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Bad Cop / Bad Cop’s new studio album The Ride, is out now on Fat Wreck Chords. The Ride was recorded throughout much of 2018 and 2019 by Johnny Carey and Fat Mike (D-Composers), and boasts all of the elements of BCBC’s sound: big guitars, lock-step bass and drums, intricate vocal harmonies, and plenty of attitude.
Listen to The Ride – Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music
In a time of chronic rage, happiness is revolutionary.
Bad Cop / Bad Cop has done angry. The band’s 2017 full-length, Warriors, was recorded in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The Los Angeles quartet’s new full-length, The Ride (Fat Wreck Chords, June 19th), shows what happens when you come out the other side of that anger.
“It’s not that I am just stoked or blind to suffering,” says singer-guitarist Jennie Cotterill. “I think anger is a legitimate and understandable reaction to injustice and wrongdoing. It’s just that for myself, I am trying to move past ‘reaction’ into productive ‘response.’”
The message BCBC is sending this time around is less about wagging your finger at others, or giving the middle one to the Man, than it is about self-love and acceptance. As Cotterill puts it, “Love is a more powerful truth than anger.” That positivity fuels many of The Ride’s tracks: “Originators,” “Simple Girl,” “Community,” “I Choose,” “Perpetual Motion Machine,” and “The Mirage” exude confidence, gratitude, and compassion. In 2020, such things qualify as contrarian.
“These are political statements—self-love is a huge fucking statement,” affirms singer-guitarist Stacey Dee. “Self-love means putting a fix on the problems at home before trying to fix everything in the world. It’s asking people to find it in themselves to create the life that they really want to have so they’re not in turmoil, so they’re not in a place of stress and sickness.”
Dee speaks from experience. In 2018 she was hospitalised twice for different ailments, then discovered she had stage one breast cancer at the end of the year. Fortunately it was highly treatable, but the experience was life-altering. Dee captures it with brutal frankness on “Breastless,” whose bright melodies belie the struggle described in the lyrics.
“Certain Kind of Monster” and “Pursuit of Liberty”—both written and sung by bassist Linh Le—are blistering repudiations of the current administration’s treatment of immigrants.
The former is an imagined conversation with an ICE agent, and the latter juxtaposes her family’s immigration to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1975 to current events, something she’s never explored musically.
The perspective behind The Ride lends it an undeniable maturity, without losing its power. Recorded throughout much of 2018 and 2019 by Johnny Carey and Fat Mike of production team the D-Composers, the album boasts all of the elements of BCBC’s sound: big guitars, lock-step bass and drums (the latter by powerhouse drummer Myra Gallarza), intricate vocal harmonies, and plenty of attitude.
It’s just that this time, the attitude is encouraging, not raging. Nowhere is that more apparent than lilting album closer “Sing With Me.” Built around acoustic guitar, piano, and Cotterill’s voice, it’s an exhortation to “sing with me / or sing your own song / I don’t mind, just as long as you find / a voice.”
Dee adds, “If people are listening to our songs and they’re going to sing along to them, they’re going to start owning some of those words. And in owning some of those words that gives them some strength and power going forward. That’s really the biggest gift that I could give to anybody.”
“Stronger in every way” aptly describes Bad Cop / Bad Cop in 2020. The anger may have taken a back seat on The Ride, but what’s taken its place is even more powerful.
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Newcomer DUBOSS is a child of the 80’s who is making the feel-good music you need right now. Recently signed to Sony Music, DUBOSS’ fresh, positive and uplifting debut single ‘Voyage, Voyage’ arrives at the perfect time!
Since lockdown started all across Asia in early February, DUBOSS had the vision to produce a song related to one of his passions: travelling. He teamed up with Imanbek to finish his debut single ‘Voyage, Voyage’, a glorious edit of the 80’s hit by Desireless which invites everyone to go on a musical journey despite being at home. “Old good major hits are exactly what gives inspiration to any artist in any period of history”, says Imanbek.
As DUBOSS says himself: “I produced this revival as a tribute to the original song which brings hope and celebrates the freedom to travel. It takes me back to listening to it with my parents when I was a kid and has very positive memories. I hope it can transmit the same type of emotions to people around the world.”
The track channels the sounds of dramatic European pop in its glorious vocal and trance synths, before slamming into a bouncing slap house groove with jaunty melodies creating a playful feel. It’s exactly the sort of joyful music you can expect to hear coming out of the studio of DUBOSS and dominating dancefloors over the next few years.
Calvin Logue debuts on Heldeep Records
with the fierce techno of ‘Resonance EP’
Out now via Heldeep Records
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Title: Live Forever
Label: Self-release
Release date: June 19, 2020
Project 46 pay homage to Avicii on “Live Forever,” which is their fourth single since returning from a 4-year hiatus this year. It delivers all the elements we grew to know and love from one of electronic music’s most prolific names on iconic tracks like “I Could Be The One,” “Fade Into Darkness” and “Crime” Project 46‘s collaboration with Avicii himself from 2013. Opening with organic guitar instrumentals, the Canadian duo eases into uplifting melodies that gradually evolve into a progressive build-up and drop. Combined with hopeful vocals that are characteristic of Avicii‘s music, “Live Forever” will evoke a wonderful nostalgia that brings back the golden age of progressive house.
Canadian duo Ryan Henderson and Thomas Shaw, better known as Project 46, is known for their melodic, progressive sound that never fails to inspire and uplift listeners. They began Project 46 in 2011 and were active until 2016, with releases on Ultra Records, Monstercat, Armada, Mixmash, and collaborations such as “Last Chance” with Kaskade (which was featured on Kaskade‘s “Atmosphere” album), “Collide” with Laidback Luke, “Crime” with Avicii, “Daphne” with Paul Oakenfold, and “Home” with Feenixpawl, to name a few. 2020 marks the comeback of Project 46, and we are looking forward to more beautiful, vocal-driven dance tracks coming from the talented duo later this year!
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I’m gonna sound like a basic Californian female but: Tacos and the Beach. Fuck getting in the water though, but sticking my feet in the sand is next level.
Enjoy the spectacular two-day digital music festival experience together with friends of all ages and places
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There’s something exciting to remember about the different musical undulations Myd has followed over time. Because they all lead to the album he’s about to release. Of course, it all starts with Club Cheval, his original collective with whom he honed and then imposed his talents as a producer and forged his love of club music.
If we stuck to the title of the track « Together We Stand », we would think that Myd has composed a simple declaration of love to the community, that of the party that is free and welcoming, or that of his audience, whom he has met these last months on tour and who were there on every date ready to spread with him the right energies. It’s a bit like that, but when you listen to the choirs better, when you pay attention to the deep voice that guides you and to the rhythms of the song, you feel that the community is also a circle, that holds you together little by little to convince you, without really having a choice, that together we are happy.
Finally with « Together we stand » Myd produces a piece in several shades, which is at times nostalgic, but which is also the culmination of his search for a solar and luminous sound.
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The opening track on EP1, it’s a showcase for the breadth and confidence of The Lazy Eyes, a moment of loosening that collects all the pyrotechnics they’ve crammed into the ‘Cheesy Love Song‘ and ‘Tangerine‘ and allows them room to breathe.
Of the track, the band remark that: “The Seaside is a nostalgic song for us because it’s amongst the earliest songs that the band explored playing together. It was around this time that we were really getting into guitar pedals too and trying to make as full and as exciting a sound we could in a live setting.”
The appropriateness of the full-circle timing is not lost on the band, who share that: “listening back to the recording reminds us of those formative years when we were learning to arrange our songs for a live setting and becoming closer as friends and as a band.”
EP1 by The Lazy Eyes is out now – buy/stream it here.
EP1 TRACKLIST
1. The Seaside
2. Tangerine
3. Cheesy Love Song
4. The Seaside – Edit
5. Cheesy Love Song – Edit
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Perfect Moment, the new project for Alex Gow, reveals a new single today, called Cruel Change Of Heart watch the video here
The video was both directed and edited by Gow, and shot and stitched together in one day in Bendigo. The bushland footage was shot at Vaughan Mineral Springs at dawn, and Gow cleaned out the local pharmacy’s eye drops supplies to use as fake tears on the shoot.
Cruel Change Of Heart is a slice of melancholy indie dance, written by Alex as a challenge to himself: “I set myself a task – write a song in the form of a medical diagnosis… So the patient enters the doctor’s office. Clipboard in hand, the doctor sings: “the results are in, seems you’ve been suffering from a Cruel Change of Heart” Add the drum machine. Add the Latin House bass line. Add the 60’s Love Boat-esque string melody… Dinner is served.” – Alex Gow
Perfect Moment was conjured up by Gow, and recorded in collaboration with Kim Moyes (The Presets), and the self-titled EP will be out late July.
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JUDAS
1. The Ballad Of Bill Hicks
2. Ahmed
3. New Win
4. Ashbury Park
5. Not Too Smart
6. Watch My Mouth
7. Jewels In The Sky
8. Soldier Field
9. You Don’t Need It
10. English Paradise
11. Awake
BAND MEMBERS:
Brent DeBoer
Bob Harrow
Peter Lubulwa
Ben Street
Paddy McGrath-Lester
ALBUM CREDITS
Recorded at Tower Court Studios, Melbourne
Mixed at The Odditorium (Portland, Oregon, USA) by Brandon Eggleston
Mastered by Ed Brooks
Cover art by Galo
![Photo credit: The Sauce / Kane Lehanneur “ambitious and creatively engaging yet jam-packed with melodic hooks and sunny grooves" – Mixdown Magazine “the psych-rock sextet are on a seemingly endless ascent to the peak of their creative vision” – Music Feeds “among the top echelon of Australian rock bands” – Newcastle Herald Beloved Aussie songwriters Ocean Alley are stoked to release their long-awaited third album Lonely Diamond today, and have revealed it will be accompanied by a 12-track visualiser set to premiere this Sunday on YouTube (7pm AEST) with the band jumping online for a live chat. The band also announced a new 'cloudy' vinyl variant to celebrate release day, which can be purchased from select indie record stores today. Stream/Purchase the album here. Tickets to their 2021 tour on sale now from oceanalley.com.au. The masters of groove wrote and recorded the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2018's Chiaroscuro over 18 months, and discussing the expectation they felt to deliver on this record, Ocean Alley shared "The pressure was immense for the band but also for each of us individually. We had never been so exposed to critique like that before and it's not something we ever expected to experience when we started doing this. At times we all felt a bit out of control but it was important for us to go through it together so we can back each other up." The band chronicled Lonely Diamond's conception and progression with their Constructing The Diamond video series which gave a behind-the-scenes look into their studio jam sessions, featuring previously released singles 'Stained Glass', 'Infinity', 'Tombstone' and 'Hot Chicken', as well as previewing album highlights such as 'Way Down' and 'All Worn Out.' While much of Ocean Alley's allure stems from their cruisey, laid-back swagger, the core themes of the album provide a darker snapshot of the impact that life on the road can have, exploring feelings of escapism and isolation. "We had a pretty hectic touring schedule and spent a lot of time travelling which made us feel isolated at times. That constant pressure to perform whilst also managing things back home took a toll differently on us all. For us, music is a way to escape those feelings and doing it together has really reinforced how important it is to lean on each other when we have to. Music is our way of unwinding and helps remind ourselves to have fun and enjoy life. Music has a special way of doing that." They continued, "Mental health can be a touchy subject but it shouldn’t be. Because we are very open with each other, that helps dissolve strong feelings and allows us to move forward together. The first step in breaking down barriers with other people is breaking down those barriers within yourself and realising that no one is perfect and everyone has bad days. When you can love and support yourself, then you are in the perfect position to care for and support others." Ocean Alley are long-time supporters of community groups that advocate the importance of mental health, foster support networks and provide programs or tools that aid disadvantaged youth and people with disability. They work with and support One Eighty, Cerebral Palsy Alliance and Support Act. Produced by long-time collaborator Callum Howell at the idyllic Grove Studios (built by INXS’ Garry Gary Beers), Lonely Diamond has been awarded triple j's coveted Feature Album and The Music's Album of the Week, with NME Australia praising their "most ambitious record", describing it "a rich, expansive universe brimming with a kind of electricity that'll make for huge on-stage moments." It follows the success of Ocean Alley’s acclaimed second full-length LP Chiaroscuro which propelled the band into national prominence and saw them sell 25,000 tickets over 15 sold out shows that year in Australia alone – culminating with their ARIA nominated, double platinum-selling single ‘Confidence’ taking out #1 in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2018. Their breakthrough year was backed-up with 30 sold out shows around the world in 2019, plus major festival appearances at Reading & Leeds Festival (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AUS), Sziget (HU), BottleRock (US) and more, with the band amassing more than 260 million streams to date. OCEAN ALLEY – LONELY DIAMOND [LP] Available now from oceanalley.com.au Lonely Diamond track list: 1. Dahlia 2. Tombstone 3. Way Down 4. Infinity 5. Up In There 6. All Worn Out 7. Stained Glass 8. Lonely Diamond 9. Wet Dreams 10. Hot Chicken 11. Puesta de Sol 12. Luna OCEAN ALLEY AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2021 with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & Dulcie Tickets on sale now from oceanalley.com.au Saturday 6 February - Hordern Pavilion, Sydney SOLD OUT Sunday 7 February – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Friday 12 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane SOLD OUT Saturday 13 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane Friday 5 March – Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth Friday 12 March – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide Wednesday 24 March – Melbourne Arena, Melbourne Presented by triple j, Lonely Lands Agency & UNIFIED Music Group Follow Ocean Alley: oceanalley.com.au facebook.com/oceanalleyband twitter.com/oceanalleyau @oceanalleyband](https://thepartae.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/OUT-TODAY-OCEAN-ALLEYS-RECORD.jpg "OUT TODAY OCEAN ALLEY’S RECORD")
Photo credit: The Sauce / Kane Lehanneur
“ambitious and creatively engaging yet jam-packed with melodic hooks and sunny grooves” – Mixdown Magazine
“the psych-rock sextet are on a seemingly endless ascent to the peak of their creative vision” – Music Feeds
“among the top echelon of Australian rock bands” – Newcastle Herald
Beloved Aussie songwriters Ocean Alley are stoked to release their long-awaited third album Lonely Diamond today, and have revealed it will be accompanied by a 12-track visualiser set to premiere this Sunday on YouTube (7pm AEST) with the band jumping online for a live chat. The band also announced a new ‘cloudy’ vinyl variant to celebrate release day, which can be purchased from select indie record stores today.
Stream/Purchase the album here. Tickets to their 2021 tour on sale now from oceanalley.com.au.
The masters of groove wrote and recorded the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2018’s Chiaroscuro over 18 months, and discussing the expectation they felt to deliver on this record, Ocean Alley shared “The pressure was immense for the band but also for each of us individually. We had never been so exposed to critique like that before and it’s not something we ever expected to experience when we started doing this. At times we all felt a bit out of control but it was important for us to go through it together so we can back each other up.”
The band chronicled Lonely Diamond’s conception and progression with their Constructing The Diamond video series which gave a behind-the-scenes look into their studio jam sessions, featuring previously released singles ‘Stained Glass‘, ‘Infinity‘, ‘Tombstone‘ and ‘Hot Chicken‘, as well as previewing album highlights such as ‘Way Down’ and ‘All Worn Out.’ While much of Ocean Alley’s allure stems from their cruisey, laid-back swagger, the core themes of the album provide a darker snapshot of the impact that life on the road can have, exploring feelings of escapism and isolation.
“We had a pretty hectic touring schedule and spent a lot of time travelling which made us feel isolated at times. That constant pressure to perform whilst also managing things back home took a toll differently on us all. For us, music is a way to escape those feelings and doing it together has really reinforced how important it is to lean on each other when we have to. Music is our way of unwinding and helps remind ourselves to have fun and enjoy life. Music has a special way of doing that.”
They continued, “Mental health can be a touchy subject but it shouldn’t be. Because we are very open with each other, that helps dissolve strong feelings and allows us to move forward together. The first step in breaking down barriers with other people is breaking down those barriers within yourself and realising that no one is perfect and everyone has bad days. When you can love and support yourself, then you are in the perfect position to care for and support others.”
Ocean Alley are long-time supporters of community groups that advocate the importance of mental health, foster support networks and provide programs or tools that aid disadvantaged youth and people with disability. They work with and support One Eighty, Cerebral Palsy Alliance and Support Act.
Produced by long-time collaborator Callum Howell at the idyllic Grove Studios (built by INXS’ Garry Gary Beers), Lonely Diamond has been awarded triple j’s coveted Feature Album and The Music’s Album of the Week, with NME Australia praising their “most ambitious record”, describing it “a rich, expansive universe brimming with a kind of electricity that’ll make for huge on-stage moments.” It follows the success of Ocean Alley’s acclaimed second full-length LP Chiaroscuro which propelled the band into national prominence and saw them sell 25,000 tickets over 15 sold out shows that year in Australia alone – culminating with their ARIA nominated, double platinum-selling single ‘Confidence’ taking out #1 in triple j’s Hottest 100 of 2018. Their breakthrough year was backed-up with 30 sold out shows around the world in 2019, plus major festival appearances at Reading & Leeds Festival (UK), Splendour In The Grass (AUS), Sziget (HU), Bott
OCEAN ALLEY – LONELY DIAMOND [LP]
Available now from oceanalley.com.au
Lonely Diamond track list:
1. Dahlia
2. Tombstone
3. Way Down
4. Infinity
5. Up In There
6. All Worn Out
7. Stained Glass
8. Lonely Diamond
9. Wet Dreams
10. Hot Chicken
11. Puesta de Sol
12. Luna
OCEAN ALLEY
AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2021
with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets & Dulcie
Tickets on sale now from oceanalley.com.au
Saturday 6 February – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney SOLD OUT
Sunday 7 February – Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
Friday 12 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane SOLD OUT
Saturday 13 February – Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
Friday 5 March – Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
Friday 12 March – Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide
Wednesday 24 March – Melbourne Arena, Melbourne
Presented by triple j, Lonely Lands Agency & UNIFIED Music Group
Follow Ocean Alley:
oceanalley.com.au
facebook.com/oceanalleyband
twitter.com/oceanalleyau
@oceanalleyband
SUPPORT FOR PREVIOUS SINGLE ‘HOME REMEDY’
“This one gets stuck in your head after just one or two listens.”
– Brooklyn Vegan (USA)
Added to Spotify playlists New Punk Tracks and Punk Unleashed
Added to Apple Music’s
Added to Amazon Music’s Punk Scene
Fresh off signing to international label, Rude Records, Arizona’s Sundressed have released another new single, “Oh Please”. With the new song the band has announced the “Oh Please” Video contest. Starting tomorrow fans will be able to submit videos of themselves singing along to “Oh Please,” for the chance to have one bill paid by Sundressed and Rude Records’ newly launched Rude Cares charitable arm.
“I see this song as almost like a millennial anthem. So many of us are in debt, broke, and without healthcare. This song represents mine as well as many close friends frustration with these types of situations,” explains frontman Trevors Hedges.
Living on such a chaotic planet, tossing and turning is inevitable. It’s hard to sleep in the midst of uncertainty. That’s why Sundressed was born. Lead vocalist and songwriter Trevor Hedges began his project in 2012, with the initial purpose of maintaining his sobriety. Now, 8 years later, Hedges has refocused the project’s mission, writing songs that tackle mental health issues for others to take solace in. His confessional lyrics and punk-infused melodies inspire hope in listeners to continue moving forward.
With the addition of AJ Peacox (guitar), Vic Chan (drums), Matthew Graham and Justin Portillo, Sundressed has never sounded better. With new music produced by Mike Pepe (Taking Back Sunday) dropping this year, the band is determined to make a positive impact, one lyric at a time.
The “Oh Please” video contest marks the first initiative of many under Rude Cares, a brand new platform from Rude Records which will allow them to continue helping their artists, fans and charities doing incredible work across the globe.
Although Rude Records has been actively involved in charitable efforts for years, including work with Keep A Breast and other localized organizations, the idea of Rude Cares stemmed from recent conversations with Sundressed, who was determined to give back by offering to pay outstanding bills to one of their fans who may be struggling during this trying and testing time.
‘Oh Please’ is available worldwide now through Rude Records
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