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BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2017 so far

BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2017 so far

Kendrick Lamar “Damn”

Valerie June “The Order Of Time”

Magnetic Fields “50 Song Memoir”

Tinariwen “Elwan”

Paul Weller “A Kind Revolution”

Laura Marling “Semper Femina”

The xx “I See You”

Perfume Genius “No Shape”

Father John Misty “Pure Comedy”

Aimee Mann “Mental Illness”

Mark Lanegan “Gargoyle”

William Basinski “A Shadow In Time”

Jesca Hoop “Memories Are Now”

Priests “Nothing Feels Natural”

Ty Segall “Ty Segall (2017)”

Jay Som “Everybody Works”

Julia Byrne “Not Even Happiness”

Spoon “Hot Thoughts”

Aldous Harding “Party”

Slowdive “Slowdive”

Ray Davies “Americana”

Tei Shi “Crawl Space”

Sleaford Mods “English Tapes”

Feist “Pleasure”

Bob Dylan “Triplicate”

Mac Demarco “That Old Dog”

Thurston Moore “Rock N Roll Consciousness”

The New Pornographers “Whiteout Conditions”

Gorillaz “Humanz”

Boss Hogg “Brood X”

Grandaddy “Last Place”

Julia Holter “In The Same Room”

Cherry Glazerr “Apocalipstick”

BJM “Don’t Get Lost”

Foxygen “Hang”

The Black Angels “Death Song”

Lydia Ainsworth “Darling Of The Afterglow”

Imelda May “Life Love Flesh Blood”

Ron Gallo “Heavy Meta”

Moon Duo “Occult Architecture 1+2”

Miranda Lee Richards “Existential Beast”

Tennis “Yours Conditionally”

Temples “Volcano”

Jesus and Mary Chain “Damage and Joy”

Noveller “Pink Sunset For No One”

Wire “Silver/Lead”

Charly Bliss “Guppy”

Nite Jewel “Real High”

Todd Rundgren “White Knight”

Saint Etienne “Home Counties”

Juana Molina “Halo”

PJ Harvey and Ramy Essam to release ‘The Camp’ on Friday June 9th 2017

PJ Harvey and Ramy Essam to release ‘The Camp’ on

Friday June 9th 2017

Single set to raise much-needed awareness and funding to aid

displaced children in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley.

Artwork by: Semaan Khawam / Giles Duley / Fabrica

PJ Harvey and Egyptian recording artist Ramy Essam have come together to write and record ‘The Camp’ – a track which they hope will raise awareness and much needed support towards the health and educational well-being of displaced children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.

‘The Camp’ will be digitally on Friday 9 June 2017. Harvey and Essam recorded the track in Bristol with Harvey’s longtime collaborator John Parish, who produced and mixed the track, and also appears on drums and guitars. The artists will donate all net profits from the track to Beyond Association in the Bekaa Valley, a national Lebanese non-Governmental Organization. Beyond Association provides services such as access to education, healthcare, and psycho-social support mainly through art therapy, neuro-physiotherapy, and recreational activities.

“It is hard to comprehend the scale of the crisis in Lebanon, a country of 4 million now hosting over 1 million Syrian refugees,” states photo-journalist Giles Duley whose arresting photographs feature in the official music video, edited by Rick Holbrook. “The infrastructure of the country is pushed to its limit, and nowhere is that situation more desperate than in the Bekaa Valley. However, there are some amazing organizations doing incredible, effective, and selfless work on the ground there, and all of the NGOs I have documented, none have impressed me more than Beyond. To visit their schools and witness their programs is to see hope – and that is something we have to support.”

Watch the music video for The Camp now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhttLXBkJvE

Discussing how the project came to be, PJ Harvey explains how she instinctively knew that she wanted to collaborate with Essam; be it as a contribution to one of his ongoing projects, or something entirely new. “I began putting some ideas on paper, and sent over rough demos of two or three songs in their early forms,” recalls Harvey. One of these songs would ultimately become The Camp.When discussing the subject matter of the track, Ramy Essam speaks of his experiences during the revolution in the streets of Egypt. “I dealt with fights, beating, torture and the loss of friends,” he explains. While Essam’s struggle continues, he speaks fondly of the unique opportunity to work with PJ Harvey. “She is a humble person and true artist that I only could dream to even meet – and now I’m singing with her for this important cause, for humanity,” said Essam of the collaboration. “It was an honour to work with PJ Harvey, and I found it so inspiring. It gave me a chance to live my dream for a while.”

“When Polly and Ramy asked me to help provide some of the visuals for The Camp, I had no difficulty in deciding what photographs we should use,” says Giles Duley. “In my work I have documented the effects of conflict and humanitarian disaster across the world, but little has had greater impact on me than the human drama I witnessed on the island of Lesvos in 2015. I thought I had seen it all, but I can honestly say I have never been so overwhelmed as by the human drama that I watched unfolding on those beaches. Its sheer scale was hard to comprehend; the lack of response impossible to explain or excuse. So it is those images from the beaches, and the refugees’ journey from Greece to Germany that we used in the video for The Camp.”

Photo: Seamus Murphy

Low Tour Dates with Japan’s MONO this week

Low announce June 2017 Tour Dates with Japan’s MONO

Beginning June 12th, Low will embark on a five-date co-headline tour with Japanese instrumental rock band MONO. These dates will bring the bands to intimate venues along the American West Coast. Following these shows, the two artists will also both be playing a handful of Canadian summer festivals. Jun. 12 - Los Angeles, CA - Globe Theater Jun. 13 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Jun. 15 - Portland, OR - Wonderland Ballroom Jun. 16 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre Jun. 17 - Vancouver, BC - Imperial Jun. 21 - Calgary, AB - Sled Island Music and Arts Festival Jun. 23 - Saskatoon, SK - SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival The most recent full-length album from Low is their 2015 releaseOnes and Sixes, which was co-produced by the band and engineer BJ Burton at Justin Vernon’s April Base Studios in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Ones and Sixes earned Low international acclaim from the likes ofNPR Music, Under the Radar, The Guardian, DIY, Q, MOJO, Uncut,Minneapolis Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, CLASH, The Sunday Times, and a cover story interview by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon inMAGNET Magazine (view cover / read an excerpt of the story here). For more information on Low please visit :http://www.subpop.com/artists/low

Palehound 'A Place I’ll Always Go' Streaming via NPR First Listen, Nat'l Tour w/ Waxahatchee + Headlining Summer Dates

Palehound
 
Sophomore Album A Place I’ll Always Go 
Streaming In Full via NPR First Listen

Headlining Summer Dates + National Tour w/ Waxahatchee

A Place I'll Always Go Out June 16th on Polyvinyl Record Co.
 

 
“scrappy and buzzy guitar rock, bolstered by Kempner's dexterous riffs … also offers some darker, nuanced shades that evoke the album's themes." - NPR

“A Dazed-Sounding Tribute To The Magic Of Queer Love” - The Fader

“Kempner hums [these] private pleasures over a gently looping acoustic guitar line that sounds like something from one of Broken Social Scene’s whispered love songs, luxuriating in her present bliss and overcoming past anxieties.” - Pitchfork

“Her songs tend to pack the punch of dark personal experience and observations while still sounding bubbly; they often go down like jello shots.” - New York Magazine’s “Vulture”
 
Boston’s Palehound, lead by fierce vocalist and prolific creative force Ellen Kempner, will release the sophomore album, A Place I'll Always Go, June 16 on Polyvinyl Record Co. Fans can hear the collection a week early, streaming with NPR First Listen today. 

A Place I’ll Always Go was recently included in Stereogum’s 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far. Previously, the music video for album track “If You Met Her”debuted on Rookie and was included in Vulture’s Best New Songs Of The Week, and ELLE’s Best New Songs To Listen To In June list. NY Mag’s The Cutrecently noted Palehound’s ability to write “guitar licks that build a permanent home in your head.” Previously, Ellen had an intimate chat Stereogum about the record, debuted album single “Room” via FADER, and announced the record with NPR.
 

photo credit: Shervin Lainez
 
A Place I’ll Always Go is a frank look at love and loss, cushioned by indelible hooks and gently propulsive, fuzzed-out rock. The album channels feelings of anxiety — heart-racing moments both exhilarating and crushing — into songs that feel well-worn and comforting. Recorded at Brooklyn’s Thump Studios (with the assistance of Gabe Wax), A Place I'll Always Go builds on the promise of Palehound's critically acclaimed 2015 album Dry Food, showcasing songs that breathe Kempner’s evolved maturity. Following a spring tour with Big Thief and a handful of summer headlining dates which include a record release show in Boston, Palehound will kick off a national tour with Waxahatchee in August. Full list of dates HERE or see below.

Palehound National Tour Dates
# = with Waxahatchee

6/16: Boston, MA @ Sonia’s (Record Release Party!)
6/27: Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right (tickets)
6/28: Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle (tickets)
7/ 6: Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s
7/7: Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
7/10: Indianapolis, IN @ The Hi-Fi
7/11: Millvale, PA @ The Funhouse at Mr.Smalls
8/04: Dallas, TX @ Club Dada #
8/05: Austin, TX @ The Mohawk #
08-06: Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall #
8/07: New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks #
8/09: Birmingham, AL @ Saturn #
8/10: Athens, GA @ Athens Popfest #
8/11: Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West #
8/13: Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall #
8/14: Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records #
8/15: Columbus, OH @ Park Street Saloon #
8/16: Detroit, MI @ El Club #
8/17: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace #
8/18: Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount #
8/19: Boston, MA @ Royale #
8/21: Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club #

Pre-order A Place I’ll Always Go
 

Laibach Release New Song "Das Nachtlied I"; New Album Out July 14

LAIBACH RELEASE NEW SONG “DAS NACHTLIED I” ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA OUT JULY 14 NOVEMBER TOUR ANNOUNCED

“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra    Laibach have unveiled a track from their brand new album, Also Sprach Zarathustra, out on July 14, 2017 on Mute. Listen to “Das Nachtlied I” HERE. The music for Also Sprach Zarathustra was originally created for a theatrical production of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also Sprach Zarathustra) based on Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel of the same name, which premiered in March 2016. Watch a teaser for the album - featuring “Ein Verkündiger” and footage from the production - HERE. Thus Spoke Zarathustra was directed by Matjaž Berger for the Anton Podbevšek Theatre (APT) in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. Laibach will be touring Also Sprach Zarathustra in November this year – starting in Budapest on November 4 with a date in London on November 23 - and before that, play a series of festival dates. Full details below. Meanwhile, Laibach recently completed a short tour that included a date in South Korea. The date followed Laibach’s infamous North Korean tour (in 2015, on the anniversary of the DPRK’s liberation from Japan) which is documented in Liberation Day, a film directed by Morten Traavik and described by MOJO as “a humorous, disturbing, illuminating and sometimes moving immersion into an anomalous communist mirror-world …” Liberation Day is currently screening at film festivals worldwide, for the latest details go to http://www.liberationday.film/ Thirty-five years on from their genesis in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town of Trbovlje, Laibach are still the most internationally acclaimed band to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Founded in the death year of the country’s founding father Tito, and rising to fame as Yugoslavia steered towards self-destruction, Laibach can make you think, dance and march to the same music.   LAIBACH TOUR DATES & DETAILS June 24 – Poznan, Poland – Henryk Wieniawski Park - Laibach at Malta festival, performing with Poznan L’Autunno Chamber Orchestra June 30 – Kranj, SIovenia – Summer Theatre Khislstein July 19 – Cividale del Friuli/Udine, Italy – Piazza del Duomo - Mittelfest Festival 2017 August 16 – Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo Film Festival  September 21 - Stavanger, Norway – Folken - Kapittelfestivalen   ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA TOUR November 4 – Budapest, Hungary – A 38 November 5 – Prague, Czech Republic – Palace Akropolis November 6 – Vienna, Austria – Arena November 9 – Malmö, Sweden – Moriska Paviljongen  November 10 – Oslo, Norway – Vulcan Arena November 11 – Stockholm, Sweden – Kraken November 13 – Helsinki, Finland – Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo November 14 – Tallin, Estonia – T.R.Theatre of Estonia November 15 – Riga, Latvia – Palladium Riga November 16 – Vilnius, Lithuania – Loftas Club November 19 – Wroclaw, Poland – Stary Klasztor November 20 – Berlin, Germany – Kesselhaus November 21 – Dresden, Germany – Reithalle November 22 – Bochum, Germany – Christuskirche November 23 – London, England – O2 Academy Islington November 24 – Paris, France – Trabendo   Further dates to be added, go to http://www.laibach.org/future-events/ for full details.

White Fence at the Getty Museum June 10th

White Fence! at the Getty Museum #OFFTHE405 #freeconcert • DJ set by Jessica Pratt & Matt McDermott (Resident Advisor) @GettyMuseum