Paul McCartney invited Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes onstage during his set at Lollapalooza to perform the Beatles classic “Get Back”. Check it out here, and see the Alabama Shakes on tour now.
Watch Paul McCartney + Brittany Howard perform “Get Back” at Lollapalooza
September 7, 2015 – 8:41 am
Listen to new Sun Club song “Worm City” from The Dongo Durango (Out 10/30)
August 24, 2015 – 10:54 am
Listen to a new track “Worm City” from Sun Club‘s debut album The Dongo Durango at Stereogum, and check out a live take of “Tropicoller Lease” from their ATO Session below, filmed in their hometown of Baltimore! The band is on tour now – check out dates below and get tickets at their website.
Preorder the new album The Dongo Durango, out October 30: Official Store | iTunes
Watch the video for “Tropicoller Lease”, in which the band fends off life-size troll dolls with only their wits and their instruments to protect them, below!
Sun Club‘s debut LP, titled The Dongo Durango, joyously deconstructs the traditional pop song and rebuilds it with off-kilter time signatures, gleefully unhinged vocals, and sunny hooks that sink deep into your already fevered brain.
The members of Sun Club became a band as childhood friends over ten years ago and with the release of a well-received 7″ and EP have toured endlessly ever since, moving from basement gigs to bars to opening up shows for the likes of Alvvays, FIDLAR, and Fat White Family. Catch them this fall on a 5-week tour with The Districts. See dates below.
The Baltimore band then set about recording The Dongo Durango using an old warehouse space just outside of their hometown as a makeshift studio. They recorded the album live, all the better to capture the raw and raucous energy of their concerts. There they channeled influences of fellow Baltimore greats from Future Islands to Dan Deacon, as well as drawing from their own musical libraries that include DEVO, The Beach Boys, and The White Stripes.
“We made this video at a time when not a lot of us had jobs and we had just spent a month recording the new album almost everyday,” Sun Club said of the video. “It was this weird in-between phase right after we finished recording, before we went on tour or had any idea of how the album would be released. It was also the end of so many years where we booked our own tours and made short releases. We’ve reached a new step where we are all psyched to properly release some of our music.”
TOUR DATES
9/22 – Baby’s All Right – Brooklyn, NY
9/26 – The Haunt – Ithaca, NY#
9/28 – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge – South Burlington, VT#
9/29 – La Sala Rossa – Montreal, Canada#
9/30 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, Canada#
10/2 – Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH#
10/3 – Metro – Chicago, IL#
10/4 – Triple Rock Social Club – Minneapolis, MN#
10/5 – Turner Hall Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI#
10/7 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO#
10/9 – Top Hat – Missoula, MT#
10/10 – Neurolux – Boise, ID#
10/11 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR#
10/12 – Neumos – Seattle, WA#
10/14 – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA#
10/16 – The Irenic – San Diego, CA#
10/17 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA#
10/20 – The Parish – Austin, TX#
10/21 – Club Dada – Dallas, TX#
10/22 – Studio at Warehouse Live – Houston, TX#
10/23 – Hi-Hi Lounge – New Orleans, LA#
10/24 – Hi-Tone Cafe – Memphis, TN#
10/26 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA#
10/27 – The High Watt – Nashville, TN#
10/28 – Zanzabar – Louisville, KY#
10/29 – Cosmic Charlie’s – Lexington, KY#
10/31 – Cat’s Cradle – Carrboro, NC#$
11/2 – 9:30 Club – Washington DC#$
11/3 – The Sinclair – Boston, MA#$
11/4 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY#$
11/5 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY#$
# = The Districts
$ = Lady Lamb
Watch King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s KEXP Session
August 17, 2015 – 6:54 am
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard stopped by Seattle’s KEXP for a face-melting in studio session. Watch it HERE, and pre-order Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (out November 13) now – all preorders come with an instant download of the title track!
Pre-order Paper Mâché Dream Balloon: Official Store | iTunes | Amazon
Listen to Two Tracks from Drive-By Truckers “It’s Great To Be Alive!” 35 track live box set
July 27, 2015 – 10:40 am
The Drive-By Truckers are thrilled to announce a massive, career-spanning live box set comprised of 35 tracks recorded last fall at The Fillmore in San Francisco. “It’s Great To Be Alive!” will be in stores October 30th in a variety of formats. The deluxe box set include: 5 LPs, 3 CDs, a 16 page LP sized booklet with liner notes from Patterson Hood and 6 mini concerts posters with artwork from Wes Freed. A lighter 3 CD version is also available (with all of the track from the box), then a shorter deluxe 2xLP highlights edition entitled “This Weekend’s The Night” will also be released. All editions are available to preorder from the Drive-By Truckers and iTunes.
As Patterson Hood tells NPR Music: “We sequenced it to be like kind of an ultimate DBT set list. We never use a set list from night to night so the show is ever evolving, but for this it was like, what would be the ultimate three hour show we could play right now?” Hear the live take of “Birthday Boy” below and pre-order the album HERE:
New Trey Anastasio Album “Paper Wheels” Out October 30 – On Tour Now
July 27, 2015 – 6:00 am
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio has announced his newest album, Paper Towns, to be released October 30! Preorder it now at the official store, where you can order the deluxe limited edition that includes two 180-gram splatter vinyl LPs (45 RPM) and a die-cut gatefold package with six unique sleeves. Only 4,000 of these special packages will be manufactured.
Trey Anastasio Band will celebrate the release of PAPER WHEELS with a headline tour kicking off on October 16th. Check out tour dates and get tickets at treytickets.shop.ticketstoday.com. Tickets for all shows will be available through a real-time presale beginning Thursday, August 27th at noon eastern and ending Wednesday, September 2nd at 5pm eastern at treytickets.shop.ticketstoday.com. Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning Thursday, September 3rd.
Produced by Anastasio and longtime collaborator Bryce Goggin, PAPER WHEELS was recorded last year at The Barn, the Phish founding guitarist’s Vermont farmhouse-turned-rehearsal space/recording studio. Anastasio and the members of Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) developed the material on stage while touring and at soundcheck on the tour leading up to the sessions, allowing them to track the album in just under a week. Taking a cue from the energetic immediacy of classic Stax Studio recording sessions, TAB worked fast and loose, playing together live in The Barn and wrapping up tracks after one or two takes. Written and co-written by Anastasio alongside frequent lyric partners Tom Marshall and Steve “The Dude of Life” Pollak, songs like the funk-driven “Bounce” and the elegiac “Invisible Knife” (written solely by Anastasio) are among the legendarily diverse artist’s most infectious and inventive, alive with creative vigor, robust musicianship, and true soul power (see the complete tracklisting below).
PAPER WHEELS features the classic TAB line up of drummer Russ Lawton, bassist Tony Markellis, and keyboardist Ray Paczkowski, augmented by a full horn section (including trombonist/vocalist Natalie Cressman, multi-instrumentalist James Casey, and longtime TAB trumpeter/vocalist Jennifer Hartswick). The album was mixed by 8x GRAMMY® Award-winning sound engineer Elliot Scheiner (Van Morrison, Steely Dan, Derek & The Dominos).
Anastasio’s 10th solo album and follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed TRAVELER, PAPER WHEELS has been heralded in recent months by a series of new song premieres launched via his website featuring cover art shrouded in code, showcasing such tracks as “Bounce,” “Speak To Me,” and “Never.” “Bounce” and “Never” were both originally featured on a limited edition 7″ single, released exclusively for Record Store Day 2015.
Watch Fly Golden Eagle’s Video for “Tangible Intangible”
July 26, 2015 – 2:17 pm
In their new video for the song “Tangible Intangible”, Fly Golden Eagle has pulled out all the stops: back-up dancers, bathtubs of Pepto Bismol, spitting teeth, cake smashing, synchronized hair cutting and other off the wall imagery showcase what their psychedelic fever dreams are made of. Shot entirely on the iPhone of lead singer Ben Trimble, you can watch it HERE courtesy of BrooklynVegan.
“Why wait for people to do what you can do yourself?” explained Trimble when discussing his directorial vision for the video. “The divide between lyrics, music, and visual imagery is now dissolved and poetry triumphs like Orion’s belt’s knife.”
“Tangible Intangible” is featured on Quartz, a 26-song epic collection of songs that join together to form a narrative arc describing a story that is sometimes vulgar, sometimes profane, and sometimes beautiful. A more condensed 12-song version was also released titled Quartz Bijou.
The album lines up with the groundbreaking 1973 film The Holy Mountain, an avant-garde masterpiece directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, produced by The Beatles’ manager Allen Klein, and funded by John Lennon and George Harrison.
This summer Fly Golden Eagle will be making festival appearances at Forecastle, XPoNential Fest, Gathering of the Vibes, the Basilica Block Party and more. All upcoming tour dates can be found below, and tickets are available at their website.
TOUR DATES
9/18 – 9/19 – Bristol, TN – Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion
10/3 – Mount Pleasant, SC – Patriots Point, Hogs For The Cause
Rayland Baxter’s “Imaginary Man” OUT NOW; Listen to NPR’s Morning Edition Interview
July 11, 2015 – 7:29 am
Rayland Baxter’s new album Imaginary Man is out now! Get it at the OFFICIAL STORE, iTUNES, AMAZON, or your LOCAL RECORD STORE.
“Rayland builds melodies with lush guitars, keyboards and harmonies far closer to the Shins than Blake Shelton”
– The New York Times
You can also listen to an in-depth interview tackling Rayland’s influences and musical background on NPR’s Morning Edition.
ATO Welcomes King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard!
July 7, 2015 – 9:10 am
ATO Records is thrilled to announce that the Aussie psych-rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have signed to the label and we’re all excited to come along on their music’s mind-altering ride.
Described as “psych-soul-surf-fuzz-garage-space rock-jazz-DIY-shamans” by The Guardian, the band is currently putting the finishing touches on a new studio album to be released Fall 2015 via ATO.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard has also revealed a new run of US tour dates including FYF Fest, Hopscotch and a headlining date at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg; all of them can be found below.
Tour Dates
8/23 – Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
8/25 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
8/26 – Los Angeles, CA – Echo
8/27 – Visalia, CA – The Cellar Door
8/28 – Felton, CA – Don Quixote’s
8/29 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
8/31 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
9/1 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
9/2 – Seattle, WA – Red Bull Sound Select at Barboza
9/3 – Missoula, MT – Stage 112
9/5 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue & 7th Street Entry
9/6 – Chicago, IL – Subterranean
9/7 – Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light
9/9 – Austin, TX – Red 7 (Inside)
9/10 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
9/11 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
9/12 – Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Music Festival
9/13 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
9/16 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
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Watch Alabama Shakes “Over My Head” and “Future People” Videos dir. Danny Clinch
June 10, 2015 – 4:01 am
Alabama Shakes has just released two new video for the songs “Over My Head” and “Future People” off of their new album Sound & Color. The clips, which can be viewed HERE (Over My Head) and HERE (Future People), are the last in a series of four videos helmed by acclaimed director/photographer Danny Clinch (Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews). It captures Alabama Shakes in their purest form, performing live in Capitol Records’ legendary Studio A, where hit albums by such iconic artists as Frank Sinatra and the Beach Boys were recorded.
Get Sound & Color:
ATO Store | iTunes | Amazon | Local Record Store (CD / Black Vinyl / Clear Vinyl)
Future People:
Over My Head:
Dunes:
Don’t Wanna Fight:
TOUR DATES
6/9 – Charlottesville, VA @ nTelos Wireless Pavilion
6/10 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park
6/12 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
6/24-28 – Pilton, UK @ Glastonbury
6/27 – Beuningen, Netherlands @ Down The Rabbit Hole
6/28 – Werchter, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
6/30 – Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island
7/1 – Gdynia, Poland @ Open’er Festival
7/4 – Dublin, Ireland @ Marlay Park
7/5 – Belfort, France @ Les Eurockeennes
7/6 – Köln, Germany @ Live Music Hall
7/8 – Lucca, Italy @ Summer Festival Lucca
7/9 – Montreux, Switzerland @ Montreux Jazz Festival
7/10 – Rotterdam, Netherlands @ North Sea Jazz Festival
7/12 – Auchterarder, UK @ T In The Park
7/30 – Louisville, KY @ Iroquois Amphitheater
7/31 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
8/1 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah’s Council Bluffs Casino & Hotel
8/4 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden SOLD OUT
8/5 – Boise, ID @ Idaho Botanical Garden
8/7 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield SOLD OUT
8/8 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
8/9 – Squamish, BC @ Squamish Valley Music Festival
8/12 – San Diego, CA @ Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU
8/13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
8/14 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
8/16 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre SOLD OUT
8/18 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie
8/20 – Tuscaloosa, AL @ Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
8/21 – Alpharetta, GA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park
9/17 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
9/18 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
9/19 – Forest Hills, Queens, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium
9/22 – Lewiston, NY @ Artpark
9/25-27 – Boston, MA @ Boston Calling
10/2-4 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
11/18 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton SOLD OUT
11/19 – London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
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