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After years of writing and performing, Ava Luna has refined their doo-wop soul meets punk-as-fuck aesthetic into something bold and glaringly defiant in today's indie music landscape. Following the release of their critically lauded first proper full-length Ice Level, the band spent an intense 2-week period writing and recording in upstate New York. Unlike previous efforts that were meticulously mapped out, the songs that would become Electric Balloon were "…a family effort." according to frontman Carlos Hernandez. For the new album, former Columbia composition student Hernandez relinquished the reins a bit, opting for a more organic approach to writing the material for what would become Electric Balloon. As Hernandez explains, it was a "…birth of confidence. I grew closer to my bandmates, began to see the roles of a family playing out. Ethan cooks dinner for all of us, we make lewd jokes, and then 'after-dinner storytelling' takes the form of playing music." 

In the wake of Ice Level, Ava Luna's sharp edges have melted away just enough, making it easier to connect with their no-wave grooves and soaring harmonies. Distilling everything from James Chance and ESG to contemporaries like Dirty Projectors and Of Montreal, Ava Luna have landed on an aggressively unique sound that still manages to be accessible. Hernandez goes on to explain "…the stories and moments here are clearer, as in a conversation. The moment appears, you grab it with your hands, screw the lid on the mason jar. There was no tweaking, no second-guessing. Julian's mantra for the process: 'First thought best thought.'….And for my part, I sing my best about encounters, friendships, some moments beautiful and others painful. A bike shop manager in New Orleans, a derelict porch on Brighton Beach, a yellow sweater in a kitchen in the Catskills, a water duct in the New Mexico desert…"

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Ava Luna - PRPL

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While on a writing retreat in the sleepy southern town of Benton, Mississippi, the members of New York's Ava Luna came across an abandoned house while on a walk through the woods.  Overgrown, rotting, and littered with evidence of its past inhabitants, the maze-like dwelling would haunt their psyches throughout the writing and recording of their third full-length Infinite House.  Like Borges' "Library of Babel", the seemingly endless rooms and hallways in the old house felt like a metaphor for the invisble, internal labyrinths, which the band explores lyrically and sonically on their new album.  

Self-recorded in Benton and at Gravesend Recordings, the Brooklyn studio run by drummer Julian Fader and vocalist/guitar player Carlos Hernandez, and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, MGMT), it is safely their most polished recording to date. But their trademark intensity, mirthful humor, and angularity remain resolutely in place, the burnished surfaces illuminating the stories beneath like never before.  Working with Fridmann, Fader and Hernandez artfully employ the studio to further the album's preternatural vibe.  As Hernandez explains "Dave Fridmann was able to augment this music in a really special way, removing it from the literal realm and putting it in a really psychedelic/fictional place."  By questioning, or maybe just forgetting the rules of the real world, on Infinite House the band has grown beyond the "nervous soul" descriptor they've been tagged with in the past, delivering an album on which nightmarish moments can phoenix into revelations that help us reconnect with the surreal magic in our everyday lives.  Of course, you don't have to dig into the intellectual concepts or references to love this album, or enjoy the band's twisted mystical perspective.  On a very superficial level, these songs are sensual, vibrant, and fun.

Ava Luna - Billz

Doldrums - Loops

From the album Infinite House on Western Vinyl.

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Ava Luna
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04-24 Stony Brook, NY @ SUNY
04-25 Boston, MA @ O’Briens
04-26 New Paltz, NY @ SUNY New Paltz
04-28 Philadelphia, PA @ The Pharmacy ^
04-29 Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery ^
04-30 Washington, D.C. @ Comet Ping Pong 
05-01 Richmond, VA @ Gallery5 
05-02 Raleigh, NC @ Kings ^
05-03 Columbia, SC @ Brookland Tavern ^
05-04 Charleston, SC @ Royal American ^
05-05 Atlanta, GA @ 529
05-06 Savannah, GA @ Hangfire ^
05-07 Tallahassee, FL @ All Saints
05-08 New Orleans @ One Eyed Jacks
05-09 Houston, TX @ Walter’s
05-11 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
05-13 Indio, CA @ Coachella Valley Art Scene
05-14 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
05-16 Los Angeles CA @ Pehrspace
05-17 Santa Barbara, CA @ Funzone
05-20 San Francisco, CA @ Brick & Mortar Music Hall
05-21 Oakland, CA @ Leo’s
05-22 Portland, OR @ Bunk Bar
05-23 Seattle, WA @ Cairo
05-24 Olympia, WA @ Obsidian
05-26 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
05-28 Denver, CO @ Leon Gallery
05-30 Chicago, IL @ Observatory
05-31 Detroit, MI @ New Dodge
06-01 Milwaukee, WI @ Cocoon Room
06-02 Indianapolis, IN @ Joyful Noise
06-03 Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light
06-04 Cincinnati, OH @ The Woodward

^ w/ ET Anderson

Ava Luna - "Steve Polyester"

The first single and last track from 'Abandonware,' the ambitious new album by Ryan Newmyer/Jen Goma of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Kurt Feldman of Ice Choir.

pre-order now at https://romanaclef.bandcamp.com/

These games we play
Are another way
To redefine the pleasure
Of sign and decay

Has that romantic streak marbled your heart?
Spend all your days picking up pieces
Of a life, that by all rights hasn’t fallen apart

Do you know what I mean?
What power gives my words meaning?

You told me, long ago, that your friends were your family
Now that you are angry with them all the time
I guess they really are

Disappointed, or Relieved?
Such easy cruelty
I can’t believe you'd be so naive

Any bond can be poisoned, 
If you’re to be believed

Despite what people say
Ours is no heroic act

Love and Decay
Yet we live against the day

Grow up and apart
Grow old and get smart
From the ghosts that share your name
Hone your art

Do you still live like you did?
Takeout five nights in a row
Laundry’s at the wash and fold
And good god, you’re looking old!

Over your shoulder
At a world getting older
What can we bring?
We still haven’t learned a thing!

Roman à Clef - Abandonware (Josh And Jer)

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Steady Holiday - Your Version Of Me

New Lushlife + CSLSX album Ritualize out on Western Vinyl February 19, 2016. 

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Lushlife + CSLSX - "This Ecstatic Cult ft. Killer Mike"

Should I Remain Here, At Sea?

Islands - Back Into It

Taste

Islands - Charm Offensive

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COACHELLA, Sundays April 17th and 24th
June residency at The Satellite LA, free every Monday.

Steady Holiday is Dre Babinski. Until now you could find her playing in bands around LA, opening for big tent stuff like Fitz and the Tantrums and Fun dot, and making a record with some friends from Dr. Dog. She enjoyed the sideman life, but longed for an outlet of her own, writing and recording in secret, developing a body of work about hidden desire itself. Steady Holiday is her coming out party, featuring Josh Adams (Jenny Lewis) and produced by Gus Seyffert (The Black Keys, Beck).

Under the Influence

Grip It

Steady Holiday - Open Water

“Hurt Me (feat. GABI)” is the new single from NYC collective House of Feelings. With production from Dale Eisinger of Yvette, the track contrasts industrial drums with a driving sax sample courtesy band leader Matty, then kicks into gear with a bassline schooled in Detroit. Featured vocalist GABI straight up dares the listener to "hurt me... you ain't gonna hurt me", turning every nightclub predator's cowardice back on themselves, as the track builds and her power grows. 

The track is taken from a forthcoming EP, to be released by Infinite Best (Mr Twin Sister, Ava Luna) in August 2017.  

Tickets are on sale now for House of Feeling VII, featuring DJ sets from DJ Olive T + DJ Kris Petersen, FITNESS (GODMODE), and Helado Negro, and live sets from KAG (Katie from Priests) and House of Feelings’ first ever headline set: https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=33149185105

House of Feelings is an NYC based collective helmed by Matty Fasano and featuring a bevy of talent from the basements and bedroom studios of the New York underground. At once a band, weekly radio show, and roving dance party, the crew has swelled ranks and earned a growing following through a modern, multidisciplinary approach to creating and sharing music, fully embracing the community aspect so often present in the culture of dance music.

House of Feelings - Hurt Me (feat. GABI)

"Across The Multiverse" is the first single from Dent May's forthcoming record, "Across The Multiverse", out August 18th on Carpark Records.

Pre-orders available here:
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Dent May - Across The Multiverse (feat. Frankie Cosmos)

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"I did one last disco song"

This track was written with a specific instrument in mind: the unmistakable voice of Shamir Bailey, who recently traded glimmering disco-pop ballads for a new brand of soul-searching lo-fi. A duet with House of Feelings bandleader Matty Fasano, who contributed sax on Shamir’s 2015 debut Ratchet, the song appears to bookend a certain phase of Shamir’s musical life (the above quote was tweeted by Shamir when we announced the track's existence). That bittersweet, maybe-an-ending, maybe-a-beginning feeling is manifest in the series of repeated, unanswered questions that make up the lyrics. "Who's gonna change the motion / when you're standing right by my side?"

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Last Chance EP tracklist:
01 Teach You
02 Last Chance
03 Hurt Me (feat. GABI)
04 Avatar (feat. Meredith Graves)
05 Keep On Running
06 It'll Cost You
07 Falling (feat. Shamir)
08 Let's Pretend

House of Feelings is an NYC based collective helmed by Matty Fasano and featuring a bevy of talent from the basements and bedroom studios of the New York underground. At once a band, weekly radio show, and roving dance party, the crew has swelled ranks and earned a growing following through a modern, multidisciplinary approach to creating and sharing music, fully embracing the community aspect so often present in the culture of dance music.

House of Feelings - Falling (feat. Shamir)

From Moon King's new album "Hamtramck '16"
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Hamtramck '16

In & Out

Moon King - In & Out

Jaipur

Echo Arms

Off the forthcoming album "Animator." Out on Dead Oceans October 16. 

Animator

Fifty Fifty

The Luyas - "Fifty Fifty"

Carlos Hernandez is the son of a ’70s New York soul DJ. After a detour playing in punk and noise projects, he returned to his soul roots and formed Ava Luna, a band of two girls and four guys, to explore a sound that combines all those ideas.

“Brooklyn’s Ava Luna is the rare band that needs to be heard to be believed. In the band’s hazy, floaty, post-TVOTR-maybe conceit, post-punk grooves, soaring soul harmonies, and classic indie detachment join forces for something beautiful, infectious, and damn-near indescribable. The twisted brainchild of Carlos Hernandez, the son of a soul DJ and occasional producer of bands like Fucked Up, Ava Luna is the sum of a lot of somehow congruous parts. The minimal drums/bass/synth lineup kicks out the most skeletal of Ze Records-era post-punk/nu-funk; a chorus made up of three backing singers add a razor-sharp doo-wop lilt; the sweat-soaked Hernandez is up front stirring-soul like Jamie Liddell or a James Chance for the Misshapes age.”
- Christopher Weingarten, Village Voice
