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3/31/2019
Tame Impala Perform On SNL, Debut New Song
3/29/2019
Modest Mouse Share "Poison The Well"
MODEST MOUSE SHARE "POISON THE WELL"
A-SIDE FROM RECORD STORE DAY TRIANGLE 7"
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B-SIDE FEATURES BONUS TRACK "I'M STILL HERE"
TOURING WITH BLACK KEYS THIS FALL
(March 29, 2019) Modest Mouse recently announced that they are participating in Record Store Day on April 13th with an exclusive triangle 7" featuring their first new music in over four years. The release includes A-side "Poison The Well" and a bonus for fans, the B-side, "I'm Still Here". Find participating stores HERE.
Today, they've shared the A-side, the fuzz-punk injected "Poison The Well" which is also available on all digital platforms. Listen to "Poison The Well" HERE.
Modest Mouse recently announced a fall tour with The Black Keys, playing arena dates across the U.S. and Canada. See all tour dates below and visit www.modestmouse.com for tickets and more information.
Modest Mouse last release was their 2015 album Strangers To Ourselves, which featured their #1 Alternative radio single "Lampshades on Fire," and was described by the NME as "brilliantly deranged." The band has toured relentlessly since then, proving themselves to be one of the most consistent live acts today. In 2014, the band re-released their first two albums, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About and The Lonesome Crowded West, on CD and vinyl through Brock's Glacial Pace record label. Modest Mouse's current lineup includes Brock, Jeremiah Green, Tom Peloso, Jim Fairchild, Russell Higbee, Lisa Molinaro, Ben Massarella and Davey Brozowski.
(Credit: James Joiner)
Modest Mouse on tour with The Black Keys:
09-23 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
09-24 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center
09-25 St. Louis, MO - Enterprise Center
09-27 Chicago, IL - United Center
09-28 Minneapolis, MN - Target Center
09-30 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena
10-01 Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
10-02 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
10-04 Milwaukee, WI - Fiserv Forum
10-05 Detroit, MI - Little Caesars Arena
10-07 Pittsburgh, PA - PPG Paints Arena
10-08 Grand Rapids, MI - Van Andel Arena
10-09 Toronto, Ontario - Scotiabank Arena
10-11 Boston, MA - TD Garden
10-12 Washington, DC - The Anthem
10-14 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Arena
10-15 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
11-05 Sunrise, FL - BB&T Center
11-06 Orlando, FL - Amway Center
11-08 Raleigh, NC - PNC Arena
11-09 Atlanta, GA - State Farm Arena
11-12 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
11-13 Austin, TX - Frank Erwin Center
11-14 Fort Worth, TX - Dickies Arena
11-16 Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Arena
11-17 San Diego, CA - Pechanga Arena
11-19 Los Angeles, CA - The Forum
11-22 Portland, OR - Moda Center
11-23 Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome
11-24 Vancouver, British Columbia - Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
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Trondheim based Amanda Tenfjord embraces youthful abandon on Lokoy-produced new single 'The Floor Is Lava'
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3/28/2019
THE DRUMS Stream New Album via NPR First Listen - Listen NOW!
THE DRUMS
Stream New Album Brutalism
Brutalism Out April 5th on ANTI-
(Photo Credit: Nicholas Moore)
Early praise for The Drums +
Brutalism:
"...deceptively chipper, yet instantly infectious new song, 'Body Chemistry,' finds a rumbling rush of drums anchored by a thick bass groove, over which Drums mastermind Jonny Pierce laces silky guitars and his inviting croon." - Rolling Stone
"'Body Chemistry' modifies their usual indie surf-rock with a funky bassline and electronic flourishes. The vocal melodies lean into a moody cadence a la of Montreal..." - Stereogum
"'Body Chemistry' applies Pierce's bright, prickly pop style to darker nights of the soul, asking whether lingering sadness is inevitable or if it just feels that way." - SPIN
"Featuring a healthy mix of The Drums' much-loved indie-pop spunk and bright new textures, The Drums sound as musically confident and lyrically woeful as ever." - Paste
"It sounds something like a beautiful panic, a pop song about realizing that you may not be able to resolve your flaws - and that's okay." - Consequence of Sound
"It's a hefty thematic struggle from a band known for sunny, beachside celebration-and it works beautifully" - Cool Hunting
"'Body Chemistry' modifies their usual indie surf-rock with a funky bassline and electronic flourishes. The vocal melodies lean into a moody cadence a la of Montreal..." - Stereogum
"'Body Chemistry' applies Pierce's bright, prickly pop style to darker nights of the soul, asking whether lingering sadness is inevitable or if it just feels that way." - SPIN
"Featuring a healthy mix of The Drums' much-loved indie-pop spunk and bright new textures, The Drums sound as musically confident and lyrically woeful as ever." - Paste
"It sounds something like a beautiful panic, a pop song about realizing that you may not be able to resolve your flaws - and that's okay." - Consequence of Sound
"It's a hefty thematic struggle from a band known for sunny, beachside celebration-and it works beautifully" - Cool Hunting
The Drums will release its fifth album Brutalism via ANTI- next Friday, April 5th, but starting today the record can be heard in its entirety via NPR First Listen. The follow-up to 2017's "Abysmal Thoughts," which marked the band's first release as a solo project from frontman Jonny Pierce, Brutalism is quite possibly the best collection of songs in the band's ten-year career. Listen to the album now via NPR Music, who say "With Brutalism, The Drums' sound feels bigger than it's ever been." Pre-order Brutalism before it's out next week HERE.
Tomorrow The Drums will perform a stripped-down set for Billboard at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. Tune in HERE to watch when it goes live.
Tomorrow The Drums will perform a stripped-down set for Billboard at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET. Tune in HERE to watch when it goes live.
The Drums will celebrate the release of Brutalism with a massive North American tour starting next month, including two sold-out intimate release shows in Los Angeles next week. See below to find a show near you, and get your tickets for the upcoming tour HERE.
Like Jonny Pierce, who co-produced the album, Brutalism is a bicoastal record - written and recorded between Upstate New York and a studio in Stinson Beach. Following a painful divorce and an incredibly difficult stint living solely in Los Angeles, Pierce decided it was time to face his demons, and the making of this record is a part of that process. "I was exhausted, depleted and sabotaging myself, partying so much but in reality running away from pain. It was a downward spiral." Pierce knew it was time to go to therapy, and begin to reckon with his depression. "It was do or die," he says. While he focused on his mental health, the making of Brutalism became an extension of self-care for Pierce, and makes for some of his most honest and relatable music to date.
On Brutalism, a lot is different. The album is defined by growth, transformation and questions, but it doesn't provide all the answers. It's rooted in an emotional rawness, but its layers are soft, intricate and warm, full of exquisitely crafted pop songs that blast sunlight and high energy in the face of anxiety, solitude and crippling self-doubt. Pierce was more open than ever, keeping his control freakery at bay while working with others to produce and record the album. He brought in Chris Coady (Beach House, Future Islands, Amen Dunes) to mix it. If there was a guitar part he wanted to write but couldn't play, he brought in a guitarist. It's also the first Drums record with a live drummer. Delegating freed up Pierce's time to produce a more specific vision.
The past year has been transformative for Pierce, who may a permanent rain cloud above his head but is working towards a better, healthier headspace. "I don't think I'll ever really find myself," he says. "I don't think people do. I don't think there's a day that you wake up and you go, Now I know who I am. The best way for me to be an artist is by taking a goddamn minute, being still and listening to what it is that I want and need." It was a real year of growth for him, but growth towards what? "I don't really know, and that's OK."
Tracklisting
1.) Pretty Cloud
2.) Body Chemistry
3.) 626 Bedford Avenue
4.) Brutalism
5.) Loner
6.) I Wanna Go Back
7.) Kiss It Away
8.) Nervous
9.) Blip Of Joy
Tour dates
4/02/19 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction **SOLD OUT**
4/03/19 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction **SOLD OUT**
4/04/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Amoeba
4/24/19 - Santa Ana, CA @ La Santa **SOLD OUT**
4/26/19 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace
4/27/19 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
4/29/19 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
4/30/19 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
5/01/19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
5/02/19 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theater
5/03/19 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
5/04/19 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
5/07/19 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge **SOLD OUT**
5/08/19 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
5/09/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at The Fillmore
5/10/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
5/11/19 - Washington, D.C. @ The Black Cat
5/13/19 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
5/14/19 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
5/15/19 - Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
5/16/19 - Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theater
5/17/19 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
5/18/19 - Tampa Bay, FL @ The Orpheum
5/20/19 - Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
5/21/19 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)
5/22/19 - Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
5/23/19 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
7/25/19 - San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
7/26/19 - San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
7/27/19 - Los Angeles, CA @ Palladium
7/30/19 - San Diego, CA @ North Park
7/31/19 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
8/01/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren
8/02/19 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
8/03/19 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird
8/06/19 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
8/07/19 - Vancouver, BC @ Imperial
8/08/19 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Sigur Rós announce Ágætis byrjun 20th Anniversary Edition
Sigur Rós announce Ágætis byrjun - A Good Beginning - 20th Anniversary Edition to be released June 21, 2019 via Krunk Records
Listen to "Flugufrelsarinn (Live at Íslenska Óperan)":
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7 x LP Limited Edition Deluxe Box set
incl. 3 x LP Rarities & Demos
+ 2 x LP Live Íslenska Óperan 1999
+ 84-page hardback book
in linen-bound box
First 1999 copies numbered
Exclusive to www.sigurros.com
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+ 4 x CD Expanded Edition
+ 2 x Original LP w. download
Available in store and www.sigurros.com
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Available to pre-order now: www.sigurros.com
"The last great record of the last millennium" - Q, 2000
"The first vital band of the 21st century" -Pitchfork, 1999
Twenty years ago a band came seemingly out of nowhere to deliver a record that "filled a deep-seated need listeners didn't even know they had" (re: Pitchfork's "Best Albums of the 00s"). The band was Sigur Rós and the record Ágætis byrjun, and to mark its 20th birthday this June, the band will release a definitive box set of this, their breakthrough album. The lavishly packaged, limited edition, seven vinyl album set will include early versions and demos of the songs on the record, as well as never before heard songs that for the first time draw a line back to early influences which would soon become undetectable in the rootless beauty of the finished article.
There is also an immaculate recording of the concert the band played at the Íslenska Óperan (Icelandic Opera House) on June 12, 1999 to celebrate the release of a record that would soon send them around the world on word-of-mouth; a pre-internet phenomenon. Live at Íslenska Óperan 1999 has been painstakingly mixed for the 20th anniversary edition by the band's Kjartan Sveinsson with Birgir Birgisson, who made the original recording of the event. The 90-minute show has not been heard in full since it was broadcast live on RAS 2 radio all those years ago. In a note of poignancy, the show at the Íslenska Óperan would be the last original drummer Águst Gunnarsson would play with his fellow bandmates, vocalist/guitarist Jón Thor Birgisson, bassist Georg Holm and keyboard player Kjartan Sveinsson, who himself had only officially joined the band the year before.
The Demos & Rarities and early live recordings, which stretch across six sides of vinyl, have been pulled together from the band's own personal archive and include many recordings they had forgotten existed. They ended up trawling through every cassette, DAT and other defunct audio storage system to unearth parallel versions of no fewer than eight of the nine songs on Ágætis byrjun*. Together these form a remarkable store of abandoned ideas, blind alleys, and could-have-beens.
Across the first two LPs of Demos & Rarities there are guide vocal versions of "Svefn-g-englar" and "Ágætis byrjun", an original speed version of "Staralfur", "Vidrar vel til loftarasa" with alternative massively extended string-laden ending, "Olsen Olsen" with an oboe; each a snapshot of a band trying things out and about to find their feet in a spectacular way. The third album of Demos & Rarities goes into the uncharted waters of early demos for the record, with songs so nascent that they don't yet have titles. Hugmynd 1, 2 and 3 reveal surprising, previously unseen facets of the band's development. Alongside these and the early b-side "Rafmagnið búið", is the long sought after "Debata Mandire", on which Jónsi and Kjartan duet in keening falsettos, before, as Kjartan says in the extensive sleeve notes, his "bad habits" robbed him of the ability to sing that high. In some cases the only source of this material might be a single, unlabelled cassette and, as a result, glitches need to be taken as part of the patina of age.
The deluxe vinyl box set also comes with an 84-page cloth-bound book, featuring a plethora of visual content drawn from the Sigur Rós archive (aka an overstuffed case in Kjartan's studio). Handwritten string arrangements, lost artwork ideas and early 'business cards', are seen alongside candid images of the band at the moment just before their lives changed. The whole is housed in an elegant linen-bound box, available exclusively thru the band's website www.sigurros.com. The first 1999 copies will be numbered. All the musical content available in the deluxe vinyl edition is mirrored in the expanded 4 x CD edition, and is included in the double vinyl version as a download code. The 4xCD and 2xLP will be available in all good record stores from June 21, 2019.
Sigur Rós photo by Björg Jóna Sveins
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1999 Deluxe 7 x LP numbered limited edition:
3 x LP - Demos and Rarities (109 minutes):
Side A
Svefn-g-englar (Live at Popp í Reykjavík, 1998)
Starálfur (Original speed version)
Side B
Flugufrelsarinn (1998 Demo)
Ný batterí (Instrumental)
Side C
Hjartað hamast (bamm bamm bamm) (1995 Demo)
Viðrar vel til loftárása (Alternative ending)
Side D
Olsen Olsen (1998 Demo)
Ágætis byrjun (1998 Demo)
Side E
Hugmynd 1 (1998 Demo)
Hugmynd 2 (1998 Demo)
Hugmynd 3 (1998 Demo)
Side F
Debata mandire (Live at Laugardashöll, 1999)
Rafmagnið búið (From Ný batterí EP, 2000)
2 x LP - Live Íslenska Óperan 1999 (95 minutes):
Side A
Intro
Von
Syndir Guðs
Side B
Flugufresarinn
Olsen Olsen
Ágætis byrjun
Side C
Viðrar vel til loftárása
Svefn-g-englar
Ný batterí
Side D
Nýja lagið
Hafssól
2 x LP - Original album
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4 x CD:
1 x Rarities / 2 x Live Íslenska Óperan 1999 + Rarities / 1 x Original album
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2 x LP:
Original album + download code of Demos and Rarities + Live Íslenska Óperan 1999
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"One final question comes to mind: Is there any other music like this?" Pitchfork #8 Best Albums of the 00s
*There is no alternative version of "Intro" and, as all good Sigur Rós watchers know, "Avalon" is a quarter-speed version of "Starálfur" and, as such, no prior versions exist.
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