Following their performance at Field Day last weekend, MONEY have just released a short film for ‘Goodnight London’, a fictional piece of art-house cinema, directed by Jem Goulding. Inspired by the confused identity talked about in singer Jamie Lee’s lyrics, the film is a metaphor on the masks we are often forced to wear, embodied in an abstract love story.
Dan Deacon is set to support Arcade Fire on their upcoming arena tour for their latest release, Reflektor.
Joe Driscoll & Sekou Kouyate are starting their first ever North American tour in less then a month! This phenomenal collaboration between an electro-kora superstar and a beat-box virtuoso will appear in many major cities including New York, Montreal, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Los Angeles, and more. To see what to expect check out their live video and learn more at www.joeandsekou.com.
Allah-Las met while working at Amoeba Music, a key destination for music lovers in Los Angeles. While this experience helped shape their sensibility, their sound was forged in an underground basement where they came together as a band. They began gigging in Los Angeles in 2008, refining their live performance, and finally released their first 7” single ‘Catamaran / Long Journey’ in 2011.
If you’re unfamiliar with Vivian’s work, she has been a featured vocalist for several artists, including Chris Botti (jazz trumpeter), Harold Mabern (legendary jazz pianist), Eric Benet, Will Downing, Towa Tei (Dee-Lite), Ryuichi Sakamoto (Japanese composer), David Morales (DJ), Junior Vazquez (DJ), Mads Baerentzen (jazz pianist), and Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20), and has toured worldwide as the featured vocalist for the afore-mentioned artists.
California-based Hip-Hop/EDM hybrid Vokab Kompany have teamed up with Canadian “Future Booty Bass” producer Knight Riderz and Brooklyn MC Siya to release their latest single, “Show Up,” via Do Androids Dance. This marks the second time Vokab Kompany and Knight Riderz have worked together, the first collaboration being “Just Above the Clouds.”
The Downtown Fiction has partnered with Pandora Premieres to stream their new album Losers & Kings, ahead of its June 17th release. The album is available for pre-order on Merchnow and iTunes, where fans will receive an instant download of both “Kiss My Friends” and “Cool Kids” with each pre-order.
GODSMACK are revving up their highly anticipated sixth full-length album, 1000hp [Republic Records], for release on August 5. It’s the follow-up to 2010’s The Oracle, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. The title track and first single is available on iTunes (purchase here) and other digital retailers today after its worldwide debut at radio yesterday.
Guitarist Christian Bland invites listeners to accompany him on a sonic journey: “After roaming through the Indigo Meadow, the time has come to journey to the Clear Lake Forest, where 7 tales of diamonds, executioners, and other strange occurrences await underneath the crystal waves lapping in the lake.”
Karikatura will release its debut full-length album, Eyes Wide, recorded to analog tape at Mighty Toad Studios and mixed at Strangeweather Studios by creative luminary Daniel Schlett (Bob Dylan,Yeasayer, Rita Indiana). The music on the album is as diverse as the backgrounds and life-experiences of the band-members; each member contributed songs to the album, expressing his personal vision, and the band shaped the music collectively.
Empires are thrilled to announce they’ll make their TV debut on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 17th! That same day, Chop Shop / Island Records will release the band’s new EP How Good Does It Feel – a collection of songs that will appear on their major label debut Orphan out later this year.
The opening ceremony of the 15th edition of the best European festival, will be held by the Pet Shop Boys who are coming to EXIT’s Main Stage with an exquisite blend of unique stage set, lasers, extraordinary costume changes, original dance choreography and a plethora of hits.
The record is produced by electronic music maverick Anders Trentemoller. It incorporates personal stories and musings on the interconnectivity of relationships between people and their relationship to the world. “Our intention with the new songs was to cut them to their bones by trusting the melodies, lyrics and sounds enough to let the songs stand naked and uncontrolled’. They likened Lemon Moon’s creative process with building a screenplay, as new…
LECTAMYNOL have returned with a new 4 track promo entitled “Steady Repulsion Build-Up.” As a continued manipulation of their blackened, grimy, thrashing deathcrust sound, this new offering gives the underground a freakish slab of twisted sound harvested through the dark winter months of 2013/2014. “Steady Repulsion Build-Up” is the result; 4 songs of ear-bleeding dementia now available for free streaming and free download.
Dany Holdstein is able to provide his students with the greatest of care and is able to reach individuals in a direct fashion when he conducts his adult dance and fitness classes. Holdstein tweaks his program to better capture the differences between the older and younger generations. This side of his business – the children and teens side – is taken just as seriously as the adult classes.
Papertwin has been playing music together since 2009, formed by Max Decker after narrowly escaping a lucrative career as a landscape painter. After two homespun EPs, the band is set to release their first studio collaboration, Vox Humana, on June 17.
Bay Area post-punks Street Eaters have shared the driving and urgent title track from their new album, “Blood::Muscles::Bones“. The band is back with a fierce sophomore album on the heels of several years of relentless global touring. touring. Blood::Muscles::Bones, available for pre-order HERE, is set to be released June 17th on Nervous Intent Records. The band is about to take their raucous and feral live show on the road on an impressive 47 city,…
Youthire attempts to link local youth to their neighborhood, and is a community-based website that allows individuals to join, post a job, or to register as a job provider. The website encapsulates neighborhoods into units that can further foster care amongst their users. The user base allows for a variety of cities to be hot-beds of activity.
Mighty Fox will release their EP ‘Oceans’ on June 24. See cover art and track listing below.
The latest music video from PUJOL is for the song “Circles“. The video, directed by Stewart Copeland, is composed of 16,000 still pictures that were assembled into clips inside Photoshop. Daniel Pujol is singing and moving in half-time to a slowed down track, while the lizards move in real time. This gives the video a very unique and cool feel. Stewart Copeland and Daniel Pujol both talked to HitFix about…