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Father John Misty Announces New Album “Pure Comedy”

By: Staff – Father John Misty will release, Pure Comedy, the highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed album, I Love You, Honeybear, on April 7th. Stream the title track below. Misty wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at … Continue reading

Pixies Announce 2017 North American Tour

By: Staff – Pixies will take their signature aural mix of psychedelia, dissonance, surf-rock and loud-quiet-loud on a five-week tour across North America in 2017, the first of a three-leg trek across the continent. Following stops in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the band’s first-ever South African concerts, the North American tour will launch at the … Continue reading

Sasquatch Music Festival Announces 2017 Lineup

By: Staff – The Sasquatch Music Festival has announced its 2017 lineup, which is set to be headlined by Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper and Twenty One Pilots. Other notable artists include: The Shins, Phantogram, The Head And The Heart, White Lung, MGMT, Bonobo, Kaytranada, Aesop Rock, Mac Miller, Charles Bradley, Car Seat Headrest, The Radio Dept, and Kiiara. … Continue reading

Dashboard Confessional Reveals Surprise Covers EP

By: Staff – As a thank you to their fans for one of their fastest selling tours, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba covered some of his favorite songs for a surprise EP appropriately titled Covered + Taped. The EP includes songs by The 1975 (“Sex”), Julien Baker (“Sprained Ankle”), Justin Bieber (“Love Yourself”), and Sorority Noise (“Using”). “I love covering great songs by great artists,” Carrabba … Continue reading

Timber Timbre Announces New Album “Sincerely, Future Pollution”

By: Staff – Timber Timbre’s music has always traced a shadowed path, using cues of the past to fuse the sound of a distant, haunted now. On its fourth record – Sincerely, Future Pollution – Timber Timbre coats the stark, sensual sound of 2014’s Polaris Music Prize Short-Listed and JUNO Award-nominated album Hot Dreams in an oil-black rainbow of municipal grime. It is the cinema … Continue reading

Aimee Mann Announces New Album “Mental Illness”

By: Staff – Aimee Mann’s Mental Illness, her first album in five years, will be released on March 31 via her own SuperEgo Records. With this follow-up to 2012’s Charmer, she returns to a more musically soft-spoken but still lyrically barbed approach, as heard in the album’s lead single, “Goose Snow Cone,” which debuts today. Listen/share the track here: aimeemann.com. Mental Illness can be pre-ordered … Continue reading

Spoon Announces New Album “Hot Thoughts”

By: Staff – Months of speculation come to an end today as details of the new Spoon album can be confirmed: Austin’s rock ambassadors will release their ninth album, Hot Thoughts, on March 17th via Matador Records. Reuniting the band with the label that released their 1996 debut, Telephono, and following on Spoon’s streak of three consecutive Top 10 albums — Ga Ga … Continue reading

Radiohead Announces 2017 North American Tour Dates

By: Staff – Radiohead has confirmed nine U.S. headline shows in addition to the band’s previously announced headline engagement at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale beginning January 20th. Tickets for all shows will be limited to 4 per order*. Restrictions may vary from venue to venue. The full Radiohead U.S. … Continue reading

Skrillex Releases First New Song with From First To Last in 10 Years

By: Staff – Sonny Moore (AKA Skrillex) has made a surprise appearance with From First To Last on the new single “Make War,” out now on OWSLA/Sumerian. Listen to it here. Moore co-wrote the track in addition to lending his vocals and production skills for the original band’s first reunion in more than a decade, with all … Continue reading

The Luyas Announce New Album “Human Voicing”, Share First Single “Self Unemployed”

By: Staff – The Luyas will release their new full-length album Human Voicing on February 24th via Paper Bag Records. The band also debuted the album’s first single “Self-Unemployed”, which can be streamed below. “The song itself is a jumble of images and things I wrote down,” says vocalist Jessie Stein of the new single. “My favourite choreographer, Katie Ward, did a piece last year called … Continue reading