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Ministry have shared the first single, “Goddamn White Trash”, off what will be their 16th album “HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES” out March 1st via Nuclear Blast.

TRACKLIST:

01. B.D.E.
02. Goddamn White Trash
03. Just Stop Oil
04. Aryan Embarrassment
05. TV Song 1/6 Edition
06. New Religion
07. It’s Not Pretty
08. Cult of Suffering
09. Ricky’s Hand

Al Jourgensen shared this about the song: “Just like you or anybody else, I’m simply a passenger in this lifetime. I’m watching social changes, political changes, and economic changes, and I comment on them because I do have a First Amendment right. A lot of people say artists and athletes should shut up and play ball. No, I’m on this trip, too. If I see something, I say something. That reflects on where each album goes. Instead of staying sedentary and singing about broken relationships, inner turmoil, or whatever is hurting this week, I comment on what’s going on from the perspective of a fellow passenger.”

The video was directed by Dean Karr.

The album features contributions from Gogol Bordello‘s Eugene Hutz, Jello Biafra, and Corrosion of Conformity‘s Pepper Keenan, as well as a cover of Fad Gadget’s protoindustrial synth classic “Ricky’s Hand.”

pencil have share a brand new single “The Giant”, which is out now on Moshi Moshi Records. This single marks the relaunch of Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

The video for the song was directed by Luke Ainger and he shared this about it: “After first hearing “The Giant” I was really interested by the idea of making something that had the tone of an old children’s fable. Something which seemed nostalgic, magical, whilst maintaining the slight sinister feeling that often accompanies classic children’s tales. My day job is in film development/processing, so I was keen to see how we could push this tone through the film’s texture. Rik Burnel and I choose to shoot on Double-X (one of the oldest film stock still in use) and pushed it by 2 stops during development, creating this unusual and dreamlike sentimentality.”

The band shares this about it: “‘The Giant’ is a song about the pain of growth, growing up, growing apart, growing old. It started life with Coco’s violin. The whirlpool arpeggio immediately caught our ears and we started figuring out a chord sequence for the verse together. The idea sat as a voice memo for a few days before one rare morning, when all the lyrics were written in one sitting. We then arranged the song as a band before recording it live with Polly Mackey aka Artschool Girlfriend at Goldsmiths University.”

Apple TV have released a new series, “The Changeling”, with a score created by Dan Deacon.

The synopsis for the show is this: “Apollo and Emma’s love story is a fairy tale, until Emma mysteriously vanishes; bereft, Apollo finds himself on a death-defying odyssey through a New York City he didn’t know existed.”

Dan Deacon shared this about the release: “I had the tremendous pleasure of scoring The Changeling, which premiers tonight on AppleTV! Thank you so much to everyone who made scoring this series an absolute pleasure. Watch the show! Tell Apple to release the score!

Thank you so much to writer/showrunner/absolute sorcerer Kelly Marcel for being my champion throughout the process. I can’t thank you enough. Additionally, thank you, Melina Matsoukas, David Knoller, and Jonathan van Tulleken, for being next-level collaborative partners through the scoring process. Thank you to music editor Joe Mancuso and the fantastic post team Jennifer Renaud and Gary Mueller. Thanks to the folks at Annapurna for producing.

Thank you to the cast for being fucking sick as hell and wildly fun to write music for. LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter, Alexis Louder, Jared Abrahamson, Malcolm Barrett, and my main man Samuel T. Herring for crushing it so hard!

Thanks so much to all my musical collaborators. Your performances and exploratory playing are the essence of this music!!!! Strings: Niccolo Seligmann, Ledah Finck, Peter Kibbe, Will Yager, Sarah Thomas, Amy Huimei Tan, Irène Han. Winds: James Young, Jennifer Tscheulin, Rose Hammer Burt. Brass: Patrick McMinn, Sarah Manley, Daniel Bradley. Voice: Samuel T. Herring, Taylor Boykins, Megan Livingston. Percussion: Will Hicks, Bashi Rose, Jeremy Hyman. Engineers and Technicians: Chester Gwazda, Craig Bowen, Alex Silva, and Albert Schatz. (If I left anyone out, I am so sorry! It’s 7:27pm, and I’m writing this now. I forgot the show went on the air tonight, and I suck at social media!) James Young for all the wild orchestration/transcription/research/player wrangling/being wonderful

OK! Please watch the show! Please tell Apple to release the score (for real)!”

Industrial mastermind AUTHOR & PUNISHER shares the official “Maiden Star” music video from the 2022 release full-length Krüller out via Relapse Records.

Tristan Shone shared this about the video: “‘Maiden Star’ was shot during Author & Punisher’s 2023 June European tour by photographer James Rexroad, who joined A&P for an epic adventure that took them across the northern EU territories. From the fjords of Norway, the wood fired saunas of Helsinki and Tallinn, to the beer halls of Bochum, with friends new and old, this one goes out to the fans who support underground music. Every time I watch this video it hits me…it’s a beautiful music scene and it really makes me so thankful that I get to do what I do. Thanks to James Rexroad for coming along and capturing the community, the energy and the power of heavy music in our lives. Shout out to my bandmate Doug Sabolick, John Cota (sound engineer) and Augie Arredondo for editing the damn thing. The community is strong. We love you.”

The video was shot and directed by James Rexroad.

Additionally AUTHOR & PUNISHER and his intrepid gear company DRONE MACHINES announce a partnership with visionary multi-discipline artist ARCA designing and building machines for her live work Mutant;Destrudo at Park Avenue Armory in NYC now through October 15.

Author & Punisher shared this about the ARCA collaboration: “There aren’t many artists out there as innovative and groundbreaking as Arca. Her style of production and visual design is visceral, dark, and bleak; yet always intriguing and exciting. She’s produced amazing solo works as well as music for Bjork, Kanye West, and FKA Twigs to name a few. When she asked me to build her some machines I immediately jumped on it. We’ve worked on this now for the past 8 months with Alejandra and her creative team focusing on building some industrial controllers that would interact with her DJ setup and allow her to make broader, more physical strokes with levers, sliders, and large knobs. There are five machines in total: one Fader, two Throttles, and two Platters that are all rack mounted above her DJ setup with the table suspended from the ceiling by chains. The aesthetic of Drone Machines (the small gear company birthed from Author & Punisher) is raw and industrial, with heavy machine components. Functionally, there is MIDI, USB, DSP Audio output, and CV/Gate; they are completely open source. Many thanks and shout outs to the team at Drone Machines working with me who helped on this project as well as the other devices we are making: Adam Reed-Erickson (mechanical engineer), Jason Begin (sound designer, producer, composer), and Hanri Thayyil (software engineer).”

Guns N’ Roses played the Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego on Sunday October 1st.

SETLIST:

01. It’s So Easy
02. Bad Obsession
03. Chinese Democracy
04. Pretty Tied Up
05. Slither (Velvet Revolver cover)
06. Mr. Brownstone
07. Hard Skool
08. Welcome To The Jungle
09. Reckless Life
10. Double Talkin’ Jive
11. You Could Be Mine
12. Perhaps
13. Anything Goes
14. Absurd
15. Better
16. Down On The Farm (UK Subs Cover)
17. Rocket Queen
18. Live And Let Die (Wings cover)
19. Estranged
20. T.V. Eye (The Stooges cover. Axl didn’t sing, Duff McKagan did)
21. Street Of Dreams
22. Civil War
23. Slash’s Solo
24. Sweet Child o’ Mine
25. November Rain
26. Wichita Lineman (Jimmy Webb cover)
27. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Bob Dylan cover)
28. Nightrain

ENCORE

29. Coma
30. Madagascar
31. Patience
32. Don’t Cry
33. Paradise City

The three and a half hour set was at times fun and at others funny. At other times it sounded amazing and a few moments later it would sound atrocious, and no it wasn’t the PA or the wind carrying the sound. The one thing that was consistent throughout the show were the horrendous background visuals. Not ever had we witnessed something as painful to the eyes as those awful so called background visuals.

There were some good (great?) highlights about the show. Among them was the cover of “T.V. Eye” by the Stooges and what made the cover even better was the fact that ACL didn’t sing. The second thing that was good on the show was Slash’s Solo, turns out that he can still shred. Those two things were amazing.

Now, in all honesty they did play a mammoth set of 33 songs. The show did go over 2:30 hours and you almost start thinking that this is a great idea until you realize that they’re also including songs from “Chinese Democracy” and you start asking yourself why? But you’re already there so you just enjoy the ride of The Good, The Axl and The Visuals and hope for the best even though you know the best was 30 years ago and this is just a nostalgia trip for those that care about nostalgia.

Devendra Banhart has shared the third single, “Nun”, off his upcoming album “Flying Wig” out September 22nd via Mexican Summer.

TRACKLIST:

1. Feeling
2. Fireflies
3. Nun
4. Sight Seer
5. Sirens
6. Charger
7. Flying Wig
8. Twin
9. May
10. The Party

Devendra shared this about the song: “‘Nun’ was written in a Nunnery in Northern Nepal…it’s a simple metaphor: we can run to something, run for something, run out of something….an archetype with plenty of elasticity.”

Devendra Banhart will be on tour this Fall and Winter across the USofA and Europe.

The National have released the much rumoured second album, “Laugh Track”, which could act as a companion to “First Two Pages Of Frankenstein”. The album is out now via 4ad.

TRACKLIST:

1. Alphabet City
2. Deep End (Paul’s in Pieces)
3. Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver)
4. Turn Off the House
5. Dreaming
6. Laugh Track (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
7. Space Invader
8. Hornets
9. Coat on a Hook
10. Tour Manager
11. Crumble (feat. Rosanne Cash)
12. Smoke Detector

They’ve also shared a new song with it, “Deep End (Paul’s In Pieces)”

Aaron Dessner shared this about howThe National has often bailed on grand ideas of making a rock record. “It’s not because we don’t enjoy sitting in a room banging around ideas. It’s just that it wasn’t that productive, so we developed a fairly elaborate way of building songs in which Bryan Devendorf had a very important but compartmentalized role. This time we had the desire to make something that was more alive so that Bryan’s playing would drive more.”

Thematically, there’s no intentional split between Frankenstein and Laugh Track. But if the former found frontman Matt Berninger in search of sanctuary, here there is a newly clear-eyed assessment of what matters. His fierce need for intimacy is heightened by an ever-greater fear of modern life’s unreality. The characters on this album (no first names, other than a tour manager named Alice – just “I” and “you”) cover for one another, dream for one another, and help maintain appearances – living up to the promise of absolute care that Matt made on Frankenstein closer ‘Send for Me’.

The Kills have shared what is the third single, “703”, off their upcoming album “God Games” out October 27th via Domino Records.

TRACKLIST:

1. New York
2. Going to Heaven
3. LA Hex
4. Love and Tenderness
5. 103
6. My Girls My Girls
7. Wasterpiece
8. Kingdom Come
9. God Games
10. Blank
11. Bullet Sound
12. Better Days

The video for the song was directed by Steven Sebring.

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

Matelotage have shared a new single, “All Rise”, off their upcoming album “Seasick’ out October 13th via Records Collecting Dust Records.

TRACKLIST:

01. All Rise
02. String Em Up
03. The Befuddled Pig
04. Pink Misty Mountain Hop
05. Gone
06. Fuck The Sun
07. Seasick
08. Mayday

The band shared this about the song: “‘All Rise’ is more or less a song about the conflict between the different classes in America. The classic ‘The rich get richer and the poor get poorer’ story. How those with wealth and power can’t seem to satisfy their desire for more. And they will stop at nothing to get it.”

The video was directed by Sal Gallegos.

“Seasick” is the second full length album by San Diego California based trio Matelotage. It is a heavy as fuck, noisy, melodic riff-a-thon record containing elements of post hardcore, 90’s alt rock, noisecore and metal. Produced by Jason Blackmore. Recorded by Gabe VanBenschoten and Roy Silverstein. Mixed and mastered by Mario Quintero of Spotlights and Sisters. The “Seasick” lineup consists of scene veterans Jason “Blackie” Blackmore (Molly McGuire / Rats Eyes / Death Eyes / Sisters) on guitar and vocals. Jade Devitt (Engine Kid) on drums. And Cole Mears (Ghetto Blaster / Death Eyes) on bass.