Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Announce U.S. Dates Opening for Miki Berenyi Trio & Cruel World Festival Performance

Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee Announce U.S. Dates Opening for Miki Berenyi Trio & Cruel World Festival Performance Debut Album Los Angeles Out Now via Play It Again Sam LISTEN HERE ft. LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, U2’s The Edge, Mary Lattimore & More Watch the Fred Armisen-featuring Video for “We Got To Move” (ft Isaac Brock)

Photo credit: Pat Martin / Press shot HERE / Album artwork HERE Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee have announced a run of U.S. dates in support of their critically acclaimed debut album, Los Angeles which is out now via Play It Again Sam. The live project, made up of Lol and Budgie on percussion, will be opening for Miki Berenyi Trio on their U.S. tour, as well as performing a debut headline performance at The Casbah in San Diego, and at this year’s Cruel World Festival (featuring special guests). The album’s 13 tracks dive into freedom and slavery, beauty and decay, hope and despair, and feature an astonishing list of guest vocalists and musicians – The Edge (U2), Civil Rights avant-garde artist Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, and more. The group and album have been featured with the likes of Pitchfork, SPIN, BrooklynVegan, Consequence, FLOOD Magazine, Modern Drummer, Salon, Stereogum, Surface Magazine, Yahoo! Entertainment, Under the Radar Magazine and much more.  Listen to Los Angeles HERE  The trio have released a run of poignant videos for the campaign; “Los Angeles” featuring LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, “Ghosted At Home” featuring Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, and “We Got To Move” featuring Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock with comedian / actor / musician Fred Armisen making a cameo in the video. Most recently, they released the Michael Frost-directed video for album highlight “Uh Oh” featuring guest vocals from Starcrawler’s Arrow de Wilde and guitar from IDLES’ Mark Bowen.  The three-way Los Angeles collaborative long-player was born out of a curiosity which just wouldn’t die. Made up of two of the most illustrious and inventive drummers of the post-punk era, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, and Budgie from Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, along with stellar producer and multi-instrumentalist Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee, this unlikely alt-supergroup have spent the last four years spiriting up one of the most extraordinary albums to appear in recent times. Perusing the tracklist, with its guest credits for, amongst others, James Murphy, Bobby Gillespie, The Edge, Civil Rights avant-gardist Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Starcrawler wildchild Arrow de Wilde and Mark Bowen from IDLES, you may rightly wonder just what the 13-track long-player holds in store. The answer: a hard-hitting and compulsively exploratory 55-minute electronic headfuck, founded on unrivaled rhythmic expertise, fleshed out with an armory of synths, guitars (Jacknife’s forté) and supplementary percussion, often overlaid with elite-class strings and brass, then universally twisted, manipulated and quite masterfully sculpted by Lee, with his super-producer’s hat on. As per the title, Los Angeles is a journey into the dark heart of contemporary LaLaLand, the city of its birth, a place of limitless possibility, yet also a diseased and consumptive hell-on-earth which, to quote Murphy’s lyric on the title track, “eats its children,” where pipe dreams shatter, racial inequality prevails and homelessness spirals. Throw in the terrifying uncertainty occasioned by the global pandemic, which both interrupted and ultimately aided its genesis, and the ‘new Cold War’ terror that has ensued, and you get a record fueled by fear and tension, but whose propulsive beats, mind-warpingly mangled instrumentation and exceptional vocal contributions provide release through the palpable joy of their creation. LOS ANGELES TRACK LISTING & COVER ART 1. This Is What It Is (To Be Free) [with Bobby Gillespie] 2. Los Angeles [with James Murphy] 3. Uh Oh [with Arrow de Wilde and Mark Bowen (IDLES)] 4. Ghosted At Home [with Bobby Gillespie] 5. Train With No Station [with The Edge] 6. Bodies [with Lonnie Holley and Mary Lattimore] 7. Everything And Nothing 8. Travel Channel [with Pan Amsterdam] 9. Country of the Blind [with Bobby Gillespie] 10. The Past (Being Eaten) 11. We Got To Move [with Isaac Brock] 12. Noche Oscura [with The Edge] 13. Skins [with James Murphy]

U.S. TOUR DATES May 09 – The Casbah, San Diego, CA May 11 – Cruel World Festival, Los Angeles, CA May 29 – The Fonda, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 01 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 03 – The Mission Theatre, Portland, OR (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 04 – Madame Lou’s, Seattle, WA (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 06 – Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 07 – Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio) June 08 – Webster Hall, New York, NY (w/ Miki Berenyi Trio)

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LA LUZ SHARE NEW SINGLE “I’LL GO WITH YOU”

La Luz - the band led by Shana Cleveland – has released a gorgeous new single today, “I’ll Go With You.” La Luz is at their dreamiest here — with sparkly instrumentals and soothing vocals, “I’ll Go With You” is a moment of tranquility. The new track is off their forthcoming album News of The Universe, out May 24th via Sub Pop, and follows the two previously released singles “Strange World” (which Uproxx deemed “futuristic”) and most recently, “Poppies” of which Austin Town Hall said, “there was something truly majestic in Shana Cleveland’s vocal performance.” Fans can pre-order the album HERE. 

“This song is heavily influenced by Yanti Bersaudara, a group of Indonesian sisters who released some of my very favorite music originally released in the mid 60s and early 70s,” says lead singer Shana Cleveland on the new single. “Lyrically, this song is a retelling of a dream I had one night when I had gone to bed with the melody of this song in my head. I had some different words in mind, but this sweet little romance dream took over” she continues. Listen/share “I’ll Go With You” here. 

With a credo adapted from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, an album title from a collection of metaphysical poetry, and an expansion in consciousness brought on by personal crisis, News of the Universe finds guitarist and songwriter Cleveland embracing a changing world with unconditional love. News of the Universe is also a record born of calamity, a work of dark, beautiful psychedelia reflecting Cleveland’s experience of having her world blown apart by a breast cancer diagnosis just two years after the birth of her son. 

La Luz will be touring North America, Europe, and the UK in support of News of the Universe, and the first run of dates will kick off May 23 in Barcelona. The band’s first show stateside is Record Release Party on May 30 at The Crocodile in Seattle, WA.  Their touring goes into full swing starting on September 26 with a show in Chicago, IL, stopping at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere on October 9, before concluding with a 2-night run at Lodge Room in Los Angeles, CA, on November 8 and 9. All shows are listed below.  

Formed by Cleveland in 2012, La Luz is beloved for their ability to balance bedlam and bliss, each new record another fine-tuning of the band’s mix of swaggering riffs with angelic vocals borrowed from doo-wop and folk; a band so reliably great that it makes the huge step forward in confidence and sheer musicality that is News of the Universe all the more formidable. Cleveland, also a writer and painter, has developed into a truly original songwriter with her own canon of haunted psychedelia that, in recent years, has drawn upon the changing landscape around her rural California home for inspiration, notably on last year’s critically acclaimed solo release, Manzanita, a magical realist documentation of her pregnancy and early motherhood that appeared on many year-end lists.

Sonically, the record is all urgency. Songs trip over themselves as if trying to outrun the apocalypse. The powerful sense of openness that permeates News of the Universe is at least partially due to the fact that it is a record made entirely by women—from the performing, writing, and producing all the way through to the recording, engineering, and mastering. “There is something inherently and simultaneously sweet and brutal about womanhood,” says Cleveland. “That is something I hear on this record.”

Working with producer Maryam Qudus (Spacemoth), the all-female environment allowed Cleveland to feel safe tapping into difficult places and expressing hard emotions women are socialized to suppress. Unashamedly vulnerable, unabashedly feminine, and undeniably triumphant, News of the Universe is another knockout record from a band so reliably great that it has perhaps led people to overlook how pioneering La Luz really are: women of color in indie music forging their own path by following their own artistic star into galaxies beyond current musical trends, always led by an earnest belief in the cosmic power of love and a great riff. Never is that more true than on News of the Universe, which might be La Luz’s most brutal record to date but also their most blissful. After everything, how could it not?

La Luz Tour Dates

05/23 Barcelona, ES @ Sala Upload

05/24 Madrid, ES @ Tomavistas Festival

05/25 London, UK @ Wide Awake Festival

05/30 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile (Record Release Show)

07/27 Portland, OR @ Project Pabst

08/30 Brighton, UK @ Brighton Psych Fest

08/31 Manchester, UK @ Manchester Psych Fest

09/01 Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Psych Fest

09/03 Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew

09/05 Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere

09/06 Sart-Messire-Guillaume, BE @ SMG Music Fest

09/07 Asten-Heusden, NL @ Misty Fields Festival

09/08 Amsterdam, NL @ Indiestadt x Sugar Mountain @ Paradiso

09/10 Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN

09/11 Hamburg, DE @ Prinzenbar

09/12 Berlin, DE @ Badehaus

09/13 Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur

09/14 Zürich, DE @ Bogen

09/26 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean

09/27 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon

09/28 St. Paul, MM @ Turf Club

09/30 St. Louis, MO @ Blueberry Hill

10/01 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar

10/02 Nashville, TN @ The End

10/03 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade - Purgatory

10/04 Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall

10/05 Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall

10/06 Washington, DC @ The Atlantis

10/08 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s

10/09 Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere - Hall

10/10 Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall

10/11 Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz

10/12 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

10/13 Ferndale, MI @ The Loving Touch 

10/28 Denver, CO @ Marquis

10/30 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

10/31 Boise, ID @ The Olympic

11/03 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl

11/06 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s

11/07 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall

11/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room

11/09 Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room

News of the Universe is available to preorder now on CD/LP/DSPs from Sub Pop. The album can be pre-ordered in North America from megamart.subpop.com, select independent retailers, and the band’s website, and in Europe and the UK from independent retail stores, and Mega Mart 2 (the new, UK-based sibling site to the world-famous Sub Pop Mega Mart), with vinyl available on limited variants. All colored vinyl versions are available while stock lasts.

Gogol Bordello Announces Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour With Puzzled Panther And Crazy & The Brains

Gogol Bordello Announces Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour With Puzzled Panther And Crazy & The Brains

Launches First Official Fan Site Wonderlust Kingdom with Exclusive Access And Presale

“The gypsy punk band brings their high-energy live show to a new level…

will have you dancing and singing along.” - Rolling Stone

 

“Richly inventive rock continues to make good on the immigrant dreams of that youngster, 

with strains of his Roma heritage rubbing up against reggae rhythms 

and high-speed New York raucousness.” - The New Yorker

 

Tuesday, April 30 - Today, international punk band Gogol Bordello announces their Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour with special guests Puzzled Panther and Crazy & The Brains. Tickets are on sale to the public this Friday, May 3 with members only presale on new fansite beginning Wednesday, May 1. Tour dates here.

Alongside the announcement, Gogol Bordello is launching their first official fan site Wonderlust Kingdom, an online community where fans can connect and have access to cool perks and access for $10 a month. With sign up, fans will receive an exclusive Wonderlust Kingdom t-shirt, early ticket sale access, early entry to shows, live chats with Gogol Bordello and fans, unheard demos, live recordings and collaborations from the archives as well as unreleased Gogol Bordello video footage.

Wonderlust Kingdom presale for the upcoming Casa Gogol Fall U.S. Tour will begin on Wednesday, May 1 with a members only code upon signup, available now. The first live event on the site will kick off with a Q&A from frontman Eugene Hütz on Tuesday, April 30 at 6:00pm ET. Bring your questions and post them in the chat!

 

SIGN UP FOR WONDERLUST KINGDOM NOW

BUY TOUR TICKETS HERE

 

Wanderlust Kingdom Member Presale: Wednesday, May 1

Local Presale: Thursday, May 2

Public On Sale: Friday, May 3

 

2024 CASA GOGOL FALL TOUR DATES

8/30 Birmingham, AB - Iron City*

8/31 Cookeville, TN - Muddy Roots

9/1 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel*

9/2 Charleston, SC - Music Farm*

9/4 Virginia Beach, VA - Elevation 27*

9/6 Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater*

9/7 Wilmington, DE - The Queen*

9/8 Harrisburg, PA - XL Live*

9/10 Albany, NY - Empire Live*

9/11 Huntington, NY - The Paramount*

9/13 New Haven, CT - Toad’s Place*

9/14 Providence. RI - The Strand Ballroom & Theatre*

9/15 Asbury Park, NJ - Sea.Hear.Now Festival

More upcoming U.S. and Europe tour dates HERE

*w/ Puzzled Panther and Crazy & The Brains

 

Gogol Bordello: Leo Mintek, Gil Alexandre, Eugene Hütz, Erica Mencini, Korey Kingston, Pedro Erazo

and Sergey Ryabtsev

 

True to its inception story, Casa Gogol first began as a touring series curated by Hütz, focusing on bringing like-minded artists on the road with Gogol Bordello. These uncompromisingly innovative musicians have included A Tribe Called Red (now The Halluci Nation), Mariachi El Bronx, Man Man and recently Amigo the Devil amongst countless others. Now Hütz’s imprint, Casa Gogol Records(Rolling Stone) has released an electric debut EP Puzzled Panther and powerful Gogol Bordello collaboration cover of Angelic Upstarts’ “Solidarity” with Bernard Sumner (Joy Division and New Order). Listen to Bernard Sumner’s “Right To Freedom” Mix and Gogol Bordello’s “Unity” Mix. This tribute to the punk and anti-Soviet movement will benefit injured Ukrainian soldiers through Kind Deeds, and stand in solidarity with oppressed groups worldwide. Other 2024 releases on Casa Gogol Records will include hypnotic singer-songwriter Grace Bergere, Jesus Christoph of Crazy & The Brains, Brooklyn art dance punk band Mary Shelley and beyond.

In support of Hütz’ home country of Ukraine, Gogol Bordello continues to release benefit songs like the recent “United Strike Back” to raise funds and support for Ukrainian soldiers. The track features Tre Cool (Green Day), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Joe Lally (Fugazi, The Messthetics), Roger Miret (Agnostic Front), Monte Pittman (Ministry), Sasha (Kazka) & Puzzled Panther.

In June 2023, Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story(Executive Producer Liev Schreiber) premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, leaving with a Special Jury Mention for Best New Documentary Director Award and praise like “Hütz’s story is fascinating and triumphant. Scream of My Blood’ remains essential.” (Variety). The film has also been shown at the Warsaw Film Festival (Audience Award for Documentary Feature), Centre Film Festival (Audience Award), SXSW Sydney, In-Edit International Music Documentary Film Festival and more as it continues to screen around the globe including a stop at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C on May 5.

 

ABOUT GOGOL BORDELLO

Since 1999, International punk band Gogol Bordello, led by Ukrainian frontman Eugene Hütz, has been filling up rooms with an energy that could run a whole city. Their latest album Solidaritine is no exception, going back to their hardcore roots. A lifelong lover of the punk scene growing up in Ukraine, Hütz finally found himself where he felt he belonged, in New York’s Lower East Side in the late 90s, where he went to shows and later performed at the legendary CBGB. Crashing at friends’ apartments and playing acoustic sets in NYC Ukrainian bars, his group steadily grew to an 8 piece multicultural band, combining Eastern, Western and Latin traditions. Since then the band has lit up stages around the world alongside System of a Down, Primus, Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, dueted with Regina Spektor, and cut albums with legends Rick Rubin and Steve Albini.

Russia's war in Ukraine is personal for Eugene & the band, who have been tirelessly advocating for Ukrainian solidarity, partnering with Nova Ukraine, ArtDopomoga, and putting together benefits with Patti Smith, The Hold Steady, Suzanne Vega, Magnetic Fields, Matisyahu and more. Hütz has also appeared in arthouse films such as Liev Schreiber’s Everything Is Illuminated with Elijah Wood, Filth and Wisdom helmed by Madonna and Vice documentary Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story (Executive Producer Liev Schreiber).

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