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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.

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