GUNNAR! HEADING TO PLAY THE MASQUERADE IN ATLANTA ON OCT 19

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/22/25

Announces New Album Sun Faded  

Out June 6th on PREACH Records / Virgin

Shares New Single & Video for “Upside Down” 

US Tour This Fall With Stops in NYC, D.C., Nashville, and Los Angeles

Los Angeles alt-rocker GUNNAR never sits still for too long. After releasing his debut full-length Best Mistake in 2023, a US tour with JXDN, and opening dates for Maroon 5 across Europe and the UK last year, GUNNAR returns in 2025 with a new album and his first-ever headline tour. 

Following the release of his latest single, “This is Now” produced with Sam Farrar and K-Thrash (Machine Gun Kelly, Jelly Roll, blink-182), and featuring James Valentine (Maroon 5), the rising artist unleashes his newest single “Upside Down”—a high-energy, glitchy pop-rock anthem set to appear on his upcoming album, Sun Faded, dropping June 6th via PREACH Records/Virgin. Pre-Save Sun Faded

Accompanying the track is a visually striking, mind-twisting music video co-directed by GUNNAR and the creative collective The Young Astronauts. The video pulls you into a surreal, gravity-defying world as Gunnar muses about the peace chaos can bring. “This song is about standing on the edge of the unknown where chaos is clarity; where I’m living in that chaos. I sometimes struggle when things are going too well and smoothly and I actually do best when my world is upside down.”

“Upside Down” and the previously released singles “This Is Now” and “Dirty Blonde” are set to appear on GUNNAR’s forthcoming album, Sun Faded — a bold and exciting step forward for the now 23-year-old artist. Where his 2023 debut Best Mistake saw Gunnar unearth his artistic voice and the music that felt most true to him after being thrown into the pop machine as a 16-year-old, Sun Faded is evolved, the sound of an artist who’s truly come into his own. Blending elements of pop, rock, punk, and timeless alternative influences, the album strikes a balance between nostalgia and reinvention. 

“It’s hard to box this album into one theme,” shares GUNNAR. Throughout the record, he reflects on relationships—both with loved ones and his parents—losing his home, and navigating life’s biggest challenges. “A lot of life has happened over the last few years, and I think these new songs show that. A lot of growth, rolling with the punches as they come, and accepting that I can’t control what happens. Sometimes that mentality is exactly what makes a difference.” 

Created in collaboration with K-Thrash (Machine Gun Kelly, Jelly Roll, blink-182) and a small handful of other collaborators, GUNNAR returns more potent than ever. With live shows in mind, the production on the new album is electrifying, bold, and unapologetically fun. “I hope when you hear this music, it feels like a fresh take on something familiar,” he shares. “But more than that, this album is made to be played and heard live!” 

Gunnar has also officially announced his Fall Headline tour dates. While dates were initially slotted for Spring 2025, Gunnar, alongside many other California residents, lost his home in the wildfires this past January. The tour will see him perform across North America this October — kicking off in Chicago on October 9th, with additional stops in Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Nashville, and others. The tour will wrap with a hometown show in Los Angeles on October 29th! “I’ve been waiting to do a headline tour for 6 years and to finally be able to get out on the road and do it is beyond a dream come true,” says GUNNAR. “I’ve always believed that live shows are where the real magic happens and where all the hard work we put in pays off. I am so damn excited for this.” See the full list of tour dates below and find tickets HERE.

Tour Dates

10.9 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen

10.10 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry

10.12 – Detroit, MI – Magic Bag

10.14 – Washington D.C. – Songbyrd DC 

10.15 – Boston, MA – Café 939

10.17 – NYC, NY – Mercury Lounge

10.19 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade – Altar

10.21 – Nashville, TN – The Basement

10.23 – Dallas, TX – Three Links

10.25 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake

10.26 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court

10.29 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING ARTIST MOLLY TUTTLE AT VARIETY PLAYHOUSE IN ATLANTA – OCTOBER 4

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/17/25

Grammy Award-Winning Artist Molly Tuttle at Variety Playhouse on Atlanta October 4th.

On the heels of two Grammy-winning albums in succession, with her band Golden Highway—2022’s Crooked Tree and 2023’s City of Gold—plus a nomination for Best New Artist, Molly Tuttle returns with a solo album that’s her most dazzling to date: So Long Little Miss Sunshine. 

Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson, Eric Church, Cage the Elephant), the fifth full album from the California-born, Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist features twelve new songs—eleven originals and one highly unexpected cover of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It.” 

Tuttle’s career, which began at age fifteen, has charted a course between honoring bluegrass and stretching its boundaries. On this album—a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad—she goes to a whole new place. Her stunning guitar work is more up-front on this album than ever before. (One of the most decorated female guitarist alive, Tuttle was the first woman to win the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award’s Guitar Player of the Year in 2017, at age twenty-four, and won again the following year, with nominations nearly every year since; she has also won Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year award.) So Long Little Miss Sunshine also features Tuttle playing banjo, something she’s never done on one of her albums before. 

“I like to be a bit of a chameleon with my music,” she says. “Keep people guessing and keep it full of surprises.” 

Tuttle has been slowly building this collection of songs over the last five years, while also writing and releasing two hugely successful albums and a six-song EP (last year’s Into the Wild) and playing more than 100 shows each year with Golden Highway. Along the way she’d send songs to Joyce, who she first started talking to about collaborating on the album a few years ago. 

“I’ve been wanting to make this record for such a long time. Part of me was scared to do such a big departure, and that went into the album title So Long Little Miss Sunshine. It’s like, ‘You know what? I’m just not going to care what people think. I’m going to do what I want.’” 

The album was recorded with a group of musicians that includes drummer/percussionists Jay Bellerose and Fred Eltringham, bassist Byron House, and Joyce on multiple instruments. Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) also plays banjo, fiddle, and harmonica, as well as singing harmony. 

Tuttle also conceived the artwork for So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which features multiple Mollys, each wearing a different wig except for one with nothing on her head at all. (“I probably own as many wigs as I own guitars,” she says.) Tuttle has been bald since she was three years old due to the autoimmune condition alopecia areata; she acts as a spokesperson for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.  

“I love raising awareness,” she says. “I talk about it onstage a lot and broaden it to include anyone who’s ever had something that makes them stick out and look or feel different from others. Playing my song ‘Crooked Tree’ live is very meaningful to me, because it’s a moment where sometimes I’ll take off my wig and talk about my struggles with self-acceptance.” 

One album track, “Old Me (New Wig),” is “about leaving all these things behind that don’t serve you anymore,” she says. “Parts of yourself that really aren’t in your best interest, like low self-esteem, anxieties, and not feeling confident. Learning to own these different aspects of my personality but not letting them control me is another theme of the record that inspired the album title and the cover art. Those are all things I’ve struggled with through the years—just feeling like an impostor, like I wasn’t good enough. I like singing this song because there are days when I still have to tell myself to leave that stuff behind.’”  

Most of the So Long Little Miss Sunshine songs were co-written with Secor, who is also Tuttle’s partner. “We spend so much time together, we live together, and anytime I have a song idea, or he has one, it’s just so easy to transition from whatever we’re doing into writing a song.” 

Although they were written in different times and circumstances, Tuttle found to her surprise that the songs were all tied together by interwoven themes. The opening track, “Everything Burns”—a dark, intense, big-guitar song—was written in 2020, during the chaos and division of the start of the Covid pandemic. It might as easily refer to the current chaos and division in America since Election Day 2024, though. In fact, they recorded it the day after the election. 

There are several songs about traveling—sometimes down the open road, like “Highway Knows” and “Oasis”—but also back in time, as on “Easy” and “Golden State of Mind.” 

The record also tells “a kind of coming-of-age story,” Tuttle says. “‘Golden State of Mind’ is one of the songs I feel is a through-line to that. It makes me think about people I’ve been close to in the past that I’ve drifted away from, and about growing up and figuring out who you are.” 

That theme is in turn picked up in the beautiful ballad “No Regrets,” one of the last songs Tuttle wrote for the album. “It’s about looking back on your life and thinking, ‘Well, maybe I could have done things differently, but if I hadn’t made certain mistakes or gone down certain roads, then I wouldn’t be here.’ And I really like where I am now!” 

So Long Little Miss Sunshine closes, as her last two albums did, with an autobiographical song, “Story of My So-Called Life.” “This is me looking back on my life, from growing up to going to school in Boston to moving to Nashville to where I am now—taking stock of all these pivotal moments throughout my life that made me who I am. I feel like after I’ve said so much in all the other songs, it’s just kind of nice to end it on a note of, ‘Here’s how this all came to be,’” she says. 

***** 

Earlier this year, Tuttle played guitar and sang on Ringo Starr’s new country album, Look Up. She also played with him and a host of other stellar musical guests at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and Grand Ole Opry as part of his televised Ringo & Friends shows. She was inspired by his fearlessness in following his passion for country music. “It is cool to see someone like that who has done everything you could imagine doing in a music career and he’s still just so psyched and still has a list of things that he wants to accomplish,” Tuttle says. 

Looking back on her own career, Tuttle admits that she also has pursued what interests her: “It has never been a cookie-cutter thing where I’m just going down a straight road. I always had this crooked path.” 

JANINE COMING TO THE MASQUERADE IN ATLANTA ON 10/16

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/17/25

Jane coming to the Masquerade in Atlanta on October 16th

“Everything had been flipped upside down, my heart ripped out of my chest, and I didn’t know how I could keep living.” New Zealand singer/songwriter Janine is no stranger to grief. A few years ago, the kiwi-born, LA-based songstress unexpectedly lost her hero, her father, while visiting back home and opted to stay in her native homeland to take care of her mum. Since then, Janine has been deeply immersed in writing this album, aptly titled Pain and Paradise, which is out today, Friday, August 22nd, on Little Mixtape Records. From soulful ballads to airy house-influenced anthems, Janine wrote and produced much of the album herself and on the focus track “Happy,” she captures the tension between hope and vulnerability over a classic piano-led melody and hypnotic percussion. 

Melding R&B soundscapes with pop sensibilities, the record’s 16 tracks explore the juxtaposition of life’s beauty and its most painful moments. Standing in the stillness of New Zealand’s rugged beauty, Janine experienced heartache in solace. “I knew I was so lucky to be in such a beautiful place and most importantly, lucky to have loved so deeply that the weight of loss could be so heavy. I stood there and thought, wow this is the most unbearable Pain and Paradise. I decided that the album would be named ‘Pain and Paradise’ because I believe that they always coexist.”

Janine has been on the charts since her debut release in 2014. With several Billboard charting singles & albums, a New Zealand Critics Choice nomination, a 2015 win for Best R&B album for New Zealand Music Awards and numerous sold out tours between Australia, Europe, New Zealand and the US – Janine’s impact is universal. 

Janine will kick off her North American headline tour next month! Starting in Ferndale, Michigan at The Magic Bag the tour will make notable stops in New York with a show at Music Hall of Williamsburg, D.C, Los Angeles at Terragram Ballroom on October 22nd and close out with a final show in Oakland at Crybaby on October 24 – find a show near you and get tickets HERE. Full list of tour dates below. 

Tour Dates

9/28 – The Magic Bag – Ferndale, MI

9/29 – Subterranean – Chicago, IL

10/1 – Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY

10/3 – Howard Theatre – Washington, DC

10/6 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA

10/10 – The Social – Orlando, FL

10/12 – House of Blues – Houston, TX

10/14 – The Studio at The Factory – Dallas, TX

10/16 – Last Exit Live – Phoenix, AZ

10/21 – Constellation Room – Santa Ana, CA

10/22 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA

10/24 – Crybaby – Oakland, CA

Pain and Paradise Tracklisting

 1. Fit 

2. Loving Me 

3. Happy 

4. Make You Proud 

5. Dad’s Interlude 

6. UP 

7. Thank You For Breaking My Heart 

8. Meet Me 

9. How Did I Find You 

10. Saved Me 

11. Best Thing 

12. If I Call

13. Good Vibes 

14. Broke Me Down 

15. Pain and Paradise 

16. Rockstar

LA INDIE-ROCK BAND GOON HEADS TO ATLANTA – SEPTEMBER 25 AT THE EARL

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/6/25

 Los Angeles indie-psych-folk-rock band Goon is headed to Atlanta on 9/25 at The Earl

Photo: Mallory Turner

ABOUT GOON: San Diego-born, LA-based frontman Kenny Beckerhad a record’s worth of new songs ready to record, studio time booked, and a vision for how it would all play out. But weeks into the recording, life hit him like a lightning bolt in the form of the sudden dissolution of his marriage and his subsequent psychic spiral. Blindsided by heartbreak, the music Becker had written for the record began to take on new meaning. What had come from joy was now something closer to agony. In the friction of that moment, Becker pushed his band—and his songwriting—into stranger territory. Facing down the pain and disappointment of life, the band created a masterpiece with their new album, Dream 3.

DREAM 3 ALBUM BIO

We always think we have a plan. We will walk into a situation with a purpose and an idea, only to find that life has other things in store for us. Goon frontman and creative mastermind, Kenny Becker, had a record’s worth of new songs ready to record, studio time booked, and a vision for how it would all play out. But weeks into the recording, life hit him like a lightning bolt in the form of the sudden dissolution of his marriage and his subsequent psychic spiral. Blindsided by heartbreak, the music Becker had written for the record began to take on new meaning. What had come from joy was now something closer to agony. In the friction of that moment, Becker pushed his band—and his songwriting—into stranger territory. Facing down the pain and disappointment of life, the band created a masterpiece with their new album, Dream 3.


Goon began 2015 as singer and multi-instrumentalist Kenny Becker’s solo project, releasing a compilation of his best home recordings, the 2016 EP Dusk of Punk. With a full band in tow, Goon released the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming on Partisan Records. Becker recruited a new band—Andy Polito on drums, Dillon Peralta on guitar, and Tamara Simons on bass—and recorded the self-released Paint By Numbers 1. A second LP, Hour of Green Evening, and another EP, Red Ladder, soon followed in 2022. To support Hour of Green Evening, Goon hit the road hard, touring and playing shows with Built to Spill, Jadu Heart, Slow Pulp, Teethe, Squirrel Flower, and many others. Amidst all this, the band signed with Philadelphia label Born Losers and began recording their next LP with Claire Morison at Wild Horizon Sound in Los Angeles. Dream 3 melds the intimate, lo-fi stylings of Goon with the live-band sound of Hour of Green Evening; a veteran band exploring every aspect of their sound, pushing themselves into new musical and emotional realms.


“I began this record so excited,” says Becker. “The songwriting was less scripted, letting me loosen up the reins and follow whatever idea seemed most interesting. It started as a joyful recording process. Then came the most devastating time of my life.” The result is an often darker, more introspective album, built on personal loss and the chaotic crumbling of the outside world, without losing Goon’s signature sense of strangeness and wonder. Weaving lyrics about personal and ecological collapse with references to baseball, aliens, and Tony Soprano, the record expands Goon’s sound while holding close to the band’s core identity. Dream 3 offers an exquisitely crafted sonic world, full of heartbreak and pain, but also brimming with color and life, the hope of better days to come. “Begin Here” is the gateway into the record. The song emerges in a dreamy, reverse-guitar haze, Becker’s voice hovering over Braden Lawrence’s drums like a bird in flight, surveying the green wreckage of his world. “With ligaments split at sunrise/Bubbling dirt from my mouth,” Becker sings, “I’m open, scraped, and doe-eyed.” It’s the sound of a band discovering new life after torment, the way cataclysm brings its sufferers closer. Becker drops the surreal imagery for something more direct, referencing his bandmate as he sings, “Let me cry to Tamara.” “The song started as a little reversed guitar progression that I had kicking around for a while,” says Becker. “I showed it to our bass player, Tamara, who had a strong reaction to it and insisted we flesh it out. When I sing, ‘Let me cry to Tamara’ at the end, that’s because it’s what I was doing all the time we were recording it. To me, that song has this sunny, upbeat melody, but it’s coming from a place of total despair. I like that tension.”

GOON – DREAM 3

 BORN LOSERS RECORDS

1. Being Here

2. Closer to

3. Patsy’s Twin

4. For Cutting The Grass

5. In The Early Autumn

6. Apple Patch

7. Fruit Cup

8. Toluca

9. The Morning Six Rabbits Were Born

10. Sunsweeping

11. Bottle

12. Fine

13. Jaw

DJO ON TOUR PLAYING THE COCA-COLA ROXY IN ATLANTA ON OCTOBER 1

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 9/4/25

 Djo will kick off the (almost completely sold out) Another Bite Tour which includes a stop in Atlanta on October 1 at Coca-Cola Roxy

ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM

The Crux out April 4 

SHARES NEW SONG “BASIC BEING BASIC”

LISTEN | WATCH HERE

ANNOUNCES GLOBAL TOUR

Djo –  the musical project of actor / producer / songwriter Joe Keery known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo – announces his highly anticipated new album The Crux. The follow-up to Djo’s 2022 album DECIDE, which featured the blockbuster hit “End of Beginning,” The Crux will be released on April 4th on AWAL. Today, he has released the first single “Basic Being Basic.” With its Oberheim OB-X8 synths and falsetto refrain, its final verses shrewdly skewer the (often online) tropes of modern day posturing. “It’s kind of a shot fired to anyone who’s trying to be of the moment,” says Keery. Listen to the song HERE. Djo will debut “Basic Being Basic” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he’ll also be a couch guest on January 28th. Fans can pre-order The Crux beginning today at djomusic.com 

Djo has also announced a major 2025 global tour. The Djo – Back On You Tour will feature Post Animal as support on all North American, UK and EU tour dates. In addition to his previously announced appearance on Australia and New Zealand’s Laneway Festival in February, he’ll embark on a North American, UK and European tour throughout the year. The North American dates kick off in Portland, OR at Revolution Hall on April 4th and conclude with a two-night stint at Brooklyn Steel in New York City on May 5th and 6th. He’ll begin the UK and European dates in Dublin, Ireland on June 1st. Highlights include appearances at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Best Kept Secret Festival, Hurricane Festival and Southside Festival with more dates to be announced soon. Tickets for the North American, UK and EU tour dates go on sale next Friday, January 31st at 9AM local time with the artist pre-sale beginning Tuesday, January 28th at 9AM local. Djo has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to providing critical relief and long-term recovery support for individuals, families, and communities impacted by the devastating LA wildfires via the PLUS1 LA Fires Fund.

The Crux was co-produced by Keery and his long-time collaborator Adam Thein. It’s an album of impeccable craftsmanship. Unlike Keery’s previous albums – bedroom recordings centered around synths – The Crux spotlights lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60’s and 70’s pop. It’s an album full of loss and yearning, but also one full of wit and gratitude. The album was written all over the world in a particularly fertile period for Keery – where he was grappling with the transience of his other job, being untethered and away from his friends and family. But to make the album he settled into the legendary Electric Lady Studios in his adopted home of New York City. The Crux not only showcases his ambitious scope, but also his skills as a deft multi-instrumentalist and songwriter (all songs were written by Keery or in collaboration with Adam Thein). 

What begins as a meditation on the dissolution of a relationship winds its way back to self-resilience, and a celebration and recognition of the importance of nurturing community. These themes are reflected in both his lyrics and in the collaborative spirit of the music, with contributions from his family and lifelong friends lending the album a warm energy mirroring the bonds at the record’s core. Although the songs are rich with specificity, the album plays like a movie soundtrack, where the listener can easily align with a character, situation, or emotion. And this is, in part, how Keery frames the album’s concept through its art – a collaboration with Neil Krug – as a hotel where all of its guests are transient, and at a spiritual or emotional crossroads.

Djo had a massive 2024 with his song “End of Beginning” taking off worldwide, where after climbing to #1 on the Global Spotify chart it was the #6 most streamed song in the world in 2024 with 1.5 BILLION streams and over 60 BILLION TikTok views. The song landed on official single charts in 41 countries, also racking up multiple Platinum & Gold records in 17 territories. “End of Beginning” peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, went top 10 at Alternative Radio and #12 at Top 40. Listen to the song HERE.

Though most widely known for his acting roles, Keery has long been an interdisciplinary power-house, and began making music as a teenager. He later joined the psych-rock band Post Animal while in Chicago. In 2019 he released his first album, Twenty Twenty under the moniker Djo. In 2022, his remarkable sophomore album DECIDE was released via AWAL to critical acclaim, performances at major U.S. festivals like Lollapalooza, unparalleled global success on DSPs, and recognition at the BRIT Awards, Billboard Music Awards and iHeartRadio Music Awards.

Tracklisting:

  1. Lonesome Is A State of Mind
  2. Basic Being Basic 
  3. Link 
  4. Potion
  5. Delete Ya
  6. Egg
  7. Fly 
  8. Charlie’s Garden
  9. Gap Tooth Smile
  10. Golden Line
  11. Back On You
  12. Crux

Djo: Back On You Tour Dates

*All North American, UK and EU tour dates w/ Post Animal

February 06 – Auckland, New Zealand – Laneway Festival

February 08 – Brisbane, Australia – Laneway Festival

February 09 – Sydney, Australia – Laneway Festival

February 12 – Sydney, Australia – Enmore Theatre

February 14 – Melbourne, Australia – Laneway Festival

February 15 – Adelaide, Australia – Laneway Festival

February 16 – Perth, Australia – Laneway Festival

April 04 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall

April 05 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall

April 07 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom

April 08 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre

April 10 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater

April 11 – Indio, CA – Coachella

April 18 – Indio, CA – Coachella

April 19 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren

April 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rockwell at the Complex

April 23 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom

April 25 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee

April 26 – Saint Paul, MN – Palace Theatre

April 28 – Detroit, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre

April 29 – Toronto, ON – History

May 01 – Washington, DC – The Anthem

May 02 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner

May 03 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall

May 05 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

May 06 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel

June 01 – Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia

June 02 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy

June 03 – Manchester, UK – Academy

June 06 – London, UK – O2 Forum Kentish Town

June 10 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Poolen

June 11 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene

June 13 – Stockholm, Sweden – Annexet

June 15 – Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret Festival

June 16 – Cologne, Germany – E-Werk 

June 17 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys

June 18 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja

June 20 – Scheebel, Germany – Hurricane Festival

June 21 – Tuttlingen, Germany – Southside Festival

June 23 – Paris, France – ELYSEE MONTMARTRE

June 24 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso

DIE SPITZ ON TOUR PLAYING PURGATORY AT THE MASQUERADE IN ATLANTA ON SEPTEMBER 20 WITH VIAGRA BOYS

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/26/25

Texas four-piece Die Spitz will release their highly anticipated debut album Something to Consume, due Sept 12 via Third Man Records. They will join Viagra Boys for a few support dates ahead of their upcoming headline tour and will be making a stop in Atlanta @ Purgatory at the Masquerade on 9/20

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM

SOMETHING TO CONSUME

OUT SEPT 12TH VIA THIRD MAN

WATCH VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE 

“THROW YOURSELF TO THE SWORD”

ANNOUNCE 2025 TOUR DATES

As postmodern society crumbles, Texas four-piece Die Spitz combine their passion, friendship, identity, and artistry to fight against the inescapable decay that surrounds life on their debut album, Something to Consume, due Sept 12 via Third Man Records. “There’s a political side to it, but addiction and love can also be all-consuming,” Ellie Livingston says. And as the band trade off instruments, swapping songwriting and vocal duties, and generating powerful songwriting in concussive bursts, Die Spitz have created their own little pocket of the world where we can all stand on the edge together.

The Austinites express their ideas through a blend of classic punk, hardcore, metal, alt rock and more. The group has become known for their riotous live shows, where dueling cartwheels, climbing of rafters and solos while crowdsurfing could happen at any moment. “Something to Consume is an album experience for everyone. Whether you’re craving a smack of lively metal or a melancholy wave of grungey violin, there’s a piece of all of us injected. Something to Consume is a call to the multitudes of ways we as humans allow consumption to enrapture our culture as well as ourselves.”

That shapeshifting strength comes into full view on the explosive lead single “Throw Yourself to the Sword”, released today alongside a video by Emily Sanchez. “‘Throw Yourself to the Sword’ is a high-energy ode to what we want young people to feel. There’s a lot of existentialism and despair in other songs on the album that still sheath the same theme, but ‘Throw Yourself to the Sword’ is the raise of optimism. Despite living in a state of mundanity or hopelessness, you can still rise up and fight the unknown, as long as you’re willing to throw yourself to it,” Ellie Livingston explains.

Something to Consume moves with rapturous conviction thanks in part to the deft production hand of Studio 4’s Will Yip (Turnstile, Mannequin Pussy). Though only recently in their 20s, Die Spitz’s impressive musicianship ties them clearly to a long lineage of frustrated people hoping to inspire change. “Some people aren’t interested in being political activists via music, but it weighs on me heavily and I feel misaligned with my calling if I don’t,” Chloe De St. Aubin says. “The four of us are free spirits with multiple interests, and there’s no limit or power dynamic that can derail us.”

Additionally, Die Spitz is announcing a headline tour behind Something to Consume. All dates below.

Die Spitz is Ava Schrobilgen, Chloe De St. Aubin, Ellie Livingston, and Kate Halter.

WATCH THE “THROW YOURSELF TO THE SWORD” VIDEO

UK & EU Tour Dates:

7/10. London, UK: Downstairs at The Dome ^ – SOLD OUT

7/11. Cheltenham, UK: 2k Trees Festival

7/12. Milton Keynes, UK: The Craufurd Arms

7/13. Tielen, BE: Sjock Festival

7/15. Berlin, DE: Cassiopeia # – SOLD OUT

7/16. Hamburg, DE: Molotow *

7/17. Cologne, DE: Blue Shell * – SOLD OUT

7/18. Amsterdam, NL: Paradiso

7/19. Cuxhaven, DE: Deichbrand Festival

^ with MOULD

# with Syff

* with Local Support

North America Tour Dates:

9/20. Atlanta, GA: Shaky Knees Festival

10/5. Denver, CO: Marquis Theatre 

10/7. Boise, ID: The Shredder

10/10. Seattle, WA: Baba Yaga 

10/14. San Francisco, CA: Bottom of the Hill

10/16. Los Angeles, CA: Lodge Room

10/17. San Diego, CA: Soda Bar 

10/24. Austin, TX: Stubb’s 

11/7. Oklahoma City, OK: Resonant Head

11/8. Lawrence, KS: The Bottleneck

11/11. Milwaukee, WI: Cactus Club

11/14. Toronto, ON: Horseshoe Tavern

11/15. Montreal, QC: Bar Le Ritz PDB 

11/22. Nashville, TN: The Blue Room at Third Man Records 

TUNE-YARDS ON TOUR PLAYING TERMINAL WEST ATLANTA ON SEPTEMBER 25

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/24/25

Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, released their new album Better Dreaming on 4AD earlier this year. To continue celebrating the album, they will be headed back on the road for a second leg of their North American tour and making a stop in Atlanta, GA to play Terminal West on 9/25.

Return with New Album 

Better Dreaming

Out May 16th on 4AD

PRE-ORDER HERE

New Single “Limelight” & Video Out Now

LISTEN / WATCH HERE

Announce First US Tour Dates Since 2022

Today Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, share details of their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out May 16th on standard vinyl, limited edition vinyl and CD. The album showcases some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music in their career.

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE

To kick off this new era, Tune-Yards unveiled the infectious single, “Limelight.” The song was born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, and Garbus and Brenner’s 3-year-old can be heard singing on the track. Garbus reflects on the new track: “This one almost didn’t make it onto the album because it felt trite, especially given multiple genocides across the globe and the particular impact on children (the kids are not ‘alright’). But it kept coming back as people kept responding positively to it, in particular our own kid. Who am I to talk about getting free, about us all getting free? Fannie Lou Hamer said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free” and it feels vulnerable but important to see myself as part of that ‘everybody’.”

Tune-Yards – “Limelight”

Official Video by Jayla Smith

WATCH HERE

Additionally, Tune-Yards will return to the road this May for their first U.S. headlining tour since 2022, with a special run of East Coast dates. Performing as a duo, Garbus and Brenner will bring Better Dreaming to life in intimate venues, offering fans a rare chance to experience the album’s vitality and messages up close. Known for their electrifying live performances – where layered rhythms, looping beats, and Garbus’ powerhouse vocals collide – these shows promise a versatile return to the stage. The tour includes beloved indie spaces like The Stone Church in Vermont and Space 538 in Maine, before wrapping up with a celebratory night at New York’s 101 Club, highlighting the album’s danceable energy and deeper themes in a setting designed for connection. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, March 7th at 10AM local time. For more information head HERE.

Based in Oakland, California, Tune-Yards shot to fame with their 2011 4AD label debut  

W H O K I L L, which topped numerous critics year end lists. The album was preceded by their self-released cassette BiRd-BrAiNs and followed by three phenomenal records for the label – Nikki Nack, I can feel you creep into my private life and 2021’s sketchy. Garbus and Brenner are also known for their film score and composition work including the Boots Riley film Sorry To Bother You and TV series I’m A Virgo. They continue that collaboration with Riley on the upcoming NEON feature, I Love Boosters starring Keke Palmer, LaKeith Standfield and Demi Moore.

Better Dreaming is out on May 16th on all digital platforms, CD, standard black vinyl and clear blue wave vinyl (indie retail only). For more information, and to pre-order, head HERE.

More on Better Dreaming:

Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. “Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” says Garbus of Tune-Yards’ sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. And when you do dance to it, be prepared to sweat out something that’s been long stuck inside, and pretty deep down.

The songs of Better Dreaming came to Garbus and Brenner with unusual ease. They asked themselves what would happen if they simply let the songs come out, following any trail they wished – first thought, best thought style. There was a strong desire to move, to make music that would enter the ear and immediately loosen up the joints, get the whole body wiggling. After covid-isolation, and time away from touring and live shows, the desire to be moved by music was undeniable. The insane experience of growing an actual human being influenced this as well.

The rhythms throughout the record carry a certain freshness, with deep pockets full of subtle idiosyncrasies that stem from Tune-Yards’ return to making an album primarily as a duo. All but one of these songs are built around Garbus’ drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of the early albums like BiRd-BrAiNs and  W H O K I L L – no full kit drummer here, and the songs love it.

Better Dreaming is ferocious in its invocation of self-love, of collective action, of dance floor liberation, ego-death deliverance, and a future we could all thrive in. When diving into the present darkness of the world, Tune-Yards asks themselves how much literal energy and joy can be conjured and pumped through the music. In its life-affirming art- pop of the apocalypse, Better Dreaming comes true.

Tune-Yards – Better Dreaming

May 16 2025

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TRACKLIST:
1. Heartbreak
2. Swarm
3. Never Look Back
4. Suspended
5. Limelight
6. Get Through
7. Better Dreaming
8. How Big Is The Rainbow
9. See You There
10. Perpetual Motion
11. Sanctuary

TUNE-YARDS TOUR DATES
May 7 – Philadelphia, PA, Johnny Brenda’s
May 9 – Kingston, NY, Assembly
May 10 – Portland, ME, Space 538
May 12 – Brattleboro, VT, The Stone Church
 May 13 – Northampton, MA, Iron Horse Music Hall
May 15 – New York, NY, 101 Club

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PUP & JEFF ROSENSTOCK IN ATLANTA AT THE EASTERN – SEPTEMBER 22

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/24/25

PUP

ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM 

WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS? 

OUT MAY 2ND VIA LITTLE DIPPER / RISE RECORDS 

NEW SINGLE & VIDEO FOR “HALLWAYS” OUT NOW

“The Toronto band Pup has long made frenetic punk-pop with neat verse-chorus-bridge structures underlying Stefan Babcock’s raucously overwrought and fully self-aware lead vocals.” – New York Times

“PUP’s fourth album, ‘The Unraveling of PUPTheBand,’ finds the quartet completely removing any of the limits left on their music, pushing things as far as possible” – The New Yorker

“Hearts on their sleeves, the group captures the rage and frustration of human fallibility with crashing drums and infectious irreverence” – NPR Music

“The new songs are boisterous, catchy, and meta while also earnestly wading through the nuances of depression in a manner often reserved for “confessional” indie rock…an instant mood-booster.” – Pitchfork

“transmuting life’s frustrations into unhinged visceral joy” – Stereogum (Album of the Week)

“‘The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND’…reinforces the message that it’s okay to be yourself, no matter who you are.” – Vulture 

“PUP’s winning recipe is 49% snark, 51% heart” – Bandcamp (Album of the Day)

Toronto punk heroes PUP— comprised of Stefan Babcock, Nestor Chumak, Zack Mykula, and Steve Sladkowski— will release their highly anticipated forthcoming album Who Will Look After The Dogs? On May 2nd via Little Dipper / Rise Records. Who Will Look After The Dogs?, PUP’s pummeling and cathartic fifth LP, is their most immediate, no-frills, and hard-hitting full-length yet. It was made in Los Angeles with producer John Congleton over the course of three weeks, and it’s the culmination of PUP’s past decade of constant touring and their palpable, livewire chemistry. The album evokes the lightning-in-a-bottle intensity of their self-titled debut (except they are much better at their instruments now), and finds our self-deprecating frontman Stefan Babcock at his most reflective, vulnerable and prolific. Over 12 tracks, Babcock excavates his life’s relationships—romantic, with his bandmates, and most ruthlessly, his relationship to himself. There’s plenty of growth, but also plenty of unpredictable mayhem in the arrangements and an acerbic bite in the writing. And while PUP historically are at one another’s throats during the album process, this time they scrapped their tedious perfectionism and rediscovered the joy of making loud music together. They had fun this time, we swear! 

PRE-ORDER WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DOGS? NOW

Also out today is the album’s lead single “Hallways.” The first song Babcock wrote for the album, “Hallways” is bracing and raw, but its lightness keeps it together: “Cause when one door closes, it might never open / There might be no other doors.” Listen to the song and watch the incredibly surreal music video, directed by Sterling Larose, now HERE.

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“Within days of announcing our last album, coincidentally titled The Unraveling of PUPTHEBAND, my life unexpectedly imploded. I wrote the lyrics for ‘Hallways’ while all that was going on. It was a weird fucking week,” says Babcock. “The title of our new record, Who Will Look After The Dogs?, is what I wrote at the top of the page, the very first thing written for this album. I think it’s devastating, but in a ‘holy shit this is overdramatic’ kinda way. At least in context of the line that comes before it. That’s what makes it funny to us. That overblown stuff we all say in our dark moments can be hilarious once you’ve cooled off a bit. I don’t know if anyone else thinks it’s funny, but sometimes you gotta laugh at yourself. It’s the only way out of the abyss. Trust me.”

Who Will Look After The Dogs? Tracklist:

01 No Hope

02 Olive Garden

03 Concrete 

04 Get Dumber

05 Hunger For Death 

06 Needed To Hear It 

07 Paranoid 

08 Falling Outta Love

09 Hallways 

10 Cruel

11 Best Revenge 

12 Shut Up

TOUR DATES

05/07/25 – Birmingham, UK @ XOYO Birmingham*&

05/08/25 – Leeds, UK @ Project House*&

05/10/25 – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz*&

05/11/25 – Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 (TV Studio)*&

05/12/25 – Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle University*&

05/13/25 – Bristol, UK @ Marble Factory*&

05/15/25 – Southampton, UK @ Engine Rooms*&

05/16/25 – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town*&

05/18/25 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg*

05/20/25 – Cologne, DE @ Club Volta*

05/21/25 – Hamburg, DE @ Logo*

05/22/25 – Berlin, DE @ Hole44*

05/23/25 – Munich, DE @ Strom*

05/25/25 – Paris, FR @ Bellevilloise*

05/27/25 – Madrid, ES @ Sala Mon

05/28/25 – Barcelona, ES @ Upload

05/29/25 – València, ES @ Loco Club

05/30/25 – San Sebastian, ES @ Dabadaba

* support from Illuminati Hotties

& support from Goo 

RISING STAR JAKE MINCH PLAYING VINYL ON WEDNESDAY 8/20!

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/13/25

HEADLINE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR KICKS OFF IN AUGUST

“Jake Minch is Your Favorite Songwriter’s Songwriter”—TMRW Magazine

“Love this so muchhhh”—Gigi Perez on “Fingers and Clothes”

“My favorite”—Chelsea Cutler on “Fingers and Clothes”

“best song I’ve heard in a while”—Daniel Seavey on “Fingers and Clothes”

“Soundtrack of my summer I feel”—Billianne on George

“Love this one soooo much”—Ella Jane on “Say Uncle”

“This has been on a loop for so long im so obsessed and scared”—Sadie Jean on “For Leaving”

“Brilliant”—Noah Kahan on “handgun”


George, the highly-anticipated debut album from rising singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Minch is out today via 2for2 projects/Mercury Records—listen HERE.

“George is about my two years in LA and my experience falling victim to my ‘middle-of-the-country-syndrome,’” says Jake. “It’s about being a martyr with nothing to die for and needing to fuck up some great things in order to see that.”

In celebration of his full-length debut, Jake will embark on an extensive run of headline shows this August, with stops at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right, Los Angeles’ Moroccan Lounge, Chicago’s Schubas Tavern, Toronto’s Velvet Underground, Nashville’s Cannery Hall and more. See below for a complete list of dates and purchase tickets at shop.jakeminch.com.

Recorded and produced between Los Angeles and Connecticut by Jake and Tony Berg (Taylor Swift, Boygenius) with contribution from Mason Stoops (Lizzy McAlpine, Role Model), George finds the 22-year-old storyteller exploring grief, guilt and identity through the complexities in his personal relationships. Titled after Jake’s birth name, George captures the angst and discomfort of growing up and leaving home with a disarming vulnerability that traces the album’s 12 tracks—including previously shared singles “Fingers and Clothes” and “Drawing a Tattoo,” released earlier this summer to critical acclaim.

Born and raised in Connecticut, Jake Minch burst onto the scene in 2023 with his hit single “handgun” racking up 1.3 million views on the song’s initial teaser and earning support from the likes of Noah Kahan, Lizzy McAlpine, Zach Bryan, Gracie Abrams, Fletcher and many more. Over the last few years, the 2for2 projects/Mercury Records artist has garnered a dedicated fanbase through his deeply personal lyrics on love, growing up and grief. Jake has toured the world over, sharing stages with the likes of The Head And The Heart, Jeremy Zucker, Ben Abraham, Holly Humberstone, Grace Enger and Sadie Jean. He’ll set off on an extensive North American headline tour this summer / fall.

GEORGE TRACKLIST
1. Nostalgia Act
2. Drawing a Tattoo
3. Fucked Up
4. Fingers and Clothes
5. Dad’s Song
6. Unicef
7. First I Was
8. Say Uncle
9. Changed Things
10. For Leaving
11. A mistake you only make once
12. Twice

JAKE MINCH LIVE
August 3 /// Constellation Room /// Santa Ana, CA
August 4 /// Moroccan Lounge /// Los Angeles, CA
August 5 /// Cafe Du Nord /// San Francisco, CA
August 7 /// Madame Lou’s /// Seattle, WA
August 9 /// Polaris Hall /// Portland, OR
August 12 /// Lost Lake /// Denver, CO
August 15 /// 7th St Entry /// Minneapolis, MN
August 18 /// Schubas Tavern /// Chicago, IL
August 19 /// Cannery Hall /// Nashville, TN
August 20 /// Vinyl /// Atlanta, GA
August 22 /// Songbyrd /// Washington, D.C.
August 23 /// The Lounge at World Cafe /// Philadelphia, PA
August 25 /// Velvet Underground /// Toronto, ON
August 27 /// The Middle East – Sonia /// Cambridge, MA
August 28 /// Baby’s All Right /// Brooklyn, NY

SAMIA PLAYING ATLANTA AT TERMINAL WEST ON 9/8

Posted by Liz and John Attaway, 8/7/25

SHARES “POOL” (STRIPPED) AS NPR TINY DESK PERFORMANCE GOES VIRAL 

Bloodless out now via Grand Jury Music & North American Tour Continues This Fall

Praise for Samia: 

“[Samia] possesses a remarkable knack for specificity in her songwriting…charisma, vocal talent and deftly detailed lyricism.” – NPR Music 

“No one writes a lyrical knockout like Samia…one of indie rock’s most poignant songwriters” – Rolling Stone

“An album held taut between the introspective and the spectacular, a record of self-discovery that takes audible pleasure in discovering new frontiers for her sound.”- Pitchfork

“The sound of a talented artist achieving clarity: Samia Finnerty has released intriguing albums before, but nothing comes close to the stylistic command and singular point of view she demonstrates on her third album, which oscillates between alt-folk and indie-pop to study gender norms in modern society and present Samia’s full self without compromise” – Billboard

“Bloodless is the work of a poet at the top of her game.” – Paste

“Bloodless, Samia’s third and best LP, affirms her as a true talent deserving of her place in the firmament of accessible, alt-slanted singer-songwriter music” – Stereogum

“…some of the most compelling pop instrumentation of the year.” – The Needle Drop

“Three albums into her career, Bloodless feels like a major level up for Samia, with songs that have both immediate appeal and layers of meaning to uncover.” – Brooklyn Vegan

Minneapolis-based singer and songwriter Samia released her breathtaking third album, Bloodless, earlier this year to widespread critical acclaim, countless top 10 chart debuts and millions of streams. But it’s a gut-wrenching and tremendously poignant NPR Tiny Desk performance of “Pool,” the opening track of Samia’s debut album from 2020, that is having a major moment right now. Samia is going viral on TikTok, thanks to a user post highlighting a particularly heartbreaking part of “Pool” as Samia sings: “How long do I have left with my dog / ’til I start forgetting shit? / How long ’til we’re rich / and then we’re not and then we’re rich? / How much longer ’til I’m taller? / How much longer ’til it’s midnight? / How much longer ’til the mornin’? / Are my legs gonna last? / Is it too much to ask?”

The viral “Pool” audio has been used nearly 25,000 times across TikTok & Reels in the past week, with Samia earning over 75k new followers and 1 million new streams, with 90% of those streams being active and intentional listening, rather than through playlists or the algorithm. While this is a nascent but rapidly-growing viral moment, the connection fans are experiencing to the song is already massive. Given the reaction to the song and performance from 2023, Samia has gone back into the studio to meet the demand for a stripped version of the song, akin to the performance. Out now is “Pool (Stripped)” – listen HERE. 

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Samia will continue her North American tour this Fall – see below to find a show near you, and get your tickets HERE. 

Tour dates

09-08 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West +

09-09 – Birmingham, AL – Saturn +

09-11 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall +

09-12 – Austin, TX – Scoot Inn +

09-13 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater +

09-16 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom +

09-17 – San Diego, CA – Music Box +

09-19 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre + ^

09-20 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore ^

09-22 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom ^

09-23 – Vancouver, BC – Hollywood Theatre ^

09-24 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre ^

09-26 – Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell ^

09-27 – Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre ^

09-29 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room ^

09-30 – St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall ^

10-01 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl ^

10-26 – Glasgow, UK – G2 * SOLD OUT 

10-27 – Manchester, UK – Yes (Pink Room) * SOLD OUT 

10-28 – London, UK – KOKO *

+ w/ Hank Heaven

^ w/ Renny Conti

* w/ Sarah Julia

Bloodless, out now, is Samia’s  follow-up to her 2023 breakout and award-winning record Honey. Recorded in North Carolina and her new home of Minneapolis, Bloodless is a richly layered album that was made with longtime collaborators co-producers Caleb Wright and Jake Luppen, as well as frequent songwriting partners Christian Lee Hutson and Raffaella.  

“It’s easier to be what someone wants you to be if you give as little as possible,” says Samia. With Bloodless, she seeks comfort in absence, and explores the allure of existing as fantasy. Drawing inspiration from unsolved mysteries – inexplicable cattle mutilations, the presence of God, the impossibility of femininity – Samia examines how shadows can loom larger than their source.  “I noticed a pattern in my life of wanting to live up to the person I became in someone’s head; you become a lot bigger with distance.” Bloodless, which shifts seamlessly from sparse folk to sweeping indie-pop epics, adorned with haunting harmonies and spectral imagery, seeks a path through that space between void and flesh-and-blood presence. Samia would like to be both, to be whole, to be impossible. 

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