Synthpop group, Wet are a week away from releasing their debut album, Don’t You. In anticipation of the album, the Brooklyn outfit appeared on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show for their firt-ever late-night TV appearance.
Wet performed a lovely performance of their single “Weak,” watch the replay below.
Don’t You will be out on January 29th via Columbia Records.
London producer William Phillips, Tourist, is a member of Disclosure and Sam Smith’s team, he co-wrote Smith’s “Stay With Me,” and was among one of the winners in the 2015 Grammy award for Song of the Year. U, his debut album, is set to be out in the spring. He has shared the first single, “To Have You Back” today and you can listen to it above.
A teaser for the song’s video, which was directed by Davy Evans and Jason Drew can be watched below.
Tourist will go on a short tour. Find those dates below, too.
Tourist:
05-07 Dublin, Ireland – Academy Green Room
05-09 Glasgow, Scotland – King Tut’s
05-10 Manchester, England – Deaf Institute
05-11 London, England – XOYO
05-12 Brighton, England – The Haunt
05-21 Gulf Shores, AL – Hangout Festival
05-27 Lake San Antonio, CA – Lightning In A Bottle
06-11-12 London, England – Field Day
Kurt Vile has played plenty of shows already and has more dates lined up for his gem, b’lieve i’m going down, but he is not exactly done there. Vile has expanded his 2016 itinerary with a leg of US dates in April. The string of dates will have him crossing the country from Buffalo, New York to Austin, Texas. Check out the full itinerary below.
Kurt Vile 2016 Tour Dates:
02/20 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
02/21 – Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
02/22 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls
02/24 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners
02/25 – Nashville, TN @ Exit Inn
02/26 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
02/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
02/28 – Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
02/29 – Oxford, MS @ Proud Larry’s
03/02 – Knoxville, TN @ Bijou Theatre
03/03 – Carrboro, NC @ Cats Cradle
03/04 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
03/08 – Paris, FR @ L’Alhambra
03/09 – Ghent, BE @ Handelsbeurs
03/10 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
03/11 – Brighton, UK @ All Saint’s Church
03/12 – Utrecht, NL @ De Helling
03/13 – Nijmegen, NL @ Doornroosje
03/31 – Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall
04/01 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
04/02 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
04/03 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bluebird
04/05 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theater
04/06 – Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barnstormers
04/08 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
04/09 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
04/11 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
04/12 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
04/14 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
04/15 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre
04/16 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
04/17 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic
05/20-22 – Gulf Shores, AL @ Hangout Music Festival
05/28 – Burnaby, BC @ BC Festival Lawn – Deer Lake Park
05/27-30 – George, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
Four Tet has spent a majority of 2015 working on project after project. He remixed Coldplay and CHVRCHES and colloaborared with Roots Manuva and Omar Souleyman as well as release his latest album, Morning/Evening.
Four Tet has collaborated with Melbourne-based producer Designer for the track, “Mothers,” set to appear on an upcoming 12″. It follows last year’s single “Dark.” Listen to it below.
Jackson Phillips has been doing well for someone who has only released one EP and a few singles. The dream pop artist known as Day Wave followed up his debut EP, Headcase, with the “Come Home Now” b/w “You Are Who You Are” 7-inch, and those songs have already landed him gigs on the lineups for Governors Ball and Shaky Knees. He will continue impressing with the upcoming release of his sophomore EP, Hard to Read, which is set to be out on March 4th via Grand Jury.
Take a listen to his first single off of Hard To Read, “Gone,” below.
Hard to Read will be available digitally on March 4th (pre-orders are currently going on). A physical copy of both Headcase and Hard to Read will be up for for pre-order soon. Find the track listings and album art for both below.
Hard to Read Album Art:
Hard to Read EP Tracklist:
01. Deadbeat Girl
02. Gone
03. Hard to Read
04. Stuck
05. You
Headcase/Hard to Read Album Art:
Headcase/Hard to Read Tracklist:
01. Nothing at All
02. Total Zombie
03. Drag
04. We’ll Try but We Don’t Fit In
05. Headcase
06. Deadbeat Girl
07. Gone
08. Hard to Read
09. Stuck
10. You
The new Tortoise LP The Catastrophist will be out January 22 through Thrill Jockey. The entire album is streaming through The Guardian as of today. Listen below, and look at the band’s world tour itinerary.
Tortoise:
01-23 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall (in the round)
01-24 Milwaukee, WI – Mad Planet
02-07 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega Jr.
02-08 Hamburg, Germany – Fabrik
02-09 Berlin, Germany – Berghain
02-10 Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
02-11 Utrecht, Netherlands – Tivoli
02-12 St. Gallen, Switzerland – Palace
02-13 Geneva, Switzerland – Antigel Festival
02-14 Zurich, Switzerland – Stall 6
02-15 Reutlingen, Germany – Franz.K
02-16 Vienna, Austria – Arena
02-17 Budapest, Hungary – A38
02-18 Zagreb, Croatia – Mochvara
02-19 Bologna, Italy – Locomotiv Club
02-20 Rome, Italy – Monk Club
02-21 Milan, Italy – Magnolia Club
02-22 Istanbul, turkey – CRR Concert Hall
03-09 Minneapolis, MN – The Cedar Cultural Center
03-11 Ann Arbor, MI – The Blind Pig
03-12 Toronto, Ontario – Lee’s Palace
03-13 Montreal, Quebec – Fairmount
03-14 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse
03-15 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
03-16 New York, NY – (Le) Poisson Rouge
03-17 Brooklyn, NY – Littlefield
03-18 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts
03-19 Washington, DC – Black Cat
03-20 Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
03-21 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
03-22 Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
03-23 Newport, KY – Southgate House Revival
03-24 Indianapolis, IN – Radio Radio
04-26 Boise, ID – Radio Boise Tuesday
04-27 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
04-28 Vancouver, British Columbia – Imperial
04-29 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
04-30 Sonoma, CA – Sonoma Winery/Redwood Barn
05-01 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
05-02 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
05-03 Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up
05-04 Phoenix, AZ – Desert Faze Phoenix at Crescent Ballroom
05-06 Austin, TX – Mohawk
05-08 Dallas, TX – Dada
05-09 St. Louis, MO – The Ready Room
05-10 Chicago, IL – Metro
05-11 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
05-12 Denver, CO – Bluebird
05-13 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
05-14 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
05-27 Torino, Italy – Cap10100
05-28 Brescia, Italy – Latteria Molloy
05-29 Munich, Germany – Feierwerk
05-30 Frankfurt, Germany – Das Bett
05-31 Paris, France – TBA
06-01 Cologne, Germany – Kulturkirche
06-02 Besancon, France – La Rodia
06-05 Nimes, France – This Is Not a Love Song Festival
06-06 Toulouse, France – Metronum
06-08 Metz, France – Les Trinitaires
06-09 Tourcoing, France – Le Grand Mix
07-03 Keflavik, Iceland – ATP Iceland
07-05 Berlin, Germany – Columbia Theater
Majical Cloudz have released Wait & See, a five-song EP that has songs that did not make the cut onto last year’s Are You Alone?. In a post on the band’s Tumblr, frontman Devon Welsh said that the songs date from “different periods of time,” but they “didn’t fit on that album for one reason or another.” You can stream the album on Spotify below, as well as here.
Wait & See:
01 Wait & See
02 Heaven
03 Let Me Lie
04 Pretty
05 My Heart Soaks Up Every Drop of Your Blood
In 2010, Canadian band featuring Spencer Krug from Sunset Rubdown and Dan Boeckner from Handsome Furs announced that they would be going on an indefinite hiatus after a few shows the following year.
We have heard new music from from Krug, as Moonface and Boeckner, with Divine Fits, Operators, and the defunct Handsome Furs since then.
It seems as though Wolf Parade’s return is coming soon. They have updated their website to say “2016” and created a new Twitter and Instagram pages.
A collection of unheard Jeff Buckley studio recordings, You and I, will be released on March 16. The 10-track compilation includes songs he recorded early in his career and will feature covers of artists like Bob Dylan, the Smiths, Led Zeppelin, and more. You can listen to his version of Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.” Listen to it here via NPR.
Previously, we heard his cover of Sly & The Family Stone’s “Everyday People.”
Nearly five years after being away, Anthony Gonzalez is prepping the return of M83. Now finished with the follow-up to Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, he plans to take this album on the road this spring and summer.
The itenerary includes performances at Firefly Music Festival, Coachella, Governors Ball, and Sasquatch!, as well as M83 taking a path across the country in April. The band will start in New Orleans and make their way to Texas as they go up to Alberta, Canada. They will be playing at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater as well as joining Tame Impala at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion before heading to their European festival circuit.
See the current itinerary below.
M83 2016 Tour Dates:
04/06 – New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre
04/08 – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory
04/09 – Houston, TX @ TBD
04/10 – Austin, TX @ Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
04/12 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
04/13 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
04/15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/16 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
04/17 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
04/22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/23 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Club
04/25 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
04/26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
04/27 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma
04/29 – Edmonton, AB @ Winspear Centre
04/30 – Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Event Centre
05/27-30 – Quincy, WA @ Sasquatch! Music Festival
05/31 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
06/04 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/06 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion *
06/16-19 – Dover, DE @ Firefly Music Festival
07/07 – Bilbao, ES @ BBK Live Festival
07/09 – Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive! Festival
07/15 – Gräfenhainchen, DE @ Melt Festival
08/10 – Oslo, NO @ Øya Festival
08/11 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West Festival
08/13 – Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival
08/15 – Budapest, HU @ Sziget Festival
* = w/ Tame Impala
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