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Author & Punisher has released a new video, “Incinerator”, to match the release of his new album “Krüller” out today via Relapse Records.

The video was directed by Ansel Wallenfang. Tristan Shone shared this:
“’Incinerator’ is about outrage and urgency. The world is actually on fire. We are dealing with extreme conditions of a warming climate yet face brutal resistance by those who want to deflect our rage towards each other for their profit. Special thanks to Director Ansel Wallenfang and DP James Rexroad who worked tirelessly to translate this rage into a visual adventure/nightmare.” Tristan added: “Krüller is an album that reflects on massive failures of our past/present and tries to imagine how we will descend into a post societal future where we support and conserve rather than destroy.”

Author & Punisher will do a short US run in support of the new album before embarking on an European tour with Mvtant. His tour will kick off with a show in Tijuana, Mexico.

Tour dates:

March 5 Tijuana, MX Silenus
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

Braulio Lam and Simonel have released “Endlessness” vía Static Discos.

TRACKLIST:

1. Tape Loops and Expired Films
2. Scottsdale
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Double Exposure
5. Fading Waves
6. Golden Hour
7. Endless

Back in November 2021 Casa Del Lago UNAM comisioned Static Discos for a short film. The short film was curated by Ejival, in it Braulio Lam and Simonel joined ambient forces in a collaboration between atmospheric sounds and natural landscapes. “Endlessness” is an almost forgotten dream, a vague memory, where objects and analog sounds get transfixed around the Pacific Coastline’s mist. Tapes in a constant loop, expired film stock, voices and ambient sounds that touch objects closed to extinction and their interaction with the humans that manipulate them in order to create sonic memories.

Remember to listen closely and dream. “Endlessness” is beyondless.

Sharon Van Etten has shared a new single, “Porta”.

Van Etten shared this in a statement about “Porta”: “It was written during one of her “lowest lows” in 2020. For most of my adult life I have struggled with bouts of depression and anxiety and coping mechanisms, and I sometimes let those dark moments get the best of me. During this time I felt very dissociated. Not connected to my body, and I felt out of control.”

During this period she reached out to her friend Stella Cook, who runs Base Pilates in North Carolina. “I knew I was entering a no-judgment zone and I needed to be held accountable for my actions and Stella helped me step up. She was encouraging, but not pushy. If life got in the way, I didn’t feel like I let her down, but I loved our sessions. I looked forward to them. I started feeling closer to her, and closer to myself, and it helped things seem hopeful. And I just wanted to share that with the world.”

Miles Francis shares his new single, “Nature”, off his upcoming album “Good Man” out March 4th.

The video was directed by Charles Billot. The video was filmed in New Jersey and it features the singer-songwriter coming to terms with their own father, trumpeter Leif Arntzen, who also appears on the album cover.              Miles Francis said of the song: “What is in a man’s nature, and how was it planted there? Their fathers or their grandfathers? Movies or simply just coming of age in a patriarchal society?,” Miles asked themselves. “I also thought about the many meanings and uses of the word ‘nature.’ It is what surrounds us and gives us life, it’s a sunny day or a thunderstorm, it is beautiful – yet can also be brutal. In humans, one’s ‘nature’ signifies an inherited quality that you seemingly can’t help but embody.”

Dälek are releasing their eight album, “Precipice”, on April 29th via Ipecac Recordings.

TRACKLIST:

Lest We Forget
Boycott
Decimation (Dis Nation)
Good
Holistic
The Harbingers
Devotion (when I cry the wind disappears)
A Heretic’s Inheritance
Precipice
Incite

The first single of the new album is “Decimation (Dis Nation)”. The video for the track was directed by founder Will Brooks, aka MC Dälek.

Brooks shared this in a statement: “Precipice was a completely different record pre-pandemic. We had been working on the sketch of what the album was going to be at the end of 2019. I think me and (Mike) Manteca had narrowed it down to 17 joints out of the 46 or so that we had started with. Me and Joshua Booth had taken the 17 and really fleshed out the joints. The idea was to bounce them back to Mike and then arrange write lyrics. 2020 obviously had different plans for everybody. We basically put everything on hold. I ended up doing the MEDITATIONS series that year on my own. I think the catharsis of that projects, its rawness, the pandemic, all the death, the social upheaval, everything that went down… when I went back and listened to what we had down… it just wasn’t right anymore, it wasn’t strong enough, it wasn’t heavy enough, it wasn’t angry enough. It just didn’t say what I needed it to say.”

Precipice was recorded and mixed by the two band members at their Deadverse Studios in Dälek’s hometown of Union City, N.J. Tool’s Adam Jones guests (guitar/synth) on “A Heretic’s Inheritance.” The album’s cover was created by Paul Romano (Mastodon, Withered) with interior packaging featuring the art of afrofuturist painter, Mikel Elam.

There are no scheduled live yet for the USofA (nor Tijuana).

PLOSIVS have announced the release of their self titled album out March 17th via Swami Records.

TRACKLIST:

01 Hit the Breaks
02 Rose Waterfall
03 Thrown Clear
04 Never Likely
05 Broken Eyes
06 Pines
07 See You Suffer
08 Iron Will
09 Pray for Summer
10 Bright

PLOSIVS are: guitarist John Reis (Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt), singer/guitarist Rob Crow (Pinback), drummer Atom Willard (Against Me!, Rocket From the Crypt) and bassist Jordan Clark (Mrs. Magician). The latest single off the album is for the song “Broken Eyes”.

Rob Crow shared this about “Broken Eyes”: “To me, an obvious universal psychological protocol should be to remember there are as many perspectives to any event or situation as there are sentient beings affected by the experience, as opposed to the apocryphal notion of ‘two sides to every story.’ For a person to claim an absolute based on the one experience and perspective they can ever truly know seems irrational.”

PLOSIVS are going to be on the road this spring: 03-18 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus
03-19 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
03-20 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts Black Box
03-21 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
03-23 Columbus, OH – Rumba
03-24 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
03-25 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
04-05 Seattle, WA – Chop Suey
04-06 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
04-08 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill
04-09 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
04-10 Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge

METZ & Adulkt Life have announced the release of a split 7″ record out March 4th via What’s Your Rupture?

1. METZ – Demolition Row
2. Adulkt Life – Book of Curses
3. Adulkt Life – Ants

Whit the announcement came also METZ sharing the track “Demolition Row”. The art for the record was done by Paul Henderson, the mixing was taken care of by Seth Manchester and it was mastered by Nathan Lee Joyner (member of Psychic Graveyard).

METZ are gearing back up to get back to touring in the upcoming months to make up some of the shows. Some shows have already been scheduled in Toronto and some will happen in UK/Europe with support from the amazing Psychic Graveyard.

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.