diSKOAver weekly last updated: 5/03/2023
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diSKOAver weekly last updated: 5/03/2023 ✅
[News] Hot Chip Announce Fifth Studio LP: 'In Our Heads'
Even with many of its members being involved in side projects (The 2 Bears, New Build), British electro pop outfit Hot Chip are back in the studio and ready to release their fifth LP. The studio effort, titled In Our Heads, is set for release on June 11th in the UK and June 12th in North America through the band's new label, Domino Records. Described in the press release as "an unadultered delight of an album bursting with dynamic floor fillers, euphoric earworms and verbose synth-fuelled love songs," In Our Heads will feature eleven tracks, with the full track listing being available to check out after the jump.
In support of the LP, Hot Chip will be performing at various festivals throughout Europe and the US, including Pitchfork Music Festival. Take a look at all of their tour dates and locations after the jump.
[News] OFF! Announce New Album
OFF!, the hardcore LA super-group featuring members of Black Flag/Circle Jerks, Burning Brides, Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt/Earthless and Redd Kross have just announced a brand new album. They're to follow up their EP with a full length self-titled number via Vice on May 8th. (via P4K)
Prior to that though they'll tear through SXSW with some more dates set for May. Peep the tracklisting below and the dates after the jump. Get pumped.
OFF! tracklisting:
01 Wiped Out
02 I Got News For You
03 Elimination
04 Cracked
05 Wrong
06 Borrow and Bomb
07 Toxic Box
08 Man From Nowhere
09 Jet Black Girls
10 King Kong Brigade
11 Harbor Freeway Blues
12 Feelings Are Meant to Be Hurt
13 Vaporized
14 503
15 Zero for Conduct
16 I Need One (I Want One)
[News] M83 to Release "Mirror" for Record Store Day 2012
For this year's Record Store Day, M83 will be releasing a hidden track from his latest LP Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. The song, titled "Mirror," is a vibrant track with diverse instrumentation and repetitive lyrics, coming across as a bit of a departure from the rest of the album. Fitting then that it's a hidden track. Nonetheless, the song is fantastic and will be available to purchase as a limited-edition 2,000 copy 7" vinyl, so give it a listen below. Along with the announcement was the release of the Eric Prydz remix of "Midnight City," which you can purchase now on iTunes.
As well, after the jump, you can take a look at M83's current tour schedule.
M83 - "Mirror"
[News] Sleigh Bells Announce U.S. Tour Dates
Sleigh Bells have announced a series of tour dates in support of their recently released sophomore LP Reign of Terror, which are set to kick off on March 26th and end April 25th, just prior to the band's tour alongside the Red Hot Chili Peppers. With shows all across North America, the tour will span 19 different cities, including a stop in Nashville for the Rites of Spring Music Festival on April 21st. Take a look at their full your itinerary after the jump.
[News] Maps & Atlases Announce Spring Tour
A firm favourite in the SKoA camp has just announced a spring tour to coincide with the release of their new album Beware and Be Grateful which has been given a release date of the 17th of April on Barsuk. Maps & Atlases kicks off in their hometown with a show at the Metro in Chicago on the 11th of May before continuing on through to June 19th at Amsterdam Hall in St. Paul. The Chicago boys will also hit up SXSW next month with a brief European tour around the SX dates. Peep their full list of dates after the jump.
[News] Azealia Banks to Release Debut LP 'Broke With Expensive Taste' in September
In a recent interview with Nylon Magazine, Azealia Banks, the quickly rising Brooklyn MC, revealed that she would be releasing her debut studio album this September and that it would be titled Broke With Expensive Taste. She went further to explain that "the theme is a young girl trying to find it... Success! Herself! Her path! The young girl trying to make it! That girl who's at the end of her childhood trying to get a job and make some money, you know? She needs to get what she can get! She needs to go out there and show people she knows how to work for it."
Those are all of the details available so far, but be sure to expect additional details in the coming months, and for now, after the jump, you can check out the video for Banks' banger "212."
[News] Beach House Announce New Album, 'Bloom'
According to recent reports, Beach House will be releasing the follow-up to 2010's fantastic Teen Dreams on May 15th via Sub Pop, and that the new studio effort will be titled Bloom. Since the reports hit the web, Sub Pop has neither denied nor confirmed any of the information, but nonetheless the album will include 10 tracks, two of which, "Wild" and "Other People," Beach House has performed live. After the jump, you can watch live video footage of the band performing the two songs, and take a look at the tracklisting for Bloom.