The Murlocs brand new studio album, Rapscallion, is out September 16. Strapped with fuzzy guitar licks, feverish bass and psychedelic brightness, the 12-track collection is a coming-of-age novel in an album form. The wildly squalid odyssey populated by an outrageous cast of misfit characters — teenage vagabonds and small-time criminals, junkyard dwellers and truck-stop transients — is partly inspired by frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s own adolescence as a nomadic skate kid. Their most magnificently heavy work yet, the result is an endlessly enthralling album equally steeped in danger and delirium and the wide-eyed romanticism of youth.

Following the nameless hero through an ill-fated adventure as a train stow-away, a turn of events leads listeners to lead single “Virgin Criminal” and its frenetically giddy, fuzzed-out account of his initiation into a crew of young bandits. “It’s about him doing his first crime, ripping off a convenience store, and getting off on the thrill of being an outlaw,” says Kenny-Smith. Watch the video here.

Self-produced by the band in the early stages of the pandemic, Rapscallion was recorded remotely in the home studios of Kenny-Smith (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Callum Shortal (guitar), Matt Blach (drums), Cook Craig (bass), and Tim Karmouche (keys). A truly dynamic musical collective, all five members also perform in other bands: Kenny-Smith and Craig each play in the globally beloved King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Shortal plays guitar in ORB, and Karmouche and Blach are frontmen for Crepes and Beans, respectively.

In a departure from the effusive garage-rock of 2021’s Bittersweet Demons, the album’s musical DNA contains strains of stoner-metal and the more primitive edge of post-punk. Despite that darker and more formidable sound, The Murlocs instill every track with the freewheeling energy they’ve brought to the stage while supporting such acts as Pixies, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. The band is thrilled to announce an extensive North American tour kicking off at LEVITATION in Austin, TX and making stops in NYC, Philadelphia, Seattle, LA, Chicago and more. Tickets go on-sale July 15 @ 9amPT/12pmET.

North American Tour Dates

10/29: Austin, TX @ LEVITATION ^

Stubb’s Outdoor – Waller Creek Amphitheater

10/31: Oklahoma City, OK @ The Criterion #

11/2: Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre #

11/7: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts *

11/9: New York, NY @ Webster Hall *

11/10: Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair *

11/11: Montreal, QC – Fairmount Theatre *

11/12: Toronto, ON @ The Axis Club *

11/14: Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom *

11/15: Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *

11/16: St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club *

11/17: Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge *

11/18: Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *

11/20: Boise, ID @ Neurolux *

11/22: Seattle, WA @ Neumos *

11/23: Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre *

11/25: Portland, OR @ Star Theater *

11/27: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall *

11/28: Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s *

11/29: Santa Cruz, CA @ Moe’s *

12/2: Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom *

^ w/ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

# w/ King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Leah Senior

* w/ Grace Cummings

The landmark debut solo album, expanded to two LP’s with 12 previously unreleased tracks, housed in a deluxe rainbow foil jacket
Out July 29, Shipping July 25. Pre-order album HERE.

Drive-By Truckers release their 14^th studio album, Welcome 2 Club XIII, available everywhere now via ATO Records on limited edition vinyl, CD, and all digital formats.

Welcome 2 Club XIII includes such recently released singles as “The Driver,” “Every Single Storied Flameout,”  and the album’s swinging centerpiece, “Welcome 2 Club XIII,” all available now at all DSPs and streaming services; the latter track – which pays homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start – is joined by an official music video streaming now via YouTube.

Drive-By Truckers are currently celebrating Welcome 2 Club XIII with a marathon live schedule, including top-billed festival dates, and North American, European, and UK headline tours.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS TOUR 2022

JUNE

3 – Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma †

5 – Raalte, Netherlands – Ribs & Blues *

6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso †

7 – Brighton, UK – Chalk †

8 – London, UK – O2 Forum †

9 – Leeds, UK – Leeds University Stylus †

11 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street †

12 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 TV Studio †

14 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013 (Jupiler Zaal) †

15 – Paris, France – La Maroquinerie †

17 – Mendizabala, Vitoria-Gasteiz – Azkena Rock Festival *

19 – Eridge Park, UK – Black Deer Festival *

JULY

14 – Breckenridge, CO – Riverwalk Center

15 – Denver, CO – Levitt Pavilion

16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads

19 – Omaha, NE – Falconwood Park

20 – Minneapolis, MN – Utepils Brewing

22 – Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place

23 – Dayton, OH – Dayton Masonic Center

24 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden

27 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theatre

29 -St. Louis, MO – Open Highway Music Festival *

30 – Maryville, TN – The Shed

31 – Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater

AUGUST

2 – Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27

4 – Deerfield, MA – Tree House Brewing Company

5 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom

8 – Patchogue, NY – Patchogue Theatre

10 – Isle of Palms, SC – The Windjammer

11 – Isle of Palms, SC – The Windjammer

12 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre

13 – Pelham, TN – The Caverns

20 – Redmond, WA – CHOMP! (Free Show) *

SEPTEMBER

10 – Jasper, AL – Foothills Festival (Free Show) *

17 -Louisville, KY -Bourbon & Beyond *

Tickets Available Here

* Festival Appearance

† w/Special Guest Jerry Joseph

The Heavy Heavy is led by Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band warps time and place through an unfettered collision of rock n roll, psychedelic blues, acid rock and sunshine pop. Across their debut Life and Life Only EP, the group breathes incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago, transcending eras with euphoric ease as they tap into musical touchstones that range from folk-blues duo Delaney & Bonnie, Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac and British Invasion acts like The Hollies, to a sonic alchemy all their own. Full of effusive harmonies and fuzzed-out guitar on tracks like the whirlwind road trip of “Miles and Miles,” the near-operatic epic of “Sleeping on Grassy Ground,” the rapturous opening of “All My Dreams,” and “Go Down River,” the first song they ever recorded together, Life and Life Only pulls listeners into a sublime fugue state, leaving one newly awakened to infinite possibilities.

An expanded Life and Life Only is now available on all digital platforms, including remastered versions of the EP’s original five songs, plus the previously unreleased “Why Don’t You Call?,” a single edit of “Miles and Miles,” unseen artwork and more.

Listen to Life and Life Only, and pre-order the EP’s first-ever vinyl release, available worldwide on July 22nd:https://atorecords-ffm.com/thh_life 

Recently extended into a five-piece lineup with an even more vast, harmony-laden sound, The Heavy Heavy will head to the United States for the very first time in September. A stint at Nashville’s AmericanaFest will be followed by shows with Black Pumas, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, and The Record Company, plus headline dates at New York City’s Mercury Lounge on Sept 28th and Los Angeles’ Troubadour on Oct 24th. Find tickets here, and stay tuned for a major fall tour to be announced this month.

The Heavy Heavy Tour Dates

9/14-9/17 – Nashville, TN – AmericanaFest

9/22 – Knoxville, TN – Tennessee Theatre^

9/23 – Chattanooga, TN – The Signal^

9/28 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

10/1 – Arnoldsville, GA – Wildwood Revival

10/2 – Raleigh, NC – Band Together Benefit Concert – w/ Black Pumas & The Record Company

10/9 – Columbia, MO – Roots N Blues BBQ Festival

10/24 – Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour

^w/ St. Paul and The Broken Bones

More TBA Soon

Pink Mountaintops’ fifth full-length, Peacock Pools, is out today!  Since their 2004 self-titled debut, Pink Mountaintops have supplied an outlet for the more arcane fascinations of Black Mountain frontman Stephen McBean. On Peacock Pools—Pink Mountaintops’ first new music in eight years—the British Columbia-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist shares 12 songs sparked from his magpie-like curiosity for a wild expanse of cultural artifacts: the sci-fi body horror of David Cronenberg, Disney Read-Along Records from the 1970s, early Pink Floyd and mid-career Gary Numan, John Carpenter movies, Ornette Coleman live videos, a 1991 essay on the cult of bodybuilding by postmodern feminist Camille Paglia. Featuring counterculture icons like Steven McDonald of Redd Kross and Dale Crover of Melvins, Peacock Pools alchemizes those obsessions into a body of work with its own enchanting power, the sonic equivalent of falling down a thousand rabbit holes at once and landing somewhere gloriously strange.

Pink Mountaintops is on tour now with Ashley Shadow. Tickets available HERE.