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Hola! Jared Putnam is about to head out on a month of The March Divide tour dates (including a bunch with Slow Start Records labelmates BLUNDERBUSST.)
To kick it off, another single from the new album ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด drops this Friday. You can head over to New Noise Magazine right now to hear opening cut "I Wanna Hate You." Putting it mildly, damn!
Alphabet Girls, Vol. II by Paul Slavens (June 24, State Fair Records) is the crystallization and distillation of the Nebraska born, Denton, TX-based artistโs long, varied, and accomplished career, complete with all of the requisite breakthroughs and disappointments.
On record, Slavensโs endurance is a listenerโs treat. Alphabet Girls, Vol. II plays like the product of a โbeen everywhere, seen everythingโ guru-type somehow fitting all of his experience and education onto five lines of musical staff like some kind of trippy Tetris.
Funny, but serious. Jazz, but pop. Quirky, but grounded. Alphabet Girls, Vol. II (the title isnโt a red herring, the โgirlsโ of Vol. I showed up twelve years ago) is all of these things and more.
But not.
โMy goal was to make beautiful sounds,โ Slavens said.
More love today for Caitlin Cobb-Vialet's emotional workout "Disco Ball," from her upcoming album ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ช๐ฅ, out May 6. I feel like this song is taking on a life of its own!
CLOUT says it "bleeds with an authenticity and sense of heart. A masterful track."
Do you need more incentive to go and pick up your vinyl copy of ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด, the new album by The High Water Marks, available this Friday, April 29 from Minty Fresh?!
How about a fantastic video for the fantastic song "Fantastic Machine," premiering right now over at Under the Radar?
Director Scott Fitzpatrick says, โWhen I look at The High Water Marks artwork, it gives me a sense of Monty Python's Flying Circus, mixing old photos with cartoons and doing it well."
Now that you're under the spell of our insistent commercial come-on, go right here and exchange your moolah for music.
More with MOTORCADE over at Last Day Deaf!
Drummer Jeff Ryan reveals his preference for using a single bit or double bit axe when chopping wood in response to their "9+1 Q&A" column. Also mentioned: Echo and the Bunnymen, A Clockwork Orange, Roxy Music, Wire, and Sleepaway Camp.
New album ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ out now on Idol Records. The band plays a Record Store Day set at Good Records in Dallas on Saturday, April 23 at 5PM CT.
Thanks to Glide Magazine for the Caitlin Cobb-Vialet love!
"Disco Ball" is one of those songs that sticks with you long after the dealing's done. If you dig emotional vocals over piano playing that evokes hope and pathos at the same time, get with this!
Caitlin's debut album ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ช๐ฅ, produced by Jim Greer, is out via War Chant Records on May 6.
Also: San Francisco peeps! Andrew St. James & Fast Times Presents: Caitlin at Make-Out Room on Thursday, April 21! 6:30PM, $10.
Even more The March Divide and Subharmonic City Productions visual goodness! Let's not forget "Mauriceโ either!
Meet Maurice now (it's a puppet, okay?! A crazy puppet!!), starring in the "Tension In The Air" video, via our friends at Dallas NPR affiliate KXT.
๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด, the sixth album by The March Divide, is out June 10 via Slow Start Records.
Some incredible writing here from Mitch Mosk at Atwood Magazine about Gregory Ackerman and his recent ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ album. Greg talks honestly, openly, and courageously about how his struggles with tragedy and depression informed this moving record.
Andโฆ we still dislike Spotify, yes? Greg has recorded a cover of the Graham Nash / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classic "Our House," and in solidarity with Joni, Graham, David, and the gang, will be releasing it this Friday, April 22, to all streamers except for you-know-who.
Greg's also on tour now as part of Jack Symes' band and will be celebrating the release of "Our House" when the tour wraps in Los Angeles this Saturday, April 23 at Zebulon. For now, check the story and listen to ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ here.
Caitlin Cobb-Vialet is in print this week!
Pick up a copy of the East Bay Express in the Berkeley, Oakland, or East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay or use your screen thing that you are holding.
Here, Caitlin chats about the vision and construction of her debut album ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ช๐ฅ, out May 6 via War Chant Records.
Wanna see what it's all about? Caitlin plays a record release show that evening at Starline Social Club.
The new Pacifico single hits that soft spot I have for sensitive songwriting inside of intense rock production. It feels sort of "caged" to me, like it's trying to get out and the struggle is the sound. Does that make any sense? Well, it does to me! See? I'm a sensitive guy.
โSuddenly / Back At The Start,โ out tomorrow, is taken from the โ05/โ22 EP (June 3, Pacifirecords). Both titles nod to the 17 years from start to finish for this project!
Visit New Noise to listen to the tune and read more about how that gap in time adds up.
The men of MOTORCADE are the subject of this piece over at the Dallas NPR affiliate KXT, discussing the new album ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ out this Friday from Idol Records. The band will play an in-store at the perennially awesome Good Records on Sat., April 23.
Check it: โThe sense that MOTORCADE knows precisely what it wants to achieve, and knows precisely how to achieve it is evident throughout the 11 tracks on ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, spilling from the ominous beauty of the opening track โShiftโ through to break-out single โSlip,โ which aches with reverence for vintage 1980s New Wave and Gothic-tinged pop.โ
No shit. โSlipโ is my Cure, Echo, Siouxsie-laced jam. Click for your life, black-hearted ones!
Well, would you look right here! The March Divide and Subharmonic City team up once again for a music video, this time for "I'm Not Perfect," the lead single from the upcoming ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด album out June 10 via Slow Start Records).
The peeps over at Ghettoblaster Magazine are presenting this one today, thank you! And thanks to Jared's producer, Mike Major, for making this song such a rocker, since my notes on everything are always "bring up the tempo, turn up the vocals." Jared explains, "Writing sad songs about loneliness comes naturally to me and this song was an idea that would check that box. When Mike listened to my rough demo, he heard it as a full-on rock song."
The name of this post is "When Sloan Brothers Got Groovy.โ Despite the actual title, "Anxiety" is a synth and bass pocket that is actually freeing.
Sloan Simpson's story behind the tune is tougher, though, and he's tougher for it. You can read about it while you listen over at It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine. The single is out this Friday, April 15, with the ๐๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐๐ฑ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ album coming May 13 from Science Project Records.
Pre-order on Bandcamp here. You can pick up the unauthorized Bandcamp Friday theme song "Did You Know It's Bandcamp Friday?" while you're there, too!
โTension In The Air," the brand-new single by The March Divide is out! Listen to it before, after, and in-between listening to the Wet Leg record.
Many thanks out to the hard-working peeps of Big Takeover Magazine for this post!
"Putnamโs urgent melodies, wrapped in just-slick-enough production, draw you in and keep you there. 'Tension In The Air' is one of The March Divideโs best examples of this trick to date."
๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ด out on Slow Start Records on June 10.
Hilarie from The High Water Marks chatted with MAGNET Magazine about Elephant 6 Recording Co. and The Apples in stereo history along with premiering the video she created for "Fingers and Trees Are Only Temporary," the longest and most psychedelic track on the band's new album ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด, streaming now courtesy of Minty Fresh.
And... we are excited to announce that ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด vinyl is out on April 29 and available for pre-order right now, right here.
Click for your life!