Speedy Ortiz debuts David Lynch-inspired video via Vanity Fair + Embarking on tour benefitting GRCF

SPEEDY ORTIZ SHARES "MY DEAD GIRL" VIDEO VIA VANITY FAIR

EMBARKING ON ALL-AGES TOUR WITH PROCEEDS BENEFITTING THE GIRLS ROCK CAMP FOUNDATION

AWARDED 'ARTIST OF THE YEAR' HONORS BY NOISEY

WATCH: "My Dead Girl" - 

https://youtu.be/hErnHl1R0UA

Speedy Ortiz teamed up with director Elle Schneider to create the David Lynch-homaging video for "My Dead Girl". Speedy Ortiz drummer Mike Falcone explains why Lynch is their favorite neo-noir filmmaker and how he inspired the band's music video, "He's the master when it comes to emulation of dreams. Mulholland Drive might have the best two-hour dream sequence out of any movie because it feels like a vivid subconscious progression. An extreme scenario might generate a completely nonchalant reaction, or vice versa. Bizarre details can feel totally logical. This is partially why the puppets are in our video. When you're within a dream, puppets hanging out at a casino might make complete sense."

Releasing "My Dead Girl" on Vanity Fair's website exactly one week prior to their upcoming tour, the band is excited to bring more awareness to the Girls Rock Camp Foundation by headlining a series of all-ages shows from which 100% of the net proceeds will benefit the Girls Rock Camp Foundation (http://www.girlsrockcampfoundation.org/). GRCF is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing funding for Girls Rock Camps. The purpose of the camps is to develop life skills, creative expression and collaboration through music. Since its inception in 2014, GRCF have supported over 44 camps for girls of all economic backgrounds in both cities and rural areas.

To further incentivize donations, GRCF and artist Michael DeForge have teamed up w/ Speedy Ortiz to offer exclusive prizes for various donation levels (baseline ticket prices may vary slightly in certain venues):

$10 = ticket only, no donation
$15 = ticket +$5 GRCF donation (free custom Speedy Ortiz poster by Michael DeForge for that night's show!)
$20 = ticket +$10 GRCF donation (free custom Speedy Ortiz nail art stickers!)
$40 = ticket +$30 GRCF donation (free GRC print (ex: http://www.girlsrockcampfoundation.org/fully-funded) + all other prizes included!)

Speaking further about the tour, Speedy Ortiz' Sadie Dupuis said:

"We toured non-stop in 2015 and wanted to cap it off playing a series of all ages shows (which is always our favorite kind of show). We've also wanted to do a tour with a charity fundraising component for a long while. We've done a few fundraisers this year--for the Ferguson Library and the Baltimore Food Bank--but for this tour, we wanted to do something that had a national impact while still supporting local communities.

The Girls Rock Camp Foundation was the perfect choice. GRCF provides funding and support to the the various Girls Rock organizations around the world, which in turn provide affordable music education to kids. Girls Rock helps level the music business' playing field by coaching girls to form bands, develop skills in music engineering and technical production, and build their self esteem along the way. We love the work GRCF does, and are proud to support them on this tour--and can't wait to play with a Girls Rock Boston band at our hometown show! We're also so lucky that our friend Michael DeForge, one of the best comics writers and illustrators around, has designed a narrative poster series to help benefit GRCF as well." 

See below for all upcoming tour dates and what the press is saying about Foil Deer.

 

Tour Dates:

12/8 - Providence, RI @ AS220

with Downtown Boys, Whore paint

12/9 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Downstairs

with Downtown Boys, Ursula

12/10 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church

with: Downtown Boys, Palm, Anomie

*special DJ set by Allison Crutchfield

12/11 - Brooklyn, NY @ Silent Barn

with: Downtown Boys, Eskimeaux, Very Fresh

*special DJ sets by Jenn & Liz Pelly

12/12 - Brooklyn, NY @ Palisades

with: Aye Nako, Dirty Dishes, Gemma

12/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery

with: Beauty Pill, Aye Nako

12/14 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel

with: Aye Nako, Atta Girl

12/15 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook

with: Aye Nako, No Love

*special DJ set by Merge Records DJs

12/16 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn

with: Aye Nako, Suno Deko

12/17 - Nashville, TN @ The End

with: Aye Nako, Idle Bloom, Gnarwhal

12/18 - Louisville, KY @ The New Vintage

with: Aye Nako, Didi, hoe garden

Pure Bathing Culture w/ Death Cab for Cutie + New Video "She Shakes"

PURE BATHING CULTURE ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES

SUPPORTING DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR "SHE SHAKES"

PRAY FOR RAIN ONE OF GORILLA VS BEAR'S BEST ALBUMS OF 2015

 OUT NOW ON PARTISAN RECORDS US

MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES EU

WATCH: "She Shakes" on YouTube

LISTEN: "Pray For Rain" on Soundcloud

  

 

On the heels of their headlining tour supporting new release Pray For Rain (Partisan, 10/23), Pure Bathing Culture just announced two year-end shows with Death Cab For Cutie. The two bands will team up on December 16th and 17th to play Portland's KNRK December to Remember shows. Pure Bathing Culture will play KEXP's Yule Benefit concert as well on December 12th with Wolf Alice.

Today the band also debuts new video for album track "She Shakes," a striking portrait of the duo side by side that showcases the stark contrast between Sarah Versprille's "transcendental" (Stereogum) vocals and Daniel Hindman's classically trained guitar skills. Click below to watch. 

 

Pray For Rain is their second studio album and the first produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). Since being released at the end of October, it has garnered fans at Vulture, Noisey, Interview Magazine and more. The FADER calls their music "a serving of 1980s synth-pop that is equal parts danceable and devastating." 

PRAISE FOR PURE BATHING CULTURE'S PRAY FOR RAIN

"Synth pop fun...lovely" --New York Mag (Vulture)

"chiming guitar chords that sway between speakers...a pinch of 80s radio power pop...jetpacked into the future by fuzzed up bass" --VICE Noisey

"['Pray For Rain'] adds new oomph to the duo's crystalline transcendental yacht-pop..."
--Stereogum 

"[Versprille's] voice layers with clean synths, guitars, and bass for a song that has an overarching uplifting tone, despite its relatively somber lyricism."

--Interview Magazine

  "Pray for Rain sounds very polished, with Vesprille's poetic lyrics melding with dreamy pop melodies." --Bitch Magazine   

"[Showcases] Versprille and Hindman's ability to inject heat-seeking pop missiles in their melodies, aiming them straight for listeners' hearts and making them impossible to dodge." --Portland Mercury

"a poppier, more expansive sound with stylish grace and keep just enough of the mystery intact to stay interesting." --AllMusic

"...hopelessly earwormy, so be prepared to love it instantly and carry it with you for days."
--ElevenPDX

"highly addictive dream-pop" --BrooklynVegan

   

Tour Dates

12/12/15 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos - KEXP Yule Benefit Concert w/ Wolf Alice

12/16/15 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom - December to Remember event w/Death Cab for Cutie

12/17/15 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom - December to Remember event w/Death Cab for Cutie

Nada Surf announces new album and tour dates; shares new song

NADA SURF ANNOUNCES NEW RECORD,

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE,

OUT MARCH 4, 2016

 

FIRST TRACK, "BELIEVE YOU'RE MINE," AVAILABLE TO HEAR NOW

 

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

photo credit: Bernie Dechant

 

(New York, NY) -- Nada Surf has announced the release of its new album, You Know Who You Are, out March 4, 2016. The band's eighth record and fifth for Barsuk, it was produced by long-time comrade Tom Beaujour at Nuthouse Recording n Hoboken, NJ. The album marks the band's first as an official quartet with the core unit - singer/ songwriter/guitarist Matthew Caws, bassist Daniel Lorca and drummer Ira Elliot - joined by Doug Gillard on second guitar. Album pre-orders begin today, December 2. The first song from the new collection, "Believe You're Mine," is available to hear now.

 

Earlier today, "Believe You're Mine" was spun by KEXP's John In The Morning, KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic and  WXPN.

 

 

LISTEN TO "BELIEVE YOU'RE MINE"

 

ALBUM PRE-ORDER LINKS:

Barsuk

Amazon

Google

iTunes

 

Having recorded five albums in 10 years and toured extensively in support of all of them, Nada Surf opted to follow 2012's cracking The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy with a brief but well-earned hiatus. So in January 2015, when Caws informed Nada Surf's vociferous Facebook following that a new record was just about done, the news was greeted with explosive enthusiasm. The music was in the can, he announced, and all that remained was to finish up a few lyrics and sing a few vocals; something he planned to do on off-days off during an upcoming solo acoustic tour. Caws even included a photo of the recording set-up he was bringing in the car.

"I was so eager to have an album done that I believed in it as it was," Caws recalls. "But the great thing about being 'finished' is that you can take a breath and evaluate, because the pressure to 'do it' is gone. The more I listened and thought about it, the more I realized that I might want to keep working. Also, I'd sent the tracks to my friend Josh, who runs Barsuk Records, the label we've been on since 2002, and he said 'It's great,' but followed that with a pregnant pause. I got the message. I didn't take that as a critique as much as a belief that I could do better. It was very freeing," Caws continues. "There were already a bunch of songs in the can that we all liked, so I could think more expansively about what the album could be."

Caws' instinct to heed his inner editorial voice proved to be spot on: he dropped a few songs, tweaked others, and wrote a few more that, "definitely feel different from what we've done before," he says. "Believe You're Mine" was rejiggered and sped up, while "Cold To See Clear" - originally penned for a collaboration to be named later with Michael Lerner of Telekinesis - was deemed a better fit for Nada Surf. Just before starting You Know Who You Are, Caws had gone to Los Angeles to write with Dan Wilson, who in addition to his success with Semisonic, has won two Grammy Awards for his songs with Adele and the Dixie Chicks. They weren't writing for anyone in particular, they just wanted to see what would happen. Caws felt so good about "Rushing" and "Victory's Yours," that he asked Wilson if he could include them on the new Nada Surf album. Wilson gave the green light, and even offered to contribute backing vocals. When the band returned to Hoboken, NJ for another round of sessions with producer/guitarist Tom Beaujour (Jennifer O'Connor, Amy Bezunartea), the songs were tracked.
 
And lo and behold, what would have been another really good Nada Surf album (their seventh since getting signed to a major in the go-go 90's and scoring a worldwide alterna-hit with "Popular") became what could well be the most representative collection of the group's two-decade career, all while pushing towards whatever comes next. While the band has always had a surplus of horsepower for velocity rockers and an astounding level of confidence live, they've been gaining the discipline and finesses to change gears, more so with each release. Captured in the album's 10 tracks is every beloved facet of the band, but You Know Who You Are also finds much on offer that stands apart from anything previously heard in the band's diverse catalogue.

 

"Sometimes it feels like, to our audience at least, we are two or three different bands at once," Caws concludes. "It seems some people are looking to feel better, for encouragement getting over their obstacles, for help figuring life out... not that I've done that myself, other people are looking for love songs, and then some others just want to rock."

 

Nada Surf has confirmed the first leg of a North American tour that begins in Chicago, IL, on May 12, 2016 and ends in Boston, MA, on June 4. The complete tour dates are below.

 

NADA SURF

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

TRACKLISTING

Cold to See Clear

Believe You're Mine

Friend Hospital

New Bird

Out of the Dark

Rushing

Animal

You Know Who You Are

Gold Sounds

Victory's Yours

 

North American tour dates:

 

MAY

12 - Chicago, IL - Thalia

13 - Minneapolis, MN - Fine Line

14 - Omaha, NE - Waiting Room

17 - Vancouver, BC - Venue

18 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre

19 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge

20 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall

21 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram

22 - San Diego, CA - Irenic

24 - Denver, CO - Bluebird

27 - Austin, TX - Parish

28 - Dallas, TX Granada

 

JUNE

1 - Washington, DC - 9:30

2 - Philadelphia, PA - World Café Live

3 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace

4 - Boston, MA - Paradise

 

M. Ward Announces New Album + Shares New Single "Girl From Conejo Valley"

M. WARD

ANNOUNCES EIGHTH SOLO ALBUM MORE RAIN TO BE RELEASED MARCH 4, 2016 VIA MERGE RECORDS LISTEN TO "GIRL FROM CONEJO VALLEY" - PRESS HERE TO STREAM

M. Ward returns with his eighth solo album, More Rain, which will be released on March 4, 2016 via Merge Records. PRESS HERE to stream Ward's new single "Girl From Conejo Valley," which is a nostalgic trot through people he used to know and a place he used to be. 

Having spent the last decade-and-a-half based in the perennially damp Portland, Oregon, the singer-songwriter and producer has learned how to shine through the soggy gloom by simply embracing its inevitability. With his new album More Rain, Ward has made a true gotta-stay-indoors, rainy-season record that looks upwards through the weather while reflecting on his past.

 

"I think one of the biggest mysteries of America right now is this: How are we able to process unending bad news on Page One and then go about our lives the way the Style section portrays us?" says Ward. "There must be a place in our brains that allows us to take a bird's-eye view of humanity, and I think music is good at helping people-myself included-go to that place."

 

This album finds Ward picking up the tempo and volume a bit from his previous release, 2012's A Wasteland Companion. Where that record introspectively looked in from the outside, More Rain finds Ward on the inside, gazing out. Begun four years ago and imagined initially as a DIY doo-wop album that would feature Ward experimenting with layering his own voice, it soon branched out in different directions, a move that he credits largely to his collaborators here who include R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, Neko Case, k.d. lang, The Secret Sisters, and Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. The result is a collection of upbeat, sonically ambitious yet canonically familiar songs that both propel Ward's reach and satisfy longtime fans.

  

Ward has released a string of acclaimed solo albums over the past several years, along with five LPs with Zooey Deschanel as She & Him and a 2009 collaborative album with My Morning Jacket's Jim James and Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis under the moniker Monsters of Folk. In addition to his celebrated work as a musician, Ward is an accomplished producer, handling those duties for such luminaries as Mavis Staples, Jenny Lewis, and Carlos Forster as well as his own musical projects.

 

MORE RAIN

1.  More Rain
2. Pirate Dial
3. Time Won't Wait
4. Confession
5. I'm Listening (Child's Theme)
6. Girl from Conejo Valley
7. Slow Driving Man
8. You're So Good To Me
9. Temptation
10. Phenomenon
11. Little Baby
12. I'm Going Higher

Pre-order More Rain on CD or LP in the Merge store. The first 750 pre-orders will received a limited edition translucent red vinyl. Pre-order the album digitally via iTunes.

http://www.mwardmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mwardmusic
https://twitter.com/mwardtweeting

Diane Coffee 2016 tour

2016 WINTER TOUR DATES ARE IN!

POTTY MOUTH PREMIERE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "CREEPER WEED" ON i-D

PREMIERE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR "CREEPER WEED" ON i-D  PRESS HERE TO WATCH     "It's a song that carries a tone of cool that can't be bought..." - KEXP Song of the Day

(Screenshot from Potty Mouth's "Creeper Weed" music video) "A little bit of Breeders, a little bit of Cars, and a lot of can't miss hooks." - Rolling Stone  "'Triumphant...gleams with bright, well-tuned hooks and guitarist/vocalist Abby Weems' crystal clear, melodic snarl." - Pitchfork "Textural upgrade...their hooky punk songs are actually bigger-sounding than ever." - The FADER "The oomph of 'Cherry Picking' can't just be chalked up to expert mimicry: It's the sound of a good band becoming great." - NPR Heavy Rotation "Standout self-titled EP...a fresh new twist on pop-punk." - i-D "It's not quite pop-punk, it's not quite indie rock...but it is fucking brilliant." - The Line Of Best Fit "Welcome to Valhalla. Potty Mouth's latest is a shred-fest with hair-flipping lyrics that feels like 10 Things I Hate About You for the millennial." - Entertainment Weekly  "It embodies the same kind of carefree-but-not-really attitude that was so in vogue in the '90s." - Stereogum  "alt-rock excellence" - SPIN   New England trio Potty Mouth has premiered their new music video for post-punk single "Creeper Weed." PRESS HERE to watch. Directed by Abby Banks and shot in Los Angeles with a crew of young female skaters, the video was captured on a classic 90s skate video camera (Sony vx 1000 DV tape), paying homage to a decade that Potty Mouth  is so deeply inspired by. The single is from their latest, critically-lauded offering, the Potty Mouth EP - a project that defined their raw sonic delivery to a new profound punk sound.   Potty Mouth is currently working on their new full length album. Lead singer and guitarist Abby Weems has been honing in on her impassioned songwriting skills, and was recently taking time to write with the band's idols Nina Gordon and Louise Postof Veruca Salt.     PRESS HERE to stream the Potty Mouth EP via Spotify.  PRESS HERE to listen to Potty Mouth make a hilarious prank call during their interview withBillboard's Alt In Our Stars    http://pottymouthgirls.tumblr.com/  www.facebook.com/pottymouthgirls https://twitter.com/pottymouthmass https://instagram.com/pottymouthband/

POP DUO CHAIRLIFT RELEASE NEW SINGLE ROMEO FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM MOTH

POP DUO CHAIRLIFT RELEASE NEW SINGLE ROMEO FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM MOTH MOTH TO RELEASE VIA COLUMBIA RECORDS ON JANUARY 22ND ROMEO PREMIERED ON PITCHFORK; AVAILABLE ON 12/1

(Columbia Records; New York, NY; November 30, 2015)  Critically acclaimed pop duo Chairlift has released new music in the form of their second single, the inspiring, upbeat groove “Romeo.” The track, which follows the much-lauded first single “Ch Ching” was premiered today on Pitchfork and will be available on all digital sales providers starting on December 1st. The lush, swaggering, running-themed single off their forthcoming album Moth will be released both physically and digitally on January 22, 2016 via Columbia Records. Stream “Romeo” here: http://smarturl.it/RomeoAudio Beginning 12/1: Download “Romeo” here: http://smarturl.it/Romeo Spotify – http://smarturl.it/RomeoSp Track list for Moth: Look Up Polymorphing Romeo Ch-Ching Crying In Public Ottawa to Osaka Moth To The Flame Show U Off Unfinished Business No Such Thing As Illusion As to “Romeo”, the unique song is based on the Greek myth of Atalanta, a heroine abandoned at birth who becomes an excellent runner: her father hears of her prowess and demands that she return to society to marry, however, she refuses and proudly announces that she'll only marry a man who can beat her in a foot race, and will behead those who lose. After hundreds have been killed and no winner emerges, a suitor named Melanion finally beats her in the race by throwing golden apples into her path to distract her, crossing the finish line first. “Romeo” is essentially told from the point of view of the braggadocio Atalanta, as her last race is about to start; hence the arrogant and aggressive nature. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wimberly describes that while in the nascent stages of “Romeo”, he and Caroline “started building a groove and it felt like a running beat. Caroline wanted the lyrics to stay true to that idea.” When asked to describe the songwriting of “Romeo,” frontwoman Caroline Polachek recalls, “I started studying opera two years ago, and immediately fell in love with Handel.  I tried to channel that same stately, baroque feeling in the chorus of “Romeo". Although the single is the second song to be released from Chairlift in three years, the duo – comprised of writer-producers and multi-instrumentalists Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly – has hardly been quiet.  They collaborated with Beyoncé on her groundbreaking self-titled album via the track “No Angel,” which was written and produced by Caroline and co-produced by Patrick.  Caroline released and toured Arcadia, a self-produced solo album under the alias Ramona Lisa and collaborated with SBTRKT, Blood Orange and others, while Patrick produced and collaborated with artists such as Solange Knowles, Wet, Kelela, and Tei Shi. An evolution from their last album, 2012’s Something, Moth proves to be an emotionally uninhibited and markedly stronger, more pop inspired body of work. A very New York City inspired album, listeners can expect to be led through an aural mix of big, rich pop inspired hooks, vibrating bass, lively brass and sensuous R&B inspired vocals, all anchored in the duo’s meticulously crafted instrumentation. Visit http://chairlifted.com for additional album and show information.

Credit: Tim Barber