Produced by Arthur Young
Mastered by Brett Orrison
Written by Desert Mountain Tribe

Rolling

From the album Shriek, out April 29, 2014 on Merge Records.
http://www.mergerecords.com/shriek

Shriek

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Wye Oak "Glory"

Download on iTunes

Ben Khan - Youth

MONTREAL SEX MACHINE. GM056. DEBUT 12" OUT 15 JUNE 2014.

press contact nbs at entergodmode dot com

Montreal Sex Machine - Blackout - GODMODE

Produced by Nacey

Available now on iTunes: tinyurl.com/MisunFeelBetter

Buy on iTunes

Misun - After Me


The highway shimmers like a serpent's back
Asphalt melting into sticky black
Sun's a burning eye that won't look away
Been driving through this hell for three long days

The radio's been dead since yesterday
Just static and the preacher's ranting voice
Talking about judgment and the final fire
About how all us sinners have to make a choice

Death Valley, Death Valley
Where the rain forgot how to fall
Death Valley, Death Valley
The path to our final curtain call
Death Valley, Death Valley
Death Valley, Death Valley

The mountains look like sleeping giants' bones
Bleached white by the merciless sun
Above, the vultures circle in formation
Want to eat us all before they’re done

Saw a sign said "Last Water - 50 Miles"
But the station was abandoned, ancient, defiled
Just rusted pumps and broken glass
A monument to a more hopeful past

Death Valley, Death Valley
Where the rain forgot how to fall
Death Valley, Death Valley
The path to our final curtain call
Death Valley, Death Valley
Death Valley, Death Valley

Keep driving... keep driving...
There's no turning back now...


Death Valley

"Jaakko Eino Kalevi" is out now.

Order at iTunes:  http://apple.co/1H6gwY9
Order from Weird World: http://bit.ly/1GvRCvq



Jaakko Eino Kalevi feat. Farao - Everything Nice (Popcaan cover)

Out on 10th Feb on limited 7" (250 copies).
Pre-order - speedywunderground.com/shop/

SW020 - JW Ridley - Everything (Deathless) - Part 1

From the album Warrior, available April 6, 2018 from Western Vinyl

Bandcamp: https://airwaves.bandcamp.com/album/warrior
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/warrior/1337353378?ls=1&app=itunes
WV: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv167

The album cover for Warrior, the third full-length by Brooklyn-based band Air Waves, features a ominous, androgynous figure standing with a bicycle, wearing a gas mask adorned with a daisy.  The remarkable image was taken on April 22nd, 1970 at the inaugural Earth Day celebration in New York City by Nicole Schneit’s dad, Martin Schneit.  Forty-seven years later, artist Em Rooney hand-painted Schneit’s original black & white photo, resulting in an image that radiates with Warrior’s indefatigable spirit, strength, and love.

Like many queer women, Nicole Schneit is a warrior by necessity, fighting for basic rights, dignity, and acceptance.  Such determination in the face of hardship and injustice runs in Schneit’s family; her new album was inspired in part by her mom who was diagnosed with fallopian cancer last year.  As she explains, “The doctor told her she had a fifteen to twenty percent chance, and her response was ‘I’m going to get this mother fucker.’ So the title ‘Warrior’ and the song are about her. After chemotherapy,  surgery, and then more chemotherapy, all the cancer in her body has left and she's currently in remission. I feel like most of the people in my life, including myself, are warriors and have overcome obstacles that seemed impossible to defeat.”

The dignified fighter archetype referenced in the album’s title is explored on each of Warrior’s eleven pieces of bittersweet, empowering indie pop.  According to Schneit the song “Gay Bets”, written after the 2016 election is “about being gay and being proud and open. I was thinking about hate crimes spiking and the current state of the world. My friend Jennifer Moore, who sings on the track, was my partner a long time ago, so I felt like I was writing a fuck you to Trump, for trying to take away queer rights, women's rights, people's rights.”  The song “Tangerine” was inspired by the film of the same name in which two trans women try to make ends meet as prostitutes. This movie, a dark docu-comedy shot in the contrastingly sunny setting of L.A., reflects Schneit’s battle between identity and society via Brooklyn pop rock that swings between the pastel-tinged and the downright melancholic.

On the album’s gorgeous closer “Blue Fire,” (inspired by the Adrienne Rich poem "The Will to Change") Schneit equates her post-presidential-election anxiety to a flame that grows and recedes, as she pleads for herself and listeners to remain calm. Like its namesake, the track burns slowly and brightly into one of the most glowing points on the record, leaving the listener smiling with thoughtful hope.  Warrior’s highlights, and all of the unmissable, satisfying pieces that tie them together show Schneit’s perseverance and resilience through crumbling relationships, personal adversity, and the current political climate, all leading to her most powerful collection of songs to date. Understated, subtly sophisticated, and equally empowering and comforting, Warrior launches Air Waves above the apolitical complacency of too many of the group's contemporaries.  Schneit proudly declares her mission statement: “I want these songs to be heard by people in my queer community, but also by anyone that wants to feels strong, powerful, and included.”

Warrior

Air Waves - "Warrior" ft. Kevin Morby

The Dark Side

The new single from Pure X's forthcoming LP, "Crawling up the stairs", available May 14 2013
on Acephale records in North America and Merok records in Europe and the United Kingdom

North American LP Pre-order: http://acephale.bigcartel.com/

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

05/03 - St. Louis, MO - The Firebird
05/04 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
05/07 – Toronto – The Silver Dollar
05/08 – Montreal – Lambi
05/10 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Showcase Lounge
05/11 – Boston, MA – Great Scott
05/12 – Hamden, CT – Outer Space
05/14 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
05/15 – Brooklyn, NY – 285 Kent Avenue
05/16 – Baltimore, MD – Ottobar
05/17 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
05/18 – Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
05/20 – Oxford, MS – Lamar Lounge
05/21 – New Orleans, LA – Circle Bar
05/23 – Austin, TX – Holy Mountain
05/24 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s (w/ Black Angels)
05/25 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater (w/ Black Angels)
05/26 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit (w/ Black Angels)

Pure X -  www.Mellowthrasher.tumblr.com
Facebook: ww.facebook.com/purextx

Things in my Head

PURE X