The Afghan Whigs to perform Black Love at two charity events this December (NOLA, LA)

THE AFGHAN WHIGS TO PERFORMBLACK LOVE IN ITS ENTIRETY AT TWO SPECIAL CHARITY EVENTS   New Orleans – The Civic  Saturday, December 10, 2016 Los Angeles – Teragram Ballroom  Wednesday, December 14, 2016 Tickets Go On Sale THIS Friday, November 4th   November 1, 2017 – It is with a heavy heart that The Afghan Whigsare announcing two special performances of their classic album Black Love in its entirety in New Orleans and Los Angeles along with performances from other artists. Long-time Afghan Whigs, Gutter Twins and Twilight Singers guitarist  Dave Rosser was recently diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer. “Dave Rosser has been my close friend and bandmate for over a decade now,” Greg Dulli commented.  “By doing these shows for him we hope to ease any financial stress he may face as he pursues treatment to combat his illness.  100% of the proceeds for these shows will go to his medical care.  I’m hopeful that folks will come out and show their support for Dave who will be performing with us.” The New Orleans show will take place at The Civic Theatre onSaturday December 10th and feature performances from: The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Ani DiFranco, Morning 40 Federation, King James & The Special Men, and C.C. Adcock & The Lafayette Marquis along with special guests. The Los Angeles show will take place on December 14th at The Teragram Ballroom featuring sets from: The Afghan Whigs, Mark Lanegan, Moby and Carina Round. Tickets for both shows will go on sale this Friday. For fans who cannot attend either show, we encourage you to donate to Dave Rosser’s medical fund here:https://www.gofundme.com/daverosser

The Molochs Share "No More Cryin" Video On Brooklyn Vegan | 'America's Velvet Glory' LP Out 1/13

The Molochs Share "No More Cryin'" Video Via Brooklyn Vegan On Tour This Fall With The Mystery Lights New Album 'America's Velvet Glory' Out 1/13 Via Innovative Leisure

WATCH & SHARE: The Molochs - "No More Cryin'"     The Molochs have premiered the video for their first single "No More Cryin' " on Brooklyn Vegan.  "No More Cryin' " is the first single off their upcoming album 'America's Velvet Glory', which will be released 1/13/17 via Innovative Leisure. First, let’s meet Moloch. You remember him, right? The ancient god, the child eater, the demander of sacrifice, the villain in Ginsberg’s Howl(and also real life) and now the personal antagonist of singer and songwriter Lucas Fitzsimons, who named his band the Molochs because he knew he’d have to make sacrifices to get what he needed, and because he always wanted a reminder of the Ginsbergian monster he’d be fighting against. And so this is how you make a record right now: you fight for every piece, and when Moloch takes apart your relationships and career potential and leaves you sleeping on couches or living in terrifying apartments and just about depleted from awful people involving you in their awful decisions, you grab a bottle of wine (and laugh at the cliché) and put together another song. And once you do that eleven hard-won times in total, you get a record like America’s Velvet Glory: honest, urgent, desperate and fearless because of it.   Fitzsimons came to his calling in an appropriately mythic way, born in a historic city not far from Buenos Aires and raised in L.A.’s South Bay—just outside of Inglewood—where he was immersed in the hip-hop hits on local radio. (Westside Connection!) The summer d before he started middle school, a close friend got an electric guitar, and Fitzsimons felt an enirresistible inexplicable power: “I'd go back home and I’d look up guitar chords on the internet—even though I had no guitar—and just imagine how I WOULD play them. I was slowly getting obsessed.” When he was 12, his parents took him back to Argentina, and on the first night, he discovered a long-forgotten almost-broken classical guitar in the basement of his ancestral home: “It sounds made-up, but it’s true,” he says. “I didn't put the guitar down once that whole trip—took it with me everywhere and played and played. When I got back to L.A., I bought my first guitar practically as the plane was landing.”   This started a long line of bands and a long experience of learning to perform in public, as Fitzsimons honed intentions and ideas and tried to figure out why that guitar seemed so important. After a trip to India in 2012, he returned renewed and ready to start again, scrapping his band to lead something new and uncompromising. This was the true start of the Molochs: “It didn't make any sense to not do everything exactly the way I wanted to do it,” he says. “I was so shy and introverted that singing publicly sounded like a nightmare come true. But I didn't have a choice—I heard something inside of me and I needed to be the one to express it.”   The first album Forgetter Blues was released with Fitzsimons’ guitarist/organist and longtime bandmate Ryan Foster in early 2013 on his own label—named after a slightly infamous intersection in their then-home of Long Beach—and was twelve songs of anxious garage-y proto-punk-y folk-y rock, Modern Lovers demos and Velvet Underground arcana as fuel and foundation both. It deserved to go farther than it did, which sadly wasn’t very far. But it sharpened Fitzsimons and his songwriting, and after three pent-up years of creativity, he was ready to burst. So he decided to record a new album in the spirit of the first, and in the spirit of everything that the Molochs made so far: “I wanted to spend less time figuring out HOW we were gonna do something and just actually do it.”   The result is America’s Velvet Glory, recorded with engineer Jonny Bell at effortless (says Fitzsimons) sessions at Long Beach’s JazzCats studio. (Also incubator for Molochs’ new labelmates Wall of Death and Hanni El Khatib.) It starts with an anxious electric minor-key melody and ends on a last lonesome unresolved organ riff, and in between comes beauty, doubt, loss, hate and even a moments or two of peace. There are flashes of 60s garage rock—like the Sunset Strip ’66 stormer “No More Cryin’” or the “Little Black Egg”-style heartwarmer-slash-breaker “The One I Love”—but like one of Foster’s and Fitzsimons’ favorites the Jacobites, the Molochs are taking the past apart, not trying to recreate it.   You can hear where songs bend, where voices break, where guitars start to shiver and when strings are about to snap; on “You And Me,” you can almost hear Lou Reed’s ghost call for a solo, and on “I Don’t Love You,” you get that subway-sound guitar and find out what happens when Jonathan Richman’s G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N goes wrong. And of course there’s the charismatic chaos of bootleg basement-tape Dylan—always Dylan, says Fitzsimons—and the locked-room psychedelia of Syd Barrett, especially on “Charlie’s Lips,” Fitzsimons’ ode to—or antidote to—those times when he felt the bleakness completely: “Then a bird lands on a branch nearby, you hear leaves fluttering, you hear a child laughing … all of a sudden things don't seem so bad anymore.” So Moloch might still be out there, devouring his sacrifices, but the Molochs are still fighting, too. And that’s why Fitzsimons picked the band name—it’s so he remembers what he’s up against. He’s not celebrating the destroyer of youth and individuality and creativity, he says: “I’m just keeping him in sight so that he doesn't win.” – Christopher Ziegler TOUR DATES: Nov 6 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights Nov 7 - The Crepe Place - Santa Cruz, CA W/ The Mystery Lights Nov 8 - Starline Social Club - Oakland, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights Nov 18 - Aceregomi - Pomona, CA W/ Night Beats, The Mystery Lights Nov 20 - The Constellation Room - Santa Ana, CA W/ The Mystery Lights Nov 22 - The Bootleg - Los Angeles, CA W/ The Mystery Lights Dec 9 - Pappy + Harriet's - Pioneertown, CA W /Hanni El Khatib, The Buttertones

Lee Fields & The Expressions | SPECIAL NIGHT debuts at Billboard ahead of Nov 4 release

LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS SPECIAL NIGHT STREAMS EXCLUSIVELY VIA BILLBOARD AHEAD OF NOV 4 RELEASE TOUR STARTS FRIDAY AT RAY-BAN X BOILER ROOM WEEKENDER WITH KAMASI WASHINGTON

“[Lee Fields & The Expressions] continue to evolve while still remaining true to their 60s roots” - Billboard "While others of his era burned out or faded away, Fields is still here, his voice now more passionate and ecstatic than ever" - Noisey New York, NY (November 1, 2016) – Lee Fields & The Expressions will release Special Night thisFriday, November 4 via Big Crown Records and today, Billboard has the exclusive stream where you can witness the band's incomparable soul-sound musicianship ahead of the release. Last week, Lee stopped by the Billboard offices for a rare acoustic performance that was broadcast live via Facebook and archived HERE. Special Night is available for pre-order at Big Crown and all digital retailers HERE. Produced by Leon Michels (El Michels Affair, The Arcs) and Thomas Brenneck (Daptone), and brilliantly performed by the Expressions, Special Night was written, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely to tape in three weeks at the legendary Diamond Mine Studios in Queens, NY. A sense of urgency, equal parts fun and inspiration, and a decent amount of beer and Jack Daniels were the driving forces during the sessions that produced Lee Fields & The Expressions latest offering. The album's title track debuted this summer at Noisey and Kyle Meredith at WPFK says, “’Special Night’ should produce a few babies named Lee around nine months from now.” The current single is album standout “Make The World”, which works both as militaristic funk and a cautionary tale about the health of the planet. Paste says, "If a red hot, core-stirring song is what will inspire passive citizens to fight for social and political justice, then Fields is the man for the job." Listen to Special Night in full HERE "Make The World" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | YouTube | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music "Special Night" at Big Crown | Soundcloud | Spotify | iTunes | Apple Music Fields kicks off his album release tour this Friday at the Ray-Ban x Boiler Room Weekender with Kamasi Washington before heading south and over to the west coast. Fields and his six-piece band return to NYC for a headlining show at Irving Plaza on Saturday, January 7 with Big Crown label-mates Lady Wray and Paul & The Tall Trees. “I feel that every human being’s purpose is to do what their inner voice says to do,” says Lee Fields. “And my inner voice, my driving force, wants me to put out music and keeping making better records.” Whether tackling a tune about love lost, found, or broader topics like the state of humanity, Lee has a very unique and honest perspective that is on display with each unforgettable performance. Also, The Expressions have never been sharper, they, along with Lee, have created a collection of music on Special Night which holds court with pretty much any soul music that came before it. Lee Fields & The Expressions Tour Dates: Nov 04 - Lake Harmony, PA - The Ray Ban + Boiler Room Weekender * Nov 11 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk Nov 12 - Dallas, TX - Untapped Festival Nov 30 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern (TIX) & Dec 01 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey (TIX) & Dec 02 - Pomona, CA - Glass House (TIX) & Dec 03 - San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine (TIX) & Dec 05 - Portland, OR - Aladdin (TIX) & Dec 06 - Seattle, WA - Neumos (TIX) & Dec 07 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore (TIX) Jan 07 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza (TIX) # * w/ Kamasi Washington & w/ Lady Wray # w/ Lady Wray & Paul & The Tall Trees

30 DAYS, 30 SONGS Musicians Align Against Donald Trump, Final Group of Artists Against Donald Trump

30 DAYS, 30 SONGS Musicians Align Against Donald Trump Final Group of Artists Against Donald Trump Includes Cold War Kids, Jimmy Eat World, Mission of Burma, Bob Mould, Local Natives, Tim Heidecker, Rogue Wave, Ryan Miller of Guster, and more! Today we begin the homestretch of 30 Days, 30 Songs, an independent project in support of defeating this year's Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, as we head into the final nine days of the project.  Created by writer Dave Eggers and the team that brought you2012's 90 Days, 90 Reasons, 30 Days, 30 Songs is a daily, evolving playlist featuring two protest songs a day. This week's songs kick off today with a brand new song by Cold War Kids.  This final run of songs also includes artists such as Mission of Burma, Bob Mould, Ryan Miller of Guster, JPEG MAFIA, The Long Winters, Open Mike Eagle, Jimmy Eat World, Kyle Craft, Local Natives, Greg Holden, Laura Gibson, Tim Heidecker, Modern Baseball, and Rogue Wave.

All songs will be posted on 30days30songs.com as well as via the following playlists: 30 DAYS, 30 SONGS SPOTIFY PLAYLIST 30 DAYS, 30 SONGS APPLE MUSIC PLAYLIST

NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN; A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE DELUXE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION IS OUT NOW

NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN; A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE DELUXE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION IS OUT NOW

Available On Blu-ray, Digital And DVD, Acclaimed Documentary Chronicles The Nobel Prize Winner's Meteoric Rise And Significant Cultural Impact   Features Additional 2 1/2 Hours Of Never-Before-Seen Content   Special Edition Deluxe Box Adds Exclusive Bob Dylan Magazine And Historical Photos, All In A Custom Portfolio

HOLLYWOOD, CA - Capitol Records celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Martin Scorsese's award-winning documentary, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,with the release of a Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition of the film. Now available for the first time on Blu-ray and digitally, the 10th anniversary edition can also be purchased on standard DVD. These 10th Anniversary Editions of the film all feature 2 1/2 hours of bonus and never-before-seen content, including extended scenes from the film and full-length interviews withScorsese, Dave van Ronk and Liam Clancy. A newly-produced trailer for this release can be viewed at http://smarturl.it/NDH10trailer A Special Edition Deluxe Box is available at NDH10.com. Packaged in a deluxe portfolio, it includes both Blu-ray and DVD versions of the film and bonus content, as well as an exclusively produced Bob Dylan magazine that features reproductions of historical articles about the artist, plus three high-quality lithographic photo prints of Dylan, who is the winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. All configurations of No Direction Home are available at the official No Direction Home Store NDH10.com and on Amazon.com. Retailer Best Buy offers an exclusive Blu-ray that includes a limited edition Bob Dylan poster with all purchases. Digital versions of the film are available now for download on iTunes and other digital HD retailers. It will be available for rental on the iTunes Movie Store tomorrow, November 1, and streaming on November 22. Produced by Jeff Rosen (American Roots Music) and Nigel Sinclair (The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years), along with Susan Lacy (American Masters) and Anthony Wall (BBC Arena), the 3 1/2 hour film focuses on Dylan's life and music from 1961 to 1966, detailing the artist's journey from his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota through his emergence in the folk music scene of New York's Greenwich Village to his controversial decision to go "electric" and his rise to the pinnacle of international fame and cultural impact.No Direction Home: Bob Dylan features rare performance footage and interviews with artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan's during this era, while Dylan himself talks openly and extensively about this critical period in his career in interviews shot exclusively for this film. The film features rare treasures from Dylan's extensive film, tape and photograph collection, including footage from Murray Lerner's film Festival documenting Dylan's performances at the 1963, 1964 and 1965 Newport Folk Festivals, previously unreleased outtakes from D.A. Pennebaker's famed 1967 documentary Don't Look Back, and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Maria Muldaur and many others.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan was met with enthusiastic audience reception and universal critical acclaim when it first premiered on PBS, BBC and other prestigious international outlets in the autumn of 2005 and simultaneously released on DVD. Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun Times, "[The film] creates a portrait that is deep, sympathetic, perceptive and yet finally leaves Dylan shrouded in mystery, which is where he properly lives." Rolling Stone's David Fricke hailed it as "the ultimate rock & roll odyssey...masterfully directed by Martin Scorsese, this is an electrifying account of an unprecedented life." Frazier Moore of Associated Press called it, "a film I recommend not only to Dylan devotees and neophytes alike, but also to anyone trying to reconnect with where America was then, and grasp where it is today." The Hollywood Reporter's Glenn Abel wrote that the film was, "as good as it gets in music documentaries," while Variety's Phil Gallo predicted that "some of the footage will startle even the most dedicated Dylanologists." No Direction Home: Bob Dylan; A Martin Scorsese Picture is a production of Spitfire Pictures, Grey Water Park Production, Thirteen/WNET New York and Sikelia Productions, in co-production with Vulcan Productions, BBC and NHK.

The Lucy Ring Premiere Video for "Make it Rain," Self-Titled EP Out Now

THE LUCY RING PREMIERE VIDEO FOR "MAKE IT RAIN"

SELF-TITLED EP OUT NOW ON YELLOW YEAR RECORDS

Watch the video for "Make It Rain"

SoCal band The Lucy Ring who just released their debut self-titled EP on Yellow Year Records have today shared their video for single "Make It Rain" off of the EP. Relixpremiered it and noted the video "feels altogether appropriate for All Hallows" Eve. Tijuana filmmaker Luis Mercado directed the video which  pays homage to Alejandro Jodorowsky's film El Topo along with spaghetti westerns. It includes a brief cameo from Shorty Rossi, the star of the Animal Planet show Pit Boss."

The Lucy Ring EP was produced by Charlotte Kemp-Muhl and recorded at Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono's private studio in upstate, NY. Charlotte invited the band up to track to tape upon hearing some demos she liked. 

The Seventh Hex gave us the first listen of the EP last week and noted, "Throughout the course of the band's debut EP, the compositions astonish with an unmistakable presence whilst evoking feelings of observation and cordiality"

Stream The Lucy Ring EP

 

The Lucy Ring EP Tracklisting

1. Make it Rain

2. Jeremiah's Crying

3. How Low

4. Monkey Boy

5. Coffee in the Rain

6. Psalm Renegade

iTunes / Spotify

Upcoming Tour Dates

11.16.16 - Belly Up w/ Elektric Voodoo and Stripes & Lines- Solana Beach, CA

 

Photo Credit: Tyler Wilcox

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New Laura Burhenn Song (Mynabirds) + Tour

Laura Burhenn (Mynabirds) Debuts

New Song, "Apples & Oranges"

on NPR's "All Songs Considered"

(Listen on NPR Here / Listen on Spotify Here)


photo by Bliss Katherine
 

On Tour w/William Fitzsimmons,

October 29 - December 4


“…songs so elegantly composed that many could pass for old standards… Burhenn is as heartbreaking and tuneful as her finest inspirations while investing her songs with a calm fatalism that sets her apart.”
- Pitchfork

Tour Dates:

10.29 // Omaha, NE // O'Leaver's (Tickets) * w/o William Fitzsimmons 

10.31 // St. Louis, MO // Firebird (Tickets)

11.01 // Kansas City, MO // The Record Bar (Tickets)

11.03 // Denver, CO // Daniels Hall @ Swallow Hill (Tickets)

11.04 // Fort Collins, CO // Downtown Artery (Tickets)

11.05 // Salt Lake City, UT // The State Room (Tickets)

11.06 // Boise, ID // The Olympic (Tickets)

11.09 // Seattle, WA // Triple Door (Tickets )

11.10 // Portland, OR // Doug Fir Lounge (Tickets )

11.12 // Sacramento, CA // Harlow's (Tickets)

11.13 // Petaluma, CA // Mystic Theater (Tickets)

11.14 // San Francisco, CA // Slim's (Tickets)

11.15 // West Hollywood, CA // Troubadour (Tickets)

11.18 // San Diego, CA // Casbah (Tickets)

11.19 // Phoenix, AZ // Valley Bar (Tickets)

11.20 // Santa Fe, NM // Meow Wolf (Tickets)

11.28 // New York, NY // LPR - Le Poisson Rouge (Tickets)

11.29 // Boston, MA // Cafe 939 (Tickets)

11.30 // South Burlington, VT // Higher Ground (Tickets)

12.01 // Montreal, QC // L'Astral (Tickets)

12.02 // Toronto, ON // The Great Hall (Tickets)

12.04 // Evanston, IL // SPACE (Tickets)
 

The Mynabirds' Laura Burhenn is in songwriting mode, and has just released a tasty new track : "Apples & Oranges" (Listen on Spotify Here).