Matt Costa Shares 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack' On Pandora l 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack' Out 11/11

Matt Costa Shares 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack'  On Pandora 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack' Out 11/11 On Varese Sarabande Tickets For November Shows On Sale Now!

Photo Cred: Davin Sanchez   LISTEN & SHARE: Matt Costa - 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack' WATCH & SHARE: Orange Sunshine Trailer     "He’s written the score for new documentary Orange Sunshine which is about the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a church formed in the early ’60s by a group of surfers/hippies in Orange County who wanted to change the world with psychedelic drugs and became the largest manufacturers of LSD in the United States. We’ve got the premiere of “Call My Name” from the soundtrack and it’s folky, soulful vibe, complete with the crackle of a dusty record, should work well in film."  -Brooklyn Vegan Pandora has shared Matt Costa's 'Orange Sunshine Soundtrack' , fror the upcoming documentary film 'Orange Sunshine', which is about  "a church formed in the early ’60s by a group of surfers/hippies in Orange County who wanted to change the world with psychedelic drugs and became the largest manufacturers of LSD in the United States." The soundtrack is out 11/11 on Varese Sarabande.   Like certain other Southern California songwriters before him, Matt Costa has drifted through a strange and varied life in music, pushed toward pop music at a young age, selling hundreds of thousands of records and touring the world on the strong back of a simple, direct, and freewheeling debut. In the last few years, Costa took heavy stock in his work, and made unexpected turns into more progressive and thoughtful territories. This new direction has found him wandering; an outlier between the worlds of his own development as an artist, modern Orange County, his former label Brushfire Records, and cutting through the center of a now hidden and older California mystique.   Prolific at every turn, Matt has taken on the aura of a classic California drifter, spinning records in the midnight hours of his local Laguna Beach radio station, writing by day cataclysmically varied music, from fingerpicked John Fahey-like numbers, to cut up poetry, to howlers harkening back to an other-worldly sound; complete with a range of writing invoking a Kinksian sensibility, early rock & roll- Eric Burdon and the Animals, Van Morrison’s Them, and the guitar playing and arrangements of Brian Jones.   The last years have been eventful ones. Born and raised in Laguna Beach, Costa met some filmmakers hard at work on a documentary entitled Orange Sunshine detailing the story of the Brotherhood of Eternal love; a coastal church centered on psychedelics who became the largest manufacturers and distributors of LSD in the United States. Matt composed the entire score, beginning to tap into the underlying myths and secrets of his hometown. The music stands on its own and this year sees the release of the film, to rave reviews at its premier at SXSW, and showings at Festivals in Sedona, Maui, San Francisco, and in October, the illustrious British Film Institute in London, among others.   Autumn 2016 will welcome the release of the Orange Sunshine Film Soundtrack on Varèse Sarabande Records, complete with a unique companion tour combining screenings of the film with a special performance by Matt Costa and his band. This soundtrack is a signpost to a new LP already far underway. Orange Sunshine’s music hints at a songwriter cutting through to something greater and stranger; an artist arriving at a new incarnation. “The end picture is yet to be discovered,” says Costa. Matt Costa – Orange Sunshine 2016 Tour dates 11/15 Masonic Lodge @ the Hollywood Forever Cemetery – Los Angeles, CA 11/17 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA Special in-store performances by Matt Costa - Free 11/11 Fingerprints - Long Beach, CA - 7PM 11/16 Boo Boos - San Luis Obispo, CA - 6PM 11/19 Music Millenium -Portland, OR - 4PM

SOLANGE KNOWLES RELEASES A SEAT A THE TABLE, THE ART BOOK, COUPLED WITH SPECIAL ALBUM BUNDLES

SOLANGE KNOWLES RELEASES A SEAT A THE TABLE, THE ART BOOK, COUPLED WITH SPECIAL ALBUM BUNDLES  CD AND VINYL FORMATS OF #1 ALBUM AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW SOLANGE KNOWLES TO PERFORM ON NBC’S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ON NOVEMBER 5TH

(Columbia Records; New York, NY; November 4, 2016)  Songwriter, recording artist and activist Solange Knowles will release physical copies of A Seat at the Table art book coupled with special album bundles.  A Seat At The Table, the stunning new album written and performed by Solange Knowles, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and was #1 on both Apple Music and iTunes Overall Top Albums Chart. Released globally on September 30th, 2016 via Saint Records / Columbia, A Seat At The Table, is available digitally everywhere. The handsome art book features design by Solange Knowles as well as color photographs of Solange by photographer Carlota Guerrero. Originally, Solange announced the album on Monday, September 26th to 86 fans who signed up for her new website www.solangemusic.com by mailing them hand-bound, hardcover editions of the art book. After release date, fans were able to download a digital version here: http://www.solangemusic.com/digitalbook/ and now fans can purchase the special bundle which will allow them to own a physical copy of the book. Bundles are available for pre-order now. Fans can choose from four options: the standalone physical copy of the book; a copy of the book coupled with digital album; a copy of the book coupled with a cd (pre-order only; available on November 18th) or a copy of the book with a double vinyl LP (pre-order only; available December 9th). Purchase & pre-order book bundles here: http://smarturl.it/ASATTstore Purchase stand alone digital album here:  http://smarturl.it/ASeatAtTheTable Pre-order stand alone cd here: http://smarturl.it/ASATTcd Pre-order stand alone vinyl here:  http://smarturl.it/ASATTvinyl Pre-order stand alone limited edition purple vinyl here:  http://tinyurl.com/jzduwrg Solange describes A Seat At The Table, which she began writing in 2013, as "a project on identity, empowerment, independence, grief and healing.”  See all album credits here: http://bit.ly/2dhFVlm. Celebrated for her artistic and creative vision, Solange released are two stunning visuals accompanying the album: videos for “Cranes in the Sky” “Don’t Touch My Hair” ft. Sampha. “Cranes In The Sky” has over 5million views and “Don’t Touch My Hair” has over 7.5million views. Both visual properties were directed by Solange Knowles, and her husband, Alan Ferguson and produced by Eli Cane. Watch “Cranes in the Sky” Official Video here: http://smarturl.it/CranesInTheSkyVideo Watch “Don’t Touch My Hair” video here: http://smarturl.it/DontTouchMyHairVideo Recently, Solange spoke alongside Melissa Harris-Perry at Stanford University with esteemed hip-hop podcast, Microphone Check, hosts Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley to broaden public conversation around music and culture. She will next appear as the musical guest on NBC’s Saturday Night Live on November 5th. # Follow Solange Knowles at www.solangemusic.com  and www.saintheron.com //twitter.com/solangeknowles // instagram.com/saintrecords

JULIA JACKLIN + D.D DUMBO nominated for J Awards | Julia Jacklin shares video for 'Don't Let The Kids Win'

Congratulations to JULIA JACKLIN and D.D DUMBO on their J Award nominations!

JULIA JACKLIN Don't Let The Kids Win - Australian Album of the Year Unearthed Artist of the Year D.D DUMBO Utopia Defeated - Australian Album of the Year Satan - Best Video

PREMIERE: Julia Jacklin - Don't Let The Kids Win (Video)

Directed by Julia Jacklin and Nick McKinlay | Premiered by NPR Music

Surfer Blood Announces New Album 'Snowdonia,' Out 2/3 via Joyful Noise

Surfer Blood Announces New Album Snowdonia, Out February 3rd via Joyful Noise Recordings (pre-order) Stream "Six Flags in F or G"    Surfer Blood has announced their fourth studio album, Snowdonia, due out February 3rd via Joyful Noise Recordings. A sonic departure for the band, Snowdonia is Surfer Blood's first release since the tragic loss of guitarist Thomas Fekete to cancer in May 2016. Snowdonia was written shortly after the band's first long tour without Fekete, as lead singer John Paul Pitts struggled with Fekete’s absence and the weight of getting older. Featuring a talented new lineup that sees Michael McCleary on guitar and Lindsey Mills on bass -- both high school classmates of Pitts and drummer Tyler Schwarz -- Snowdoniamarks the first time since the band's debut album, 2010's Astro Coast, that Pitts has written and mixed a Surfer Blood record alone. Though the album features plenty of Surfer Blood's signature hooks, it also incorporates heavier themes. One of the record’s darkest songs, "Six Flags in F or G," was written as Pitts grappled with Fekete’s illness and his absence on tour. You can stream the track where it premiered with Noisey or via Soundcloud. Shortly after Fekete was diagnosed with cancer, Pitts’ mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and began undergoing chemotherapy. Her illness inspired him to write “Carrier Pigeon” -- Pitts notes it is the most narrative and autobiographical song he’s ever written, and it embodies his attempts to reconcile the love he has for his parents with not always loving how they choose to see the world. Other tracks on the record attempt to deal with aging in a more playful way. “Matter of Time” is a straightforward pop song that focuses on the decision of when to get married, something Pitts is now considering at age 30. “Taking Care of Eddy” can be taken literally: it was written about Pitts' girlfriend's great uncle, Eddy, an 84-year-old who suffered stunted development after a car accident as a child. As a result, he thinks and acts like an eight year old, has Parkinson's disease, and can't get around by himself, but maintains a childlike sense of wonder. While taking care of him hasn't been easy, Pitts tried to inject some of Eddy's playfulness into the song. While Snowdonia grapples with heavier material, Pitts likens some of the more complex songs to Astro Coast track "Anchorage," though the new songs were written specifically with the band's current lineup and new strengths in mind. Wanting to play up McCleary and Mills' vocal skills, he wrote layers of vocals into almost every track and added call-and-response parts between himself and Mills throughout the album. With enormous attention to detail, the eight tracks on Snowdonia make the album Surfer Blood's most ambitious release yet.   Six Flags in F or G lyrics: Caught up in a pissing contest, gasping empty air. I'm losing precious time so don't keep me in mind. Nourished by my disappointment. Parasitic grief, and there's no turning back, a widow dressed in black. Silence. Golden. Where I used to look for comfort is cursed hollow cold. Right back in death's embrace, a man without a face. I became completely lucid, said "who are, who are you?" I felt his icy breath. When I turned around to face him I was paralyzed. I couldn't turn around  or open up my eyes. You'll get over it easy, babe. See you're bouncing right back again. Right now its overkill, but in six months it will be fine, even charming. Yea. If the angels would sing today you'd explain it away, I'm sure. And when the nearest dream recedes, the dream of Reading and of Leeds all going off at once in your mind. One of these days, gonna get to the heart. One of these days, when the bridge falls apart. One of these days, right back at the start. One of these days, we'll never be apart again. Burning Six Flags in effigy. Didn't read the report, but you know he's such a juggernaut, and its never not a lot in the passionless void. What a bitter macaroon. What a sour eclair. And this hysteria has made us all aware of where all the buoys are submerged. One of these days, gonna get to the heart. One of these days, when the bridge falls apart. One of these days, right back at the start. One of these days, we'll never ever be apart. Snowdonia Track Listing: 1. Matter of Time 2. Frozen 3. Dino Jay 4. Six Flags in F or G 5. Snowdonia 6. Instant Doppelgängers  7. Taking Care of Eddy 8. Carrier Pigeon

Hanni El Khatib shares new song "Hold Me Back" + details Savage Times Vol. 5

HANNI EL KHATIB PREMIERES NEW SONG "HOLD ME BACK" ON BBC 6 MUSIC SAVAGE TIMES VOL. 5 DUE DECEMBER 2ND SAVAGE TIMES VOL. 1, 2, 3, & 4 AVAILABLE NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE

Photo credit: Sara Nataf

LISTEN: "Hold Me Back" - https://hannielkhatib.bandcamp.com/track/hold-me-back "Hanni El Khatib has been on an unreal creative streak lately" - Noisey "It's like a maturation of Rae Sremmurd's youthful hedonism wrapped in guitar strings and catchy grooves." - Stereogum "Sounds somewhat like a happy marriage between The Black Keys and Nirvana"  - Interview 2016 has been a prolific year for Hanni El Khatib that has seen him release four collections of new work in Savage Times Vol. 1, 2, 3, & 4. Today he is back to share a new song, "Hold Me Back" in a BBC 6 world premiere. El Khatib is also announcing that his next EP, Savage Times Vol. 5, will be available on December 2nd via Innovative Leisure. Speaking on the inspiration for "Hold Me Back," El Khatib says, "I wanted to make a track that had an old school Motown guitar groove. Something that inherently had some swing and you could dance to. Once I got it to feel right the lyrics just fell into place. I always thought it was cool that there are so many famous songs about Johnny. Coincidentally my engineer and co-producer shares the name. I just thought it'd be fun to carry on the tradition and throw another "Johnny" song into the mix. That's how this one came together." Listen to "Hold Me Back" above now, and find more on Hanni El Khatib and stream Savage Times Vol. 1, 2, 3, & 4 below. About Hanni El Khatib: You could call 2015 a breakthrough year for Hanni El Khatib, but it wasn't just an easy breakthrough all at once. Instead, it was step after unexpected step and chance after random circumstance, part of a zig-zag path that now has El Khatib working on the most unexpected project he's come up with yet-a project that doesn't even have a name or even an ending right now. His album Moonlight, a Sandinista!-style festival of experimentation that hit in January 2015, was where everything started. A recording studio meet-up led to a GZA verse on "Moonlight," and that led to an El Khatib appearance on one of GZA's songs-the cover of Babe Ruth's "The Mexican"-and he followed that up by contributing the ghostly middle break to rapper Freddie Gibbs' bleaked-out "Satin Black." By summer he'd put out a picture disc single of his desolate take on D'Angelo and Premier's brooding "Devil's Pie" and teamed up with a bunch of elementary school kids from Staten Island's P.S. 22 Chorus for a rework of "Moonlight" and "Melt Me," and yes, it was as adorable as you'd think. He'd finish producing the debut album for Parisian psychedelic trio Wall of Death, and he'd make it all the way to Vladivostok, Russia, for a final set of festival appearances that the local U.S. consulate reported "brought artist and audience closer together." Then he'd play his last show of the year-last show to date, really-in September of 2015. And then everything suddenly changed.              El Khatib was booked to headline a Paris show with a special one-shot supergroup including drummer Alex Sowinski of BadBadNotGood, bassist Jonny Bell of Crystal Antlers and Dam-Funk collaborator and solo synthesizer wizard Computer Jay. But the Bataclan attacks canceled those plans, and so El Khatib was left with unexpected space in his schedule. He took the time to hole up with his guitar and generate hundreds of ideas-an uninterrupted flow that left dozens of voice-memo song snippets on his phone-and booked a session at Bell's Jazzcats studio in December to see what would happen. The very first day pretty much immediately resulted in "Gonna Die Alone" and "Baby's OK"-the first two new songs he's released so far, by the way-and instantly crystallized a simple new idea: write, record, repeat. Instead of a new album, he'd work on a new state of mind.              Although he'd already begun to work behind the mixing board with earlier signees to Innovative Leisure,Moonlight was El Khatib's first full-scale production credit-an experience of deep commitment to every level of making an album, from the first idea to the very last mix. He'd locked himself in an L.A. studio for thirty days, and after a long month of vintage gear, field recordings of funerals, so-crazy-it-might-work sample editing and more than a little whiskey, he walked out on April Fool's Day with his most daring and distinctive album ever. That meant that when he finally finished touring for Moonlight and started at Jazzcats that winter, he truly knew what he could do in a studio.              So El Khatib teamed up with Bell and submerged himself completely into recording, this time decamping to Jazzcats for week after week of lockdown improvisation. (And night after night of recovery-or discovery-at some of Long Beach's oldest and least-revitalized bars.) This was a new project, based on turning limitations-limited time, limited instruments, limited knowledge of how exactly to play strange new instruments-into inspiration, and of working non-stop with Bell to chase every idea until it either took flight or cracked into pieces. Although only two songs have materialized so far, there are more coming. In fact, there are more being made right now.              Moonlight was when Hanni tested every rule there is about making an album, but now he's not making an album at all. Instead, this is process as public performance: an artist releasing music to the world almost in real time, with nothing to interfere with the purity or intimacy. (If you were in L.A. on Record Store Day, you could've even got a special one-of-a-kind 7" of one of the songs, made especially for you by Bell and his record-cutting lathe.) Normally, at this point in a band bio, you'd get to find out what's coming next. But no one really knows what's coming next-not even El Khatib. All anyone can do for now is just listen. STREAM: Savage Times Vol. 1 - https://play.spotify.com/album/0zCa6jvHVXCDUtUgJgwaLs STREAM: Savage Times Vol. 2 - https://play.spotify.com/album/77woQlFhITVsfGtLWIBcaY STREAM: Savage Times Vol. 3 -  https://play.spotify.com/album/7bxWOcExu2SimPbd9ToU7L STREAM: Savage Times Vol. 4 -  https://play.spotify.com/album/6wav1BtLVQooNWYgqUc2oq

Foxygen Announce New Album Hang: new tour 2017

Foxygen have announced their new album. Sam France and Jonathan Rado’s follow-up to 2014’s ...And Star Power is called Hang, and it’s out January 20 via Jagjaguwar. The band have also shared the music video for a new song from the album called “Follow the Leader.” 

The video, directed by Cameron Dutra (who also directed their “San Francisco” video), is full of choreographed sequences filmed with a team of backup dancers in a park. Watch it below. Foxygen have also announced a series of tour dates in support of Hang.

Hang:

01 Follow the Leader

02 Avalon

03 Mrs. Adams

04 America

05 On Lankershim

06 Upon a Hill

07 Trauma

08 Rise Up

Foxygen:

11-09 London, England - Oslo

12-01 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade

03-21 Richmond, VA - The National

03-22 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

03-24 New York, NY - Terminal 5

03-25 Boston, MA - The Paradise

03-26 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer

03-28 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House

03-30 Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall

03-31 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre

04-01 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre

04-02 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave

04-04 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre

04-05 Salt Lake City, UT - The State Room

04-07 San Francisco, CA - The Independent

04-08 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda

04-09 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory

04-11 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom

04-13 Dallas, TX - Trees

04-14 Austin, TX - The Mohawk

04-15 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall

04-17 New Orleans, LA - One Eyed Jacks

04-18 Atlanta, GA - Terminal West

04-19 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel

04-20 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle

Joseph Hein Premieres Video for "In The Sunshine"

JOSEPH HEIN PREMIERES VIDEO FOR "IN THE SUNSHINE" AM GOLD OUT NOW ON YELLOW YEAR RECORDS DOWNLOAD / STREAM Watch the video for "In The Sunshine"

Joseph Hein has today released the video for his single "In The Sunshine." Pancakes and Whiskey premiered the video and wrote, "With a unique lyric delivery, the song bounces around with splashes of rich-synth, minimal guitar and an airy feel that makes us just feel good. The video is follows a woman throughout the night around a city and when the guitar solo comes in, the day turns to night as the song fades away - reminding us every night has a dawn and every day is another chance to rock this thing called life." The video also features social media influencer Haley Madison.  Of the video, director Ian W. McGee noted, "I met Joseph Hein in Washougal, WA in 2014.  He was working on building a tree house for a documentary I was shooting. At the time he had just parted ways with Foxygen. After a few late night jam sessions, I knew he would be a lot of fun to work with creatively. When he completed his album in August 2016, it was clear his single "In the Sunshine" commanded a visual story.  So Joseph, Yellow Year, and The Paint Shop teamed up to tell that story." The track comes off of Hein's newly released album AM Gold, an album Red Line Roots spoke of saying, "With a voice that is pure and understated, reminiscent of Mason Jennings, Hein captured me from the first beat with infectious hooks and crisp instrumentation. In a crowded field of incredible music that has come out this fall, Hein's album has stood out to me as one of the best I've heard this year. It's that good." More About Joseph Hein: Joseph grew up making music in the rural eastern WA region known as the Palouse. With that small town isolation the multi instrumentalist Joseph Hein gleaned from a range of influences and played with a tight knit group of kids in all sorts of bands that ranged from punk to electronic pop. The path continued into the DIY scene of Olympia, WA where that intensely creative place inspired further collaborations that continue today.  Hein has released two official albums as a solo artist and AM Gold is his third.  Between touring, recording and collaborating with others he hides out in the hills and plays his new bass.  AM Gold Tracklisting 01. Looking Backwards 02. In the Sunshine 03. Countless Nights 04. Lonely 05. In a Daze 06. Been a Long Time 07. Unsuspecting Eyes 08. Fall Apart 09. Not All is Lost 10. Disappear 11. Sails 12. The Path www.instagram.com/josephdhein facebook.com/josephheinmusic twitter.com/josephdhein josephhein.bandcamp.com josephhein.tumblr.com