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The Ocean Blue: Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves
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THE OCEAN BLUE
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Dream pop legends The Ocean Blue will be releasing their first new album in six years called Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves on June 21 via Korda Records, a Minneapolis-based cooperative label.
We’ve known about the band since their debut record Between Something and Nothing on Sire Records. We bought and became fans, thanks to their faithful cover of The Smiths’ “There is a Light That Never Goes Out” from their single Peace and Light.
Tour dates:
6/22: Lancaster, PA @ Tellus360
6/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
6/27: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/28: Portland, OR @ Holocene
7/26: Minneapolis, MN @ The Fine Line
7/27: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
8/23: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
8/24: Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
9/5: Lima, PERU @ Coco's Club
9/6: Arequipa, PERU @ El QuinQué
10/4: Washington, DC @ Union Stage
10/5: Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java
11/1: Detroit, MI @ The Magic Bag
11/3: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
11/17: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
6/23: Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
6/27: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/28: Portland, OR @ Holocene
7/26: Minneapolis, MN @ The Fine Line
7/27: Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
8/23: Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
8/24: Norfolk, VA @ NorVa
9/5: Lima, PERU @ Coco's Club
9/6: Arequipa, PERU @ El QuinQué
10/4: Washington, DC @ Union Stage
10/5: Vienna, VA @ Jammin Java
11/1: Detroit, MI @ The Magic Bag
11/3: Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
11/17: Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
12/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Metro Music Hall
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red steppes: Arcs
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RED STEPPES
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California’s Red Steppes (stylized as red steppes) is the stagename for singer-songwriter Nika Aila States. Her new record Arcs will be released on May 31st via Native Cat Recordings.
Here’s the description they sent in for the album:
red steppes’ debut A Mouth May Grow was rooted firmly in the topography of California; her sophomore release Arcs (Native Cat Recordings) is the fruit of a series of displacements, disturbances, and reorientations. Stylistically diverse, the album delivers minimalist guitar pop, mathy folk, and even a Peter Gabriel-tinged meditation on loss, finding equilibrium in songwriter Nika Aila States’ intimate vocals. Arcs is plush with the kind of photographic lyricism States began exploring with A Mouth May Grow; songs fondly addressed to lovers are mindful of an inevitable transience, lullabies keep account both of the world’s smallest gestures and its great ruins, and a series of scenes unfold as a prayer of sustenance, a knowing salutation aimed at fellow travelers and sailors-by-the-wind.
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Beshken: White Gemini
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BESHKEN
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“White Gemini” is the new song (taken from the album Aisle of Palm) from New York producer and multi-instrumentalist Beshken. The song is about the life of American astronaut Ed White, the pilot of the Gemini IV space mission and first human to walk in space on June, 1965. The song, samples from recorded conversations between White and the command center during both EVA and the Apollo test.
Of the single, Beshken says: “I believe that the motivation behind space travel, besides the pure novelty of being where nobody has been before, is to push humanity forward both philosophically and technologically. In order to further expand upon some of the feelings I have about human progress (or lack thereof), technology, and the environment, I decided to write a song about White. A passionate explorer, he willfully distanced himself from both the stability that our home planet provides as well as the problems that it yields.”
Beshken’s Upcoming Aisle of Palm Album Release Show Dates:
Fri, June 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (Zone One)
Fri, July 12 - Los Angeles, CA - Moroccan Lounge
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