Dana Gavanski releases second single and first music video for upcoming album Yesterday Is Gone.
Read MoreLADY LAMB NEW SINGLE "WE'VE GOT A GOOD THING GOING" OUT NOW
Today Lady Lamb (aka Aly Spaltro) releases "We've Got A Good Thing Going," a rocker that takes the sound of last year's Even In The Tremor and adds a dose of Springsteen rumble, a fitting follow-up to the year she just spent touring the US with her band. The first of two new songs in the coming weeks, "We've Got A Good Thing Going" shows Spaltro at her most confident.
Spaltro says, "We've Got A Good Thing Going was ultimately inspired by seeing a young woman bungee jump off of the side of the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas. It was nearly 1am, closing time, and I was pressed against the back wall of the observatory as I watched her suit up alone with a look of total calm. It really made me reflect on my fears - my fear of living, in some cases. This song is my way of confronting my anxiety and deciding I'd like to make more of an effort to be fearless, because life and I have 'a good thing going.'"
Listen to “ We’ve Got a Good Thing Going” here
Lady Lamb heads out on a European tour this February with support from Toth.
And in March, she presents an entirely different experience of her music, performing intimate "evening with" events at City Winery locations around the US accompanied by a string quartet. The arrangements (written by Spaltro herself) are fresh, intimate reimaginations of the songs from Even in the Tremor and previous albums. Dates are below.
Lady Lamb Tour Dates:
Fri. Feb. 7 - Jacksonville, FL @ Root Down Festival
Tues. Feb. 11 - Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club *
Wed. Feb. 12 - Glasglow, UK @ Broadcast *
Thur. Feb.13 - Dublin, IRL @ The Grand Social *
Fri. Feb. 14 - Manchester, UK @ Gulliver’s *
Fri. Feb. 16 - Antwerpen, BE @ Muziekcentrum Trix *
Tues. Feb. 18 - Amsterdam, NL @ Cinetol *
Wed. Feb. 19 - Hamburg, GE @ Nochtwache *
Fri. Feb. 21 - Stockholm, SE @ Hus 7 i Åre AB *
Sat. Feb. 22 - Kobenhavn, DK @ Lille Vega *
Mon. Feb. 24 - Berlin, GE @ Badehaus Szimpla *
Tues. Feb. 25 - Jena, GE @ Trafo *
Wed. Feb. 26 - Koln, GE @ Jaki *
Thur. Feb. 27 - Zurich, CH @ Bogen F *
Sat. Feb. 29 - Barcelona, EG @ Vol *
Sun. Mar. 1 - Madrid, EG @ Siroco *
Mon. Mar. 2 - Ourense, EG @ Cafe and Pop Torgal *
Wed. Mar. 4 - Paris, FR @ Le Pop-Up Du Label *
Thur. Mar. 5 - London, UK @ Chats Palace *
Fri. Mar. 6 - Brighton, UK @ Latest Music Bar *
Fri. Mar. 13 - Atlanta, GA @ City Winery
Sat. Mar. 14 - Nashville, TN @ City Winery
Tues. Mar. 17 - Chicago, IL @ City Winery
Fri. Mar. 20 - Boston, MA @ City Winery
Mon. Mar. 23 - Washington, DC @ City Winery
Tues. Mar. 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ City Winery
Wed. Mar. 25 - New York, NY @ City Winery
* with Tõth
Announcing Debut LP from Dana Gavanski 'Yesterday is Gone' - New Single "Good Instead of Bad" out now
On March 27th, we will be releasing the debut LP from Dana Gavanski titled ‘Yesterday is Gone’ here in the US. The first single, “Good Instead of Bad” is out now!
Tracklist:
One By One
Catch
What We Had
Good Instead of Bad
Trouble
Yesterday Is Gone
Small Favours
Everything That Bleeds
Other Than
Memories of Winter
Find “Good Instead of Bad” here.
Pre-order ‘Yesterday is Gone’.
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‘I’m learning how to say goodbye / to let you go and face the tide / to wrap my feelings in a song,’ sings Dana Gavanski on the title track of her debut LP, Yesterday Is Gone. To wrap her feelings in a song: this is the task Dana has dedicated herself to with this record. It’s a goal common to many songwriters, but few approach it with such aplomb. By turns break-up album, project of curiosity, and, as Dana puts it, ‘a reckoning with myself’, Yesterday Is Gone is her attempt to ‘learn to say what I feel and feel what I say’: an album of longing and devotion to longing, and of the uncertainty that arises from learning about oneself, of pushing boundaries, falling hard, and getting back up.
Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, Dana has always harbored a desire to sing. In her final year of university in Montreal, she picked up the guitar left by her ex-partner and decided to re-learn. But with a father in film and a painter mother, other art-forms clamored for her attention. She spent a summer as her producer father’s assistant in the Laurentians, in a derelict hotel-turned-office that looked like something out of The Shining. The long days behind a computer cemented her desire to make music, ‘because it was so impossible to play that I needed to, in order to feel like it was real.’ The income she saved that summer funded a year of writing religiously, leading to EP Spring Demos in September 2017, which Dana describes as ‘whatever was coming out of me. A flood.’
Following Spring Demos, Yesterday Is Gone reflects Dana’s aim ‘to make something bigger, more thought through’. Steeped in determination and uncertainty in equal measure – ‘I just wanted to write a good song’ – the album took shape after she returned from a writing residency in Banff, Alberta. She left the residency resolved not to worry about her songs being ‘too obvious’. She’d begun to learn the art of empty time, of being alone with her emotions, losing herself in a landscape. She thought of Vashti Bunyan, riding for hours and writing, writing, writing. She considered how she might use writing to make sense of her life after the tumults of a break-up and a new city. Adrift in Toronto, Dana struggled to feel at home and connected to people, but the solitude also allowed her to ground herself in writing. She kept office-style hours at her bedroom desk every day until she started to understand the writing process, to see that ‘transforming a burning desire into something clear and tangible is a vulnerable and delicate act. You have to be able to let things happen, to accept losing control.’
The record is a co-production between Dana, Toronto-based musician Sam Gleason, and Mike Lindsay of Tunng and LUMP. While Sam helped Dana bring out the tunes, Mike’s input marked ‘the beginning of developing a sound that was closer to what I had in my head’. Though excited by the other elements of a song introduced during production, Dana and Mike were keen on ‘finding essential things, not overblowing, keeping things bare and letting the elements speak for themselves’. Not that the sheer variety of sounds and instruments didn’t overwhelm. ‘But you have that feeling,’ Dana says, ‘then you just pick up an instrument. At the base, you do know what you want. It’s about how to chip away at what you don’t want.’
The album shapeshifted as it passed through the hands of Dana, Sam, and Mike, taking on different tastes, feelings, and visions. When Dana performed the songs with a band, they found new form again. She was intrigued by performers like David Bowie and Aldous Harding, who inhabit different personalities on stage, physically tuning themselves to their music. ‘Watching these kinds of performances,’ Dana says, ‘I feel my body longing to express myself in exaggerations … to leave behind self-consciousness and become this energy.’
But a three-month trip to Serbia in autumn 2018 really pushed performance to the forefront of Dana’s mind. She took singing lessons to learn how to sing with the resonance that defines traditional Serbian song. Stirred by the bombast of fifties, sixties, and seventies music, including the high-energy kafana, or café music, as rooted in expressive pouts as it is vocal resonance, the trip incited a yearning to completely inhabit herself on stage. ‘I often feel we’re all just these controlled bodies,’ she says. ‘Sometimes I just want to make a snarl with my lip and keep it there.’
While on a crowded train last spring, Dana sang the Macedonian song Jano Mome to a cheering group of commuters. The moment, brief but beautiful, lays bare Dana’s craving for live spontaneity. But it also reflects her injection of stylish drama and vivid emotion into the folk landscape that inspires her, from contemporary singers H Hawkline and Julia Holter, to stalwarts Fairport Convention, Anne Briggs, Connie Converse, and Judee Sill. Expressive urges run all through Yesterday Is Gone. Moments of beguilement splinter a backdrop of tenderly picked guitar, bass, synth, and poppier elements, which commune to produce her own kind of wall of sound. Each component is meticulously placed, yielding a deeply sincere response to the chaos of human emotion.
‘Often we have to go a little far in one direction to learn something about ourselves,’ Dana says. The months of solitary writing and self-doubt testify to this, but they’ve led to Yesterday Is Gone: an optimistic, steely-eyed gaze into the future.
AOIFE NESSA FRANCES NEW SINGLE "LIBRA" OUT NOW
Announcing The Debut LP from youbet
Today we’re announcing the debut album from the Brooklyn-based project of songwriter Nick Llobet, youbet. On January 31st we’ll release Compare & Despair, a kaleidoscopic effort of tape-warped pop gems. You can listen to the first single “Bite” below.
Compare & Despair was produced by Katie Von Schleicher with Julian Fader (Ava Luna), Adam Brisbin and Nick Llobet. Read more about youbet here.
Tiny Ruins New Acoustic Album & Tour with Aldous Harding
Photo by Si Moore
Read MoreLady Lamb Releases “Little Flaws” Video Announces November Tour Dates
Lady Lamb (Aly Spaltro) has just released a music video for “Little Flaws” that she shot and edited herself, and we hope you love it as much as we do! Aly has also just announced several East Coast headlining tour dates in addition to her upcoming tour with the New Pornographers. Check it out below:
Fri. Sept. 27 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre *
Tues. Oct. 1 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue *
Wed. Oct. 2 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre *
Thur. Oct. 3 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre *
Fri. Nov. 1 - Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
Sat. Nov. 2 - Providence, RI @ Columbus Theatre
Mon. Nov. 4 - Boston, MA @ Royale *
Tues. Nov. 5 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club *
Thurs. Nov. 7 - Brooklyn. NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
Fri. Nov. 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Sun. Nov. 10 - Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom *
Mon. Nov. 11 - Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
Tues. Nov. 12 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre *
Thur. Nov. 14 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theatre
Fri. Nov. 15 - Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
Sat. Nov. 16 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit
Mon. Nov. 18 - Buffalo, NY @ Rec Room
Tues. Nov. 19 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt
Wed. Nov. 20 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston
Thur. Nov. 21 - Portsmouth, NH @ 3S Artspace
Fri. Nov. 22 - Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot
* with The New Pornographers
Michael Morley Tour Dates Announced!
Like the Dead C? A third of the trio, Michael Morley just announced his 2019 tour! Morley is a talented guitarist, vocalist, you name it, and has done an array of projects such as Gate and The Fuck Chairs. You can find the dates of his US tour below!
Sat. July 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Tue. July 16 - Chicago, IL @ The International Museum of Surgical Science
Wed. July 17 - Detroit, MI @ Trinosophes
Fri. July 19 - Brooklyn, NY @ ISSUE Project Room
Sat. July 20 - Brooklyn, NY @ ISSUE Project Room
ARC IRIS RELEASES EP 'FRIENDS AND LOVERS'
Arc Iris gave us an exciting end to a long week last Friday with the surprise release of their new EP, Friends and Lovers. The newest addition to the Arc Iris discography, Friends and Lovers is available everywhere you normally stream your favorite pop, country, trap? (we don’t judge) songs.
If you like music in general, we think you’ll like this one! Just click here!
CROSS RECORD TOUR DATES AND NEW SINGLE "THE FLY" OUT
Cross Record, aka Emily Cross, releases her new single The Fly today off her upcoming self-titled album (out August 2nd) and we hope you’re as excited as we are! The Fly serves as the successor for Cross’ previous single, PSYOL My Castle. Both songs foreshadow the “voyage through the psyche” that the album is bound to take its listeners on, just ask Stereogum!
You can listen to the song below and pre-order Cross Record here
With the release of The Fly comes the announcement of Cross Record’s North American Tour, as well as a series of Living Funerals that Emily will perform herself. Tour & Living Funeral dates are listed below.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Wed. Sept. 4 - Marfa, TX - Bar Nadar Pool & Grill - tickets
Thu. Sept. 5 - Phoenix, AZ - The Trunk Space - tickets
Fri. Sept. 6 - Los Angeles, CA - Bootleg Theater - tickets
Sun. Sept. 8 - San Francisco, CA - Café Du Nord - tickets
Tue. Sept. 10 - Portland, OR - Holocene - tickets
Mon. Sept. 11 - Astoria, OR - Anita
Thu. Sept. 12 - Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey - tickets
Sun. Sept. 15 - Minneapolis, MN - Moon Palace Books
Tue. Sept. 17 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern - tickets
Wed. Sept 18 - Cincinnati, OH - Northside Tavern
Fri. Sept. 20 - Fishkill, NY - Likeminds Festival
Sun. Sept. 22 - Beacon, NY - Quinn’s
Mon. Sept. 23 - Kingston, NY - Tubby’s
Tue. Sept. 24 - Brooklyn, NY - Trans-Pecos - tickets
Sun. Sept. 29 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl - tickets
LIVING FUNERAL WORKSHOP DATES (LOCATIONS TBA):
09/07 – Los Angeles, CA
09/09 – San Francisco, CA
09/13 – Helena, MT
09/14 – Fargo, ND
09/16 – Chicago, IL
09/21 – Fishkill, NY
09/25 – Brooklyn, NY
09/30 – New Orleans, LA
Lady Lamb Breaks Down Her New LP Track By Track
Lady Lamb’s new album Even in the Tremor is out today, and over at Consequence of Sound she breaks it down track by track. You can also stream the hell out of it on their site and anywhere you receive transmissions today.
Check out Lady Lamb’s massive US tour which begins next week.
Tickets at www.ladylambjams.com/tour
APR 10, 2019 - Space Ballroom - Hamden, CT
APR 11, 2019 - Le Ministère - Montreal, QC
APR 12, 2019 - The Drake Hotel - Toronto, ON [SOLD OUT]
APR 13, 2019 - Club Cafe - Pittsburgh, PA [SOLD OUT]
APR 15, 2019 - Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH
APR 16, 2019 - Deluxx Fluxx - Detroit, MI
APR 17, 2019 - Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL
APR 19, 2019 - 7th St Entry - Minneapolis, MN
APR 20, 2019 - Collectivo, The Back Room - Milwaukee, WI
APR 22, 2019 - Reverb Lounge - Omaha, NE
APR 24, 2019 - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
APR 26, 2019 - Kilby Court - Salt Lake City, UT
APR 27, 2019 - The Olympic - Boise, ID
APR 29, 2019 - The Bartlett - Spokane, WA
MAY 2, 2019 - Biltmore Cabaret - Vancouver, BC
MAY 3, 2019 - Tractor Tavern - Seattle, WA
MAY 4, 2019 - Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR
MAY 6, 2019 - Great American Music Hall - San Francisco, CA
MAY 8, 2019 - Lodge Room - Los Angeles, CA
MAY 9, 2019 - Soda Bar - San Diego, CA
MAY 10, 2019 - Valley Bar - Phoenix, AZ
MAY 11, 2019 - Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM
MAY 13, 2019 - Antone's Nightclub - Austin, TX
MAY 14, 2019 - Club Dada - Dallas, TX
MAY 16, 2019 - Off Broadway - St. Louis, MO
MAY 17, 2019 - The High Watt - Nashville, TN
MAY 18, 2019 - Aisle 5 - Atlanta, GA
MAY 19, 2019 - The Mothlight - Asheville, NC
MAY 21, 2019 - Kings - Raleigh, NC
MAY 22, 2019 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington, D.C.
MAY 23, 2019 - The Foundry - Philadelphia, PA
MAY 30, 2019 - Elsewhere - Brooklyn, NY
MAY 31, 2019 - Royale - Boston, MA
JUN 1, 2019 - State Theatre - Portland, ME
April 10th - April 29th: with Renata Zeiguer
May 2nd - June 1st: with Katie Von Schleicher
SHE KEEPS BEES RELEASE NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM
She Keeps Bees just released “Coyote” their first single from their upcoming record ‘Kinship’ which will be out on May 10th . Check out this write up by Paste Magazine. Pre-Order the album here!
LADY LAMB RELEASES SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM AND NEW TOUR DATES
We’re releasing Lady Lamb’s third full-length album, due out on April 5th. “Even in the Tremor,” the title track and first single from the album released today. Check out what Consequence of Sound has to say about it. Pre-Order the album in two options here!
Headlining tour dates for April & May are listed below.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Wed. April 10 - Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom *
Thu. April 11 - Montreal, QC @ Le Ministere *
Fri. April 12 - Toronto, ON @ Drake Hotel *
Sat. April 13 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe *
Mon. April 15 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
Tue. April 16 - Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx *
Wed. April 17 - Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall *
Fri. April 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry *
Sat. April 20 - Milwaukee @ Back Room at Colectivo *
Mon. April 22 - Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge *
Wed. April 24 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge *
Fri. April 26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court *
Sat. April 27 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic *
Mon. April 29 - Spokane, WA @ The Bartlett *
Thu. May 2 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret ^
Fri. May 3 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern ^
Sat. May 4 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios ^
Mon. May 6 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall ^
Wed. May 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^
Thu. May 9 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar ^
Fri. May 10 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar ^
Mon. May 13 - Austin, TX @ Antone’s ^
Tue. May 14 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada ^
Thu. May 16 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway ^
Fri. May 17 - Nashville, TN @ The High Watt ^
Sat. May 18 - Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5 ^
Sun. May 19 - Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight ^
Tue. May 21 - Raleigh, NC @ Kings ^
Wed. May 22 - Washington, DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel ^
Thu. May 23 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry @ The Fillmore ^
Thu.. May 30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere ^
Fri. May 31 - Boston, MA @ Royale ^
Sat. June 1 - Portland, ME @ The State Theatre ^
* = with Renata Zeiguer
^ = with Katie Von Schleicher
TINY RUINS RELEASE NEW SONG AND VIDEO, WATCH "HOLOGRAMS"
This week, New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins have released a new song, Holograms. Their new album Olympic Girls is out worldwide on February 1st.
“Tiny Ruins, which originated as frontwoman Hollie Fullbrook’s solo songwriting project, has always been a nesting place for spare, delicate melodies and verses full of natural imagery and big ideas. But there’s nothing delicate about this latest batch of singles: ‘Olympic Girls’ is warm, full and unexpected—a lively flute finds a home next to electric guitar; Fullbrook’s smooth alto sighs along with clashing cymbals. ‘Holograms’ is just as beautiful, and it’s one of Fullbrook’s biggest ideas yet.” - Paste
Sarah Davachi, Hawthonn Making Those Year-End Lists
As the year ends, we celebrate some of our artists who were recognized! Sarah Davachi’s Gave in Rest makes Resident Advisor’s year-end list of 2018’s best tracks at #9. Hawthonn’s Red Goddess (of this men shall know nothing) makes Quietus’ list of 100 best records released in 2018 at #18.
New music and video from Tiny Hazard
Tiny Hazard are back! They return with The Long Way, the first release since their 2017 debut LP, Greyland. You can stream the new EP everywhere.
Here’s the video for single “I’m Not Scared:”
NPR Premieres Arc Iris' Video For 'If You Can See' / ‘icon of ego’ out tomorrow
One day ahead of the release of Arc Iris’ Ba Da Bing debut Icon of Ego, we’re pleased to share a new video for ‘If You Can See,’ their “optimistic and ebullient” track about everyone making it through together.
The video features a large cast of characters from Arc Iris’ native Providence, RI, singing along to the track. Read more about it at NPR Music.
Arc Iris has a huge US tour coming up this fall as well, here are dates:
Stream Davachi's Album on The Wire
The Wire just posted Sarah Davachi's album, Gave In Rest. Click here to stream it in completion and read about the inspiration behind this album (and the photograph).
"Turn it Up" premieres on Brooklyn Vegan
Arc Iris' single, "Turn It Up", just premiered on Brooklyn Vegan, praised for touching on all sorts of versions of pop, funk, and indie without losing its charm to its quirk. Their tour includes a release show in Brooklyn, this fall at Rough Trade, Nov. 11.
Arc Iris release single, announce new LP "Icon of Ego"
Ba Da Bing is thrilled to be working with Rhode Island based trio Arc Iris to release their third record "Icon Of Ego," out October 12th. The first single '$GNMS' premiered on Clash Magazine last week and is now available to stream everywhere! This track is best described as a sci-fi reinvention of 'Money Gnomes', the opening song of their 2014 self-titled album, and an indicator of how the band's sound has shifted towards the creatively dramatic.
Pre-Order "Icon of Ego" LP/CD here
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
9/7 - BOSTON, MA - Aeronaut Allston
9/15 - STRAFFORD, NY - Takedown Festival
10/12 - PROVIDENCE, RI - Columbus Theatre
10/13 - PORTSMOUTH, NH - The Press Room
10/15 - NEW HAVEN, CT - Cafe Nine
10/18 - NORTHAMPTON, MA - The Parlor Room
10/19 - MARLBORO, NY - The Falcon
10/22 - ROCHESTER, NY - Lovin' Cup
10/25 - NEWARK, OH - Thirty-One West
10/27 - CLEVELAND, OH - Bop Stop @ The Music Settlement
10/31 - PITTSBURGH, PA - Mr. Small's Funouse
11/1 - INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The Pioneer
11/2 - CHICAGO, IL - The Hideout
11/3 - ST. LOUIS, MO - Off Broadway
11/4 - LOUISVILLE, KY - Jimmy Can't Dance
11/7 - COLUMBUS, OH - Woodlands Tavern
11/9 - BRATTLEBORO, VT - Stone Church
11/10 - BURLINGTON, VT - ArtsRiot
11/11 - NEW, YORK, NY - Rough Trade
11/15 - WOODSTOCK, NY - Colony Cafe
11/17 - CAMBRIDGE, MA - Lizard Lounge
12/15 - SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI - Pump House Music Works
1/11 - YORK, PA - Kable House Presents
1/12 - WASHINGTON, DC - Songbyrd Record Cafe and Music House
1/18 - REIDSVILLE, NC - Brad & Tammy's Listening Loft