Cold: Mount Kimbie, Boyd Rice, and Laura Welsh

Read More Mount Kimbie Legendary electronic dance label, Warp Records, semi-recently announced signing Mount Kimbie. The duo (Kai Campos and Dom Maker) is already an established band with a handful of EPs and a debut album, Crooks & Lovers. …

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If you're not familiar with Mount Kimbie, the duo consisting of Kai Campos and Dom Maker, their music runs the gamut of genres, more closely identifying with dubstep and general electronica, but with surprising elements of everything else in between. I enjoyed the privilege of seeing Mount Kimbie play in the spring of 2011 in Salt Lake City, on a tour where they opened for the rather gimmicky band Beats Antique. I had listened to everything recorded by them at that point and was so excited to see how it would translate live. Their show, complete with live guitars as well as the obvious synths, drum pads and occasional vocals, blew my mind. Those boys know how to put on a live show. The set seemed so carefully thought out, with each new song bleeding into another almost seamlessly.

They just released their newest album last week, titled 'Cold Spring Fault Less Youth'. After more than a few listens, I'm absolutely hooked once again to their sound. They took a bold leap with this release, incorporating mostly live instrumentation, rather than the usuals of electronic music of computerized beats and sounds. On top of that, the album features vocals by both Campos and Maker as well as up-and-coming musician/vocalist/rapper King Krule. (King Krule released an EP in late 2011 that I have definitely listened to more times than I would like to admit. He was previously known as Zoo Kid and has proven himself to be a musical wunderkind of sorts with all he's accomplished at his now tender age of 19.) The album from start to finish is so delicious I can't help but be obsessed. It even caught the ears/attention of NPR, as they recently featured them on their site and offered up a stream of the new album before it had even been released.

I could go on with praise and adoration for Mount Kimbie, but I just suggest that you see for yourself when they play in Minneapolis at the Fine Line Music Cafe on Monday, June 10. The show is 18+, tickets are $15 and can be found here.

The rest of their tour:

06/04 – SAT – Montreal, Canada 06/05 – The Hoxton – Toronto 06/07 – Magic Stick – DetroiT 06/08 – Lincoln – Chicago 06/09 – Turner Hall Ballroom – Milwaukee 06/10 – Fine Line Music Cafe – Minneapolis 06/13 – Fortune Sound Club – Vancouver 06/14 – Neumos – Seattle 06/15 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland 06/17 – The Independent – San Francisco 06/18 – Echoplex – Los Angeles, USA 06/22 – Night + Day – Hatfield House, UK 06/26 – The O2 (with the XX) – Dublin, IE 07/05 – Nouveau Casino – Paris, FR 07/19 – Melt! Festival – Ferropolis, DE 07/20 – Music of the Future 2nd Birthday 07/27 – Midi Festival – Villa Noailles, FR 08/07 – 08/10 – Øya Festival – Oslo, NO 08/08 – 08/10 – Way Out West Festival 09/01 – Electric Picnic – Stradbally, IE 09/05 – 8 – Dimensions Festival – Pula, HR 09/14 – Festival No. 6 – Portmeirion, UK 11/06 – Concorde II – Brighton, UK

11/07 – Ritz – Manchester, UK 11/08 – SWG3 – Glasgow, UK 11/11 – The Fleece – Bristol, UK 11/12 – Stylus – Leeds, UK 11/14 – Koko – London, UK 11/15 – Arts Centre – Norwich, UK 11/16 – Buma Rotterdam Beats 11/17 – Boutanique/Orangerie 11/19 – Le Grand Mix – Tourcoing, FR 11/20 – Den Atelier – Luxembourg, LUX 11/21 – Trouw – Amsterdam, NL 11/22 – Vega – Copenhagen, DK 11/26 – Uebel & Gefaehrlich – Hamburg, DE 11/27 – Conne Island – Leipzig, DE 11/28 – Zoom – Frankfurt, DE 11/29 – Gretchen – Berlin, DE 11/30 – Meetfactory – Prague, UK 12/01 – Flex – Vienna, AT 12/03 – Rote Sonne – Munich, DE 12/04 – Mascotte – Zurich, CH 12/08 – Bronson – Ravenna, IT 12/10 – Le Sucre – Lyon, FR 12/13 – Sala Apolo 2 – Barcalona, ES

Read More Boyd Rice Pioneering electronic artist, Boyd Rice just announced he is to play Europa Club in Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York, on January 24th. Last November, he released Back to Mono under his moniker NON on Mute Records …

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Boyd Rice (aka NON) will be joining recent collaborators Cold Cave on their North American tour this Summer. Tour kicks off in Los Angeles on June 14th, and this marks Boyd's first American appearance since his New York show earlier this year in support of Back to Mono, his first album since 2002's Children Of The Black Sun.

Look for Boyd Rice's compilation album called Physical Evidence, featuring works from 1977-1982, to be release sometime this Fall on Mute Records.

Tour dates with Cold Cave

06/14 Los Angeles, CA - Center for the Arts
06/15 San Francisco, CA - Public Works
06/19 Philadelphia, PA - Morgan’s Pier
06/20 Washington D.C. - Rock and Roll Hotel
06/22 Columbus, OH - Skullys Music Diner
06/24 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
06/25 Pontiac, MI - Pike Room at The Crofoot
06/26 Toronto, Can - Shop at Parts & Labor
06/28 Cambridge, MA – TT the Bear’s
06/29 Brooklyn, NY – 285 Kent

LAURA WELSH
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Laura Welsh's new single "Cold Front" will be out July 15, 2013, on Polydor/Outsiders. You can listen to it now on soundcloud.com.



Regarding her upcoming single and album, Welsh had this to say, "I don't hold back in saying what I think, but that's because I want this record to be the best it can be. There are no half measures, no compromise."

If you live in London, Laura Welsh will play The Africa Centre on July 15th.

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