Morgan Saint Releases New Track and Official Music Video, "Hope You Find What You're Looking For" - Out Now

MORGAN SAINT RELEASES NEW TRACK & OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO, “HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR” – OUT TODAY

WATCH | LISTEN “HOPE YOU FIND WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR”   Morgan Saint releases another stellar new track today, the heartbreaking yet hopeful “Hope You Find What You’re Looking For,” written, and produced by Morgan alongside her collaborator and wife Carley Ridersleeve.   Listen to “Hope You Find What You’re Looking For” HERE.   Speaking about the new track, Morgan reveals, “Hope You Find What You’re Looking For” is a very personal song to me. It’s about watching someone you love go down a dark path and not having the power to deter them. It was written, produced, and all instruments were played by myself and my wife, Carley Ridersleeve, in our home studio. We started making this song in 2021 and it’s had many iterations. Making music on my terms has given me the time and space to nurture each song and grow with it. It’s cool to listen back to earlier versions and hear how much the song and I have matured from start to finish.”   The song is paired with an official music video, directed, produced, and edited by Morgan and Carley, with styling by Morgan Saint.   Watch the official music video for “Hope You Find What You’re Looking For” HERE.   Born and raised in New York, the singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, director, and designer disregards any and all boundaries when it comes to making music. Simultaneously, her unabashed and unrestrained honesty instantly connects listeners with her refreshing and vulnerable post-punk synth-pop sound. After piling up tens of millions of streams and earning acclaim from critics all over the world, Morgan Saint invites listeners in with this new era and series of independent singles to come.   With the promise of a new body of work on the way, stay tuned for more news coming soon.   “Hope You Find What You’re Looking For” is out everywhere now. Watch the official music video HERE.

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Keith Richards' daughter Alexandra Richards releasing debut single ‘Feel You’

International DJ/producer Alexandra Richards

releases debut her single ‘Feel You’ 

 

Out October 4 on NYC-based dance music label Total Smash

 

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International DJ/producer Alexandra Richards releases her debut single, ‘Feel You,’ a swoony and evocative slice of deep melodic house with an Afro-house vibe perfect for dance floors and headphones alike. Paralleling the career paths of her mother and father (Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and supermodel Patti Hansen) in the worlds of music and fashion, Alexandra grew up constantly inspired in an artistic household. As a platform to share her love and appreciation for music, Alexandra started DJing after learning from friends around the city. With her own DJ career beginning to take shape, Alexandra started making her name in the New York City club circuit, playing at downtown hotspots. Establishing herself as a go-to DJ within the fashion, arts, and entertainment sectors, Alexandra has curated the sounds for special events throughout the world. 

 

Voiced by celebrated dance music duo JAIKO, renowned for their distinctive blend of male and female vocals, “Feel You” dives deep into the emotional turbulence of a close connection, where feelings are so intense they blur the lines between personal space and intimacy. The lyrics capture the internal struggle between staying grounded and maintaining composure while being irresistibly drawn to someone who seems to penetrate your very essence. 

 

 

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LEVITATION 2024 just one month away! Set times, lineup additions & more announced. Oct. 31 - Nov. 3 in Austin, TX

LEVITATION 2024 JUST ONE MONTH AWAY!

SET TIMES & LINEUP ADDITIONS ANNOUNCED

As the festival approaches later this month, set times have been released, local support and final additions added across the weekend, and founders The Black Angels to perform their 2010 album 'Phosphene Dream' in full.

SLOWDIVE, THE JESUS LIZARD, GANG OF FOUR, SOCCER MOMMY, MDOU MOCTAR, OSEES, DRY CLEANING, TYCHO, PANCHIKO, WASHED OUT, THE BLACK ANGELS: PHOSPHENE DREAM, THE DRUMS, WISP, THE SWORD, CORTEX, PENTAGRAM, JULIE, DROP NINETEENS, NITZER EBB, MILDLIFE, HANIA RANI, AGRICULTURE, FUGITIVE, DESTROY BOYS, SLIFT, BORIS: AMPLIFIER WORSHIP, SPECIAL INTEREST, INTEGRITY, NILÜFER YANYA, GLARE, DIE SPITZ, RENDEZ VOUS, RINGO DEATHSTARR & MANY MORE

HALLOWEEN WEEKEND, OCT 31 - NOV 3 IN AUSTIN, TX

4 DAY PASSES & SINGLE SHOW TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Check out the 2024 Schedule & Set Times HERE

 

OSEES - PLAYING ALL FOUR NIGHTS
JAZZ IS DEAD: CORTEX • ADRIAN YOUNGE • KHUN NARIN

THU. OCT 31
THE BLACK ANGELS: PHOSPHENE DREAM / MDOU MOCTAR
BORIS / JULIE / A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / NITZER EBB
STARCRAWLER / BOOGARINS / ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
FROST CHILDREN / AXEL BOMAN / MUSCLECARS
PATRICK HOLLAND  / AGRICULTURE / KAIROS CREATURE CLUB YHWH NAILGUN  / SPIRIT MOTHER / HER NEW KNIFE / SEMANTIX / PORCELAIN / MODEBIONICS / STRANGE LOT 
BRETT JOHNSON / THE POINT

FRI. NOV 1
THE JESUS LIZARD / GANG OF FOUR / DRY CLEANING 
THE DRUMS / MILDLIFE / SLIFT / SWIRLIES 
SPECIAL INTEREST / ARC DE SOLEIL / FAT DOG / DOSS
PISSED JEANS / THE CHAMELEONS / THE MARCH VIOLETS
MEATBODIES / GIRL ULTRA / MJ NEBREDA / THE VELDT / FCUKERS LOS ESPÍRITUS / TRAUMA RAY / YUNGATITA / WITCHES EXIST / EN ORBITO / SUXXY PUXXY / INDOOR CREATURE

SAT. NOV 2
TYCHO / WASHED OUT / PANCHIKO
HANIA RANI / WISP / DESTROY BOYS / INTEGRITY / FUGITIVE
WINE LIPS / DEATH VALLEY GIRLS / DIE SPITZ / WILLIAM BASINSKI
THE DARE / RENDEZ VOUS / ALISON'S HALO / ARUSHI JAIN / WU LU
DAMON R. / GRRL X MADE OF OAK / TEEN MORTGAGE / NIGHT DRIVE CHOKECHERRY / IGUANA DEATH CULT / GUS BALDWIN & THE SKETCH  IAN ORTH / GROCERY BAG / PARADISE / DREGS / BANGED OUT

SUN. NOV 3
SLOWDIVE / THE SWORD / PENTAGRAM
DROP NINETEENS / NILÜFER YANYA / ILLUMINATI HOTTIES
AIRIEL / GLARE / RINGO DEATHSTARR
RICKSHAW BILLIE'S BURGER PATROL / THE WELL
HELLO MARY / COLOR GREEN / SAILOR POON / FARMER’S WIFE / QUIET LIGHT / ANABELLE CHAIRLEGS / BLEARY EYED / SAD CELL / QUEEN SERENE

 

LEVITATION returns this Halloween weekend, taking over Austin, Texas music venues with an eclectic and expanded menu of music and art October 31 - November 3, 2024! 

4 Day Passes and Single Show Tickets are available now, here. 

For over a decade, LEVITATION has delivered lineups that span psych, dream pop, punk, indie, metal, darkwave and electronic music. It’s a beloved record collection manifested into a 4 day weekend, with lineups that span continents and generations: a heady amalgamation of vintage gear, immersive light shows and visuals, buzzing amps, moody synths, and good times in Austin, Texas.

This year’s festival brings a full platter of psychedelia, shoegaze, punk, metal, and electronica - a collection of underground legends, music vanguards and pillars of modern music and indie music culture. 

The multi-venue format encourages fans to choose their own adventure through the weekend - you can buy single show tickets for over 30 different shows, or go all in with a 4 Day Pass and indulge in the entire 4 day Halloween weekend. 

Austin’s largest independent music festival is made possible in 2024 with the support of sponsors Montucky Cold Snacks, Guayaki, 400 Conejos, Tin Cup, Rambler, New Brew, Official League, Liquid Death, Posh Altar, Ray RayDecker, KUTX, Senza Maeso, Dirge Electronics KUTX and Austin’s Resound Presents.

To keep up with updates and for additional information, keep up with LEVITATION on Instagram here. 

 

LEWISSPYBEY: Edvard Graham Lewis & Mark Spybey announce debut album 'LEWISPYBEY' due Nov 8th via UPP Records & share first single "Castle Neptune".

LEWISSPYBEY - Edvard Graham Lewis & Mark Spybey announce debut album 'LEWISPYBEY' due Nov 8th via UPP Records - Share new single "Castle Neptune"

LewisSpybey is the unique collaborative album from Edvard Graham Lewis (Wire, He Said, Hox, Dome etc) & Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Beehatch, Altered Statesmen, Zoviet France etc) who will release their debut album 'LEWISPYBEY' on November 8th via UPP Records.  Mixing lush electronic rhythms, sonic collage, ambient soundscapes and manipulated field recordings, these six compositions form a record with a strong identity and today they are sharing their first single "Castle Neptune". Listen to "Castle Neptune" on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/vRey6jY9ayk Pre-order album: https://lewisspybey.bandcamp.com/album/lewispybey   That this is such a vital and fertile partnership should come as no surprise. After all, both men have made careers out of creating confidently questing musics. Lewis with Wire, He Said, Hox, Dome etc. and Spybey with Dead Voices on Air, Beehatch, Altered Statesmen, Zoviet France and so on. This new album however, is something different again: experimental, yet tightly focussed, and not averse to the groove or the sly hook.    The pair met via an appearance on a podcast in November 2022, hosted by cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy. They hit it off immediately. “We did a live chat with Graham - which I think, went on for about three days” jokes Spybey.    It was Spybey who first broached the idea of a collaboration. “It was a bit like shy bairns get nowt: I just said ‘maybe we should make something together.’” And so, with no plan other than to see what might develop, the duo began to assemble the compositions at long distance. Indeed, Lewis and Spybey only met in the real world after the album had been completed.   “Mark sent half a dozen tracks in a stereo mix,” says Lewis. “And I looked at the ’topography’, to see where the spaces might be. So then I’d add to those areas. But then, when do you take it away? Sometimes you let it drop off a cliff, land in the shingle, and it gets washed out to sea again.”    The process moved at a pace. “Almost everything each of us brought, ending up being incorporated in some way.” Says Spybey. “We didn’t really go down any cul-de-sacs.” As Lewis observes “We have such a sympathetic tone.”  "Castle Neptune" opens up with a bright-eyed urgency, as a fat bass line bounces like a basket ball and Spybey’s keening wordless vocal add a sense of wonder. Then the piece suddenly drops away into an expansive bay of humming sound, pierced by intermittent blares of horn. However, as Lewis points out, this isn’t brass. “It was the sound of a train horn on the streets of Oakland.”  Nevertheless it gives the album’s entry point a sense of the supernatural.     "Boot Island Twin" sets gentle pulses gliding through a shimmering heat haze of synth tones. This blissful ambient environment births a chittering rhythm, serving to pull us deeper into the composition’s warm heart. Something here suggests the opiated dancehall depths of Bandulu - perhaps the sense of the drum track cradling the musical colouring. With the album about to turn a shade darker, this 8 minute + track is an extended moment of beauteous balm.    "Antler Velvet" is formed of several strata of sound, and consequently makes perfect headphone listening. Although, as Lewis observes. ‘It’s quite often difficult to remember who did exactly what.” Spybey agrees: “That’s one of the ideas behind collaboration - you make yourself vulnerable. You can’t be too protective of ‘your’ stuff.”  A virtual suite of dramatic ‘movements’, this feels like the soundtrack to a short psychological thriller.  "Trophy Hunters" is perhaps the album’s most intense piece. “I’ve always been attracted to the darker elements of musical compositions,” says Spybey. “And I know Graham doesn’t shy away from that either.” With its thunderous beats, pounding rhythms and sparking electrics, this is an unstoppable juggernaut of sound: bold, purposeful and thick with unease. Or, to quote Spybey “It’s quite a headbanger.”   "Keep The Way" is a track which appears to be constantly switching identities. To start, it pitches a Teutonic percussive pattern against shafts of stentorian noise, but this is soon subsumed by an undulating wave of glowing electronics. Although the piece resolves in a near celestial state (recalling Eno and Lanois’s work on Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks), the final note is one of dissonance.    "Gray Bay Play Watch" begins with a warm enveloping bass tone - almost like we’re inside the belly of a B52. Yet, as it evolves through a series of rhythmic and abstracted sections, it reveals itself to be the most intricately layered piece on the album. “There’s lots of playful noises in there,” says Spybey. “There’s even a fairground playing somewhere in the background. It’s ominous and joyful!” Lewis laughs, then elaborates. “It’s like Sam Beckett in Get Carter!”   Full of inventive sonics that draw on both men’s previous work, ‘LEWISPYBEY’ offers up a richly detailed soundworld.  LEWISPYBEY album artwork: LEWISPYBEY album tracklist: 1. Castle Neptune (YouTube) 2. Boot Island Twin 3. Antler Velvet 4. Trophy Hunters 5. Keep The Way 6. Gray Bay Play Watch

YOASOBI unveil new song "Monotone" + celebrate 5th anniversary as a duo, largest Asia arena tour to date this winter

YOASOBI CELEBRATE 5TH ANNIVERSARY WITH NEW SONG “MONOTONE” LANDMARK THEME FOR FULL LENGTH ANIME FILM LARGEST ARENA TOUR BY JAPANESE  ARTIST EVER ACROSS ASIA THIS WINTER photo credit: Kato Shumpei READ HERE   READ COVER STORY   WATCH HERE READ FEATURE HERE READ COVER STORY HERE WATCH HERE READ HERE READ HERE READ HERE   READ HERE   October 1, 2024—J-pop sensations YOASOBI unveil a new song, “Monotone” —their first ever theme for a full-length anime movie, Fureru—listen/share HERE. The duo, known for turning novels into music, took inspiration from the novel Fureru no Zenya. It was written by Mari Okada, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The release of “Monotone” also celebrates YOASOBI’s 5th anniversary. The duo will embark on their largest Asia arena tour to date this winter—also the largest arena tour by a Japanese artist ever. They will play fourteen shows across seven cities, including Hong Kong, Bangkok, Taipei, Shanghai, Singapore, and Jakarta, in addition to previously announced shows at Kyosera Dome in Osaka, and Tokyo Dome. YOASOBI made a successful journey back to the states this summer, with a landmark performance at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall, followed by Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway. They also played Chicago’s beloved Lollapalooza music festival. These performances followed their Coachella debut and sold-out in Los Angeles and San Francisco earlier in the year. Global smash hit song “Idol” was named the #1 Song of the Year in 2023 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart. It smashed a multitude of records, amassing 22 consecutive weeks in the #1 spot. The song also broke the record for the fastest single to reach 100 million streams on the Billboard Japan chart and surged to #1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart. The duo also recently released their third English language EP E-SIDE 3 which includes eight newly recorded songs; listen/share HERE. Comprised of composer Ayase and vocalist ikura, YOASOBI are record-breaking international superstars in the making. Their first song, “Into The Night (Yoru ni Kakeru),” was released in November 2019, immediately attracting attention by achieving #1 on numerous streaming charts in Japan and appearing on viral charts in several countries. It was #1 on the 2020 Billboard JAPAN Combined Song Chart and Streaming Song Chart, and in January 2023 the total plays surpassed 900 million streams marking a first in Japan. YOASOBI gained international attention and reached #1 on the Spotify charts for the Japanese Artist Most Played Internationally in 2021. Their song “Monster (Kaibutsu)” was named one of the 10 Best Songs of 2021 by TIME. YOASOBI’s TikTok LIVE performance achieved the highest ever viewership for a Japanese artist on the platform when it was streamed by more than 630k fans with simultaneous viewers surpassing 120k. Their first arena tour “YOASOBI ARENA TOUR 2023 ‘Denkosekka’” consisted of fourteen shows in seven cities with a total of 130k attendees as the duo continues to attract attention in all directions of their career.