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yeule announces new album and headline tour with new single "Skullcrusher"

YEULE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM EVANGELIC GIRL IS A GUN DUE MAY 30TH VIA NINJA TUNE ANNOUNCES UK & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES SHARES NEW SINGLE “SKULLCRUSHER” OUT NOW

yeule by Vasso Vu Evangelic Girl is a Gun PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://yeule.lnk.to/egiag “Skullcrusher”  WATCH: https://youtu.be/llj5V4Bbsmw LISTEN: https://yeule.lnk.to/Skullcrusher (March 3, 2025) - Today, yeule announces a new album Evangelic Girl is a Gun due May 30th via Ninja Tune. Alongside the announcement yeule shares an early taste of the project with new single “Skullcrusher,” which was co-produced by yeule, Clams Casino and Fitnesss. The single also comes alongside a Neil Krug-directed video. Evangelic Girl is a Gun is yeule’s most unrestrained and emotionally baring work yet, as they grapple with ideas of a self-destructive identity burning through the canvas of post-modernity. Accompanied by still visual artworks made in collaboration with artist Vasso Vu and a video for the latest single shot by the aforementioned Neil Krug, Ćmiel explores the duality of darkness, as well as their personal history to their role as the "painter.” Through the album’s hypnotic melodies, they present a portrait of the tortured artist trapped within an image, as Ćmiel’s haunting vocals act as an emotional chokehold atop dance beats. “I wanted to bring homage to my life as a painter with this album,” Ćmiel says, explaining they’re influenced by the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. "For me, Beksiński portrays so beautifully, with utmost care, the entities that crawl through his dystopian, tranquil landscapes. The nature of painting as a medium is a reflection of my emotions, both violent and gentle. A fleeting moment of time in my life, transcribed with paint and trapped in time.” Evangelic Girl is a Gun sees Ćmiel putting their own “cyborgian” spin on Bristol trip-hop and ‘90s gothic. The album features production from A.G. Cook, Chris Greatti, Mura Masa, Clams Casino, Fitnesss and Kin Leonn, Ćmiel’s trusted collaborator and co-executive producer of 2023’s softscars. yeule’s untreated vocals on the album also contribute to a sense of burning authenticity; rawness emerges as they abandon Auto-Tune. This jarring artistic styling is a turn from their glitchy previous works. As a counter to the emergence of AI, they wanted to imbue their vocals with a “raw, irreplaceable edge,” they explain.  “Skullcrusher” and previous single “Eko” follow their celebrated album softscars, which incorporated distorted guitars and alternative production. The arrival of softscars was met with immense critical acclaim earning their second ‘Best New Music’ stamp from Pitchfork, as well as applause from outlets such as The New York Times, The FADER, Stereogum, Alternative Press, NPR among others. The album followed their critically acclaimed 2022 release, Glitch Princess, which also received a Pitchfork ‘Best New Music’ stamp and overwhelming critical praise.  A chameleonic auteur guided by a multidisciplinary ethos, yeule crafts entire worlds and personas through their music, weaving together everything from the classical canon, hypermodern internet cultures, academic theory, the esoteric, and their own carnal desires. Listen to “Skullcrusher” above, find album details below and stay tuned for more from the dexterous artist coming soon.

Tour Dates:  7/1 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2  7/2 - London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town 7/5 - Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival 7/7 - Berlin, Germany @ Columbia Theatre 7/9 - Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg  7/11 - Paris, France @ Le Trabendo 7/10 - 12 - Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival Evangelic Girl is a Gun  May 30th 2025 Ninja Tune 1. Tequila Coma  2. The Girl Who Sold Her Face  3. Eko  4. 1967  5. VV  6. Dudu  7. What3vr  8. Saiko  9. Evangelic Girl is a Gun  10. Skullcrusher Connect with yeule: Instagram | Discord | YouTube | TikTok

Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo Share Cover Of Jackson C. Frank's "Golden Mirror" || Announce New Album 'Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1)'

MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO SHARE COVER OF JACKSON C. FRANK’S "GOLDEN MIRROR"   ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM  GOLDEN MIRRORS (THE UNCOVERED SESSIONS VOL. 1)    OUT 3/28 ON MUTE

Photo credit: Matthew Ellery   Today Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo have announced details of their new album Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1), the first in a series of projects investigating songwriters for whom Harvey and Acevedo have a particular predilection. Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1) is set for release on Mute digitally on March 28 2025, with an exclusive gold vinyl Australian edition (via Impressed Recordings) available on release. The album will precede a series of dates across Europe (full details below).  The new album sees the duo cover 11 songs by the American songwriter Jackson C. Frank, who passed March 3, 1999, and whose sole album release was produced by Paul Simon and who counted Laura Marling, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Mark Lanegan and Fairport Convention as fans. Watch the video for the opening track, “Golden Mirror” HERE. Harvey explains, “Amanda and I recorded ‘Milk & Honey’ for our first album together, Phantasmagoria in Blue. By complete coincidence, in the week of the single release, I was contacted by my friend, Guanluca, from Italy who was putting together a tribute to Jackson C. Frank for his ‘Love & Thunder’ collective project. We were more than happy to record a few more songs, Amanda in particular being a big fan of Frank’s work. We initially recorded three songs for the tribute project but we just kept going and eventually realised we could make our own album. The whole process was so enjoyable and the ideas just flowed. All the original recordings are just one or two guitars with singing and Frank’s later songs are only available as home recordings, non-studio demos or live. So the possibilities of expanding the songs through arrangements were huge, and that process was very rewarding and enjoyable.” The pair will continue working on the Uncovered Sessions while producing an album of original material for release in 2026. This new album follows the duo’s 2023 release Phantasmagoria in Blue and Harvey’s 2024 solo outing Five Ways to Say Goodbye. The album was recorded in Harvey’s music room in North Melbourne and mixed by Alain Johannes in LA, Spain and Chile, the tracks exude brooding, dark atmospheres with Harvey’s trademark stylings and Acevedo’s floating, expressive vocalizations. Pre-order Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1) HERE. Listen to Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo’s debut, Phantasmagoria in Blue HERE. Mick Harvey is renowned as a musician, record producer and composer who has been active for the last 45+ years and is perhaps best known as a member of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds and for his long term collaborative work with PJ Harvey and Nick Cave. Aside from scoring 10 feature films and numerous short films and documentaries, split almost evenly between Australia and Europe, Harvey has also released 10 solo albums in the last 2 decades and been the recipient of several Australian Music Industry Awards. He won the AFI Best Original Score for Suburban Mayhem in 2006 and in 2011 took out British Producer of the Year for his (co)production on PJ Harvey's Let England Shake.  This is Mexican artist Amanda Acevedo’s second project in collaboration with Mick Harvey. After spending 2020/21 studying film in her home town of San Luis Potisí, Acevedo teamed up with one of her heroes to create a thematically-rich collection of duets and continues that work into 2025 with this new release. She is currently studying and working in Melbourne, Australia   MICK HARVEY & AMANDA ACEVEDO LIVE: 4/3/2025 - Ioaninna (GR) - Route 66 4/4/2025 - Ptolemaida (GR) - Mandrakoukos 4/5/2025 - Thessaloniki (GR) - Mylos 4/6/2025 - Athens (FR) - Tiki Bar 4/9/2025 - Vienna (AT) - Rote Bar 4/10/2025 - Bologna (IT) – Binario69 4/11/2025 - Savona (IT) - Raindogs (with screening of Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party at 8.30ppm) 4/12/2025l - Como (IT) – Joshua – tickets available on the door 4/13/2025 - Pordenone (IT) - Capitol

Track listing: 1. Golden Mirror 2. My Name is Carnival 3. The Night of the Blues 4. Cover Me with Roses 5. The Visit  6. Marcy’s Song 7. Blues Run the Game 8. I Want to be Alone (Dialogue) 9. Have You Seen the Unicorns  10. October 11. Juliette   Pre- order HERE.   CONNECT WITH MUTE: FACEBOOK | TWITTER | BLUESKY | INSTAGRAM | TIK TOK | WEB

Intensive Care + The Body share caustic 'Was I Good Enough?' opener, “Mistakes Have Been Made”

Intensive Care + The Body share caustic Was I Good Enough? album opener, “Mistakes Have Been Made”

Their collaborative LP is out March 14th

"...a dose of desperate, apocalyptic, Godflesh-y industrial metal." - BrooklynVegan

"glacially noisy" - Metal Injection

"darkly intense, brooding, thick bodied" - The Organ

Photo by: Jake Ballah

Toronto duo Intensive Care (Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer) and Rhode Island duo The Body (Chip King and Lee Buford) will release their brilliant collaborative album Was I Good Enough? on March 14th.  Today, they've shared the album opener, "Mistakes Have Been Made."  Intensive Care's Andrew Nolan says the song "...is probably the most traditional sounding song on the album, the idea was to have it start sounding close to a traditional Body song and as the album progresses to start devolving into something else. The song was slowed down 20%, then the drums were rerecorded at normal speed. The end of the song is an 808 playing through the Intensive Care bass rig."

With glitchy, bellowing vocals and an icy industrial backbone, Was I Good Enough? showcases the respective pedigrees of its creators while summoning a dynamic and dangerous beast through the distortion.

Listen / share "Mistakes Have Been Made"

The union of Intensive Care and The Body dates back to a tour in 2018 but the idea for a collaboration remained on the backburner until 2021. The Body established the framework for the album and shared it with Intensive Care, and all four musicians tinkered with it for the next year-and-a-half.  Lee from The Body comments, “What started as years and years of admiration both musically and personally has led to us convincing IC into making our love into a concrete physical release."  Bloomer says the collaboration was “based on our friendship and appreciation for The Body's approach—which is quite similar to ours."  He continues, “In a conventional sense, we’re both grounded in heavy music. We all try to transcend the boundaries of the genre and redefine what heavy means to us.”

They did so by adopting a production technique widely used in hip-hop and originally popularized in Houston: chopped and screwed. They combined samples, instrumentals, drum loops, vocals, and other elements into a corrosive and caustic collage.  “We took what The Body gave us and ran with it,” Bloomer recalls. “We were deliberately slowing parts down and doubling up to emphasize certain vocal lines. Hip-hop was a huge inspiration. We tried to lean on those techniques in order to create this record and put our own spin on it.” He concludes, “There’s a real contrast between our voices. You really hear the back-and-forth of two bands who have come together to make a record.”

Pre-order Was I Good Enough? here.

Was I Good Enough?, cover art:

Artwork by: Jon Kortland (Iron Lung / Pig Heart Transplant)

Was I Good Enough?, track listing:

1. Mistakes Have Been Made
2. Swallowed by the God
3. The Misunderstanding
4. At Death's Door
5. The Riderless Mount
6. Cartography of Suffering
7. Unwanted
8. Mandelbrot Anamnesis

 

Intensive Care | Bandcamp | Instagram
The Body | Bandcamp | Instagram

Pixies North American Tour 2025 Adds 14 New Headline Shows

Pixies

North American Tour 2025 Adds 14 New Headline Shows

Tickets On Sale Beginning February 28 at pixiesmusic.com

Long revered as one of the most influential and impactful creative forces of the modern musical era, Pixies has announced a 14-date extension of its 2025 North American Tour. The newly announced headline shows will take the band from San Diego’s Gallagher Square on August 27 through to the Pinnacle in Nashville on September 17, with stops along the way including Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Greek Theatre in Berkeley and more. Support will come from Spoon and Fazerdaze. See below for a full itinerary.

Tickets for these dates will be on sale beginning Friday, February 28 at pixiesmusic.com.

The newly confirmed shows represent the latest installment of Pixies’ extensive North American trek supporting its latest studio album, The Night The Zombies Came. Released October 25 via BMG, Pixies ninth studio album (or tenth if you count 1986 debut mini-LP Come On Pilgrim) moved the likes of AllMusic to rave “Songs like these uphold Pixies’ brash, eccentric, oddly moving legacy brilliantly, and as a whole, The Night the Zombies Came ranks among their finest post-reunion music.” Prior to this newly unveiled run, Pixies —  Charles “Black Francis” Thompson (vocals, guitar), Joey Santiago (guitar), David Lovering (drums) and Emma Richardson (bass, vocals) — will embark on a June 13—August 1 series of two-night engagements in 14 North American cities, playing classic albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in their entirety the first night, followed on night two by sets featuring staples from the band’s bottomless catalog alongside newer material including songs from The Night The Zombies Came.2025 promises to be yet another banner year for Pixies. One year shy of the 40th anniversary of the band’s 1986 formation, Pixies continues to mark milestones such as “Where Is My Mind?” from 1988’s immortal Surfer Rosa recently surpassing one billion plays on Spotify. The band’s peerless catalog — which spans from 1989’s platinum-certified breakthrough Doolittle to 21st century outings including Indie Cindy (2014), Head Carrier (2016), Beneath the Eyrie (2019), Doggerel (2022) and more — continues to grow in stature across successive generations. Drawing passionate throngs of fans new and longtime alike, 2025’s continuation of Pixies’ global touring agenda is sure to keep this multi-generational following enthralled with performances as incendiary as they are unique.

Pixies
2025 North American Tour

* New Dates in BOLD

JUNE 2025
13-14 Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas
16-17 The Van Buren, Phoenix, AZ
20-21 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA
23-24 Paramount Theatre, Seattle, WA 
26-27 Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, BC 

JULY 2025
8-9 MTELUS, Montreal, QC
12 Ottawa Bluesfest, Ottawa, ONT
15-16 Brooklyn Paramount, Brooklyn, NY
18-19 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston, MA
22-23 The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA
25-26 The Anthem, Washington, DC
28-29 The Fillmore, Detroit, MI
31 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN 

AUGUST 2025
1 Palace Theatre, St. Paul, MN 
22 Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON (with My Chemical Romance)
27 Gallagher Square, San Diego, CA
28 The Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
30 McMenamins Edgefield, Troutdale, OR
31 Kettlehouse Amphitheater, Bonner, MT

SEPTEMBER 2025
2 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO
4 Zoo Amphitheatre, Oklahoma City, OK
5 ACL Live at the Moody Theater, Austin, TX
6 White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX
8 Avondale Brewing Company, Birmingham, AL
9 Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
10 Asheville Yards Amphitheater, Asheville, NC
12 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
13 Bourbon & Beyond Festival, Louisville, KY
15 The Salt Shed – Fairgrounds, Chicago, IL
17 The Pinnacle, Nashville, TN 
19 Shaky Knees Festival, Atlanta, GA

Kurt Vile supports June 13 through August 1
Spoon and Fazerdaze support August 27 through September 17