GIRLS ANNOUNCE ROUGH TRADE EAST IN-STORE GIG: TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER, 7PM
FANS GIVEN CHANCE TO BUY GIRLS’ DEBUT ALBUM FROM THE STORE THE WEEK BEFORE ITS OFFICAL RELEASE
San Francisco duo Girls are set to give fans the chance to but their highly anticipated debut album - titled ‘Album’ - the week before its official release.
The album - which is officially released on 28th September through Fantasytrashcan / Turnstile - will be available to buy exclusively at London’s Rough Trade East on Tuesday 22nd September for one day only. Fans who buy the album will be able to collect wristbands for a special in-store live performance by the band at 7pm that evening, with any remaining wristbands being given out 1 hour before the gig on a first come-first served basis (one per person). Girls will also be available to sign copies of the album.
For full details of the Rough Trade East in-store please visit: http://www.roughtrade.com/site/instore.lasso
In addition, Girls are giving fans the chance to hear the album in its entirety up front of release online. ‘Album’ - which features Girls’ two sold out singles ‘Hellhole Ratrace’ and ‘Lust For Life’ - will be streamed exclusively through www.turnstilemusic.net from Monday 14th September.
Meanwhile Girls will be touring the UK throughout October. Following a London show at The Lexington on 21st September and the Rough Trade East in-store, the band will embark on an eleven date nationwide headline tour.
SEPTEMBER
21st - London Lexington
22nd - London Rough Trade East
OCTOBER
9th - Nottingham Bodega Social Club
10th - Liverpool Korova
11th - Manchester Night & Day
13th - Glasgow Captain’s Rest
14th - Edinburgh Sneaky Pete’s
15th - Leeds Brudenell Social Club
16th - Bristol The Cooler
17th - Birmingham Academy 3
19th - Brighton The Albert
20th - London Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
21st - Tunbridge Wells Forum
23rd - Cardiff SWN Festival
GIRLS U.S TOUR DATES AND ALBUM STREAM
We’re very pleased to announce that GIRLS are getting in a van this coming November and hitting select cities all over the United States for their first-ever headlining U.S. Tour.
Additionally, beginning this Monday September 14th, you will be able to access a high-quality stream of “Album” here on www.turnstilemusic.net. Hope you enjoy it.
TOUR DATES
November
02 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell¹s
03 Washington, DC Black Cat
04 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie
06 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
07 Boston, MA Great Scott
09 Montreal, QUE Il Motore
10 Toronto, ONT El Mocambo
12 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
13 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
14 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry
17 Seattle, WA Nuemos
18 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge
20 San Francisco, CA Swedish American Hall
21 San Francisco, CA Bottom Of The Hill
December
05 Los Angeles, CA Troubadour
Sweet Baboo new album on Video
This is a video for Tim’s Song, taken from Sweet Baboo’s new album, Hello Wave…
See Sweet Baboo’s new album, Hello Wave, in video here.
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Elvis Costello on GIRLS’ Hellhole Ratrace
Jukebox Jury with Elvis Costello, includes wise words on GIRLS’ forthcoming single Hellhole Ratrace, see below and here for more.
Who is this?
This is a band from San Francisco called Girls.
I thought this was Jarvis Cocker at first! The changes are kind of arcane, aren’t they? It’s got that minor in there so that it sounds like 50s music. That’s a change Orbison used a lot, but you don’t hear it very much anymore. Jarvis used it in “Common People,” too. The clave… When it first started, I thought, “Oh this is something like Phil Spector,” but it doesn’t ever open up the way his songs do. I like the sound of this, it’s intriguing. Also the proportions of songs are really interesting. At the first moment, you went, “Oh, it’s a record from the 60s, it could be a Doc Pomus recording.” But then when the vocalist didn’t come in, I knew it was a modern recording, because in the ’60s they would have come in after 4 bars - 8 bars at the most. That’s good, though, because it doesn’t do what you expect. I liked it.
For point of reference, the song is about 8 minutes long.
Does it go somewhere else?
It sort of steadily builds.
Ah, like Spiritualized? That was my other guess. Or… what’s that other group with the guy with the beard and the blood? The Flaming Lips.
It’s exciting for me to hear new bands - you can hear a young band and think, “That’s really strange, the harmonies they’re using there are like the harmonies from a George Harrison record. Why would they like that? They’re 18!” But they’ve heard it because it’s all part of the mix of things. But, as with the Girls song, it starts out where you might expect but then goes somewhere completely different because they’re listening to a much broader range of music because it’s available to them.
Music Sounds Better With Huw Vol1…out now
Music Sounds Better with Huw Vol1 featuring a track from Swanton Bombs, is out now, click the cover art above to get from i tunes…or check out the tracklisting and details here…
Girls On Film
Christopher from Girls took some time out in Brighton at The Great Escape last weekend to play a stripped back little teaser of forthcoming album track “Summertime” as well as two other little dusty gems, one about a rambling cowboy - the other a lovesongthatisn’talovesong - for those good folk at Fly TV and now, for you here. Enjoy:
The Fly - Girls ‘Summer’ FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.
The Fly - Girls ‘Cowboy Song’ FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.
The Fly - Girls ‘Love Song’ FlyTV In The Courtyard on MUZU.
Girls play Primavera Sound in Barcelona tomorrow, May 28th. Make sure to catch their set if you’re partying in the sun!
Swanton Bombs in the studio
Swanton Bombs are putting the finishing touches to their debut album, out later this year on Quiff Records.Yes!
