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Going for Gold XIX

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Read More Primus Primus’ first full-length studio album in nearly 20 years, ‘Primus & The Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble’ is out today via ATO Records. In support of their album, the definitive Primus line up -- Les Claypool, Larry LaLonde …

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How would you like to see Primus live... FOR LIFE? That's exactly what you could do, if you are one of the five elusive Golden Ticket within five Golden vinyl for their album Primus & The Chocolate Factory.

What a great theme, obviously based around Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the 1964 children's book turned into two featured films. When asked about the title and homage, band leader Les Claypool said that the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder, was important to him, and confessed, "in some way, wanted to be Willy Wonka."

Primus & The Chocolate Factory is Primus' first LP in nearly 20 years, and is out how on ATO Records.

Primus & The Chocolate Factory Tour Dates

11/07 – Taft Theatre – Cincinnati, OH
11/08 – Tabernacle – Atlanta, GA
11/09 – Hard Rock Live – Orlando, FL
11/11 – The Fillmore – Miami, FL
11/12 – Ruth Eckerd Hall – Clearwater, FL
11/14 – Hard Rock Live – Biloxi, MS
11/15 – The Moody Theater – Austin, TX
11/16 – The Majestic Theatre – Dallas, TX
11/17 – Majestic Theatre – San Antonio, TX
11/19 – Orpheum Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
11/21 – Orpheum Theatre– Los Angeles, CA
11/22 –Center For The Arts – San Siego, CA
11/23 –Fox Performing Arts Center– Riverside, CA
12/31 – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA*
01/02 – Arlene Schnitzer – Portland, OR
01/03 – Paramount Theater – Seattle, WA

*annual New Year's show, without Chocolate Factory

Read More Fly Golden Eagle Fly Golden Eagle's Quartz is a 26-song epic, a collection of songs that join together to form a narrative arc describing a story that is sometimes vulgar, sometimes profane …

FLY GOLDEN EAGLE
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Quartz Bijou is the 26-song epic album from Nashville's Fly Golden Eagle.

"I wanted this album to be a real reflection of the whole band effort, of the vibes of us playing together," said band leader Ben Trimble. "I want people to listen to it and be able to feel the chemistry."

Fly Golden Eagle are currently on tour with J. Roddy Walston & The Business, in support of Quartz. We've seen J Roddy Walston live a few times, and Fly Golden Eagle are in for a good foot-stomping good time.

Tour dates:

11/06 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair#
11/07 - New York, NY - Stage 48#
11/08 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts#
11/14 - Nashville, TN - Grimey's In-Store
11/14 - Nashville, TN Stone Fox
11/15 - Nashville, TN - Queen Ave Art Collective
12/06 - Washington DC - 9:30 Club

# = with J. Roddy Walston & The Business

Read More Hiss Golden Messenger Hiss Golden Messenger's reissue of Bad Debt as an Expanded Edition on January 14th by Paradise of Bachelors Records; the album was previously released in 2010. The Expanded Edition …

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North Carolina's Hiss Golden Messenger, American folk duo (MC Taylor and Scott Hirsch), recently announced their upcoming tour in support of Lateness of Dancers (Merge Records). Some dates are with Ben Howard.

Tour dates:

Nov 6/ Barboza/ Seattle, WA
Nov 7/ The Biltmore Cabaret/ Vancouver, BC
Nov 8/ Doug Fir Lounge/ Portland, OR
Nov 10/ The Crepe Place/ Santa Cruz, CA
Nov 11/ The Independent/ San Francisco, CA
Nov 13 / Masonic Lodge Los Angeles, CA
Nov 14/ Mountain Stage
Nov 18/ The Late Show With David Letterman
Dec 3/ 02 Apollo/ Manchester, UK#
Dec 4/ Civic Hall/ Wolverhampton, UK#
Dec 5/ Hare & Hounds/ Birmingham, UK
Dec 6/ Usher Hall/ Edinburgh, UK
Dec 7/ Olympia/ Dublin, Ireland#
Dec 8/ Olympia/ Dublin, Ireland#
Dec 10/ 02 Academy Brixton/ London, UK#
Dec 11/ 02 Academy Brixton/ London, UK#
Dec 12/ De Spot/ Middleburg, Netherlands
Dec 17/ Forest National Club, Belgium#
Dec 18/ Heineken Music Hall, Netherlands#
Dec 19/ Heineken Music Hall, Netherlands#
Dec 20/ Heineken Music Hall, Netherlands#
Feb 6/ Bleach/ Brighton, UK
Feb 7/ Independent/ Sunderland, UK
Feb 8/ Brundell Social Club/ Leeds, UK
Feb 9/ Stereo/ Glasgow, UK
Feb 10/ Deaf Institute/ Manchester, UK
Feb 11/ The Lantern/ Bristol, UK
Feb 12/ Bush Hall/ London, UK
Feb 13/ AB/ Brussels, Belgium
Feb 14/ Rotown/ Rotterdam, Netherlands
Feb 15/ EKKO/ Utrecht, Netherlands
Feb 17/ Privatclub/ Berlin, Germany
Feb 18/ Atlas/ Aarhus, Denmark
Feb 19/ Pustervik/ Gothenborg, Sweden
Feb 20/ John Dee/ Oslo, Norway
Feb 21/ Vega/ Copenhagen, Denmark

# w/ Ben Howard

Read More Liars Before the band took stage, Liars' Aaron Hemphill was getting Prince tattoos on his fingers in the green room. This say to me that they are massive Prince fans, and playing at the legendary First Avenue's …

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I'm No Gold is the new single (out November 4th on Mute Records) by Liars. The song is taken from Liars' latest album Mess.

We saw the band live in Minneapolis in 2012 in support of their then-album WIXIM, and I noted that the band are massive Prince fans... even getting tattooed for the special occasion. Plus, the entire crowd was moshing and dancing to all the three-song encore.

I'm No Gold is out now.

Tracklisting:

1. I'm No Gold - Daniel Miller Mix
2. B-Side - Poison Bender
3. I'm No Gold - Nest Of Teens Remix
4. I'm No Gold - Album Version
5. C-Side - At The Mercy Of Her Mind
6. I'm No Gold - Thanks For The Remix Remix
7. I'm No Gold - Instrumental

Read More Martin Garrix Martin Garrix has a hit on his hands with "Animals". It's gone gold, when the song climbed to #32 on Top 40 radio (last year it charted on iTunes' Dance Single at #1). What's interesting to note …

MARTIN GARRIX
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DJ/producer Martin Garrix's debut EP Gold Skies debut at #1 on the iTunes Top Dance Albums Chart (earlier in July), and in typical remix culture, he's also releasing Gold Skies (Remixes) via Casablanca Records last month, with new remixes from his peers Tiësto, DubVision, and more.

This is one of the hottest DJ around, and he's young... expect him to stick around for a while.

Tracklisting:

1. Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS - “Gold Skies” [Feat. Aleesia]
2. Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS - “Gold Skies” [Feat. Aleesia] (Tiësto Remix)
3. Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS - “Gold Skies” [Feat. Aleesia] (DubVision Remix)
4. Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS - “Gold Skies” [Feat. Aleesia] (Ferreck Dawn & Redondo Remix)
5. Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix, DVBBS - “Gold Skies” [Feat. Aleesia] (Metrik Remix)

AND IN GOLDEN DUO NEWS.....

OH, BE CLEVER ohbeclever.com Salt Lake City duo Oh, Be Clever (Brittney Shields and Cory Scott Layton) made their debut in the UK with their new single "Paint Me Gold". Look for them to tour in Europe in Spring 2015.

IVY & GOLD ivyandgoldmusic.co.uk British duo Ivy & Gold (Rachel Wilkinson and Jamie Davies) released Smoke and Mirrors EP to a sold-out show at London's St Pancras Church last month. Look for the London band live this December 9th at Roundhouse Studio.

GOLDEN PONY thegoldenpony.com Brooklyn production duo The Golden Pony (Timothy Monkiewicz and Thomas Murphy) recently remixed Talking Heads' "Pyscho Killer" for Halloween. You can hear it on Soundcloud.

GOLDIE THORN goldiethorn.com Even more duo... Goldie Thorn (Reverend Thorn and Gold & Chain) are from London, by the way of Australia. Their single "Down Town Time" is out now on Cabana Records.

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Going for Gold XVIII

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WOODKID
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"The Golden Age" is the title track, fourth and final music video from Woodkid's debut album. Directed by Woodkid (real name Yoann Lemoine), the video includes a collaboration with British classical composer Max Richter.

Lemoine wrote:

The Golden Age is the last single and video for my first album.

Throughout the process of directing videos for this story, I slowly removed all digital and post-production layers of my work to finally create this piece. It is somehow a postcard from my childhood, with memories and emotions from the countryside assembled together in a long, free, mellow piece. It's about the child trapped inside, the haunting memories, the beautiful and the dark ones. I wanted the camera work and acting direction to be very organic and carnal, in opposition to the digital, rigid and super-composed aspects of the previous videos. That's why we decided to shoot everything handheld, without any mechanical movement and with no post-production. In that way, I would say this video is very different from the other ones.

It all started when I bought an original print by my favorite photographer, William Gedney, friend and contemporary of Lee and Maria Friedlander, who shot families in rural America in the sixties. I decided that this piece would pay tribute to the beauty of his work and the way he shoots boys and men in their environment, to the sensuality of his eye, which describes so well what I felt for other boys when I was younger.

In order to extend the song and create the right mood for this piece, I collaborated with composer Max Richter. He extended and re-recorded his piece ‘Embers’ to adapt it to the pace and tonality of ‘The Golden Age.’ Together, we created this very free ‘hybrid’ edit of the track, which tells so much about the pace of never ending childhood summers.

In a way, this piece is a final goodbye to four years of work and tour for this album.

The Golden Age album is available now via Green United Music/Universal Music Germany.

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Speaking of music video, Spanish Gold's new music videof or "Day Drinkin'" recently premiered over at Paste Magazine. The song is taken from their latest album South of Nowhere, out now on BMG/Del Mar Records.

Lead vocalist Dante Schwebel talked about recording the new record, "We kept finding that we had a lot of the same reference points during the recording. It became evident that we were still children of the MTV era. We grew up with MTV when it was still a music channel. The way that the programming crossed genres from R&B to hip hop, rock, soul and pop music is how we approach records. It’s an album of all those styles. Like watching a random hour of MTV programming circa 1986-1996. It’s a nod to Michael Jackson, Dr. Dre, Madonna, the Beastie Boys or Tom Petty, all with a Texas border town setting. It all adds up to a fun listen that you can keep on repeat."

The trio also announced a 2014 Tour Dates, which kicks off next week.

Tour dates:

July 17 July 18 July 19 August 1-3 August 10 August 14 October 3-5 October 10-12

Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Louisville, KY Happy Valley, OR Columbus, OH Nashville, TN Austin, TX Austin, TX

Bottletree Café* The Earl* The Forecastle Festival Pickathon Lifestyle Communities Pavilion Live on the Green ACL Music Festival ACL Music Festival

MARTIN GARRIX
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Casablanca Records recently released Gold Skies EP by Martin Garrix. It went straight to #1 on iTunes Top Dance Album Chart. Fans who love the digital release can also look forward to the physical CD, which boasts all five digital tracks, plus three extra remixes. See tracklisting below for full details.

Garrix is one of the biggest/hottest DJ at the moment, having just headlined Ultra Music Festival and Coachella. His song, "Animals" not only went platinum, but it made him the "youngest artist to go #1 on Beatport"... plus winning iTunes "Dance Single of the Year" for 2013 and topped Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play Chart. In the UK, it stayed in the Top 10 for four consecutive weeks, and it peaked at #12 on Top 40 radio.

With over 1.5 million sale digital downloads, over 330 million YouTube plays, more than 18 million Spotify streams in the U.S. and 32 million globally, and upwards of 130,000 plays at U.S. radio, it's hard to dispute that Garrix will be a household name in the EDM world.

Gold Skies EP Tracklisting:

Digital EP 1. Gold Skies 2. Animals 3. Proxy 4. Wizard 5. Tremor

Physical EP 1. Gold Skies 2. Animals 3. Proxy 4. Wizard 5. Tremor 6. Animals (Oliver Heldens Remix) 7. Wizard (Yellow Claw Remix) 8. Animals (Victor Niglio & Martin Garrix Festival Trap Remix)

CHARLIE AND THE FOXTROTS
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Golden is the debut album from alt-folk/bluegrass band Charlie and the Foxtrots, based out of Nashville, which came out this week (July 8th, 2014).

Golden tracklisting:

1. Golden
2. Stomp, Clap
3. Dreams of Yesterday
4. The Big Bad Wolf
5. Dorothy Gale
6. The Man I Am (Bonus Track)

THE GOLDEN HIPPIE
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After spending the month of June on stage with sold out arena shows opening with Prince in Europe, indie-pop artist The Golden Hippie debut her song "Smoke Signals".

Initially signed by Warner Brothers Records, but she spent the past year on the indie label Hundred Handed to craft her own unique sound.

Hear "Smoke Signals" via soundcloud.com.

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When Animals Attack: Nina Persson, Gabby Young, Skeletonwitch, and Martin Garrix

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Animal Heart The End Records Read More The Cardigans The Dust Brothers's version of "The X-Files Theme", Noel Gallagher (Oasis)'s "Teotihuacan", and The Cardigans' "Deuce"…

NINA PERSSON
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The Cardigans' First Band on the Moon rocketed the band to international fame, special thanks to that super catchy single, "Lovefool." In 1996, it was hard to go anywhere without hearing that song on the radio, in movies, in advertisements, etc. Unfortunately, American thought this band was more or less a one-hit-wonder band, and they never really follow up with another hit. That lead to the band's breakup, or rather took a long break, but they eventually reformed in 2012 to do a series of reunion tour dates. That's really the last we heard from them.

The good news for Cardigans fans is that singer/songwriter Nina Persson will be releasing her brand new album Animal Heart, out next week, February 11th, for the North American audience via The End Records.

Persson commented on the struggles of going solo, "The most difficult, yet perhaps the most positive aspect of going solo are all the decisions you have to make alone. Somewhere inside, I have a very clear clock, a gut feeling that says what I think. I have forced myself to just keep going and follow my instincts with this album. I have simply no time to dwell on things anymore which I did a lot before."

That tells me that Persson's new songs, perhaps for the better, will be a break from what we're used to hearing from the Cardigans. Expect some 'disco' and 'soul' influences on Animal Heart.

Expect Nina Persson to support the album with some US tour dates later this year. In the meantime, only these European dates are scheduled:

Feb 05 Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden Feb 06 Cirkus Stockholm, Sweden Feb 08 Restaurang Trädgårn Gothenburg, Sweden Feb 09 Rockefeller Oslo, Norway Feb 11 Amager Bio Copenhagen, Denmark Feb 19 Mercury Lounge New York, NY Feb 22 Mojo Club Hamburg, Germany

Feb 23 Heimathafen Berlin, Germany Feb 25 Gloria Cologne, Germany Feb 26 Bitterzoet Amsterdam, Netherlands Feb 28 KULTURFABRIK Luxembourg City Mar 01 Arenbergschouwburg Antwerpen Mar 03 La Maronquinerie Paris, France Mar 05 Scala London, United Kingdom Mar 06 Button Factory Dublin, Ireland

I've Improved Gift Of Gab Read More Gabby Young & Other Animals Speaking of 'young', Gabby Young & Other Animals are on tour in the US, in support of their debut album, We're All In This Together…

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We previously mentioned Bath's Gabby Young before, for her debut album We're All In This Together. Well the Vaudevillian troupe are back, announcing that they will be playing a number of live dates (including SXSW).

The band will also be releasing a new single, "I've Improved", out February 24th. The single is the preceding song from their upcoming album One Foot In Front Of The Other, set for release on April 28th, 2014.

Gabby Young & Other Animals Live Dates:

03/07 Los Angeles, CA Crest Bar
03/10 Redlands, CA Studio
03/11 Redlands, CA Alley Katz In-Store
03/12 SXSW Esther’s Follies – 11PM
03/13 SXSW
03/14 SXSW
03/15 SXSW
03/16 SXSW

Supporting Al Stewart:

03/20 Decatur, GA Eddie’s Attic
03/24 Melbourne, FL Henegar Center for the Arts

Skeletonwitch Prosthetic Records Read More Animal Adoptions Just in time for the holidays, our friend Moby released a music video called "Almost Home" to benefit the Best Friends Pet Adoption and Spay & Neuter Center in Los Angeles (Best Friends Animal Society)…

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Proceeds from Skeletonwitch's recent release of their hand-screened, 180-gram limited edition of Serpents Unleashed, will all go to two animal shelters in the band's home state of Ohio - The Athens County Humane Society and Columbus' Pets Without Parents. As you know, many of these "animal shelters" are forced to put animals to sleep because they simply do not have the space to house all the animals they receive. As Moby recently puts it, adopt a pet now and you will have a friend for life.

Fans of the heavy metal group will feel good about supporting two no-kill organizations in their region.

Catch Skeletonwich on tour this year:

2/05/2014 The Paramount - Huntington, NY
2/07/2014 House of Blues - Chicago, IL
2/08/2014 Mill City Nights - Minneapolis, MN
2/09/2014 Grenada Theatre - Lawrence, KS
2/11/2014 Summit Theatre - Denver, CO
2/12/2014 Murray Theater - Salt Lake City, UT
2/14/2014 The Regency - San Francisco, CA
2/15/2014 Wiltern - Los Angeles, CA
2/16/2014 House of Blues - San Diego, CA
4/16/2014The Kings Arms - Auckland, NZ
4/17/2014 Bodega Bar - Wellington, NZ
4/18/2014 The Rosemont Hotel - Perth, AU
4/19/2014 Fowlers Live - Adelaide, AU
4/20/2014 Espy Gershwin Room - Melbourne, AU
4/21/2014 TBD - Byron Bay, AU
4/22/2014 The Basement - Canberra, AU
4/24/2014 The Hi Fi - Brisbane, AU
4/25/2014 Cambridge Hotel - Newcastle, AU
4/26/2014 The Hi Fi - Sydney, AU
4/27/2014 The Hi Fi - Melbourne, AU

Animals Casablanca Records

MARTIN GARRIX
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Martin Garrix has a hit on his hands with "Animals". It's gone gold, when the song climbed to #32 on Top 40 radio (last year it charted on iTunes' Dance Single at #1). What's interesting to note, according to the press release, that the song is the highest-charting instrumental song since "Children" by Robert Miles in 1966.

Catch this 17-year-old dutch EDM artist on his current "We Are Animals" tour:

02/05 Boston, MA Royale Nightclub
02/07 Toronto, ON Uniun
02/08 Miami, FL Liv Nightclub
02/09 Atlantic City, NJ HQ Nightclub
03/28/14 Ultra Music Festival
03/29/14 Ultra Music Festival
03/30/14 Ultra Music Festival
04/11/14 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
04/18/14 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival

BRIEFLY:

ANIMALI facebook.com The Alchemists Animali Animali is a new band from Lyon, inspired by psychedelic rock bands from the 70's. The band's debut EP will be coming out March 2014. In the meantime, they released their single, "The Alchemists", which you can hear on their Soundcloud page.

NØMADS facebook.com Free My Animal Mecca Lecca NØMADS' latest single is called "Free My Animal", the title track from their debut album, coming out April 8, 2014, via Brooklyn collective Mecca Lecca. You can grab the track for free on Soundcloud.

ANIMAL STYLE RECORDS animalstylerecords.com Wedding 7" Animal Style Records Animal Style Records has released a label sampler for charity. The founder recently gay-married, so he's is donating proceeds from the sampler (availableAnimal Style Records Bandcamp page) to Freedom to Marry. Founder Matt Medina added, "We got married on January 19, 2014, and with the help of our friends... we released a 7" to commemorate the occasion. We want to make the songs available to a larger audience and donate the proceeds to freedomtomarry.org ..."

AS ANIMALS asanimals.com As Animals Atmosphériques As Animals will release their self-titled debut on March 3rd via Atmosphériques. Also, look for As Animals' upcoming release for "I See Ghost (Ghost Gunfighters)". If you can't wait for the album release, the French duo recently unveiled "Big Slap" on their Soundcloud page.

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