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DRAB QUEEN Girls Of The Internet have been on an unstoppable trajectory over the last few years, with their brand of future facing house and soul music, today they release their sophomore album, ‘GIRLS FM’. The album follows Girls Of The Internet’s signature sound and individuality, with the singles and LP artwork featuring Drag-inspired paintings, by Girls Of The Internet’s main writer and producer, Tom. 2019 saw the group release their debut album ‘SYRUP’, to universal acclaim. Achieving the accolade of being included in BBC Radio 6’s ‘Albums Of The Year’ List, further radio support came from esteemed broadcasters such as Gilles Peterson, Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Mista Jam, Nemone, Lauren Laverne and more recently, Pete Tong. Playing at iconic venues around Europe, Girls Of The Internet has earned key stamps of approval across the board from The Blessed Madonna, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Axel Boman, Nightmares On Wax, Joe Goddard, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Keinemusik, Mark Broom, Detroit Swindle, Tensnake, Horse Meat Disco and José Padilla (R.I.P). After releasing their debut single on Classic/Defected in 2017, Girls of the Internet made the decision to keep hold of their independence and the rights to their music, joining a long list of successful artists who are taking on the music industry on their own terms. Across 12 tracks, ‘Girls FM’ tackles the conventions of Disco and House music, dragging it kicking and screaming into the future. Live instrumentation and harmonies are at the core of Girls’ music, each track painstakingly created to evoke emotion and move the listener alongside the melody. Created mainly during 2020’s pandemic lockdown, the tracks have been produced as they were released – the challenge was set working with an array of musicians and vocalists remotely. Throughout the album, the group have woven a myriad of influences and reference-points into the tracks. Songs such as ‘I Don’t Wanna Lose You’, ‘On My Own’ and ‘Shelter Me From The Storm’ mix together a subtle blend of Garage and soulful R’n’B vocals, whereas ‘Familiar Place’ looks towards a deep rooted love for Smooth Jazz. ‘IDK’ switches up the pace, with a hissing Electronic Funk inflicted session. ‘Time’; another key album single, sees a Dub Techno backing layered with soothing vocals in true Girls’ style. ‘Infinite Harmony’ presents one of the only instrumental tracks on the release, with live piano harmonies centred around an eternal string piece. Latest single ‘Let Go’ is a heart-wrenching, fuzzy Soulful House ballad about getting over troubled times in your life. Further album songs, ‘By My Side’, ‘I Need Protection’, and ‘Falling Through’ all keep true to Girls’ vision of deliberately blurring the lines between electronic and live music. Breaking from the norm to push the band further than before, Girls of the Internet ultimately present their album as a sign of the times. Moving away from the “Sampling Culture” that has been built in modern electronic music and demonstrating that with you can play every instrument, you can write every song and sing every chord. In a world built on sampling others’, Girls’ proudly create their own sounds. Girls Of The Internet – ‘Girls FM’ – Tracklist:
Girls Of The Internet’s ‘Girls FM’ Is Available Now On All Platforms. |
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Following on from his critically acclaimed album ‘Fall To Pieces’, Tricky releases new EP, “Doorway”. The EP features two competition winning versions of album track ‘I’m In The Doorway’ from fans LOUISE and Mars Blackbird, and a new version from Tricky himself.
The ‘Doorway’ EP continues Tricky’s tradition of sourcing widely unknown artists to work alongside. Following a competition callout for fans to provide alternate vocals for the playlisted and acclaimed single, Tricky gravitated towards two of the artist submissions and went on to tailor the original instrumental track to fit with their vocals LOUISE, the singer born in the North East of Brazil in the city of Recife recorded her vocal take via phone. Mars Blackbird the other vocalist, real name Aristotelis Mavropoulos, is a songwriter born in Croydon and raised in Saint Mauritius.
Tricky might be over three decades deep into his music career but he’s currently on an especially prolific run. In the last year, he dropped the enchanting ‘20,20′ EP and put out his acclaimed autobiography, ‘Hell Is Round The Corner’. The next year will see Tricky tour across Europe in support of his album release.
Tracklist
1. Doorway (No More Mix) feat. LOUISE
2. Doorway (All The Way Mix) feat. Mars Blackbird
3. Doorway (Talking With Maxine Mix) feat. Oh Land
Watch Tricky’s Video for “Fall Please”
2021 Tour Dates
Feb. 2, 2021 – Copenhagen, DEN @ Hotel Cecil (SOLD OUT)
Feb. 3, 2021 – Oslo, NOR @ Parkteatret – TICKETS
Feb. 6, 2021 – Hamburg, GER @ Elbphilharmonie – TICKETS
Feb. 8, 2021 – Cologne, GER @ Gebäude 9 – TICKETS
Feb.9, 2021 – Berlin, GER @ Metropol – TICKETS
Feb. 16, 2021 – Warsaw, POL @ Praga Centrum – TICKETS
Feb. 17, 2021 – Poznan, POL @ TAMA – TICKETS
Feb. 18, 2021 – Krakow, POL @ Kwadrat – TICKETS
Feb. 19, 2021 – Cluj-Napoca, ROM @ Form Space – TICKETS
Feb. 20, 2021 – Bucharest, ROM @ Quantic Club Outdoors – TICKETS
Feb. 23, 2021 – Belgrade, SER @ Dom Omladine – TICKETS
Feb. 24, 2021 – Zagreb, CROA @ Močvara – TICKETS
Feb. 26, 2021 – Budapest, HUNG @ A38 – TICKETS
Feb. 27, 2021 – Milan, ITA @ Magazzini Generali – TICKETS
Mar. 1, 2021 – Amsterdam, NETH @ Paradiso – TICKETS
Mar. 3, 2021 – Bordeaux, FRA @ Le Rocher De Palmer – TICKETS
Mar. 9, 2021 – Paris, FRA @ Le Trianon – TICKETS
Mar. 10, 2021 – Strasbourg, FRA @ La Laiterie (Club) – TICKETS
Mar. 12, 2021 – Lyon, FRA @ Ninkasi Kafé – TICKETS
Mar. 13, 2021 – Tourcoing, FRA @ Le Grand Mix – TICKETS
Mar. 14, 2021 – Brussels, BEL @ Botanique Orangerie – TICKETS
Mar. 16, 2021 – Manchester, UK @ 02 Ritz – TICKETS
Mar. 17, 2021 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton – TICKETS
Mar. 23, 2021 – Helsinki, FIN @ Ääniwalli – TICKETS
Mar. 24, 2021 – St. Petersburg, Russia @ Kosmonavt – TICKETS
Mar. 26, 2021 – Yekaterinburg, Russia @Fabrika – TICKETS
Mar. 28, 2021 – Moscow, Russia @ GlavClub – TICKETS
Mar. 29, 2021 – Minsk, Belarus @ Re:Public Club
Mar. 30, 2021 – Kiev, Ukraine @ Atlas – TICKETS
Tricky’s ‘Doorway’ EP is available now via False Idols
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Today, AC/DC unleash their highly anticipated new album POWER UP, marking the legendary band’s first new music since 2014. POWER UP is available now HERE.
For their seventeenth full-length album, the band reunited with producer Brendan O’Brien who helmed BLACK ICE in 2008 and ROCK OR BUST in 2014. Charged up for the next decade, AC/DC cut twelve new tracks for the album, proudly maintaining their signature sound and all of its powerful hallmarks.
POWER UP is available in multiple configurations that will excite collectors and die-hard fans alike, including digital, CD, and deluxe versions. The limited edition, one-of-a-kind deluxe POWER UP box is the ultimate fan package. Hit the button on the side of the box and watch the flashing neon AC/DC logo light up while the opening bars of ‘Shot In The Dark’ blast out of the built-in speaker. Inside the box is the full CD package in a soft-pack with a 20-page booklet that features exclusive photos and USB charging cable allowing the box to remain powered up and on display. The vinyl LP is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket. Limited edition variants of the LP are available at select retailers nationwide, as well as the band’s online store. The album is available on all digital platforms.
The album has already received critical acclaim from The Age with Martin Boulton saying “Kick-started with scorching opener ‘Realize’, this first new music since 2014’s ROCK OR BUST album has all the hallmarks of classic AC/DC, a band that has defied death, hearing loss and the many rigours of life on the road, to not only endure, but continue thrilling their army of fans.”
He continues “AC/DC is not just a band to its fans, it’s a thoroughly reliable commitment to the power of guitars, of drums, of rock, and to never compromising. And ‘Realize’, like all 12 songs on POWER UP, is credited to Angus and Malcolm Young. Some things, it seems, truly never change.”
Check out the full tracklisting below!
AC/DC are back in 2020. POWER UP is out now.
TRACKLISTING: 1. Realize 2. Rejection 3. Shot In The Dark 4. Through The Mists Of Time 5. Kick You When You’re Down 6. Witch’s Spell 7. Demon Fire 8. Wild Reputation 9. No Man’s Land 10. Systems Down 11. Money Shot 12. Code Red |
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ABOUT AC/DC: AC/DC are one of the most influential rock bands in history with over 200 million albums sold worldwide and 71.5 million albums sold in the U.S. alone. The double-diamond BACK IN BLACK stands out as “bestselling album by any band ever” and “third bestselling album by any artist” with global sales of 50 million and counting. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® in 2003. The band also garnered their first GRAMMY® Award in the category of “Best Hard Rock Performance” for ‘War Machine’ during 2010. They continue to sell out stadiums on multiple continents, sell millions of albums annually, and generate streams in the billions. AC/DC return with POWER UP in 2020.
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Where are you currently based?
I’m currently based in Melbourne, Australia.
How did you first start playing music?
I’ve pretty much been singing ever since I was born. My parents have hours and hours of home videos to prove it. I have this really vivid memory of singing Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne at a school assembly when I was in Prep. I guess it all started from there.
What’s been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been?
Lockdown was intense, not gonna lie. For a while there, we were really reconsidering whether or not 2020 was a good year to release a debut single. In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense for someone like me to launch an artist project in such a chaotic year. It’s also been really cool finding new ways to collaborate with people, using Zoom and Facebook. I guess, in short, my COVID experience has been like any other: challenging, but we’ll all be stronger for it.
Your new single ‘Matches’ is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting?
I listen to a lot of Scandinavian music. My own music is heavily inspired by artists like Sigrid, NOTD, Boy In Space and SHY Martin – just to name a few. There’s still a stigma around pop music in Australia which needs to be addressed. That’s why I look overseas, particularly to Europe, for inspiration. Pop music there feels less inhibited.
How did you go about writing ‘Matches’?
It’s funny you ask. Matches is actually quite an old song. I remember coming up with the hook while catching the train to a writing session in Sydney back in 2018. It’s a song that kept evolving every time I revisited it. For that reason, I knew it deserved a release. I describe it as angsty pop with a drop. I’m a firm believer in that heartbreak is the secret formula to writing a good pop song.
Where and when did you record/produce and who did you work with?
Matches was well underway by the time my first single Dopamine dropped. At the time, Melbourne was still in lockdown so most of the production came together remotely. Matches was produced by my mate Ben Field. He’s an absolute legend. We first started working together when I finished high school. Prior to that, he worked on a bunch of really cool projects, including Mallrat’s Uninvited – EP. Ben has produced all my material so far. I’m so lucky to be able to work with him.
How did you approach the recording process?
Most of the vocals for Matches were recorded at the start of 2020. By the time Ben started working on the song, all that was left for me to record were the harmonies and ad-libs. That’s my favourite part. That’s what really brings a song to life. Vocal production, in general, is so fascinating to me. It’s my favourite part of the production process.
How and why did your transition from songwriter to artist come about?
Truth be told, I never intended to release my own music. I was quite happy writing for other people. Slowly but surely, however, music bureaucracy started to wear me down. I had hundreds of songs piling up, looking like they’d never be released. Conversely, as I started to deal with more personal subject matter in my music, songwriting began to feel suffocating. It felt like I was bottling up feelings without a means for expressing them. I guess I needed a little extra breathing space. That’s how TRYHARD came to be.
Please tell us about your law degree and how you manage to juggle music and law:
My law studies were a huge consideration when it came to releasing my first single. I guess it also factored into why I got my start writing for others as opposed to writing for myself. I was under the impression that music and law were totally incompatible. That if I wanted to pursue one, I would have to give up on the other. To be honest, my reasoning there was totally flawed. I think the idea that a person can only be ONE thing is crap. I never want to stop learning. That’s a value my dad instilled in me from a very young age. If I want to be a lawyer/pop artist, you best believe I’m gonna do it!
How are you feeling about not being able to play or attend festivals?
It’s pretty depressing. Festivals are like therapy. They were also super formative in my development as an artist. I love the platform they give to new and emerging artists. There’s something so magical about the atmosphere festivals create. It’s the marriage of good music and good people. I miss sharing those moments with my friends 🙁
Please tell us about your European influences, especially that you write songs in French:
I grew up learning both French and Italian. I was lucky enough to spend a few months on exchange in Belgium towards the end of high school. Then, one of my best friends moved to Paris. Languages, French in particular, have opened a lot of doors for me, so releasing music in French is definitely on my to-do list. I’m really excited by that prospect, especially considering the demand for multilingual music in the streaming age.
Who are you listening to at the moment?
I’m obsessed with everything Kota Banks has released lately. Cheat Codes have also been dropping bop after bop. There’s so much exciting music coming out right now. It’s really made 2020 bearable.
What do you like to do away from music?
Away from music, I’m usually studying or hanging out with my mates. Going for long drives is also a vibe.
What’s planned for the remainder of 2020, going into 2021?
I’ve got a lot of new music planned. And I mean A LOT. Hopefully as Melbourne starts opening back up, additional opportunities will present themselves too. There may also be a few collaborations and co-writes in the works…
Favourite food and place to hangout?
Ahhh, that’s hard. Either entrecôte or HSP haha. Fave place to hangout? Probs the local pub with my mates, otherwise anywhere picturesque late at night. I’m a sucker for a good aesthetic.
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Is really hard to be positive during this strange time, but music always makes me dream and always gives me good vibes.
A place that influences my sound so much is Hackney Wick. I have always lived in East London (Hackney Area) and I think it’s the right place for a musician.
I was born and raised near Naples, many artists have influenced my path starting from Lucio Battisti up to Four Tet. I think Bibio is the artist who influenced and still influences my productions, he is a genius for me. Check him out if you don’t know him!
Yeah it was hard to find the right vibes, during the first lockdown but after a while I started to feel a good sensation. 2016, La Magia Della Noia and my debut album (as Tia-Mellow), Memories, have all been created during this period. So a really fruitful period for me for sure!
Well, I actually study music and sound design, and I have learned a lot of new skills this year, especially the mixing part, which gave me a new perspective of my sound. I’m always learning!
Why do this new alias anonymously? What is the thinking behind that? Because I have another project which is more tech house and techno-focused, so I like being able to split the two projects. That’s it!
Yeah there is a big difference between this is more dark, more ambient with different vibes, the other is more for the dance floor, really another kind of music.
I use a lot of machines like Roland TR8S, moog minitaur but during this period i used a lot of the plug in with my computer I find some of them really useful and they give me a unique sound.
2016 is an up and down of emotion for me, was the first that I produced after I came back to London from Italy, all the background sound, the ambient part is totally registered in Naples near the Vesuvio vulcan.
Yeah I want to grow up with this new alias as much as I can, because this sound is part of me, and I want to share it with the world.
Is more for listening and less for dancefloor, is not for different audience, but I would love to do a live and play all the Tia-Mellow discography.
I think first of all is London, this city everyday spread to me a lot of good vibes and sensation, after artists like Four Tet, Bibio , Caribou.
Aside from music, can you tell us a bit about your inspirations?
I have always been very sensitive to sound in general, I have always had a passion for recording sounds and voices, since I was a child, in fact I have a childhood memory where using an old director of my father, I recorded my grandfather talking, and thanks to those recordings now we can still remember his voice.
It was not easy to create these tracks, because I had to face obstacles especially in looking for the right sound, but my experience has helped me a lot.
What else you got coming up/are you working on? I started a new album that I would like to release on some big label, let’s see the upcoming news 🙂
Tia-Mellow’s 2016 is out 27/11. Keep up with Tia Mellow on Facebook, Instagram and Soundcloud.
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In follow up to their most recent long player ‘Today’, North Coast cosmic conduits Babe Rainbow are back with their latest single ‘Zeitgeist’. The first of two new tracks to be released on the double A-side 7″ ‘Zeitgeist / The Wind’, out through Flightless Records on December 4th, 2020. |
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Written and recorded in Topanga, California; ‘Zeitgeist’ is about catching dreams from the clouds and growing up. It was premiered on 2020 with Richard Kingsmill last night. ‘The Wind’ is all forests mood, written and recorded for the wildlife in the midst of the Australian bushfire season. |
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Where are you both based?
We are both based in Glasgow.
Your latest EP Leatherbound – released on Soma Records – dropped at the beginning of this month, what influenced its sound?
Being forbidden from clubs and the absolute nick of 2020 has made a lot of producers ramp up the pace of techno and we think we went down a similar route with this release!
French producer Felicie is behind a huge remix of Leatherbound – how did this collaboration come about?
We were looking into a few different names around the time of making the EP – Felicie had not long released her debut on Soma and had been on our radar for quite some time before that. We both felt that her sound really matched what we were going for with the release, so it felt right to have her on board. She delivered an absolute stomper of a remix and we really couldn’t be happier with it.
When did you two start making records together?
In 2019 we got in the studio for the first time to produce a remix of a classic soma track by Equus. The workflow and idea’s we had were so similar it made sense to continue the journey of making tunes as a duo.
Do you have similar approaches to the way you produce music?
As we have a similar taste in music that kind of draws out our collective creativity when we produce together. We generally have an idea of what we want to create when we sit down in the studio and the process is very much 50/50. We always know what the track might need, or not, and generally work fairly quickly once we have an idea going. Two heads are definitely better than one in this case.
Once the world can dance together again, where are you each most excited to play?
We had a few gigs lined up before everything shut down so hopefully we’ll pick these back up. One particular one was with the Voxnox crew in Berlin and would be the first time we both play under the Animal Farm banner abroad together. We’re also looking forward to being back at our home in the Sub Club. We’ve missed the events in there loads during this pandemic and can’t wait to see the explosive energy of the Glasgow crowd once we return to the basement.
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What is your name and role within The Kids?
In a therapeutic manner, I wrote punk songs that was blatantly directed at people and things I hated or was frustrated with.
When I then decided to take the song writing seriously, I surrounded myself with my band who were and are my best buddies still to this day and we haven’t stopped since.
It took us 2 days to record the whole song, we approached our parts aggressively but the process mostly inspired us all. We were heavily involved with the producing process this time round. Controlling the sounds direction, which is why the song sounds like organised chaos with a sense of tightness overlapped with a roomy sound. It’s a perfect mixture of a more developed old school hardcore song with a modern spin. The tone our guitarist William used ended up suiting the song perfectly.
Our bassist Tomas uses Warwick Basses, a TC Electronic amp and cab, spectraflex cables and pickguys picks, that’s what he has been paid to say by his endorsements.
And our guitarist William uses a blackstar ht50 amp for live shows and a diesel vh40 for recordings. And he has his beautiful Gibson Les Paul on his side all time like a wife.Oh and our singer has a Samson meteor usb studio microphone.
Well it’s funny you ask that, since I am in a crazy punk band people always assume I have a one dimensional music taste, but my taste expands to a bit of everything.
At the moment I’ve been listening to heaps of Glass Beach, Weatherday, LCD Soundsystem, Car Seat Headrest, IDLES, Have A Nice Life, Slowdive, Death Grips etc.
But my artist of the year that I can not get enough of is definitely Jeff Rosenstock, one of my all time musical heroes.And fun fact, my favourite album of all time is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
We opened for Guttermouth at Frankies Pizza at the start of last year. We were also playing alongside Wolfpack Shred and Radolescent, shout out to those dudes.
It was are first gig of the year after being on some sort of hiatus and I had just spent two days with my singer/best mate Milan, doing nothing but staying up all night playing Call Of Duty and eating McDonalds.
With my stomach gurgling and not been placed into a gig setting for a little while, we start out our epic set to a sold out room at Frankies, which was one of the biggest crowds we played to at that time and it was going off.
We played a minor threat cover and it was one of our first ever moshes. I have always been the guy in the band that’s like the MC, in between every song I will talk and put on the whole stage act, and for years, Milan would go off stage for one song and we would do Killing in The Name with me singing at the kit. We don’t do it anymore because we’ve grown out of it and I hate singing while drumming.
At that point in the set, I’m half naked, out of breath, sweat leaking from every pore, and it was so humid in that room that all I was breathing was hot air. I could not get a clean breath in. Especially at the back of the stage at Frankies where the drummers spot is tucked away in its little air gap.
We begin the song, the crowd hears the first chord and immediately start going ape shit. The vibe is officially hectic. But as I start singing the first verse, my stomach has reached my throat, my mouth was dry, my breaths were short, there was vomit coming up.
A gross vomit splatters across the whole drum kit, and soaks both my legs.
But as a gift from the gods, my vulture father spots my struggles and douses me with some of the coldest and freshest water I’ve ever had in my life. I am instantly rehydrated. And I did not miss a beat, I continued to play the whole song and even sing a little, as a chunks of puke flew across the room.
We also did another 30 mins of our set, but I’ll tell you I don’t remember much. My head was spinning and It was a complete blur. Especially at the end for our last number where I repeatedly smacked my head into the snare drum. Great gig.
As a band, when we record at parliament we love walking up to charcoal charlies for a massive feed.
But as a hang out in general, this may not count but going up to Brisbane to just walk around and get up to stupid shit is just the best, we find ourselves always having the most awesome time in Brissy.
But for me personally, I always hang out at Red Eye Records. I am addicted to buying Vinyl and I’m almost there everyday flicking through records, buying albums and talking music with all the dudes there. And I love pasta. Cheers!
The Melvins have a busy February ahead of them, releasing a trio of albums via Ipecac Recordings/Liberator Music on Friday Feb 26: a new Melvins 1983 release named Working With God as well as a pair of vinyl reissues: Hostile Ambient Takeover and Gluey Porch Treatments.
Working With God is the second release from the 1983 iteration of the band, which features Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and original drummer Mike Dillard. The trio’s previous release was the 2013 album, Tres Cabrones.
The band preview Working With God with a pair of singles: ‘I Fuck Around’ (a re-imagined cover of The Beach Boys’ ‘I Get Around’), and ‘Bouncing Rick’, a song about Buzz Osborne and Mike Dillard’s junior high biology teacher. The pair of songs can be heard here.
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Trash-wave trailblazers, Me Nd Adam, is the depraved result of a relationship between a self-loathing egotist and a boisterous, red-headed emotional wreck. After meeting in New Orleans and hating each other, Adam & Vince parted ways. Unfortunately, there can be no despair without hope, no discord without union, no darkness without light. Thus, Adam & Vince came to realize they had no choice but to embrace their differences and craft the emotionally turbulent, alternative pop duo, Me Nd Adam. Now living the dream in a small apartment in Austin, they’re sharing their hope-tinged despair with the world.
Over the past year, the band has been refashioning its sound, embracing their Texas roots with a traditional rock aesthetic in instrumentation, lyrics, and arrangement, while retaining elements of their original alt electro-pop style. The new vibe is reminiscent of classic American songwriters like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen with a contemporary twist of pop production like heavy hitters Marshmello and Louis Bell. The band’s influences range from Willie Nelson to Meek Mill, Jason Isbell to Blink 182.
American Drip, Part I, is the musical culmination of a coming-of-age journey across America. After separately fleeing their shared hometown of Austin, meeting in New Orleans, initially hating each other, bouncing to Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and parts beyond, Adam and Vince reconnected and formed Me Nd Adam deep in the heat of a sweltering Big Easy summer. After four rough and rowdy years developing their sound on the road and in the studio, the trashcan cowbois have returned to Texas. American Drip, Part I consists of twelve trash-wave trailblazin’ hits. Buckle up.
Me Nd Adam have garnered millions of streams across DSPs, with their music garnering acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, Alt Press, American Songwriter, Wonderland Magazine and The Line of Best Fit. They have also received notable sync placements, such as MTV’s ‘Real World’. The music video for their most recent single “Heartbreak Kid” was a finalist at the Austin Music Video Festival, nominated for Video of the Year.
After honing their live show at venues like Irving Plaza and The Fonda, Me Nd Adam opened to a sold-out crowd for Big Freedia at the Mohawk in Austin. Since then, the band has been tearing through the Austin music scene with appearances at Pride Fest ATX, Mohawk, Emo’s, The Parish and a sold-out headline performance at Stubb’s.
American Drip Part I, is available worldwide via Las Vegas-based indie Handwritten Records.
SMRTDEATH
NEW ALBUM
SOMETHJNGS WRONG
OUT NOVEMBER 20
SHARES NEW TRACK AND VIDEO FOR
“DON’T LOVE ME”
Smrtdeath, born Mike Skwark, has announced his new album Somethjings Wrong due out this Friday November 20 via Epitaph. Smrtdeath shares his latest single from the forthcoming record. “Don’t Love Me” epitomises what Skwark does best, making anthems out of the everyday. With an incredibly catchy, and powerful chorus, the song transcends the underground alternative rap scene and makes it an infectious earworm.
“’Don’t Love Me’ is about wanting someone you can’t have,” explains Skwark. “Kind of like meeting someone at the wrong time, or when you’re too focused on yourself to have time to pursue a connection anywhere else. It’s also about the misguided feelings people can have about someone based on a fleeting connection.”
Smrtdeath has never been easily defined incorporating hip-hop, emo, trap, alternative rock, and a pleasingly warped take on pop into his deeply sincere and catchy songs while frequently collaborating with artists across the entire musical spectrum. Skwark’s genre-agnostic approach to music allows him to successfully touch upon themes of vulnerability, addiction, and heartache within his lyrics. Through getting to know all versions of himself, Skwark has produced a deeply honest collection of songs.
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Fleet Foxes have released a new Sean Pecknold directed video for “Sunblind” off their widely celebrated, fourth full length Shore, which was surprise released digitally on, September 22nd.
Watch the video for “Sunblind” here.
The video takes the viewer on a stunning international architectural, geographical and creative tour through never before seen behind the scenes footage of the album’s two-year recording sessions. Featured locations include Long Pond studio in Hudson Valley, NY, St. Germain in Paris and Vox in Los Angeles. The “Sunblind” video provides a look into the close collaboration between Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold and multi-talented recording and production engineer Beatriz Bartola, who was a constant throughout the recording process. In addition, “Sunblind” features select footage from the Kersti Jan Werdal directed 16 mm road movie named for the latest release.
In a recent interview Pecknold explained that “Sunblind” was the last song to come together, and recorded only a few weeks prior to release.
It really is this big centrepiece and is the anchor that all the other songs are tied to. I wanted to make a song that celebrated my heroes in an explicit way — people who have passed and who I want to honor in the music. That was a big focus of mine, helping them stay alive through these memories. Music is this weird invisible form of immortality for these people, and I wanted to do it in a joyous way and reframe some of the sorrow of loss into a kind of celebration.
“Sunblind” is the latest video from Shore, directed by Sean Pecknold, who, alongside Adi Goodrich, were behind the recent “Can I Believe You” video. You can view that video HERE.
Following the release of the album, Fleet Foxes hosted sold out outdoor screenings of the aforementioned Kersti Jan Werdal directed film companion to the album, an art film that showcases the landscapes of the Pacific Northwest of the U.S set to the score of the album. The outdoor screenings, took place in Portland, LA, Brooklyn, Austin, Seattle and Chicago.
Listen to Shore HERE
ACCLAIM FOR SHORE:
“Shore looks to the world and realises there is already enough, as if staring into a darkness and responding with beauty, acceptance, and light.” – PITCHFORK (BEST NEW MUSIC)
“A gorgeous folk-rock song cycle about life, death, and art, full of deep mourning and glimmers of relief on the other side. Track for track, Shore is the most immediately rewarding Fleet Foxes record since their brilliant 2008 debut.” – ROLLING STONE (⅘ STARS)
“When you’ve got a song on your album called “Quiet Air/Gioia,” and it’s every bit as pretentious as that title suggests and yet in no way sucks, you’ve done your artistic betters proud.” – ROLLING STONE (⅘ STARS)
“The gorgeous record found tonal balance amid the chaos of recent months, when the project suddenly seemed inconsequential to its creators and, therefore, more like a refuge. Though still primarily the creation of the band’s front man, Robin Pecknold, “Shore” is a collective effort that includes many contributors, and its glistening arrangements are reflective of the unburdening that collaboration fosters. ” THE NEW YORKER
“The album is uniformly gorgeous, sometimes overwhelmingly so when taken in all at once…Every now and then there’s a moment of brightness, an actual good thing, that alleviates the darkness of the wretched year that is 2020. This is one of those good things.” – STEREOGUM
“Fleet Foxes made the perfect album for this moment.” – VULTURE
“Filled with epic, sweeping songs.”- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
“These 15 tracks are the work of an artist taking in everything dark and corrupt about this year, and choosing to craft an artefact of hope.” – UPROXX
“There are lush soundscapes, fluttery brass cacophonies and subdividing rhythms…there is an acknowledgment of the past, but in a way that throws into sharp relief the potential that lies ahead and the legacy that is carried into the future” – ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Lucid, warm, and with no shortage of heart, Shore is a wonderful album to lead us into the concluding chapters of what has been a heartbreaker of a year.” – CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND
“Shore is their most collaborative, most joyous album, and also one that transcends what Pecknold called the agrarian fantasies of their early days for an earnest plea to hear the call of the wild.” THE RINGER
“Robin remains an extremely gifted songwriter, and these songs find him weaving in deceptively simple arrangements and some of the most instantly-satisfying melodies he’s written yet.” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“Both vibrant and vital.” UNDER THE RADAR
“Their most gorgeous full-length yet.” NOISEY
“An absolute tour de force of rich melodies, heavenly hooks, luxurious production and songs packed to the brim with key/tempo/mood shifts that keep you constantly on your toes, it’s one of the most formidable albums we’ve heard this year, full stop.” – GUITAR WORLD
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Powerful and emphatic, four-piece alternative rock band, The Silencio make a bold return with their new single ‘Apology’; a song penned through compassion and seeing the light during dark times.
An honest single inspired by a friend struggling with sobriety, the band hope the new song encourages strength and comradery when people need it the most. Releasing alongside a video clip that flips between the band and a narrative that evokes the very sense of the lyrics detail: repentance and retrospect.
“Jan always respected how hard it would have been for his friend to continuously apologise for his shortcomings and was willing to forgive him to encourage staying on the right track. We need to lift people up and not push them down,” explains lead singer, Nick.
Since The Silencio’s inception in 2014, the band have worked hard at curating their sound and building their audiences amongst the Gold Coast rock scene. Since then the band have toured nationally across Australia, and their previous single ‘Same But Different’ premiered on Triple J’s Breakfast Show. Jumping on board to work with well known Los Angeles musician-producer-composer, Danny Saber (David Bowie, Michael Hutchence, The Rolling Stones), ‘Apology’ is the second release before their upcoming 10-track album set for release in 2021.
Don’t be sorry and get on The Silencio train now.
‘Apology’ is out NOW.
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Grammy-nominated Sydney trio Mansionair have teamed up with Germany’s NoMBe for cathartic new track ‘Guillotine’, which landed last Friday with an accompanying lyric video. The track is the band’s first single release since the launch of their acclaimed debut album Shadowboxer early last year.
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