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Psychic Graveyard announced the release of their 3rd album “Veins Feel Strange” out September 10 via Deathbomb Arc. With it they’ve shared the first single “Word Machine”.

The video for “Word Machine” was done, fittingly, by Nathan Lee Joyner.

Psychic Graveyard comment on the new track: “The single is a hallucinatory account of a man who is seeking solace from a cruel machine that manipulates his thoughts. He is so troubled by this awful machine that he begs for hospitalization. He begs to escape to another psyche. He begs for his own language.“

If we have to take a guess on how the album will sound based solely on this song and their album progression and their fiery live performances, well then this album is going to be insanely good.

They have an upcoming tour starting April 2022 around Europe supporting METZ. They have a couple of dates in the fall of 2021 in the USofA but not a tour yet. Hopefully soon enough they’ll announce some dates in the USofA (or Tijuana).

Calvin Love released his second single off his new album “Lavender” which was released May 27th via Taxi Gauche Records.

The video for the new single was directed by Allie Yonick and it stars Brigette Briggs.

Maybe this is what heartbreak sounds like. Maybe this is what finding yourself after a heavy loss sounds like. Maybe this is one of the sounds we need to process the year we’ve gone through collectively. Either way this album so far feels like it was brought here in a time capsule, Calvin’s voice and arrangements pair up sync up just right.

No tour dates have been announced yet in the USofA (nor Tijuana).

King Woman has released the first single “Morning Star” off her upcoming album ‘Celestial Blues’ which will be out July 30th via Relapse Records.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Celestial Blues”
02 “Morning Star”
03 “Boghz”
04 “Golgotha”
05 “Coil”
06 “Entwined”
07 “Psychic Wound”
08 “Ruse”
09 “Paradise Lost

The video for “Morning Star” was directed by Muted Windows and it’s a great fucking video for a song that feels as epic as it does claustrophobic.

“Creating this album has brought me great peace and closure,” says Esfandiari of Celestial Blues. “Grateful to finally share it with all of you.”

Celestial Blues was recorded in Oakland, California by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Amenra, Oathbreaker). The band is rounded out by drummer Joseph Raygoza and guitar player Peter Arensdorf. Visual collaborations featured in the album packaging were created by Nedda Afsari, Collin Fletcher, and Jamie Parkhurst.

King Woman has confirmed a series of performances in support of the new album.

July 30 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
July 31 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room

October 15 Brooklyn, NY TBA
October 16 Brooklyn, NY TBA
October 17 Brooklyn, NY TBA

October 29 Oakland, CA Starline
October 30 Oakland, CA Starline
October 31 Oakland, CA Starline (covers show)

Alexis Marshall, singer for the band Daughters, has announced the release of his solo album “House Of Lull . House Of When” and with it it’s first single ‘Hounds In The Abyss’. The album will be released July 23rd via Sargent House.

Tracklist:. 01 Drink From the Oceans . Nothing Can Harm You
02 Hounds in the Abyss
03 It Just Doesn’t Feel Good Anymore
04 Youth as Religion
05 Religion as Leader
06 No Truth in the Body
07 Open Mouth
08 They Can Lie There Forever
09 Night Coming

The video for “Hounds in the Abyss” was directed by Jeremy W. The video is really good. It’s so good it could be presented as a permanent piece in a museum. It’s great to look at and uncomfortable to listen which is a very good thing. Alexis Marshall says of the video: “The long stare into the room of self—the universe’s middle distance—the many hidden doors we locate, the many rooms we find. Populated not only by whom else we are, but by places we have been. The places we are. We don’t always pull away from the hot stove.”

Via the press release from Sargent House: Produced by Seth Manchester the album is crafted around moments of spontaneity and sonic detritus. For it Marshall brought together an impressive group of collaborators to execute his vision, a vision that for the first time was under his full creative direction. Jon Syverson (Daughters), Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), Evan Patterson (Jaye Jayle, Young Widows)joined Marshall in Pawtucket, Rhode Island at Machines with Magnets studio with no material. The strategy was to embrace new sounds, employ the element of chance, and capture the creative process in a song format. The genesis of a song could be anything—a fragmented piano line, a drum pattern—but the impetus was often a non-musical sound. Marshall sourced a lot of his textural contributions from a hardware store all contributing to a proto-industrial rattle-and-rumble. The resulting material stands to be the boldest and exciting work of his career.

No live shows have been announced just yet in the USofA (or Tijuana).

Clinic have released a new song titled “Fine Dining” out now via Domino Records.

The video was directed by Emily Evans:

Clinic said of the song: “Fine Dining is a slice of dancefloor fun, combining the band’s love of the exotic and having a good time.”

They’ve also announced some dates around the UK. No announcement yet if, and/or when, they plan to visit the USofA (or Tijuana).

Satanic Planet have officially released their debut self titled album on May 28th via Three One G Records.

The tracklist:                                                         1. Baphomet (feat. Jung Sing)
2. 999
3. Grey Faction
4. Passage
5. Invocation
6. Devil In Me (feat. Nomi Abadi)
7. Unbaptism (feat. Travis Ryan, Shiva Honey)
8. Vete al Infierno (feat. Jung Sing, Carrie Feller)
9. The Hell
10. Strangers
11. Exorcism (feat. Travis Ryan, Shiva Honey)
12. Satanic Planet (feat. Eric Livingston)
13. Liturgy

The video for the closing track “Liturgy” was directed by Neil Edwards.

The video for the self titled track “Satanic Planet” was directed by First Church Of The Void aka as Eric Livingston who collaborates on the track himself.

Satanic Planet is Justin Pearson and Luke Henshaw, who also work as Planet B, and Dave Lombardo, who also drums on Dead Cross alongside Justin, and Lucien Greaves who is the founder of the The Satanic Temple.

This album has an impressive list of collaborations which include Jung Sing (Silent, Maniquí Lazer), Eric Livingston (does video work/art as First Church Of the Void), Shiva Honey, Carrie Feller (Hexa). The album was produced by Luke Henshaw and Dave Lombardo.

This band, album have checked almost every box to make sure the pearl clutchers hold tight to their jewels, from the band name to the band members to the song titles and lyrics and themes and artwork and hidden satanic messages. The only thing that looks to be missing is children. Children laughing. Children singing. As we said before regarding this Satanic Planet release or any other: We believe it will be interesting if we have evolved into a place where we could sit down and enjoy this (or any) album in a family setting (your children included, no one excluded) without being held back by some sort of religious guilt. We wholeheartedly believe that there are still people, families that are bound by this cloud of religious fear that will look and use this band as a scapegoat. Hopefully their children will find the album or maybe the music will find them.

The Color Forty Nine have released their first single, “String Ladder”, from what will be the follow up to their self titled album.

The video was directed and animated by Lianne Mueller from a series of paintings done by Christopher Wassell.

“String Ladder” follows the line of the previous album. It’s a soft melody with a wonderful arrangement performance by Scott Mercado and Jason Hooper accompanied by Phil Beaumont’s voice. The one major difference here is the violin that keeps building this song thanks to Matt Resovich. He takes this song to a different place. He’s the multi-instrumentalist that holds the bands music together.

We look forward to the near future where we are able to see the band perform live again either in Tijuana or San Diego. Not a single time that we’ve seen them perform have they’ve been less than amazing.

Desperate Journalist have announced their new album titled “Maximum Sorrow!” to be released July 2nd via Fierce Panda.

TRACKLIST:
01 “Formaldehyde”
02 “Fault”
03 “Personality Girlfriend”
04 “Armageddon”
05 “Fine In The Family”
06 “Utopia”
07 “Everything You Wanted”
08 “Poison Pen”
09 “The Victim”
10 “What You’re Scared Of”
11 “Was It Worth It”

The band has released a video for the first single titled “Fault”. The song has a really David J, Bauhaus era, feel to it and an early The Horrors sound. The video was directed by Nick JS Thompson.

Flying Lotus has released the score to the Netflix samurai anime series “Yasuke” via Warp Records.

TRACK LIST

1. War at the Door
2. Black Gold (feat. Thundercat)
3. Your Lord
4. Shoreline Sus
5. Hiding in the Shadows (feat. Niki Randa)
6. Crust
7. Fighting Without Honor
8. Pain and Blood
9. War Lords
10. Sachi
11. Your Screams
12. Using What You Got
13. African Samurai (feat. Denzel Curry)
14. Where’s the Girl?
15. Kurosaka Strikes!
16. This Cursed Life
17. RoBomb
18. Taiko Time // Sacrifice
19. Your Day Off
20. Your Armour
21. Enchanted
22. Mind Fight
23. Survivors
24. Your Head // We Won
25. The Eyes of Vengeance
26. Between Memories (feat. Niki Randa)

FlyLo has a collaboration with Thundercat for the theme song of the series, “Black Gold”, which we can imagine should be a career highlight for the anime loving bassist.

Flying Lotus is also an executive producer for the series which tells the story of the first black samurai in feudal Japan. The series was created and directed by LeSean Thomas (The Legend Of Korra) together with Japanese animation studio MAPPA. Lakeith Stanfield voices the samurai.

Listening to this score you can get the feeling that this could be his synthesizer album in the same vein that You’re Dead was his jazz album. Hearing this score you can tell this is a Flying Lotus album that works as both. This soundtrack feels natural, as if his filling in the empty spaces and coloring the myth of Yasuke as we watch along.