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Emily Jane White has announced the release of her album, “Alluvion”, out March 25th via Talitres.

Tracklist:

Show Me The War
Crepuscule
Heresy (feat. Darkher)
Poisoned
Body Against the Gun
The Hands Above Me
Mute Swan
Hold Them Alive
Hollow Hearth
I Spent the Years Frozen
Battle Call

Along with the announcement of the new album comes the single, “Show Me The War”, with it’s video directed by Bobby Cochran.

Emily Jane White said of the song: “’Show Me the War’ calls attention to the convergence of misogyny and racialized violence as a pervasive worldwide epidemic. During the summer of 2020 in Oakland, California, I wrote this song in response to the many political uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd. ‘Show Me the War’ also highlights more global examples of injustice like femicide in Juarez, Mexico and the near-total abortion ban in Poland. By grieving the many losses resulting from social and ecological injustice, we shed light on these unacceptable epidemics and those deeply affected by them, further enabling change.”

Some tour dates have been announced for the USofA:. July 26 Montreal, QC Le National
July 28 Somerville, MA The Sinclair
July 29 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge
July 30 Silver Spring, MD The Fillmore
August 1 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
August 2 Minneapolis, MN Cedar Cultural Center
August 5 Boulder, CO The Fox Theatre
August 7 Portland, OR The Old Church
August 8 Vancouver, BC The Rickshaw
August 9 Seattle, WA The Crocodile
August 11 San Francisco, CA The Chapel
August 13 Los Angeles, CA The El Rey Theatre

Thurston Moore has announced the release of his instrumental album, “Screen Time”, out digitally February 25th via Southern Lord.

TRACKLIST:
1. The Station
2. The Town
3. The Home
4. The View
5. The Neighbor
6. The Walk
7. The Upstairs
8. The Dream
9. The Parkbench
10. The Realization

https://thurstonmooresl.bandcamp.com/album/screen-time

This what Thurston shared via a press release: “How much screen time does a parent allow a child? How much screen time does a child need to realise a world which has the means to coexist as a community in shared exchange?
The cover image of Screen Time is of a youngster curled into a book, the pages vibratory with text radiating through the skin, blood and bone – an aspect entirely missing from digital media, though the actuality of transparency in our daily lives through streaming etc we can only leads to the awareness of fairness.
Screen Time is in reflection to dream time, a state of meditation, hypnagogia and pillow talk.”

There are no current plans for a tour in the USofA.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have shared the first clip of the his new feature film directed by Andrew Dominik.

The film captures Nick Cave and Warren and their exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life songs from albums Ghosteen and Carnage, and will be released later this year.

This will mark the 4th collaboration between the director and the duo. Andrew Dominik previously directed “One More Time With Feeling” and the Cave & Ellis previously scores the masterpiece “The Assassination Of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford” and upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde”.

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis have also just added additional dates to their upcoming USofA tour in support of their album “Carnage”.

Alabaster DePlume has announced the release of his new album, “Gold”, out April 1st via International Anthem.

Tracklist:

1. A Gente Acaba (Vento Em Rosa)
2. Don’t Forget You’re Precious
3. Fucking Let Them
4. The World Is Mine
5. The Sound Of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit
6. I’m Gonna Say Seven
7. Do You Know A Human Being When You See One?
8. Visitors YT15B – Jerusalem, Palestine
9. I’m Good At Not Crying
10. Now (Stars Are Lit)
11. Again (feat. Falle Nioke)
12. Mrs Calamari
13. People: What’s The Difference?
14. Visitors XT8B – Oak
15. Who Is A Fool
16. I Will Not Be Safe
17. Visitors YT15 – Krupp Steel Condition Pivot
18. Broken Like
19. Now (Pink Triangle, Blue Valley)

With the announcement of the upcoming album also comes a wonderful and joyous video for the song “Don’t Forget You’re Precious” directed by Jordan Copeland.

This is what Alabaster DePlume shared about the song: “We don’t always realize when we are destroying ourselves. Blindfolded, and dressed as a symbol of oppression, Alabaster reminds us that we are precious, confessing that he ‘forgets sometimes’, as we watch him lead a platoon of children in his own destruction.”

In late summer 2020 Alabaster DePlume (real name Gus Fairbairn) booked two weeks of sessions at the influential Total Refreshment Centre in London, recording to tape with Kristian Craig Robinson (aka Capitol K). He invited a different set of musicians each day, who would record the same tunes at the same speed so that DePlume – who produced the record – could cut them together later, like ingredients. “They didn’t have enough preparation to be able to hide behind this piece of material or skill,” he says. “They had to look up and respond to each other, and that’s what we’ve recorded.”
There were two rules that were essential to the process: that musicians wouldn’t be given enough time to rehearse and that they wouldn’t listen back to the music they recorded. “The method is part of the mission. It wasn’t like school. We had mayhem. We were having fun. That’s the story and the process – and I want to live that way,” he says.

Jasmyn has shared her new single, “Crystal Ball”, which is being released via her new label(s) ANTI- and Royal Mountain Records.

The video for the song was animated and directed by Rosalie H. Maheux.

Jasmyn shared this about the single: “I was writing about being afraid of moving into the future but also getting excited by it. I knew that I had to change my life and follow my heart in order to evolve and be happy. I think I leaned on nature to do that. Staring at the sun go down, watching birds just float. Nature seems to move without regret or worry. I wanted to write about leaning on my intuition and charging forward into the future with what felt right. I was hit with fresh love and fresh air and a new beginning, it was exciting. I think this song is about the concept of having a personal renaissance. Looking inward and finding that consistency for yourself even if it means letting go sometimes. Happiness is on the other side.”

The song was co-written with Los Angeles-based producer John Congleton, Burke has teamed with synth player Zac Rae and the amazingly impeccable drummer Joey Waronker on the track.

No tour dates have been announced for the USofA (or Tijuana) yet.

Author & Punisher has shared the third and final single, “Blacksmith”, before the release of his album ‘Krüller’ out February 11th via Relapse Records.

Tristan Shone shared this about the track: “’Blacksmith’ is a track that I co-wrote with the Krüller producer Jason Begin (Vytear). This one is a bit of an adventure where we go from my slow bending drones and morph into Jason’s jungle and breaks with the same halftime bassline and vocals tying it together. Lyrically, this is an ode to Black women-led movements who have been fearlessly leading the way against oppression in this country for a long time.”

Author & Punisher has just added some dates in the USofA:. March 6 Los Angeles, CA Resident
March 8 Seattle, WA Clock Out Lounge
March 9 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater (Lounge)
March 10 Oakland, CA Elbo Room Jack London

Mild Orange have announced the release of their album, “Looking For Space”, out February 11th via AWAL.

TRACKLIST:

1. Colourise
2. F.E.A.R
3. The Time Of Our Lives (Extended)
4. This Kinda Day
5. Oh Yeah
6. What’s Your Fire (Extended)
7. Take A Moment
8. Aurora
9. Hollywood Dreams 10. Music.
11. Photographics

With the album’s announcement, a new single/video release also occurred. The new single is for the track “Oh Yeah”, the video was directed by Simon Levalois-Bazer.

This is Mild Orange third album and frontman/producer Mehrtens, lead guitarist Josh Reid, bassist Tom Kelk, and drummer Jack Ferguson aren’t just looking for space, they’re carving out grand landscapes all their own. Midway through recording the album, Mehrtens came down with pneumonia and pleurisy, a single breath capable of leaving him in excruciating pain. The experience not only changed the perspective of the rest of the record, but of Mehrtens’ life. He shared: “That put me into some pretty dark spaces, but I’m an optimist, so I was searching for the beauty in the dark.”

The New Zealand quartet will go on a quick USofA tour, they will play the Soda Bar on February 26 and they will also play Mexico City on March 4th, before going to Europe.

Los Planetas han anunciado el lanzamiento de su nuevo disco, “Las Canciones Del Agua” editado bajo su propio sello El Ejército Rojo.

TRACKLIST:. 1.El manantial
2.Se quiere venir
3.Alegrías de Graná
4.La morralla
5.La nueva normalidad
6.El negacionista
7.El rey de España
8.El apocalipsis zombie
9.El antiplanetismo

5 de las nueve canciones ya habían sido estrenadas desde el principio de la pandemia. Las otras 4 fueron escritas para completar lo que es el 10o album de Los Planetas. Jota ofreció sus comentarios sobre cada canción.

1. El Manantial: “Es un poema de Federico García Lorca que conocí hace unos nueve años. Me pareció fascinante, además, tiene una métrica muy musical. Lorca era también un músico, se puede escuchar en las adaptaciones que hacía al piano de canciones populares. Buscando un sentido al disco lo encontré en una frase de esta pieza; así dice el poema: “El resumen de un cielo de verano era el gran chopo./ Mansas y turbias de penumbra yo sentía las canciones del agua”, el manantial del que surgen todas las canciones, toda la música, toda la poesía. Es la canción más larga de Los Planetas [12 minutos y 23 segundos].

2. Se Quiere Venir: “Una versión de una canción del granadino Khaleb, ex del grupo Pxxr Gvng. Esta escena urbana surgió en un circuito totalmente distinto al del rock en Granada. Yo no tenía conocimiento de ellos. Los descubrí en YouTube, cuando empezaron a colgar sus cosas. Creo que es una escena muy interesante. Hemos hecho Se quiere venir con un ritmo diferente a la original. Hay algunos cambios ligeros, para darle un tono más personal”.

3. Alegrías de Graná: “Está tocada por un guitarrista flamenco, Edu Espín, que es el hijo de Carmen Linares y trabaja mucho con Soleá Morente. Es voz, palmas y guitarras, unas alegrías tradicionales. Una canción de rock tocada con un compás de alegrías. Al final el rock and roll y el flamenco son parecidos porque es música de guitarras. Partes de la letra están sacadas del cancionero popular. Voy apuntando cosas que me gustan o me parecen ingeniosas, como ‘la madre que te parió se merece una corona y tú te mereces dos”.

4. La Morralla: “Es de Carlos Cano, de su disco de 1977 A la luz de los cantares, donde también está La murga de los currelantes. Me gusta mucho ese disco. Lo escuchaba cuando era niño en Radio Granada. Está editado por el sello Gong que montó Gonzalo García Pelayo. De hecho estuve hablando con él para que produjera el disco entero, pero no cuadraron las fechas. Espero que trabajemos juntos en breve. Le tengo una gran admiración a Carlos Cano. En un concierto homenaje a él en Granada hace unos años toqué La morralla y me gustó cómo salía. Encaja mucho por estar situada en el disco como transición de la parte de Granada y la Global, porque es una canción que tiene mucho contenido social. ‘La morralla’ era la expresión con la que denominaban las clases dominantes a las clases populares, en plan despectivo. Pero Carlos Cano le da un sentido a la palabra totalmente opuesto y al final resulta hasta bonito”.

5. La Nueva Normalidad: “La compuse sobre las imágenes que encontré en internet de los asaltos y saqueos por la muerte de George Floyd y la irrupción del movimiento Black Lives Matter. Lo curioso es que esas imágenes apenas se han visto en medios. Y están ahí, en el vídeo de Los Planetas. Alguna vez habrá que pasar de las palabras a los hechos. Tenemos que reaccionar de alguna manera porque como sigamos perdiendo derechos y libertades al ritmo que vamos nos van a quedar muy poquitos. Alguien tendrá que hacer algo al respecto”.

6. El Negacionista: “La idea es no se puede confiar en un sistema que hace las cosas tan mal y que manipula la información o que utiliza tácticas para enfrentar a la gente. No me siento parte de eso. Ahora incluso hay menos gente trabajando en la sanidad pública. Hay un descontrol bastante considerable y no parece que se estén tomando soluciones. Si hay un problema sanitario lo que habrá que hacer es dotar más a la sanidad y no quitarle recursos”.

7. El Rey De España: “Es una canción sobre la estructura de poder a la que estamos sometidos y sobre a quiénes se piden responsabilidades de los problemas. En este caso es sobre el jefe del ejército, alguien impuesto por el ejército y la policía al que nadie obedecería si no hubiera una amenaza violenta. Pero no parece que tome nadie responsabilidades sobre lo que está pasando. Al contrario, parece que se pide responsabilidades a los jóvenes que salen de fiesta o a los que no se quieren vacunar”.

8. El Apocalipsis Zombie: “Son los zombies de las películas clásicas de George A. Romero. Son ideas sacadas de esas películas que representan muy bien hacía dónde van las cosas en la actualidad, con gente cada vez con menos capacidad de entender lo que está pasando, con menos recursos para afrontar la vida”.

9. El Antiplanetismo: “Está muy bien expresar las opiniones libremente, pero no está tan bien seguir como borregos las opiniones de otros. Eso es lo que me molesta, que la gente no piense por sí misma. Las clases populares son las que más están manipuladas por la propaganda del sistema: los típicos obreros de derechas. La propaganda llega a todos los rincones. Creo que necesitamos más pensamiento crítico, más análisis de la realidad. Lo que se ve es la pérdida de renta que tienen las clases trabajadoras y el aumento de renta que tienen las clases especuladoras. Está todo fabricado para este trasvase de la renta de las clases trabajadoras a los bolsillos de las especuladoras”.

Greg Puciato has teamed with Carpenter Brut launching the single and video “Imaginary Fire”, off what is Carpenter Brut upcoming album”Leather Terror” out April 1st.

TRACKLIST:. Opening Title
Straight Outta Hell
The Widow Maker
Imaginary Fire
… Good Night, Goodbye
Day Stalker
Night Prowler
Lipstick Masquerade
Color Me Blood
Stabat Mater
Paradisi Gloria
Leather Terror

The video was directed by Dean Sora.

Puciato shared this about the collaboration:
“This came out of the blue, my buddy and bandmate Ben Koller (Converge, Killer Be Killed, Mutoid Man) linked Carpenter Brut and myself. Peak excitement for me about this one. CB and I were already very familiar with, and fans of, each other’s work, so he sent me the instrumental, and I wrote the vocals, and that was that. Straight to the point, no real crazy process with this one. Here’s the music. Okay cool, here are the vocals to that music. Done. It came out really fast, one of the faster ones ever, for me at least, very lightning in a bottle feeling overall, where the melodies and phrasings and lyrics all sorta come through at once, in a really quick stream of consciousness burst. That’s a special thing that doesn’t happen too often, and you hope that it somehow now and then keeps happening. One-off collaborations are great because you can really just focus all of your energy on one track; not an album, not a band, not ten songs on your fifth album, just one singular song-length intersection. I’m really proud of this one, happy to cross these musical paths. I love how the video turned out too. Lyrically the song is pretty to the point. Two people frustratingly trying to get rid of their fears and their made-up bullshit so they can move forward, together or separate, free of outcome.”

Brut shared this: “After spending much of 2018 touring, I had decided to take a long break to compose the new album of the trilogy. The pandemic confirmed that my choice to stay home was the right one. I ended up taking over a year and a half to compose this album. I made a lot of decisions with the time I had that I wouldn’t have had time to make if the pandemic hadn’t happened. I wanted to make the whole thing as massive as possible. There is no guitar on this album. I did everything with synths. Even though I didn’t know exactly how I wanted the album to sound at first, I knew I wanted it to be massive and violent.”