Jon Spencer – “Do The Trash Can” [Video]

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Jon Spencer is back! Often imitated, never duplicated, the original NYC underground-rock legend returns from the wilderness with twelve red-hot hits, each more powerful than the last!

Jon Spencer has announced his first solo album Spencer Sings the Hits! which is out early fall 2018 via In The Red Records. You can now watch the first track “Do The Trash Can.”

Spencer is headlining a US Tour plus some dates with the Melvins. You can check them out below. The new record was recorded and mixed with Bill Skibbe at the Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI and features the talents of Sam Coomes (Quasi, Heatmeiser) and M. Sord (M. Sord).

Tour Dates:
07/29 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue*
07/30 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon*
07/31 – Chicago, IL – Park West*
08/01 – Goshen, IN – Ignition Music Garage
08/02 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme*
08/03 – Detroit, MI – El Club*
08/04 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
08/05 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue Theatre*
08/06 – Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Co*
08/07 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
08/08 – Champaign, IL – Memphis on Main
08/09 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar
08/10 – Cincinnati, OH – The Woodward Theater
08/11 – Toledo, OH – Ottawa Tavern
*with Melvins

Cullen Omori – “Happiness Reigns” [Video]

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On August 17th Cullen Omori will release his sophomore effort, The Diet via Sub Pop Records. Omori has shared a brand new video for the song, “Happiness Reigns”, which was directed by Sarah Strunin. “Reigns” was not only inspired by Omori’s current girlfriend—she was intricately involved in his vision for bringing this love song a la Beatles or Rolling Stones “into the 21st century.” “Seldom are songs actually about the women in my life, but when I choose to write them I try to act in conspiracy with my ‘muse,’” he says.

“On ‘Happiness Reigns,’ I was consciously trying to prevent the song from lyrically falling into this one-way ode to an idolized muse. Of course some of my favorite artists like T-Rex or John Cale have albums chock full of them but my intention was never to be a rock classicist or to make something that was an extension of my influences. So I had her write it with me. If I was going to write this about someone, even in vague terms, I thought it would be interesting to intertwine their perception of themselves and of our relationship.”

Tomberlin – “Self-Help” [Video]

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Tomberlin just recently signed to Saddle Creek and her debut, At Weddings, will be out August 10, 2018. Tomberlin has a new video for “Self-Help,” the lead single from At Weddings. At Weddings is available for pre-order now HERE.

ABOUT TOMBERLIN:
On her debut album At Weddings, Sarah Beth Tomberlin writes with the clarity and wisdom of an artist well beyond her years. Immeasurable space circulates within the album’s ten songs, which set Tomberlin’s searching voice against lush backdrops of piano and guitar. Like Julien Baker and Sufjan Stevens, she has a knack for transforming the personal into parable. Like Grouper, she has a feel for the transcendent within the ordinary.

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, and now based in Louisville, Kentucky, Tomberlin wrote most of At Weddings while living with her family in southern Illinois during her late teens and early twenties. At 16, she finished her homeschooling curriculum and went to college at a private Christian school she describes, only half-jokingly, as a “cult.” By 17, she had dropped out of school, returned home, and begun to face a period of difficult transition in her life. The daughter of a Baptist pastor, Tomberlin found herself questioning not only her faith, but her identity, her purpose, and her place in the world.

Tomberlin cites the hymns she grew up singing in church as her greatest musical influence, and while At Weddings in many ways documents the unlearning of her childhood faith, it’s easy to hear the reverential quality of sacred music in her songs. “A lot of hymns talk about really crazy stuff – being saved from the depths and the mire, judgment. When you actually realize what you’re singing, it becomes really overwhelming,” Tomberlin says. “I grew up singing in church. I was still helping to lead worship when I started coming to terms with the realization that I didn’t know if I believed. I felt nauseous and shaky reading these words I was singing and feeling their intensity. If I did believe this, how could I sing these words without being scared out of my mind? That’s what’s influenced how I write.”

At Weddings is laden with reverence for music itself, for the power it has to heal others and help people navigate their lives. It is a record about learning to love oneself and others without reservation, from a place of deep sincerity – a lifelong challenge whose tribulations Tomberlin articulates beautifully. “My number one goal with my music is for honesty and transparency that helps other people find ways to exist,” she says. With At Weddings, this remarkable young songwriter offers up comfort and wonder in equal measure.

Paul Orwell – “Speak Of The Devil” [Video]

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UK’s rock n roll revivalist Paul Orwell has returned and this video is the reason you should be excited. It has attitude, leather and chains. Enough said! “Speak Of The Devil” is the new single off Orwell’s upcoming full length SMUT that is due for release later this year.

Currently you can find the single available on 7″ at the link provided HERE.

The Beths – “Happy Unhappy” [Video]

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The Beths have shared a video for their single, “Happy Unhappy,” from Future Me Hates Me, their debut album coming out August 10th on Carpark Records. The video is directed by Callum Devlin.

All four members of The Beths studied jazz at university, resulting in a toolkit of deft instrumental chops and tricked-out arrangements that operate on a level rarely found in guitar-pop. The Beths’ guitarist and studio guru Jonathan Pearce (whose other acts as producer include recent Captured Tracks’ signing Wax Chattels) brings it all home with an approach that’s equal parts seasoned perfectionist and D.I.Y.

The Beths recently toured Europe and will begin a U.S. run next week at Alphaville in Brooklyn, NY. These early shows in support of Future Me Hates Me mark their first time ever playing outside of New Zealand and Australia. A full list of dates is below.

The Beths Tour Dates:
June 11th – Brooklyn, NY – Alphaville *
June 13th – Philadelphia, PA – Ortlieb’s
June 14th – Washington, DC – Loves Me Not
June 16th – Chicago, IL – Charm School
June 20th – San Francisco, CA – The Battery
June 22nd – Los Angeles, CA – Make Out Music

* w/ Peach Kelli Pop

Snail Mail – “Heat Wave” [Video]

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Here is the single and accompanying video for “Heat Wave,” from Snail Mail. The track is taken from her debut album Lush, which is out June 8th on Matador Records. Snail Mail is 18-year-old songwriter and guitar virtuoso Lindsey Jordan which you will see and hear on “Heat Wave.”

The video, directed by Brandon Herman, showcases Jordan’s ice hockey skills, a throwback to her days on the high-school team. “I hadn’t actually been on skates since I quit the high school team junior year, so immediately jumping into shooting this was equal parts difficult and super fun,” Jordan says.

Dick Stusso – “In Heaven” [Video]

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Dick Stusso, the Bay Area’s own “failure-prone fantasist in a cowboy hat” (East Bay Express), hits the road again next week for a run of dates with Sub Pop’s Jo Passed, preceded by a solo acoustic set opening for Angel Olsen at the Masonic Temple in Asheville, North Carolina. You can see his dates below.

Here is Stusso’s new music video for “In Heaven,” the title track from his recent Hardly Art debut. Filmed on 16mm, the video from director Sarah Strunin takes its inspiration from vintage Leonard Cohen and Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood clips.

TOUR DATES:
06.05.18 – Asheville, NC – Masonic Temple *
06.06.18 – Washington, DC – DC9 ^
06.07.18 – Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle ^
06.08.18 – Brooklyn, NY – Park Church Co-Op ^
06.09.18 – Allston, MA – Great Scott ^
06.10.18 – Providence, RI – Fete Music Hall ^
06.11.18 – Montreal, QC – Bar le Ritz ^
06.12.18 – Ottowa, CA – Makerspace North ^
06.13.18 – Detroit, MI – Marble Bar ^
06.14.18 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups ^
06.16.18 – Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village ^
08.10.18 – 08.12.18 – San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Festival

* – w/ Angel Olsen
^ – w/ Jo Passed

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