NINE INCH NAILS ANNOUNCE NEW EP, NOT THE ACTUAL EVENTS

Nine Inch Nails Announce New EP, Not The Actual Events

Set For Release On December 23, Pre-order Underway At NIN.com   The Fragile: Deviations 1 Limited Edition 4XLP Vinyl Also Available For Pre-order   Definitive Vinyl Reissues Of Nine Inch Nails Catalog To Be Released

Late last year, Trent Reznor declared, "New NIN coming in 2016. Other stuff, too." The 'other stuff' included the scores for NASA's Juno short film, the climate change documentary "Before the Flood" (featuring the song "A Minute To Breathe") and the Peter Berg film "Patriots Day," set for wide release on January 13, 2017. Now, just in time, he makes good on the Nine Inch Nails side of things.   On December 23, Nine Inch Nails will self-release Not The Actual Events, a new five- song EP. It finds Reznor and now official bandmate Atticus Ross taking an unexpected left turn from 2013's Hesitation Marks and sounding unrecognizable from their current film work. "It's an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make," says Reznor. "It's an EP because that ended up being the proper length to tell that story."   Nine Inch Nails     Photo Credit: John Crawford     The pre-order for Not The Actual Events launched today on Nine Inch Nails'redesigned website, www.nin.com. Fans can pre-order two formats at the NIN store: 180g 1-sided vinyl and a unique limited digital + physical component version. The EP will be available on all digital platforms on December 23.     A very special limited vinyl edition of The Fragile is also available for pre-order in the NIN store. Created by Reznor and Ross, this four-disc, 150-minute version of the classic 1999 album features 37 instrumental, alternate and unreleased tracks, many of which have never been heard before. The Fragile: Deviations 1 will not be available on any digital services. "The Fragile occupies a very interesting and intimate place in my heart," explains Reznor. "I was going through a turbulent time in my life when making it and revisiting it has become a form of therapy for me. As an experiment, I removed all the vocals from the record and found it became a truly changed experience that worked on a different yet compelling level. The Fragile: Deviations 1 represents Atticus and I embellishing the original record with a number of tracks from those sessions we didn't use before. The result paints a complimentary but different picture we wanted to share." Reznor and NIN art director John Crawford have begun the meticulous process of creating "definitive editions" of all the major NIN releases on vinyl. Fans can now pre-order the first three Definitive Editions (Broken, The Downward Spiral and The Fragile) in the NIN store. They willreceive a digital download of the remastered audio shortly and vinyl will ship in spring 2017. Those interested in obtaining upcoming reissues, which will be released later in 2017, can request to be notified when specific albums become available.   "We want to present the catalog as it was intended to be, with no compromises," says Reznor. "That means a careful remastering of the audio from the original sources, a painstaking recreation of the artwork, pristine materials, some surprises and an insane attention to detail that you probably won't notice...but it matters to us. No extra bullshit and gimmicks - the 'real' records in their truest form." ###

The Flaming Lips Release New Song And Video- "Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)"- Available Today

THE FLAMING LIPS RELEASE NEW SONG AND VIDEO -

"SUNRISE (EYES OF THE YOUNG)" - AVAILABLE TODAY

 

NEW ALBUM, OCZY MLODY, SET FOR RELEASE ON JANUARY 13, 2017

 

Wayne Coyne To Host Facebook Live Chat Today at 10:00AM PST/ 1:00PM EST

 

December 16, 2016 (Burbank, CA) -  Today THE FLAMING LIPS release a new song and video -"Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)" - from their upcoming album OCZY MLODY, which will be released via Warner Bros. Records on January 13, 2017. "Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)" is now available as an instant download to fans who pre-order the digital format of the album fromiTunes or Amazon or any format from the band's official website.  Watch the video for"Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)" HERE.

 

Wayne Coyne explains, "The 'Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young)' video is part somber and sad and part childlike, ethereal fantasy. Myself and the band (Well... Ha... Some of the band) are lip syncing and play pretending in a scene out of perhaps the spaghetti western, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly... Ha. We are all looking serious and melancholy in what is maybe a church balcony at sunrise. The other part, the ethereal fantasy part, is Disney cartoon meets James Bond movie title sequence. The sun turns into a bouncy, drippy ball and is kicked around (and played with) by a giddy, cosmic nymph. Dancing and tripping in the echoes of dawn..."

 

Once again, Wayne will host another Facebook live chat today at 10:00AM PST/ 1:00pm EST.  Go to www.facebook.com/FlamingLips to hear more about the video.

 

OCZY MLODY will be the band's 17^th studio album and released in several configurations: 12-song CD, 12-song digital album, 12-song double-LP vinyl edition pressed on colored vinyl, and an 11-song single-LP vinyl edition. Both vinyl versions include a digital download card of all 12 songs.

 

Tickets are on sale now for the band's upcoming Spring tour in support of OCZY MLODY. They end the year with a hometown show at The Criterion tonight in Oklahoma City.  Please see below for all dates.

 

Dec 16                  The Criterion                          Oklahoma City, OK

Dec 29                  Belly Up Aspen                     Aspen, CO

Jan 21                  O2 Brixton Academy             London, England, UK

Jan 22                  Manchester Academy            Manchester, England, UK

Jan 24                  Columbiahalle                       Berlin, Germany

Jan 25                  Vega                                    Copenhagen, Denmark

Jan 26                  Munchen Brewery                  Stockholm, Sweden

Jan 28                  Tivoli Vredenburg                  Utrecht, Holand

Jan 30                  Alcatraz                                Milan, Itlay

Jan 31                  Volkshaus                             Zurich, Switzerland

Feb 2                    Le Bataclan                           Paris, France

Feb 3                    De Roma                              Antwerp, Belgium

Mar 03                   H.O.B.                                 Boston, MA

Mar 04                   The Fillmore                         Philadelphia, PA

Mar 05                   9:30 Club                             Washington, DC

Mar 06                   9:30 Club                             Washington, DC

Mar 08                   College Street Music Hall      New Haven, CT

Mar 09                   Terminal 5                            New York, NY

Mar 11                   Westbury Theater                 Westbury, NY

Mar 13                   Rebel Complex                    Toronto, ONT

Mar 14                   Royal Oak Music Theater      Royal Oak, MI

Mar 29                   War Memorial Auditorium      Nashville, TN

Mar 30                   The Fillmore                         Charlotte, NC

Mar 31                   The Ritz                               Raleigh, NC

Apr 02                    Tabernacle                          Atlanta, GA

Apr 03                    H.O.B.                                Lake Buena Vista, FL

Apr 04                    Jannus Live                         St. Petersburg, FL

Apr 17                    Riviera Theatre                     Chicago, IL                              

Apr 19                   20 Monroe Live                    Grand Rapids, MI                     

Apr 21                    The Orpheum Theater           Madison, WI     

Apr 22                  Hoyt Sherman Place              Des Moines, IA            

Apr 23                    The Pageant                        St. Louis, MO   

Jun 30                  Vida Festival                         Vilanova I la Geltrú, Spain                     

Expect additional LIPS news to be revealed soon. Until then, click here for a deeper inside view into the making of OCZY MLODY.

 

 

For Further Information:

http://www.flaminglips.com/

https://twitter.com/theflaminglips

http://www.Facebook.com/FlamingLips

http://www.YouTube.com/FlamingLips

http://press.wbr.com/flaminglips

Iggy Pop, New Order, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson & More To Celebrate Philip Glass's 80th Birthday

Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, New Order's Bernard Sumner, Phil Cunningham and Tom Chapman, Patti Smith and her Band, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith, Scorchio Quartet & Lavinia Meijer   With Artistic Director Philip Glass   Set to Perform at Tibet House US 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Celebrating Philip Glass's 80thBirthday   March 16, 2017 at Carnegie Hall in New York City   TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

(Photo Credits: Philip Glass - Kenneth Chou, Courtesy of The Glenn Gould Foundation; Laurie Anderson - Courtesy of Canal Street Communications; Iggy Pop - Masayoshi Sukita; Patti Smith - Férial Hart; Jesse Paris Smith - Shervin Lainez; Tenzin Choegyal - Sonam Zoksang; New Order - Nick Wilson; Scorchio Quartet - Courtesy of Scorchio Quartet; Lavinia Meijer - Robin de Puy)

One of the longest-running and most renowned live cultural events in NYC will return when theTibet House US 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Celebrating Philip Glass's 80th Birthdaylights up Carnegie Hall on March 16, 2017. The evening, which will also honor 30 years of Tibet House, is sure to be another jam-packed show full of amazing music and one-night-only collaborations in what has been a series of unforgettable concerts spanning three decades. Joining esteemed composer and artistic director Glass, who once again curated this year's line-up, is Laurie Anderson, Iggy Pop, New Order's Bernard Sumner, Phil Cunningham, and Tom Chapman, Patti Smith and her Band, Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith, Scorchio Quartet, Lavinia Meijer and more. Chuck Close, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Arden Wohl are Honorary Chairpersons.   Tickets for the concert are on sale now ($35-$200) - visit www.carnegiehall.org to purchase, call Carnegie Charge at 212.247.7800, or visit the Carnegie Hall Box Office (57th Street and Seventh Avenue). Also available now are special gala packages starting at $500 that include prime concert tickets and an elegant dinner reception with the performers and a who's who of New York City society. To purchase these packages, visit www.tibethouse.us or call Tibet House US at 212.807.0563.     Proceeds support the work of Tibet House US, a non-profit educational institution and cultural embassy founded in 1987 at the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to ensure the survival of the unique Tibetan civilization.   Throughout its rich history, the one-of-a-kind Tibet House US Benefit Concert has assembled some of the most legendary and exciting names in music, dazzling concertgoers with its mesmerizing musical collaborations and stunning solo performances. Dozens of world-class artists have participated in past concerts, including David Bowie, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, Sharon Jones, FKA twigs, The Roots, Jim James, The Flaming Lips and many, many more.  The concert has garnered praise from the likes of the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, Billboard, Vogue and many more.   Praise for the Tibet House US Benefit Concert "...the audience was eager to dance, clap, whoop and sing along, and soon there was a rush of fans down the aisles.  - New York Times   "...an evening of unexpected collaborations..." - Wall Street Journal    "...extraordinary...Carnegie Hall felt like church..." - Entertainment Weekly   "...it's a kaleidoscope of tender hearts and raw sound..." - Consequence of Sound   "...a refuge, both from life's distractions and from musical expectations." - The Guardian

Agnes Obel, 2017 North American Tour

EUROPE'S ENIGMATIC AGNES OBEL ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR FOR EARLY 2017 New Music Video for "It's Happening Again"  Premiered Exclusively on NPR's "First Watch" (Click here to view)

Agnes Obel * Photo Credit:  Alex Bruel Flagstad Having just released Citizen of Glass, praised by the UK's Q as "a thing of quiet wonder" and by America's Mother Jones as "a beautiful album likely to soothe the dark night of the soul," Agnes Obel will headline a four-week North American tour that kicks off February 28 in Montreal, Canada and wraps in Ann Arbor, MI on March 31.  Tickets for most dates go on sale this Friday, November 18; log on to www.agnesobel.com for complete ticketing info. In addition, Obel's new music video for the new track "It's Happening Again" was premiered on NPR's "First Watch."  The animated piece, created/directed by Alex Bruel Flagstad who has directed several of Obel's videos, is a kaleidoscopic journey through dimensions of colors, patterns, twinkling lights and other celestial images, all perfect for Obel's ethereal voice and wistful harmonies.   The video can be viewed here. Marking her concert return to North America for the first time in two years, Obel's dates are in support of Citizen of Glass (10-21-16/Play In Again Sam), her first concept album and most ambitious work to date.  The title comes from the German concept of the Gläserner bürger, the "human or glass citizen," that deals with the individual's level of privacy.  Rooted in today's overshare-heavy age of social media, Obel has woven this concept, lyrically and musically, into the album's ten tracks, as they examine the provocative topics of transparency and diminishing privacy, a world of "glass people" who bare all via social media, and the affect that has on us emotionally and creatively.   "I wanted to write about the transparency and the difference between secrets and confession," said Obel to The Irish Times, who uses social networking platforms solely for work-related topics. "There's a strong sense these days - these decades, even - that we're all under surveillance.  Secrets can be very good to have and to keep."  For this tour, Obel will be joined onstage by Charlotte Danhier (cello, loops, vocals, mellotron, drums, uke), Catherine de Blasio (drums, vocals, bass clarinet, percussion), and Kristina Koropecki (cello, loops, vocals, percussion).  Fans can expect a set list comprised of songs from Obel's critically-acclaimed and platinum-selling albums Philharmonics (2010) and Aventine (2013), as well as selections from Citizen of Glass. With more dates to be announced, the Agnes Obel North American tour itinerary is as follows: FEBRUARY 28  Montreal en Lumiere - Place Des Arts, Montreal, QC MARCH  1  Palais Montcalm, Quebec City, QC  3  Bronson Centre, Ottawa, ON  4  The Great Hall, Toronto, ON  8  The Sinclair, Boston, MA  9  Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA 11  Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY 13  Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN 15  The Heights Theater, Houston, TX 22  The Independent, San Francisco, CA 24  Wonder Ballroom, Portland, OR 25  Imperial Vancouver, Vancouver, BC 29  The Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN 30  Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall, Chicago, IL 31  The Ark, Ann Arbor, MI

Official Agnes Obel Website

Dais Records to re-issue ANNIE ANXIETY 'Soul Possession' LP (originally on Corpus Christi)

DAIS RECORDS TO RE-ISSUE ANNIE ANXIETY's SOUL POSSESSION  LP ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON CRASS RECORDS SUB-LABEL CORPUS CHRISTI LISTEN TO "BURNT OFFERINGS" HERE LP OUT JANUARY 6, 2017 LITTLE ANNIE TO TOUR WITH SWANS IN SPRING 2017

Many influential characters graced the stage of Max’s Kansas City within the creative zeitgeist of New York City during the late 1970’s, but one local native named Annie Bandez thrust herself into the downtown scene with her punk ensemble Annie and the Asexuals, establishing her nom de plume Annie Anxiety (later known as “Little Annie”) and colliding head-on with the social norms of contemporary punk culture entangling the city at that time. After a couple years of disintegrated pursuits in New York, Annie relocated to England, finding herself at the doorstep of the famed anarchro-commune Dial House headed by activist Penny Rimbaud. It was here that Annie Anxiety established herself as a singular artist and voice with her debut 1981 single “Barbed Wire Halo” on seminal Crass Records and forging a creative alliance with Crass members Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine. As the landscape of punk in the United Kingdom was shifting towards a more diverse, multicultural focal point, artists such as Annie Anxiety found themselves exploring musical signatures in styles such as dub reggae and rocksteady.  In the summer of 1983, Annie began work at Southern Studios on what would be her first full length endeavor which encompassed all of her creative assets at that time.  Employing the expertise of legendary dub producer Adrian Sherwood to realize this vision, Annie pulled together members of Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Family Fodder, African Head Charge, London Underground and Art Interface to record her groundbreaking dub industrial masterpiece.  Upon its initial release by the unofficial Crass off-shoot label Corpus Christi in 1984, Soul Possession started the avalanche of activity that would include dozens of releases and collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Coil, Current 93, Swans and Marc Almond.   LISTEN: Annie Anxiety - "Burnt Offerings" https://soundcloud.com/daisrecords/annie-anxiety-burnt-offerings PRE-ORDER: Annie Anxiety - Soul Possession http://www.daisrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/annie-anxiety-soul-possession-lp   Little Annie on tour with Swans / Spring 2017: 3/08  Rockefeller - Oslo, Norway 3/09  Kraken Sthlm - Stockholm, Sweden 3/11  Grey Hall - Copenhagen, Denmark 3/12  VoxHall - Aarhus, Denmark 3/14  Fleda Club - Brno, Czech Republic 3/15  Taba Ka Kulturfabrik - Kosice, Slovakia 3/17  Legendos Klubas - Vilnius, Lithuania 3/19  Sentrum - Kiev, Ukraine 3/22  FORM Space Club - Cluj-Napoca, Romania 3/23  Control Club - Bucharest, Romania 3/24  MKC - Skopje, Macedonia 3/25  Dom Omladine - Belgrade, Serbia 3/27  Pogon Kulture - Rijeka, Croatia 3/28  Rote Fabrik Ziegel oh Lac - Zürich, Switzerland 3/29  FZW - Dortmund, Germany 3/30  Kompass Klub - Ghent, Belgium 3/31  Paradiso Music Hall – Amsterdam, Netherlands

NOTS announce 2017 tour! 'Cosmetic' out now on Goner Records

NOTS ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR  COSMETIC OUT NOW ON GONER RECORDS

Photo: Don Perry Memphis' NOTS hit the road next year in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album Cosmetic that was released earlier this year on Goner Records. Highlights include LA, SF, Portland, Vancouver, Austin and more. Check a full list of dates below. "It is not easy to make garage-punk sound vital in 2016-no less when it comes in the very psychedelic shape of a wah'd-out krauty highway jam-but the commitment here hits hard. It's raw and real." - PITCHFORK "effortlessly poetic and unapologetically punk" - BUST "epic...every moment...essential" - STEREOGUM "pushing its sound into spacey new directions...propulsive energy" - A.V. Club "an exceedingly well-planned stampede that's coming to save you from tedium and apathy"- MTV "so viciously thudding that you'll want to bring your dancing shoes"  - THE WASHINGTON POST WATCH: "Inherently Low" LISTEN: "Entertain Me" LISTEN: "No Novelty" NOTS LIVE DATES: 2/1: Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, LA 2/2: Rudyard's - Houston, TX 2/3: Double Wide - Dallas, TX 2/4: Hotel Vegas - Austin, TX 2/6: Lowbrow Palace - El Paso, TX 2/7: LBX - Phoenix, AZ 2/8: The Hideout - San Diego, CA 2/9: Non Plus Ultra - Los Angeles, CA 2/10: Thee Parkside - San Francisco, CA 2/11: Night Light - Oakland, CA 2/13: The Boreal - Eugene, OR  2/14: Sunset Tavern - Seattle, WA 2/15: Cobalt - Vancouver, BC 2/16: The High Water Mark - Portland, OR 2/17: The Arlene Francis Center - Santa Rosa, CA 2/18: Holland Project - Reno, NV 2/19: Beauty Bar - Las Vegas, NV  2/21: Siste - Albuquerque, NM 2/22: Opolis - Norman, OK

HANNI EL KHATIB SHARES NEW VISUAL PIECE FOR "SAVAGE TIMES"

HANNI EL KHATIB SHARES NEW VISUAL PIECE FOR "SAVAGE TIMES" SAVAGE TIMES VOL. 5 AVAILABLE NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE

WATCH: "Savage Times" -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKvPb5mPSGI STREAM: "Savage Times Vol. 5" - https://open.spotify.com/album/6idf41t0xxoOrrN3xySqrH Following the release of his Savage Times Vol. 5 EP two weeks ago via Innovative Leisure, Hanni El Khatib is back today to share a new visual accompaniment for his latest single "Savage Times." The visuals are a psychedelic compilation of found footage, appropriately complementing the dark and trippy track.  Hanni El Khatib's first idea for his Savage Times project was to do something he'd never done before. Instead, he ended up doing... Well, everything he'd never done before. He'd be playing new instruments, writing in unfamiliar new ways, opening himself up to an unrelenting stream of ideas and dedicating himself totally to pure musical instinct - and then releasing songs instantly to the public. El Khatib started Savage Times last December, after the Bataclan attacks forced the cancellation of a planned Paris Festival performance. With unexpected time on his hands - and unexpected ideas on his mind - he'd scheduled open-ended studio time at Crystal Antlers frontman-turned-producer Jonny Bell's Jazzcats Studio. Each day, he'd take the hour-long drive through L.A.'s industrial corridor to Long Beach, sketching out riffs and lyrics as he drove. Originally, he'd hoped to explode the lingering idea that he was simply a blues-rock guitar player, but that's why the Savage Times EP Series touches everything from garage rock to punk to disco, hip-hop and even some unexpected solo-guitar self-portraiture. But on the way, he also exploded his own idea of what he could do - even maybe who he was, or would be. Savage Times was an experiment, but also an experience, that includes some of Hanni El Khatib's most personal, political and social songs to date. Find the new visuals for "Savage Times" as well as Savage Times Vol. 5 above, see below for full details on the EP, and stay tuned for more news from Hanni El Khatib soon.  Hanni El Khatib Savage Times Vol. 5 Innovative Leisure 12/2/2016 iTunes | Bandcamp | Spotify 1. Till Your Rose Comes Home 2. Hold Me Back 3. Savage Times