Author: Nina Corcoran

Consequence of Sound

Kraftwerk have announced a North American tour to celebrate their 50th anniversary. The electro pioneers will bring their beloved 3D visuals, music, and performance art on the road to play a career-spanning set this summer.

When it comes to having a noteworthy career, Kraftwerk have too many accomplishments to list. Since forming in 1970, the group of friends merged machines with man to help popularize electronic music as we know it, released 10 studio albums, charted on mainstream radio worldwide, and redefined our expectations for technology within music. They’ve since been nominated for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame not once, but twice, among countless other awards.

Here’s hoping this anniversary tour is similar to the magic caught on 3-D The Catalogue, their Grammy-winning live album. Come to think of it, it’s hard to imagine Kraftwerk playing music that isn’t profoundly cool. After all, they’re the band that performed live from the International Space Station with a little help from a German astronaut.

Kraftwerk’s upcoming tour begins in Seattle, Washington on June 19th and wraps up in Boston, Massachusetts on July 31st. Along the way, they’ll play in major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Austin, New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, New York City, Chicago, Nashville, Toronto, and more. Find the full schedule below and get tickets here.

Kraftwerk will also be stopping along the route to perform at music festivals like Osheaga and All Points East. You can grab tickets to all of their upcoming concerts here.

Kraftwerk 2020 Tour Dates: 
05/23-30 — London, UK @ All Points East Festival
06/19 — Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
06/20 — Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
06/21 — Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium
06/23 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
06/24 — Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium
06/25 — San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theatre
06/27 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union
06/29 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheater
07/01 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at The Moody Theatre
07/02 — Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory
07/05 – New Orleans, LA @ Orpheum Theater
07/07 — Miami, FL @ James L. Knight Center
07/08 — Orlando, FL @ Dr. Phillips Center
07/09 — Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre
07/11 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
07/18 — New York City, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
07/20 — Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
07/21 — Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
07/22 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
07/24 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
07/25 — Memphis, TN @ Crosstown Theater
07/26 — Saint Louis, MO @ The Pageant
07/27 — Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Theatre
07/28 — Toronto, ON @ Meridian Hall
07/30 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
07/31 — Boston, MA @ Boch Center Wang Theatre
08/01 — Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Music Festival

Kraftwerk Announce 50th Anniversary Tour
Nina Corcoran

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Scooby-Doo is going on tour, and he’s ready to put on one hell of a show. While the beloved great dane will be wearing his usual teal collar, he’s tapping Edda Gudmundsdottir, Björk’s costume designer, to outfit his pals for the event, as BrooklynVegan points out.

The upcoming tour, dubbed “Scooby-Doo! and The Lost City of Gold”, will see the gang singing and dancing alongside music, puppetry, magic, aerial arts, video mapping, and interactive audience response video. Apparently it follows Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred, and Velma as they drive the Mystery Machine to Alta Luz, “a fictitious South American town where ghostly sightings of La Dama de Oro (The Lady In Gold) threaten to scare attendees away from the annual music festival and Incan sun god celebration.” Jinkies!

According to the event’s website, Edda Gudmundsdottir is the tour’s official costume designer. Gudmundsdottir and Björk grew up together in Reykjavik and quickly became friends, with Gudmundsdottir going on to style Björk for numerous tours and events over the years. Her resume also includes past clients like Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, and Imagine Dragons. In a behind-the-scenes video, the outfits appear to be influenced by traditional Incan designs, Scooby-Doo’s original look, and some very colorful sea creatures.

“Scooby-Doo! and the Lost City of Gold” kicks off in Halifax, Nova Scotia on March 19th and stays on the road for quite a long time before concluding the adventure in Jacksonville, Florida on June 28th. In between, the gang will stop frequently throughout North America, including in major cities like Milwaukee, Austin, New York City, New Orleans, Nashville, and Orlando.

Will Björk turn up at the New York City date to see her pal’s work? Who’s to say. If Björk does decide to go, there’s a good chance she will crash at Sister City, the boutique hotel she composed AI-influenced lobby music for recently.

Tickets for “Scooby-Doo! and the Lost City of Gold” are on sale now. So grab your magnifying glass, pack some Scooby Snacks, and purchase tickets to any of the shows here.

Scooby-Doo! And The Lost City Of Gold 2020 Tour Dates:
03/19 – Halifax, NS @ Scotiabank Centre
03/21 – Moncton, NB @ Avenir Centre
03/24 – Saint John, NB @ Harbour Station
03/29 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell
04/02 – Madison, WI @ Capitol Theater
04/05 – Rosemont, IL @ Rosemont Theatre
04/10 – Englewood, NJ @ Bergen PAC
04/11 – Englewood, NJ @ Bergen PAC
04/18 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theater
04/19 – Lancaster, PA @ American Music Theatre
04/21 – Albany, NY @ Palace Theatre
04/22 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Theatre
04/23 – Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods Casino – The Fox Theater
04/24 – Mashantucket, CT @ Foxwoods Casino – The Fox Theater
04/25 – White Plains, NY @ Westchester County Center
04/26 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre
04/30 – Rochester, NY @ Kodak Center
05/02 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre
05/05 – Saginaw, MI @ Dow Event Center
05/06 – Youngstown, OH @ Stambaugh Auditorium
05/09 – Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
05/10 – Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
05/12 – Davenport, IA @ Adler Theatre
05/13 – Milwaukee, WI @ Riverside Theater
05/17 – Fargo, ND @ Fargo Civic Auditorium
05/19 – Sioux Falls, SD @ Washington Pavilion
05/21 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
05/23 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Pikes Peak Center
05/24 – Fort Collins, CO @ The Lincoln Center
05/27 – El Paso, TX @ Plaza Theatre
05/28 – Midland, TX @ Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center
05/30 – Austin, TX @ Dell Hall
05/31 – Austin, TX @ Dell Hall
-6/02 – San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre
06/04 – Dallas, TX @ Majestic Theater
06/05 – Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
06/06 – New Orleans, LA @ Mahalia Jackson Theater
06/07 – Mobile, AL @ Saenger Theatre
06/09 – Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre
06/10 – Louisville, KY @ The Louisville Palace
06/11 – Nashville, TN @ Grand Ole Opry House
06/12 – Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center
06/13 – N. Charleston, SC @ N. Charleston Performing Arts Center
06/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
06/16 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall
06/17 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall
06/20 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Broward Center For The Perf. Arts
06/21 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Broward Center For The Perf. Arts
06/24 – Orlando, FL @ Dr. Phillips Center for the Perf. Arts
06/25 – Orlando, FL @ Dr. Phillips Center for the Perf. Arts
06/27 – Jacksonville, FL @ Times Union Center for the Perf. Arts
06/28 – Jacksonville, FL @ Times Union Center for the Perf. Arts

Read More: Scooby-Doo is going on tour, shares a costume designer with Bjork | http://www.brooklynvegan.com/scooby-doo-is-going-on-tour-shares-a-costume-designer-with-bjork/?trackback=tsmclip

Scooby-Doo Is Going on Tour With Björk’s Costume Designer
Nina Corcoran

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On the heels of her new album, Jay Som is back with two brand new songs, “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep”. Fans can expect to hear these tracks live very soon, as Jay Som is in the midst of an extensive tour that continues into summer.

Both “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep” come from the recording sessions that produced Anak Ko, her most recent record and one of the best albums of 2019. The previously unreleased tracks will be available as a physical 7-inch single on May 1st — pre-orders are currently ongoing — but can be streamed early as a treat.

Musically, “A Thousand Words” almost sounds like Jay Som’s take on surf rock. With a lackadaisacle but heady riff, Melina Duterte swims through a sunny melody and lets the guitar waves crash into a flitting synth jingle in the chorus. Fittingly, “Can’t Sleep” takes a different approach, turning up the fuzz for a muted-yet-chaotic pop number that sounds like a warped Tegan and Sara track. Stream both songs below.

In a press release, Jay Som explained the origin stories for both songs. “Apparently A Thousand Words” came about after a year of touring and taking influence from Bruce Springsteen, Elliott Smith, Pavement, and the Supergrass song “Alright”. “I forced myself to make a sort of big and jovial song to bring me out of the funk I was in,” she said. “I also wanted to remind myself that music can be fun!”

Meanwhile, “Can’t Sleep” was written in the fall of 2017 while Duterte was living at home with her parents between tours. “I think I had all my gear packed away somewhere that I couldn’t access, so I used instruments left over in my childhood room: a broken acoustic guitar, chopsticks on a snare drum, a bad hi hat, and my trumpet,” she said. “Everything was recorded through the laptop mic. I was pretty frustrated with the California heat and the fact that I couldn’t record properly, so this sort of fever dream song was born.”

Catch these songs live when Jay Som plays near you on her current tour. She’s on the road in Australia, Europe, and North America to perform both headlining gigs and opening sets for Sharon Van Etten, Julien Baker, and Lazy Day. Find the full list of her tour dates below, and grab tickets to all of her upcoming concerts here.

Jay Som 2020 Tour Dates:
02/20 — Auckland, NZ @ Neck of the Woods
02/21 — Sydney, AU @ Oxford Art Factory
02/22 — Brisbane, AU @ The Foundry
02/23 — Melbourne, AU @ NorthCote Social Club
02/25 — Osaka, JP @ Shangri-La
02/26 — Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
02/29 — 03/01 – Jakarta, ID @ Java Jazz Festival
03/17 — Bristol, UK @ The Fleece #
03/18 — Brighton, UK @ Patterns #
03/19 — London, UK @ The Garage #
03/21 — Manchester, UK @ YES #
03/22 — Nottingham, UK @ Bodega Social Club #
03/24 — Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club #
03/25 — Glasgow, UK @ Stereo #
03/26 — Dublin, UK @ The Workman’s Club #
03/28 — Liverpool, UK @ Leaf #
03/29 — Birmingham, UK @ The Sunflower Lounge #
03/31 — Brussels, BE @ Botanique (Witloof Bar)
04/01 — Paris, FR @ Supersonic #
04/03 — Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
04/05 — Stockholm, SE @ Bar Brooklyn
04/06 — Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
04/07 — Hamburg, DE @ Molotow (Skybar) #
04/08 — Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain #
04/17 — Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live! $
04/18 — Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel $
04/19 — Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theater
04/20 — Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom $
04/22 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium $%
04/24 — New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre $
04/26 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s $
04/28 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse $
05/09 — Cincinnati, OH @  Homecoming Festival
05/23 — Boston, MA @ Boston Calling
06/04 — Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
06/06 — New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ Virgin Festival

# = w/ Lazy Day
$ = w/ Sharon Van Etten
% = w/ Julien Baker

Jay Som Shares New Songs “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep”: Stream
Nina Corcoran

Consequence of Sound

On the heels of her new album, Jay Som is back with two brand new songs, “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep”. Fans can expect to hear these tracks live very soon, as Jay Som is in the midst of an extensive tour that continues into summer.

Both “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep” come from the recording sessions that produced Anak Ko, her most recent record and one of the best albums of 2019. The previously unreleased tracks will be available as a physical 7-inch single on May 1st — pre-orders are currently ongoing — but can be streamed early as a treat.

Musically, “A Thousand Words” almost sounds like Jay Som’s take on surf rock. With a lackadaisacle but heady riff, Melina Duterte swims through a sunny melody and lets the guitar waves crash into a flitting synth jingle in the chorus. Fittingly, “Can’t Sleep” takes a different approach, turning up the fuzz for a muted-yet-chaotic pop number that sounds like a warped Tegan and Sara track. Stream both songs below.

In a press release, Jay Som explained the origin stories for both songs. “Apparently A Thousand Words” came about after a year of touring and taking influence from Bruce Springsteen, Elliott Smith, Pavement, and the Supergrass song “Alright”. “I forced myself to make a sort of big and jovial song to bring me out of the funk I was in,” she said. “I also wanted to remind myself that music can be fun!”

Meanwhile, “Can’t Sleep” was written in the fall of 2017 while Duterte was living at home with her parents between tours. “I think I had all my gear packed away somewhere that I couldn’t access, so I used instruments left over in my childhood room: a broken acoustic guitar, chopsticks on a snare drum, a bad hi hat, and my trumpet,” she said. “Everything was recorded through the laptop mic. I was pretty frustrated with the California heat and the fact that I couldn’t record properly, so this sort of fever dream song was born.”

Catch these songs live when Jay Som plays near you on her current tour. She’s on the road in Australia, Europe, and North America to perform both headlining gigs and opening sets for Sharon Van Etten, Julien Baker, and Lazy Day. Find the full list of her tour dates below, and grab tickets to all of her upcoming concerts here.

Jay Som 2020 Tour Dates:
02/20 — Auckland, NZ @ Neck of the Woods
02/21 — Sydney, AU @ Oxford Art Factory
02/22 — Brisbane, AU @ The Foundry
02/23 — Melbourne, AU @ NorthCote Social Club
02/25 — Osaka, JP @ Shangri-La
02/26 — Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
02/29 — 03/01 – Jakarta, ID @ Java Jazz Festival
03/17 — Bristol, UK @ The Fleece #
03/18 — Brighton, UK @ Patterns #
03/19 — London, UK @ The Garage #
03/21 — Manchester, UK @ YES #
03/22 — Nottingham, UK @ Bodega Social Club #
03/24 — Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club #
03/25 — Glasgow, UK @ Stereo #
03/26 — Dublin, UK @ The Workman’s Club #
03/28 — Liverpool, UK @ Leaf #
03/29 — Birmingham, UK @ The Sunflower Lounge #
03/31 — Brussels, BE @ Botanique (Witloof Bar)
04/01 — Paris, FR @ Supersonic #
04/03 — Amsterdam, NL @ Bitterzoet
04/05 — Stockholm, SE @ Bar Brooklyn
04/06 — Copenhagen, DK @ Ideal Bar
04/07 — Hamburg, DE @ Molotow (Skybar) #
04/08 — Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain #
04/17 — Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live! $
04/18 — Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel $
04/19 — Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theater
04/20 — Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom $
04/22 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium $%
04/24 — New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre $
04/26 — Austin, TX @ Stubb’s $
04/28 — Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse $
05/09 — Cincinnati, OH @  Homecoming Festival
05/23 — Boston, MA @ Boston Calling
06/04 — Nelsonville, OH @ Nelsonville Music Festival
06/06 — New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/07 — Los Angeles, CA @ Virgin Festival

# = w/ Lazy Day
$ = w/ Sharon Van Etten
% = w/ Julien Baker

Jay Som Shares New Songs “A Thousand Words” and “Can’t Sleep”: Stream
Nina Corcoran

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Defamed edgelord Louis C.K. is trying to revive his comedy career despite confirming the five accusations of sexual misconduct made against him. His recent sets see him making ill-advised rape jokes and mocking Parkland survivors. Luckily for people who are into lazy humor, Louis C.K. is bringing his blind entitlement on the road in what he’s mislabeling as a “stand-up comedy tour”.

The tour dates stretch from tonight in Denver, Colorado on through to May 23nd in Copenhagen, Denmark. Along the way, he will take the stage live in major cities like Phoenix, Philadelphia, New Brunswick, Knoxville, Syracuse, Boston, and Berlin. Find his entire schedule below.

While his victims suffered trauma for years after his actions, Louis C.K. considers himself the victim of his own constant masturbation because the fallout of such cause him to “[lose] $35 million in an hour.” Weird he would go back to the comedy community for money instead of, I don’t know, getting a different job. But then again, Louis C.K. is convinced that there’s still people who want to hear him, particularly the “black people” who “stuck by him” because they get it.

On his website, Louis C.K. summarized what this tour is all about in rather minimal terms. “I am on the road doing professional stand-up comedy,” he wrote. “Which consists of sharing jokes, stories, observations, lies, non-lies, and being generally ridiculous for the benefit of a laughing audience.”

Louis C.K. has also noted that his “full site” will be back before the end of the year. “You will be able to buy and download all of my shows like before, along with a few new things,” he wrote. In other words, he can profit off his bad ideas once again, and viewers can revisit the tasteless things he’s said under the guise of comedy. Though if you want to hear sophomoric edgy jokes and other vaguely familiar drivel, there’s always free websites run by his peers like the tweens at 4chan.

If you’re still dying to hear cliched cracks at gender-neutral pronouns and incredibly tasteless Auschwitz jokes by a guy who issued a copyright notice to protect his profoundly unoriginal “jokes”, then you can grab tickets to his upcoming tour dates here.

Louis C.K. 2020 Tour Dates: 
02/20 — Denver, CO @ Buell Theater
02/21 — Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
02/22 — Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
02/23 — Phoenix, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
02/24 — Tucson, AZ @ Orpheum Theater
03/04 — New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre
03/05 — New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre
03/06 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met (early show)
03/06 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Met (late show)
03/07 — Washington, DC @ Warner Theater
03/08– Washington, DC @ Warner Theater
03/09 — Knoxville, TN @ Knoxville Civic Auditorium
03/10 — Albany, NY @ The Egg
03/28 — Binghamton, NY @ Broome County Forum Theatre
03/29 — Syracuse, NY @ Crouse Hinds Theater at Oncenter
04/03 — Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
04/04 — Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
05/14 — Kiev, UA @ Palace Ukraine
05/15 — Kiev, UA @ Palace Ukraine
05/18 — Bucharest, RO @ Sala Palatului (early show)
05/18 — Bucharest, RO @ Sala Palatului (late show)
05/20 — Berlin, DE @ Mercedes-Benz Arena
05/23 — Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena

Louis C.K. Announces Stand-Up Comedy Tour
Nina Corcoran

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The Avalanches are back with new music. Today, the Australian electronic duo dropped “We Will Always Love You”, a collaboration with Dev Hynes of Blood Orange, and presumably the first single from their upcoming album. Take a listen below.

Ahead of the song’s release, The Avalanches revealed its title using Morse Code on the top of the Capitol Tower in Los Angeles. As they explain in a statement, “Sometimes we receive a message. Telling us our music has been there; through dark times, loneliness, loss. There are no words to express how moving or profound this connection with you is. Because the music was born out of such moments itself, and so it is felt, by those with open hearts, on the same wavelength it was first created. Morse Code beamed and received by hearts and hearts alike.”

They continued: “Our new record is about such journeys, from darkness to light. About life after (all kinds of) death. About the transcendent nature of music itself. Every voice ever played on the radio over the last 100 years now exists in the stars; the transmissions of these singers are forever floating around out there, lost in the cosmos, endless travelling. Tonight Smokey Robinson duets with Dev Hynes and The Roches. Those spirits are out there. We are each a tune, floating in space. And this one’s for you.”

As mentioned by The Avalanches, in addition to featuring vocals from Hynes, “We Will Always Love You” is built off samples of “I’ll Take You Anywhere That You Come” by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and The Roches’ “Hammond Song”.

It feels like a dream getting a record from The Avalanches so soon, even though we don’t actually know when their next album is coming out. They’re notoriously slow when it comes to making music — they released their debut full-length, Since I Left You, in 2000 and followed it up with Wildflowers in 2016 — which makes a four year wait feel like mere seconds by comparison. What we do know is that their third LP was being mixed a couple months ago and also promises guest contributions from JPEGMAFIA, Cornelius, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, and many more.

Recently, The Avalanches confirmed their first live appearance of 2010, a festival gig at Best Kept Secret Festival in The Netherlands. Presumambly, future information on the new album and additional tour dates are on the way.

The Avalanches Drop New Song “We Will Always Love You” Featuring Blood Orange: Stream
Nina Corcoran