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Strung Out – “Under The Western Sky” [Video]

Longstanding California band Strung Out have released their music video for their new single “Under The Western Sky.” Directed by vocalist Jason Cruz, the clip for “Under The Western Sky” gives a generous nod to David Lynch which Cruz feels is one of the great American filmmakers of our time.

The track is from the band’s forthcoming album, Songs of Armor and Devotion which is due out August 9th via Fat Wreck Chords. You can pre-order the record HERE.

Strung Out will be making the following appearances this fall. Dates below.

09/18 – Crowbar – Tampa, FL
09/19 – The Wooly – FYF – Gainesville, FL
09/20 – Respectable Street – West Palm Beach, FL
09/21 – 1904 Music Hall – Jacksonville, FL
09/22 – The Earl – Atlanta, GA
09/24 – Reggie’s 42nd St. Tavern – Wilmington, NC
09/25 – The Bunker Brewpub – Virginia Beach, VA
09/26 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
09/27 – Asbury Lanes – Asbury Park, NJ
09/28 – Le Poisson Rouge – NYC, NY
09/29 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA
10/01 – Port City Music Hall – Portland, ME
10/02 – Club Soda – Montreal, QC, Canada
10/03 – La Source – Quebec City, QC, Canada
10/04 – The 27 Club – Ottawa, ON, Canada
10/05 – The Opera House – Toronto, ON, Canada
10/06 – Rum Runners – London, ON, Canada
10/08 – The Crafthouse Stage & Grill – Pittsburgh, PA
10/09 – Small’s – Detroit, MI
10/10 – Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL
10/11 – Turf Club – St. Paul, MN
10/12 – The Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
10/13 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
10/31 – Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
11/01 – Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC, Canada
11/02 – El Corazon – Seattle, WA
11/03 – The Olympic – Boise, ID
11/04 – Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UT
11/08 – Three Links – Dallas, TX
11/09 – House Of Rock – Corpus Christi, TX
11/10 – Come and Take It Live – Austin, TX
11/12 – Pub Rock Live – Scottsdale, AZ
11/13 – Dive Bar – Las Vegas, NV
11/14 – Irenic – San Diego, CA
11/15 – Soho Club – Santa Barbara, CA
11/16 – Holy Diver – Sacramento, CA
11/17 – Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
11/19 – Strummer’s – Fresno, CA
11/20 – The Siren – Morro Bay, CA
11/21 – American Legion – Lancaster, CA
11/22 – Garden Amphitheatre – Garden Grove, CA
11/23 – El Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, CA

Video Premiere: Smug Brothers – “Today Is Always Today”

Smug Brothers have been busy in 2019. The Dayton, Ohio based band released the excellent Attic Harvest earlier this year and now TFN is excited to premiere a new video today for “Today Is Always Today,” which is off their new record All Blur And Spark.

The best news – All Blur And Spark is available today! You can read all about the new album in our Headphone Approved review HERE. You also can then head over to their Bandcamp page HERE and pick up the new album on limited edition CD or digital download.

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Ty Segall – “Taste” [Video]

“Our salivating makes it all taste worse,” croons Ty Segall in “Taste,” the video from his forthcoming album, First Taste, due August 2nd via Drag City. You can pre-order a copy of the new record HERE.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – “Organ Farmer” [Video]

If you have been on the King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard train for any amount of time now you know that they don’t make the same record twice. Well, check out the new video for “Organ Farmer” off their newly released record Infest The Rats’ Nest which is due out August 16th via Flightless/ATO Records. You can pre-order a copy of the Flightless vinyl HERE. ATO is putting their vinyl variant for sale on July 9th.

“Organ Farmer” is the final installment of a 3 part series by director John Angus Stewart in which the band are surrounded by a loving and devoted cult of fans ready to leave the experiment.

Good Shade – “Must Have Been” [Video]

Way Out is the 4th studio full length by Columbus Ohio’s Good Shade, and it is out now via Dirtnap Records. The band has unveiled the video for the track “Must Have Been” from their new album and have announced tour plans. You can check out the review dates below.

Tour Dates:
7/5: Indianapolis, IN @ State Street Pub w/ Wampus Milk Daddies and Village Mut
7/6: Chicago, IL @ The Burlington w/ Canadian Rifle, Richard Vain and Human Errors
7/7: Madison, WI @ Mickey’s Tavern w/ Big Eyes
7/8: Milwaukee, WI @ The High Dive
7/9: Duluth, MN @ BLUSH w/ Hard Feelings, Big Kiss and Siamese Eels
7/10: Minneapolis, MN @ Pork! w/ Constant Insult and Siamese Eels
7/11: Fargo, ND @ Red Raven Espresso
7/12: Minot, ND @ Blue Rider
7/13: Billings, MT @ Confirmed but details TBA
7/14: Kalispell, MT @ Eagles 234 w/ Cat’s Game
7/15: Spokane, WA @ The Pin
7/16: Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
7/17: Portland, OR @ The High Water Mark Lounge
7/18: Corvallis, OR – Confirmed but details TBA
7/19: Bend, OR @ The Brown Owl
7/20: Boise, ID @ High Note Café w/ James Plane Wreck
7/21: Provo, UT @ Bill’s Warehouse
7/22: Laramie, WY @ Ruffed Up Duck
7/23: Ft. Collins, CO @ Pinball Jones West Campus
7/24: Denver, CO @ Nude City Relief Center
7/25: Omaha, NE @ Lookout Lounge
7/26: Topeka, KS @ The Trap
7/27: St. Louis @ Confirmed but details TBA
7/28: Murray, KY @ Terrapin Station

Frankie Cosmos – “Windows” [Video]

On September 6th, Sub Pop will release Frankie Cosmos’ fourth studio album, Close It Quietly. This album is a manifestation of the band’s collaborative spirit: Greta Kline and longtime bandmates Lauren Martin (synth), Luke Pyenson (drums), and Alex Bailey (bass) luxuriated in studio time with Gabe Wax, who engineered and co-produced the record with the band.

Recording close to home — at Brooklyn’s Figure 8 Studios— grounded the band, and their process was enriched by working closely with Wax, whose intuition and attention to detail made the familiar unfamiliar and allowed the band to reshape their own contexts. Close It Quietly is a continual reframing of the known, taking the band’s trademark micro-universe and upending it, spilling outwards into a swirl of referentiality that’s a marked departure from earlier releases, imagining and reimagining motifs and sounds throughout the album.

Frankie Cosmos has announced a World Tour, splitting these shows into three legs. The first leg of dates will begin on September 18 in Boston, MA, and end on Sep. 29 in their hometown of New York City. They will then head overseas beginning on Oct. 8th in Munich, Germany with shows in Prague, Amsterdam, and Paris, ending on Oct. 22nd in London. The final leg of dates will run from Oct 31st – Nov 16th with shows in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. See below for a full list of shows.

Close It Quietly is now available for preorder from Sub Pop HERE.

Tour dates:
Sep. 18 – Boston, MA – Royale
Sep. 19 – Burlington, VT – Arts Riot
Sep. 20 – Montreal, QC – L’Astral
Sep. 21 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
Sep. 22 – Detroit, MI – Deluxx Fluxx
Sep. 23 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
Sep. 25 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
Sep. 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit Hall
Sep. 27 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
Sep. 28 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
Sep. 29 – New York, NY – Webster Hall
Oct. 08 – Munich, DE – Heppel & Ettlich
Oct. 09 – Vienna, AT – Chelsea
Oct. 10 – Prague, CZ – Underdogs’
Oct. 11 – Cologne, DE – MTC
Oct. 12 – Luxembourg, LU – Rotondes
Oct. 13 – Amsterdam, NL – Bitterzoet
Oct. 14 – Paris, FR – Badaboum
Oct. 15 – Reims, FR – La Cartonnerie
Oct. 16 – Brighton, UK – The Haunt
Oct. 17 – Bristol, UK – Exchange
Oct. 19 – Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall
Oct. 20 – Sheffield, UK – Delicious Clam
Oct. 21 – Manchester, UK – Night & Day
Oct. 22 – London, UK – Islington Assembly Hall
Oct. 31 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
Nov. 01 – Tacoma, WA – Alma Mater
Nov. 02 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre
Nov. 03 – Seattle, WA – Laser Dome @ Pacific Science Center
Nov. 07 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
Nov. 08 – Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
Nov. 10 – Tucson, AZ – Hotel Congress
Nov. 12 – Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
Nov. 13 – San Diego, CA – Che Cafe
Nov. 15 – Los Angeles, CA – 1720
Nov. 16 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre

Pipe-eye – “Fluorescent Wonder” [Video]

Flightless Records, Cook Craig returns with his first music as Pipe-eye since 2017’s cult release Laugh About Life. Appearing in more Flightless line-ups then any of his label contemporaries (King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs and Pipe-eye) Cook’s new Pipe-eye album, Inside/Outside is out now and available for order at Flightless HERE.

Kishi Bashi – “Violin Tsunami” [Video]

Kishi Bashi has shared an animated video for his song “Violin Tsunami,” off his new Headphone Approved album Omoiyari and directed by Julia and Mike McCoy.

“The inspiration for the song that came from a violin that was gifted to me called ‘Tsunami.’ The luthier, who is Japanese-Brazilian and an ordained buddhist priest, told me he embodied his prayers for the victims and survivors of the Fukushima tsunami tragedy into the making of the instrument,” explains Kishi Bashi. “I immediately began to play it and was inspired to create a piece of music about the injustice of the Japanese-American Incarceration of WWII. In the video, the spirits are ultimately transformed into a peaceful bed of lanterns that embody the spirit of healing and the transmission of memory.”

Kishi Bashi has also announced an extensive fall North American headline tour. The dates will begin September 26th in Atlanta, GA, and continue through November 9th in Charlottesville, VA, and include an October 14th show in Los Angeles and a November 2nd show in Brooklyn. A current itinerary is below and tickets are on sale at 10am local time today HERE.

Kishi Bashi 2019 Tour Dates:
06/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Masonic Lodge SOLD OUT
06/12 – San Francisco, CA @ August Hall SOLD OUT
06/14 – Portland, OR @ The Old Church SOLD OUT
06/16 – Seattle, WA @ Washington Hall SOLD OUT
06/18 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
06/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Murmrr Theatre SOLD OUT
06/20 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
6/22 – Santa Fe, NM @ Inn of the Five Graces
9/26 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
9/27 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic NOLA
9/28 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
9/29 – Houston, TX @ The Heights Theater
9/30 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
10/2 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
10/3 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
10/5 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial Theatre
10/6 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
10/7 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
10/8 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10/10 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
10/11 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
10/12 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ SLO Brew
10/13 – San Diego, CA @ Music Box
10/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
10/24 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
10/25 – Nashville, TN @ Cannery Ballroom
10/26 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
10/27 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
10/28 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
10/29 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The Rex Theater
11/1 – Norwalk, CT @ Wall Street Theater
11/2 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
11/3 – Boston, MA @ Royale
11/4 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/6 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
11/7 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
11/8 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
11/9 – Charlottesville, VA @ Jefferson Theater
11/23 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique
11/24 Brighton – Brighton, UK @ Hope & Ruin
11/25 – London, UK @ Omeara
11/26 – Bristol, UK @ Hy Brasil
11/27 – Glasgow, UK @ Nice N Sleazy
11/28 – Manchester, UK @ Yes
11/29 – Paris, FR @ 1999
12/1 – Berlin, DE @ Gretchen
12/3 – Munich, DE @ Milla
12/4 – Wien, AT @ Chelsea
12/5 – Zürich, CH @ Bogen F
12/7 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
12/8 – Copenhagen, DK @ Huset KBH

Kyle Craft – “Broken Mirror Pose” [Video]

Kyle Craft and his band, Showboat Honey, has delivered an official video for “Broken Mirror Pose.” The track is from Showboat Honey, the group’s forthcoming album, out July 12th worldwide from Sub Pop. The performance-based visual was directed by the band.

Craft had this to say of the visual, “We shot “Broken Mirror Pose” at Moonbase Studios, which is where we tracked the entire record ourselves! This one was 95% DIY, much like the album. I built out a room inside of the main studio room and my pal, Bryson Cone, showed me how to edit afterward, letting me take the wheel once I had a little know how.”

Kyle Craft & Showboat Honey are also announcing new headlining dates for 2019 in support of the album, which begins July 11th in Portland at Mississippi Studios and currently ends on August 24th in San Francisco at Cafe Du Nord. Catch all the dates below.

Jul. 11 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Jul. 13 – Seattle, WA – Ballard Seafood Fest
Jul. 14 – Spokane, WA – The Bartlett
Jul. 15 – Billings, MT – Pub Station Taproom
Jul. 17 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
Jul. 18 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
Jul. 19 – Louisville, KY – Jimmy Can’t Dance
Jul. 20 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
Jul. 22 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
Jul. 23 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
Jul. 24 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
Jul. 30 – Woodstock, NY – Colony
Aug. 01 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right
Aug. 02 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
Aug. 04 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
Aug. 05 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Aug. 06 – Athens, GA – Georgia Theater Rooftop
Aug. 07 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Aug. 08 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
Aug. 09 – Nashville, TN – The Basement
Aug. 10 – Oxford, MS – Proud Larry’s
Aug. 11 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
Aug. 14 – Shreveport, LA – Minicine
Aug. 15 – Dallas, TX – Three Links
Aug. 16 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
Aug. 18 – Phoenix, AZ – The Valley Bar
Aug. 19 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
Aug. 22 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
Aug. 23 – Los Angeles, CA – The Moroccan
Aug. 24 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord

Fruit Tones – “I Know Where Love Comes From” [Video]

Hailing from Manchester UK, Fruit Tones will offer up one steam-rolling-mondo-garage thud on their debut Natural Selection. Straight forward garage rock bliss on 14 tracks knocked out in just over 30 minutes.

The album is set to release mid June via Greenway Records and you can pre-order a copy HERE.

Stef Chura – “Scream” [Video]

With her new album, Midnight, arriving this Friday, June 7th, on Saddle Creek, Detroit’s Stef Chura is back today with “Scream.” It serves as further proof of Stef’s singular knack for merging melody and tumult – made even clearer on this record as a result of her collaboration with producer Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest.

Behind its punchy veneer, it’s a track that Stef describes as being “partly about the loneliness of social media. How being popular online doesn’t equate to feeling whole in your real life, projecting a persona of an ideal ‘you’ online.”

The video for “Scream” was directed by Ambar Navarro – that plays on these themes of duality, popularity and personality. Stef Chura will embark on a North American tour, kicking off at Empty Bottle in Chicago. All tour dates are below.

STEF CHURA TOUR DATES
Wed. June 19 – Sun. June 23 – Calgary, AB @ Sled Island
Fri. July 5 – Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sat. July 6 – Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx
Sun. July 7 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake
Mon. July 8 – Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo
Tue. July 9 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
Fri. July 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
Sat. July 13 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
Mon. July 15 – Washington, DC @ Comet Ping Pong
Tue. July 16 – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
Wed. July 17 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Fri. July 19 – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
Sat. July 20 – Houston, TX @ The Satellite
Sun. July 21 – Austin, TX @ The Mohawk
Mon. July 22 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Thu. July 25 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
Fri. July 26 – San Diego, CA @ Sodabar
Sat. July 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theatre
Sun. July 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe du Nord
Tue. July 30 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Wed. July 31 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
Thu. Aug. 1 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
Fri. Aug. 2 – Spokane, WA @ Lucky You Lounge
Sat. Aug. 3 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux
Mon. Aug. 5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
Tue. Aug. 6 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Wed. Aug. 7 – Omaha, NE @ Reverb
Fri. Aug. 9 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
Sat. Aug. 10 – Milwaukee, WI @ Backroom at Colectivo

The Figgs – “Grab Your Pack” [Video]

The Figgs are looking to release their 14th studio album, Shady Grove, a six sided behemoth of a record featuring a slew of the catchy, harmony drenched tunes which they’ve become attached to their whole career.

Shady Grove is a very special album to The Figgs. Since they began cutting the tracks that would become “Shady Grove”, losses would hit the band in profound ways. A few months into the tracking of the album, their longtime musical associate and touring keyboardist, Ted Collins, died in early 2017. Ted had originally played in the band from which Gent and Donnelly had poached Hayes! He had been a dear friend to the band since the very early days. Needless to say, it was a heartbreaking loss.

Later in 2017, another long time friend and roadie, Eric Harmon, passed away. The Figgs met Eric on one of their first National tours when he was playing drums for the Chainsaw Kittens. Harmon would later join The Figgs on dozens of headlining tours working as their road manager, drum tech, merchandise handler and therapist. Other people close to the band left them in 2018 and 2019 making death a constant in their recent lives.

The Figgs soldiered on with the new album allowing some of the more experimental numbers on the record to be tributes to these lost comrades. You can help finish the project HERE at Indiegogo.

Summer Cannibals – “Can’t Tell Me No” [Video]

Tiny Engines recently announced the new album from Portland’s Summer Cannibals. The label will release Can’t Tell Me No on June 28th which you can pre-order HERE. The title track is out today and here is the video!

The band just finished up shows with Hop Along in April and Slothrust in May. Summer Cannibals recently announced June & July West Coast tour dates and now have more shows for August added. Full list of dates below.

The Ocean Blue – Kings And Queens [Video]

The Ocean Blue have announced the release of their first new album in over 6 years – Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves. The record is out June 21 on Korda Records.

Now you can watch the Seventh Seal-esque video for first single “Kings and Queens.” The band will be hitting the road starting in June and you can find the current dates below.

Tour Dates
6/22: Lancaster, PA @ Tellus360
6/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
6/27: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/28: Portland, OR @ Holocene
7/26: Minneapolis, MN @ The Fine Line
7/27: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
8/23: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
8/24: Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
9/5: Lima, PERU @ Coco’s Club
9/6: Arequipa, PERU @ El QuinQué
10/4: Washington, DC @ Union Stage
10/5: Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java
11/1: Detroit, MI @ The Magic Bag
11/3: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
11/17: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall

Dude York – “Falling” [Video]

Seattle trio Dude York have returned with the new full-length Falling, their tribute to adolescent romance and the pop-punk that clogged up FM radio wavelengths of yesteryear. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared a new animated music video for the album’s title track. Falling will be out Friday, July 26th on LP, CD, Digital, and Cassette via Hardly Art. You can pre-order a copy HERE. First-run LP copies come on frosting-colored vinyl.

Dude York TOUR DATES
Fri, May 17 – Hawthorne Theater, Portland OR (w/ The Frights)
Sat, May 18 – Chop Suey, Seattle WA (w/ The Frights)
Sat, May 18 – Bothell Block Party and Brew Fest, Seattle WA
Wed, May 22 – Strummer’s, Fresno CA (w/ The Frights)
Thu, May 23 – Fremont Theater, San Luis Obispo CA (w/ The Frights)
Fri, May 24 – The Catalyst, Santa Cruz CA (w/ The Frights)

Alex Cameron – “Miami Memory” [Video]

Alex Cameron has just released a new single/video, “Miami Memory,” directed by Cameron, and starring himself, his business associate and sax player Roy Molloy and actress Jemima Kirke. A love song to the city, “Miami Memory” embraces the lustful air of Miami and explores both Alex’s personal relationship with both the city and his girlfriend. “Miami Memory” is the first new music Cameron has released since 2017’s Forced Witness.

“‘Miami Memory’ is a story about how we audition in the present for our future selves to enjoy in retrospect. In that way, tender memories that we share together are captured in thought and stored with the same electricity that keeps our heart beating,” says Cameron. “It’s a gift for my girlfriend Jemima, and it is dedicated to the artist Greer Lankton and her partner Paul Monroe. I am lucky to have learned that a group of people can be a shining light.”

Cameron has a fall European and North American tour set up, including shows in Chicago, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. North American tickets will be on sale this Friday, May 10th at 10am local time. You can find the dates below.

Alex Cameron Tour Dates:
Wed. Sept. 18 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Thu. Sept. 19 – Brussels, BE @ AB Club
Fri. Sept. 20 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
Sat. Sept. 21 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sun. Sept. 22 – Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
Tue. Sept. 24 – Bristol, UK @ The Fleece
Wed. Sept. 25 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton
Thu. Sept. 26 – Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
Fri. Sept. 27 – Glasgow, UK @ Art School
Sun. Sept. 29 – Southampton, UK @ Loft
Tue. Oct. 1 – Lille, FR @ Aeronef Club
Wed. Oct. 2 – Paris, FR @ Trianon
Thu. Oct. 3 – Reims, FR @ La Cartonnerie
Fri. Oct. 4 – Nantes, FR @ Lieu Unique
Sat. Oct. 5 – Orléans, FR @ Astrolabe
Mon. Oct. 7 – Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
Tue. Oct. 8 – Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Wed. Oct. 9 – Milan, IT @ Ohibo
Thu. Oct. 10 – Bologna, IT @ Covo
Sat. Oct. 12 – Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse Birthday Party
Sun. Oct. 13 – Vienna, AT @ Flex Cafe
Mon. Oct. 14 – Munich, DE @ Strom
Tue. Oct. 15 – Prague, CZ @ Meet Factory
Wed. Oct. 16 – Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
Fri. Oct. 18 – Stockholm, SE @ Vasateatern
Sat. Oct. 19 – Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
Sun. Oct. 20 – Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
Mon. Oct. 21 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
Tue. Oct. 22 – Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefährlich
Wed. Oct. 23 – Cologne, DE @ Artheater
Fri. Nov. 8 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Fri. Nov. 15 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
Fri. Nov. 22 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Fri. Dec. 6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour

Mannequin Pussy – “Drunk II” [Video]

Philadelphia, PA indie punk band Mannequin Pussy have announced their new album Patience, due June 21 on Epitaph. This is the follow-up to their 2016 release Romantic and the band’s Epitaph debut.

The third full-length from Mannequin Pussy, Patience is an album fascinated with the physical experience of the body, its songs tracking the movements of mouths and hands and racing hearts, skin and spit and teeth and blood. Deeply attuned to the power of their own physicality, members Colins Rey Regisford (bass, samples, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals), and Athanasios Paul (guitar, keys) channel complex emotion in blistering riffs, thrashing rhythms, vocals that feel as immediate and untamed as a gut reaction. But throughout Patience, the band contrasts that raw vitality with intricate melodies and finely detailed arrangements, building a strange and potent tension that makes the album all the more cathartic. Patience matches Mannequin Pussy’s wild volatility with a narrative voice that’s often painfully vulnerable.

You can now watch the new single/video “Drunk II” from the album Patience, which was directed by Marisa Dabice. Dabice, who directed the video says, “I wanted to capture the feeling that so many of us experience when we are heartbroken and trying to move on. We pretend we have fun so that we are socially acceptable to those around us. We hope that drinking will make us happy and we wish that our nights will lead us into the arms of a beautiful stranger who will momentarily distract us from the pain we feel. I wanted to blend reality and fantasy in the music video for “Drunk II” – where you aren’t quite sure if my character is just out with her bandmates and friends, pitifully crying to them about their lost love or if they are actually meeting those beautiful strangers every night. I wanted to show what it feels like to be out and heartbroken – that no matter where you are it feels like you are the only one with a broken heart. That everyone around you is deeply in love and you are completely alone. That no matter who you meet, you can’t stop thinking about that person who you lost.”

Pre-orders for Patience are available at HERE. Mannequin Pussy is on the road with Hot Snakes through May 4 in Jersey City. Tour dates below.

TOUR DATES w/ Hot Snakes
Weds/Apr 24- Fayetteville, AR – Backspace
Fri/Apr 26- Dallas @ Curtain Club
Sat/Apr 27- Austin TX @ Barracuda
Sun/Apr 28- Houston TX @ Secret Group
Tue/Apr 30- Orlando FL @ The Abby
Wed/May 1- Atlanta GA @ Masquerade – Hell
Thu/May 2- Durham NC @ Motorco
Fri/May 3- Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
Sat/May 4- Jersey City NJ @ White Eagle

Courtney Barnett – “Everybody Here Hates You” [Video]

Courtney Barnett has reunited with long time collaborator Danny Cohen on the video for new single “Everybody Here Hates You” which is here today. The award winning director ingeniously takes us inside Barnett’s brain as it slowly implodes, to dizzying, brilliant effect.

“Everybody Here Hates You” features an anthemic sing-along choruses and the single is the superb final installment from the creative period of Barnett’s life which gave us her sophomore album Tell Me How You Really Feel.

You can catch Courtney below on one of her many world tour dates.
WORLD TOUR DATES
05/16/19 – Fuzz Live Music Club – Athens, Greece
05/18/19 – Babylon Club – Istanbul, Turkey
05/20/19 – Akvarium Klub – Budapest, Hungary
05/21/19 – Culture Factory – Zagreb, Croatia
05/25/19 – All Point East – London, United Kingdom
05/27/19 – La Sirène – La Rochelle, France
05/28/19 – Atabal – Biarritz, France
05/30/19 – Primavera Sound Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
05/31/19 – This Is Not A Love Song Festival – Nimes, France
06/01/19 – Bad Bonn Kilbi – Dudingen, Switzerland
06/02/19 – We Love Green Festival – Paris, France
06/04/19 – Beaches Brew Festival – Ravenna, Italy
06/07/19 – NOS Primavera Sound – Porto, Portugal
06/11/19 – Mann Center for the Performing Arts – Philadelphia, PA *
06/12/19 – BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at Prospect Park Bandshell – Brooklyn, NY *
06/13/19 – BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at Prospect Park Bandshell – Brooklyn, NY *
06/14/19 – Bonnaroo Music Festival – Manchester, NY
06/16/19 – Coca-Cola Roxy – Atlanta, GA *
06/17/19 – St. Augustine Amphitheatre – St. Augustine, FL *
06/19/19 – The Anthem – Washington, DC *
06/20/19 – Thompson’s Point – Portland, ME *
06/21/19 – Firefly Music Festival – Dover, DE
06/22/19 – Clusterfest – San Francisco, CA
06/24/19 – EXPRESS LIVE! – Columbus, OH *
06/25/19 – Hill Auditorium – Ann Arbor, MI *
06/26/19 – Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park – Indianapolis, IN *
06/28 – 06/30/19 – Solid Sound – North Adams, MA
06/29/19 – Rock The Garden Festival – Minneapolis, MN
07/01/19 – Madison Theater – Covington, KY
07/02/19 – North Carolina Museum of Art – Raleigh, NC
07/04/19 – Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI
07/05/19 – Festival International de Jazz de Montreal – Montreal, QC
07/07/19 – Festival d’ete Internatonal de Quebec – Quebec City, QC
07/10 – 07/14/19 – Taste of Chicago – Chicago, IL
08/23/19 – Cabaret Vert – Charleville-Mézières, France
08/24/19 – Once In A Blue Moon – Amsterdam, Netherlands
08/29/19 – End of the Road Festival – Dorset, UK
08/30/19 – Manchester Psych Festival – Manchester, United Kingdom
08/31/19 – End of the Road Festival – Sali
09/01/19 – Electric Picnic – County Laois, Ireland
09/07/19 – Lollapalooza Berlin – Berlin, DE

* w/ The National