On November 17th, 2017, The Body & Full of Hell will release their terrific new collaborative album Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light! You can listen to the album's first single "Earth is a Cage" on our site, or add it to your playlists via Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1Rm4kG04CUz14ITr5npJtL 

Written and recorded in one week at Machines with Magnets in Providence, the music of Ascending draws from unexpected sources such as reggaetón and jungle (“Master’s Story”). There are some familiar guests to The Body fans, namely vocalist Chrissy Wolpert (Assembly of Light Choir) and Ben Eberle(Sandworm), as well as first time collaborator drummer Brian Chippendale(Lightning Bolt, Black Pus), whom both bands share a strong aesthetic of individualism.

The Body & Full of Hell kick off their Japanese tour August 23rd, and will each be touring throughout the U.S. individually this fall. They plan to tour collaboratively in early 2018.

Check their tour dates here:
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On September 22nd, Tortoise will be releasing a fantastic book of tour photos by acclaimed photographer Andrew Paynter, all taken during their West Coast tour on last year's The Catastrophist. The Catastrophist Tour Book captures intimate photos of the band on and off the stage, and includes unreleased live recordings from the tour, as well as a CD of The Catastrophist with new exclusive artwork.

On the book, touring, and playing live, Tortoise's Douglas McCombs says:

"Every time we step on a stage, we are trying to invest ourselves in the performance as much as possible,
 so that we can give the audience a unique experience. We want you to know that we consider it a privilege to play our music for you."

Preorder the book here: http://thrilljockey.com/products/the-catastrophist-tour-book

On October 20th, Japanese quartet SAICOBAB will release their debut album SAB SE PURANI BAB. Comprised of acclaimed musicians YoshimiO (Boredoms, OOIOO), Yoshida Daikiti (sitar), Akita Goldman(bass), Motoyuki “Hama” Hamamoto (percussion, gamelan), 
SAICOBAB masterfully blends traditional Indian music with melodies and unexpected rhythms using unorthodox instrumentation to create utterly distinct modern ragas.

SAICO means “the most ancient”, and “BAB” stands for “baby” in Japanese. SAB SE PURANI means “the most ancient baby girl” in Hindi. The connections made are a reflection of the deep connections made musically between traditional Indian and Japanese music and spiritual practices.

Stream the album's first single "Bx Ax Bx" on our website, and add it to your raddest playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7IF8voyrSse1BDv0VbD8Oz

Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa invite you to their colorful, oozing, and magical world with their video for "Elastic Astral Peel," from their new album Are Euphoria, out June 16th. Directed by Milton Croissant, the video was created using experimental techniques with 3D imaging software "Blender," melding molds of the band members' faces with footage of trickling slime. Wong & Minekawa also plan to tour throughout the U.S. this summer.

Pre-order Are Euphoria now!:
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In continuing his solo Fiepblatter Catalogue series, the incomparable Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria) will release his new album Spectric Acid Fiepblatter Catalogue #5 on August 25th. Following his acclaimed fourth installment Felder, as well as collaborations with the likes of Sufjan Stevens, Kid Millions, and The National, Werner's Spectric Acid summons flux and fragmentation, building up locomotive beat structures around the correlation of musical spectra.

As all of Werner's solo efforts have pushed beyond his previous boundaries, the frequencies, timbres, and tones of Spectric Acid were deemed untranslatable to analog formats, and will only be available via CD. Mastered by Rashad Becker at Dub-plates & Mastering in Berlin, Becker said the intense nature of the album meant that to master for LP would “mutilate the spectrum and phase of the material.” Jan St. Werner's band of nearly two decades, Mouse On Mars, will be releasing a new album on Thrill Jockey in early 2018.

Spectric Acid's first single "Gourd Skin Particles" is streaming now on our mixtape, and you can also add it to your Spotify playlist if that's your thing: https://open.spotify.com/album/6G4kOXCeapMVifNBFa0UGN

Portland duo Golden Retriever (analog synthesist Matt Carlson and bass clarinetist Jonathan Sielaff) have shared the serenely contemplative and sublime video for their track "Pelagic Tremor," directed by artist Jeff Guay, taken from their new album Rotations. Golden Retriever will be playing select shows in support of Rotations, including an album release show at Holocene in Portland on August 9th featuring a saxophone quartet and percussion.

Golden Retriever tour dates
Aug. 9 - Portland, OR - Holocene *
Aug. 26 - Seattle, WA - Good Shepherd Center ^

* featuring saxophone quartet and percussion ensemble, w/ Visible Cloaks, Dolphin Midwives
^ w/ Jarrad Powell

In celebration of their upcoming tour Man Forever (the project of unreal drum champion John Colpitts aka Kid Millions) have shared the video for Play What They Want track "Debt and Greed," directed by Alex Nathanson.

Man Forever will be touring throughout much of North America this fall, including sets at October Revolution of Jazz & Contemporary Music Festival accompanied by So Percussion, The Poetry Foundation, and the San Diego Art Institute.

Man Forever tour dates:
Sep. 9 - New York City, NY - Skirball Center *
Oct. 4 - Raleigh, NC - Neptune’s Parlour
Oct. 5 - Knoxville, TN - Pilot Light
Oct. 6 - Winston-Salem, NC - The Garage
Oct. 7 - Washington, DC - Rhizome Collective
Oct. 8 - Philadelphia, PA - October Revolution of Jazz and
Contemporary Music %
Oct. 9 - Guelph, ON - The Silence
Oct. 10 - Buffalo, NY - Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Oct. 11 - Toronto, ON - 918 Bathurst for X Avant
Oct. 13 - Chicago, IL - The Poetry Foundation
Oct. 14 - Columbus, OH - Double Happiness
Oct. 15 - Pittsburgh, PA - Brillo Box
Oct. 16 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern
Oct. 17 - Erie, PA - TBA
Oct. 25 - Brooklyn, NY - Secret Project Robot ^
Nov. 3 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Art Institute
Nov. 5 - San Francisco, CA - The Lab
Nov. 8 - Portland, OR - Fixin’ To ^
Nov. 9 - Seattle, WA - Sunset

* w/ Joshua Light Show, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
% as Man Forever with So Percussion
^ w/ Secret Drum Band

Fearless French multi-instrumentalist Colleen (Cécile Schott) returns with new album A flame my love, a frequency, out October 20th. Introducing the most drastic change to her music since she began singing on her fourth album, Collen has set aside her viola da gamba in exchange for all electronic instrumentation - Moog pedals and Critter and Guitari synthesizers.

You can read more about the record and pre-order it right now!:

Colleen has also released the first single from the album, along with a handful of U.S. tour dates, with more still to be announced! Stream the track and check out tour dates below: http://open.spotify.com/album/3Q9jAmZwmRf0YTYTPwd4LW 

Colleen U.S. tour dates
Oct. 29 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Oct. 30 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
Nov. 1 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
Nov. 3 - Chicago, IL - Museum of Contemporary Art
Nov. 5 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA
Nov. 8 - Brooklyn, NY - Good Room

Oozing Wound EU Tour dates:

Helen Money headline EU dates:

08/09 / IT / La Spezia / Frame
09/09 / IT / Lido Di Dante (RA) / StereoCLab
10/09 / IT / Anghiari  / Effetto K
11/09 / IT / Reggio Emilia / La Polveriera
12/09 / IT / Milano / Volume
13/09 / CH / Geneve  / La Cave 12
14/09 / CH / Basel / Days Of Wrath Festival at Hirscheneck
15/09 / FR / Lyon / Grnnd Zero
16/09 / FR / Paris / Olympic Café
19/09 /  UK / Bristol / The Cube
20/09 / UK / Leicester / The Musician
21/09 / UK / London /  The Victoria
22/09 / NL / Rotterdam / Worm
23/09 /  BE / Brugges / Snuffel
26/09 / DE / Krefeld / Kulturrampe
27/09 / DE / Chemnitz / Atomino
28/09 / CZ /  Prague / Potrva
29/09 / DE/ Nuremberg / Hemdendienst
30/09 / IT /  Rovereto / Loco's
01/10/ IT  / Torino / Blah Bla

 the powerhouse trio SUMAC (Aaron Turner of Isis/Old Man Gloom, Brian Cook of Russian Circles, Nick Yachyshyn of Baptists) have announced a West Coast tour with Boris and Japanese noise outfit ENDON this fall.

SUMAC tour dates
Aug. 18-20 - Las Vegas, NV - Psycho Las Vegas (date TBA) $
Oct. 6 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall ^
Oct. 7 - Seattle, WA - Neumos ^
Oct. 8 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre ^
Oct. 9 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^
Oct. 11 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^


$ w/ Neurosis, Melvins, Swans, Pelican, Chelsea Wolfe, and more
^ w/ Boris, ENDON

Man Forever (the project of drummer John Colpitts aka Kid Millions) has released the mesmerizing video for "Twin Torches (feat. Laurie Anderson)." The video is a short film directed by Joshua Ford, featuring dancers Jill Schwartz and Marie Buser's elegant interpretation of Colpitts' hypnotic arrangements and Anderson's reverent voice.

Man Forever is planning to tour throughout the U.S. late in 2017.