5/03/2022

Reverend Baron Announces New Album 'From Anywhere' out 6/24 via Colemine Records

Reverend Baron Announces New Album From Anywhere 
out June 24th via Colemine Records
 
 
Photo Credit: Chad Dolan
 
May 3, 2022: Today, Reverend Baron announced his new album From Anywhere, out June 24th via Colemine Records. From the academy of deep soul and no ego, Reverend Baron delivers visions of liquor store East LA, the off-the-freeway dry mirage of slow motion graffiti and lonely seagulls. A nylon stringed zen fog with themes of woozy love, layered dimensions of nostalgia and glazed neighborhood tales that roll in with a natural ease. The album announcement comes with the first single “The Fool On The Ave.”
 
 
After notching a permanent status in the skateboarding orbit as Danny Garcia, as Reverend Baron he transferred his effortless style, dedication and authenticity into music. Practicing a philosophy of demystifying the process and doing it yourself, he has become a proficient multi-instrumentalist, engineer, and producer of his own and other artists’ music. All streams of curiosity converge into the river. 
 
Reverend Baron emerges from the proverbial gray overpass with no sense of urgency. He takes a sharp gaze at his surroundings and processes them through a factory of depth and gentle swag to yield a sound that sits as easy as fallen molasses on the bodega shelf. The songs are an unassuming invitation to either walk through the doorway or lean on the wall outside, either way something beautiful and rare.
 
From Anywhere Tracklist:
2. It's My Turn (To Cry, Cry, Cry) 
3. Vicky's Town
4. Advocate 
5. Mind Like A River
6. I See You Runnin' 
7. Sleep Wakes Me Up
8. On The Roundabout
9. To Meet Myself
10. In The Nowheres
 

 

5/02/2022

NEW NOISE show 93 on May 6th 2022


NEW NOISE w/ Alexander Laurence (The Portable Infinite) 
ONE HOUR ALL NEW MUSIC SHOW

SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SHOW

This coming Friday at 3pm Pacific Time, Alexander Laurence’s 
unique cutting edge 1-hour radio show, 
New Noise will broadcast live on RadioKAJW on Live365.

May 6th 2022, Friday at 3pm PST. All new music and some old favorites 
that make for a great electronic disco party.



Listen to previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infinitealexander/


Featuring Wire, Bowie, Eno, Foxygen, Alessi's Ark,
John Foxx, The Big Pink, and APTBS

PORTABLE INFINITE LINKS:


RADIO KAJW Twitter: https://twitter.com/ radiokajw

RAMMSTEIN ZEIT NEW ALBUM OUT NOW

RAMMSTEIN

ZEIT

NEW ALBUM OUT NOW 

“ANGST” VIDEO LIVE NOW AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONj9cvHCado&t=0s&ab_channel=RammsteinOfficial

Hailed in advance by Revolver magazine for its balancing “slow-burning beauty with industrial-strength power,” and preceded by rapturously received singles/videos “Zeit” and “Zick Zack”, Rammstein’s new album Zeit has arrived!

The eighth full length studio album from the Berlin sextet, Zeit’s April 29, 2022 release date lands almost exactly three years to the day of its predecessor, Rammstein’s 2019 untitled album that shot straight to the top of 14 international charts—including the U.S. top 10—following the longest break between albums of their career to date.

Zeit’s release is accompanied by a third video, this time for the track “Angst”, which received its world premiere today on Rammstein’s official YouTube channel.

Over the course of a career spanning almost 30 years, Rammstein have sold more than 20 million albums around the world and played countless spectacular, groundbreaking tours. When the band’s sold-out stadium tour had to be postponed due to the pandemic, Rammstein used the time to work on their new album. Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake (keyboards), Oliver Riedel (bass) and Christoph Schneider (drums) spent two years working on Zeit’s eleven songs. They were once again assisted by Berlin producer Olsen Involtini. Zeit was recorded at La Fabrique Studios in St. Rémy de Provence, France.

Bryan Adams managed to get a special scoop for the cover of the new album – the Canadian musician and photographer took the shot of Rammstein on the steps of the Trudelturm in Berlin Adlershof, an imposing monument to aerial research in the city’s Aerodynamic Park.

Zeit is available in a staggering array of multiple formats—including a standard CD in a digipack with a 20-page booklet, a special edition CD in a 6-panel digipack with a 56-page booklet including slipcase, and as a double 180g vinyl LP with a 20-page large-format booklet, as well as in the usual digital formats.

Zeit will be supported by the return of the legendary Rammstein live experience, in the form of extensive upcoming European and North American stadium tours. Check Rammstein.com for tour dates and further information.


TAN COLOGNE. Hear new song "Topaz Wave" now. Album due later this year

TAN COLOGNE

- New Mexico duo share new single of laid back, earthy psychedelia
- Hear “Topaz Wave” now
- New album due later this year on Labrador
Photo credit: Marissa Macias

Today Tan Cologne preview their new album, due later this year on Labrador Records, with new single “Topaz Wave”. 
 
Tan Cologne is the duo of Lauren Green and Marissa Macias, based in Northern New Mexico. The two artists work in tactile and sonic modalities inspired by both earthly and otherworldly landscapes. Tan Cologne often explore the mysteries and oddities of New Mexico, alongside spatial inner-workings of growth and spirit. 
 

"Topaz Wave" is a song about phosphorescent algae. A surface of water experiencing a light bloom, signalling transformation. Soft turning tidal phases and wave swells carry the motion with illuminated droplets.

"The song carries a memory of surfing in a red tide algea bloom with the waves flickering and illuminating the ocean energy" the band explain. "We wrote the song beside an arroyo, a dry river bed, in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. The sides of the arroyo walls are shaped like curved waves - reflecting the experience of tidal and earth transformation, and how the desert land was once ocean."

The arroyo can be seen the accompanying video, directed by Carly Short, which depicts a pathway and journey to discovering inner peace activated by Earth elements.
 
Listen to “Topaz Wave”: https://youtu.be/yKQiAKV0vPw
 
Interdisciplinary artists Lauren Green and Marissa Macias met in Taos, New Mexico and have been exploring musical and creative terrains together ever since. From forming an underground gallery space to composing experimental soundscapes, their debut album ‘Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico’, released in 2020 via Labrador Records, emerged from parallel observations and growth, with New Mexico as the axis of the journey.
 
2022 will see new music from the duo, as well as a forthcoming residency at 
Pescetrullo in Italy and live dates later in the year. Watch this space for more news.
 
Links:
http://www.tancologne.com

https://tan-cologne.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/tancologne/
https://twitter.com/tan_cologne

AWOLNATION Announce "Falling Forward" U.S. Tour (10/6-11/18) with Special Guests Badflower and The Mysterines

AWOLNATION
ANNOUNCE “FALLING FORWARD” U.S. TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS BADFLOWER
AND OPENING ACT THE MYSTERINES
OCTOBER 6–NOVEMBER 18
 
TICKETS ON-SALE FRIDAY, MAY 6 AT 10AM (LOCAL)
FAN PRE-SALE STARTING TUESDAY, MAY 3 @ 10AM (LOCAL)
 
NEW COVERS AND COLLABORATIONS ALBUM,
‘MY ECHO, MY SHADOW, MY COVERS AND ME,’
OUT FRIDAY;
PRE-SAVE HERE

Catch diamond-selling alternative outfit AWOLNATION on a headlining tour this fall across the U.S. with special guests Badflower and support from British alternative rockers The Mysterines. The “Falling Forward” tour kicks off October 6 in Salt Lake City, UT and includes stops in NYC, LA and Austin before wrapping November 18 in Seattle, WA. A full list of dates is below.
 
Tickets will go on sale to the public Friday, May 6 at 10am local time at this location: https://www.awolnationmusic.com/. A fan club exclusive presale will run starting at 10am local time on Tuesday, May 3 to Thursday, May 5.
 
The on-sale date coincides with the release of AWOLNATION’s new covers and compilations album, MY ECHO, MY SHADOW, MY COVERS AND ME, via Better Noise Music. Featuring collaborations with Beck, Jewel, Portugal. The Man, Taylor Hanson of Hanson, Brandon Boyd of Incubus and more, the album was conceived by AWOLNATION mastermind Aaron Bruno as a way of escaping the reality of 2020 and to act as “a palate cleanser for releasing new, original music,” according to Bruno in a recent interview with Billboard. 
 
Three cover tracks have been shared in advance of its release along with corresponding music videos including Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” featuring Portugal.The Man and Brandon Boyd of Incubus; Midnight Oil’s “Beds Are Burning” featuring Tim McIlrath of Rise Against; and Madonna’s “Material Girl” featuring Taylor Hanson of Hanson.
 
Pre-order/pre-save MY ECHO, MY SHADOW, MY COVERS AND ME now at https://ffm.bio/awolnation.
AWOLNATION “Falling Forward” Tour Dates: 
Thursday, October 6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex - Rockwell
Friday, October 7 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
Saturday, October 8 - Omaha, NE @ Barnato
Monday, October 10 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
Tuesday, October 11 - Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
Thursday, October 13 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
Friday, October 14 - Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! Indoor Pavilion
Saturday, October 15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
Sunday, October 16 - Newport, KY @ PromoWest Pavilion at OVATION
Tuesday, October 18 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
Wednesday, October 19 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
Friday, October 21 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
Saturday, October 22 - New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17
Sunday, October 23 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Tuesday, October 25 - Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
Wednesday, October 26 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
Friday, October 28 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Saturday, October 29 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
Monday, October 31 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville
Wednesday, November 2 - Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
Friday, November 4 - Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
Saturday, November 5 - Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
Sunday, November 6 - Austin, TX Stubb's @ Waller Creek Amphitheater
Tuesday, November 8 - Albuquerque, NM @ Revel
Wednesday, November 9 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
Friday, November 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Saturday, November 12 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
Sunday, November 13 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Wednesday, November 16 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Friday, November 18 - Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
 
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Razor Braids shares new break-up song, "Kellogg's"

Razor Braids shares new break-up song, "Kellogg's"

 ““I didn’t think I had it in me to be floored by a rock band anymore....Then, on a trip to New York several months ago, I caught the second half of a Razor Braids show.”” — BLISSPOP

“They have the swagger and confidence of a veteran act. The guitars soar, the rhythm section punches hard, and vocalist/bassist Hollye Bynum doesn’t hold back. ” — Bushwick Daily
 

STREAM: "Kellogg's" -
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Today Brooklyn band Razor Braids shares a new single, "Kellogg's," it's a break-up song that anyone who's ever spent any time late at night in Brooklyn will be able to identify with vividly. The single's cover art (below) is like the crests that appear at the beginning of each episode of Ozark, foreshadowing mundane items that will play a role in the unfortunate chain of events that's about to unfold. It's the first new music from the band since its debut LP, I Could Cry Right Now If You Wanted Me To, from last year. The band just wrapped up an east coast tour and has announced a new NYC date on May 27 at the Mercury Lounge.

    "I wrote these lyrics when I was going through a really tough breakup and shortly after experiencing a traumatic head injury. It's one of those moments where you say to yourself, "How did I get here?" Years later during the initial Covid shutdown, I revisited this song when I was far away from my band and feeling a similar feeling of "what the fuck is going to happen next?" I think, along with the rest of the world, I was confronted with the realization that shit is out of my hands and ultimately had to learn to lean into that." - Hollye Bynum

    "A lot of this song is me asking questions. Hollye sent me the bones of "Kellogg's" that she had recorded with Janie while we were still in lockdown. I had just gone through an unexpectedly shitty breakup and had so many scary, uncertain feelings both about my personal life and then the world at large. This song felt like a space where I could at least try and ask all those questions and maybe in doing so accept that I don't have all the answers." - Jilly Karande

Bio:
Razor Braids is a Brooklyn-based, queer, all-female/non-binary rock band that combines a
heavy punk energy with an indie rock vulnerability culminating in frenetic live shows and a
dynamic sound anchored in a 90s alternative ethos. Finding strength during hard times has
been at the core of the Razor Braids ethos since their formation. In 2017, Hollye Bynum, lead
vocalist and bassist, taught herself to play as she recovered from a fall and subsequent brain
injury that left her mostly bedridden. Over the next two years, the rest of the lineup came to
fruition: Janie Peacock on lead guitar, Jilly Karande on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Hannah
Nichols on drums. Their first year as a band was spent in constant motion - headlining shows at
Mercury Lounge and Brooklyn Bowl and playing Rough Trade in support of Tchotchke (FKA
Pinky Pinky).
In the throes of the pandemic, Razor Braids' first single “Nashville,'' recorded by Emmy
Award-winning engineers Jeremy Lee Given and Mark Leombardi, was released in March of
2020 and met with an overwhelmingly positive reaction from local publications like Post-Trash,
Audiofemme and Look at My Records. The momentum from their single release propelled Razor
Braids directly into the recording of their debut LP, I Could Cry Right Now If You Wanted Me To,
celebrated with a sold-out release show at Union Pool and glowing reviews from grlsplain,
Blisspop, and other Brooklyn-based music blogs. Recorded in practice spaces and living rooms,
“I Could Cry” is a collage of emotions that cascades and crescendos through a distincitve
combination of interlocking vocal harmonies, intense sound walls of guitar feedback, and a
firece, driving rhythm section.
But despite its difficult subject matter - abuse, heartbreak, isolation - I Could Cry never
lavishes too far into melodrama. “No, I’m not dead.” Bynum asserts in the opening verse of the
album’s lead single. But with a touch of sardonicism she quickly shrugs it off, “Not quite, not
yet.” That resilience has carried the band through the last year, selling out their first three 2021
shows and headlining beloved New York venues including The Sultan Room, TV Eye, a second
sold out show at Union Pool sponsored by Hornitos Tequila, and playing Baby’s All Right in
support of viral pop star DeathbyRomy.
Their upcoming singles, “Kellogg’s” and “Megachurch” were written almost entirely while the
band was spread across the country at the start of the pandemic. Through voice notes sent
back and forth between bandmates, Razor Braids weaved together two songs that bring to life
the memories – from terrible parties to secret make-out spots – that bubble to the surface when
the world has been forced to a halt. In different ways, both singles look to the past to try to make sense of the uncertain feelings of the present.
The four-piece has returned to the stage as a more cohesive unit with more confidence and
sense of purpose than ever before. And with upcoming shows supporting Anna Shoemaker,
Blahsum/Jigsaw Youth, and Thelma and the Sleaze the band has plans to record a follow-up to
their debut LP and take their reputation for electrifying performances on the road with a Spring
2022 East Coast tour and the West Coast in the fall. With each scream and snare hit, Razor
Braids have honed a unique sound that is a testament to the redemptive power and catharsis of
community.

Razor Braids are:

    Hollye Bynum (she/her) - lead vocals, bass
    Janie Peacock (she/her) - lead guitar,
    Jilly Karande (she/her) - rhythm guitar, vocals
    Hannah Nichols (they/them) - drums

TOUR DATES:

5/27 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge

Press photo by Michelle LoBianco 

5/01/2022

Cruel World Music Festival @ The Portable Infinite















Past photos of Morrissey, Blondie, Echo and the Bunnymen, Violent Femmes, 
The Church, and Drab Majesty by Alexander Laurence

Past photos of Bauhaus, Devo, Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd, 
The Damned, The KVB, and Automatic by Bradley Dupray

ATARASHII GAKKO! Confirmed To Play Coachella On Friday, April 9 & 16

ATARASHII GAKKO! TO MAKE TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO COACHELLA ON FRIDAY, APRIL 9 & 16  WATCH    “TTTTOKYO”  WATCH OI AG! WATCH  TOKYO CALLING ...