Los Angeles – Rey Pila has announced they will be supporting Interpol on their upcoming tour, starting September 15 in Vancouver, BC and have been added to this year’s incredible Austin City Limits Festival line up. The Mexico City quartet released a new track, “Blast”, earlier this month, in conjunction with announcing an August New York City residency
Los Angeles – New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook is currently on tour in North America, playing songs from her new album Brightly Painted One, out now on Flying Nun Records. NPR premiered the video which was shot, directed and even edited by Neil Finn while the two were touring together in Europe last month. Bob Boilen writes
Los Angeles – Tame Impala has released Live Versions, an album of songs selected from a 2013 Chicago Tame Impala concert on Interscope Records. Chief songwriter Kevin Parker chose the 9 tracks for the record based on how different the live versions are from the album versions. Parker’s goal was to give fans something they
New York – The Black Angels are excited to announce that their new offering Clear Lake Forest is out now via Blue Horizon. Clear Lake Forest saw a limited vinyl release on Record Store Day, but the 7-track set sees a much wider release today in a variety of formats, including 12″ clear vinyl, CD and
New York – British electronic breakout group Clean Bandit have jumped to #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 with their international smash single, “Rather Be” ft. Jess Glynne, and announced details of their first-ever North American headline tour. The dates (listed below) – which celebrate the group’s new debut album, New Eyes, out now on Big Beat/Atlantic Records – get underway September 15th at Toronto’s
New York – Chelsea Grin’s new studio album Ashes To Ashes (released via Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie) charges onto the charts this week debuting at #27 on the Billboard Top 200 with over 10,100 albums sold in its first week of release. This marks Chelsea Grin’s highest career charting debut and also their biggest U.S. sales week. The album also enters on a number of other Billboard charts including #4 at
Los Angeles – Glasgow two-piece Honeyblood have premiered the eye-catching video for lead single “Super Rat,” along with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album. The video, directed by Camille Bennett, sees the duo “exploding romantic tropes” according to the director, creating a stylish and memorable accompaniment to the air-punching anthem of seismic proportions.
Bristol, UK - Glass Animals are pleased to unveil their reworking of Kanye West’s ‘Love Lockdown’. Having premiered the track live on Australia’s Triple J earlier this year, the band received an ecstatic reaction to it during their Glastonbury performance last month, and it has subsequently become a live favourite across their current sold-out US tour. Produced
New York – Speedy Ortiz are currently in the midst of a month of festival hopping (Bonnaroo, 4 Knots, NXNE, Pitchfork), which is to say that the extremely hard-working band only has to play one or two shows a week instead of seven. To celebrate this brief respite, the band, in conjunction with Adult Swim,
New York – “Get these rocks out of my mouth,” Chris Porterfield pleads on “Wings,” a brand new song off of Field Report’s forthcoming Marigolden, which premiers today. This line echoes a theme that runs throughout much of the new album — Porterfield’s complicated relationship with alcohol, sobriety, and reflection on his new life as a touring