Chelsea Wolfe has a brand new song called "Diana" included in the DC Comics 'Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack'. The new track will be released on May 26th. The 'Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack' is set to be released digitally on June 18th and physically on July 16th.
You can pre-order your copy here: https://found.ee/DNDM_Soundtrack
Russian Circles will play 'A Colossal Weekend' Festival in Copenhagen in May 2022.
Having as many members as a ska group, looking like a mix between Eric Andre’s house band, Street Sharks and an ASOS lookbook, Detroit’s The Armed have gone ahead and made the record of the year while simultaneously trolling, misleading and misinforming anyone and everyone whose taking an interest to them.
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Nick Reinhart took over Fender Instagram Stories. Don't miss a great talk about Nick's guitars and sound. Only available for 24 hours on Fender IG Stories.
Lukas Frank is well aware that he only has so much control over the Storefront Church narrative at this point. The 27-year old doesn’t like the term “hired gun” and also admits it’s the best way to describe his role as a touring drummer for Portugal. The Man and Kitten prior to striking out on his own.
Storefront Church, the Lukas Frank helmed Los Angeles-based band has their debut album As We Pass on the way, and today they’ve released the final single from it. “Total Stranger” features Frank’s lush and evocative vocals over melancholy orchestration expressing unshakable love.
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We're happy to announce the new shows for Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle Australian & New Zealand tour 2022.
JUN 09 Wellington, NZ
JUN 10 Auckland, NZ
JUN 12 Brisbane, AU
JUN 13 Adelaide, AU
JUN 14 Perth, AU
JUN 17 Sydney, AU
JUN 18 Melbourne, AU
JUN 19 Melbourne, AU
Tickets that have been previously purchased will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Visit birdsrobe.com for more info.
Sargent House's founder Cathy Pellow answered some questions about the past 15 years of the label and the future plans for the issue n. 57 of New Noise Magazine.
Ben Chisholm is not just a composer, producer, engineer, mixer, multi instrumentalist but he’s also one of the masterminds behind some of the best albums ever released. “Producer is sort of a nebulous title which can mean so many things,”she says. “I guess first and foremost I’m an artist and a musician, and the utilitarian label for the kind of work I do is ‘production’. I think I find myself in this role due to my desire to collaborate with all the wonderful artists I’m lucky enough to know. My ‘production’ work could range from adding a little piano part, to completely deconstructing an artist's song and then putting it back together with them,” Chisholm admits.
Interview with Ben Chisholm in the new issue of New Noise Magazine n.57
The online cult of personality that The Armed have built around their music is a great deal of fun. Fans buy billboards in Times Square and commission murals in their honour, postulate conspiracies and theories in Facebook and Discord groups as they solve the puzzles the band have been laying for them across their career, and generally have a wholesome time. It's a mark of The Armed's deftness and intelligence that their fandom can remain both obsessive and inclusive at the same time, never bordering on the weaponised toxicity that has scarred 'Stan' culture elsewhere online. What elevates The Armed from the enjoyable to the essential, however, is the extraordinary strength of their art. The driving force behind all their fans energy is music that feels genuinely essential. Ultrapop as the band's Adam Vallely (almost certainly a pseudonym) explained to me last month, is an attempt to take the intensity of the hardcore music the band grew up on, and by injecting it with modern pop's forward-facing maximalism, up its energy even further still, emerging with a brand new genre from which the album takes its name. In the process, they’re gleefully undercutting the hypermasculine nonsense that can sometimes dog heavier music. Sneer at their ambition if you will, but they've succeeded in that mission. Ultrapop is as bold, dynamic and addictive an album as you'll hear all year.