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TIJUANA PANTHERS SHARE NEW VIDEO VIA THE FADER LAUNCH TOUR WITH FUCKED UP NEXT WEEK WAYNE INTEREST OUT NOW VIA INNOVATIVE LEISURE |
After releasing their third album, Wayne Interest, via Innovative Leisure last month and heading out on a European tour, Tijuana Panthers are back today to share the new music video for their single, "Nobo." Next week the band starts a west coast tour with Toronto hardcore outfit Fucked Up. Since 2010 their debut, Max Baker, the Panthers have steadily become SoCal underground legends playing both packed backyard parties and sold out concert halls along the way. For their forthcoming album, Tijuana Panthers collaborated with producer Richard Swift (The Shins, Foxygen). Wayne Interest will be available on June 3rd via Innovative Leisure. Check out the "Nobo" video, the Fucked Up tour dates, more information about the album below.
WATCH: "Nobo" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHtBmIe-aHw
TOUR DATES:
8/15 - Fortune Sound Club - Vancouver, BC *
8/16 - Neumos - Seattle, WA *
8/17 - Bunk Bar - Portland, OR +
8/19 - The Independent - San Francisco, CA*
8/20 - The Garage - Ventura, CA *
8/21 - El Rey Theatre - Los Angeles, CA *
8/22 - Glasshouse - Pomona, CA *
8/23 - Casbah - San Diego, CA *
* w/ Fucked Up
+w/ Taco Cat
About Tijuana Panthers and Wayne Interest:
Live and on record, the Tijuana Panthers are a great band. You could say garage, punk or surf while describing their sound, but they're harder to pin than that. The truth is that they write classic songs that don't depend on tropes from any genre. They craft perfect pop and deliver it with energy and immediacy. However, the real magic of this band is in their weirdness.
Behind their picturesque portraits of daily life is an aching despair. This subtle contrast creates an eerie tension between the ideal, the real and the surreal. You suddenly realize they're not the happy-go-lucky beach boys you tried to pin them as, but more akin to sexually frustrated soda jerks in a David Lynch film. And this all makes sense with the fact that they come from Southern California's shadier city of Long Beach, not exactly the fun in the sun that California dream- ers might expect.
For Wayne Interest, the Panthers team up with producer Richard Swift. The recordings took place at Swift's studio in Oregon where the band decidedly took risks in performance and production. The risks paid off. With Swift's direction and upgrade in fidelity, Wayne Interest sounds just as compelling in headphones as it would at a house party in East LA. It also gives the listener a closer look at the idiosyncrasies of the Tijuana Panthers, only making it clearer that there's something off about these creeps. Their weirdness, or bold- ness to be whoever they may be, is what makes this band great. It's a rare quality. The more you listen to the Tijuana Panthers the more you wonder about them.
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Tijuana Panthers share new video
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WAMPIRE ANNOUNCES SOPHOMORE ALBUM
BAZAAR DUE OCTOBER 7TH VIA POLYVINYL
SHARES FIRST SINGLE "WIZARD STAFF" VIA STEREOGUM
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Wampire photo by Andy De Santis
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LISTEN: "Wizard Staff" -
Following the release of their debut album Curiosity in 2013, Wampire went from a duo most accustomed to playing house parties around their hometown of Portland to a five-piece band performing in venues all over the world with groups such as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Foxygen, and Smith Westerns.
That 12-month span saw Wampire play more shows in more cities, countries, and continents than in all their previous years together combined -- a nearly non-stop barrage of new and memorable experiences that, above all else, forced the band members to become more fully immersed in music than at any other time in their lives. As a result, when founding members and primary songwriters Rocky Tinder and Eric Phipps returned home at the tail end of the year, they immediately dove into the process of working on a new album in order to capitalize on the creative energy that had been steadily amassing during their days, weeks, and months on the road. Says Phipps of that moment in time, "I holed up in a tiny room within a friend's warehouse and began knocking out as many different songs as I could. I tried not to look back, just wanting to explore everything I could possibly create. I started to feel like I was becoming a Kafka-esque insomniac musical novelist at one point." The reference to the German writer is an apt one for a band that has always imbued its disarmingly off-kilter pop with tinges of paranoia and surrealism (both lyrically and musically), but even more fitting is the title of Wampire's new record: Bazaar. Like the tantalizing blend of exotic treasures and captivating sensations its namesake suggests,Bazaar continually offers listeners a variety of unexpected and alluring sonic flavors over the course of its nine tracks -- ranging from raucous riffs ("Bad Attitude") to seductive sax ("Wizard Staff") to charmingly catchy choruses ("The Amazing Heart Attack"). As with their previous full-length Curiosity, Wampire recorded Bazaar with trusted producer Jacob Portrait (of Unknown Mortal Orchestra), though this time around the sessions took place at The Museum, a studio in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, and were done directly to tape. Far from home once again, Tinder and Phipps used the city to their advantage -- writing lyrics on the 40-minute bus ride to and from their temporary residence in Bed-Stuy and rushing to a shop down the street to buy a guitar -- one that looked and felt like it had been buried in dust for decades and had just the right analog sound -- as their allotted studio time was winding down. Another important change was the addition of touring drummer Thomas Hoganson to the recording and songwriting process. Though Tinder and Phipps had previously sought to minimize distractions in the studio by just working with each other, Hoganson's diverse musical abilities (in addition to drums, he also plays piano and saxophone on Bazaar) made him an ideal collaborator. And so, after a year spent in vans and on planes, in European clubs, Australian beaches, and everywhere in between, Wampire emerged with more confidence, a stronger vision, and what is undeniably their best batch of songs to date.
For evidence of this, check out the album's first single "Wizard Staff" above now and see below for all of the band's upcoming tour dates, including a September run with Temples. Bazaar will be available on CD, LP (Polyvinyl e-store limited edition of 300 on 180-gram clear purple, black), cassette and digitally.
Tour Dates
08/22 Rock Creek, BC (CAN) - Ponderosa Arts & Music Festival
09/19 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
09/20 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre
09/21 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
09/22 Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst Atrium
09/24 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
09/25 Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda
09/26 Pomona, CA - The Glasshouse
09/27 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
09/29 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
10/01 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
09/19 - 10/01 with Temples
Wampire
Bazaar
(Polyvinyl)
10/07/14
1. The Amazing Heart Attack
2. Bad Attitude
3. Fly on the Wall
4. Wizard Staff
5. Too Stoned
6. Millennials
7. Sticking Out
8. Life of Luxury
9. People of Earth
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AGNES OBEL'S "DORIAN" HEADS TO RADIO
IN TIME FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
"PASS THEM BY" TO BE FEATURED ON
HBO'S "THE LEFTOVERS"
"[She blends] pop melodies with classical precision and an air of elegance
bordering on art songs." -- Boston Globe
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LOS ANGELES, CA - (Tuesday, July 29, 2014) - In support of her upcoming North American tour, "Dorian," from Agnes Obel's critically-acclaimed second album Aventine (Play It Again Sam/[PIAS] America) goes to radio this week, accompanied by the stunning music video for the song. According to one reviewer, "Dorian" is "light and delicate, soaring and a touch wistful, and beautiful enough to inspire belief, even in the least religious." Aventine has been certified Platinum in France and Gold in Belgium.
Click HERE for "Dorian."
The "Dorian" video clip is comprised of visuals from pioneering filmmaker Maya Deren's 1958 black and white short "The Very Eye of Night," that features students from the Metropolitan Ballet Company. Deren, a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of the 1940's and 1950's avant-garde period.
Also in conjunction with Obel's upcoming North American trek, Aventine's "Pass Them By" will be featured in an upcoming episode of HBO's new series "The Leftovers," now boasting eight million viewers across all platforms. Since its October 2013 release, numerous songs from Aventine have been featured on network TV programs including The CW's "Reign," "Star-Crossed," and "The Originals," ABC's "Betrayal," NBC's "Parenthood," and ABC Family's "Ravenswood," and "Pretty Little Liars."
Obel's North American trek kicks off August 12 in Philadelphia; the full itinerary is below.
AUGUST
12 World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
13 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
14 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
OCTOBER
30 Dakota, Minneapolis, MN
NOVEMBER
1 Park West, Chicago, IL
2 Opera House, Stoughton, WI
4 Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, ON
5 Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto, ON
7 Iron House, Northampton, MA
10 Sinclair, Cambridge, MA
11 Olympia, Montreal, QC
13 Palais Montcalm, Quebec, QC
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