Woods - "New Light" Video

VIDEO: "New Light" (Dir. by John Andrews) - YouTube 

Woods' brand of pop shamanism has undergone several gradual transformations over their past few albums, but on With Light And With Love, the tinkering reveals an expanded sonic palette that includes singing saw, heavier emphasis on percussion, and a saloon piano that sounds like it was rescued from a flooded basement. Distinct from both the stoned volk of their earliest recordings and the Kraut-y dalliances of more recent fare, With Light And With Love showcases a more sophisticated brand of contemporary drug music that owes more to Magical Mystery Tour than motorik. If you've ever thought of Woods as a pop group comprised of weirdos, or a weirdo band that happens to excel at playing pop songs almost in spite of itself, With Light And With Love provides a corrective in the form of songs that show these two elements as natural, inextricable bedfellows. Throughout the album, vocals are frequently emitted through Leslie speakers and guitars perform one-string ragas like Sandy Bull reared on shoegaze and skate videos. With Light And With Love is an album of deeply psychedelic, deeply satisfying songs for a new age of searchers, of Don Juan and Animal Chin alike. - James Toth

WOODS Dates

07-27 Chicago, IL - Wicker Park Festival
07-28 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
07-31 Seattle, WA - Neumos **^
08-01 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Fox Cabaret **
08-02 Portland, OR - Pickathon
08-03 Portland, OR - Pickathon
08-05 Big Sur, CA - Woodsist Festival Big Sur 
08-09 San Francisco, CA - Brick and Mortar / Outside Lands Afterparty ** / ***
08-10 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands 
08-12 Visalia, CA - Cellar Door ***
08-14 San Diego, CA - Casbah w/ Little Wings ***
08-16 Pioneertown, CA - Woodsist Festival Pioneertown ***
08-17 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom ***
08-19 Marfa, TX - El Cosmico
08-20 Austin, TX - Holy Mountain
08-21 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
08-22 Chattanooga, TN - Sluggo's
08-30 Birmingham, England - Moseley Folk Festival
08-31 Dorset, England - End Of The Road
09-02 London, England - Dingwalls ****
09-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
09-04 Groningen, Netherlands - Vera
09-05 Vlieland, Netherlands - Into the Great Wide Open
09-06 Brussels, Belgium - Atelier 210
09-07 Strasbourg, France - Troc Café
09-08 Zurich, Switzerland - El Lokal
09-09 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Romandie
09-10 Biarritz, France - L'atabal
09-12 Valada, Portugal - Reverence Festival
09-13 Madrid, Spain - El Sol
09-14 Barcelona, Spain - Caprichos de Apolo
09-15 Toulouse, France - La Dynamo
09-16 Paris, France - Eldorado Festival
09-18 Bergen, Norway - Phonofestivalen
09-19 Angers, France - Austin Psych Fest / Levitation
09-20 Belgium, Leffinge - Leffingeleuren
09-21 Tilburg, Netherlands - Incubate
09-22 Bristol, England - The Lantern
09-23 Dublin, Ireland - Button Factory
09-24 Belfast, Ireland - McHughs
09-25 Glasgow, Scotland - Broadcast
09-26 Newcastle, England - Think Thank
09-27 Liverpool, England - Liverpool Psych Fest
10-24 New York, NY - NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts w/ Joshua Light Show

The Kooks Are Here with a New Video!

Watch: The Kooks - "Bad Habit" Live Video

VEVO has premiered the new live music video for "Bad Habit" by The Kooks today. "Bad Habit" is one track from The Kooks' anticipated new album, Listen, out September 2nd via Astralwerks, and available now for pre-order via iTunes and the band's website. All pre-orders of the album will get an immediate download of "Bad Habit," which follows the release of previous songs "Down" and "Around Town." Watch the "Bad Habit" video at the link below:

The Kooks On Tour

Jul 26 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club [SOLD OUT]

Jul 27 - Washington, DC @ 930 Club [SOLD OUT]

Jul 28 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall [SOLD OUT]

Jul 29 - New York, NY @ Terminal 5 [SOLD OUT]

July 31 - Chicago, IL @ Park West (Official Lollapalooza Aftershow - SOLD OUT)

Aug 01 - Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza

Aug 03 - Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival

Aug 04 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall

Aug 08 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy [SOLD OUT]

Aug 09 - San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival

Sep 24 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory

Sep 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern

Sep 26 - San Diego, CA @ The House of Blues

Sep 28 - Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom

Sep 29 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox at The Market

Oct 02 - Denver, CO @ The Ogden Theatre

Oct 04 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

Oct 06 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall

Oct 07 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer

Oct 08 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live

Oct 09 - Huntington, NY @ The Paramount

Saint Pepsi Shares New Video

WATCH: "Fiona Coyne" - http://youtu.be/Bw_7UrqzNUg

 

STREAM: "Fiona Coyne" - https://soundcloud.com/carparkrecords/fionacoyne

  

Following last week's release of his new single "Fiona Coyne," Saint Pepsi is back today to share the track's appropriately lovelorn video. The Matt Walker-directed video has the teenage feel of Degrassi, which is appropriate considering the origin of the song's title comes from one of the show's characters. Check out the video along with a stream of the track above and see below for more info on Saint Pepsi's forthcoming 7".

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For his Carpark debut, Saint Pepsi takes a step away from the more genre-shuffling styles of his Internet releases to focus his skills on high-power pop. The title track of the "Fiona Coyne" 7-inch is an uplifting tribute to fantastical romance and the joyous dreams pop culture can provide. Mastermind Ryan DeRobertis lays down a funky guitar riff and bass line of Chic-quality to tease our senses before tickling us silly with the chorus' ecstatic horns. "My love's on the silver screen/ she's always playing make believe," sings the 21-year-old songwriter, playing a bit of make-believe himself. The song, named after a certain graduate of Degrassi Community School, acts out the fantasy of dating a TV star and plays with the idea that music can be something of a catalyst for romance.

The b-side, "Fall Harder," is a lovelorn hit about a somewhat unattainable beauty. "You've got me under your spell/ and baby, I couldn't fall harder," DeRobertis sings over an Orange Juice-worthy riff and electronic subtleties like the sound of a Galaga battle. For this 7-inch, DeRobertis wrote danceable love songs with a nostalgic aesthetic to the production "because I think nostalgia is inherently narcissistic and I'm currently very into the idea of exploring the connection between nostalgia and narcissism," he says.

Army Navy - "The Wilderness Inside"

Los Angeles-based indie-pop band Army Navy is pleased to announce the release of their brand new full-length album titled The Wilderness Inside. Produced by longtime friend and notable producerAdam Lasus at Fireproof Recording and released today through the band's own label, The Fever Zone, The Wilderness Inside expands on the band's signature, sparkling guitar-driven power-pop complimented by frontman Justin Kennedy's wounded lyrics. . 

Army Navy released its highly acclaimed self-titled debut full-length on their own label, The Fever Zone, in late 2008, an album Pitchfork declared a "bubbly effervescent valentine to obscure power pop bands of the late-1970s and early-'80s" in their 7.8 review, and what NPR described as "a Posies-and-Teenage Fanclub-style tsunami of melody and distortion that underscores the youthful essence of power-pop in all its bittersweet glory." 

In June 2011, the band released their sophomore album titled The Last Place via eMusic's "Selects" program, a coveted spotlight that featured and offered The Last Place to eMusic.com's subscribers exclusively for an entire month. During its exclusivity, eMusic went on to describe The Last Place as "a poisoned Valentine dripping with equal parts beauty and scorn; imagine a Vulcan mind-meld between Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque and Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear and you're there."SPIN also went on to call The Last Place "a feel-bad record you can actually feel good about" in their 8-out-of-10 album review. Since the release of The Last Place, Army Navy has been touring both coasts of the U.S., sharing the stage with bands such as Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Features and others. 

With the release of The Wilderness Inside, Army Navy will be making more live appearances throughout 2014. Tour dates to be announced soon. 

The Wilderness Inside track-listing
01. In Waves
02. The Mistakes
03. Crushed Like the Car
04. Waiting to Win
05. I'm Curious
06. World's End
07. Dumb Luck
08. Pacific
09. Spinning on the Record
10. Birdy

Frankie Rose Announces Fall Tour Dates

Frankie Rose is thrilled to announce an upcoming West Coast tour this Fall, it will be her first time hitting the West Coast since the release of her third album, Herein Wild,which was released late last year. Since then, Rose has relocated to Los Angeles and put together a new backing band which will make its debut on these Fall tour dates. 

Rose's critically acclaimed Fat Possum debut, Herein Wild, received praise from publications including The New York Times, Billboard, Spin, The Village Voice and Interview Magazine for a sound that Stereogum notes, "establishes [Frankie] as a true force to be reckoned with."

   

11/01 San Diego, CA Casbah

11/02 Los Angeles, CA Bootleg

11/04 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill

11/06 Portland, OR Bunk Bar

11/07 Vancouver, BC The Fox Cabaret

11/08 Seattle, WA Barboza