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Watch: ‘Hide & Seek’ by the Jesus Lizard

Posted: 5 June 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Hide & Seek, Ipecac Recordings, New Album, New single, Rack, The Jesus Lizard, Tour Dates, video stream

the Jesus Lizard, undeniably one of the most iconic and influential bands to emerge in the late 20th century, return with Rack, their first new album since 1998’s Blue, on Sept. 13 via Ipecac Recordings.

A preview of the 11-song album arrives today with the release of ‘Hide & Seek,’ a track David Yow describes as “a perky ditty about a witch who can’t behave, and it’s got nearly as many hooks as a Mike Tyson fight.” An accompanying video captures the foursome of Duane Denison, Mac McNeilly, David Wm. Sims, and Yow as they recorded the “ditty” with Producer Paul Allen at Nashville’s Audio Eagle Studio.

Check ‘Hide & Seek’ here:

“There are definitely some references to the past,” Denison says, in reference to the album, adding, “but it’s more as a point of departure: We don’t stay there.”

the Jesus Lizard reconvened in 2009 for a finite number of shows, and have spent the intervening years as both friends in close contact with one another, and touring bandmates. “We literally only made the record because we thought it would be fun to make the record,” Sims shares. With McNeilly highlighting the strong relationship amongst the musicians: “We are bonded by the music we make, and also by the respect we have for each other.”

The band has also announced tour dates, stretching well in to 2025, with more performances to come:

June 6 Nashville, TN Third Man Records SOLD OUT

June 8 Pomona, CA No Values

June 9 Garden Grove, CA Garden Amp

September 7 Raleigh, NC Hopscotch Music Festival

October 13 Las Vegas, NV Best Friends Forever Music Festival

October 31 Dallas, TX Longhorn Ballroom

November 1 Austin, TX TBA

December 9 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE

December 11 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel

December 12 Boston, MA Roadrunner

December 13 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer

December 14 Washington, DC Black Cat

December 18 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

January 7 Glasgow, UK QMU

January 8 Manchester, UK Academy 2

January 9 Leeds, UK Brudenell Social Club

January 10 Bristol, UK Fleece

January 11 London, UK Electric Ballroom

January 12 Brighton, UK Concorde 2

January 14 Belfast, UK The Limelight

January 15 Dublin, IE Button Factory

May 2 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern

May 3 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre

May 5 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

May 8 Portland, OR Revolution Hall

May 10 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre

Listen: ‘Disciple’ by Wheel

Posted: 22 April 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Charismatic Leaders, Disciple, epic, InsideOut Music, Neoprog, progesssive, progressive mtal, Single, Tour Dates, track stream, Wheel

Anglo-Finnish progressive metallers Wheel recently announced the release of their much-anticipated third studio album Charismatic Leaders on the 3rd May 2024 (InsideOutMusic). The album was meticulously crafted to meet Wheel’s ever-heightening benchmarks and recording with engineers/co-producers Daniel Bergstrand and Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) stretched from August to December 2023. The end result, mixed by Forrester Savell, has consolidated all the gains of what came before: singer/guitarist James Lascelles, lead guitarist Jussi Turunen and drummer Santeri Saksala’s third album represents their heaviest and most conscious music to date.

Today they launch the albums third single, ‘Disciple’, and you can listen now here:

The band will be celebrating the release of their new album with their first ever shows in Australia (supporting label-mates Caligula’s Horse) as well as their first ever North American headline shows. Later in the year the band will return to Europe for further headline dates, and you can find the full list below:

31^st October – Olympia, Tampere, Finland

1^st November – Sawohouse UG, Kuopio, Finland

2^nd November – On The Rocks, Helsinki, Finland

7^th November – Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland

8^th November – Finlandia-Klubi, Lahti, Finland

9^th November – 45 Special, Oulu, Finland

15^th November – Logo, Hamburg, Germany

16^th November – Melkweg Up, Amsterdam, Netherlands

17^th November – 013, Tilburg, Netherlands

19^th November – Rebellion, Manchester, UK

20^th November – Cathouse, Glasgow, UK

21^st November – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK

22^nd November – 1865, Southampton, UK

23^rd November – Underworld, London, UK

24^th November – Thekla, Bristol, UK

26^th November – Kavka, Antwerp, Belgium

27^th November – Luxor, Cologne, Germany

28^th November – Colos Saal, Aschaffenburg, Germany

30^th November – Backstage, Paris, France

2^nd December – Komplex, Zurich, Switzerland

3^rd December – Legend, Milan, Italy

4^th December – Backstage Halle, Munich, Germany

5^th December – Analog Music Hall, Budapest, Hungary

6^th December – Chelsea, Vienna, Austria

8^th December – Hyrdrozagadka, Warsaw, Poland

10^th December – Lido, Berlin, Germany

11^th December – Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

12^th December – John Dee, Oslo, Norway

13^th December – Nalen Klubb, Stockholm, Sweden

Listen: ‘I Feel Nothing When You Cry’ by Thou

Posted: 10 April 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Full Of Hell, I Feel Nothing When You Cry, Sacred Bones, Thou, Tour Dates, track stream, Umbillical

"They’ve called us anarchists, criminals, foreign meddlers, lunatics, dispossessed, relativists, utilitarians, egoists, passion maximizers, ascetics, negators of everything. Clearly, the "Thou" experiment is never going to appeal to audiences who demand that art rigorously enforce a coherent and righteous worldview.
And yet, are we not ourselves constrained by our own rigid morality? In those quiet moments of deep contemplation, when the bargains and concessions are thoroughly examined, when we yield before the Judging Eye–what is the summation of our choices? If the unspoiled self beyond the immensity of time were given voice, what pronouncements would be made? What would such an internal audit yield? What undeniable character would be revealed?

This record is for the radicals, the crackpots, the exiles who have escaped the wasteland of capitulation. This record is for the militants and zealots refusing to surrender to comforts, to practicalities, to thirty pieces of silver. And this record is most especially for the weaklings and malingerers, burdened by capricious indulgence, hunched by the deep wounds of compromise, shuffling in limp approximation, desperately reaching back towards integrity and conviction." – Thou

Thou has always been a force of raw energy and unapologetic dissent, defying easy categorisation and challenging listeners to confront the complexities of existence. Their forthcoming album, Umbilical, is their firmest nod to the raw intensity of obscure ’90s DIY hardcore punk. It’s a record filled with mosh-ready riffs, heavy breakdowns and scathing vocals. The band’s aesthetic and political impulses have always been punk and like anyone embroiled in the subculture Thou have been exploring what it means to exist within and without a rigid morality. That exploration takes thematic centre on Umbilical and their self-assessment is as harsh as that of the world around them.

Today Thou share their seething lead single and album centrepiece, “I Feel Nothing When You Cry” of which the band tell is “A throwaway mantra scraped from the necrotic skin of syndicated television. A lugubrious nod to our favourite commode-crooning diva, one of her most diabolically terse lines. With the sweet, sultry whispers of a legendary New Orleans faerie. This might be as close as we’ll get to a positive, youth crew anthem. ‘This song has nothing original or of value. It’s a steady beat for dancing feet. You got what you wanted, now say the words…’”

Listen to “I Feel Nothing When You Cry” here:

Thou Live Dates:

Apr 13: New Orleans, LA – Palestine Benefit at Fred Hampton Free Store
May 04: Providence, RI – AS220
Jul 28: New Orleans, LA – The Broadside (w/ The Body + Dis Fig and Nail Club)
Sep 13-15: Richmond, VA – Persistent Vision Fest
Aug 14: The Zoo – Brisbane, AU *
Aug 15: Mary’s Underground – Sydney, AU *
Aug 16: The Baso – Canberra, AU *
Aug 17: Stay Gold – Melbourne, AU *
Aug 18: Crown & Anchor – Adelaide, AU *
Aug 23: Rolling Stone – Christchurch, NZ *
Aug 24: Meow – Wellington, NZ *
Aug 25: Galatos – Auckland, NZ *

* w/ Full of Hell

Watch: ‘Working the Ditch’ by Melvins

Posted: 6 February 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
Tags: Ipecac Recordings, Jesse Nieminen, Melvins, Single, Tarantula Heart, Tour Dates, video stream, Working The Ditch

The Melvins’ latest opus, Tarantula Heart (April 19, Ipecac Recordings), is quite possibly the band’s most unconventional, catchiest and imaginative work yet, continuing a legacy celebrated for its eccentric and extraordinary output.

A preview of the five-song, 39-minute collection arrives with the release of ‘Working The Ditch,’ and the accompanying Jesse Nieminen-created video. Nieminen previously directed the band’s short film, ‘A Walk With Love and Death.’

Watch the video here:

“The way we approached Tarantula Heart was different than any other Melvins’ album,” explains Buzz Osborne. “I had Dale and Roy Mayorga come in and play along with Steven and I to some riffs, then I took those sessions and figured out what parts would work and wrote new music to fit. This isn’t a studio approach we’ve ever taken. Usually we have the songs written BEFORE we start recording!”

“The majority of Tarantula Heart has dual drum parts,” adds long-time Melvins drummer Dale Crover. “Roy is an amazing drummer. We would discuss what we would do pattern wise, then we’d just go for it. Improvising riffs and trading off on drum fills.”

In actuality nothing appeared out of thin air. Buzz spent hours and hours with the drum tracks by himself writing songs to what he was hearing drum wise. “When the rest of the band heard these songs I’d created from the sessions, they were blown away,” Buzz shares. “These were fully developed new songs that they’d never heard before that had seemingly appeared out of thin air. Presto!”

Recorded, mixed and co-produced by longtime Melvins’ collaborator Toshi Kasai, the album also features We Are The Asteroid guitar player Gary Chester. Gary and the Melvins’ history goes back to their days on Boner Records, with the guitar player formerly having been a part of the legendary band, Ed Hall.

Next month sees the Melvins head overseas, playing in Japan for the first time since 2019 following a stint where they join current labelmates, Mr. Bungle, for a trek across Australia and New Zealand. Buzz and Bungle bass player Trevor Dunn team up later this year for the “King Dunn Tour,” a 45-date excursion that sees the pair play songs from the King Buzzo releases: This Machine Kills Artists and Gift of Sacrifice. The full list of dates can be found via Ipecac.com/tours.

Melvins tour dates:

March 3 Auckland, NZ Auckland Town Hall

March 6 Melbourne, AUS Festival Hall

March 7 Adelaide, AUS Hindley Street Music Hall

March 9 Sydney, AUS Hordern Pavilion

March 10 Brisbane, AUS Fortitude Music Hall

March 12 Perth, AUS Metro City

March 17 Osaka, JP Music Club Janus

March 19 Tokyo, JP Shibuya WWW X

March 20 Tokyo, JP Shibuya WWW X

Watch: ‘Pissed in the Baths’ by Polevaulter

Posted: 29 January 2024 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Bass, Hang Wave, Harsh, militant dance, Pissed In The Baths, Polevaulter, Post-Punk, Single, Tour Dates, video stream

Leeds based militant dance-punk duo Polevaulter dropped their debut album ‘Hang Wave’ on Friday to widespread acclaim.

If you haven’t heard it yet, it’s a superb sonic assault of seismically sharp bass and loin-grinding beats, and we wrote about it at length recently.

Now following the album release and ahead of their UK / EU tour starting this week, Polevaulter have unveiled a brand-new video for the album’s latest single ‘Pissed In The Baths’, which you can watch here:

The sonic assault the two create is almost arrogant, fathered from the marriage of seismically sharp bass and loin-grinding beats. The words are quipped and brayed atop the aural landscape. They are boastful, accusing, repellent and inviting, they question and skewer the veins of masculinity, sexuality, the order of things, the music industry and the miserable reality of the North. Polevaulter have toured with JOHN, shared a stage with Thank, Mandy Indiana, Pink Turns Blue, Bambara, A Place To Bury Strangers, VR Sex, and others.

Now, following the album release and ahead of their UK / EU tour starting this week, Polevaulter have unveiled a brand new video for the album’s latest single ‘Pissed In The Baths’.

On writing the track, Polevaulter’s Jon Franz explains; “Pissed In The Baths came about from Dan’s chorus riff which he just pulled out of thin air, we made the verses more straight and got it to swing with my delay. I wrote the lyrics pretty quickly on a bus to the doctors, lyrically it’s about manifesting strength and about us setting sail, I tied the chorus into it as those lines came from a while ago about warming oceans and rising sea levels, it all got glued together.”

The result is a cacophonous injection of climate change activism, brimming with hypnotic beats and thick fuzzy bass and glossed in a coat of sharp unnerving darkness. Chaotic and smashing you in the face with its tidal wave of full-on noise and addictive shouted refrains, Polevaulter are not holding any punches with ‘Pissed In The Baths’ as they continue on their bulldozer-like mission to tear up boundaries.

Debut Polevaulter album ‘Hang Wave’, is a hard-hitting dark and fiercely off-kilter slab of awesome sickly noise alongside baritone-led lyricism acerbic, vitriolic and intense throughout, raising eyebrows and dropping jaws. The album features recent hits like ‘Trend’ and newly released single ‘Violently Ill’ which Polevaulter’s Jon Franz explains- “has more sparse vocals than most of our tracks, gives our music a chance to shine. Its maybe my favourite song on the album.” Other tracks like ‘Pissed In The Baths’, ‘Mint Condition’ and ‘Mia Goth Made Me Do It’ all stand out in what is essentially an absolute mind melting juggernaut of a punk electro dance record for 2024, which lays down the gauntlet from a studio perspective alongside Polevaulter’s diligent process to earnestly take the title of ‘hardest working band in showbusiness’.

Polevaulter weren’t always a duo though as Jon Franz recalls, “We were steaming along as a post-punk band with various noise elements and then lost some members over covid, but me and Dan wanted to keep going. We thought about starting a new band, but we felt that this still had legs. Ultimately, it’s not that different, me and Dan did most of the composition, and we’ve got a clear vision on what we want to do. After touring last year as a two-piece, figuring out whether we could even do it, we realised there’s definitely no reason to stop – and it’s definitely getting better every time we have a round of gigs. I like not carrying instruments around – that’s quite nice. Although, having said that, we’re a duo now and we have more amps, which is weird. Dan has three amps now, and I have two.”

The album was co-produced by longtime friend and artist Shaene Hunter which straddles confidently atop several themes, to which Jon Franz says, “This being our first album or our maiden voyage, I dunno why, but I like a lot of nautical terminology and see that kind of visual imagery when this album was being made. I also write a lot of lyrics about things that directly affect me, like my masculinity, my mind, about being tough and overly arrogant to sell the image of us we’ve created. We have a lot of reference points that I work in, and since we’ve become a two piece, I think there is a lot more depth to everything we do now. We’ve made ‘Hang Wave’ because it’s about time we made this kind of a statement about who we are, what we want to do and what we sound like after multiple line-up changes and situations slowed the progress me and Dan were desperate to make. Since we’ve been a two piece, we’ve got far more done, and we both feel really proud of this album, and we feel strongly that it will do what we need it to do.”

Polevaulter recently performed their debut album on repeat for 8 hours straight via a livestream to raise funds for the Gaza Sunbirds, a para cycling team based in the Gaza Strip. The team is currently providing emergency food parcels and aid to families sheltering around the Gaza Strip. Watch the livestream back here:

– And to donate visit: https://www.justgiving.com/page/polevaulterforgazasunbirds

Polevaulter will tour the UK and EU as follows:

Jan 31^st – The Fenton, Leeds – Album launch

Feb 2nd – Hatch, Sheffield

Feb 3rd – Little Buildings, Newcastle

Feb 6th – New Adelphi, Hull

Feb 7th – The Lounge, Manchester

Feb 8th – Old Blue Last, London

Feb 9th – Bear Cave, Bournemouth w/ JOHN

Feb 10th – Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes w/ JOHN

Feb 13th – DAda, Toulouse, France

Feb 14th – TBA, France

Feb 15th – Le Lezard, France

Feb 16th – Melody Maker, Rennes, France

Watch: ‘Genome’ by Stickman

Posted: 28 August 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: anthemic, Criminal Records, Cyanide Smile, disco punk, Genome, Lawnmower Deth, midlife crisis, Mr Bungle, Stickman, Tour Dates, video stream

Welsh disco-punkers Stickman announce their debut album Cyanide Smile. Due to release this Autumn, the record shares the flamboyant fruits of their summer touring & studio sessions.

Described as ‘disco punk with a touch of mid-life crisis’ their sound is unmistakable. Essentially anthemic alt.punk, their craft effortlessly switches up genres, complete with soaring choruses and dynamic melodies.

Lead-off single ‘My Genome’ is the first offering from the eagerly anticipated record, releasing alongside their geometric music video, shot in 6:4. Watch the vid here:

The debut album ‘Cyanide Smile’ is due to release 20th October via Criminal Records.

For Fans Of: The Darkness, Lawnmower Deth, Mr Bungle, Electric Six, Massive Wagons, Royal Republic

UPCOMING DATES

26th Aug – Carmarthen Music Festival, CWRW (Headliner)
2nd Sept – Frog and fiddle, Cheltenham w/BrokenJaw
9th Sept – Hangar 18 w/Stop Stop
20th October – EJ’s Llanelli (Headliner)
17th November – EJ’s Llanelli (Stickman’s Christmas bash)
26th May – Breaking Bands Festival (Headliner)

Listen: ‘These Wires’ by KEN mode

Posted: 27 August 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Artoffact Records, Bandcamp, epic, Heavy, KEN mode, These Wires, Tour Dates, track stream, Void

KEN mode has released ‘These Wires,’ the latest single from its upcoming album, VOID.

The sequel to last year’s acclaimed NULL album, VOID will be released September 22nd on Artoffact Records.

Stream ‘These Wires’ here:

KEN mode frontman Jesse Matthewson gives this statement about the new song: "Why would anything feel right again? Do you get the sense that a lot of people have been fundamentally damaged by the pandemic? The psychological fallout of this event is going to be seen for years to come, and this is its anthem."

An 8-minute epic, building from an icy lament into a deluge of distress, "These Wires" is perhaps the song that best expresses VOID’s story of sorrow and dismay. Centered around a simple piano melody, courtesy of newest member Kathryn Kerr, and Matthewson’s fragile spoken words, the song erupts into thunderous rhythms, propelled by the machine-like interplay of bassist Skot Hamilton and Jesse’s brother Shane Matthewson on drums. Jesse’s pleas hit with all the directness of Henry Rollins (whose "KEN mode" acronym, described in his book, Get in the Van, provided the Matthewsons with the inspiration for their band’s name, almost 25 years ago) as he belts out the song’s crucial six-word phrase: "Why would anything feel right again?"

Released in September of last year, KEN mode’s eighth album, NULL, was inspired by the bleakest days of the COVID-19 pandemic and saw the band create some of the rawest, harshest material of its career. The album also marked the official debut of multi-instrumentalist Kerr, who helped install a new palette of No Wave and industrial-tinged sounds into the band’s trademark mix of metallic hardcore and noise rock.

Amongst other honors, NULL earned KEN mode the front cover of Decibel Magazine, wherein the music was described as "evocative, guttural, Howl-esque poetry laid over frantic, Godflesh-ian soundscapes." A review from Stereogum stated: "NULL is KEN mode at their peak as composers."

Arriving exactly one year after NULL, VOID is KEN mode’s ninth full-length album. More than merely the follow-up to NULL, VOID is a companion to that album, inspired by the same events, and written and recorded within the same time frame. Where NULL embodied the chaos and shock of the early days of the pandemic, VOID is the sound of disappointment and sadness that followed.

Upon VOID’s release in September, KEN mode will embark on a tour of Europe, including dates with Fange and Lingua Ignota, followed by US dates with Baroness and a slot on the next Decibel Metal & Beer Fest in Denver.

Tour:

Sep 24 – Porto, PT @ Amplifest

Sep 26 – Rouen, FR @ Le 106 w/Fange

Sep 27 – Lille, FR @ L’Aéronef w/Fange

Sep 28 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephémère w/Fange

Sep 29 – Angoulême, FR @ La Nef w/Fange

Sep 30 – Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ La Coopérative de Mai w/Fange

Oct 1 – Yverdon-Les-Bains, CH @ L’Amalgame

Oct 2 – Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez w/Fange

Oct 3 – Dresden, DE @ Ostpol w/Fange

Oct 4 – Wroclaw, PL @ Klub Łącznik w/Fange

Oct 5 – Berlin, DE @ Urban Spree w/Fange

Oct 7 – Aalborg, DK @ 1000 Fryd w/Fange

Oct 8 – Aarhus, DK @ HeadQuarters w/Fange

Oct 10 – Liege, BE @ La Zone w/Fange

Oct 11 – Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat w/Fange

Oct 12 – Bruxelles, BE @ Le Botanique w/Fange

Oct 13 – Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin

Oct 14 – London, UK @ Islington Assembly Hall w/Lingua Ignota

Oct 31 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre w/Baroness

Nov 3 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile w/Baroness

Nov 4 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre w/Baroness

Nov 6 – Edmonton, AB @ Union Hall w/Baroness

Nov 7 – Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre w/Baroness

Nov 10 – Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos Cantina

Nov 11 – Winnipeg, MB @ Good Will Social Club w/Tunic

Dec 1 – Denver, CO @ Decibel Metal & Beer Festival

Photo: Brenna Faris Photography

Listen: ‘Before I Knew the Truth’ by Liturgy

Posted: 1 March 2023 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: 93696, ArcTanGent, Before I Knew the Truth, BIG|BRAVE, Liturgy, Tour Dates, track stream, transcendental black metal

Ahead of the release of their sprawling double-album 93696, out March 24th, Liturgy shares new single ‘Before I Knew The Truth’. Bounding with an incalculable momentum, "Before I Knew The Truth" exemplifies the new album’s equilibrium between meticulous composition and unbound ecstasy. Incendiary guitars glitch and fracture throughout, contorting and stuttering at lightning speed as keening vocals reach toward the sublime.

Following the release of 93696, Liturgy will be touring worldwide, including U.S. dates with support from labelmates BIG|BRAVE and sets at Big Ears Festival, Long Play and ArcTanGent.
The music of Liturgy is in a constant state of searching. In pursuit of larger truths, be they philosophical or personal, Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix and her band imbue their music with a sense of urgency and ceaseless longing.

93696 is a number derived from the religions of Christianity and Thelema, a numerological representation of heaven, or a new eon for civilization. Hunt-Hendrix composed the album as an exploration of eschatological possibility divided by the four “laws” that govern her own interpretation of heaven, “Haelegen”: Sovereignty, Hierarchy, Emancipation, and Individuation. These laws constitute the four movements of 93696 which act as dramas all their own within the framework of the record. Throughout the movements Hunt- Hendrix invokes the album’s myriad of personal and conceptual themes through the ensemble’s sheer force of sound, her will and intent blossoming from each bombarding gale.

Taken in its entirety, 93696 reflects the awe of the unknowable and celebrates what revelations and mysteries lie ahead.

Listen to Liturgy’s 93696 single ‘Before I Knew The Truth’ here:

Liturgy 2023 tour dates:

Mar. 23 – Brooklyn, NY – TV Eye (93696 album release show)
Mar. 30 – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
May 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Long Play Festival
Jun. 10 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB *
Jun. 11 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison *
Jun. 13 – Buffalo, NY – Mohawk *
Jun. 14 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop *
Jun. 15 – Detroit, MI – Sanctuary *
Jun. 16 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle *
Jun. 17 – St Paul, MN – Turf Club *
Jun. 18 – Fargo, ND – The Aquarium *
Jun. 21 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island Festival *
Jun. 23 – Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Jazz Fest *
Jun. 24 – Seattle, WA – Substation *
Jun. 25 – Portland, OR – Star Theater *
Jun. 27 – Sacramento, CA – Cafe Colonial *
Jun. 28 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent *
Jun. 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Resident *
Jun. 30 – Mesa, AZ – The Nile Underground *
Jul. 1 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar *
Jul. 3 – Austin, TX – The Lost Well *
Jul. 4 – Houston, TX – The End *
Jul. 5 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa *
Jul. 7 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl *
Jul. 8 – Raleigh, NC – The Pour House *
Jul. 9 – Philadelphia, PA – Milk Boy *
Aug 16-19 – Bristol, UK – ArcTanGent Festival
* w/ BIG|BRAVE

BIG|BRAVE announce extensive tour dates for Spring 2023

Posted: 12 January 2023 in Previews and Editorial
Tags: BIG|BRAVE, Donaufestival and Desertfest, Europe, Live, nature morte, New Album, Roadburn Festival, Spring 2023, Thrill Jockey, Tour Dates, UK

Following the announcement of their monolithic new album nature morte, out February 24th, Canadian trio BIG|BRAVE has announced an extensive European tour for spring 2023. The tour includes performances at Roadburn Festival, Donaufestival and Desertfest, among others. The trio’s first nature morte single "carvers, farriers and knaves" captures the album’s striking balance between expansive atmospherics and direct emotional drive, guitar and vocals twisting atop thundering drums to create one of the most bracing and relentless pieces in the band’s ouvre.

BIG|BRAVE are an elemental trio who harness an earthen heaviness composed of distorted and textural drones, austere bombast, and Wattie’s heart-rending voice. Like recent collaborators The Body, BIG|BRAVE is at the forefront of reconfiguring the landscape of heavy music. The trio brandish sparseness and density like weapons, cast tense atmospheres with languid tempos and mutate feedback into eruptions of enveloping tempests. nature morte sharpens BIG|BRAVE’s ferocity and expansive sound into emotional elegies for the disenfranchised, wringing abstracted textures and pure fervence into songs of unfathomable mass.

Those dates in full:

BIG|BRAVE spring 2023 EU tour dates:

Apr. 9 – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
Apr. 10 – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
Apr. 11 – Malmö, SE – Plan B
Apr. 12 – Oslo, NO Blå
Apr. 14 – Helsinki, FI – Kuudes Linja
Apr. 15 – Tallinn, EE – Sveta Baar
Apr. 16 – Riga, LV – Noass
Apr. 18 – Vilnius, LI – XI20
Apr. 19 – Warsaw, PL – Voodoo
Apr. 20 – Poznań, PL – Dom Tramwajarza
Apr. 21 – Berlin, DE – Urban Spree
Apr. 23 – Tilburg, NL – Roadburn Festival
Apr. 26 – Nurnberg, DE – KANTINE (beim Künstlerhaus)
Apr. 27 – Dresden, DE – Ostpol
Apr. 28 – Krems, AT – Donaufestival
Apr. 29 – Zagreb, HR – Kset
Apr. 30 – Bologna, IT – Circolo Dev
May 2 – Piediripa, IT (MC) Dong
May 4 – Busto Arsizio, IT – Circolo Gagarin
May 5 – Bulle, CH – Ebullition
May 7 – London, UK – Desertfest
May 9 – Manchester, UK – Soup Kitchen
May 10 – Glasgow, UK – Stereo
May 11 – Newcastle, UK – The Lubber Fiend
May 12 – Liverpool, UK – IWF Substation
May 13 – Norwich, UK – Voodoo Daddy
May 14 – Birmingham, UK – The Castle & Falcon
May 15 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
May 16 – Bristol, UK – Dareshack
May 17 – Brighton, UK – The Hope & Ruin
May 18 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique

Watch: ‘Refuturing’ by Maybeshewill – new album and live date announced

Posted: 7 October 2021 in Recommended Streams and Videos
Tags: Album, Live, Maybeshewill, new view, Post Rock, reformation, Refuturing, The Cure, Tour Dates, video stream

Since 2006 Maybeshewill have released four full-length albums of towering, cinematic instrumental music. After a decade long career that saw them tour across four continents they bowed out in 2016 with a sold out show at London’s Koko. Having reformed briefly in 2018 at the request of The Cure’s Robert Smith for a show at Meltdown Festival, 2021 sees the band return with their first new material since 2014’s Fair Youth. Having worked on ideas separately in the intervening years, it was the sketches of music that would become ‘No Feeling is Final’ that pulled the band back together. Building on the songs that they felt needed to be heard, together.

‘No Feeling is Final’ was born from a place of weary exasperation. From the knowledge that we’re living in a world hurtling towards self-destruction. We watch as forests burn and seas rise. As the worst tendencies of humanity are championed by those in power; rage, fear, greed and apathy. We see every injustice, every conflict, every catastrophe flash up on our screens. We stay complacent and consume to forget our complicity in the structures and systems that sustain that behaviour. As the world teeters on the edge of disaster, we sigh and keep scrolling, the uneasy feeling in our stomachs eating away at us a little more each day.

However easy it would be to switch off and pretend all is lost, there’s no choice but to remain engaged. To set that feeling of hopelessness aside and use the fear and frustration as fuel to make something positive.

‘No Feeling is Final’ is a message of hope and solidarity. It’s a story of growing grassroots movements across the world that are rejecting the doomed futures being sold to us, and imagining new realities based on equality and sustainability. It’s a reckoning with the demons in our histories and a promise to right the wrongs of the past. It’s a plea to take action in shaping the world we leave for future generations. It’s a simple gesture of reassurance to anyone else struggling in these troubled times: “Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Guitarist Robin Southby comments on the new video for first single ‘Refuturing’, directed by Fraser West,

“Conceptually, Refuturing (and the album as a whole) is concerned with the existential dread surrounding the climate crisis, how we understand our complicity in the crisis within the confines of our current morality system and ‘refuturing’ – rejecting existing power structures used to subjugate, and reimagining a future built on entirely new systems that are sustainable and beneficial to all.”

Watch the video now:

Maybeshewill will also perform their first London headline show since 2016 at Islington Assembly Hall on 15th December 2021. Tickets are on sale now.

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