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Sunday, September 10, 2023

INCOMING: Margaret Glaspy To Play Chicago's Sleeping Village 10/7; New Album Echo The Diamond Out Now

 

MARGARET GLASPY 

RELEASES NEW ALBUM 

ECHO THE DIAMOND VIA ATO RECORDS


“ACT NATURAL” SINGLE TOP 20 AT AAA RADIO


North American Tour + UK Tour Dates Confirmed


Photo by Ebru Yildiz

"(‘Act Natural’ is) one of Glaspy’s all-time best.. a roaring, wondrous stroke of blues-injected rock ‘n’ roll" Paste 


“Singer-songwriter Margaret Glaspy returns to spiky, guitar-forward songs on her third LP, Echo the Diamond.”  Pitchfork


“Expanding upon the the sound and themes of her previous effort, Devotion, Echo the Diamond finds Glaspy trusting her instincts and imbuing the batch of songs with a newfound rawness and grit…(her) songwriting has never felt so immediate or urgent." Consequence


"Margaret Glaspy’s passionate croak is haunted by the past on the folky ‘Memories,’ …the dark humor, at least, makes the anguish go down smoothly." New York Times


"(‘Act Natural’)l is a good rocking number from Margaret Glaspy. The snappy guitar lick … immediately got my attention." NPR


"This moodier, more prickly attack suits Glaspy’s voice, concepts, and vision"

American Songwriter


"Glaspy’s third is well-crafted and unfussy, foregrounding her sturdy guitar and clear sighted lyrics that range between grungy disaffection…and brittle yearning” MOJO


“Grungy guitar work + gutsy poeticism = great pop… 10 songs that glint like shards of glass yet brim with love, grief, courage, existential doubt and all the other stuff that makes us human.” UNCUT Magazine


Margaret Glaspy has released her new album Echo The Diamond via ATO Records.

The third full-length from Margaret Glaspy, the LP emerged from a deliberate stripping-away of artifice to reveal life for all its harsh truths and ineffable beauty. Like the precious gem of its title, the result is an object of startling luminosity, one capable of cutting through the most elaborately constructed façades. “This record came from trying to meet life on life’s terms, instead of looking for a happy ending in everything,” says the New York-based musician. “The whole experience of creating it felt like effortless catharsis.” 


Margaret teased Echo The Diamond with the singles Act Natural,” “Memories,” and “Get Back” and they saw support from The New York TimesNPRPitchforkStereogumSpin, and others.  “Act Natural” is currently a top 20 single at AAA Radio, marking Glaspy’s highest chart position of her career. She played that song and others when she visited the studios of New York City’s NPR station WNYC earlier this week.  Listen to the Q&A and session here. Today Consequence ran a “track by track” feature on Echo The Diamond - read that here.  The album was labeled a “notable release of the week” by both NPR and American Songwriter and today Pitchfork included it in their “8 New Albums You Should Listen To” list.  Purchase / listen to Echo The Diamond here.


On September 12 she will head to the UK for her first tour in support of the album. Glaspy and her band return stateside for a North American tour that starts September 28 in Washington, DC at Union Stage. The tour concludes at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles on November 14. Along the way she will make stops in, among other markets, Toronto, ON on October 2, Chicago on October 7 and Seattle, on November 9. Margaret will play a hometown show at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on October 20. All tour dates are listed below and tickets are on-sale here

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Echo The Diamond expands on the frenetic vitality of her widely acclaimed debut Emotions and Math—a 2016 release The New Yorker hailed as an album “in which pretty songs often turn prickly, enriched by carefully measured infusions of dissonance and grit.” This time around, Glaspy worked with drummer/percussionist David King of The Bad Plus and bassist Chris Morrissey (Andrew Bird, Lucius, Ben Kweller), recording at Reservoir Studios in Manhattan and embracing an intentionally unfussy process that left plenty of room for spontaneity. “I love music with a big element of risk to it, which was really the heartbeat of this album,” she says. “A lot of what you hear are the very first takes.” Anchored in the raw yet mesmerizing vocal presence and impressionistic guitar work she’s brought to the stage in touring with the likes of Spoon and Wilco, Echo The Diamond holds entirely true to the spirit of its lyrical explorations, presenting a selection of songs both unvarnished and revelatory.

 

The follow-up to 2020’s DevotionEcho The Diamond takes its title from a turn of phrase that Glaspy tossed off in the midst of a conversation with Lage. “Bruce Lee once said to be water—if water is in a teacup, it becomes teacup-shaped; if it’s in a glass, then it takes the shape of that glass,” she recalls. “For me, Echo The Diamond is a way of saying ‘shine bright’, ‘be brilliant.’” All throughout the album, Glaspy’s poetic sense of language creates a heady tension with Echo The Diamond ‘s tempestuous sound, a dynamic in full force on the exultant opening track “Act Natural.” The song captures the strange thrill of infatuation, channeling so much wonder and wide-eyed bewilderment into her lyrics (from the first verse: “Are you a paradise bird?/’Cause violet shines bright in both your eyes/That can’t be natural”).

 

Spotlighting her rare gift for rendering the most nuanced aspects of the human experience with equal parts primal emotionality and bracing intelligence, Echo The Diamond also offers up sublimely acerbic tracks like “Female Brain”: a visceral yet sharp-witted piece of social commentary that slyly veers between irony and sincerity (“Eating scraps with delight/But I’ll never give up the fight/On suffering and pain/Using my gorgeous female brain”). “That song offers a peek into what life can feel like for me as a woman, especially in the male-dominated landscape that I find myself in,” says Glaspy. “The take we used for the album is actually a rehearsal; we were playing purely on instinct, in a way that was very physical and almost like falling off the edge of a cliff.” “Irish Goodbye,” the following track on Echo The Diamond, shifts into a moment of heavy-hearted storytelling spiked with fuzzed-out guitar and aching harmonies. “That song is partly meant to be a New York City portrait, but on a more personal level, I’m terribly shy and will often slip out the back door in social situations.”

 

An album informed by profound loss, Echo The Diamond often finds Glaspy sorting through that pain to piece together indelible fragments of wisdom. On “Get Back”—a reflective and soul-stirring track on which her voice achieves a particularly gutting intensity—her insights take the form of both weary observation (“When you’re dripping in your privilege/You don’t know the difference/Between what you want and what you need”) and tenderly delivered instruction (“When you’re only thinking of yourself/You’re missing out on everybody else/Get back to the place you started from/Get back to childhood”). “That song speaks to many things that have accumulated over the last few years for me, including grief and loss and finding myself again through all of it,” says Glaspy. “Playing that songs sets me free.” And on “Memories,” the album takes on a sorrowful mood as Glaspy examines the emotional ruin so easily wrought by our own grieving minds. “‘Memories’ was probably the most challenging song for me to track; the take you hear is the only one I was able to get through completely,” she says. “It was a level of vulnerability I’d never gotten on record, and it holds a special place in my heart now. Even though it’s about a very specific loss for me, it seems to ricochet in different ways for anyone who hears it.”

 

Originally from the Northern California town of Red Bluff, Glaspy first started writing songs at age 15 and soon began honing the potent balance of sensitivity and incisiveness that now imbues her music. In bringing Echo The Diamond to life, she adhered to a songwriting process meant to preserve and amplify her unfettered expression (“If I sit down with a guitar for about 15 minutes, I usually have a song at the end,” she notes). Along with drawing from an eclectic mix of inspirations—Sonic Youth, Vivienne Westwood’s punk-influenced approach to fashion, Tom Waits’s music and turn as a jailbird DJ in Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law, the 1985 Japanese Western film Tampopo—Glaspy sustained that sense of thoughtful urgency upon joining forces with King and Morrissey in the studio. “This is the most fluid and immediate music I have ever made,” she says. “I see now that I protected the creative space by surrounding myself with incredible people in making of this record, and I’m so happy I did.”

 

As a result of Glaspy’s rigor in protecting her instincts, Echo The Diamond ultimately marks the glorious realization of her most closely held intentions for the album. “I’m excited to make music that doesn’t try to manipulate the listener into wishing for things to be any different from what they are. Ideally, I want my songs to reveal life for what it is, and to show that it’s that way for everyone.”


Tour Dates

8/18 - New York, NY @ Rough Trade Records (performance and album signing)

8/23 - New York, NY @ Bitter End (WFUV)

9/12 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk *

9/13 - London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town *

9/14 - Bristol, UK @ SWX *

9/16 - Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall *

9/17 - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 *

9/18 - Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club *

9/20 - London, UK @ Omeara 

9/28 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage

9/29 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts

9/30 - Boston, MA @ The Sinclair

10/2 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe

10/3 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

10/4 - Detroit, MI @ El Club

10/6 - Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line

10/7 - Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village

10/8 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Back Room @ Colectivo

10/10 - Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records Blue Room 

10/11 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage (Vinyl)

10/12 - Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall

10/13 - Asheville, NC @ Grey Eagle

10/14 - Richmond, VA @ Richmond Music Hall

10/20 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

11/1 - Austin, TX @ Antone’s

11/2 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co

11/4 - Denver, CO @ Ophelia's

11/6 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

11/7 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic

11/9 - Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou's

11/10 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret

11/11 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios

11/13 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

11/14 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room


*opening for Half Moon Run


Echo The Diamond track listing


 1. Act Natural

 2. Get Back

 3. Female Brain

 4. Irish Goodbye

 5. I Didn’t Think So

 6. Memories

 7. Turn The Engine

 8. Hammer and the Nail

 9. My Eyes

10. People Who Talk

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

NEW RELEASE: Dead Can Dance Album Dionysus Out November 2nd

Music on Our Radar:

New album Dionysus 
November 2, 2018
through [PIAS] Recordings





Check out their new recording ACT II - The Mountain - 



European Tour May + June 2019
A Celebration of Life & Works 1980 – 2019

DIONYSUS
ACT I :
Sea Borne
Liberator of Minds
Dance of the Bacchantes

ACT II 
The Mountain
The Invocation
The Forest
Psychopomp

Having previously announced details of their new album Dionysus, Australian duo DEAD CAN DANCE share new recording ACT II - The Mountain which premieres via Pitchfork.

The follow-up to 2012’s Anastasis and taking its lead from the myth of Dionysus, the new work consists of two acts across seven movements representing the various facets of the legend - conveyed via an array of folk instrumentation,  field recordings  and chants. Its inspiration drawn from across the world, Dead Can Dance continue to harvest an intriguing trajectory both in spiritual and creative terms.

ACT II - The Mountain is the first new recording from Dionysus and the first movement of the album’s second Act where, explains Brendan Perry; “listeners will find themselves visiting Mount Nysa. This mountain was Dionysus’ place of birth, where he was raised by the centaur Chiron, from whom he learned chants and dances together with Bacchic rites and initiations. “

Driven by Perry’s exploration of religious rites and rituals, Dionysus nevertheless sees ally-in-arms Lisa Gerrard convey the feminine aspect of Dionysus's dual nature through song in both solo and mantric choral forms and ultimately to play the role of Psychopomp, signifying Dionysus's role as an agrarian deity returning to winter’s underworld to reassume the role of guide to dead souls.
TOUR DATES:

May 02: Le Liberte, Rennes, France
May 04 / 05: Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK
May 07 / 08: Cirque Royale, Brussels, Belgium
May 10 / 11: Grand Rex, Paris, France
May 13 / 14: Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
May 16 / 17: Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
May 20 / 21: Barts, Barcelona, Spain
May 23 / 24: Aula Magna, Lisbon, Portugal
May 26 / 27: Teatro Degli Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy
June 16: Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
June 18 / 19: Ruhrcongress, Bochum, Germany
June 21 / 22: Torwar Hall, Warsaw, Poland
June 24: Kongresove Centrum Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
June 26: Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportarena, Budapest, Hungary
June 28: Sava Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
June 30: Roman Theatre Of Philippopolis, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Saturday, November 16, 2013

MONSTER MAGNET TONIGHT at Bottom Lounge (17+) Premiere Bonus Track From Last Patrol on the "Deciblog"


"Wyndorf's songs are like sci-fi adventures in the brain of an LSD-gobbling hippie"
-Decibel Magazine-

"Dave Wyndorf and company dial back into what made the band counterculture legends in the first place."
-Blabbermouth-

MONSTER MAGNET released their critically acclaimed new album Last Patrol this past October via Napalm Records.  Last Patrol is available as a Limited Edition Digipak, which contains two bonus tracks, standard CD, 2LP and digital format.  The album is available to order on Amazon and iTunes.



MONSTER MAGNET will be hitting the road beginning in Grand Rapids, MI for their first North American tour in over 10 years!  The tour will run through December 14th in New York, NY.  Support on the tour will be come from Royal Thunder and Anti-Mortem.  (Zodiac who were originally part of the tour have been denied visas and will not be on the bill)  A complete last of dates can be found below.

Decibel Magazine's "Deciblog" is hosting an exclusive premiere of one of the bonus tracks from Last Patrol.  The song "One Dead Moon" is only available on the Limited Edition Digipak, LP and deluxe digital versions of Last Patrol. Check out the exclusive premiere of "One Dead Moon" HERE.

MONSTER MAGNET's video for the song "Mindless Ones" was directed by Tom Scharpling and can be seen HERE.

MONSTER MAGNET North American Tour With Royal Thunder and Anti-Mortem:
11/14: Grand Rapids, MI @ Intersection
11/15: Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
11/16: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
11/17: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
11/19: Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
11/20: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
11/22: Seattle, WA @ Neumos
11/23: Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
11/24: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
11/26: San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
11/27: Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
11/29: Tempe, AZ @ Club Red
11/30: Albuquerque, NM @ Launch Pad
12/2: Austin, TX @ Red 7
12/3: Houston, TX @ Fitzgeralds
12/4: Dallas, TX @ Trees
12/6: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
12/7: Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
12/8: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Sound Stage
12/10: Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
12/12: Boston, MA @ Sinclair
12/13: West Chester, PA @ The Note
12/14: New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom

For More Info Visit:

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Free Streaming THE CUSTODIAN - New Album Streaming in Full #free #progrock


Available TODAY via The Lasers Edge

THE CUSTODIAN is the UK's newest and most exciting progressive rock band. Formed in late 2012, the band is already primed to release their debut offering Necessary Wasted Time this June 18th via The Lasers Edge.  The album is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Today Gun Shy Assassin is hosting an exclusive full album stream of Necessary Wasted Time.  Get a first listen to the record in its entirety HERE.

The band's video for the song "Stop Talking" can be viewed HERE.

The song "Other People's Lives" is available to stream HERE.

THE CUSTODIAN band is lead by British musician Richard Thomson, better known as the vocalist of progressive metal group Xerath. The project was initially started in a bedroom in Warwickshire and has now, after several years of lying dormant due to other commitments, become a fully-fledged band ready to take the prog rock world by storm. 

Commenting on the release, Richard states "I love so many types of music, it was impossible for me not to start something completely different from my other band. I have a particular affection for progressive music from the 70's and wanted to create something in that vein, and hopefully, something new and exciting!"

The band takes influence not only from prog rock, but anything and everything else that fits. Expect lots of beautiful acoustic passages, warm synth, tasteful leads, complex drumming and great production. 

The album was recorded by the band in their home studio, mixed by Danish producer Jacob Hansen and mastered by Bob Katz. The artwork was created by British artist Colin Marks of Rainsong design. 

THE CUSTODIAN are:
Richard Thomson: Drums, Vocals, Synth
Michael Pitman: Bass, Vocals
Owain Williams: Lead Guitar
Nariman Poushin: Electro Acoustic Guitar

For More Info Visit:

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Sick Drummer Premieres Exclusive PIG DESTROYER Drum Video #contest #grindcore #metal


   
Launch "This is Beautiful, This is Art" Contest  

ChiIL Live Shows will have our review up shortly.   In the meantime, here's some sweet videos, a contest, free streaming songs, and more.   Now go eat a Pig Destroyer BBQ at Kuma's Corner, if you're in my hood in Chi-Town, and crank up the tunes already.
Described by MetalSucks as "the best metal album of the year", PIG DESTROYER's long awaited new album Book Burner will see the light of day October 22nd via Relapse Records.  The reigning grindcore champions razor-sharp fifth-full length was recorded at guitarist Scott Hull's Visceral Sound Studios.

Sick Drummer Magazine has posted an exclusive video of PIG DESTROYER drummer Adam Jarvis from a recent Meinl showcase.  This video features Jarvis playing several tracks that appear on Book Burner.  Get a first look at the video HERE.

In conjunction with the release of Book BurnerPIG DESTROYER and Relapse Records have launched the "This is Beautiful, This is Art" Contest.  The object of the contest is to post an original picture, drawing, handwritten note, sculpture, animation or anything else you can think of with your favorite PIG DESTROYER lyrics included on the piece.  The piece then needs to be posted via Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr tagging the band.  There will be one grand prize winner and three runners up.  For more information and a complete list of prizes visit the official contest page HEREAll entries must be received by October 15th.   

Pitchfork is currently hosting an exclusive stream of the song "The Diplomat".  The stream can be accessed HERE.  The track "Burning Palm" can also be streamed via Relapse Record's Sound Cloud Player HERE.

Book Burner features 19 tracks with a return to the band's raw, misanthropic sound.  Book Burner will be available on multiple formats including CD, Deluxe 2xCD, LP, Deluxe 2xLP, Cassette and Digital.  Pre-Orders for all of the editions are available via Relapse Records here and iTunes here.

The deluxe editions will each contain a bonus disc of punk covers and a short story, titled The Atheist, penned by frontman JR Hayes.  The Atheist is a post-apocalyptic tale about a decaying world taken over by the violence of religion that showcases the renowned lyricists' unsurpassed style for the first time as prose.  The deluxe 2xLP will also contain an etched b-side featuring artwork by Wormrot frontman Arif Rot. 

In support of Book Burner, PIG DESTROYER will be making special appearances at various festivals and shows throughout the year, including the UK's Damnation Festival, The Metal Sucks/Metal Injection CMJ Showcase, Decibel Magazine's 100th Issue Anniversary Show and Maryland Deathfest 2013.  A full list of dates is included below.
PIG DESTROYER TOUR DATES: 
Oct. 18  
      Brooklyn, NY        MetalSucks/Metal Injection CMJ showcase @ Public Assembly Tickets
Oct. 19
       Baltimore, MD      Ottobar    (w/ Royal Thunder)    Tickets (CD Release Show)
Nov. 1
       Brighton, UK        The Haunt        Tickets
Nov. 2
       London, UK         The Garage       Tickets
Nov. 3 
      Leeds, UK            Damnnation Festival    
       
Jan. 19     Philadelphia, PA   Union Transfer w/ Municipal Waste, Repulsion, Tombs    Tickets
May 23 - 26
    Baltimore, MD        Maryland Deathfest XI4

"Pig Destroyer's Book Burner is the best metal album of the year"
 - 5/5 Metal Sucks

"skull-crushing" 
"The kings of bludgeoning art grind...a fucking phenomenal extreme metal band" 
- KERRANG!
"They continue to create some of the most interesting, challenging, and indelible grind of the last decade."
 -Decibel
"a quantum leap for the whole goddamn genre."
 - Pitchfork
"their most manic album yet" 
- CMJ
    "A sound that is among the most extreme ever created." 
- Allmusic

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