DC punks, Priests, offered a nice surprise with the kind of an art-pop direction they took with the previously revealed, The Seduction of Kansas, the title track off their upcoming record. The very fresh, Good Time Charlie, finds the band sounding more like their old selves again, conveying a pretty weighty and dynamic post punk sound, while dealing with an also weighty, serious and politically charged concept. The new single draws inspiration from the story of Congressman Charlie Wilson which was also the theme of Mike Nichols' last film, released in 2007, starring Tom Hanks.

Frontwoman, Katie Alice Greer, describes the inspiration behind the song in a very interesting statement: "I like to think of this song a little bit like the Gilligan’s Island theme song, but for a Hollywood tale of Charlie Wilson. It’s also a little bit about 9/11 but much like Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year Of Rest And Relaxation, the character sketch is more drawn out in its absence rather than presence. I saw a documentary about the history of the United States’ relationship with the Middle East, and there was clip of an ‘80s lady who looked a little like Vanna White (who turned out to be Joanne Herring) saying how she wanted to get the Mujahadeen guns to fight the communists because she believed they worshipped the same god as her. So I got curious about how this story unfolded, but even more so, how the tale has been told in western culture. I watched the movie Charlie Wilson’s War and it was so unintentionally funny the way they told this story, like think of the movie Team America, except the filmmakers weren’t joking (at least I don’t think). And then I read in the film’s Wikipedia page: “The film’s happy ending came about because Tom Hanks ‘just can’t deal with this 9/11 thing.’” I don’t know why exactly but this got stuck in my head and made my brain feel like it was exploding. So, with Daniele and GL and Janel Leppin on bass, we made it into a song."

The Seduction of Kansas comes out April 5th, 2019 through Priests' own imprint, Sister Polygon Records.





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Featuring original members, Raymond McGinley and Norman Blake, indie rock veterans, Teenage Fanclub, have unveiled a brand new single, Everything Is Falling Apart, their first piece of new music since their 2016 LP, Here, and their first without co-founder and songwriter Gerard Love who left the band back in November 2018.

Donald Milne directs the beautiful clip, shot in studio at Hamburg’s Clouds Hill Recording Studios where the track was recorded last January, depicting the tireless experienced band in great form, standing strong and sounding firm. Teenage Fanbclub will be soon embarking on a North American tour, of which the dates are listed below.






TOUR DATES:

02/21 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
02/22 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
02/23 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
02/25 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
02/26-27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
03/02 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
03/04 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater
03/05 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
03/06 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
03/07 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
03/08 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre
03/09 – Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus
03/11 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
03/13 – New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
03/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Brooklyn
03/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
03/16 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
03/18 – Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom


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Canadian songwriter Josie Boivin, records and performs her charming mixture of dreampop and psychedelic pop as Munya, having already put out a handful of EPs, a compilation of which will be coming out on vinyl, cassette and CD on March 8th, 2019, together with Blue Pine, the newest installment of her EP trilogy.

Off the coming EP comes Benjamin, the artist's first bilingual track, and an enjoyment of a quirky and heartfelt pop ballad, playfully wistful, melancholic and all the way tuneful, suggestive of the French sixties pop spirit, and the youthful delivery of Jane Birkin and Françoise Hardy.

"I'm really excited that this is my first song in both French and English as I hope its theme transcends language!" states the artist. "Many times in my life when I thought I had found love it turned into heartbreak...like most people it has made it harder for me to be vulnerable with new experiences and people. In this song I take a step back and realize it's how we all feel, I make fun of my own vulnerabilities and try to just push them to the side and enjoy my new Love. Hopefully this song will make people relax, smile, and dance a bit and just try not to take our own stuff too serious cause its just not worth it!"



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Attributing the inspiration for the new material to classy acts like Tears For Fears and the refined synthpop of the eighties, the duo comprised of Colin Bennett and singer Ollie Wride return with a brand new track that follows the hit of their debut album, Atlas, as well as sold out tours in the US, Canada and the UK.

This is FM-84's first single release since 2017's Never Stop, when Wride was still credited as a featured contributor. With the singer onboard as a regular member, FM-84 appear at the peak of their strengths, and come up with a superbly sharp song, mixing the act's tasteful retrowave aesthetics with a steadily memorable style of writing. Bend & Break evokes the posh eighties pop spirit really accurately, and conveys FM-84's own newness in a unique and delightful way, like any fan of Atlas would have expected.




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Chromatics have announced a tour and shared a new video for a brand new single, further indicating that the long awaited follow up to 2012's Kill For Love, most likely the new version of the lost Dear Tommy album, might be drawing near.

Time Rider is slow, monotonous, glittery, and dreamlike, evoking thoughts of the band's earlier work, pre-Kill for Love, and very close to 2007's Night Drive when they took that hard turn toward the synthpop sound with which they stood out later.

The self-made video is a celebration of vivid, saturated colors, psychedelic imagery and cinematic aesthetics, like always providing perfect accompaniment to the music's elegance.





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Chromatics Tour Dates:

04/30 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
05/02 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
05/04 San Diego, CA – The Observatory, North Park
05/07 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
05/09 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
05/11 Austin, TX – Emo’s
05/12 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
05/13 New Orleans, LA – Republic NOLA
05/15 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
05/17 Boston, MA – Royale
05/19 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
05/21 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel &
05/22 Washington, DC – The 9:30 Club
05/24 South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
05/25 Montreal, QC – SAT !
05/27 Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall !
05/28 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater
05/30 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
05/31 Chicago, IL – Park West
06/04 Calgary, AB – The Palace
06/06 Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theater
06/07 Seattle, WA – Showbox
06/08 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom
06/11 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine

! with Tess Roby
& with Holy Ghost! DJ set


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Following their acclaimed debut, Animus, British death metal heavyweights, Venom Prison, will release their second studio album, Samsara, on March 15th, 2019 via Prosthetic Records. The new records is introduced by the utterly frantic and savage single, Uterine Industrialisation, and its accompanying video.

As its brutal title suggests, the politically charged track is a powerful and steadfast commentary on motherhood and its appropriation. The clip emerges like a short, yet, to the point, horror flick, all gory and extra bloody, portraying the band's own, Larissa Stupar, as a pregnant woman suffering in nightmarish and torturous scenes, always standing strong. The horror is contrasted by views of the whole band performing with all their might in a beautifully lit church.

As one of the brightest heavy new acts in the UK, Venom Prison, go beyond death metal's basics to come up with something so much muscular, atypically cutting edge, yet, true to the genre's philosophy and values.








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