Out now, Crushed By Everyone is a song-by-song rework of Water From Your Eyes’ critically-adored debut, Everyone’s Crushed. Curated by band members Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the album dips heavily into WFYE’s personal rolodex with contributions that map the group’s rapidly expanding community – friends, tour-mates, and peers. It’s the rare “remix” record where everybody has met in person (or at least shared some DMs). Stream / Download Crushed By Everyone here.
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It’s been a triumphant year in Yo La Tengo-world: Georgia, Ira, and James released a highly-acclaimed new album (This Stupid World), performed a sold-out US tour, and traveled throughout the globe. They’ve got a new EP landing on digital services – The Bunker Sessions – which collects live performances of This Stupid World songs ‘Fallout’, ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown’, ‘Aselestine’ and ‘Apology Letter’, plus James McNew-led classic ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ from 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Stream / Download The Bunker Sessions here.
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bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. Today they release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, via Matador / Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Songs like ‘my little tony’, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of ‘world’s greatest emoter’ and the festival tent psychedelia of ‘Hi-fiver’ need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if...
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bar italia have released new single and video ‘worlds greatest emoter’, a driving and ascending standout from their forthcoming second full length of 2023, The Twits, out November 3rd. ‘worlds greatest emoter’ follows singles ‘my little tony’ which is currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist and ‘Jelsy’, which The Times described as “slow-burning eerie bluesy rock with a hint of bossa nova from the celebrated trio”. Pre-order / Pre-save The Twits here.Stream / Purchase ‘worlds greatest emoter’ here.
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On November 17, Water From Your Eyes will release Crushed By Everyone, a song-by-song rework of the duo’s critically-adored Matador / Remote Control debut, Everyone’s Crushed. Curated by band members Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the album dips heavily into WFYE’s personal rolodex with contributions that map the group’s rapidly expanding community – friends, tourmates, and peers. It’s the rare “remix” record where everybody has met in person (or at least shared some DMs). Pre-order / Stream Crushed By Everyone here.
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On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel a large swath of their North American tour dates due to ongoing health...
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DARKSIDE celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Psychic, originally released on October 4th, 2013. To mark the occasion, they have assembled an expanded digital edition of the record with three bonus tracks. This includes two era-appropriate b-sides – ‘Gone Too Soon’ and ‘What They Say’ – and a live version of ‘Paper Trails’ recorded during the group’s 2023 European tour. Stream / Download Psychic (Expanded): here.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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