NOISE POP FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW MUSIC LINEUP - Snail Mail, Mountain Goats, Cherry Glazerr & More Join Phase 1 Lineup

NOISE POP ANNOUNCES PHASE 1 LINEUP

FOR 31ST ANNUAL CITY-WIDE, WEEK-LONG MUSIC FESTIVAL

SNAIL MAIL & CHERRY GLAZERR & THE MOUNTAIN GOATS TO BE JOINED BY 

REVEREND KRISTIN MICHAEL HAYTER, HAILU MERGIA, ACTRESS & MORE

Bay Area’s Premier Independent Music Festival Returns February 22 to March 3, 2024

Ticket Sale Begins Tomorrow, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. PST

Including Full Festival Badges & Individual Concert Tickets

SAN FRANCISCO, CA  – Organizers behind Noise Pop Festival, San Francisco Bay Area’s premier independent music festival, have announced today the phase 1 music lineup for the multi-venue music festival returning as the week-long event returns for its 31st anniversary beginning Thursday, February 22 through Sunday, March 3, 2024. 

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. PST via www.noisepopfest.com, including festival badges and individual concert tickets. Badges grant access to general admission (non-reserved seating) access to every music concert, happy hour, and after-hour party throughout the weeklong festival. Fans are encouraged to act fast as the initial allotment of early-bird festival badges sold out within hours of each on-sale earlier this fall. As always, badge prices will increase with each new lineup phase announcement.

2024 MUSIC LINEUP

The initial lineup is led by a slew of female-fronted acts, each of which released new music in recent weeks, including Snail Mail, the beloved indie rock solo project from Lindsey Jordan, dubbed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone, who just dropped a new EP, Valentine (Demos), last Friday; West Coast rock trio Cherry Glazerr, who released their fourth album, I Don't Want You Anymore, just over a month ago to wide-spread critical acclaim; and singer/songwriter/pianist Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, who was formerly known as Lingua Ignota and just dropped her debut album, Saved!, only a few weeks ago while selling out a special pop-up show at Carnegie Hall this coming January as a lead up to Noise Pop Festival.

Festival alumni The Mountain Goats will return for their third Noise Pop Festival performance, following previous sets in 2008 and 2016, with 2024 serving as a special solo acoustic set from John Darnielle. Noise Pop looks forward to welcoming back the folk-rock band that in the past four years has released six studio albums, most recently with Jenny From Thebes released this October.

A number of internationally-revered performers are also set to perform including Ethiopian music legend and keyboardist Hailu Mergia; Peru-born, Germany-based producer/DJ Sofia Kourtesis; Italian electronic music producer Alessandro Cortini, arguably best known for his work as a member of the iconic band Nine Inch Nails and who will be presenting his new live performance installation “Nati Infiniti" at Noise Pop Festival 2024; as well as boundaryless British electronic music producer Actress who will perform a rare live performance of his cerebral abstract techno music.

In true Noise Pop tradition, the West Coast is well-respected in this year’s lineup with an expansive multi-genre collection of performers that include Thee Sinseers (soul, Los Angeles), Militarie Gun (punk rock, Los Angeles), Ultra Q (alt-rock, Oakland), Spiritual Cramp (punk rock, San Francisco), and Chokecherry (shoegaze, San Francisco), The Reds, Pinks & Purples (indie rock, San Francisco), and Stephen Steinbrink (indie pop, Oakland) among others.

The initial music lineup is listed below and available online at www.noisepopfest.com, although stay tuned for more artist additions in the coming weeks as over 100 total music acts will perform at the 2024 festival:

• Snail Mail

• The Mountain Goats (Solo)

• Cherry Glazerr

• Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

• Hailu Mergia

• Sofia Kourtesis

• Actress (Live A/V)

• Alessandro Cortini

• Narrow Head

• Thee Sinseers

• Militarie Gun

• Ultra Q

• Shay Lia

• Kendra Morris

• Pool Kids

• Spiritual Cramp

• Raue

• Cola

• Greg Mendez

• chokecherry

• The Reds, Pinks & Purples

• Stephen Steinbrink

• The Softies

• Wombo

• Roman Candle

+ Plus More Acts To Be Announced Soon!

“Phase 1 of this year’s curated lineup is stacked with not only the artists you already know and love, but the ones you need on your radar from the Bay and beyond,” said Noise Pop CEO, Michelle Swing. “We’re excited to announce Phase 1, but there’s much, much more to come and we can’t wait to share.”

SUPPORT FROM ORGANIZERS, VENUES & SPONSORS

For more than three decades, festival organizers at Noise Pop Industries have served as cultural arbiters and community advocates within the local arts community while promoting thousands of concerts and creating unique festival properties across Northern California. 

Next February, Noise Pop will celebrate the 31st anniversary of the launch of the team’s flagship event, Noise Pop Festival, which regularly transforms the entire San Francisco Bay Area into sprawling festival grounds. Fans can once again look forward to a jam-packed schedule full of live music, art shows, happy hours, secret after-hour parties, and so much more - all of which will take place nightly over the course of a full week in late February. 

Featuring some of the country’s most historic concert halls among other SF music venue institutions, Noise Pop has tapped the likes of Great American Music Hall, Bottom of the Hill, The Chapel, Rickshaw Stop, Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ, August Hall, Gray Area, Kilowatt, Bender's Bar and Grill, and 1015 Folsom, among others to participate again, although Noise Pop looks to make its debut next February with several intimate concerts at the Grace Cathedral. Entry to all of these iconic spaces will soon be available to those who purchase full festival badges, in addition to ticket-buyers at individual festival concerts.

Noise Pop would also like to thank the creative contributions of Christopher Gale, more commonly known as Kidtofer, an artist and illustrator based in Oakland and originally from Bangkok, Thailand who is responsible for designing this year’s poster artwork. Learn more about his artwork by visiting www.kidtofer.com.

Stay tuned for more festival announcements through the official festival website at www.noisepopfest.com and official social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, including an expanded music lineup reveal next month.

Colin Newman (Wire) - Bastard out January 26, 2024

Colin Newman Bastard swim ~ 26 January 2024

• A rerelease of the 1997 album Bastard, by Colin Newman. • Available on vinyl for the first time – and bio vinyl at that! • CD version includes a second CD with rare and unreleased tracks. VINYL // DOUBLE CD // DIGITAL – January 2024 CD2 Tracks 1–4 taken from 1995 EP Voice. Tracks 5–8 originally appeared on swim team #1 and swim team #2. Tracks 9–12 previously unreleased and exclusive to this edition. It was four years into the swim ~ label’s history before Bastard arrived. Like my previous albums, it was another collaboration – although this time only with my partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel. There was a point in the ’90s when British music journalists basically didn’t get dance music and would refer to it as “faceless techno bollocks”. It was that very attribute that Malka and I felt most attracted to. In instrumental music, you could be anyone from anywhere. The only thing that mattered was how good your tunes were. In fact, for the first Immersion album, we pretended to be from Germany and were photographed in wigs and masks. This had the unexpected result of the album selling more copies in Germany than anywhere else! With Bastard, it took a while to get to the concept, which was essentially this: What if we subverted the whole ‘bloke from Wire’ thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? These days, this is not such a big thing, but it was hugely transgressive at the time. The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. The only singing is a one-line Malka sample on ‘Turn’. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called music by a ‘heritage’ artist, but it didn’t play by the rules of dance music either. Back then, dance music artists didn’t mix up styles as they do today. This is one of the reasons the album’s called Bastard. Upon release, Bastard was modestly successful in comparison to the label’s other releases, although widely misunderstood. The title is intentionally multifaceted, referring to several ways in which the album is a misfit – a cuckoo in the nest. But it never meant ‘Colin Newman is a bastard’ – even if Malka’s toy finger gesture on the cover tempted fate on that! Malka and I have done more work together on swim ~ – and, of course, there has been plenty of Wire activity after its second hiatus during the 1990s – but I never felt the need to do another solo album. I don’t crave attention and certainly don’t feel I lack ways to express myself. In many ways, it’s more creative to collaborate with others. There is joy and beauty in collaboration. And collaborating with Malka has become so effortless that we almost don’t know who does what in the work we create. This has led us to throwing open our partnership via Nanocluster events and albums where we build musical bridges and make partnerships that transcend the art. Maybe that’s the point? Surely, art should be about human connection and diversity of expression? Colin Newman, Brighton, 2023 (edited from album sleeve notes)

Greensky Bluegrass Announce 2024 Winter Tour support acts

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS ANNOUNCE 2024 WINTER TOUR SUPPORT ACTS INCLUDING DUANE BETTS & PALMETTO MOTEL, MELT, MOLLY TUTTLE, THE HIGH HAWKS AND DANIEL DONATO’S COSMIC COUNTRY  WINTER TOUR KICKS OFF JANUARY 11 IN JACKSONVILLE, FL

Photo Credit: Dylan Langille  On the heels of a four-night Michigan run to ring in the New Year, Greensky Bluegrass has announced the support acts for their upcoming 2024 Winter Tour. On select dates the band will welcome Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel, Melt, Molly Tuttle (solo), The High Hawks, and Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country.   Winter Tour will kick off on January 11 in Jacksonville, FL, and will make stops throughout the Southeast, East Coast, and Midwest before wrapping with two nights at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium on March 8 and 9.  All up-to-date news and tour information can be found at greenskybluegrass.com.

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS ON TOUR Jan 11 @ Florida Theatre | Jacksonville, FL  Jan 12 @ Miami Beach Bandshell | Miami Beach, FL Jan 13 @ Jannus Live | St. Petersburg, FL Jan 14 @ House of Blues | Orlando, FL Jan 17 @ Charleston Music Hall | Charleston, SC* Jan 18 @ The Ritz | Raleigh, NC* Jan 19 @ The Fillmore | Charlotte, NC*  Jan 20 @ The Eastern | Atlanta, GA*  Feb 1 @ College Street Music Hall | New Haven, CT^ Feb 2 @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway | Boston, MA^ Feb 3 @ The Fillmore | Philadelphia, PA^ Feb 4 @ The Paramount | Huntington, NY^ Feb 7 @ Town Ballroom | Buffalo, NY^ Feb 8 @ Stage AE | Pittsburgh, PA^ Feb 9 @ The Anthem | Washington, DC# Feb 10 @ The Anthem | Washington, DC^ Feb 29 @ Val Air Ballroom | West Des Moines, IA% Mar 1 @ Palace Theatre | St. Paul, MN% Mar 2 @ The Salt Shed | Chicago, IL% Mar 3 @ The Sylvee | Madison, WI% Mar 6 @ KEMBA Live! | Columbus, OH@ Mar 7 @ Old Forester’s Paristown Hall | Louisville, KY@ Mar 8 @ The Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN@ Mar 9 @ The Ryman Auditorium | Nashville, TN@ May 23-26 @ DelFest | Cumberland, MD May 24-26 @ Dark Star Jubilee | Thornville, OH July 4-7 @ High Sierra Music Festival | Quincy, CA *Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel ^Melt #Molly Tuttle (solo)  %The High Hawks @Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country

Still Corners Announce 6th Studio Album wtih new video 'Secret World'

IT’S STILL CORNERS DREAM WORLD, WE JUST LIVE IN IT

‘SECRET WORLD’ OUT 5TH DECEMBER, NEW ALBUM 5TH APRIL 2O24

Pre-Order Here!

Photo Credit: Bernard Blur

 

WATCH

 

“Murray’s voice is a beautiful, dreamy magnet for Hughes’s backdrops, which without losing their twang take all sorts of tangents”

MOJO

 

“Some artists release albums to be listened to. Others to be absorbed. And several create music to bask in. Still Corners covers all those and more.”

AMERICAN SONGWRITER

 

“One of those modern-day music quandaries that remains unanswered is why aren’t Still Corners much bigger than they actually are.”

UNDER THE RADAR

 

Hot off the back of August’s European tour, Still Corners return with new music! The Lynchian duo will debut new single ‘Secret World’ on 5th December 2023 via their own record label, Wrecking Light Records, in anticipation of their new album Dream Talk on 5th April 2024.

 

‘Secret World’ seduces from the start, a delicate rattle of a maraca and a Lindsay Buckingham-esque guitar lick captivates, beautiful in its simplicity. Tessa Murray’s vocals are sultry, smooth, and dominate the soundscape so delicately, pairing perfectly with Greg Hughes’ diaphanous tremolo guitar. The so aptly named new single is set in Still Corners’ secret world, leaving the listener to merely aurally gaze upon it. Tessa Murray said of ‘Secret World: “Sometimes the thought of someone, wanting to know them, get into their world is dangerous. The real person doesn’t matter anymore, just the fantasy of them, which is totally wrong but feels right."

 

Recorded across three studios in the south of France, East Sussex, and Woodstock, New York, Dream Talk is elegant and wistful with a sound that is focused, stylish and seductive. Shaped by fantasies, dreams and automatic writing, Dream Talk almost fell together in a dream-like state. Murray explains: “I had tapped into something new and the way it came out was quite hypnotic, like a transitional state between wakefulness and sleep,” adding the album name essentially wrote itself.

 

Still Corners is the musical project of Tessa Murray and Greg Hughes, and formed shortly after Murray met Hughes by chance at a London train stop in 2009. Over the next (nearly) fifteen years, the band has delivered a steady stream of music that is at once reflective, searching and romantic. Showcasing a unique shimmering desert-noir sound Still Corners have earned global commercial success with such releases as Strange Pleasures (2013) and 2021’s The Last Exit.

 

New single ‘Secret World’ will be released on 5th December 2023 ahead of their sixth album Dream Talk on 5th April 2024 via Wrecking Light Records.

 

 

 

 

STREAM SINGLE

TRACKLIST

1.      Today is the Day

2.      The Dream

3.      Faded Love

4.      What is Real

5.      Lose More Slowly

6.      Secret World

7.      Let’s Make Up

8.      Crystal Blue

9.      The Ship

10.   Turquoise Moon

 

TOUR DATES

 

17 APR | BROOKLYN, NY | ELSEWHERE

19 APR | SAN FRANCISCO, CA | GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL

21 APR | SEATTLE, WA | THE CROCODILE

23 APR | LOS ANGELES, CA | REGENCY THEATRE

26 APR | MEXICO CITY, MX | FORO

5 MAY | BRIGHTON, UK | CHALK

6 MAY | MANCHESTER, UK | BAND ON THE WALL

7 MAY | BRISTOL, UK | STRANGE BREW

8 MAY | LONDON, UK | ISLINGTON ASSEMBLY HALL

10 MAY | ST. NIKLAAS, BE | DE CASINO

11 MAY | DEN BOSCH, NL | WILLEM TWEE

12 MAY | PARIS, FR | CAFÉ DE LA DANSE

13 MAY | THE HAGUE, NL | PAARD

16 MAY | COPENHAGEN, DK | LOPPEN

17 MAY | HAMBURG, DE | BAHNHOF PAULI

18 MAY | LEIPZIG, DE | UT CONNEWITZ

19 MAY | BERLIN, DE | LIDO

20 MAY | WARSAW, PL | NIEBO

21 MAY | KRAKOW, PL | KWADRAT

22 MAY | BRATISLAVA, SK | NOVA CVERNOVKA

24 MAY | ISTANBUL, TR | TBC

25 MAY | ISTANBUL, TR | TBC

27 MAY | ŠKOFJA LOKA, SI | ŠKOFJA LOKA CASTLE

28 MAY | BOLOGNA, IT | LOCOMOTIV

29 MAY | MILAN, IT | ARCI BELLEZA

31 MAY | ATHENS, GR | GAGARIN 205

 

DISCOVER

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Young Gun Silver Fox Releases "Ticket To Shangri-La Deluxe Edition" Out Now

An Invitation To Shangri-La   The dynamic musical duo of Andy Platts and Shawn Lee return as Young Gun Silver Fox with the revamped album Ticket To Shangri-La Deluxe Edition Plus Announces US Tour Dates! “An Expertly crafted genre exercise” – Uncut   “Young Gun Silver Fox turn out a deceptively effortless, ravishingly upbeat sound that similarly transports you, blending together palm- fringed freewards mellow yearning and complex relationships” – MOJO   “ If you’re a fan of the Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates and Ned Doheny, you’ll want to dip your toes with them in summery sounds like Sierra Nights and West Side Jet” – Daily Express   Andy Platts and Shawn Lee need no introduction, having each clocked up a life time of musical brownie points, whether through Andy’s career as a world renowned composer and singer/songwriter/guitarist with British soul sensations Mamas Gun or through Shawn’s esteemed work as a producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer which has placed him at the forefront of the global soul and funk community.   Ticket To Shangri La Deluxe Edition showcases a band at the very top of their game. They have fine-tuned their potent brew of sun-kissed pop-soul, West Coast AOR and natural groove with a skill for composition and production. On the new album, Young Gun Silver Fox forges ahead down a musical highway blessed with blue skies and positive vibrations. With the new edition, Young Gun Silver Fox added two disco-styled remixes for "Rolling Back" and "Tip of the Flame." Both songs were released as 12" singles and now available on all streaming platforms! For both participants, the chance to make a record together is always a liberating experience, as Andy explains; “I always come back to Young Gun Silver Fox like taking a drive to the coast and I just smell the ocean and the air and it’s like ‘wicked I’m back here again’ and I can just kick back and enjoy it.” When it came to the creative process for the record the duo added something new to the mix. “We have a sound and a language that we’ve cultivated that sounds like Young Gun Silver Fox, and these things are great but they can be a double-edged sword because you think ‘well nobody wants to make the same thing over and over’, so you need to find ways to move forward and do something you haven’t done before. I was thinking we have a lot of mid-tempo stuff, so I started thinking if we had some bangers and some more up-tempo stuff that would be great and would add to the canon, and so I concentrated on delivering a few things like that.” This self-imposed mandate to up the groove factor is evident in the album’s first half and exemplified in the uplifting four to the floor and sky-high chorus in ‘West Side Jet’, which came about in Shawn’s London studio. “Lyrically I knew I didn’t want to do anything romantic,” expands Andy, “it can’t be about the dancefloor it can’t be ‘I love you, break my heart’ etc. it needed to be something different. The only musical I really like is West Side Story and I’d watched the original again recently so it’d come back into my consciousness just how brilliant the music and writing was, so it was just a bit of a nod to my fondness of that as a piece of culture.” It’s swiftly followed by the FM funk brilliance of ‘Tip Of The Flame’, with Shawn’s nailed on groove and Andy’s soaring vocal turn guaranteed to invoke moods of joy, not least in its writers. “That track was just winning,” enthuses Shawn, “it just had a groove so I knew that was gonna be great when Andy got on it. The vocals are so good on it, he’s just singing his ass off on a whole ‘nutha level.” “I was trying to fuse Tears For Fears or Prefab Sprout with an ’80s soul thing which was an interesting experiment” explains Andy when discussing ‘Rolling Back’, which takes no prisoners with its chorus-to-die-for and highlights his masterful understanding of an uplifting melody, fusing it to a deep groove that you can imagine lighting up the airwaves of a fictional long lost pacific coast radio station. “I wrote and tracked it from the ground up and then Shawn replaced the drums on it as he’s a master drummer. Shawn embellishes and adds his sugar which always elevates it to another level and that’s where Shawn’s magic and deserved role as producer of the records we make is earned, because he really knows how to make a record.” Set amongst endless high points is ‘Sierra Nights,' a stunningly evocative, kaleidoscopic sunset of a tune whose lyrical genesis came from Andy’s lockdown reading matter. “It’s one of the most favorite things I’ve done. Musically I was just trying to reach into that West Coast acoustic sound, but one of the things that sent me there was one of my lockdown reads which was Don Quixote, and it’s all there in the lyrics which are about Don Quixote and Sancho. I was just really trying to paint a picture of their friendship and their struggle set amongst this vast wilderness and each one having each other’s back. I did kind of think of me and Shawn in there as well, it’s just the two of us against the world really.” “When he sent me that track I was almost dumbfounded,” adds Shawn. “It was so instantly evocative and atmospheric that it pulled me into a world. It felt so different from anything we’d done before but I thought it was something really, really special." Accompanying the release of the deluxe edition is the music video for 'Sierra Nights' watch here: https://youtu.be/ZfvTTFJd8mE?si=vivbghm3PNQhM51E. The music video was shot on the band's cell phones as they cruised through California's High Sierra Desert landscapes; it was edited by the talented Paul Elliott. Guaranteed to generate some rays of winter sun, the chemistry and craftmanship on Ticket To Shangri La Deluxe Edition means that Young Gun Silver Fox does exactly as the title suggests; transporting the listener to a magical, mythical world of sunshine and good vibes. With over 20 million streams to date, the album has received critical praise around the world from tastemakers at KCRW, BBC Radio 6, to Uncut and the esteemed MOJO magazines. And soon they will be circulating within the pop-culture ethos with newly announced sync placements at Paramount Pictures and Apple TV. They are currently working on a new album slated for the end of the year 2024, and recently wrote and produced a focus single for UK mega band TAKE THAT (Ivor Novello/MTV/Brit award-winning)! Lastly, the esteemed duo is taking the new music plus beloved fan favorites on the road this Winter! With having sold over 20K tickets during their European tour and a successful debut in the States, the band is proud to return Stateside and announce their second USA headlining tour. The tour will be kicking off in January at the famous Troubadour in West Hollywood! For more information on dates and tickets please visit: https://www.younggunsilverfox.com/. Ticket To Shangri La Deluxe Edition -Tracklist 1/ Still Got It Goin’ On 2/ West Side Jet 3/ Tip Of The Flame 4/ Rolling Back 5/ Simple Imagination 6/ Sierra Nights 7/ Lodestar 8/ Winners 9/ Starting Wars 10/ Freak Flag 11/ Rolling Back DISCO Remix 12/ Tip of the Flame DISCO Remix Tour Dates: TUESDAY 23 JANUARY, Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY, Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA THURSDAY 25 JANUARY, The Independent, San Francisco, CA SATURDAY 27 JANUARY, Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO SUNDAY 28 JANUARY, Aggie Theatre, Fort Collins, CO TUESDAY 30 JANUARY, Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY, Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL THURSDAY 1 FEBRUARY, The Magic Bag, Ferndale, MI SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY, Brooklyn Bowl, Brooklyn, NY SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY, Sonia, Cambridge, MA MONDAY 5 FEBRUARY, The Atlantis, Washington, DC WEDNESDAY 7 FEBRUARY, Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA