Fire Note Staff

Brother O’ Brother’s Monster Truck EP is being released on August 11th via Romanus Records. The EP will have six tracks and features “Monster Truck” – the debut single and music video you will see today.

Here is a catchy video for “Furthest Blue” from Eyelids compiled and edited by David Dalglish. It is closing track from the Eyelids latest record Or.

Michael Rault’s Wick Records debut – It’s a New Day Tonight – was just released May 18th. This is a track off the record and Michael will kick off his North American tour on May 22nd. See below for dates.

MICHAEL RAULT TOUR DATES
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
May 23 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern
May 24 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar
May 25 – Nashville, TN – The Basement
May 26 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
May 28 – Raleigh, NC – Neptune’s
May 29 – Washington, DC – DC9
May 30 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
May 31 – Brooklyn, NY – Our Wicked Lady
Jun 1 – Boston, MA – Once Ballroom
Jun 2 – Montreal, QC – Bar ‘Le Ritz’
Jun 14 – Detroit, MI – Marble, Bar
Jun 15 – Milwaukee, WI – The Cooperage
Jun 16 – Sioux Falls, ND – Total Drag
Jun 17 – Fargo, ND – Aquarium
Jun 19 – Edmonton, AB – The Rec Room
Jun 20 – Calgary, AB – Sled Island
Jun 23 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Cabaret
Jun 24 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
Jun 25 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Jun 27 – Arcata, CA – Miniplex
Jun 28 – San Francisco, CA – Brick & Mortar
Jun 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg
Jul 1 – Las Vegas, NV – Bunkhouse
Jul 2 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
Jul 3 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
Jul 5 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
Jul 22 – Field, ON – River & Sky Fest

Arctic Monkeys have a new video for their single “Four Out Of Five.” The video for the song was directed by Ben Chappell and Aaron Brown, and was primarily shot on location at Castle Howard in the band’s home county of Yorkshire.

André Costello and the Cool Minors album, Resident Frequencies, is out tomorrow on Misra records. On the border of folk and rock, many of Andre Costello’s songs dance between the upbeat and the melancholy, often landing on both at once.

The Pittsburgh artist isn’t so much a storyteller as picture-painter in his songwriting, calling to mind Wilco and My Morning Jacket in his chords and lyrics, and Leslie Feist and Neil Young in his vocal textures. The “Kinda (Makes You Feel Good)” video was directed by Justin Nixon.

2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair’s classic album Exile In Guyville and on May 4th, Matador Records will release Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set. The upcoming release is an extensive, limited edition 7-LP or 3-CD box set to celebrate the anniversary of her classic album. The box set contains the first official restored audio of all three 1991 Girly-Sound tapes from the original cassettes. It also contains the 1993 Exile In Guyville album remastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge. You can pick up a copy HERE.

Here is the original video for “Stratford-On-Guy,” which has been newly digitized and upscaled to HD, directed by Liz Phair herself! Liz’s first-hand account of how the “Stratford-On-Guy” video came to be:

“We were in talks with labels about the second record – Matador was being courted by Atlantic – and Danny Goldberg came backstage to meet me. I told him about my idea for the next video – ‘Stratford-On-Guy’ – explaining that we were stalled due to budget constraints. He asked ‘what do you need?’ I said, ‘a private plane to fly over downtown LA and get footage at night.’ I wanted to shoot the electric veins of the city. He just said, ‘done!’ It was one of those real rock star moments.

So my husband, his friend Michael Mees, who was the DP, and I went up in this 8 seater Lear Jet and got the greatest footage ever. We were literally flying sideways so Michael could shoot straight down over the rooftops of all the buildings. We were executing these tight turns above the skyscrapers and the G force was incredible. You could feel your internal organs dragging to the other side of your body cavity. Michael was using this really heavy camera and Jim, my husband, had to hold onto him as we shot. The lens of the camera was pressing down against the window pane and I remember Michael nervously joking – and not really in jest – that the glass beneath him better hold. It was so fun. We made two approaches into the airport so we could capture that fantastic runway lighting. Those images are etched in my memory forever. I seem to recall I somehow wedged my head up between the pilots like a dog peering over the backseat so I could see that awesome 180* cockpit view, too. Good times!”