bar italia have released new single and video ‘Jelsy’, taken from their forthcoming second full length of 2023 – The Twits – out November 3rd. Led by the group’s three-way vocal dynamic, ‘Jelsy’ plays out like a conversation between friends over wistful, buzzing country blues, the alternating voices at points comforting, wry and hopelessly yearning. Stream / Purchase ‘Jelsy’ here.
Today, Algiers are making a deluxe edition of their new album, SHOOK, available digitally. The expanded album features six additional tracks – b-sides, alternate versions, and live cuts recorded with an expanded lineup at December’s one-off ‘SHOOK WORLD’ concert in NYC. Released in February, SHOOK was championed by critics. “Throughout the album, Algiers lashes out at injustice, exults in its sonic mastery and insists on the life forces of solidarity and physical impact,” wrote the New York...
bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3rd via Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed album, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally...
Marking the two year anniversary of the release of her critically acclaimed album Valentine, Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) will put out Valentine Demos EP on November 3rd via Remote Control digitally and on vinyl. Consisting of four early stripped-down recordings of songs from the 2021 album including the previously shared ‘Adore You’ (a working title for ‘Valentine‘), it also features previously unreleased song ‘Easy Thing’. Pre-order / Pre-save Valentine Demos EP here.Stream / Purchase ‘Easy Thing’ here.
Today, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pretty Girls Make Graves’ sophomore album, The New Romance. Originally released in 2003, this was the Seattle punk band’s Matador Records debut. After more than a decade out of print, the album will return to us in a limited edition white vinyl pressing in stores on November 3. A deluxe digital version also lands and features two b-sides ‘Magic Lights’, newly available on...
Daniel Avery’s take on ‘Greenwich’ completes the Interpolations series, a collaborative project reworking songs from Interpol’s latest album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe. “It’s not an exaggeration to say Interpol’s music helped shape my life as a youngster so it’s with great pride I present this remix for ‘Greenwich’,” says Avery. “I was reluctant to touch the track at first but I feel I’ve landed upon my own version of the band’s seductive shadows that have always meant so much to me.” Stream...
Queens of the Stone Age are back with the latest audiovisual odyssey from their international chart-topping opus In Times New Roman… a brand new video for ‘Negative Space’ As with previous videos from this campaign, ‘Negative Space’ was created by, starring, and directed by Liam Lynch, who states: ‘Acceptance is lonely, messy, and tough, especially when it’s all that is left. This video takes place between the end and a beginning. It’s the desperate and...
Marking the release of Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs, rising Chicago trio Lifeguard have released a video performing lead single ‘17-18 Lovesong’ live at Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. At its core, Lifeguard is a punk band. Their music is loud and energetic. It’s also, at its core, visceral and hypnotic. For the Chicago-based trio that can include repetition and blasts of speaker-shredding feedback. Their songs adeptly balance melody and...
Water From Your Eyes have taken on recent touring companions Interpol’s track ‘Something Changed’ as part of the latter’s Interpolations project, which sees songs from Interpol’s latest album The Other Side Of Make-Believe reimagined by different artists. Taking the original’s punch-drunk piano shuffle and brooding vocals and subjecting them to an expertly wielded sonic and rhythmic sledgehammer, the interpolation adds vocals from Water From Your Eyes vocalist Rachel Brown. “The idea was to invert the tone of the song, like a photo...
This spring, Matador / Remote Control will reissue Liz Phair’s iconic debut album Exile in Guyville , a record whose impact and resonance has only grown more profound over the last three decades on limited-edition purple vinyl. The 2xLP is available for pre-order now and will be out October 20th. To celebrate, a long-lost studio outtake is available to stream. ‘Miss Lucy’ was recorded with Brad Wood during sessions for Exile in Guyville but left off the album. An 18-track double...
Queens of the Stone Age release their highly anticipated eighth album In Times New Roman… on Matador / Remote Control Records. Paper Machete’ is an instantly identifiable QOTSA future classic, sure to resound with casual fans and die hards alike. Lyrically, ‘Paper Machete’ finds Josh Homme’s trademark rapier wit at its most acerbic. If the previously released ‘Carnavoyeur’ signaled resignation and acceptance, ‘Paper Machete’ is the collision of sheer, raw force that gets you there– “like electricity conveyed through the bristles of a paintbrush” (Wall Street Journal). Stream...
On June 9th, Matador will release Darkside’s Live at Spiral House, a loose and playful collection of jams culled from weeks of rehearsals in Los Angeles last summer. Joined by drummer and longtime collaborator Tlacael Esparza, the band took residence rehearsing and jamming after an 8-year hiatus. Jaar says “When we decided to get the band back together with Tlac, we knew we needed a space where we could explore what that meant. After a couple of months...
On July 7th, Matador / Remote Control Records will release Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Today, listen to the new single ‘Alarm’ and watch the band blaze through the song in a live session recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. Formed in 2019, Lifeguard are Asher Case (bass, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, percussion), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals). At...
Still reeling from the ecstatic reaction to the recently released ‘Emotion Sickness,’ a triumphant return that “finds them at their sinister, bar-band-on-acid best” per New York Magazine, Queens of the Stone Age now unveil ‘Carnavoyeur,’ the latest offering from their epic eighth album, In Times New Roman… available across all platforms on June 16th via Remote Control Records. In contrast to its predecessor, ‘Carnavoyeur’ finds QOTSA weaving more subtle shades of sinister: Mesmerizing washes of strings cascade atop the band’s trademark rock solid foundation, while Joshua Homme’s mellifluent...
bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have released their new album Tracey Denim digitally and on CD via Remote Control. The album will be available on vinyl September 8. Tracey Denim was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the single ‘Nurse!’ which was released in March to acclaim, and described as “a hypnotic post-punk ballad” (The Guardian) and “narcotically arresting” (Pitchfork). Stream / Purchase Tracey Denim here.
Last month, Interpol launched Interpolations, a series of collaborations that finds songs from the band’s latest album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe, reworked by artists Daniel Avery, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Jesu, and Water From Your Eyes. Today, you can hear the second instalment, an interpolation of ‘Passenger’ created by guitarist and composer Jeff Parker. “When asked to make a remix for Interpol, I was intrigued and initially excited to make something from the drum breaks on the original version of ‘Passenger,’” explains Parker. “However, the muse had other plans...
