GLARE is an alternative rock/shoegaze five-piece from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Since their inception in 2017, the band has wasted no time making a name for themselves with the release of heaps of singles and an abundance of touring and high-profile festival appearances.
Now, GLARE have teamed up with Deathwish Inc. + Sunday Drive to release a new song, “Mourning Haze.” Guitarist Toni Ordaz comments, “‘Mourning Haze’ had been with us for awhile, written around the time we were doing ‘Void in Blue’ and developing what would later become ‘Heavenly’. Immediately, we knew it sounded way different from what we did before and decided early on that it was going to be a part of what would become the album. The lyrics didn’t come much later until the recording sessions, but I think they are very much a reflection of what we were all going through at the time.” Toni continues, “‘Mourning Haze’ is about grief, and how dreams play a role in processing it.”
GLARE will release their new LP sometime in spring 2025 via Deathwish Inc. / Sunday Drive. In the meantime, catch the band on tour this fall with Turnover, Panchiko, and more on select dates. Also see GLARE at Desert Daze and Levitation Fests:
GLARE, live:
Sep 5 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger # [7inch release show] Sep 6 McAllen, TX – El Cine # [7inch release show] Sep 27 Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar ^ Sep 29 Salt Lake City, UT – Church & State ^ Sep 30 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall $ Oct 02 Ft. Collins, CO – The Coast $ Oct 03 Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep $ Oct 04 Omaha, NE – Slowdown $ Oct 05 Columbia, MO – Blue Note $ Oct 06 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue $ Oct 07 Huntington, WV – The Loud $ Oct 08 Louisville, KY – Mag Bar ^ Oct 09 Little Rock, AR – Stickyz ^ Oct 10 Oklahoma City, OK – Resonant Head ^ Oct 10-13 Lake Perris, CA – Desert Daze Oct 14 San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room ^ Oct 15 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress ^ Nov 03 Austin, TX – Levitation, Far Out Lounge % Nov 15 Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live! ~ Nov 17 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ~ Nov 19 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ~ Nov 20 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham ~ Nov 21 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade, Heaven ~ Nov 23 Houston, TX – House of Blues ~ Nov 24 Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum ~
Chastity is for the skids, the headbangers, the freaks. Chastity is for everyone who has suffered and survived the lethal combination of suburban overculture and mental distress. Chastity is especially for everyone who didn’t survive—the ones who didn’t get out. Brandon Williams did, luckily, and his work with Chastity has been to collect people like him, who got out by the skin of their teeth.
Chastity’s first three full-length records—2018’s Death Lust, 2019’s Home Made Satan, and 2022’s Suffer Summer—formed a trilogy that defined a 4 year arc of the band’s contribution to outsider music. Each record was informed by Williams’ life, but each was also conceptual and interpretive, refracting his experiences through a level of remove. On Chastity’s upcoming, self-titled fourth record, there is no such distance: Williams decided to write a fully non-fiction work. Incoming September 13, 2024 on Deathwish Inc. (US), Dine Alone (Canada), and Big Scary Monsters (UK/E) Chastity is a 13-track record about the things that have always run through the band’s records—struggle, death, despair, redemption, darkness, and light—but this time, the songs ascend to new depths of intensity and desperation, new heights of resolution and power. “It’s really about the first nosedive that I did as a young person,” says Williams. “It’s a record about struggle, about the missing years. It’s also a thank you to some people in my life.”
Today, Chastity album opener “Jaw Locked” premieres. Williams continues, “For a few years we’ve closed our live show with the same song, but we’ve never really had a song that opens our live show totally right. I am so excited that we’ve found that in this song ‘Jaw Locked’, and that we can open the self-titled album with this song as well.”
Chastity hurtles through melodic hardcore, shoegaze, and emo, all magnificently and enormously rendered thanks to slick work from John Paul Peters (Propagandhi, Comeback Kid), who engineered and mixed the record. Recorded at Peters’ Private Ear Recording in Winnipeg in March 2024, Chastity’s guitars have never sounded so immediate and towering, sometimes exploding into a sputtering, ripped-speaker chaos. And there are perhaps the most ferocious bass and drums sounds of the year on Chastity, splitting the difference between gnarly-as-fuck generator-show tones and vividly textured, hi-fi chest-beaters.
The new record arrives on the heels of a whirlwind six years for Chastity. Williams founded the project in Whitby Ontario and from the start, it’s been a project of absolution via community connection. There weren’t any venues for independent punk music in the suburban town, so Williams and his friends started throwing punk shows in a barn on Whitby’s rural outskirts. People took notice: Before long, Ontario punk stalwarts like PUP and Metz were making the pilgrimage to the barn to headline gigs, and profits from the shows went to a regional youth mental health services. Chastity spent the next years touring North America including shows with Sunny Day Real Estate, Alexisonfire, and Deafheaven, culminating in their spring 2024 headline run, with a set that synced to an original feature film projected behind the stage.
Now, Chastity will tour alongside Fucked Up in support of Chastity and will close out the year with a highly anticipated set at The Fest in Gainesville, FL. Pre-order / pre-save Chastityhere ahead of its September 13 release date and look for more news soon.
Chastity, on tour: September 12 Oshawa, ON @ The Biltmore Theatre ^ September 13 Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques ^ September 14 Ottawa, ON @ The 27 Club ^ September 17 Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre ^ September 18 Saskatoon, SK @ Capitol Music Club ^ September 19 Edmonton, AB @ The Buckingham ^ September 20 Calgary, AB @ Modern Love ^ September 21 Kelowna, BC @ Reverly ^ September 23 Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom ^ September 24 Nanaimo, BC @ The Queen’s ^ September 25 Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl ^ October 25 Gainesville, FL @ The Fest [Heartwood Soundstage]
Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile have returned with their follow up to 2022’s breakout album God’s Country with Cool World, the new 10-song LP set for release on October 11th via The Flenser [pre-order].
Besides being the name of a largely forgotten (and panned) 90s film, Cool World makes for an apt title of Chat Pile’s sophomore full-length record. In the context of a Chat Pile record, the words are steeped in a grim double entendre that not only evokes imagery of a dying planet but a progression from the band’s previous work, moving the scope of its depiction of modern malaise from just “God’s Country” to the entirety of humankind. “’Cool World‘ covers similar themes to our last album, except now exploded from a micro to macro scale, with thoughts specifically about disasters abroad, at home, and how they affect one another,” says vocalist Raygun Busch. “If I had to describe the album in one sentence,” Busch continues, “It’s hard not to borrow from Voltaire, so I won’t resist – ‘Cool World‘ is about the price at which we eat sugar in America.”
Today, album opener “I Am Dog Now” arrives with a music video directed by Will Mecca. Stin (bass, Chat Pile) says, “Will’s vision captures the essence of ‘I Am Dog Now’ by channeling his specific style of low-fi, exploitation cinema aesthetic into a dusty, religious bad-trip exclusive to the southern plains of America. Eagle eyed viewers may actually notice shots of the literal chat piles from which we take our name.”
Like the towering mounds of toxic waste, the music of Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile’s music is a poignant reminder of that shift – a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by its cold and cruel power systems.
Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile’s signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band’s shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album’s core theme of violence.
Melded into the band’s twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album’s ten tracks. “While we wanted our follow-up to ‘God’s Country’ to still capture the immediate, uncompromising essence of Chat Pile, we also knew that with ‘Cool World,’ we’d want to stretch the definition of our ‘sound’ to reflect our tastes beyond just noise rock territory,” reflects bassist Stin. “Now that we had some form of creative comfort zones in place after hitting that milestone of putting out a full-length record, album #2 felt like the perfect opportunity to challenge those limits.” Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band’s first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg of Uniform (Algiers, Drab Majesty, Metz) capturing and further amplifying the quartet’s unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.
The proverbial thread tying all of the experimentation on Cool World together is the depth to which Chat Pile dissects the album’s theme of violence, and the record itself is apocalyptically bleak. Sure, Chat Pile’s debut album was plenty disturbing with its B-movie-inspired interpretation of a “real American horror story”; what Chat Pile depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from its visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence.
Cool World will be released via The Flenser on October 11, 2024. See Chat Pile on the road this November with label mates Agriculture and Mamaleek in select markets – tickets are available at chatpile.net/shows.
Chat Pile, on tour:
November 1 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street % November 2 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note % November 3 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room % November 5 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall % November 6 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line % November 8 Lakewood, OH – Mahall’s % November 9 Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre % November 11 Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall % November 12 Montreal, QC – Théâtre Fairmount % November 14 Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge @ Higher Ground ^ November 15 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church ^ November 16 New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge ^ November 17 Boston, MA – The Sinclair ^ November 19 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery * November 20 Richmond, VA – The Broadberry * November 21 Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819 * November 22 Nashville, TN – The End *
% with Agriculture, Porcelain ^ with Mamaleek, Traindodge * with Mamaleek, thirdface
Since March, Cold Cave have released a new song on the 15th of each month, culminating in the announcement of their forthcoming album, Passion Depression, on July 15th (album incoming October 15th). Today, Cold Cave have released another album track “Siren Song,” a synth driven dance track of mystery and desire.
Formed in 2007 by Wesley Eisold, Cold Cave jump started and popularized the resurgence in modern synth and darkwave genres after releasing seminal and influential albums, Love Comes Close and Cherish The Light Years (Matador Records) and were subsequently invited to tour with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, The Cult and The Jesus and Mary Chain along with collaborations and performances with legends Genesis P-Orridge and Mark Lanegan. Eisold and his partner Amy Lee’s mix of celebrated poetry and urgent romantic new wave grants Cold Cave the rare 100% DIY approach to all aspects of their universe, producing and releasing their own music, involved directly with their fans and curating by their own rules. Spiritual depth and consistency in a media manipulated world. Love enchained and the polarity of truth. Passion Depression is protest music against the war within and without.
Passion Depression will be available on Rainbow Ice vinyl with a Hologram Sleeve or Glitter vinyl October 15th, 2024 (pre-order here).
September 5 Santiago, Chile @ Blondie September 6 Sao Paolo, Brasil @ Carioca September 7 Lima, Peru @ C Festiva September 8 San Jose, Costa Rica @ Amon Solar September 20 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory September 22 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory September 27 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel September 28 Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s October 4 Brooklyn, NY @ The Monarch October 5 Amityville, NY @ Amityville Music Hall October 6 Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall October 11 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom October 27 London, UK @ 02 Forum November 2 Los Angeles, CA @ Substance Festival
Today, Empty Bottle Presents announces WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS, a newmulti-genre festival taking place September 28th and 29th at The Salt Shed. Featuring the triumphant return of The Jesus Lizard (their first Chicago show in over 6 years), as well as Kelela, Floating Points, Sister Nancy, Shabaka, Sextile, King Woman, and more, WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS is a two day, thoughtfully curated festival with no overlapping sets, each day feeling like a progression through a mixtape. Inspired by a line from Nelson Algren’s novel The Man With The Golden Arm, the criteria for the curation was to have each day of the festival occupy a side of a spectrum, from the fervid and energetic WARM LOVE to the calm and misty COOL DREAMS.
Each day’s programming will move through a carefully crafted sonic spectrum, defining WARM LOVE and COOL DREAMS as their own micro-genres. Artists falling into the WARM LOVE category speak to the more experimental, fiery, and untamed, the likes of which you’d hear from Jesus Lizard, Sextile, and King Woman. Meanwhile, COOL DREAMS leans into the more inviting or chill tones, the likes of which you’d hear from Kelela, Floating Points, and Sister Nancy.
WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS continues Empty Bottle Presents’ legacy of deeply adventurous and thematic programming, building off their Beyond The Gate shows at Bohemian National Cemetery, immersive Plantasia events at Garfield Park Conservatory, and annual Music Frozen Dancing winter block party outside of Empty Bottle.
“The simplicity and beauty of the ideas of warm love and cool dreams was something that occupied my mind for many years,” explains WARM LOVE COOL DREAMS curator Brent Heyl. “ We wanted to build a festival framework that creates an opportunity to showcase the artists we love in a way that is concise, unique, and also rips. Playing into these two concepts feels like the way to do just that.”
Tickets are on sale now, with general admission tickets for the weekend set at $90 and premium tickets at $200. Single day tickets will be $49 and $115, respectively. All tickets will be available at www.emptybottle.com. The full daily lineups can be found below, with more auxiliary programming to be announced soon.
WARM LOVE LINEUP (Saturday, September 28th) The Jesus Lizard Sextile Provoker King Woman Bendik Giske Aitis Band Stress Positions
COOL DREAMS LINEUP (Sunday, September 29th) Kelela Floating Points Sister Nancy Shabaka 454 John Glacier SML
Tim Heidecker announces his new album, Slipping Away, out October 18th via Bloodshot Records, and releases its lead single/video “Well’s Running Dry.” After the breakthroughs of 2020’s wistfully lush Fear of Death, and 2022’s High School, whose tales of nostalgia were never quite as distant as they seemed, the multi-hyphenate comedian and songwriter Heidecker has reached a new peak with Slipping Away, his warmest and fullest record to date. While all of his albums are concept records to some degree, this one tells a story on a larger scale, offering an imagistic framework that allows for some of his brightest melodies, heaviest themes (the feeling of before the fall and after), and most direct and vulnerable lyrics.
While on his first combined comedy and music tour in 2022, and his first time performing his own material with a full band every night, Heidecker noticed a recurring response to his lyrics among his devoted fanbase. “Especially people my age, maybe a little younger,” he recalls, “They would come up to me and say, ‘That is how I feel. And it’s nice to know you feel that way, too.’” Where his celebrated work in film and television is often an act of complex, surrealist worldbuilding, the increasingly tender and expertly crafted singer-songwriter material Heidecker releases under his own name is built to encourage these person-to-person connections.
Working with The Very Good Band — Eliana Athayde on bass, vocals and additional production; Josh Adams on drums; Vic Berger on keys; and Connor “Catfish” Gallaher on guitar and pedal steel; alongside a contribution from Tim’s daughter Amelia — Heidecker wrote a series of songs that tap into universal anxieties, familiar settings, and, occasionally, a blast of apocalyptic unease. If he were to perform them solo acoustic, they might sound like folk songs, with their instantly hummable melodies, singalong choruses, and unexpected ability to zoom out far beyond their initial premises. Even the simple act of making music, as portrayed in the cleverly constructed writer’s block anthem “Well’s Running Dry,” can lead to an earnest reflection on insecurity and aging. “As soon as I wrote that, I worried that it’s not cool to talk about,” Heidecker says. “But a second later, I thought—well that’s challenging and exciting. Let’s push past that.”
Slipping Away is crafted like a killer live set, building in emotional impact and intensity. Heidecker refers to the album as a true group project, a euphoric experience that helped turn his songs into living, breathing things. “My favorite records are the ones that were just recorded in a room with a band playing,” he says, citing classic-rock landmarks from Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Band. “And that’s what we did.” Across the album, Heidecker and Athayde often take the roles of duet partners, occasionally assuming a Gram-and-Emmylou dynamic with her quavering, empathetic harmony.
Heidecker describes working with the band on Slipping Away as a personal breakthrough in his career. “Having been doing quote-unquote ‘entertainment’ for 20 years now in different forms, it was a revitalizing experience to be out of my comfort zone a little bit. It was a learning opportunity.” After working with indie luminaries like Mac DeMarco, Weyes Blood, and Father John Misty, Heidecker is in a rarefied field of artists who refuse to grow complacent, and creative leaps like Slipping Away exemplify his devotion to the craft. Quoting Paul McCartney, Heidecker ascribes to the idea that “work begets inspiration” and each new project helps lead to the one just beyond it. “People ask me a lot about the difference between making music and comedy,” he says. “I finally got to a point where I was like, ‘Let’s stop thinking about these things as genres.’ It comes out in different formats but hopefully it all becomes one big thing that I’m making. I think it’s fairly united.”
This August and September, Tim Heidecker & The Very Good Band will support Waxahatchee with Snail Mail on a run of east coast dates, including a co-headlining show with Snail Mail at SummerStage in New York. A full list of shows can be found below, and tickets can be purchased here.
Slipping Away Tracklist 1. Well’s Running Dry 2. Trippin’ (Slippin’) 3. Like I Do 4. Dad Of The Year 5. Bottom of the 8th 6. Something Somewhere 7. Bows and Arrows 8. Hey, Would You Call My Mom For Me? 9. I Went Into Town 10. Bells Are Ringing
Tim Heidecker & The Very Good Band Tour Dates Sun. Aug. 11 – Carnation, WA @ THING Tue. Aug. 27 – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage ∞ Thu. Aug. 29 – South Deerfield, MA @ Tree House Summer Stage % Fri. Aug. 30 – Portland, ME @ State Theater % Sat. Aug. 31 – Accord, NY @ Arrowood Farms % Sun. Sept. 1 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summerstage % Wed. Sept. 4 – Charlottesville, VA @ Ting Pavillion % Thu. Sept. 5 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival Fri. Sept. 6 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center – Wolf Trap % Sat. Sept 7 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore ^
∞ w/ Snail Mail & Fenne Lily % w/ Waxahatchee & Snail Mail ^ w/ Waxahatchee & Gladie
Earlier this month, the ever restless King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced their 26th album, Flight b741, out August 9th via their own p(doom) records. Today the group share their new single, “Hog Calling Contest,” and announce a mini-documentary about the making of the album,“Oink Oink Flight b741: The Making of…”
Directed by Guy Tyzack, the mini-documentary captures the band’s creative process on 16mm film, which restricted Tyzack to shooting about five minutes of film per day, waiting for the right moment while sitting discreetly in the corner. “We were tasked with capturing the band make an album from scratch in two weeks, they purposefully didn’t prepare much for the recordings so it was very difficult for me to plan what to film,” Tyzack says. “I just knew they’d be in one room and three of them might drop out at any moment because they were expecting babies. The room looked brown and boring so I painted it like the sky to match the theme of the album in one 17hr stretch with three friends and a slab of mids.”
On the inspiration for “Hog Calling Contest,” the band explains: “While recording Flight b741, we occasionally had these ultra inspired tune-up/warm-up jams. Of course, we were never actually recording during these moments though. Lost to time. Except one time; This time. We learnt to record these moments; ‘Daily Blues’ came together this way too. But ‘Hog Calling Contest’ retains a unique unhinged-ness that only comes when you’re fooling around with your mates and you don’t think you’re being recorded. Happy in mud!”
As the band’s first release on their own newly minted p(doom) records imprint, Flight b741 showcases a remarkable change-of-pace, swapping the big picture ambition for the intimacy of six good friends enjoying each other’s company and collaborating on perhaps the warmest, most bonhomie-laden set the group have yet committed to wax.
With a recent run of expansive and conceptual albums behind them, which have spanned from a thrash-metal epic dealing with the current climate crisis to a Moroder-esque pre-digital synth album of proto-Kraftwerk bangers, Flight b741 sees King Gizzard ditch all the high-falutin’ scheming in favor of irresistible country-fried rock’n’roll and the kind of effortless songwriting that comes as second language when you’ve been playing music together 24/7 for almost a decade-and-a-half. The concept this time is ‘no concept’.
All hopped-up on early Steve Miller Band and the infinite wonderfulness of The Band, King Gizzard laid down the riffs, the grooves, the choogle. Once it was time for the vocals, however, they took a brand new tack – passing the mic, leading to what has become the most collaborative record in the group’s expansive discography.
King Gizzard will be undertaking a massive U.S. tour this coming fall, which includes 3 hour marathon sets in New York, Chicago, Austin, and Quincy, WA, 3 headlining sets at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and a performance at The Forum in Los Angeles. Tickets to all dates are available here.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD TOUR DATES Thu. Aug. 15- Washington, DC @ The Anthem % [SOLD OUT] Fri. Aug. 16- Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium * % Sat. Aug. 17 – Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium * % [SOLD OUT] Mon. Aug. 19 – Boston, MA @ The Stage at Suffolk Downs % Tue. Aug. 20 – Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point % [SOLD OUT] Wed. Aug. 21 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage & Fri. Aug. 23 – Detroit, MI @ Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre ^ & Sat. Aug. 24 – Cleveland, OH @ Jacobs Pavilion & [SOLD OUT] Sun. Aug. 25 – Newport, KY @ MegaCorp Pavilion Outdoor & Tue. Aug. 27 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Dell Music Center & [SOLD OUT] Wed. Aug. 28 – Richmond, VA @ Brown’s Island & Fri. Aug. 30 – Asheville, NC @ ExploreAsheville.com Arena & [SOLD OUT] Sat. Aug. 31 – Nashville, TN @ Ascend Amphitheater & Sun. Sept. 1 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island * & [SOLD OUT] Tue. Sept. 3 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory & Wed. Sept. 4 – Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre & Thu. Sept. 5 – St. Louis, MO @ The Factory & [SOLD OUT] Fri. Sept. 6 – Omaha, NE @ The Astro Amphitheater & Sun. Sept. 8 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre & [SOLD OUT] Mon. Sept. 9 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre [EARLY SHOW] & Mon. Sept. 9 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre [LATE SHOW] & Wed. Sept. 11 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheater & [SOLD OUT] Thu. Sept. 12 – Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum & Sat. Sept. 14 – Quincy, WA @ The Gorge Amphitheatre * % Fri. Nov. 1 – Inglewood, CA @ The Forum @ Sat. Nov. 2 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park ^ @ Sun. Nov. 3 – Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre @ [SOLD OUT] Mon. Nov. 4 – Stanford, CA @ Frost Amphitheater at Stanford @ Fri. Nov. 8 – Las Vegas, NV @ Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood @ Sat. Nov. 9 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre # Sun. Nov. 10 – Albuquerque, NM @ Revel Entertainment # Tue. Nov. 12 – Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion # Wed. Nov. 13 – Fayetteville, AR @ JJ’s Live # [SOLD OUT] Fri. Nov. 15 – Austin, TX @ Germania Insurance Amphitheater *# Sat. Nov. 16 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall # Sun. Nov. 17 – New Orleans, LA @ Mardi Gras World # Tue. Nov. 19 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre Atlanta # [SOLD OUT] Wed. Nov. 20 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre # Thu. Nov. 21 – Miami, FL @ Factory Town # Sun. May 18 – Tue. May 20, 2025 – Lisbon, PT @ Coliseu do Recreios Fri. May 23 – Sun. May 25, 2025 – Barcelona, ES @ Poble Espanyol Thu. May 29 – Sat. May 31, 2025 – Vilnius, LT @ Lukiškės Prison 2.0 Wed. June 4 – Fri. June 6, 2025 – Athens, GR @ Lycabettus Theatre City of Athens Sun. June 8 – Tue. June 10, 2025 – Plovdiv, BG @ Ancient Theatre
* 3-HOUR MARATHON SET ^ ACOUSTIC SET % w/ GEESE, DJ Crenshaw & w/ GEESE @ w/ KING STINGRAY, DJ Crenshaw # w/ KING STINGRAY
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Slowdive announce a fall North American tour in support of everything is alive, their “hypnotically gorgeous” (Vulture) album released last year via Dead Oceans. Following an appearance at Austin’s Levitation Festival, they’ll return to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, plus visit cities throughout the Southeast where the band hasn’t played in many years. On their last US runs, Slowdive routinely sold out shows, filling rooms with longtime listeners and younger fans alike. As the Chicago Tribune praised, “experimental and shimmery, [everything is alive] packs a lush and enigmatic punch. Don’t take their latest releases and live shows for granted.” Tickets for all shows will be on sale this Friday at 10am local time and a full list of dates can be found below.
Slowdive Tour Dates (New Dates in Bold) Sat. Nov. 2 – Mexico City, MX @ Hipnosis Festival Sun. Nov. 3 – Austin, TX @ The Far Out Lounge (Levitation Festival) Wed. Nov. 6 – Queretaro, MX @ Cerveceria Hercules Fri. Nov. 8 – Guadalajara, MX @ C4 Concert House Sun. Nov. 10 – St. Augustine, FL @ St Augustine Amphitheatre Mon. Nov. 11 – Charleston, SC @ The Refinery Tue. Nov. 12 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz Thu. Nov. 14 – Richmond, VA @ The National Fri. Nov. 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall Sun. Nov. 17 – Washington, DC @ The Anthem Mon. Nov. 18 -Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount Thu. Nov 21 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE Fri. Nov. 22 – Columbus, OH @ KEMBA Live! Indoor Stage Sat. Nov. 23 – Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
As usual, Desert Daze has a killer lineup this year.
Jack White, Fleet Foxes, and The Mars Volta are sure to have packed crowds, but don’t miss Sleep, Thundercat, The Kills, All Them Witches, Temples, Frankie and The Witch Fingers, or Psymon Spine.
There are plenty of great bands on this list, and plenty of cool things to do when you’re not rocking out in the desert. Yoga classes! Messages from David Lynch! Art installations!
Dummy — the Los Angeles band comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O’Dell, and Joe Trainor — announces its new album,Free Energy, out September 6th on Trouble In Mind Records, and shares the lead single/video, “Nullspace.” Pop has always been a big part of Dummy’s sound, but it manifests differently on Free Energy. Sometimes it’s quite literal (and funny), such as the bubbly synth sequence made with a Korg EM1 popping all over lead single “Nullspace,” which features a melody written by O’Dell and is the song the band calls the record’s “sonic mission statement and really influenced by Mark Van Hoen, especially the cut-up dreamy dance-pop he was making on the Locust record Morning Light.”
Dummy’s debut full-length Mandatory Enjoyment arrived in late 2021 and quickly became one of the year’s sleeper hits. Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, and other publications praised Dummy’s mix of ambient and twinkly guitar pop, their deep musical references, and the intentionality with which they patchworked it all together. Fans bought copies of Mandatory so quickly that Trouble in Mind couldn’t keep it in stock. Sub Pop Records also invited the band to contribute to their legendary Singles Club series. Bands loved Dummy, too, and the group were asked to open for Horsegirl,Botch, Black Country, New Road, Luna, Spirit of the Beehive, Dehd, Snooper, Sweeping Promises, Snail Mail, and more.
Where Mandatory Enjoyment was cerebral and lo-fi, the product of a lot of time inside, Free Energy is all movement, presence, and physicality. A creatively restless band, Dummy felt like they had done the best version of motorik pop that they could do, and wanted to get harder, dancier, a little more psychedelic. Ewell and Trainor began experimenting with home recording, using DAW as kind of an instrument for composition rather than simply a tool. O’Dell dug deeper into instrumental/sample composition, in addition to contributing more guitar leads. Maatman also steps into the spotlight in a big way, her vocals noticeably foregrounded and confident, adding to the live performance feel that forms the foundation of Free Energy. The result is a record that celebrates music’s ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine—or, if you’re Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song.
Additionally, Free Energy features guest appearances by friends Dummy has played with on tour, including Oakland-based saxophonist and electroacoustic artist Cole Pulice and Jen Powers of Powers / Rolin Duo, along with a series of field recordings the band made while on tour: the rushing of water, the rumbling of the van, indistinct voices, chirping birds; the sounds of mundanity rising to cacophony before petering out, treated no differently than the ecstatic rhythms, explosive hooks, and blissful ambient stretches that came before. If there is any key to understanding what makes Dummy such a compelling band, perhaps it is this: it’s all music to them.
Free Energy Tracklist: 1. Intro-UB 2. Soonish 3. Unshaped Road 4. Opaline Bubbletear 5. Blue Dada 6. Nullspace 7. Minus World 8. Dip In The Lake 9. Sudden Flutes 10. Psychic Battery 11. Nine Clean Nails 12. Godspin
Dummy Tour Dates: Sat. Sept. 7 – Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room Wed. Sept. 11 – San Francisco, CA @ Kilowatt Fri. Sept. 13 – Portland, OR @ Lose Yr Mind Fest Sat. Sept. 14 – Vancouver, BC @ The Pearl Sun. Sept. 15 – Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s Wed. Sept. 18 – Reno, NV @ Holland Project Fri. Sept. 20 – Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial Sat. Sept. 21 – Oxnard, CA @ Mrs. Olson’s Thu. Oct. 31 – Breda, NL @ Mezz Fri. Nov. 1 – Utrecht, NL @ ACU Sat. Nov. 2 – Groningen, NL @ Vera Sun. Nov. 3 – Nijmegen, NL @ Merleyn Tue. Nov. 5 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen Wed. Nov. 6 – Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7 Thu. Nov. 7 – Oslo, NO @ Blå Fri. Nov. 8 – Malmo, SE @ Plan B Sat. Nov. 9 – Berlin, DE @ Synästhesie Festival Sun. Nov. 10 – Warsaw, PL @ Chmury Mon. Nov. 11 – Vienna, AT @ Arena Tue. Nov. 12 – Salzburg, AT @ Rockhouse Wed. Nov. 13 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F Thu. Nov. 14 – Annecy, FR @ La Brise Glace Festival Fri. Nov. 15 – Dijon, FR @ Le Consortium Sat. Nov. 16 – Rennes, FR @ Kool Thing Festival Sun. Nov. 17 – Clermont Ferrand, FR @ La Coopérative de Mai Tue. Nov. 19 – Marseille, FR @ L’Intermédiare Wed. Nov. 20 – Lyon, FR @ Sonic Thu. Nov. 21 – Bordeaux, FR @ Iboat Fri. Nov. 22 – Angers, FR @ Joker’s Pub Sun. Nov. 24 – Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire Tue. Nov. 26 – London, UK @ Moth Club Wed. Nov. 27 – Bristol, UK @ The Lanes Thu. Nov. 28 – Coventry, UK @ Just Dropped In Fri. Nov. 29 – Newcastle, UK @ The Lubber Fiend Sun. Dec. 1 – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast Mon. Dec. 2 – Edinburgh, UK @ Sneaky Pete’s Tue. Dec. 3 – Leeds, UK @ Headrow House Wed. Dec. 4 – Manchester, UK @ Yes Thu. Dec. 5 – Brighton, UK @ Dust
