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White Hot Moon is out 04/29/16 on Run For Cover
Pre-Order: http://smarturl.it/WhiteHotMoon

Pity Sex - Burden You

From the album THE BLUE SWELL out May 6, 2016.

Lyrics
I know you don't remember me, I still think you do
The things that we would talk about in the parking lot
Tonight I'm still a total wreck thinking bout you
Sometimes you catch a fish and you let it swim

Get back to where I'm going to with or without you
I thought if I was good enough you'd come with me
Somehow I can't get over it, instant replay
All day inside my brain, strangers stare

Oh Victoria why do you need them to adore you
When I love you
Oh Victoria why do you want them to adore you
I already

Last week I saw you out with the guys you work with
A sea of pastel all around in their polos
I know you've got a lot to say, they can't hear you
Phone it in with a smile by remote control

Oh Victoria why do you need them to adore you
When I love you
Oh Victoria why do you want them to adore you
I already
Sometimes you catch a fish and you let it swim

Oh Victoria why do you want them to adore you
When I love you
Oh Victoria why do you need them to adore you
I already
Oh Victoria say that you let me do it for you
I would always
I would always


The Blue Swell

Beverly - Victoria

Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band - High Castle Rock

Released on February 5th, 2016.

Digital: smarturl.it/istheisare
Physical: www.omnianmusicgroup.com/products/is-the-is-are


DIIV // Under The Sun

From the upcoming LP 'Before A Million Universes', out March 4th, 2016 on Exploding in Sound Records (North America) and Tough Love Records/Brace Yourself Records (EU)

Vinyl and CD Pre-orders: http://smarturl.it/BigUps.LP.CD
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/BigUps.iTunes

Tour Dates:
1/14 - Brooklyn. NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg #
3/9 - Washington, DC - Comet Ping Pong ^
3/11 - Savannah, GA - Savannah Stopover
3/12 - Nashville, TN - Freakin Weekend @ Exit/In
3/13 - Denton, TX - 35 Denton
3/15-3/20 - Austin, TX - SXSW
3/28 - Glasgow, UK - Broadcast
3/29 - Manchester, UK - Gullivers
3/30 - London, UK - Lexington
3/31 - Leeds, UK - Headrow House
4/01 - Bristol, UK - Louisiana
4/02 - Birmingham, UK - Sunflower Lounge
4/04 - Lille, FR - La Peniche
4/05 - Paris, FR - Mecanique Ondulatoire
4/06 - Brussels, BE - VK
4/08 - Groningen, NL - Vera
4/09 - Eindhoven, NL - Area 51 Skatepark
4/10 - Cologne, DE - MTC
4/11 - Vienna, AT - B72
4/12 - Bologna, IT - Freakout Club ~
4/13 - Milan, IT - Ligera
4/14 - Munich, DE - Kranhalle
4/16 - Hamburg, DE - Molotow
4/18 - Berlin, DE - Cassiopeia
4/19 - Copenhagen, DK - Loppen  	  	 
4/21 - Amsterdam, NL - OT301

# w/ Metz, Bully
^ w/ Washer
~ w/ La Quiete

Questions?
US: dave@canvasmediapr.com
EU: thom@braceyourselfpr.com

National Parks

JC Flowers first single from their debut album "Driving Excitement and the Pleasure of Ownership" out soon on ATP Recordings

JC Flowers - Ym Mhorthcawl

From cutting his teeth back home in New Zealand as a member of The D4 to his current role as bassist of Brooklyn-based A Place to Bury Strangers, Dion Lunadon has played in some form of a rock & roll band his entire life.

During a short break in touring with APTBS, Lunadon had a rush of inspiration in the form of a creative spasm — a neurotic impulse to make a batch of songs and do it right then and right there. "I sat down, really pissed off and I wrote and recorded all fifty of them. Com/Broke is about being anti- what's expected of someone entering their mid-life. Most people mellow out, but I don't want that. I want to create music that is even more ugly and more real. Lyrically, it’s from the perspective of me being resigned to giving up and essentially giving in. Negative.”

Available now on Infinity Cat Recordings, limited to 400 copies.

Com/Broke - Dion Lunadon

Is it a bird? No. Is it a plane? No. Is it a single? No. Is it a song from the new future of the left album? Yes. Yes it is. It's the sixth song, by the way, if that kind of thing matters to you (it does to us). We hope you like it but if not thousands of other bands are available. 

Here is a link to our band Facebook page (where you will also find ticket links for our upcoming UK tour - PLEASE NOTE these are only live from 4pm GMT) https://www.facebook.com/futureoftheleft/

And our current, ongoing pledge campaign
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/thepeaceandtruceoffutureoftheleft




the limits of battleships - future of the left

As released via Stereogum January 29, 2016:

After over 10 years of work on one song, Brooklyn-based indie-pop band Frances Cone are ready to release “Arizona,” the sincere, artfully crafted single off their upcoming album Late Riser. The song was mixed by Dan Molad of Lucius and mastered by Dave Cooley, who has worked with Animal Collective and Local Natives. “Arizona” tells the story of lead singer Christina Cone’s brother, the filmmaker Stephen Cone, and his experience growing up with a Southern Baptist preacher as a father. She shared a statement about the track:

“Arizona” is a song that’s been swirling around and building up in my brain for the past 10 years or so. In my late teens, I spent a week in the southwest with my brother and as a person initially very comfortable/secure with our Southern Baptist upbringing, my belief structure suddenly got pretty rattled for a variety of reasons, including meeting his first boyfriend. All the mountains of ideology I’d pretty blindly built up over the years were suddenly paper thin and almost everything changed. That time was so important to me and my brother is so important to me — it all became the groundwork of who I am, and is Arizona in song form.
“Arizona” is carried by Cone’s melodic vocals, rich harmonies, and an electrifying guitar sound. As the song builds up to the repetition of “I’m so sorry you couldn’t speak,” it is impossible to ignore the genuine emotion in Cone’s voice. Listen below.

Arizona

New single from Talk to Me so I Can Fall Asleep, the debut LP from Seattle electronic duo Crater, due out on February 26, 2016 on Help Yourself Records.

Pre-order Talk to Me so I Can Fall Asleep: 
Help Yourself (vinyl): www.shophelpyourselfrecords.com
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/talk-to-me-so-i-can-fall-asleep/id1055515824

Follow Crater on
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/crater
Facebook: www.facebook.com/craterbabes
Twitter: www.twitter.com/craterbabes
Instagram: @craterbabes

Follow Help Yourself Records on
Facebook: www.facebook.com/helpyourselfrecords
Twitter: www.twitter.com/HYRecords
Soundcloud: @helpyourselfrecords

Crater - Summer Skin

Watch the official video: http://smarturl.it/NeverGoingBackVideo

Otero War out now! 
iTunes: smarturl.it/CavemanOteroWar
Apple Music: smarturl.it/aOteroWar
Spotify: smarturl.it/sOteroWar
Google Play: smarturl.it/gOteroWar
Amazon: smarturl.it/amOteroWar

Never Going Back

Paloma walks home at night from the maquiladora
8 days later, no one has saw her
sometimes she worked late
don't that tell you just whats at stake?

we can't stop fighting 

at home, my sister- she told me a story
at the end, there's no Grace or glory
just the trial of a man
with no motive for where he stands

all my life i've felt the eye of the catcall
we're striking back baby, and you can find me in the vanguard
you say you don't understand
i can see the blood, it's on your hands

written by Sheer Mag
recorded by Sheer Mag
mixed by Hunter Davidsohn at the Business District


Can't Stop Fighting

Zula - Not The Same

Order: bit.ly/1lhkzoR

Artist: Public Memory 
Album: Wuthering Drum 
Label: felte
Release Date: March 18, 2016

http://felte.net/
https://www.facebook.com/thepublicmemory

Wuthering Drum

Zig Zag 

Public Memory - Zig Zag

Petrol (LP / Digital)
@FoFMusic, March 4, 2016

Pre-Order LP
http://anenon.bandcamp.com

Stereogum premiere
http://stereogum.com/1858046/anenon-once-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/

Petrol

Purchase Vinyl

Once

'Scraper' from Head Wound City's debut full length 'A New Wave of Violence' out 5/13 on VICE Records.

Ft. members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Blood Brothers, and The Locust

Pre-order here: http://smarturl.it/hwc-it 

https://www.facebook.com/headwoundcity
https://twitter.com/headwoundcity
headwoundcity.com

Head Wound City- 'Scraper'

NOTHING - "Vertigo Flowers" from the new album 'Tired of Tomorrow' out now on CD/LP/Deluxe 2xLP/Cassette/Digital via Relapse Records. 

Order Here: http://bit.ly/tiredoftomorrow

Download "Vertigo Flowers" on iTunes: http://geni.us/VertigoFlowersiT

Order on Bandcamp: http://wearenothing.bandcamp.com
Order on Google Play: http://geni.us/TOTGP
Order Deluxe on Google Play: http://geni.us/TOTDLXGP
Order on iTunes: http://geni.us/TOTiT
Order Deluxe on iTunes: http://geni.us/TOTDLXiT
Order on Amazon: http://geni.us/TOTAMZ
Order Deluxe on Amazon: http://geni.us/TOTDLXAMZ

Official links:

Nothing on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BANDOFNOTHING
Nothing on Bandcamp: https://wearenothing.bandcamp.com/
Nothing on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/weareonl...

http://www.relapse.com
http://www.facebook.com/relapserecords
http://www.relapserecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.twitter.com/relapserecords

Lyrics:

And I hate 
Everything you’re saying 
Anxiety 
It’s all about me  

Watch out for those 
Who dare to say 
That everything will be okay 
Watch out for those 
Who want to be Anything at all  

They’re coming for me 

Order

NOTHING - Vertigo Flowers

2nd Single from the new Woods album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, out April 8, 2016 on Woodsist.

Pre-order at iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/city-sun-eater-in-river-light/id1072915934
Pre-order CD and Vinyl: http://hyperurl.co/ytovyl

"Woods have always been experts at distilling life epiphanies into compact chunks of psychedelic folk that exists just outside of any sort of tangible time or place. Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl’s lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into City Sun Eater in the River of Light, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It’s a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It’s still the Woods you recognize, only now they’re dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. City Sun Eater in the River of Light is concise, powerful, anxious—barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world." -Sam Hockley-Smith



WOODS - CAN'T SEE AT ALL

Buy Now - https://pinkflag.greedbag.com/buy/nocturnal-koreans-0/

Wire’s new mini-album, Nocturnal Koreans, is striking in its diversity, the band fluently negotiating an expansive stylistic range, from immensely catchy pop to ambient introspection and beyond. Chronicling a sleepless night that Wire spent in a seedy Boston-area hotel on their 2013 US tour, the title track is the kind of charging, urgent tune that’s always been vocalist-songwriter Colin Newman’s forte. The lyrics, by bassist Graham Lewis, make this one of guitarist Matthew Simms’s favourites on the record, largely because of the associated memories: “It’s a great snapshot of touring America and when I hear or play that song, it reminds me of the many weird and wonderful times, places and people that cross your path.”

Nocturnal Koreans

White tears -nothing to gain

music snob by night. creative director by day. 

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