Watch Father John Misty encounter a strange hotel check-in in the official video for “Mr. Tillman,” co-directed by Jeff Desom (Health, Hauskcha) & Carlos Lopez Estrada (Clipping, Blindspotting) [link here]. The single is from God’s Favorite Customer, his fourth album worldwide on June 1st, 2018 through Sub Pop, with the exception of Europe through Bella Union.

Chastity (aka Brandon Williams) has released the politically charged video for “Children,” taken from the upcoming album Death Lust, to be released Friday, July 13th via Captured Tracks. You can pre-order a copy of the album HERE.

Chastity is a world of its own from the mind of Brandon Williams. Reflecting the working class background of Whitby, Ontario, Chastity’s songs are charged with the ethos of archetypal youth on the fringe. A project more aptly characterized by its intentions than specific sound or medium, Chastity stands to confront the struggles of those existing in the unseen, often silenced periphery. It is an artifact of youth culture constantly working to form community, bridging isolation with collectivity.

Death Lust follows the plot of suffering to survival. The album begins on a tortured note with ‘Come’ and builds toward the plummeting finale of ‘Chains’, evolving from start to finish in a crescendo of severity. Chastity explains, “Death Lust is about growing up death obsessed. It’s about the pain that it takes but the capacity that we have to overcome.”

New York-based Max Clarke will release Hollow Ground, his debut album as Cut Worms, on May 4th via Jagjaguwar. This new video for “Cash For Gold” was directed by Elizabeth Skadden.

This track follows Cut Worms style of storytelling and the influence of the more simple sounds of the 50s/60s. It is easy to hear past groups here like The Everly Brothers or the Finn Brothers (Crowded House) but Cut Worms nicely fits in with modern artists such as The Tallest Man In The World, S. Carey or Michael Rault.

Cut Worms Tour Dates:
Thu. May 3 – San Diego, CA @ Casbah *
Fri. May 4 – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar *
Sat. May 5 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf *
Mon. May 7 – Houston, TX @ Rockefeller Hall *
Tue. May 8 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda *
Wed. May 9 – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada *
Fri. May 11 – New Orleans, LA @ One-Eyed Jacks *
Sat. May 12 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl w/ King Tuff
Sun. May 13 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East *
Mon. May 14 – Lexington, KY @ The Burl *
Tue. May 15 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
Wed. May 16 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel *
Fri. May 18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg *
Sat. May 19 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church *
Sun. May 20 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *
Mon. May 21 – Montreal, QC @ L’escografie
Tue. May 22 – Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground *
Wed. May 23 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern *
Thu. May 24 – Detroit, MI @ El Club *
Fri. May 25 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
Sat. May 26 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club *
Tue. May 29 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall *
Wed. May 30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *
Fri. June 1 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile *
Sat. June 2 – Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club *
Sun. March 3 – Portland, OR @ Star Theater *
Tue. June 5 – San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
Thu. June 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom *
Fri. June 8-Sun. June 10 – Sonoma, CA @ Huichica Music Festival
Fri. Aug. 3 – Sun. Aug. 5 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
Thu. Aug 30 – Sun. Sept. 2 – Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Thu. Sept. 6 – London, UK @ The Shacklewell Arms

* w/ King Tuff

2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s classic album Exile In Guyville and on May 4th, Matador Records will release Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set. The upcoming release is an extensive, limited edition 7-LP or 3-CD box set to celebrate the anniversary of her classic album. The box set contains the first official restored audio of all three 1991 Girly-Sound tapes from the original cassettes. It also contains the 1993 Exile In Guyville album remastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge. You can pick up a copy HERE.

Here is the original video for “Stratford-On-Guy,” which has been newly digitized and upscaled to HD, directed by Liz Phair herself! Liz’s first-hand account of how the “Stratford-On-Guy” video came to be:

“We were in talks with labels about the second record – Matador was being courted by Atlantic – and Danny Goldberg came backstage to meet me. I told him about my idea for the next video – ‘Stratford-On-Guy’ – explaining that we were stalled due to budget constraints. He asked ‘what do you need?’ I said, ‘a private plane to fly over downtown LA and get footage at night.’ I wanted to shoot the electric veins of the city. He just said, ‘done!’ It was one of those real rock star moments.

So my husband, his friend Michael Mees, who was the DP, and I went up in this 8 seater Lear Jet and got the greatest footage ever. We were literally flying sideways so Michael could shoot straight down over the rooftops of all the buildings. We were executing these tight turns above the skyscrapers and the G force was incredible. You could feel your internal organs dragging to the other side of your body cavity. Michael was using this really heavy camera and Jim, my husband, had to hold onto him as we shot. The lens of the camera was pressing down against the window pane and I remember Michael nervously joking – and not really in jest – that the glass beneath him better hold. It was so fun. We made two approaches into the airport so we could capture that fantastic runway lighting. Those images are etched in my memory forever. I seem to recall I somehow wedged my head up between the pilots like a dog peering over the backseat so I could see that awesome 180* cockpit view, too. Good times!”

Check out the new video from Connections which features the Los Angeles based comedy group The Dickheads. “Love Me Still” is from the Connections forthcoming album Foreign Affairs via Trouble In Mind Records on May 11.

Liverpool’s synth-shoegaze quartet, Ladytron are back and have released this short film for “The Animals,” their first single in seven years. Directed by Fernando Nogari, the short film is a love letter to São Paulo that follows a group of young people on a sensory, violent, and joyous trip through the megalopolis’ underworld, creating a snapshot of Brazil’s dark, contemporary moment where shifting mores regarding culture, gender, spirituality, and identity collide.

A second single will follow in the summer, followed in the fall by a new album, both available for pre-order as limited deluxe editions via Pledge Music HERE.

Snow Patrol has premiered “Don’t Give In,” the lead single from Wildness, their first record in seven years. Said lead singer and songwriter, Gary Lightbody about the song: “‘Don’t Give In” was originally about a friend going through a tough time but the more I wrote into it I realized it was about me and the struggle of making the album – which took 5 years and was not easy – coupled with the struggle with depression I’ve had since I was a kid, so it has become the talisman of the album. The song that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Wildness is out May 25th via Republic Records. You can pre-order a copy HERE.

Here is the first video from the EP In The Future, from the current EP and forthcoming fifth Failure album. The video features David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man, Blade Runner 2049) and was directed by Ken Andrews.
“Dark Speed” is one of the four songs from the In The Future EP, which is out now. Special offerings and bundles are available at Pledgemusic, with subscriptions for the full series of releases available via failurebandmerch.com. The EP was produced by Failure and mixed by Ken Andrews.