We couldn’t be more excited to announce today that Montreal’s Doldrums have agreed to release their label debut, The Air Conditioned Nightmare, on CD / LP / DL April 6th in Europe and April 7th
in North America. The album was recorded in Montreal and LA and
produced by Doldrums’ Airick Woodhead, and is a remarkable Sub Pop debut in every sense. But, don’t just take our word for it, listen to the lead single “HOTFOOT” (embedded) now to see what we’re going on so effusively about.
The Air Conditioned Nightmare is Doldrums follow-up to their 2013 debut Lesser Evil.
Airick Woodhead, the DJ, producer and performer behind Doldrums makes a
sizeable leap from being darling of the same fertile Montreal warehouse
creative explosion that gave the world the likes of Grimes, Majical
Cloudz and Blue Hawaii to simply being a stand-alone artist and composer
on the cusp of something quite special.
Preorders for The Air Conditioned Nightmare are now available from Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon and Bandcamp. All customers who pre-order the LP version of The Air Conditioned Nightmare from megamart.subpop.com
will receive the limited “Loser Edition” on clear vinyl and a limited
edition 7” which features the songs “IDONTWANNABEDELETED” (feat.
Samantha Urbani) and “Market Signals.” Additionally, there will be a new
T-shirt design available both individually and as part of a bundle with
purchases of the new record.
The fact that we’re just a handful of days away from releasing Sleater-Kinney’s eighth full-length, No Cities to Love, still seems too good to be true. Just a few months ago, the idea that Sleater-Kinney were going to release one of their most powerful and poignant records to date, almost ten years past their last record,The Woods, was an almost laughable pipe dream (note to self: look up origin of the term “pipe dream”). Well, here we are, barely into 2015, and we’ve already released a beautiful, career-spanning S-K box set featuring remastered versions of the band’s long out-of-print vinyl LPs, and just over a week until the due date of their most anticipated record yet, No Cities to Love.
In celebrating this celebration-worthy moment, Sub Pop is giving away one copy of the Start Together box set on out-of-print, limited-edition, colored-vinyl (the black vinyl is still in print and available here) to one random person who pre-orders No Cities to Love by 11:59 PM (PST) on January 19th from SubPop.com on the format of their choice. We will notify the winner on January 20th. If you have already pre-ordered the record on any format, you are already entered to win!
Shabazz Palaces’ Sub Pop labelmate, Chad VanGaalen, is more than just an insanely prolific and creative songwriter and performer, he’s equally accomplished as an illustrator and animator. He’s done many videos for himself, but he’s also directed videos for other Sub Pop artists like J Mascis and The Head and the Heart. All of which brings us to his latest directorial effort, the music video for Shabazz Palaces’ Lese Majesty track, “Forerunner Foray”, which Gorilla Vs. Bear premiered today.
THEESatisfactions EarthEE, the followup to their genre-bending and eye-opening debut, awE naturalE, comes out on February 24th, just a small handful of weeks from now. Take a look at the first video from the new record now.
Pre-order EarthEEon LP now and receive the limited, colored-vinyl Loser Edition of the record, on this case, on green vinyl. All LP pre-orders will also come with a bonus 7” featuring 2 exclusive songs (while supplies last). Pre-orders
for the CD and Digital versions of the album will not receive the
physical 7”, but will receive the bonus digital files in their
SubPop.com account on release day.
The
Afghan Whigs have delivered a fun, self-directed, GoPro-filmed video
for “The Lottery,” one of the standouts from the band’s latest Do to the Beast.
Greg
Dulli says of the visual, “Meet Ryan O’Hara, our monitor engineer and
cougar magnet. He wakes up everyday with a smile on his face and
something positive to share with you. Every night during the gig he
performs a parallel show behind the board and it’s phenomenal to watch.
Occasionally, I’ll forget to sing because I’m watching him turn into Bez
from Happy Mondays. But that’s rock and roll for you. It keeps you
young (see video January 5th).”
The Afghan Whigs’ previously announced European tour begins February 2nd in Dublin, IE at The Academy and ends on February 24th in Tel Aviv, ISR at Barby. For the most up to date information and tickets please visit theafghanwhigs.com.
Tour Dates Feb. 02 - Dublin, IE - The Academy Feb. 03 - Edinburgh, UK - Liquid Room Feb. 04 - London, UK - Koko Feb. 06 - Bruges, BE - Magdalenazaal Feb. 07 - Brussels, BE - Cirque Royale Feb. 09 - Paris, FR - Trabendo Feb. 10 - Amsterdam, NL - Melkweg Feb. 11 - Hamburg, DE - Gruenspan Feb. 13 - Prague, CZ - Lucerna Music Bar Feb. 14 - Krakow, PL - Fabryka Feb. 15 - Warsaw, PL - Basen Feb. 18 - Gothenburg, SE - Pustervik Feb. 19 - Stockholm, SE - Strand Feb. 21 - Barcelona, ES - Apolo Feb. 24 - Tel Aviv, IL - Barby
