AltFreq Weekend Planner (7/16/15-7/18/15)
–Written by Kevin Madert
It’s nearly impossible to keep track of all the events going on in the area, so we’re here to let you know what’s happening in live music over the next few days. Watch out on Sundays for our “Weekly Planner,” where we’ll cover the remaining four days of the week.
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News: Emancipator Announces New Album + Ensemble Tour, Releases Lead Single
-Written by Kevin Madert
Chasers of the chill and denizens of downtempo rejoice: new Emancipator is on its way. The trip-hop project long helmed by producer/multi-instrumentalist Doug Appling will release Seven Seas on September 25 via his own Loci Records. Just four days later, a full-fledged US tour will kick off in support of the producer’s fourth full-length, beginning in New Orleans and wending its way through the US & Canada before concluding two months later in Pomona, CA.
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News: New Song From Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon have released a new song, “Happy Song”, after teasing fans with a series of puzzles and riddles that seemed to leave everybody rather stumped for awhile. This new track is a rather significant departure from the sound we heard on Sempiternal, but if you heard last year’s single, “Drown”, then this new sound is nothing new to you.
BMTH have been known for changing up their sound pretty consistently through their new releases, and “Happy Song” shows that this new album (about which we currently know very little) will not be any different. They are ditching the synth parts and heavy chugging breakdowns for a more straight up hard rock sound, which should provide rather polarizing results from fans.
Check out “Happy Song” below, and let us know what you think of Bring Me the Horizon’s new sound.
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News: Coheed & Cambria Announce New Album, Release Single
Yesterday Coheed & Cambria announced a new album, The Color Before the Sun, due out on 10/9 through 300 Entertainment. To give listeners a taste of what they can expect, the band released the first single from the album, “You Got Spirit, Kid” yesterday via YouTube. The song will be available for digital download tomorrow, July 10th.
Coheed’s 8th studio album will be the first album that is not a part of The Amory Wars saga, or indeed, a concept album at all. It will be interesting to see how this new dynamic affects Coheed’s sound. But if the first single is any indication, this new album will actually revisit the classic Coheed sound. So this will definitely be an album to keep your eyes on.
Check after the jump to listen to “You Got Spirit, Kid”.
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News: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Announce Fall Tour
Legendary post-rock bands, and personal favorites of the AltFreq staff, Godspeed You! Black Emperor have announced an international fall tour in support of their new album, Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress. The tour begins on September 9th right here in Washington, DC at the 9:30 Club, then hitting the eastern United States before heading over to England, and wrapping things up at the Pitchfork Festival in Paris in late October.
Tickets go on sale later this week, on July 9th and 10th.
Check after the jump for the full tour routing, and ticket links:
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Holy Ship! 2016 Lineups Released; Hear Music From Every Artist On Both Sailings
–Written by Kevin Madert
HARD released today the initial lineups for both 2016 Holy Ship sailings, crashing the festival’s website and setting off “January vs. February” debates that will surely rage until both boats have sailed and returned. January headliners include Kaskade, Dillon Francis, Flosstradamus, Odesza, and Steve Aoki, while February’s lineup is topped by DJ Snake, Chromeo, Porter Robinson, RL Grime B2B Baauer, and Boys Noize.
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