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Emily King Performs on Late Night With Seth Meyers + Upcoming U.S. Tour Dates

March 19, 2019 – 9:01 am

 

 

WATCH EMILY’S LATE NIGHT PERFORMANCE HERE

Upcoming Tour Dates From The Shed In NYC To Coachella

 

GRAMMY®-nominated recording artist Emily King mader her debut appearance on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers last night. Taken from her acclaimed new album, Scenery (ATO), Emily and her band performed “Teach Me” for the Late Night audience. WATCH the performance HERE.

 

The performance followed a stunning performance in Minneapolis on Saturday as Emily joined guest host Jon Batiste for a special taping of NPR’s Live From Here. Listen to the show HERE.

 

Today, Emily will perform at a special event in NYC for Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping The Future” issue before heading out on the road again next month for a coast-to-coast tour. These spring dates include a hometown show at The Shed in Manhattan as part of Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen’s Soundtrack of America – a five-night concert series celebrating the unrivaled impact of African American music on contemporary culture. Soundtrack traces a musical “family tree” of spirituals and blues, jazz and gospel, R&B, rock and roll, house, hip hop, and trap that has inspired a new generation of artists who continue to develop that legacy – as well as a stop in Indio, CA for Emily’s Coachella debut. (All tour dates below.)

 

Scenery, which landed at #3 on the Billboard R&B Album Chart and #6 on the Heatseekers’ Chart upon release in February, was produced by long time musical cohort Jeremy Most and mixed Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Amy Winehouse, David Bowie) was recorded in upstate New York, nestled in the Catskill Mountains, where Emily now makes her home after a lifetime of Lower East Side living. Scenery follows the critically acclaimed album The Switch (2015) which included the hit “Distance”.

 

Scenery has received an avalanche of critical acclaim and Emily and recently visited Jimmy Kimmel Live (WATCH “Can’t Hold Me” HERE) and CBS This Morning (WATCH “Look At Me Now” HERE).

 

TOUR DATES Tickets HERE

4/4/19 – Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club  

4/5/19 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live  

4/7/19 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair  

4/9/19 – New York, NY – The Shed

4/14/19 – Indio, CA – Coachella

4/21/19 – Indio, CA – Coachella

4/23/19 – Austin, TX – Antone’s

4/24/19 – Houston, TX – Heights Theater

4/25/19 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater

4/28/19 – Nashville, TN – 3rd & Lindsley

4/30/19 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall

5/1/19 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom

5/3/19 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar

5/4/19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Carnegie Lecture Hall

5/5/19 – Woodstock, NY – The Colony

 

Praise for Emily King:

 

“..an irresistible piece of anthemic R&B that captures the retro-cinematic quality of that first drive and the breathless feeling of greeting something new…flawless in its execution, every element a reminder of the joy through mastery and care that is King’s own.” – NPR Music

“Next level sass” – Pitchfork

“One of the best songwriters around at the moment.” – BBC’s Radio 1

“Unreal talent. In complete awe of this girl. Thank you for the music.” – Sam Smith

“I. Love. Her. Voice” – Justin Timberlake

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Dylan LeBlanc Announces New Album “Renegade”. Listen to the First Single

March 12, 2019 – 7:31 am

ATO is excited to announce Dylan LeBlanc’s new studio album Renegade, produced by Grammy Award winner Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson), available everywhere June 7th.  Pre-order the album on limited-edition vinyl and listen to the scorching 80’s inspired title track below.

 

Pre-Order Renegade

 

 

Recorded at Cobb’s RCA Studio A in Nashville, TN, the 10-song album feature LeBlanc and his longtime band, The Pollies. Of the album, LeBlanc shares, “I wanted to write the same type of songs that matched the atmosphere the band and I were bringing live. So, I started with ‘Renegade,’ which was fitting since I felt myself going in a new, more intense direction with this record. In the studio, I let go almost absolutely and let Dave Cobb do his work. It was a different experience for me—how focused Cobb was and how quickly we would get live takes down. Mostly in one or two takes. Never more than three. It left me spinning at how quickly it all came together. Over the course of ten days Renegade was complete and ready for mastering. And I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you.”

In celebration of the new album, LeBlanc will embark on an extensive headline tour this spring and summer, including shows at DC’s Pearl Street, Brooklyn’s Rough Trade, Chicago’s Schubas and Nashville’s Basement East. He will also perform several shows later this week as part of SXSW. See below for complete details.

 

DYLAN LEBLANC SXSW SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 14
• 4:00pm—Luck Reunion
• 9:30pm—ATO Records x Caroline Official SXSW Showcase @ Baracuda
Saturday, March 16
• 3:00pm—SXSJ @ Hotel San Jose

DYLAN LEBLANC CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
June 12—Atlanta, GA—The Earl
June 13—Carrboro, NC—Cat’s Cradle Back Room
June 14—Washington, DC—Pearl Street
June 15—Philadelphia, PA—Boot & Saddle
June 18—Bethlehem, PA—Blast Furnace
June 19—Brooklyn, NY—Rough Trade
June 20—Pittsburgh, PA—Club Cafe
June 21—Detroit, MI—El Club
June 22—Winnetka, IL—Winnetka Festival
June 23—Chicago, IL—Schubas Tavern
June 25—La Crosse, WI—Charmant Hotel
June 26—Minneapolis, MN—Turf Club
June 27—Iowa City, IA—The Mill
June 28—St Louis, MO—Old Rock House
June 29—Nashville, TN—Basement East

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King Gizzard Announce New Album “Fishing for Fishies” Out April 26

March 11, 2019 – 8:20 am

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have announced their new album Fishing for Fishies available everywhere April 26th!  ATO’s vinyl pre-order will go on sale Friday, March 15th at 9am EST in our official online store.

 

Sit back and strap yourself in as seven-headed Aussie rock beast King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return with Fishing for Fishies, perhaps their most perfectly-realized album to date. Here is a world where the organic meets the automated; where the rustic meets the robotic. Where the past and future collide in the beautiful present.

 

The fourteenth album since their 2012 debut – and their first following the release of five vastly different albums in 2017 – Fishing for Fishies is a blues-infused blast of sonic boogie that struts and shimmies through several moods and terrains.  From the soft shuffle Outback country of the opening title track through the sunny easy listening of ‘The Bird Song’ (think the lysergically-soaked Laurel Canyon circa 1973) and on through the party funk of ‘Plastic Boogie’ (which somehow summons the spirit of Stevie Wonder’s Innervisions) the road-trucking, Doors-like highway rock of ‘The Cruel Millennial’ and ‘Real’s Not Real’ – what The Carpenters might have sounded like had they existed entirely on vegemite and weed – it’s a dizzying, dazzling display.


And that’s all before we even get to ‘Acarine’, a futurist blues tune which heads off into previously unchartered territories of shimmering Eno-esque ambient and dark John Carpenter-style electro, and the electro squelch of album-closing single ‘Cyboogie’, on which five of the seven King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard members play synths. It’s a stomping vocoder-lead anthem akin to Georgio Moroder or Trans-era Neil Young and a triumphant conclusion to an album that is as surprising as it is thrilling, as unexpected as it is effortless.

 

Newcomers to King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will find an entire self-contained universe awaits them in a thrilling body of work. Here are grand concepts where albums overlap, riffs resurface, circular songs chase their own tails, grand narratives are told, cryptic lyrics endlessly analysed and a whole army of fans regurgitate the band’s output via a deluge of remixes, memes, visual loops, mind-melting cut-ups and just generally pontificate wildly about everything in The Gizzverse, much of it available on Youtube and internet forums.

 

Best of all, anyone can step into The Gizzverse – anytime, anywhere. No prior understanding is necessary. So whether it’s psyche rock played with breakneck precision (2014’s I’m In Your Mind Fuzz), life-giving acoustic folk and Tropicalia (2015’s Paper Mâché Dream Balloon), a three-part sci-fi/prog album (2017’s Murder Of The Universe) or an album uploaded on an open license so that budding labels worldwide could press their own copies, which they duly did, currently 240 different pressings according to Discogs (2017’s, Polygondwanaland), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard provide it. As Pitchfork noted, they have waged war against two tired clichés: “One, that rock is dead; and two, that the album is dead.”

 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard return to the US this summer to play their largest venues to date.

8/13 – Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
8/14 – San Francisco, CA – SVN West
8/15 – San Francisco, CA – SVN West
8/16 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
8/17 – Vancouver, BC – Harbour Event Centre
8/18 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
8/20 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot
8/21 – Denver, CO – TBA
8/23 – Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater
8/24 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
8/26 – Montreal, QC – Olympia
8/27 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
8/28 – New York, NY – SummerStage, Central Park
8/30 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
8/31 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
9/01 – Asheville, NC – New Belgium Brewing Company
9/02 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
9/03 – New Orleans, LA – Joy Theater
9/04 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Outdoor
9/06 – Dallas, TX – The Bomb Factory

 

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Amyl and The Sniffers Announce Debut Album with New Track “Monsoon Rock” + Video

March 6, 2019 – 11:27 am

” Singer Amy Taylor cements her rock star status ” – Pitchfork

” They left audiences slack-jawed ” – New Yorker

“ The single most exhilarating rock’n’roll show I’ve seen in years ” – The Guardian

“ We are bearing witness to a Rock Star. For Amyl is without a shadow of a doubt, a fucken Rock Star ”– Everett True

 

Amyl and the Sniffers announced today that their debut album will be released on May 24th. Check out the first track from the album, “Monsoon Rock” , out now on ATO (North America), Rough Trade (UK/Europe) and Flightless Records (Australia & New Zealand).

The band said of the new track, “”Monsoon Rock” is just a song to rage to, it celebrates good gigs and live music. We wrote it around the time of Gizzfest 2017 when it was pissing down with rain but everybody still got into it – just muddier and wetter and real feral. We ran out of time to make a video and it’s always fun making funny shit. If you don’t have a sense of humor and can’t laugh, what’s the point of being alive?”

Amyl and the Sniffers are Amy Taylor (vocals), Gus Romer (bass) Bryce Wilson (drums) and Declan Martens . They formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2016 and wrote, self-recorded and released their debut EP, Giddy Up , all in a span of twelve hours.

Their second EP, Big Attractions , was released in February 2017 then re-released as a 12” double EP with Giddy Up , through Homeless Records in Australia and Damaged Goods in the UK. The band made their international debut at The Great Escape festival in May followed by sold out shows in London, before flying out to the Los Angeles to join King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on a 22-date tour of the United States. Return trips to both the UK and US followed later in the year, where the band played to packed houses and rave festival reviews.

Already signed to Flightless Records for Australia and New Zealand, the band capped off a monster year by signing with ATO Records for North America and Rough Trade Records for the rest of the world. They were also nominated as Best New Act at the Q Awards and won the $30,000 Levis Prize .

Amyl and The Sniffers will appear at SXSW this month prior to embarking on a headline West Coast tour in March including the Bootleg Theater in LA. After those dates they will head to the UK and Europe, and then come back to North America in July for another headline run (all dates below).

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Amyl & the Sniffers at SXSW:

3/14 – Levitation Showcase @ Hotel Vegas – 3:45-4:20pm
3/14 – ATO Records/Caroline Showcase @ Barracuda – 11-11:45pm
3/15 – Panache Official Showcase @ Hotel Vegas – 11:30pm
3/15 – South By San Jose Showcase @ Hotel San Jose – 7pm
3/16 – Thrasher/Vans Death Match @ Weather Up – 4:45-5:15pm

Amyl & the Sniffers Tour Dates
3/18 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
3/19 – Vancouver, BC @ The Fox Cabaret
3/20 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
3/22 – San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside – SOLD OUT
3/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg HiFi Theater
3/24 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse Saloon
3/25 – San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
4/01 – Nottingham, UK @ The Bodega
4/02 – London, UK @ Heaven
4/03 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
4/04 – Bristol, UK @ The Louisiana
4/06 – Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute
4/07 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt
4/08 – Brussels. Belgium @ Botanique
4/10 – Amsterdam, Holland @ Paradiso Noord
4/11 – Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow
4/12 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Stengade
4/13 – Stockholm, Sweden @ Debaser
4/15 – Berlin, Germany @ Zukunft
4/16 – Munich, Germany @ Strom
4/17 – Cologne, Germany @ Bumann & Sohn
4/20 – Rotterdam, Holland @ Motel Mozaique
4/21 – Schijndel, Holland @ Paaspop Festival
7/09 – Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room
7/12 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda (Outside)
7/13 – New Orleans, LA @ Santos
7/14 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
7/15 – Raleigh, NC @ Kings Raleigh
7/16 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
7/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
7/19 – Brooklyn, NY @ Market Hotel
7/20 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott
7/21 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
7/22 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
7/23 – Hamtramck, MI @ Outer Limits Lounge
7/25 – Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club

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Black Pumas Release New Song, “Fire” + Announce SXSW dates

March 6, 2019 – 11:13 am

“Enticing guitar riff and punchy horns reminiscent of great Motown hits”
– BILLBOARD

 

 

Today, following their coronation as Best New Band at the 2019 Austin Music Awards, Black Pumas release their second single “Fire,” the follow-up to their Song Of The Year-winning “Black Moon Rising.” The band have also announced their signing to ATO Records, as well as a full slate of SXSW shows — full schedule below.

 

Listen to “Fire” here over at Billboard: https://bit.ly/2XBLxNT

 

Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist / producer Adrian Quesada and 27-year-old songwriter Eric Burton. Burton is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout while also producing acclaimed projects like 2018’s ‘Look At My Soul: The Latin Shade Of Texas Soul.’

 

After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern. Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas’ weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became “the hottest party in town” (Austin-American Statesman).

 

Listen to the band’s debut single “Black Moon Rising,” which was included in NPR Music’s Heavy Rotation and deemed “psychedelic, funky, bold, cinematic, but above all, soulful and sincere” by KUTX.

 

Keep an ear out for more news from Black Pumas later this year.

 

Black Pumas at SXSW

3/10 – Belmont – Vox Media

3/11 – Antones – Capitol One

3/13 – Hotel San Jose

3/13 – Bangers – Stub Hub

3/14 – Barracuda – Official ATO Party

3/15 – Austin Convention Center – Radio Day Stage

 

Black Pumas On The Web:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblackpumas/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblackpumas/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackpumasmusic

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Honey Harper Shares New Single “Strawberry Lite”

February 27, 2019 – 9:03 am

“gooey and romantic and heartbreakingly huge”

– The FADER
“weightless in sound and heavy in feeling”
– Pitchfork

 

Today, Honey Harper releases his first single since his debut EP Universal Country. “Strawberry Lite” is a song that transcends specific origins, incorporating vocals reminiscent of growing up in Georgia, but with a sound refined in the UK while living outside the typical borders of country music. Harper took time with the new music, allowing it to grow and evolve through different variations and letting it find its own life and swell with a range of emotion. The single is one half of a forthcoming EP due in April.

 

Speaking about how the song came together, Honey Harper shares, “‘Strawberry Lite’ was written on the couch in my living room and on the floor of Dean Street Studios, where I record most often. I lay on the ground of the studio with Mick and Gus, two of my band members, as we discussed the song and what we all thought it meant. We talked about the past and the future, stress and letting go, The Grateful Dead, old hippie slogans, and hip new t-shirt companies and I wrote out new lines and transcribed mumbled demo verses to finish the lyrics.” Finally, he deconstructed the song and pieced it back together with the help of Parisian production trio Mind Gamers (Sebastien Tellier, John Kirby, and Daniel Stricker) to create the final version of the song as it stands now.
                              
Honey Harper, born William Fussell, grew up surrounded by country music in the heart of Georgia. He introduced himself to the country music world with his debut EP Universal Country in 2017, a genre-bending project pieced together over multiple years with deep ties to Harper’s Georgian roots. The critically-acclaimed EP showcased a multi-faceted new vision of country music and harnessed its most beautiful elements from an outsider’s perspective. Now, with new music on the horizon, Honey Harper is set to become the torchbearer for a revitalized country sound. He is currently in the studio working on his full length debut album for later this year.
Hear “Strawberry Lite” above and stay tuned for more from Honey Harper coming soon.
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The Claypool Lennon Delirium’s New Album, South of Reality, Out Now

February 22, 2019 – 11:45 am

Listen to “Blood and Rockets- Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons – Movement II, Too the Moon”

PRE-ORDER SOUTH OF REALITY

 

South Of Reality, The Claypool Lennon Delirium’s epic sophomore album might be just the antidote this sick world needs. Music so potent it could repel an asteroid impact from space, these seasoned warriors of psychedelia have crafted timeless songs that may as well be chiseled in stone. The monolithic dream team’s new record was produced by Les Claypool and Sean Lennonthemselves, and engineered and mixed by Les Claypool at his own Rancho Relaxo studio in Sonoma County, California.

ATO Records will release South of Reality on February 22, 2019; pre-order for the record is now available. The Claypool Lennon Delirium will play select dates in California this December. Pre-sale tickets will be available on Thursday and tickets will be on-sale for the general public this Friday at 12pm local time (all tour dates below). Stay tuned for more tour news soon!

 

Rolling Stone is sharing “Blood and Rockets” from South of Reality today, as well as an interview with Claypool and Lennon about the new record, which they say “feels like an organic extension of Monolith of Phobos, blending the wildly surreal and psychedelic with satirical social commentary.” Additionally, RS calls new track “Blood and Rockets”, “a sprawling epic that finds Lennon and Claypool crooning and snarling, respectively, over spacey synths and chiming guitars.”

Grab your goggles and a month’s supply of Kool-Aid because The Claypool Lennon Delirium is about to take you for a ride on a rock ‘n’ roll rocket ship, and frankly you may never come back!

Tour Dates
10/26 Placerville, CA @ Hangdown Music Festival
12/28 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
12/29 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
12/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

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The Murlocs Announce New Album, Manic Candid Episode

February 22, 2019 – 10:00 am

 

Australia’s The Murlocs have announced a new album Manic Candid Episode, out March 22nd on Flightless Records and ATO Records. Alongside the news of the upcoming record, the band has released a new track and video, “Withstand”, from it. Manic Candid Episode is available for pre-order, alongside limited edition re-issues of the band’s earlier records Old Locomotive and Young Blindness HERE.

The new album and song come on the heels of last month’s announcement of their first North American headline tour and a new single “Comfort Zone” which will also appear on Manic Candid Episode. The tour includes stops at Shaky Knees, LA’s Teragram Ballroom, NYC’s Bowery Ballroom and Lincoln Hall in Chicago (all tour dates below).

The Murlocs are lead by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards‘ Ambrose Kenny-Smith and featuring Gizz’s lead guitar player Cook Craig. The album was recorded at Melbourne’s Newmarket studios, Manic Candid Episode was produced by Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard) and mixed by NYC musician Jarvis Taveniere (Real Estate, Woods, Parquet Courts).

Formed in late 2010 by harp player Ambrose Kenny-Smith, the five members of The Murlocs play their own blown-out, distorted brand of soulful RnB. They have already played numerous Australian music festivals as well as supporting Gary Clarke Jr., Mac Demarco, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, The Pixies, and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Their up-tempo snare cracks and noisy guitars, accompanied by Ambrose’s warm vocals have been described as a mesmerizing, demented dance party.

Tour Dates

4/09 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
4/10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
4/12 – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
4/13 – Vancouver, BC @ The Fox Cabaret
4/14 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza
4/16 – Bozeman, MT @ Filling Station
4/19 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
4/20 – Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
4/21 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
4/22 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Pyramid Scheme
4/24 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
4/25 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz
4/27 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
4/29 – New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
5/01 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts – Black Box
5/02 – Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
5/03 – Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
5/05 – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
5/06 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s
5/07 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda

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Natalie Prass Performs Short Court Style on The Late Late Show + NPR’s Tiny Desk

February 21, 2019 – 1:39 pm

“Decked out in matching, cobalt blue outfits, Natalie Prass and her band had a clear vision: If you want to overcome the times, find strength in numbers.” – Watch Natalie performing on NPR’s Tiny Desk series HERE.

 

Natalie Prass performed a sparkling rendition of “Short Court Style” on THE LATE LATE SHOW with James Corden!
 
Gloria Gaynor tweeted about the performance last night. Gloria discovered Natalie upon seeing footage from Kacey Musgraves‘ tour, which Natalie opened for, of the two performing “I Will Survive” – watch HERE. 
 
Natalie joins Kacey again in Nashville on March 2 at the Ryman Auditorium. Natalie begins her Northeast headline tour in Boston on April 11, including a headline show in NYC at Bowery Ballroom April 17. See all dates below.
 
Also be on the look out for Natalie’s NPR Tiny Desk concert in the coming weeks, which was filmed earlier this year!

Tour Dates

March 2 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium * 

April 11 – Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

April 12 – Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts

April 13 – Montreal, ON @ Bar Le Ritz

April 14 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern

April 17 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

April 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live

April 19 – Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel 

April 20 – Ashland, VA @ Ashland Theatre 

May 4 – Atlanta, GA @ Shakey Knees Music Festival 

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Nilüfer Yanya Shares New Track & Lyric Video for “Tears”

February 20, 2019 – 10:05 am

Listen to Tears HERE

Watch the video for “In Your Head” HERE

 

Nilüfer Yanya, London’s 23 year-old “effortlessly smooth new soul star” (The FADER) is sharing the track ‘Tears’ today – the third new track from her debut full-length album Miss Universe. “Tears” continues to show off the dynamic cohesion of Nilüfer’s upcoming record while flaunting its poppier side. Miss Universe will be released on March 22nd via ATO Records. Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe featured ‘Tears’ as a World First on his Beats 1 show this afternoon.

 

‘Tears’ comes accompanied by a lyric video featuring the branding of the shadowy ‘WWAYH’ (WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™) organization whose darkly funny automated phoneline interludes are peppered throughout Miss Universe. The mind department of WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™ issued this statement: “Despite previous claims of crying being natural response to stress and regarded as healthy, recent studies have unearthed evidence that proves this claim as untrue. It can also simulate similar responses in others to varying degrees, primarily targeting the vulnerable (infants, children and elderly) which makes it a socially irresponsible behaviour. The Body department would like to add it is also a waste of bodily fluids and self destructive to one’s health hereby deeming the act of crying illegal.”

 

Upon release in January, “In Your Head” was proclaimed one of NPR’s “20 Best Songs We Heard for January”, a Sunday Times Culture ‘Hottest Track’, one of The Guardian’s ‘50 Great Tracks For February’ and landed in The FADER’s ‘20 best rock songs right now’ playlist – setting the tone for what’s still to come with the release of Miss Universe in March. Largely recorded in the same remote Penzance studio she used to jam in with her uncle Joe – a former musician himself – Miss Universe features co-productions with both her former school guitar teacher The Invisible’s Dave Okumu and her live bandmates Jazzi Bobbi and Luke Bower, as well as producers John Congleton, Oli Barton-Wood, Will Archer and M.T. Hadley.

 

2019 started in whirlwind fashion with Nilufer touring across North America in January and February with Sharon Van Etten, including a stop at LA’s Ace Hotel Theater next week. Next, Nilüfer will embark on her biggest U.K., Europe and Turkey headlining tour to date in April. Following that, she will head back to the US for a headlining date at NYC’s Rough Trade on July 23. Tickets for that show will be on-sale this Friday, February 22nd at 12pm EST HERE.

 

 

Though she’d been writing songs in her head since she was six, and on the guitar since she was 12, it took a long time for Nilüfer Yanya to work up the courage to show anyone her music. “I knew I wanted to sing, but the idea of actually having to do it was really horrifying,” says the 23-year-old. When she was finally persuaded to do so, by a music teacher in West London where she grew up, she says “it was horrible. I loved it”.

 

At 18, Nilüfer – who is of Turkish-Irish-Bajan heritage – uploaded a few demos to SoundCloud. Though she’s preternaturally shy, her music – which uniquely blends elements of soul and jazz into intimate pop songs with electronic flourishes and a newly expressed grungy guitar sound – isn’t. And it didn’t take long for it to catch people’s attention. She signed with independent New York label ATO, following three EPs on esteemed london indie label Blue Flowers, and earned a place on the BBC Sound of 2018 longlist. She also supported the likes of The xx, Interpol, Broken Social Scene and Mitski on tour.

 

Now, Nilüfer is ready to release her debut album, Miss Universe. Though she recorded much of it in the same remote Cornwall studio she used to jam in as a much younger person, it is bigger and more ambitious than anything she has done before. ‘Angels’, with its muted, harmonic riffs, channels ideas “of paranoid thoughts and anxiety” – a theme that runs through the album, not least in its conceptual spoken word interludes which emanate from a fictional health management company WE WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH™. “You sign up, and you pay a fee,” explains Nilüfer of the automated messages, which are littered through the album and are narrated by the titular Miss Universe. “They sort out all of your dietary requirements, and then they move onto medication, and then maybe you can get a better organ or something… and then suddenly it starts to get a bit weird. You’re giving them more of you and to what end?”

 

 

 See Nilüfer Yanya on tour in 2019: 

February 21 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom^

February 22 – Vancouver, BC @ The Imperial^

February 23 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre^

February 25 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery^

February 26 – San Francisco, CA @ The Filmore^

February 28 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park^

March 1 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Theatre at Ace Hotel^

March 28 – Istanbul, Turkey @ Babylon

April 3 – Glasgow, Scotland @ CCA

April 4 – Manchester, UK @ YES

April 5 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

April 6 – Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny

April 8 – Leicester, UK @ O2 Academy Leicester University

April 9 – London, UK @ Evolutionary Arts Hackney

April 11 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds

April 12 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla

April 13 – Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy Oxford

April 14 – Brighton, UK @ The Haunt

April 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Bitterzoet

April 17 – Hamburg, GER @ Nochtwache

April 18 – Berlin, GER @ Kantine am Berghain

April 19 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ Motel Mozaique

April 21 – Vienna, Austria @ Chelsea Club

April 22 – Munich, GER @ Ampere

April 24 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Exil

April 25 – Koln, GER @ Blue Shell

April 26 – Paris, FRA @ Le Point Ephemere

April 29 – Brussels, BEL @ Les Nuits Botanique Festival

April 30 – Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Merleyn

May 1 – Utrecht, Holland @ ACU

June 1 – Barcelona, Spain @ Primavera Sound

July 19-21 – Melt! Festival, Germany

July 23 – New York, NY @ Rough Trade

August 8-12 – Belle & Sebastian Boaty Weekender

August 15-18 – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons, Wales

^with Sharon Van Etten

Nilüfer Yanya – Miss Universe- out 3/22/19 via ATO Records

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