One of Mexico's youngest and hardest working shoegaze bands, Mint Field earned their well deserved acclaim with their debut album, Pasar de las Luces, released via LA's Innovative Leisure last year, and made their mark with their live presence at Coachella and SXSW, as well as on extensive tours in the US and Mexico.

Recorded last November at the Tapetown Studios in Aarhus, Jardin de la Paz is part of the band's upcoming EP, and only one of the tracks recorded during this session, so we should be expecting more in the near future. A slow burning track, the first single off Mientras Esperas, tends toward shoegaze's more melodious, floridly psychedelic side, and finds the band evolving with consistency, sounding genuinely solid, and certainly promising for their future endeavors.




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With the project's name now elegantly stylized as TR/ST, Robert Alfons will be following 2014's Joyland with the long awaited third full length release, the first part of which comes out on April 19th, 2019, while we'll have to wait until November for part two. The Destroyer was created in a 150-year-old farmhouse near the north of Toronto and in Los Angeles, and features a series of all-star cast of collaborators, most prominently Maya Postepski, a key figure on Trust's debut, who co-wrote and co-produced six of the forthcoming album's songs.

"The environment I work in has always guided me," Alfons says. "But it took a long time to submit to the kind of patience these songs were asking of me. I was getting glimpses of what I wanted to achieve with the album. But it wasn’t feeling cohesive; things weren’t aligning in a clear direction. My first two records were put out so close to one another that I think of them as one. They just poured out of me."

On The Destroyer the artist took a whole different approach. "It was so much more careful. I found myself seeking spaces of absolute quiet; I needed them in order to hear what was going on inside."

A glimmering cut that fuses elements of dreampop and glam rock, together with the pristine synthpop sound that made TRST the masterpiece of a contemporary record that it evidently is, Gone finds Alfons' songwriting at its most memorable, and it is once again characterized by the fine act's stirring execution and those, and an unmissable, otherworldly vocal delivery.

TR/ST is back for good, and The Destroyer looks very rosy from here.













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After leaving LA punk rockers FIDLAR about four years ago, Danny Nogueiras came up with a more mature sounding power pop project, NO WIN who are about to release their debut full length. downey is due out March 22nd, 2019 via Dangerbird Records.

"I worked to the bone on this record," says Nogueiras, "I make this kind of music because I love it genuinely, and I want as many people as possible to enjoy it."

"It’s a good representation of where I come from, and it’s nostalgic for certain elements of the past while still being sad about them," he adds, revealing that the forthcoming album takes its name from the Southern California city the artist grew up in. downey was recorded at Balboa Recording Studio in LA, which he built himself, with bassist David Jerkovich (Kind Of Like Spitting, Novi Split), drummer Jeff Enzor (ex-Joyce Manor) and lead guitarist Juan Liñan. It was mixed by veteran producer/engineer John Goodmanson whose work we've heard in the music of acts like Blonde Redhead, The Posies and Sleater-Kinney.

Taking its name from the once popular actress, Shelley Duvall is a radiant power pop track with a strong spirit, which first appeared on the band's self-titled EP in 2015. This new, much sharper and cultivated version of it presents the band's strengths and the freshness of their sound at their peak.




 



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After grungy sludge rockers, Fight Amp, stopped operating as a band, its core members, Mike McGinnis, Jon DeHart, and Dan Smith, eager to put their creativity to good use again, enlisted singer, Itarya Rosenberg, and formed the new project, Low Dose, whose self-titled debut album will be released on March 29th, 2019 via Brutal Panda / Knife Hits Records.

Low Dose's sound carries a lot of creditable qualities that take us back to the early year's of post rock, when the genre was not even a thing yet, while it also leans heavily on the more artistic and musing side of noise rock. LP opener, Low, is a grunge piece which represents the band's strong character quite rightly.

The upcoming album was recorded and mixed by Steve Poponi (Fight Amp, Psychic Teens) and mastered by Dave Downham (Creepoid, Beach Slang).













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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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