7/31/2013

of Montreal announces fall US tour

OF MONTREAL ANNOUNCES FALL TOUR

LOUSY WITH SYLVIANBRIAR OUT OCTOBER 8TH VIA POLYVINYL
Photograph courtesy of Nina Barnes

Following the recent announcement of their new album lousy with sylvianbriar, of Montreal are back today to share news of their fall US tour. The tour kicks off with a hometown show in Athens, GA and sees the band hitting most major US markets before wrapping in Atlanta nearly a month later. Along the way of Montreal will be supported by the ladies of La Luz. See below for all of Montreal upcoming of Montreal tour dates along with recent single "fugitive air."

STREAM: "fugitive air" - 

TOUR DATES
   
10/18/13 @ 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA
10/22/13 @ Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC
10/23/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC
10/24/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC
10/25/13 @ Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
10/26/13 @ Middle East - Cambridge, MA
10/27/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
10/28/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY*
10/29/13 @ Beachland - Cleveland, OH*
10/30/13 @ Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL*
10/31/13 @ Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI*
11/01/13 @ Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN*
11/02/13 @ Waiting Room - Omaha, NE*
11/03/13 @ Marquis Theater - Denver, CO*
11/04/13 @ Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT*
11/05/13 @ Korah Shrine - Boise, ID*
11/06/13 @ Neomos - Seattle, WA*
11/07/13 @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR*
11/08/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*
11/09/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*
11/10/13 @ Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA*
11/11/13 @ Largo at The Coronet - Los Angeles, CA*
11/12/13 @ Club Congress - Tucson, AZ*
11/14/13 @ Trees - Dallas, TX*
11/15/13 @ Mohawk - Austin, TX*
11/16/13 @ Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans, LA*
11/17/13 @ Terminal West - Atlanta, GA*
 
* = w/ La Luz

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7/30/2013

Night Beats New Album & Reverberation Appreciation Society News

NIGHT BEATS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 
SONIC BLOOM,
DEBUTS NEW TRACK "OUTTA MIND"

THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY STARTS RECORD CLUB, RELEASING GOLDEN ANIMALS LP

AUSTIN PSYCH FEST LAUNCHES LEVITATION FRANCE

Night Beats - Sonic Bloom  

The Reverberation Appreciation Society, the label arm of Austin Psych Fest, is proud to announce the release of the new Night Beats record, Sonic Bloom on September 24, 2013 on vinyl, CD, digital download and cassette (co-release with Burger Records). In conjunction with the announcement, Night Beats are debuting their new track "Outta Mind" off Sonic Bloom, available for posting HERE.

Recorded in a Tacoma, Washington warehouse, Sonic Bloom is an explosion of reverb soaked rock and soul blended with sharp drone numbers and classic rhythm-and-blues founded tracks. From the haunting psychic groove of 'Seven Poison Wonders' to the sparse Zombies influenced 'Playing Dead' to the squealing ruckus of 'Rat King', Sonic Bloom harkens back to the outer corners of rock and roll radio of yore.

The Seattle-based band have spent past few years relentlessly touring, hitting over 20 countries. The trio -- featuring Danny Lee Blackwell on guitar/vocals, Tarek Wegner on bass/vocals, and James Traeger on drums/vocals -- will keep up this pace, touring this fall in support of Sonic Bloom. US tour dates coming soon, European tour dates below (with more to be added).

SEPTEMBER
17 TUE - Amsterdam (NL) - Paradiso
18 WED - Tilburg (NL) - Incubate Festival
20 FRI - Angers (FR) - Levitation France
24 TUE - Bristol (UK) - The Exchange
25 WED - London (UK) - The MacBeth
26 THU - Helsinki (FI) - Kuudes Linja
27 FRI - Liverpool (UK) - Liverpool Psych Fest
 
Sonic Bloom tracklisting:
01  Love Ain't Strange (Everything Else Is)            
02  Sonic Bloom
03  Playing Dead           
04  Outta Mind
05  Real Change
06  Satisfy Your Mind
07  Catch A Ride To Sonic Bloom
08  The 7 Poison Wonders
09  As You Want
10  The Hidden Circle
11  Rat King
12  At The Gates
13  The New World

GOLDEN ANIMALS - 
HEAR EYE GO

 The Reverberation Appreciation Society is also releasing Brooklyn duo Golden Animals' HEAR EYE GO, the follow-up to their 2008 debut Free Your Mind and Win a Pony. The record will be released on Vinyl, CD, Cassette (via Burger Records) and Digital formats on September 24, 2013.

Check out the the video for "You Don't Hear Me Now", directed by Jennifer Tzar, which premiered on Paste Magazine.

Full details and European tour dates with The Flying Eyes can be found HERE.

SOUNDS OF LEVITATION RECORD CLUB

The Reverberation Appreciation Society is proud to announce the new Sounds of Levitation Record Club. This record club provides a deep discount on the next ten limited edition records and other perks, including downloads of all of our record releases to date, and all upcoming releases through Jan 2015. Membership also provides a 15% off record label merchandise and your choice of record label shirt. Full details are HERE.

LEVITATION FRANCE

Austin Psych Fest is following up the 2013 festival with its first international event : Levitation - France. This two day event will be held in Angers, FR at Le Chabada on September 20 & 21st and will feature performances from:

THE BLACK ANGELS, DEAD SKELETONS, BEAK>, DEAD MEADOW, DAMO SUZUKI, NIGHT BEATS, WALL OF DEATH, TAMIKREST, CAMERA, LOLA COLT and more to be announced.

The full lineup will be released in late July along with single day tickets. Two day passes are on sale now for 40 euros, available HERE.

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7/29/2013

Jake Bellows's Debut Solo Album New Ocean Streaming At Spin

Jake Bellows's Debut Solo Album New Ocean Streaming At Spin
New Ocean Out August 6 On Saddle Creek
"The 11-track LP features previously shared stunners "I Know You" and "All Right Now", and also makes way for "left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova, blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar, [and] love songs that are not necessarily ballads" - SPIN

"Bellows' woozy voice waxes, wanes, woos and philosophizes, revealing the work of a songwriter who knows the best music is not a one-way conversation."
  - Buzzbands LA
Download: "All Right Now" via Paste or SoundCloud
Watch: New Ocean Album Trailer via YouTube
Jake Bellows is set to release his debut solo album New Ocean on August 6 via Saddle Creek. In anticipation of the release, SPIN is running an exclusive album stream a week before the street date. New Ocean was recorded at Omaha's ARC Studios with engineer Ben Brodin (Before the Toast and Tea, Conor Oberst), Ryan Fox (The Good Life), Todd Fink (The Faint), and Heath Koontz (Neva Dinova). New Ocean is now available for pre-order on CD & LP via Saddle Creek and limited edition cassette through Majestic Litter.

Jake Bellows had quit music. Or so he thought.
  
After fronting Neva Dinova for more than 15 years, which included five full-lengths, a split EP, and countless tours, he packed up his dog and moved from his native Omaha to his girlfriend's hometown of Los Angeles. Two days before he left he recorded 18 demos with musician and engineer Ben Brodin at Brodin's insistence. Once in L.A., Bellows got a job installing sliding-glass doors and sold his Les Paul to buy a Datsun pick-up truck.

Though he had no plans to form a new band, he played the occasional solo show, performed with Whispertown, and continued to write songs. In early 2011, an invitation arrived from Omaha's Film Streams Theater for Jake's old friend Ryan Fox also living on the West Coast, to perform an original live film-score. Fox enlisted Bellows and Brodin to collaborate and the trio began to compose and discuss improvisational ideas over long-distance. Since they were all going to be in Omaha and had a long history of playing in each other's bands, Brodin and Fox nudged Bellows into booking studio time to record some of his dormant songs.

Fox and Bellows drove from LA to Omaha that November. They entered ARC Studios for a feverish recording session, arranging and writing parts on the fly with an impromptu band including Heath Koontz, Todd Fink, Whispertown bandmate Morgan Nagler and other old friends. Committing quickly to intuitive arrangements the band recorded 17 tracks in a little more than a week. They worked remotely on the record throughout that winter and spring, adding overdubs in basements and bedrooms across western North America.

The new music is underpinned by philosophical conviction and shaped by an interest in physics, cosmology and mythology. Bellows returned to music with a renewed sense of the intrinsic value of art and its ability to express the commonality of human experience. His debut full-length, New Ocean, offers a mix tape of different kinds of songs hanging out on one record - love songs that are not necessarily ballads despite their introspective gauziness, with left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova and blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar. Bellows believes that songs change the fabric of the universe through the very frequencies they emit. As such, the record attempts to create the world he wants to see instead of reflect the world that is.

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7/28/2013

Weekend @ The Echo


photo: Angel Ceballos

WEEKEND play the Echo tonight Sunday, July 28th, 2013.
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7/27/2013

Lovely Bad Things @ Viva Pomona


(photo: Angel Ceballos)

LOVELY BAD THINGS are playing at the GLASSHOUSE
tonight Saturday July 27th, 2013. VIVA POMONA!!!
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7/25/2013

The Faint @ US Open of Surfing







All photos taken by Angel Ceballos.


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7/24/2013

White Prism Premieres "Play Me, I'm Yours" Video

White Prism Premieres "Play Me, I'm Yours" Video On BlackBook

Plays Ace Hotel NYC July 28th, 10pm + Glasslands August 5th
Self-Titled Debut EP Out Now On MNRCH


Click Here To Order 'White Prism' EP On iTunes


Tour Dates
07.28 - New York, NY - Ace Hotel @ 10pm
08.05 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands*
*with Firehorse

Press Quotes

"Dreamy, breathy vocals layered over uptempo beats and synthesized instrumentation that nimbly maneuvers between a sense of 21st-century melancholy and jubilation, without ever quite committing to either, characterize White Prism's newest self-titled EP" -Interview
"So yeah, she’s got the vocal goods. But what good is a killer voice if it doesn’t have equally awesome music backing it up? And Cranitch has that" -NYLON







 
White: The presence of all the wavelengths of visible light.
Prism: A transparent optical element that reflects images and refracts light.
These two words combine to define the sound of the Johanna Cranitch project – White Prism. Since birth, music surrounded the Australian-born, NYC-based artist.  It was her Hungarian grandfather, a jazz pianist, who gave her his blessing by declaring, “this one will be musical.” And so, her musical journey began.
From her early upbringings in the esteemed Kodaly school of music, to the Gregorian chants that her father, a former Priest in training, brought to the table; Johanna was veered to the stage by her music loving parents. She was gracing the halls of the Sydney Opera House at the tender age of 9, and performing with the Opera Australia Children’s Chorus. Opera was merely the beginning for this pop loving songstress. Her love of Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush, and Wham! would influence her future leanings into dreamy, electro-pop songwriting.
Upon graduating from high school, Johanna enrolled in a vocal jazz program at the Australian Institute of Music, where she graduated with honors. After a stint of performing across Australia, Johanna landed in New York City. Once in New York, she found herself as a studio engineer at the prestigious Nola Recording Studios. It was during her time at Nola that she began writing and recording over 300 demos. These demos would eventually lead her to her first album and the shimmering sounds she would go on to create.
Johanna had navigated her way through every aspect of the music industry, and she had finally revealed herself as an artist worthy of acclaim. She would soon find herself crisscrossing the globe, including a world tour with The Cranberries, as well as performing at Autre Magazine’s (James Franco and Adarsha Benjamin’s publication) Paris launch. However, she was constantly shifting and shaping her sound along the way. Her ethereal, “Kate Bush-inspired huskyisms”, as described by Time Out magazine, crystallized into the electro-pop culimination that is White Prism.
 
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Bands featured at Culture Collide



LIARS




THE DEER TRACKS



GLISS

All photos by ANGEL CEBALLOS
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7/23/2013

MARK LANEGAN Fall U.S. Tour Announced, 'Imitations'



(July 23, 2013) - Following the release of his new covers album IMITATIONS on September 17, 2013 via Vagrant Records, MARK LANEGAN will be embarking on a world tour this fall that takes him across the US and throughout the UK and Europe. The acoustic US dates begin on Friday, October 4 in Los Angeles, California at the Troubadour and wrap up in New York City on Tuesday, October 15 at the Gramercy Theatre.


Fans can listen to the first track off the album, Mark’s take on “I’m Not The Loving Kind” at http://soundcloud.com/marklanegan/im-not-the-loving-kind. The twelve-track album was recorded earlier this year and follows his 2012 release, Blues Funeral. Pre-order details for Imitations will be announced shortly.

US tour:

10/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

10/07 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

10/08 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune

10/10 – Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music

10/11 – Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub

10/12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

10/14 – Washington, DC @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

10/15 – New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theatre



EU & UK tour:

10/19 – Vienna @ Akzent Theatre

10/20 – Linz @ Posthof

10/22 – Belgrade @ Cinema Dom Omladine

10/23 – Zagreb @ Kino SC

10/25 – Berlin @ Passionskirche

10/27 РStockholm @ Șdra Teatern

10/28 – Copenhagen @ Radiohuset

10/30 – Brussels @ Flagey

11/01 – Brighton @ St. George’s Church

11/02 – Birmingham @ Institute

11/03 – Leeds @ College of Music

11/04 – Edinburgh @ Queen’s Hall

11/05 – Dublin @ Sugar Club

11/07 – Manchester @ Royal Northern College of Music

11/08 – London@ Union Chapel

11/10 – Amsterdam @ Duif

11/11 – Cologne @ Kulturekirche

11/12 – Hamburg @ Mojo

11/13 – Eindhoven @ Muziekgebouw

11/15 – Paris @ Alhambra

11/16 – Zurich @ Kaufleuten

11/17 – Lausanne @ Theatre de l’Octogone

11/18 – Bologna @ Teatro Duse

11/19 – Venice @ Teatro Corso

11/21 – Nimes @ La Paloma

11/24 – Aviles @ Teatro Niemeyer

11/25 – Barcelona @ Teatro Barts

11/26 – Madrid @ Teatro Nuevo Apolo



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http://marklanegan.com/

http://www.facebook.com/marklanegan

http://twitter.com/marklanegan

http://www.vagrant.com


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Hanni El Khatib shares "Pay No Mind" video

HANNI EL KHATIB SHARES "PAY NO MIND" VIDEO VIA NOWNESS


PLAYING THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN AUGUST 1ST

HEAD IN THE DIRT (PRODUCED BY DAN AUERBACH) OUT NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE







VIDEO: "Pay No Mind" - http://www.nowness.com/s/azii4r



Today Hanni El Khatib is sharing the video for "Pay Me No Mind," taken from his new Dan Auerbach-produced album Head In The Dirt. The video is directed by Simon Cahn, who recently co-directed short film 'Mourir Auprès de Toi' with Spike Jonze as well as directing Hanni's recent video for "Penny."


Speaking on his continued collaboration with Simon, Hanni said, "Simon has a very specific type of humor that he always injects in his work. I like it when creatives don't take themselves too seriously. "The video for 'Pay No Mind' is "all about having fun," says Cahn. "The idea for this video was to go for the opposite of rock 'n' roll imagery. I really wanted to do something unexpected for Hanni." The video comes in conjunction with the announcement that Hanni El Khatib will be performing on The Late Show with David Letterman on August 1st.




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Pharmakon on tour with SWANS, announces U.S. + European tour

PHARMAKON ON TOUR WITH SWANS


ANNOUNCES EUROPEAN SHOWS

+ NEW U.S. TOUR DATES


photo courtesy of Fred Pessaro


Pharmakon has been working non stop since the release of her highly acclaimed Abandon LP back in May on Sacred Bones Records, and just last night she kicked off a string of dates with the legendary SWANS and will touring with them until the end of the month. In addition to that she will be hitting the road again in September for a U.S. tour, and then heading to Europe. Anyone that's seen Pharmakon live will tell you that her live show is not to be missed. You can check out the first batch of dates below, and stay tuned for more to be announced very soon.



LISTEN: "Crawling On Bruised Knees" -

https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/pharmakon-crawling-on-bruised



LISTEN: "Ache" -

https://soundcloud.com/sacredbones/pharmakon-ache



TOUR DATES



7/22 - Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose Tap House †

7/23 - Newport, KY - Southgate House †

7/24 - Columbus, OH - The Bluestone †

7/25 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom †

7/26 - Buffalo, NY - Trafl Music Hall †

9/5-7 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Festival

9/10 - Boston, MA - O Briens %

9/11 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge %

9/12 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie %

9/13 - Hudson, NY - Pitchfork Basilica Festival

9/14 - Washington, DC - Rock N Roll Hotel %

9/28 - Seattle, WA - Decibel Festival

10/19 - Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland

10/22 - ZDB, Lisbon, Portugal

11/07 - Museum of Contemprary Art, Strasbourg, France

11/22-24 - ATP, All Tomorrow's Parties : End of an Era, UK

12/6-7 - Madeiradig International Music Festival , Madeira Islands



† w/ SWANS

% w/ Destruction Unit, Ukiah Drag








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7/17/2013

Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles, and the UK Counterculture



GOING UNDERGROUND
Paul McCartney, the Beatles, and the UK Counter-Culture 
Coming to DVD on October 1st 
 
In the mid-1960s the often rigid and colourless British way of life was irrevocably transformed by the emergence of a cultural underground movement. Led by a loose collective of young radicals, they introduced new social, sexual and aesthetic perspectives. Operating out of the heart of London, their various activities, from 'The International Times' - a bi-weekly journal that no hipster could be seen without -  to the psychedelic nightclub UFO, promoted alternative lifestyles and values, and sparked a social revolution.

This film not only traces the history of this underground scene, but also explores its impact on the pre-eminent British group of the era, The Beatles. Although they were well established by the time the movement emerged, Paul McCartney in particular, was closely linked with several of its key players, and through his exposure to cutting edge concepts brought ideas directly from the avant-garde into the mainstream.

Featuring many new interviews with key players from the time including; IT editor and long term friend of Paul McCartney, Barry Miles; founder of IT and UFO club organiser, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins; founder of UFO and Pink Floyd producer , Joe Boyd; Soft Machine drummer, Robert Wyatt; drummer from experimental improvisational collective AMM, Eddie Prevost; proprietor of Indica, the counter-cultural gallery, John Dunbar; Underground scenester, vocalist with The Deviants and IT journalist, Mick Farren; plus author of 'Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961 - 1971', Jonathon Greene; Beatles expert, Chris Ingham and Mojo jounalist Mark Paytress.

Also includesrare archive footage, photographs from private collections and music from The Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Soft Machine, AMM and others.
   


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7/16/2013

Paste Premieres Jake Bellows's "All Right Now" MP3

Paste Premieres Jake Bellows's "All Right Now" MP3
Debut Solo Album New Ocean Out August 6 On Saddle Creek
Download: "All Right Now" via Paste or SoundCloud
Watch: New Ocean Album Trailer via YouTube
Paste has premiered Jake Bellows's new MP3 "All Right Now" from his debut solo album
New Ocean out August 6 on Saddle Creek. Paste said, "New Ocean covers a wide spectrum of styles... and, according to Bellows, is about 'relinquishing the fear of death and recognizing that we are all part of the same thing.'" Rolling Stone recently premiered "I Know You" from New Ocean as a Daily Download. The track is also available to post and share via SoundCloud New Ocean was recorded at Omaha's ARC Studios with engineer Ben Brodin (Before the Toast and Tea, Conor Oberst), Ryan Fox (The Good Life), Todd Fink (The Faint), and Heath Koontz (Neva Dinova). New Ocean is now available for pre-order on CD & LP via Saddle Creek and limited edition cassette through Majestic Litter.  

Jake Bellows had quit music. Or so he thought.
  
After fronting Neva Dinova for more than 15 years, which included five full-lengths, a split EP, and countless tours, he packed up his dog and moved from his native Omaha to his girlfriend's hometown of Los Angeles. Two days before he left he recorded 18 demos with musician and engineer Ben Brodin at Brodin's insistence. Once in L.A., Bellows got a job installing sliding-glass doors and sold his Les Paul to buy a Datsun pick-up truck.

Though he had no plans to form a new band, he played the occasional solo show, performed with Whispertown, and continued to write songs. In early 2011, an invitation arrived from Omaha's Film Streams Theater for Jake's old friend Ryan Fox also living on the West Coast, to perform an original live film-score. Fox enlisted Bellows and Brodin to collaborate and the trio began to compose and discuss improvisational ideas over long-distance. Since they were all going to be in Omaha and had a long history of playing in each other's bands, Brodin and Fox nudged Bellows into booking studio time to record some of his dormant songs.

Fox and Bellows drove from LA to Omaha that November. They entered ARC Studios for a feverish recording session, arranging and writing parts on the fly with an impromptu band including Heath Koontz, Todd Fink, Whispertown bandmate Morgan Nagler and other old friends. Committing quickly to intuitive arrangements the band recorded 17 tracks in a little more than a week. They worked remotely on the record throughout that winter and spring, adding overdubs in basements and bedrooms across western North America.

The group reunited in Omaha to debut the new songs at a couple of shows the following June. Excited to release the new material on their own terms the band put out a preview EP on cassette, Help, at the end of 2012. The new music is underpinned by philosophical conviction and shaped by an interest in physics, cosmology and mythology. Bellows returned to music with a renewed sense of the intrinsic value of art and its ability to express the commonality of human experience. His debut full-length, New Ocean, offers a mix tape of different kinds of songs hanging out on one record - love songs that are not necessarily ballads despite their introspective gauziness, with left turns into drunk-in-the-sun bossa nova and blue-eyed-soul ruptured by fuzz guitar. Bellows believes that songs change the fabric of the universe through the very frequencies they emit. As such, the record attempts to create the world he wants to see instead of reflect the world that is.


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Strokes Legend Albert Hammond Jr. Shows Noisey His Guitar

Hey Guys and Girls,

VICE love the Strokes and when I say that I'm talking about both the tunes and the guys. I mean back in 2001, VICE and them probably crisscrossed each other a gazillion times from Max Fish to Brownies and all over the LES. What I'm saying is there's history, kinda like VICE and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Fun times. So when Albert Hammond Jr. agreed to be featured on Noisey's Guitar Moves, it felt like having one of your buddies roll thru. In the ninth episode of Guitar Moves, host Matt Sweeney meets Albert Hammond Jr. to discus 90's style riffs, influences, and how to impress your mom. Even though he rocks his guitar strap unusually high, Hammond Jr. gives pointers to guitar players on how to be less cheesy and more badass.

Watch Albert Hammond Jr. show us his Guitar Moves:
NOISEY: http://noisey.vice.com/guitar-moves/albert-hammond-jr
YOUTUBE: http://youtu.be/R91HqTB1RIA
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7/15/2013

The Joy Formidable to Release 'Silent Treatment' EP

The Joy Formidable To Release Silent Treatment EP Tomorrow
EP Features a New Version of the Title Track Mixed by William Orbit
Watch Music Video for "Silent Treatment" Now
Band To Tour With Passion Pit This Fall

 

Welsh trio The Joy Formidable are pleased to announce the release of their Silent Treatment EP on all digital outlets tomorrow. The Silent Treatment EP includes 4 tracks, including a new mix of the title track done by William Orbit (Blur, Madonna, Pink), a live version of "Tendons" recorded at London's Roundhouse, and previously unreleased song "All This Promise" from the sessions that produced the band's most recent album, Wolf's Law. For full track listing, please see below.

The band have also released a music video for the EP's title track, directed by the duo ArchEnemies. The video for "Silent Treatment," shot in black and white, features a confident yet vulnerable performance by lead-singer Ritzy Bryan. Watch the video over at RollingStone.com now:


Many critics noted that "Silent Treatment," a centerpiece on the band's acclaimed sophomore album Wolf's Law, was a different direction for the band. Pitchfork noted, "Most Joy Formidable songs start at heart-pumping and turn up the volume from there, but on the delicate "Silent Treatment", Bryan is able to convey that same intensity backed only with an acoustic guitar."

The band will be hitting the road for tour dates with Passion Pit, beginning on September 29 in Charlottesville, VA. The tour will span from coast to coast throughout the entirety of October and the first part of November, including dates in Los Angeles at The Greek Theater on October 25. To see full itinerary, please see below.

THE JOY FORMIDABLE ON TOUR
9/02 - Seattle, WA @ Bumbershoot Music Festival
9/05 - Portland, OR @ MusicFestNW
9/29 - Charlottesville, VA @ nTelos Wireless Pavilion
10/01 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
10/02 - Winston Salem, NC @ Ziggy's (Outdoor Stage)
10/03 - Birmingham, AL @ Iron City
10/04-10/06 - Austin, TX @ ACL
10/07 - Wilmington, NC @ Greenfield Amphitheater
10/08 - Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
10/10 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Music Park
10/11 - New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theater
10/11-10/13 - Austin, TX @ ACL
10/15 - Denver, CO @ First Bank Arena
10/16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
10/18 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
10/21 - Sacramento, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheatre
10/22 - San Diego, CA @ SDSU Open Air Theatre
10/25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater
10/26 - Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
10/27 - Las Vegas, NV @ Life Is Beautiful Festival
10/29 - Kansas City, MO @ The Midland
10/31 - Fairfax, VA @ Patriot Center
11/01 - Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues
11/03 - Norfolk, VA @ Norva
11/08 - St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre
11/09 - Tampa, FL @ Coastline Festival - Live Nation Amphitheatre
11/10 - West Palm Beach, FL @ Coastline Festival - Cruzan Amphitheatre



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7/11/2013

STILL CORNERS @ Webster Hall NYC





All photo taken in NYC by Daniel Murtagh. 

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WOLFMOTHER @ the Troubadour July 15th

Wolfmother comes to the TROUBADOUR LA on Monday July 15th 2013.








Gallery is here. All live photos here taken by Angel Ceballos in Seattle.


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Surfer Blood @ Santa Monica Pier


photo: Angel Ceballos

SURFER BLOOD is playing at the Santa Monica Pier tonight, Thursday July 11th 2013.
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7/10/2013

Glasvegas Video For First Single "If" Starring William Shatner

Glasvegas Logo
Glasvegas Video For First Single "If"
Starring William Shatner Premieres on VEVO
"If" Digital EP Available Now
''If' is grand, ragged round the edges, and wiser than you'll ever be...ringing guitars and galloping horse drums...welcome back to 'brilliant'." NME 
Glasvegas - If
Glasvegas - If Video
The new video features the legendary William Shatner and is Glasvegas' take on the iconic BBC Music show "The Old Grey Whistle Test."

James Allan, Glasvegas song-writer, guitarist, vocalist, frontman, beloved people's poet (and profound Glaswegian) explains...

"When we played on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson a while back, William Shatner introduced our live performance as he is a fan of the band.  I then thought it would be a cool thing to incorporate his introduction of us into our new video since it also has a 'late show' theme.  We got in touch with him to ask his permission and he got back to us almost immediately to give us the thumbs up!"

Taken from their forthcoming album 'Later...When The TV Turns To Static,' 'If' melds trademark Glasvegas' soaring choruses to a martial drum and Phil Spector inspired opening.  'If' is accompanied on the EP, which is now available on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/GlasvegasIf) by three exclusive recordings from the band. A cover of PJ Harvey's 'The Words That Maketh Murder', 'Press ' a brand new track written especially for the EP by James Allan and a demo version of 'Finished Sympathy' which is the last track on the new album.  

"A lot of thought went into the If EP" says James "from the decision about the cover track right down to the wee <> symbols in the 'Press title, which I wanted to make look like a button on a VCR.  The reason for choosing 'The Words That Maketh Murder' was that some of the covers we have done in the past have been older songs, so we wanted to go for something newer.  The PJ Harvey album 'Let England Shake' is a record we had been listening to and it seemed an obvious choice to pick a song from this record. Press is a new song and is me speaking in a hypothetical sense, a 'what if-scenario', and the demo of Finished Sympathy, well it's a bloody good song from the album that we are really proud of, based on my opinion that "sympathy" is something that's finished at too young an age. You can expect heavy fireworks from the album version."
 

The album 'Later...When The TV Turns To Static' is available for pre-order via the band's website www.glasvegas.net and will be in-stores on September 3rd.

Glasvegas is: James Allan (Vocals, Guitar), Rab Allan (Guitar), Paul Donoghue (Bass), Jonna Löffgren (Drums)

Stay tuned for U.S. touring info.

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