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Middle Waves announces 2017 lineup. MGMT to headline Ft. Wayne’s destination music festival.

Fort Wayne, Indiana’s Middle Waves Music Festival has released its 2017 lineup, and it includes some festival favorites for you.

Headlining the show is none other than MGMT, who just headlined the first night of the 2017 Mamby on the Beach festival and are promoting new material.  Other notable names on the list include Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Shannon and the Clams, the Lemon Twigs, and Flint Eastwood.  The lineup list is a good mix of folk, pop, punk, electronica, and hip-hop.  There’s also a good mix of local artists like Left Lane Cruiser, Flamingo Nosebleed, Belle and the Strange, and Love Hustler.

More acts will be announced soon, and tickets are now available.  A general admission weekend pass will cost you just $75, which is a steal.  Even if you can’t afford that, three of the four stages at Middle Waves are free to the general public.

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Castle Face Records to release a rare live U.S. recording of French punk legends Magnetix.

LEGENDARY FRENCH PUNKS MAGNETIX ANNOUNCE LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO

OUT JULY  14TH ON CASTLE FACE; LISTEN TO “LIVING IN A BOX“
Magnetix’ Live In San Francisco is out on Castle Face Records on Bastille Day, July 14th. 

THE COUPLE THAT SLAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER

LOOCH AND AGGY, LIKE THE MONIKER OF AN INFAMOUS KILLING DUO
THE F*CKING BUTCHEST BAND FROM BORDEAUX
LOOCH, WITH HANDS LIKE BUNCHES OF BANANAS
AND SONGS LIKE FLAMING ARROWS
THE LOVELY AND TOUGH AS HELL AGGY
CRUSHING THE KIT
HEAVY WEIRD ATTACKERS FROM OUR SISTER COUNTRY
SLUDGE DRIPS
MURDER THE GUITAR
USURP THE AMP
FRY THE MIC
HOWL LIKE BEASTS
MELT THE CROWD
MAGNETIX
WE WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GRAB THEM ON ONE OF THEIR RARE U.S. SHOWS
TO RECORD IN A BASEMENT IN SAN FRANSISCO
HERE IT IS IN ALL ITS GORY GLORY
LETS GO TRIPPING……..”

– John Dwyer

 

LISTEN TO  “LIVING IN A BOX”
http://bit.ly/2sUyuuV

LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO TRACKLISTING

1. Growing Up
2. Feel High (When I Die)
3. Lawn Mowers Attack!!!
4. Mort Clinique
5. Impaction
6. Living In A Box
7. LR6
8. Rest Of My Life
9. Break Up The Phone

 

Pre-order Live In San Francisco – http://bit.ly/2sBy9Kp

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Texas’ Sound on Sound Fest unveils 2017 lineup including the return of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The 2017 Sound on Sound Fest in McDade, Texas’ Sherwood Forest has unveiled one of the best lineups of any summer music festival so far this year.  Perhaps the two biggest coups for SOS are Iggy Pop (who can retire whenever he wants) and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – who haven’t performed since 2013.

Other standouts include stoner metal giants Sleep, Boris, and Electric Wizard (performing their only set in the U.S. this year), Ministry, Dinosaur Jr., Digable Planets, Austra, Blanck Mass, Holy Wave, and a DJ set by Hot Chip.

They have three-day camping passes, VIP tickets, and general tickets ($189 plus taxes and shipping for a weekend pass) on sale now (and layaway plans), so get your tickets while you can.

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Slowdive announces more U.S. tour dates into the fall.

SLOWDIVE ANNOUNCE MORE US TOUR DATES;
WATCH NPR MUSIC’S FIELD RECORDING

SLOWDIVE IS ONE OF THE BEST REVIEWED ALBUMS OF THE YEAR

Slowdive‘s self-titled album, released last month via Dead Oceans, is one of the best-reviewed albums of the year so far.  Following a sold out North American tour in advance of its release, the band are announcing a return to the continent in the fall, to perform in cities both new and old. Prior to that, they’ll be appearing at FYF Fest in Los Angeles on July 21st.

Also, today saw the release of an incredible stripped back NPR Music Field Recording that the band filmed while in New York in May. Watch below.

WATCH SLOWDIVE’S NPR MUSIC FIELD RECORDING
http://n.pr/2s3U0tC

STREAM SLOWDIVE
https://slowdive.lnk.to/slowdive

SLOWDIVE TOUR DATES (new dates in bold)
Fri. June 16 – Sun. June 18 – Mannheim, DE @ Maifeld Derby
Sat. July 1 – Roskilde, Denmark @ Roskilde Festival
Thurs. July 6 – Trencin, Slovakia @ Pohoda Festival
Fri. July 7 – Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
Sun. July 9 – Six Four Les Plages, France@ Pointu Festival
Fri. July 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
Fri. July 28– South Korea @ Valley Rock Festival
Sun. July 30 – Tahar Shi, Japan @ Fuji Rock Festival
Sat. Aug. 19 – Trondheim, Norway  @ Pstereo Festival
Fri. 25 Aug. – Switzerland @ Nox Orae Festival
Sat. Aug. 27 – Paris, France @ Rock En Seine Festival
Thu. Aug. 31 – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival
Sat. Sept. 2 – Milano, Italy @ Un Altro Festival
Thu. Sept. 7 – Tel Aviv, Israel @ Barby Club
Fri. Sept. 15 – Sat. 16 Sept. – Angers, France @ Levitation Fest
Sun. Sept. 17 – Birmingham, UK @ Beyond the Tracks Festival
Fri. Sept. 29 – Dortmund, Germany @Way Back When Festival
Sat. Sept. 30 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ DR Koncerthuset
Mon. Oct. 2 – Warsaw, Poland – @ Palladium
Tues. Oct. 3 – Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s
Weds. Oct. 4 – Hamburg, Germany @Uebel & Gefaehrlich
Fri. Oct. 6 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Sat. Oct. 7 – Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique
Mon. Oct. 9 – Glasgow, UK @ ABC
Tues. Oct. 10 – Manchester, UK @Albert Hall
Weds. Oct. 11 – Leeds, UK @ Town Hall
Fri. Oct. 13 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
Mon. Oct. 23 – Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore
Wed. Oct. 25 – Seattle, WA @ The Neptune
Thu. Oct. 26 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Sat. Oct. 28 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater   
Wed. Nov. 1 – Denver, CO @ The Ogden
Sat. Nov. 4 – Madison, WI @ Barrymore Theatre
Sun. Nov. 5 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
Tue. Nov. 7 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
Wed. Nov. 8 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
Thu. Nov. 9 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Hall
Fri. Nov. 10 – Toronto, ON @ CANADA @ Massey Hall
Sat. Nov. 11 – New Haven, CT @ College St Music Hall
Sun. Nov. 12 – New York City, NY @ Terminal 5  
Tue. Nov. 14 – Boston,MA @ Paradise
Wed. Nov. 15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Thu. Nov. 16 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head
Fri. Nov. 17 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

Tickets available from www.slowdiveofficial.com

PRAISE FOR SLOWDIVE

“A precise and altogether gorgeous showcase of their peerless ability at production, mood, and songcraft.” – Pitchfork [Best New Music]

“Listening to Slowdive is like watching the sunrise and sunset at once — an awe-inspiring chorus of the galaxy.” – NPR Music

“Slowdive carries all the right baggage from the band’s past, but the album leaves no question about the direction they’re traveling in. They’re carrying this sound towards the future.” – Stereogum

“Throughout Slowdive, the band use foggy images and slippery transitions as a soothing sort of déjà vu—you feel like you’ve been here before, even though you obviously haven’t.” – SPIN [SPIN Essential]

“With this self-titled record, their first in 22 years, Slowdive definitively prove that some bands have enough creative juice to get back together and make some incredible music.” – Vulture

“The result is as beautiful and stilling as ever.” – AV Club

“Dreamy vocals, thick melancholia, heavy guitar treatments. And ‘Slomo,’ the opening track, is a goddamn minor miracle. Welcome back, shoegaze friends.” – Newsweek

Oh Sees release new single, “The Static God,” from upcoming album.

THEE OH SEES ARE DEAD. LONG LIVE OH SEES

NEW ALBUM ORC, OUT AUG. 25TH ON CASTLE FACE; LISTEN TO “THE STATIC GOD“

OH SEES CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF UNFETTERED EXISTENCE WITH 19TH ALBUM

Oh Sees are the latest incarnation of songwriter, singer, guitarist (and Castle Face fearless leader) John Dwyer’s ever-evolving rock-pop-folk psychedelic group. Dwyer has been active since the late ’90s, working with several bands, including the Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, Yikes, Up Its Alive, and Swords & Sandals, among others, and he formed OCS (which is an acronym for Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, or whatever Dwyer decided it was on any given day) initially as a vehicle for the experimental instrumentals he was producing in his home studio. The project entered its 20th year of existence in 2017.

In time OCS morphed into an actual band, and worked under the usual flurry of names, most notably as The Oh Sees or The Ohsees, and eventually as Thee Oh Sees. The band’s lineup has spawned and  re-spawned a few times before reaching their current incarnation featuring Tim Hellman on bass, Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone on drums.

And now, the newly shorn Oh Sees waste no time in racing headlong into nightmarish battle with their mighty new record Orc (Dwyer’s 19th album as OCS/Thee Oh Sees/Oh Sees, etc.), and wouldn’t ya know it, they’ve clawed even farther up the ghastly peak last year’s A Weird Exits stormed so satisfyingly. The band is in tour-greased, anvil on a balance beam, gut-pleasingly heavy form, nimbly braining with equal dashes of abandon and menace on this fresh batch of bruisers and brooders, hypnotically stirred into to the cauldron of chaos you’ve come to expect from, ahem, Oh Sees. Quattrone and Dan Rincon form a phalanx of interlocking double drums, alternately propelling and fleet footing shifting ground to pinion Dwyer’s cliff-face guitars to the boogie. Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows. More evil….more complex, more narcotic, more screech, more roar, more whisper, there’s even more Brigid Dawson. Less “Thee”, but more of everything else, Orc is out on Castle Face Records August 25th. Listen to the blistering first track “The Static God.”
LISTEN TO “THE STATIC GOD”
http://bit.ly/2s27Yix

ORC TRACKLISTING
1. The Static God
2. Nite Expo
3. Animated Violence
4. Keys To The Castle
5. Jettison
6. Cadaver Dog
7. Paranoise
8. Cooling Tower
9. Drowned Beast
10. Raw Optics

OH SEES TOUR DATES
Thu. June 7 – Milano, IT @ Magnolia
Fri. June 8 – Ravenna, IT @ Beaches Brew
Sat. June 9 – Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
Sun. June 10 – Nimes, FR @ This Is Not A Love Song
Mon. June 11 – Bordeaux, FR @ le block
Tue. June 12 – Tours, FR @ le temps machine
Thu. June 14 – Manchester University, UK @ Transformers
Sat. June 17 – San Francisco, CA @ Phono Del Sol Festival
Sat. July 22 – Sun. July 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF
Sun. Aug. 6 – Katowice, PL @ OFF Festival
Tue. Aug. 8 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow
Thu. Aug. 10 – Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival
Fri. Aug. 11 – Gothenburg, DW @ Way Out West Festival
Sat. Aug. 12 – Copenhagen, DK @ Pumpehuset
Fri. Aug. 18 – Saint Malo, FR @ La Route du Rock
Sat. Aug. 19 – Brecon Beacons, UK @ Green Man Festival
Fri. Sept. 1 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
Sat. Sept. 2 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar
Mon. Sept. 4 – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas Outside
Tue. Sept. 5 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack’s
Wed. Sept. 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
Fri. Sept. 8 – Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero Theater
Sun. Sept. 10 – Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
Wed. Sept. 13 – Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Thu. Sept. 14 – Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe I Le National
Fri. Sept. 15 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Theater
Sat. Sept. 16 – Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
Sun. Sept. 17 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Tue. Sept. 19 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
Fri. Sept. 22 – Missoula, MT @ Monk’s
Sat. Sept. 23 – Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s
Sun. Sept. 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Mon. Sept. 25 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom

Hi-res photos/album art: http://pitchperfectpr.com/thee-oh-sees/

Oh Sees Online:
http://www.theeohsees.com
https://www.castlefacerecords.com
https://www.castlefacerecords.com/collections/thee-oh-sees

Nine Inch Nails to release two EPs within nine months.

Nine Inch Nails recently announced they’ll be releasing two EPs in the next seven to nine months.  The two EPs follow the December 2016 EP Not the Actual Events, and the band says the three EPs are linked (but they haven’t revealed how they are).  The first is scheduled before the start of their summer tour in July, and the next will be released “6 to 8 months” after that.

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Goodbye Honolulu releases “Typical” single from upcoming album.

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Goodbye Honolulu share single “Typical”

Typical – YouTube // The 405

QUOTES
“Featuring a slight stoner vibe — a perfect companion to the laid-back guitar jangling of the tune.”
– The 405

Toronto’s Goodbye Honolulu may fall into the “slacker rock” category, but they’re hard workers when it comes to churning out new tunes.
– Exclaim!
Announcing No Honey EP out September 01, 2017 via Fried Records, produced by Mike Turner (Our Lady Peace).

RIYL – The Black Lips, Ty Segall, New Swears, Cage the Elephant, Beck

We all know how these band biographies go, right? Friends meet in high school, start jamming, form band in parents’ garage and everyone lives happily ever after.

Well Goodbye Honolulu DID meet in high school but they didn’t just form one band. They formed 5 individual projects and started their own record label while still in school, the 100% local Toronto label Fried Records. While other kids were cramming for exams or wasting away playing video games, the Goodbye Honolulu boys were busy playing in bars (attempting to sneak their underage friends in), honing their live skills, writing songs and self releasing multiple albums a year.

These teenage years were laying the foundations and as they hit their 20s Emmett, Jacob, Fox and Max decided to join forces and focus their song-writing and energy to one project, say “hello” to Goodbye Honolulu.

Goodbye Honolulu, evoke a 90s slacker vibe mixing vintage garage rock n roll history with modern elements, it’s not exactly pop and it’s not exactly punk.

Goodbye Honolulu is best known for their live shows and in best form when every member is screaming their heads off with shout along choruses. Whether it’s Emmett’s fuzz-layered guitar, Jacob’s gnarly vocals, Fox’s Bowie-inspired vocal inflections or Max beating his drum kit to death, Goodbye Honolulu make their audience the VIP guests to their rock n roll party.

Highlights of Goodbye Honolulu’s ride so far include a USA tour supporting their pals Hinds and releasing their debut album Heavy Gold in 2016.

Goodbye Honolulu
Emmett Webb (Guitar/Bass/Vocals)
Fox Martindale (Guitar/Vocals)
Jacob Switzer (Guitar/Bass/Vocals)
Max Bornstein (Drums)

Tour Dates:
June 21 – Divan Orange, Montreal QC
July 15 – Lee’s Palace, Toronto ON w/ New Swears

Goodbye Honolulu – No Honey (Fried Records)
Release Date: September 01, 2017
Pre-Order: https://goodbyehonolulu.bandcamp.com/

Goodbye Honolulu Links
Official: http://www.goodbyehonolulu.com/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/goodbye-honolulu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodbyeHonolulu/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodbyehonolulu/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/goodbyehonolulu

Chicago’s Riot Fest releases second wave of lineup.

Riot Fest Chicago has announced its full lineup for 2017.  As usual, it’s killer and far better than Lollapalooza.

They’ve added several bands, including At the Drive In, Best Coast, Black Pistol Fire, Cockney Rejects, Skating Polly, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, and many more.

You can still get tickets to this festival, so don’t wait too long.  It will sell out.

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Todd Terje releases new single, “Maskindans,” from upcoming album.

TODD TERJE SHARES “MASKINDANS,” TEASES MATERIAL OFF FORTHCOMING ALBUM #2

“MASKINDANS” 12″ SINGLE OUT TODAY
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/maskindans/
STREAM “MASKINDANS” FEAT. DET GYLNE TRIANGEL
https://soundcloud.com/toddterje/sets/maskindans/
Though he may still be tweaking the space laser to perfect album Numero Twomero (hey, it’s a working title), Todd Terje has still found the time to tease us with “Maskindans,” a sneak preview of what’s to come in the form of this body-moving, brain-grooving cover version of a Norse synth spectacular from the dystopian dance floors of 1982. Inspired by his Dansbar diversions, Todd took to the studio for a little multi-track mania, replaying every part of this doomy dancer with all the Olsen sparkle you could ever wish for. Luring Det Gylne Triangel back into the booth for the first time in 25 years (possibly in his trusty Delorean!), Terje topped off the pops with a newly recorded vocal from the original lyricist, closing the temporal loop and opening the door to dance floor nirvana.

With a minimal wave goodbye to the moodier moments of the original, Terje turns up the funk and gets lost in the groove on this deep discoid delight. After an unruly intro of malfunctioning sirens and squawking synths, “Maskindans” morphs into a nasty new wave nodder, bursting with chorus bass, mutant guitar riffs and infectious 4/4. Ola Ødegård´s monotone vocals stomp along with darkened eyes and backcombed hair, throwing angular shapes and computer feelings before the track romps off into interstellar overdrive. Punching the big red button marked dub, Terje picks up the echo and drops a Bobby O bassline, flirting wildly with acid house as revving synths light up the kosmische sky.

Remix duties fall to Phantasy man Erol Alkan, who replaces those dub disco flourishes with the strobe-lit pulse of Giallo, stripping the track back into a dark wired dancer which steals a beat on the imminent Electroclash revival. An insistent bassline and mechanical beat power straight into the peak time while the treated vocals take us all the way back to hearing Jeans Team in skinny jeans on the darkened dance floor of Trash.

Slip into your tin foil hat and do the “Maskindans,” it’s almost album time (not again!)

“MASKINDANS” 12″ TRACKLISTING
1. “Maskindans” feat. Det Gylne Triangel
2. “Maskindans” (Erol Alkan Rework) feat. Det Gylne Traingel
3. “Maskindans” (Radio Edit) feat. Det Gylne Triangel

Purchase “Maskindans” 12″ here: https://toddterje.lnk.to/maskindans

TODD TERJE TOUR DATES:
June 8th – Budapest, HG @ Kolorádó Festival
June 9th – Madrid, SP @ True Music Festival
June 10th – Venice, IT @ Venezia More Festival
June 16th – Dublin, IR @ District 8
June 17th – London, UK @ Krankbrother Street Party
June 18th – Barcelona, SP @ Sonar Innervisions
June 25th – Chicago, IL @ Mamby On The Beach*
June 27th – Seattle, WA @ Marymoor Park*^
June 28th – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheater*^
June 30th – Berkeley, CA @ The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley*^
July 1st – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre*^
July 13th – Dour, BG @ Dour Festival
July 14th – Paris, FR @ Zig Zag
July 15th – Bygrave Woods, UK @ Farr Festival
August 19th – Amsterdam, NT@ Blijburg aan Zee
August 25th – Paris, FR @ Touquet Music Beach Festival

* w: The Olsens
^ w: Tycho & Jaga Jazzist

“Kids rock” rockers Feltworth return with new emphasis on power-pop rock.

FELTWORTH (Canadian Puppet Power-Pop)
*Premiere debut music video “Forget This Feeling”
*Release AA-side 7-inch “Forget This Feeling / You Turn Me On”
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FELTWORTH –“Forget This Feeling” / “You Turn Me On” 7-inch
(out June 02, 2017)

Share new video “Forget This Feeling”  YouTube // Brooklyn Vegan
“Both songs are super-catchy pop, reminiscent of The Beatles or The Sweet, or Canadian bands who like The Beatles and The Sweet.” – Brooklyn Vegan

“There’s no Juno category for Best Musical Performance By a Puppet — but if there were, Feltworth would likely have it locked down.” – CBC
“Forget This Feeling” is a rollicking slice of pure power-pop built on an insistent piano part from Morris and stellar brotherly harmonies, all loving smothered in appropriately fuzzy guitars. For Feltworth the near future is bright…orange.”
– The Line Of Best Fit
Feltworth is a 4-piece rock band consisting of Dezi Feltworth (bass, vocals), his brother Manny Feltworth (guitar, vocals), Morris Katzenburd (piano, keyboards) and Cozy Balboa (drums, tambourine). You may, of course, know of them already if you have children at arm’s length. Feltworth has been an outrageously successful act on the children’s music scene for many years. They burst into the limelight early in their career with their first album of music for youngsters called Super Duper. They followed that smash record with both Felty, Felty Places and We’re Feltworth, a pair of multi-platinum releases that saw the “fabric four” begin to add more original material to their repertoire of tried and true children’s classics. Their game changing fourth album, Beanbag Town, was their first album of all original songs for kids. It’s still considered a high water mark on the spectrum of adolescent entertainment.

Though regarded as financially and commercially successful, the fellows of Feltworth didn’t feel creatively satisfied by being pigeon-holed as children’s act. So, against their manager’s wishes, they’ve embarked on making a real pop/rock record that reflects their own personality and their influences – be it The Sweet, Paul McCartney, Brian Eno or Rupert Holmes. With the change in direction, they are challenging their core audience and seeking new listeners. It’s been a tough-sell to their manager and label, so the band has decided to self-finance the new recordings that will be released via their own Dezman Productions label. The first release from this brand new batch of activity is a limited edition orange coloured 7” single featuring the rocking “Forget This Feeling” (lead vocals by Manny) and the longing romanticism of “You Turn Me On” (lead vocals by Dezi). There’s more music to come. The past is behind them. The future awaits-ish.

Feltworth – Forget This Feeling / You Turn Me On
Release Date: June 02, 2017
Pre-order: https://feltworth.bandcamp.com/

Feltworth Links
Official: http://feltworth.com/​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feltworth/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/feltworth​
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/feltworth/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Feltworth