Minor Alps, the collaborative vision of Juliana Hatfield and Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, have premiered the Clyde Petersen directed music video for I Don’t Know What To Do With My Hands, the latest song off the duo’s forthcoming album Get There, out October 29th on Barsuk Records. Continue reading “minor alps // i don’t know what to do with my hands”
menomena // co-headlining fall tour with the helio sequence
menomena // co-headlining fall tour with the helio sequence
Barsuk Records is excited to announce that Menomena is touring this fall in support of their latest album Moms. The co-headlining tour with fellow Portland duo The Helio Sequence starts on September 28th 2013 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and ends on October 25th at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City. Full tour dates are below.
Moms is the Portland-based band’s fifth album, and their first as a duo. The album has been receiving wide praise, with Pitchfork proclaiming “Moms is without doubt the most aggressive record Menomena have ever made” and calling the lead single “Heavy Is As Heavy Does” “gloriously morose.” Rolling Stone likewise hailed the track as “an emotive outburst of a song that expertly sidesteps melodrama – confessional rock thrills without the cheesy aftertaste.” Paste remarked that the record is “the most candid and personal Menomena release to date,” while Under the Radar called Menomena “one of the most well thought-out bands working today, never sacrificing structure or composition in the name of delivering a series of power chords.” Alarm declared that Moms “is arguably Menomena’s best effort to date.” Peace.
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map & atlases // old ash
The new Christopher Hainey-directed video for the song Old Ash by Maps & Atlases is fresh out the barbershop! The album Beware and Be Grateful, is out now on Barsuk Records. Nothing like having a song to shave too, huh? Peace.
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ra ra riot // when i dream
NYC’s band Ra Ra Riot is known for penning intelligent wistful song with the capacity to stabbed you in the bulls-eye of you soul. The new single release “When I Dream,” fits the bill. The track is taken from their upcoming full-length “Beta Love,” due to drop January 22, 2013 on Barsuk Records (USA / Europe), Hostess (Japan) and Arts & Crafts (Canada). Peace. Continue reading “ra ra riot // when i dream”
benjamin gibbard // a hard one to know
you know him as the indisputable voice of the postal service and death cab for cutie. but, now you may call him benjamin gibbard. whatever you call mr. gibbard he has a new debut solo album titled ‘former lives‘, it is out now via slang records and barsuk records respectively. after the jump listen to a couple of the tracks and enjoy. peace. Continue reading “benjamin gibbard // a hard one to know”
yellow ostrich // ghost
the perennial shape-shifting band yellow ostrich has been in the studio working on new material, check out the first single, “ghosts” released via barsuk records. subsequently the band’s forthcoming album takes it title from this very song. you can expect a digital release of the 6-song mini-lp on the 22nd of october. also, you catch the band’s fall tour kicking off later this month. and as a gift to fans the track “ghosts” is available for free download. check out tour dates and listen to “ghosts” after the jump. peace. Continue reading “yellow ostrich // ghost”
Phantogram – Don’t Move
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