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Beach Slang to release new album as Quiet Slang

Beach Slang under the name Quiet Slang, their chamber pop version of the band, are releasing an album set to be out later this month though Polyvinyl.

The album, called Everything Matters But No One Is Listening is the band re-contextualizing 10 Beach Slang “covers,” and it takes away its most distinctive features. The album provides a more subtle version of the songs by scaling back on their traditional instruments and towards the likes of the piano and cello.

Everything Matters But No One Is Listening is the debut from Quiet Slang and is set to be out May 18th. Pre-order it from Polyvinyl here and check out the album’s tracklist, along with the video for “Dirty Cigarettes” and Quiet Slang’s upcoming tour dates below.

Everything Matters But No One Is Listening tracklist:

01. Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas
02. Noisy Heaven
03. Future Mixtape For The Art Kids
04. Filthy Luck
05. Dirty Cigarettes
06. Too Late To Die Young
07. Spin The Dial
08. Young Hearts
09. Throwaways
10. Warpaint

Quiet Slang tour dates

05.16.18 – Brooklyn, NY – Rough Trade
05.17.18 – Allston, MA – Great Scott
05.18.18 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
05.19.18 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
06.11.18 – Toronto, ON – Drake Hotel
06.12.18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
06.14.18 – Milwaukee, WI – The Back Room at Colectivo Coffee
06.15.18 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
06.16.18 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern
06.18.18 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
06.21.18 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
06.22.18 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
06.23.18 – Portland, OR – Bunk Bar
06.25.18 – San Francisco, CA – Café Du Nord
06.26.18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Moroccan Lounge
06.27.18 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room
06.29.18 – San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
06.30.18 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
07.02.18 – Austin, TX – Barracuda
07.03.18 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
07.05.18 – Nashville, TN – The High Watt
07.06.18 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
07.07.18 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room
07.08.18 – Richmond, VA – Chilton House

Big Thief announce tour

Big Thief have announced a tour for their album Capacity which came out last year and will follow their appearances at festivals like Sasquatch this summer. The tour will continue throughout the fall across North America. Find their full itinerary on their website.

Jungle share 2 new songs and videos

the UK based band, Jungle, have returned with two new songs and the accompanying music videos. “Happy Man” and “House in LA” are singles off of Jungle’s upcoming sophomore album. Watch the videos below. The songs will be officially released on June 22nd via XL Recordings as a 12″ double-A-side vinyl single.

Jungle, led by Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, stated that the LP is like “a post-apocalyptic radio station playing break up songs,” according to a press release.

Touré Kunda announce first album in 10 years

Senegalese music legends Touré Kunda are returning with their first album in a decade, called Lambi Golo, which will be out May 25th via Shellshock.

The LP will see Touré Kunda returning to their roots, aka the Casamance region of Senegal. The songs “have been cultivated over many years and recorded in ‘village studio’ conditions to preserve the essence of life and evoke the loss of values for confused generations.” The album is being characterized as “a musical thiéboudienne that is both energetic and tender…a vibrant mix of m’balax, casamancais rhythms, funk, pop rock, and reggae and an open invitation to dance, to dream, and to hope.”

Listen to a preview of Lambi Golo below before pre-ordering it in a different language and find the cover art above and full tracklisting below.

Lambi Golo tracklisting:

01. Demaro ft. Manu Dibango
02. Oustache
03. Emma Salsa ft. Carlos Santana
04. Malang
05. Lambi Golo
06. Sene Bayo
07. Fatou Yow
08. Mister Farmer ft. Kiddus I
09. Ka Badiyassi
10. Soif de Liberte ft. Lokua Kanza
11. Deuk N Do
12. Sotolal

Childish Gambino shares new song “This is America”

Childish Gambino has released a new song, “This is America” with an adjoining music video which can be watched below below. The political video, directed by Hiro Murai, shows Glover dancing while chaos unfolds. It is Donald Glover’s first release since 2016’s full-length “Awaken, My Love!.”

Weeed to release album via Important Records

Bainbridge Island, Washington-based psych rock band, Weeed, are coming out with a new album called This and is set to be out June 1st via Important Records The album is a described as “outgrowth” from their previous release, as described by the band, and the label described it as containing “an expansive musical vision and an astonishingly mature sound…[full of] tight syncopations and pulsing polyrhythms.”

You can preorder the LP’s vinyl and cassette at Important Records and listen to the previous release, META, below.

This tracklisting:

01. Haze II
02. Our Song
03. Wave
04. This

Trevor Powers returns with new song “Playwright”

Trevor Powers announced the end of Youth Lagoon after three albums, however, he has returned under his own name. Watch the video for his new single “Playwright,” out via his label Baby Halo.

Powers also shared a handwritten note along with the new music. “i ended youth lagoon because it became a mental dungeon, & i was its captive. my intention was never to keep it going—only to serve as a nod to the blooming years.” Read the note below.

 

Angel Olsen announces first solo tour since 2014

Angel Olsen has announced a solo tour after a number of shows in May and June in Europe. Check out her full itinerary below. A press release stated that Olsen will perform “new unreleased material” during these solo shows. She will play shows throughout the tour with the likes of Hand Habits, Julianna Barwick, and Dick Stusso.

Olsen has partnered with PLUS1 for this tour where $1 from every ticket sold except in Vancouver and North Adams will go to Direct Relief, a humanitarian aid organization that helps “ improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and emergencies.”

Angel Olsen:

05-01 London, England – Union Chapel
05-03 Istanbul, Turkey – Salon IKSV
05-04 Istanbul, Turkey – Salon IKSV
05-05 Rome, Italy – Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi
05-06 Padova, Italy – Anfiteatro del Venda

05-08 Madrid, Spain – Teatro Calderón
05-09 Barcelona, Spain – BARTS (Guitar BCN)
05-10 San Sebastian, Spain – Teatro Principal
05-12 Santiago De Compostela, Spain – Auditorio Abanca
05-13 Guimarais, Portugal – Centro Cultural Vila Flor
05-14 Lisbon, Portugal – ZDB at Teatro da Trindade
05-15 Lisbon, Portugal – ZDB at Teatro De Trindade
05-20 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel (Festival of Disruption)
06-05 Asheville, NC – Masonic Temple ^
09-07 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library !
09-08 Sonona, CA -The Old Redwood Barn !
09-10 San Francisco, CA – Nourse Theater !
09-12 Portland, OR – Newmark Theater !
09-13 Portland, OR – Newmark Theater !
09-14 Seattle, WA – The Moore Theater !
09-15 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theater (Westward Music Festival)
09-17 Denver, CO – Paramount Theater !
09-20 Austin, TX – Paramount Theater !
09-27 Harrisburg, PA – Harrisburg Arts Center %
09-28 Tarrytown, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall %
09-29 North Adams, MA – Mass MOCA – Hunter Center %

^ w/ Dick Stusso
! w/ Hand Habits
% w/ Julianna Barwick

Watch Frankie Cosmos’ new Tom Scharpling-Directed video

Frankie Cosmos have a new music video for their track “Apathy” which was directed by Tom Scharpling. In the video, another band named Frankie Cosmos find it has already been taken and things begin to take a strange turn. Watch it below. Greta Kline said about working with Scharpling, “I trusted him entirely and just wanted to let Tom and his team do their thing. We had so much fun making it…I was laughing so much that it probably took much longer than it should have to shoot my parts.”

Bob Dylan launches whiskey line Heaven’s Door

Bob Dylan has come out with a whiskey line named Heaven’s Door and it will feature a straight rye, a Tennessee bourbon, and a double barrel whiskey. He partnered with the co-founder of Angel’s envy, Marc Bushala, for the release. “We both wanted to create a collection of American whiskeys that, in their own way, tell a story,” Dylan told The New York Times. “I’ve been traveling for decades, and I’ve been able to try some of the best spirits that the world of whiskey has to offer. This is great whiskey.”

Working with Dylan, for Bushala, involved figuring out what a lot of his comments about each sample whiskey meant.