THE POSTAL SERVICE / DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE CO-HEADLINE TOUR ADDS INTIMATE DATE AT CHICAGO’S SALT SHED SEPTEMBER 23
Transatlanticism Certified Platinum
Band-Exclusive Version of Transatlanticism Available Now
Additional Support Acts Lauren Mayberry & Pedro the Lion Added
A month shy of kicking off their historic co-headline run, The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie announce the tour’s last date to be added, to take place at Chicago’s Salt Shed on September 23. The largely sold out tour will witness both bands playing many of North America’s most prestigious stages, including two nights at Madison Square Garden and three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. For complete details and ticket information, please visit https://giveuptransatlanticismtour.com/.
Presented by Jam & Riot Fest, the Salt Shed stop is a special encore performance to follow both bands’ highly anticipated Riot Fest sets. Special guests Lauren Mayberry and Pedro the Lion will be joining the tour for the East Coast leg and Santa Barbara date respectively. Request your tickets now through Monday, 7/31 at 12pm ET. On Wednesday, 8/2, ticket sales will be processed, and fans will be notified. Submit your ticket requests + learn more at https://thepostalservicedeathcabforcutie.shop.ticketstoday.com/
The tour commemorates the 20th anniversaries of The Postal Service’s RIAA Platinum-certified Give Up (Sub Pop) and Death Cab for Cutie’s recently RIAA Platinum-certified LP Transatlanticism (Barsuk). Speaking of Death Cab for Cutie’s classic fourth album, fans can order the new band-exclusive variant of Transatlanticism here: https://store.deathcabforcutie.com/.
Transatlanticism also received a special 20th Anniversary Edition release via Vinyl Me Please (in partnership with Barsuk). Released as June’s VMP Essentials Record of the Month, the pressing instantly sold out. The Postal Service recently announced the physical release of the live album documenting their unforgettable 2013 tour, Everything Will Change, which will be available on 2xLP + CD on September 8th, 2023, through Sub Pop.
THE POSTAL SERVICE // DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
SEPTEMBER 2023
5 – Washington, DC – The Anthem ! – SOLD OUT 6 – Washington, DC – The Anthem ! – SOLD OUT 8 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena ! – SOLD OUT 9 – Kingston, RI – The Ryan Center ! – SOLD OUT 10 – New Haven, CT – Westville Music Bowl ! – SOLD OUT 12 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall ! – SOLD OUT 13 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall ! – SOLD OUT 14 – Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion ! – SOLD OUT 16 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest 17 – Detroit, MI – Meadow Brook Amphitheater # – SOLD OUT 19 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden # – SOLD OUT 20 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden # – SOLD OUT 21 – Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center # – SOLD OUT 23 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed 24 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory # – SOLD OUT 26 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom # – SOLD OUT 27 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom # – SOLD OUT 28 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom # – SOLD OUT 30 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater & – SOLD OUT
OCTOBER 2023
1 – Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre Grand Prairie & – SOLD OUT 3 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial Theatre & – SOLD OUT 4 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels & – SOLD OUT 6 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena & – SOLD OUT 7 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena & – SOLD OUT 9 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre – UC Berkeley & – SOLD OUT 10 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre – UC Berkeley & – SOLD OUT 11 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre – UC Berkeley & – SOLD OUT 13 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl & – SOLD OUT 14 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl ^ – SOLD OUT 15 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl % – SOLD OUT 17 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl @
! w/ Special Guest Lauren Mayberry # w/ Special Guest Warpaint & w/ Special Guest The Beths % w/ Special Guest Built to Spill @ w/ Special Guest Iron & Wine ^ w/ Special Guest Pedro the Lion
Formed in 1999, L.A.-based group The Warlocks produce a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground. Front man Bobby Hecksher grew up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, FL but moved to L.A. at age 16 where he soon found kindred spirits, jamming with Beck on his Stereopathetic Soulmanure album and moonlighting in the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
The band’s debut album Rise & Fall (Bomp 2000) set out their template, but it was the band's signing to a worldwide deal with Mute and the release of Phoenix (2003) that raised their profile significantly. Several albums followed including 2005’s Surgery, 2007’s Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, 2009’s The Mirror Explodes, and 2020's The Chain. Relentless international touring and the sheer power of The Warlocks gigantic live sound has built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified.
Longtime L.A.-psych rockers The Warlocks — led for the past twenty-plus years by Bobby Hecksher (vocals, guitar), who's backed by J.C. Rees (guitar), Earl V. Miller (guitar), Christopher DiPino (bass), and Oscar Ruvalcaba (drums) are back with a new album "In Between Sad" out September 22, 2023, on Cleopatra Records.
• A deeply moving, immensely heavy new album from the kings of L.A. psych rock scene, The Warlocks!
• Written in the wake of his brother's passing from cancer, frontman Bobby Hecksher crafts one of the most intimate, intensely personal albums of his 25+ year career!
• Recorded in the spirit of experimentalism, the album incorporates instruments and sounds not used on any previous Warlocks' album, such as 808 drum machines and classic '80s keyboards!
• To support the album, The Warlocks are launching the "In Between Sad" tour starting with a slew of international dates in October and November!
“This album is for people that have lost someone. It’s a heavy album. It’s a sad album. Listen on that rainy day, on the subway or bus with your headphones in and sadness in your throat. It’s the album I didn’t want to release but I guess HAD to. We’ve all got to move forward. This one’s for my brother Robert - may he rest in peace. Much love." - Bobby / The Warlocks
ALABASTER DEPLUME SHARES NEW SINGLE "GREEK HONEY SLICK" FEATURING TOM SKINNER (THE SMILE) COME WITH FIERCE GRACE LP DUE SEPT 8 VIA INTL ANTHEM MONTH LONG US TOUR STARTS IN AUGUST
"upbeat and tentatively triumphant" - Stereogum "Alabaster has done it again" - Gilles Peterson "[DePlume] delivers a serene reminder of what matters most" - Pitchfork "DePlume is a fixture on the London avant-jazz scene whose greatest value is openness" - NPR "He’s a garrulous, heart-on-sleeve rabble-rouser, an anti-cynic keen to reduce the fourth wall to rubble." - The Observer
Photo by Chris Almeida
Today Alabaster DePlume shares a new single, “Greek Honey Slick,” featuring drummer Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet), the second offering from his forthcoming album Come With Fierce Grace (out September 8th on International Anthem).
In the context of the full album, “Greek Honey Slick” is in the middle of a four-track run of music that was originally created in a session where the saxophonist DePlume and drummer Skinner improvised together, alone as a duo. As the story goes, it was at Total Refreshment Centre studios in London in 2020, during DePlume’s several weeks-long recording session for what became his lauded 2022 album GOLD. It was supposed to be a full ensemble on this particular date, but all of the other musicians bailed, except for Skinner. DePlume did what he often does: he chose to embrace the circumstances, not knowing why. He and Skinner proceeded to record a bunch of music that didn’t make sense to be released as part of GOLD, but turned out to be a perfect fit for Come With Fierce Grace.
Reflecting on his choice to embrace the unplanned duo session with Skinner, DePlume says:
“Before I recorded GOLD, I dropped an enormous metal tin of beautiful Greek honey on my studio floor. Heart-broken, I gathered it into my hands to be disposed of, which took ages. But I chose to embrace this too - not knowing why. And it turned out that it was a blessing for the making of that specific album (though I won’t say why, just now). The key thing for me is: embracing what is, without demanding to know why. Abundance and how it is, and how it can appear, and made welcome.”
And Tom Skinner adds:
“I don’t remember much about the details of the session at all, other than that it was a welcome oasis of spontaneous music-making in what had become an otherwise arid and disheartening year. A glorious and joyous exploration of sound in time.”
To round out the sound on “Greek Honey Slick,” DePlume added synth and bass guitar, overdubbing himself over his saxophone & drumkit improvisations with Skinner, almost two years after the initial session. The resulting work is a borderline club banger – “Greek Honey Slick” is definitely one of the more hype moments on the generally subdued, lilting and placid Come With Fierce Grace.
Following a run of European shows opening for Bon Iver, Alabaster’s tour dates continue to expand - with a whole month of shows spanning the United States. Full list of shows below.
ABOUT THE RECORD
In order to record the compositions in his critically-acclaimed 2022 release GOLD, Alabaster DePlume instilled a culture of creativity by leading his ensembles in spontaneous composition and development. To allow them to be present, he kept the musicians constantly creating across several weeks of sessions at London creative hub Total Refreshment Centre. This process resulted in an abundance of material, much more than he could fit onto the initial double LP. After spending most of 2022 touring in support of GOLD, Alabaster spent much of early 2023 revisiting the additional material from those Total Refreshment Centre sessions – adding, subtracting, producing and arranging – resulting in an entirely new album, Come With Fierce Grace.
Come With Fierce Grace is an album made entirely of authentic and unstipulated – yet welcomed – human interaction. It is for the most part an album of instrumentals, with exception of a few vocal features by Momoko Gill, Falle Nioke, and Donna Thompson. Though the instrumentals on this album are much more embryonic and unfiltered than the lush orchestrations heard on Alabaster’s breakout 2020 album To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1. Come With Fierce Grace is perhaps the most raw and candid portrait of Alabaster’s creative compositional process we’ve yet to hear, as he’s captured vividly in the room with his collaborators – stretching, exploring, working to deepen and expand the emotions underlying his melodic and poetic frameworks. Regarding the process, Alabaster cites a similarity to how elements in nature contribute to shared work and beauty without a collective motive – a bee’s own motives result in the delivery of pollen. As he says: “The great thing wants to happen, let us allow it to happen.”
Regarding the origin of the album’s name: On his first trip to perform in the US in March 2022, Alabaster collected messages from individuals, as he asked them if there is anything they would like him to share with his audiences. One message (from a person who preferred to remain anonymous) asked Alabaster to encourage people to “come with fierce grace.”
Photo by Chris Almeida
RELEASE CALENDAR Tuesday June 27th - album announce + first single “Did You Know” Thursday July 27th - second single “Greek Honey Slick” Thursday August 17th - third single “Naked Like Water” Friday, September 8 - LP Street
UK & EU DATES 5 Aug 2023 - Eigg, Scotland @ Howlin' Fling -Tickets 11 Aug 2023 - Dorset, UK @ We Out Here -Tickets 19 Aug 2023 - Buckinghamshire, UK @ Stowaway -Tickets 20 Aug 2023 - Brecon Beacons, Wales @ GreenMan -Tickets 7-Nov-2023 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club 8-Nov-2023 - Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall 9-Nov-2023 - Nottingham, UK @ Strange Brew 10-Nov-2023 - London, UK @ KOKO, Pitchfork Music Festival 11-Nov-2023 - Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew 12-Nov-2023 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
US DATES 26 Aug 2023 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty -Tickets 27 Aug 2023 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon -Tickets 29 Aug 2023 - San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop -Tickets 30 Aug 2023 - Ojai, CA @ Deer Lodge -Tickets 1 Sep 2023 - Modesto, CA @ The Speakeasy at Greens on Tenth -Tickets 2 Sep 2023 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel 3 Sep 2023 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Kuumbawa Jazz Center 5 Sep 2023 - Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall -Tickets 6 Sep 2023 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern 8 Sep 2023 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux -Tickets 10 Sep 2023 - Denver, CO @ Ophelia's 15 Sep 2023 - Chicago, IL @ Co-Prosperity -Tickets 16 Sep 2023 - Chicago, IL @ Co-Prosperity -Tickets 17 Sep 2023 - Toronto, ON @ Rivoli -Tickets 18 Sep 2023 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz -Tickets 20 Sep 2023 - New Orleans, LA @ Music Box Village 22 Sep 2023 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Hall -Tickets
RELEASE CALENDAR
Tuesday June 27th - album announce + first single “Did You Know” (featuring Momoko Gill) Thursday July 27th - second single “Greek Honey Slick” (featuring Tom Skinner) Thursday August 17th - third single “Naked Like Water” (featuring Donna Thompson) Friday, September 8 - album release date
SHOWS DREW GLOBAL CRITICAL ACCLAIM - ‘ONE OF THE DEFINING ARTISTS OF OUR TIME’
Photo credit: Lloyd Wakefield
Harry Styles’ record-breaking Love On Tour reached its conclusion last week with an emotionally charged show at Italy’s RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia to an audience of over 100k. This landmark 173rd - and final - date marked the end of a two-year ground-breaking tour. The Love On Tour kicked off on 4th September 2021 in North America and has subsequently seen Harry play to over 5.04 million fans across the UK, Europe, North and South America as well as Australia becoming the fourth highest grossing tour of all time.
Harry also gave an emotional send off to his incredible band who have joined him on stage throughout the tour including Pauli Lovejoy, Sarah Jones, Mitch Rowland, Madi Diaz, Elin Sandberg, Ariza, Yaffra, Parris Fleming, Kailah Vandever, Lorren Chiodo and Laura Bibbs.
Love On Tour has broken records, pushed boundaries and shattered expectations in its incredible two year run and 173 dates that has solidified Harry’s status as one of the biggest and most influential artists of his generation. Each leg of the tour has seen huge critical and commercial success. Highlights include 20 nights at Madison Square Garden, six nights at London’s Wembley stadium, a headline slot at the legendary Coachella festival across two nights that was heralded as one of the best performances in the festival’s history and concluded in Italy at the RCF Arena in front of over 100k people.
The success of the live tour has been underpinned by the release of the commercial and critical success of his third album, Harry’s House, that earned him six nominations at the 65th GRAMMYS Award, he won the highly prestigious Album of the Year and Harry’s House is also the Best Pop Vocal Album of the year. Harry also won all four Brit Awards he was nominated for, including British Album of the Year (Harry’s House), British Song of the Year (As It Was), British Artist of the Year and Best British Pop/R&B Act. The album includes the lead single “As It Was,” a global sensation on a record-breaking level, hitting Number One in 33 countries—including 15 weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, in addition to being the first man to appear solo on the cover of Vogue Magazine.
CHARITIES DONATED TO ON LOVE ON TOUR
Planned Parenthood Choose Love Physicians for Reproductive Health Rebuild Foundation REVERB Black Voters Matter Fund – Capacity Building Institute The Afiya Center International Rescue Committee Intermission Youth Save the Children CARE Every Town for Gun Safety BEAM The Theaster Gates Foundation Rebuild Theater - Venice Program WWWF-Brasil Sydney Zoo Baan Tawan Mai Orphans (Pow Sarin Org) Cribs Foundation Inc. St John's Home Limitless Children's Wishing Well SHINE Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation Black Minds Matter UK Florence Org. And more.
(July 31, 2023) - Toronto-based DJ and producer BAMBII shares "Hooked," the final single to be released from her debut EP Infinity Club, out this Friday via Innovative Leisure. Hailed as a key player in the resurgence of jungle in Toronto by Rolling Stone, BAMBII enlists Aluna, one of the pioneering vocalists of the UK's early 2010's dance/electronic scene on her latest offering.
"Hooked" combines 90's R&B bass-lines with Aluna's classic layered vocals providing listeners with a sound reminiscent of Aaliyah's late reign. A testament to BAMBII's masterful production abilities, the DJ and producer finds ways to add something new to every 30 seconds with this subdued pop anthem. The new track follows her previous releases, "Wicked Gyal" featuring Lady Lykez, and "One Touch," and "Slip Slide" feat. Ragz Originale (Skepta, FKA Twigs, SOPHIE) and Lamsi.
In this year alone, BAMBII has seen a number of successes. Just last month, her single "One Touch" was deemed Best New Track by Pitchfork and was also included in Apple's new Macbook Air commercial. Additionally, through her contributions to Kelela's crticially acclaimed album Raven, "Contact" was included in former President Obama's Summer 2023 playlist.
On her upcoming project, Infinity Club finds BAMBII building on her already-impressive sonic repertoire, encapsulating the sound of a generation of Caribbean youth living between two worlds. On the heels of bringing her kinetic production style to Kelela's recent album Raven, this new EP establishes BAMBII as a trailblazing voice in the intersecting worlds of electronic and Caribbean music. The project opens the door to a limitless space that blurs the lines between memories and dreams, anchored by ecstatic production by BAMBII that centers on the solace one can find in the middle of a crowded dance floor. In BAMBII's telling, Infinity Club soundtracks an anonymous space holding a community of bodies all flowing to the same rhythm: "Infinity Club knows no age, or social construct. It's for everyone, everywhere. In all ways, always."
Check out "Hooked" featuring Aluna above, see more project details below, and stay tuned for more from BAMBII coming soon.
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