In 2023, Kurt Vile is making numbers count. We’d like to draw your attention to a significant KV digit: The 10th anniversary of his fifth full-length and first 2xLP, Wakin on a Pretty Daze (2013), out August 25th. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve brought the record back as a yellow vinyl. Where previous albums alternated between gorgeous fingerpicking and heavy guitar workouts, Wakin blended the two into dreamy and expansive songs that frequently stretched well out beyond the five-minute mark. Pre-order...
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Kurt Vile releases Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep). Announced last week with the track ‘How Lucky’, a cover of and duet with the late John Prine, the EP features an additional Prine cover, a cover of “Cowboy” Jack Clement and two originals. It was recorded alongside a cast of Nashville heavyweights including Bobby Wood, Dave Roe, and Kenny Malone with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf) tossed...
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Kurt Vile has announced his Speed, Sound, Lonely KV EP will be released Friday 2 October via Matador. Speed, Sound, Lonely KV was recorded and mixed in sporadic sessions that spanned four years at The Butcher Shoppe studio in Nashville, TN. It includes five songs — covers of John Prine and “Cowboy” Jack Clement as well as two originals — and was recorded alongside a cast of local heavies like...
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Following the release of acclaimed singles ‘One Trick Ponies’, ‘Loading Zones’ and the epic 10-minute float of ‘Bassackwards’, Kurt Vile today releases his eclectic and electrifying new album Bottle It In. Kurt Vile recorded Bottle It In at various studios around the country over two very busy years, during sessions that usually punctuated the ends of long tours or family road trips. Every song becomes a journey unto itself, taking unexpected detours, circuitous...
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Kurt Vile shares a third single ‘One Trick Ponies’, taken from his forthcoming album Bottle It In, which is released Friday 12th October and available for pre-order here. Watch the accompanying lyric video for ‘One Trick Ponies’ below! It’s a joyful and infectious country-rock number, with Vile playing harmonica, guitar, and piano, and harmonising with Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa and Farmer Dave Scher on the big-hearted singalong chorus. Vile performed ‘One Trick Ponies’ alongside a...
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Details of the new Kurt Vile album have finally be confirmed, Bottle It In is out on Friday 12 October and now available for pre-order here. Today’s announcement is accompanied by the release of a new single ‘Bassackwards’, an ode to the parking challenges in Vile’s native Philadelphia. Watch the video below! The epic, loping ‘Bassackwards’ is the album’s beating heart and Vile’s most compelling evocation of how he sees the world: “I was...
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Kurt Vile has shared a video for ‘Loading Zones’, the first new music to surface from him since 2015. Directed by Drew Saracco, the video is a paean to his City of Brotherly Love, and farcical tribute to the song’s lyrics, themselves an account of Vile’s peculiar parking strategy. Watch below! “I PARK FOR FREE!” he proclaims, as he goes about his day moving his car from one loading zone to another, narrowly avoiding parking...
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With Lotta Sea Lice Barnett and Vile have delivered something utterly miraculous, an instant-classic record which sounds as if the two have played together for decades. This is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour. There’s an unforced ease to the record helped the fact that the pair have been not just friends, but hardcore...
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Following the opening single ‘Over Everything’, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile share new single ‘Continental Breakfast’, from their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. Watch it below! The video gently pushes the door open just a little bit further. Using intimate home footage shot over four days of Kurt and Courtney in their respective environments, ‘Continental Breakfast’ goes beyond being a mere music video and becomes a mini...
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Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have joined forces to release a collaboration as unique and unusual as their talents, in the form of a brand new album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. To mark such exciting news, they have shared jam opener and first single ‘Over Everything’. ‘Over Everything’ was the first song written for this project, accompanied by a video from Australian director Danny Cohen which features...
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Mistletone and Remote Control are rapt to announce that Kurt Vile will be stopping by the picturesque Meeniyan Town Hall as part of his supreme solo tour. Kurt Vile makes the journey to the South Gippsland township of Meeniyan on Sunday March 5 for a magnificently intimate show in the old-timey surrounds of Meeniyan Town Hall, following his fast-selling Zoo Twilights show at Melbourne Zoo the night before. Very limited...
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Kurt Vile returns to Australia for his debut solo tour! It will include stops at Perth International Arts Festival on Tuesday 28th February, Sydney’s Taronga Zoo on Friday 3rd March, Melbourne Zoo on Saturday 4th March, Queensland Performing Arts Centre on Thursday 9th March, Golden Plains Festival on Saturday 11th March and A festival called Panama in Golconda on Sunday 12th March . Check out further details below. Kurt Vile has packed out rooms across Australia, including...
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