them take in Canada and the East Coast in April, and the West Coast in May. All tickets will be on sale this coming Friday, February 26. 

Night Moves will also be at SXSW 2016. Further show announcements for SXSW are coming soon. 

The band previously shared a video for first single ‘Denise, Don’t Want To See You Cry’, directed by Anthony Sylvester(director of Shamir’s ‘In For The Kill’ and ‘On The Regular’ videos) and shot in upstate New York late last year. Watch the video for ‘Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry’ HERE.

Night Moves US Tour Dates

Thurs April 14 || Minneapolis, MN || First Ave

Sat April 16 || Chicago, IL || Schubas Tavern

Mon April 18 ||Toronto, ON || Drake Hotel

Tues April 19 || Montreal, QC || Le Divan Orange

Thurs April 21 || Philadelphia, PA || Boot & Saddle

Fri April 22 || Brooklyn, NY || Rough Trade

Sat April 23 || Boston, NY || Great Scott

Sun April 24 || Washington, DC || DC9

Mon April 25 || Columbus, OH || Rumba Cafe

Tues April 26 || Indianapolis, IN || The Hi-Fi

Wed April 27 || Madison, WI || The Frequency

Fri May 6 || Seattle, WA || Sunset Tavern

Sat May 7 || Portland, OR || Doug Fir Lounge

Tues May 10 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop

Wed May 11 || Santa Barbara, CA || Velvet Lounge

Thurs May 12 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo

Fri May 13 || San Diego, CA || Casbah

Sat May 14 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge

Wed May 18 || Austin, TX || Sidewinder

Thurs May 19 || Houston, TX || Rudyards British Pub

Fri May 20 || Dallas, TX || Double Wide

Sat May 21 || Kansas City, MO || Tank Room

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Pre-order Pennied Days via iTunes HERE, or via the Domino Mart HERE. The deluxe LP - limited to 500 copies worldwide and available via the Dom Mart - comes in a single jacket with a printed inner sleeve, and includes a limited edition 10 inch with three bonus tracks. Each pre-order receives an instant download of ‘Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry’.  

After the critically acclaimed release Deep Fantasy (2014), White Lung return with their fourth studio album Paradise, due out May 6, 2016 on Domino. Coming in at a succinct yet powerful 28 minutes, the album simmers with desire and pain, love and beauty, and a seething urgency, hurtling towards the album closer and title track Paradise at signature breakneck speed.

In addition to today’s album announcement, White Lung are pleased to share the video for first single ‘Hungry’, which was scripted by Mish Barber-Way and Justin Gradin, directed by Gradin, and stars Amber Tamblyn (Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants, The Ring, 127 Hours, House).

Says Gradin on the video:

“’Hungry’ plays with identity and perception, and the idea that sometimes public attention can create more isolation and delusion. The video focuses on a self-obsessed girl (who is barely famous as the model on a brand of canned condensed milk) as she struggles to seem important while being haunted by the ghosts of fame until her eventual epiphany of disposability."

For the making of Paradise, vocalist Mish Barber-Way, guitarist Kenneth William and drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou reconnected in Los Angeles to work with producer Lars Stalfors (HEALTH, Cold War Kids, Alice Glass). In October of 2015, White Lung spent a month in the studio, working closely with Stalfors to challenge what could be done with their songs. Bringing all the energy, unique guitar work and lyrical prowess the band are known for to the studio, White Lung curated their songs with a new pop sensibility, focusing in on making a record for the present - “I wanted a record that sounded like it was made in 2016”, said William. Mixed by Stalfors and later mastered by Joe LaPorta, Paradise is their smartest, brightest songwriting yet. 

Mish Barber-Way and Kenneth William sat down with Annie Clark aka St. Vincent to discuss the making of the album and their creative process. The entire conversation can be read here.

“There’s this really stupid attitude that only punks have where it’s somehow uncool to become a better songwriter. In no other musical genre are your fans going to drop you when you start progressing. That would be like parents being disappointed in their child for graduating from kindergarten to the first grade. Paradise is the best songwriting we have ever done, and I expect the next record to be the same. I have no interest in staying in kindergarten.” – Mish Barber-Way, in conversation with Annie Clark.

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Paradise is available to pre-order now on limited edition deluxe colored vinyl, limited edition tri-glitter cassette, CD, and digital download.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Paradise Tracklisting

01. Dead Weight

02. Narcoleptic

03. Below

04. Kiss Me When I Bleed

05. Demented

06. Sister

07. Hungry

08. I Beg You

09. Vegas

10. Paradise

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White Lung will be touring extensively in support of the new album. All dates currently announced are listed below, including SXSW next month and their return to UK shores in May. Tickets go on sale this Friday from www.whitelung.ca.

White Lung 2016 Tour Dates

Fri Mar 11 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt Cabaret

Tues 15 – Sat 19 Mar || Austin, TX || SXSW

Sun 20 Mar || San Antonio, TX || Paper Tiger

Fri 6 May || Toronto, ON || Velvet Underground

Sat 7 May || Brooklyn, NY || Baby’s All Right

Tue 24 May || Brighton || Green Door Store

Wed 25 May || Bristol || Start the Bus

Thu 26 May || London || The Victoria

Fri 27 May || Birmingham || The Flapper

Sat 28 May || Leeds || Brudenell Games Room

Sun 29 May || Manchester || The Star & Garter

Tue 31 May || Paris || Point Ephemere

Wed 1 Jun || Liege || La Zone

Thu 2 Jun || The Hague || Paard

Fri 3 Jun || Amsterdam || Paradiso

Fri 22 Jul || Oro-Medonte, ON || Way Home Festival

Jul 29-31 || Montreal, QC || Osheaga Festival

For tickets, visit www.whitelung.ca

Georgia has today shared the brand new video for ‘Heart Wrecking Animals’, one of the stand out tracks to be taken from her eponymous debut album, which is out now. The video was directed by award-winning London based artist, Kate Moross (Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Wild Beasts). Watch it now below.

Inspired by the spacious ambience and sporadic bursts of colourful chaos of an Oneohtrix Point Never concert she attended, ‘Heart Wrecking Animals’ sees Georgia wearing her heart on her sleeve, delivering an emotively raw-edged love song. Georgia’s performance here equally showcases her unfeigned emotion. 

On the video, Georgia says, “This song means a lot to me and it seemed that Kate got inside the emotions of the song and her vision for it feels so right. ‘Heart Wrecking Animals’ marked a certain part of my life and helped shape my debut album. It feels like a good time to share this with you all.”

Animal Collective have shared “Golden Gal,” the second single from their new album Painting With, out this Friday on Domino. Stream the song here. 

“Golden Gal” follows on from the first single “FloriDada” and the release of the band’s free Painting With iOS app that allowed for collaborative painting between fans while having early access to the Painting With song “Lying in the Grass.” 

A worldwide 2016 Animal Collective tour starts this Friday at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA. All shows are listed below.

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Painting With is available to pre-order in standard CD and LP formats. The album in CD and LP formats will be available in three different covers, featuring each Animal Collective member – Avey Tare, Geologist, and Panda Bear - as painted by Brian DeGraw. All pre-orders come with instant downloads of “FloriDada” and “Lying In The Grass”. 

Painting With tracklisting

1. FloriDada

2. Hocus Pocus

3. Vertical

4. Lying In The Grass

5. The Burglars

6. Natural Selection

7. Bagels In Kiev

8. On Delay

9. Spilling Guts

10. Summing The Wretch

11. Golden Gal

12. Recycling

Animal Collective Tour Dates

Fri Feb 19 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer || SOLD OUT *

Sat Feb 20 || Portsmouth, NH || 3S Artspace || SOLD OUT *

Mon Feb 22 || Boston, MA || Royale Boston || SOLD OUT *

Tues Feb 23 || New York, NY || Irving Plaza || SOLD OUT *

Wed Feb 24 || New York, NY || Irving Plaza || SOLD OUT *

Fri Feb 26 || Columbus, OH || Newport Music Hall || SOLD OUT *

Sat Feb 27 || Chicago, IL || Concord Music Hall || SOLD OUT *

Sun Feb 28 || Minneapolis, MN || First Avenue || SOLD OUT *

Tues Mar 1 || Denver, CO || Ogden Theatre || TIX *

Wed Mar 2 || Salt Lake City, UT || The Depot || TIX *

Fri Mar 4 || Seattle, WA || Neptune || SOLD OUT *

Sat Mar 5 || Portland, OR || Roseland Theater || SOLD OUT *

Mon Mar 7 || Oakland, CA || Fox Theater || TIX *

Tues Mar 8 || Los Angeles, CA || The Fonda Theatre || SOLD OUT *

Wed Mar 9 || Los Angeles, CA || The Fonda Theatre || SOLD OUT *

Fri Mar 11-Sun Mar 13 || Phoenix, AZ || McDowell Mountain Music Festival || TIX

Fri Apr 1 || Brussels, Belgium || Botanique – Orangerie || SOLD OUT ^

Sat Apr 2 || The Hague, Holland || Rewire Festival @ Paard van Troje || TIX

Mon Apr 4 || Hamburg, Germany || Uebel & Gefahrlich || TIX ^

Tues Apr 5 | Berlin, Germany || Postbahnhof || TIX ^

Thurs Apr 7 || Milan, Italy || C2C Festival @ Magazzini Generali || TIX ^

Fri Apr 8 || Stans, Switzerland || Stanser Musiktage Festival @ Kollegi || TIX

Sat Apr 9 || Paris, France || La Cigale || TIX ^

Mon Apr 11 || London, UK || 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire || SOLD OUT ^

Tues Apr 12 || London, UK || 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire TIX ^

Wed Apr 13 || Manchester, UK || 02 Ritz || TIX ^

Thurs Apr 28 || Fayetteville, AR || George’s Majestic Lounge || SOLD OUT +

Fri Apr 29-Sun May 1 || Austin, TX || Levitation || TIX

Sun May 1 || Tulsa, OK || Cains Ballroom || TIX +

Tues May 3 || St. Louis, MO || The Pageant || TIX +

Wed May 4 || Royal Oak, MI || Royal Oak Music Theatre || TIX +

Fri May 6 || Nashville, TN || Marathon Music Works || TIX +

Sat May 7 || Atlanta, GA || Buckhead Theatre || TIX +

Sun May 8 || Asheville, NC || Orange Peel || SOLD OUT +

Tues May 10 || Washington, DC || 9:30 Club || SOLD OUT +

Wed May 11 || Washington, DC || 9:30 Club || TIX +

Fri May 13 || Wilmington, DE || World Café Live at the Queen || SOLD OUT +

Sat May 14 || Sayreville, NJ || Starland Ballroom || TIX +

Jun 1-5 || Barcelona, Spain || Primavera Sound || TIX

* with Ratking

^ with GFOTY

+ with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Julia Holter today shares the video for new single ‘Everytime Boots’, which will be released on February 26^th to coincide with her upcoming UK and US tours. 

Directed by Ramona Gonzalez, the video follows an enigmatic character (Ramona Gonzalez) following a cowboy (Rene Solomon) following another cowboy (Julia Holter). Watch the new video below now.

After an incredible sold out performance at London’s Islington Assembly Hall in November, Holter will return to the UK for a string of live dates (listed below), of which London, Manchester and Edinburgh are already sold out. She will also perform at this weekend’s 6 Music Festival in Bristol.

11-Feb Engine Rooms Southampton

12-Feb From Now On Festival Cardiff

14-Feb The 6 Music Festival Bristol

15-Feb Oval Space London **SOLD OUT**

16-Feb Gorilla Manchester **SOLD OUT**

17-Feb Button Factory Dublin

19-Feb SWG3 Studio Warehouse Glasgow

20-Feb Summerhall Arts Venue Edinburgh **SOLD OUT**

Shadowy, psychedelic adventurers, Higher Authorities, are happy to announce their forthcoming debut album, Neptune, for 20^th April 2016.

Listen to debut track, ‘Colour’, below now.

Neptune, a collection of warped psychedelic dub and electronic explorations will be available on CD & digitally on 20^th April 2016. The release date – 4/20, a day of huge significance in cannabis culture – is no coincidence. Neptune is proper head music, an old-fashioned headphones album where the devil is in the lo-fi details.

Produced by the Higher Authorities, the album was augmented by legendary dub producer Adrian Sherwood, who brought his mad box of sound effects to proceedings.

For Higher Authorities, visual identity is important. There is symbolism at work here, the pineapples on the album artwork possibly refer to Liverpool's wealthy merchant's houses who had pineapples on the gateposts. One of the pineapples is smoking, it all ties in. 

‘Colour’ is the first single the duo has shared from the album, and the first window into their cosmic world. 

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‘Neptune’ is available to pre-order now on CD (WIGCD355) and digitally (WIG355D) now. Pre-order the album here: Dom Mart / iTunes

Track listing:

1. Another time, Another place         
2. Twilight (in luminous lodge)         
3. Colour                                                               
4. ...and why not?                                
5. The Clone                                         
6. If                                                         
7. Monocle Man                                   
8. Abracadabra                                    
9. Decades                                           
10. Neptune

Following last year’s re-emergence with Instrumentals 2015, three of Flying Saucer Attack’s most revered albums - Distance, Further and Chorus – are to be re-issued on Domino on March 18^th 2016.

Stream Distance’s ‘Ocean’, Further’s ‘In The Light of Time’ and Chorus’ ‘Feedback Song’ via fsa.space now HERE.

David Pearce re-materialised last year with the beautiful Instrumentals 2015 and attracted all manner of attention - as one does when one emerges from self-imposed exile holding a glittering prize. Without warning he became part of the musical landscape once again, heralding a new phase of the project he initiated in the early 1990s. Interviews and retrospective features assessed his importance in the continually unfolding story of British music, referring back to the music contained within these three artifacts, which sound as untainted - even more so, in fact - as they did on their initial release. 

There are many that believe the concept of electric folk to have died at some point in the 1970s following the heyday of bands and artists such as Fairport Convention, Roy Harper and John Martyn. These three reissues give the lie to that commonly held misconception. For while Distance, Further and Chorus do not cleave all that faithfully to the folk rock template established by the electrified rovers of that supposed golden age, and incorporate elements absorbed from musics as varied as krautrock, drone and dub, they can be considered in that lineage, with its Arcadian attitude to the unsullied landscapes of Britain and romanticised idea that old traditions may, at some point, produce something fresh and unheard.

All three are essential listening for those who are still capable of dreaming even as our dreams are co-opted and second guessed in a digital era which is revealing itself to be monstrously voracious and venal. Distance, Further and Chorus open up spaces in the mind where one may wander at will, Pearce’s excoriating feedback serving as a dream weapon designed to cleanse the grit from the mind’s eye. The melodies beyond the noise reassure us that it’s okay to take this route away from the superhighway and explore paths trodden only by a few, Pearce and collaborators included. This may be derided by some as escapism; rather it is parallelism. The search for alternatives, when the very term ‘alternative’ has been devalued beyond all recognition. 

Each of the three albums come in a 20^th Anniversary Vinyl Repress format, cut in 180gm heavyweight virgin vinyl from original masters by Matt Colton at Alchemy. The albums will also be available on CD & digital formats.

All three albums are available packaged together exclusively through Domino Mart. Purchases through Domino Mart are also eligible to win test pressings of Instrumentals 2015, of which there are two pairs to win.

Pre-order the 3x LP bundle from Domino Mart HERE

Pre-order Distance via Dom Mart / iTunes

Pre-order Further via Dom Mart / iTunes

Pre-order Chorus via Dom Mart / iTunes

Porches’ new album Pool is out via Domino this Friday, February 5^th. Ahead of its release, listen to the album’s latest track ‘Car’ below. It follows the singles ‘Hour’ (watch the video HERE) and ‘Be Apart’ (watch the video HERE).

Says Maine on ‘Car’:

“’Car’ is about leaving a place where you're unhappy and the beauty of arriving somewhere where you feel good.  Whether you escape physically or mentally it's just about using your facilities to take control of your situation. Positive mental attitude.” 

Pool, Porches’ (aka Aaron Maine) debut full-length for Domino, and a major step forward for Maine —as an evolving singer/songwriter, and as a nascent producer. Written and recorded almost entirely in his Manhattan apartment, and mixed by Chris Coady (Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Tobias Jesso Jr) in Los Angeles, Pool was influenced, in part, by settling in the city as an artist and a person. Says Maine, “there was something special about recording this album in my new home. To be surrounded by the city and in my own world at the same time. I quickly became obsessed with the energy around me, and my experience of New York - I was forced to see my music in an entirely different context.  This was challenging, but also exciting, when the songs started to sound like a true reflection of what I was feeling in my new surroundings."

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Pool is available to pre-order now on limited pressing clear vinyl, CD, and digital download.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

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Porches will be taking off on an extensive 2016 North American tour this Spring, a co-headline with label-mate Alex G, featuring Your Friend, another fellow Domino artist, on support for all dates. The run includes stops at Savannah Stopover Festival, Spillover Festival and Treefort Music Fest, along with the band’s SXSW debut. Full schedule to follow.

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Matter

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder

Wed Mar 16 - Fri Mar 18 || Austin, TX || SXSW

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop

Tues Mar 29 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || The Co-Op

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom

The Last Shadow Puppets have announced a run of special UK shows in July 2016.  These dates follow the release of their second album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ (on 1 April) and their sold out UK shows in March and April.

New dates are as follows:

10 July: UK, Manchester – Castlefield Bowl

12 July: UK, Bridlington – The Spa

13 July: UK, Bournemouth – BIC

15 July: UK, London – Alexandra Palace

Tickets for all shows will be available from 9am on Friday the 5^th of February.

The band will also be playing the following shows including their sold out UK shows (as announced previously):

26 March: UK, Edinburgh – Usher Hall

29 March: France, Paris – Olympia

1 April: UK, London - Hackney Empire

2 April: UK, Liverpool – Olympia

3 April: UK, Sheffield – City Hall

7 April: Netherlands, Amsterdam – Paradiso

11 April: USA, NYC - Webster Hall

17 April: USA, San Francisco – The Fillmore

20 April: USA, Los Angeles – The Theatre at Ace Hotel

You can pre-order ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ via The Last Shadow Puppets store,  Dom Mart or iTunes.

Animal Collective have launched a free iOS app, that allows early access to the song ‘Lying in the Grass’ from their forthcoming studio album, Painting With. Download the app from the iTunes App Store here.

While listening to the song "Lying In The Grass," the Painting With app allows for real-time collaborative painting between two users. Fans can record, submit, and share their creations from the app to Twitter and Instagram by using the hashtag #PaintingWith. The submissions are displayed in real-time on the Animal Collective website here. The app also includes a strobe light feature that animates the zoetropic turntable slipmat that is included in the deluxe edition LP format.  The song sees its official release via digital platforms thi Monday, February 1.

A worldwide 2016 Animal Collective tour is now on sale. All shows are listed below.

Animal Collective tour dates
02-19 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer * SOLD OUT
02-20 Portsmouth, NH - 3S Artspace * SOLD OUT
02-22 Boston, MA - Royale Boston * SOLD OUT
02-23 New York, NY - Irving Plaza * SOLD OUT
02-24 New York, NY - Irving Plaza * SOLD OUT
02-26 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall  * SOLD OUT
02-27 Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall * SOLD OUT
02-28 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
03-01 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre *
03-02 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot *
03-04 Seattle, WA - Neptune * SOLD OUT
03-05 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater * SOLD OUT
03-07 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
03-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre * SOLD OUT
03-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre * SOLD OUT
03-11 - 03-13 Phoenix, AZ - McDowell Mountain Music Festival
04-01 Brussels, BE - Botanique - Orangerie ^
04-02 The Hague, NL - Rewire Festival (Paard van Tronje)
04-04 Hamburg, DE - Uebel & Gefahrlich ^
04-05 Berlin, DE - Postbahnof ^
04-07 Milan, IT - C2C Festival (Magazzini Generali) ^
04-08 Stans, CH - Stanser Musiktage Festival (Kollegi) 
04-09 Paris, FR - La Cigale ^
04-11 London, UK - 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire ^ SOLD OUT
04-12 London, UK - 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire
04-13 Manchester, UK - 02 Ritz ^ 
04-28 Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge SOLD OUT
04-30 - 05-01 Austin, TX - Levitation
05-01 Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom +
05-03 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant +
05-04 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre +
05-06 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works +
05-07 Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre +
05-08 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel + SOLD OUT
05-10 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club + SOLD OUT
05-11 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club +
05-13 Wilmington, DE - Word Café Live at the Queen + SOLD OUT
05-14 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom +

* with Ratking 
^ with GFOTY 
+ with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Following the recent announcement of their forthcoming album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’, released on 1 April 2016, The Last Shadow Puppets will be returning to the UK, Europe and US for their first live dates since 2008. 

Dates are as follows:

26 March: UK, Edinburgh – Usher Hall

29 March: France, Paris – Olympia

1 April: UK, London - Hackney Empire

2 April: UK, Liverpool – Olympia

3 April: UK, Sheffield – City Hall

7 April: Netherlands, Amsterdam – Paradiso

11 April: USA, NYC - Webster Hall

17 April: USA, San Francisco – The Fillmore

20 April: USA, Los Angeles – The Theatre at Ace Hotel 

Tickets for all shows will be available from 9am (Local Time) on Friday the 29^th of January. More information at www.thelastshadowpuppets.com

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You can pre-order ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ via The Last Shadow Puppets store,  Dom Mart or iTunes.

Leading up to his forthcoming return to the UK for live dates throughout February, Alex G has shared a new live video of Beach Music album standout, ‘Bug’. Watch the video below now.

The new clip was filmed at drummer Scotty’s house in their native Philadelphia, where the band also practice. 

The UK live dates commence with a special NME Awards date on 1^st February at The Lexington, London, before further live dates in support of Basement and the forthcoming extensive North American tour with fellow Domino artists Porches and Your Friend, both of whom recently announced new albums due out this year on Domino. 

Tickets for all Alex G live dates are on sale now and listed below, with UK headline dates and Basement supports highlighted bold : - 

ALEX G TOUR DATES

Mon Feb 1 || London, UK || The Lexington (NME Awards Show) [TICKETS]

Tues Feb 2 || Brighton, UK || Bleach [TICKETS]

Wed Feb 3 || Cardiff, UK || Clwb Ifor Bach [TICKETS]

Thurs Feb 4 || Sheffield, UK || Harley [TICKETS]

Fri Feb 5 || Nottingham, UK || Bodega [TICKETS]

Sun Feb 7 || Bristol, UK || Marble Factory *

Mon Feb 8 || Glasgow, UK || King Tuts / Garage *

Tues Feb 9 || Leeds, UK || Stylus *

Wed Feb 10 || Manchester, UK || Academy 2 *

Thurs Feb 11 || Norwich, UK || Waterfront *

Sat Feb 13 || London, UK || KOKO *

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel ^

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Mater ^

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom ^

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival ^

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth ^

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder ^

Wed Mar 16 || Houston, TX || Walters ^

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest ^

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake ^

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court ^

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest ^

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café ^

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project ^

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt ^

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop ^

Tues Mar 29 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo ^

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room ^

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café ^

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge ^

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || Sister ^

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown ^

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry ^

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union ^

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge ^

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge ^

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café ^

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern ^

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs ^

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg ^

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer ^

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom ^

* with Basement

^ with Porches and Your Friend 

Pond Scum is an integral piece in the evolution of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's progressive and prolific catalogue. A collection of sessions recorded for John Peel’s influential BBC show, it spans eight years of Bonnie's career and is essential for longtime fans and first-time listeners alike. Released today, Pond Scum captures Will Oldham’s powerful and compelling songwriting, accompanied only by a single guitar and a few subtle, yet captivating harmonies. 

Recorded in 2001, ‘When Thy Song Flows Through Me’ is one of the finest paradigms of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's illustrious career. Inspired by the devotional chant by Paramahansa Yogananda, the Pond Scum version is every bit as spiritual and moving as the original. To accompany such a poignant adaptation, Bonnie enlisted the help of Louisville based director Ryan Daly to construct moving images that soothe the mind and body. Partly inspirited by the works of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the video for ‘When Thy Song Flows Through Me’ is dazzling in its simplicity.

Watch ‘When Thy Song Flows Through Me’ here.

Additionally, Oldham shared another Pond Scum cut via NPR last week, a cover of Prince’s ‘The Cross’. Listen to it here.

Pond Scum is available on CD (WIGCD374), vinyl (WIGLP374) and digitally (WIG374D).  You can purchase Pond Scum via Dom Mart or iTunes.  

The Last Shadow Puppets return with their new album ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ on Friday 1^st April 2016.  The album finds Alex Turner and Miles Kane reunited with James Ford (production and drums) and Owen Pallett (string arrangements) and joined by Zachary Dawes (Mini Mansions) on bass, recording the follow up to 2008’s ‘The Age Of The Understatement’ at Shangri La Studio in Malibu. 

Featuring current single ‘Bad Habits’, ‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ is a more open and expansive work than its predecessor, wearing its influences less obviously on its sleeve – by turns the album is soaring, snarling and breathlessly seductive. 

‘Everything You’ve Come To Expect’ will be available on standard (WIGCD371) and deluxe CD (WIGCD371X - featuring a 40 page booklet containing exclusive photography).  Vinyl versions of the album are available as standard (WIGLP371) and deluxe heavyweight vinyl (WIGLP371X - ltd to one pressing, featuring a 32 page booklet and 7” coloured vinyl featuring ‘Bad Habits’, new exclusive track ‘The Bourne Identity’ and download card) and via digital download (WIG371D).

You can pre-order the album via The Last Shadow Puppets store,  Dom Mart or iTunes.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Aviation
2. Miracle Aligner
3. Dracula Teeth
4. Everything  You’ve Come To Expect
5. The Element Of Surprise
6. Bad Habits
7. Sweet Dreams, TN
8. Used To Be My Girl
9. She Does The Woods
10. Pattern
11. The Dream Synopsis

We're happy to announce the Domino debut Potential from Brooklyn, NY-based musician James Hinton, aka The Range, out March 25, 2016.

The magic of Potential, following 2013’s Nonfiction - is as a document of its time. The Range has made an electronic record inspired by Baltimore club, early ‘00s grime and mid ‘00s electronica, but also as a member of the last generation that will remember going online for the first time. Listen to lead single “Florida” below.

As its backbone, Potential utilizes a series of vocal samples that Hinton found in the deep corners of YouTube, introducing us to unknown artists expressing themselves unfettered by the constraints of industry. He might be fascinated by the code that determines his YouTube searches, but what truly grips him are the human stories behind the samples. Hinton explains, “I found each person by using a small set of search terms on YouTube. Each song is inextricably linked to the point in time that I came across each video. I endeavored to tie the songs of Potential together by telling my own story alongside the stories of the people I sampled. Every song tries to acknowledge a sense of vulnerability or difficulty in life, as well as an intense drive to cope with problems in ways that don't drag you into the abyss.” 

In addition to the forthcoming album Potential, a documentary titled Superimpose, directed by Daniel Kaufman, out this spring, will look at the human stories behind the unknown artists included on the album. As Hinton states, “I am very conscious that these people who I have sampled elevate what I do, just as much as my record brings their work somewhere else.” Watch the documentary trailer below.

Potential will be available in CD, LP, deluxe double LP edition, and digital formats. The deluxe double LP edition, pictured above, is available to pre-order exclusively from the Domino Mart and includes a bonus 4 track Strings 12” EP and instant download of “Florida.” It will be limited to 1000 copies worldwide. 

The Range will be playing a handful of pre-release shows in March. Dates below, with more extensive touring to be announced soon.

The Range live dates:
03-01 Los Angeles, CA - Resident
03-09 London, UK - Pickle Factory

Potential tracklisting
1. Regular
2. Copper Wire
3. Florida
4. Superimpose
5. Five Four
6. Falling Out of Phase
7. No Loss
8. Skeptical
9. Retune
10. So
11. 1804 

Strings EP tracklisting
1. The Magic
2. True Value
3. Flag
4. Naught

The Range photo by Alexandra Gavillet

Following 2015’s acclaimed album Fresh Blood and marking a distinct move away from the Spacebomb studio sound of that and its predecessor Big Inner,  the sultry, nocturnal  soul of “Cool Out” stems from a spontaneous collaboration with fellow Richmond producer and Stone’s Throw recording artist DJ Harrison and features long-time friend and collaborator Natalie Prass on vocals.

Listen to “Cool Out feat. Natalie Prass” now and pick up the song at iTunes here.

Matthew E. White is on tour in the UK and Ireland now. 

January dates: 

20^th – Roisin Dubh, Galway (tickets)
21^st – Button Factor, Dublin (tickets)
22^nd – Voodoo, Belfast  (tickets)
23^rd – Roaming Roots Review at Concert Hall, Glasgow (tickets)
25^th – Electric Circus, Edinburgh (tickets)
26^th – The Plug, Sheffield (tickets)
27^th – Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (tickets)
28^th – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth (tickets)
29^th – Cambridge Junction 2, Cambridge (tickets)
30^th – Roundhouse, London (tickets)

Minneapolis band Night Moves are pleased to announce their new album, Pennied Days, due for release on March 25, 2016 on Domino. The first single from the forthcoming album, ‘Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry’, is released today alongside a music video, directed by Anthony Sylvester (director of Shamir’s ‘In For The Kill’ and ‘On The Regular’ videos) and shot in upstate New York late last year. Watch the video below now.

Formed in 2009 in the Twin Cities, Night Moves is composed at its core of John Pelant and Micky Alfano. Friends since high school, their bond was solidified when Alfano lent Pelant his copy of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, a luminous classic of turn-the-page melancholy that echoes through Pennied Days. Over time, Pelant and Alfano broadened their scope to allow for a wide array of maverick influences, ranging from traditionalist heroes like Leon Russell and The Band to r’n’b originators Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone to pre-punk experimentalists Suicide. (They also love Joe Walsh, like all free-thinking Americans.)

For Pennied Days, Pelant channeled both his disillusionment and his quiet resolve into a set of beautiful, melodic songs whose sunny surface obscures an inner darkness. Pennied Days might ultimately be as breezy and pleasurable as the records Pelant grew up loving, but that description belies the years of work the band put into making the album. 

“A lot of the songs are about trying to find yourself and what your future will look like and who you are – life overall,” Pelant says now — a seemingly simple statement about the most complicated of personal journeys. After releasing their 2012 debut, Colored Emotions — and touring with the likes of Father John Misty, Lord Huron, Django Django, and Poliça — Pelant set about recording demos for the follow-up. Originally, he planned on making another record quickly — Pelant is compulsively creative, writing loads of hooky pop songs in short bursts. (The band has few hobbies outside of music, beyond “drinking, wasting time talking about life, girls, and partying.”). But sessions for Pennied Days stretched far longer than anticipated, with the music veering from Flaming Lips-influenced doomsday dirges to the folky, laidback material the band were known for, and so eventually producer John Agnello was introduced to help steer things back on course, resulting in a 9 song collection of future folk-rock, paisley-tinged guitar licks, and even a piano jam or two. 

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Pre-order Pennied Days via iTunes HERE, or via the Domino Mart HERE. The deluxe LP - limited to 500 copies worldwide and available via the Dom Mart - comes in a single jacket with a printed inner sleeve, and includes a limited edition 10 inch with three bonus tracks. Each pre-order receives an instant download of ‘Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry’.  

Pennied Days Tracklisting

01. Carl Sagan

02. Denise, Don’t Wanna See You Cry

03. Leave Your Light On

04. Border On Border

05. Kind Luck

06. Hiding In The Melody

07. Staurolite Stroll

08. Alabama

09. Only To Live In Your Memories

Taryn Miller, aka Your Friend, will release her debut album, Gumption, on January 29th via Domino. The second single from Gumption, “Come Back From It,” debuts today on Noisey with an accompanying video directed by Christophe Acker / Thatfilm and shot at the end of last year in Paris.

Says Miller, “We shot the footage on my last day in Paris, when I was there last November for Red Bull Music Academy, which was postponed following the awful events in November. It was freezing, and wild. He (the motorcycle driver) was weaving between highway traffic and at times, splitting the space between semis. It all came together at the very end of my trip, and was a really lovely way to leave after seeing what so many endured. There was this juxtaposition of the time that I arrived, and the night before I left. The streets were empty on my first day there, and it was exhilarating to be riding back into the city like that, and to have witnessed such resilience during such a dark time.” 

“Come Back From It,” was composed of salvaged pieces of an almost entirely scrapped song during Gumption’s demoing process. The whirling, dark, drum loop (arguably the backbone) and the crackling drone were the only original pieces of audio from the demo. Producer Nicolas Vernhes encouraged that there was something about the lurching nature of those elements that was worth pursuing. Miller already had a sense of verses, but there wasn’t a “relief,” as Vernhes said, when referring to a chorus. Vernhes sat her in the control room of Rare Book Room in Brooklyn and played Lou Reed’s “Pale Blue Eyes,” with the both of them in silence, then said, “You have thirty minutes, go write a chorus.” After the structure was formed, Miller took on the task of creating several, separate loops for each chord in the entire song, and Vernhes collaging them and achieving an overall cinematic type of texture.

“Come Back From It” follows the album opener and first single, “Heathering,” a brooding track Miller had been working on long before entering the studio. The opening acoustic guitar sample was something that Vernhes had caught before she knew they were tracking. It was left as somewhat of a playful placeholder initially, but then ultimately became an endearing and important part of the opening. 

Gumption deals with the dualities and nuances of human interaction, and questions how much we, as individuals, are responsible for in the ways we are perceived. It’s a record of courage, as its title suggests - of having the willingness to make necessary shifts, and to have a sense of self-awareness that ultimately leads to growth.

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Gumption will be available on CD and standard LP via the Domino Mart. Pre-order the album from the Domino Mart HERE or iTunes HERE and receive an instant download of “Heathering.” The standard LP comes in a single jacket with a printed inner sleeve and is accompanied by a MP3 download card.

Preorder: Dom Mart / iTunes

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Your Friend will tour in support of Gumption this spring with Domino label mates Porches and Alex G making a stop at SXSW, her first trip back since 2014. A full list of dates is below. Stay tuned for all news and updates via the new Your Friend website HERE.

TOUR DATES (w/ Porches & Alex G):

Wed. Mar. 9 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel

Thu. Mar. 10 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter

Fri. Mar. 11 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle - Backroom

Sat. Mar. 12 - Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover Festival

Sun. Mar. 13 - Orlando, FL @ Backbooth

Mon. Mar. 14 - Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder

Sat. Mar. 19 - Dallas, TX @ Spillover Music Fest

Mon. Mar. 21 - Denver, CO @ Lost Lake

Tue. Mar. 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court

Wed. Mar. 23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest

Thu. Mar. 24 - Portland, OR @ Analog Cafe

Fri. Mar. 25 - Seattle, WA @ Vera Project

Sat. Mar. 26 - Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt

Mon. Mar. 28 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop

Tue. Mar. 29 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo

Thu. Mar. 31 - Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory - Constellation Room

Fri. Apr. 1 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe

Sat. Apr. 2 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge

Sun. Apr. 3 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Co-Op

Tue. Apr. 5 - Omaha, NE @ Slowdown

Wed. Apr. 6 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th St Entry

Thu. Apr. 7 - Madison, WI @ UW Student Union

Fri. Apr. 8 - Grinnell, IA @ Grinnell College - Gardner Lounge

Sat. Apr. 9 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge

Sun. Apr. 10 - Detroit, MI @ Majestic Cafe

Mon. Apr. 11 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

Tue. Apr. 12 - Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs

Wed. Apr. 13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thu. Apr. 14 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

Fri. Apr. 15 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

Animal Collective has premiered the video for new single "FloriDada," from the forthcoming album Painting With, out February 19. The video was produced and directed by PFFR and can now be viewed below. The video will have its US television premiere tomorrow night, Saturday Jan 9, on Adult Swim during the Toonami block of programming.

A worldwide 2016 Animal Collective tour went on sale last month, with many shows selling out quickly, including two shows in both LA and NYC. Due to overwhelming demand, the band is announcing a second show in London at Shepherds Bush Empire as well moving their Manchester show to O2 Ritz. All shows listed below.

The band has shared a Spotify playlist highlighting songs from their 15 year career. Listen to it here or at the bottom.

Painting With will be available in standard CD, LP, and a limited deluxe edition format. The album in CD and LP formats will be available in three different covers, featuring each Animal Collective member – Avey Tare, Geologist, and Panda Bear - as painted by Brian DeGraw and displayed below. There are very few remaining deluxe edition copies remaining via the Animal Collective and Domino stores. All pre-orders from either store, including from iTunes, come with an instant download of "FloriDada."

Animal Collective tour dates:
02-19 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer * SOLD OUT
02-20 Portsmouth, NH - 3S Artspace * SOLD OUT
02-22 Boston, MA - Royale Boston * SOLD OUT
02-23 New York, NY - Irving Plaza * SOLD OUT
02-24 New York, NY - Irving Plaza * SOLD OUT
02-26 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall * SOLD OUT 
02-27 Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall * SOLD OUT
02-28 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
03-01 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre *
03-02 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot * 
03-04 Seattle, WA - Neptune *
03-05 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater *
03-07 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
03-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre * SOLD OUT
03-09 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre * SOLD OUT
03-11 to 03-13 Phoenix, AZ - McDowell Mountain Music Festival 
04-01 Brussels, BE - Botanique - Orangerie ^
04-02 The Hague, NL - Rewire Festival (Paard van Tronje)
04-04 Hamburg, DE - Uebel & Gefahrlich ^
04-05 Berlin, DE - Postbahnof ^
04-07 Milan, IT - C2C Festival (Magazzini Generali) ^
04-08 Stans, CH - Stanser Musiktage Festival (Kollegi) 
04-09 Paris, FR - La Cigale ^
04-11 London, UK - 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire ^ SOLD OUT
04-12 London, UK - 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire
04-13 Manchester, UK - 02 Ritz ^ 
04-28 Fayetteville, AR - George’s Majestic Lounge + SOLD OUT
04-29 to 05-01 Austin, TX - Levitation Festival
05-01 Tulsa, OK - Cains Ballroom  +
05-03 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant +
05-04 Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre +
05-06 Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works +
05-07 Atlanta, GA - Buckhead Theatre +
05-08 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel  +
05-10 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club +
05-13 Wilmington, DE - Word Café Live at the Queen +
05-14 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom +

* with Ratking 
^ with GFOTY 
+ with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Porches’ new album Pool is out via Domino on February 5th, and ahead of its release, the band is pleased to share a video for its latest single, ‘Be Apart’. Premiered via Fader earlier today, ‘Be Apart’ can be viewed below now.

The video was directed by Daniel Brereton (Connan Mockasin, Django Django, Kindness, Metronomy) and was filmed outside London during a recent UK/EU tour. 

Says Maine on ‘Be Apart’:

“’Be Apart’ is sort of about moving to New York City and wanting to belong. It's about nightlife, about being taken away, losing control, longing for acceptance, and letting go. I imagine the music video portraying some sort of cult or family living in a mansion. The cult/mansion represent both what you might long to be a part of and also the sentiment of longing to be elsewhere, a part of what is outside.”

This video comes off the back of the previously released ‘Hour’ (watch HERE), which features Maine's partner and frequent collaborator, Greta Kline a.k.a Frankie Cosmos.

Next month marks the much-anticipated release of Pool, Porches’ debut full-length for Domino and a major step forward for Maine —as an evolving singer/songwriter, and as a nascent producer. Written and recorded almost entirely in his Manhattan apartment, and mixed by Chris Coady (Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Tobias Jesso Jr) in Los Angeles, Pool was influenced, in part, by settling in the city as an artist and a person. Says Maine, “there was something special about recording this album in my new home. To be surrounded by the city and in my own world at the same time. I quickly became obsessed with the energy around me, and my experience of New York - I was forced to see my music in an entirely different context.  This was challenging, but also exciting, when the songs started to sound like a true reflection of what I was feeling in my new surroundings."

Pool is available to pre-order now on limited pressing clear vinyl, CD, and digital download. 

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Porches will be taking off on an extensive 2016 North American tour, starting March 9 in Washington, DC. The tour is a co-headline with label-mate Alex G, and will feature Your Friend, another fellow Domino artist, on support for all dates. Tickets to all shows are on sale now.

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Matter

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder

Wed Mar 16 || Houston, TX || Walters

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop

Tues Mar 29 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || The Co-Op

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom

There are no Peel sessions anymore - that tradition was buried in the pyramids with John Peel himself upon the great man's passing. Of the thousands left in the wake, six are ascribed to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - and of those six, three have been combined to form the deeply congruous experience of Pond Scum.

A span of eight years is covered, in reverse, and many chestnuts are rolled out, freed of former contexts with sparse arrangements. "(I Was Drunk at the) Pulpit" feels, ten years from inception, more vividly worn; "Death to Everyone" is loosed from its frame, the bones decoupled and spread out, giving the song a reflective air (as opposed the biting declamation of the original); "Arise, Therefore" adapts its metronomic base, the evangelic twist of its roots made palpable. With the centre of the performance in stark relief, the gnomic qualities of two "Get On Jolly" pieces are intensified. Further accenting the devoted spirit of this collection is the inclusion of Bonnie's take on Prince's "The Cross", as well as the previously-unreleased original "Beezle."

Bonnie's lone shadow casts over this lot, accompanied on the first four tracks by David Heumann, but otherwise playing solo through a set of original songs (and two covers) representing a decade of progress in the almost unbearably intimate-yet-unknowable manner that was so often the vibe of those strange and wondrous days.

Layers peel to reveal the subtle artistry and refinement contained within these sessions, so begin to dig deep into the vault on January 22^nd, 2016! But wait, there's more! You can download a new arrangement of "Rich Wife Full of Happiness", (which is similar in tone, but not found on Pond Scum!)! 

Listen to and download “Rich Wife Full Of Happiness” HERE

Pond Scum is available on CD (WIGCD374), vinyl (WIGLP374) and digitally (WIG374D).  You can purchase Pond Scum via Dom Mart or iTunes.  

Domino Recording Co. France is seeking a Project Manager to join its team based in Paris.

Job Description:

As part of the marketing department, you will be responsible of the coordination of selected projects, in conjunction with Domino International Dept.

As part of this mission you will be in charge of:

- The coordination of physical and digital releases

- Setting up marketing strategies

- Setting up and maintaining budgets

- Negotiating partnerships and publicity campaigns

- Following sales and targets in coordination with our distributor

- The organization of promo days

- The promotion of some of the projects to media

Required profile:

- At least 2 years experience in music marketing

- Bac + 4/5

- Passion for music, especially for indie artists and labels, good knowledge of the Domino roster

- Fluent in French and English

- Good knowledge of the digital market

- Very good interpersonal skills, rigor and organization

- Familiar with CRM tools and social networks

Type of contract:

CDI

To Apply: 

Please send a CV and cover letter to recrutement@dominorecordco.com before January 20th 2016

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Domino Recording Co. France recherche un chef de projet pour rejoindre son équipe parisienne.

Type de contrat: CDI
 
Description du poste:

Au sein du service marketing, vous serez responsable de la coordination de certains projets en collaboration avec le département International de Domino. Dans le cadre de cette mission vous aurez en charge:

- La planification des sorties physiques et digitales

- La mise en place des stratégies marketing

- L'établissement et le suivi des budgets

- La négociation et le suivi des partenariats et campagnes publicitaires

- Le suivi des ventes et des objectifs en lien avec notre distributeur

- L'organisation des journées promo

- La promotion de certains projets auprès des médias
 
 
Profil recherché:
 
- Au moins 2 ans d'expérience dans le marketing de la musique

- Bac + 4/5

- Passionné(e) de musique, en particulier par les artistes et labels indépendants, bonne connaissance des artistes Domino

- Anglais courant écrit et parlé

- Bonne connaissance du marché digital

- Très bon relationnel, rigueur et organisation

- Familier des outils CRM et des réseaux sociaux
 
 
Contact: 
 
Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation à recrutement@dominorecordco.com avant le 20 janvier 2016

Bill Ryder-Jones has today shared a video for ‘Wild Roses’, the latest single taken from his highly acclaimed album, West Kirby County Primary.

The new video, again directed by James Slater, finds Ryder-Jones captaining a 5-a-side football team featuring his live band members against a team of local Evertonian heroes. Watch the video now below.

West Kirby County Primary, the third full-length album from multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Bill Ryder-Jones, is the follow-up to A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart and was written and recorded by Ryder-Jones in his childhood bedroom at his mother’s house in West Kirby before being filtered through Liverpool’s legendary Parr Street Studios. A classic band record, West Kirby County Primary features Bill playing a multitude of instruments including the electric guitar with his trademark prowess.

Mixed by James Ford, each of West Kirby County Primary’s ten tracks offers a sneaked glance into his private world; they eavesdrop on a set of encounters that go about “turning stories into beautiful truth” set to glorious molten melody that explodes like fireworks over water. It all adds up to a remarkable record by one of our most cherished musicians – a musical polymath as at ease on stage with the Manchester Camerata (where he performed ‘If…’ as part of the Manchester Literature Festival last Autumn) or on live guitar duties with Arctic Monkeys as he is on production duties with Hooton Tennis Club and The Wytches. 

Bill Ryder-Jones supports the release of West Kirby County Primary and the new single with new live dates throughout 2016. The new dates include a run of UK headline dates in March, including London’s Scala on March 3^rd. New European support dates with Mumford and Sons throughout May have also been announced. Tickets for all listed dates are on sale now, with UK dates highlighted in bold. 

Weds 20th Jan 2016 – Workman’s Club, Dublin, Ireland

Fri 29th Jan 2016 - Las Armas, Zaragoza, Spain

Sun 31st Jan 2016 - Astillero Ondartxo, San Sebastian, Spain (Music Box Festibala)

Weds 17th Feb 2016 - Crescent, York

Fri 19th Feb 2016 - Trades Club, Hebden Bridge

Sat 20th Feb 2016 - Cafe Indie, Scunthorpe

Thurs 25th Feb 2016 - The Ferret, Preston

Sat 27th Feb 2016 - Adelphi, Hull

Tues 1st Mar 2016 - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

Weds 2nd Mar 2016 - The Green Door Store, Brighton

Thurs 3rd Mar 2016 - Scala, London

Fri 4th Mar 2016 - Deaf Institute, Manchester

Sat 5th Mar 2016 - Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

Tues 8th Mar 2016 - Stereo, Glasgow

Thurs 10th Mar 2016 - Arts Club, Liverpool

Fri 11th Mar 2016 - Moon Club, Cardiff

Thurs 7^th May – Hartwell Arena, Helsinki, Finland*

Mon 9^th May – Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden*

Tues 10^th May – Spektrum, Oslo, Norway*

Thurs 12^th May – Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark*

Fri 13^th May – Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg, Germany*

Sat 14^th May – ISS Dome, Düsseldorf, Germany*

Mon 16^th May – Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland*

Tues 17^th May – Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany*

Thurs 19^th May – Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria*

Fri 20^th May – O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic*

Sun 22^nd May – Zenith, Paris, France*

Mon 23^rd May – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands*

Tues 24^th May – Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium*

Sat 4th Jun 2016- Lunar Festival, Tanworth in Arden

Animal Collective is pleased to announce an extensive worldwide tour in 2016, in support of their recently announced new album, Painting With, out February 19, 2016. For a full list of dates, see below. Tickets to all shows go on sale this Friday.  

The band’s new studio album, Painting With, was announced last week alongside a stream of the first single "FloriDada." Listen to it below. In addition, the band has shared a Spotify playlist highlighting songs from their 15 year career. Listen to it here.  

Fri Feb 19 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer || TIX *

Sat Feb 20 || Portsmouth, NH || 3S Artspace || TIX *

Mon Feb 22 || Boston, MA || Royale Boston || TIX *

Tues Feb 23 || New York, NY || Irving Plaza || TIX *

Fri Feb 26 || Columbus, OH || Newport Music Hall || TIX *

Sat Feb 27 || Chicago, IL || Concord Music Hall || TIX *

Sun Feb 28 || Minneapolis, MN || First Avenue || TIX *

Tues Mar 1 || Denver, CO || Ogden Theatre || TIX *

Wed Mar 2 || Salt Lake City, UT || The Depot || TIX *

Fri Mar 4 || Seattle, WA || Neptune || TIX *

Sat Mar 5 || Portland, OR || Roseland Theater || TIX *

Mon Mar 7 || Oakland, CA || Fox Theater || TIX *

Tues Mar 8 || Los Angeles, CA || The Fonda Theatre || TIX *

Fri Mar 11-Sun Mar 13 || Phoenix, AZ || McDowell Mountain Music Festival || TIX

Fri Apr 1 || Brussels, Belgium || Botanique – Orangerie || TIX ^

Sat Apr 2 || The Hague, Holland || Rewire Festival @ Paard van Troje || TIX

Mon Apr 4 || Hamburg, Germany || Uebel & Gefahrlich || TIX ^

Tues Apr 5 | Berlin, Germany || Postbahnhof || TIX ^

Thurs Apr 7 || Milan, Italy || C2C Festival @ Magazzini Generali || TIX ^

Fri Apr 8 || Stans, Switzerland || Stanser Musiktage Festival @ Kollegi || TIX

Sat Apr 9 || Paris, France || La Cigale || TIX ^

Mon Apr 11 || London, UK || 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire || TIX ^

Wed Apr 13 || Manchester, UK || Manchester Academy || TIX ^

Thurs Apr 28 || Fayetteville, AR || George’s Majestic Lounge || TIX +

Fri Apr 29-Sun May 1 || Austin, TX || Levitation || TIX

Sun May 1 || Tulsa, OK || Cains Ballroom || TIX +

Tues May 3 || St. Louis, MO || The Pageant || TIX +

Wed May 4 || Royal Oak, MI || Royal Oak Music Theatre || TIX +

Fri May 6 || Nashville, TN || Marathon Music Works || TIX +

Sat May 7 || Atlanta, GA || Buckhead Theatre || TIX +

Sun May 8 || Asheville, NC || Orange Peel || TIX +

Tues May 10 || Washington, DC || 9:30 Club || TIX +

Fri May 13 || Wilmington, DE || World Café Live at the Queen || TIX +

Sat May 14 || Sayreville, NJ || Starland Ballroom || TIX +

* with Ratking
^ with GFOTY
+ with Kaitlyn Smith

Animal Collective photo by Hisham Akira Bharoocha / Abby Portner and face & body painted by Matt Deifer.

Where Have You Been All My Life?, released on 8^th January 2016, is a collection of songs that distils five years and three albums of Villagers’ songwriting into one flowing narrative.

Recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with Richard Woodcraft (Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets) and Villagers live engineer Ber Quinn, the album is a re-imagining of older material seamlessly woven with present glories from Villagers’ most recent studio album, Darling Arithmetic.

Watch behind the scenes footage of the recording of the track ‘Hot Scary Summer’ HERE.

Released in April 2015, Conor O’Brien’s third album under the guise of Villagers was a more pared-back, intimate journey compared to the multi-faceted arrangements of Becoming A Jackal (2010) and {Awayland} (2013). This fresh approach was extended on subsequent Villagers tours, where old songs were reinvented to match the new. Then for one day in July 2015, 18 songs were quickly captured and 12 songs chosen for the final album, making it Villagers’ most intense, but satisfying, session to date. These recordings are all first or second takes, and the immediacy of the occasion was part of the magic that day, live and unadorned by overdubs or studio trickery.

The unique nature of these arrangements is due in no small part to the musicians in the room at the time of recording: Cormac Curran on grand piano and analogue synthesizer, Danny Snow on double bass, Mali Llywelyn on harp, mellotron and vocals, and Gwion Llewelyn on drums, flugelhorn and vocals. The result is a lush, harmony-laden and vibrant document of a time and a place.

Included in the album are new versions of ‘The Waves’ and ‘Memoir’ – a track written by O’Brien for Charlotte Gainsbourg’s 2011 album Stage Whisper.    Listen to ‘Memoir’ and ‘The Waves’ below.

‘Where Have You Been All My Life?’ will be available on LP (WIGLP368), CD (WIGCD368), Digital (WIG368D) and Deluxe LP (green coloured vinyl  with two bonus tracks on the download card, ‘Pieces’ & ‘No-one to Blame’). Pre-order the album from Dom Mart HERE and iTunes HERE.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Set the Tigers Free

2. Everything I Am is Yours

3. My Lighthouse

4. Courage

5. That Day

6. The Soul Serene

7. Memoir

8. Hot Scary Summer

9. The Waves

10. Darling Arithmetic

11. So Naive

12. Wichita Lineman

Villagers live dates:

13 December: Germany, Berlin - Stargaze Long Weekender

26 January: UK – Belfast - ‘Out to Lunch Festival' - The MAC Theatre

28 January: Ireland – Dublin - Vicar Street

29 January: Ireland – Galway - Black Box

1 February: UK - Newcastle - Gateshead – Sage 2

2 February: UK - Glasgow - Oran Mor Auditorium

3 February: UK – Leeds - Brudenell Social Club

5 February: UK - Manchester - Gorilla

6 February: UK - Sheffield - Leadmill

7 February: UK - Birmingham - Glee Club

8 February: UK - Oxford - Academy 2

10 February: UK – Bath - Komedia

11 February: UK – London - Shepherds Bush Empire

12 February: UK – Brighton - St Georges Church

13 February: UK - Ashford - St Mary's Church

15 February: Belgium – Brussels – Botanique Orangerie

16 February: Holland – Amsterdam - Paradiso Noord

18 February: Holland – Zwolle - Hedon

19 February: Germany – Dusseldorf - Zakk

20 February: Germany - Munich - Strom

22 February: Germany – Berlin - Postbahnhof

23 February: Germany – Frankfurt - Zoom

25 February: France – Paris - La Maroquinerie

26 February: France – Rouen - 106

27 February – France – St Malo – Route Du Rock Festival

28 February: France – Nantes - Stereolux

Animal Collective is pleased to announce the release of their eleventh full-length album, Painting With, released on February 19. Today, the band share first single ‘FloriDada.’ Listen to it below.

For fifteen years Animal Collective has been rewriting the musical map, their line-up and aesthetic shifting with each astonishing release as they continue their pursuit of a new psychedelia. Their wild path has taken them from cramped concrete basement shows and forest floor singalongs to immersive installations at the Guggenheim and performances to millions on national television. So where to from here?

Dizzyingly upbeat and gloriously realized, the new album bounces and pops with an urgent, ecstatic energy, propelled by polyrhythmic beats and gurgling modular synth, with Noah Lennox and Dave Portner’s vocals gleefully falling in and out of syncopation and off-kilter harmony. 

Working as a trio, Portner (Avey Tare), Lennox (Panda Bear) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) began trading demos in early 2015, pursuing a goal of what Portner calls “really short songs: no B.S, get in, get out material…” The three met in Asheville during that spring and began exploring the songs together. Recording took place in the legendary EastWest Studios in Hollywood, home to sessions by The Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye. The album features contributions from John Cale and Colin Stetson, and was engineered by Sonny DiPerri.

The result: Painting With. Warm and personal, kaleidoscopic and high definition, concerned with art (Cubism, Dadaism, and the distorted way those artists viewed the world) and the human experience, and the meeting of both - creating something elemental, joyous, and unmistakably Animal Collective. 

Painting With will be available in standard CD, LP, and a limited deluxe edition format. The album in CD and LP formats will be available in three different covers, featuring each Animal Collective member – Avey Tare, Geologist, and Panda Bear - as painted by Brian DeGraw and displayed below. The limited deluxe edition format exclusively available via the Animal Collective and Domino stores includes a choice of one of the three covers, 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, a zoetropic 12" turntable slipmat that animates when activated in part with a strobe light, and a bonus 7” featuring two exclusive non-album tracks mailed at a later date. All pre-orders, including from iTunes, come with an instant download of "FloriDada."

Top: Painting With three different covers by Brian DeGraw featuring from left to right: Avey Tare, Geologist and Panda Bear
Bottom: Painting With limited deluxe edition featuring a choice of album cover, a sticker sheet, bonus 7", and zoetropic turntable slipmat.

Animal Collective Painting With tracklisting
1. FloriDada
2. Hocus Pocus
3. Vertical
4. Lying In The Grass
5. The Burglars
6. Natural Selection
7. Bagels In Kiev
8. On Delay
9. Spilling Guts
10. Summing The Wretch
11. Golden Gal
12. Recycling

Animal Collective photo by Hisham Akira Bharoocha / Abby Portner and face & body painted by Matt Deifer.
Animal Collective website gifmelting effect by Chris Shier http://chz.bz.

Hyper-creative, acclaimed ‘gypsy brewer’ Mikkeller has partnered with Domino & Ribbon Music artists to create a series of custom, limited edition brews, each lovingly and collaboratively flavored, designed, and produced over the course of the last 12 months.

The brews incorporate artists’ favorite flavor profiles, and each artist involved has worked with the Mikkeller brewing team and art director to make a recipe that represents their tastes – both aesthetically and fundamentally.

The first two brews made available for purchase come courtesy of Hamilton Leithauser and The Pastels.

Hamilton Leithauser, lead singer of The Walkmen, released his debut solo album Black Hours via Ribbon Music in June of last year.

Seminal Glaswegian band The Pastels released Slow Summits via Domino in 2013.

Beers created by White Lung and Real Estate will soon be available. Stay tuned for more in the series. 

The beer is available via Mikkeller’s regular distributors, on their website, and in their Mikkeller-owned bars. Some beers may also be made available in selected restaurants and bars globally.

Purchase ‘Pastelism’ here.

Purchase ‘Black Hours’ here.

Mikkeller is an award-winning microbrewery founded in Copenhagen in 2006, which has stockists in more than 40 countries worldwide. Their style of brewing is considered very unique - their experimentation with flavor and their sometimes very limited runs of product has earned them a cult following globally. Mikkeller is consistently ranked in the top 5 breweries in the world.

Read the VICE story on Mikkel Borg Bjergso - The Walter White of Beer.

Read the New York Times Magazine feature on Mikkeller. 

‘Brite Boy’ – a standout track from Alex G’s recently released album Beach Music – comes to animated life today with a video, which can be viewed below.

The clip, directed by Philadelphia-based artist and frequent Alex G collaborator Elliot Bech, features the same dog character that has been a mainstay of Alex’s shirt and poster designs over the years. The video will be accompanied by a ‘Brite Boy’ fanzine, which you’ll be able to pick up at any of Alex G’s dates next year.

Alex G will be heading out on tour in the New Year, embarking on a string of European dates, including UK shows supporting Basement, before comprehensively crisscrossing North America with fellow Domino artists Porches and Your Friend, both of whom recently announced new albums due out early next year.

All dates below will be on sale this coming Friday, November 20, with UK dates highlighted in bold.

ALEX G TOUR DATES

Mon Nov 23 || Brooklyn, NY || Babys All Right #

Thurs Jan 28 || Hamburg, Germany || Kleiner Donner

Fri Jan 29 || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Paradiso

Tues Feb 2 || Brighton, UK || Bleach

Wed Feb 3 || Cardiff, UK || Clwb Ifor Bach

Thurs Feb 4 || Sheffield, UK || Harley

Fri Feb 5 || Nottingham, UK || Bodega

Sun Feb 7 || Bristol, UK || Marble Factory *

Mon Feb 8 || Glasgow, UK || King Tuts / Garage *

Tues Feb 9 || Leeds, UK || Stylus *

Wed Feb 10 || Manchester, UK || Academy 2 *

Thurs Feb 11 || Norwich, UK || Waterfront *

Fri Feb 12 || London, UK || Shepherd's Bush Empire *

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel ^

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Mater ^

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom ^

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival ^

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth ^

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder ^

Wed Mar 16 || Houston, TX || Walters ^

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest ^

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake ^

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court ^

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest ^

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café ^

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project ^

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt ^

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop ^

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room ^

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café ^

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge ^

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || Sister ^

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown ^

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry ^

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union ^

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge ^

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge ^

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café ^

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern ^

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs ^

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg ^

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer ^

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom ^

# with Wild Nothing

* with Basement

^ with Porches and Your Friend

Beach Music is available to purchase now via the Dom Mart on LP, CD, and digital download.

Get Beach Music here: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Porches, the recording project of New York-based Aaron Maine, today announces the new album, Pool, set for release on February 5, 2016, via Domino. Written and recorded in his Manhattan apartment, Pool is an elegantly drawn set of gorgeous, synth-driven pop songs, expanding on and re-articulating the melancholy we’ve come to know from previous single releases on Terrible (2014’s Prism), Birdtapes (2013’s Townie Blunt Guts) and Seagreen (2014’s Leather), and a full length on Exploding in Sound (2013’s Slow Dance In The Cosmos).

Additionally, Porches today shares a video for the current single ‘Hour’, which was released digitally on October 8. Directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz (Blood Orange, Danny Brown, St. Vincent, Petite Noir), the video stars Maine and Kline as star-crossed lovers on a night excursion. Watch the video now below.

Says Del Rio Ortiz of the clip:

"I wanted to create a simple but hallucinogenic montage dealing with a love affair that no longer exists but would never vanish. On the surface we see a young couple driving around the city and sneaking into a swimming pool. However we also see nostalgic imagery that creates a feeling of loss and illustrates a severed relationship."

Pool is Porches’ debut full-length for Domino and a major step forward for Maine —as an evolving singer/songwriter, and as a nascent producer. Written and recorded almost entirely in the Manhattan apartment he shares with his partner and collaborator, Greta Kline a.k.a Frankie Cosmos, and mixed by Chris Coady (Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Tobias Jesso Jr) in Los Angeles, Pool was influenced, in part, by settling in the city as an artist and a person. “I’m feeling like I’m in a more permanent situation than I’ve been in before,” he says. “There is something special about recording at home. It’s why it sounds the way it does. Being able to obsess over it on your own time and being in your own little cube knowing you’re surrounded by the city, being able to go so deep into it and to spend hours building it, loving it: all of that allowed me to reflect and focus on things a little closer.”

Pool is available to pre-order now on limited pressing coke bottle clear vinyl, CD, and digital download.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / iTunes 

POOL TRACKLISTING

01. Underwater

02. Braid

03. Be Apart

04. Mood

05. Hour

06. Even The Shadow

07. Pool

08. Glow

09. Car

10. Shaver

11. Shape

12. Security

Porches will be taking off on an extensive 2016 North American tour in support of Pool, starting March 9 in Washington, DC. The tour is a co-headline with label-mate Alex G, and will feature Your Friend, another fellow Domino artist, on support for all dates. Tickets to all shows will be on sale tomorrow, Friday November 20 with further international live dates to be announced soon.

PORCHES TOUR DATES

Wed Mar 9 || Washington, DC || Rock & Roll Hotel

Thurs Mar 10 || Richmond, VA || Strange Matter

Fri Mar 11 || Chapel Hill, NC || Cat’s Cradle Backroom

Sat Mar 12 || Savannah, GA || Savannah Stopover Festival

Sun Mar 13 || Orlando, FL || Backbooth

Mon Mar 14 || Tallahassee, FL || Club Downunder

Wed Mar 16 || Houston, TX || Walters

Sat Mar 19 || Dallas, TX || Spillover Music Fest

Mon Mar 21 || Denver, CO || Lost Lake

Tues Mar 22 || Salt Lake City, UT || Kilby Court

Wed Mar 23 || Boise, ID || Treefort Music Fest

Thurs Mar 24 || Portland, OR || Analog Café

Fri Mar 25 || Seattle, WA || Vera Project

Sat Mar 26 || Vancouver, BC || The Cobalt

Mon Mar 28 || San Francisco, CA || Rickshaw Stop

Tues Mar 29 || Los Angeles, CA || The Echo

Thurs Mar 31 || Santa Ana, CA || The Observatory – Constellation Room

Fri Apr 1 || San Diego, CA || Che Café

Sat Apr 2 || Phoenix, AZ || Rebel Lounge

Sun Apr 3 || Albuquerque, NM || The Co-Op

Tues Apr 5 || Omaha, NE || Slowdown

Wed Apr 6 || Minneapolis, MN || 7^th St Entry

Thurs Apr 7 || Madison, WI || UW Student Union

Fri Apr 8 || Grinnell, IA || Grinnell College – Gardner Lounge

Sat Apr 9 || Chicago, IL || Bottom Lounge

Sun Apr 10 || Detroit, MI || Majestic Café

Mon Apr 11 || Toronto, ON || Horseshoe Tavern

Tues Apr 12 || Boston, MA || Middle East Downstairs

Wed Apr 13 || Brooklyn, NY || Music Hall of Williamsburg

Thurs Apr 14 || Philadelphia, PA || Union Transfer

Fri Apr 15 || New York, NY || Bowery Ballroom

Following the release of her richly acclaimed new album Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter is sharing the video for the album’s latest single, Silhouette, directed by Rick Bahto. Watch the video now below.

Alongside the video, Holter has announced a new run of UK live dates for 2016 including London’s Oval Space on 15^th February, which follows a lauded sold out performance at Islington Assembly Hall earlier this month. All forthcoming live dates are listed below with all UK and European dates highlighted in bold. Tickets for all 2016 dates go on sale at 10am GMT Thursday 19^th November.

18-Nov  Biekorf  Brugge  BELGIUM       

19-Nov  Le Guess Who? Festival  Utrecht  NETHERLANDS

23-Nov  Hostess Club Weekender  Tokyo  JAPAN

24-Nov  Metro  Kyoto  JAPAN

25-Nov  Conpass  Osaka  JAPAN

26-Nov  WWW  Tokyo  JAPAN

28-Nov  Clockenflap Festival  Hong Kong  HONG KONG

29-Nov  Neon Lights Festival  Singapore  SINGAPORE

01-Dec  V Hall  Seoul  SOUTH KOREA

09-Dec  Newtown Social Club  Sydney  AUSTRALIA

10-Dec  Blackbear Lodge  Brisbane  AUSTRALIA

11-Dec  Howler  Melbourne  AUSTRALIA

12-Dec  Meredith Music Festival  Victoria  AUSTRALIA

13-Dec  Disconnect Festival  Perth  AUSTRALIA

28-Jan  Irenic  San Diego, CA  USA

30-Jan  Teragram Ballroom  Los Angeles, CA  USA

31-Jan  The Chapel  San Francisco, CA  USA

02-Feb  Holocene  Portland, OR  USA

03-Feb  Columbia City Theater  Seattle, WA  USA

04-Feb  The Cobalt  Vancouver, BC  CANADA

08-Feb  New Morning  Paris  FRANCE

11-Feb  Engine Rooms  Southampton  UK

12-Feb  From Now On Festival  Cardiff  UK

15-Feb  Oval Space  London  UK

16-Feb  Gorilla  Manchester  UK

17-Feb  Button Factory  Dublin  IRELAND

19-Feb  SWG3 Studio Warehouse  Glasgow  UK

20-Feb  Summerhall Arts Venue  Edinburgh  UK

23-Feb  Bowery Ballroom  New York, NY  USA

26-Feb  Johnny Brenda’s  Philadelphia, PA  USA     

Have You In My Wilderness is available on CD (WIGCD341), digital (WIG341D) and LP (WIGLP341). The album includes the singles ‘Feel You’ (watch the video HERE) and ‘Silhouette’ (watch the video HERE) as well as previously released tracks ‘Sea Calls Me Home’ (watch the video HERE) and ‘Betsy On The Roof’ (listen to the official audio HERE).

Buy from Dom Mart HERE and iTunes HERE.

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1. Feel You
2. Silhouette
3. How Long?
4. Lucette Stranded On The Island
5. Sea Calls Me Home
6. Night Song
7. Everytime Boots
8. Betsy On The Roof
9. Vasquez
10. Have You In My Wilderness

Taryn Miller, aka Your Friend, is today pleased to share the first taste of new music since last year’s debut EP, in the form of new song ‘Heathering’.

The brooding, elegantly haunted track marks a new chapter in Miller’s career – one that will be fully revealed with the release of her debut full-length, titled Gumption, on January 29^th, 2016 via Domino.

The release of ‘Heathering’ comes just ahead of Miller’s participation in the Red Bull Music Academy in Paris, during which she will participate in the Cosmorama event, to be held next Tuesday, November 17^th, alongside like-minded artists sitting at the musical intersection of lush electronica and indie-inflected pop music.

Since the release of her debut self-recorded EP, Jekyll/Hyde, in early 2014, Taryn Miller has experienced many firsts as an artist – her first tour (with Courtney Barnett), her first SXSW (in 2014, in support of the EP release), and her first time working in a proper studio with a producer. And now, the 24-year-old who resides in Lawrence, Kansas and makes music under the moniker Your Friend, begins the process of another first – the release of her debut full length album, Gumption.

Miller began writing the songs that would become Gumption at her studio space and apartment in Lawrence, Kansas after returning from touring in mid-2014. As a part of the album’s process, Miller acquired a field recorder that she used to explore sound from a familiar place. She took it to her family farm in Dexter, KS and drove around, dipping her senses into childhood nostalgia.

From there, she started recording with producer Nicolas Vernhes (The War on Drugs, Deerhunter) at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, which helped Your Friend fulfill a penchant for drones, loops and found sounds. “I paid attention to textures,” Miller says. “I was trying to remove myself from an approach that I had followed before, but still wanted to bring in that melodic element that is most inherent to me, and marry it with a more sonically meditative landscape.”

Gumption deals with the dualities and nuances of human interaction, and questions how much we, as individuals, are responsible for in the ways we are perceived. It’s a record of courage, as its title suggests - of having the willingness to make necessary shifts, and to have a sense of self-awareness that ultimately leads to growth.

Gumption will be available on CD and standard LP via the Domino Mart. Pre-order the album from the Domino Mart HERE or iTunes HERE and receive an instant download of ‘Heathering’. The standard LP comes in a single jacket with a printed inner sleeve and is accompanied by a MP3 download card.

Preorder: Dom Mart / iTunes

GUMPTION TRACKLIST:

1. Heathering

2. Come Back From It

3. To Live With

4. Desired Things

5. Nothing Moved

6. Gumption

7. I Turned In

8. Who Will I Be In the Morning?

Your Friend has a handful of European dates on the horizon, and will be on tour in the US in early 2016. Stay tuned for all news and updates via the new Your Friend website HERE.

Your Friend Tour Dates

Sat Nov 28 || Espace B || Paris, France

Tues Dec 1 || Lock Tavern || London, UK

Thurs Dec 3 || St John Bethnal Green Church || London, UK (w/ Christopher Owen)

Fri Dec 4 || De Nieuwe Anite || Amsterdam, Netherlands (w/ Slim Twig)

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan release their collaborative debut album ‘Everything Sacred’ on Friday the 15^th of January 2016.  Listen to their cover of Ivor Cutler’s ‘Little Black Buzzer’ featuring the trio joined by the superb and distinctive young Irish singer Lisa O’Neill below.

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan are an experimental group that includes James Yorkston, one of the most “influential singer/songwriters on the Scottish folk scene”, Suhail Yusuf Khan, award winning sarangi player and classical singer from New Delhi and Jon Thorne, best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb. 

This is Scottish-Irish-Indian-English music in the raw, Yorkston's familiar steel guitar strings pulled, pushed and bent into more unfamiliar acoustic drones, the bass dropping anchors through the floor. Rather than world music per se, this sounds more idiosyncratic, a temporary structure bivouacking by the side of the indie-folk, art music tradition, while its widening horizons extend back to the Sixties heyday of the Incredible String Band, and forward to this singular album's satellite orbit over the folk music, Indian classical and indie music of today – all these musical ley lines threaded into a new kind of eclectic, domestic setting.

“Playing together as Yorkston / Thorne / Khan, we tackle a wide array of different sounds and songs. Alongside pieces of our own, there’s a fair chunk of improvisation, plus covers of Ivor Cutler’s ‘Little Black Buzzer’ and Lal Waterson’s ‘Song For Thirza’. Jon’s jazz back-ground definitely comes to the fore, as does Suhail’s devotional singing and outstanding sarangi playing. I just do my best to keep up…” – James Yorkston

 ‘Everything Sacred’ will be available on CD (WIGCD367), Standard LP (WIGLP367), Deluxe LP (WIGLP367X) and digitally.  The Deluxe LP features a die cut sleeve with a bonus 7” featuring exclusive tracks ‘Peggio’ and ‘The Blues You Sang’ with download card.  You can pre-order the album  via Dom Mart HERE and iTunes HERE.

The band will be performing the following shows in 2016 - more to follow soon:

Jan 18th - Anstruther Dreel Halls

Jan 19th - Glasgow Celtic Connections

28th Feb - Komedia, Bath

You can also find details of James Yorkston’s forthcoming solo shows HERE.

Tracklisting:

Knochentanz

Little Black Buzzer

Song for Thirza

Vachaspati/Kaavya

Everything Sacred

Sufi Song

Broken Wave

Blues Jumped the Goose

Many Moons, the debut solo album from Martin Courtney, is out now on Domino. The bright, lush, 10-song collection of soft psychedelia, which was previewed during a string of CMJ shows earlier this month, further cements the Real Estate frontman’s talent for writing deceptively affecting songs – jangly, melancholic jams touching on themes of past and present, loss and love, home and the heart.

Stream Many Moons here.

Today, Courtney is sharing a cover of Pavement’s ‘Major Leagues’. Recorded as part of a Sirius XMU session, the video can be viewed now below.

Courtney also recorded a live session for KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, which will air November 19th. In advance of that date, you can watch the performance of single ‘Airport Bar’ HERE.

Martin Courtney will follow his successful run of CMJ shows from last month- which included a performance at the Fader Fort, a Brooklyn Vegan showcase at Baby’s All Right, a WFUV showcase at Rockwood Music Hall, and a KEXP “Live From The Cutting Room session”- with a show at new Brooklyn venue National Sawdust on November 20th, and a short West Coast run in January 2016.

Martin Courtney Tour Dates

Friday Nov 20 || National Sawdust || Brooklyn, NY || TIX

Monday Jan 18 || The Echo || Los Angeles, CA || TIX

Tuesday Jan 19 || The Casbah || San Diego, CA || TIX

Wednesday Jan 20 || The Chapel || San Francisco, CA || TIX

Watch the Rob Hatch-Miller and Puloma Basu-directed video for 'Northern Highway' HERE.

Stream ‘Vestiges’ HERE.

Watch a performance of ‘Northern Highway’ live from WFUV’s CMJ showcase HERE.

“Many Moons works as a remarkably cohesive album, meandering its way across themes of past and present to a state of aching clarity that's modest, but no less genuine for it.”- PITCHFORK

“Lush, but with space to breath”- THE GUARDIAN

“A shimmering slice of sun-streaked pop” DROWNED IN SOUND

Many Moons is available on CD, standard and limited edition LP on Domino. The limited edition LP (of 500) contains an alternate cover with an embossed jacket, featuring an artist logo designed by Robert Beatty and coke-bottle clear colored vinyl.

Order now via: Dom Mart / iTunes

Today, the unstoppable electronic-pop duo Bob Moses premiered the official video for their wildly popular and infectious new track “Tearing Me Up.” The track – taken from their critically acclaimed debut album Days Gone By (out now on Domino) – has garnered more than half a million plays on Soundcloud alone, reaching the #1 position on Hype Machine three times in the space of just a few weeks, and continues to receive praise from fans and critics since its worldwide debut on World First by Zane Lowe on Apple Beats1.

The video was directed by Zack Spiger, was shot in Paris, and can be watched below.

Buy the track via iTunes HERE. 

Stream the track HERE.

This summer and autumn, Bob Moses (a.k.a Jimmy Vallance and Tom Howie) have been trotting the globe, headlining sold out shows across North America, Europe and the UK – the band are returning to London to headline at Village Underground on the 26^th of November.

Their debut album Days Gone By has won critics across the board with Billboard Magazine noting them as having the “authenticity to appease genre purists, yet the lyrical depth to attract non-electronic fans,” Entertainment Weekly praised the duo for serving up “one of the year’s most chilled-out, enveloping electro-pop albums” whilst industry critic Bob Lefsetz announced in his newsletter that they reminded him of “The Beatles testing the limits in 1966.”

Days Gone By is available in stores nationwide and on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon and all other digital platforms now.

Be sure to catch Bob Moses on one of their forthcoming dates.

29/10- Aisle 5- Atlanta, GA

30/10- Warehouse- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

31/10 - The Garrett- Miami, FL

20/11 – Lux, Lisbon

21/11 – Indigo, Istanbul

25/11 – IPSE, Berlin

26/11 – Village Underground, London

27/11 – Pratersauna, Austria

28/11 – Badaboum, Paris

2/12 – Paradiso Grote Zaal, Amsterdam

4/12 – AB, Brussels

Tickets are available for purchase via:
www.bobmosesmusic.com

Bill Ryder-Jones is streaming acclaimed new album West Kirby County Primary in full ahead of its release on 6^th November. Listen now via NPR First Listen.

Alongside the album stream, a new video for album track ‘Catharine and Huskisson’, directed by James Slater, is streaming now – watch the video below. The new video follows Slater’s videos for the albums lead single ‘Two To Birkenhead’ (watch HERE) and ‘Satellites’ (watch HERE).

West Kirby County Primary, the third full-length album from multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Bill Ryder-Jones, is the follow-up to A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart and was written and recorded by Ryder-Jones in his childhood bedroom at his mother’s house in West Kirby before being filtered through Liverpool’s legendary Parr Street Studios. A classic band record, West Kirby County Primary features Bill playing a multitude of instruments including the electric guitar with his trademark prowess.

Mixed by James Ford, each of West Kirby County Primary’s ten tracks offers a sneaked glance into his private world; they eavesdrop on a set of encounters that go about “turning stories into beautiful truth” set to glorious molten melody that explodes like fireworks over water. It all adds up to a remarkable record by one of our most cherished musicians – a musical polymath as at ease on stage with the Manchester Camerata (where he performed ‘If…’ as part of the Manchester Literature Festival last Autumn) or on live guitar duties with Arctic Monkeys as he is on production duties with Hooton Tennis Club and The Wytches.

Bill Ryder-Jones will be performing live throughout the UK in November with a sold out date at The Lexington in London on 11^th November. New UK live dates have been announced for March including Scala in London on 3^rd March 2016. on Full dates with ticket links are as follows with headline dates in bold:

29^th October – London – Heaven *

1^st November – Amsterdam – London Calling

7^th November - Glasgow - Hug and Pint

8^th November – Edinburgh – Mash House

9th November - Newcastle - Cluny 2

11th November - London - Lexington [SOLD OUT]

13th November - Manchester - Gullivers [SOLD OUT]

14th November - Liverpool - District

26^th November – Nottingham – Bodega Social

3^rd December – Bristol - Louisiana

4^th December – Birmingham - Rainbow

9^th December – Ramsgate – Ramsgate Music Hall

10^th December – Paris – Winter Camp Festival

12^th December – Lille – Winter Camp Festival

31^st January – San Sebastian – Music Box Festibala

3^rd March – London - Scala

4^th March – Manchester - Deaf Institute

* with Spector

West Kirby County Primary will be available on CD (WIGCD346), Digital (WIG346D) and LP (WIGLP346). There will also be a Dom Mart and indie shop exclusive Deluxe LP (WIGLP346X) which comes with a bonus 7” featuring two exclusive new tracks. Pre-order the Deluxe Vinyl edition on Dom Mart and for a very limited period also receive a signed and numbered photo-print taken from the stage at this year’s Green Man Festival. Pre-order the album via Dom Mart HERE and via iTunes HERE with an instant grat of Two To Birkenhead.

Tracklisting:

1. Tell Me You Don't Love Me Watching  
2. Two To Birkenhead  
3. Let's Get Away From Here  
4. Daniel  
5. Put It Down Before You Break It  
6. Catharine and Huskisson  
7. Wild Roses  
8. You Can't Hide A Light With The Dark  
9. Satellites  
10. Seabirds

The Bohicas have launched the action packed video for their new single ‘The Making Of’ – watch the video below.  Directed by Ozzie Pullin, the video features lead singer Dominic McGuinness dealing with a personal struggle of a very unique kind.

Pullin conceived the idea and worked with the band on how to pull it all together, enlisting McGuinness as the main protagonist.  

"For me the concept is all about the battle we have with each other as individuals and I wanted to explore this idea in a kind of purgatory way, in that it's never ending. It's something we have to deal with through our lives. So when the band were keen on the concept, I knew we could make something special that we all were happy with. I couldn't have asked for more from the guys, they absolutely killed it, that completely shows in the final product", says director Pullin.  

McGuinness’ acting debut made for epic behind the scenes viewing: “I basically got the crap kicked out of me by the stunt double all day as my bandmates watched on in hysterics. Luckily, it looks like I’m throwing all the punches in the final video so we did what we set out to do!”

It’s been a busy time for the band; recently nominated for Best New Act at the Q Awards, they are currently on the last leg of their UK and Europe headline tour. The band will also be heading back to Japan in November where they will play the Hostess Weekender in Tokyo and Osaka alongside the likes of Bloc Party, Mystery Jets and Daughter.

Remaining 2015 dates:

Tuesday 27^th October                     Netherlands                       Paradiso, Amsterdam   

Thursday 29^th October                   Germany                             Molotow Bar, Hamburg

Friday 30^th October                          Germany                             Kantine am Berghain, Berlin

Monday 23^rd November               Japan                                    Hostess Weekender for Tokyo

Tuesday 24^th November                Japan                                    Hostess Weekender for Osaka

Saturday 28^th November               UK                                          Mutations Festival, Brighton

Saturday 28^th November               UK                                          Tricky Disco Club Night, Kasbah, Coventry

Sunday 29^th November                  UK                                          Bodega, Nottingham

Tuesday 1^st December                   UK                                          Adelphi, Hull

Wednesday 2^nd December           UK                                          The Square, Harlow

Friday 4^th December                       UK                                          Roadmender, Northampton

Saturday 5^th December                  UK                                          Talking Heads, Southampton

Sunday 6^th December                     UK                                          The Horn, St Albans

Monday 7^th December                   UK                                          Sub89, Reading

The Bohicas are rock and roll painted in vivid primary colours. Hi def, loud, fast and shiny. A barrage of killer hooks, razor blade riffs and choruses that slap you in the face, grab your hand and lead you onto the dance floor. All shot through with pulp imagery torn from the pages of a graphic novel.

The Bohicas debut album ‘The Making Of’ is out now. Buy it now via Domino Mart and iTunes.

For tickets please head to live.thebohicas.com

Blood Orange – aka Devonté Hynes – today releases a new song, titled ‘Sandra’s Smile’, accompanied by a video shot last week in New York. Directed and edited by Hynes himself, and featuring cameos from Junglepussy, Ian Isiah, and Waffle Crew, the ‘Sandra’s Smile’ video can be seen below.

Blood Orange will perform his first U.S. show of 2015 on December 12, 2015 when he returns to the stage at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo Theater in NYC alongside a cast of friends and collaborators.

The show at Harlem’s World Famous Apollo Theater will feature not only music from Hynes’ critically acclaimed first two albums under the Blood Orange moniker, but will also include the live debut of brand new Blood Orange material.

All proceeds from the show will benefit the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music, a program that transforms the lives of their students and families through access to quality music education both in-school and after-school.

Says Hynes, “Playing music saved my life; if it wasn't for the chance to play cello or piano when I was a kid growing up in Essex, I shudder to think where I'd be right now. At this point in my life, all that matters to me is giving back to communities and making people happy, so I have decided to put on a fun night of performances at the legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem that is hopefully affordable to all, with all proceeds going to the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music.  New York City, let's have some fun!"

Get tickets to the show HERE. 

Hot Chip are to release a brand new four track EP entitled ‘Dancing In the Dark’, on 23^rd October 2015. The EP opens up with the band’s epic seven minute version of the Springsteen classic, which they performed live during their triumphant headline sets at Glastonbury, Green Man and other festivals over the summer. The EP also features a reworking of ‘Cry For You’ taken from their critically acclaimed recent album, Why Make Sense?.  Both tracks were recorded by the seven piece live band, which includes drummer Sarah Jones and multi-instrumentalist Rob Smoughton, at the legendary RAK Studios in London, and mixed by David Wrench.  Also included on the EP are remixes of their single, ‘Huarache Lights’, by Soulwax and  A/JUS/TED. Listen to the Soulwax remix of ‘Huarache Lights’ which was premiered on Beats 1, HERE.

Today the band share the video for the full length version of ‘Dancing In the Dark’, directed by Kieran Evans.   The live footage was recorded this summer on Super 8 at Webster Hall in New York City and features a cameo from David Byrne and Sinkane who joined Hot Chip onstage for this song.

Why Make Sense? (Definitive Edition) featuring the original album, the ‘Separate’ EP from the deluxe release augmented by the brand new ‘Dancing In the Dark’ EP will also be available on 23^rd September. 

Dancing In The Dark EP (RUG714D) is available to pre-order HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Dancing In The Dark

2. Cry For You (RAK version)

3. Huarache Lights (Soulwax remix)

4. Huarache Lights (A/JUS/TED remix)

Why Make Sense? (Definitive Edition) is available to pre-order HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

Why Make Sense? :

1. Huarache Lights

2. Love Is The Future

3. Cry For You

4. Started Right

5. White Wine and Fried Chicken

6. Dark Night

7. Easy To Get

8. Need You Now

9. So Much Further To Go

10. Why Make Sense?

Separate EP:

1. Burning Up

2. Separate

3. Move With Me

4. Re-harmonize

Dancing In The Dark EP:

1. Dancing In The Dark

2. Cry For You (RAK version)

3. Huarache Lights (Soulwax remix)

4. Huarache Lights (A/JUS/TED remix)

Following tours in the UK, Europe and USA as well as a multitude of summer festivals, Hot Chip are currently on their second ‘Why Make Sense?’ UK tour with two sold out shows at London’s Brixton Academy this week on the 22^nd and 23^rd October. The band have also announced a headline appearance at Dreamland ‘By The Sea’ in Margate on 13^th November as well as further dates across Europe in November. Live dates are as follows with UK and Irish dates in bold. Tickets are available HERE.

Tue 20 Oct - UK, Nottingham, Rock City (w/ Georgia)

Wed 21 Oct - UK, Cambridge, Corn Exchange (w/ Georgia)

Thu 22 Oct - UK, London, O2 Brixton Academy (w/ Lonelady) (SOLD OUT)

Fri 23 Oct – UK, London, O2 Brixton Academy  (SOLD OUT)

Thu 29 Oct – USA, Oakland, CA, Fox Theatre

Fri 6 Nov – Ire, Belfast, Limelight 1

Sat 7 Nov – Ire, Dublin, Metropolis Festival

Sun 8 Nov – Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Airwaves

Fri 13 Nov – UK, Margate, Dreamland ‘By The Sea’

Mon 16 Nov – NL, Amsterdam, Paradiso

Tue 17 Nov – Belgium, Antwerp, Trix

Wed 18 Nov – France, Paris, Casino de Paris

Thu 19 Nov – France, Reims, La Cartonnerie

Fri 27 Nov – Brazil, Rio De Janeiro, Sacadura 154

Sat 28 Nov – Brazil, São Paulo, Sonar São Paulo

Tue 1 Dec – Uruguay, Montevideo, Montevideo

Thu 3 Dec – Argentina, Buenos Aires, Sónar Buenos Aires

Sat 5 Dec – Chile, Santiago, Sónar Santiago

Mon 7 Dec – Colombia, Bogotá, Sónar Bogotá

Sat 23 Jan – Australia, Melbourne, Sugar Mountain Festival

Why Make Sense? was recorded in Oxfordshire and London and produced by Hot Chip with Mark Ralph. Due to a unique and bespoke printing technique which has never been used before, the new album Why Make Sense? comes in one of 501 different colours making every cover unique. View the artwork, designed by Nick Relph,HERE (GIFs available here:small |large).

Watch the videos for Huarache Lights (HERE), Need You Now (HERE) and Started Right HERE.

Where Have You Been All My Life?, released on 8^th January 2016, is a collection of songs that distils five years and three albums of Villagers’ songwriting into one flowing narrative.

Recorded in one day at London’s RAK Studio with Richard Woodcraft (Radiohead, The Last Shadow Puppets) and Villagers live engineer Ber Quinn, the album is a re-imagining of older material seamlessly woven with present glories from Villagers’ most recent studio album, Darling Arithmetic.

Released in April 2015, Conor O’Brien’s third album under the guise of Villagers was a more pared-back, intimate journey compared to the multi-faceted arrangements of Becoming A Jackal (2010) and {Awayland} (2013). This fresh approach was extended on subsequent Villagers tours, where old songs were reinvented to match the new. Then for one day in July 2015, 18 songs were quickly captured and 12 songs chosen for the final album, making it Villagers’ most intense, but satisfying, session to date. These recordings are all first or second takes, and the immediacy of the occasion was part of the magic that day, live and unadorned by overdubs or studio trickery.

The unique nature of these arrangements is due in no small part to the musicians in the room at the time of recording: Cormac Curran on grand piano and analogue synthesizer, Danny Snow on double bass, Mali Llywelyn on harp, mellotron and vocals, and Gwion Llewelyn on drums, flugelhorn and vocals. The result is a lush, harmony-laden and vibrant document of a time and a place.

Included in the album is a new recording of ‘Memoir’, which O’Brien wrote for Charlotte Gainsbourg; it can be found on her 2011 album Stage Whisper, but has never before been recorded as a live cut by Villagers until now.

‘Where Have You Been All My Life?’ will be available on LP (WIGLP368), CD (WIGCD368), Digital (WIG368D) and Deluxe LP (green coloured vinyl  with two bonus tracks on the download card, ‘Pieces’ & ‘No-one to Blame’). Pre-order the album from Dom Mart HERE and iTunes HERE.

The tracklisting is as follows:

1. Set the Tigers Free

2. Everything I Am is Yours

3. My Lighthouse

4. Courage

5. That Day

6. The Soul Serene

7. Memoir

8. Hot Scary Summer

9. The Waves

10. Darling Arithmetic

11. So Naive

12. Wichita Lineman

Fresh off the back of North American tour dates as special guest to Paul Weller and John Grant, today Villagers announce an extensive UK and European tour for January and February 2016, including shows at Vicar Street in Dublin on 28^th January and at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on February 11^th.  Tickets for these shows will go on general sale Friday 23 October.

Villagers’ Conor O’Brien has also been invited to perform again as part of ‘In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited’, which premiered at The Barbican in London in 2014. A landmark live tribute to the songs and music from the legendary filmmaker, David Lynch.  More info is available HERE.

Full live dates are below, with UK & Irish shows in bold. All tickets are available via Villagers official website HERE. Ticket and album bundles also available HERE.

In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited:

18 November: Ireland – Dublin - NATIONAL CONCERT HALL,

19 November: UK: Bristol - COLSTON HALL

21 November: France, Paris - PHILHARMONIE

22 November: France, Paris: PHILHARMONIE

23 November: France, Nantes: CITE DES CONGRES

Villagers live dates:

31 October:  Spain - Bilbao - Bime Festival

27 November:  Portugal - Lisbon - Mexe Festival

28 November: Austria – Vienna - Bluebird Festival

13 December: Germany, Berlin - Stargaze Long Weekender

26 January: UK – Belfast - ‘Out to Lunch Festival' - The MAC Theatre

28 January: Ireland – Dublin - Vicar Street

29 January: Ireland – Galway - Black Box

30 January: Ireland – Cork - Savoy

1 February: UK - Newcastle - Gateshead – Sage 2

2 February: UK - Glasgow - Oran Mor Auditorium

3 February: UK – Leeds - Brudenell Social Club

5 February: UK - Manchester - Gorilla

6 February: UK - Sheffield - Leadmill

7 February: UK - Birmingham - Glee Club

8 February: UK - Oxford - Academy 2

10 February: UK – Bath - Komedia

11 February: UK – London - Shepherds Bush Empire

12 February: UK – Brighton - St Georges Church

13 February: UK - Ashford - St Mary's Church

15 February: Belgium – Brussels – Botanique Orangerie

16 February: Holland – Amsterdam - Paradiso Noord

18 February: Holland – Zwolle - Hedon

19 February: Germany – Dusseldorf - Zakk

20 February: Germany - Munich - Strom

22 February: Germany – Berlin - Postbahnhof

23 February: Germany – Frankfurt - Zoom

25 February: France – Paris - La Maroquinerie

26 February: France – Rouen - 106

28 February: France – Nantes - Stereolux

The Pastels have shared details of two extremely special forthcoming shows.  

The first of these shows will be at the CCA in Glasgow on Saturday October 24, they will play as part of a two-day event which they helped put together in collaboration with Monorail Music and Night School Records.  They headline the Saturday night which also features Birdie (Paul Kelly, Debsey Wykes and friends), Spinning Coin (forthcoming Geographic single) and Normal Love (Roxanne Clifford from Veronica Falls' new project).  

http://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/55e073a3a0e22f6d2c000002     

On Friday November 6 they play Oval Space, London with their friends, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.

http://www.ovalspace.co.uk/events/view/son-estrella-gali-ia-presents-the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart-the-pastels/

To round off a hugely successful 2015, FFS have unveiled the video to Call Girl, a track from their recently released much-acclaimed self-titled album.

The video was directed by Sasha Rainbow (www.sasharainbow.com).

Call Girl was recorded at London’s RAK Studios in London with Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton (St Vincent, David Byrne, Anna Calvi).

Currently rounding off a US tour, the last few months have seen the band play festivals and sold-out shows across Europe including a stunning performance headlining the John Peel stage at Glastonbury and two sold out London shows at The Troxy and The Forum.

Finally, the band have just appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden in the U.S. where they performed Police Encounters.

Watch the performance and interview here:

December 11th marks the release of A Folk Set Apart: Rarities, B-Sides & Space Junk, Etc., an alternate retelling of the last decade in the life of extraordinary songwriter Cass McCombs.

Comprising songs from 2003-2014, the album showcases McCombs’ thematic and emotional diversity. A black mirror to his catalogue, there are varying moments of reflection, madness, and dark humor. Also of politics - “Bradley Manning,” which debuted on Democracy Now, is a modern folk ballad of the convicted Army whistleblower, and directly quotes Manning’s own Facebook posts. McCombs has a unique ability to stitch together ancient techniques with our current primitive mind.

For all their differences, this collection of songs reveals the artist as navigator of avoidance. They have been unearthed from the so-called underground - culled from the various limited, rare sources from which they were initially released on different independent labels on both sides of the pond, now compiled by Domino. For the past decade, most of these have been next to impossible to find, and for the first time are now readily available. Many were first unveiled as split 7”s, only sold at shows, whose artist pairings are as diverse as McCombs’ own musical tendencies: e.g. Meat Puppets (“Evangeline,” “Night of the World”), Michael Hurley (“Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log”) and White Magic (“If You Loved Me Before”).

McCombs is a perennial favorite of many acclaimed musicians - as evidenced by the broad range of guests who appear on the tracks: Mike Gordon (Phish) co-wrote and lent his unmistakable vocal to the bizarre experiment, “Texas”; PREfection-era drummer, Tim Dewit aka Dutch E. Germ (Gang Gang Dance) on “A.Y.D.”; drummer Joe Russo (Furthur) on “Evangeline” and “Night Of The World”; Chris Cohen (Deerhoof) plays guitar on “Poet’s Day” and “An Other”; Tim Cedar (from noise/punk band Ligament) drums on “Twins”; among many other anti-heroes from the musical underground, proving community defies classification.

Parallel universes obviously exist, but where are they before we experience them? The occult world stalks us until the final coup-de-gras. But McCombs is not a mystic but a brutal realist, exposing himself warts and all, in the punk tradition.

These songs will both satiate and perplex those already familiar with McCombs, while compelling and rewarding new listeners, pointing a way towards his back catalog. It’s a glimpse behind the studio curtain at one of the greatest songwriters of the 21st Century. True trash esoterica.

A Folk Set Apart includes 19 songs (19 on CD, 11 on LP + 8 digital bonus tracks) all remastered for this release. Five of these songs are previously unreleased. The LP is a single vinyl in a gatefold jacket, which includes a printed inner sleeve and an MP3 download card.

Pre-order via Dom Mart or iTunes.

McCombs will be playing a string of US dates in the coming weeks. October sees him open for Kurt Vile on the West Coast, and November he’ll be opening for My Morning Jacket on one night of their four-night run at New York’s famed Beacon Theatre. Details below.

Cass McCombs’ Tour Dates:

Wed. Oct. 14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre [TIX ]*

Thu. Oct. 15 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s [TIX]*

Fri. Oct. 16 – San Francisco, CA @ Fillmore [TIX] *

Sat. Oct. 17 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom [TIX] *

Sun. Oct. 18 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox [TIX ]*

Fri. Nov. 6 – Sun. Nov. 8 – Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest @ Auditorium Shores [TIX]

Fri. Nov. 27 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre [TIX] &

* with Kurt Vile

& with My Morning Jacket

A Folk Set Apart Tracklisting

1. I Cannot Lie
2. A.Y.D.
3. Oatmeal
4. Twins
5. Minimum Wage
6. Poet’s Day
7. An Other
8. Bradley Manning
9. Evangeline
10. Empty Promises
11. If You Loved Me Before…
12. Three Men Sitting On A Hollow Log
13. Lost River / Old River
14. Old As Angry
15. Texas
16. Night Of The World
17. Traffic Of Souls
18. Catacombs Cow Cow Boogie
19. The State Will Take Care Of Me

Domino Recording Co is seeking an apprentice to join the Neighbouring Rights team based in our London office.

Neighbouring Rights is a growing area of the music industry which involves collecting royalties due to labels and performers when their records are played on radio, TV and in public places such as bars and clubs. This is a position requiring numeracy, a keen eye to detail and would suit someone interested in a career in copyright/royalties.

The Apprentice will be a key part of the team and duties will include the following:

Research/data input

• Researching releases, recordings, performer/producer contributions etc. in order to compile repertoire metadata.

• Registering repertoire at collecting societies around the world.

• Developing an understanding of copyright.

Analysis/reporting

• Analysing broadcast reports to check recordings are matched with airplay.

• Reviewing reports of repertoire registered at societies, cross referencing with metadata and identifying errors/gaps.

• Extracting data from historical/multi-territory statements and compiling reports.

• Analysing and processing statements of income.

General administration

• Paperwork, filing, and archiving.

To apply:
Please complete the application form HERE on or before October 23rd, 2015. 

The completed application form should be sent to leena@diversityinvisualarts.com

We're proud to share another track, from the forthcoming debut solo album from Real Estate songwriter and frontman Martin Courtney, titled Many Moons, out October 30, 2015. The wistful, elegantly arranged "Airport Bar" deals with the yearning for loved ones whilst away from home, and displays again Courtney’s deft hand in songwriting, and his move towards more personal lyrics on this solo album. Listen to the track below.

This track follows the release of previously shared tracks "Vestiges" and "Northern Highway."

Martin Courtney has also announced his first band shows during CMJ in New York this week, appearing at events for the Fader, KEXP, WFUV, Brooklyn Vegan, and Urban Outfitters. All details below.

Many Moons will be released on CD, standard and limited edition LP. The limited edition LP (of 500) is available to pre-order now from Domino Mart and contains an alternate cover with an embossed jacket featuring an artist logo designed by Robert Beatty, layout by Rob Carmichael of SEEN and coke-bottle clear color vinyl. All pre-orders from Domino or iTunes include instant downloads of "Airport Bar," "Northern Highway," and "Vestiges."

['Many Moons' limited edition LP (of 500) includes an alternate cover with an embossed jacket and coke bottle clear vinyl]

10-13 New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall (WFUV) - 7pm
10-16 New York, NY - KEXP broadcast live on-air from Cutting Room Studios - 12pm
10-16 Brooklyn, NY - Rubber Tracks (The Fader Fort) - 8pm
10-17 Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right (Brooklyn Vegan) - 1pm
10-17 Brooklyn, NY - Urban Outfitters Williamsburg, Space 98 - 5pm
11-20 Brooklyn, NY - National Sawdust (Buy Tickets)

Martin Courtney photo by Shawn Brackbill.

Alex G’s new album, Beach Music, is out today and in celebration, he’s pleased to share the video for Beach Music standout ‘Kicker’. Directed by John Vizzone, a previous collaborator (on DSU’s ‘Hollow’ video), the video has a distinctly 90s feel whilst also simultaneously feeling very Alex G. 

Beach Music was written and recorded in Alex G’s apartment between the Autumn of 2014 and the Spring of 2015, and is the prolific songwriter’s seventh full length in five years. The first three singles, ‘Bug’, ‘Salt’ and ‘Kicker’, were greeted with genuine enthusiasm and loads of emojis from fans, making Beach Music one of the most anticipated albums of the year.

Listen to ‘Kicker’ HERE.

Listen to ‘Salt’ HERE.

Watch the video for ‘Bug’ HERE.

Alex plays his second album release show in NY tonight (following last night’s at Babys All Right), at SkyHigh Murals Future HQ.  Alex and his band will head to the UK and Europe next week for a string of shows, before returning to the US for an extensive run of dates. All shows below.

ALEX G TOUR DATES

Fri Oct 9 || Brooklyn, NY || TBC || TIX

Tues Oct 13 || Berlin, Germany || Berghain, Kantine || TIX

Wed Oct 14 || Haldern, Germany || Haldern Pop Bar || FREE ENTRY

Thurs Oct 15 || Paris, France || Le Pop Up du Label || TIX

Fri Oct 16 || Rotterdam, Netherlands || V11 || TIX

Sat Oct 17 || Brussels, Belgium || Botanique Witloofbar || TIX

Mon Oct 19 || Manchester, UK || Night & Day || TIX

Tues Oct 20 || London, UK || 100 Club || TIX

Thurs Oct 22 || Columbus, OH || Strongwater # || TIX

Fri Oct 23 || Buffalo, NY || Waiting Room # || TIX

Sat Oct 24 || Toronto, ON || Not Dead Yet Fest || TIX

Sun Oct 25  || Grand Rapids, MI || The Pyramid Scheme # || TIX

Mon Oct 26 || DeKalb, IL || The House Café # || TIX

Tues Oct 27 || Minneapolis, MN || Triple Rock Social Club # || TIX

Wed Oct 28  || Bloomington, IN || The Bishop || TIX

Thurs Oct 29 || Nashville, TN || The End # || TIX

Fri Oct 30 || Memphis, TN || Hi Tone Cafe $ || TIX

Sun Nov 1 || St. Louis, MO || The Firebird $ || TIX

Mon Nov 2 || Kansas City, MO || The Record Bar $ || TIX

Tues Nov 3 || Springfield, MO || Outland Ballroom # || TIX

Wed Nov 4 || Oklahoma City, OK || 89th Street Collective # || TIX

Thurs Nov 5 || Dallas, TX || The Door # || TIX

Sat Nov 7 || San Antonio, TX || The Paper Tiger & || TIX

Mon Nov 9 || Houston TX || Fitzgerald’s & || TIX

Wed Nov 11 || Atlanta, GA || Purgatory - The Masquerade &^ || TIX

Thurs Nov 12 || Durham, NC || Duke Coffeehouse &^ || TIX

Fri Nov 13 || Baltimore, MD || Ottobar &^ || TIX

Sat Nov 14 || Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church &^ || TIX

# w/ Title Fight

$ w/ Spencer Radcliffe

& w/ Girlpool

^ Eskimeaux

Beach Music is available to purchase now via the Dom Mart on LP, CD, and digital download. Limited edition deluxe vinyl and cassette offerings have already sold out, but an alternative color run of cassettes has been announced as part of this year’s International Cassette Store Day, taking place on October 17.  Find a list of participating CSD retailers here and call to check availability.

Order now via: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Porches is the proliferation of Aaron Maine’s love affair with music. Never quite landing in any particular niche, Maine navigates through genres, learning, obsessing, and absorbing. Great victories and great defeats, cosmic or tangible, are the underlying elements that remain constant through his music.

Today, Maine has released the first song from his anticipated forthcoming album, the first via his new home at Domino. The track, titled “Hour”, streaming below now, features Frankie Cosmos, Maine’s long time musical and life collaborator. Together their voices weave through the layers of synth and keyboards, pulsing at every turn. The song touches on the music Maine is known for, with his previous releases on Double Double Whammy, Exploding In Sound and Terrible Records, but also shows a progression and maturity for an artist who has delivered his strongest work to date.

Porches will be playing CMJ in New York next week including stops at the FADER, Ad Hoc, Brooklyn Vegan and Terrible Records events. Maine and his band will also play at the special invite only Domino showcase on Wednesday October 14th. Porches will then head to Iceland Airwaves festival in November before a London headline show at Moth Club on Monday November 9^th.

News on his full length will be announced shortly. Watch this space for more details.

PORCHES LIVE DATES

Wednesday Oct 14^th
7pm - 10pm - Georgia, Porches, Martin Courtney, Animal Collective DJ set @ Neuehouse (Domino event)

Friday Oct 16^th  
Time TBC - Porches @ Babys All Right (Brooklyn Vegan CMJ event)
10pm - Porches @ Cameo (Terrible Records CMJ) 

Saturday Oct 17^th  
5pm - Porches @ Carwash (Ad Hoc CMJ) 
8:45pm - Porches @ Rubber Tracks (FADER Fort) 

Saturday Nov 7^th

Iceland Airwaves Festival (The Line of Best Fit stage) 

Monday Nov 9^th

Moth Club, London w/ J Fernandez

With the forthcoming release of new album West Kirby County Primary, 6^th November on Domino, Bill Ryder-Jones has shared the album’s latest track in ‘Satellites’. Watch the video for ‘Satellites’ below.

The new video, again directed by James Slater following his work on the video for the album’s lead single ‘Two To Birkenhead’ (watch HERE), follows Ryder-Jones at his recent performance at this year’s Green Man Festival.

‘Satellites’ stands out as one of the most personal moments of Ryder-Jones musical history to date. Speaking candidly of the song’s origin and sentiment he says, “The song revolves around something my ex-girlfriend said once that helped me in coming to terms with the awful thought I was having. She said 'something somewhere must be happening' - that line refers to the particular thought that life wasn't real for me and that no matter what it is that I felt I was experiencing, the fact that I'm experiencing something means that somewhere there must be something to experience.” 

West Kirby County Primary, the third full-length album from multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Bill Ryder-Jones, is the follow-up to A Bad Wind Blows In My Heart was written and recorded by Ryder-Jones in his childhood bedroom at his mother’s house in West Kirby before being filtered through Liverpool’s legendary Parr Street Studios. A classic band record, West Kirby County Primary features Bill playing a multitude of instruments including the electric guitar with his trademark prowess 

Mixed by James Ford, each of West Kirby County Primary’s ten tracks offers a sneaked glance into his private world; they eavesdrop on a set of encounters that go about “turning stories into beautiful truth” set to glorious molten melody that explodes like fireworks over water. It all adds up to a remarkable record by one of our most cherished musicians – a musical polymath as at ease on stage with the Manchester Camerata (where he performed ‘If…’ as part of the Manchester Literature Festival last Autumn) or on live guitar duties with Arctic Monkeys as he is on production duties with Hooton Tennis Club and The Wytches. 

Bill Ryder-Jones will be performing live throughout the UK in November with a date at The Lexington in London on 11^th November. He is also performing as a special guest to Spector on their UK October tour. Full dates with ticket links are as follows with headline dates in bold :

24^th October – Sheffield – The Leadmill *

25^th October – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club *

27^th October – Brighton – Patterns (formerly Audio) *

28^th October – Oxford – 02 Academy *

29^th October – London – Heaven *

1^st November – Amsterdam – London Calling

7^th November - Glasgow - Hug and Pint

8^th November – Edinburgh – Mash House

9th November - Newcastle - Cluny 2

11th November - London - Lexington

13th November - Manchester - Gullivers

14th November - Liverpool - District

26^th November – Nottingham – Bodega Social

3^rd December – Bristol - Louisiana

4^th December – Birmingham - Rainbow

9^th December – Ramsgate – Ramsgate Music Hall

10^th December – Paris – Winter Camp Festival

12^th December – Lille – Winter Camp Festival

31^st January – San Sebastian – Music Box Festibala

* with Spector

West Kirby County Primary will be available on CD (WIGCD346), Digital (WIG346D) and LP (WIGLP346). There will also be a Dom Mart and indie shop exclusive Deluxe LP (WIGLP346X) which comes with a bonus 7” featuring two exclusive new tracks. Pre-order the Deluxe Vinyl edition on Dom Mart and for a very limited period also receive a signed and numbered photo-print taken from the stage at this year’s Green Man Festival. Pre-order the album via Dom Mart HERE and via iTunes HERE with an instant grat of Two To Birkenhead.

Alex G’s highly anticipated new album Beach Music is now streaming in full via Hype Machine ahead of its official release this Friday October 9th. Listen HERE.

Alex G will be supporting the forthcoming release of Beach Music with a run of UK and European live dates including a headline date at London’s 100 Club on October 20^th.

Beach Music, which was written and recorded in Alex G’s apartment between the Fall of 2014 and the Spring of 2015, will be the prolific songwriter’s seventh full length in five years. The first three singles, ‘Bug’, ‘Salt’ and ‘Kicker’, were greeted with genuine enthusiasm from old and fans alike, making Beach Music one of the most anticipated albums of the year.

Alex G will be doing a Reddit AMA on Thursday October 8that 1pm EDT / 6pm GMT. Participate via the /indieheads subreddit HERE.

Beach Music is available to pre-order now via the Dom Mart on limited edition LP, standard LP, CD, and digital download. An alternative color run of cassettes has been announced as part of this year’s International Cassette Store Day, taking place on October 17.  Find a list of participating CSD retailers here and call to check availability.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Beach Music track listing

01. Intro

02. Bug – Watch the video HERE

03. Thorns

04. Kicker – Listen HERE

05. Salt – Listen HERE

06. Look Out

07. Brite Boy

08. In Love

09. Walk

10. Mud

11. Ready

12. Station

13. Snot

ALEX G TOUR DATES – UK AND EUROPEAN DATES IN BOLD

Thurs Oct 8  || Brooklyn, NY || Baby’s All Right || SOLD OUT

Fri Oct 9 || Brooklyn, NY || TBC || TIX  

Tues Oct 13 || Berlin, Germany || Berghain, Kantine || TIX

Wed Oct 14 || Haldern, Germany || Haldern Pop Bar || FREE ENTRY

Thurs Oct 15 || Paris, France || Le Pop Up du Label || TIX

Fri Oct 16 || Rotterdam, Netherlands || V11 || TIX

Sat Oct 17 || Brussels, Belgium || Botanique Witloofbar || TIX

Mon Oct 19 || Manchester, UK || Night & Day || TIX

Tues Oct 20 || London, UK || 100 Club || TIX

Thurs Oct 22 || Columbus, OH || Strongwater # || TIX

Fri Oct 23 || Buffalo, NY || Waiting Room # || TIX

Sat Oct 24 || Toronto, ON || Not Dead Yet Fest || TIX

Sun Oct 25  || Grand Rapids, MI || The Pyramid Scheme # || TIX

Mon Oct 26 || DeKalb, IL || The House Café # || TIX

Tues Oct 27 || Minneapolis, MN || Triple Rock Social Club # || TIX

Wed Oct 28  || Bloomington, IN || The Bishop || TIX

Thurs Oct 29 || Nashville, TN || The End # || TIX

Fri Oct 30 || Memphis, TN || Hi Tone Cafe $ || TIX

Sun Nov 1 || St. Louis, MO || The Firebird $ || TIX

Mon Nov 2 || Kansas City, MO || The Record Bar $ || TIX

Tues Nov 3 || Springfield, MO || Outland Ballroom # || TIX

Wed Nov 4 || Oklahoma City, OK || 89th Street Collective # || TIX

Thurs Nov 5 || Dallas, TX || The Door # || TIX

Sat Nov 7 || San Antonio, TX || The Paper Tiger & || TIX

Mon Nov 9 || Houston TX || Fitzgerald’s & || TIX

Wed Nov 11 || Atlanta, GA || Purgatory - The Masquerade &^ || TIX

Thurs Nov 12 || Durham, NC || Duke Coffeehouse &^ || TIX

Fri Nov 13 || Baltimore, MD || Ottobar &^ || TIX

Sat Nov 14 || Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church &^ || TIX

# w/ Title Fight

$ w/ Spencer Radcliffe

& w/ Girlpool

^ Eskimeaux

Available on vinyl for the first time since 1986; ‘Born Sandy Devotional’ by The Triffids! The beautifully remastered LP comes in custom, hand-numbered limited sleeves (250 only). Also includes lyric sheet, printed inner sleeve and download code and pressed onto 180gm heavyweight virgin vinyl.

Remastered following David McCombs’ original production notes (Audiophile Quality), this is the best this record has ever sounded. Below is a bit of insight into the process of the remastering:

When undertaking the re-issue of “Born Sandy Devotional” for vinyl, we thought long and hard about the best way to master it. This was an analogue (solid state) recorded album, tracked to 2” tape and cut from either ½” or ¼” reels. However, when re-mastered for CD back in 2006, the tracks were transferred to digital to allow the use of more modern and sophisticated eqs (parametric eq, limiting etc).
We could have returned to the original cutting tapes, but we were so impressed with the digital audio, captured at 24 bit / 96K resolution, that we felt these files should be used for the LP instead.
It was at this point that we decided to transfer the music back on to ¼” tape to add a little warmth and sparkle to the upper mids and high frequencies. More specifically at Gearbox studios on a Studer C37 – one of the finest tape transports ever built. Yes, it is a valve/tube machine, but it has been serviced to better than factory specifications, and the tiny amounts of “noise” added to the program are far outweighed by the sonic benefits of going back on tape.

Once these cutting tapes were created, the production masters were made by Darrel Scheinman using a fully analogue signal path (see the Gearbox website for more info: www.gearboxrecords.com) - a Scully/Westrex lathe performing the final lacquer cutting duties. One other note here is that the record was cut fixed pitch - it would originally have been done “varigroove”, but the somewhat lost “art” of “fixed pitch” can yield better results if done with care and skill!
The initial test pressings weren’t quite what we were looking for, so after many adjustments, 3 recuts (!) and input from all sides, including the pressing plant, who became interested in the way we were working, test pressings were received which exceeded all expectations.

We hope you enjoy the results. A great record, treated in the way we feel best.

Get your copy here.

Acclaimed Canadian musician Patrick Watson is debuting a new live video shot entirely with GoPro cameras. The clip was filmed at St-Jean Baptiste Church in Montreal, one of five special orchestra concerts during Watson’s touring cycle for Adventures In Your Own Backyard in 2013, just before he went back into the studio to record his latest album Love Songs For Robots (out now on Domino). Directed by Tyler Johnson at GoPro, the video showcases Watson’s spectacular live show with a 56-piece orchestra, 48-piece choir and his regular 4-piece touring band (nearly 100 people on stage), performing the song “Man Under the Sea” taken from Watson’s 2006 album Close to Paradise. 

Watson is currently touring worldwide in support of Love Songs For Robots, with the album’s title track released 27^th November. UK and European headline dates have been announced throughout November, including a London headline date at Islington Assembly Hall on Wednesday November 11th. See below for details with UK and European live dates in bold.

September 26                                            Cincinnati, OH                         Mid Point Music Festival

September 28                                               Chicago, IL                                                Lincoln Hall

September 29                                          Minneapolis, MN                                       Varsity Theatre

September 30                                            Winnipeg, MB                                          Garrick Centre

October 2                                                  Edmonton, AB                                    The Starlite Room

October 3                                                    Calgary, AB                                   MacEwan Ballroom
October 5                                                  Vancouver, BC                              Commodore Ballroom

October 6                                                   Errington, AB                    Errington War Memorial Hall

October 8                                                    Seattle, WA                                             The Crocodile

October 9                                                   Portland, OR                                                     Doug Fir

October 11                                             San Francisco, CA                                    The Independent

October 13                                              Los Angeles, CA                                 Teragram Ballroom

November 10                                              Oxford, UK                                Oxford O2 Academy
November 11                                             London, UK                           Islington Assembly Hall
November 12                                         Manchester, UK                                                   Gorilla
November 14                                            Cologne, DE                                               Essigfabrik
November 15                                           Hamburg, DE                                                        Mojo

November 16                                              Berlin, DE                                               Heimathafen
November 19                                          Eindhoven, NL                                                 Effenaar
November 20                                               Gent, BE                                          Vooruit Theatre

November 22                                               Lyon, FR                                       Epicerie Moderne

November 23                                          Strasbourg, FR                                              La Laiterie
November 25                                         Amsterdam, NL                                                 Paradiso

November 26                                               Paris, FR                                           Casino de Paris
November 28                                             Lisbon, PT                                             Mexe Festival

December 11                                        New York City, NY                                          Irving Plaza

December 12                                           Philadelphia, PA                                   Underground Arts
December 15-16                                         Montreal, QC                                                  Metropolis

Love Songs For Robots continues to receive widespread critical praise: The new music was recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles and Pierre Marchand Studio in Montreal. Of the record, some of which debuted at private concerts in small loft spaces, Watson explains, “I wanted to make a science fiction R n’ B meets Vangelis erotica with a zest of folk kind of record.” It was only halfway through writing the record when the artist found himself having, by his own admission, “a bad year” that more personal themes begin to creep in. “I started thinking about how emotional reactions were more mechanical than we think and the only thing left between us and artificial intelligence is the act of inspiration. Just food for thought.”

Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his full band of almost a decade, which includes Joe Grass (guitars), Robbie Kuster (drums/percussion) and Mishka Stein (bass). The recipient of Canada’s elite Polaris Music Prize in 2007, Watson and his band have performed to over 100,000 people at the 2009 Montreal Jazz Festival as well as with full orchestras in Amsterdam and Montreal. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson himself has composed 15 scores for both film and television, including a trailer for “The Walking Dead” and Wim Wenders’ new 3D film “Everything Will Be Fine”, where he performed the songs “Cynical World” (an original for the film) and “Lighthouse.”

Coinciding with today’s worldwide release of the highly anticipated and richly acclaimed new album Have You In My Wilderness, Julia Holter has today shared a brand new live performance film for ‘Betsy On The Roof’ in collaboration with Nowness. Watch the film and read an accompanying interview on Nowness HERE or below.

Directed by Federico Urdaneta and filmed in a picturesquely unique location within London St. Pancras clock tower, the new film sees Holter taking ‘Betsy On The Roof’ to its stark roots in a stunning acoustic performance, amplifying the song’s heart and character in a bright new setting.

Have You in My Wilderness was written from the heart – warm, dark and raw – and explores love, trust, and power in human relationships. While love songs are familiar in pop music, Holter manages to stay fascinatingly oblique and enigmatic, with some of the most sublime and transcendent music she has ever written. Like Holter’s previous albums, Have You in My Wilderness is multi-layered and texturally rich, featuring an array of electronic and acoustic instruments played by an ensemble of gifted Los Angeles musicians.

Have You in My Wilderness is also Holter’s most sonically intimate album, with her vocals front and centre in the mix, lifted out of the layers of smeared, hazy effects. The result is striking: clear and vivid, but disarmingly personal.

Have You In My Wilderness is available on CD (WIGCD341), digital (WIG341D) and LP (WIGLP341). For a very limited period the vinyl LP will come with a photographic print signed by the artist, via Dom Mart only. The album includes the single ‘Feel You’ (watch the video HERE) as well as previously released tracks ‘Sea Calls Me Home’ (watch the video HERE) and ‘Betsy On The Roof’ (listen to the official audio HERE). Buy from Dom Mart HERE and iTunes HERE.

The album tracklisting is as follows:

1. Feel You
2. Silhouette
3. How Long?
4. Lucette Stranded On The Island
5. Sea Calls Me Home
6. Night Song
7. Everytime Boots
8. Betsy On The Roof
9. Vasquez
10. Have You In My Wilderness

“The biggest thing ever to happen to indie pop in America... Most of what's written about this band is all about that sweet pop and those childish affectations, but that misses the substance at the core: Their music was dark, damaged, full of fright and sex and death and vulnerability-- just like any real childhood...their hopscotch stories felt punker than Black Flag tattoos ever could.” - Nitsuh Abebe, Pitchfork

Exploding the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the corporate ogre since 1983, Beat Happening formed in Olympia, Washington by Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford. The band combined a modern primitive pop sound with the D.I.Y. ethos of ‘anyone can do it’ and inspired countless bands and labels along the way. The music community that arose around the band and their label, K, may have seemed the sonic antithesis of their Seattle neighbors (and friends) but was no less influential. 

30 years since the release of their self-titled debut album (the subject of a 33 1/3 book out next week), Look Around is a remastered, career-spanning double album anthology, handpicked by the band and a great starting point for the uninitiated as well a refreshing reminder to those who caught the wave the first time around. The 23 tracks range from their 1984 debut single, “Our Secret” b/w “What’s Important” (originally sold directly for $2.50 to individuals, but $4 to institutions) to “Angel Gone,” a single released in 2000 after eight years of inactivity.

Look Around is available on all digital services September 22, while the physical release, out November 20, will comprise the following formats: CD, gatefold double LP, limited-edition royal blue cassette, and a Domino Mart exclusive gatefold double LP bundled with a limited edition light yellow 7” of “Indian Summer” and “Foggy Eyes”. Domino is also planning an extensive Beat Happening album reissue series in 2016.

The oft-covered “Indian Summer” from 1998’s Jamboree LP — which Ben Gibbard once called “the indie ‘Freebird’” and was named one of Pitchfork’s “Best Songs of the 1980s” (“it means something slightly different every time it’s heard”) — is now streaming below.

Calvin Johnson will be returning to London in November for a headlining show at The Tin Tabernacle in Kilburn on Wednesday November 18^th and a Rough Trade East Q&A on Wednesday the 25^th of November.  More dates to be announced soon.

Buy Look Around via iTunes HERE, or stream via Spotify HERE.

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Beat Happening Look Around 

“We are Beat Happening and we don’t do Nirvana covers. They do Beat Happening covers.”*

The legend of Beat Happening, and of K, the label that Calvin Johnson founded, is full of big names they worked with before they were stars (Beck! Modest Mouse! The Gossip!), and big names they influenced (Kurt Cobain! Sleater-Kinney!) Less acknowledged, however, is that Bret Lunsford, Heather Lewis, and Calvin Johnson created some of the most original and surprising music to come out of the often deliberately weird American punk rock tradition.

Working from a sonic template of the Cramps, Trouble Funk, Young Marble Giants, and messianic blues, Beat Happening confounded and often incited violence from audiences weaned on hardcore punk. In the place of macho aggression, Beat Happening confronted the all-ages scene with Heather’s low-key delivery and Calvin’s fey theatrics, topped off by his trademark dance move: rubbing his tummy. For a supposedly cutesy band, Beat Happening was adamant about asserting its right to exist, carrying itself with a punk as fuck attitude that would become a key inspirational lodestone for the generation of D.I.Y. bands that followed, including Bikini Kill and the Nation of Ulysses.

In Calvin’s own words: “This idea that Beat Happening was popular in some way was never true. And in fact, I don’t think people understand the level of animosity that Beat Happening attracted through most of our time performing live. This concept that we were this performing group that were some kind of—I don’t know—shy pop… our performances were clearly confrontational.”**

Fans only familiar with Beat Happening’s self-titled first album of 1985, or just the cat in a rocketship line-drawing on its cover, or the much-covered “Indian Summer” from 1988’s Jamboree, will be surprised at the band’s range and musicality. In the absence of a bass player, the guitar and drums had to carry more character in the songs, and alongside the de rigueur post-punk and indiepop moves, Beat Happening omnivorously shifted from go-go to surf to Shaggs-esque outsider pop to Krautrock. All this was accompanied by a sexual energy thinly veiled behind the band’s nostalgic celebration of childhood. The band’s final album, 1992’s forgotten classic You Turn Me On, was a gorgeous lo-fi dream-pop opus co-produced by bedroom pop legend Stuart Moxham of Young Marble Giants.

Look Around is a chronological survey of Beat Happening’s remarkable arc, from its deliberately amateurish debut, produced by Northwest punk legend Greg Sage of the Wipers, to its fluent and stunning 1992 finale, appended with one stray track: the lovely “Angel Gone,” a one-off single recorded in 2000 with then-K wunderkind Phil Elverum (the Microphones, Mount Eerie) to accompany the band’s now out-of-print career-spanning retrospective box set Crashing Through. At the turn of the millennium, we weren’t quite ready to rediscover Beat Happening. But in our age of omnivorous music consumption enabled by social networking, the story of Beat Happening, the band that helped create an international network of underground pop and then had the gumption to bring everyone to sleepy little Olympia, Washington for 1991’s epochal International Pop Underground Convention, makes a lot of sense.

* Calvin Johnson, Beat Happening concert in Norman, OK, April 12, 1992

** Interview with Magnétophone fanzine #3, 2001

‘Kicker’, the third taste of Alex G’s forthcoming album Beach Music, is available to hear now. ‘Kicker’ comes off the back of previously shared tracks ‘Salt’ and ‘Bug’ following its premiere over the weekend on Sirius XMU as part of the Download 15, and is now available to stream or purchase via all good digital retailers.

Want to open your home to Alex and his band on their upcoming European tour? Alex and his 3 bandmates are looking for places to crash in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Manchester, and London next month. To get in touch, reach out directly to Alex via his Facebook page HERE.  

Alex G’s forthcoming new album Beach Music will be out via Domino on October 9, 2015. The album, his seventh full-length, follows on from previous beloved albums DSU (Orchid Tapes), Trick, and Rules, which have led to a fervent cult fan base, a number of Artist To Watch designations from outlets such as Fader and Rolling Stone, and a dedicated live audience who sing along with every word.

Beach Music is available to pre-order now via the Dom Mart on limited edition LP, standard LP, CD, and digital download. An alternative color run of cassettes has been announced as part of this year’s International Cassette Store Day, taking place on October 17.  Find a list of participating CSD retailers here and call to check availability.

Pre-order: Dom Mart / Bandcamp / iTunes

Beach Music was written and recorded in Giannascoli’s apartment, between the Fall of 2014 and the Spring of 2015, during breaks from touring with the likes of Elvis Depressedly, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and Gardens & Villa. While its predecessors often came in uninterrupted bursts—from his head to his Bandcamp page in a matter of hours and days—Beach Music was shaped in part by Giannascoli adapting to life as a touring musician. Songs were written within months of one another rather than all at once, with influences ranging from noise music to piano-based laments to Southern rock to the rhythmic focus of techno—whatever he happened to be most interested in at the time. “Every song is coming from a different place,” he says. “It branches off in all these directions, but it has its own sound. It’s not something I do intentionally, but I’m the common thread.”

Beach Music track listing

01. Intro

02. Bug

03. Thorns

04. Kicker

05. Salt

06. Look Out

07. Brite Boy

08. In Love

09. Walk

10. Mud

11. Ready

12. Station

13. Snot

ALEX G TOUR DATES

Fri Sept 25 || Bethlehem, PA || Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks ! || TIX 

Thurs Oct 8  || Brooklyn, NY || Baby’s All Right || SOLD OUT

Fri Oct 9 || Brooklyn, NY || Silent Barn || TIX  

Tues Oct 13 || Berlin, Germany || Berghain, Kantine || TIX

Wed Oct 14 || Haldern, Germany || Haldern Pop Bar || FREE ENTRY

Thurs Oct 15 || Paris, France || Le Pop Up du Label || TIX

Fri Oct 16 || Rotterdam, Netherlands || V11 || TIX

Sat Oct 17 || Brussels, Belgium || Botanique Witloofbar || TIX

Mon Oct 19 || Manchester, UK || Night & Day || TIX

Tues Oct 20 || London, UK || 100 Club || TIX

Thurs Oct 22 || Columbus, OH || Strongwater # || TIX

Fri Oct 23 || Buffalo, NY || Waiting Room # || TIX

Sat Oct 24 || Toronto, ON || Not Dead Yet Fest || TIX

Sun Oct 25  || Grand Rapids, MI || The Pyramid Scheme # || TIX

Mon Oct 26 || DeKalb, IL || The House Café # || TIX

Tues Oct 27 || Minneapolis, MN || Triple Rock Social Club # || TIX

Wed Oct 28  || Bloomington, IN || The Bishop || TIX

Thurs Oct 29 || Nashville, TN || The End # || TIX

Fri Oct 30 || Memphis, TN || Hi Tone Cafe $ || TIX

Sun Nov 1 || St. Louis, MO || The Firebird $ || TIX

Mon Nov 2 || Kansas City, MO || The Record Bar $ || TIX

Tues Nov 3 || Springfield, MO || Outland Ballroom # || TIX

Wed Nov 4 || Oklahoma City, OK || 89th Street Collective # || TIX

Thurs Nov 5 || Dallas, TX || The Door # || TIX

Sat Nov 7 || San Antonio, TX || The Paper Tiger & || TIX

Mon Nov 9 || Houston TX || Fitzgerald’s & || TIX

Wed Nov 11 || Atlanta, GA || Purgatory - The Masquerade &^ || TIX

Thurs Nov 12 || Durham, NC || Duke Coffeehouse &^ || TIX

Fri Nov 13 || Baltimore, MD || Ottobar &^ || TIX

Sat Nov 14 || Philadelphia, PA @ The First Unitarian Church &^ || TIX

! w/ Dr. Dog

# w/ Title Fight

$ w/ Spencer Radcliffe

& w/ Girlpool

^ Eskimeaux