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Joe Strummer 001

It's A Rockin' World

Produced by Chris Keys and Daoud Anthony @daoudmakesmusic
Written by ASTU
Recorded at AfterOurs Studios 
Mixed/Mastered by Gabriel Masterson at 25th St Recording

ASTU, Eritrean R&B/soul singer-songwriter out of Oakland, CA, discusses sex, love and all the complications that follow in her premiere EP-Patterns. Honest, raw lyrics are lifted by synth-filled rhythms and soulful melodies. ASTU captures the modern romance in all its vulnerability and volatility. “‘Patterns’ is my attempt to dissect the stories my generation repeats and the lens we view love through, in hopes to break the hollow patterns that hold us back from it.” Written by ASTU and produced by Daoud Anthony, who is known for his current work with up and coming Chicago-rapper SABA, Patterns is promising to  be one of the most anticipated releases of 2018.

Roots

Berlin by way of Norway multi-instrumentalist and producer Farao has signed to Western Vinyl.  To celebrate this announcement, we’re making her new song “The Ghost Ship” available. 

“‘The Ghost Ship’ is about losing a sense of direction, your fate being driven by something out of your control,” explains Kari Jahnsen, a/k/a Farao. “Seeing the end of a relationship as an empty vessel, floating endlessly and eternally into nothingness.”

Farao’s 2015 debut album Till It’s All Forgotten and its songs earned her press attention from outlets including Pitchfork “Jahnsen's work defies categorization and commodification at every turn”, The FADER, NPR Music, Noisey “gorgeous folk melodies and lush vocals”, Vanity Fair, Paste, Clash, and The Line Of Best Fit. She has also performed at a number of UK and European festivals such as Green Man, End of the Road, Øya, Roskilde, BY:LARM, and Eurosonic.
 
Farao is currently at work on a new album and more details will be announced soon.

http://www.farao.co.uk/	
https://www.facebook.com/faraomusic	
https://twitter.com/faraomusic	
https://www.instagram.com/faraomusic/	
US Booking kmorse@paradigmagency.com
EU Booking kalle@pitchandsmith.com
Management thomas@votiv.is

Pure-O

Farao - "The Ghost Ship"

Betty, Pt. 1

Friend Like Me

Buxton - Hanging On The Coast

"Bad Idea" is the third single taken from Madeline Kenney's forthcoming album, "Perfect Shapes," out October 5th.

PRE-ORDER
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TOUR DATES
October 15th – Santa Cruz, CA – The Crepe Place^
October 18th – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Shop*
October 20th – Los Angeles, CA – Moroccan Lounge^
October 21st – San Diego, CA – Che Cafe^
November 1st – Brooklyn, NY – Baby's All Right
November 2nd – Lancaster, PA – Tellus 360
November 3rd – Washington, DC – Songbyrd
November 4th – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
November 6th – Toronto, ON – Monarch
November 7th – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
November 8th – Cincinnati, OH – MOTR Pub
November 9th – Chicago, IL – Schubas
November 11th – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who?
November 13th – Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
November 14th – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade Bristol
November 15th – London, UK – Sebright Arms
November 16th – Paris, FR – Petit Bain
November 17th – Graz, AT – Autumn Leaves
November 18th – Berlin, DE – Monarch
November 20th – Brussels, BE – Botanique Witloof Bar
 
^ w/ Rose Droll
* w/ Sandy's, Boy Scouts

Madeline Kenney - Bad Idea

Fall into the Sun

Margaret

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The debut EP from New York band Public Practice, Distance is a Mirror, is a confident, juried testimony of love steeped in dark optimism. Dry, dead pan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves—songs snapping like rubber bands—seesawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. With contradicting references as overt as Talking Heads (without the shoulders), but as specific as Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra (with some polka dots), the band is carrying a funky torch that does not get lit too often. 

The four members of Public Practice—singer Sam York, guitarist Vince McClelland, synth/bassist and vocalist Drew Citron, and drummer/programmer and producer Scott Rosenthal—are no strangers to song writing. A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project WALL and local pop band Beverly. Public Practice backs their ambitious song writing with serious chops, their live shows already pulling them into the sharp foreground of a scene growing all too warm-and-fuzzy.

Sam York’s lyrics reflect the city and it’s contradictions—they are personal, funny, cryptic and surreal, but never truly pessimistic, rotating around an individual’s toxic but symbiotic relationship with perception. Songs like the sarcastically-titled “Foundation” deep-fry Beach Boys guitars in ice-cold-but-somehow-funky Scritti Politti grooves. Add a dead pan David Byrney vocal, and Public Practice remind us again how integral it is to use honesty and self-reflection to bring some of life’s double-standards to light.

By the end of the short and bitter-sweet 4-song EP, punctuated by Sam York’s sign-off of “no you can’t take it back now,” Public Practice anchors themselves as a new band with wisdom like their influences, bringing songs distinctly fresh as they are familiar. Public Practice will privately change your mind about where guitar music is going. Tired of the familiar? Seeing dots? Wake up! 

Recorded and produced by Public Practice. Mastered by Carl Saff.

BUY VINYL/CD

Public Practice - Fate/Glory (From the "Distance is a Mirror" EP)

Keep a Little Soul

Keep a Little Soul (Outtake, 1982)

'Come To Pass' appears on the album 'Thunder Follows The Light' out 21 September 2018 through Transgressive Records. Pre-order it at http://transgressive.co.uk/thunder-follows-the-light/

http://www.mutualbenef.it/

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and I’ve been waiting for a long time
seems like we’ve waited for a lifetime
but I think its better not to grieve 
for a fiction of how things used to be
‘cause I have a feeling it won’t ever come around

and I can’t seem to shake these bad dreams
so we keep burning all our sage leaves
in hopes that the smoke will clear the air
a cure for something that isn’t there
‘cause I have a feeling it won’t ever come around

‘cause I think its better not to grieve 
for a fiction of how things used to be 
‘cause I have a feeling it won’t ever come around

Thunder Follows the Light

Come To Pass

One Big Nothing

Hit Me Hard

Busted Stuff

Lovely Day

Lovely Day (feat. Lalah Hathaway)

The new album by Juliana Hatfield featuring 11 brand new tracks. Available January 18, 2019 on CD, LP, CD, DL via www.alr-music.com

Weird

It's So Weird by Juliana Hatfield

Your Smith - Closer Than This

Free Download
https://porcelainraft.bandcamp.com/track/night-tides

Guess who's hiding, in a house made of snow 
As the crimson flowers are burning 
As my body begun to fall 
The coming of the night tides 
As I lay on the sand 
I'm waiting for the water to carry me away 
To carry me away. 

All the voices of the world are keeping me awake 
Birds all around the Sun 
dying while they are dancing 

As the snow begun to melt revealing what this is 
And the Beast came at last asking you to give in 
Did you give in?

Night Tides

"So Right So Clean" is taken from Cloud Nothings' forthcoming album, "Last Building Burning," out October 19th on Carpark Records.

PRE-ORDER
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TOUR DATES
October 22nd – Lexington, KY – The Burl
October 23rd – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
October 24th – Birmingham, AL – Saturn
October 25th – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
October 26th – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
October 27th – Austin, TX – Barracuda
October 28th  Dallas, TX – Club Dada
October 30th – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
November 1st – San Diego, CA – Casbah
November 2nd – Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
November 3rd – San Francisco, CA – The Independent
November 5th – Seattle, WA – Neumos
November 6th – Vancouver, BC – Imperial
November 7th – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
November 9th – Boise, ID – Neurolux
November 10th – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
November 11th – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater
November 13th – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
November 14th – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
November 15th – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi
November 16th – Columbus, OH – The A&R Music Bar
November 17th – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
November 26th – Detroit, MI – El Club
November 27th – Toronto, ON – Opera House
December 1st – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
December 4th – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
December 5th – Pittsburgh, PA – The Club at Stage AE
December 6th – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
December 9th – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
December 11th – Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
December 14th – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
January 25th – Brighton, UK – Patterns
January 26th  – Birmingham, UK – The Castle & Falcon
January 27th  – Manchester, UK – Band on the Wall
January 28th  – Glasgow, UK – St. Lukes
January 30th  – Bristol, UK – Thekla
January 31st  – London, UK – EartH
February 1st – Paris, FR – Point Ephémère
February 3rd  – Brussels, BE – Rotonde - Botanique
February 4th  – Cologne, DE – Luxor
February 5th  – Tilburg, NL – 013
February 6th – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Noord
February 7th  – Hamburg, DE – Knust
February 8th  – Berlin, DE – Musik & Frieden
February 9th  – Warsaw, PL – Poglos
February 11th  – Prague, CZ – Underdogs
February 12th  – Vienna, AT – Chelsea
February 13th  – Zagreb, HR – Tvornica Kulture
February 14th  – Milan, IT – Ohibò
February 15th – Rome, IT – Monk
February 16th  – Bologna, IT – Covo Club
February 18th  – Zurich, CH – Bogen F
February 19th  – Lausanne, CH – Le Romandie Rock Club
February 21st  – San Sebastian, ES – Dabadaba Club
February 22nd  – Madrid, ES – Sala Q
February 23rd  – Valencia, ES – La Marina (free show)
February 24th – Barcelona, ES – La 2
March 11th – Tokyo, JP – Shibuya Tsutaya O-East
March 12th – Nagoya, JP – Nagoya Club Quattro
March 13th – Osaka, JP – Umeda Trad

Cloud Nothings - So Right So Clean

Old Stone Gang

20 Miles South Of Wrong

Safe in the Arms of Time

We Are Blood

Taken from the album, Happy In The Hollow, out January 25th 2019. 

The vinyl pressing of the album is available in several different variants - the first, only available via the Tough Love webstore, is on 180gm vinyl, includes a bonus 12" featuring remixes by Sonic Boom and Cosey Fanni Tutti, and is limited to 300 copies. The second, in conjunction with the Dinked indie store collective, is limited to 700 copies on 'ultra clear' vinyl, features alternative artwork and a 'secret 7"'. Finally, a third version will be available exclusively from Rough Trade Records, and features an alternative 'secret 7"' on 'snow white' vinyl, limited to 200 copies. Pre-order here - http://smarturl.it/ToyHappyInTheHollow

TOY - Sequence One

I have more CDs than I need but less than I want

Fall Trax From All Over

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