3/27/2024

Militarie Gun announces 'Live Under The Sun' mini-doc premiering at Brain Dead Studios in LA on April 8th

MILITARIE GUN ANNOUNCES LIVE UNDER THE SUN MINI-DOCUMENTARY

BROADCAST PREMIERE ON APRIL 10TH

ONLINE PREMIERE ON APRIL 11TH


PREMIERING AT BRAIN DEAD STUDIOS IN 

LOS ANGELES ON APRIL 8TH

Q&A WITH MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA'S ANDY HULL AND IAN SHELTON

+ ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE


PERFORMING AT COACHELLA, BONNAROO, LOLLAPALOOZA AND MORE

Militarie Gun by Daniel Topete


Live Under The Sun mini-documentary

Premiere at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles

TICKETS: https://link.dice.fm/x2c88f86f347


Live Under The Sun mini-documentary trailer

WATCH: https://i.militariegun.com/LUTSDocTrailer


(March 27, 2024) - To follow up their recently released EP Life Under The Sun, Los Angeles' Militarie Gun announces Live Under The Sun, a mini-documentary which sees the band and a host of their Life Under The Sun collaborators reunite at Manchester Orchestra’s Atlanta studio for a special live take on the EP, with guest performances from Manchester Orchestra, Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy, and Christine Goodwyne of Pool Kids, who steps in for Alicia Bognanno of Bully for a performance of “Never Fucked Up Twice.” Live Under The Sun provides a window into the growing community around Militarie Gun while highlighting bandleader Ian Shelton’s dynamic and expectation-defying songwriting in a new way.


To celebrate the mini-documentary, Militarie Gun will be hosting a premiere at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles on April 8th. After the screening, Militarie Gun frontman Ian Shelton will sit with Yasi Salek (Bandsplain24 Question Party People) and Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull for a Q&A along with an acoustic performance featuring Hull. Tickets for the event are available for purchase HEREFollowing the Los Angeles theater premiere Live Under The Sun will receive a broadcast premiere on VEVO Retro Rock channel on April 10th and a wide online premiere on April 11th.


Additionally, Militarie Gun will be performing across the globe this spring, summer and into the fall. The band has a full slate of 2024 festivals that includes Coachella, Welcome to Rockville, Primavera Sound, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Thing Festival, Louder Than Life Festival, Reading & Leeds, Aftershock and more. Additionally, Militarie Gun will be supporting A Day To Remember, The Story So Far, and Four Year Strong on select dates this June before heading to Australia for a string of dates at the end of June and July with Hockey Dad. Full tour routing can be found below.


Life Under The Sun strips back a selection of songs from Militarie Gun’s breakout debut album Life Under The Gun, which was released last summer, putting Ian Shelton’s intensely personal songwriting center stage. Life Under The Sun includes "Never Fucked Up Twice" featuring Bully's Alicia Bognanno, "Very High (Under The Sun)," "My Friends Are Having A Hard Time" featuring Manchester Orchestra, "Will Logic" featuring Mannequin Pussy, and the cover of NOFX track "Whoops I OD'd."


Life Under The Gun was one of 2023's most celebrated albums, released to praise from the likes of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NME, Revolver, Stereogum, SPIN, Paste, The FADER, and more. The album landed on multiple best albums of 2023 lists including Alternative Press, The Ringer, UPROXX, Stereogum and Rolling Stone, who said Life Under The Gun has "taken everything that’s uniquely cathartic about the hardcore and lacquered it with insanely catchy melodies." That catchiness has been on full display on TV with Taco Bell's ad campaign that prominently features Life Under The Gun's "Do It Faster."


Purchase tickets to the Live Under The Sun mini-documentary premiere and watch the trailer above & see below for 2024 live dates and full Life Under The Sun EP and Life Under The Gun LP details.

Upcoming Live Dates


^ = with Gel

* = with Hockey Dad

# = with A Day To Remember, The Story So Far, Four Year Strong


4/13 - Indio, CA @ Coachella

4/20 - Indio, CA @ Coachella

5/12 - Daytona, FL @ Welcome to Rockville

5/13 - Savannah, GA @ Lodge of Sorrows^

05/14 - Asheville, NC @ Eulogy^

5/16 - Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing^

5/17 - Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple Festival


5/29 - Paris, FR @ Petit Bain

5/30 - Lyon, FR @ Warmaudio

6/01 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound

6/02 - Barcelona, ES @ Primavera a la Ciutat

6/04 - Donostia-San Sebastian, ES @ Dabadaba

6/06 - Porto, PT @ Primavera Porto


6/08 - Maryland Heights, MO @ St. Louis Music Park #

6/09 - Bonner Springs, KS @ Azura Amphitheater #

6/11 - Indianapolis, IN @ Everwise Amphitheater #

6/12 - Sterling Heights, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheater #

6/13 - Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival

6/14 - Cleveland, OH @ Jacob's Pavilian at Nautica #

6/15 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Van Andel Arena #

6/16 - Buffalo, NY @ Terminal B at Outer Harbor #

6/18 - Toronto, ON @ The Theatre @ Great Canadian Resort #

6/21 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena #

6/22 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Four Chord Music Fest

6/23 - Scranton, PA @ Pavilion At Montage Mountain #


6/29 - Brisbane, Aus @ Fortitude Music Hall*

7/05 - Melbourne, Aus @ Margaret Court Arena*

7/06 - Sydney, Aus @ Hordern Pavilion*


7/28 - Portland, OR @ Project Pabst

8/01-04 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza

8/10 - Carnation, WA @ Thing Festival


8/18 - Winterthurer, CH @ Winterthurer Musikfestwochen

8/23 - Torremolinos, ES @ Canela Party Festival

8/24 - Reading, UK @ Reading Festival

8/25 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Festival

8/29 - 9/01 - Dorset, UK @ End of the Road Festival


9/29 - Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life Festival

10/12 - Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival


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The Umbrellas announce Tour of The United States of America

The Umbrellas announce Tour Of The United States of America 

[click here to buy / stream the new album]

VIDEO: "Three Cheers!" -
Youtube

 

Today San Francisco indiepop band The Umbrellas announce their first full headlining tour of The United States of America, in support of their recently released Slumberland LP Fairweather Friend (the tour also includes four shows in Canada). Check HERE for tickets. 

TOUR DATES:

Fri 5/31    Los Angeles, CA    Permanent Records *
Sat 6/01    Orange County, CA    TBA
Sun 6/02    San Diego, CA    Soda Bar
Mon 6/03    Phoenix, AZ    Trunk Space
Wed 6/05    Dallas, TX    Rubber Gloves
Thu 6/06    Austin, TX    Mohwawk (Inside) #
Fri 6/07    New Orleans, LA    BJs
Sun 6/09    Nashville, TN   Soft Junk $    
Mon 6/10    Atlanta, GA    529
Tue 6/11    Durham, NC    The Pinhook
Wed 6/12    Washington, DC    Quarry House Tavern &
Thu 6/13    Philadelphia, PA    PhilaMOCA +
Fri 6/14    New York, NY    The Broadway @
Sat 6/15    Boston, MA    4th Wall %
Sun 6/16    Montreal, QB    Quai des Brumes
Mon 6/17    Toronto, ON    Monarch Tavern
Tue 6/18    Cleveland, OH    Happy Dog
Wed 6/19    Detroit, MI    Outer Limits Lounge
Thu 6/20    Chicago, IL    Cole's
Fri 6/21    Minneapolis, MN    Cloudland ^
Mon 6/24    Vancouver, BC    TBA
Tue 6/25    Victoria, BC    Lucky Bar
Wed 6/26    Seattle, WA    Sunset Tavern
Thu 6/27    Portland, OR    Swan Dive
Sat 6/29    San Francisco, CA    Kilowatt !

* = w/ Le Pain, Ted
# = w/ On Being An Angel, Touch Girl Apple Blossom
$ = w/ Ornament
& = w/ Linda Smith
+ = w/ 2nd Grade, The Smashing Times
@ = w/ The Smashing Times, Lightheaded
% = w/ Mall Cops
^ = w/ Jim Ruiz, Real Numbers

! = w/ Latitude

The Umbrellas are four renegade romantics crafting irresistible indie pop hymns. The band’s self-titled 2021 debut album became a breakout moment, winning critical praise and sparking an international tour. Follow-up LP Fairweather Friend goes a step further – absorbing the sonic attack of their live shows, it balances this with studio finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be.
 
The Umbrellas' self-titled 2021 debut album was a breakout moment in an otherwise grim year, winning critical praise and fueling tours with everyone from labelmates Papercuts to Fucked Up. Follow-up LP Fairweather Friend goes a step further – balancing the rambunctious sonic attack of their live shows with studio craft and finesse, allowing the San Francisco four-piece to become the band they’ve always aspired to be.

It's a record overflowing with highlights. The addictive, upbeat melodies of introductory track ‘Three Cheers!’ are matched to an impactful percussive punch; ‘Say What You Mean’ finds The Umbrellas working with total confidence, letting the song ride out to its chiming conclusion, four voices working in precision. ‘When You Find Out’ offers rotating notes of guitar punctuated by a vocal that pushes past angst to accept a world full of hope. A lean 10 track affair, it grasps towards beatific pop while fuelled by a sense of risk-taking and the precision that comes from long months on the road.

The Umbrellas coalesced in 2018 around a group of musicians with connections to the legendary San Francisco record emporium Amoeba Music. Singer and guitarist Matt Ferrera had previous links with bassist Nick Oka, as well as the powerhouse drummer Keith Frerichs. A chance encounter with Morgan Stanley singing karaoke at a Fourth of July party cemented the line-up around an avowed thirst for melody. “All of us love really earnest pop songs,” Nick points out. “I guess we got to a point in our lives where we wanted to be genuine.”

Playing shows at San Francisco’s vital DIY redoubt Hit Gallery, The Umbrellas would share line-ups with local heroes such as April Magazine and Cindy. Recording their debut album across a two-day spell at Matt’s parents’ house, the results won a devoted cult following. The experience of frequent touring bonded them tightly and allowed the volume to tick up a little higher (and higher...) and and feeding a desire for their next record to more closely mirror the energy of their live shows. “I think we got tired of people saying, oh you’re so much louder than I thought you’d be!” laughs Matt. “Our early recordings are sweet and earnest… and we wanted it to be louder.”

Kicking off sessions in November 2022, the band used an ad hoc space Matt created in his basement, which allowed the sessions to be a little more relaxed in terms of timescale than their debut. “We gave ourselves more space for this album,” says Keith. “We wanted time to sit on the songs, and really work on them.”

Capturing their thrilling live dynamic on tape, The Umbrellas are at once more physical and yet also more controlled on their new album. Take opening track ‘Three Cheers!’ – the peppy, sun-soaked rush masks a barbed lyric, courtesy of Nick Oka. “It’s a pseudo-political song about power struggles that occur in a job situation, or a friend group. It’s an observational song.”

‘Toe The Line’ has an unkempt, rollicking sense of energy, the playful relationship analogy of the lyric pushed to the speed of light by Keith’s just-chaotic-enough punk drumming. ‘When You Find Out’ meanwhile epitomises their unified, egalitarian way of making music – with The Umbrellas, each voice counts. “It sounds different from any song we’ve ever written together,” says Morgan. “It shows how much we’ve grown. Trust helps us to build the songs. It’s definitely a team effort.”

It's also a record of ambition. ‘Say What You Mean’ stretches past the four-minute mark, the viola performance informed by Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt. ‘Gone’ was the first song attempted for the new album, and the last they actually finished, endless re-writes transforming it into a manifesto of control and release. Taken as a whole Fairweather Friend is a bold indiepop triumph, crafted with purpose and attention. Taking their time over each note, the four-piece have strengthened their songwriting, adding depth and assurance while unlocking their potential. Some bonds last a lifetime – The Umbrellas are ready to capture your heart.

 

 
 

The Umbrellas
Fairweather Friend
(Slumberland Records)
Street Date: Jan. 26, 2024

[click here to buy / stream]

Track Listing:

1. Three Cheers!
2. Goodbye
3. Toe the Line
4. Echoes
5. Say What You Mean
6. Games
7. Gone
8. When You Find Out
9. Blue
10. P.M.


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GIRL AND GIRL SHARE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “MOTHER” FROM CALL A DOCTOR

GIRL AND GIRL SHARE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “MOTHER” FROM CALL A DOCTOR

On May 24th, Australian group Girl and Girl will release their vibrant debut full-length, Call A Doctor, on CD/LP/DSP via Virgin Australia (AU/NZ) and Sub Pop (ROW.)   
 
Following the infectious lead single “Hello,” which recently peaked at #1 for two weeks in a row on the subModern Alternative Specialty Chart, comes an official video for their latest single, “Mother.”
 
Girl and Girl frontperson Kai James shares: “I wrote Mother about my beautiful mum and how our relationship has matured and evolved from my late teens to my mid-twenties. Shifting from this all-knowing being into something a bit more human. There’s beauty in that shift, relief at the fact that no one’s perfect, but then fear and doubt, too, as you step out and slowly learn to trust and back yourself.”
 
Mother was directed by Andy Freer and Dan Flood of the internationally acclaimed Australian theatre company Snuff Puppets. Click HERE to watch.
 
Call A Doctor is an unforgettable first bow from Girl and Girl, an audacious and aggressively tuneful blast of a record from this Australian four-piece garage rock outfit. The band is comprised of frontperson Kai James (singer, guitarist) and his Aunty Liss (drums), along with longtime friends Jayden Williams (guitar) and Fraser Bell (bass). Call A Doctor was recorded at Sundowner Sound in Melbourne, a two-story industrial complex where the band ate, slept, and made music in marathon sessions for two weeks straight with producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Julia Jacklin).
 
As previously announced, the band has confirmed North American & Australian tour dates, with additional appearances at Eurokennees in France and End of the Road in the UKGirl and Girl are fresh off performances at this year’s SXSW Music Festival. Rolling Stone included the band in their Day 2 SXSW round-up and said: “every member of Girl and Girl is too young to have experienced the garage rock revivalism of Y2K firsthand, save Aunty Liss, the drummer who supports her nervy nephews in this band of Australian post-punk traditionalists. Fronted by the wiry Kai James — handsome and jittery, never reclusive — the group treated sacred post-punk texts as if they were a common language when they played the 13th Floor, giving their barbed hooks and sideways riffs real kick. They’re carrying a torch without succumbing to nostalgia or formalism, all because they’re intoxicated by the noise they make.”
 
The band will return to the States in late April for a North American tour supporting fellow Aussies Royel Otis. See below for a complete list of shows.

 
Thur. Apr. 04 - Gold Coast, QLD - Mo’s Desert Clubhouse
Fri. Apr, 05 - Sunshine Coast, QLD - Sol Bar
Sat. Apr. 06  - Brisbane, QLD - Black Bear Lodge
Fri. Apr. 12 - Melbourne, VIC - The Tote
Sat. Apr. 13 - Sydney, NSW - Lansdowne
Sun. Apr. 14 - Wollongong, NSW - La La Las
Tue. Apr. 23 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall *
WED. Apr. 24 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall  *
Fri. Apr. 26 - Toronto, ON -  Longboat Hall *
Sar. Apr. 27 - Columbus, OH - A&R Music Bar *
Sun. Apr. 28 - Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop *
Tue. Apr. 30 - New York, NY - Racket *
Wed. May 01 - New York, NY - Racket *
Thu. May 02 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater For The Living Arts *
Fri. May 03 - Washington, DC - The Howard *
Sat. May 04 - Carrboro, NC - Cats Cradle *
Wed. May 08 - Austin, TX - The Parish *
Thu. May 09 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves *
Sat. May 11 -Denver, CO -  The Perplexiplex at Meow Wolf *
   Wed. May 15 - Phoenix, AZ - Rebel Lounge *
Thu. May 16 - Hollywood, CA - The Fonda Theater *
   Fri. May 17 - Santa Barbara, CA - Soho Restaurant & Music  Club *
Sat. May 18 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop *
Mon. May 20 - Portland, OR - The Aladdin Theater *
Tue. May 21 - Vancouver, BC - Fox Cabaret *
  Wed. May 22 - Seattle, WA - Neptune Theater *
Thu. Jul. 04 - Cravanche, FR - Les Eurokennees
Fri. Jul. 05 - Cravanche, FR - Les Eurokennees
Sat. Jul. 06- Cravanche, FR - Les Eurokennees
Sun. Jul. 07- Cravanche, FR - Les Eurokennees
Thu. Aug. 29 - Dorset, UK - End Of The Road
Fri. Aug. 30 - Dorset, UK - End Of The Road
Sat. Aug. 31 - Dorset, UK -End Of The Road
Sun. Sep. 01 - Dorset, UK -End Of The Road
 
* w/ Royel Otis


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Hiatus Kaiyote announces new album 'Love Heart Cheat Code' + shares new single

HIATUS KAIYOTE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM LOVE HEART CHEAT CODE DUE JUNE 28TH VIA BRAINFEEDER RECORDS / NINJA TUNE


NEW SINGLE “MAKE FRIENDS” OUT NOW 


ANNOUNCES FULL NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER TOUR

Hiatus Kaiyote by Rocket Weijers


"expansive and psychedelic"

Pitchfork


"An undeniable showcase of the band's vast musical range and talent for arrangement."

NPR


"Through bright textures and sunlit Brazilian rhythms, it scores a trek from darkness to light"

The New York Times


“They are enigmatic as often as they are profound”

The Ringer



Love Heart Cheat Code

PRE-ORDER/SAVE: https://hiatuskaiyote.lnk.to/lhccPR


"Make Friends"

LISTEN: https://hiatus-kaiyote.lnk.to/make-friendsPR


(March 27th, 2024) - Today, Melbourne-based, 3x Grammy-nominated band Hiatus Kaiyote announces their forthcoming album Love Heart Cheat Code due June 28th via Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune. Alongside the announcement, the band shares their new single “Make Friends,” the second offering from their upcoming project following their previously-released single “Everything’s Beautiful.” The band are also sharing a visual announcement of the album revealing the playful 3-D world of a family supermarket that the band have created to accompany the music, which you can view here. Hiatus Kaiyote are also announcing a full North American Summer tour beginning in June with stops including New York, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Oakland, and more. Full tour routing can be found below. 


A final unscripted addition to the album, “Make Friends” was inspired by words of wisdom imparted to the band by a friend who noted, “You don’t make friends, you recognize them.” Succinct yet profound, this sage insight reminded Nai of the lack of representation for deep, platonic love. “I wanted to have representation for just the different examples of people that I love from the women in my life, to the men, to my non-binary friends,” she shares, “and it was very natural and fun to work on as a formula.” The single is composed of one verse, but Nai takes that one verse through three gender permutations: female, male, and nonbinary. Nai adds, “When I sang the third verse, the ‘them/they’ verse, I actually had to stop. Just realizing that inclusivity is so often denied to some of the people that I love the most, my best besties.” 


Love Heart Cheat Code is a snapshot of four musicians dancing together on the edge, 11 playful, exuberant tracks that shine light. Yet, for a band that made a name for itself with its complexity and received critical praise and multiple Grammy nominations for their embrace of maximalism, one of the most striking things about Love Heart Cheat Code is its simplicity. “I’m a maximalist. I complicate fucking everything,” Nai laughs. “But the more you go through things in life, you become more relaxed and uninhibited. Sometimes you can still have depth and reach people and really stop dancing around the fact: What do you want to communicate to people? And I feel like this album is a result of that clarity for us. We didn’t need to spell out complexity if the song didn’t call for it.”


On the forthcoming album, the band’s direction is not always attained directly; less deliberate, and more via deliberation and drift: in jam sessions that last late into the night and early mornings; in meals shared; in messing around with equipment and with each other. The album also features other Melbourne-based musicians like Taylor “Chip” Crawford, who played an instrument of his own invention called the frello; guitarist Tom Martin; and flautist Nikodemos; and the unprecedented addition of a very important creative force: Mario Caldato, whose work with the Beastie Boys and Seu Jorge is the stuff of legends.


Hiatus Kaiyote have always spoken about their albums as microcosms, a complete ecosystem. On Love Heart Cheat Code the band envisioned a strong visual world to coincide with the music and they worked with Sri Lanken-born, Toronto-based multimedia artist Rajni Perera using one of her paintings as the artwork for the album. Illustrator Chloe Biocca and Grey Ghost then collaborated with the band to create visual symbols and associated artifacts for each of the tracks on the project that pairs alongside Rajni’s painting. The artifacts morphed into real products, custom jewelry, and edible goods, ranging from the inspired to the haunted and utterly random. Eventually, this led the band to conceive of an entirely imagined place, a Love Heart Cheat Code supermarket. The band; its employees who create these products, market them, stack the shelves, clean the aisles. In the banality of creating art into "product" for the modern world, the band finds solace in each item and song as they are packed with transcendent and resplendent musical magic.


Throughout the album, Hiatus Kaiyote emphasizes sensing rather than knowing, a type of trust that can only be brought through creative harmony and hours of studio sessions. The result is a wide-eyed, cohesive, yet relaxed body of work that reflects a deeper understanding of themselves and the music they wish to share with the world around them. 


Hiatus Kaiyote consists of Naomi “Nai Palm” Saalfield (guitar, vocals), Paul Bender (bass), Simon Mavin (keys), and Perrin Moss (drums). The band has been sampled by many household names including The Carters (Beyoncé & Jay-Z), Kendrick Lamar, Anderson .Paak, Chance The Rapper, and Drake—with whom Nai Palm also collaborated with on his Scorpion album. They’ve also received co-signs from celebrated artists including Kehlani, Willow Smith, Virgil Abloh, among others. Last Fall, Doja Cat covered Mood Valiant single "Red Room" at the Live Lounge in Los Angeles and has continued to perform the song across her tour. 


Listen to "Make Friends" above, find album details below, and stay tuned for more from Hiatus Kaiyote coming soon.



Upcoming Live Dates


* = with Digable Planets and The Free Nationals

** = The Free Nationals and Digable Planets 


6/21 - Indianapolis, IN @ The Egyptian Room 

6/23 - Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre 

6/25 - Toronto, ON @ Toronto Jazz Festival 

6/27 - Montreal, QC @ TBD

6/28 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner 

6/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall 

7/1 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring 

7/2 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount 

7/6 - Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern 

7/7 - Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl 

7/9 - Chicago, IL @ Salt Shed Indoors 

7/10 - St. Louis, MO @ The Big Top

7/12 - St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre 

7/16 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall 

7/17 - Carnation, WA @ Remlinger Farms*

7/18 - Portland, OR @ Grand Lodge**

7/20 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater




Hiatus Kaiyote 

Love Heart Cheat Code 

June 28, 2024 

Brainfeeder Records / Ninja Tune


1. Dreamboat 

2. Telescope 

3. Make Friends 

4. BMO is Beautiful 

5. Everything’s Beautiful 

6. Dimitri 

7. Longcat 

8. How To Meet Yourself 

9. Love Heart Cheat Code

10. Cinnamon Temple

11. White Rabbit


Connect with Hiatus Kaiyote:

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Princess Goes (Michael C. Hall) Announces EU/U.S. Tour Dates + New Live Video | ‘Come Of Age’ LP Out Now via SO In De Goot Recordings

Princess Goes Announce EU/U.S. Tour Dates

Share New Live Take Me Home Video


Come Of Age LP Out Now via SO In De Goot Recordings
Credit: Joe Gall
LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes - "Take Me Home"
Youtube

LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Princess Goes - Come Of Age LP
Stream / Purchase

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes - "Come Of Age"
Stream / Visualizer / Official Video

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes - "Jetpack"
Stream / YouTube

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes - "Blur"
Stream / YouTube

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Princess Goes - "Shimmer"
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Last fall, Princess Goes — the buzzy band led by the charismatic showmanship and signature voice of vocalist, lyricist, musician and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus) alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndie Lauper) and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood) — shared their brand new LP, Come Of Age, via SO In De Goot Recordings.

Now, the band returns with a brand new music video for the record's track, "Take Me Home."
Princess Goes - "Take Me Home" (Official Music VIdeo)
Following a stint of live dates in the U.S., Princess Goes is heading back out on the road with a newly announced series of European and U.S. live dates, kicking off this June in Poland.

Tickets and more information can be found HERE. Stay tuned for additional dates, to be announced in the near future.

PRINCESS GOES LIVE
6/23 - Wicklow, IRE - Beyond Pale Festival
6/25 - Warsaw, PL - Niebo
6/26 - Prague, CZ - Futurum
6/27 - Vienna, AT - Fluc
8/7- Brooklyn, NY- Music Hall Of Williamsburg
8/8 - Cambridge, MA - Sonia
8/9 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts
8/10 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
8/15 - Saint Louis, MO - Off Broadway Nightclub
8/16 - Ferndale, MI - The Magic Bag
 
PRINCESS GOES LINKS
Website | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | TikTok
Princess Goes - Come of Age - Bio:

“We’re a weird band,” states Princess Goes drummer Peter  Yanowitz. He’s not wrong. But weird like David Bowie, Bjork, and Brian Wilson’s Smile might be termed “weird.” In other words: unconventional and quite possibly irresistible.

Princess Goes’ second full-length album, the 12-song Come of Age, is the trio’s most accessible work to date, yet it’s still chock-full of innovative songs that traverse a thrilling and often surprising sonic and lyrical landscape. The first single, “Shimmer,” highlights Michael C. Hall’s powerful, ethereal vocals atop quietly propulsive rhythm lines, and features Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as guest guitarist. The track's equally stunning and expansive video was directed by Tim Richardson (Elton John, Billie Eilish, Givenchy). “Take Me Home” serves up a soaring emotive trippiness that morphs into headbanging moments worthy of the heaviest metaller or your favorite Zeppelin album, while the haunting “Jetpack” showcase Hall’s poignant lyrics and penetrative voice, at once bell-clear and diaphanous, as the song builds to a wild and harrowing conclusion.

The 12 songs on Come of Age are by turns foreboding, mystical and danceable, Ray Bradbury-meets-the-Jetsons in its galactic aural scope. The ominous semi-drone beginning of “Blur” morphs into synthwave spectacularness, the song’s dynamics suiting Hall’s lyrics about “an illicit formative encounter.” Some of Hall’s most pointed writing is on the title track, “Come of Age,” the irresistibly bouncy musicality cut by the singer’s trenchant words: “Godzilla goggles seeing nothing but King Kong makes it hard to get along,” he sings, before deadpanning, “did you really mean it when you told me I was good / or are you just a devil spitting Hollywood.”

Come of Age,” explains Hall, is neither a command that the audience come of age, nor a suggestion that Princess Goes has reached some adulting milestone. As with much of what the trio does, it just intuitively felt right. It was likewise an easy decision to include a remixed version of a previously released song, the fan favorite “Let It Go.” Princess Goes felt the cut, as originally written, was sort of an outlier. It started with Yanowitz. Matt Katz Bohen took it home, sped it up and it became a little more EDM, but also fun, poppy, and anthemic. The LP’s mixer and frequent collaborator Brandon Bost (HAIM, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga) worked on the song with the Princess Goes (and also plays some bass and keys to the album), and now the band can hardly wait to play the new, slightly more expeditious incarnation of “Let it Go” live.

The New York City-bred trio have been gigging and recording DIY-style for several years, self-producing and releasing a self-titled debut EP in April 2020 and a full-length debut, Thanks for Coming, in 2021. Touring the West Coast as well as the UK and Ireland found new fans clamoring to see the eclectic trio. Fan and press raves followed. The Associated Press lauded the lineup’s “mix of glam, dreamy ‘80s New Wave, acoustic folk, Nine Inch Nails intensity,” while Billboard noted the trio’s “palpable theatricality.” Hall, Katz-Bohen, and Yanowitz are seasoned performers forging new creative ground together in PG: Hall is best known for playing moralistic serial killer Dexter Morgan from Showtime hit Dexter as well as David Fisher from HBO’s revered Six Feet Under. Katz-Bohen has played with Blondie since 2008, while Yanowitz is a veteran of the Wallflowers and his own group, Morningwood.

Though onstage and on paper they’re a keyboards-drums-vocals band, Come of Age is rife with guitar and bass, instruments that play a bigger role than on previous recordings. “I think the original sounds that Matt and Peter first made came about because necessity was the mother of invention,” says Hall. “It’s what was in the studio when they first started making instrumental tracks, electronic drums and a lot of keyboards.”

The musical evolution on Come of Age was organic. “We really fully embraced not limiting ourselves,” says Yanowitz, “and we did embrace the guitar heavily--electric and acoustic--and a lot of bass.”

We like the fact that a lot of the times you can't tell instrumentally what's what,” furthers Katz-Bohen. “People say ‘that sounds like a guitar,’ but it's actually a keyboard playing through a guitar amp. There's always that ‘what makes that sound? What is that thing?’” The songs manage to be at once catchy and intoxicating, soundtrack-y musicscapes for the ages, synth- heavy but multi-faceted.

Writing new music since the release of Thanks for Coming, PG recorded Come of Age at the band’s Clubhouse near Manhattan’s Union Square. The central location allowed for stellar guests, including next-door neighbor Maria Peña Paris, a Colombian poet who became the Spanish voice on the Latin-tinged “Whatever Whispers.” “We make a lot of noise at the studio, so she probably gets the brunt of that, and she knows all of our songs,” they recall. One of the lyrics she contributes to “Whatever Whispers” (“what kind of glory are you looking for?” ) came to Hall as he was waiting for coffee before going into the studio. The trio worked up the first version together in the studio, starting with Katz-Bohen jamming on a uniquely tuned 1910 upright piano. Other guests populating Come of Age include singer Chantal Claret (Morningwood) on “Beija,” and Grammy winning opera singer Anthony Roth Costanzo on “Saving Grace.”

Illustrative of Princess Goes’ experimental open-mindedness, the title track came from the street. Literally. “I live in Bushwick, in Brooklyn,” begins Katz-Bohen. “You'll find a random lot of garbage on the streets. But there was a keyboard, I think from the early to late ‘80s. It’s not great, but it does have this one beautiful sound which became the basis of 'Come of Age.' So I sent that around to the guys and everyone put their magic on it.”

Clearly, Come of Age flowed sans any preconceived notions or touchstones. But there’s a clear cohesiveness to the album. “Everything you hear still sounds like it's ‘in the Museum,’ which is our terminology for something that fits in with our aesthetic,” explains Katz-Bohen. Which leads to the shortened band name: There’s no crazy story behind the original Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum moniker; there are far more interesting things about this trio. But for enquiring minds, they now go by Princess Goes because, in short, it’s shorter. Princess is now free to Go anywhere and everywhere, travelling lighter as PG instead of PGTTBM.

The group’s evolution is ongoing and often unearthly, spacy and provocative in the vein of Bowie’s Blackstar. (Hall played Thomas Newton in the original New York cast of Bowie’s off- Broadway musical swan song, Lazarus). “I think the vibe of the latter third of Come of Age, goes to a place that's a little more expansive or hopeful or mystically minded,” Hall says. “Though I suppose it starts on that note too. You want some things to have a musical unfolding and flow, but you also want some sort of evolution that makes sense lyrically. I think we managed to do both those things with the sequence.”

And for newbies to the Princess Goes sphere, fair warning: If anyone goes to a PG show to see the “guy from TV,” once Hall is on-stage singing, he says, “that actually sort of takes care of itself. If people have some sort of preconception, it’s pushed aside once we're up there doing our thing. It's not unique to this band,” Hall says. “I go to dinner, and people are like, ‘Hey, you're that guy!?’ And I'm like, ‘I'm not actually that guy.’ It’s just another version of ‘I'm not that guy’.”

Although Come of Age is the group’s second full-length album, Princess Goes are as excited as first-timers. “Until now we've been gestating in this small world, being in our own cocoon and working the last bunch of years,” says Yanowitz. “I feel like this group of songs and this sort of statement that we wanted to put out with Come of Age tied in nicely to that. It also felt like we kind of graduated out of that scene the three of had created, and maybe wherever we go next is to the wider world. The making of Come of Age felt like a bookend to the way we were working, a stepping-off point for something new.”

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