Faye Webster Shares New Track “Right Side of My Neck”
May 02, 2019
Atlanta based singer-songwriter Faye Webster has shared a new track, “Right Side of My Neck” off of her forthcoming debut LP Atlanta Millionaires Club due out May 24 via Secretly Canadian. The track finds the singer-songwriter in a moment of tender reflection, all muted R&B drums and smooth keys embroidered with some lush slide guitar.
In a statement accompanying the release, Webster had this to say: “For me I find that sometimes the best songs come out from the exact moment. This song I didn’t think about writing or what I was doing, I was fresh from a feeling and that’s when I get some of my most honest and relatable songs.”
Cate Le Bon
Cate Le Bon Shares New Track “The Light”
May 02, 2019
Welsh singer/songwriter/guitarist Cate Le Bon is releasing a new album, Reward, on May 24 via Mexican Summer. Now she has shared another song from the album, “The Light.” Listen below, followed by Le Bon’s upcoming tour dates.
Previously Le Bon shared Reward‘s first single, “Daylight Matters,” which was one of our Songs of the Week, as well as a video for “Daylight Matters.” Then she shared another new song from the album, “Home to You,” via a video for the track. Le Bon doesn’t feature in the video directed by Phil Collins (no, not that Phil Collins). It was filmed in Lunik IX neighborhood of Košice (Eastern Slovakia), which houses a Roma community who, as a press release states, “due to successive governmental and municipal policies, often live in slums and on isolated, dilapidated estates.” “Home to You” was our #1 Song of the Week.
In terms of her solo work, Reward is the follow-up to 2016’s Crab Day, although last year she released Hippo Lite, her second album with DRINKS, a collaboration with Tim Presley of White Fence. Le Bon also produced Deerhunter‘s recent album.
Le Bon spent a year living in isolation in the Lake District in the UK, by day making wood furniture and by night playing piano and writing songs. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” Le Bon said in a previous press release.
Of the album title, Le Bon said: “People hear the word ‘reward’ and they think that it’s a positive word, and to me it’s quite a sinister word in that it depends on the relationship between the giver and the receiver. I feel like it’s really indicative of the times we’re living in where words are used as slogans, and everything is slowly losing its meaning.”
The album features Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, H. Hawkline, and Samur Khouja. The latter co-produced Reward with Le Bon.
Cate Le Bon Tour Dates:
Sat. May 18 - Wrexham, UK @ Focus Wales Festival Fri. May 24 - Rouen, FR @ Rush Festival Sat. May 25 - Toulouse, FR @ Discipline Festival Sun. May 26 - Madrid, ES @ Independance Club Mon. May 27 - Donostia, ES @ Dabadaba Tue. May 28 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival Wed. May 29 - Bordeaux, FR @ iBoat Fri. May 31 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival Sat. June 1 - Neustrelitz, DE @ Immergut Festival Sun. June 2 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine Am Berghain Mon. June 3 - Copenhagen, DK @ Den Grå Hal (w/ Deerhunter) Tue. June 4 - Aarhus, DK @ Tape Thu. June 6 - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN Fri. June 7 - Brussels, BE @ Les Ateliers Claus Sat. June 8 - Paris, FR @ Villette Sonique Mon. June 10 - London, UK @ Village Underground Sat. June 22 - Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival Tue. June 25 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston Wed. June 26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Thu. June 27 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat Fri. June 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle Sat. June 29 - North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival Sun. June 30 - Somerville, MA @ ONCE Lounge Fri. July 5 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s Sat. July 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty Center Sun. July 7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley Tue. July 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel Fri. July 12 - Seattle, WA @ Doug Fir Lounge Sat. July 13 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile Cafe Thu. July 18 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (w/ Parquet Courts) Fri. July 19 - Chicago, IL - Constellation Sat. July 20 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Festival Fri. Aug. 23 - Bethesda, UK @ Neuadd Ogwen Sat. Aug. 24 - West Lothian, UK @ Jupiter Rising Festival Sun. Aug. 25 - Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Tue. Aug. 27 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla Wed. Aug. 28 - Leeds, UK @ Riley Smith Theatre Thu. Aug. 29 - Cardiff, UK @ Portland House Sun. Sept. 1 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Heather Woods Broderick has released a new album, Invitation, today via Western Vinyl. Earlier this week she shared the third and last pre-release single from it, the lush “I Try,” via a video for the track. Devin Febbroiello directed the video, which features lots of double exposed images of Broderick singing the song.
Febbroiello had this to say about the video in a press release: “In the video for ‘I Try’ we enter the waves and echoes of the dream landscape and follow Heather as she journeys through doorways and portals both within and without, trying to make sense of the paradoxical nature of the realm she has entered. With a nod to the twists of a fairy tale and the revelations available to those brave enough to enter the rabbit hole. The video was conceived along the Oregon coast, in studio, and combined with textural footage created with analog special effects techniques by Tracy Maurice.”
Broderick is Sharon Van Etten’s longtime collaborator and bandmate and she has also plated in Efterklang and Horse Feathers, among others. Invitation is the follow-up to 2015’s Glider.
The Get Up Kids
Watch: The Get Up Kids Share Video for “The Problem is Me”
Apr 03, 2019
Second-wave Emo rockers The Get Up Kids have shared a video for their track “The Problem is Me.” The track is the second single off of their first album in eight years, Problems, due out May 10 via Polyvinyl. Check out the video below, followed by the band’s upcoming US tour dates.
The Get Up Kids Tour Dates:
05/07 - Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle #
05/08 - Eindhoven, Netherlands @ Dynamo #
05/09 - Antwerp, Belgium @ Zappa #
05/10 - Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island #
05/11 - Munich, Germany @ Backstage #
05/13 - Bologna, Italy @ Locomotiv #
05/14 - Milan, Italy @ Magazzini Generali #
05/16 - Barcelona, Spain @ Razzmatazz #
05/18 - Madrid, Spain @ Independance Club #
05/20 - Paris, France @ La Maroquinerie #
05/21 - Wiesbaden, Germany @ Schlachthof #
05/22 - Berlin, Germany @ SO36 #
05/23 - Cologne, Germany @ Luxor #
05/25 - Leeds, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival North
05/26 - Hatfield, UK @ Slam Dunk Festival South
07/10 - Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi $
07/11 - Louisville, KY @ Mercury Ballroom $
07/12 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn $
07/13 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl $
07/14 - Gainesville, FL @ High Dive $
07/16 - Miami, FL @ The Ground $
07/17 - Orlando, FL @ The Abbey $
07/19 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern $
07/20 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle $
07/21 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle $
07/23 - Richmond, VA @ Broadberry $
07/24 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar $
07/25 - New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom $
07/26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg $
07/27 - Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents $
# w/ Muncie Girls
$ w/ Great Grandpa
By Stephen Axeman
Little Cub
Watch: Little Cub Share Video for “Millenium People”
Apr 03, 2019
UK synth-pop outfit Little Cub have shared a video for their new track “Millenium People.” The track is the group’s first release since their 2017 debut Still Life. The song’s lyrics deal with Brexit at a time of particular national interest in the subject and the video features the band performing in a neon lit warehouse. Check out the video below.
By Stephen Axeman
CHAI
Watch: CHAI Share Video for “Curly Adventure”
Mar 26, 2019
Japanese four-piece CHAI released their sophomore album, PUNK, earlier this month via Burger. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Curly Adventure.” The band’s bassist and primary artistic director YUUKI designed the animated video, which was animated by LA-based artist/animator Sean Solomon. Watch the video below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.
CHAI Tour Dates:
Wed. Mar. 27 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Stop Fri. Mar. 29 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project Sat. Mar. 30 - Portland, OR @ Holocene Fri. July 19 - Sun. July 21 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Cate Le Bon
Cate Le Bon Announces New Album, Shares New Song “Daylight Matters”
Mar 20, 2019
Cate Le Bon is back with a new single off of her upcoming album Reward. The album is due out May 24, her first for Mexican Summer and her first solo studio album since 2016’s Crab Day. “Daylight Matters” is a a tender chamber pop piece that is “an appreciation of the pleasures of self-pity rather than a straightforward love song.” Check out the track, album art, and tracklist followed by upcoming tour dates below.
Previously Le Bon has collaborated with Tim Presley for their project DRINKS which released Hippo Litelast year. She also played the role of producer on this year’s new Deerhunter Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?.
Here’s some more info from the press release:
It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lakes District of the U.K which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out…
Reward’s ten songs were conceived alone at a piano, which remains evident by the feeling of closeness that they convey. Although eventually recorded across America and the UK, and roping in a rollcall of trusted collaborators (including Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, H.Hawkline and Samur Khouja,who co-produced the album with Le Bon), Reward miraculously maintains its sense of privacy and intimacy throughout. This stems directly from Le Bon herself and the inimitable way in which she works, all of which preserves a signature sound despite relatively drastic changes in approach. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective, profound and significantly her most personal to date.
Reward Tracklist
1. Miami 2. Daylight Matters 3. Home To You 4. Mother’s Mother’s Magazines 5. Here It Comes Again 6. Sad Nudes 7. The Light 8. Magnificent Gestures 9. You Don’t Love Me 10. Meet The Man
Cate Le Bon Tour Dates
Sat. May 18 - Wrexham, UK @ Focus Wales Festival Fri. May 24 - Rouen, FR @ Rush Festival Sat. May 25 - Toulouse, FR @ Discipline Festival Sun. May 26 - Madrid, ES @ Independance Club Mon. May 27 - Donostia, ES @ Dabadaba Tue. May 28 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival Wed. May 29 - Bordeaux, FR @ iBoat Fri. May 31 - Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival Sat. June 1 - Neustrelitz, DE @ Immergut Festival Sun. June 2 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine Am Berghain Mon. June 3 - Copenhagen, DK @ Den Grå Hal (w/ Deerhunter) Tue. June 4 - Aarhus, DK @ Tape Thu. June 6 - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN Fri. June 7 - Brussels, BE @ Les Ateliers Claus Sat. June 8 - Paris, FR @ Villette Sonique Mon. June 10 - London, UK @ Village Underground Sat. June 22 - Calgary, AB @ Sled Island Festival Tue. June 25 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston Wed. June 26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere Thu. June 27 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat Fri. June 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle Sat. June 29 - North Adams, MA @ Solid Sound Festival Sun. June 30 - Somerville, MA @ ONCE Lounge Fri. July 5 - Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s Sat. July 6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Getty Center Sun. July 7 - Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s Alley Tue. July 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel Fri. July 12 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge Sat. July 13 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile Cafe Thu. July 18 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue (w/ Parquet Courts) Fri. July 19 - Chicago, IL @ Constellation Sat. July 20 - Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Festival Fri. Aug. 23 - Bethesda, UK @ Neuadd Ogwen Sat. Aug. 24 - West Lothian, UK @ Jupiter Rising Festival Sun. Aug. 25 - Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival Tue. Aug. 27 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla Wed. Aug. 28 - Leeds, UK @ Riley Smith Theatre Thu. Aug. 29 - Cardiff, UK @ Portland House Sun. Sept. 1 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival
M83 has returned with his third feature film soundtrack, Knife + Heart, which will be released digitally tomorrow, March 8, on Mute. Knife + Heart is a French film directed by the brother of M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez,Yann Gonzalez. The film premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival. The scoring project marks the first time Anthony has reunited with original M83 member Nicolas Fromageau since the group’s first two full-length releases, 2001’s self-titled studio album and 2003’s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Knife + Heart represents the first new collection of original M83 music since 2016’s Junk.
Here’s some info from the press release:
Knife + Heart is a noir-tinged erotic slasher that explores the seedy underbelly of Paris in the 1970s. Vanessa Paradis stars as Anne, the producer of third-rate gay pornography who strives to win back the affections of Lois – her editor and erstwhile lover – by shooting her most ambitious film yet. But events take a violent and dark turn when one after another, Anne’s actors fall prey to a masked killer whose bloodlust knows no bounds. Watch the trailer for Knife + Hearthere. Reflecting on the inspiration for Knife + Heart’s soundtrack, Yann Gonzalez says, “We wanted to recapture the Gialli ambiance of the ‘70s, to feel that sinister yet sentimental tone. Anthony and I are both poetical and even sentimental, in a certain way. We wanted to dive in headlong, particularly as melancholy and poetry are found in numerous ‘70s horror film soundtracks, from films by Lucio Fulci to those by Mario Bava. I’m thinking in particular of the harrowing soundtracks of Don’t Torture a Duckling or Twitch of the Death Nerve.” Commenting on the source material, he adds, “This principle of pleasure came rushing back. I got Anthony to listen to some old soundtracks from straight and gay porn films. He quickly gathered the musical codes and finally, the most beautiful tracks in Knife + Heart – the most pleasurable ones – are probably the ones he recreated for the film’s fake porn movies.”
Knife + Heart Screenings March 15-21 – New York, NY – The Roxy Cinema Tribeca * March 15-21 – Brooklyn, NY – Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn * March 22-28 – Los Angeles, CA – Landmark’s Nuart Theatre + March 23 – Boston, MA – Boston Underground Film Festival March 27-April 4 – San Francisco, CA – Alamo Drafthouse Mission * March 28-29 – Cleveland, OH – Cleveland International Film Festival March 29 – Boston, MA – WickedQueer March 29-April 4 – Los Angeles, CA – Arena Cinelounge March 29-April 4– Yonkers, NY – Alamo Drafthouse April 3 – Washington, DC – Alamo Drafthouse Woodbridge April 5-6 – Detroit, MI – Landmark’s Main Art Theatre April 5-11 – Chicago, IL – Music Box Theatre ^ April 5-11 – Philadelphia, PA – Landmark’s Ritz at The Bourse April 5-18 – Grand Rapids, Michigan – Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts April 12-19 – Austin, TX – Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar ^ April 13 – Bethlehem, PA – Frank Banko Alehouse April 19-25 – Denver, CO – Sie FilmCenter ^ April 19-25 – Phoenix, AZ – FilmBar April 19-25 – Tucson, AZ – The Loft Cinema April 23 – Winchester, VA – Alamo Drafthouse Winchester April 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – PUFF/Reel Q April 28 – St. Louis, MO – QFest May 2 – Milwaukee, WI – Union Cinema ^ May 8 – Iowa City, IA – FilmScene ^ 35mm screening April 5-7 at The Music Box Theatre, April 12-14 at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, April 19-21 at Sie FilmCenter and May 2 at Union Cinema * 35mm screening and Q&A with Yann Gonzalez on March 15 at The Roxy, March 16 at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn and March 27 at Alamo Drafthouse Mission + 35mm screening and Q&A with Yann Gonzalez and co-writer Cristiano Mangione on March 22 and 23 at Nuart Theatre
