J. Roddy Walston & The Business Returns with New Single “The Wanting” + New Tour
The hair flying rock ‘n roll of J. Roddy Walston & The Business is back! The quartet has released their first new song in four years; titled “The Wanting”, and announced a run of headlining dates for the fall. Stream/buy “The Wanting” here, and scroll down for dates: http://smarturl.it/uzcgu8
The band’s forthcoming record came to life in their own Richmond, VA recording studio and was co-produced by the band and Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Built To Spill). It will be released this Fall.
“I personally fell in love with writing music again,” Walston explained. “It took awhile but once I realized I had room to try things that I had never tried before, I became addicted to the process.” He elaborated further by explaining how “The Wanting” describes the relationship of an estranged father and son: “Even though it is a dark song with a brutal ending, I find hope and beauty in the idea of these two people that had a shared sense of both regret and longing for each other.”
Stay tuned for more info on J. Roddy’s new album coming soon.
TOUR DATES
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8/4 – Richmond, VA – The Broadberry 9/2 – Snowshoe, WV – Snowshoe Mountain Resort 9/9 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Outdoors 9/10 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s Hall 9/12 – Green Bay, WI – Badger State Brewing Company 9/14 – Maquoketa, IA – Codfish Hollow Barnstormers 9/15 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue 9/16 – Iowa City, IA – Gabe’s 9/18 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre 9/19 – Aspen, CO – Belly Up 9/22 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile 9/23 – Vancouver, BC – Venue Nightclub 9/24 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre 9/26 – San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine 9/27 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy 9/30 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up 10/4 – Jackson, MS – Duling Hall 10/5 – Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall 10/7 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits 10/8 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room 10/10 – Orlando, FL – The Social 10/11 – Ybor City, FL – Crowbar 10/13 – Macon, GA – Cox Capitol Theatre 10/14 – Greenville, SC – Fall for Greenville 10/15 – Knoxville, TN – Bijou Theatre |
King Gizzard’s “Murder Of The Universe” Out Now + New US Tour Dates
“As soon as the dust settles you can see an new world / In place of where the old one had been…” A concept album to end all concepts, Murder Of The Universe is the new collection by head-bending psychedelicists King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and is available everywhere now.
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Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, Murder Of The Universe inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilisation, rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict. It may take years for its true importance to be appreciated. There are simply no capital letters large enough to convey the EPIC nature of this collection.
Available Only At Indie Retailers: “Bloodpool Blue” Vinyl
“We’re living in dystopian times that are pretty scary and it’s hard not to reflect that in our music,” says front man Stu Mackenzie. “It’s almost unavoidable. Some scientists predict that the downfall of humanity is just as likely to come at the hands of Artificial Intelligence, as it is war or viruses or climate change. But these are fascinating times too. Human beings are visual creatures – vision is our primary instinct, and this is very much a visual, descriptive, bleak record. While the tone is definitely apocalyptic, it is not necessarily purely a mirror of the current state of humanity. It’s about new non-linear narratives.”
Watch Chapter II: The Lord of Lightning Vs. Balrog
Watch Chapter III: Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe
US TOUR DATES
9/23 – Kalamazoo, MI – Audiotree Music Festival
9/24 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
9/25 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
9/26 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
9/28 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jack’s
9/30 – Austin, TX – Mohawk Outside
10/1 – Dallas, TX – Trees
10/3 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
10/4 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
10/5 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre %
10/6 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall %
10/7 – Boise, ID – Neurolux %
10/8 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom %
10/9 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom %
10/10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre %
10/12 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore %
10/13 – 10/15 – Joshua Tree, CA – Desert Daze 2017
% with Tropical Fuck Storm
Watch Hurray For The Riff Raff Concert via Pitchfork Live
Hurray for the Riff Raff’s whirlwind 2017 continues on the heels of the release of ‘The Navigator’. Last night Pitchfork livestreamed their concert from Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM. – watch it here.
Additionally, Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra was featured in the June issue of Elle, in their Women in Music piece, on the cover of She Shreds Magazine and profiled on PBS’s Newshour program. ‘The Navigator’ was also nominated for Album of the Year by the Americana Music Awards, and has appeared on Best Albums of 2017 (so far) lists from Billboard, Spin, Uproxx and more.
Hurray for the Riff Raff has been touring internationally since March – the second leg of their tour began this week, see full dates and get tickets at the bottom of this post. Summer dates include Newport Folk Festival, XPoNential Festival, Oya, and Pop Montreal. On July 27, Lincoln Center Out of Doors will present the Nosotros Festival – founded and curated by Segarra – at Damrosch Park, featuring performances from Hurray for the Riff Raff, Las Cafeteras, Helado Negro, Xenia Rubinos and poets La Bruja, Felipe Luciano, and Bonafide Rojas.
The band has also teamed with Mijente to create the “No Human Is Illegal” campaign. The t-shirts are being sold online this month and $1/ticket on the June tour will also go to the organization.
“I believe it is an artist’s duty to remind us of our shared humanity. Mijente is creating an intersectional culture of resistance that is desperately needed. Right now, we must stand together and fight for the rights of immigrant people in this country. We must do it for our neighbors, our grandparents, our children and ourselves. Immigrant people have made this country great, and our future depends on us refusing to be turned against each other.” – Alynda Segarra / http://prizeo.com/hurrayfortheriffraff
RAVES FOR ‘THE NAVIGATOR’
“A rich, courageous new album…‘The Navigator’ repositions roots music as an anti-nostalgic tool: a truth-telling device” – NPR
“A coming of age concept LP about a young woman that suggests Patti Smith as a barrio poet…this is proudly intersectional folk music” – Rolling Stone, 4 stars
“Not unlike Solange did on her stunning 2016 opus, Segarra uses ‘The Navigator’ to demand more seats at the table for those voices that have always existed, but simply went unheard.” – Pitchfork, 8.1 out of 10
“A genre-bending album of anger, yearning and songs that just flow…there’s not a lot you can’t sing along to, whoever you are” – 5 out of 5 stars, The Guardian UK
“An audacious album….a major leap forward for an artist whose previous work now seems like a warm-up for the dizzying heights ‘The Navigator’ strives for” – American Songwriter
On Hurray for the Riff Raff’s new album The Navigator (out March 10 on ATO Records), Alynda Segarra tells an interwoven, cinematic story of a wandering soul at a crossroads of identity and ancestral weight. It finds a street kid named Navita traversing a perpetually burning city in search of herself. The Navigator is a thrilling call to arms that could not come at a more crucial time. It also finds Hurray for the Riff Raff at its own musical intersection, delving deep into the worlds of Latin rhythms, searing rock, and incisive ballads.
“The Navigator” is now available at the band’s official store, iTunes and Amazon.
PledgeMusic: http://smarturl.it/Navigator-Official
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TheNavigator-iTunes
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/TheNavigator-Amazon
Read The New York Times‘ in-depth profile of Alynda HERE, and watch Alynda’s interview and performance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah below. Tune in to CBS This Morning on March 11 and CONAN on March 13 to catch her performing new songs from The Navigator:
Watch Alynda’s interview and performance with Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman:
The Navigator was produced by Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Devendra Banhart) and recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC and Panoramic House in California. The album features percussionists Juan-Carlos Chaurand, Gregory Rogove (Rodrigo Amarante), a trio of Bomba drummers, and Doo Wop singers from New Jersey.
Says Alynda: This is dedicated to the water protectors of Standing Rock – thank you for your bravery and giving us hope. Also, to the people of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, who are demanding an end to the AES dumping of coal ash which leads to water contamination – we are with you.
All over the world there are heroes, who, despite suffering generations of oppression, are protecting the land and the future of our humanity. Rican Beach is a fictional place, but it was written with my ancestors in mind. It’s time to call on yours and to always remember: this land was made for you and me.
Track list:
1. Entrance
2. Living In The City
3. Hungry Ghost
4. Life to Safe
5. Nothing’s Gonna Change Girl
6. The Navigator
7. Halfway There
8. Rican Beach
9. Fourteen Floors
10. Settle
11. Pa’lante
12. Finale
TOUR DATES:
June 6 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf*
June 7 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom*
June 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom*
June 10 – Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theater*
June 11 – San Francisco, CA – Fillmore*
June 13 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall*
June 15 – Vancouver, BC – Imperial*
June 16 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*
June 18 – Boise, ID – The Olympic*
June 19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge*
June 20 – Vail, CO – Crazy Mountain Brewery Hot Summer Nights
June 21 – Denver, CO – The Bluebird Theater*
June 22 – Chicago, IL – Millennium Park
July 27 – New York, NY – Nosotros Festival
July 28 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
July 30 – Camden, NJ – XPoNential Music Festival
July 31 – Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
August 1 – Toronto, ON – The Great Hall
August 10 – Rees Haldern, DE – Haldern Pop Festival
August 11 – Oslo, NO – Øya Festival
August 12 – Gothenburg, SE – Way Out West Festival
August 14 – Leicester, GB – The Cookie
August 15 – York, GB – The Crescent
August 16 – Hebden Bridge, GB – The Trades Club
August 18 – Brecon, GB – Green Man Festival
September 9 – Raliegh, NC – Hopscotch Music Festival
September 16 – Burlington, VT – Grand Point North
September 17 – Montreal, QC – POP Montreal @ Piccolo Rialto
October 17 – London, GB – Koko
October 18 – Liverpool, GB – Arts Club
October 19 – Dublin, IE – Whelans
October 21 – Glasgow, GB – Saint Luke’s
October 22 – Nottingham, GB – Rescue Rooms
October 23 – Bristol, GB – Trinity Centre
October 25 – Portsmouth, GB – Wedgewood Rooms
October 26 – Paris, FR – Point Ephémère
October 27 – Nijmegen, NL – Doornroosje
October 28 – Amsterdam, NL – London Calling @ Paradiso
October 30 – Odense, DK – Posten
October 31 – Copenhagen, DK – Lille Vega
November 2 – Berlin, DE – Privatclub
November 4 – Groningen, NL – Take Root Festival
* – w/Making Movies
Benjamin Booker’s new album ‘Witness’ is out now! Watch live sessions
Benjamin Booker‘s new album Witness is out now – stream it everywhere, or get the album on vinyl, CD, or digital. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed self-titled debut, Witness is “
an urgent synthesis of blues, gospel and soul … with a raw and unforgiving candor that’s reminiscent of downtown New York punk.”
Read the album review via NPR First Listen, which notes that on Witness, “Booker leans especially hard into the vintage soul-rock, gospel and blues that have underpinned his work from the start, folding R&B string arrangements and gospel piano into his guitar’s gritty rampage.”
Previously, Benjamin Booker shared the track “Believe” with an accompanying live session video and interview via TIME – check it out now.
Head to Mic to watch two new Benjamin Booker session videos for “Witness” and “Right On You”, recorded live at Providence’s Columbus Theatre with album producer Sam Cohen on guitar and several of the musicians who played on the album. Mic praises Booker’s music as “an urgent synthesis of blues, gospel and soul … with a raw and unforgiving candor that’s reminiscent of downtown New York punk.”
Download the studio versions of both tracks when you pre-order Witness, out June 2: http://smarturl.it/witness-preorder
Listen to “Right On You” via The FADER, which calls it “a staticky, high-tempo ballad that packs a punch”. Download “Right On You” instantly when you pre-order Witness.
Previously, Booker shared the title track ‘Witness’ featuring a guest vocal by Mavis Staples. Pre-order the new album “Witness” and instantly download the title track, or stream it now via Spotify or Apple Music: http://smarturl.it/witness-preorder
“The New Orleans-based songwriter — who’s favored a sound like the blues, soul and rock ‘n’ roll mixed with gasoline and a lit cigarette — leans into more explicitly gospel territory here, letting his strepitous guitar take a backseat to an upright-piano melody and choral harmonies.”
On ‘Witness,’ Booker has created his most ambitious work yet by digging deep into his passion for eccentric soul, R&B, and blues – drawing on everything from William Onyeabor’s 70s African psych-rock to Freddie Gibbs and Pusha T, while never straying too far from the garage-punk intensity that made his self-titled 2014 debut such a creative breakthrough. The album’s ten new, original tracks were all written by Booker, produced by Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby), and mixed by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes).
‘Witness’ tracklist:
1. Right On You
2. Motivation
3. Witness (feat. Mavis Staples)
4. The Slow Drag Under
5. Truth Is Heavy
6. Believe
7. Overtime
8. Off The Ground
9. Carry
10. All Was Well
Nick Hakim’s debut album ‘Green Twins’ is out now! Read Pitchfork Rising feature
Read the NPR First Listen review of Nick Hakim’s debut album Green Twins HERE. NPR notes, “Matters of the heart require tenderness – and this conviction is what makes Green Twins a treasure; irresistible and challenging, without contradiction.” Pitchfork also featured Nick Hakim’s “eclectic soul” in their Rising series – read the profile HERE.
Get Green Twins: http://smarturl.it/NH_greentwins
Nick is on tour now – see all dates and get tickets HERE.
Watch the psychedelic animated video for the newest track off of Nick Hakim’s debut album Green Twins, out May 19, via Pitchfork, which calls the song “a soul delight”.
Nick Hakim said of the track, “This song’s first verse is about a night when I got really stoned at my friend’s house and forgot to meet up with my partner. It was pouring rain outside and when I realized I was late, I biked through Bed Stuy as fast as I could through the rain to find her but she was gone… the second verse is about patching it up, not leaving her house for a couple days. It’s a love song.”
Watch the official video and ATO Session for “Bet She Looks Like You”:
“An abstract but powerful experience” – Pigeons & Planes
“A hazy, deeply felt bit of modern soul” – Stereogum
“A smoky love ballad that is textbook Hakim: a bone-bare slow-wind of a song that doesn’t beg for one’s attention so much as it intoxicates the senses with knowing assurance. It’s a heartbreaker, for sure” – The FADER
Watch the live session for “Green Twins”, filmed live from Brooklyn’s Market Hotel:
“A soulful dive into one of Hakim’s signature psychedelic soundscapes.” – Stereogum
“The siren-like psychedelic jam is rich with layers and movement” – Saint Heron
“The unadorned, impassioned core of soul, seeped into unorthodox production influences and techniques. Together, it amounts to a sound all Hakim’s own, a look inside his head that gets into your own instead.” – Noisey
“Hakim’s sounds are deep and soulful, but touches of jarring reverb and eerie synths throw his work into a uniquely beautiful state of unbalance.” – Washington Post
“A truly futuristic slice of R&B” – Uncut
Nick and his band stopped in Austin during SXSW where they played several showcases. Hakim filmed a pared down version of his song “The Want” from Green Twins as part of NPR Music’s South X Lullaby series. Watch the performance here and see Nick live on tour (see tour dates below):
“It’s soul music for outer space, performed in a room that looks like outer space” – NPR
TOUR DATES
Oct 3 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 4 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
Oct 5 Raleigh NC – Kings
Oct 6 Nashville TN – Basement East
Oct 7 Atlanta GA – Vinyl
Oct 9 Birmingham AL – The Nick
Oct 10 New Orleans LA – Gasa Gasa
Oct 13-15 Austin TX – Austin City Limits Festival
Oct 17 Tuscon AZ – Club Congress
Oct 20 San Francisco CA – The Independent
Oct 21 Oakland CA – Starline Social Club
Oct 23 Portland OR – Doug Fir
Oct 24 Seattle WA – Barbosa
King Gizzard Announces New Album ‘Murder of the Universe’ out June 23rd. Watch 360 Degree Live Performance
Melbourne’s King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are a once-in-a-generation group playing a heady combination of psychedelia, prog rock, freakbeat, jazz, heavy metal and Krautrock at a breathless punk pace. Today they introduce Murder of the Universe, to be released June 23rd via ATO Records. A concept album to end all concepts, Murder Of The Universe is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet.
Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, MOTU inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilization, rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict. Like in the band’s frenzied live show, snippets of their breakthrough records I’m In Your Mind Fuzz and Nonagon Infinity resurface throughout this album to haunt their latest sound.
“We’re living in dystopian times that are pretty scary and it’s hard not to reflect that in our music,” says front man Stu Mackenzie. “It’s almost unavoidable. Some scientists predict that the downfall of humanity is just as likely to come at the hands of Artificial Intelligence, as it is war or viruses or climate change. But these are fascinating times too. Human beings are visual creatures – vision is our primary instinct, and this is very much a visual, descriptive, bleak record. While the tone is definitely apocalyptic, it is not necessarily purely a mirror of the current state of humanity. It’s about new non-linear narratives.”
US TOUR DATES
9/26 – Nashville, TN – Cannery Ballroom
9/28 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jack’s
9/30 – Austin, TX – Mohawk Outside
10/1 – Dallas, TX – Trees
10/3 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
10/4 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
10/5 – Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre
10/6 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
10/7 – Boise, ID – Neurolux
10/8 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
10/9 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
10/10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
10/12 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
5/31 – 6/4 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound Festival 2017
6/3 – London, UK – Field Day 2017
6/5 – 6/8 – Marina di Ravenna, Italy – Beaches Brew 2017
6/8 – 6/10 – Porto, Portugal – NOS Primavera Sound 2017
6/9 – 6/11 – Nimes, France – This Is Not A Love Song 2017
6/13 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
6/14 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
6/15 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town
6/16 – 6/18 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival 2017
6/16 – 6/18 – Mannheim, Germany – Maifeld Derby 2017
6/22 – Paris, France – Cabaret Sauvage
7/21 – 7/23 – Byron Bay, NSW, Australia – Splendour in the Grass Festival 2017