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• Girl Band share "Paul" videos from new LP, touring this fall

  28-08-2015 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisGirl Band's debut album, Holding Hands With Jamie, is less than a month away (9/25 via Rough Trade) and you can check out the recent video for its single, "Paul," in this post. Directed byBob Gallagher, it is -- like most Girl Band videos -- weird and funny and disturbing. In this case, it involves men dressed in furry animal costumes. Check it out, plus a live montage of "Paul" filmed at Electric Picnic 2014, below.The new album gives a close approximation of what Girl Band are li
  
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• watch a documentary about Lonnie Holley who has a major exhibition in South Carolina & is playing NYC in October

  28-08-2015 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Outsider artist and improvisational musician Lonnie Holley, just played London's Meltdown Fest on Monday (8/24) which was a collaborative performance with Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor. (This year's Meltdown, which also featured Young Marble Giants, was curated by David Byrne.) You may remember that Lonnie was part of the Arthur Russell tribute shows at BAM earlier this year and he'll be back in NYC this fall, performing at Artists Space Books & Talks on October 6. The show is
  
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• Toro Y Moi shares 'Samantha' mixtape (download it)

  28-08-2015 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chaz Bundick has just shared Samantha, a new mixtape of non-LP Toro Y Moi songs he's been making over the last three years. (Some of which he's posted on his Soundcloud.) He put the download link in his Instagram profile, and the dropbox has both MP3s and WAVs, plus a PDF booklet. Download HERE.Toro Y Moi's fall tour starts in less than a month and will hit NYC at Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 1 & 2 with opener Astronauts, etc. Tickets are still available.
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• Soft Lit, YVETTE, Fasano & more featured on new GODMODE cassette compilation of forthcoming EPs (streams & video)

  28-08-2015 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Soft Lit
  NYC electro-leaning label GODMODE will have a very busy second half of 2015, releasing six EPs before year's end, including noisemakers YVETTE's Time Management on October 2, plus ones by Fasano and Hand of God (both were just released digitally), as well as Fitness (9/11), synthy R&B duo Soft Lit (9/25) and Malory (10/30). All of them will be released on a limited edition megacassette titled You've Been Sweating Wrong Your Whole Life that will be out 10/30. You can stream Fasano an
  
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• Salad Boys share "No Taste Bomber" from new LP, expand tour, playing Elvis Guesthouse after Palisades (updated dates)

  28-08-2015 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisNew Zealand's Salad Boys have shared a second song from their terrific new album, Metalmania, which is out September 18 via Trouble in Mind. (Pre-orders are available in limited mixed-color vinyl.) These guys make the kind of fiercely strummed, jangly guitar pop that never really goes out of style (even if it's never exactly in style, either). "No Taste Bomber" is a fine example of what they do, with the song spending half its five-minute length on the kind of one-chord jam the Fee
  
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• AC/DC rocked MetLife Stadium (pics / setlist)

  28-08-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Greg CristmanAC/DC at MetLife Stadium 8/26/2015
  For over four decades, they've plowed through a sound as uniform as The Ramones' and as unchanging as the original formula for Coke.It works because the essential AC/DC gestalt has such power, momentum and wit, it requires no update or variation.To wit, they opened Wednesday's show with the title track off their latest album, "Rock or Bust," a riff-fest that has nearly as much freshness and punch as songs off their very first release.The
  
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• Gramma's Boyfriend (featuring Haley Bonar) releasing new LP, share "Forget The Stones" & playing CMJ

  28-08-2015 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisHaley Bonar, who released 2014's very good Last War, has another band called Gramma's Boyfriend. With this band, that also features members of Cloak Ox and Andrew Bird's band, Bonar further explores her late-'80s alt-rock leanings, taking things into danceable dark new wave territory. Gramma's Boyfriend's new album, Perm, will be out via Graveface on October 9 and you can stream the synthy/smoky "Forget The Stones" below.Gramma's Boyfriend will be in NYC for CMJ, playing the Panach
  
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• Beach House played Baby's All Right (instagrams / setlist)

  28-08-2015 17:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Beach House at Baby's / desperate fan (photos by @babysallright / @davidofearth)There were Beach House fans lined up outside Baby's All Right early Thursday afternoon (8/27) in hopes of scoring someone's extra ticket or +1 to get into this surprise, impossibly intimate show. The Baltimore band had just released their fourth album, Depression Cherry, and this was the NYC record release show, announced only the day before, and tickets sold out in seconds. The fan with the sign above ended up getti
  
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• NY tattoo law has issues, but a petition for change is working

  28-08-2015 16:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As Gothamist points out, a new tattoo-related law goes into effect in NY on December 12, and many are not happy about it. Over 33,000 people have already signed a petition to get some wording changed.The standard procedure by any properly trained tattoo artist involves purchasing large bottles of inks, and pouring them into small plastic, single use, disposable "ink caps", just enough for the procedure, which are thrown away during clean up. The original large bottle is to be stored away from th
  
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• watch the trailer for Colin Hanks' Tower Records documentary

  28-08-2015 16:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tower Records closed its last stores in 2006 after 46 years as one of the most iconic record store chains in the business. The last one in NYC, the Lincoln Square branch, closed in December of that year. The E. 4th St. location went shortly before that. All Things Must Pass, the documentary made by Colin Hanks (Tom's son), tells it's story and has received favorable reviews at festival screenings like SXSW. The film will be out in limited release in the U.S. in September. You can watch the trail
  
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• Baroness announce new album, 'Purple,' and share "Chlorine & Wine" video

  28-08-2015 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Baroness have announce their new album is titled Purple and will be out December 18 via the band's newly-formed Abraxan Hymns label. That is part of the album cover, above. (The band haven't shared the whole thing yet.) This will be the first record the band have made since 2012's Yellow & Green and the tour bus accident that happened not long after the album's release. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, MGMT) and you can stream the nearly seven-minute, soari
  
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• Slim Twig shares "Fadeout Killer" video, expands tour, playing CMJ show w/ Ezra Furman, Drinks, Juan Wauters & more

  28-08-2015 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Bill PearisSlim Twig has released a video for "Fadeout Killer" from his new album, Thank You for Sticking wtih Twig. Like the song, there's a dreamlike quality to the video, directed by David Rendall, that has Twig running a race of one. There's also a woman in a house answering a phone. They are connected. What does it mean? That is a question probably for a therapist, but you can watch it below.Since we last posted, Slim Twig has added a few tour dates. We knew he was going to be here for C
  
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• tix on sale: Dinosaur Jr, Deerhunter, Neil Fest, Frog Eyes, Julia Holter, TWIABP, The Weeknd, !!!, Trey Anastasio & more

  28-08-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tickets to the Deerhunter/Atlas Sound shows at Irving Plaza (BrooklynVegan presents) and Warsaw go on sale today at 10 AM.Tickets to the two-night Neil Fest at Bowery Ballroom, featuring Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten, Body/Head, Brian Fallon and more performing the songs of Neil Young, go on sale today at noon.Tickets to The Weeknd, Travi$ Scott, and Banks shows at Prudential Center, Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center go sale today at 10 AM.Tickets to the 
  
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• The Saddest Landscape announce new album 'Darkness Forgives' & tour with Vattnet Viskar (dates, stream)

  28-08-2015 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherThe Saddest Landscape will follow 2012's After The Lights with a new album, Darkness Forgives, on October 23 via Topshelf (pre-orders coming soon). The first single is "Souls Worth Saving" which also drops as a 7" single with a non-album b-side on 9/25, and it's streaming now. It's another dose of the band's raw, emotive post-hardcore / screamo, the kind of song that should please longtime fans and newcomers alike. Check it out below (via AV Club).The band will also tour after th
  
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• What's going on Friday? (Tamaryn, Deradoorian, So Hideous, Raven, Machinedrum, Heems & more)

  28-08-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos: Tamaryn @ Levitation 2015 (more by PSquared)
  You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...Tamaryn, Samantha Urbani @ Le Poisson RougeTamaryn went from gothy shoegaze to gothy, shoegazy pop (there's a difference) on her new terrific album, Cranekiss. Tonight's the record release show with onetime Friends singer Samantha Urbani opening.Deradoorian, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Image Man @ Trans-PecosDeradoorian's new album is a wild ride.
  
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• Foxing detail 'Dealer,' share "The Magdalene" (listen)

  28-08-2015 01:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  by Andrew SacherWe knew Foxing would release their sophomore album Dealer this fall on Triple Crown, and now we have more details. It comes out October 30, that's the artwork above, and the first single is second track "The Magdalene." Foxing tone it down a bit this time around, going heavier on their atmospheric post-rock side and lighter on the yelling, but "The Magdalene" hasn't lost what made previous singles like "Rory" so promising. Check it out below.As recently mentioned, they're co-head
  
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• Green Man fest 2015 pics/review Pt. 2: Sexwitch, St. Vincent, SFA, Father John Misty, Goat, Songhoy Blues & more

  28-08-2015 00:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos and words by Rachel Juarez-Carr & Christopher Jesse JuarezSexwitch / Songhoy Blues / St. Vincent / SFA / GOAT @ Green Man 2015The Green Man Festival has been taking place in Wales' beautiful Brecon Beacons for the past few years, drawing an increasingly impressive line-up of worldwide and Welsh musicians to the sprawling Glanusk Estate. The 2015 edition happened August 20 - 23 and added enough extras (Hot tubs! A cinema! A beer festival! A science garden!) that you didn't really
  
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