The Color Forty Nine have shared their 2nd single,”Another World”, off what will be their second album “String Ladders” out July 23rd.
The video for the song was directed by Lianne Muller.
“Another World” continues the display of the beautiful musicianship from the whole band. From Scott’s percussion work to Jason’s subtle bass work to what is Matt’s answer to being the glue that holds the band together and the link to Phil’s vocals.
The Colors Forty Nine have also announced their record release show at the Casbah set for Friday July 23rd. That evening they will be joined by Paolo Zappoli (the black heart procession) in the Razzmatazz room. Also on the bill Carrie Feller (Hexa) & Rosa Rossa. That evening will also be the premiere of a video by Hugo Crosthwaite.
No other live dates have been announced yet but hopefully more dates will follow.
Satanic Planet have premiered the video for the latest single, “Devil In Me (feat. Nomi Abadi)”, off their self titled album out now on Three One G.
The video stars Autumn Best (CW’s upcoming The 4400 reboot) and Jeremy Radin (The Way Back), was lensed by Devin Schiro, and was written, directed and edited by Lola Blanc.
Blanc explained how she got involved: “I watched the documentary Hail, Satan? on Hulu and was immediately intrigued by The Satanic Temple, their co-founder Lucien Greaves, and the work they do, so I asked Lucien to come on my podcast. While we were interviewing him, I found out his band Satanic Planet (comprised of Greaves, Luke Henshaw, The Locust’s Justin Pearson and Slayer’s Dave Lombardo) had an album coming out, I *ever so casually* dropped my strong interest in doing a video for them, and here we are!” Blanc felt drawn to this track in particular. “I specifically requested the song ‘Devil in Me’ because it immediately evoked the feeling of an exorcism. The horrors that can happen when religion is taken to the extreme was a theme we were clearly very aligned on, so it just felt like a perfect fit.”
Satanic Planet teamed up with Lola Blanc and Liz Maupin to create a short film based on the band’s song, “Devil In Me” , which will be part of L.A. Shorts International Film Festival, an Oscar-qualifying film festival in Los Angeles, CA. The festival is running online through the month of July, with more details to come.
As we’ve previously stated, 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.
Chester Watson has released a video for the track “Genies (dreamwalker) feat. Kent Loon” off his album ‘1997’ out via Otherworldly Records.
The video for the song was directed by frequent Chester Watson collaborator Inü.
The song, with the help of the video has a MF Doom feel to it. It could be the voice or the vibe or the visuals for it, or hell, just the combination of all since the influence of DOOM has to be everywhere. It also feels like a song that can be included on the Brainfeeder label.
Chester Watson recently remixed a song off the Yasuke soundtrack, which is the animated series about the Black Samurai that Netflix recently released that was Executive Produced by Flying Lotus who in turn runs the label Brainfeeder.
Rodrigo Leão has shared the 1st single, “Friend of a Friend”, off his upcoming album ‘A Estranha Beleza da Vida’ vía Modern Recordings. The single features the multitalented Michelle Gurevich.
The video concept for the song was by Michelle Gurevich and Lisa Bregneager. It was shot by Lisa Bregneager, Robin Thomson and Henrique Oliveira. Editing was done by Michelle Gurevich and Robin Thomson.
Rodrigo Leão said this of the song: “It was a song that initially started from the search for a happy rhythm, with some influence from the music of the 50s, and that gave me the enthusiasm I was looking for to find new ideas. It sends us back to a time very different from the one we currently live in.”
The song and the video do have a cinematic feel and sound to it, somewhere around the french wave without being situated in France per se. It’s a wonderful song sang by one of the best around, and that would be Michelle Gurevich.
Silent have shared the video for their new single, “Empty Spaces”, off their recent album ‘Modern Hate’ out via Three One G.
The video was directed and edited by Mario Acosta with production by Pentacostal. The video was conceived by Sing and Acosta, and filmed in in Ensenada, Baja California.
Jung Sing shared this about “Empty Spaces”: “This song is a scream for help, and a call to question everything. It points out how fucked the world is, and how the people who are supposed to fix things are worthless. Less church, less government, more action.”. This has been one of the main themes throughout the album. The other ones are “all the racist, supremacist bullshit” that has come to the surface again in a new form, across the world. The band considered all of the mass shootings and killings that have happened across the US over the years. “Most of the lyrics focus on the disturbing flaws of people and religion, love and dreams”.
On this song Alex takes the leaf and the rest of the band keeps on marching to the beat of Rocío’s drumming. This song sound as urgent as the Cure did at the end of the 80’s.
We cannot wait to be able to see SILENT live again. They’re hands down without a doubt one of our favorite bands to see live and quite possibly the best Mexican band playing now.
Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco are JOMORO and they have released an album titled “Blue Marble Sky”.
TRACKLIST:
01 Mirror 02 No Air 03 Nest – featuring Sharon Van Etten 04 Saudades de lá – featuring Karina Buhr 05 Water Lilies 06 Acordar e Perfumar – featuring Karina Buhr 07 Until We Equal – featuring Brandon Markell Holmes 08 Ant Farm 09 Sargasso Sea 10 Delicate Butterfly – featuring Lucius 11 Marching Camels 12 Broken Nest
Joey Waronker has worked with Paul McCartney, R.E.M., Roger Waters, Johnny Cash, Beck, Adele, Air, Ultraísta; while Mauro Refosco was a recent member of David Byrne’s American Utopia cast, and also has credits with Caetano Veloso, Bebel Gilberto, Dirty Projectors. They both formed Atoms for Peace in 2009 with Thom Yorke, Flea, and Nigel Godrich, releasing Amok in 2013.
Blue Marble Sky was written, played and produced by Joey and Mauro, who made the most of their pandemic downtime trading files bi-coastally, and enlisting collaborators such as bassist Gabe Noel (Kendrick Lamar, Kamasi Washington), trumpeter Michael Leonheart (Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars) and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Mooney (Other Lives).
In anticipation of the album’s release the band debuted the collaboration with Sharon Van Etten for the song “Nest”.
Prior to “Nest” the band had premiered “Mirror”, which is the albums opening instrumental track.
The other song that the band shared was the collaboration with Lucius for the song “Delicate Butterfly”.
The next to last song shared was the collaboration with the Brazilian singer Karina Buhr for the song “Saudades de lá”.
Lastly there’s the collaboration for the collaboration with Brandon Markell Holmes for the political track “Until We Equal”.
There are no tour dates that have been shared yet for the USofA (or Tijuana).
Lingua Ignota lead single, “Pennsylvania Furnace”, was released today. This is off her new album ‘Sinner Get Ready’ which will be out August 6th via Sargent House.
TRACKLIST. 1. THE ORDER OF SPIRITUAL VIRGINS 2. I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES 3. MANY HANDS 4. PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE 5. REPENT NOW CONFESS NOW 6. THE SACRED LINAMENT OF JUDGMENT 7. PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA 8. MAN IS LIKE A SPRING FLOWER 9. THE SOLITARY BRETHREN OF EPHRATA
The video for the lead single was all done by Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota).
Lingua Ignota shared this: “The first single is about loneliness, absence and the inevitability of God’s judgement. It also references an obscure 18th century legend of the Pennsylvania Dutch, in which a cruel ironmaster throws his beloved dogs into his furnace and they return to drag him down to hell. (Overcome with a sudden vision he screamed, “here they come, the hellish pack, they’ve come to drag me back” and promptly died. A line from Herzog’s Woyzeck: “dance and sweat and stink. He will get you in the end. I made the music video myself with a two week deadline. When I say I made myself I mean I made it completely myself. I shot it. I styled it. I scouted locations, and wrote the treatment, directed it. There was no other person “on set” ever. I learned how to use a drone. I also learned to use not-particularly-intuitive Adobe Premier Pro, and edited it alone learning sequencing and color grading as I went. That I did did it alone is as much part of the artistic statement as anything else. There are very specific nods to Herzog, Tarkovsky, Parajanov, Jodorowsky, Judy Chicago, Malick ,a touch of Von Trier. I could never be what they are, and I’m not trying, but i wanted to honor my great loves. Every symbol is heavy with intention. Red smoke is an ongoing motif of my record as the Blood of Jesus, that which absolves and cleanses and sets free,and that which is corrupted and destroys. Implied absence but looming presence. Seeking absolution. There are many constraints when you make something alone, but you’re also limited only by yourself. Remember this when you’re alone.”
Hayter made the album using traditional instruments from the Appalachian region, collaborating once again with SethManchester, and Sinner Get Ready also features performances and arrangements from multi-instrumentalist and composer Ryan Seaton and banjo playing from J Mamana.
As of yet no tour dates have been announced for the USofA (or Tijuana).
La Luz shares their new single “In The Country” off what will be their upcoming album which will be released via Hardly Art.
The video for the song was created by the bass player / band member Lena Simon.
Shana Cleveland shared this in a press release: “I moved to the country a few years ago after living in cities for most of my life. Being out in the middle of nowhere makes it easy to imagine how it would be possible to leave society all together. I love how in this track some of the most unnatural elements of the arrangement (synthesizers, fuzz, effects) create an atmosphere around the instruments that ends up feeling very natural — I can hear bugs buzzing around and bird sounds in different directions.”
The song and the video serve as a reminder to go outside, to stare at nature a little bit too long, and to appreciate what it shows you.
A Fall tour has been announced:. Fall 2021 Sep. 24 – Dana Point, CA – Ohana Fest Oct. 29 – Austin, TX – to be announced Nov. 11 – San Diego, CA – Music Box * Nov. 13 – Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater * Nov. 14 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel * Nov. 15 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow’s * Nov. 16 – Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley * Nov. 18 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom * Nov. 19 – Seattle, WA – The Neptune Theatre *. *Tropa Magica
The multifaceted artist FAX has created a 19 minute piece that mirrors the title of the track. It builds and starts to swallow you little by little. It pulsates as it embraces you and holds you closer. It wraps around you in a claustrophobic way that feels soothing. We also really really liked the 2 (or should it be 3?) subtle references to David Bowie. Go and immerse yourself in this cinematic piece, which brings us to ask ourselves why hasn’t FAX worked in a film score, or better yet why hasn’t a film been built around one of his pieces.
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