Bad History Month's new album "Dead and Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism" is out November 3rd via Exploding In Sound Records.

Bad History Month - Dead and Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism

SEPT 17

Camp Tracks - September '17

NOT97 Season Two - Episode One [Playlist]

music. v.2

corporate lullabies

new tunes

Ramblings Of A Dying Adolescence

"Hazy Past" is a small release and pairing of two new songs which will be included in a future full length record I've been working on in recent months. For this batch of tracks I'll be hand-dubbing and self-releasing a limited number of cassettes (30 in total) which will be available for purchase online soon.

Hazy Past

What do I say? My heart feels like you're never near. 
What do I do? Admit I was a fool for you. 

Trapped myself back, sinking into a hazy past. 
Fell into dreams, a place with more sincerity. 

Not this time, She's not mine. 

Now we lie, a state where we shouldn't be. 
Strangers now, lift your eyes and look at me. 

How could I say, my feelings are true? 
Desperate today, I have to have you. 

Selfish things tell me I can never be 
A heart at peace, a head of smiling. 
Convince myself I was someone you'd never see. 
Convince myself I was someone you'd never see. 

I won't mind, say you're mine.

Hazy Past

Porches. - Townie Blunt Guts

Dec. 2016 She Keeps Bees Live in Europe http://bbislandmusic.com/tour-dates/2016/8/27/live-she-keeps-bees-nest-release-tour
Second single taken from their latest album "Eight Houses"
out now in Europe through BB*Island (Sep. 2014)
album at iTunes (EU): http://snip.ftpromo.net/eighthouses
at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2AUvPthYH4uULxnuKYPpqy
Vinyl / CD order at
http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses

"Owl" written by Jessica Larrabee, performed by She Keeps Bees. Produced and recorded by Nicolas Vernhes at Red Book Studio

She Keeps Bees is a duo from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of singer guitarist Jessica Larrabee and drummer/producer Andy LaPlant. They have self-recorded and released music made at home since 2006. Their debut album, Minisink Hotel, was described by NYC’s Other Music as “the best album you’ve never heard." Nests, their second full-length, was admired by the Guardian as “sparse, soulful and defiantly retro.” Their third LP, Dig On, was praised by the BBC as "an album of fire, spirit, and sweat."

Their new album "Eight Houses"  finds She Keeps Bees working with an outside producer, Nicolas Vernhes (Wye Oak, Deerhunter, The War On Drugs, Dirty Projectors, Lia Ices a.o.) for the first time and enlisting guest musicians including Sharon Van Etten and Adam Schatz.

She Keeps Bees have created a beautifully timeless and haunting album. Eight Houses revels in the raw power of subtlety, silence and space, coloring Jessica Larrabee's compositions with lean piano lines, hazy horns and warm organ rolls.

Vinyl / CD order  at
http://bbislandmusic.com/shop/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
or at
Rough Trade UK
http://roughtrade.com/albums/85304
Piccadilly Records LP and CD
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/SheKeepsBees-EightHouses-Bb*Island-98135.html
or in Germany 
https://www.flight13.com/details/111069/she-keeps-bees-eight-houses
http://www.finestvinyl.de/de/item/74243/vinyl.20.html
in Benelux
http://www.konkurrent.nl/winkel/produkt/she_keeps_bees_eight_houses_4260064999610/


shekeepsbees.com/
www.facebook.com/shekeepsbees
http://bbislandmusic.com

Eight Houses

She Keeps Bees - Owl

The Beatles - If I Fell

from my upcoming release, funeral kid EP -- available october 15.

morbid fascination

im not beautiful
just a piece of shit with make up on
our hearts broke mutually
i dont know who to call my friends anymore
my love burns slow
like an american spirit
you told me to keep my chin up for the future, girl you know i fear it

i want that girl who i knew from the start
shed make me laugh at silly pictures when we were alone
im sitting on my bed looking through her pictures wondering
when will she come home

Im Sorry

"We walked down streets and crammed onto trains, our faces masks of fear. Unsure how to react, we, collectively, did not react. We grieved for a country and an ideal we never thought would die. We grieved for a loss of certainty.

We argued about what we thought would happen. We preached understanding. We advocated for anger. Some people said that we’d at least get some incredible art, other people said that was a small view of a world we were quickly realizing we’d misunderstood. Everyone was right. Everyone was wrong. Art made in precarious times matters as much as we let it matter.

But what are we looking for from the art we enjoy? Escapism? A reckoning with harsh reality? A temporary shared hallucination? Music can heal because it presents the pain of being human as universal. 

Love is Love was written and recorded in the two months immediately following the election, but it’s not a record borne entirely of angry, knee-jerk reaction to what America is becoming. Instead, it’s a meditation on love, and on what life means now. Taking cues from last year’s City Sun Eater in the River of Light, it feels very much like a record made from living, shoulder to shoulder, in a major city: weaving psychedelic swirls of guitar between languid horns reminiscent of the best Ethiopian jazz—Love is Love is a distinctly New York record. It is a document of protest in uncertain times and an open-hearted rejection of cynicism in favor of emotional honesty. It is bright, and then, unexpectedly, a little dark sometimes too.

There will be parts of life where we will watch as events unfold and we will feel helpless. We will not be sure of the future. On good days, we’ll have each other. On the bad ones, we’ll turn to the art that helps us feel something. Love is Love is a document of the new world we live in, proof that light can come from despair and hope is still possible. We just need a little help remembering it exists."- Sam Hockley-Smith

WOODS - LOVE IS LOVE

Cende - "Bed"
Off their debut album, "#1 Hit Single"
Out May 26 2017, on Double Double Whammy

Order the album - http://www.dbldblwhmmy.com/family/cende

"I get into bed
I can't get out
I'm the only one that I could let down
You get into me
You can't get out
You're the only one that I could let down
You'll be better off when I'm not around 

I put on my clothes 
How do I look 
Well you say good but who knows 
Face that you put on 
Tell me what's wrong 
You're the only one that I could count on 
You'll be better off when I'm all alone 

I'll get out of the way
Don't make it easy on me"

Cende - Bed

Original music written & produced by Mondo Boys for the film 'Shangri-La Suite'

00:00 - Troubled Girl
01:22 - The Chase
02:59 - Who Loves The Sun [feat. Father John Misty]*
05:37 - The Law on Their Tail
06:10 - Elvis [featuring Burt Reynolds]
07:31 - Baby Don't Let Me Go [feat. Scot Bruce]
09:09 - Road Dream
10:37 - Bathroom Tiles [feat. Baby Chuck]~
12:27 - Kill Elvis
13:14 - I Don't Wanna Die [feat. Emily Browning]
17:15 - Shangri-La Suite
20:07 - Elvis' Dream [feat. Ron Livingston & Springtime Carnivore]
21:26 - The Escape Pt 2
22:22 - I Found A Reason [feat. Jonathan Rado]*
25:21 - Found Poem by Karen Bird
26:02 - First In Line [feat. Scot Bruce]**

Words and Music written by: Griffin/Schanzlin (Mondo Boys)
*Written by Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
~Written by Baby Chuck
**Written by Weisman and Schroeder

String arrangements by Paul Cartwright
Horn arrangements by Todd Simon

Performances by:
Mike Griffin, Mike Schanzlin
with Thomas Carroll (drums), Paul Cartwright (violin), Sean O'Malley (harmonica), Todd Simon (trumpet), Tracy Wannomae (saxophone)

Vocal Performances by:
Emily Browning, Scot Bruce, Ron Livingston, Greta Morgan, Matt O'Keefe, Jonathan Rado, Joshua Tillman

Special Thanks:
Eddie O'Keefe, Justin Gage/Aquarium Drunkard, Jessica Pratt, Julian Wass, Lauren Willow White, Ryan Wilson

Shangri-La Suite

"Black Hole" by Charly Bliss, off their debut album Guppy.

Guppy is out April 21 on Barsuk Records.

Pre-order the album: lnk.to/guppy

Guppy

Black Hole

Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely-Ignored Material—available June 2nd on cassette and digital formats—makes a strong case for Hardly Art’s sonic diversity. Spanning a decade of recordings, the seventeen tracks of Hardly Released culls together a wide-ranging assortment of songs from the label’s history, including a little-heard gem from Hardly Art’s inaugural signing (Arthur & Yu) and a tune from Chastity Belt’s I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone sessions, the label’s most recent release. The full list of contributors includes Colleen Green, The Dutchess & the Duke, Fergus & Geronimo, Gazebos, Grave Babies, Hausu, Hunx & His Punx, IAN SWEET, Jacuzzi Boys, Jenn Champion, La Luz, The Moondoggies, Protomartyr, Seapony, and Shannon and the Clams.

Order Hardly Released: http://www.hardlyart.com/releases/hardly_art/hardly_released_bedroom_recordings_demos_rarities_unreleased_and_widely_ignored_material

Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely Ignored Material

Order now

Hunx & His Punx - "Baby of the Band"

Gun Outfit's “Out of Range" is out November 10, 2017 on Paradise of Bachelors.
Buy from label: http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-036
Other online options (physical/download/streaming): https://lnk.to/PoB36

Like a stone eroded by years in the arroyo, Gun Outfit’s enveloping “Western expanse” aesthetic of guitar levitations and honky-tonk hexes has become insidiously smoother over time. Their fifth LP ranks as their most brutally beautiful statement yet. Drawing from mythologies both Classical and postmodern, Out of Range builds a world in which Brueghel the Elder, St. Augustine, and the ancient goddess Cybele ride with John Ford, Samuel Beckett, and Wallace Stevens on a Orphic-Gnostic suicide drive towards the hallucinatory vanishing points of the Southwestern desert, debating the denouement of the decaying American dream.

Dreamers wielding slide guitars. A tradition-warping band, with a punk aesthetic deep at the center and double-guitar desert-rock psychedelia at the surface. ¬– The New York Times

With its echoing grooves, drifting landscapes, and new textures—bits of bluegrass banjo, homemade electric sitars—it has the blue-sky sensibility of a soul-searching road trip. You want to get lost inside of it, to turn it up on a road trip that lasts for weeks. – Pitchfork

Peyote for the ears... Expansive, arid, and dusty. – Uncut

http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/gun-outfit/

Out of Range

Buy LP/CD/DL/stream

Gun Outfit: Out of Range - "Strange Insistence" (PoB-036, 2017)

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

Billy Changer - "She's Good to Go" out now.
Produced by Michael Andrews

itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shes-good-to-go-single/id1233281337
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4dQk1QUTsvFEmIbOdNwVMg
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/billychanger/shes-good-to-go-3
Instagram: @billychanger
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Billychanger
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Billychanger


Lyrics... 
See the stars encircle his face
Like a child, feels it's embrace
Feels so far, no he's not
But his heart is mean

He's under the bridge
Totally cray
You want to be there
So you can say
been looking for you
All my life
LET'S LEAVE LA

She's good to go
She's good to go
Requiem Dreamer
She's on her own

Now it's time to get that boy a life
She's on her own
Wants to share it with him

She's good to go
She's good to go
Requiem dreamer
She's on her own

She's Good To Go

Guitar, Vocals - Lila Ramani 
Bass - Jesse Brotter 
Synth/Keys - Brian Aronow 
Drums - Jonathan Gilad

Lyrics by Lila Ramani 
Recorded and Mixed by John Scott at Phoenix Down Recording 
in Somerville, MA 
Mastered by Adam P. Cissell at Guv Studios 
in Roslindale, MA 

Album Artwork by Isaac Baird, Lilly Donlon, and Jesse Brotter 
Layout by Jesse Brotter

Locket

Plants

"Bass 2" is the third single from Washer's upcoming sophomore album "All Aboard." 

Pre-order: http://www.explodinginsoundrecords.com/products/597313-washer-all-aboard

Washer - Bass 2

The first single from Bad History Month's "Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism"

Pre-order - http://www.explodinginsoundrecords.com/products/600384-bad-history-month-dead-and-loving-it-an-introductory-exploration-of-pessimysticism

Bad History Month - Being Nothing

Bad History Month - The Imaginary Tone

The 2nd single form Bad History Month's upcoming album "Dead And Loving It: An Introductory Exploration of Pessimysticism"

Pre-order: http://www.explodinginsoundrecords.com/products/600384-bad-history-month-dead-and-loving-it-an-introductory-exploration-of-pessimysticism

Bad History Month - The Nonexistent Distance

Bad History Month - A Small Life

Bad History Month - Gazing At My Navel

Bad History Month - The Church Of Nothing Matters

prod. meltycanon
written by me.
artwork: direction by math
(my unmixed raw vocals <3 )
~
you’re so beautiful
incase u didn’t know
i just had to let u know
my love

continue to shine
u are the light of life (X2)

you’re
all that is
be grateful for accomplishments
cuz u did it for u and thats it
 
mhmm

you’re the sun
you’re the moon
you’re the tea
you’re the spoon
u don’t need nobody to do it for u except u
its just u

you’re so beautiful
incase u didn’t know
i just had to let u know
my love

socials: 
instagram.com/reddishblu
twitter.com/_reddishblu

You're So Beautiful (prod. meltycanon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoliCvPbVtY

what you want

"Big One" is taken from Madeline Kenney's forthcoming debut, "Night Night At The First Landing," out September 1st on Company Records.

Pre-orders available here:
Company shop - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_company
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/nnatfl_itunes

Tour Dates:
August 23rd - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop 
September 2nd - Seattle, WA - Bumbershoot
September 9th - Portland, OR - House Show
September 13th - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge 
September 15th - Minneapolis, MN - The Entry
September 17th - Chicago, IL - Schubas 
September 19th - Queens, NY - Trans Pecos
September 23rd - Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
September 25th - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa 
September 27th - Austin, TX - Sidewinder 
September 29th - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar 
September 30th - San Diego, CA - Soda Bar

Madeline Kenney - Big One

http://www.millionmilesmusic.com
Instagram @milmilesmusic
Twitter @milmilesmusic
Facebook @milmilesmusic
Soundcloud @milmilesmusic

Ice Cream & Cigarettes

Long Way Home live au Stork Club à Oakland (Californie, USA) le 3/08/2017.

Long Way Home @ Stork Club, Oakland

"Leaf Green" is the first single from Full Body's upcoming LP "Whats Good" due out September 22nd via Sad Cactus Records.

Whats Good?

Full Body -- Leaf Green

KAWABUNGA
1st mixtape « SUSHI BOUBOU #1 » OUT NOW 
listen: https://song.link/album/fr/i/1370196403
buy: https://superparka.bandcamp.com/

written, recorded & produced by superparka
mix by harrry, master by chab
artworks by paco

follow superparka:
https://instagram.com/superparka/
https://facebook.com/superparkaa/

GIRL

listen... i was very very influenced by greta kline lol this sounds like an impression of her i am rly sorry but i wrote this song about my ex's dog i miss her she was good to me :-/ the album art is not roxie baby but it kind of looks like her but much less fat
lyrics:
im not feeling very old yet
laced up yr shoes and kicked me in the head
fell str8 onto the concrete
watched the blood pour out of my knee
i thought i could trust u 3x
i walked yr dog on the trail
she was wagging her black tail
roxie i miss ur sloppy kisses
now i am breaking doggie dishes
cuz i miss u :-( 3x