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Today, California based indie-pop duo The Gloomies release their infectious new single “Tiger”.
Front man Andy Craig and drummer Chris Trombley began their music career together when they
met in 2013 and played in the band SACCO. They have since created songs that exhibit a layer of
fantastical and hypnotic themes. Towards of end of 2015, The Gloomies quickly gained notoriety
after releasing their debut single “LSD” from the likes of NME, Noisey, DIY, EW, among others. A
5-song EP entitled ‘Blackout’ featuring the noteworthy track “Fire Escape” soon followed in Spring 2016.
Late in 2017 the band released the single, “Space”, which features guest vocalist Madeline Follin (Cults).
Stay tuned for news about their long-awaited debut album..
Catch ’em on the road in May with Cullen Omori (Sub Pop).
Tour Dates:
5/3 San Pedro, CA @ Brouwerij West *
5/4 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar *
5/5 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo *
5/6 San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord *
5/8 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar *
5/9 Seattle, WA @ LoFi *
5/10 Vancouver, BC @ Astoria *
5/12 Boise, ID @ Neurolux *
5/13 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
5/15 Denver, CO @ Lost Lake *
5/17 Tucson, AZ @ 191 Toole *
5/19 Phoenix, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room *
* w/ Cullen Omori
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With their debut LP Their Prime set for release May 25th worldwide via Sub Pop Records & Canada via Royal Mountain Records, Vancouver-based quartet Jo Passed are sharing the second single & video from the album with new track “Millennial Trash Blues”.
Director Justin Gradin offers this of the video: “A nightmare on the tip of an eyelash. An astrological garbage dump with burning snowflakes and a trap door. A wild teen awake in someone else’s dream.”
Jo has been part of the DIY music scene since his late teens. Initially it was just him and his high school best friend Elliot Langford against the world. They were the “freaky music weirdos” and they began their own band projects. Jo was pretty sure that it would be two of them riding into the sunset – or maybe the gloom – together. Personal circumstances and the phenomenon of the late 20s return of Saturn (for those who believe in astrology) got in the way. Their band Sprïng called it a day. That’s where the life of Jo Passed began. The idea of a band dynamic is far more appealing to Jo than solo projects, and the current incarnation of Jo Passed feels like its most robust yet.
Jo, along with his friend and drummer Mac Lawrie, moved across the country from Vancouver to Montreal. The two would play shows in Montreal and eventually tour the far right corner of North America. Upon Jo’s return to the west coast, multi-instrumentalist Bella Bébé officially joined the band in January of 2016, expanding Jo Passed from trio to a full quartet. Multimedia artist Megan-Magdalena Bourne began working with Jo Passed on a video project for the song “Rage” (from the Out EP). This creative partnership would eventually lead to her taking on the role of bassist for the band.
When not geeking out over The Zombies, or Nirvana, or Johann Sebastian Bach… Bella, Mac, and Megan have worked with Jo to realize the live experience of Their Prime, following two Jo Passed EPs titled Up and Out.
Preorders for Their Prime are now available through Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records. LP purchases in North America through https://megamart.
Their Prime is a record about identity and the loss of time that happens as a direct consequence of being in the city with nowhere to rent, no time outside of employment and no realistic expectations to live up to. It encompasses that fear of being beyond the glory years, the most creatively fruitful period of one’s life. Those years were lost to contemporary struggles for working relationships, home, identity and space. “It’s me owning my worst nightmare,” he admits. “A lot of the Jo Passed project has been about confronting fears. I was afraid to move away from Vancouver to Montreal on my own. Afraid to leave musical relationships I had. Afraid to bare the full responsibility of a project. I’ve been putting out records and not ones anyone’s necessarily heard. Being open about those fears is a good way of dealing with them. You end up at this point where you hit 30 and you’re like, ‘Oh what happened? Am I done? Did I not activate my main creative energy?’ It’s a ridiculous idea but 30 feels a little like 1000 in rock n roll terms.” You can hear the frustrations and the jitters in the crashing loud-and-quiet motifs throughout the album’s twelve tracks, which offer up a patchwork quilt of sound, similar to Faust’s IV or Fugazi’s Red Medicine.
Jo Passed live dates:
Apr. 14 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar
May 12 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison / CMW (Royal Mtn. Records showcase)
May 25 – Vancouver, BC – Red Gate Arts Society
May 27 – Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
May 28 – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge
May 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
May 31 – El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace
Jun. 01 – Austin, TX – The Sidewinder
Jun. 02 – Fort Worth, TX – MASS
Jun. 04 – Nashville, TN – The End
Jun. 05 – Durham, NC – The Pinhook
Jun. 06 – Washington, DC – DC9*
Jun. 07 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle*
Jun. 09 – Allston, MA – Great Scott*
Jun. 10 – Providence, RI – Fete Music Hall*
Jun. 11 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz
Jun. 12 – Ottawa, ON – Makerspace North
Jun. 13 – Detroit, MI – Marble Bar*
Jun. 14 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups*
Jun. 15 – Cincinnati, OH – TBC*
Jun. 16 – Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village*
Jun. 17 – Milwaukee, WI – The Cactus Club*
Jun. 18 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club*
Jun. 19 – Winnipeg, MB – The Good Will Social Club
Jun. 20 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigos
Jun. 21-23 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival
Jun. 27 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Jun. 29 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
*w/ Dick Stusso
Their Prime artwork:
Their Prime tracklisting:
1. Left
2. MDM (video)
3. Glass
4. Undemo
5. Facetook
6. Repair
7. R.I.P.
8. Millennial Trash Blues
9. You, Prime
10. Sold
11. Another Nowhere
12. Places Please
Links:
Jo Passed on Bandcamp
Jo Passed on Facebook
Jo Passed on Twitter
Jo Passed on Instagram
Jo Passed on Sub Pop Records
Big Scary Monsters are delighted to announce that they have signed Brighton-based quartet ORCHARDS and will be revealing further details of new material over the coming months.
The band head out on tour with Minnesota trio Tiny Moving Parts across the EU and UK next month, and to celebrate the news of their signing are pleased to be streaming brand new track ‘Luv You 2’ which is released 4th April 2018via all good digital service providers.
Listen and share here: https://soundcloud.com/
Commenting on the inspiration for the track, vocalist Lucy Evers said: “Most of the lyrics I write come to me in stages, but these words just flew out on to the paper. I penned the whole song within half an hour, just from one brief conversation with someone I was once friends with. We both fell in love with the same person, unbeknownst to each other at the time. I felt so inadequate in comparison to the other girls that this person was very obviously attracted to, but after a pep talk with my best friend I realised it wasn’t worth my energy and that if they didn’t want me well it was their loss, that I should rise above it and carry on regardless.
“I’d totally forgotten about those emotions and how they made me feel because I was too busy trying to be a boss-ass bitch (I’m definitely not cool enough to say that), but after bumping into one of the girls it all came flooding back. My favourite lyric in the song is ‘I don’t hate you because she raised me right, it’s just a pity you didn’t put up a fight’. I take a lot of inspiration from the amazing women in my life and none of them raised me to be defeatist. That’s what this song’s about – patience, understanding and never giving up – just continuing to grow.”
Previously described as a “glittery gateway drug” and combining left-field experimentation with startlingly prescient pop sensibilities, Orchards are following in the footsteps of luminaries Everything Everything and Foals with their accessible take on the instrumental complexities and effects wizardry of mathrock stalwarts like Tera Melos and TTNG.
Having so far appeared at festivals including Handmade, TRUCK, YNOT and Alternative Escape, they have also performed as part of the global music series Sofar Sounds and have been featured on playlists curated by Spotify & Buzzfeed.
Support from local and national radio from the likes of BBC Introducing, Juice Radio and BBC Radio 6 Music has been backed up by critical praise from press including The Line of Best Fit, DIY, CLASH, DORK, Wonderland, Indie Shuffle and a whole host of Hype Machine blogs and influencers.
Further details of new music TBA
Orchards 2018 UK/EU Tour Dates + Festival Appearances
07.04.18 – Southampton – Joiners – UK *
08.04.18 – Nottingham – Bodega – UK *
09.04.18 – Newcastle – Think Tank – UK *
10.04.18 – Glasgow – Stereo – UK *
11.04.18 – Leeds – Key Club – UK *
12.04.18 – Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach – UK *
13.04.18 – London – The Dome – UK *
14.04.18 – Birmingham – The Asylum 2 – UK *
15.04.18 – Manchester – Deaf Institute – UK *
17.04.18 – Paris – Backstage – FR *
18.04.18 – Cologne – MTC – DE *
19.04.18 – Hamburg – HeadCRASH – DE *
20.04.18 – Trier – Luckys Luke – DE *
27.04.18 – Leicester – The Cookie – UK (supporting TTNG)
06.05.18 – Newcastle – Hit The North – UK
12.05.18 – Exeter – Queer Punk Fest – UK
17–19.05.18 – Brighton – The Great Escape – UK
16.06.18 – Winchester – Winchestival – UK
20.06.18 – Orfu – Fishing On Orfu Festival – HUN
22.07.18 – Oxfordshire – TRUCK Festival – UK
17.08.18 – Bristol – ArcTanGent Festival – UK
* w/ Tiny Moving Parts
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Today we’re excited to introduce you to Ghent-based trio Teen Creeps, who have just announced their debut album ‘Birthmarks‘ set for release April 6th. Combining a mixture of ’90s inspired alt rock with hard-hitting punk, the first single from the LP “Sidenote” is online now.
Speaking about the new track, singer-bass player Bert said “It’s about not fully committing to someone and getting nowhere because of it. Feeling something but holding it off because you don’t want to get hurt again. When I wrote the words I had just come out of a relationship and wasn’t ready yet for a new one. I met someone but things went sideways because of this.”
“The dancer in the video is Jules Jordens, an actor who is a friend of the band. He showed up with an entire dance routine that perfectly translates the vibe and energy of the song. Plus, watching him go at it brings smiles on our faces.”
Teen Creeps are a trio from Ghent. You may know drummer Ramses Van den Eede from weirdo rockers Hypochristmutreefuzz, singer-bass player Bert Vliegen from the slowcore bands Sophia and Horses or guitarist Joram De Bock from the former hardcore formation Deadender. But what the three do in Teen Creeps is something quite different.
They combine a mixture of alternative rock from the ‘90’s and punk that sounds both solid and melodious. The band itself describes its music laconically as ‘post-everything’, but you can clearly hear the influences of nineties bands Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Jawbreaker. As well as those of contemporary bands like Cloud Nothings and Yuck.
“In fact, we usually play indie rock, but the kind of music to which the term originally referred in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s. That of bands like Superchunk and Archers or Loaf: guitar rock at the boundary between punk and melody. Not because we are nostalgic, but because we identify with the sound of that time. It is solid and energetic, but also melancholic and embodies lived experience. That is something that we are also striving for ourselves: it may ‘rock’, but we always put a lot of feeling into our music.”
Since its formation five years ago, Teen Creeps has performed as many shows as possible at home and abroad, appearing on stage at renowned festivals in the Benelux as Rock Herk, Absolutely Free Festival and Incubate. And playing clubs in Germany, France and Great Britain.
After an EP (2014) and a 7” (2015), Teen Creeps began work on their first full album. Their previous releases were all recorded in the rehearsal room, but for ‘Birthmarks’ they recorded in a real studio for the first time. The band went to London, where they worked with the producer Rory Attwell (Veronica Falls, The Vaccines, Yuck) at Lightship 95. A studio on a lightship anchored in the Thames.
“We got to know Rory when we were the opening act for his band Die! Die! Die! When it emerged that he had also worked as a producer on records of which we were fans, to us it seemed the perfect match. And indeed it was! The studio itself was a further reason for going to London. Because recording on a big, red boat naturally appeals to the imagination”, says guitarist Joram.
Through nine numbers, Teen Creeps adheres to its mixture of fuzzy guitars, melodious vocals and energetic drums on ‘Birthmarks’. But at the same time the band also pulls out all the stops. ‘Sidenote’ opens strongly, but is quickly followed by the poppy ‘Hindsight’. On ‘Mercury’, the bass guitar comes to the fore, and in ‘Good Intentions’ the tempo slows for the band’s best number so far. “We have tried to do new things within the framework in which we work. We remain true to ourselves, but we do not want to fall into repetition either”, says drummer Ramses.
Textually ‘Birthmarks’ has become a personal record, singer Bert explains. “It is an album about frustrations, shortcomings and disappointments. About misplaced hope and false expectations, about people hurting and being hurt and not being able to deal with it. Very personal for me, but that is something that I have learned with Teen Creeps: to make myself vulnerable in my texts. ‘Birthmarks’ contains the most honest lyrics that I have ever written. The title refers to events that you carry with you for the rest of your life, whether good or bad. Just as a birthmark is not necessarily beautiful or useful, it is forever.”
‘Birthmarks‘ artwork:
‘Birthmark‘ tracklist:
1. Sidenote (video)
2. Hindsight
3. Mercury
4. Will
5. Good Intentions
6. Thread
7. Hemispheres
8. Unravel
9. Forging Kindness
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Nana Adjoa is the Dutch-Ghanaian singer-songwriter brimming with quiet confidence. Her new EP, Down at The Root (Part 2) combines the warm, musical simplicity of great song-craft, with the bold, multi-layered palette of artists such as Beck or Little Dragon.
Released today is the first track from the new EP “Honestly“, the follow up to the gorgeous Down at The Root (Part 1). The song is a self-described “outsider track” that grew from its simple piano backing into an altogether more vibey affair. “I didn’t even think it was going to make the record because it felt so different from the rest,” Nana says. “I guess it’s about how people are scared of the possibility of something bad happening. And that fear is really strange because you don’t know what’s going to happen. You never know what’s going to happen.” As Nana herself is proving – eventually you just have to let go.
Who Is Nana Adjoa…
Born in Amsterdam, Nana spent a portion of her childhood in the concrete environs of working class neighborhood the Bijlmer. “It’s not the nicest part,”she says with trademark modesty of an area described by the local chief of police as a ‘national disaster area’. Her father was a Ghanaian who’d came to Amsterdam in the 1980s, her mother Dutch (“very Dutch”). She describes her upbringing as fairly liberal until her parent’s divorce and their subsequent embrace of Christianity. ” The second part of my growing up was with some Christian values, but by this point I was getting to the age of making up my own mind,” she says. ” It was a bit ‘too late’ for me.” She speaks of a rift it cased in her family, with the Christians (Nana’s father, mother and brother) on one side and the non-Christians (Nana, her sister and the rest of the family) on the other.
Religion, along with questions about her own gender identity as well as growing up a half black person in a pretty white environment were all benchmarks that really shaped who Adjoa is and in turn her songwriting. “In fact, I think I still unconsciously use a lot of Christian ideas and metaphors in my music,” she adds.
Nana was accepted to study jazz (electric bass and double bass) at the prestigious Amsterdam Conservatory, however the reality wasn’t quite what she’d imagined.”It was very much like school,” she says, today. “We thought we wanted to go to the most difficult department, that we wanted to be the best, but it wasn’t a very fun experience.” A divide began to grow between the restrictive, theoretical compositions she was studying and the more melodic, free-flowing music she was playing outside.
Soon after she realized pursuing her own solo career and not academia was the direction for her she she formed a band and for the first time started recording her songs. The results are Down at The Root (Part 1) and Down at The Root (Part 2)
with Part 2. “It’s a really nice feeling when people actually listen to the music you created somewhere,” she says of an ever-growing fan base. “It’s still crazy.“
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Sydney’s groovy, psych-rock six-piece Ocean Alley are thrilled to announce supports on their upcoming Australian tour, which recently expanded with a second and final show at The Forum in Melbourne on May 18. Kicking off later this month, the tour will feature New Zealand’s Tunes Of I nationally, plus a slew of stellar local acts added across each city.
Final tickets to remaining shows are on sale now via oceanalley.com.au.
Joining the lineup as national tour supports are Wellington sextet Tunes Of I, one of New Zealand’s most exciting up and coming roots acts, with a genre-defying sound that blends dub, rock, reggae, funk, soul and psychedelia. Funky, coastal chill-hop outfit Drop Legs and the warm sounds of psychedelic pop-rockers Sunrose will take over the stage for a night each in Brisbane, with spaced-out garage rockersThe Jim Mitchells opening the first Sydney performance and both shows in Melbourne. Groovy blues quartet Eagle Eye Jones will perform at the second Sydney show, and rounding out the bill in Fremantle are funk-infused indie-rockers Great Gable and indie-pop singer-songwriter Elli Schoen.
Hailing from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, six-piece Ocean Alley – Baden Donegal (vocals), Angus Goodwin (guitar), Nic Blom (bass), Lach Galbraith (keys/vocals), Mitch Galbraith (guitar) and Tom O’Brien (drums) – have captivated audiences around the country with their infectious melody lines and memorable blend of psychedelic-surf-rock, amassing 20+ million streams online and over 535,000+ monthly Spotify listeners. Their second LP Chiaroscuro, “12 tracks dripping in salty psychedelic surf-rock gold” (Pilerats) has received widespread acclaim, and with a stellar ARIA debut at #15 it’s clear“Ocean Alley’s biggest days are still ahead of them” (Life Without Andy).
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DREAMS Photo Credit: Jon Shoer
Announce headline shows in Sydney at VIVID LIVE
Following the release of the DREAMS single ‘No One Defeats Us’ comes its powerful, arresting video. Shot earlier this year by DREAMS and Jon Shoer in Los Angeles, it features standout performances from Daniel and Luke against a backdrop befitting the explosive track.
DREAMS is a collaboration between Daniel Johns (aka Dr Dreams) and Luke Steele (aka Miracle), ‘No-one Defeats Us’ the first song the famous musical duo wrote together.
Daniel explains, “No One Defeats Us says lyrically what our goal is, it’s a journey into our vision of the future.”
“Dan and I excel and struggle on similar levels” says Luke. “We have so much passion and we are so ambitious. That song came from a time when we were beginning the band and we needed something deep. I wanted to build a gang – like a gang of the future. We want the band to be for the common man, the underdog, the homeless, the person who shows love to his neighbour.”
DREAMS will perform ‘No One Defeats Us’ live for the first time at COACHELLA Valley Music & Arts Festival on April 13 and 20. The only band ever to be booked for the festival before releasing any music, the duo is the highest-billed Australian band, promising to put on a truly unmissable performance.
Their premiere performance in Australia is at VIVID LIVE, Tuesday May 29 and Wednesday May 30 at the Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall). Tickets available HERE.
ABOUT DREAMS:
Daniel Johns is best known as the front man of Silverchair whilst the enigmatic Luke Steele fronts Empire of The Sun and The Sleepy Jackson. The artists first met in 2004 when Luke’s band The Sleepy Jackson supported Silverchair on their sold-out Diorama tour, and Daniel recalls the connection between them was so instant that after the first show of that tour they played piano together backstage, and have basically never stopped.
With over ten million albums sold worldwide and an undefeatable twenty-nine ARIA Awards won between both of their respective acts, the pedigree of Daniel and Luke’s new collaboration is unquestionable.
Since Silverchair’s debut release ‘Tomorrow’ in 1994, Daniel has taken home a record twenty-one statues, the most of any Australian artist in ARIA history. Daniel has also won APRA Songwriter of the Year three times, and impressively, Silverchair is the only Australian act to have all of their studio albums, five in total, debut at #1 on the ARIA chart.
Sweeping the ARIAs clean in 2008 was Luke Steele’s Empire of the Sun, taking home gongs for Best Album, Best Single, Best Group and Best Pop Release. With a total of eight ARIAs and two APRA songwriting awards to date, along with two BRIT Award nominations, Empire of the Sun has gone from strength to strength internationally, including a spectacular sold out performance at Hollywood Bowl in 2015, in front of an audience of 17,000 US fans.
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On May 25th, Vancouver-based quartet Jo Passed will release Their Prime, their first full-length effort, on CD/LP/CS/DL worldwide through Sub Pop Records, with the exception of Canada through Royal Mountain Records.
The band have delivered an official video for Their Prime standout “MDM,” which was directed by Eleanor Petry. Bandleader Jo Hirabayashi says of the video, “something something, on my phone too much, something something, marshall mcluhan, something something, stanley kubrick, something something, the medium is the message, something something, ouch my insides.”
Jo has been part of the DIY music scene since his late teens. Initially it was just him and his high school best friend Elliot Langford against the world. They were the “freaky music weirdos” and they began their own band projects. Jo was pretty sure that it would be two of them riding into the sunset – or maybe the gloom – together. Personal circumstances and the phenomenon of the late 20s return of Saturn (for those who believe in astrology) got in the way. Their band Sprïng called it a day. That’s where the life of Jo Passed began. The idea of a band dynamic is far more appealing to Jo than solo projects, and the current incarnation of Jo Passed feels like its most robust yet.
Jo, along with his friend and drummer Mac Lawrie, moved across the country from Vancouver to Montreal. The two would play shows in Montreal and eventually tour the far right corner of North America. Upon Jo’s return to the west coast, multi-instrumentalist Bella Bébé officially joined the band in January of 2016, expanding Jo Passed from trio to a full quartet. Multimedia artist Megan-Magdalena Bourne began working with Jo Passed on a video project for the song “Rage” (from the Out EP). This creative partnership would eventually lead to her taking on the role of bassist for the band.
When not geeking out over The Zombies, or Nirvana, or Johann Sebastian Bach… Bella, Mac, and Megan have worked with Jo to realize the live experience of Their Prime, following two Jo Passed EPs titled Up and Out.
Jo Passed has scheduled a few spring club shows and festival dates before hitting the road later this year. Current highlights include shows with Hardly Art’s Dick Stusso (March 16th-24th) and an appearance at Treefort Music Festival in Boise (March 21st).
Tour dates:
Mar. 16 – Bozeman, MT – Labor Temple*
Mar. 18 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge*
Mar. 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court*
Mar. 21 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Festival
Mar. 22 – Seattle, WA – Barboza*
Mar. 24 – Portland, OR – Crush House *
Apr. 14 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar
*w/ Dick Stusso
Preorders for Their Prime are now available through Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records. LP purchases in North America through megamart.subpop.com
Their Prime is a record about identity and the loss of time that happens as a direct consequence of being in the city with nowhere to rent, no time outside of employment and no realistic expectations to live up to. It encompasses that fear of being beyond the glory years, the most creatively fruitful period of one’s life. Those years were lost to contemporary struggles for working relationships, home, identity and space. “It’s me owning my worst nightmare,” he admits. “A lot of the Jo Passed project has been about confronting fears. I was afraid to move away from Vancouver to Montreal on my own. Afraid to leave musical relationships I had. Afraid to bare the full responsibility of a project. I’ve been putting out records and not ones anyone’s necessarily heard. Being open about those fears is a good way of dealing with them. You end up at this point where you hit 30 and you’re like, ‘Oh what happened? Am I done? Did I not activate my main creative energy?’ It’s a ridiculous idea but 30 feels a little like 1000 in rock n roll terms.” You can hear the frustrations and the jitters in the crashing loud-and-quiet motifs throughout the album’s twelve tracks, which offer up a patchwork quilt of sound, similar to Faust’s IV or Fugazi’s Red Medicine [read more at Sub Pop].
Their Prime tracklisting:
1. Left
2. MDM
3. Glass
4. Undemo
5. Facetook
6. Repair
7. R.I.P.
8. Millennial Trash Blues
9. You, Prime
10. Sold
11. Another Nowhere
12. Places Please
Links:
Jo Passed on Bandcamp
Jo Passed on Facebook
Jo Passed on Twitter
Jo Passed on Instagram
Jo Passed on Sub Pop Records
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Phoenix have released a brilliant remix of their Ti Amo song “Fior Di Latte” today by PC Music head honcho A. G. Cook. A glitch-filled melange of Technicolor, arcade-esque synths, Cook’s version takes the original in mind-melding new directions. Click HERE to listen to it.
Phoenix will headline the Air + Style festival happening this weekend in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. They also recently announced residencies at Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel this July, and Paris’s La Gaité Lyrique, where they recorded 2017’s acclaimed album Ti Amo (out now on Loyauté/Glassnote Records), this May.
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ALL ALBUM PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE DOWNLOADS OF MAKE ME FEEL AND DJANGO JANE
GRAMMY®-nominated singer-songwriter/performer/producer/actress/activist, Janelle Monáe, has unveiled new details of her highly-anticipated third solo album project, Dirty Computer. The Emotion Picture includes an album and an accompanying narrative film. The album is available for pre-order beginning today and arrives everywhere Friday, April 27th. Release date for the accompanying narrative film to be announced soon.
Today, Monáe released two anthemic, electric singles, Make Me Feel and Django Jane with complementary music videos from the Emotion Picture. All pre-orders include downloads of the premiere singles, both now available individually across all DSPs and streaming services.
Make Me Feel, directed by Alan Ferguson, captures the spirited, celebratory voice of Monáe as she affectionately nods to the ripe sounds surrounding the 1980’s music and dance revolution. Delivering electric vocals, pop hooks and confident, female-driven lyrics, Monáe brings the song to life in a vibrantly colored video highlighted by provocative silhouettes moving across the screen. Django Jane underscores Monáe’s ability to unleash her biting, unapologetic flow in a song that embraces contradictions as part of the beauty of individuality. The video was directed by Andrew Donoho and Chuck Lightning with additional vagina monologue footage directed by Lacey Duke. The song is a powerful black girl magic womanifesto that celebrates the strength of black women and black culture while addressing the trials and tribulations of identity in the 21st Century. Both videos are streaming now on Monáe’s YouTube channel.
The Dirty Computer project was heralded with a very special teaser that premiered last weekend ahead of screenings of Marvel Studio’s history-making Black Panther. Notable outlets such as NPR, Billboard, and W Magazine, among others, praised Monae’s cinematic range and vision. The trailer is streaming now via YouTube and Monáe’s official website.
2016 saw Monáe embark on her film acting career with stellar performances in two milestone films, Hidden Figures and Moonlight; both films received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, with the latter winning the award at the 89th Academy Awards.
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Deorro wreaks havoc on “Offspring,” an electro house crowd pleaser released on Dim Mak. Delivering his signature Melbourne bounce sound, the track features supercharged synths and a tremendous big room drop. “Offspring” is also aptly named: Deorro samples his son’s voice, lending the release emotional significance. The hard-hitting track is the California native’s first single of the new year and arrives as Deorro joins select dates on Steve Aoki‘s Kolony US Tour. American producer Deorro is the perfect example of magnetic dynamism in music production. His impressive discography includes a myriad of original tracks, from his early hits “Yee” and “Five Hours” to last year’s “Rise and Shine,” as well as collaborations/remixes with Chuckie, Axwell, Krewella, Laidback Luke, Carnage, Diplo and more. Last year, he took listeners on the ultimate journey with his incredibly successful full-length album Good Evening, a 24-track pilgrimage that showcased many versions of Deorro‘s style. “It’s more than an introduction to a creative mind, it’s a story of sound and feeling,” quoted Billboardof the album. His prowess behind the decks has earned him premier spots at some of the world’s largest festivals and clubs, like Coachella, Ultra Music Festival, Lights OFF, and Electrobeach. Now with a renowned debut album under his belt and more new music on the way, the future is looking very bright indeed for Deorro. Deorro is joining Dim Mak label head Steve Aoki as a special guest on his North American Kolony Tour this winter, performing in Austin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Purchase tickets here and see below for Deorro‘s full tour schedule: 2/23 – Springfield, MO @ The Complex |