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12/29/2015
12/28/2015
Some more best records of 2015
Best of 2015 list
Adele "25"
Arca "Mutant"
Beach House "Thank Your Lucky Stars"
Brian Jonestown Massacre "Mini Album Thingy Wingy
Björk "Vulnicura"
Bully "Feels Like"
The Chills "Silver Bullets"
Destroyer "Poison Season"
Drinks "Hermits on Holdays"
Dungen "Allas Sack"
Eagles of Death Metal "Zipper Down"
Erykah Badu "You Caint Use My Phone"
The Fall "Sub-Lingual Tablet"
FFS "FFS"
FKA Twigs "M3LL155X"
Fuzz "II"
Gliss "Pale Reflections"
Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress"
Health "Death Magic"
Hinds "Burger"
Jacco Gardner "Hypnophobia"
JennyLee "Right On"
Kurt Vile "Believe I'm Going Down"
La Luz "Weirdo Shrine"
Lilies on Mars "AGO"
LoneLady "Hinterland"
Loop "Array EP"
Miya Folick "Strange Darling"
No Joy "More Faithful"
Ought "Sun Coming Down"
The Pop Group "Citizen Zombie"
Protomartyr "The Agent Intellect"
Ringo Deathstarr "Pure Mood"
Sexwitch "Sexwitch"
Sharkmuffin "Chartreuse"
Shopping "Why Choose"
Sufjan Stevens "Carrie & Lowell"
Sunflower Bean "I Hear Voices"
Sun Kil Moon "Universal Themes"
Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe "I Declare Nothing"
Ty Segall "Ty Rex"
Ultimate Paintings "Green Lane"
Thayer Sarrano "Shaky"
Wand "1000 Days"
Wand "Golem"
Wilco "Star Wars"
William Basinski "Cascade"
12/25/2015
SHOWS 2015
SHOWS 2015
Jan 3rd: Foxygen @ Roxy
Jan 7th: The Dictators @ Alex’s Bar
Jan 21st: Blonde Redhead + Warlocks @ Indigo Music
Feb 8th: Zola Jesus @ Constellation Room
Feb 11th: Warlocks @ Bootleg
Feb 13th: Jessica Pratt @ Origami
Feb 13th: Springtime Carnivore @ Roxy
Feb 13th: Lily and Madeleine @ Troubadour
Feb 13th: 100 Waters @ El Rey
Feb 14th: Sparks @ ACE Theater
Feb 24th: Black Ryder + Hype Williams @ Rickshaw
Feb 25th: Jessica Pratt @ Chapel
Feb 26th: Church @ Chapel
Feb 26th: Eleanor Friedburger @ Brick Mortar
Feb 27th: No Joy + Vanish @ Bottom of the Hill
Mar 3rd: Dante Elephante @ Continental
Mar 5th: Swervedriver @ Roxy
Mar 7th: Dead Meadow + Warlocks @ Bootleg
Mar 12th: 254 + Honeyblood @ Echo
Mar 20th: Trampled By Turtles @ Observatory (20)
Mar 21st: Lovely Bad Things @ LAB
Mar 22nd: Moon Duo @ Observatory
Mar 24th: Gang of Four @ El Rey
Mar 27th: Hinds + Colleen Green @ Echo
Mar 28th: Black Angels + Gang of Four @ Burgerama
Mar 29th: Ty Segall + Ariel Pink @ Burgerama
April 1st: IBEYI @ Hollywood Forever
April 1st: David Lynch @ ACE
April 2nd: Mourn @ Echo
April 3rd: Kitten + Mirror Talk @ Troubadour (30)
April 7th: Nick Cave + Beth Orton @ Ace Theater
April 9th: Warlocks @ Los Globos
April 10th: White Fence @ Natural History Museum
April 14th: RIDE @ Fox Pomona
April 14th: RAC @ Glasshouse
April 15th: The Cribs @ Constellation Room
April 15th: Squarepusher @ Observatory
April 16th: Swans @ Constellation Room
April 24th: Rain Parade @ Echoplex
April 24th: Fuzz @ El Rey (40)
April 25th: Faith No More @ Observatory
April 26th: Colleen Green + La Sera @ KXLU Fest
April 26th: Nikki Lane @ Roxy
April 29th: The Soft Moon @ Constellation Room
April 30th: Sleater Kinney @ Palladium
May 1st: Tennis @ Troubadour
May 3rd: Lightning Bolt @ Echoplex
May 4th: Lightning Bolt @ Constellation Room
May 6th: JSBX @ Observatory
May 8th: Purity Ring @ Fonda (50)
May 9th: Melted + Aquadolls @ Constellation Room
May 13th: Joel Gion + Levitation Room @ Observatory
May 15th: Fat White Family @ Troubadour
May 16th: Dead Meadow @ Psycho California
May 16th: Fat White Family @ Wayfarer
May 18th: Wolf Alice + Gateway Drugs @ Roxy
May 21st: Hiatus Kayote @ Constellation Room
May 22nd: Bryan Adams @ Verizon
May 29th: Neutral Milk Hotel @ Observatory
May 30th: Wire @ Echoplex (60)
June 5th: Palma Violets @ Teragram
June 6th: Abigails + Levitation Room @ East End Block Party
June 7th: Todd Rundgren @ House of Blues anaheim
June 10th: Warlocks + Blood Candy @ Wayfarer
June 13th: Warlocks + Magic Wands @ Bootleg
June 15th: Blood Candy @ Echoplex
June 15th: Pins + Queen Kwong @ Echo
June 20th: Brian Wilson @ Greek
June 29th: Jacco Gardner + Calvin Love @ Wayfarer
July 9th: Smashing Pumpkins + Marilyn Manson @ Irvine Meadows (70)
July 10th: X + The Blasters @ Observatory
July 15th: The Garden + The Rooms @ Wayfarer
July 29th: Spandau Balllet @ OC Fair
Aug 7th: Echo and The Bunnymen @ OC Fair
Aug 13th: JAMC + Cold Cave @ Glasshouse
Aug 19th: JAMC + APTBS @ Fonda
Aug 21st: Black Ryder @ Independent
Aug 28th: Black Ryder + Vacant Lots @ Roxy
Sept 5th: Cat Power + Julie Ruin @ Burger-A-Go-Go
Oct 24th: Grimes @ Beach Goth (80)
Oct 25th: Die Antwoord @ Beach Goth 4
Nov 4th: Of Montreal + Diane Coffee @ Regent
Nov 29th: PIL @ Fonda
Dec 1st: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Great American
Dec 2nd: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Great American
Dec 7th: Beach House @ Observatory
Dec 11th: Thayer Serrano @ Analog Café PDX
Dec 12th: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Crystal Ballroom
Dec 18th: Shuggie Otis + Gary Wilson @ Dirty Laundry
Jan 3rd: Foxygen @ Roxy
Jan 7th: The Dictators @ Alex’s Bar
Jan 21st: Blonde Redhead + Warlocks @ Indigo Music
Feb 8th: Zola Jesus @ Constellation Room
Feb 11th: Warlocks @ Bootleg
Feb 13th: Jessica Pratt @ Origami
Feb 13th: Springtime Carnivore @ Roxy
Feb 13th: Lily and Madeleine @ Troubadour
Feb 13th: 100 Waters @ El Rey
Feb 14th: Sparks @ ACE Theater
Feb 24th: Black Ryder + Hype Williams @ Rickshaw
Feb 25th: Jessica Pratt @ Chapel
Feb 26th: Church @ Chapel
Feb 26th: Eleanor Friedburger @ Brick Mortar
Feb 27th: No Joy + Vanish @ Bottom of the Hill
Mar 3rd: Dante Elephante @ Continental
Mar 5th: Swervedriver @ Roxy
Mar 7th: Dead Meadow + Warlocks @ Bootleg
Mar 12th: 254 + Honeyblood @ Echo
Mar 20th: Trampled By Turtles @ Observatory (20)
Mar 21st: Lovely Bad Things @ LAB
Mar 22nd: Moon Duo @ Observatory
Mar 24th: Gang of Four @ El Rey
Mar 27th: Hinds + Colleen Green @ Echo
Mar 28th: Black Angels + Gang of Four @ Burgerama
Mar 29th: Ty Segall + Ariel Pink @ Burgerama
April 1st: IBEYI @ Hollywood Forever
April 1st: David Lynch @ ACE
April 2nd: Mourn @ Echo
April 3rd: Kitten + Mirror Talk @ Troubadour (30)
April 7th: Nick Cave + Beth Orton @ Ace Theater
April 9th: Warlocks @ Los Globos
April 10th: White Fence @ Natural History Museum
April 14th: RIDE @ Fox Pomona
April 14th: RAC @ Glasshouse
April 15th: The Cribs @ Constellation Room
April 15th: Squarepusher @ Observatory
April 16th: Swans @ Constellation Room
April 24th: Rain Parade @ Echoplex
April 24th: Fuzz @ El Rey (40)
April 25th: Faith No More @ Observatory
April 26th: Colleen Green + La Sera @ KXLU Fest
April 26th: Nikki Lane @ Roxy
April 29th: The Soft Moon @ Constellation Room
April 30th: Sleater Kinney @ Palladium
May 1st: Tennis @ Troubadour
May 3rd: Lightning Bolt @ Echoplex
May 4th: Lightning Bolt @ Constellation Room
May 6th: JSBX @ Observatory
May 8th: Purity Ring @ Fonda (50)
May 9th: Melted + Aquadolls @ Constellation Room
May 13th: Joel Gion + Levitation Room @ Observatory
May 15th: Fat White Family @ Troubadour
May 16th: Dead Meadow @ Psycho California
May 16th: Fat White Family @ Wayfarer
May 18th: Wolf Alice + Gateway Drugs @ Roxy
May 21st: Hiatus Kayote @ Constellation Room
May 22nd: Bryan Adams @ Verizon
May 29th: Neutral Milk Hotel @ Observatory
May 30th: Wire @ Echoplex (60)
June 5th: Palma Violets @ Teragram
June 6th: Abigails + Levitation Room @ East End Block Party
June 7th: Todd Rundgren @ House of Blues anaheim
June 10th: Warlocks + Blood Candy @ Wayfarer
June 13th: Warlocks + Magic Wands @ Bootleg
June 15th: Blood Candy @ Echoplex
June 15th: Pins + Queen Kwong @ Echo
June 20th: Brian Wilson @ Greek
June 29th: Jacco Gardner + Calvin Love @ Wayfarer
July 9th: Smashing Pumpkins + Marilyn Manson @ Irvine Meadows (70)
July 10th: X + The Blasters @ Observatory
July 15th: The Garden + The Rooms @ Wayfarer
July 29th: Spandau Balllet @ OC Fair
Aug 7th: Echo and The Bunnymen @ OC Fair
Aug 13th: JAMC + Cold Cave @ Glasshouse
Aug 19th: JAMC + APTBS @ Fonda
Aug 21st: Black Ryder @ Independent
Aug 28th: Black Ryder + Vacant Lots @ Roxy
Sept 5th: Cat Power + Julie Ruin @ Burger-A-Go-Go
Oct 24th: Grimes @ Beach Goth (80)
Oct 25th: Die Antwoord @ Beach Goth 4
Nov 4th: Of Montreal + Diane Coffee @ Regent
Nov 29th: PIL @ Fonda
Dec 1st: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Great American
Dec 2nd: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Great American
Dec 7th: Beach House @ Observatory
Dec 11th: Thayer Serrano @ Analog Café PDX
Dec 12th: Dandy Warhols + Miranda Richards @ Crystal Ballroom
Dec 18th: Shuggie Otis + Gary Wilson @ Dirty Laundry
12/24/2015
Brian Jonestown Massacre announce US tour dates 2016
Brian Jonestown Massacre announce US tour dates 2016
APRIL
Fri 29 Levitation Festival Austin TX
May
Sun 1 One Eye Jack's New Orleans LA
Mon 2 Mercy Lounge Nashville TN
Tue 3 Newport Music Hall Columbus OH
Wed 4 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland OH
Thu 5 9.30 Club Washington DC
Fri 6 Union Transfer Philadelphia PA
Sat 7 Paradise Rock Club Boston MA
Mon 9 Webster Hall New York NY
Tue 10 Le Tulipe Montreal Canada
Thu 12 Danforth Music Hall Toronto Canada
Fri 13 Metro Chicago IL
Sat 14 First Avenue Minneapolis MN
Sun 15 The Waiting Room Omaha NE
Tue 17 Bluebird Theatre Denver CO
Wed 18 The Depot SLC UT
Thu 19 Top Hat Lounge Missoula MT
Fri 20 Starlight Ballroom Edmonton Canada
Sat 21 Republik Niteclub Calgary Canada
Mon 23 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver Canada
Tue 24 Neumo's Seattle WA
Wed 25 Wonder Ballroom Portland OR
Fri 27 The Independent San Francisco CA
Sat 28 The Independent San Francisco CA
Sun 29 Teragram Ballroom Los Angeles CA
12/22/2015
GANG OF FOUR LIVE ALBUM - Pre-order now and claim exclusive memorabilia
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12/18/2015
HINDS Release "San Diego" Video
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12/17/2015
Violent Femmes return with first new album in more than 15 years
VIOLENT FEMMES
CAN DO ANYTHING
LEGENDARY AMERICAN BAND RETURNS
WITH FIRST NEW ALBUM IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS
10-TRACK COLLECTION INCLUDES NEW CLASSICS LIKE "MEMORY" AND "ISSUES"
EPIC WORLD TOUR TO BE ANNOUNCED
WE CAN DO ANYTHING ARRIVES AT LAST ON FRIDAY, MARCH 4TH
(New York, NY) - Violent Femmes have announced details of their eagerly awaited new LP. WE CAN DO ANYTHING arrives via [PIAS] on Friday, March 4th.
Violent Femmes' ninth studio album and first full-length collection in more than 15 years, WE CAN DO ANYTHING is among the most provocative and playful in the legendary trio's remarkable canon. As the album's title makes plain, the band - singer/songwriter/guitarist Gordon Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and drummer Brian Viglione - remains as intrepid and fearless as ever before, traversing genre and emotion via their immediately identifiable, still utterly idiosyncratic, mash of rambunctious folk, minimalist punk, cubist blues, cosmic jazz, and backwoods rock 'n' roll.
Produced by Jeff Hamilton - a longtime member of the Horns of Dilemma, Violent Femmes' ever-evolving cabal of multi-instrumentalist backing musicians - and mixed by the legendary John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Dinosaur, Jr.), WE CAN DO ANYTHING was recorded in studios in Brooklyn, Nashville, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Denver, while on tour during the summer of 2015. The album's cover image was drawn by Barenaked Ladies' Kevin Hearn, who also contributed accordion, guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals on several recordings. Rounding out the live touring band and members of The Horns of Dilemma are John Sparrow and Blaise Garza who has been playing with the band since he was 14 years old.
Gano gathered the album's material by diving headlong into his own voluminous archives, listening to ancient cassette demos and leafing through old journals in search of suitable songs. Among his finds were such new classics as the murderous "Big Car" and the fractured fairy tale, "I Could Be Anything," Of the album's more recent songs, "Foothills" and "Holy Ghost" were both penned with the team of Sam Hollander and Dave Katz (Train, Joe Cocker), while "Issues" - co-written by Gano with Hollander and Better Than Ezra's Kevin Griffin (Christina Perri, Howie Day) - stands out as vintage Violent Femmes, as lyrically cutting as it is musically kinetic. Penned by Gano's big sister, gifted folk singer/songwriter/artist Cynthia Gayneau, "What You Really Mean," the album's sole cover, might as well be an original composition, hewing remarkably close to the frontman's own sonic sensibility and lyrical heart. Colored by explosive arrangements that veer on a dime from hard charging stomp to intimate melancholy, WE CAN DO ANYTHING is Violent Femmes at their very finest - joyous, exciting, and eternal.
Violent Femmes will celebrate WE CAN DO ANYTHING with a full-scale North American headline tour. Complete details will be unveiled soon - for up to the minute news and information, please seewww.vfemmes.com/tour.
WE CAN DO ANYTHING arrives hot on the heels of Violent Femmes' acclaimed 2015 EP, HAPPY NEW YEAR. Recorded in Ritchie's adopted home of Hobart, Tasmania as the band prepared for a sold out New Year's Eve 2014 concert at the world famous Sydney Opera House, the EP is highlighted by "Love Love Love Love Love" and "Good For/At Nothing" both of which are accompanied by animated companion videos streaming now at the band's official YouTube channel. HAPPY NEW YEAR is available now on the iTunes Store and other online retailers.
One of the most beloved bands of the golden age of indie rock, Violent Femmes returned to action in 2013 with an acclaimed performance at Coachella, their first live appearance in several years. Drummer Brian Viglione (The Dresden Dolls, Nine Inch Nails) came aboard in 2013. The Violent Femmes embarked on a wide-ranging tour that included headline dates and ecstatically received festival sets around the world. The Guardian applauded their London show as "a triumphant rampage through their back catalogue," declaring the band's self-titled 1983 debut to be "a cult classic of teenage alienation - a sneerier, post-pubescent Catcher in the Rye, if you like, with added nocturnal emissions and rattling acoustic bass solos."
Violent Femmes came together in 1981 and were quickly ranked among the era's most inventive and original, constantly pushing forward with their singular blend of folk and punk, sarcasm and spirituality. The trio released eight studio albums and more than a dozen singles, among them such iconic classics as "American Music," "Gone Daddy Gone," "Nightmares, "Add It Up," "Kiss Off" and of course, "Blister In The Sun." Violent Femmes' remarkable three-decade career earned them cumulative sales in excess of 10 million worldwide, with 1983's VIOLENT FEMMES earning RIAA platinum certification eight years after its initial release.
With the turn of the millennium, Violent Femmes began a long hiatus from the studio, only coming together in 2009 to record a cover of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," returning the favor after the psychedelic soul duo's cover of "Gone Daddy Gone" proved a worldwide smash.
For more, please see www.vfemmes.com and www.facebook.com/officialviolentfemmes.
12/16/2015
12/15/2015
SUNFLOWER BEAN - New Music Video & New U.S. Tour Dates via Noisey!
PREMIERE "WALL WATCHER" VIDEO VIA NOISEY
& ANNOUNCE INITIAL U.S. TOUR DATES
Debut Album Human Ceremony Out February 5th via Fat Possum
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Praise for Sunflower Bean + "Wall Watcher":
"The music is both restrained and aggressive...but like a lot of great rock'n'roll, it's also catchy, compelling, and concise." - Pitchfork
"Another killer track...one of the band's best songs to date." - The FADER
"Guitars fade in and out, bending like a black hole pulling in metal riffs and spitting them out into a psychedelic universe on the other side." - Consequence of Sound
"It sounds massive - and it's proof that it's time to start taking Sunflower Bean seriously." - NME
Sunflower Bean will release their utterly brilliant debut album Human Ceremony early next year, and today they unveil a killer music video for the first single, "Wall Watcher." The driving track was released last month to praise from Pitchfork, The FADER, Consequence of Sound, Brooklyn Vegan and many more, and now it receives an equally striking visual from Roger Sargent about the daunting passing of time as expressed in the single (Where did the time go?/Gets faster as we go/I feel it all around.) Shot in an old buckle factory in London, the video for "Wall Watcher" is premiering via Noisey now. PRESS HERE to watch.
Sunflower Bean - who are known internationally for their exhilarating live shows - also announce today their first batch of U.S. tour dates in support of Human Ceremony. See below to find newly added dates, in addition to their hometown release show at Bowery Ballroom on February 25thand their return to Austin for SXSW 2016. PRESS HERE for tickets.
Human Ceremonywill be released on February 5th via Fat Possum. Drawing inspiration from a vast pool of influences such as Black Sabbath and The Cure, Sunflower Bean have crafted an album that is a potent, heady mix of swirling indie pop, urgent, fuzzed-out guitar bliss, and girl/boy sugar-spun vocal melodies that delivers a modern-day spin on classic rock & roll. Having gotten their start in the DIY New York scene, Sunflower Bean quickly accelerated into one of the foremost up-and-coming bands nationally and overseas over the last few months. Following the release of their singular EP earlier this year, and a 7-inch vinyl this Summer, Sunflower Bean played over 100 shows in one year between the U.S. and Europe, opening for the likes of DIIV, Best Coast, and Wolf Alice, and delivering show-stopping sets at CMJ, SXSW and UK's Great Escape festival. Now, Sunflower Bean are set to deliver one of the best debuts you will hear in 2016
Sunflower Bean are: Jacob Faber [drums], Julia Cumming [vocals/bass], and Nick Kivlen[vocals/guitars].
International Tour Dates (US Dates in BOLD)
2/2/16 Bristol, UK @ Louisiana
2/3/16 Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
2/6/16 Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up Du Label
2/8/16 Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
2/9/16 Berlin, GR @ Berghain Kantine
2/10/16 Hamburg, GR @ Molotov Bar
2/12/16 Brussels, BE @ Botanique
2/13/16 Lille, GR @ LA Peniche
2/15/16 Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete's
2/16/16 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
2/18/16 London, UK @ The Dome
2/19/16 Brighton, UK @ Bleach
2/25/16 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
2/26/16 Hanover, NH @ Bones Gate Fraternity
2/27/16 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Club Upstairs
2/28/16 Montreal, QC @ Quasi Des Brumes
3/1/16 Toronto, ON @ Smiling Buddha
3/2/16 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Café +
3/3/16 Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern +
3/4/16 Lakewood, OH @ Mahall's 20 Lanes +
3/6/16 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie +
3/10/16 Washington D.C. @ Black Cat *
3/15-3/20/16 Austin, TX @ SXSW 2016
* w/ Mass Gothic
+ w/ Honduras
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