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 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.

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 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

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)