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LA Duo Howls to Release new song "White Noise"

Los Angeles Duo Howls to Release New Single “White Noise”

On Buddyhead Records

Listen: Soundcloud / Bullet Media

 

 

 

Los Angeles’s duo Howls, are set to release their newest single “White Noise”  on Buddyhead Records on February 3^rd. “White Noise” marks a new direction for the band who’s self-titled debut, released last year, was praised by Philthy Magazine as "...the sexiest record of the year." and the Aquarian said “Not only does Howls instill a charmingly magnetic vibe into each song, the duo also mesmerizes listeners with tranquil melodies that channel thrilling emotions.”

 

After wearing many musical hats, Howls were inspired to take their music in a different direction, “because music should be fun sometimes too,” says Howls female half Annalee Fery. Howls debut album was guitar driven brooding electronica, and this newest song was penned with the intention of making people want to dance. This new direction marks a big first for the band. This is the first time they brought in an outside producer, Jon Siebels, to help them capture the sound of “White Noise.”

 

“We’ve always dabbled in different instrumentation in Howls,” says guitarist  Christian Stone. “ White Noise started out as an idea at rehearsal and became a staple of our live show as a guitar-based thing. We tried recording it this way but we weren’t happy with the results at all… So we decided, to experiment, and brought in producer Jon Siebels. He stripped away all the ‘traditional’ instrumentation and really focused on synths and programmed drums instead. Suddenly the song made sense!” 

Despite the new sonic direction, Howls have retained their signature juxtaposed style of a dark and heavy lyrics coated in upbeat and fun melodies with “White Noise.” This song is about compassion, specifically compassion for children in need. “Fortunately my mother raised me to have one of those pathetic hearts.” says Fery “The moment I see someone who's hurting, especially kids, my heart breaks. Being a mother has taught me as well to care for every lost and hurting child.” 

 

 

“White Noise”: https://soundcloud.com/wearehowls/white-noise

 

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INDIGO MUSIC FESTIVAL: this saturday

MELVINS, DEAFHEAVEN, BLONDE REDHEAD, Deerhoof, Moving Units, Kim Gordon, Mike Watt, Youth Code, The Warlocks, Morgan Delt, The Entrance Band & many more this Saturday!

Tickets Here http://observatoryoc.com/event/Indigo-Music-Festival-Day-One

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Legendary Grunge-Punk Troubdours L7 Launch Kickstarter

L7: Pretend We’re Dead
 
Kickstarter Project Launches Today 
Offering Fans Playful & Unique Rewards To Fund 
Documentary Film L7: Pretend We're Dead 
Directed By Sarah Price

Original Line-Up Reunites For Tour!
 
6/19: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain @ Azkena Rock Festival - TICKETS
 6/20: Clisson, France @ Hell Fest - TICKETS

Watch: Reunion Announcement Video

 
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"I like their rebelliousness …it’s about being liberated and calling the shots… I definitely see a lot of us in them… and we’re proud of that."
– Joey Ramone

“Songs like Wargasm, Diet Pill and Shitlist fulfill the ancient prophecy of a time when gurls would reinvent punk out of sheer delight in their own power”
– Robert Christgau

“Our fans couldn’t give a shit if we’re women… we did not set out to be an all girl band. It just happened that way."
– Donita Sparks


 
The infamously fierce, feminist pioneers of American grunge punk have announced a documentary film, directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Sarah Price (American Movie, The Yes Men, Summercamp) Titled L7: Pretend We're Dead, the film takes viewers on an all access journey into the 1990’s grunge movement that took the world by storm and the band that helped define it as the genre of a generation. Today they launch a Kickstarter, offering fans a remarkable array of rewards- including a potential séance with the band- as thanks for helping to fund the project. Go to theKickstarter project HERE to check out the full list and grab them while they are still available.
 
Culled from over 100 hours of vintage home movies taken by the band, never before seen performance footage, and candid interviews, L7: Pretend We're Dead chronicles the early days of the band's formation in 1985 to their height as the 'queens of grunge' and follows a roller coaster ride of triumphs and failures. It offers particularly revelatory insight into the band's eventual dissolution in 2001.
 
The formula: one part Donita’s love of pop and punk and one part Suzi’s hard rock and blues, charged with lyrics that had political bite and humor proved irresistible to the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and the punk. The excitement around the L7: Pretend We're Dead announcement has catalyzed a recently announced and widely anticipated reunion of the band in its original line-up. L7 will kick off a European tour, bringing their high-octane energy and anthemic chops to the stage to ignite audiences once again.
 

TORRES announces new album 'Sprinter' + shares single

TORRES SIGNS TO PARTISAN RECORDS
FOR MAY 5 (US) / MAY 18 (UK) RELEASE OF SPRINTER
SHARES NEW SINGLE "STRANGE HELLOS"

ANNOUNCES SPRING TOUR DATES
INCLUDING SXSW AND PRIMAVERA SOUND

LISTEN: "Strange Hellos" via Pitchfork or Soundcloud

"Mackenzie Scott's voice conveys raw, urgent desperation, the sort we flinch from instinctually and are attuned, on a primal level, to heed." -Pitchfork (8.1 review for debut album) 

"Sprinter finds Mackenzie Scott pushing against the starkness of her 2013 self-titled debut into noisier, vicious rock without losing any of her razor-sharp songwriting." -Stereogum
"Minimalist songs and blistering anthems would fit seamlessly on a playlist alongside PJ Harvey, Cat Power and Emmylou Harris." -TIME Magazine (15 Artists To Watch in 2015)

TORRES knows the darkness. The Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter otherwise known as Mackenzie Scott waits until anything-an idea, an emotion, a memory-gnaws at her, tearing at her fingers and throat until she releases it in song. Her husky voice strains against its human biological constraints like a wild-eyed horse, whispering desperately "Don't give up on me just yet" on one end and yowling about jealousy with unnerving intensity on the other. Following her self-titled debut in 2013, TORRES pushes herself to even noisier extremes on Sprinter, a punishing self-examination of epic spiritual and musical proportions.

  

"There's so much I want to sing, but there's no room for toothbrushes in poetry," Scott murmurs in a resilient quaver while barely fingering the strings of her guitar on "The Exchange," the final song and the heart of her second album. "That was the one that brewed the longest in my subconscious before I wrote it," says Scott. "It was just a tough one, no getting around it." The reason is right there in the beginning: she sings of her adopted mother losing her biological mother twice-once at birth and again when she discovered her adoption papers had been lost in a basement flood.

  

A keen awareness of Scott's place in her family and in the world suffuses Sprinter, contributing to themes of alienation throughout. "You're just a firstborn feeling left behind," she sings on the ominously brewing "Son, You Are No Island," which references one of Scott's influences on this record: English poet John Donne's 1624 poem "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Scott's tortured wailing circles spirals downward around itself, reflecting in a dark mirror the feelings of an adopted child.

  

"Whether it be abandonment, or fear of rejection, or perhaps inability to connect with people, comes down to that fear of isolation, of not being good enough," she says. "Those are themes that have cropped up in my personal life, in my writing, and my mom can definitely understand that herself."

  

But Scott escaped the confines of her churning mind in order to find herself by recording Sprinter in the market town of Bridport in Dorset, England; and then at the Bristol studio of Portishead's Adrian Utley. With his guitar riffs and synthesizers lingering in the background like a lowland mist and PJ Harvey's Robert Ellis and Ian Olliver on rhythm-the two fortuitously reuniting 23 years after the release of Dry, and in Scott's 23rd year of living-she crafted a "space cowboy" record. "That's as simply as I can say it," says Scott, who cites inspirations as diverse as Funkadelic and Nirvana, Ray Bradbury and Joan Didion. "I wanted something that very clearly stemmed from my Southern conservative roots but that sounded futuristic and space-y at the same time."

  

It seems like an odd thing to look for in the picturesque seaside green, rolling hills in the south of England, but Scott had never been there before, and as a stranger in a strange land she found what she was looking for: a lost childhood. Sprinter was recorded in a room that had formerly been used as a children's nursery, which combined with the alien landscape fuels the self-searching that roils TORRES' music. "Cowboy Guilt" perfectly encapsulates the contrast of Deep South conservatism with future sounds, juxtaposing George W. Bush parodies with wearing one's Sunday best, bouncing on a mechanically whimsical melody.

  

After all, it was Scott's Baptist upbringing 4,000 miles away in Macon, GA that gave her a voice in the first place. When her parents gave her an acoustic guitar at age 15, after giving her flute and piano lessons before that, she would sing church hymns at the local nursing home to get over her stage fright. As Scott moved away from organized religion toward something far more real and personal ("I still think of myself as quite God-fearing," she says), she ranged farther from home, to Nashville-where she grappled with her outsider status yet again, faced with an insular music scene as hard to break into as if it were surrounded by England's famous hedgerows-and then to New York, where she finally felt another semblance of being at home.

  

"Nashville was just a bit too small for me," she says. "I don't really like walking down the street and knowing everyone that I see along the way. I was raised in a small town and there are very special things about it, but I don't prefer to live that way. I like the chaos of the city."

  

Tracklisting: 

01. Strange Hellos 

02. New Skin 

03. Son, You Are No Island 

04. A Proper Polish Welcome  

05. Sprinter 

06. Cowboy Guilt 

07. Ferris Wheel 

08. The Harshest Light 

09. The Exchange

Tour Dates:
1/30 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Night Bazaar
3/18-22 - Austin, TX - SXSW
5/6 - Nashville, TN - The Stone Fox
5/8 - Dallas, TX - Club Dada
5/9 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk - inside
5/11 - Scottsdale, AZ - Pub Rock Live
5/12 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
5/13 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
5/15 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
5/16 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
5/17 - Vancouver, BC - Electric Owl
5/20 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
5/21 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle
5/22 - Detroit, MI - UFO Factory
5/23 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
5/31 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Sound

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https://www.youtube.com/user/TORRESlovesyou

Little Dragon + Adult Swim release remix album

LITTLE DRAGON AND ADULT SWIM PRESENT CHOPNOTSLOP REMIX ALBUM BY OG RON C AND DJ CANDLESTICK NABUMA PURPLE RUBBERBAND OUT NOW VIA ADULT SWIM  GRAMMY-NOMINATED NABUMA RUBBERBAND   OUT NOW ON LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS

Today, Adult Swim and Little Dragon are proud to present a ChopNotSlop remix album by Chopstar's OG Ron C and DJ Candlestick. Being fans of the original album, the legendary Chopstars DJ's gave Nabuma Rubberband the Houston "Chopped N' Screwed" remix treatment, which was made famous by the late DJ Screw. Nabuma Purple Rubberband is available now via the Adult Swim website for stream and free download.  LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Little Dragon - Nabuma Purple Rubberband  (ChopNotSlop Remix by OG Ron C & DJ Candlestick of the Chopstars) -  http://www.adultswim.com/music/little-dragon/      Little Dragon Nabuma Rubberband Out Now Loma Vista Recordings Buy: http://smarturl.it/LDNR_iTunes    1. Mirror 2. Klapp Klapp  3. Pretty Girls 4. Underbart 5. Cat Rider 6. Paris 7. Lurad 8. Nabuma Rubberband 9. Only One 10. Killing Me 11. Pink Cloud 12. Let Go

Coachella sideshows including a lot of bands

Hey All,

Hope you are well. We have just announced a number of sideshows surrounding Coachella including -

- Caribou at Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown on April 9th

- Balance and Composure at The Roxy on April 11th

- Desaparecidos w/ Touche Amore & Joyce Manor at The Roxy on April 13th 

- FKA Twigs at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on April 14th
 

- Jenny Lewis at Pappy & Harriet's on Tuesday, April 14th

- Cloud Nothings at The Echo on Tuesday, April 14th 

- The War on Drugs at Pappy & Harriet's on Wednesday, April 15th 

- Chet Faker w/ XXYYXX at Club Nokia on Wednesday, April 15th 

- Jamie XX / Jon Hopkins at Pappy & Harriet's on Thursday, April 16th 

- Hivern Discs (feat. John Talabot, Pional, Marc Pinol) at Pappy & Harriet's (late) on Thursday, April 16th 

- Belle and Sebastian w/ Mac Demarco at the Fox Theater on Thursday, April 16th 

- Interpol w/ Perfume Genius at The Shrine Expo Hall on Thursday, April 16th 

- Mikal Cronin at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock on Friday, May 1st

On sales are spread out between January 29th, February 5th, and February 12th. Complete details at fyfpresents.com & goldenvoice.com or below.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF PSYCHOCANDY VIDEO: "NEVER UNDERSTAND" -  YOUTUBE  "the most notorious band since the Sex Pistols...Some of Psychocandy is beautifully wasted pop; some sounds like being trapped in a wind tunnel full of broken glass and bees; the rest sounds like both happening at once." - Dorian Lynskey, The Observer           "The Jesus and Mary Chain's debut is a decadent alt-rock masterpiece of bubblegum pop - with "Just Like Honey," "My Little Underground" and "Never Understand" - drowned in feedback." - Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time   "Psychocandy was meant to be a kick in the teeth to all of those who stood in our way at the time, which was practically the whole music industry. In 1985 there were a great many people who predicted no more than a six month life span for the Mary Chain." - Jim Reid 30 years on the band return - regularly cited by the media as one of the great rock'n'roll bands and by a raft of new groups as a major influence. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN is now pleased to announce its first full US run of Psychocandy US tour dates, hitting new cities in May 2015. This will be the continuation of a year of activity not only celebrating the 30th anniversary of Psychocandy but also looking firmly ahead to the future.    Tickets on sale Fri. Jan. 30th at 10am PST    TOUR DATES:  05/01 Toronto, ON - Canadian Music Week   05/03 Detroit, MI - St Andrew's Hall 05/05 Chicago, IL - Riviera 05/07 Dallas, TX - The Bomb Factory  05/09 Austin, TX - Levitation / Austin Psych Fest 05/11 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 05/13 Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre 05/14 Seattle, WA - Showbox 05/16 San Francisco, CA - Warfield                                Read/ listen to recent interviews here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n954y    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n96h5   http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/26/jesus-and-mary-chain-psychocandy-live-interview   http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-jesus-and-mary-chain/the-jesus-and-mary-chain-s-william-reid-i-want-to-make-records-and-show-peo

Mikal Cronin returns with MCIII

On May 5, Mikal Cronin will return with MCIII. Marked by the lush arrangements, stunning melodies, and deeply personal lyrical work for which Cronin is now known, the album is also a deliberate attempt to simply “go big.”

As he did on his self-titled 2011 debut and 2013’s MCII, Cronin arranged and played nearly all of the record himself, including the tzouras, a traditional Greek string instrument he heard and subsequently bought while on tour in Athens. There’s French horn, saxophone, and trumpet. There are mood-altering crescendos and heartbreaking turns-of-phrase, guitars both gorgeous and pugnacious. No longer satisfied with the sound of “just one string player,” Cronin arranged parts for a full string quartet instead.

Listen & share “Made My Mind Up” from MCIII now, and pre-order the album at iTunes to receive an instant download of the track. The album is also available for pre-order on CD, LP, and cassette in the Merge store, where the first 500 LP orders will receive the album on clear vinyl. Limited quantities of the clear-vinyl run will also be available in independent stores worldwide on release day.

The Mikal Cronin band have announced tour dates beginning in February with more tour dates to come!

Mikal Cronin on tour:
Feb 21 Schaumburg, IL — Prairie Center for the Arts
Apr 22 San Francisco, CA — The Independent
Apr 24 Portland, OR — Doug Fir Lounge
Apr 25 Seattle, WA — The Tractor
May 1 Los Angeles, CA — Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
May 5 New York, NY — Bowery Ballroom
May 28 Barcelona, ES — PrimaveraSound, Barcelona
May 29 Nimes, FR — This is Not A Love Song Festival
May 31 Paris, FR — Maroquinerie
Jun 1 London, UK — 100 Club
Jun 2 Brussels, BE — Botanique
Jun 5 Ravenna, IT — Beaches Brew Festival
Jun 6 Athens, GR — Plissken Festival
Jun 8 Berlin, DE — Lido
Jun 9 Cologne, DE — Gebaude9
Jun 10 Amsterdam, NL — Bitterzoet

Letter from Joanna Newsom 2003

Noise Pop SF 2003 I would describe as "very mellow." At least the shows that I went to were that way. Although it started off with a pre-party with Har Mar Superstar. It was the first time I saw him, and would lead to many interviews later. I saw Stephen Malkmus, Cat Power, The Dirtbombs, The Von Bondies, The Pleased, Smog, Calexico, and more. It was probably memorable for being one of the first shows by Joanna Newsom. I ended up doing the very first interview with her, a few months afterwards, a year before her album came out.

I wrote Joanna a letter or an email. She sent me two eps and this letter in April 2003. I came back up to SF in June 2003 to do an interview with her.

I did an interview with:
Joanna Newsom (2003)
The Von Bondies (2003)

And later with:
The Pleased (2004)
Har Mar Superstar (2004)
The Dirtbombs (2004)

Letter from Joanna Newsom 2003 Letter from Joanna Newsom 2003

Letter from Joanna Newsom 2003 Letter from Joanna Newsom 2003

wolf alice [LA debut!]

chris douridas (kcrw) + mfg present School Night! Monday Nights at Bardot [CLICK HERE to RSVP for FREE ENTRY] Doors at 8pm / 21+ Free with RSVP / 18+ ok!

Set Times

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8pm ~ Doors
8:30pm ~ Sabila Sabila (LA DEBUT!)
9:30pm ~ Moors
10:30pm ~ Wolf Alice (LA DEBUT!)
11:30pm ~ Beginners

DJ in between live sets ~ Jimmy Tamborello (DNTEL, DUBLAB)

Closing DJ set by ~ AHBS

The Growlers world tour

Hello from Australia! Chinese Fountain World Touring continues…. The Space in Auckland, New Zealand, has been added on Saturday, January 31. Also, just added to the Winter US Tour, an early all ages show at Diabolical Records in Salt Lake City on Feb 20. A few tix remain for the February and March run but thanks to you, the Valentine's Day Palladium show in Hollywood, California, is now sold out! LA, see you in less than one month!!!    So - more California shows have just been added! An all ages show in San Diego on Saturday May 9 at the brand new Observatory North Park and two all ages shows at the historic Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on June 19 and 20.   Lastly, Greece and France have been added in April. The France run includes a debut festival performance at Printempes de Bourges festival. Other festival adds include Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Low Benidorm and Greenroom Festival in Japan!   All current shows are listed below. All shows are on sale now. More to follow!!!     Chinese Fountain  Tour 2015 Click to buy tickets   1.23 Triffid, Brisbane, QLD 1.25 Solbar, Maroochydore, QLD 1.31 The Space, Auckland, NZ   2.11 Club Congress, Tucson, AZ 2.12 Crescent Ballroom, Phoenix, AZ 2.13 Bunkhouse, Las Vegas, NV 2.14 Palladium, Hollywood, CA 2.20 Diabolical Records, SLC, UT 2.20 Urban Lounge, SLC, UT 2.21 Marquis, Denver, CO 2.22 Waiting Room, Omaha, NE 2.24 High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI 2.25 Cactus Club, Milwaukee, WI 2.26 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN 2.27 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 2.28 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL 3.1 The Bishop, Bloomington, IN 3.3 Ottobar, Baltimore, MD 3.4 Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, NY 3.5 Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, NY 3.6 Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, NY 3.7 Baby's All Right, Brooklyn, NY   4.16 Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece 4.17 Principal Club Theatre, Thessaloniki, Greece 4.18 Lab Art, Volos, Greece 4.22 Aeronef Club, Lille, France 4.23 106 Club, Rouen, France 4.24 Sterolux Club, Nantes, France 4.25 Iboat, Bordeaux, France 4.26 Paul B, Massy, France 4.28 Printempes de Bourges, Bourges, France 4.29 La Sirene Club, La Rochelle, France     5.9 Observatory North Park, San Diego, CA 5.24 Greenroom Festival, Yokohama, Japan   6.5 Trees, Dallas, TX 6.6 Wakarusa, Ozark, AR 6.8 One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans, LA 6.9 Terminal West, Atlanta, GA 6.10 New Mountain Theatre, Asheville, NC 6.11 Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN 6.19 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA 6.20 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA   7.24 Low Benidorm Festival, Benidorm, Spain

King Tuff’s “Headbanger” (Official Video) via Funny or Die

Watch: King Tuff’s “Headbanger” (Official Video) via Funny or Die http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/9911 King Tuff’s ‘Black Moon Spell’ available now on CD/LP/DLworldwide from Sub Pop You can now watch “Headbanger,” the hilarious official video from King Tuff via Funny or Die. "Headbanger" stars the band, Steve Jones (Sex Pistols) and plenty of other bands from the bottom of the charts of past and present. Jake Folgenest, who directed the new visual, had this to say: “As soon as I heard the King Tuff album I said, ‘Man I wish could watch a performance of them playing on "Top Of The Pops” in 1975.’ Since it would be impossible for that footage to exist, the next best thing was to call Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols and make it ourselves.” King Tuff adds this: “We made another video for all the shitmonkeys of the world to enjoy (see Funny or Die January 21st)” King Tuff’s 2015 tour is currently underway, with a show tonight January 21st in at Charlotte, NC at The Neighborhood Theatre and has been extended through April 20th in Tempe, AZ at Marquee.  Along the way, he’ll play shows with Ex Hex (January 21st-24th) and Father John Misty (March 25th-April 19th). Please find an updated list of tour dates below. Black Moon Spell, featuring the highlights “Eyes of the Muse,” “Headbanger,” and the title track, was produced & mixed by Bobby Harlow at Studio B in Los Angeles, CA, with the exception of  “I Love You Ugly” and “Radiation,” which were produced by King Tuff. Black Moon Spell is available now through theSub Pop Mega Mart,  iTunes and Amazon. What people are saying about King Tuff & Black Moon Spell: “Thomas wins the 2014 glam-rock revival, plain and simple; Black Moon Spell is loaded with sterling examples of the genre from front-to-back.” [First Listen] - NPR Music “Los Angeles-based singer-guitarist Kyle Thomas turns his love for Black Sabbath-style metal and T. Rex-style glam into exuberantly scuzzed-out-neo-Seventies guitar rock…But the real treat is his musical showmanship and the grimy guitars, especially on songs like the sweetly lascivious “Sick Mind.” He transforms his heroes’ black magic into debauched fun.” - Rolling Stone “Crunchy riffs, sugary power-pop harmonies and a general beatific dudeness… Your fantasy coast-to-coast road trip will be poorer without this." - The Guardian A scuzzy mix of garage rock and power pop, it's catnip for radio DJs in the spirit of The Who and Big Star. King Tuff is a he, not a band: Kyle Thomas has made three records as King Tuff, and the new one is called Black Moon Spell. "Eyes of the Muse" is an irresistible blast of guitar-driven pop with wild-man, Keith Moon-esque drum parts. ["Heavy Rotation" via "Morning Edition"] - NPR “Thomas is a master craftsman with pedigree and Black Moon Spell is scuzzy, wired and bulging with Marc Bolan vocals, riffs Jimmy Page forgot to stick on a Zeppelin album and a bunch of outrageously catchy choruses. Big fun." - NME “Kyle Thomas' King Tuff returns fiercer than ever with his take on psychedelia and classic rock, with generous doses of headbanging, humour and sentimentality. Black Moon Spell is an impressively diverse album, from the ballad "Staircase of Diamonds" and slick greaser tune "Eddie's Song" to the pared down acoustic "Ugly" and Ramones-y "Sick Mind.” [8/10, Review] - Exclaim! “If the self-titled record was the test to see what exactly King Tuff was capable of, Black Moon Spell is the streamlining of those results, adjusting them to achieve maximum impact. If you found the replay value of King Tuff to be pretty high, this one’s going to raise the bar.” - Passion of the Weiss "Heading straight back into the studio with a mission to freak the fuck out, what emerges is sheer, primordial garage rock ooze. Unrelenting from the off, Black Moon Spell is visceral rock 'n' roll, all blood, sweat, tears and outrageous riffs.” - Clash "Black Moon Spell is defined by cataclysmic, thrashing crescendos and the kind of grubby riff that tends to be found in Jack White’s “DON’T OPEN: TOP SECRET” drawer.” “His most impressive bit of songwriting yet.” - DIY “Kyle Thomas has made noise with a lot of different bands: Happy Birthday, Feathers, Witch. But he really hit his artistic stride when he renamed himself King Tuff and started knocking out snotty, scabby, attitudinally glammed-out garage rock. King Tuff’s new album Black Moon Spell... rips and snorts and kicks and struts.” STEREOGUM Now, with Black Moon Spell, Thomas seizes that amphetamine groove and launches it into a glittering explosion. It’s an album whose fiber is built on the smoky cigarette haze of a dimly lit dive bar — best served with whiskey and a raucous crowd. Even through charges of distortion and screeching, fuzzed-out guitar, the hooks are catchy as hell, churning out infectiously sunny waves and sharply angled guitars. Thomas’ energy is palpable, and his magnetism smacks of the nervy core of late ’70s rock. -Consequence of Sound "For his latest concoction, Sub Pop slack-rocker King Tuff has filled his broiling, metaphorical cauldron to the brim with incantatory snarls about “witches’ brew”, searing guitar solos and bucketloads of blood, ‘hot winter’ sweat and so on, with the outcome an intoxicating potion of big ol’ glam-rock proportions.” -Dots & Dashes "King Tuff is the epitome of American Rock, he is larger than life with huge riffs and even crazier lyrics." -Louder Than War “From the moment Black Moon Spell surges into life through shudderingly distorted, powerful guitar riffs and hauntingly aggressive vocals, it’s clear that Tuff means business.” - Crack Magazine “Fourteen songs packed full of sex, classic rock references, parties, teenage rebellion, weirdness and downright stupidity… Black Moon Spell is one hell of a ride.” - London in Stereo Tour Dates Jan. 21 - Charlotte, NC- Neighborhood Theater  * Jan. 22 - Athens, GA -  40 Watt * Jan. 23 - Birmingham, Al - The Bottletree * Jan. 24 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone Cafe  * Jan. 27 - Denver, Co  Larimer Lounge Jan. 30 - Bunkhouse Saloon - Las Vegas, NV Mar. 18 - Austin, TX - SXSW Mar. 25 - Nashville, TN  - Marathon Music Works ** Mar. 26 - Atlanta, GA  - Variety Playhouse ** Mar. 27 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel ** Mar. 28 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ** Mar. 31 - Boston, MA - Paradise ** Apr. 01 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer ** Apr. 03 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre ** Apr. 04 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue ** Apr. 07 - Lawrence, KS - Granada Theater ** Apr. 08 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room** Apr. 14 - San Diego, CA - North Park Theatre** Apr. 16 - San Francisco, CA - The FIllmore ** Apr. 20 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee ** * w/ Ex Hex ** w/Father John Misty