On the day of the release of their second collaborative LP, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back, Uniform and The Body unveil a bizarre new video for Day of Atonement, shot in Super 8 and directed by artist, Alexander Barton.

"I wanted to make an abstraction of violence," Barton comments. "The film's character is in low resolution, a changing of disguises, an ambiguous identity, shadowed ideologies and masked by the skyline. The hooded figure is evasive to society. In this collection of images, he has prepared himself and represents the threat of the unknown."

Always prolific and cutting-edge, Uniform and The Body, individually and as a unit, repeatedly and consistently engage with their audience in exciting ways. Beautiful in its idiosyncrasy, Day of Atonement, both audibly and visually, dazzles quite much like the rest of Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back.

Uniform and The Body's new collaborative record is out not on Sacred Bones.



Film by Alexander Barton



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San Francisco shoegazers, Echodrone, announce the release of their upcoming LP, Everything Starts to be a Reminder, coming out September 10th, 2019 on Dome A Records, and have just unveiled the opening cut, the majestic and quite epic eighteen-minute-long showpiece, Winter.

The upcoming album is comprised of four songs, each representing a different season, all set up in compositional suites that glide smoothly, like life's different phases.

Screaming of post rock supremacy, Winter finds Echodrone at their most ambitious, grandest and heaviest chapter of their in all respects striking path thus far, and delineate their admirable bent for exploration, with the audacity of both their composition and their delivery coming through once more downright prominent.

"As time passes along each movement, it mirrors the way time passes in each stage of our lives," the band describe.

Performing Winter are Eugene Suh (guitars, vocals, synths, electronics), Brandon Dudley (bass, electronics), Jackie Kasbohm (vocals) and Bryan Ball (drums).






Album Art by Flesh and Bone Design


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Since Girl Band called off their hiatus, their announced upcoming LP, The Talkies, couldn't be more highly anticipated. The band's sophomore album, and follow up to the acclaimed Holding Hands With Jamie, comes out September 27th, 2019 via Rough Trade.

Going Norway is the second piece surfacing off the coming record, following the intense Shoulderblades,and it sounds equally nervy and acute, a specimen of sharp post punk superiority, making brilliant use of the writing's repetitiveness and the band's bent for biting, impossible to ignore delivery.

"Going Norway was one of the first tracks we finished," explains vocalist, Dara Kiely, "but the melody actually comes from a track that I wrote about 8 years ago. I saved that melody and brought it up when I didn’t have any ideas left, I was also doing a lot of mindfulness meditation around the time of it, so lyrically I decided not to use any pronouns within the track and the whole album - that came about when I came across this quote from the Buddha which was ‘Nothing is to be clung to as I, me or mine’ - and I removed all that in a way to kind of find an abstract world to live in."

The new song comes with an engaging video directed by Bob Gallagher, and it was produced by the group's own, Daniel Fox, just like the rest of The Talkies, at Ballintubbert House, a stately manor  on the outskirts of Dublin. "In many ways the idea behind the album was to make an audio representation of the manor home," comments band member, Alan Duggan.




Video directed and produced by Bob Gallagher


USA Dates
Oct 2nd - Chicago - Beat Kitchen
Oct 4th - Allston, MA - Great Scott
Oct 5th - Philly, PA - Boot and Saddle
Oct 6th - Washington, DC - Songbyrd
Oct 8th - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere

UK/ EU Dates
Nov 2nd - Manchester - Academy 2
Nov 5th - London - Electric Ballroom
Nov 7th - Brussels - Botanique (Sold Out)
Nov 8th - Utrecht - Le Guess Who? 2019
Nov 12th - Nov 14th - Paris - La Maroquinerie
Nov 14th - Berlin - Bi Nuu
Nov 22nd - Dublin - Vicar Street (Sold Out)
Nov 23rd - Dublin - Vicar Street



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One more spellbinding single off Crunchy Frog's upcoming 25-year anniversary compilation, And Now For Something Completely Crunchy, comes by another Danish act, ONBC, whose contribution to the record is a mesmeric and consummately melodious piece of dreampop exquisiteness.

All endearing, and perfectly clocking in at three and a half minutes, Dive Bar of Dreamers, sounds as appealing and vivid as its title indicates. The band describe in a very artful statement: "True to its title, Dive Bar of Dreamers is a surreal tale set in, and describing, a dive bar of dreams that’s always open, but where last orders lurks like a vulture on the horizon. Its doors are open for idiots, the self-absorbed, the petty, the scarred, furious, downtrodden, confused, silent, bitter, shook-up, and drunk. You’ll find astronauts, football players, presidents, lovers, firemen, pornstars, and judges sitting in its corners under low-lit lamps. The bartender knows everyone by name, though their names tend to be false. The only single in the jukebox is stuck in a groove, and the discoball suspended from the ceiling hasn’t turned since the world started its initial rotation. Maybe you've been there?"

ONBC's albums, Crash, Burn & Cry from 2015 and Travelmate from 2017, are out on Crunchy Frog, and fans of lo-fi, slowcore and Americana-tinged dreampop, shouldn't be disregarding any of them.





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Getting to enjoy underground music on popular TV shows must be one of the finest, most satisfying and hearty things in this dreary existence. After many years of a fruitful career, and on the back of their excellent new album, Admission, Miami heavy rockers, Torche, went on Late Night With Seth Meyers for their late night debut, performing the album's great title track, and Infierno as a digital exclusive.

While Meyers has long proven himself as one of the most competent and worthy successors to the Late Night franchise, such musical guest bookings are a valid reason for the appreciation of Meyers' show to go quite higher, while we are reminded of times when the appearance of meaningful music on TV was not something that happen so rarely.

Raise your spirits. Not everything is lost.







Artist photo by Dan Almasy


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Going back as far as 1992, and having released tons of pioneering material tackling heavy rock, drone and experimental sounds, as much improbable as it might seem, the ever-evolving Boris always find ways to keep moving forward and compel their devoted audience.

The brilliant seven-minute heavy psych rocking madness of Love is the first thing we get to sample off Boris' upcoming double LP, LφVE & EVφL, set for release on October 4th, 2019 via Third Man Records. The song's insane trippiness comes attached to a hallucinatory, ritualistic video, directed by rkp and fangsanalsatan.

On an additional note, the band have also announced the reissues of their seminal LPs, Akuma No Uta and Feedbacker via Third Man Records, releasing on the same date as the new album.

The great Boris are Takeshi (vocal, bass and guitar), Wata (vocal, guitar and echo) and Atsuo (vocal, drums, percussion and electronics).









BORIS — On Tour w/ Uniform:
August 19  San Diego, CA @ Casbah
August 20  Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
August 22  San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
August 23  Austin, TX @ Barracuda
August 24  Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
August 25  Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
August 28  Mexico City, MX @ Foro Indie Rocks *
August 30  Tampa, FL @ Orpheum
August 31  Gainesville, FL @ High Dive
September 1  Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
September 3  Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
September 4  Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
September 5  Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Festival *
September 7  Washington, DC @ Black Cat
September 8  Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
September 10  Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
September 11  Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
September 12  Portland, ME @ Port City Music Hall
September 13  Montreal, QC @ Theatre Plaza
September 14  Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
September 15  Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
September 17  Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
September 18  St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
September 20  Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
September 21  Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
September 23  Seattle, WA @ Neumos
September 24  Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
September 26  San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
September 27  San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
September 28  Camarillo, CA @ Rock City
September 29  Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
* no Uniform


Music video directed by rkp & fangsanalsatan

Painting by Akiko Nakayama

Artist photo by Miki Matsushima


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