Following a huge tour across America, Canada, Europe and the UK, Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets share their new video for “Mundungus”, shot by the band on super 8 and taking us along for the ride of their whirlwind past few months. A new favourite addition to the live set, “Mundungus” premiered on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show, and is the band’s first release since they shared their new album And Now For The Whatchamacallit earlier this year. “Mundungus is the rare post tour recovery period where all our surrounding friends and family assume we’re crippled with alcoholism, burdened with lives of social estrangement and are far too disillusioned to foresee our self destructive tendencies”. – Jack McEwan Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

Returning home for this year’s Spilt Milk Festival and summer’s Falls Festival, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are gearing up for a homecoming tour to remember. You can find their current dates below.

AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
Saturday 23rd November Spilt Milk Festival Canberra SOLD OUT
Saturday 30th November Spilt Milk Festival Ballarat SOLD OUT
Saturday 28th December – Wednesday 1st January Falls Festival Lorne
Sunday 29th December – Tuesday 31st December Falls Festival Marion Bay
Tuesday 31st December – Thursday 2nd January Falls Festival Byron Bay
Friday 3rd January – Saturday 4th January Falls Festival Fremantle

Here is a new track from Texas group led by songwriter, shredder, and flautist Nolan Potter. Potter is well known on the Austin scene and has played with Holy Wave. His new ablum is just out on Castle Face Records, which you can find HERE, and this video is a good shot of what to expect – dreamy and lucid keys, strings, drum corps, slippery guitar and buff bass, ripe flutes and breezy vocals. For fans of Embryo, the Mothers, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moody Blues, the Stark Reality, and Placebo.

Nada Surf has announced the release of their long-awaited new LP, Never Not Together, arriving via Barsuk on February 7, 2020. It’s the band’s ninth studio recording — their first in almost four years. Today’s video is for the new single, “Something I Should Do.”

Never Not Together sees Nada Surf – Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca, Ira Elliot, and their longtime friend and collaborator, Louie Lino – continuing their music vision with catchy indie rock songs. Recorded earlier this year at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Monmouthshire, Wales, the wide-ranging collection revels in the group’s ability to evoke and reflect grand and intricately wrought emotions, whether through sweeping guitar solos or hushed-whisper vocals.

Nada Surf will celebrate the release with a major world tour. The band has also added a run of May and June dates to their existing tour slate — see below for the full list of currently-announced dates.

NADA SURF
WORLD TOUR 2020

JANUARY
14 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
15 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
17 – San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
18 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
19 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
20 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
22 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
24 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
25 – Dallas, TX – The Kessler Theater
27 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
28 – Charlottesville, VA – Southern Café & Music Hall
29 – Washington, DC – The Black Cat
30 – Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live
31 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

FEBRUARY
1 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
2 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
25 – Cambridge, UK – J2
26 – Lille, FR – Le Splendid
27 – Cologne, DE – Live Music Hall
28 – Strasbourg, FR – La Laiterie
29 – Rennes, FR – Le MeM

MARCH
2 – Lyon, FR – Le Transbordeur
3 – Tolouse, FR – Le Bikini
4 – Valencia, ES – Sala Moon
5 – Murcia, ES – Sala REM
6 – Madrid, ES – La Riviera
7 – Bilbao, ES – Antxokia
8 – Pamplona, ES – Zentral
9 – Bordeaux, FR – Le Krakatoa
11 – Paris, FR – La Cigale
12 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom
13 – Manchester, UK – Academy 3
14 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory
15 – Glasgow, UK – St Luke’s

APRIL
1 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
2 – Brussels, BE – Orangerie Botanique
3 – Hannover, DE – Swiss Life Hall *
4 – Leipzig, DE – Haus Auensee *
5 – Vienna, AT – Arena
6 – Stuttgart, DE – Wizemann
7 – Milan, IT – Santeria Toscana
8 – Zurich, CH – Dynamo
9 – Munich, DE – Mufatthalle
10 – Berlin, DE – Columbiahalle *
11 – Berlin, DE – Metropol
12 – Hamburg, DE – Fabrik
14 – Stockholm, SW – Nalen
15 – Oslo, NO – John Dee
16 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega
17 – Bremen, DK – Pier 2 *
18 – Dortmund, DE – Warsteiner Music Hall *

MAY
21 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern
22 – Montreal, QC – Cafe Campus
25 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
26 – Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall
27 – Fairfield, CT – The Warehouse
29 – Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Small’s
30 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop

JUNE
2 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House
3 – Maquoketa, IA – Codfish Hollow Barn
4 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
5 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
6 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
7 – Detroit, MI – The Magic Bag

* Die Perfektion Tour w/Madse

Hailing from Derby, UK, garage/surf rock band, Pet Crow, will release their 2nd full-length album, Take The Edge Off, on February 7th with No Sleep Records. Today, the band has revealed a video for their brand new, unreleased single “What We Doin’?” Album pre-orders will be available HERE from No Sleep on November 20th.

Austin’s …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are returning after six years with their 10th full-length studio album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories – due out on January 17th, 2020 on Dine Alone Records in North America. The new LP comes as the band enters their 25th year together and …Trail of Dead will kick off the album release with a show at LA’s Masonic Lounge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery followed by a couple of weeks of West Coast dates. Along with the news today the band is revealing the first single via the official video for “Don’t Look Down” directed, edited and produced by Conrad Keely. The single will be available via all DSPs tomorrow, November 15th, along with an album pre-order.

X: The Godless Void and Other Stories was produced by …Trail’s own Conrad Keely alongside engineer Charles Godfrey (Sinkane, of Montreal, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Work on the new album began in earnest in 2018 after Keely returned home to Austin following five years in Cambodia, rejoining fellow founding member Jason Reece. As a result, the album sees Keely detailing “the sadness of moving away from a place that I loved,” while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield’s book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. “I feel like I’m writing pop music,” he says, “it’s just not Top 20 pop. It’s the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would’ve grown up with.”

In the midst of a headlining tour, (Sandy) Alex G has released a new video for “In My Arms”, a track from his new album, House of Sugar. The video was directed by Zev Magasis, who also directed the video for “Gretel”.

Alex will play a sold out NYC show at Brooklyn Steel this Thursday, November 14th. The US leg concludes in his hometown of Philadelphia on November 30th, and continues in the UK and the EU in February 2020. Dates below; tickets are available at HERE.

(Sandy) Alex G US Tour Dates
Tue 11/12 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House – SOLD OUT
Thu 11/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel – SOLD OUT
Fri 11/15 – Burlington, VT @ ArtsRiot – SOLD OUT
Sat 11/16 – Holyoke, MA @ Gateway City Arts
Sun 11/17 – Boston, MA @ Royale
Sat 11/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer – SOLD OUT

Fri 02/07 – Liverpool, UK @ Phase One
Sat 02/08 – Dublin, IE @ The Button Factory
Sun 02/09 – Glasgow, UK @ St. Luke’s
Mon 02/10 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club
Wed 02/12 – London, UK @ Evolutionary Arts Hackney (EartH) – SOLD OUT
Fri 02/14 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla – SOLD OUT
Sat 02/15 – Brighton, UK @ The Old Market

Mon 02/17 – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
Tue 02/18 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique (Rotonda)
Thu 02/20 – Hamburg, DE @ Molotow (SkyBar)
Sat 02/22 – Berlin, DE @ Lido
Mon 02/24 – Prague, CZ @ Underdogs Ballroom
Tue 02/25 – Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
Thu 02/27 – Barcelona, ES @ Razzmatazz (Sala 3)
Fri 02/28 – Madrid, ES @ Sala El Sol
Mon 03/02 – Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Wed 03/04 – Cologne, DE @ Bumann & Sohn
Thu 03/05 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
Fri 03/06 – Groningen, NL @ Vera

Wed 04/15 – San Diego, CA @ SOMA *
* rescheduled from October 26th @ The Irenic; all tickets will be honored

“I’m lost, but I’m not afraid.” As Ratboys’ Julia Steiner began to write the skeletons of the songs that would make up their new album Printer’s Devil, those six words, originally sung by David Byrne, meant everything. They became a mantra for the transformative nature of Printer’s Devil, an album that finds the Chicago band achieving entirely new heights as a four-piece and peaks of vulnerability in what is undoubtedly their strongest and most cohesive endeavor yet.

You can check out the lead track in the video and Printer’s Devil will be out everywhere on February 28, 2020 and pre-orders are available now from Topshelf Records HERE.

Powerfully voiced Australian folk artist, Grace Cummings, made a quick rise within Melbourne’s indie music scene which landed her a contract with Flightless Records. They just issued her debut album, Refuge Cove, last week and “There Flies A Seagull” is the second single.

The debut was recorded in one afternoon by Jesse Williams (Traffik Island, Girlatones) in his Melbourne home. Her voice is unique and powerful – an artist to watch for sure.

The Raconteurs – Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler – have shared a new video for “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying).” The video was directed by Ben Chappell and prominently features the iconic House On The Rock in Spring Green, WI.Help Us Stranger (Third Man Records), which has already seen the band perform across much of the US and will include dates in South America and Hawaii before the year’s end. See below for the full list of tour dates.

THE RACONTEURS LIVE 2019
November 7: New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore NOLA #
November 8: Birmingham, AL – Alabama Theatre #
November 9: St. Augustine, FL – The Amp @
November 10: Miami Beach, FL – The Fillmore Miami Beach #
November 12: Teatro Gran Rex – Buenos Aires, Argentina (SOLD OUT)
November 13: Teatro Coliseo – Santiago, Chile
November 15: Popload Festival – São Paulo, Brazil *
November 17: Corona Capital – Mexico City, Mexico *
November 18: Plaza Condesa – Mexico City, Mexico (SOLD OUT)
December 5: Portland, OR – KNRK December To Remember at Crystal Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
December 7: San Jose, CA – ALT 105.3’s Not So Silent Night at SAP Center at San Jose *
December 12: Honolulu, HI – The Republik
December 13: Honolulu, HI – The Republik

* FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE
# WITH KING JAMES & THE SPECIAL MEN
@ WITH MARGO PRICE