Nicole Miglis (of revered indie pop experimentalists Hundred Waters) has just shared “Lure,” another standout from her impending debut solo album Myopia - out August 23rd on Sargent House.
“Lure,” which arrives alongside a vibrant and whimsical music video by Ian Clontz is a cogent manifestation of Miglis’s innate ability to weave different influences, opening as a downtempo electronic ballad before revealing itself as frenetic dance pop via a wildly syncopated drum programming that joins the sonic pastiche. “The song plays on themes of allure, the shadow of desire, the push and pull, the power struggle of love, the games, the feeling of being reeled in and cast away like a fishing lure,” states Miglis of the song. Watch the video for "Lure" and pre-order Myopia vinyl, CDs, and merch above.
2004 was the year Russian Circles began. To celebrate 20 years, they are delighted to have their friends Pelican join them for a special hometown show at Metro Chicago. They'll also hit a few other stops with Djunah supporting on their way down to NY for Desertfest. All tickets on sale now HERE
Sept 7 Chicago, IL @ Metro + * Sept 8 Milwaukee, WI - Vivarium * Sept 11 Grand Rapids, MI - Pyramid Scheme * Sept 12 Pittsburgh, PA @ Spirit Hall * Sept 13 Baltimore, MD @ Union Craft Brewing * Sept 14 Queens, NY @ Knockdown Center / Desert Fest
The Armed are hitting the road with Ho99o9 and special guests Kumo 99 and DJ Haram this fall on the NO ESCAPE 24 Tour (USA + Toronto).
The sickest bill for the world’s greatest band. Tickets on sale Friday, 10 am local time HERE.
NO ESCAPE ‘24 DATES 9/17 - Toronto, ON - Axis Club *^ 9/19 - Detroit, MI - El Club *^ 9/20 - Lakewood, OH - Roxy *^ 9/20-22 - Riot Fest (The Armed Only) 9/22 - Indianapolis, IN - Hi-Fi Annex *^ 9/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Brooklyn Bowl *^ 9/25 - Brooklyn, NY - Pioneer Works *^ 9/26 - Boston, MA - Brooklyn Bowl *^ 9/27-9/28 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life 10/06 - Seattle, WA - Substation ^ 10/07 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre ^ 10/09 - San Jose, CA - The Ritz ^ 10/10 - Sacramento, CA - Aftershock 10/12 - Las Vegas, NV - The Portal @ Area 15 ^ 10/13 - Los Angeles, CA - Regent Theater ^ 10/14 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues ^
Nicole Miglis, the multi-instrumentalist and voice behind revered indie pop band Hundred Waters, has announced her debut solo album Myopia is set for release August 23rd on Sargent House and shared the song “Autograph,” an unrepentant electronic earworm that surges out of the gate with infectious syncopation amid pleas for presence and authenticity. The song is an apt demonstration of Miglis’s mesmerizing ability to synthesize experimental production, pop melodies and classical form into a musical language completely her own.
Throughout Myopia, Miglis crystallizes interwoven states of obsession, love and loss alongside an eclectic array of sounds, both organic and digital, while expounding on the album’s theme of being unable to look past the immediate in favor of the bigger picture. “There’s the myopia of desire, love, obsession—the feeling of only being able to see that one person in everything, everywhere,” she explains. “There’s also personal myopia of not seeing your potential or your power, of not zooming out; limiting beliefs.”
Pre-order vinyl, CDs, and the shirt above at Hello Merch and Evil Greed in Europe. Check out the full video for “Autograph” below.
“the most unique collection of songs [REZN] has cooked up” - Flood
"as if you’re being summoned by Lucifer himself" - Kerrang!
“Burden signals a bold and brilliant new era for the band” - Metal Hammer
Today, Chicago’s REZN release their new album, Burden, via Sargent House. The marriage of brute force with sublime textures has always been a key tactic in REZN’s approach, but the spectrum of the band’s mercurial temperaments has never felt as clearly defined and fully harnessed as it does on Burden. Stream and order vinyl, CDs, and merch at Hello Merch and Evil Greed in Europe at the link above.
Since their inception, Chicago’s REZN have mined the stark monochromatic depths of underground metal and fused them with the kaleidoscopic delights of psychedelia, prog rock, and shoegaze. With their latest album Burden, the quartet plumb the deepest, bleakest trenches of their sound while retaining a lifeline into the cosmos. Staking a claim at the crossroads of the hazy dimensions of modern psych acts like Black Angels, the cavernous gloom and reverb-drenched guitar of bands like Spectral Voice, and the lurching low-end meditations of artists like OM, REZN have created Burden—an album of immense amp-worshipping weight and intoxicating instrumentation.
REZN is currently on tour with Pallbearer in the US. In August, they kick off their headlining run, followed by a European tour with fellow Sargent House artists Russian Circles. Snag tickets below and hear Burden live.
This Friday (6/14), Chicago’s REZN will release their new album, Burden, via Sargent House. Today, they present “Indigo,” the album opener. “Indigo” finds the rhythm section of bassist Phil Cangelosi and drummer Patrick Dunn churning out an authoritative Godflesh-like battery while vocalist/guitarist Rob McWilliams and synth player/saxophonist Spencer Ouellette drape their martial stomp in ominous interwoven melodies. The marriage of brute force with sublime textures has always been a key tactic in REZN’s approach, but the spectrum of the band’s mercurial temperaments has never felt as clearly defined and fully harnessed as it does on Burden.
While REZN’s previous album, Solace, embraced similar contrasts, it leaned towards the loftier peaks in the band’s sound, as evidenced in the album’s artwork of snow topped mountains provided by Adam Burke / Nightjar Illustration. Burden’s artwork is a literal continuation of Solace’s landscape painting, showing the fiery depths at the foot of the mountain range. The marriage of brute force and sublime textures has always been a key tactic in REZN’s approach, but the spectrum of the band’s mercurial temperaments has never felt as clearly defined and fully explored as it does on Burden.
Tonight (6/11), REZN kick off their North American tour with Pallbearer. Following, they’ll headline dates across the US before heading to Europe to play with Russian Circles. A full list of dates can be found below and tickets for all dates are on sale HERE
REZN Tour Dates Tue. June 11 - Durham, NC @ The Fruit % Wed. June 12 - Asheville, NC @ Eulogy % Thu. June 13 - Virginia Beach, VA @ The Bunker % Fri. June 14 - Baltimore, MD @ Metro Baltimore % Sat. June 15 - Lancaster, PA @ Tellus360 % Sun. June 16 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts % Tue. June 18 - Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom % Thu. June 20 -Brooklyn , NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg % Fri. June 21 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair % Sat. June 22 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount % Sun. June 23 - Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground % Tue. June 25 - Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium % Wed. June 26 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall % Thu. June 27 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club % Fri. June 28 - Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck % Sat. June 29 - Little Rock, AR @ The Hall % Fri. July 26 - Indianapolis, IN @ Post. Festival Fri. Aug. 9 - Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s ^ Sat. Aug. 10 - Kansas City, MO @ MiniBar ^ Tue. Aug. 13 - Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive ^ Wed. Aug. 14 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Aces High Saloon ^ Fri. Aug. 16 - Portland, OR @ Dante’s ^ Sat. Aug. 17 - Vancouver, BC @ Green Auto ^ Sun. Aug. 18 - Seattle, WA @ Substation ^ Tue. Aug. 20 - Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial ^ Wed. Aug. 21 - Oakland, CA @ Stork Club ^ Thu. Aug. 22 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^ Fri. Aug. 23 - Palmdale, CA @ Transplants Brewing ^ Sat. Aug. 24 - Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Underground ^ Sun. Aug. 25 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar ^ Tue. Aug. 27 - Fort Worth, TX @ Tulips ^ Wed. Aug. 28 - Austin, TX @ The Lost Well ^ Wed. Oct. 9 - Berlin, DE @ Astra $ Thu. Oct. 10 - Koln, DE @ Kantine $ Fri. Oct. 11 - Munich, DE @ Keep It Low Festival $ Sat. Oct. 12 - Prague, CZ @ Archa $ Mon. Oct. 14 - Vienna, AT @ Arena $ Tue. Oct. 15 - Bologna, IT @ Estragon $ Thu. Oct. 17 - Metz, FR @ La Bam $ Fri. Oct. 18 - Antwerp, BE @ Desertfest $ Sun. Oct. 20 - Gothenburg, SE @ Monument $ Mon. Oct. 21 - Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret $ Tue. Oct. 22 - Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan $ Thu. Oct. 24 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega $ Fri. Oct. 25 - Aalborg, DK @ Lasher Fest $ Sat. Oct. 26 - Hamburg, DE @ Uebel & Gefaehrlich $ Tue. Oct. 29 - Birmingham, UK @ O2 Institute2 $ Wed. Oct. 30 - Glasgow, UK @ Slay $ Thu. Oct. 31 - Belfast, N-IRE @ Limelight 2 $ Fri. Nov. 1 - Dublin, IRE @ Button Factory $ Sat. Nov. 2 - Manchester, UK @ Damnation Fest $ Sun. Nov. 3 - London, UK @ EartH $ Tue. Nov. 5 - Paris, FR @ Le Trianon $ Wed. Nov. 6 - Rennes, FR @ L'Antipode $ Thu. Nov. 7 - Bordeaux, FR @ Krakatoa $ Sun. Nov. 10 - Madrid, ES @ Nazca $ Mon. Nov. 11 - Barcelona, ES @ Salamandra $
We are delighted to announce that Russian Circles' fourth album Empros is being reissued on vinyl with remastered audio, in two new variants, with an embossed cover, and a redesigned inner sleeve.
Pre orders are now live in both of our online stores at Hello Merch and in Europe at Evil Greed.
Available at record stores on August 9th, 2024 via Sargent House.
"Some bands build worlds. REZN hope you explore their universe. “We do leave quite a bit up for interpretation,” bassist Phil Cangelosi, accompanied by the three other members of the Chicago quartet, says over Zoom. “We don’t have anything that’s super on the nose. Our goal is to bring you to a place and not necessarily tell you what to do once you’re there.” Guitarist and vocalist Rob McWilliams chimes in: “It’s definitely just setting a scene for someone.”
Burden, REZN’s forthcoming fifth full-length and a companion to 2023’s Solace, sets a scene like it’s an open-world video game. The DIY outfit’s first release on the venerable Sargent House is massive and immersive. “Indigo,” the opening track that further expands the already intrepid band’s timbral palette, drops you into a dark, dangerous netherworld. Drummer Patrick Dunn pounds his kit with the force of a slipping fault line. Modular synth player and saxophonist Spencer Ouellette produces dizzying layers that hang like noxious gasses. Cangelosi’s churning bass juts upwards like jagged stalagmites. And McWilliams’ guitar and vocals dizzily swirl like the uncontainable dread of intense claustrophobia. Within a few seconds, you know exactly where you’re at, and the walls are closing in.
However, how you choose to navigate Burden’s subterranean labyrinth is up to you. That’s REZN’s great gift. Although the band constructs and sequences songs with cinematic grace, effortlessly herding listeners along their journey, the contours of that journey are left up to the experiencer. In a sense, REZN act almost like a mood ring, matching whatever you’re feeling. That mirror-to-the-self approach permits you to discover whatever you need to hear at the heart of Burden, one of those rare musical adventures that meets you where you’re at instead of the other way around. In that way, REZN are part of the burgeoning field of “big feelings metal” pioneered by Convulsing and the like, but it also makes a case for empath metal. You feel like Burden feels you. It can be cathartic, leading you out of the dark, labyrinthine confines of your own psyche. Burden can and probably will lift burdens."
Nicole Miglis is best known as the leader of Gainesville experimental band Hundred Waters, who haven’t released music since the 2018 track “Mushroom Cloud” that followed their 2017 album Communicating. Today, Miglis is stepping out on her own with her debut solo song “All I See Is You.”
We couldn’t be more excited to announce the new single/video from Nicole Miglis “All I See Is You” 🦢
Many know Nicole Miglis as the voice of Hundred Waters - today, she debuts her solo work with a gorgeously orchestrated track.
This song is special. Saturated violin and arpeggiating piano bloom and wilt as Nicole’s vocals drift from obscurity to propel through the bliss. Watch the video/stream the track below.
