Mass Gothic’s brand new 5-song Sup Goth digital EP is available today, and was recorded in New York this past spring, shortly after the release of their superb Sub Pop debut, Mass Gothic.
Where the group’s self-titled debut chronicled the depths of depression, Sup Goth is the resulting catharsis. The EP is a collaboration between Noel Heroux and partner / bandmate Jessica Zambri, and marks the first Mass Gothic recording the pair have completed together [Listen to the full EP here].
[Photo Credit : Shawn Brackbill]
Mass Gothic have extended their 2016 tour schedule supporting Sup Goth and their self-titled LP. The dates begin August 10th in Allston, MA at Great Scott and now end September 24th in Brooklyn, NY at Baby’s All Right. Along the way, Mass Gothic will support label mates Kyle Craft (August 10-13) and Morgan Delt (September 14th-24th). (Dates below.)
Mass Gothic also recently delivered a stark visual for the song “Nice Night,” (see here) from their self-titled debut, directed by returning director Addison Post (“Every Night You’ve Got To Save Me”).
Mass Gothic is currently available on CD / LP / DL / CASS everywhere fine records are sold, and right over here.
Tour Dates + Ticket Links Aug. 10 - Allston, MA - Great Scott* Aug. 11 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge* Aug. 12 - Washington, DC - DC9* Aug. 13 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle* Sep. 14 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle** Sep. 15 - Detroit, MI - UFO Factory** Sep. 16 - Toronto, ON - Silver Dollar Room ** Sep. 17 - Montreal, QC - Bar le Ritz ** Sep. 20 - Washington, DC - DC9** Sep. 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle** Sep. 23 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East ** Sep. 24 - Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY ** * w/ Kyle Craft ** w/ Morgan Delt
Beam says of ‘Milky Way”: “It was the first song we started working on together and it’s my very favorite melody of the bunch.”
[Photo Credit: Josh Wool]
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop will embark on a European tour in support of Love Letter For Fire and the new single which begins August 28th in Edinburgh, UK with an appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival and ends September 11th in Amsterdam, NL at De Duif. (Dates below.)
The duo recently visited NPR Music to perform a Tiny Desk Concert including Love Letter For Fire tracks “Sailor To Siren,” “Every Songbird Says,” and “Know The Wild That Wants You.” [watch here].
Love Letter for Fire is currently available on CD / LP / DL / CASS worldwide from Sub Pop/Black Cricket Recording Co. [link here].
Aug. 28 - Edinburgh, UK - The Hub, Edinburgh International Festival Aug. 29 - Bangor, UK - Marine Court Hotel, Open House Festival Aug. 30 - Dublin, Ireland - Olympia Theatre Aug. 31 - Manchester, UK - Royal Northern College of Music Sep. 01 - London, UK - Union Chapel Sep. 03 - Salisbury, Larmer Tree Gardens, UK - End of the Road Festival Sep. 04 - Birmingham, UK - Moseley Folk Festival Sep. 07 - Berlin, DE - Passionskirche Sep. 08 - Cologne, DE - Kulturkirche Sep. 09 - Brussels, BE - Botanique-Orangerie Sep. 10 - Groningen, NL - Take Root Festival Sep. 11 - Amsterdam, NL - De Duif
How it feels to be someone who preorders a coveted, long out of print Sunny Day Real Estate album on vinyl: FREAKIN’AMAZING.
As of Friday, August 5, 2016, Sunny Day Real Estate’s first three albums will now be available on cassette, as well as a vinyl repress of How It Feels To Be Something On, back in print for the first time in too many years.
About How It Feels To Be Something On:
In 1997, Sub Pop approached Sunny Day’s members for help in compiling a rarities album. Because there were so few usable tracks, band founders Jeremy Enigk and Dan Hoerner agreed to get together and write some new material to augment the archival songs, but they wound up crafting an entire new album in a matter of days.
Without Mendel, who remains with Foo Fighters to this day, Sunny Day reunited to recordHow It Feels to Be Something On. After 2000’s The Rising Tide, the band split, with Mendel continuing his work with the Foo Fighters, though Enigk, Goldsmith, and Mendel did reconvene to record an album under the name The Fire Theft in 2003. Sunny Day Real Estate reunited for a series of shows in 2010.
[Sunny Day Real Estate : How It Feels To Be Something On]
[Sunny Day Real Estate cassettes : How It Feels To Be Something On - LP2 - Diary
Feels like the first time. BECAUSE IT IS! Damien Jurado classics
’Ghost of David’ and ’Rehearsals For Departure’ have, at long last, been pressed
to vinyl. YES, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER. You’ll find these beloved titles in finer independent record stores starting Friday, August 5, 2016.
Seattle singer-songwriter Damien Jurado’s second album for Sub Pop, Rehearsals for Departure, is now available for pre-order on vinyl for the first time. Rehearsals was originally released March 9th, 1999. The album boasts a sharper, more streamlined songwriting approach than his debut, combining finger-picked acoustic guitar tracks with a number of full- band songs. Rehearsals for Departure was produced by The Posies’ Ken Stringfellow, who also played a variety of instruments on the album.
Ghost of David, the third album by Damien Jurado, is now available for pre-order on vinyl and cassette for the first time. Originally released September 19th, 2000. Damien Jurado is an urban-folk singer with his hand in the baskets of all the right fringe genres. He’s a storyteller, and the stories have matured steadily since he first appeared on the scene with the perfect balance of lighthearted pop and saddest of the sad on his early singles and first full-length, Waters Ave S. Since then, (with his second full-length, Rehearsals for Departure, the Gather in Song EP (both from 1999), and this year’s collection of found recordings, Postcards and Audio Letters) he’s moved more toward the dark, and if you ask him, he’ll tell you point blank that it’s in the dark where you’ll find us all.
Here’s another brain-tickling track from Morgan Delt: ‘Some Sunsick Day” (off the forthcoming psychedelic masterpiece that is Phase Zero) is alive for you now in the digital musicverse.
Delt’s European tour begins this Thurs, August 4 in Luxembourg-Bonnevoie at Rotondesbeen and ends August 20th in Stein Am Rhein, Switzerland at Klingen Openair Festival. Additionally, Delt’s previously announced North American trek runs September 14th-24th. (Full listing below.) More dates will be announced soon, so please stay tuned.
Tour Dates Aug. 04 - Luxembourg-Bonnevoie, LX -Rotondes Aug. 05 - Liege, BE - Micro Festival Aug. 06 - Yverdon-les-Bains, CH - Club Paradis Aug. 08 - Berlin, DE - Berghain Kantine Aug. 09 - Copenhagen, DK - KB18 Aug. 10 - Oslo, NO - Oya Festival Aug. 11 - Göteborg, SE - Way Out West Festival Aug. 12 - Hamburg, DE - ÜBEL&GEFÄHRLICH Aug. 13 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Aug. 14 - Saint-Malo, FR - La Route du Rock Festival Aug. 15 - London, UK - Moth Club Aug. 16 - Manchester, UK - Soup Kitchen Aug. 17 - Leeds, UK - A Nation of Shopkeepers Aug. 18 - Brighton, UK - Prince Albert Aug. 19 - Paris, FR - Le Point Ephemere Aug. 20 - Stein Am Rhein, CH - Klingen Openair Festival Sep. 14 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle Sep. 15 - Detroit, MI - UFO Factory Sep. 16 - Toronto, ON - The Silver Dollar Sep. 17 - Montreal, QC - Bar Le Ritz Sep. 20 - Washington, DC - DC9 Sep. 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle Sep. 23 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Sep. 24 - Brooklyn, NY - Baby’s All Right
Beach House has just released “The
Traveller,” their first official video from their latest album Thank Your
Lucky Stars. The new visual was directed by Jennifer Juniper Stratford,
media artist and founder of Telefantasy Studios, an analog media lab dedicated
to the creation of avant-garde television and experiments in video. The video
was shot using an obsolete television camera and processed with a video synthesizer and a reconfigured
broadcast mixer to create a realm outside of this dimension.
Beach House’s previously
announced tour in support of Thank Your Lucky Stars and Depression
Cherry (the band’s OTHER 2015 full-length album release…) resumes August 5th in San Francisco at Outside Lands and runs
through November 4th-6th in Austin at Sound on Sound Festival. Highlights for
the tour include: Pickathon in Happy Valley, OR on August 7th; a club and
theatre tour August 8th-26th; FYF in Los Angeles on August 28th; Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC on September 9th. There’s a full list of tour dates here.
Thank Your Lucky Stars (released October 16th, 2015) entered at #38 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and peaked at #5 on the CMJ Top 200 chart.
Depression Cherry (released Aug. 28, 2015), the second consecutive top 10 album for Beach House, coming in at #8 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, spent 5 weeks at #1 on the CMJ Top 200.
Beach House’s Thank Your Lucky Stars and Depression Cherry were recorded during the same two-month span, and were produced by the band and Chris Coady at Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Both original full-length
albums areavailable now in North America from Sub Pop, in Europe from
Bella Union and in Australia from Mistletone.
