King Woman, who recently announced the July 30th release of their highly-anticipated sophomore album, Celestial Blues (Relapse Records), have shared a second song, “Psychic Wound”, from the upcoming release.
The video for “Psychic Wound” was directed by Muted Windows.
“‘Psychic Wound’ is about paying the price for eating forbidden fruit,” explains Kris Esfandiari of the riveting track and its visual companion. “When desire turns into obsession it can keep you longer than you intended to stay and nearly destroy your sanity.”
The video arrives as King Woman have confirmed Boy Harsher DJ and Rituals of Mine are among the openers for the outfit’s upcoming Los Angeles, Oakland and New York shows. Saint Vitus has been announced as the venue for the Oct. 15 and 16 performances in Brooklyn.
Celestial Blues was recorded in Oakland, California by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Amenra, Oathbreaker). The band is rounded out by drummer Joseph Raygoza and guitar player Peter Arensdorf. Visual collaborations featured in the album packaging and surrounding imagery were created by Nedda Afsari, Collin Fletcher, and Jamie Parkhurst.
Helado Negro has announced his new album “Far In” which will be released on 22nd October via 4AD. “Far In” is Helado Negro’s first album on 4AD and the seventh full-length album in his catalog.
TRACKLIST: 01 “Wake Up Tomorrow” (Feat. Kacy Hill) 02 “Gemini And Leo” 03 “Purple Tones” 04 “There Must Be A Song Like You” 05 “Aguas Frias” 06 “Aureole” 07 “Hometown Dream” 08 “Agosto” (Feat. Buscabella) 09 “Outside The Outside” 10 “Brown Fluorescence” 11 “Wind Conversations” 12 “Thank You Forever” 13 “La Naranja” 14 “Telescope” (Feat. Benamin) 15 “Mirror Talk”
The first single released is ‘Gemini and Leo”. The video for it was directed by Jacob Escobedo.
When Roberto Carlos Lange, the musician known as Helado Negro, began writing Far In immediately following the release of This is How You Smile, he could not have predicted that we would soon need to learn how to stay at home and be the stars of our domestic dance floors with intimates and online communities. In the new single ‘Gemini and Leo’, the titular pair stay indoors to discover each other anew with music recalling Roberto’s youth growing up in South Florida listening to 80s club songs, and their return sampled in 90s hip hop. Visions past and future meet in a euphoria of uptempo drums, Jen Wasner’s (Flock of Dimes) bass line, and Opal Hoyt’s (Zenizen) synths and backing vocals.
Roberto and his partner, the visual artist Kristi Sword, had planned to visit Marfa, Texas for an early 2020 residency to work on their collaborative project ‘Kite Symphony.’ Once the pandemic hit, they decided to stay in Marfa through the summer, inspiring Roberto to write a significant amount of songs on the upcoming album. He wrote the new song ‘Agosto’ with his thoughts on the humid atmosphere of his hometown where flower petals and fruit fall and sweetly decay on concrete. The song features his longtime friends Buscabulla, no strangers to the melancholy pull of home in a Caribbean climate.
Throughout Roberto’s career, imagined beings, ghosts and haunted machines appear in sci-fi stories and his own conjurings. These tales make themselves at home amongst narratives that invigorate community and solidarity. His songs ‘it’s My Brown Skin’ (2016) and ‘Please Won’t Please’ (2019) assert an affirmation of Latinx identity through recurring images of brown glowing complexion, a perception that is rooted as much in a spiritual consciousness of resilience and protection, as a physical experience. On the new album Far In, Roberto says he “celebrates the ghosts,” embracing pleasure and freedom to follow the metaphysical further; the glow appears without words in new song ‘Brown Fluorescence’ – a minimal arrangement of layered, ethereal, vocal loops. He sings ‘We grow younger to stay strong,” on ‘Purple Tones’ with the playful bells of steel pan drums and reveling in the creative time-space of twilight and dusk, waking dreams, and transit, the self-dispersing nowhere and anywhere, but the touch of hair maintains an earthly connection to who you are and what you care about.
Driving back to Brooklyn in the fall inspired by his work in the desert, Roberto auspiciously purchased a Rhodes from a friend who 20 years earlier gave him his first synthesizer, an Arp Odyssey 2800. The electric piano was a catalyst that guided much of the remaining songwriting for the album. After time apart from a changed city, his base for fifteen years, ‘Hometown Dream’ and ‘Outside the Outside’,unapologetically look forward to new places and possibilities.
“Escape is never out there, you have to go inward,” Roberto reflects on developing an epic Helado Negro double album during these extraordinary times. Heavy, pulsing, rhythms drive ‘Aureole’ through a dystopian landscape, but as he sings of endless psychological restrictions, the shimmering radiance of expanded realms bursts through. This chiaroscuro effect suggests a path that isn’t tuning out beneath monumental forces and anxieties, but embracing the dark of the unknown with openness, pleasure, and growth.
No tour dates have been announced yet for the USofA (or Tijuana).
The Bronx have released the first video, ‘Curb Feelers’, in support of their upcoming album, Bronx VI, out August 27 via Cooking Vinyl.
The motorcycle garage video was directed by Estevan Oriol.
“Every Bronx record has a backbone track, a sonic anchor that sets the tone for the entire album,” explains vocalist Matt Caughthran, “’Curb Feelers’ is the rock that the rest of the record breaks itself against.”
Each of the 11 songs on Bronx VI is being issued as a separate, limited-edition 7-inch, with the band partnering with an impressive group of artists for the series, with the available 7-inches featuring graphics from DabsMyla, Brian Montoiri and Jeremy Dean. The newly released “Curb Feelers” 7-inch features Estevan Oriol’s photography and can be purchased via the band’s webstore. The Bronx partnered with San Diego-based Fall Brewing Company, creating the limited-edition “Watering The Well” lager. Bronx VI was produced by Joe Barresi (Tool, Melvins, Bad Religion) at his House of Compression studio in Pasadena, Calif.
The Bronx will be on a full tour this fall they’re scheduled to play on October 10th in San Diego, CA at Gallagher Square at Petco Park. They’re also set to play Riot Fest on September 18th in Chicago and Punk Rock Bowling on Sept 25th in Las Vegas.
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).
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