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King Tuff pushes back album release and announces world tour
King Tuff announced the unfortunate push back of his new album, Was Dead, to May 28,2013. However, he did release a track from the album, “Dancing On You”, that can be streamed below!
KING TUFF TOUR DATES
Fri. April 12 – Palm Springs, CA @ Ace Hotel
Wed. April 17 – Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse w/ Dinosaur Jr.
Wed. April 24 – Sydney, AU @ Godgod Small Club
Thu. April 25 – Melbourne, AU @ Bermuda Float
Fri. April 26 – Brisbane, AU @ Primitive Room
Sat. April 27 – Adelaide, AU @ Tuxedo Cat
Mon. April 29 – Auckland, NZ @ King’s Arms
Tue. April 30 – Wellington, NZ @ Bar Bodega
Fri. May 10 – Cardiff, Wales, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach
Sat. May 11 – South Yorkshire, UK @ Bowery Sheffield
Sun. May 12 – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
Mon. May 13 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social
Tue. May 14 – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hound
Wed. May 15 – London, UK @ Birthdays
Fri. May 17 – Athens, GR @ Plissken Festival
Sat. May 18 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who Festival
Mon. May 20 – Berlin, DE @ FESTAAL
Tue. May 21 – Offenbach, DE @ Hafen 2
Wed. May 22 – Lyon, FR @ Sonic
Thu. May 23 – Nîmes, FR @ Paloma
Fri. May 24 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound Festival
Sun. May 26 – Toulouse, FR @ Le Saint Des Seins
Tue. May 28 – Zurich, CH @ Mascotte
Wed. May 29 – Luzern, CH @ Sedel
Thu. May 29 – Ravenna, IT @ Hana-Bi
Fri. May 31 – Rome, IT @ Muzak
Fri. Aug. 2 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
Sat. Aug. 3 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
Sun. Aug. 4 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon Festival
Review: Luke Winslow-King’s ‘The Coming Tide’
Thank God for Luke Winslow-King. In a musical era in which simple beats and perverse lyrics reign supreme, and enjoying quality music puts you in the minority, Winslow-King brings back a feeling long forgotten: the way your hips can’t help but sway in an almost instinctive way when early 20th century jazz blares from your speakers.
This pretty-boy moved to New Orleans by chance in 2001, a fact that is quite tangible when you listen to his newest release, The Coming Tide. Jazz, Delta blues, Southern gospel, and folk collide in this 11-track masterpiece, which combines both earth-shaking LWK originals and creatively reworked covers.
The first track on the album, “The Coming Tide”, ardently displays Winslow-King’s talent in working with an undeniably gospel slide guitar. In addition, fellow singer Esther Rose’s harmonies add the final, perfecting touch to the track and the rest of the album – it’s as if you don’t even realize the music is missing something until her Lucinda Williams-esque voice leaks into the mix. “Let ‘em Talk” is another of our favorites. The sweet, melodious trumpets are the ideal contrast to LWK’s defiant words: “Let ‘em talk, I don’t mind. Don’t make a difference to me.”
You can almost taste Winslow-King’s and Rose’s affection for New Orleans in the Ida Cox cover, “I’ve Got the Blues for Rampart Street” – it’s an homage to their beloved town in both lyrics and musical style, from start to finish. Just a few tracks later, we hear the duo’s soft, breezy take on love with “I Know She’ll Do Right By Me”. Listeners are immediately transported to a more classically romantic era as Winslow-King croons about his favorite girl, who is “so fair, treats me right, she gets home by the end of the night.”
The Coming Tide concludes valiantly with a cover of the 1960s track made famous by George Harrison, “I’ve Got My Mind Set On You”. It’s classic yet entirely reworked and inspired, much like Luke Winslow-King as a musical force.
Circle Takes the Square pre-orders available now
It’s finally happened. The moment we have all been waiting for. Our dear, talented friends from Circle Takes the Square have released Decompositions: Volume Number One digitally, and now it’s time to get your pre-orders in for physical copies…and so much more.
For those of you who don’t remember Vinyl Mag’s first interview ever, Decompositions: Volume Number One was recorded/mixed/mastered by Anthony Stubelek at Rockstudio in Brunswick, Ga. and released through the band’s own label, Gatepost Recordings.
Now back to the pre-orders. Dudes. We need to talk.
Let’s start with the “Bug-Out Bag” Survival Kit. I can honestly and sincerely say that I have never seen a cooler package put together by a band. It’s golden. For $115, you get a custom CTTS:
- Survival kit with “high-quality Military/UN approved items”
- Flashlight engraved with the lyrics “Illuminate the Way”
- Water bottle
- T-shirt (illustration by CTTS’s own Drew Speziale) *remember to enter your size manually
- Decompositions: Volume Number One vinyl and CD
- Koozie
- Two buttons
- Poster
- Tote bag
Seriously? This thing is unbelievable. If the world does end (like if those silly Mayans got their dates mixed up), you’ll be totally set, and you’ll have a damn killer album to carry you through the apocalypse.
“We were considering the prospects of the bundles,” said Kathleen Stubelek of CTTS. “The idea came from wanting to put together something that pertained to the album, yet was also full of items that people could actually use…not just merch for merch’s sake. So it’s basically a companion to the apocalypse. You have a survival kit, the nicest one we could find. You have a little flashlight, a water bottle, and you have the perfect soundtrack for watching your surroundings crumble around you! It’s completely self indulgent, but it was a lot of fun to put together.”
So there you go. Completely brilliant.
Other pre-order packages are available if you want to take your chances.
So get all up on it, and enjoy!
REVIEW: Night Moves’ debut full-length Colored Emotions
In this age of hybridized genre tag mania (proto-post-stoner-jam-metalcore, anyone?), it’s become easy for bands to lay claim to invention by slapping synths, reverb, drum machines, etc., on top of blasé retreads of well-worn forms. Amid the innovation inflation Continue reading “REVIEW: Night Moves’ debut full-length Colored Emotions”
REVIEW: Sick/Sea’s debut album Moral Compass
Self-defined “jazzy rockers” Sick/Sea will be releasing their first album, Moral Compass, on the 16th of next month.
Moral Compass feels like an extended juxtaposition—an album with a resonating youthful lyrical basis, and yet a definitive level of harshness/roughness in its melodies and overall sound.
The childlike nature of the album is ever present and emphasized when evaluating the track titles. The names of the five songs on the upcoming release are “Parasite”, “Robot”, “Master Splinter”, “Mermaid”, and “Blinked.” Many of the stories told in the lyrics are based on childhood novels like Treasure Island. Their love of youthful fiction resonates loudly throughout the lyrics of each of the five tracks on Moral Compass.
Yet each of these tracks carries consistent dark melodies covered in heavy vocal echoing and alterations to original sound. When comparing Sick/Sea’s live videos with the sound from this album, it is difficult to recognize that they are the same musicians. Lead singer Audrey Scott’s enticing, raw sound is masked by the heaviness of the recording reverb on Moral Compass. Despite their deep Texan roots, Sick/Sea avoids the clichéd country sounds of their home state for a more trending, indie vibe with bluesy vocals.
Audrey is accompanied by her brother, Cameron Scott. Cameron adds original and energetic drumming to the dynamic sound of Sick/Sea. The base guitarist sprinkles a certain level of jazzy rhythm to the overall vibe of the album (although Sick/Sea is still defined more by their harder indie rock sound).
This debut album, produced by Atlanta-based recording company Autumn + Color, has a fairly cohesive sound but lacks a definitive originality that keeps toes tapping. On the other hand, the track titled “Mermaid” has a catchy chorus and a more seasoned rhythm.
To promote the release of Moral Compass, Sick/Sea will be heading off on an American tour beginning on the 20th in Chicago, Illinois. Live footage of Sick/Sea shows the band’s wider range and serious potential in the music industry. By taking away some of the heavy recording sounds, the true promise and talent on Moral Compass may be able to ring more true.
Sick/Sea’s awaited debut album feels like an impressive first step in a long artistic journey. While Moral Compass’s recording may alter some of the original musical talent, it represents a band that is cohesive and, most importantly, young at heart.
Twenty One Pilots “Regional at Best” review
Twenty One Pilots is cooking up a storm in central Ohio, and is now starting to spread that across the US with their first tour venturing out of the Midwest and the release of their second LP, Regional at Best. The genre of this duo is hard to define. Take some pop, hip hop, rock, and electronic and you get the frenzy that is this band (and frenetic they are, especially live). The album keeps things cheery most of the time (“Guns For Hands”) but occasionally gets dark and introspective (i.e., the spoken word meets techno “Car Radio”). Most of the songs on the record are over 4 minutes, sometimes over 5 – breaking the mold for most dance numbers on top 40 radio. The buzz about this band indicates their live show is a spectacle to behold, and this record serves as a good preview of that. Don’t let the “poppier” tracks on the album mislead you – Twenty One Pilots means business, and that business involves shaking things up in their trademark way.
4/5 stars