4/03/2013

LIARS “The Exact Color of Doubt”

In the run up to a series of live dates in the US and Europe, LIARS - Angus Andrew, Julian Gross and Aaron Hemphill - have premiered a brand new video for “The Exact Color Of Doubt” from their critically acclaimed album, WIXIW.
Director Markus Wambsganss, who collaborated with Liars on Drum’s Not Dead, has described the video as “3D Screen Test Scans in the Villa Straylight”, and explains that this is “a continuation of what the band and I started together with ‘The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack’, this time using a hacked Kinect sensor to scan their upper bodies to match the more digital feel of WIXIW”.
The video is also up for a MuVi Award, the FIRST festival award for music videos from Germany. Be sure to cast your vote HERE before May 3rd!
This May as a part of the Wordless Music Series, Liars will be playing two very special shows in New York in May. The first show on May 18th will take place at The Temple of Dendur At The Metropolitan Museum Of Artand feature multi-media and site-specific surprises as part of the MET’s "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" exhibit. For more information on this sold out show head to the MET's website.  In case you missed snagging tickets for that show be sure to grab yours for the band’s Brooklyn Masonic Templeperformance on the 19th.Tickets are still available here.  The band also has tour dates in Barcelona for Primavera Sound and Sónar’s 20th Anniversary (full details below, more European and US dates to be announced).
Self-produced, with additional production from Daniel Miller and mixed by Tom Biller, WIXIW is an album that is hard to shake, tough to pin down, and impossible to get out of one’s head even after an initial listen.
Simultaneously the most accessible and most challenging release from these iconoclasts, it is both a summation of Liars’ work up to now, and a complete break from anything you’d ever heard the band do previously.
Summer Tour Dates:
5/18--The Temple of Dendur at The Met-New York, NY **SOLD OUT**
5/19--Brooklyn Masonic Temple- Brooklyn, NY
European Tour Dates:
5/23--La Cartonerrie-Reims, France
5/24--Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival-Dudingen, Switzerland
5/25--Primavera Sound-Barcelona, Spain
5/27–Circolo Artisti—Rome, Italy
5/28—Interzona-Verona, Italy
5/29--Musica 90 Molodiciotto-Torino, Italy
5/30-- Cabaret Aleatoire-Marseille, France
6/1--Optimus Primavera-Porto, Portugal
6/5—Sterelux-Nantes, France
6/6--Trabendo-Paris, France
6/9--Parklife Festival-Manchester, England
6/13--Sonar Festival-Barcelona, Spain
6/15—Barby-Tel Aviv, Israel
WIXIW is out now on vinyl, CD and download
The band’s first three albums, They Threw Us In A Trench & Stuck A Monument On Top, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned and Drum’s Not Dead were recently reissued on 180g vinyl and a limited edition 7” featuring unreleased live recordings of ‘WIXIW’ and ‘Pillars Were Hollow And Filled With Candy So We Tore Them Down’ is available free, while stocks last, when you purchase from the band’s official shop: www.liarsliarsliars.com
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IO ECHO "Ministry Of Love"

Io Echo's brilliant debut album Ministry of Love is out today in North America!  The band has been working hard on this album for the past couple of years and we're excited to finally be able to release it.  This has been a busy year for Io Echo, after touring with Bloc Party earlier this year, and the band currently being on the road with iconic '90s alt outfit Garbage.  After the tour is done, they'll be playing Coachella in a couple of weeks, and then following that up with a tour supporting The Joy Formidable.  We're also excited to announce that Io Echo will be playing Lollapalooza this year (August 2-4 in Chicago).
Ministry of Love, drawing from early '90s industrial, hazy pop and Eastern Classical orchestration (Japanese Koto and Chinese violin), has garnered accolades from NPR, Interview, Nylon, Stereogum, Paper, Dazed & Confused and many more.  Be on the lookout for a video for the title track soon, and until then you can watch the video for "When The Lilies Die" here.
“They've succeeded in doing something that so many bands have tried, but failed to do: invent a completely new sound.” - NYLON 
“A fantastic new discovery” - NPR 
TOUR DATES
April 02 – Columbus OH – LC Pavilion*
April 03 – Chicago IL – Riviera Theatre*
April 05 – Minneapolis MN – Mill City Nights*
April 06 – Milwaukee WI – Eagles Ballroom*
April 07 – Madison WI – Orpheum*
April 09 – St. Louis MO – The Pageant*
April 10 – Kansas City MO – Harrah's*
April 12 – Indio, CA – Coachella
April 19 – Indio, CA – Coachella
April 26 – Tulsa OK – The Vanguard
April 29 – Dallas TX – Tree's^
April 30 – Austin TX – Emo's East
May 01 – Houston TX – Fitzgeralds^
May 05 – Tampa FL – State Theater^
May 06 – Orlando FL – The Social^
May 07 – Fort Lauderdale FL – Culture Room^
May 09 – Charlotte NC – Visulite Theater^
May 10 – Wilmington NC – Brooklyn Art Center^
May 11 – Richmond VA – The National
August 02-04 – Chicago IL - Lollapalooza
* with Garbage
^ with Joy Formidable

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Still Corners’ Premieres Video For Strange Pleasures



Still Corners’ Premieres Video For Strange Pleasures
Lead Single “Berlin Lovers”
Announces North American Tour Dates
Video Premiere With SPIN.com
Previously Announced UK Tour Dates May 3-11
Watch “Berlin Lovers” video here.
Download “Berlin Lovers” MP3 here.
London-based duo Still Corners have premiered a new video for “Berlin Lovers”, the lead single from their forthcoming album, Strange Pleasures, with SPIN.com. The clip, directed Christian Sorensen Hansen, features band members Greg Hughes and Tessa Murray as employees of a roller skating rink, where a young couple meets and falls in love.  SPIN says of the clip, “Their 2011 Sub Pop debut Creatures of an Hour was a lovely excursion into cinematic soundcraft, but the forthcoming Strange Pleasures, feels both more intimate and more boldly constructed. First taste, "Berlin Lovers," is a fantastic example, combining progressive synth-work with crisp drums for a feeling not unlike a Kavinsky track, while placing Murray's high and breathy vocals in the forefront so that there's no question why we're here: to sit with her story of a memorable encounter between two young people, "almost a man, almost a woman...The accompanying video plays like a pleasant little dream as a teenage couple meets at a roller rink operated by Still Corners' main players. Cue the smoke machines” (see video premiere April 3). 
Still Corners have scheduled North American tour dates in support of Strange Pleasures. The tour begins on May 27th in Phoenix, AZ at Crescent Ballroom and ends on June 14th in Toronto, ON at NXNE.   This is in addition to the bands previously announced UK trek that kicks-off on May 3rd in Liverpool at Sound City and ends May 11th in Bristol at Louisiana. Please find an updated tour schedule below.
Still Corners’ Strange Pleasures, the follow up to Creatures Of An Hour, the band’s acclaimed 2011 debut,  will be available on May 6 in Europe and May 7 in North America via Sub Pop. The album will be available on CD, LP and digitally, and is led by the single “Berlin Lovers” as well as highlights “Beginning to Blue”, “Future Age,” “Beatcity,” and the previously released album teaser, “Fireflies”.  Strange Pleasures was produced by band leader Greg Hughes at his Greenwich studio in London. Please find a full tracklisting below.  
More on Still Corners' Strange Pleasures:
Riding that insatiable kinesis over the last two years has resulted in Hughes, along with singing accomplice Tessa Murray, fashioning a devastating sophomore album, Strange Pleasures, which is surely destined to usher Still Corners to a deserved place at cerebral dream-pop’s high table. Where its predecessor soared on sugared layers of shoegazing-infused retro-futurism, Strange Pleasures proffers a leaner, more acute extrapolation of ’80s-suffused song and studio craft, navigating a sinuous trajectory between velveteen Angelo Badalamenti noir-pop torch song sophistication and ethereal Cocteau Twins beauty, with exquisite meanders through the glacial but mellifluous territory first mapped by Modern English, The Cure and The Passions, with nods along the way to cool, graceful detachment a la ’80s Euro avant-poppers such as Bernthøler and Virna Lindt (read more at Sub Pop).
What people are saying about Still Corners' “Berlin Lovers”:
"Another dreamy, widescreen pop gem" -  Gorilla Vs. Bear
“Tessa Murray’s ethereal vocals are trance-inducing; the song runs under two minutes, but sounds as if it could loop on into some dreamy eternity.” - Stereogum
“…Compellingly strange, endlessly relistenable strobelit pop that in a different world might be inescapable on Top 40 radio.” - Pretty Much Amazing
“Continuing to challenge themselves, the band are able to move forward without losing sight of the flavours which made their debut so seductive.” - Clash 
“…Pure, infectious pop.” - Paper Mag 
Still Corners 
Strange Pleasures 
Tracklisting
01. The Trip
02. Beginning To Blue
03. I Can’t Sleep
04. All I Know
05. Fireflies
06. Berlin Lovers
07. Future Age
08. Going Back to Strange
09. Beatcity
10. Midnight Drive
11. We Killed the Moonlight
12. Strange Pleasures
Tour Dates
May 03 - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Sound City Festival
May 04 - Leeds, United Kingdom - Live At Leeds Festival
May 05 - Manchester, United Kingdom -St Phillips Church
May 06 - Brighton, United Kingdom- Prince Albert
May 08 - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Portland Arms
May 09 - London, United Kingdom - XOYO
May 10 - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Hare & Hound
May 11 - Bristol, United Kingdom - Louisiana
May 27 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
May 28 - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
May 29 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Bar
May 30 - San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
Jun. 01 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Jun. 02 - Seattle, Wa - Barboza
Jun. 03 - Vancouver, BC -The Media Club
Jun. 06 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
Jun. 07 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
Jun. 08 - Detroit, MI - The Garden Bowl at the Majestic
Jun. 10 - Allston, MA - Great Scott
Jun. 11 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
Jun. 12 - Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands
Jun. 13  - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
Jul. 14  - Toronto, ON - NXNE


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ANGEL OLSEN SIGNS TO JAGJAGUWAR

ANGEL OLSEN SIGNS TO JAGJAGUWAR

SPRING HEADLINE TOUR KICKS OFF THIS WEEK
 

Angel Olsen has a fresh edge to her sound, a warm and wonderful range so rarely found, and an otherworldly skill and charm. In a live setting and on record, she wholly captivates, creating an emotional stew with her robust voice up front, bold and engaging, aching to be heard. Following an excellent six months since the release of Half Way Home where fans and media alike have begun to recognize her very special presence, we are excited to announce Angel has signed to Jagjaguwar, a fitting home comprised of a team that has been a true fan of Angel's elegance and extraordinariness since the earliest days of her career. She joins a roster of artists including Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten, Foxygen, Dinosaur Jr. and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.

Speaking of those early days, Angel's debut solo album, Strange Cacti, is finally available again in a limited 2nd edition pressing on Bathetic. And, Bathetic will also be releasing Half Way Home on CD for the first time come May 14th.

Strange Cacti LP pre-order link - http://batheticrecords.com/release/strange-cacti/  
Half Way Home CD/LP/digital purchase link - http://batheticrecords.com/release/half-way-home/
  
This week kicks off Ms. Olsen's first tour of the west coast! Catch Angel (guitar) and her band -- Danah Olivetree (cello), Stewart Bronaugh (bass) and Joshua Jaeger (drums) - headline intimate settings now, because if Angel's future looks as bright as we believe it will be, she won't be playing in rooms of this size for long! Following the west coast tour, Angel will head overseas to Ireland and the UK and then will return stateside to play a run of shows opening for Kurt Vile, plus her own headlining show at Glasslands in NY and the Pitchfork Music Festival in July.

ANGEL OLSEN TOUR DATES:
(new shows in bold) 
Sat. April 6 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop
Sun. April 7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place
Mon. April 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Tue. April 9 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Wed. April 10 - Phoenix, AZ @ Trunk Space
Fri. April 12 - Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
Sat. April 13 - Santa Fe, NM @ High Mayhem
Sun. April 14 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
Mon. April 15 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Tue. April 16 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux
Thu. April 18 - Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar
Fri. April 19 - Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Sat. April 20 - Seattle, WA @ Sonic Boom Records [RECORD STORE DAY]
Sun. April 21 - Vancouver, BC @ Media Club
Mon. April 22 - Cottage Grove, OR @ Opal Center for Arts & Education
Wed. April 24 - Sacramento, CA @ Bows & Arrows
Thu. May 2 - Dublin, IE @ Whelans
Fri. May 3 - Cork, IE @ Half Moon Theatre
Sat. May 4 - Sun. May 5 - Kilkenny Roots Festival, IE
Mon. May 6 - Belfast, UK @ Black Box
Wed. May 8 - London, UK @ Cinema Museum [SOLD OUT]
Thu. May 16 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom w/ Kurt Vile [SOLD OUT]
Fri. May 17 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair w/ Kurt Vile
Sat. May 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer w/ Kurt Vile
Sun. May 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands
Fri. July 19 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Fri. Aug. 16 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
Fri. Aug. 30 - Sun. Sep. 1 - Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End of the Road Festival

WATCH & LISTEN:
"Sweet Dreams" video - https://vimeo.com/55317322
"Tiniest Seed" video - https://vimeo.com/55315704
"Tiniest Seed" stream - http://snd.sc/P9f3UD
"The Waiting" stream - http://snd.sc/PlRYQa
"Acrobat" video - https://vimeo.com/48485396

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UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA SHARES LINDSTROM'S REMIX

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA SHARES LINDSTROM'S REMIX OF "SWIM & SLEEP (LIKE A SHARK)" VIA DAZED DIGITAL

ANNOUNCES SUMMER TOUR DATES

II AVAILABLE ON CD & LP VIA AMAZON AND DIGITALLY VIA ITUNES NOW

Unknown Mortal Orchestra photographed by Neil Krug

Today Unknown Mortal Orchestra is sharing Norwegian producer Lindstrom's prismatic remix of II single "Swim & Slip (Like a Shark)" in conjunction with the announcement of a new run of North American tour dates in June. Bookended by a European tour that includes a set at the TV on the Radio-curated ATP Fest and an appearance at Lollapalooza in August, the band will be hitting the the United States and Canada for a two week jaunt across North America. Check out Lindstrom's take on "Swim & Sleep (Like a Shark)" along with all of the band's upcoming tour dates below (new dates in bold).
STREAM: "Swim & Sleep (Like a Shark) (Lindstrom Remix)" - 
  
TOUR DATES
  
Apr-5 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater 
Apr-6 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall
May-1Glasgow, UK - King Tuts
May-2 Dublin, Ireland - Academy 2
May-3 Liverpool, UK - Liverpool Sound City-The Garage
May-4 Leeds, UK - Cockpit-Live at Leeds
May-6 Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
May-7 Bristol, UK - Thekla
May-8 Birmingham, UK - Institute-Temple Room
May-10 Camber Sands, UK - ATP Festival
May-11 Brussels, Belgium - Les Nuits Botanique-Rotonde
May-12 Frankfurt Am Main, Germany - Zoom Club
May-14 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
May-16 London, UK - Village Underground
May-17 Brighton, UK - The Great Escape
May-18 Utrecht, Netherlands - Le Guess Who
May-20 Hamburg, Germany - Prinzenbar
May-21 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega Small Hall
May-22 Nijmegan, Netherlands - Merleyn
May-23 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Rotown
May-24 Paris, France - Villette Sonique Festival
May-25 Amsterdam, Netherlands - London Calling
Jun-14 Bellingham, WA - The Wild Buffalo 
Jun-15 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret 
Jun-16 Spokane, WA - The Center 
Jun-17 Pullman, WA - Belltower Concert House 
Jun-21 Winnipeg, MB Canada - West End Culture Centre 
Jun-22 Fargo, ND - The Aquarium (Dempseys Upstairs) 
Jun-23 Minneapolis, MN - The Cedar 
Jun-24 Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews 
Jun-26 Akron, OH - Musica 
Jun-28 New York, NY - Seaport Music Festival
Jun-29 Hamden, CT - The Space 
Aug-3 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
 

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Tera Melos share another song from forthcoming album

Tera Melos share another song from forthcoming album
 North American tour dates with TTNG starting in April

Listen to "Bite"
Tera Melos  

Sacramento's genre-benders Tera Melos premiere a third new song from their forthcoming album, X'ed Out today via innovative art site The Fox Is Black. The song, "Bite" is available to stream/share HERE. 

Tera Melos also launch extensive North American tour dates with Sargent House label mates, Britain's This Town Needs Guns (now simply called TTNG) later this month. Tera Melos will be supporting X'ed Out, as will TTNG promote their new full length 13.0.0.0.0. Please see complete dates below and specific details (tickets, times, etc) for the shows HERE.

Tera Melos also recently premiered songs from X'ed Out via Rolling Stone, Noisey and Pitchfork. The track "Tropic Lame" is available for streaming/sharing HERE and "Sunburn" is available HERE. 

Truly great art is that which can't be easily understood and dissected, but immediately resonates nonetheless. Tera Melos' new full length, X'ed Out is just that kind of adventure. The songs transcend in a way that makes you want to sit friends down to hear it, not only to share the experience, but perhaps in hopes that together you can create the world in which songs like this can be defined. It hits mental buttons and flicks internal switches that you never knew existed, while cleverly obscuring the technical precision for which the band has been known. It's remarkably multifaceted, incredibly catchy and perplexing to unravel exactly how it all works. 

"It's like visiting a friend who lives on the 14th floor of a building with no elevator, yet he has a grand piano in his apartment," explains bassist Nathan Latona. "How did he get it there? Was it carried up 14 flights of stairs, assembled on site or what? This record is the piano in the apartment with no elevator. We wanted to do all of the tricky stuff in a way that doesn't seem noticeable." 

X'ed Out is the culmination of an arc begun on Tera Melos' first proper full-length, Patagonian Rats (Sargent House, 2010) -- a supercollider of 60s pop hooks, Minutemen garage-prog, post-punk evisceration, wiry psychedelia and nearly everything else in-between. Here, the Sacramento based trio burns and simmers simultaneously while situated somewhere without benefit of location services. It's a nowhere land, X'ed Out of the grid, both inviting and daring. Join us. 

X'ed Out will be available everywhere April 16th, 2013 on LP, CD and download via Sargent House. 

TERA MELOS & TTNG TOUR 2013
Apr 14, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ Amoeba - 2pm in-store performance & signing (FREE)
Apr 18, 2013 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge 
Apr 19, 2013 - Seattle, WA  @ The Crocodile 
Apr 20, 2013 - Vancouver, BC  @ The Media Club 
Apr 23, 2013 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium 
Apr 24, 2013 - Minneapolis, MN  @ First Avenue 7th Street Entry
Apr 25, 2013 - Appleton, WI  @ Lawrence University 
Apr 26, 2013 - Chicago, IL  @ Subterranean 
Apr 27, 2013 - Detroit, MI  @ Majestic Theater/The Magic Stick 
Apr 28, 2013 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison 
Apr 29, 2013 - Montreal, QC @ Il Motore 
Apr 30, 2013 - Hamden, CT @ The Space
May 1, 2013 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall 
May 2, 2013 - Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory - SOLD OUT
May 3, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fire (early show) - SOLD OUT
May 3, 2013 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Fire (late show) - SOLD OUT 
May 4, 2013 - Washington, DC @ DC9 
May 5, 2013 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings Barcade 
May 7, 2013 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 
May 8, 2013 - Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits 
May 9, 2013 - Miami, FL @ Bardot 
May 10, 2013 - Ybor City, FL  @ Crowbar 
May 11, 2013 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub 
May 13, 2013 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In 
May 15, 2013 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon 
May 16, 2013 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's 
May 17, 2013 - Dallas, TX  @ Club Dada 
May 18, 2013 - Austin, TX @ Red 7 
May 19, 2013 - San Antonio, TX  @ The Korova 
May 20, 2013 - El Paso, TX  @ Low Brow 
May 21, 2013 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Pub Rock 
May 22, 2013 - San Diego, CA  @ The Casbah 
May 23, 2013 - Los Angeles, CA  @ The Echo 
May 24, 2013 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Constellation Room
May 25, 2013 - San Francisco, CA @ The Bottom of the Hill
May 26, 2013 - Fresno, CA @ Star Palace Ballroom

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4/02/2013

The Veils “Dancing With The Tornado”

The Veils

“Dancing With The Tornado” MP3 Drops w/ SPIN!

Time Stays, We Go Out April 23rd,
North American Tour Kicks Off April 20th

“Frontman Finn Andrews posseses Nick Cave-like charisma, and the London five-piece has an impeccable sense of timing.” -- SPIN

“…fiery and anthemic…” -- BrooklynVegan



The Veils have announced their return with their highly-anticipated fourth album, Time Stays, We Go. Recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studios in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, the album was produced by lead singer/songwriter Finn Andrews and Adam Greenspan (Divine Fits, Arcade Fire.) The band tempted seminal English producer Bill Price (The Clash, Jesus & Mary Chain) out of retirement to mix the record to tape at Metropolis Studios in London, lending the album a rich, analogue sound rarely heard in popular music today. Marking the beginning of a captivating new era for a band, Time Stays, We Go is due out April 23rd via Pitch Beast Records and is available for pre-order now.

Album track “Dancing With The Tornado” is an upbeat, energetic cut that showcases Finn’s raw, dynamic vocals twisting and turning above driving percussion and dancing guitar lines. You can download the “Dancing With The Tornado” MP3 where it premiered with SPIN or HERE, and we encourage you to post & share.

First single “Through The Deep, Dark Wood” opens the album with a driving rhythm and palpable electric energy. “The Pearl” plays up Finn’s lush, expressive drawl with a simple melody and somber undertones. “Turn From The Rain” is full of bright, lively instrumentation that plays up the song’s message of hope and perseverance. Album closer “Out From The Valley & Into The Stars” is a heartbreakingly stunning ballad that builds to an explosive climax, leaving listeners wanting more.

Time Stays, We Go shows The Veils at the very height of their creative powers so far, deftly combining two distinct sides of their personality. The band will kick off a North American tour in April—be sure to catch them live in your city, and stay tuned for more from The Veils coming soon!

For more information on The Veils, give us a shout!:
Dana Cooper, Dana@girlie.com, 212-989-2222 x125
Damien Choy Smith, Damien@girlie.com, 212-989-2222 x118


The Veils on Tour:
4/20: Vancouver, BC @ Electric Owl
4/21: Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
4/22: Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
4/24: San Francisco, CA @ Independent
4/26: Los Angeles, CA @ Echo - BritWeek Show
4/29: Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
5/1: Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
5/2: Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
5/4: Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel
5/5: Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
5/6: Boston, MA @ Cafe 939
5/7: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
5/9: Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brendas
5/10: Washington, DC @ Rock n Roll Hotel



http://www.theveils.com/
http://www.facebook.com/theveils
www.twitter.com/the_veils
 
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THE BLACK ANGELS' INDIGO MEADOW OUT TODAY

THE BLACK ANGELS' INDIGO MEADOW OUT TODAY

ALBUM NAMED AN ITUNES EDITORS' CHOICE

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR BEGINS APRIL 4

  

Photo: Angel Ceballos


Blue Horizon is excited to announce that The Black Angels are releasing their new record, Indigo Meadow, today, April 2nd. iTunes selected the album as an Editors' Choice and is also featuring the lead single "Don't Play With Guns" in a free track promotion. The Associated Press said, "Imagine tossing bands from the pantheon of American psychedelia like The Electric Prunes, Count Five, 13th Floor Elevators and The Seeds into your blender, adding a splash of Sabbath and a dollop of early Soundgarden or Mudhoney, and you've got Austin's The Black Angels.On Indigo Meadow, these Texans keep this elixir swirling. Their fourth album is modern psychedelia, true to the earlier form, with all the weird, hypnotic, fuzzy guitar sounds and dirgelike keyboards, only really well produced." Relix hailed, "Hyperinventive when it counts, the Angels aren't just mimicking a late '60s garage sound - they're bending, stretching and molding it in their own image."

The Black Angels' (Christian Bland - guitar, drone machine/organ; Alex Maas - vocals, bass, organ, drone machine; Stephanie Bailey - drums, percussion; Kyle Hunt - keyboards, percussion, bass, guitar) most revelatory collection thus far, Indigo Meadow marks the Austin, Texas-based band's fourth full-length release, following 2010's acclaimed Phosphene Dream. Once again The Black Angels prove themselves the undisputed avatars of contemporary psychedelic rock, simultaneously exalting the genre's kaleidoscopic past as they thrust it ever further into the future.

Now a quartet, the band - with the able support of producer John Congleton (David Byrne & St. Vincent, Clinic, Explosions In The Sky) - have brought new focus to their wide-ranging songcraft, their righteous riffs and dogmatic drones gaining increased power as they fuel a more expansive emotional trajectory. 
Founded in 2004, The Black Angels have been the spearhead of the post-millennial psychedelic movement, picking up the mantle of their hometown's long lysergic history and reinvigorating it with progressive political commentary and unrestrained creativity and ambition.  Long hailed for their monumental live sets, The Black Angels will celebrate the arrival of Indigo Meadow with a major North American tour, set to get underway April 4th at Athens, GA's Georgia Theatre and then ends May 26th at San Antonio, TX's White Rabbit.  Support comes from a stellar line-up of lysergically like-minded artists, including Allah-Las, Elephant Stone, Hanni El Khatib, and Wall of Death.  


Complete North American tour dates below:

APRIL
4                        Athens, GA                        Georgia Theatre #
5                        Asheville, NC                        The Orange Peel #
6                        Washington, DC            Black Cat #
7                          Philadelphia, PA              Union Transfer #
8                         New York, NY                        Webster Hall #
10                        Brooklyn, NY                        The Bell House#
11                         Boston, MA                         Royale #
12                        Montreal, QC                        Le National #
13                        Toronto, ON                        Danforth Music Hall #
15                         Detroit, MI                         Magic Stick #
16                          Cleveland, OH              Beachland Ballroom #
17                         Columbus, OH             Newport Music Hall #
19                         Chicago, IL                         Vic Theatre #
20                         Minneapolis, MN             Fine Line Music Cafe #
21                         Omaha, NE                         The Waiting Room #
22                         Lawrence, KS                         Granada #
26-28                         Austin, TX                         Austin Psych Fest

MAY
1                        New Orleans, LA                        Republic
2                         Baton Rouge, LA             Spanish Moon %
3                         Birmingham, AL             WorkPlay Theatre %
4                        Atlanta, GA                                    Shaky Knees Festival
5                         Nashville, TN                        Mercy Lounge %
7                         Indianapolis, IN             The Vogue %
8                         St. Louis, MO                         The Firebird %
10                         Boulder, CO                         Boulder Theater %
11                         Salt Lake City, UT             The Depot %
13                         Seattle, WA                         Neptune Theatre %
14                         Vancouver, BC             Commodore Ballroom %
15                         Portland, OR                         Wonder Ballroom %
17                         San Francisco, CA             The Fillmore %
18                         Pomona, CA                         The Glass House  ^
19                         Solana Beach, CA             Belly Up Tavern ^
21                         Los Angeles, CA             Mayan Theatre ^
22                         Tucson, AZ                         Club Congress ^
24                         Houston, TX                         Fitzgerald's ^
25                         Dallas, TX                         Granada Theater ^
26                         San Antonio, TX             White Rabbit ^

# w/Allah-Las, Elephant Stone
% w/Hanni El Khatib, Wall of Death
^ w/Wall of Death

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Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury By Neal Preston
Now Available for Pre-Order Exclusively on the iBookstore

Digital Book Takes the Medium to New Heights,
Offering Never Before Seen Photos, Memorabilia and More

 

Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order and will be released exclusively on the iBookstore on April 15 for a price of $9.99. The book comes alive with a tap, swipe or pinch and provides an unprecedented and comprehensive look into the world of Led Zeppelin, one of rock's most iconic bands. Through Preston's lens the reader experiences hundreds of photos (over 100 of whichhave never been seen before), 80 contact sheets (all previously unpublished), audio commentary from Preston, video and text interviews with people who worked with the band, and even memorabilia and set lists for concerts whose photos are featured in the book.

Created with Apple's digital book creation app, iBooks Author, this Multi-Touch experience on iPad is unprecedented in its visual style and layout, letting the reader explore never-before-seen shots of Led Zeppelin and join them not only on stage, but also backstage. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury contains an intro by Stevie Nicks and has contributions from bands like My Chemical Romance, Heart, Mastodon and many more.

No photographer was granted the access to Led Zeppelin that Neal Preston had. Any photo of the band from the post-1973 era familiar to fans is probably one of Preston's images. Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury immerses you in the band's inner circle with brilliant on-stage performance photos, backstage candid shots, intimate images from onboard the band's two private planes, as well as snapshots from press conferences, movie premieres, private band parties and more.

Neal Preston's career began when he was still in high school and continues today. His photographs have appeared in every conceivable media outlet: on the covers and in the pages of world-class magazines and newspapers, to books, television shows, feature films, Broadway show programs and billboards, vinyl, CD and DVD packages; almost literally everywhere. His client list is a virtual who's-who of rock royalty including The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Queen and Fleetwood Mac. His archive, a body of work spanning almost four decades, is regarded as one of the music industry's most extensive and significant photo collections. Preston's archive was the key source of photographs for VH1's acclaimed Behind the Music documentary series, providing over one thousand still photos used in 50 episodes. In 1985, Preston was chosen as one of the official photographers for Bob Geldof's Live Aid concert at London's Wembley Stadium. In 1988, his association with Bruce Springsteen helped land him the job as official tour photographer for Amnesty International's landmark ''Human Rights Now!'' tour.

 Led Zeppelin: Sound And Fury, an innovative illustrated digital book by famed photographer Neal Preston, is available now for pre-order exclusively on the iBookstore for a price of $9.99 before going on sale April 15.:

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