Fire Note Staff

Fronted by vocalist and chief songwriter Lauren Hoffman, the Secret Storm’s latest EP, The Dragon, incorporates post-punk and grunge rock influences while maintaining her talent for pop melodies. This project shows that Hoffman has shifted direction, especially if you have lost touch with her career and are familiar with her first album, Megiddo, that was released in 1997 on the major label Virgin. The video for the title track is all you need to see to hear what we are talking about.

Idle Bloom is a four-piece band based out of Nashville that is composed of Olivia (vocals & guitars), Callan (vocals & guitar), Katie (bass), and Weston (drums). They recently completed their debut E.P, Some Paranoia, recorded by Shibby Poole and mastered by Jade Payne which will be out December 4th via Theory Eight Records.

The video today is for “Fare Fumo” and you can find the track on their latest 7″ split with Churchyard. The track will give you a good idea of their sound. You can pick up the 7″ HERE and check out Idle Bloom’s upcoming tour dates below.

Tour Dates:
11/25 – Chattanooga, TN @ JJ’s Bohemia
11/28 – Knoxville, TN @ Jig and Reel
11/29 – Cincinnati, OH @ The Yacht Club
11/30 – Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class
12/01 – Rochester, NY @ The Bug Jar
12/02 – Troy, NY @ 51 3rd
12/03 – Boston, MA @ TBA
12/04 – New York, NY @ Silent Barn
12/05 – Philadelphia, PA @ Hong Kong Garden
12/06 – Richmond, VA @ Sour Haus
12/07 – Asheville, NC @ The Odditorium

Animal Style Records will release the UK’s Muncie Girls’ debut LP, Caplan to Belsize, in February along with Specialist Subject Records and Uncle M Music. The Exeter trio are already a highlight on the 2016 release list and this video will give you all the reasons why!

The band will be heading out soon with Such Gold through the end of the year and then picking back up in March with Tellison. So far, no US dates but hopefully that will change.

EU Fall 2015 Tour with Such Gold:

NOV 21 – GER – Freiburg @ Artik w/ Such Gold + Cold Reading
NOV 22 – CH – Luzern @ Treibhaus w/ Such Gold + Cold Reading
NOV 23 – ITA – Milano @ Honky Tonky w/ Such Gold
NOV 24 – ITA – Modena @ La Tenda w/ Such Gold
NOV 25 – ITA – Udine @ Cas’aupa w/ Such Gold
NOV 26 – SLO – Maribor @ Dvorana Gustaf w/ Such Gold
NOV 27 – HUN – Budapest @ Gozsdu Manó Club w/ Such Gold
NOV 28 – AUT – Vienna @ das BACH w/ Such Gold
NOV 29 – GER – Nürnberg @ K4 w/ Such Gold
NOV 30 – GER – Hannover @ LUX w/ Such Gold
DEC 01 – GER – Berlin @ Cassiopeia w/ Such Gold + the liberation service
DEC 02 – GER – Hamburg @ Molotow
DEC 03 – GER – Koln @ AZ
DEC 04 – GER – Münster @ Cafe Lorenz w/ Such Gold + The Uprising

UK Spring 2016 Tour with Tellison:

MAR 26 – Lincoln @ Liquor
MAR 27 – Leeds @ The Wardrobe
MAR 28 – Cambridge @ The Portland Arms
MAR 29 – Glasgow @ Bloc
MAR 30 – Edinburgh @ The Mash House
MAR 31 – Birmingham @ The Sunflower Lounge
APR 01 – Manchester @ Soundcontrol
APR 02 – Bedford @ Esquires
APR 03 – Bristol @ Stag & Hounds
APR 05 – Guildford @ Boileroom
APR 06 – Oxford @ The Wheatsheaf
APR 07 – London @ The Garage

Here is the first new song from the Columbus, Ohio indie-pop band Kid Runner since their 2014 EP Wake Up Now. “Different Kind Of Love” is a nice showcase of the band’s live experience which you can tell is a lot of fun!

Shannon and the Clams have a new charming video for “It’s Too Late,” a track from their recently released album Gone by the Dawn. The video sees guitarist/vocalist Cody Blanchard playing a drifter who gets picked up by some hard-partying farmhands before things take a turn for the weird.

The Clams kick off a string of European tour dates starting tomorrow, which you can see below.

Tour dates:

11.11.15 – London, UK – Oslo
11.12.15 – Brighton, UK – Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar
11.13.15 – Lille, FR – La Peniche
11.14.15 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
11.17.15 – Lyon, FR – Le Sonic
11.18.15 – Geneva, CH – L’Ecurie
11.19.15 – Brussels, BE – Madame Moustache
11.20.15 – Antwerp, BE – Het Bos
11.21.15 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who?
11.23.15 – Berlin, DE – Monarch

Songwriter, Ben Hopkins from PWR BTTM describes this video for the title track off the new album as “I’ve set my ‘best self,’ aka me in crazy monster drag, against my ‘worst self,’ aka me miserably staring at my cellphone alone in my apartment, in an attempt to take stock of my whole self. All of the behaviors within the video are my own, and in staging them side by side I’m trying to take ownership of the good, bad, weird, and fabulous parts of my personality.”

Ugly Cherries, the record, was out September 18, via a joint release with Miscreant Records and Father/Daughter Records. Enjoy!

Grave Babies have launched a new grim video for “Metal Me,” off their recently released Holographic Violence out now on Hardly Art. The clip, from director Bobby McHugh, depicts an imagined, violent revenge fantasy gone awry. This video will keep the spooky vibe of Halloween alive and well!

You many not know the name here but Paul Orwell has been on demand across seas. His late ‘60s rock has elements of talents like Phil Spector, The Pretty Things, The Beatles, and The Who.

The first two singles of his sold out quickly and his latest 7″ probably will too. Here is a video for his new one so you can hear what all the fuss is about. The 7″ is currently available on two nice looking splatter variants. You can still pick up one HERE.

We just featured this group in our October Bandcamp piece today but thought the video also deserved your attention. The sister-fronted LA four-piece just released their sophomore LP, Limbo via Burger Records.

Singer/guitarist Chelsea Brown had this to say about the video: “Everyone has their own ‘demons’ – they’re the little voices in the back of your mind that make you doubt yourself and tell you not to take risks. They can be vicious – they’ll lure you in and beckon you back to safety. If you fall into their trap you become victim, allowing your demons to stunt your potential; but if you can find the courage to face them and explore that darker side of your mind that you’d often rather ignore, you might just have a breakthrough and discover artistic bliss. In a way these demons are the catalyst in making your vision come to life – they may just put you through hell first.”

For the video Summer Twins wanted to portray their demons in a strange alternate “Limbo” world. They took inspiration from the 1966 Czechoslovak film Sedmikrásky (or “Daisies”) and worked with director Owen Swchartzbard to create the story. All of the props were handmade with the help of friends and they shot the video on a hot day at the dry river bottom in their hometown of Riverside.

The 1975 have released the video for “Love Me,” the first single from their forthcoming second album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It (Dirty Hit/Interscope). Directed by Diane Martel, the video’s deliberately post-ironic self-indulgent performance parodies rock and roll in the digital age and the self-constructed mythology of the iPhone generation.