Toro y Moi announces North American tour with Panda Bear

TORO Y MOI ANNOUNCES 2025 HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST PANDA BEAR  HOLE ERTH OUT NOW VIA DEAD OCEANS

Toro y Moi by Cinque Mubarak  What the press is saying about Hole Earth:  “With Hole Erth, Toro y Moi broke free” Rolling Stone “[Hole Erth] lays the foundation for the future of the musical zeitgeist—a genre-fluid, multigenerational landscape. Paste Magazine “Toro y Moi’s inimitable style shines through.” Consequence  “Erth is a record that blends ingenuity and honesty in a stellar and imaginative way—looking back, but never getting warped by nostalgia.” FLOOD Magazine “‘Hole Erth’ [continues to] to expand his already extensive scope, existing in the interim of a multitude of sounds and styles, and ignoring any rules or constraints” HYPEBEAST  “[T]here is something about the tenderness that these songs somehow convey, and a philosophical bit to the way he builds his sound” NPR Hole Earth  https://toroymoi.lnk.to/Hole-Erth (October 15, 2024) - Toro y Moi announces a 2025 headline tour of North America with special guest Panda Bear. The tour will find Toro y Moi bringing the world of Hole Erth across the continent after recently playing marquis shows at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Cemetery, New York's Knockdown Center and next week's show at The Greek in Berkeley, CA -- Toro y Moi's biggest hometown headline show to date. Across the tour, Toro y Moi and Panda Bear will be joined by Nourished By Time and Kassie Krut as support. Today's tour announcement coincides with the news that Panda Bear will release his new album Sinister Grift around the launch of the forthcoming tour with Toro y Moi. Tickets for his upcoming tour will be on sale here starting October 18th at 10AM local time, with pre-sale starting tomorrow, October 16th at 10AM local time.  Hole Erth, Chaz Bear’s eighth full-length studio record as Toro y Moi, is the genre shapeshifter’s most unexpected and bold move to date, with Bear diving headlong into rap-rock, Soundcloud rap and Y2K emo. The album blitzes anthemic pop-punk next to autotuned, melancholic rap – two genres that inform one another now more than ever before — and packs in the most features ever on a Toro y Moi album with contributions from Kevin Abstract, Benjamin Gibbard, Don Toliver, Porches, Kenny Mason and more.  Recorded in the span of a few months across late 2023 and early 2024, Hole Erth’s features built naturally over that short span, with Bear simply reaching out to long-time friends. The sum of Hole Erth’s parts is massive, and demonstrates Bear’s deft abilities as a producer, especially in hip-hop; his role in the culture has long been solidified from previous collaborations with some of rap's biggest trailblazers. It’s a daring left turn for Bear, but the feel is effortless, the make-it-look-easy of a master at work. All told, Bear pushes himself into new sonic ground for the TyM oeuvre while embracing the project’s celebrated, well-known electronic beginnings. Hole Erth is brand new, but somehow perfectly at home. See full tour details below and stay tuned for more from Toro y Moi coming soon.

Upcoming Live Dates * = support from Nourished by Time  ^ = support from Kassie Krut TICKETS  2/6 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Venue * 2/7 - Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed *  2/8 - Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre * 2/10 - Toronto, ON @ The Danforth Music Hall *  2/11 - Montreal, QC @ MTELUS * 2/12 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner * 2/14 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 * 2/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall *  2/16 - Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club * 2/19 - Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz * 2/20 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works * 2/21 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle * 5/8 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren^ 5/12 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater ^ 5/13 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall ^  5/14 - Dallas, TX @ House of Blues ^ 5/16 - Denver, CO @ The Filmore ^ Toro y Moi Hole Erth September 6, 2024 Dead Oceans 1. Walking In The Rain 2. CD-R 3. HOV 4. Tuesday 5. Hollywood (feat. Benjamin Gibbard) 6. Reseda (feat. Duckwrth & Elijah Kessler) 7. Babydaddy 8. Madonna (feat. Don Toliver) 9. Undercurrent (feat. Don Toliver & Porches) 10. Off Road 11. Smoke (feat. Kenny Mason) 12. Heaven (feat. Kevin Abstract and Lev) 13. Starlink (feat. Glaive) Connect with Toro y Moi  Website | Instagram | X (Twitter) | Youtube

Every Dawn's a Mountain: Tamino Announces New Album Out March 21st

Every Dawn's a Mountain: Tamino Announces New Album Out March 21st

via Djinn Records/Communion Records​​​​​​​

Watch The Video For "Babylon," First Single Available Today

North American Tour Set For Spring 2025, Including NYC's Brooklyn Steel, LA's Belasco, SF's Fillmore & A Dozen Other Stops, Following Recent Performance With David Byrne

Today, Tamino returns to announce the release of Every Dawn's a Mountain: a new album primarily written in his new home of New York City, bringing a new beginning for an artist who already headlines arenas in most of Europe and the Middle East, and was recently invited to play at the Great Pyramid of Giza; whose songs and stories have stunned friends and fans like David Byrne, Lana Del Rey and Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. Tamino's voice "carries the hypnotic, immediate power of something much more ancient," says NPR.

Out March 21st, 2025 via Djinn Records/Communion Records, Every Dawn's a Mountainis fueled by the feeling of fire, and realizing that everything that has been built before and within you is about to burn down – perhaps for the best. The record is one about loss, displacement, breaking up and letting go of the past, and from those embers of emotional wreckage, Tamino emerges and enters his next chapter. While most of these 10 songs were written in the Manhattan apartment he recently moved to, he also recorded in a New Orleans church, Brussels studio, and scattered hotel rooms while on tour with Mitski, who sings with Tamino on "Sanctuary," one of Every Dawn's a Mountain's many high points. Though he was first inspired to learn guitar by his grandfather – famed Egyptian singer Muharram Fouad – the album's arrangements are largely pillared by the sound of his Arabic oud. Tamino's voice smolders throughout, flaring from deep and sultry one moment to a flickering falsetto the next. "Using music to convey deeper messages is key to what Tamino does," described The Guardian. "It's led many to compare him to the late American singer Jeff Buckley, but with orchestral arrangements nodding to his Arab lineage."

Pre-Order Every Dawn's a Mountain, listen to new single "Babylon,"

and watch the video: HERE

Born within the walls of a medieval castle, during soundcheck at a small Italian festival, "Babylon" is a six-minute epic and explosive journey, and first preview of Every Dawn's a Mountain. Tamino calls it a cornerstone of the album, as it continued to evolve through the time he spent in Brussels, New Orleans and New York – three monumental cities, each their own modern Babylons.

"Just as fire can erupt with great force, most of these songs seemed to burst their way into existence. Unabashedly and without warning, they demanded my attention and determined the course of my days. They say the faster the flame burns, the harder it is to catch. Similarly, capturing the right feel while recording proved challenging at times. I've never really approached music conceptually. Usually, songwriting feels more like carving away into a self-revealing sculpture rather than carefully implementing a pre-existing blueprint. After recent developments in my life, however, I did feel a tremendous urge to build a metaphysical altar for what had been lost. The end result, though at times eclectic, feels like the most harmonious record I've made to date, with all 10 songs strung together by a same sense of honoring and letting go."

-Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad

Produced by Tamino and longtime collaborator PJ Maertens, with co-production by Eric Heigle (Arcade Fire, Dawn Richard) and Alessandro Buccellati (Arlo Parks, SZA), and additional production by Chris Messina (Bon Iver, Big Red Machine), Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso) and Jo Francken, Every Dawn's a Mountain follows his 2022 album (Sahar) and 2019 debut (Amir), and is mainly backed by Tamino's live band of musicians. In March and April, he will return to the road for a tour across North America. 

On the heels of a performance at David Byrne's Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things variety show earlier this month, tickets for Tamino's North American spring tour are on-sale at 10am local time this Friday, October 18th. Stops include New York City's Brooklyn Steel, Los Angeles' Belasco, San Francisco's The Fillmore, two nights at Chicago's Thalia Hall and more. Find the list of dates below, and details at taminomusic.com/tour. 

Every Dawn's a Mountain Tracklist My Heroine Babylon Every Dawn's a Mountain Sanpaku Sanctuary Raven Willow Elegy Dissolve Amsterdam   Tamino 2025 Tour Dates 3/27 - San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park 3/28 - Los Angeles, CA - The Belasco 3/29 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 3/31 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater 4/1 - Seattle, WA - The Moore Theatre 4/4 - St Paul, MN - Fitzgerald Theater 4/5 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 4/6 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 4/8 - Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall 4/9 - Montreal, QC - MTELUS 4/11 - Quebec City, QC - Grizzly Fuzz 4/12 - Boston, MA - Royale 4/13 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel 4/16 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 4/17 - Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre   Follow Tamino Official Site Instagram YouTube Facebook TikTok X

Scott Walker + Sunn O))): 10 Years of Soused

We are delighted to celebrate 10 years of Soused, a collaborative album between Scott Walker & SUNNO))). Originally released 20th October 2014. To commemorate the ten-year anniversary we are offering a one time pressing of the SCOTT O))) t-shirt. We have also made Scott Walker's full 4AD catalogue available on Bandcamp.

+ Pre-order the SCOTT O))) t-shirt and stickers here +
+ Listen to Scott Walker on Bandcamp here +

Stephen O’Malley & Scott Walker by Phil Laslett




This t-shirt is available for preorder 4-18 October, and will be shipped out approximately 15 November. This one time edition is offered with the cooperation of SUNNO))), Scott Walker's estate and 4AD. All profits go to the charity, WAR CHILD. Scott was originally introduced to WAR CHILD by Brian ENO and continued to support them throughout his life, the work they do is currently more relevant than ever. Read about them here.

Pick up this unique piece, honour the late great Scott Walker and donate to an important cause all at the same time.

Noise Pop Festival 2025 Save the Date 🎉

NOISE POP ANNOUNCES 2025 RETURN OF THEIR FLAGSHIP FESTIVAL

WITH SUPER-EARLY-BIRD BADGES ON SALE NOW

Iconic Indie Music & Arts Festival Celebrates 32nd Annual Edition 

February 20 to March 2, 2025 Transforming San Francisco Bay Area 

Into Multi-Venue Festival Grounds

Music Lineup To Be Revealed Next Month

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (October 15, 2024) – Hometown organizers behind Noise Pop Festival, the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music and arts festival, are excited to announce new dates for their historic multi-genre festival which returns for its 32nd anniversary on Thursday, February 20 through Sunday, March 2, 2025. 

In celebration of this news, Noise Pop has released a small batch of Super-Early-Bird Bages, on sale now at www.noisepopfest.com. With a limited number of these discount-priced badges available, fans are encouraged to purchase quickly before prices increase as the festival date approaches.

Starting at just $135+, these badges offer music lovers a rare opportunity to explore many of the Bay Area's most iconic concert halls and landmark performance venues next February. Badge-holders will also have complimentary access to a full schedule of happy hours, art exhibitions, retail pop-ups, exclusive after-parties, and so much more throughout the week-long festival. 

“As Noise Pop Festival continues to evolve in its third decade, the team couldn’t be more excited for our beloved flagship fest to return next year as it’s become a true representation of the musical diversity and creativity of the Bay Area.” said Noise Pop Industries’ CEO Michelle Swing.

For over three decades, Noise Pop Industries has been at the forefront of Northern California's local music and arts scene, championing Bay Area talent and curating thousands of concerts while building a range of unique festival experiences for residents and out-of-towners alike. 

This coming February, Noise Pop will proudly celebrate the 32nd anniversary of its flagship event Noise Pop Festival, which regularly transforms the entire SF Bay Area into a vibrant festival destination with multiple events happening every night for a week-plus.

Building on the success of last year’s genre-defying multi-genre music lineup, this year's festival will once again offer fans a meticulously curated selection of artists featuring everything from indie-rock darlings to breakout up-and-coming acts to cult-classic reunion shows to anniversary album plays and a ton of other unexpected treats for music-lovers from all genres. 

The 2025 festival will continue to also serve as a backdrop for Bay Area debuts from several international acts, while also hosting performances from 100+ local musicians. Collectively, Noise Pop Festival regularly produces over 60 shows inside 15+ venues across 10 consecutive days each February.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements, including the new music lineup dropping next month, by visiting the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com and following along on social media channels at @NoisePop.

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds North American Tour Continues October 22nd

Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds North American Tour Continues October 22nd

 

That Delicious Vice Album Available On In The Red Records

Photo by Luz Gallardo / 

After hugely successful tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, Kid Congo & The PInk Monkey Birds continue their North American tour next week with a run of West Coast dates. The latest album, That Delicious Vice, is available through In The Red Records. 

 

Additionally, Kid was part of the "Old Punks" Focus Group, along with a wealth of other punk legends on an episode of John Mulaney Presents Everybody's In LA, as well being tour guide for a weekend at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas in June.  

 

 “It's a new lineup,” landlord of the avant-garage Kid Congo Powers exclaims of the Pink Monkey Birds edition responsible for the fifth studio full-length of their 19-year recording career, That Delicious Vice, released this past April on In The Red Records, the band’s home since 2009. “We've gone from a four piece to a three piece,” continues Kid, whose unique guitar style has been at the center of some of the most forward-thinking bands in punk and garage: The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Knoxville Girls, to name a handful.

 

“Because Mark Cisneros (Des Demonas, Hammered Hulls) is playing guitar, sometimes we have songs with two guitars. And then sometimes, he plays bass on a bass six (i.e. — the electric bass version of the mariachi instrument, the bajo sexto). So, that is a new development. We lost a member and decided to try to do it as a three piece — more space, you know?”

 

Ron Miller remains on drums, percussion and vocals.

 

“I'm not sure if living in the desert is making me want more space in music or not,” laughs Kid, a Tucson resident for a few years now. “Maybe I’m turning into a desert stoner rocker. But I'm not a stoner, so that's not happening.”

 

No, the former Brian Tristan is most decidedly not unleashing a Kyuss tribute album. But you hear the desert all over That Delicious Vice, beginning with opening instrumental “East Of East,” its Duane Eddy/Rowland S. Howard guitar twanging through some malicious reverb. You feel it in the slide guitar-drenched theme from an imaginary western, “Silver For My Sister,” which echoes the pioneering Los Angeles blues punk band Kid formed with Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club. There’s also such unique pieces as the acid/garage cumbia title track, translated into Spanish at least for its name, “Ese Vicio Delicioso.” As he tells the tale of his musical journey over the Pink Monkey Birds’ cowbell-thumping Latinate rhythms, Kid’s thickly distorted guitar groans and screams with feedback, likely a conscious sonic homage to Jimi Hendrix, namechecked in the lyrics.

 

“Mark came up with some great Spanish guitar things," Kid enthuses. “We were working with cinematic sound a lot — creating a mood, creating a picture and creating a feeling. We actually like to expand, spread our wings each time a little more and not do the same old thing, and not just be the thinking man's garage rock band.

 

But the album’s major hallmark has to be its extended collaboration with Alice Bag, the face of and voice of early LA punk titans The Bags. How and why these two took this long to unite creatively is a dense mystery, considering both graduated with honors from early Hollywood punk palace The Masque, and their photos had to have stared at one another from opposite pages of a few issues of Slash or fLiPSiDe.

 

“Yeah, we were around that ground zero, that tight circle of friends,” chuckles Kid, “But there was a lot of cliquiness going on, even though the scene was so small. Everyone knew each other, but I was more with The Screamers and she was more with The Bags and the punk thing. You know, I was more arty farty!”

 

“We go back a long time,” enthuses Alice. “When I was doing my book tour, Kid called me and I hadn't heard from him in ages! And he's like, ‘You're coming to DC! If you need me for anything, I'm gonna make some noise with you —  I'm in!’

 

“It always amazes me how deep those early friendships go. You can not speak to somebody for years and years, but if you have punk rock in common, you're my sister or brother forever.  So he came out and he played with me at one of my early readings in DC. And then, every now and then I'd see Pink Monkey Birds, but just randomly. Because he was living on the East Coast and I was living on the West Coast, we didn't see each other very often and fell out of touch again.”

 

Next thing either party knows, they’re both In The Red labelmates, with the release of Alice’s third solo LP, Sister Dynamite. Following that, the producers of the Peacock comedy television series The Resort reached out to label head Larry Hardy, to inquire if either Kid or Alice would be interested in composing a Spanish-language song for the show.

 

“It was actually Alice who said, ‘Well, why don't you just get us together and we’ll do it?’” says Kid. “And they went for it. So we wrote a cheesy lounge act song, which is of course much better than any cheesy lounge act.”

 

“We recorded it,” adds Alice.  “Then we did these cameos on this show, playing our song. They flew us out to Puerto Rico for a few days. It was just a really fun experience. It's really fun getting to hang out with Kid, and the process of writing a song with him was very enjoyable, even though I was living in Mexico City and he was in Tucson by then — we were still working remotely.

 

“But we just clicked. I’d send him a recording, and then he’d add to it. and send something back. We both were very open to each person's own brand of quirkiness.”

 

This led to “Wicked World,” a full-on Kid Congo/Alice Bag duet that’s That Delicious Vice’s second track and major fulcrum. Over rat-a-tat “Big Bad John” drums, a blast of fuzz bass, and Kid’s siren-like slide guitar, the co-composers recount in tandem the tale of a child “born into trouble from a devil seed/Every fork in the road led her here.” It’s a short drive from there through a poor childhood and bad decisions to turning tricks and seeking kicks, amid an atmosphere heady with the scent of sex. The action stops, and Alice chants, “One two three four five six seven — you’re going to Hell, and I’M GOING TO HEAVEN!!” It’s a pulp paperback reincarnated as primal rock ‘n’ roll.

 

Watch the video for "Wicked World"

 

“One of the songs, ‘The Boy Had It All,’ was actually inspired by Howie Pyro,” Kid explains. Pyro, who died May 4, 2022, was a NYC punk fixture who co-founded the D Generation and was a popular party DJ and music/movie archivist. “The Boy Had It All” is the latest in a series of “songs about people we know that are gone.”

 

“It seems to be a recurring theme,” he elaborates, “because sometimes when people leave this Earth, it's hard to believe that they're not on Earth anymore. They were all — no, they are — special friends that I thought were magical people. I always want to try to capture something before that magic flies away. I mean, I can't grasp it anymore. But when it's fresh, it's like, ‘Okay, we gotta write about this magical person. Yeah, it's the same with Sean DeLear on the last record (2021’s Swing From The Sean DeLear).”

 

“It's really great to be playing with someone who I've known for over 40 years,” he says of the collaboration with Alice. “I respect her as an artist. I respect her stance as a feminist. I respect that she's such a great role model for a lot of young Chicano kids. We have a lot of parallels that make it joyful.”

 

The album ends with an extended soundscape, “Murder Of Sunrise,” which Kid claims is meant to be his “Barry White song.”

 

“That was my idea,” he says, proud yet almost sheepish. “I was like, ‘This is a Barry White song and here's some chords that are kind of like Barry White, kind of  ‘Never Gonna Give You Up.’’ And I'm talking about how I'm in ecstasy!” he laughs.

“And I thought, ‘You know, Barry White has been an actual real influence, you know?’ I realized that because I got asked during the pandemic — again, a German TV show. Someone I knew was making a documentary about the influence of Barry White. And he had remembered many years ago at the beginning of The Pink Monkey Birds that I had said, when he asked, ‘What's your new band gonna sound like?’ And I said, ‘It's gonna sound like Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen meet at a Barry White concert.’ So he actually remembered that like 15 years ago or something. He said, ‘Will you be in this documentary and talk about Barry White?’ I was like, ‘Of course, Barry's the king!’

“So there's all kinds of ridiculous, but heartfelt influences on the album,” he concludes. “Well, I don't think they're ridiculous influences, but they are unexpected sometimes, even to me.”

 

That Delicious Vice is produced by Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds, recorded and mixed by Jim Waters (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sonic Youth) at his Waterworks Studios facility in Tucson. Artwork is by Ryan Hill, graphic artist for all Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds releases on In The Red to date.

 

Live Shows:

10/22 San Francisco CA - Kilowatt *

10/23 Albany CA - Ivy Room *

10/24 Los Angeles CA - Lodge Room *

10/25 Phoenix AZ - The Rebel Lounge *

10/26 Santa Fe NM Tumbleroot Brewery *

10/31 Seattle WA Clock-Out Lounge

11/1 Vancouver BC Rickshaw Theatre

11/2 Portland OR Mississippi Studios

11/3 Tacoma WA Airport Tavern

*w/ Slim Cessna’s Auto Club

 

“Their sharpest slices of rock to date.” A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed

 

“From one solitary tale to the next, the album contracts into one solid cinematic novel for the ear.” Block The Noise

 

“Kid Congo makes it all work.” BrooklynVegan

 

"Any new material from Kid Congo Powers is worth celebrating." Dusted

 

"Vivacious." Glide

 

"Beautiful sexed-up noir art from unparalleled powerful artists who look like they’re having a damn blast." Ink 19

 

"A release so good, it’s deadly." New Noise Magazine

 

Kid Congo Powers' Some New Kind Of Kick: A Memoir available through Hachette Books

 

Artwork by Ryan Hill 

Blog Instagram Facebook Twitter

 

In The Red Records