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by Lisa Paris

Car Seat Headrest announces ‘Twin Fantasy’

Car Seat Headrest fans, new and old alike, will be elated to learn that Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on February 16th, 2018 on Matador Records.

With a seven-piece band in tow (including members of Naked Giants), Car Seat Headrest will bring its explosive and revelatory live show to New Zealand in early 2018 for Auckland City Limits on March 3rd, 2018 at Western Springs. Toledo and his band of troubadours first stepped foot in New Zealand for last year’s Laneway Festival in Auckland, proving to the southern hemisphere they are not ones to be missed! ACL festival details can be found here. Continue reading →

by Lisa Paris

Indie Rock royalty, The Breeders, announce new album!

The Breeders announce details of their long-awaited fifth album. Entitled All Nerve, and featuring recent single ‘Wait in the Car’, the group’s first record in a decade will be released on March 2, 2018. All Nerve’s title track is now available to hear below.  

‘ALL NERVE’ [smarturl.it/AllNerve]

All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson – the line-up behind the iconic and platinum-selling record, Last Splash. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on new material since then. Recording took place at Candyland, Dayton, Kentucky, with Mike Montgomery; Electrical Audio, Chicago, with Steve Albini and Greg Norman; and with Tom Rastikis at Fernwood Studios, Dayton, Ohio. Artwork was conceived by Chris Bigg, who has worked with the Breeders since their first album, Pod.

All Nerve will be released on March 2nd on CD, standard edition black vinyl LP, limited alternate sleeve/orange vinyl (independent stores only) and digitally. ?

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by Lisa Paris

Joey Dosik signs to Secretly Canadian and shares ‘Game Winner’ video

Joey Dosik, praised by Quincy Jones as an ‘Artist To Watch,’ will re-release his debut EP, Game Winner, via Secretly Canadian on February 23rd, 2018. Originally self-released in June 2016, the label will issue a deluxe version of Game Winner with four bonus tracks available digitally for the first time ever. Today, Dosik is pleased to share his new Rob Stenson-directed video for the EP’s minimal and languid title track. “My dad used to say, ‘Sports is a metaphor for life,’” recalls Dosik. “There are many characters in this classic basketball comeback story to to identify with: The Underdog, The Leader, The Bad Guy, The Observer, The Team Player & The Motivator. At first look, the video and song are about basketball; but like Game Winner, a song that holds multiple meanings, the video’s story of The Underdog is universal.”

An inveterate collaborator who has worked extensively with the likes of Vulfpeck, Nikka Costa, and Miguel Atwood Ferguson, Joey is a vital part of an LA scene that updates vintage sounds into a more contemporary context. Touring tirelessly throughout the year, he spent virtually all of 2017 on the road, including tours with Vulfpeck, Lake Street Dive, and his own headlining dates as well. As a passionate fan of basketball and the NBA, he’s even performed for NBA audiences at Madison Square Garden, Staples Center, and other iconic arenas around the nation, singing both the National Anthem and performing during halftime. He’ll play SXSW next year.

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by Lisa Paris

The Mockers announce March show dates!

After a whirlwind January Reunion Tour that gathered fans together far and wide, Plus1 is excited to announce The Mockers are hitting the road again in 2018!

To celebrate the limited edition CD/DVD release of THE MOCKERS LIVE (filmed on their recent NZ Reunion Tour), the kiwi legends will be taking their feel-good live show to Auckland, Wellington and Tauranga in March.

Hear the golden classics, including ‘Forever Tuesday Morning’, ‘Swear It’s True’, ‘One Black Friday’, ‘My Girl Thinks She’s Cleopatra’ and more, with the original dream team: Andrew Fagan, Brett Adams, Geoff Hayden, Tim Wedde and special guest drummer, Chris O’ Connor (Phoenix Foundation, Nadia Reid). Continue reading →

by Lisa Paris

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN RELEASE HOW TO SOLVE OUR HUMAN PROBLEMS PART 1 TODAY

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN RELEASE HOW TO SOLVE OUR HUMAN PROBLEMS PART 1 TODAY

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VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE ‘I’LL BE YOUR PILOT’ AVAILABLE THROUGH TIDAL HERE AS WEEKLONG EXCLUSIVE, EMBED A 60-SECOND TRAILER HERE

COMPILATION CD AND LIMITED EDITION VINYL BOX SET OUT FEBRUARY 16

Belle and Sebastian today release the first installment of their new triumvirate of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Stream/embed the five-track EP in full HERE, including recent single ‘We Were Beautiful’.

Alongside, Tidal are presenting a new video for ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, the latest single taken from the EP series, as a special, weeklong exclusive. A 60-second trailer of the video is embeddable HERE, and the full version is viewable exclusively on Tidal HERE.

Directed by Michael Sherrington, the gently poetic video corresponds with the signature B&S artwork which accompanies the EPs, with a simple yet moving collage of individuals that echoes the spectrum of human emotion.

Already on the BBC 6 Music playlist as well as receiving spins from Jo Whiley at BBC 2, and described by NME as “B&S (doing) their gentle, hushed thing to perfection”, the gorgeously life-affirming song encapsulates the group’s hallmark attention to melody and imaginative lyricism, taking as its subject Stuart Murdoch’s young son.

Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on UK and European tour dates through February and March, including a double header at London’s Troxy on the 16th and 17th of March. Full tour dates can be found below.

Recalling their 1997 release of three consecutive EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems, has the timeless blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that has always characterised Belle and Sebastian. A double album’s worth of music – richly melodic, deliciously literate, as gentle as a summer stream but as insistent as a river – How To Solve Our Human Problems is both an era of its own, and part of a long, rich history.

The first installment of How To Solve Our Human Problems will be released on December 8th, with the second andthird following on January 19th and February 16th, respectively. The EP trilogy will culminate with a compilation CD and a vinyl box set containing all three EPs, with the option of a box just for EP3 for those who have already purchased 1 and 2. Full release dates and track listing can be found below.

How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 1

  1. Sweet Dew Lee
  2. We Were Beautiful
  3. Fickle Season
  4. The Girl Doesn’t Get It
  5. Everything Is Now

Released December 8, pre-order – http://smarturl.it/HTSOHP_Pt1

How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 2

  1. Show Me The Sun
  2. The Same Star
  3. I’ll Be Your Pilot
  4. Cornflakes
  5. A Plague On Other Boys

Released January 19, pre-order – http://smarturl.it/HTSOHP_Pt2


How To Solve Our Human Problems Part 3 

  1. Poor Boy
  2. Everything Is Now (Part Two)
  3. Too Many Tears
  4. There Is An Everlasting Song
  5. Best Friend

Released February 16, pre-order – http://smarturl.it/HTSOHP_Pt3

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by Lisa Paris

MOANING ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM!


The impassioned, self-titled debut from Los Angeles-band Moaning will be released March 2nd, 2018 worldwide through Sub Pop

Moaning

On March 2nd, 2018, Moaning will release their impassioned self-titled debut on CD/LP/CS/DL worldwide through Sub Pop.  The 10-track album, featuring the “Don’t Go” along with highlights “Artificial,” “The Same,” and “Misheard,” was recorded and engineered by Alex Newport in Los Angeles.

Moaning have delivered a charmingly chaotic, black & white visual for “Don’t Go,” which was directed by Michael Schmelling. The video stars the band and a few of their dear friends, and was shot in Los Angeles in the waning days of summer.

Watch official video for “Don’t Go”

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by Lisa Paris

THE RETURN OF REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND

95bFM’s Border Radio & The Tuning Fork Presents:
The Return Of
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

Live and direct from Beanblossom, Indiana, Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band return to Auckland to deliver a super fun night of punk-fuelled, ragtime, folk, rural blues at The Tuning Fork on Friday 23 February 2018.

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band’s debut NZ tour in 2016 won over audiences with the exceptional slide guitar skills of the Rev himself along with his wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton’s rhythmic washboard strumming accompanied by some boot stompin’ drums.  Music reviewer Marty Duda reported, “It was clear from the way Peyton spoke about his custom-made instruments and his own songs that the man has a deep love for what he is doing. By the end of the 15-song show, so did his audience”.

The Rev. Peyton is very much looking forward to returning to Aotearoa, saying “Last time we were in New Zealand, we were welcomed with a M?ori haka, we fished, we swam in the clear blue water, and we made amazing friends. It’s going to be tough to beat that first tour, but we are so excited and we are going to try”.

The Big Damn Band has won a large and loyal fan base the world over, thanks to their great sense of humour, high-energy showmanship along with nine acclaimed albums and tireless touring efforts including all of the big festivals; SXSW, Glastonbury, Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, High Sierra, and Warped Tour. With nearly 6 million combined views of the Rev playing his Shotgun Guitar (true story), there is much to learn about this band!

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by Lisa Paris

This Pale Fire releases debut album ‘Alchemy’

Today kiwi singer-songwriter Corban Koschak, who creates under the guise of This Pale Fire, celebrates the release of his debut album Alchemy. A collection of carefully selected gems from his time up in Matakana writing songs with fellow New Zealand artist Levi Patel, this impressive debut work balances subtle, more ambient tracks like ‘Northern Lights’ with darker, angstier creations such as ‘End of Science’. Continue reading →