FRANCES QUINLAN (Hop Along) Streams Solo Debut via NPR First Listen

FRANCES QUINLAN STREAMS SOLO DEBUT VIA NPR FIRST LISTEN Likewise out January 31st on Saddle Creek

(Credit: Julia Khorosilov) Early praise for Frances Quinlan + Likewise: "an expertly narrative songwriter and a peerless singer in the indie-rock world" - NPR “'Rare Thing,' certainly expands on the sonic makeup of your typical Hop Along song — there’s tinny drums and little synth wiggles and twinkling harps. And then there’s Quinlan’s magnificent voice" - Stereogum "A chaotic rocker featuring ambient percussion and harp" - Rolling Stone “‘Likewise’ has Quinlan wandering into new territory, adding strings, auto-harp...synths, and digital beats behind her distinctive voice.” - The FADER "That voice. If you've ever heard a Hop Along song, you know the power of that voice. It belongs to band leader Frances Quinlan, and I once wrote that it could ‘make you reevaluate your entire diction.’ (I stand by this.)" - MTV

Frances Quinlan of Hop Along will release Likewise this Friday via Saddle Creek, and it’s already been named one of the most anticipated of 2020 by numerous outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, Paste, and more. Starting today, the record is streaming early, in its entirety, exclusively via NPR First Listen. While Hop Along began as Quinlan's solo project (originally titled Hop Along, Queen Ansleis), Likewise is Quinlan's debut under her own name. Recorded with bandmate Joe Reinhart at Headroom Studio, Likewise sees Quinlan tap into new sounds. “Working with Joe on this made me able to better see that the guitar is just one vehicle... there are so many others to explore,” Quinlan says on this collaboration, which features synthesizers, digital beats, harps, strings, and a wide variety of keyboards. This newfound openness to sonic exploration echoes the sentiments of Likewise, which is a gorgeous rumination about the universal struggles of communication and connection between human beings. Listen to the album now HERE, and pre-order physically or digitally HERE. Frances produced all of the artwork on Likewise, including the self-portrait on the album cover, and to celebrate its release she will host a series of art galleries, which will be her first-ever solo exhibitions. The free and open-to-the-public pop-up events will showcase Frances’ artwork and feature a live Q&A. These will take place in NYC tomorrow on January 29th at the Selina Chelsea (RSVP HERE), and in Los Angeles at Junior High on March 13th. For the week following album release, Selina Chelsea will also host a Frances Happy Hour, where her artwork will remain on display in the lobby and the album will be played daily at 6 pm. Also, artwork will also be displayed in the Blackwing Pop Up space in Rough Trade NYC for the month of February.  Frances Quinlan has already begun bringing Likewise on the road, and continues with more North American dates, including her sold-out NYC show on Thursday, January 30th. She will also perform a hometown show on album release day, January 31st, in Philadelphia at WXPN’s Free At Noon. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE. LISTEN/WATCH: “Your Reply” | “Rare Thing” | “Now That I'm Back” Tour Dates 01/30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Sultan Room **SOLD OUT** 1/31 - Philadelphia, PA @ WXPN’s Free At Noon 02/07 - Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem * 03/01 - San Francisco, CA @ Noise Pop at Swedish American Music Hall # 03/03 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir # 03/05 - Seattle, WA @ Columbia City Theater # 03/06 - Vancouver, BC @ Fox Cabaret # 03/07 - Victoria, BC @ The Rubber Boot Club # 03/11 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library # 03/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project # 03/14 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah # 03/16-03/21 - Austin, TX @ SXSW * = supporting Calexico and Iron & Wine # = support from Mary Lattimore

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Noise Pop Announces Fourth Wave of Artists for 2020 Festival // DJ Set from Washed Out, Along with Performances from Bas, Jennylee & Theresa of Warpaint, Califone

NOISE POP FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITIONS TO 2020 MUSIC LINEUP 

NEW ACTS INCLUDE WASHED OUT (DJ SET), BAS, CALIFONE, THE GREYBOY ALLSTARS, QUINN DEVEAUX & THE BLUE BEAT REVIEW, TIM ATLAS & MORE,

PLUS A SPECIAL DUO SET FROM JENNYLEE AND THERESA OF WARPAINT

28TH ANNUAL CITY-WIDE CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT CULTURE, MUSIC, ART & FILM

RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FEBRUARY 24 TO MARCH 1

BADGES & TICKETS TO INDIVIDUAL SHOWS ON SALE NOW,

NEW SHOWS ANNOUNCED TODAY GO ON SALE THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 17

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (JANUARY 14, 2020) – Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premiere indie music and arts festival, has announced today the fourth wave of music acts confirmed for the 28th annual week-long fest taking place from Monday, February 24 to Sunday, March 1. Festival badges, along with tickets to previously announced shows, are on sale now at www.noisepopfest.com. Tickets to today’s announced shows will be available for purchase beginning this Friday, January 17 at 10 a.m. PT. 

Previous waves of music announced for Noise Pop 2020 include a diverse mix of established and exciting up-and-coming music acts across numerous genres including Raphael Saadiq, Maya Jane Coles, Best Coast, Duster, Helado Negro, Shigeto Live Ensemble, Jamila Woods, Injury Reserve, Bag Raiders, Lower Dens and many more. This new round of Phase 4 artists released today continues the festivals’ highly selective curation of music performers from around the country and internationally, which ultimately offers attendees a truly unique festival-going experience that features a week-long playground for multi-genre music discovery across the greater San Francisco Bay area. 

Among today’s new lineup additions include two more rare performances including a DJ set from the critically-acclaimed chillwave singer/songwriter/producer Washed Out; Grammy Award-nominated emcee and Dreamville Records signee Bas, whose latest studio album, Milky Way, received rave reviews from fans and critics alike; and an intimate duo performance from Jennylee & Theresa of the LA-based indie rock band Warpaint. Other notable newly announced performers include critically-acclaimed post-rock and experimental rock band Califone; San Francisco-based, seminal boogaloo revivalists The Greyboy Allstars, who are currently celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band; and Oakland-based Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review, whose performance at Noise Pop Festival 2020 will serve as an album release show for the band’s latest project.

Additional acts announced today include Oakland-born indie-pop and R&B singer/songwriter Tim Atlas, who just released last November his latest EP, Together Lonely; L.A. producer and DJ Falcons; Mutual Benefit, the critically-acclaimed music project from singer/songwriter Jordan Lee; LA-based dream-pop and shoegaze trio Froth, who just released their latest album, Duress, this past summer; Bakersfield, CA singer-songwriter, Junior Mesa, who just released his debut EP, Peace, in late 2019; and alternative rock and pop singer, Angelica Garcia, whose second studio album, Cha Cha Palace, is rumored to drop in late February of this year.

Through a continued effort to offer Noise Pop Festival attendees ample opportunities for music discovery, the festival is also chalked full of exciting up-and-coming and more underground artists. Acts include Dallas-based folk-rock band Luna Luna; psychedelic rockers Rudy De Anda; indie rock artist fredo disco, who continues to perform in support of his 2019 album Very Cool Music For Very Cool People; Toronto-based Selfish Things, who recently released their first full-length studio album, Logos, in September 2019; and pop-punk band Young Culture who continue to tour in support of their latest EP, (This Is) Heaven; as well as folk-pop singer/songwriter Lily Kershaw; and Victoria Canal, a rising Spanish-American singer-songwriter who recently released her latest single “Drama” that Rolling Stone Magazine called a “Song You Need To Know”; among many others. The list of fourth wave acts is included below, while the full lineup can be found online at noisepopfest.com:

NOISE POP FESTIVAL 2020 - WAVE 4 MUSIC ACTS:

• Washed Out (DJ Set) 
• Bas
• jennylee + TT (feat. Jenny Lee & Theresa of Warpaint)
• Califone
• The Greyboy Allstars
• Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Review 
• Tim Atlas
• Falcons
• Mutual Benefit
• Froth
• Junior Mesa
• Angelica Garcia
• Tre Burt
• Luna Luna
• Kills Birds
• Rudy De Anda
• Blushh
• Velvet Negroni
• fredo disco
• Selfish Things
• Young Culture
• yungatita
• Jamie Drake
• Victoria Canal
• Lily Kershaw
• Sonoda
• NAVVI
• M.Bootyspoon
• Bernie & The Wolf

Fourth Wave GA festival badges are available for purchase today for $199, and Student badges are on sale for $129. Those interested in attending are encouraged to purchase now as badge prices will increase as the festival dates approach and additional artists are announced. Badges grant access to GA (non-reserved seating) concerts, badge-only happy hours, NPHQ and other special events soon to be announced. All badge-holders will also have access to all film screenings and film-related events throughout the weeklong festival. Badges are non-transferrable with age-restrictions for select events, and those with badges must arrive within 60 minutes after club door times to guarantee entrance. 

A limited number of “Super Fan” and the ultra-exclusive “Super Fam +1” badges are also available for $399 and $850, a price that will remain the same until sold out. Super Fan badge-holders will experience the true red-carpet treatment at the festival, where they receive guaranteed entry to all festival events, a special merch package, complimentary drink tickets to select events, and a personal Noise Pop concierge available for assistance throughout the weeklong festival. The additional value of the Super Fam badge is the ability to have an additional badge that is transferable to any guest. For any badge-related questions, contact badge@noisepop.com.

  

Berkeley-based artist Nigel Sussman is the creator of the official artwork for this year’s festival. Learn more about this local illustrator and muralist’s work at www.nigelsussman.com.

Stay tuned as local Bay Area music acts, as well as  film, art and special events will be announced in the coming weeks. Follow Noise Pop Festival on Facebook at www.facebook.com/noisepop.com, as well as on Instagram, Twitter for updates and special promotions. The official hashtag for the festival is #NoisePop2020.

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ABOUT NOISE POP INDUSTRIES:

Established in San Francisco in 1993, Noise Pop Industries is one of the nation’s leading independent music promoters. Over the last 28 years Noise Pop’s namesake festival has featured early-career performances by then-emerging artists such as The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Joanna Newsom, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, Grimes and more. Noise Pop also co-founded the celebrated Treasure Island Music Festival with Another Planet Entertainment.

Today, Noise Pop produces hundreds of unique events annually throughout the Bay Area and Northern California, as the exclusive promoter for the historically-landmarked Swedish American Hall and Cafe du Nord, as well as in more than two dozen of our favorite venues throughout the region. NPI also throws free community celebrations like the food-and-music centric 20th Street Block Party, and partners with local organizations and institutions including the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, MUTEK, and the Oakland Museum of California to produce cultural events throughout the year via its new NPI WHTLBL services brand. 

Please visit www.noisepop.com for more information.

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Noise Pop Announces Fourth Wave of Artists for 2020 Festival // DJ Set from Washed Out, Along with Performances from Bas, Jennylee & Theresa of Warpaint, Califone

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FRANCES QUINLAN (Hop Along) Shares New Song, Announces Intimate Album Release Show + Pop-Up Art Galleries in NYC and LA

FRANCES QUINLAN SHARES NEW SONG “YOUR REPLY” & ANNOUNCES NYC ALBUM RELEASE SHOW, PLUS POP-UP ART GALLERIES IN NYC AND LA Likewise out January 31st on Saddle Creek

(Credit: Julia Khorosilov) Early praise for Frances Quinlan + Likewise: "an expertly narrative songwriter and a peerless singer in the indie-rock world" - NPR “'Rare Thing,' certainly expands on the sonic makeup of your typical Hop Along song — there’s tinny drums and little synth wiggles and twinkling harps. And then there’s Quinlan’s magnificent voice" - Stereogum "A chaotic rocker featuring ambient percussion and harp" - Rolling Stone “‘Likewise’ has Quinlan wandering into new territory, adding strings, auto-harp...synths, and digital beats behind her distinctive voice.” - The FADER "It’s Frances Quinlan like you’ve never heard her before, but also unmistakably the work of no one else." - Brooklyn Vegan "The new track is aswoon with bedroom synthesizers, an early morning daze as the sun begins to creep through the blinds. Then, for a brief moment, Quinlan peeks out the window as romantic guitars and shakers prelude the additional layers in the song’s final third." - Consequence of Sound "“Now That I’m Back” is a strange, sprawling track that ranges from quiet and fluttery to bouncy to harsh and claustrophobic, with a rich array of instrumentation including quivering guitar, urgent shakers and springy synth." - Paste "That voice. If you've ever heard a Hop Along song, you know the power of that voice. It belongs to band leader Frances Quinlan, and I once wrote that it could ‘make you reevaluate your entire diction.’ (I stand by this.)" - MTV

Frances Quinlan of Hop Along will release her official solo debut Likewise later this month on Saddle Creek—an album that has already been named one of the most anticipated of 2020 by numerous outlets like Pitchfork, Stereogum, Consequence of Sound, Paste, and more—and today she shares the sublime and rollicking next single “Your Reply.” This track reveals a narrator approaching a loved one with tenderness, even when met with a palpable silence. “There can be a one-sidedness to even the most loving and rewarding relationships,” Quinlan says. “We will always have a part of ourselves we can’t or don’t know how to share. There are so many risks involved. Regardless, I think of this song as celebratory. If anything, the speaker is frustrated at coming so close to understanding another person completely, but perhaps only just missing the mark. But still what a gift that is, to come close.” Listen to the song and watch the visualizer featuring Quinlan’s own artwork HERE. Frances produced all of the artwork on Likewise, including the self-portrait on the album cover, and to celebrate its release she has announced pop-up art exhibitions. The free and open-to-the-public gallery events will showcase Frances’ artwork, feature a live Q&A, and include album playback. These will take place in NYC on January 29th at the Selina Chelsea, and in Los Angeles at Junior High on March 13th. For the week following album release, Selina Chelsea will also host a Frances Happy Hour, where her artwork will remain on display in the lobby and the album will be played daily at 6 pm. Also, artwork will also be displayed in the Blackwing Pop Up space in Rough Trade NYC for the month of February. In addition to her already announced tour dates featuring stops in London (including the newly announced Rough Trade East in-store,) a west coast run with harpist Mary Lattimore, and a very special show with Ben Gibbard in Milwaukee, Frances has added an intimate album release show in NYC. She will perform at the Sultan Room in Brooklyn on January 30th, the eve of her album release, and tickets go on-sale tomorrow. Get your tickets to the upcoming shows HERE. While Hop Along began as Quinlan's solo project (originally titled Hop Along, Queen Ansleis), Likewise is Quinlan's debut under her own name. Recorded with bandmate Joe Reinhart at The Headroom, Likewise sees Quinlan tap into new sounds. “Working with Joe on this made me able to better see that the guitar is just one vehicle... there are so many others to explore,” Quinlan says on this collaboration, which features synthesizers, digital beats, harps, strings, and a wide variety of keyboards. This newfound openness to sonic exploration echoes the sentiments of Likewise, which is a gorgeous rumination about the universal struggles of communication and connection between human beings. Likewise will be released on January 31st via Saddle Creek. All limited edition vinyl are sold out, but the standard black vinyl are still available. Pre-order physically or digitally HERE.

Album artwork

(Self-portrait by Frances Quinlan) Tracklisting 1. Piltdown Man 2. Your Reply 3. Rare Thing 4. Detroit Lake 5. A Secret 6. Went to LA 7. Lean 8. Now That I'm Back 9. Carry the Zero (Built To Spill cover) Tour Dates 01/13/20 - London, UK @ Rough Trade East In-Store 01/15/20 - London, UK @ Five Day Forecast Festival 01/19/20 - Chicago, IL @ Tomorrow Never Knows Festival at Sleeping Village +  01/23/19 - Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater * 01/30/20 - Brooklyn, NY @ Sultan Room 03/01/20 - San Francisco, CA @ Noise Pop at Swedish American Music Hall # 03/03/20 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir # 03/05/20 - Seattle, WA @ Columbia City Theater # 03/06/20 - Vancouver, BC @ The Rubber Boot Club # 03/07/20 - Victoria, BC @ TBA # 03/11/20 - Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Memorial Library # 03/12/20 - Los Angeles, CA @ Pico Union Project # 03/14/20 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah # 03/16/20-03/21/20 - Austin, TX @ SXSW + = support from Indigo De Souza * = supporting Ben Gibbard # = support from Mary Lattimore

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