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Noisey Share The Ninth Wave's Video For USED TO BE YOURS
by Tori Hartshorn - April 04, 2019 Today, The Ninth Wave reveal the video for 'Used To Be Yours', the latest single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album 'Infancy'. Premiered via Noisey, they write that “The Ninth Wave's sound is a brilliant, bleak mixture of 80s rock bands like The Cure and Sonic Youth, but with a synth po...
Motion City Soundtrack's MY DINOSAUR LIFE Limited Edition Vinyl, Now Available For Pre-Order Out 6/7
by Tori Hartshorn - March 21, 2019 Motion City Soundtrack's 2010 major label debut release My Dinosaur Lifewill be released on two new limited-edition variants ('green hi-melt' and 'pink hi-melt') on June 7, with pre-orders for both available now!...
Yawners Premiere LA ESCALERA Music Video At NPR Ahead of SXSW
by Tori Hartshorn - March 06, 2019 Last month, Madrid-based power pop duo Yawners announced their debut LP, Just Calm Down with the single 'Please, Please, Please.' A buoyant track that Flood Magazine compared to The Breeders and Sonic Youth while claiming that the band represent 'everything good about '90s guitar rock,' it created s...
Red Mass Announces KILRUSH DRIVE LP, Unveils Tour Dates and Single
by Tori Hartshorn - February 15, 2019 Red Mass has announced that they are set to release 'Kilrush Drive' via No Coast Records and Label Etiquette on March 22nd. The group has shows planned in support of the release, including a release show in Montreal and another in New York, as part of their New York residency where they will play Go...
NOTHING Announce U.S. Headlining Tour and Confirm SXSW
by Kaitlin Milligan - February 07, 2019 Philly's post-rock shoegazers NOTHING announce U.S. headlining tour dates throughout March including performances at SXSW in support of their critically acclaimed album Dance On The Blacktop. Tickets are available tomorrow, Friday, February 8th at 12pm EST HERE. Stay tuned for NOTHING's full SXSW sc...
Bob Mould Releases LOST FAITH, Announces JCRT Clothing Collaboration
by Tori Hartshorn - February 01, 2019 In only one week, Bob Mould returns with an entirely new catalogue of music on his full-length album Sunshine Rock, available February 8 via Merge Records. The record features the recently released tracks 'What Do You Want Me To Do' and title-track 'Sunshine Rock'. Today, Mould shares his latest sin...
Third Man Records Announces New Laughing Hyenas Reissues
by Tori Hartshorn - November 28, 2018 In partnership with Touch and Go Records, Third Man Records is re-issuing the full discography of punishing Michigan hardcore punk blues band Laughing Hyenas for the first time in over 25 years. The first two of these reissues, Merry-Go-Round and You Can't Pray A Lie, were released in February of th...
Jon Spencer Releases Debut Solo Album
by Kaitlin Milligan - November 09, 2018 Jon Spencer has released his debut solo album, Spencer Sings The Hits!, today via In The Red Records. Additionally, US tour dates have been announced beginning January 11 in Philadelphia and including a show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn. See below for full tour dates. Buy the album here....
Bubblewrap Collective Announce The Release Of The New Perfect Body and Zac White Split EP!
by Tori Hartshorn - November 09, 2018 Following on from the success of the 2017 split EP with Boy Azoogaand Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Bubblewrap Collective brings you two of the most exciting acts on the Cardiff music scene: Perfect Bodyand Zac White. The record, pressed to limited edition purple and orange vinyl, will be released on Nov...
Sonic Youth to Launch Live Archival Audio & Video Release Program on nugs.net
by Tori Hartshorn - November 06, 2018 nugs.net, the leading live music distribution platform for concert recordings, webcasts, and live archival releases has partnered with Sonic Youth to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's landmark album, Daydream Nation....
Sonic Youth to Launch Live Archival Audio & Video Release Program on nugs.net
by Tori Hartshorn - October 24, 2018 nugs.net, the leading live music distribution platform for concert recordings, webcasts, and live archival releases has partnered with Sonic Youth to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band's landmark album, Daydream Nation....
Sunshine And The Rain Share Two New Tracks, Expand Lineup
by Tori Hartshorn - September 26, 2018 New Jersey's Sunshine And The Rain (fmr. The Black Hollies) are excited to share two new tracks from their upcoming sophomore album Beneath The Stars (October 26, 2018 on Ernest Jenning Record Co.). First, the group premiered 'Just The Way It Goes' on The Best Show With Tom Scharpling last night -- ...
John Lydon To Kick Off Public Image Ltd's Fall Tour
by Sarah Jae Leiber - September 21, 2018 JOHN LYDON's PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) will launch THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN: NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the pioneering group. On October 9, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD will kick off their North American headlining tour at The Civic Theatre in New Orleans and will visit 17 major ci...
Bivouac UK Tour Starts Tomorrow, Announce Limited Edition Double Vinyl 25th Anniversary Release
by Tori Hartshorn - September 20, 2018 Bivouac did everything a 3-piece alternative rock band from Derby, who grew up on a steady diet of Husker Du, Sonic Youth and The Pixies, could dream of doing in the nineties. They released a string of records on cool indie label Elemental, recorded sessions for John Peel, played with Fugazi and Jes...
Jon Spencer Announces Special London Rough Trade East Live Set And Record Signing 11/2
by Tori Hartshorn - September 17, 2018 Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness and is back in the UK with The Melvins this October and has now also announced a run of headline appearances to follow in November....
New Singles FIELDS and SPENT ON YOU From Forthcoming Split EP
by Tori Hartshorn - September 10, 2018 Following on from the success of the 2017 split EP with Boy Azoogaand Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard, Bubblewrap Collective brings you two of the most exciting acts on the Cardiff music scene: Perfect Bodyand Zac White. The record, pressed to limited edition purple and orange vinyl, will be released on Nov...
Jon Spencer Announces Headline Dates for November
by Tori Hartshorn - September 04, 2018 Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness and is back in the UK with The Melvins this October and has now also announced a run of headline appearances to follow in November....
Kim Gordon, Laraaji, and More to Close Out 2018 Summer Happenings at the Broad
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 30, 2018 The next Summer Happening at the Broad will close out the 2018 season on September 29th. Picking up where the season opener A Journey That Wasn't, Part 1 left off, A Journey That Wasn't, Part 2 will continue to explore how artists manipulate time through memory, appropriation and repetition, themes ...
Fingerstyle Singer-Songwriter Zak Trojano Debuts WOLF TREES + Announces Tour Dates
by Macon Prickett - July 19, 2018 Fingerstyle singer-songwriter Zak Trojano will release Wolf Trees on August 10, nine songs that call attention to the thin rapidity of modern life. The Rusty Belle co-founder's third album looks forward as much as it looks back and today, he debuts the title track courtesy of The Bluegrass Situation...
Public Image LTD 40th Anniversary Celebration; Tickets On-Sale Today For North American Fall Tour
by Macon Prickett - July 16, 2018 In celebration of their 40th Anniversary, JOHN LYDON's PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) have announced a flurry of activity for 2018 including a worldwide tour, a career-spanning boxset and the theatrical release of a brand-new documentary film on the band. 'THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN: NORTH AMERICAN TOUR' wi...
Bivouac Announce Limited Edition Double-Vinyl 25th Anniversary Release + September UK Dates
by Macon Prickett - July 09, 2018 Bivouac did everything a 3-piece alternative rock band from Derby, who grew up on a steady diet of Husker Du, Sonic Youth and The Pixies, could dream of doing in the nineties. They released a string of records on cool indie label Elemental, recorded sessions for John Peel, played with Fugazi and Jes...
NOTHING Announce 10 UK Shows and Full European Tour
by Macon Prickett - June 29, 2018 Following the announcement of new album Dance On The Blacktop on August 24th via Relapse Records, Philly's post-rock shoegazer's NOTHINGhave announced a full European tour throughout November and December that include 10 shows in the UK....
Documentary Film On John Lydon and Public Image Ltd Acquired By Abramorama; Set For U.S. Release Fall 2018
by Macon Prickett - May 14, 2018 Abramorama and Verisimilitudeannounced today an agreement that will see Abramorama release the documentary film The Public Image Is Rotten in theaters around the world in 2018. The Public Image Is Rotten tells the story of music icon John Lydon and his pioneering group PiL with a level of depth and ...
Experimental Punk Duo Cinema Cinema Releases Previously Unrecorded Clash Song, Plus Tour Dates
by Tori Hartshorn - April 20, 2018 Cinema Cinema, the full-throttle, experimentally-inclined rock duo from Brooklyn, has been keeping very busy since the release of their Martin Bisi (Swans, Dresden Dolls, Sonic Youth, etc.) produced fourth full length album MAN BITES DOG one year ago....
Post-Punk Visionaries Chrome Announce 2nd Leg of US Tour in May to Support 21st Studio Album TECHROMANCY
by Macon Prickett - April 11, 2018 From the band's formation by the late Damon Edge in 1975, joined by longtime vocalist/guitarist Helios Creed in '77, Chrome has developed a unique methodology within the band, bringing art into sound, splicing in a Sci-Fi collage of sound bites, combining searing rock with noise, weirdness, pile dri... |