Rest in Power Alan Vega 1938-2016

Rest in Power Alan Vega. 1938-2016

Adam Green Announces Concert & Movie Tour

Adam Green Announces Concert & Movie Tour Aladdin Soundtrack Available Now Via Totally Gross National Product

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Adam Green - "Never Lift A Finger" https://youtu.be/iEFKYccm9XM LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Adam Green's Aladdin Trailer http://youtu.be/AGeo9oXwHKc "The most insane movie of the year is also totally genius" - Nylon "A visual marvel. A movie that belongs in a museum" - RogerEbert.com "Adam is our Jodorowsky, watch and be cleansed" - Father John Misty Renowned musician and filmmaker Adam Green announced his combination concert/movie tour for his Adam Green's Aladdin project today. Aladdin is a hyper-sensory, poetic and humorously subversive take on the classic Arabian Nights tale, written and directed by Green. The movie features a brand new soundtrack album composed and recorded by Green. The film is a modern day version of Aladdin, with Green starring as the titular character, and explores the recesses of Green’s symbolic imagination wherein the lamp is a 3-D printer, the princess is a decadent socialite, the planet gets a sex-change and its population prints out an analog version of the Internet. “With Aladdin, I wanted to create a single and unified experience to showcase my music, art and writing,” said Adam Green. “When creating Aladdin, I approached the script like it was a song. It has been the creative journey of a lifetime, and I’m so excited to put this out!” The fantasy film stars an ensemble cast featuring some of New York’s biggest arts, music, and film talent, including: Adam Green - Aladdin Macaulay Culkin - Ralph the Rebel Leader Natasha Lyonne - Aladdin’s Mom Jack Dishel - Uncle Gary / Sultan Alia Shawkat - Aladdin's sister Francesco Clemente - The Genie Har Mar Superstar - British Druggie Guy Devendra Banhart - Saucemaker Bip Ling - the Princess Zoe Kravitz - Old Miner The movie was filmed entirely with handmade paper-máche sets, with more than 500 props and 30 rooms constructed out of phone books, newspapers, glue, and house-paint. The satirical odyssey revolves around Aladdin’s dysfunctional family, who live in an ordinary city ruled by a corrupt Sultan and explores themes of technology, government repression, greed and true-love. About Adam Adam Green is renowned around the globe as one of music’s most unique and prolific songwriting talents - his songs have been performed by artists as diverse as The Libertines, Carla Bruni, Kelly Willis, Dean & Britta, and Will Oldham.  A New York native, Green was just 17-years old when he recorded and released his first album. As part of the downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties he made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches, who enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning, #1 Billboard Chart ranking soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno. As a solo artist Green has recorded 9 albums, many of which have become cult hits.  His 2005 record Gemstones went Gold in Europe. His eruptive bursts of creativity have led him into the world of movies and visual arts - staging exhibitions across Europe and America, most recently at LISTE art fair in Basel.  He also found himself writing/producing/directing and acting in The Wrong Ferrari (2010), a “screwball tragedy” which was the first feature film shot entirely on an iPhone. It has since been featured in the curriculum of NYU’s Tisch Film School. Rolling Stone magazine described it as “Fellini on Ketamine.” In 2015 Adam began a collaboration with Mich Dulce making a line of hats inspired by his artwork and the Aladdin movie. The designs incorporate elements from his HOUSEFACE symbolic alphabet, a group of reduced cubist pictographs gleaned from the facial features of the popular cartoon characters Garfield, Big Bird, and Elmo.  In January of 2016 he will exhibit the art from Adam Green's Aladdin at the Fondation Beyeler Museum in Basel, Switzerland.   Of his now multifaceted career Green, says: “You know how people are always looking for a unifying theory? I was looking for a unifying theory of artistic expression. I was trying to create some kind of fluidity within my music, art, writing. If you listen to my songs, you see they’re kind of cartoonish. I try to make songs like my paintings. When creating my movie, I approached the script like it was a song.” ADAM GREEN'S ALADDIN - TRACKLISTING SIDE A  1. Fix My Blues                - 2:20  2. God = Humans            - 0:15 3. Nature of the Clown     -2:25 4. Aladdin are you Ok?    - 0:04 5. Someone Else's Plan   - 2:47 6. Time Chair                    - 2:48 7. Never Lift a Finger        - 2:27 8. Techno-Fungal Insect Species - 0:24 9. Birthday Mambo               - 1:01 10. Chinese Dance Theme    - 1:26  SIDE B 11. Me From Far Away          - 2:53 12. Do Some Blow (With Me)  - 1:49 13. I Only Take Cocaine    - 0:09 14. Phoning in the Blues    - 1:35 15. Trading Our Graves      - 2:19 16. Life In a Videogame      - 2:32 17. No Masterpiece Policy   - 0:05 18. Interested in Music      - 1:16 19. What is Dying Like     - 0:55 TOUR DATES Tues Sept 6 – Boston MA - Once Ballroom Wed, Sept 7 – Montreal QC @ Groove Nation Thu, Sept 8 – Toronto ON @ Horseshoe Tavern Fri, Sept 9 – Kalamazoo MI @ Louie’s Sat, Sept 10 – Minneapolis MN @ Icehouse Sun, Sept 11 – Minneapolis MN @ Bryant Lake Bowl/Sound Unseen Aladdin movie Screening + Q&A Mon, Sept 12 – Chicago IL @ Beat Kitchen Tue, Sept 13 – Detroit MI @ El Club Wed, Sept 14 – Columbus OH @ Rumba Thu, Sept 15 – Philadelphia PA @ Milkboy Thu, Sept 22 – New York NY @ Gramercy Theatre Fri, Sept 30 – San Diego CA @ Blonde Sat, Oct 1 – Santa Ana CA @ Frida Cinema Sun, Oct 2 – West Hollywood CA @ Troubadour Tue, Oct 4 – San Francisco CA @ The Chapel Wed, Oct 5 – Portland OR @ Mississippi Studios Thu, Oct 6 –  Vancouver BC @ Rickshaw Theatre Fri, Oct 7 – Seattle WA @ The Sunset  LINKS Website - Facebook - Instagram - Twitter - YouTube - Totally Gross National Product

STILL CORNERS announce Dead Blue Tour 2016

STILL CORNERS are excited to announce the DEAD BLUE TOUR, 

their biggest North American tour yet! Lots of tickets on sale now. Follow at https://twitter.com/stillcorners for updates. 

20-Sep - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar

21-Sep - San Diego, CA - The Casbah 

22-Sep - Los Angeles, CA - The Roxy Theatre 

23-Sep - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room

24-Sep - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill

27-Sep - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge

28-Sep - Seattle, WA - Barboza

29-Sep - Boise, ID - Neurolux

30-Sep - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court

01-Oct - Denver, CO - Lost Lake Lounge 

04-Oct - St Louis, MO - Duck Room @ Blueberry Hill

05-Oct - Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen

06-Oct - Detroit, MI - El Club 

07-Oct - Toronto, ON - The Velvet Underground 

08-Oct - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz PDB

10-Oct - Brooklyn, NY - Baby's All Right 

14-Oct - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's

15-Oct - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs

17-Oct - Baltimore, MA - The Crown

18-Oct - Washington DC - DC9 

22-Oct - Houston, TX - Untapped Festival

24-Oct - Dallas, TX - The Prophet Bar

25-Oct - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger

27-Oct - Austin, TX - Stubb's BBQ

Honeyblood Announce New Album 'Babes Never Die' out 10/28 on FatCat Records, Release New Track

HONEYBLOOD ANNOUNCE BABES NEVER DIE

OUT ON FATCAT RECORDS OCTOBER 28TH, 2016

PREMIERE NEW SINGLE + VIDEO FOR "READY FOR THE MAGIC"

Watch the video for "Ready For The Magic"

Listen to "Ready For The Magic" via Spotify

Honeyblood are back in formidable form. Today the Glasgow two-piece - frontwoman Stina Tweeddale and drummer Cat Myers- premiered incendiary new single and video "Ready For Magic", as well as announcing their second album, the emphatically titled Babes Never Die which is out on Fat Cat Records October 28th.

The follow-up to their eponymous debut, Honeyblood arrived in 2014 as a surprise splash, with stellar from New York Times to Pitchfork.'Ready for The Magic' is a remarkable introduction to Honeyblood 2.0. Both one of their most intense and most intensely catchy tracks to date. Its detuned doom riffage and disco-punk rhythms make space for a tornado of a chorus ode to "the explosive nature of infatuation". The video, a collaboration between the band and director Thomas James, is set in post-apocalyptic Scottish countryside, and follows a tribe of young feral girls who've been abandoned and left to fend for themselves in a dystopian world. We won't completely spoil its ending, but safe to say that Stina and Cat meet a grizzly fate. 

The leader of the video's feral girl tribe finds herself pride of place as the cover star of the 'Babes Never Die' album, in beautiful photographic artwork shot by German photographer Amira Fritz. "I loved the idea of this feral tribe of young badass girls causing chaos," explains frontwoman Stina Tweeddale. "It's an image that chimes with what the album is all about." Of the album's title she explains: "I guess you could call it a war cry; to have the faith to never let yourself be defeated." Babes Never Die is certainly not a shy motto, and one that's triumphant sentiment rings throughout Honeyblood's exceptional sophomore record. Recorded winter 2016 with acclaimed producer James Dring (Jamie T, Gorillaz) during candle-burning sessions at London's Fish Factory studios, it will be released November 2nd and is available to pre-order now along with the new single. "The title is my own mantra," Stina says. "I think it's something I tell myself every day. Indifference is a plague. Giving up and turning a blind eye will be the end of us. Never before has that been more true."

Babes Never Die is out October 28th on Fat Cat Records.

 

Babes Never Die Tracklisting

1. Intro

2. Babes Never Die

3. Ready For The Magic

4. Sea Hearts

5. Love Is A Disease

6. Walking At Midnight

7. Justine, Misery Queen

8. Sister Wolf

9. Hey, Stellar

10. Cruel

11. Gangs

12. Outro

Pre-order now on deluxe and standard vinyl, CD and digital:

Pre-order via iTunes

Pre-order vinyl, CD and bundles

Tour Dates

9.25.16 - Lemon Tree - Aberdeen

9.26.16 - Hug and Pint - Glasgow SOLD OUT

9.28.16 - Bungalow & Bears - Sheffield (Free Entry)

9.29.16 - Patterns - Brighton

9.30.16 - Boilerroom - Guildford

10.4.16 - Shacklewell Arms - London SOLD OUT

10.5.16 - The Cookie - Leicester

10.6.16 - Electric Circus - Edinburgh

12.1.16 - Scala - London

Honeyblood will be touring the US this fall, more dates will be announced shortly.

DFA's Factory Floor Drop Synth-Sculpture "Ya" Vid w/ Pitchfork, Play ICA London, LP out 8/19

FACTORY FLOOR 

ANNOUNCE ICA LONDON SHOW 
Thu Aug 25th with Haroon Mirza & Klara Lewis

REVEAL “YA” VIDEO VIA PITCHFORK
Directed by Factory Floor 

WATCH/SHARE: HERE 

25 25 Out 8/19 via DFA 



“Lean, icy techno” 
- The Verge 
“‘A pulsing, entrancing 7 minutes... it’d be just as good for a meditative, productive night in as it would be on the fun night out on the dance floor”
- Stereogum
“Factory Floor know how to get crowds dancing… “Ya” is no exception”
- Nerdist 
“Propulsive and potent...Hypnotic”
- Consequence of Sound

To celebrate the forthcoming release of 25 25, their sophomore LP out August 19th on DFA Records,  FACTORY FLOOR release a captivating new video for their latest single“Ya” via Pitchfork and announce and ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London Show Thursday August 25th.

Directed by Factory Floor and featuring sculptures by the duo’s Nik Void, the vibrant, hypnotic video for “Ya” reflects the group’s penchant for experimental modernism and dynamic minimalism:

“I was looking at the German New York artist Isa Genzken,” explains Void, “and thought I need to make a plaster synth! I like the idea of someone playing it under my instruction off camera then the synth take on a life of its own - like the true nature of modular synthesis”

In 2012 FACTORY FLOOR commenced a year-long residency as ICA Associates which manifested as a series of live collaborations that featured New York composer Peter Gordon, visual artist Hannah Sawtell and British soundtrack producer Simon Fisher Turner. The events sought to challenge the boundaries between collaboration and live improvisation.

Now the duo of Nik Void and Gabriel Gurnsey return to London’s ICA Theater Thursday August 25th to premiere material from their latest hi-energy minimalist dance exploration live. The event will also include special live performances from British visual artist Haroon Mirza, who is internationally acclaimed for his installations that examine the interplay between light and sound. He will be followed by Swedish artist Klara Lewis, who is recognized for her disorientating arrangements of field recordings combined with textured rhythms.



25 25 is the follow up to Factory Floor’s critically acclaimed 2013 self-titled debut.  Stripped to a mesmerizing dance of percussion, fragmented voice, and melody, the album captures the next stage of evolution for one of the UK’s most restless and exploratory groups. “Ya” is the latest single to be taken from Factory Floor’s second studio album, 25 25, out August 19th via DFA Records. A mischief-inducing dancefloor gem, the new single comes on the heels of “Dial Me In” which the band shared last month.

25 25 is out August 19th via DFA and can be pre-ordered here.

Sacred Bones to release "Almost Holy" Soundtrack by Atticus Ross, Bobby Krlic, & Leopold Ross

SACRED BONES PRESENTS ALMOST HOLY: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK BY ATTICUS ROSS, LEOPOLD ROSS, & BOBBY KRLIC OUT AUGUST 19 ON LP & DIGITAL FORMATS WATCH A VIDEO VIA PITCHFORK

still from Almost Holy   After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. Steve Hoover’s documentary Almost Holy follows a pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who saves street kids, at times by forcible abduction, and brings them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. The film’s depiction of a country in the grip of poverty, addiction, and warfare is made even more powerful by its captivating electronic score by award-winning composer Atticus Ross, his brother Leopold Ross, and Bobby Krlic (The Haxan Cloak). “Occasionally a project comes along where one feels compelled to contribute,” Atticus said of seeing the early footage that convinced him to work on the film. “It's a different world over there – of course we have dire poverty in the U.S. – but to see an army of drug-addicted children living in those conditions, children the same age as my own, under ten years old but covered in track marks and sleeping on sewers to stay warm, and someone is asking you to write a little music to help the cause. It would be hard to find a reason not to.” His collaborators felt the same way, and the trio soon began work on the score — the Ross brothers in the U.S. and Krlic in England. The distance meant the composers initially worked separately, but in the end, the soundtrack feels remarkably coherent. “The music surfs the line of sound design and operates as a support to the overall arc, rather than specifically tied to the characters,” Atticus explains. “Gennadiy doesn't have a theme, and I'm not sure he needs one, or how he could be reduced to one. He's powerful but tender, loving but aggressive, committed but flawed. We felt it was important that the music never dilute or distract from his message. Less is more, so to speak.” However, the message and content of film kept the trio inspired, and once Krlic had emigrated to the U.S., they met at Atticus' studio and continued to work on the album as a free-standing piece. The film remained the anchor and the catalyst for their creativity, but several of the tracks on the record don’t appear in the picture at all. Almost Holy is thus not simply a soundtrack album, but a soundtrack and an album, one that both enriches its film and stands apart from it. Director Steve Hoover had this to say about the score: "Gennadiy’s story was somehow destined to be worked into some form of cinema. It’s all set in Mariupol, Ukraine, a city with sprawling factories and crumbling Soviet architecture. It sounds bleak, but it’s somehow beautiful and not without hope. I wanted an original score that could translate the feeling of being in Mariupol with Gennadiy, at this time. Atticus Ross took interest in the film and proposed a collaboration with Leopold Ross and Bobby Krlic. I knew they would eclipse whatever it was that I was imagining for the score. There’s a scene in the film, where the people of Mariupol are enjoying fireworks that seem to be a premonition for the shells that would soon cluster the same skies. The score takes a haunting bend that feels like a metaphysical wailing from unknown places, for a people that have had the lion's share of struggle, but would soon be torn in half. The score is ingrained in the narrative because it developed along with it. They were a part of the film before we began production, offering invaluable creative insight. They were just as essential as my crew." Watch a mood piece with footage from the stunningly shot film set to "Punching Bag" from the score below.    WATCH & SHARE: Atticus Ross & Leopold Ross - "Punching Bag" (Dir. by Steve Hoover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0VrEAq5Ras ITUNES PRE-ORDER:  http://hyperurl.co/AlmostHolyOST LP PRE-ORDER:  http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr159-atticus-ross-leopold-ross-and-bobby-krlic-almost-holy-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

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