Fuzzy, gritty and produced to unequivocal perfection by super producer, Jack Shirley whose work we have enjoyed in the music of Deafheaven, Bosse-de-Nage, Loma Prieta, Oathbreaker, Super Unison and dozens more, San Francisco's Bad Visuals emerge with a delightful debut single from an upcoming album definitely worthy to keep an eye out for.

Phantom Passing fuses shoegaze rawness with punk and post hardcore energy, and exquisite DIY aesthetics, and it presents a fresh and fervent upcoming band on the rise.

Bad Visuals' grainy, full of personality, multifarious sound feels like something that fans of acts like Citizen, Creative Adult, Nothing and Basement would most likely take pleasure in.




Bad Visuals Facebook | Spotify





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Comprised of raw footage from the band's tours from 2015 to 2018, and shot by Michael Hirsch, Pay No Mind, is the newest video off Beach House's pristine latest record, 7.

"We like how it focuses on the audience, as they are the whole reason we go on tour," state the dreampop duo. "We also like that it shows some of the scuzzy reality of tour."

In February 2019 Beach House will be going back on tour on a few selected dates in North America, Australia and Europe, and the freshly unveiled clip that follows is an accurate representation of what you can expect if you catch them live.






Upcoming Tour
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More than one year after its release, D//E Album of the Year 2017 keeps on giving. LP closer, Scrape, is the newest song off Chelsea Wolfe's Hiss Spun to be accompanied by a splendid video, following the striking visuals that come with 16 Psyche, Spun and The Culling.

Scrape is comprised of live clips from the group's October 2018 tour, with additional filming and editing by the band's own, Ben Chisholm.

The video's release was celebrated together with Wolfe's birthday, as the upcoming European live dates supporting A Perfect Circle approach.






Chelsea Wolfe Live Dates with A Perfect Circle

02/12 Glasgow 02 Academy
03/12 Manchester Victoria Warehouse
05/12 London Wembley Arena
06/12 Paris Le Zenith
07/12 Antwerp Lotto Arena         
09/12 Amsterdam AFAS Live
10/12 Cologne Palladium
12/12 Copenhage Forum
13/12 Hamburg Sporthalle       
15/12 Krakow  Tauron Arena
16/12 Vienna Stadthalle
18/12 Milan Mediolonum Forum
19/12 Rome Pala Lottomatica

Chelsea Wolfe Bandcamp | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram




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One day ahead of the release of Lightfoils' new album, Chambers, we are stoked to premiere the video for the lead single, Summer Nights. The Chicagoan group's big and full sound meets its complementary match in the clip's colorful psychedelic visuals, directed by the band themselves and Brian Cook, as the eight-minute epic song is presented in an abbreviated form which still does not miss any of the engagement and thrilling sensation their rich dreampop reverberation always conveys.

Summer Nights has now one more thing to be commended for, next to it thick production, those mesmerizing vocals and the band's stirring delivery, and that is its exquisite, easy on the eye video.



Lightfoils Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp




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Fellow music enthusiasts and eclectic music curators over at BIRP.fm started an incredible vinyl subscription service/record club last year, Vinyl Post, for which every month they put out a limited-edition 5" x 7" vinyl postcard, playable on your turntable and featuring a single from an upcoming act that the site selected.

As an expansion to that, BIRP.fm now introduces a new series of vinyl compilations centered around those kinds of indie lo-fi, dreampop and shoegaze-y sounds that D//E is also very keen on.

Volume One is going to include an impressive array of bands. Vansire, VACATIONS, Foliage, Paul Cherry, MUNYA, Ginger Root, Soft Eyez, Mons Vi, Strawberry Guy, FLOOR CRY, Cody Ash and Goth Babe, all contribute to the series first release, the future of which depends on the funding. There is a very well detailed Kickstarter campaign where you can find more information. In any event, Volume One is happening, and expected at the pledgers' doorsteps February 2019.

Stream the carefully selected entire set of songs that comprise Volume One right below, and consider supporting this tasteful and well thought out project.




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Portland darkwave act, Vacant Stares, only count one self-titled five-track demo release so far in their brief existence, yet, the band is currently readying their first album, expected out in June 2019. The first cut off the impending LP, Impulse Control, is an impressive, characterful mixture of darkness and coldness, tying together elements from synthpop, post punk and wistful hypnagogic pop.

For the song's lyrics the band cite influence from the timeless writings of Sylvia Plath, while they describe it as a "song about personal failures, misplaced trust and emotional disappointment."

The single finds its perfect visual match in the work of Anthony Gavis aka Neu Caligula, whose illusory, mind-altering aesthetics paired with dancer Megean McBride's choreography, comprise a ravishing piece of unconventional, multidimensional art.

"Impulse Control is our attempt to enflesh a dreamstate that is dourly beautiful, inversely cloying the senses and unsettling the subconscious," say the band whose dark finesse shouldn't be overlooked.









Vacant Stares Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram




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