Barely Legal (1st thing the orwells ever did)

I Won't Wait

From Cold Beat/ Over Me out July 8th on Crime On The Moon

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Mirror

The first single from New Mexico-based bedroom machine Balue's forthcoming album, Quiet Dreamer, due out June 24th on cassette and digital formats via Fleeting Youth Records.

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Balue- Charming Flow

First online single from the Living Eyes new LP "Living Large", due out January 2015.
Out in AU through Anti Fade from January 30 and in UK/EU through Agitated from January 19.

Geelong delinquents the Living Eyes have just churned out a second LP of burners to hit the shelves early 2015, following their self-titled debut from 2013.  
Since then the band have thrown around a handful of singles, shows and a split 7”, but its common ground that all arrows are pointed towards this new long player. As of January 30, the Living Eyes will unhinge a new belt of stompers to make up LP round two. 
The album was predominantly recorded by Straight Arrows’ front man Owen Penglis over a day and a half spent in Sydney at Penglis’ new hideout; Goliath Professional Recording Studio. The tapes were then driven back down the Hume highway and finished off in a couple of West Geelong bedrooms, before being mailed to Rye mixing master, Mikey Young. 
Living Large takes off in a somewhat new direction since the S/T LP, filling out with more sharp cuts and guitar crunch but still keeping the snotty sound they’d always had. In a few words – it’s a poppy punk record that sounds nothing like pop punk. 
But it’s nothing to dwell on - its ten tracks wide and 26 minutes minutes long and it’ll spin faster than your average long player any day of the week. 



THE LIVING EYES - High Standards (Living Large LP - 2015)

"The Graduates" is taken from Speedy Ortiz's forthcoming album "Foil Deer" out April 20th in UK and April 21st in USA. speedyortiz.com

itunes pre-order w/ instant grat download of "raising the skate" &
"the graduates": smarturl.it/foildeer_itunes
pre-order via carpark records: bit.ly/1zFcZ8C

Speedy Ortiz on tour:
04/22 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair#
04/24 Hamden, CT @ The Space#
04/25 New York City, NY @ Bowery Ballroom#
04/26 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s#
04/28 Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo!
04/29 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop!
04/30 Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle!
05/01 Madison, WI @ Frequency!
05/02 Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry!
05/03 Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s!
05/04 Champaign, IL @ High Dive!
05/06 Washington, DC @ Black Cat!
05/07 Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter~
05/08 Chapel Hill, NC @ Cat’s Cradle (Backstage)~
05/09 Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
05/10 Orlando, FL @ The Beacham Theater%
05/12 Tampa, FL @ The Crowbar~
05/13 New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa~
05/14 Houston, TX @ Walter’s Downtown$
05/15 Austin, TX @ Red 7$
05/16 Dallas, TX @ Club Dada$
05/19 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar$
05/21 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo$
05/22 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room$
05/23 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium$
05/25 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios^
05/26 Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt^
05/27 Seattle, WA @ Barboza^
05/29 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court*
05/30 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge*
05/31 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room*
06/01 Columbia, MO @ Rose Music Hall
06/02 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird*
06/04 Detroit, MI @ UFO Factory*
06/05 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern*
06/06 Montréal, QC @ Bar Le "Ritz" P.D.B.*
07/17-07/19 Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Fest
07-31-08/02 Sackville, NB, Canada @ Sappy Fest
08/07 San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands

# w/ Mitski and Krill
! w/ Krill and Two Inch Astronaut
~ w/ Krill
% w/ Jenny Lewis
$ w/ Alex G
^ w/ Alex G and Broken Water
* w/ Alex G and Palehound

Speedy Oritz - The Graduates

Glazin'

Cool Vapors

Jacuzzi Boys - Cool Vapors

“You know, it’s really weird”, opines Veronica Falls’ honey-throated singer/ guitarist/ lynchpin Roxanne Clifford when asked about their media-conceived “goth pop” tag. “Because when you start a band, and you start writing songs together, you never think anybody else is going to hear them. You’re just kind of writing it for yourselves. Songs like “Found Love in a Graveyard” and “Beachy Head”, we thought they were playful and not serious at all...”

Veronica Falls are used to wrong-footing easy assumptions. Initially grouped with the explosion of lo-fi bands associated with the fertile Brooklyn indie, the quartet of Clifford, drummer Patrick Doyle, fellow guitarist James Hoare and bassist Marion Herbain quietly released a series of limited edition, quickly sold out singles which gradually accrued them underground buzz and a cache of hopelessly devoted fans. Then they released a blinder of a debut LP in 2011, one which trumped all expectations and led to mountains of excellent reviews and two sold-out US tours. Casual listeners  who just assumed that they just made pretty, pristine pop songs were forced to reevaluate their preconceptions when they examined the lyrics more closely – lurking beneath the glacial surfaces were lyrics about suicide and spectral love. Now, with their sophomore album, Veronica Falls look set to pull out the rug from under people’s feet yet again.

“Waiting For Something to Happen” sees the band emerge as one of the most potent and affecting, fully-formed indie guitar pop acts we have around. Beautifully mature and poignant, this marvelously assured second record sees the band throw off the casually morbid references to elegantly distill the essence of an aimless twenty-something existence – the collective anxieties, tension and confusion of moving from adolescence into fully fledged adulthood – into a set of immaculately conceived, perfectly wrought pop songs.

“I’d say the word “wistful” really describes the mood of the album”, Clifford muses. “We chose the album title because to me it captures what people our age are all going through”. Indeed, the emotional through-line, from the title down, is one of slowly coming to terms with the process of growing up and eventually learning to face adult responsibility, of leaving behind the safe haven of “driving late at night, I’ll let you listen to the music you like...everything’s alright” (as they sing on the dreamy, dewy-eyed “Teenage”), and then searching for a “shooting star to point me in the right direction” (“Shooting Star”). Far from retreading the playful atmosphere of the debut, the band here mine a much more rich, emotionally resonant vein, be it weariness with dead end social scenes (“So Tired”), or the fear of your peers moving on with their lives before you’re ready (“Everybody’s Changing”).

Musically too, this album sees the band evolve into a more poised and confident pop entity, the melodies bolder and songs more muscular. Recorded with Rory Attwell (who has worked with everyone from The Vaccines to Male Bonding), these are tracks which spin gorgeous, sun-kissed melodies across their tales of growing pains and romantic dysfunction. So there are deliciously askew pop belters in the form of “Buried Alive” and “Everybody’s Changing”, but there are also achingly tender moments present too, from the touching love song “Broken Toy” (“I am broken too, a broken toy like you”), to the gentle reverie “Daniel”, which strips the track to its barest essentials – shimmering guitar lines and perfectly harmonized vocals sighing, “nobody needs to know what we know, nobody needs to go where we go” to perfectly heart rending effect. 
You may have had them tagged as goth-tinged pop fantasists, but with “Waiting For Something to Happen”, Veronica Falls easily shrug off any notions of a difficult second album to create something that is easily more polished, more affecting, and more enduring than their peers would dream of making, and stake their claim as one of the most gloriously unpredictable and invaluable bands on the scene right now. Clutch them close to your heart.

Out now on Slumberland Records (US and Canada) and Bella Union (Rest of the World)

Order: http://www.slumberlandrecords.com/catalog/show/245
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/waiting-for-something-to-happen/id589948598

And catch them on tour in March:

03/6 — Black Cat, Washington DC + (www.blackcatdc.com)
03/7 — Johnny Brendas, Philadelphia, PA + (www.r5productions.com)
03/8 — Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY + (http://www.boweryballroom.com/)
03/9 — Great Scott, Boston, MA + (www.boweryboston.com)
03/10 — Divan Orange, Montreal + (www.evenko.ca)
03/12 — The Garrison, Toronto, ON + (www.collectiveconcerts.com)
03/13 — Beachland Tavern, Cleveland, OH +
03/14 — Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL + (www.emptybottle.com)
03/15 — High Noon Saloon, Madison, WI + (www.trueendeavors.com)
03/16 — 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN +
03/18 — Hi-Dive, Denver, CO (http://www.hi-dive.com/event/186545/) +
03/21 — Tractor, Seattle, WA ^
03/22 — Media Club, Vancouver, BC # (www.timbreconcerts.com)
03/23 — Doug Fir, Portland, OR ^ (http://www.dougfirlounge.com/)
03/26 — Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA^ (http://www.rickshawstop.com/)
03/29 — The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA ^ (http://www.theecho.com/)
03/30 — Casbah, San Diego, CA ^ (http://www.casbahmusic.com/)

+ w/Cold Showers
^ w/Brilliant Colors & Golden Grrrls
# w/Brilliant Colors

Veronica Falls - Buried Alive

The Growl's new single 'Liarbird' (available on digitally Feb 22). Taken from their debut LP 'What Would Christ Do??' (in store and online April 5th 2013, independently through MGM Distribution)

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rSu3dQz-Y
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/liarbird-single/id602670996
Merch: www.legrowl.bandcamp.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/legrowl
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thegrowlmusic

www.thegrowl.com.au

The Growl - Liarbird

Much anticipated debut long player from the king of garage-camp bubblegum.  Too Young To Be In Love is set for a March 29, 2011 release.

Too Young To Be In Love

Hunx and His Punx - Too Young to Be in Love

Shannon and the Clams-Troublemaker

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

Jacuzzi Boys - Cool Vapors

Sub Pop