Tiga and Hudson Mohawke share new single "Silence of Love" feat. Jesse Boykins III

HUDSON MOHAWKE & TIGA SHARE NEW TRACK FROM COLLABORATIVE ALBUM L'ECSTASY DUE DECEMBER 1ST "SILENCE OF LOVE" FEAT. JESSE BOYKINS III OUT NOW

single artwork L'Ecstasy PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://lmz.lnk.to/lecstasy "Silence of Love" feat. Jesse Boykins III LISTEN: https://lmz.lnk.to/lecstasy WATCH: https://youtu.be/vgWzi3niB9w (November 1, 2023) - Hudson Mohawke and Tiga, collectively known as Love Minus Zero, return to share the latest offering from their collaborative album, L'Ecstasy due December 1st. Discover the electrifying single that's already reverberating throughout the international dance music scene, traveling from the very mantle of the Earth to the smiles of surface-dwelling dancers the world over. On "Silence of Love," the acid-house banger piece of the year, Tiga & Hudson Mohawke step behind the curtain and cede center stage to a longing vocal from the incredible Jesse Boykins III.The track weaves retro-futuristic acid house wizardry with Boykins’ soulful voice, with the pulsating beats, dreamy synths, and Boykins' evocative lyrics will lead you into a world wheretime stands still, beats pulsate, and the fabric of augmented reality itself dissolves. This track is destined to be the anthem of Q4 2023, the soundtrack to crazy nights sweat away on global dance floors across the country. It is also part of the 0.03% of modern house music that doesn’t sound like it waswritten, produced and arranged by an elliptical machine.  The project's artwork was created by famed photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, who graciously reached out after hearing the track during the LMZ Sonar performance in Barcelona. Tillmans said the track struck “a Herznote, or chord close to the heart.” This evocative description was exactly the kind of reaction the duo had hoped to inspire: “Normally you’ll just accept ‘genre-defying’ or ’nuts-to-the-wall’ as a compliment and move on,” says Tiga. “But we saw our intention reflected in his words. Getting to collaborate with a world-class artist like Wolfgang validates the very idea of having emotions at all." "In my lifetime, It’s never been easier to not love — there are a million reasons to close yourself off every day,” says Tiga. "But sometimes allowing yourself to love means letting everything in, including all the pain and saxophone solos in the world. Ultimately, though, we wanted to make a song that makes you feel something just by reading about it, and I think we’ve done that. One Love — for real this time, not like all the other times I said it.”  Listen to "Silence in Love" feat. Jesse Boykins III above and stay tuned for more from Hudson Mohawke and Tiga coming soon.

album artwork L'Ecstasy Love Minus Zero December 1st, 2023 1. Exit Warehouse at Dawn 2. TR Smooth 3. Night is Not 4. VSOD 5. Feel The Rush ft. Channel Tres 6. BUYBUYSELL 7. Love Minus Zero 8. Natural Spirit 9. Silence of Love ft. Jesse Boykins III 10. Theme from Borneo Function 11. Duro 12. Ascending Into The Clouds Ft. Elizabeth Troy 13. LMZNIN 14. winter crush 15. IN ORDER 2

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Dischord Records post-dance-punks LIGHT BEAMS Release New Single / Video “Friendly”, Album Out Friday

Light Beams Release Single / Music Video “Friendly” New Album Wild Life To Be Released This Friday, November 3 via Dischord Records / Mud Memory November Tour Dates Announced Album pre-order link “Friendly” single available across all platforms

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The Washington D.C. post-dance-punk band Light Beams have just released their new single “Friendly” across all digital platforms. The single arrives accompanied by a music video, which can be seen HERE. It is the second single to be released ahead of the band’s new album titled Wild Life which will be released this Friday, November 3rd via legendary independent label Dischord Records in partnership with the band’s own imprint Mud Memory. The album is the band’s first recorded output since expanding from a trio to a five-piece, with the addition of Leah Gage and Erin McCarley on vocals, percussion, and samples to augment Sam Lavine’s explosive drumming and Arthur Noll’s bass. Thematically, Wild Life is an exercise in processing Light Beams vocalist/bandleader Justin Wm. Moyer’s experience covering protests, demonstrations, and ultimately the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol as a journalist on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team documenting the violent, chaotic, and horrific experiences of that day. Wild Life is available for pre-order now, and “Friendly” is streaming across all platforms.

Watch / Share: “Friendly” video “Friendly” is an ESG-inspired track that explores an encounter with a demonstrator who confronted Moyer as a member of the press at a demonstration he was covering outside the Supreme Court. The altercation became threatening, and physical. However, Moyer was able to defuse rather than escalate the situation. Hence the title, "Friendly". He reflects on the experience: “I was covering a protest at the Supreme Court, interviewing a demonstrator who was very critical of the media. I had taken some photos of the scene and the protester started challenging me – physically challenging me – about my photos. This person was getting very angry, and I was getting very angry. But I realized that the situation could be defused easily by, well, keeping things friendly. So I gave this person my phone and let him delete all the photos he objected to (which weren’t going to be published anyway). I thought this was a good outcome. I’m not always good at dealing with anger and, in a different part of my life, the argument might have ended a different way. This song is about that – and any situation where emotions threaten to get too big for the people experiencing them.”

Photo by Leah Gage

Wild Life is a collection of vignettes of post-Trump life that also serves as a grand exploration of our world at large. The compulsion to tease meaning out of the everyday is the cornerstone of Light Beams aesthetic. This is music that reaches towards the unknown, searching for a future for punk in a new century. As Moyer puts it: “I can’t just do another guitar band after the genius of Beyonce and Rihanna.” Successive generations experience paradigm shifts in music creation; be that home recording, sampling, or sequencing. By offering “block rock” – the band’s name for its sample-based approach – Light Beams carves its own path, juxtaposing dark, lyrical themes against upbeat, polyrhythmic, danceable music. The resulting album is a dauntless exploration of contemporary American life and the most ambitious, fully-realized Light Beams outing yet.

Light Beams will embark on a tour in support of the album that kicks off this week. The full dates are below: 11/1 Cleveland OH at Beachland Ballroom 11/2 Detroit MI at Donovan's 11/3 Chicago IL at Cafe Mustache 11/4 Madison WI at Communication 11/5 Cincinnati OH at MOTR 11/10 Brooklyn NY at Main Drag 11/17 Charlottesville VA at Visible Records 11/18 Washington, DC at Comet Ping Pong 11/19 Richmond VA at Banditos

Wild Life arrives on November 3 in a collaboration between legendary D.C. label Dischord Records and Moyer’s own Mud Memory Records. This release is the latest in a lengthy relationship between Moyer and Dischord which stretches back to his former bands El Guapo, Antelope, and Edie Sedgwick. Pre-order Wild Life is available HERE, and the music video for “Coming Our Way” can be seen HERE.

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TIFFY Debuts “Lost In The Shuffle” Video w/ FLOOD | US Tour | LP out Friday

TIFFY FLOOD Debuts “Lost In The Shuffle” Single/Video Available across platforms here US Tour Kicks Off This Week! TICKETS 11/4: Littleton, NH @ Loading Dock 11/9: Keene, NH @ Nova Arts 11/10: Medford, MA @ Deep Cuts 11/11: Brooklyn, NY @ bkONE, Tom Kane Theater 11/17: Portsmouth, NH @ WSCA 11/18: Providence, RI @ News Cafe Debut LP So Serious Out This Friday, Nov. 3 via Totally Real Records / Dollhouse Lightning So Serious album pre-order “another step forward for the SoCal-born singer-songwriter, mixing her catchiest melodies yet with some surf-inflected guitars and intentionally off-balance guitars.” - FADER “melds dewy dream pop with dazed lo-fi punk—it sounds like a melted-down punk song that was reconstructed with wistful guitars and scrappy, off-center synths.” - PASTE Singles: “Lost In The Shuffle” “Don’t Take It Personally” “In Jest”

Credit: Clover Nahabedian Asian-American artist TIFFY will release her debut full length album So Serious this Friday Nov. 3 via Totally Real Records / Dollhouse Lightning. Garnering acclaim spanning The Alternative, Punknews.org, Guitar Girl Magazine, FEMMUSIC, Northern Transmissions and Ghettoblaster Magazine for early singles “Don’t Take It Personally” and “In Jest”, Tiffany Sammy’s forthcoming collection is a stirring coming-of-age narrative outlining the tumultuous path through social media, social disconnection, heartbreak and the drive for achievement. Today, she unleashes the dreamy new album track “Lost In The Shuffle” which arrives with an official video debuted by FLOOD Magazine. Driven by a bouncy bass beat, the song centers on the detachment of email culture and the inability to truly connect while doom scrolling. Listen / Share: “Lost In The Shuffle” Currently Boston-based, Sammy grew up in California and fell in love with the crunchy and catchy rock that dominated ‘90s radio airplay. Her hook-loaded confessional songwriting recalls the dusky, kaleidoscopic musical approach of indie rock contemporaries Speedy Ortiz and Jay Som with irresistible melodies that harken to peak-era Weezer. Heavily influenced by bedroom pop and punk rock distilled through her compositional magic, TIFFY has arrived with So Serious—a monumental record that’s the most potent realization yet of her uniquely self-established “soft punk” genre. With countless shows under her belt, establishing herself as a formidable live presence in the Boston and New England music scenes, TIFFY will kick off a national US tour this Friday in  Littleton, New Hampshire with additional appearances in NYC, Boston, Providence and more.

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Faux Real get "Faux Maux" with new single, sign to City Slang

FAUX REAL GET “FAUX MAUX” WITH NEW SINGLE - LISTEN ACCLAIMED AVANT-POP DUO UNVEIL FIRST RELEASE VIA NEW DEAL  WITH LEGENDARY INDEPENDENT LABEL, CITY SLANG SELF-DIRECTED OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERES TODAY – WATCH

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Visionary Avant-Pop duo Faux Real has unveiled the new single, “Faux Maux,” available now via their new deal with legendary independent label, City Slang. A starry-eyed ode to staying in and logging out, the track (pronounced /fō mō/) is joined by a self-directed official music video, featuring cinematography by longtime collaborator Léo Schrepel and streaming now on YouTube. LISTEN TO “FAUX MAUX” WATCH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO “Faux Maux” sees Faux Real – a.k.a. Los Angeles-based Franco-American brothers Virgile and Elliott Arndt – shining brighter here than ever before, with melodies that never land where one would expect, two-part turnarounds, plastic splashes of sound design, and irresistible vocal hooks. Forever expanding their faux-cabulary, the Arndts have melded a particularly 21st Century malaise with a layer of sarcastic French wordplay, with “Faux Maux” quite literally translating to “fake aches.” Initially conceived in a pre-COVID world, the song’s key message of the phone as emblem of our times (“Call me up / I’ll turn you down”) has since piled on several new coats of meaning, with its themes of isolation and social anxiety also echoing the environmental illness of Julianne Moore’s character in Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995). As they set forth on their new era, Faux Real invite us into their singular playhouse, opening the door on the idiosyncratic and ingenious home they have been building from the inside out. “Faux Maux” follows last year’s acclaimed single, “Full Circle,” joined by a disquieting – yet captivatingly choreographed – official music video, directed by Faux Real and streaming now at YouTube. With a meticulous new sound favoring ultra-digital software instruments, brutalist production, and the duo’s long-standing knack for hugely catchy vocal melodies, the track was met by applause from media outlets around the world outlets with EARMILK hailing it as “another off-beat, alt-pop gem…‘Full Circle’ fuses organic, melodic beats with dynamic drum hits. Hints of synth creep up to the catchiest of choruses, slipping between the brothers' vocals, complimenting each other seamlessly with double tracks and stacks…The video is equally as stirring, with the pair's quick moves in time to the beat reaching out of the screen.” WATCH “FULL CIRCLE” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO Elliott and Virgile Arndt founded Faux Real in 2018, blending post-punk, glam rock, and fresh beats to fashion a truly inimitable musical experience. From their increasingly accomplished studio output to mesmerizing, unprecedented live performances, Faux Real invite the audience to join them an enthralling post-realist expedition through contemporary pop culture with razor-edged satire, inspired boy band choreography, and a charged sensuality that has fast earned them a fervent fan following that includes among their number such iconic stars as Duran Duran, Paramore, and Wet Leg. Now, with “Faux Maux” – and whispers of their long awaited debut album arriving at last in 2024 – Faux Real continue to gleefully ignore boundaries and barriers, assuring the journey is as exhilarating as the ultimate destination. CONNECT WITH FAUX REAL: ISTHISFAUXREAL.COM | FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK | YOUTUBE