Flat Worms – the Los Angeles-based trio of bassist/vocalist Tim Hellman (Thee Oh Sees), drummer Justin Sullivan (Night Shop), and guitarist/ vocalist Will Ivy (Dream Boys) – have shared a video for “Into The Iris,” the title track from their recently released EP, out now via Drag City imprint, GOD? Records.

“Into The Iris” is a frenzied, high-energy track about channeling inspiration. The video was recorded at their record release show at Zebulon in Los Angeles, and presents the band’s frenetic live performance. Directed by Joshua Erkman, the video also features lighting tricks by Ty Segall.

Flat Worms will tour the west coast in support of the Into The Iris EP. They will play dates in Europe later this summer. All dates are below.

Flat Worms Tour Dates:
Tue. April 23 – Seattle, WA @ Screw Driver
Wed. April 24 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
Fri. April 26 – Chicago, CA @ Valley Fever Festival
Sat. April 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Knockout
Sun. April 28 – Ventura, CA @ The Tavern
Mon. April 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ Non Plus Ultra
Sat. June 22 – Paris, FR @ La Maroquinerie
Sun. June 23 – Brighton, UK @ TBD
Mon. June 24 – Manchester, UK @ Yes (Pink Room)
Thu. June 27 – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
Fri. June 28 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
Sat. June 29 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Sun. June 30 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
Mon. July 1 – Bristol, UK @ Fleece 2P
Tue. July 2 – London, UK @ Dingwalls

CHAI – the Japanese four-piece has shared a new video for “Curly Adventure,” off of PUNK, their sophomore album released on Burger Records earlier this month. “Curly Adventure” follows a string of previously released videos – the hyper-stylized “CHOOSE GO!”, “Fashionista”, and “GREAT JOB!”

The “Curly Adventure” video was designed in collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist / musician Sean Solomon. In a swirl of vibrant colors and eccentric scenes, CHAI themselves star as animated characters, designed by the band’s primary artistic director and bassist, YUUKI, and realized and animated by LA-based artist/animator Sean Solomon.

You can pick up their sophomore album at Burger Records HERE.

Denver-based four-piece Flaural is set to release their debut LP, Postponement, which is due out April 19, 2019 via Staycation Records. Following a string of EPs — 2015’s Thin King and 2016’s Over Imaginary Cigarettes — and produced by James Barone (Beach House, Tennis), Flaural’s Postponement developed over a trying three years for the experimental rock band.

The video for “1616” follows the early release of the album’s lead single, “The Thinker.” They go on to say, “When you know its backstory, what initially comes across like a catchy freakout takes on more weight; an underlying sadness becomes more prominent, the waves of layered instruments starting to feel like an escape towards the inner recesses of a person’s mind as they try to reckon with what has happened while they grasp at memories dissolving over time.” The upbeat, emotional track ends with a dark, hectic, instrumental frenzy of piercing baritone saxophone squeaks layered over sporadic, aggressive guitar and driving drums.

Wand’s upcoming fifth full-length, Laughing Matter, is out April 19th via Drag City Records. The record is said to be an evolution in the life of a band who’ve grown ecstatically since their debut.
For a sample of these new reaches in the Wand-iverse, look no further than “Walkie Talkie”, the new single and latest video from Laughing Matter! Lookin’ like it might’ve beamed in directly from sideways post-punk pastward futures, “Walkie Talkie” shines brightly with the reflective sheen of Wand’s modern flicker. Muted neon colors swallow seething imagery as Lee Landey and Evan Burrows’ emphatic rhythm section slams into Cory Hanson and Robbie Cody’s screaming guitars, whilst Sofia Arrequin’s warped Morse keyboards sew the song together at the edges.

You can pre-order the record HERE and check out the Wand’s extensive tour dates below.

WAND ON TOUR IN THE USA AND EUROPE
03/19 @ Soda Bar in San Diego, CA
04/19 @ Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA
05/02 @ The Independen in San Francisco, CAt
05/03 @ Richard’s Goat in Arcata, CA
05/06 @ Sunset Tavern in Seattle, WA
05/09 @ Mississippi in Portland, OR
05/25 @ Electric Brixton in London, UK
05/27 @ Botanique @ Orangerie in Brussels, BEL
05/28 @ Hafenklang in Hamburg, DE
05/30 @ Privatclub in Berlin, DE
05/31 @ Zakk in Dusseldorf, GER
06/01 @ Vera in Groningen, NL
06/02 @ Petit Bain in Paris, FR
06/03 @ Sonic in Lyon, FR
06/04 @ ISC in Bern, SUI
06/05 @ Le Brise Glace in Annecy, FR
06/06 @ Krakatoa in Bordeaux, FR
060/7 @ Mc Daids in Le Havre, FR
06/08 @ Ekko in Utrecht, NL
06/19 @ Hi Dive in Denver, CO
06/20 @ White Schoolhouse in Lawrence, KS
06/21 @ Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, MN
06/22 @ University of Wisconsin – Madison in Madison, WI
06/23 @ Sleeping Village in Chicago, IL
06/25 @ Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, ON
06/26 @ Ritz in Montreal, QC
06/27 @ Press Room in Portsmouth, NH
06/28 @ Great Scott in Boston, MA
06/29 @ Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI
06/30 @ Solid Sound in North Adams, MA
07/02 @ BSP in Kingston, NY
07/03 @ Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, PA
07/05 @ Elsewhere Roof in Brooklyn, NY
07/06 @ Songbyrd in Washington, DC
07/07 @ Cat’s Cradle – Back Room in Carrboro, NC
07/09 @ DRKMTTR in Nashville, TN
07/10 @ Earl in Atlanta, GA
07/11 @ Gasa Gasa in New Orleans, LA
07/12 @ Satellite in Houston, TX
07/13 @ Mohawk (inside) in Austin, TX
07/15 @ Love Buzz in El Paso, TX
07/16 @ Sister in Albuquerque, NM
07/17 @ Last Exit in Phoenix, AZ

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return on Friday April 26th 2019 with Fishing for Fishies. Released on Flightless Records world-wide, the band have shared their latest Jason Galea directed video to the album’s title track, Fishing For Fishies.

The fourteenth album since their 2012 debut – and their first following the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 – Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains. From the soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of ‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real’s Not Real’ – it’s a dizzying, dazzling display which addresses a number of pertinent environmental issues along the way.

“We tried to make a blues record,” says frontman Stu Mackenzie. “A blues-boogie-shuffle-kinda-thing, but the songs kept fighting it – or maybe it was us fighting them. Ultimately though we let the songs guide us this time; we let them have their own personalities and forge their own path. Paths of light, paths of darkness. This is a collection of songs that went on wild journeys of transformation.”