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Gig Islands' May Playlist

Hyped Tracks of 2016 - Week 18

May 2016

WithGuitars May 2016 SoundCloud playlist

Fifty-one songs make up this week's Weekend Showcase, featuring artists and bands from Australia, Beirut, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the United States, and Wales.  Take a listen and discover music's hidden gems.

You can find more information here:  http://therevue.ca/2016/05/08/weekend-showcase-2-17-3/

Weekend Showcase 2.17

Can't Run Forever

Prod. Episode

twitter.com/itsepisode
facebook.com/itsepisode

Many thanks to
Johannes Raassina on the mix
Huntley Miller on the master
Daniel Chetrit for the studio 
TheJohnnySmith for the art  

Swim

Neon Grey LP
By L.A. Girlfriend
Release date: February 3, 2016

http://lagirlfriendmusic.com/
http://lagirlfriend.bandcamp.com/
http://facebook.com/lagirlfriend
http://twitter.com/L_A_Girlfriend
https://www.instagram.com/lagirlfriend/

Available on Spotify & iTunes

©L.A. Girlfriend 2016 | Bantakat


Faye "Faye" EP out May 13, 2016 on Tiny Engines

Tape - http://tnyn.gs/fayeisaband
Bandcamp - http://tnyn.gs/faye-camp
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/faye-itunes
Amazon - http://smarturl.it/faye-amazon
Google - http://smarturl.it/faye-google

Spotify - https://play.spotify.com/album/1wNq2Wxlfj4n2QhEDV7MeT

Chow Chow

Watch the music video here: http://bit.ly/1Tgdl5E
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"Sunbreak" EP now available on Spotify (http://spoti.fi/29zYuQj) & iTunes (http://apple.co/29GzHNi)
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Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Bob Curtin at The Alamo
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Twitter: http://bit.ly/1PGOaCa
Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1SLfRzT
Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Rv6J0N
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LYRICS:
Things won't be the same when you get up and walk out the room
Who knew,
I'd even care at all but it's hard when all the oxygen leaves when you do

Your vibe is straight from a myth
A color new to exist
How'd you bend time and space?
Making life slower paced

This has to be more than just an emotion
Does love feel like you’re running without your head? 

Say it isn't so you're the part of me that plays on repeat,
For weeks
You're messing with my sleep, I can't tell if you some type of lucid dream, or real

You are the trip I let slip
Too deep into the abyss
How'd you bend time and space?
Making life slower paced

This has to be more than just an emotion
Does love feel like you're running without your head?

Please don't make me go
Please don't make me go
It would be fatal

Please don't make me go, please don't make me go back to real life
It could be fatal
Please don't make me go back to my mind

This has to be more than just an emotion
Does love feel like you're running without your head

Don't make me go
Don't make me go
It would be fatal


Spotify

Drugs

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

"Suspended Animation" is the sophomore LP from Brooklyn's Leapling. Due out June 10th on Exploding In Sound Records.

Leapling - One Hit Wonder

//LYRICS//

Spinning circles in my head,
I wanna feel what it's like to forget,
I want you to change the way I see the world,
Make me believe that there's something much more.

Time starts moving real slow,
Is it all in my mind?
I'm not gonna ever let go.
I'm giving everything back to the world,
and I don't want nothing but Lucy my girl.

It's a good love,
I can't get enough,
Even when I sleep,
My Stereo Dream.

Don't you forget, 
Feel it deep in your spine,
And you never let it rest. 
I want you running your fingers right through,
The very fabric of what's me and you.

It's a good love,
I can't get enough,
Even when I sleep,
My Stereo Dream.






<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/fdf4f5'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Buy on iTunes!

Stereo Dream

Gamma Knife

Nightdrive

Ever been dumped, of course you have. Ever been dumped for a better looking boy or girl, of course you have - DiCaprio is a bittersweet story of love, betrayal and Hollywood A-Listers.

Follow ELLEKAYE:
Facebook: http://bit.ly/ElleKayeFB
Twitter: http://bit.ly/ElleKayeTW
YouTube: http://bit.ly/ElleKayeYT

DiCaprio

mixed by leon taheny
mastered by john greenham

"Candy" is the second single from Weaves' debut album out June 17, 2016 via Kanine (US), Buzz (CAN) & Memphis Industries (ROW).

Pre-order the album at smarturl.it/weavesAPPLE (digital) + bit.ly/1QGmCgU (vinyl)

www.weavesband.com
www.kaninerecords.com
www.buzzrecords.ca
www.memphis-industries.com

Weaves

Candy

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/1ZhsVwf

Follow Estrons Online:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/estrons
Twitter: www.twitter.com/estrons_music
Instagram: www.instagram.com/estronsband

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Drop

From my debut album 'Cut and Paste' out May 13th on Wichita Recordings

Pre-order: geni.us/CutandPaste

Cut and Paste

Good Things

Oscar - Good Things

From the new album "Inner Journey Out", Out Now

LP/CD: http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/sbr155-psychic-ills-inner-journey-out
iTunes: http://apple.co/1RkgCxX
Bandcamp: https://psychicills.bandcamp.com/album/inner-journey-out

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/psychicills
Twitter: https://twitter.com/psychicills
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychicills/

TOUR DATES & TICKETS : http://bit.ly/1Mq3aDc

Psychic Ills –  Another Change

"This City Where We Reside" by Shaun Rawlins from the debut EP "Lost in Your Head".

Track released 21/04/2016 
EP released 27/05/2016

Instrumentation, Produced, Mixed, Mastered by John Webster. Vancouver, BC.
Electric Guitar: Joe Hrechka. Vancouver, BC.
Album photography, artwork, layout & design by Chelsii Scoville for Blair Design.
Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.

All songs Shaun Rawlins. Copyright of these sound recordings owned by Shaun Rawlins.
Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.

this city where we reside

Addicted To Love, original by Robert Palmer. 

The debut album 'At Hope's Ravine' is out now: https://HolyEsque.lnk.to/AtHopesRavineSo

Addicted To Love

"Death Note" is taken from Speedy Ortiz's "Foiled Again" EP, out June 3rd.

Pre-order the album here & receive "Death Note" instantly:
carpark shop - http://smarturl.it/foiledagain_carpark
iTunes​ - http://smarturl.it/foiledagain_itunes

Catch the band on tour: http://bit.ly/18k6USE
May 24th - Omaha, NE - The Waiting Room #
May 25th - Denver, CO - Marquis Theater #
May 26th - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court #
May 28th - Spokane, WA - The Bartlett #
May 29th - George, WA - Sasquatch *
May 31st - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge #
June 2nd - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Stop #
June 3rd - Fresno, CA - Strummer's #
June 4th - Ventura, CA - Large Marge #
June 5th - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex #
June 6th - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom #
June 7th - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad #
June 8th - El Paso, TX - Bowie Feathers #
June 10th - Austin, TX - Barracuda #
June 11th - Mcallen, TX - Yerberia Cultura #
June 12th - Houston, TX - Walter's Downtown #
June 13th - Dallas, TX - Club Dada #
June 14th - Norman, OK - The Opolis #
June 16th - St. Louis, MO - Firebird
June 17th - Columbus, OH - Double Happiness
July 15th - Pittsburgh, PA - Cattivo
July 17th - Louisville, KY - Forecastle Festival

* = w/ Hop Along
# = w/ The Good Life

Speedy Ortiz - Death Note

BBY, WE'RE GOING DOWN

Fifth single from the #twelvetwelve project, ongoing through 2016 from leeds based alt-pop band masses.

Simple Heart [five|twelve]

Relentless (feat. Wynne)

"Happy" from 'Puberty 2' by Mitski, out on Dead Oceans on June 17th, 2016

Dead Oceans: smarturl.it/mitski
iTunes: smarturl.it/mitski_it
Amazon: smarturl.it/mitski_amz
Support your local independent record store: smarturl.it/mitski_ind

Puberty 2

Mitski - Happy

Taken from the album 'Fall Forever', out now on Kanine Records.

Buy album and concert tickets: www.fearofmen.co.uk

Tour Dates

16th May - Espace B, Paris, France
3rd June - Resident  Instore, Brighton, UK
10th June - Fall Forever Album Launch Show - St Pancras Church, London
11th June - Long Division Festival, Wakefield, UK
13th June - Oslo, London, UK (Sold Out)*
14th June - Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, UK*
15th June - CCA. Glasgow, UK*
16th June - Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK*
30th June - DC9,Washington, DC , US
1st July -  Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, US
2nd July - The Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY , US
3rd July - Great Scott, Allston, MA, US
5th July - Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B., Montreal, QC, Canada 
6th July - The Garrison,Toronto, ON, Canada
8th July -  Schubas Tavern, Chicago, IL, US 
9th July - 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN, US 
12th July -  Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA, US 
13th July - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, US 
14th July - Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, US
17th July - The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, US 
19th July - The Hideout, San Diego, CA, US 
20th July - Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ, US
22nd July - Club Dada, Dallas, TX, US 
23rd July - Barracuda, Austin, TX, US 
25th July - The Masquerade (Purgatory), Atlanta, GA, US 
26th July - Cat’s Cradle (Backroom), Carrboro, NC, US 
27th July - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD, US
*W/ Wild Nothing

Fall Forever

Pre-order Album

Sane

JORRVASKR // RADIDAS

Recorded at Ranscombe Studios by Jim Riley, Brendan Osmonde & RADIDAS

BUY 'DREAM BUTTON' on vinyl here: https://radidas.bandcamp.com/

Follow Us:

https://www.facebook.com/rradidas/

https://www.instagram.com/radidasmusic/

https://twitter.com/RADIDASMUSIC

JORRVASKR

ANNIHILATED // RADIDAS

Recorded at Ranscombe Studios by Jim Riley, Brendan Osmonde & RADIDAS

BUY 'DREAM BUTTON' on vinyl here: https://radidas.bandcamp.com/

Follow Us:

https://www.facebook.com/rradidas/

https://www.instagram.com/radidasmusic/

https://twitter.com/RADIDASMUSIC

ANNIHILATED

'The Child' is taken from A Youthful Dream, the debut album from Yung
- in stores June 10

Pre-order:
LP/CD/limited edition transparent vinyl - http://smarturl.it/AYouthfulDream.LPCD
iTunes - http://smarturl.it/YungAlbum.iTunes

www.facebook.com/yungbandstuff

“I wrote The Child while working a summer job at a crop farm last year. I stayed at the farm for ten days and had very little to do besides working and playing the guitar. The words came much later than the music – I wrote them after CMJ. It’s a reflection on the conflict between being an artist but also being successful, so I think CMJ had some bearing on shaping the lyrics. When you start playing music you do it for the sake of writing music but when you’re signed to a label there’s commercial pressure. There are good things and bad things about that. One of the good things certainly is that you have to reinvent yourself within or beyond your music, which I tried to do with The Child, as it’s a bit different to a lot of Yung songs.” - Mikkel Holm Silkjær


pre-order iTunes

Yung - The Child

The New Vice

Yeah, I Know

“I want to go anywhere and dream away” singer Karolien Van Ransbeeck whispers in ‘Summer Sun’, Few Bits’ luscious new single, taken from their sophomore album ‘Big Sparks’.  A pitch-perfect mix of  shimmering guitars, hazy vocals and loose but galloping grooves. Imagine Real Estate tackling Mazzy Star’s ‘Fade Into You’ at 45rpm instead of 33 1/3rpm and you get the picture. But there’s a lot more to this Antwerp based band. 

Debuting in 2013 with a self-titled debut album ‘Few Bits’ they immediately stole hearts of music lovers in Belgium and beyond. The band got invited to support the likes of Vampire Weekend and The War On Drugs and went on a UK tour with The Lemonheads. Gaining confidence on stage night after night is clearly reflected in the dynamic and full dreampop sound of ‘Summer Sun’ and the themes explored on the new album. 

Karolien’s songs about the shadow side of love, about longing for something that ultimately always remains just out of reach, and about finally having the courage to relinquish control come from a deeply personal place. “I always write autobiographically", she explains, "I'm not really interested in writing from someone else's perspective. A song doesn't just have to sound good, it also has to express exactly what I feel. Otherwise I'd rather throw it away. I don't come up with fiction. Every word, every comma, has to fit my head and my heart." 
Fresh from making their US debut at this year’s SXSW Festival, and just in time for the Canadian Music Week and The Great Escape, Few Bits is ready to win over hearts and ears all over the world with their new single ‘Summer Sun’

Join us on their trip and dream away.


FEW BITS - Summer Sun

Yuck covers "Bled White" for "Say Yes! A Tribute To Elliott Smith" out now on CD, LP, Cassette, and Digitally. Order today from Amazon, iTunes and everywhere fine records are sold.

Yeah, I Know

OTHERKIN