Taken from the new album ‘Impersonator’ out May 24th on Matador Records/Rhythmethod.

Queens Of The Stone Age has confirmed May 31st as the Australian release date for its sixth studio album … Like Clockwork on Matador Records / Rhythmethod.

The band has also unveiled the new album’s stunning artwork by UK artist Boneface.

… Like Clockwork’s release is preceded by first single “My God Is The Sun,” which received its recent live debut in Queens Of The Stone Age’s Lollapalooza Brazil set.

… Like Clockwork can be pre-ordered as of midnight Tuesday, April 9, from iTunes. All pre-orders will immediately receive “My God Is The Sun,” which can be heard at http://qotsa.com.

Described by Queens principal Joshua Homme as “an audio documentary of a manic year,” … Like Clockwork is the band’s first full length collection of all new material since 2007?s Era Vulgaris, as well as the band’s debut release on new label partner Matador. The full track listing for the album is:

1. Keep Your Eyes Peeled

2. I Sat By The Ocean

3. The Vampyre of Time and Memory

4. If I Had A Tail

5. My God Is The Sun

6. Kalopsia

7. Fairweather Friends

8. Smooth Sailing

9. I Appear Missing

10. …Like Clockwork

…Like Clockwork was produced by Joshua Homme and QOTSA, recorded by Mark Rankin with additional engineering by Justin Smith, at Josh’s studio, Pink Duck, in Burbank, California.

Queens of the Stone Age are: Joshua Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Fertita and Michael Shuman. Jon Theodore will play drums on tour.

Houndmouth will release their anticipated debut album From Hills Below The City on Friday 31 May via Rough Trade / Rhythmethod.

Listen to ‘On The Road’, the first single to be taken from the album:

Majical Cloudz will release their new album Impersonator on Friday 24 May via Matador / Rhythmethod.

For the past few years, Devon Welsh has been recording solo material composed between rural Ontario and Montreal, and collaborating in production & performance with Matthew Otto under the guise Majical Cloudz.

Impersonator’s expressive power and swagger belie its extremely minimal music. These are intensely lyrical songs about death, patience, family, friendship and desire, with Welsh’s rich vocals atop Matthew Otto Kolaitis’ quiet looped waves of white noise, filtered synths and sparse thuds.

Majical Cloudz’ Devon Welsh explains of Impersonator:

In the last few years there’s been a massive explosion of amazing music made with computers, samplers and other electronic equipment. The possibilities became nearly endless and musicians indulged those possibilities. I love that kind of music but it also started to overwhelm me. I wasn’t cut out for the maximalist expressions of that style. So I took a break from music, and when I started again it was to make music that barely existed and felt like stillness more than movement. Where the songs could be more about humanness. I love all forms of electronic music, techno, house, rave, hip-hop, but I never want to feel like the music I’m making is just about stylistic play. The easiest way for me to do that is try to make something without obvious movement; where the music isn’t overstuffed sonically or referentially, it’s emptied out as much as possible. So the vision for Impersonator was to communicate a lot with as little as possible. It’s not meant to energize and turn you out to the world, it’s meant to do the opposite; it’s more like a cocoon.

Impersonator track-list:

1. Impersonator

2. This Is Magic

3. Childhood’s End

4. I Do Sing For You

5. Mister

6. Turns Turns Turns

7. Silver Rings

8. Illusion

9. Bugs Don’t Buzz

10. Notebook

Download: Majical Cloudz – ‘Childhood’s End’ HERE

Watch Majical Cloudz perform previously released album track ‘Turns Turns Turns’ live via Yours Truly below.

Download ‘Turns Turns Turns’ HERE.

Savages will release their debut album Silence Yourself on Friday 3 May 2013 via Pop Noire / Matador / Rhytmethod

Available on LP, CD and download, the album was recorded in north-west London’s Fish Factory during a three week period in December 2012, and was produced by Johnny Hostile and Rodaidh McDonald.

Clocking in at 38 minutes, Silence Yourself opens with an excerpt from the John Cassavetes film ‘Opening Night’, and features brand new recordings of ‘Husbands’, ‘I Am Here’ and ‘City’s Full’ – first heard on debut single ‘Husbands / Flying To Berlin’ and the ‘I Am Here’ live EP. Both tracks were previously released on singer Jehnny Beth’s record label Pop Noire.

Silence Yourself comprises of eleven tracks that are uncompromising and delivered with fierce conviction.

The album is available to pre-order from iTunes now, and fans who do so will instantly receive an mp3 download of ‘She Will’.

Listen to ‘She Will’ below:

Savages are: Ayse Hassan (bass), Fay Milton (drums), Gemma Thompson (guitar) and Jehnny Beth (vocals).

Savages – Silence Yourself
Track-listing:

A1 Shut Up
A2 I Am Here
A3 City’s Full
A4 Strife
A5 Waiting For A Sign

B1 Dead Nature
B2 She Will
B3 No Face
B4 Hit Me
B5 Husbands
B6 Marshal Dear

Savages – Silence Yourself is out Friday 3 May 2013 via Pop Noire / Matador / Rhytmethod

Vampire Weekend are pleased to share two wildly different but equally significant songs from their forthcoming album today: ‘Diane Young’ and ‘Step’.

‘Diane Young’ is the first single lifted off their third record Modern Vampires Of The City which will be released Friday May 3rd via XL Recordings / Rhythmethod.

Listen to ‘Step’ below.

Modern Vampires Of The City track listing:

1. Obvious Bicycle

2. Unbelievers

3. Step

4. Diane Young

5. Don’t Lie

6. Hannah Hunt

7. Everlasting Arms

8. Finger Back

9. Worship You

10. Ya Hey

11. Hudson

12. Young Lion

Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires Of The City is released Friday 3rd May via XL Recordings / Rhytmethod.

We are pleased to announce the release of the self-titled debut album from Chelsea Light Moving on March 1 via Matador/Rhythmethod.

Chelsea Light Moving is the current group led by Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore.
He is the songwriter and plays over-amped hyper electric guitar and sings with raw-glam-destructo vocals. The band is a four piece featuring Samara Lubelski, who has played violin with Thurston Moore on his last two solo LPs (Demolished Thoughts and Trees Outside The Academy) and with Chelsea Light Moving plays deep psyche pop metal bass guitar.

Keith Wood, who records under the aegis Hush Arbors, plays electric guitar with a pick forged from angel wing and John Moloney, aka “Pegasus”, approaches the drums like an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.

The first CD self-titled was recorded in two spurious sessions with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato in Sone Lab, a killer studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts.

The band is ready to detonate any birthday party, wedding or hullaboo in any country, planet or stratosphere that doesn’t support right wing extremist NRA sucking bozo-ology.

DOWNLOAD the mp3 ‘Empire of Time’ here.