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Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond - new album from Adrian Quesada's psychedelic soul project with Eric Burton

When Black Pumas made their self-titled debut in 2019, the Austin-bred duo set off a reaction almost as combustible and rapturous as their music itself. Along with earning a career total of seven Grammy Award nominations (including Album Of The Year) and winning praise from leading outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, singer/songwriter Eric Burton and guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada achieved massive success as a live act, touring large theaters all over Europe and North and South America and delivering a transcendent show Burton aptly refers to as “electric church.” As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, the band broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia, starry-eyed love songs that feel dropped down from the cosmos. Wilder and weirder and more extravagantly composed than its predecessor, Chronicles of a Diamond arrives as the fullest expression yet of Black Pumas’ frenetic creativity and limitless vision.

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Happen by Nick Hakim, live at Les Pianos, Montreuil - Directed by Hugo Jouxtel

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Black Pumas: Chronicles Of A Diamond (2023)

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1/20/24.

Friko is yet another young indie band out of Chicago. Horsegirl, Lifeguard, Kara Jackson, Sharp Pins. And here comes Friko with their full length debut LP, "Where we've been, Where we go from here".

Austin Town Hall stated that they had a hard time pigeonholing the band. Agreed. Bands from Black Country, New Road to The Lemon Twigs to The Strokes, to some of the above mentioned Chicago bands can all be heard.

This is being released by ATO Records (New York)

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Nilüfer Yanya – Painless. 2022 : ATO.

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Nilüfer Yanya - stabilise (Painless, 2022)

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New Video: Nick Hakim Shares Swaggering "Feeling Myself"

New Video: Nick Hakim Shares Swaggering "Feeling Myself" @nick_hakim @ATORecords @therightcadence

Deriving its name from the Spanish word for “kite,” JOVM mainstay Nick Hakim‘s fourth album Cometa was recorded between studios and domestic spaces throughout Texas, North Carolina, California and New York. Featuring contributions from Alex G. (piano) and Abe Rounds (drums), and collaborations with DJ Dahi, Helado Negro and Arto Lindsay, the 10-song album is a collection of romantic songs written…

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New Release: Amanda Shires - Take It Like A Man

  Amanda Shires – Take It Like A Man   Amanda Shires – Take It Like A Man Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital Label: ATO Release: 2022 Release date: August 12, 2022 featuring Maren Morris on vocals and Jason Isbell on guitar With her new album, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, vocalist and virtuoso violinist Amanda Shires hit the reset button and made a record so unlike anything she’s ever…

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I just grabbed this for Fathers Day, and bought tickets for their upcoming US tour!!

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[EP] Margaret Glaspy veröffentlicht neue EP "The Sun Doesn't Think"!

Margaret Glaspy hat die neue EP "The Sun Doesn't Think" angekündigt, die diese Woche, am 26. April, digital über ATO Records erscheint.

“While I was on tour for Echo The Diamond, I was writing this EP”, erzählt Glaspy über die fünf neuen Songs. “I was inspired by just being around audiences and experiencing their charisma and their stories.”

Glaspy nahm im März ihre Akustikgitarre mit ins Studio, spielte neue Songs vor einem Mikrofon ein, womit die EP in ein paar Tagen geboren war. “The simplicity of making this reminded me of why I make music“, erzählt die amerikanische Sängerin über die EP, die von Mark Goodell produziert und von Jason Richmond von The Kitchen gemischt und gemastert wurde. Inspiriert wurden die neuen Songs dabei von Tom Waits, Kim Gordon und den surrealen Orten und Geschichten von Autor Neil Gaiman.

“This song represents my attempt to understand how the threads of my childhood have woven the adult costume that I wear”, erzählt Glaspy über den Track "24/7", der bereits jetzt zu hören ist. “I started to see that my beliefs about love and life had not evolved since I was a little girl and it had a pretty direct link to my own sense of worry and anxiety.”

Tracklist "The Sun Doesn't Think" EP: 1. 24/7 2. Bathtub 3. I Need Help 4. Would You Be My Man? 5. The Sun Doesn���t Think

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to musician Niko Kapetan AKA one-half of the band Friko. Originally from Evanston, IL, Niko had been writing songs since he was a teenager and formed Friko with his bandmate Bailey Minzenberger in 2019. After self-releasing a number of singles and EPs, the band signed with ATO Records, and in mid-February, ATO released their debut album Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here, and it's a delight!

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Self-Immolate by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard from the album Infest The Rats' Nest - Director/DOP: John Angus Stewart

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Friko Live Preview: 3/1, Metro, Chicago

Photo by Pooneh Ghana

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Chicago's Hallogallo collective is remarkably sonically diverse: There's the sneaky art rock of Horsegirl, the chaotic noise of Lifeguard, and, playing tomorrow night at Metro, the communal, orchestral indie rock of Friko. The duo of vocalist/guitarist Niko Kapetan and drummer Bailey Minzenberger have more in common with the earnest likes of Los Campesinos! and Black Country, New Road than with Pylon, Gang of Four, This Heat, or other bands generally lumped in as inspiration for the crop of young post-punk bands to come out of the Windy City and London. Friko's fine-tuned debut LP, Where we've been, Where we go from here (ATO), is as reflective and all-encompassing as the title suggests. On the album, they find fulfillment and solidarity through connection in a world that tries to prevent you from flourishing at every turn.

Where we've been is, in and of itself, a mish mosh of genres, sounds and arrangements inspired as much by Chopin as rock and roll. The opening sort-of title track and pseudo band theme song juxtaposes orchestral swells and circular guitars with group vocals, building up to the all-out desperation of punk as they sing innumerably bleak lines like, "Four feet between a wall and a window make your wife a widow" as if they're life-affirming mantras. On the anthemic "Crimson To Chrome", Kapetan sings, "I'm sitting here writing the same sad song / With the cogs on fire / Spinning on and on / Till I'm old and tired / Even then, I'm on fire," the final line recalling in spirit the Bruce Springsteen song of the same name. Friko might be generations apart from The Boss, but both have the ability to make anguish sound massive.

What's most impressive about Friko, though, is that they know when to pull back. "For Ella", "Until I'm With You Again", and closer "Cardinal" are on the softer side, the first two of them piano ballads. "For Ella", in particular--which features Macie Stewart on violin and Alejandro Quiles on cello--has some of Kapetan's strongest songwriting. Wistful and melancholic, it was inspired by a visit to a graveyard in Wisconsin, and you can imagine Kapetan looking at a marked grave and imagining the current lives of loved ones and the past lives of the folks who now lie beneath. "You were running through the backyard / Said the puddles were the ocean / Now the smell of rainy days always remind me of you," he sings. "Statues", meanwhile, is a slice of moody indie rock, alternating between cleanliness and distortion, as Kapetan again imagines a world long after he's gone: "Someday we'll lay statues of our own / For now, we'll bow to memories made of stone." Pretty wise for a band just getting started.

Opening for Friko at Metro are two more bands from Chicago: synth rock dreamers Smut and alternative indie rockers Neptune's Core. Tickets still available at time of publication. Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8.

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Margaret Glaspy - Get Back (from Echo The Diamond) Have you checked out the new Margaret Glaspy album? Love this track. Her voice reminds me of Jessica Dobson from Deep Sea Diver a bit. Dig it!

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Live Review: CIVIC at The Castle Hotel in Manchester 25 May 2023

Words: Andy Hughes There’s a lot to be said for being at the gig within half hour of scranning your tea. Due to being a touch on the back foot on Thursday evening, one minute I was at home eating lasagne, the next I was at the punk show with the Australians who’d travelled however many thousands of miles… The joy of living local(ish) in Manchester! With a belly full of Italian stodge, I burst…

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Nilüfer Yanya - Crash (Feeling Lucky? EP, 2020)