Discover The "Breathtaking" Brianna Lea Pruett / New Single

DISCOVER BRIANNA LEA PRUETT'S BREATHTAKING "NO DIAMOND RING"

 New Album Gypsy Bells Out October 1 via Canyon Records

"Breathtaking Folk" - BULLETT 

"Your songs sound just like mine" - Daniel Dale Johnston

SHARE/STREAM: "No Diamond Ring" via SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/crashave/no-diamond-ring

Today, BULLETT introduces the "breathtaking folk" of Brianna Lea Pruett's "No Diamond Ring" from her upcoming album Gypsy Bells. Out October 1 via Canyon Records, Gypsy Bells is as informed by Pruett's Cherokee and Choctaw heritage as it is her parent's vinyl collection, with influences ranging from Leonard Cohen and Emmylou Harris to Pruett's personal discoveries of Mazzy Star and Neko Case. Gypsy Bells cuts to the quick within the simplicity and poignant themes across the range of the album seeming juxtaposed to the richness of Pruett's Native American heritage and her California folk traditions.

When speaking to BULLETT, Pruett shined a little light on the overarching process of writing for Gyspy Bells, "I’ve found that I’m happier writing and singing from a perspective of what comes naturally to me , celebrating where I came from, tradition, my family."

Gypsy Bells is out on Canyon Records on October 1, 2013.

Jonathan Rado - Law & Order

Jonathan Rado - Law & Order

Street Date, September 3rd, 2013, Woodsist

Jonathan Rado is a songwriter, a staid performer, an evangelical producer – the 23-year-old California native’s solo project, fashioned on brief sabbatical from his main project, Foxygen, is a deliciously self-conscious piece of esoteric apocrypha. Like character games, or symphonies of nonsense imitation-language, his records are cathartic, designed only to liberate the body and break the awkwardness of obsessive, existential silence. Alone in a bedroom, the holy land where he’s been experimenting with recording since junior high, Rado laughs nervously and eats his fingernails, awestruck by the sublimity of the aural world. The smallness of his own anemic voice confounds the babe agape, and only by adopting the task of genre does he transcend his own limitations to stand comfortably at the precipice of sound.

On his debut solo album, Law and Order, the San Fernando Valley and the Lower East Side flirt over muddy coffee, get married over corned beef, and give birth to a Motown drum beat – but something is amiss. For example, there is no bass line on LA-psychedel-dance-jam “Seven Horses,” and not a single hand clap satisfies the droning singer’s gently repetitive request, “If you feel it all, clap your hands.” “Hand In Mine” sounds like an idea Johnny Cash had while sleepwalking through a fever dream. June is awakened by a frenzy of crashing symbols and revelatory mumbling as Johnny, pajama’d, arranges equipment atop the bed and holds out an urgently affectionate hand, beckoning her to sing. She complies without ever removing her silken, floral eye-shade.

The zonked-out guitarist settles back to warm Christmas sleep but dreams only of synthesizers. “Looking 4a Girl Like U” is an opium den, and there in the running shower Prince stands, sultry. He kaleidoscopically unbuttons his soaked, sequined shirt for six consecutive minutes, screaming baaaaaby and ego-dancing until “I Wood,” a folk spasm of paranoid schizophrenia in which Rado’s Bob Dylan vowels pile so heavily upon a White Fence-minor progression that Tim Presley actually materializes on “Faces” to turn the water and steamy distortion off. “All The Lights Went Out In Georgia” is a self-loathing diary entry thrown into a fire and “Pot of Gold” gets too drunk, freaks out, and starts hitting on everybody. So Rado wraps up the album and apologizes to everyone, promising not to invite that guy over anymore.

Crafted by a serious conductor of gracelessness and good-humored imperfection, this album champions simplicity, catchiness, and cranberry-plush playfulness, without ever maliciously satirizing the material of inspiration. Rado enters familiar musical forms and puppeteers caricature voices with the most appreciative irreverence and, stretching out on a big burlesque bed, he bends brass platitude until it sounds Rado-y and golden. – JACLYN COHEN

 

Track List:

1. Seven Horses
2. Hand in Mine
3. Looking 4a Girl Like U
4. Dance Away Your Ego
5. I Wood
6. Faces
7. Oh, Suzanna!
8. All the Lights Went Out in Georgia
9. I Wanna Feel it Now!!!
10. Would You Always Be At Home
11. Law & Order
12. Pot of Gold

Glasvegas - Rolling Stone Daily Download

Click Here To Download Glasvegas' Title Track

Later...When The TV Turns To Static

Off Their New Album Due In Stores September 3rd

Later...When The TV Turns To Static is Glasvegas' third studio album.  Written and produced by lead vocalist and songwriter, James Allan, this ten track 45 minute sojourn of heartfelt melancholia and broken relationships is set against a backdrop of scorching soundscapes that lift the soul into heights of abandoned euphoria. Fans can click here for an album sampler and first listen:

Later...When The TV Turns To Static - Album Sampler

The album 'Later...When The TV Turns To Static' is available for pre-order via the band's website www.glasvegas.net and will be in-stores on September 3rd. Glasvegas is: James Allan (Vocals, Guitar), Rab Allan (Guitar), Paul Donoghue (Bass), Jonna Löfgren (Drums) Stay tuned for U.S. touring info.

glasvegas.net | facebook.com/glasvegas | twitter.com/glasvegas  youtube.com/glasvegas | soundcloud.com/glasvegas | glasvegas.tumblr.com

Glasvegas - Photo Credit: Danny North

 

of Montreal shares new single + touring the US this fall

OF MONTREAL SHARES NEW SINGLE "SHE AIN'T SPEAKIN' NOW"

TOURING THE UNITED STATES THIS FALL

LOUSY WITH SYLVIANBRIAR OUT OCTOBER 8TH VIA POLYVINYL

 Photograph courtesy of Nina Barnes

After recently announcing a fall US tour with La Luz in support of their forthcoming new album Lousy With Sylvianbriar, of Montreal are back today to share new single "She Ain't Speakin' Now." Premiered yesterday by Rolling Stone, the track fits in the same aesthetic vein as album opener and lead single "Fugitive Air" while also showcasing the new album's softer side, as it bounces between moment of full-on, plugged-in rock & roll squalor and softly cooed vocals over acoustic guitar. Check out the new track, along with all of the band's upcoming tour dates, below.

STREAM: "She Ain't Speakin' Now" - 

 https://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/she-aint-speakin-now

TOUR DATES

   

10/18/13 @ 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA

10/22/13 @ Cat's Cradle - Carrboro, NC

10/23/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC

10/24/13 @ U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC

10/25/13 @ Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA

10/26/13 @ Middle East - Cambridge, MA

10/27/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY

10/28/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY*

10/29/13 @ Beachland - Cleveland, OH*

10/30/13 @ Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL*

10/31/13 @ Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI*

11/01/13 @ Cedar Cultural Center - Minneapolis, MN*

11/02/13 @ Waiting Room - Omaha, NE*

11/03/13 @ Marquis Theater - Denver, CO*

11/04/13 @ Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT*

11/05/13 @ Korah Shrine - Boise, ID*

11/06/13 @ Neomos - Seattle, WA*

11/07/13 @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR*

11/08/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*

11/09/13 @ Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA*

11/10/13 @ Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA*

11/11/13 @ Largo at The Coronet - Los Angeles, CA*

11/12/13 @ Club Congress - Tucson, AZ*

11/14/13 @ Trees - Dallas, TX*

11/15/13 @ Mohawk - Austin, TX*

11/16/13 @ Howlin' Wolf - New Orleans, LA*

11/17/13 @ Terminal West - Atlanta, GA*

* = w/ La Luz

A Place To Bury Strangers @ Death By Audio

All pictures taken in Portland by Christiana Tuck.

A Place to Bury Strangers will be playing next Thursday August 22 at Death By 
Audio with Bleeding Rainbow, Shark? and Potty Mouth.  $10 Cover.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/07/a_place_to_bury_22.html

APTBS will also be releasing a live album available only at their merch table:

Limited to 500 copies. "A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS LOUD AND LIVE IN 2012" on 
marbled colored 12" vinyl with hand silk screened covers.
This contains 8 live tracks from 8 different shows during 2012. We will be 
selling these at our upcoming shows and they have arrived just in time for our 
European tour (see dates below).
 

TRACK LISTING
Onwards to The Wall - Utrecht
Nothing Will Surprise Me - Hamburg
I Know Ill See You - Barcelona
Drill It up - Malmo
You Are The One - Brooklyn
Ego Death - Arizona
I Lived My Life To Stand In The Shadow Of Your Heart - Leeds
Ocean - Bordeaux


We will also have limited numbers of the following *BRAND NEW* items:

-“Live at Death By Audio 2012” 
http://famousclass.com/store/albums/live-at-dba-flexi-book/

Brought to you by our good friends at Famous Class who also did the LAMC 
"Burning Plastic 7". A playable flexi record book featuring kick ass tracks from 
Jeff The Brotherhood, Tim Harrington as OBFS, Black Pus, Ruins Alone, Future 
Islands, Eric Copeland, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Metz, Grooms, and A Place To 
Bury Strangers, all recorded LIVE in 2012 at the Brooklyn venue Death By Audio. 
This puppy comes packed with artwork by Brian Chippendale, Dave Singley, Perry 
Lubin, Matt Leins, Ron Rege Jr, Jon Vermilyea, and Brendan Nakahara!
-"Strange Moon - A Tribute To Dead Moon"
This 2013 RSD release 12" comes with a free download. 7 Dead Moon songs covered 
by us. Raw and ragged! 
-"Raiser w/ Easy Life 7"
Comes in a really cool folded cardboard box. The people at Fractal Press 
(Greece) put a lot of love into this. These songs are only available on this 
release. We have a limited 200 copies.
-"You Are The One w/I Can Feel Your Heart Inside My Head 7" 
We never got to bring many (if any!?) of these to Europe. This has completely 
new packaging and is on clear vinyl.

A Place to Bury Strangers 2013 European Tour

Saturday September 14 - Leffinge, Belgium - Leffingeleuren Festival
Sunday September 15 - Lille, France - La Peniche
Monday September 16 - Cologne, Germany - MTC
Wednesday September 18 - Munster, Germany - Gleiss 22
Thursday September 19 - Groningen, Holland - Vera
Friday September 20 - Amsterdam, Holland - Bitterzoet
Saturday September 21 - Tilbourg, Holland - Incubate Festival
Monday September 23 - Berlin, Germany - Lido
Tuesday September 24 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Loppen
Thursday September 26 - Malmo, Sweden - Babel
Friday September 27 - Gothenberg, Sweden - Pustervik
Saturday September 28 - Stockholm, Sweden - Strand
Tuesday October 1 - Helsinki, FInland - Tavastia 
Wednesday October 2 - St. Petersburg, Russia - Zal Ojidania
Thursday October 3 - Moscow, Russia - Moscow Hall
Saturday October 5 - Kiev, Ukraine - Bingo
Sunday October 6 - Minsk, Bellarus - RE-PUBLIC
Tuesday October 8 - Warsaw, Poland - Cafe Kulturina
Wednesday October 9 - Krakow, Poland - TBD
Thursday October 10 - Budapest, Hungary - 
Friday October 11 -  Ljubjana, Slovenia - Channel Zero
Saturday October 12 - Zagreb, Croatia - Mocvara
Sunday October 13 -  Belgrade, Serbia - KC Grad
Monday October 14 -  Skopje, Macedonia - MKC
Tuesday October 15 - Sofia, Bulgaria - MIXTAPE 5
Friday October 18 - Thessaloniki, Greece - Mylos Club
Saturday October 19 - Athen, Greece - Fuzz Club
Tuesday October 22 - Lecce, Italy - Arci Rubik
Thursday October 24 - Rome, Italy - Blackout
Friday October 25 - Milan, Italy - Lo-Fi
Saturday October 26 - Verona, Italy - Interzona
Sunday October 27 - Winthertur, Switzerland - Albani
Monday October 28 - Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-Son
Tuesday October 29 - Marseille, France - Le Cabaret Aleatoire
Thursday October 31 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz 3
Friday November 1 - Madrid, Spain - Moby Dick
Saturday November 2 - Cartaxo, Portugal - Centro Cultural do Cartaxo
Sunday November 3 - Porto, Portugal - Hard Club
Tuesday November 5 - Vitoria, Spain - Jimmy Jazz
Wednesday November 6 - Toulouse, France - La Dynamo
Thursday November 7 - Lorient, France - Les Indisciples Festival
Friday November 8 - Paris, France - Trabendo
Saturday November 9 - London, UK, Shacklewell Arms 

Hands Announce Fall Tour Dates With On And On

 Hands Announce Fall Tour Dates With On And On 

Debut Album Synesthesia Out Now On Kill Rock Stars

New Daytrotter Session Available for Download

 "Hands play the instruments that induce you to dance and hear
those sounds that make you want to feel it all." - Filter
  

"If you're a fan of Hot Chip or Tanlines, this is your band to  follow in 2013." - Stereogum

 

"Los Angeles outfit Hands are making it okay to dance again...Imagine Tanlines freebasing on Passion Pit; it's a high you'll want to ride again and again." - Consequence Of Sound

Listen: Hands Daytrotter Session

Watch: "Brave Motion" video via Noisey or YouTube

Los Angeles-based indie rock band Hands are excited to get back on the road this fall. Hands will be touring in support of their debut full-length album, Synesthesia, out now on Kill Rock Stars. The band will be supporting On And On and the upcoming tour will also include a stop at Portland's MusicFest NW. Hands stopped by Daytrotter earlier this spring and the newly recorded session is available to download here.

A relative newcomer to the LA scene, Hands began as a two-piece from Philadelphia before Halliday and Sweeney headed west and added the low and thump of Hess and Staniloff. The band made a mark on the scene immediately, quickly playing packed shows across the country including stops at SXSW, CMJ, Deluna Fest and Los Angeles' Echo Park Rising. Hands' ability to win over fans with their feverish live show and dance-party-ready sound has already earned them opening spots for the likes of Deerhoof, DeVotchKa, Foster the People, WAVVES, Geographer, White Arrows, Maps and Atlases and Kimbra as well as playing shows to sold out crowds at venues across LA.

For now, Hands' graceful and danceable indie rock is still under the radar, as evidenced by their spot in TIME Magazine's 11 Bands You Don't Know (But Should) List, but they are quickly rising to the surface, bringing their melodies and thumping beats with them. Stereogum recently said, "If you're a fan of Hot Chip or Tanlines, this is your band to follow in 2013." Over the past year, Hands has built a devoted following for their evolving palette of sounds, soaring melodies, and complex looping song structures. With overwhelming responses to first listens of the record and Hands hitting the road for most of 2013, surely this is the year that Hands will start to make waves. 

Hands Tour Dates

09.05 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios (MusicFest NW)

09.06 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern *

09.07 Vancouver, BC @ The Media Club *

09.08 Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo *

09.10 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord *

09.11 Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite *

09.12 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *

09.13 Tuscon, AZ @ Solar Culture *

09.14 Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock *

09.16 Austin, TX @ Mohawk *

09.17 Dallas, TX @ Three Links *

09.19 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *

* w/ ON AN ON

Pere Ubu US begins September 6th at Hopscotch Music Festival

Pere Ubu North American tour begins September 6th!

Tour kicks off at Hopscotch Music Festival

Stream/Embed/Download: Pere Ubu - "414 Seconds" via Pitchfork

 

"If Pere Ubu's '414 Seconds' were only an instrumental, it would be plenty terrifying: During these slinking seven minutes, drum hits trigger guitar cries that sound like death moans in the distance, while reeds of electronic noise slither like snakes through the din. But it's not instrumental, and both the curdled voice and the oneirological torment of frontman David Thomas only exacerbate the music's hall of horrors." 

- Grayson Currin, Pitchfork
__________________________________________________

Pere Ubu returned with their first new studio album in over three years with the January release of Lady From Shanghai on Fire Records (home to Guided by Voices, Mission of Burma, Giant Sand, Bailterspace, Josephine Foster and many others). The album ushers in a new era in the history of Pere Ubu, with David Thomas and band continuing to provoke and shock listeners, further establishing them as one of the most innovative, progressive and important bands of all time.
 

The Pere Ubu project was supposed to be an end, not a beginning. Assembled in August 1975 to be the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of the Cleveland music underground, the plan was to record one, maybe two singles and exist no more. Within months, however, those first self-produced records were being snapped up in London, Paris, Manchester, New York and Minneapolis. Pere Ubu was changing the face of rock music. Over the next 34 years they defined the art of cult; refined the voice of the outsider; and inspired the likes of Joy Division, Pixies, Husker Du, Henry Rollins, REM, Sisters of Mercy, Thomas Dolby, Bauhaus, Julian Cope and countless others.

 

 

Stream/Embed/Download: Pere Ubu - "Free White" via National Public Radio

 

Pere Ubu make a music that is a disorienting mix of midwestern groove rock, “found” sound, analog synthesizers, falling-apart song structures and careening vocals. It is a mix that has mesmerized critics, musicians and fans for decades.

For music, previews, interview requests and guest list requests, please reach out to Bill Benson at 906-543-9455.

Pere Ubu Fall Tour:

09.06 • Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, NC)
09.07 • The Earl (Atlanta, GA)
09.08 • Mercy Lounge (Nashville, TN)
09.10 • Rock And Roll Hotel (Washington, DC)
09.11 • North Star Bar (Philadelphia, PA)
09.12 • Bowery Ballroom (New York, NY)
09.13 • Fete Lounge (Providence, RI)
09.14 • Brighton Music Hall (Allston, MA)
09.15 • Higher Ground - Lounge (South Burlington, VT)
09.16 • Maverick's (Ottawa, ON)
09.17 • Le Cabaret du Mile End (Montreal, QC)
09.18 • Lee's Palace (Toronto, ON)
09.19 • Beachland Ballroom (Cleveland, OH)
09.20 • Trinosophes (Detroit, MI)
09.21 • The Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)

09.22 • The Bishop (Bloomington, IN)

Press for Lady From Shanghai:

"Pere Ubu made some of the darkest and most creative music of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Thirty five years after its release, The Modern Dance would easily make my top 10 of all time. We hear the word "industrial" bandied about to describe music — The Modern Dance exemplified that genre.  Wordsmith and singer David Thomas and his ever-changing band members have made more than a dozen albums worth hearing since then. And now they're back with a new song, "Free White," from a new album, Lady From Shanghai, due in January. It's good to know that singular, defining sound still haunts this band." Bob Boilen - NPR
 

“Ubu are generally regarded as the missing link between the Velvets and punk. From the beginning they obviously understood the nuts and bolts of popular music, and then loosened them.” Joe Cushley – Mojo
 

“They’re the greatest out-rock ‘n’ roll group of this millennium, and probably the next.” Edwin Pouncey – The Wire
 

Production Notes:
Produced by David Thomas.
Engineered by Paul Hamann.
Recorded at Suma (Painesville OH) and also at Nuke India Now (Hove) and Urban Iguana (NYC) studios.
 

Band:
David Thomas
Keith Moliné – guitar
Robert Wheeler – synthesizer
Gagarin – synthesizer
Michele Temple – bass
Steve Mehlman – drums