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Shout Out Louds wrap up US tour with appearances on The Tonight Show, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic & KEXP!

May 23, 2013 – 11:05 am

This weekend, Shout Out Louds are wrapping up the US tour in support of their new album, Optica. However, there are still multiple chances to see and hear the band before they return to Sweden. Tonight, they will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Watch live on NBC beginning at 11:30 pm EST or set your DVR!

Also, Shout Out Louds will visit KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic tomorrow morning to perform live and chat with host Jason Bentley. Listen live beginning at 11:15 am PST. The band will also drop in at KEXP in Seattle on Saturday, May 25 at 5pm PST.

Watch Shout Out Louds’ recently released video for “Illusions” , too.

Optica is available on CD, LP and digital now in the Merge store.

Shout Out Louds on tour:
May 23 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
May 24 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
May 25 George, WA Sasquatch Festival

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Listen to Mount Moriah live on NPR’s World Cafe today

May 22, 2013 – 11:33 am

Mount Moriah performed songs from Miracle Temple for World Cafe and chatted with host David Dye. The session will air today on NPR’s World Cafe.

Mount Moriah was chosen as one of SPIN’s 5 Best New Artists and Popmatters deems Miracle Temple “a lush, deeply layered, sunburst of a record.” Other positive reviews can be found at Pitchfork, the A.V. Club, American Songwriter, MTV Hive and more! Also, watch their stripped down performance of “Bright Light” for WFUV at Austin’s famous Hotel San Jose & their visit to WBEZ Chicago’s Afternoon Shift. And, the lovely video for “Bright Light” is on YouTube.

Miracle Temple is available now on CD, LP and digital download in the Merge store. Also, available at your local record store, at iTunes, Amazon, Spotify & Rdio.

Mount Moriah on tour:
June 13 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe
June 14 Cleveland, OH Beachland Tavern
June 15 Columbus, OH The Basement
June 16 Bloomington, IN The Bishop
June 17 St. Louis, MO Old Rock House
June 18 Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge
June 20 Denver, CO Hi Dive
June 21 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
June 22 Dubuque, IA Eronel
June 23 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry
June 24 Madison, WI The Frequency
June 25 Columbia, MO Mojo’s
June 26 Nashville, TN The High Watt

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She & Him debut video for “I Could’ve Been Your Girl” on HelloGiggles

May 21, 2013 – 11:40 am

She & Him have premiered the video for their newest song, “I Could’ve Been Your Girl,” on HelloGiggles today.

The video marks the first time the band’s singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel has stepped behind the camera to direct; the result is an amalgamation of everything that makes She & Him so damn charming—an incredible chorus, choreography by Sophie Olson, vintage dresses, M. Ward’s genius guitar playing, and a whole lot of fun.

Watch the video for “I Could’ve Been Your Girl” now at HelloGiggles.com

Says Deschanel about directing, “After 7 years and 4 albums with She & Him, I figured it was about time I took a crack at making a video for a song I wrote. The process was so much fun, and gave me a chance to give a nod to some of my favorite 60’s musicals.”

“I Could’ve Been Your Girl” is one of the highlights on the band’s new album, Volume 3, which is in stores now. In Volume 3, they’ve created an effortlessly effervescent, bleached-out-in-the-sun pop record, featuring some of the most dynamic, complex songs Deschanel has ever written. The album allows for tempo shifts, disco grooves, string arrangements on multiple tracks, and horn flourishes that perfectly suit the She & Him sound.

She & Him’s Volume 3 is available on CD, LP, and now cassette in the Merge store, the band’s online store, and at your local record store. If you buy Volume 3 in the Merge store, you get an awesome nail decal set (photo below) for free! Just enter “NAILS” into the coupon code. Also, find Volume 3 at iTunes, Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble, and Best Buy.

She & Him on tour:
Jun 13 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium+
Jun 15 Grand Prairie, TX – Verizon Theater at Grand Prairie+
Jun 16 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theatre+
Jun 18 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theater+
Jun 19 Las Vegas, NV – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas%
Jun 21 San Diego, CA – SDSU Open Air Theatre%
Jun 22 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre*%
Jun 23 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl*
Jun 25 Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Gardens%
Jun 27 Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove%
Jun 28 Kansas City, MO – Kanrocksas Music Festival
Jun 29 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom#
Jul 01 Ann Arbor, MI – Hill Auditorium#
Jul 03 Montreal, QC – Montreal Jazz Festival#
Jul 04 Toronto, ON – Toronto Urban Roots Festival#
Jul 05 Ottawa, ON – Ottawa Blues Fest
Jul 06 New York, NY – SummerStage at Central Park#
Jul 08 New York, NY – SummerStage at Central Park#
Jul 09 Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for Performing Arts#
Jul 10 Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion#
Jul 11 Vienna, VA – Filene Center at Wolf Trap#
+ w/ Secret Sisters
* w/ Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
# w/ Camera Obscura
% w/ Tilly and the Wall

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The Mountain Goats prep All Hail West Texas reissue for July release

May 15, 2013 – 4:20 pm

The Mountain Goats will reissue All Hail West Texas on CD, LP and digital in the US on July 23 and in Europe on August 6. Read a very cool piece about the record by Matt Fraction over at John Darnielle’s Tumblr, and John posted a few words at Mountain-Goats.com.

The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, lamented Emperor Jones. That was about a decade ago. The songs were originally transferred from the cassettes onto which they were recorded to 1/4” reels at Tiny Telephone by Alex Newport, who also played in Fudge Tunnel. John got really excited when he realized his tapes were being EQ’d by the guy from Fudge Tunnel.

Remastered from those reels, along with 7 unearthed songs from the two surviving contemporaneous cassettes, All Hail West Texas stands as the peak of the Mountain Goats’ home recording era, a time people like to refer to as “when John Darnielle had his four-track,” except John did not actually use a four-track. He used the condenser mic of a Panasonic boombox and there was no overdubbing. All songs recorded on the day they were written, usually within minutes of the actual composition. Highlights include “Jenny,” “Fall of the Star High School Running Back,” and “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton,” a song that has compelled audiences around the globe to yell “Hail Satan,” and to mean it.

Package art features a newly penned 1,800-word essay by John detailing his songwriting and recording process for the album. The LP is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket and includes a digital download of the full record plus the seven additional tracks. Also, this will be the first time All Hail West Texas has been available on LP. The CD, which includes the full album and extra tracks on one disc, comes in a premium digipak with a 12-page booklet.

Pre-order All Hail West Texas now on CD and LP. Follow the Mountain Goats on Twitter and keep up with John Darnielle on Tumblr. See John & Peter on an all-ages duo tour beginning June 3 in Washington, DC. Tickets are going fast!

The Mountain Goats on tour:
* = w/ The Baptist Generals
June 3 Washington, DC 9:30 Club*
June 4 York, PA Strand- Capitol Performing Arts*
June 5 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell’s*
June 7 New Haven, CT Center Church on the Green*
June 8 Portland, ME Port City Music Hall*
June 9 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom*
June 11 Munhall, PA Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead*
June 12 Detroit, MI Majestic Theatre*
June 14 Cincinnati, OH Taft Ballroom*
June 15 Bloomington, IN Buskirk-Chumley Theatre*
June 16 Evanston, IL Space*
June 17 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall*
June 19 Kansas City, MO The Record Bar*
June 20 St. Louis, MO Old Rock House*
June 22 Birmingham, AL The Bottletree*
June 23 Gainesville, FL High Dive*
June 24 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room*
June 26 Charleston, SC The Charleston Pourhouse *
June 27 West Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern*
June 28 Wilmington, NC The Soapbox *
July 26-28 Newport, RI Newport Folk Festival
September 13-16 Miami, FL Atlantic Ocean Comedy and Music Festival

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Mikal Cronin premieres new video for “Change” & extends European tour

May 15, 2013 – 10:51 am

Mikal Cronin premiered the new music video for “Change” from his recently released album MCII today at SPIN. The Mikal Cronin band has also extended their European tour and announced an appearance at the FYF Fest this summer.

Directed by Claire Marie Vogel, the video follows the antics of a wild house party. In their premiere, SPIN writes, “So for its video, Cronin brings ["Change"] to a house party for friends and strangers alike, including an invisible kid who makes good use of the song’s dizzying final minute.”

Watch the video now at SPIN.com

Pitchfork named MCII “Best New Music,” writing of Mikal, “He’s an excellent pop craftsman who knows how to turn the power up for maximum effect.” SPIN declared MCII “Essential”writing, ”Over ten songs detailing a young man’s despair and self-doubt, [Cronin] delivers a performance that’s both deeply confident and convincingly vulnerable, replete with stark, piano-based meditations and fuzz-pedal-abetted fury.”

Mikal recommended songs for your next party at the Dinner Party Download and shared some of his favorite things with Pitchfork Guest List. And listen to his Lagniappe Session for Aquarium Drunkard, where he covers The Proclaimers and Sixpence None the Richer. Also, watch this new video of Mikal performing and hanging out in San Francisco.

MCII is available on CD, LP, and digital in the Merge store as well as at your local record store, iTunes, Amazon, Rdio, and Spotify.

Mikal Cronin on tour:
^ w/ Shannon and the Clams
May 15 Paris  Nouveau Casino (FR)
May 16 London Tuffnel Park Dome (UK)
May 17 Brighton Great Escape Festival (UK)
May 18 Utrecht Le Guess Who? (NL)
May 23 San Diego, CA The Casbah w/ Mrs. Magician
May 24 Los Angeles, CA The Echo w/ Pangea & Gap Dream
May 25 San Francisco, CA The Rickshaw Stop #
Jun 6 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios ^
Jun 7 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern ^
Jun 8 Missoula, MT Old Beck VFW Post 209 ^
Jun 10 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry ^
Jun 11 Chicago, IL The Empty Bottle ^
Jun 13 – 15 Toronto, ON Silver Dollar (NXNE Festival)
Jun 16 Montreal, Quebec La Divan Orange ^
Jun 17 Boston, MA Great Scott w/ Shannon and the Clams & Roomrunner
Jun 18 Philly, PA Kung Fu Necktie w/ Shannon and the Clams & Roomrunner
Jun 20 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom ^
Jun 21 Washington DC Comet Ping Pong w/ Shannon and the Clams & Roomrunner
Jun 22 Asheville, NC Emerald Lounge w/ Greg Cartwright & Shannon and the Clams
Jun 23 Atlanta, GA The Earl ^
Jun 24 Nashville, TN The Stone Fox ^
Jun 26 Dallas, TX Club Dada ^
Jun 27 Austin, TX Mohawk Inside ^
Jun 28 Marfa, TX Padre’s
Jun 29 Tucson, AZ Club Congress
Jul 19 Chicago, IL Pitchfork Festival
Jul 25  Musicbox, Lisbon (POR)
Jul 26  Milhoes De Festa Festival, Barcelos (POR)
Jul 29  El Sol, Madrid (ES)
Jul 30  Surfilm Festival, San Sebastian (ES)
Aug 02  OFF Festival, Katowice (PL)
Aug 03  Zomerparkfeest, Venlo (NL)
Aug 04  Binic Festival, Binic (FR)
Aug 05  Le Galion, Lorient (FR)
Aug 06  Relache Caserne Niel, Bordeaux (FR)
Aug 07  Le Gibus, Paris (FR)
Aug 08  Haldern Pop Festival, HaldernRees (GER)
Aug 09  Oya Festivalen, Oslo (NOR)
Aug 10  Way Out West Festival, Goteborg (SWE)
Aug 11  Pumpehuset, Copenhagen (DK)
Aug 12  Hafenklang, Hamburg (GER)
Aug 13  Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)
Aug 14  Vera, Groningen (NL)
Aug 15  Pukkelpop, Hasselt (B)
Aug 16  Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen (NL)
Aug 17  Beacons Festival, Skipton (UK)
Aug 18  Greenman Festival, Brecon Beacons (UK)
Aug 24  Los Angeles, CA FYF Fest

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New David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights 7-inch to be released on June 25

May 14, 2013 – 1:43 pm

On June 25, David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights will release “Christopher Columbus” b/w “Shifting Sands,” a new limited-edition 7-inch. Watch the new video for “Christopher Columbus” now!

David began writing “Christopher Columbus” while on a European tour with The Clean. A flight delay led to a visit to a statue of Christopher Columbus in Rambla de Santa Monica. David wrote, “It got me thinking about how his discovery of America led the world to where we are now. Where are we now? I like to think we are now looking at the beginning of the end of the corporate way of capitalist life which, as we know it, essentially came out of Chicago via the economist Milton Friedman and is basically a completely inhuman idea. Columbus knew there was more to explore—yeah he knew! Little did he know where it would end up.”

“Shifting Sands” was originally recorded by US group The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band in 1967. You can find the track on their LP Part One. “The Pop Art Toasters (the band Martin Phillipps and I performed with) recorded another song of theirs way back called “I Won’t Hurt You,” said David. “The track is on the b-side in that grand tradition of putting something a li’l different on a b-side. This track will not be on the next LP. It may not even be available as a digi download, so the punters will have to buy the 45 to get the track!”

Pre-order David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights’ limited-edition “Christopher Columbus” b/w “Shifting Sands” 7-inch now in the Merge store.

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Eleanor Friedberger premieres “She’s a Mirror” with Rookie Magazine

May 14, 2013 – 9:58 am

Eleanor Friedberger has debuted a new song from her forthcoming new album Personal Record in stores on June 4 in North America and June 10 in the UK/Europe. The track, entitled “She’s A Mirror,” is streaming now courtesy of Rookie Magazine.

Stream “She’s a Mirror” and read a Q&A with Eleanor now at RookieMag.com

Personal Record is Eleanor Friedberger at her finest ; recorded in late 2012 in New York and Los Angeles, and written with musician/novelist Wesley Stace, Personal Record is full of love songs – hellos and goodbyes, infatuation, pre-occupation, loss – but not simply about romantic love. Eleanor explains, “They’re also love songs to music: how you feel on stage when you do something spontaneous and it works, how you feel when you hear someone sing a song for the first time, what it’s like to watch a friend perform, how you can feel close to someone you barely know because you both happen to love the same record, or playing the same song forty times in a row, not being able to rest until you own every song recorded by your favorite singer, or every version of your favorite song. “

Eleanor will be touring throughout the summer in support of Personal Record. Cassandra Jenkins and members of Icewater will be Eleanor’s backing band for these dates with TEEN providing support. Tour dates are listed below.

Personal Record is available now for pre-order digitally at iTunes and on CD and LP in the Merge store. Watch Eleanor’s album trailer set in beautiful Jamaica, and the fantastic video for “Stare at the Sun.”

Eleanor Friedberger on tour:
Jun 04 Buffalo, NY @ Babeville *
Jun 05 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern *
Jun 06 Pontiac, MI @ The Pike Room *
Jun 07 Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle *
Jun 08 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock *
Jun 11 Vancouver, BC @ Media Club *
Jun 12 Seattle, WA @ Neumos *
Jun 13 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir *
Jun 15 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent % *
Jun 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo % *
Jun 19 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
Jun 21 Austin, TX @ The Parish *
Jun 22 Dallas, TX @ The Loft *
Jun 24 St. Louis, MO @ The Demo *
Jun 25 Indianapolis, IN @ Radio Radio *
Jun 26 Pittsburgh, PA @ Brillobox *
Jun 27 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall *
Jun 28 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg + *
*w/ TEEN
% w/ Icewater performing 1st of 3
+ w/ Cassandra Jenkins performing 1st of 3

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Superchunk announces new album & new tour dates!

May 13, 2013 – 12:08 pm

Superchunk will release I Hate Music, their tenth studio album, on August 20. The band has also announced tour dates throughout the late summer and fall.

After taking nearly a decade off following the release of Here’s to Shutting Up, Mac, Laura, Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with Majesty Shredding, an album perfectly described by its own title. It’s a celebratory set of whoa-whoa-whoas from a group so thrilled by making music together again that they can’t contain themselves.

The band’s forthcoming release, I Hate Music, is Majesty’s dark twin. It’s similarly aggressive—often moreso (see “Staying Home”)—and every bit as energetic. It reflects the joys of a life spent immersed in music (“Me & You & Jackie Mittoo,” “Trees of Barcelona”), but there’s a dark undercurrent as well. That title isn’t tongue-in-cheek, but it’s really more a question than a statement: When you’re 20, lazy co-workers and romantic missteps number among your biggest worries; two decades later, life’s bigger questions knock louder and louder, demanding answers.

I Hate Music is an album about love more than anything else: love of life, love of living, love of people, and yeah, love of music. It defies its own title so completely and diligently that it never even seems like a fair fight: There’s no pain this deep or yearning this severe without the type of love earned over a lifetime. “I hate music – what is it worth? / Can’t bring anyone back to this earth” goes the first line in “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo.” That song and its ten companions can’t relive the past or resurrect those lost, but they can keep them close enough to see and hear and celebrate. It’s dark in here, but if we conjure the right words and sounds, maybe we’ll find our way out.

Watch the album trailer for I Hate Music now

Pre-order Superchunk’s I Hate Music now on CD, LP, deluxe LP, and digital. The limited-edition deluxe LP will be pressed on colored vinyl and include a bonus 7-inch containing two non-album tracks, along with an I Hate Music stencil. Both the standard and deluxe LPs will be issued on 150-gram vinyl and feature a die-cut sleeve.

All pre-orders will come with an I Hate Music poster, the first 200 of which will be signed by the band.

I Hate Music track listing:
1. Overflows
2. Me & You & Jackie Mittoo
3. Void
4. Staying Home
5. Low F
6. Trees of Barcelona
7. Breaking Down
8. Out of the Sun
9. Your Theme
10. FOH
11. What Can We Do

Superchunk on tour:
# w/ Spider Bags
Jun 20 Calgary, AB – Sled Island @ Republik
Aug 22 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Aug 23 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Aug 24 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
Sep 02 Seattle, WA – Bumbershoot
Sep 03 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Sep 04 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
Sep 06 Portland, OR – MusicFestNW @ Crystal Ballroom
Sep 23 Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theater#
Sep 24 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer#
Sep 26 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club#
Sep 27 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom#
Sep 28 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom#
Sep 29 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club#

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She & Him on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight

May 10, 2013 – 1:12 pm

She & Him celebrate this week’s release of Volume 3 with a full-band performance on the Late Show with David Letterman tonight! Tune in live or set your DVR!

The duo will also be hitting the road for a month-long tour this summer that kicks off at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on June 13. The tour also includes a headlining show at the legendary Hollywood Bowl on June 23 as well two evenings at New York City’s Central Park SummerStage in July. Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell and Camera Obscura provide support on select dates.

She & Him’s Volume 3 is available on CD, LP, and now cassette in the Merge store, the band’s online store, and at your local record store. Also, find Volume 3 at iTunes, Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble, and Best Buy.

She & Him on tour:
Jun 13 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium+
Jun 15 Grand Prairie, TX – Verizon Theater at Grand Prairie+
Jun 16 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theatre+
Jun 18 Phoenix, AZ – Comerica Theater+
Jun 19 Las Vegas, NV – The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas%
Jun 21 San Diego, CA – SDSU Open Air Theatre%
Jun 22 Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre*%
Jun 23 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl*
Jun 25 Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Gardens%
Jun 27 Council Bluffs, IA – Harrah’s Stir Cove%
Jun 28 Kansas City, MO – Kanrocksas Music Festival
Jun 29 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom#
Jul 01 Ann Arbor, MI – Hill Auditorium#
Jul 03 Montreal, QC – Montreal Jazz Festival#
Jul 04 Toronto, ON – Toronto Urban Roots Festival#
Jul 05 Ottawa, ON – Ottawa Blues Fest
Jul 06 New York, NY – SummerStage at Central Park#
Jul 08 New York, NY – SummerStage at Central Park#
Jul 09 Philadelphia, PA – Mann Center for Performing Arts#
Jul 10 Boston, MA – Bank of America Pavilion#
Jul 11 Vienna, VA – Filene Center at Wolf Trap#
+ w/ Secret Sisters
* w/ Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
# w/ Camera Obscura
% w/ Tilly and the Wall

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Merge signs King Khan & the Shrines!

May 10, 2013 – 10:48 am

We are delighted to welcome King Khan & the Shrines to Merge! The band will release their Merge debut later this year.

We asked King Khan for a few words to mark the occasion:

Rumors have been flying about me being taped to three swans and traveling the world. Well, it was a rough ride but someone had to do it. After being called the “Beetlejuice of rock ‘n roll,” I have decided to join forces with the underworld and in doing so have reached a new all time low. Hell hath no fury as a swan taped to a fat Indian man.

I have finally found my new family in Merge records and as always I would much rather work with southern folk than city slickers (fuck Bill Crystal and his plastic face). It is a pleasure working with folks who eat ribs while they cure buffalo meat and sell rekkids. If I get a fair shot on the plantation of Merge maybe i will save Brunhilda and show my Indian penis to the world. Tell Quentin Tarantino that he should have let DiCaprio show the world his junk too to make the movie balanced . . .

—King Khan

Information about the new album and new tour dates are coming soon! In the meantime, keep up with King Khan & the Shrines at their website.

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The Love Language share “Calm Down” from new album Ruby Red

May 9, 2013 – 2:43 pm

Today, The Love Language premiered “Calm Down,” the debut single from their forthcoming new album Ruby Red.

In their track premiere, Pitchfork wrote, “the tune’s anthemic in a small-room way, with some murky guitars, glockenspiels, and a jammy back half to suggest that the Love Language’s sound is still expanding.” Stereogum described the song as “a lush but driven piece of songcraft, one that bursts with harmonies and pianos but doesn’t OD on twee adrenaline.”

Listen & share “Calm Down” now via Merge SoundCloud

Gone are the days of a Love Language as a selfish salve for perpetual heartbreak. Ruby Red produces new standards for the Carolina pop songbook, finding The Love Language as an extroverted community art project made by responsible citizens of a loosely packed scene who know that Stuart McLamb will match whatever they contribute.

Pre-order Ruby Red now on CD or LP in the Merge store. The first 250 preorders will receive a free, limited edition 11-track cassette titled Black Mountain Demos. All preorders will include a poster and will ship to arrive on or around the release date of July 23. In the meantime, keep up with the Love Language on Twitter and Facebook.

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Watch Telekinesis’ new video for “Empathetic People”

May 9, 2013 – 10:17 am

Telekinesis premiered their new video for “Empathetic People” from their recently released album Dormarion at NPR Music. NPR describes the video as a “curious glimpse into one of the last gasps of industry keeping music tethered to the physical world.”

Directed by Patrick Stanton, the video features Telekinesis frontman Michael Benjamin Lerner working in an abandoned factory. Stanton told NPR, “I liked the thought of Michael being a bit of a hero by dusting off a defunct factory and putting some life back into it. [The song] has such a great driving rhythm and a mysteriously dark feel that I knew it would be perfect for this visual concept.”

Watch the video for “Empathetic People” now

Telekinesis is currently on tour with a show tonight at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Dormarion is available now on CD, LP and digital in the Merge store.

Telekinesis on tour:
May 9 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom%
May 10 Allston, MA Brighton Music Hall%
May 11 Montreal, QC Il Motore%
May 12 Toronto, ON Horseshoe Tavern%
May 14 Cleveland Heights, OH Grog Shop%
May 15 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall%
May 16 Madison, WI High Noon Saloon%
May 17 Minneapolis, MN 7th St. Entry%
May 18 Kansas City, MO Riot Room%
May 20 Denver, CO Hi Dive
May 21 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge%
May 22 Nampa, ID Flying M Coffee
May 24 George, WA Sasquatch Music Festival
% = w/ Deep Sea Diver

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