MOON DUO @ Venue Wednesday Nov 27th 2019

All photos taken in Vancouver by BEV DAVIES

Best Records of 2019 / PORTABLE INFINITE 50

BEST RECORDS of 2019

WEYES BLOOD

KING GIZZARD

BILLIE EILISH

Weyes Blood “Titanic Rising”

The Comet Is Coming “Trust In The Lifeforce of The Deep Mystery”

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard “Infest The Rats’ Nest”

Sharon Van Etten “Remember Me Tomorrow”

Vampire Weekend “Father of The Bride”

Psychedelic Porn Crumpets “And Now For The Whatchamacallit”

Mac Demarco “Here Comes The Cowboy”

Billie Eilish “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”

Amyl and The Sniffers “Amyl and The Sniffers”

Cate Le Bon “Reward”

THE CHROMATICS

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX

CLAIRO

Chromatics “Closer To Grey”

Clairo “Immunity”

Cigarettes After Sex “Cry”

Chai “Punk”

Diane Coffee “Internet Arms”

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Ghosteen”

Ty Segall “First Taste”

Fontaines DC “Dogrel”

Better Oblivion Community Center “Better Oblivion Community Center”

Yola “Walk Through Fire”

Jessica Pratt “Quiet Signs”

Mattiel “Satis Factory”

Floating Points “Crush”

Pip Blom “Boat”

Ezra Collective “You Can’t Steal My Joy”

Julia Jacklin “Crushing”

Carly Rae Jepsen “Dedicated”

William Basinski “On Time Out Of Time”

Swevedriver “Future Ruins”

Ladytron “Ladytron”

TY SEGALL

CHERRY GLAZERR

FIDLAR

White Denim “Side Effects”

Cherry Glazerr “Stuffed & Ready”

Fidlar “Almost Free”

White Fence “I Have To Feed Larry’s Hawk”

The Coathangers “The Devil You Know”

Ex Hex “It’s Real”

The Drums “Brutalism”

Honeyblood “In Plain Sight”

Foxygen “Seeing Other People”

Bedouine “Bird Songs of a Killjoy”

Black Midi “Schlegenheim”

Angel Olsen “All Mirrors”

Nilufer Yanya “Miss Universe”

JPEGMAFIA “All My Heroes Are Cornballs”

Bat For Lashes “Lost Girls”

Jenny Hval “The Practice of Love”

Pharmakon “Devour”

Lightning Bolt “Sonic Citadel”

Devendra Banhart “Ma”

Ride “This Is Not A Safe Place”

Photos by Bradley Dupray and Bev Davies.

Faith No More Return, First European Performances in Five Years

	FAITH NO MORE RETURN TO THE ROAD FOR FIRST EUROPEAN PERFORMANCES IN FIVE YEARS

Photo credit: Jimmy Hubbard

	Nov. 26, 2019, SAN FRANCISCO – Faith No More return to the road next Summer, announcing what will be the band’s first European performances in five years: Hellfest (June 20), Sunstroke (June 13) and Tons of Rock (June 26), with more European festival performances to be announced soon. “Five years, four colonoscopies, two root canals and a handful of prostate exams tell us that it’s time to carpe diem our asses back to Europe asap,” said the band, collectively. Faith No More last played in Europe in June of 2015, following the May 2015 release of Sol Invictus (Ipecac/Reclamation Recordings). The collection debuted atop the international sales charts: #2 in Australia, #4 in Germany, and #6 in both the U.S. and UK. Rolling Stone dubbed the 10-song album “triumphant, the New Yorker called it “a reminder of everything that made Faith No More great in the first place,” and the Los Angeles Times said, “Faith No More has a history of defying expectations, and that’s what it’s doing again with Sol Invictus.” Faith No More is Mike Bordin (drums), Roddy Bottum (keyboards), Bill Gould (bass), Jon Hudson (guitar), and Mike Patton (vocals). The San Francisco-born, platinum-selling band have released seven studio albums: We Care A Lot (1985), Introduce Yourself (1987), The Real Thing (1989), Angel Dust (1992), King For A Day… Fool For A Lifetime (1995), Album of the Year (1997) and Sol Invictus (2015). # # # www.fnm.com facebook.com/faithnomore Instagram.com/faithnomore Twitter.com./faithnomore

Listen to Theresa Wayman of Warpaint & Carla Azar of Autolux on new St. Francis Hotel single

Theresa Wayman of Warpaint & Carla Azar of Autolux
team up with St. Francis Hotel on "The Truth is Dead"
OUT NOW VIA 30TH CENTURY RECORDS

 

 

November 25, 2019 -- In anticipation of 30th Century Volume 2, the Danger Mouse helmed label is releasing "The Truth is Dead", a new single from acclaimed Irish duo St. Francis Hotel featuring vocals from Theresa Wayman of Warpaint & written with Carla Azar of Autolux.

"A paranoid groove, that echoes and creeks like old floorboards" - FLAUNT

"The Truth Is Dead" follows the duo’s critically acclaimed single "Liar, Liar, Liar (feat. Gaz Coombes)" and is the latest to be taken from their upcoming debut album We Fall Together (Jan 2020), which includes collaborations with Portugal. The Man, Max Rad, and Waterstrider, with more names to be announced. As producers, St Francis Hotel recent production / collaborations include Michael Kiwanuka, Arcade Fire’s Regine Chassagne, and Art School Girlfriend.

“The track's title is probably pretty self-explanatory as to what it’s about. It feels like the kind of song that could only be written now. If you put the four of us in a room together four years ago, we probably couldn’t have conceived this song. Hopefully in a year’s time people won’t need to write songs with titles like ’The Truth Is Dead’”.

In addition to "The Truth is Dead" 30th Century Volume 2 also contains “Ninjarous" the previously unreleased Danger Mouse / Sparklehorse / MF Doom collaboration, highlights from the label’s 2019 releases including Adam Green, The Babe Rainbow, Sam Cohen, Big Search and Husky Loops, plus music by new signings in the form of 20-year-old Los Angeles native Poppy Jean Crawford, New Yorker Baba Ali and Portland’s Alexandra Savior.

The double vinyl version (date TBA), is the exclusive vinyl home for Granddaddy’s "Bison on the Plains" and Broken Bells' "Good Luck.” The track listing for the compilation is as follows:

1. Broken Bells - Good Luck
2. Big Search - Stillness in the Air
3. Babe Rainbow - Something New
4. Alexandra Savior - Howl
5. Grandaddy - Bison on the Plains
6. Poppy Jean Craword - Jonsies Gonesies
7. St. Francis Hotel feat. TT - The Truth is Dead
8. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse feat. MF Doom - Ninjarous
9. Sam Cohen - Something's Got a Hold of Me
10. Husky Loops - Reasonable Thing
11. Waterstrider - Way Out
12. Maybird - Don't Keep Me Around
13. Adam Green - Reasonable Man
14. Baba Ali - House
15. Faux Ferocious - Good Times Ahead

 

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STREAM "THE TRUTH IS DEAD" HERE

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St. Francis Hotel feat. TT - "The Truth is Dead"
November 25, 2019
30th Century Records

1. The Truth Is Dead


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Jazz is Dead Presents The Midnight Hour @ Lodge Room Highland Park clock Thursday, November 21, 2019

                                       All photos taken in Highland Park by Martin Worster

Nina Nesbitt Releases Deluxe Album and Career Spanning Mini Documentary Today.

NINA NESBITT RELEASES DELUXE EDITION OF CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED US DEBUT ALBUM   ‘THE SUN WILL COME UP, THE SEASONS WILL CHANGE & THE FLOWERS WILL FALL’ – OUT NOW [COOKING VINYL] ALBUM INCLUDES 4 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS— LISTEN TO “STILL WAITING TO START” HERE UNVEILS CAREER-SPANNING MINI DOCUMENTARY,  ‘THE SUN WILL COME UP (2011 – 2019)’ LISTEN THE SUN WILL COME UP, THE SEASONS WILL CHANGE & THE FLOWERS WILL FALL LISTEN “STILL WAITING TO START” Today, Scottish artist Nina Nesbitt releases the deluxe edition of her critically acclaimed US debut album, The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change, which has gone on to amass more than HALF-A-BILLION combined global streams and continues to garner more than 25 million streams per month. The very special 29-song deluxe edition, titled The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change & The Flowers Will Fall is out now via Cooking Vinyl. The album compiles the much-loved original album, which featured hit singles including ‘Loyal To Me,’ ‘The Best You Had’, ‘Somebody Special,’ ‘Is It Really Me You’re Missing’ and ‘Colder,’ with a host of new and rare material, including lead track ‘Black & Blue,’ which NYLON Magazine hailed as “an anthem for anyone who can’t get out of their own head,” and has already racked-up more than 4 million streams worldwide. Continuing Nina’s talent for openly exploring issues of vulnerability within her music, the track’s sleek electronic-tinged spin on modernist alt-pop is a natural fit for the original album’s sonic approach. Also included on the album, Nina’s intimate, torch song approach to Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ which has become a staple of her recent live shows and two previously unreleased songs, ‘Ungrateful’ and current focus track, “Still Waiting To Start,” an infectious indie-electro jam that retains the pop sound that is synonymous with Nina's writing. Speaking about the new song, Nina reveals "Still Waiting To Start is the last song I wrote for the extended album. A simple, stripped back guitar based song about getting older and treasuring time more and more. There’s so many things I want to experience in life so I wanted to capture that in the song. No matter what age you are, you are constantly changing and starting again." Listen to “Still Waiting To Start” HERE.   The package is completed with acoustic versions of every song from the original album, most of which are previously unreleased. Stripping back the material to intimate acoustic arrangements highlights the compelling and emotionally revealing song-writing that has become a hallmark of Nina’s sound. Also on the horizon, Nina will be releasing a series of videos called 'The Winter Tree Sessions' before Christmas, which comprise of songs from the new deluxe album. On releasing the deluxe album, Nina adds, "I’m so pleased to present a deluxe version of my album. It’s a huge thank you to all the fans that have supported this album or been there from the start and patiently waited for new music. The fan reaction and streaming success of ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’ is way beyond anything I’d ever imagined so a deluxe edition feels like the perfect way to wrap it all up!" Also released today, ‘The Sun Will Come Up (2011 – 2019)’, a new mini-documentary produced by the LA-based creative group, GrandSon and spanning Nina’s entire career to-date, from her musical childhood beginnings all the way through present day, including the whirlwind that lead up to the release of her album, The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change last year. “There’s been as many ups and downs as there have been hair colours,” Nina says in a statement on her Instagram. “I’m really proud of what we’ve created and can’t wait for you all to see.” Watch the new film HERE. As an independently released artist amongst an arena of major label peers, not only has Nina exceeded expectations in the UK and Europe by topping the album and single charts, receiving mainstream radio airplay and selling-out headlining shows across the continent, she has simultaneously made huge waves in America too. With her signature story-telling pop, she’s acquired the likes of Taylor Swift and Chloe Grace-Moretz as fans, has sold-out headlining shows across the country and made her show-stopping late night television debut on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year. Watch her spellbinding performance of ‘The Best You Had’ HERE. The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change & The Flowers Will Fall is out everywhere now. Listen HERE.  1. ‘Sacred’ 2. ‘The Moments I’m Missing’ 3. ‘The Best You Had’ 4. ‘Colder’ 5. ‘Loyal To Me’ 6. ‘Somebody Special’ 7. ‘Is It Really Me You’re Missing?’ 8. ‘Love Letter’ 9. ‘Empire’ 10. ‘Chloe’ 11. ‘Things I Say When You Sleep’ 12. ‘Last December’ 13. ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’ 14. ‘Black & Blue’ 15. ‘Ungrateful’ 16. ‘Toxic’ 17. ‘Sacred’ (Acoustic Version) 18. ‘The Moments I’m Missing’ (Acoustic Version) 19. ‘The Best You Had’ (Acoustic Version) 20. ‘Colder’ (Acoustic Version) 21. ‘Loyal To Me’ (Acoustic Version) 22. ‘Somebody Special’ (Acoustic Version) 23. ‘Is It Really Me You’re Missing?’ (Acoustic Version) 24. ‘Love Letter’ (Acoustic Version) 25. ‘Empire’ (Acoustic Version) 26. ‘Chloe’ (Acoustic Version) 27. ‘Things I Say When You Sleep’ (Acoustic Version) 28. ‘Last December’ (Acoustic Version) 29. ‘The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change’ (Acoustic Version)   FACEBOOK | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM

Föllakzoid share "IIII (DJ Nobu Remix)" - New Album 'I' on Sacred Bones out now

FÖLLAKZOID  Share "IIII (DJ Nobu Remix)" New Album 'I' Available Now on Sacred Bones   Photo By Ebru Yildiz Following the release of their new album 'I', via Sacred Bones and worldwide tour which covered Africa, Europe and Asia -- Santiago, Chile's Föllakzoid have revealed a new version of album closer, "IIII". Japanese techno producer DJ Nobu takes the expansive track in a new direction, commenting: "When I heard Föllakzoid's music for the first time, I felt like what we are trying to express are fundamentally similar. In other words, I felt like we are both trying to reach the same destination. And one day we met each other in the forest. Domingae and I discovered that we share the same love for Cortázar. The encounter between Follakzoid and myself is a game designed by the universe. Therefore our collaboration was a destiny, but it also imposed me the most difficult challenges I faced in my music life. I'm extremely relieved and grateful to be able to present the result as a piece of work here." Listen & Share "IIII (DJ Nobu Remix)": YouTube - Bandcamp Single Artwork  Föllakzoid grows via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms.  Their journey began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends Domingae and Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere. Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months to construct out of more than 60 separate stems - guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM, who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or guidelines.  The result of this was a set of songs where neither the band's, nor the producer's, structural vision primarily shaped the metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency modulations that guide them. Listen & Share 'I' - Bandcamp - Spotify - Apple

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uh release new EP 'Seasick in Salts' via PRAH Recordings

uh 'Seasick in Salts' EP Out Now on PRAH Recordings [listen] Photo Credit: Jack Taylor Gotch.

UK sister-brother duo uh have released their debut EP ‘Seasick in Salts,’ the first taste of their music to appear via PRAH Recordings. On ‘Seasick In Salts,’ uh display a preternatural ability to ground long-form composition and experimental production in traditional songwriting and then wrap it up superbly in pastoral melodies and cryptic lyricism. Across the EP, uh take you on a space-dub trip composed of rubbery synths, blissed out grooves, squelches and bleeps. On the title track: "We created this tune a long time ago when our equipment was pretty basic, it's kept growing and still does in live performance. It's always had a seasick feel, we have a lot of fun with how disorientated it makes us feel. Its like a cross genre of; Romeo's last soliloquy meets a dodgey sea sick western". Siblings Dominic and Fionnuala Kennedy grew up in Harlesden in North West London, where their parents had moved from the west coast of Ireland before they were born. However, they both spent a great deal of time back in their ancestral homeland growing up, taking in the countryside and absorbing its parallels to their bustling metropolis upbringing – something that’s undoubtedly seeped into their music. ‘uh’ is one of the most common sounds heard in the English language. An imitative that holds no linguistic meaning, it’s nevertheless a sound recognised by everyone; it could be a hesitation, an exclamation of distrust, a grunt of effort. For Dominic and Fionnuala it’s this ambiguity of the term that draws them to it.

The Who Release New Single "I Don't Wanna Get Wise"

THE WHO ‘I DON’T WANNA GET WISE’
THE NEW SINGLE TAKEN FROM THE BRAND NEW ALBUM ‘WHO’

‘WHO’ TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 6 ON INTERSCOPE RECORDS

‘I DON’T WANNA GET WISE’ AVAILABLE ON ALL STREAMING SERVICES NOW 
https://smarturl.it/IDontWannaGetWise

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM NOW http://thewho.lnk.to/NewAlbumWE
DELUXE BONUS TRACKS REVEALED INCLUDING TWO ‘LOST’ DEMOS FROM THE ’60s

UK TOUR WITH A FULL ORCHESTRA - SPRING 2020 TICKETS ON SALE

“THEIR BEST SINCE QUADROPHENIA” - 9/10 UNCUT
“THE WHO WILL NOT GO QUIETLY” - 4/5 MOJO
“THEIR BEST SINCE WHO BY NUMBERS IN 1975” – THE TIMES

Santa Monica, California, November 22, 2019 - The Who release the third track from their forthcoming critically acclaimed album WHO which will be released on December 6^th on Interscope Records. 

The new song ‘I DON’T WANNA GET WISE’ is described by Pete Townshend, ‘I wrote this in a mid-‘70s style, like a song from an album like ‘WHO BY NUMBERS’. Warning: don’t get old. You might get wise’.

The bonus tracks for the deluxe versions of the album have also been revealed including two previously thought ‘lost’ tracks from the 1960’s - ‘Got Nothing To Prove” and ’Sand’. The former on the deluxe CD and the latter on the triple red, white and blue colored vinyl edition.

Of these tracks, Pete Townshend recalls “Both these songs are from the Summer of 1966; they would not have been rejected by the band members but rather by my then creative mentor, Who manager Kit Lambert. In 1967, when the song seemed destined for the bottom drawer, I did offer ‘Got Nothing To Prove’ to Jimmy James and the Vagabonds who used to support us at The Marquee in 1965. I remember playing him the demo at my house in Twickenham. They were still managed by Peter Meaden who had been so influential on me in particular in the short period he was our PR man in late 1964. Jimmy liked the song, and suggested making it more R&B, in a slower tempo, but nothing happened. I have a feeling Kit may have felt the song sounded as though it was sung by an older and more self-satisfied man than I was in real life. That would have applied to Roger too I suppose. Now, it works. Back then, perhaps it didn’t. Dave Sardy and I decided to ask George Fenton to do a “Swinging Sixties” band arrangement to make the song more interesting, but also to place it firmly in an Austin Powers fantasy. I love it”

Of the track “Sand” that will be released as a red vinyl 10” as part of the triple vinyl package, Pete says, “’Sand’ came from the same period. This is a simple idea, about a sunny beach vacation romance that doesn’t last once the lovers get back home to the rain. Again, Kit passed on this, even as an album track, and it simply got filed away. I have always loved it, but have been waiting for computers to get smart enough to fix some of the tape stretch problems that had affected the demo. I also revived this in my home studio by doing roughly what I felt the Who would have done had this ever been recorded by them. So there is added backing vocals, Rickenbacker, and acoustic 12 string, and a feedback section to properly evoke the era. These probably really belong on one of my Scoop albums, but I did present them to our A&R man Richard O'Donovan who felt, and I agree, that these two tracks remind new Who fans of the lo-fi method that all Who songs came from in the early years, and the sheer joy I experienced of being a One-Man band in my home studio, long before such things were common. This is Who history after all, and it doesn’t all belong to Obsessive Collectors.”

The deluxe CD of WHO also features “This Gun Will Misfire” and “Danny & His Ponies,” two tracks recorded and sung by Townshend during the sessions for the album.

The eleven-track album was mostly recorded in London and Los Angeles during Spring and Summer 2019 and was co-produced by Pete Townshend & D. Sardy (who has worked with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz) with vocal production by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson). Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend are joined on the album by long-time Who drummer Zak Starkey, bassist Pino Palladino along with contributions from Simon Townshend, Benmont Tench, drummers Carla Azar and Joey Waronker, bass player Gus Seyffert and Gordon Giltrap.

The album cover has been created by famed pop artist, Sir Peter Blake who first met the band in 1964 at a taping of the legendary TV show Ready Steady Go. Sir Peter designed and contributed a painting to the sleeve of The Who’s album Face Dances in 1981.

The songs on WHO cover a myriad of subjects including the Grenfell Tower fire, musical theft, spirituality, reincarnation, the power of memory and ‘an old rock star that has lost his marbles’. Singer Roger Daltrey rates it amongst their strongest “I think we’ve made our best album since Quadrophenia in 1973, Pete hasn’t lost it, he’s still a fabulous songwriter, and he’s still got that cutting edge”.

After their triumphant return to Wembley Stadium in the Summer, the band will be embarking on a UK tour featuring a full orchestra in Spring 2020, the dates are listed below.

THE WHO ‘WHO’ TRACKLISTING 

All This Music Must Fade
Ball And Chain
I Don't Wanna Get Wise
Detour
Beads On One String*
Hero Ground Zero
Street Song
I’ll Be Back
Break The News**
Rockin’ In Rage
She Rocked My World

All songs written by Pete Townshend except

*Pete Townshend/Josh Hunsacker **Simon Townshend
Produced by Pete Townshend & D. Sardy
Roger Daltrey Vocal production Dave Eringa
Mixed by D. Sardy

CD Deluxe Edition also includes;
This Gun Will Misfire
Got Nothing To Prove
Danny & My Ponies

LP Deluxe Red, White & Blue colored vinyl edition includes;
Sand

All deluxe edition tracks previously unreleased.

THE WHO UK TOUR 2020
March 16 – Manchester Arena
March 18 – Dublin 3 Arena
March 21 – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
March 23 – Glasgow SSE Hydro Arena
March 25 – Leeds First Direct Arena
March 30 – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
April 1 – Birmingham Resorts World Arena
April 3 – Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
April 6 – Liverpool M&S Bank Arena
April 8 – SSE Wembley Arena

Tickets on sale now at https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/the-who-tickets

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