Category: live

[live] A Place to Bury Strangers announce EU / UK tour dates

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In May and June NYC band A Place to Bury Strangers will go to Europe/UK for the second leg of their Nothing Left to Destroy Tour. It will start in Le Havre on May 19 and finish in Liege on June 10. There will be two dates in Italy, as per the below:

June 2 – Vinile, Bassano del Grappa
June 3 – Freakout Club, Bologna

The band also announced a special release for Record Store Day titled See Through You: Rerealized, a collection of remixes on their last LP.

A massive 21-track 2xLP set on red and blue vinyl would include reworks from such artists as Trentemøller, Andy Bell of Ride (as Glok), Xiu Xiu, Annie Hart of Au Revoir Simone, Sonic Boom, TV Priest, Tampa’s goth band Glove, UK emerging outfit bdrmm and many more.

It would be out on April 22 physically and on June 2 digitally. Pre-order the collection here and find more information about the group’s tour on their website.

Listen to the original See Through You album below.

[song] ERRORR – Makeshift Happy

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ERRORR will unveil a new album Self Destruct on March 3 via Anomic Records (pre-order it here). It would be a debut release for the Berlin-based outfit, which was founded by Leonard Kaage; the Swedish multi-instrumentalist also known as the producer and guitar player of The Underground Youth.

We have already heard a steady run of new songs — “Innocent”, “SIXXX”, “Deep Blue” and more, and now the group shares a last single before the LP release, “Makeshift Happy”, which continues the band’s exploration of dreamy and shoegaze-inflected noise pop music.

It comes together also with the tour announcement, which is scheduled between April and June throughout Europe. It will include four shows in Italy, as per the below:

May 13 – Secret Garden, Venezia
May 14 – Ozne, Prato
May 15 – Nowhere Club, Modena
May 16 – Arci Dallò, Castiglione delle Stiviere

Listen below and find all the dates & more information here.

[live] Left of the Dial unveils a second wave of names for 2023 line-up

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Rotterdam’s international showcase festival Left of the Dial released the second wave of names for an upcoming 2023 edition:

250cc (DE) • Adult DVD (UK) • Bikini Beach (DE) • Butch Kassidy (UK) • Car Boot Sale (UK) • Denzel Himself (UK) • Egyptian Blue (UK) • Laundromat (UK) • LIFE (UK) • MADMADMAD (UK) • Núria Graham (ES) • Porchlight (UK)

Scheduled for 19-21 October, the 3-day event will take place at various locations in the centre of Rotterdam. It will once again feature a selection of the best current and up-and-coming alternative bands (there will be roughly 150 artists total).

Regular single and group tickets are now on sale. The festival also offers now the great option to pay for your ticket in two instalments, which can be very handy. Visit the website to grab yours and stream LOTD’s playlist below.

[song] David Brewis – Surface Noise

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Having already shared singles “Start Over” and “The Last Day”, David Brewis gives us another taster of his upcoming album with the jazzy avant-folk number “Surface Noise”. It follows the all-acoustic direction of his latest songs and sounds fresh and new yet unmistakably his.

He says the following about the track: “I read Surface Noise as a kind of tour around the east end of Sunderland, feeling dejected and windswept. The Astral Weeks influence is fairly explicit on this track, albeit tempered with a denser string arrangement and all played on top of a swung 6/8 rhythm which I probably first heard on John Coltrane’s version of My Favourite Things”.

The Soft Struggles is set for release on February 24 and would be out on the new record label run by David and his brother Peter (who perform also as Field Music), Daylight Saving Records (an amazing Thy Socialite! by SLUG released last Friday was the first release on it).

David will also perform three shows in support of the record. All the dates will feature a full ten-piece band with most of the players from the record — David himself, Peter (drums), Sarah Hayes (flute/piano), Faye MacCalman (sax/clarinet), John Pope (double bass), Field Music’s regular string quartet plus Eve Cole singing. Dates as follows:

May 5 – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
May 6 – Customs House, South Shields
June 2 – Kings Place, London

Listen to the song below and pre-order the LP.

[live] Left of the Dial unveils first 10 names for 2023 line-up

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Rotterdam’s international showcase festival Left of the Dial released the first names for an upcoming 2023 edition:

Balderdasch (IE) • Chalk (UK) • Chase Petra (US) • Eyesore & The Jinx (UK) • Joshua Idehen (NG/SE) • Joyeria (CA/UK) • Minor Conflict (UK) • Splint (UK) • wych elm (UK) • Yowl (UK)

Scheduled for 19-21 October, the 3-day event will take place at various locations in the center of Rotterdam. It will once again feature a selection of the best current and up-and-coming alternative bands (there will be roughly 150 artists total).

Regular single and group tickets are now on sale. Visit the website to grab yours and stream the festival’s playlist below.