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Beak> have shared the music accompaniment to the graphic novel “Kosmik Musik” by artist Joe Currie and writer Ben Wheatley.

Kosmik Musik is melting pot of 2000ad, Metal Hurlant, Kirby tech, psychedelic 60s art, Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, Kraut Rock, Star Trek and Star Wars. A UK 70s English childhood basically.
The project comes with a sonic accompaniment by Beak> who have live dates on the horizon including Primavera Sound in LA.

Through a press statement this was shared: “Two years in the making Kosmik Musik is a collaboration between artist Joe Currie, writer Ben Wheatley and musical group Beak>, who worked closely with the artists to provide a musical accompaniment for the graphic novel. The audio is available digitally worldwide via Invada from September 23rd. Further details on the limited edition physical formats below. Ben and Joe met at art school in the 90s where they both were involved in a lot of comic book drawing and reading. It’s taken thirty years to finally get their acts together and create this book. In the meantime Joe has been sculpting and painting. Ben has been writing and directing films.

Taleen Kali has shared the new single/video, “Only Lovers Left Alive”, off her upcoming debut album out March 3rd, 2023 via Dum Dum Records.

The video was directed by Joe Rubinstein, and he shared this about it: “When Taleen asked me to create visuals for “Only Lovers Left Alive” I knew it had to be something dramatic, but it also had to have vampires! I recently picked up a scientific camera that is often used to film car crashes in test labs. I knew that if I combined a super-slow motion camera, vampires, and some fun stunt work we would have an amazing video. Close friend Marie Fink, of V10 Stunts, came on board. Marie has worked on films like The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, and most recently Star Wars Skeleton Crew.”

Taleen Kali shared this: ““Only Lovers Left Alive” is about finding connection despite all odds. I wrote this song while walking through the deserted streets of LA during the early pandemic. There was nobody in sight, I hadn’t seen another human being for days, and I imagined what would happen if there was only one other person left alive in the world. “Only Lovers Left Alive” is one of my favorite vampire movies of all time, so for the visual we wanted to create something special for spooky season that also pays homage to vampire tropes, plus a bloody twist at the end just in time for Halloween!”

Her US tour kicks off in October.

MorMor has announced the release of his debut album, “Semblance”, out November 4th.

He has also shared a new single, “Chasing Ghosts”, with a video created by Otto Tang.

MorMor shared this about the song: “”Chasing Ghosts” comes from an awareness that chasing momentary pleasures can become an end in itself. So much of what we race after disappears. The chasing of ghosts becomes an endless cycle.

The Semblance Tour kicks off this January. This is the beginning of a journey I would like to share with you”.

Sudan Archives has shared the las single, “OMG Britt”, before the release of her album on September 23rd via Stones Throw.

Tracklist
1. Home Maker
2. NBPQ (Topless)
3. Is This Real? (Can You Hear Yourself?)
4. Ciara
5. Selfish Soul
6. Loyal (EDD)
7. OMG BRITT
8. ChevyS10
9. Copycat (Broken Notions)
10. It’s Already Done
11. FLUE
12. TDLY (Homegrown Land)
13. Do Your Thing (Refreshing Springs)
14. Freakalizer
15. Homesick (Gorgeous & Arrogant)
16. Milk Me
17. Yellow Brick Road
18. #513

The video was directed, shot and edited by Zach Sulak.

Sudan Archives will start her tour this Saturday — 2022 Tour Dates

Sept 24 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
Sept 25 – Santa Barbara, CA – Soho Music Club
Sept 26 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s
Sept 27 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Sep 29 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Sept 30 – Vancouver, BC – Fortune
Oct 1 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
Oct 4 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
Oct 5 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Oct 7 – Toronto, ON – Axis
Oct 8 – Ottawa, ON – Bronson
Oct 10 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
Oct 11 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
Oct 12 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere (The Hall)
Oct 14 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
Oct 15 – Pittsburgh, PA – Sound Series Block Party
Oct 17 – Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Oct 18 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Oct 19 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
Oct 21 – Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room

Fucked Up have shared a video for the song, “Oberon”, off their upcoming self-titled EP to be released October 7th via Tankcrimes.

TRACKLIST:
1. Oberon
2. Strix
3. Mashhit
4. The Aquarium (Saint-Saens)

The video for the song was directed and edited by Colin Medley.

A band statement read: “Pummeling curveball from Fucked Up channeling the world of HC that birthed them, despotic and horrendously sludgy riffs exploding in octaves lower than Hades, crashing against hellish bellowing all while the rhythm section heaves at a pace that only Noothgrush, Crossed Out, Kiss it Goodbye, and Bloodlet would tread upon. Topped off with an absolutely despicable cover of Saint-Saens “The Aquarium” this is the mythologically psychedelic sludge record you never thought Fucked Up would make. 4 tracks of pure audio excretion”.

Blood Orange has shared a song, “Jesus Freak Lighter”, off his just released The Four Songs EP.

TRACKLIST:

01. Jesus Freak Lighter
02. Something You Know
03. Wish
04. Relax & Run

Four Songs will feature contributions from Ian Isaiah, Eva Tolkin, and Erika de Casier. The new song is written, produced, recorded and mixed by Dev Hynes.

Otoboke Beaver have shared the first song they ever recorded together, “Chu Chu Song”.

Otoboke Beaver of Kyoto, Japan recorded their first ever track ‘Chuchu Song’ exclusively for the fans who helped fund their SXSW trip. Using Campfire in Japan and Kickstarter outside Japan, the band raised £5800.
The track was created at bands inception back in 2009 and a previously only seen at live shows but now faithfully recorded at Studio Hana Mauii, in Kyoto by Kazutaka Miya.
The band give special thanks to patrons who gave us 30000yen in sxsw project funding.

“Chu Chu Song” by Otoboke Beaver was recently featured on Adult Swim’s ‘Japan Is Loud’ compilation curated by Jonny Rej of Toonami. Right now they’re on their world tour selling out (almost every) show. If they happen to play near you don’t fuck up and miss them. They start their US tour at the end of September and runs all thru October.

JR Slayer has released the single, “Not Rotten”, off the self titled EP via Memory Music.

TRACKLIST:

01. Not Rotten
02. Back When
03. The Only One You’re Left With Will Be You
04. The Fade Out
05. You Will Never Be Alone

Cody Votolato (J.R. Slayer) shared this about the song: “There’s so much bad shit in the world, there’s a lot of bad things happening. But when you fall in love with someone, you have this feeling that all that stuff can disappear momentarily. Everything goes away but you and this person, and your feelings about them and yourself.”

Alexis Castrogiovanni has shared the titled track, “Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains”, off her upcoming self released EP.

Track List:

1. Ex-Girl
2. Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like A Range Of Mountains
3. A Certain Point
4. To Catch A Feeling

The music video for the title track was directed by Millefiore Clarkes.

Alexis Castrogiovanni shared this about the release: “This EP, “Someday My Thoughts Will Be Like a Range of Mountains”, was my first time making a studio recording. It felt like an alien world away from the classical music world in which I grew up, where we devoted our time and energy to the art of giving live stage performances. My training concentrated on things like the audience, the room and a high level of perfection that would translate into a polished live performance. Performing to a microphone in a studio was so new for me, recording, editing and mastering felt like utter mysteries before I worked on this EP. My classical music training and language is present in everything I do, whether I’m honoring it or rebelling against it. I think in the title track and “To Catch a Feeling”, you can hear echoes of the many hours I have spent in the cello section in symphony orchestras over the years. There is a sense of expansiveness, textural possibility and sheer human power in an orchestra. I felt that when I was trying to carve and shape those two particular songs, they feel somehow orchestral to me. The deep, raw emotions I was so inspired by in classical music, like in Mahler or Britten, was what came to my mind when writing them, they called for that kind of setting, so that’s what I tried to give to them while still understanding my music as pop”.