Failure have shared a live video for “Heliotropic” off their live concert Blu-Ray film “We Are Hallucinations”.
“We Are Hallucinations” was filmed over the band’s 2022 U.S. tour and initially released as a limited-time streaming event. Greg Edwards shared this: “It’s crazy that we have never made a concert film before, but I think this will really stand as a definitive document of the dynamic between the three of us on stage and the connection we have with our fans.”
“Qualia 2 / Micrografía” is part of a trilogy that started with “Qualia 1 / Última Thule” which was released back in December of 2022. The albums are inspired on behalf of the word Qualia which Melero describes as: “…those experiences that are incommunicable, those that when you try to narrate to someone else you feel that you cannot express with words…”
Talking about the new album he said: “…it seems beautiful to me to institute the idea of creating something without knowing if it sounds good or not since you’ve never heard something like that before, being out of taste. Taste is a bad adviser while creating. Taste should be left for your digestive system or when you’re decorating your house…”
ANOHNI has shared a new single, “Why Am I Alive Now?”, Off their new album “My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross” out July 7th via Secretly Canadian / Rough Trade.
The video for the song was directed by Hunter Schafer and he shared this about it: “I started listening to ANOHNI in high school, so it’s a huge honor to help her build a visual world for WAIAN. This music video was an honest attempt to answer the question that WAIAN begs, Why Am I Alive Now? I wanted to focus on the idea of finding sisterhood in a world that does nothing to help – I hope the direction, choreography, and tone conveys a small piece of that journey.”
ANOHNI will perform live and do a Q&A with Schafer during an early album playback on YouTube on Thursday (July 6th) at 3pm ET, with special guest Nomi Ruiz.
MALVINA has shared her new single, “BRAT”, out now via Pop Noire.
The video was directed by Antoine Carlier.
MALVINA has been touring with Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile in their current tour having supported Depeche Mode on some dates, also opening for Interpol, while playing some festival shows. MALVINA has previously released a couple of albums and a couple of EP’s, she is now signed to Pop Noire which is the label Jehnny Beth, Johnny Hostile and Antoine Carlier founded.
Blonde Redhead have shared the second single, “Melody Experiment”, off their upcoming 10th album “Sit Down For Dinner” out September 29th via Section1.
TRACKLIST:
1. Snowman 2. Kiss Her Kiss Her 3. Not for Me 4. Melody Experiment 5. Rest of Her Life 6. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 1 7. Sit Down for Dinner Pt 2 8. I Thought You Should Know 9. Before 10. If 11. Via Savona
Kazu Makino shared this about the song: “This song is a conversational piece between two people. One is questioning the intentions, integrity, and consequences of one’s emotions and actions. She is hypersensitive. The other keeps things simple, allowing himself to go with the flow. Musically, I was able to find something that is quite true and natural to myself, and now I want to continue on this path.”
Simone Pace shared this about the album title: “I know a lot of people eat and run, eat in front of their TV, or don’t care about it too much, and that’s OK, but we really do. It’s a moment for us to sit down and have time with each other.”
The band will go on a tour that will cover some of the USofA and parts of Europe as well.
The Smile have shared a new single, “Bending Hectic”.
It’s not known if this will be part of the new album the band intends on releasing this year or if its a stand alone single.
The song was produced by Sam Petts-Davies and it features strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra. The song sounds as if Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead made a song together that would sound like a clash between early Radiohead (pre-OK Computer) and Jonny Greenwood and Thom Yorke film scores, only not produced by Nigel Godrich this time around.
The band will start a tour tomorrow by playing two nights in Mexico City and will end with them playing the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, IL on July 21st:
Tour Dates: June 21 – Mexico City, Mexico – National Auditorium June 22 – Mexico City, Mexico – National Auditorium June 23 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at The Moody Theater June 26 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at The Moody Theater June 29 – Miami, FL – James L. Knight Center June 30 – St Augustine, FL – The Saint Augustine Amphitheatre July 2 – North Charleston, SC – North Charleston Performing Arts Center July 3 – Asheville, NC – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium July 5 – Richmond, VA – The National July 7 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium July 8 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall July 10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE July 11 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Ballroom July 14 – Quebec City – Festival d’été de Québec July 15 – Laval, QC – Place Bell July 16 – Ottawa, ONT – Bluesfest Festival July 19 – Kansas City, MO – Midland Theatre July 20 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory July 21 – Chicago, IL – Pitchfork Music Festival