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Glass Animals 2025 Tour Dates Read More Glass Animals The latest UK buzz band, Glass Animals, recently just sold out their show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, last night, September 9th...

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GRAMMY and BRIT-nominated Glass Animals announced the extension of their hugely successful Tour of Earth with 16 new dates across North America this summer, including Saratoga Springs and Asbury Park.

Glass Animals at recordBar (06 Mar 2020)

We saw Glass Animals in March 2020 and said, “Glass Animals (Dave Bayley – vocals/guitar; Drew MacFarlane– guitar/keys; Ed Irwin-Singer– bass/keys; Joe Seaward– drums) has developed a special kinship with Kansas City, one of its earliest and still-strongest US markets, as evidenced by the band coming into town a day early, to surprise fans with an impromptu meet and greet pop-up, and hiding a few much-coveted golden ticket passes around downtown, for the many fans that missed on tickets, to scramble to find with help from coordinates posted on social media. The band took a well deserved break after their last tour, partially as a result of drummer Seaward being struck by a truck in Ireland while cycling, which resulted in serious injuries, but they have returned strongly with a few new songs, in anticipation of a new full-length to follow.”

Tour dates:

Jun 7 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Broadview Stage at SPAC+

Jun 8 – New York, NY – Governors Ball Music Festival^

Jun 10 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summer Stage+

Jun 11 – Richmond, VA – Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront#

Jun 13 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival^

Jun 14 – Charleston, SC – Credit One Stadium+

Jun 15 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion+

Jun 17 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily's Place+

Jun 18 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live+

Jun 19 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre+

Aug 1 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga^

Aug 2 – Buffalo, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater#

Aug 4 – Minneapolis, MN – Armory=

Aug 5 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha=

Aug 7 – Colorado Springs, CO – Ford Amphitheater*=

Aug 9 – Aspen, CO – Up In The Sky^

Aug 12 – Troutdale, OR – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater*#

Aug 15 – Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater=

Aug 16 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater=

Aug 17 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys*=

^Festival Date
*Non-Live Nation Date
+With SOFIA ISELLA
=With Orla Gartland
#Support TBA

Gruff Rhys 2025 Tour Read More Gruff Rhys Welsh singer Gruff Rhys is headlining the Cedar on Tuesday, October 16th. As a lover of Super Furry Animals, we recommend checking out Rhys. …

Gruff Rhys
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Brush up on your Welsh, yanks! Gruff Rhys, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Super Furry Animals and part of the electro-pop group Neon Neon, is digging up his solo sounds. In May, he’s re-releasing a remastered version of American Interior, his 2014 solo album, which will include bonus tracks. Unlike his mellower, more folk-y solo work, American Interior, which is based off of a distant relative who explored the Great Plains of the U.S., has more of the propulsive kick and anything-goes vibe of his Super Furry Animals sounds. And he’s embarking on a companion tour to promote this reissue, which includes dates in the UK, and, naturally, the U.S. Says, Rhys: “ I feel I owe it to my former self to take these songs back on the road… and re-tell the story for a new decade.”

Tour Dates:

Apr 9, 2025 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge

Apr 11, 2025 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live

Apr 12, 2025 – Washington, DC @ DC9 Nightclub

Apr 15, 2025 – Ann Arbor, MI @ The Ark

Apr 16, 2025 – Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle

Apr 18, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Masonic Lodge

Apr 19, 2025 – San Francisco, CA @ Swedish American Hall

Apr 21, 2025 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall

Apr 22, 2025 – Seattle, WA @ Here – After

May 7th Belfast, UK - Black Box - American Interior Screening + Q&A

May 9th Stockport, UK - Savoy Theatre - American Interior Screening + Q&A

May 10th Wrexham, UK - Focus Wales

May 15th London, UK - Rich Mix - American Interior full band performance

May 16th Leeds, UK - The Wardrobe - American Interior full band performance

June 7th Swansea, UK, Gwyl Tawe Festival

June 11th Guildford, UK - The Boileroom

June 12th Tunbridge Wells, UK - The Forum

June 14th Ipswich, UK - Brighten The Corners festival

August 29th Brighton, UK - Psych Fest

If your band is coming to the Minneapolis/St Paul area, please email details to [email protected] with a good lead time. Thank you.

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This is the Kit at Turf Club, St Paul (21 Oct 2023)

This Is The Kit Setlist Slider Goodbye Bite Bullet Proof Inside Outside Scabby Head and Legs This Is What You Did Off Off On No Such Thing Moonshine Freeze Found Out Take You to Sleep Careful of Your Keepers Stuck in a Room More Change with Gruff Rhys on backup vocals This Is When the Sky Gets Big with Gruff Rhys on backup vocals Dibs -- Encore -- Hotter Colder Tour Dates Oct 24 Denver, CO, US Globe Hall Oct 26 Boise, ID, US Neurolux Oct 27 Portland, OR, US Mississippi Studios Oct 28 Seattle, WA, US Woodlawn Hall Oct 29 Vancouver, BC, Canada Wise Hall Nov 1 Grass Valley, CA, US The Center For The Arts Nov 2 San Francisco, CA, US The Chapel Nov 4 South Pasadena, CA, US Masonic Lodge Nov 8 Worthing, UK Assembly Hall Nov 9 Cambridge, UK Cambridge Junction Nov 10 Reading, UK St Laurence's Church Nov 11 Cardiff, UK Tramshed Nov 12 Birmingham, UK Glee Club Nov 14 Gwynedd, UK Neuadd Ogwen Nov 16 Cork, Ireland Cyprus Avenue Nov 17 Galway, Ireland Roisin Dubh Nov 18 Dublin, Ireland National Concert Hall Nov 19 Belfast, UK Mandela Hall Nov 21 Edinburgh, UK Summerhall Nov 22 Gateshead, UK Sage Gateshead Nov 23 Leeds, UK Leeds Irish Centre Nov 24 Manchester, UK Manchester Academy 2 Nov 25 London, UK Barbican Centre Jan 25 2024 Norwich, UK Epic Studios Jan 26 2024 Liverpool, UK Grand Central Hall Jan 30 2024 Hull, UK The Adelphi Jan 31 2024 Sheffield, UK Crookes Social Club Feb 2 2024 Falmouth, UK Princess Pavilion Feb 3 2024 Bristol, UK Bristol Beacon Read More This Is The Kit On this tour, This Is the Kit (Kate Stables) is joined by bassist Jesse Vernon and drummer Jamie Whitby-Coles. She started off with a solo song ‘Easy on the Thieves’, then as a trio … Gruff Rhys Welsh singer Gruff Rhys is headlining the Cedar on Tuesday, October 16th. As a lover of Super Furry Animals, we recommend checking out Rhys. …

Paris-based This is the Kit (aka Kate Stables) headlined the Turf Club, in St Paul, on Oct 21.

BBC Radio loves This is the Kit, playing and promoting their music. Thanks their breakout third album Bashed Out, it landed a record deal with Rough Trade (the label famous for signing The Smiths), who released their album Moonshine Freeze in 2017, and their latest Careful of Your Keepers in 2023. In fact, with the new album, it was produced by Gruff Rhys… which is why Stables asked him to join her on this tour.

Of course, we’re big fans Rhys, the Welsh musician who was in Super Furry Animals (famous for “Something 4 the Weekend”)… but also part of Neon Neon. Rhys is part of the “Cool Cymru” Welsh music movement, led by Stereophonics, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia and Super Furry Animals… so if you know, you know.

Although Rhys spoke English, his Welsh accent was hard to understand. You don’t need to understand him, as he would sometime hold up signs to give directions to the audience… which was pretty fun. For “Pang”, he asks the audience to help say back “Pang” whenever he sings the chorus.

At the end of the set, he would hold up “Audience Reaction”. Then “Claps”, “Louder!”, then “Ape Sh**!” The claps became louder and louder and some whistles and some foot-stomping. If you heard this out of context, you would get the impression that this Gruff Rhys concert was the most amazing show that the audience has ever seen. Perhaps it was, as it’s nothing you’ve heard in a long time.

It was somewhat of a bittersweet ending, as Rhys mentioned that this was his last American show, and that tomorrow, he has to fly back home.

Gruff Rhys’ forthcoming album Sadness Sets Me Free will be out January 26, 2024, on Rough Trade Records.

This is the Kit came on stage, and, of course, Kate Staples, forgot she needed to tune her guitar. If you’ve ever seen This is the Kit, the guitar tuning thing probably makes up half her show.

This is the Kit (19 Oct 2017)

As noted in Oct 2017 we commented, “Stables often tuned between songs, making for awkward unfinished stories and comments. She played acoustic guitar, but it seemed like she’s most comfortable when she’s plucking on her banjo.”

After playing “Slider”, and then re-tuning her guitar, she said that ‘slider’, to her, means a slide. But then she found out that it meant “tiny hamburgers” (specifically White Castle’s sliders), which she had no idea that is what a ‘slider’ is. Then she found out that people call a person sliding down the slide, as a ‘slider’. She ended her story with, “A slider, going down the slider, eating a slider. Music video, done!”

At this point, you know that fans didn’t go out to see This is the Kit play music from their albums… but it’s more of being fans of Kate Staples and her personality. Oh, I guess the music is pretty cool too.

Highlight of the show was Gruff Rhys came on stage to help sing on “More Change” and “This Is When the Sky Gets Big.”

This is the Kit’s Careful of Your Keepers is out now on Rough Trade Records.

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This is the Kit at Turf Club, St Paul (21 Oct 2023)

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Sex Sells, Part 1

Here are some random album artwork that's sexually suggestive. We're not talking explicit or anything, just some eye-catching covers that I've noticed.

Pauline Croze-Mise à nu

Neon Neon-Raquel (Radio)

Robots In Disguise - We're In the Music Biz

The first album here is the 2005 self-titled debut album from French singer, Pauline Croze (paulinecroze.com). The cover shows (what looks like) a naked Croze, looking innocent with her doll-like eyes. She was twenty-five when they took that picture for her debut album, but the truth is she started writing and playing music when she was fourteen.

Last year, she released Un Bruit Qui Court, and seems to be more popular than ever.

Neon Neon (myspace.com/neonx2) has a rather suggestive and rude cover for his EP, Raquel. I don't really know much about him, apparently he's currently residing in Los Angeles, by the way of Wales?

This song, "Raquel", reminds me of early 80s new wave dance music, which I like... and apparently other people like him too as he's featured on the cover of last month's BPM Magazine.

Look closely at the cover to 2008's We're In the Music Biz by Robots In Disguise (robotsindisguise.co.uk) and you might be surprised. They're actually naked, with body paint. I guess they're more than meets the eye, huh?

If you got that joke, that's because they stole their name from Transformers^[W♥M].

These two English girls reminds me of DIY punk DJs mixing some electronic music (but they also sing). They sound really fun, don't they?

Nizlopi-Make It Happen

Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well

The Crayons-God Hates Me

 

Speaking of looking closer, does the map of Make it Happen by Nizlopi (nizlopi.com) remind you of something else?

I think the cover is pretty clever actually, nothing too sexual, and at a quick glance, you wouldn't notice the woman's body.

Apparently there's only two members in this band: Luke Concannon and John Parker, two dudes from Leamington Spa in the UK. They got their name (Nizlopi) from Concannon's crush on a Hungarian girl.

While I Walk You Home features what looks like two people about to do the horizontal tango, but with the sunlight through the window, I would have to guess this is the morning after.

Despite the somewhat sleazy cover art (at least I think so), the music of Norway's Dylan Mondegreen (dylanmondegreen.com) is actually quite nice and folky.

Finally, we have a blatant booby cover of What's Wrong With You from New York's The Crayons (thecrayonsmusic.com).

I hope the tanned gorgeous babe on the cover sell some CDs, and as easy-on-the-eye as the cover, they're actually easy-on-the-ear as well.

Check out this song "God Hates Me".

So, this ends the first part on "Sex Sells". I hope to have a collection of "unintentional porn" in my next article. (Please send me some suggestions).

 04/15/2008 00:05:20  vu my♥posts weheartmusic.com

Sex Sells, Part 1

Here are some random album artwork that's sexually suggestive. We're not talking explicit or anything, just some eye-catching covers that I've noticed.

Pauline Croze-Mise à nu

Neon Neon-Raquel (Radio)

Robots In Disguise - We're In the Music Biz

The first album here is the 2005 self-titled debut album from French singer, Pauline Croze (paulinecroze.com). The cover shows (what looks like) a naked Croze, looking innocent with her doll-like eyes. She was twenty-five when they took that picture for her debut album, but the truth is she started writing and playing music when she was fourteen.

Last year, she released Un Bruit Qui Court, and seems to be more popular than ever.

Neon Neon (myspace.com/neonx2) has a rather suggestive and rude cover for his EP, Raquel. I don't really know much about him, apparently he's currently residing in Los Angeles, by the way of Wales?

This song, "Raquel", reminds me of early 80s new wave dance music, which I like... and apparently other people like him too as he's featured on the cover of last month's BPM Magazine.

Look closely at the cover to 2008's We're In the Music Biz by Robots In Disguise (robotsindisguise.co.uk) and you might be surprised. They're actually naked, with body paint. I guess they're more than meets the eye, huh?

If you got that joke, that's because they stole their name from Transformers^[W♥M].

These two English girls reminds me of DIY punk DJs mixing some electronic music (but they also sing). They sound really fun, don't they?

Nizlopi-Make It Happen

Dylan Mondegreen - Wishing Well

The Crayons-God Hates Me

 

Speaking of looking closer, does the map of Make it Happen by Nizlopi (nizlopi.com) remind you of something else?

I think the cover is pretty clever actually, nothing too sexual, and at a quick glance, you wouldn't notice the woman's body.

Apparently there's only two members in this band: Luke Concannon and John Parker, two dudes from Leamington Spa in the UK. They got their name (Nizlopi) from Concannon's crush on a Hungarian girl.

While I Walk You Home features what looks like two people about to do the horizontal tango, but with the sunlight through the window, I would have to guess this is the morning after.

Despite the somewhat sleazy cover art (at least I think so), the music of Norway's Dylan Mondegreen (dylanmondegreen.com) is actually quite nice and folky.

Finally, we have a blatant booby cover of What's Wrong With You from New York's The Crayons (thecrayonsmusic.com).

I hope the tanned gorgeous babe on the cover sell some CDs, and as easy-on-the-eye as the cover, they're actually easy-on-the-ear as well.

Check out this song "God Hates Me".

So, this ends the first part on "Sex Sells". I hope to have a collection of "unintentional porn" in my next article. (Please send me some suggestions).

 04/15/2008 00:05:20  vu my♥posts weheartmusic.com