JOEL GION (vinyl lp + 7'') / FEDERALE

JOEL GION (vinyl lp + 7'') / FEDERALE

JOEL GION - Apple Bonkers [advanced release] (vinyl album)

JOEL GION - Overthrow (7'' single)

FEDERALE - The Blood Flowed Like Wine - CD (cd album)

Tijuana Panthers share new video

TIJUANA PANTHERS SHARE NEW VIDEO VIA THE FADER LAUNCH TOUR WITH FUCKED UP NEXT WEEK WAYNE INTEREST OUT NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE

After releasing their third album, Wayne Interest, via Innovative Leisure last month and heading out on a European tour, Tijuana Panthers are back today to share the new music video for their single, "Nobo." Next week the band starts a west coast tour with Toronto hardcore outfit Fucked Up. Since 2010 their debut, Max Baker, the Panthers have steadily become SoCal underground legends playing both packed backyard parties and sold out concert halls along the way. For their forthcoming album, Tijuana Panthers collaborated with producer Richard Swift (The Shins, Foxygen). Wayne Interest will be available on June 3rd via Innovative Leisure. Check out the "Nobo" video, the Fucked Up tour dates, more information about the album below.  WATCH: "Nobo" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHtBmIe-aHw    TOUR DATES: 8/15 - Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC * 8/16 - Neumos - Seattle, WA * 8/17 - Bunk Bar - Portland, OR + 8/19 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA* 8/20 - The Garage - Ventura, CA * 8/21 - El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA * 8/22 - Glasshouse - Pomona, CA * 8/23 - Casbah - San Diego, CA * * w/ Fucked Up +w/ Taco Cat    About Tijuana Panthers and Wayne Interest: Live and on record, the Tijuana Panthers are a great band. You could say garage, punk or surf while describing their sound, but they're harder to pin than that. The truth is that they write classic songs that don't depend on tropes from any genre. They craft perfect pop and deliver it with energy and immediacy. However, the real magic of this band is in their weirdness. Behind their picturesque portraits of daily life is an aching despair. This subtle contrast creates an eerie tension between the ideal, the real and the surreal. You suddenly realize they're not the happy-go-lucky beach boys you tried to pin them as, but more akin to sexually frustrated soda jerks in a David Lynch film. And this all makes sense with the fact that they come from Southern California's shadier city of Long Beach, not exactly the fun in the sun that California dream- ers might expect. For Wayne Interest, the Panthers team up with producer Richard Swift. The recordings took place at Swift's studio in Oregon where the band decidedly took risks in performance and production. The risks paid off. With Swift's direction and upgrade in fidelity, Wayne Interest sounds just as compelling in headphones as it would at a house party in East LA. It also gives the listener a closer look at the idiosyncrasies of the Tijuana Panthers, only making it clearer that there's something off about these creeps. Their weirdness, or bold- ness to be whoever they may be, is what makes this band great. It's a rare quality. The more you listen to the Tijuana Panthers the more you wonder about them.

Wampire announces new LP + shares first single

WAMPIRE ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM BAZAAR DUE OCTOBER 7TH VIA POLYVINYL SHARES FIRST SINGLE "WIZARD STAFF" VIA STEREOGUM

Wampire photo by Andy De Santis

LISTEN: "Wizard Staff" -  https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/wampire-wizard-staff-1 Following the release of their debut album Curiosity in 2013, Wampire went from a duo most accustomed to playing house parties around their hometown of Portland to a five-piece band performing in venues all over the world with groups such as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Foxygen, and Smith Westerns. That 12-month span saw Wampire play more shows in more cities, countries, and continents than in all their previous years together combined -- a nearly non-stop barrage of new and memorable experiences that, above all else, forced the band members to become more fully immersed in music than at any other time in their lives. As a result, when founding members and primary songwriters Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps returned home at the tail end of the year, they immediately dove into the process of working on a new album in order to capitalize on the creative energy that had been steadily amassing during their days, weeks, and months on the road. Says Phipps of that moment in time, "I holed up in a tiny room within a friend's warehouse and began knocking out as many different songs as I could. I tried not to look back, just wanting to explore everything I could possibly create. I started to feel like I was becoming a Kafka-esque insomniac musical novelist at one point." The reference to the German writer is an apt one for a band that has always imbued its disarmingly off-kilter pop with tinges of paranoia and surrealism (both lyrically and musically), but even more fitting is the title of Wampire's new record: Bazaar. Like the tantalizing blend of exotic treasures and captivating sensations its namesake suggests,Bazaar continually offers listeners a variety of unexpected and alluring sonic flavors over the course of its nine tracks -- ranging from raucous riffs ("Bad Attitude") to seductive sax ("Wizard Staff") to charmingly catchy choruses ("The Amazing Heart Attack"). As with their previous full-length Curiosity, Wampire recorded Bazaar with trusted producer Jacob Portrait (of Unknown Mortal Orchestra), though this time around the sessions took place at The Museum, a studio in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, and were done directly to tape. Far from home once again, Tinder and Phipps used the city to their advantage -- writing lyrics on the 40-minute bus ride to and from their temporary residence in Bed-Stuy and rushing to a shop down the street to buy a guitar -- one that looked and felt like it had been buried in dust for decades and had just the right analog sound -- as their allotted studio time was winding down. Another important change was the addition of touring drummer Thomas Hoganson to the recording and songwriting process. Though Tinder and Phipps had previously sought to minimize distractions in the studio by just working with each other, Hoganson's diverse musical abilities (in addition to drums, he also plays piano and saxophone on Bazaar) made him an ideal collaborator.  And so, after a year spent in vans and on planes, in European clubs, Australian beaches, and everywhere in between, Wampire emerged with more confidence, a stronger vision, and what is undeniably their best batch of songs to date. For evidence of this, check out the album's first single "Wizard Staff" above now and see below for all of the band's upcoming tour dates, including a September run with Temples. Bazaar will be available on CD, LP (Polyvinyl e-store limited edition of 300 on 180-gram clear purple, black), cassette and digitally.   Tour Dates 08/22 Rock Creek, BC (CAN) - Ponderosa Arts & Music Festival 09/19 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom 09/20 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre 09/21 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater 09/22 Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst Atrium 09/24 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 09/25 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda 09/26 Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse 09/27 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern 09/29 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom 10/01 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre 09/19 - 10/01 with Temples    Wampire Bazaar (Polyvinyl) 10/07/14 1. The Amazing Heart Attack 2. Bad Attitude 3. Fly on the Wall 4. Wizard Staff 5. Too Stoned 6. Millennials 7. Sticking Out 8. Life of Luxury 9. People of Earth

Peter Matthew Bauer Announces Fall Tour With Delta Spirit

Peter Matthew Bauer Announces Fall Tour 

With War On Drugs + Delta Spirit

Debut LP Liberation Out Now On Mexican Summer

Stream Liberation On Brooklyn Vegan

Listen To Latin "American Ficciones" On Pitchfork

Listen To "Philadelphia Raga" On SPIN

Tour Dates:

10/02 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg#

10/03 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #

10/04 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer#

10/07 - Boston , MA - Paradise Rock Club#

10/09 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace#

10/11 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre#

10/12 - St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room*

10/13 - Nashville, TN - Marathon Music Works*

10/15 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel*

10/16 - Atlanta, GA - The Tabernacle*
# w/ Delta Spirit

* w/ The War On Drugs

About Peter Matthew Bauer:

Peter Matthew Bauer is a rock & roll singer and musician with a debut record called "Liberation!" out everywhere now on Mexican Summer and Memphis Industries. It's been called a "cult classic in waiting" by UNCUT magazine and has been universally embraced in the press. As an album, Bauer uses Liberation! as an opportunity to welcome the rest of the world into his personal history of a childhood spent living in ashrams, and a life shaped by the constant presence of religion and mythology amidst uncertainty. What Peter has learned, and what he imparts both on the title track and across the eleven songs that make up Liberation!, is a riot of experiential notions. "Liberation, as the idea of the record, relates to belief in its various incarnations. In a way I'm trying to poke fun at it; this Western idea of heaven, this Eastern idea that it will take a hundred lifetimes, or a thousand lifetimes to get somewhere better. You can be mad about these things, but you can also arrive at some sort of strange, joyful experience right now without believing anything."

At whatever level you choose to listen, the record stands proudly on its own, a roundabout life story couched in a dynamic blend of soulful balladry, folk-tinged meditations, and full-bore rock & roll. Written and realized in Utrecht during a bout of insomniac wanderlust, a song like "Latin American Ficciones," the album's first single, could take on any number of interpretations, with lyrics that become more descriptively vicious by turns as its two-chord riff grows in intensity, all dimed amps and deafening mantra. The first song on the record, "I Was Born In An Ashram," addresses his teenage years, summers spent in an Ashram in upstate New York, set to a shambolic percussion, acoustic guitar, and choral background vocals, which culminate in a spiritual euphoria. "After awhile, a lot of unsavory business rose up around the ashram. So some of the songs relate to that, these whispers you'd hear as a teenager, of all these dark shadows and characters hanging around. I think it's very unusual that all this negative stuff arises, and yet, so many of these people are having these very strange, authentic spiritual experiences," Peter recalls. "That's the sort of energy I was trying to get at - that paradox, which as you investigate it more, really seems to make more and more sense. Life is jubilant and joyous even through the shadows."  Album closer "You Are The Chapel" builds off a heart-soaring piano melody, skipping across an even wider array of life lived, from conversations about Richard Dawkins and genetics with strangers in the Basque countryside, to the absurdity of lad behavior from inside the facilities at a Savages concert in Leeds, to the life of a shoeless French hippie in Barcelona.

The constant changes in scenery that inspired Peter Bauer to write this record highlight a greater truth about the songs on Liberation! - that they exist on multiple levels, they take on meanings other than their intention the moment they left the studio, joined by what he's phrased in the record's finale as "the mystery of of it all." Conceived largely on a sojourn all across Europe, Liberation! was recorded at a factory space in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia with friends Quentin Stoltzfus, Christopher Colbert, Matt Oliver, and Matthew Barrick taking part in the recording and mixing. All of this work accounts for Liberation's saturated, homemade feel, as Peter's music fuses a wide swath of influences and technique into an assured, anthemic statement in the palette of rock 'n' roll. Liberation! is the soundtrack of one man's journey inside himself, in preparation for the rest of the world to follow.

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The Raveonettes: Free Download, Stereogum Video & More !

THE RAVEONETTES SURPRISE FANS AND RELEASE NEW ALBUM

ON DAY OF RELEASE

   

STEREOGUM PREMIERES OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR SINGLE

ENDLESS SLEEPER

NEW SONG SISTERS NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD       

PITCHFORK, NPR, Q MAGAZINE AND USA TODAY RELEASE NEW MUSIC

     

The Raveonettes are thrilled with the response to the surprise release of their new albumPe'ahi - announced and released last Tuesday, July 22^nd.

Through a series of premieres, fans were introduced to the duo's new album which NPRstyles "The ocean serene, the sharks below: That's the contrast of noise and melody they do so well."

Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner are now offering fans a free download of new song "Sisters." All one has to do is visit www.theraveonettes.com

Stereogum continues to spread the news and is now premiering the official video for single "Endless Sleeper." Watch here:  

http://www.stereogum.com/1695193/the-raveonettes-endless-sleeper-video-nsfw-stereogum-premiere/video/   

Listen and watch a bunch of the new album below:

Pitchfork

http://pitchfork.com/news/55977-the-raveonettes-release-new-album-peahi-share-endless-sleeper-and-sisters/

NPR

http://www.npr.org/event/music/331456583/the-raveonettes-killer-in-the-streets

Q Magazine

http://www.qthemusic.com/3831/guest-column-the-raveonettes-guide-to-new-album-peahi/

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/07/24/premiere-the-raveonettes-share-bond-with-sisters/13055353/

Stay tuned for more news!

Tour Dates:

September 22^nd           Bimbo's                        San Francisco, CA

September 23^rd            Observatory                San Diego, CA

September 24^th            El Rey                            Los Angeles, CA

September 26^th            Double Door                Chicago, IL

September 27^th            Mid Point Festival       Cincinnati, OH

September 29^th            Music Hall of Williamsburg    Brooklyn, NY

September 30^th            Music Hall of Williamsburg    Brooklyn, NY

October 1^st                    The Black Cat                 Washington, DC

October 28^th                Wuk                              Vienna, Austria

October 29^th                    Močvara                       Zagreb, Croatia

October 30^th                    Salzhaus                        Winterthur, Switzerland

October 31^st                     Covo Club                     Bologna, Italy

November 1^st               Magnolia                      Milan, Italy

November 3^rd              Music Hall                     Barcelona, Spain

November 4^th              Sala Arena                     Madrid, Spain

November 5^th              Barbey Rockscholl        Bordeaux, France

November 6^th              Cabaret Sauvage          Paris, France

November 7^th              Heaven                           London, UK

December 11^th            Vega                                Copenhagen, Denmark

December 13th           Train                                Aarhus, Denmark

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SWANS west coast tour 2014

Swans have commenced the fourth leg of  a year-long world-wide tour celebrating the release of their 2 CD set To Be Kind, the third studio album from this outfit since their reactivation by band primum mobile Michael Gira in 2010 after a 14 year hiatus. The touring line-up is: Michael Gira - guitar, voice (original Swans); Norman Westberg - guitar (original Swans); Christoph Hahn - guitar (mid period Swans and most Angels Of Light); Phil Puleo - drums, percussion, dulcimer etc etc (final Swans tour and most Angels); Chris Pravdica - bass and gadgets (Flux Information Sciences / Services/ Gunga Din); Thor Harris - drums, percussion, vibes, dulcimer, curios, keys, etc etc... (Angels / Shearwater).  I'm hoping you'll consider advancing this show with a feature, CD review or advance blurb.  Do let me know if you need the music.

     To Be Kind was produced by Michael Gira, performed by the touring line-up,  recorded by the venerable John Congleton at Sonic Ranch, outside El Paso Texas; further recordings and mixing were accomplished at Congleton's studio in Dallas, Texas. Gira says of the new album, "A good portion of the material for this album was developed live during the Swans tours of 2012/13. Much of the music was otherwise conjured in the studio environment." The album debuted at #37 on Billboard's Top 200 sales chart and has garnered a huge amount of ecstatic coverage from a host of impressive outlets:

     Swans' grand new album, "To Be Kind," is a career-defining work that few could have expected from a 30-plus-year project considered by many to be well past its peak. At 122 minutes, it's as long as a movie and as densely heavy as a Richard Serra sculpture.

     Defying easy categorization, "To Be Kind" is a rock album, but it's not something to be taken lightly. Brash, polarizing, fearless and filled with a purity of vision that would make Col. Kurtz blanch, the work features mountains of guitars and beats made with boulders, brass, laser-gun noises, guest vocals from Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) and a sprawling vision...Randall Roberts/Los Angeles Times

...To Be Kind harnesses Swans' crushing volume, pulverizing repetition and lacerating waves of feedback - all those conventionally aggro signifiers - to show us that love can be as vast and voracious as the void, and the void as welcoming as a lover's embrace. They are one and the same.... Phillip Sherbourne/Spin.com

... As it plays out, To Be Kind starts to resemble a cult procession unto itself, a mesmerizing spectacle of an omnipotent band whose sound continues to expand in scope and ranks swell in size...Stuart Berman/Pitchfork.com

 Michael Gira founded the seminal NYC band Swans in 1982. Quickly infamous for their punishing, brutal and repetitive onslaughts of sound, extreme volume levels, and the self-abusing, abject shouts and growls of Gira's sloganeering vocals, Swans gradually transformed over 15 years, ultimately venturing into harsh mechanical proto-industrial rock, to sprawling shifts of texture and perspective  (see the bucolic atmospheric folk idles and martial stomps of their much heralded Children of God double LP from 1987), to gentle acoustic-based songs, and finally on to their ultimate statement, Soundtracks For The Blind (1997) which somehow incorporated all of these elements at once, across well over 2 hours of music in one album. At this point, Gira called it quits after 15 years of relentless touring and productivity, and disbanded Swans.  He went on to release his music under the name Angels Of Light on a long series of critically acclaimed albums. He also produced and released music through his label Young God Records and was responsible for finding and nurturing such notable talents as Devendra Banhart, Lisa Germano, Akron/Family, and James Blackshaw. In 2010, he reactivated Swans, releasing My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky to ecstatic critical response and touring the world for the better part of a year.  The Seer, a 2 CD set came out in 2012 and was celebrated by a year-long tour as well, both the album and live shows eliciting still more media praise, the album placing nicely on Billboard's Top 200 Sales Chart.

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SWANS North American Tour Dates 2014

9/1 Salt Lake City @ Urban Lounge +
9/2 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre +
9/4 Seattle, WA @ Showbox +
9/5 Vancouver, BA @ The Venue +
9/6 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater +
9/8 San Francisco, CA @ Independent +
9/9 San Francisco, CA @ Independent +
9/10 Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre +
9/11 Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theatre +
9/13 Hudson, NY @ Basilica Soundscape

(Carla Bozulich  support on September dates)

Foxygen tour dates 2014

WEST COAST TOUR

31 Jul 2014 Neumos         Seattle, WA

01 Aug 2014 Pickathon       Happy Valley, OR

03 Aug 2014 Pickathon       Happy Valley, OR

04 Aug 2014 Lagunitas Brewing      Petaluma, CA

06 Aug 2014 Henry Miller Library   Big Sur, CA

07 Aug 2014 Gundlach Bundschu      Sonoma, CA

08 Aug 2014 Cellar Door       Visalia, CA

12 Aug 2014 Brooklyn Bowl       Las Vegas, NV

13 Aug 2014 Belly Up Tavern       Solana Beach, CA

14 Aug 2014 The Fonda Theatre      Los Angeles, CA

15 Aug 2014 The Observatory       Santa Ana, CA

16 Aug 2014 Pappy & Harriet's      Pioneertown, CA

EAST COAST TOUR + The South

24 Sep 2014 Crescent Ballroom      Phoenix, AZ

25 Sep 2014 Skylight       Santa Fe, NM

27 Sep 2014 INDEX Festival       Dallas, TX

28 Sep 2014 Fitzgerald's       Houston, TX

29 Sep 2014 One Eyed Jacks       New Orleans, LA

01 Oct 2014 The Loft - Atlanta     Atlanta, GA

02 Oct 2014 Exit/In               Nashville, TN

03 Oct 2014 The Orange Peel       Asheville, NC

04 Oct 2014 Jefferson Theater      Charlottesville, VA

05 Oct 2014 9:30 Club       Washington, DC

08 Oct 2014 MH of Williamsburg     Brooklyn, NY

09 Oct 2014 Webster Hall       New York, NY

10 Oct 2014 Union Transfer       Philadelphia, PA

11 Oct 2014 Paradise Rock Club     Boston, MA

12 Oct 2014 Le National       Montreal, QC

14 Oct 2014 The Mod Club       Toronto, ON

15 Oct 2014 Crofoot Ballroom       Pontiac, MI

16 Oct 2014 Lincoln Hall       Chicago, IL

17 Oct 2014 Lincoln Hall       Chicago, IL

18 Oct 2014 Fine Line Music Cafe   Minneapolis, MN

20 Oct 2014 Bluebird Theater       Denver, CO

21 Oct 2014 Urban Lounge       Salt Lake City, UT

09 Nov 2014 Fun Fun Fun Fest       Austin, TX

...And Star Power:

01 Star Power Airlines

02 How Can You Really

03 Coulda Been My Love

04 Cosmic Vibrations

05 You & I

06 Star Power I: Overture

07 Star Power II: Star Power Nite

08 Star Power III: What Are We Good For

09 Star Power IV: Ooh Ooh

10 I Don't Have Anything/The Gate

11. Mattress Warehouse 

12 666 

13 Flowers 

14 Wally’s Farm 

15 Cannibal Holocaust 

16 Hot Summer 

17 Cold Winter/Freedom 

18 Can’t Contextualize My Mind 

19 Brooklyn Police Station 

20 The Game 

21 Freedom II 

22 Talk

23 Everyone Needs Love 

24 Hang

Roni Size Announces New Solo EP and Album

Roni Size to Release New Solo EP & Album in August via His New Label Mansion Sounds & Announces Return of Reprazent in 2015

 

 
New York, NY – Groundbreaking British drum’n’bass pioneer Roni Size announced earlier this month that he will be releasing a new solo album Take Kontrol on August 25^th via his new label Mansion Sounds.  The 16 track album is his first in nearly a decade and will be preceded by a six track EP on August 18^th entitled Size Matters – featuring all carefully selected tracks from the forthcoming new album.  The music onTake Kontrol and Size Matters focuses purely on “dancefloor cuts for the heads,” with Size reprising his role as a producer/DJ away from the live environment he’s explored with Reprazent.  Size has also revealed that Reprazent will return later this year, with a new album set for release in early 2015.
 
On July 7^th Size premiered his first new track from the upcoming pair of releases – “Made in Korea” – with MixMag in the UK who called it “…a fierce and ferocious roller that's sure to please the old school d'n'b heads” and you can check it out exclusively here:  http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive-music/prem-roni-size.  Other new tracks that have surfaced thus far include “Final Day” – played by Annie Mac on herBBC Radio 1 show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0495c2b – and “Power,” which found its way on the UKF Drum & Bass Channel on July 16^th and you can listen to in its entirety here: http://ukf.com/video/roni-size-power/.
  
In addition, Size is giving away a free track “Bite The Bullet (2014 remix)” to fans who sign up for his new mailing list via Facebook here and you can also sign up directly on the new site www.ronisize.net, the first stop for news on new releases, mixes, live dates and exclusive content.  
 
Size, who is now based out of London’s Metropolis Studios and splits his time between the capital and his native Bristol, is excited to be launching his new label Mansion Sounds with his first new album in ten years and said, “When I hear this music I hear a MANSION of possibilities. This is just the start of better things to come.”

In addition to the standard 16 track CD/digital album release of Take Kontrol, there will be an iTunes deluxe version that features 25 tracks and an exclusive DJ mix from Roni. Further details on Take Kontrol and Reprazent will be released soon.
 

iTunes Buy Links:
EP: https://itunes.apple.com/album/size-matters-ep/id895827468?ls=1
Standard album: https://itunes.apple.com/album/take-kontrol/id895830301
Deluxe album: https://itunes.apple.com/album/take-kontrol-deluxe/id895866143?ls=1

 
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Agnes Obel's "Doran" to Radio, HBO's "The Leftovers"

AGNES OBEL'S "DORIAN" HEADS TO RADIO IN TIME FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES "PASS THEM BY" TO BE FEATURED ON HBO'S "THE LEFTOVERS" "[She blends] pop melodies with classical precision and an air of elegance bordering on art songs."  -- Boston Globe

LOS ANGELES, CA - (Tuesday, July 29, 2014) - In support of her upcoming North American tour, "Dorian," from Agnes Obel's critically-acclaimed second album Aventine (Play It Again Sam/[PIAS] America) goes to radio this week, accompanied by the stunning music video for the song.  According to one reviewer, "Dorian" is "light and delicate, soaring and a touch wistful, and beautiful enough to inspire belief, even in the least religious."  Aventine has been certified Platinum in France and Gold in Belgium. Click HERE for "Dorian." The "Dorian" video clip is comprised of visuals from pioneering filmmaker Maya Deren's 1958 black and white short "The Very Eye of Night," that features students from the Metropolitan Ballet Company.  Deren, a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of the 1940's and 1950's avant-garde period.  Also in conjunction with Obel's upcoming North American trek, Aventine's "Pass Them By" will be featured in an upcoming episode of HBO's new series "The Leftovers," now boasting eight million viewers across all platforms.  Since its October 2013 release, numerous songs from Aventine have been featured on network TV programs including The CW's "Reign," "Star-Crossed," and "The Originals," ABC's "Betrayal," NBC's "Parenthood," and ABC Family's "Ravenswood," and "Pretty Little Liars." Obel's North American trek kicks off August 12 in Philadelphia; the full itinerary is below. AUGUST 12   World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA 13   9:30 Club, Washington, D.C. 14   Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY OCTOBER 30   Dakota, Minneapolis, MN NOVEMBER  1   Park West, Chicago, IL  2   Opera House, Stoughton, WI  4   Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, ON  5   Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, ON  7   Iron House, Northampton, MA 10   Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 11   Olympia, Montreal, QC 13   Palais Montcalm, Quebec, QC

The Unicorns' 'Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?' Reissue

The Unicorns’ Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? 

Digital Reissue Out Today (Purchase via iTunes)

CDs (Out 8/26) & Limited-Edition Vinyl (Out 10/7) Available for Pre-Order

Live Dates w/ Arcade Fire Kick Off This Friday

With their reunion shows just around the corner, The Unicorns have released a digital reissue of 2003’s Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?. Out today via iTunes & other digital retailers, the remastered album contains four bonus tracks (see below for full track listing.) 

The reissue will be released on CD on August 26th and on limited-edition vinyl on October 7th. All physical formats are now available for pre-order. Both the digital and physical reissues are being released on the band’s own Caterpillar Records, via Redeye Distribution.

The Unicorns’ live dates with Arcade Fire kick off this Friday, with two nights at The Forum in LA (8/1 & 8/2) and three nights at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center (8/22-8/24.) The band will also perform live at POP Montreal on 9/21. All six reuinion shows will feature the band’s full lineup from 2003-04: Nick Thorburn, Alden Penner, and Jamie Thompson. 

Live Dates:

* w/ Arcade Fire & Dan Deacon

^ w/ Television

8/1: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*

8/2: Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum*

8/22: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*

8/23:  Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*

8/24: Brooklyn, NY @ Barclay’s Center*^

9/21: POP Montreal - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis Theatre (Tickets)