The Trashcan Sinatras @ Regent Theater 6/27

Jackie Cohen @ The Echo 6/27

Diet Cig announce September festival and headline tour dates!

DIET CIG 

FALL TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED 

INCLUDES HEADLINE SHOWS + SLOTS AT FALLOUT FEST, AUDIOTREE MUSIC FESTIVAL  &

PYGMALION FESTIVAL

Diet Cig are happy to confirm a September string of dates that includes stops at both the Audiotree Music Festival in Kalamazoo, MI on September 22 and the Pygmalion Festival in Champaign, IL on September 27.   All dates are: 

9/19 - The Southern - Charlottesville, VA

9/20 - Fallout Fest @ The Union - Athens, OH

9/21 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL

9/22 - Audiotree Music Festival - Kalamazoo, MI

9/24 - The Bishop - Bloomington, IN

9/25 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO

9/26 - Gabes - Iowa City, IA

9/27 - Pygmalion Music Festival - Champaign, IL

9/28 - Zanzabar - Louisville, KY

All tickets for headline shows on sale Friday, June 29 @ 10am local.

CHARLOTTE CARDIN SHARES VIDEO FOR “CALIFORNIA”

CHARLOTTE CARDIN SHARES VIDEO FOR “CALIFORNIA”

WATCH: https://youtu.be/W5ok-5UmRKw

 

Acclaimed Montreal-based singer-songwriter Charlotte Cardin has premiered the vertical visual companion for “California,” a live-show staple that pairs Cardin’s hypnotic vocals with a bouncing summer-ready instrumental. The video, filmed entirely via iPhone X along Cardin’s recent North American headline tour, gives an inside look at life on the road.

Cardin first broke through with her 2016 Canadian EP Big Boy. The release proved a phenomenon with tracks “Like It Doesn’t Hurt” (feat. Husser) and “Dirty Dirty” quickly gaining critical acclaim the US. Interview hailed “the smoky, jazz-tinged alto's vocal sophistication and adept wordplay” while NOISEY praised her “remarkable control and maturity” and Pigeons & Planes raved “she’s got a voice that’ll make you stop whatever you’re doing, and listen.” Released a year later, Cardin’s major label and US debut EP Main Girl(Atlantic Records) is highlighted by the breakthrough single/title track, and joined by standouts “Paradise Motion” and “The Kids.”

Fast becoming known as a uniquely compelling live performer, Cardin has toured nearly non-stop over the past year, including a major US tour alongside Nick Murphy, sold out run supporting BØRNS and her recently wrapped headline North American tour. She has also given show-stealing performances at an array of North American festivals including Bonnaroo, Osheaga, and Le Festival d’Été de Québec, the latter of which saw her as special guest to Sting and Peter Gabriel.

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Otherworldly sisters of The New Tarot share first video from debut album / synth-pop "sci-fi opera"

OTHERWORLDLY SYNTH-POP SISTERS

THE NEW TAROT

SHARE TRIPPY VIDEO FROM DEBUT ALBUM

THE BOOK OF PROMISES

WATCH "THE SKINNY" 

& meet the protagonist from the story the album tells:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cy5pjImoQ

 

"it would fit not uncomfortably besides any number of classic 4AD recordings."

- Blackbook 

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The New Tarot headline The Bowery Ballroom on August 4th

More info: https://bit.ly/2Kt3w28

Photo credit: Shervin Lainez

You only get one debut album, and The New Tarot know this, so they're telling fans a story with forthcoming LP, The Book of Promises. The idea for the theme and imagery came to Monika Walker in her sleep, and her sister Karen knew it's what they had to create. 

The visuals for the story's first part, when the protagonist is introduced, is aptly called "The Skinny" and informs and foreshadows what's the come. Blackbook describes the album as "a sci-fi rock opera, based on the reincarnation of 16th Century English mathematician, astronomer and occult philosopher John Dee (you can see him advising the Queen - as played by Cate Blanchett - in the 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age). Which, surely, is a welcome break from all the lyrical blubbering about  broken hearted sadness as proffered by so many of their contemporaries." 

Describing the single, Blackbook says, "Like, say, Bat For Lashes, it aesthetically weds a sort of Anglo-Saxon folk-witchery with zeitgeisty synth-pop stylizing and Wicca ideology. To be sure, it would fit not uncomfortably besides any number of classic 4AD recordings."

Songwriter Monika Walker of The New Tarot on "The Skinny":

"This video is our first visual introduction to the Book of Promises and our album's hero, the reincarnation of 15th century mathematician, and occultist visionary John Dee. Clearing out his mother's house after her death, John remembers a book she had warned him about. He finds it in a box in her basement; inside the book are instructions for summoning an angel. He follows them, and finds himself transported to a realm between worlds...

Most of this video was shot in the woods by our house in Connecticut. Centuries ago, Native Americans worshipped at the rock here as it is almost completely made of quartz. Later, these woods would get their name from a colonial man who lept off the rock to his death, bringing with him a tribe of righteously maurauding indians. These particular woods have always been a source of peace as muchas a place of uncertainty; and it is this serene chaos that we wished to encapsulate."

Director Julia Barrett-Mitchell on the video concept:

"When I heard the album, this track immediately jumped out and grabbed me. As a film director with a strong background in narrative films and great passion for mythology, I was delightfully surprised to learn that the whole album is a retelling of a hero's journey.  It was refreshing to work with a band that is inspired by mythology and mysticism because we have that in common.  The concept for this video was simply pulled from the point in the New Tarot's adaptation of John D's journey as it unfolds in the album.  I love that this video is a self-contained story arch involving magic, curiosity, greed and an inability to resist the call to adventure, and also implies that the story continues. Its an honor to have worked on this piece for the album's debut and was really cool to see it all come together."

More info on the LP's concept from the band:

John Dee receives mystic powers of influence in exchange for spreading the image of the "angel" and uses his sudden celebrity to champion a radical political uprising. He meets a beautiful woman at a rally, who seems the only person not under his spell. They fall in love, he makes her his "queen" but the women discovers the source of his power, and summons the "angel" herself. It reveals it is more alien than angel, that spreading it's sigil will allow it to materialize, and offers to strike a new deal with her; de-materialize to join the alien and explore the universe, and in return the alien won't take over Earth. She is distraught, and feels betrayed; but ultimately accepts. John is suddenly alone, his powers gone, and his name uttered only in scorn. He becomes a hermit and fades out of the public sphere. Earth remains as it is. The album was recorded in Highland Mills, NY near Cornwall, with Andy Baldwin as producer.

Photo credit:  Shervin Lainez

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"The New York-based indie band delivers a new song that's both simple and complex, just like the country that it's about."

Noisey

 

"The Walker sisters, Monika and Karen, have been twisting the concept of alternative music... as a frenetic sort of rock-synthpop beast. It's a sound that demands its alt label if for no other reason than it's so beyond genre that calling it "other" is really the only recourse."

Consequence of Sound

 

"The New Tarot is indie rock for witchy babes. Equal parts mystical and danceable, it's fronted by a couple of new-agey sisters (literally sisters, not just spiritually)."

Nylon

"Monika Walker and her band, The New Tarot, are certainly making their way into the public consciousness...But for Walker, the band is more than music:  it's a way for her to understand and connect with the various aspects of her own identity."

Psychology Today

"The group's intricate melodies and passionate lyrics give a fresh approach to relationships, mental health, and what it means to be "liked" on Facebook."

Bust

"Shapeshifting between 90s-style alt-rock to indie psych to metal-pop (or something like that, in keeping with the TNT abbreviation of their band name), the sisters keep your ears guessing as to what they're going to do next. There's a fantastical side to their songs and imagery that made for a memorable session..."

Break Thru Radio

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Stand-alone single "Mistake To Choose" featured on Miss Universe 2017

Debut LP Book of Promises Due Out in October 2018

Check out the first single from new album, "America," which premiered exclusively on Noisey: LISTEN HERE.

Listen to their last EP, God of Science, now streaming on Consequence of Sound HERE.

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Watch The New Tarot's headlining performance of "Ghost" at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC

Hatchie releases "Bad Guy" video, announces US tour dates

HATCHIE RELEASES "BAD GUY" VIDEO

ANNOUNCES FIRST US TOUR 

INCLUDES DATES WITH ALVVAYS AND SNAIL MAIL

SUGAR & SPICE EP OUT NOW VIA DOUBLE DOUBLE WHAMMY

Photo Credit: Joe Agius

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Today, rising Australian artist Hatchie has released a video for "Bad Guy," the closer from her critically acclaimed debut EP, Sugar & Spice. Upon the EP's release Pitchfork said "the unadorned honesty of closing track 'Bad Guy' is exhilarating," while Stereogum called it "a stunner, full of the kind of immediate earworm melodies that you can't believe you haven't heard before." Sugar & Spice isavailable now via Double Double Whammy.

Additionally, Hatchie has announced her first US tour that includes festival plays at Pitchfork's OctFest, Hopscotch and Beach Goth, as well as dates with Alvvays and Snail Mail. All dates below.

WATCH THE "BAD GUY" VIDEO

TOUR DATES:

7/12 - Melbourne, VIC @ Worker's Club SOLD OUT

7/13 - Sydney, NSW @ OAF Gallery SOLD OUT

7/14 - Brisbane, SA @ Black Bear Lodge SOLD OUT

8/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ Beach Goth Festival

8/6 - Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Festival

8/7 - Washington, DC @ DC9

8/8 - New York, NY @ Pitchfork's OctFest

8/12 - Toronto, ON @ Garrison

9/13 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz

9/16 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean

9/18 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza

9/19 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge

9/21 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord

9/22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater

9/25 - Boston, MA @ Paradise *

9/26 - New York, NY @ Warsaw *

9/27 - New York, NY @ Warsaw * SOLD OUT

9/28 - New York, NY @ Warsaw * SOLD OUT

9/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *

10/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right

10/31 - Paris, FR @ Pitchfork Avant-Garde

11/1 - London, UK @ Electrowerkz

* w/ Alvvays & Snail Mail

GIRLSCHOOL Expands Women-Forward Music Festival To NYC - Oct 6-7

GIRLSCHOOL EXPANDS to NYC!

Celebrated Women-Forward Music Festival 
Announces FIRST New York City Weekend
October 6-7, 2018 @ Industry City 
In Partnership with Girlie Action and City Farm Presents
Pre-Order Passes Here


Karen O at GIRLSCHOOL LA 2018. Maria Jose Govea for Girlschool

“Girlschool has fast built up momentum as its own ecosystem within LA's sprawling musical underground.” - DAZED

"Girlschool felt like a vision for the way forward." - The Los Angeles Times

"GIRLSCHOOL has evolved from cathartic gathering to a multi-pronged platform for visibility and action." - Noisey

"GIRLSCHOOL has transformed from a weekend of music to a creative hub." - Under The Radar
 

GIRLSCHOOL, the highly popular L.A.-based interdisciplinary festival celebrating women-identified artists, thinkers, professionals and creators, is expanding to New York City. It will take place at Industry City Courtyard 1/2 (274 36th Street) in Brooklyn on October 6-7, in partnership with Girlie Action and City Farm Presents. GIRLSCHOOL is a music festival and creative community based in Los Angeles, whose mission is to celebrate, connect, and lift women-identified artists, leaders, and voices. Fans will recall GIRLSCHOOL LA 2018 is where the viral video of Fiona Apple performing alongside Shirley Manson in a homemade “KNEEL, PORTNOW” shirt took place. Festival line-up coming soon. Passes are available for pre-order here. Hope to see you there!

 

Founded by Anna Bulbrook (band member/multi-instrumentalist, the Airborne Toxic Event; violinist, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Beyoncé's LEMONADE, Kanye West, Vampire Weekend, Sia, and more) in response to how few women she saw onstage in the alternative rock and festival worlds, GIRLSCHOOL has grown into a vibrant network of women-identified artists, leaders, and voices who have formed an empowering and visible community for one another while supporting women and girls. A portion of the proceeds from every ticketed GIRLSCHOOL event benefits a girl-positive 501c3.

Since it came to be in 2016, GIRLSCHOOL has held three annual sold-out women-led three-day music and ideas festivals in Los Angeles, and in March 2017 and 2018 partnered with TOMS to bring its at-capacity capsule festival to SXSW. In November of 2017, they held their first IDEALAB in partnership with 3.1 Phillip Lim and Glenfiddich that featured performances by Amber Coffman, choreographer/dancer Mecca Vazie Andrews in collaboration with poet Morgan Parker, and a conversation between activists Ashlee Marie Preston and Whitney Bell. GIRLSCHOOL has worked with artists including Fiona Apple, Shirley Manson, Karen O, KING, Carrie Brownstein, Nick and Navi, Chelsea Wolfe, Leikeli47, the bird and the bee, Deap Vally, Bleached, BOSCO, Alice Bag, MUNA, Mereba, Caroline Smith, Francisca Valenzuela, Gavin Turek, Best Coast, and many more.
 

Morgan Parker and Carrie Brownstein at GIRLSCHOOL LA 2018. Maria Jose Govea for Girlschool

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