Bandcamp Friday : Snail Mail - 'Valentine' ,14% Off, Plus A Plethora Of Matador Catalog Titles Available On BC For The First TIme
Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share today (Friday, February 4) and with the unselfishness being contagious, we’re putting Snail Mail’s ‘Valentine’ on sale for 14% off today only
https://matadorrecords.bandcamp.com/music
New to Bandcamp this week:
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe (digital only)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins (digital only)
Lucy Dacus – “Kissing Lessons” download / 7” pre-order (Out June 3)
Circuit des Yeux – “The Manatee” (digital only)
And there's new-to-Bandcamp catalog titles from Bailter Space, Body/Head, CEREMONY, Chavez, Kurt Vile, Lucy Dacus, Mary Timony, MUZZ, Perfume Genius, Snail Mail, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus, Steve Gunn, and The New Pornographers.
Great Music For Terrible Times : 25% Off Holiday Sale
Dear Citizens of Earth,
As we reach the end of 2018, it would not be an exaggeration to say we’re in the midst of many difficult moments in human history. The icecaps are melting. America is on the brink of a constitutional crisis. You can’t walk 15 feet in any major metropolis without breaking your neck on a discarded scooter. Your personal data (including everything we collect in this campaign) is being used for nefarious means.
All of that said, there is still beauty, mystery, and grandeur in what’s left of the fine arts. And when you’re done with the fine arts, there’s Matador's incredible array of 2018 titles from Belle and Sebastian, Body/Head, boygenius, Car Seat Headrest, Lucy Dacus, Iceage, Interpol, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Liz Phair, Snail Mail, Kurt Vile and Yo La Tengo. Will these records help you sort out a world gone mad?
(moon art : James McNew)
MATADOR HOLIDAY SALE : 25% w/ code "terribletimes"
Out Today : Body/Head - 'The Switch'
(photo : David Black)
The Wire's Stewart Smith opines that "Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head is the most compelling project to have emerged from the ashes of Sonic Youth," ("Gordon and Nace have become increasingly interested in texture and space, creating a free psychedelic music that's attuned to the play of shadow and light"), and while we're not encouraging comparison or competition between post-SY endeavors, I think we can all agree that today is a VERY GOOD DAY for The Wire's Stewart Smith, as Body/Head's 3rd Matador album, 'The Switch' is officially available via all finer record shops and digital platforms.
(purchase / stream 'The Switch')
Pitchfork's Marc Masters calls 'The Switch', "as mesmerizing as a hypnotist’s swinging clock," ("no matter how far they stretch, their tones and rhythms always cohere...in Nace and Gordon’s hands, these unchartable sounds combine like well-defined movements in a symphony. Their guitars rhyme as if they were trading chord changes rather than thick swaths of noise,") and as much as we anticipate you'll agree with him 110% upon experiencing the album in your preferred listening environment, we also wholeheartedly encourage you to catch Body/Head on tour starting tonight at Los Angeles' Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge.
(poster by Charles Burns)
Body/Head live dates :
Friday, July 13 Masonic Lodge, Los Angeles CA
Saturday, July 14 The Lab San Francisco CA
Thursday, July 19 Elsewhere, Brooklyn NY *
Friday, July 20 BSP, Kingston NY *
Saturday, July 21 Statehouse, New Haven CT *
Sunday, July 22 The Root Cellar, Greenfield MA *
Tuesday, July 24 Great Scott, Boston MA *
Thursday, July 26 PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia PA *
September 7 Hopscotch Music Festival, Raleigh NC
Saturday, September 15 Beerland, Austin TX (with USA/Mexico, Exhalants, The Austerity Progam)
* w/ Gunn-Truscinski Duo
Body/Head online :
Kim Gordon Instagram
Coming July 13 : Body/Head - The Switch
(photo : David Black)
On July 13, we're releasing the new album from BODY/HEAD, 'The Switch'. The duo of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace recorded their 2nd studio album for Matador last summer in Western Massachusetts with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato and the results are equal parts dizzying & intense. Summer & Autumn U.S. dates are listed below, with several of the shows in question already on sale.
stream/download "You Don't Need"
preorder 'The Switch'
Creative alchemy doesn’t just happen in the studio or in the practice space; so much of it is the product of solo time with one’s instrument, learning how body and wood and electronics fuse, and of subconscious processes as one lives one’s daily life—picking up the ambient noise of the world outside, listening to others’ work, talking through ideas with friends. For Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, time together these days is limited to live performances and recording, so they’ve got to bring all their magic to every encounter. Lucky for us, these are two experimental sorcerers of significant renown.
Their debut album together as Body/Head, 'Coming Apart', from 2013, was more of a rock record—heavy, emotional, cathartic, spellwork in shades of black and grey. T'he Switch' is their second studio full-length, and it finds the duo working with a more subtle palette, refining their ideas and identity. Some of it was sketched out live (if you’ve not had the fortune of seeing them in that natural environment yet, see 2016’s improvisational document 'No Waves'), but much of it happened purely in the moment. Working in the same studio and with the same producer as 'Coming Apart', here Body/Head stretch out, making spacious pieces that build shivering drones, dissonant interplay, Gordon’s manipulated vocals, and scraping, haunting textures into something that feels both delicate and dangerous. Less discrete songs than one composition broken up into thematic movements, a slow-moving narrative that requires as much attention and care from the listener as it did from everyone involved in its creation, it is a record that sticks around after it’s done playing.
This is Nace’s favorite of Gordon’s guitar work; she’s truly come into her own as a guitarist, having built up her confidence through solo shows. The way the duo work together, you’d never know they spend so much time apart; on 'The Switch', their vision and focus feel truly unified. If Coming Apart was dark magic, 'The Switch' works with light, though it never forgets that these approaches are two sides of the same coin, and that binaries—black/white, near/far, emotion/analysis, body/head—are made to be broken open, and that the truth of things is in the energy between.
-Jes Skolnik, May 2018
Body/Head on tour :
Thursday, June 21 No Response Festival, Cincinnati OH
Friday, July 13 Masonic Lodge, Los Angeles CA
Saturday, July 14 The Lab San Francisco CA
Thursday, July 19 Elsewhere, Brooklyn NY *
Friday, July 20 BSP, Kingston NY *
Saturday, July 21 Statehouse, New Haven CT *
Sunday, July 22 The Root Cellar, Greenfield MA *
Tuesday, July 24 Great Scott, Boston MA *
Thursday, July 26 PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia PA *
September 6-8 Hopscotch Music Festival, Raleigh NC
Saturday, September 15 Beerland, Austin TX
* w/ Gunn-Truscinski Duo
Body/Head online :
Kim Gordon Instagram
OUT TODAY - BODY/HEAD 'NO WAVES' + TOUR CONTINUES TO PHILLY TONIGHT
As beautifully displayed by resident hand model @crankytired, Body/Head's new album No Waves is out today. Find it at your choice physical or digital outlet. Kim and Bill are currently on a short and sweet tour to celebrate this album's release. Find dates and ticket links below.Reminder - all vinyl pre-orders on the Matador webstore received
a free poster of the Raymond Pettibon cover art.
BUY HERE or via Kung Fu to have the option of a t-shirt/LP or CD bundle.
TOUR DATES
Friday, November 11 –PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia PA
Saturday, November 12 – National Sawdust, Brooklyn NY
Body/Head online
bodyheadmusic.com
Coming November 11 : Body/Head - 'No Waves'
photo by Annabel Mehran and Andrew Kesin
album art by Raymond Pettibon
Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon (CKM, Sonic Youth, Free Kitten, etc.) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt, Ceylon Mange, etc.) will be releasing their new record, 'No Waves', on November 11th. The live record documents a single show (Big Ears Festival in 2014 in Knoxville, TN) from a band renowned for clearing pathways of possibility using great waves of amplification and voice.
Body/Head's debut release for Matador Records, 'Coming Apart', was arguably the heaviest record of 2013 and received with open arms and blown minds across the world. The fact that a record steeped so heavily in non-traditional structures and improvisation could touch so many people was not a surprise to anyone who had seen Body/Head in a live setting. No Waves captures that raw improvisation and harnesses the power into a listening experience of pure, unmediated intensity.
The fire of improvisation is not the fire of the elements. Body/Head deal in electricity, but they exist in the fire of improvisation. As such, they need to play live to sustain themselves. Call it the ontological necessity of a band working heavily with the flow of power (power flowing back and forth between the members of the band, flowing through band and audience, flowing through the mental and material planes, etc). 'No Waves', a document of this flow of power, offers a different side of the band they revealed on 'Coming Apart'. Yes, some of the songs cross over in undefinable ways, but the live foundation of No Waves brings all new energies to the fore. Everything reveals itself in the now.
One of the pleasures of a live record is a chance for the listener to feel the music develop and unfold from a previously known departure point. This experience is magnified with Body/Head due to the improvisatory basis of the band, which encourages new sounds and modes of communication with every show. We hear new vocal melodies developing, new attacks on strings, new clusters of intervals. It is the sound of sound evolving. Listening to No Waves, one can't help feel that despite the title of their previous record, 'Coming Apart', we're actually hearing Kim and Bill become one. Guitars and vocals flow into each as if played by a single creature. The sound of their evolution causes audiomorphic sensations. Two guitars or eight? Four hands or one? One voice or two?
The live record also plays with orientation via it's concentration on communication. Which way are you listening to it? Listen once and hear certain forms. Listen to the same part again and you may perceive new forms, like overhearing a game of telephone. With 'No Waves', Body/Head adds a document to the library of classic live records that never exhaust themselves no matter how many times they are listened to. Musicians and groups such as Albert Ayler, High Rise, Van Morrison, Rudolph Grey, Bill Evens, Swans, etc. knew the unique possibilities of a live record that invites participation from the listener. It's the beauty of a path cleared at the moment it was recorded and for every moment to come. It's Body/Head doing what they do best - making the listener smile as they participate with the band in joyous, creative time. The Élan vital never rocked so hard.
- Ben Chasny
PREORDER 'No Waves' from Matador and other beloved physical/digital outlets. Orders via Kung Fu feature a t-shirt/LP or CD bundle.
TOUR DATES
Thursday, November 10 – Ottobar, Baltimore MD
Friday, November 11 –PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia PA
Saturday, November 12 – National Sawdust, Brooklyn NY
Thursday, November 17 – Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles CA
Body/Head online
bodyheadmusic.com
BODY/HEAD ANNOUNCE NEW US SHOWS
(photo courtesy of @kimletgordon - "Body/Head reunited for a ny moment")Body/Head (Bill Nace and Kim Gordon) have not toured in nearly a year, so it's with great pleasure that we here share the news of new tour dates coming up fast. Details and ticket links (for most) below.
Thursday, November 10 - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
Friday, November 11 -PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, November 12 - National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, November 17 - Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA
PS - If you have not already done so (and even if you already have), listen to Kim's new single "Murdered Out" HERE.
Body/Head Online:
Website
Kim Gordon - "Murdered Out"
(photo by Jamie Brisick)
"Murdered Out"
Earlier this morning, NPR Music premiered "Murdered Out", the first single by Kim Gordon issued under her own name, recorded with producer Justin Raisen and Warpaint drummer Stella Mozgawa. The following are Kim's words on the subject :
Black matte spray.
When I moved back to LA I noticed more and more cars painted with black matte spray, tinted windows, blackened logos, and black wheels. This was something I had occasionally seen in the past, part of low-rider car culture. A reclaiming of a corporate symbol of American success, The Car, from an outsider’s point of view. A statement-making rejection of the shiny brand new look, the idea of a new start, the promise of power, and the freedom on the open road. Like an option on a voting ballot, "none of the above.”
“Murdered Out," as a look, is now creeping into mainstream culture as a design trend. A coffee brand. A clothing line. A nail polish color.
Black-on-black matte is the ultimate expression in digging out, getting rid of, purging the soul. Like a black hole, the supreme inward look, a culture collapsing in on itself, the outsider as an unwilling participant as the “It" look.
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I met the uber talented Justin Raisen, the producer, offhandedly. He was working on a project with another artist and kept sending me tracks to listen to with the possibility of getting me to sing on one of them. When I learned I could make up my own lyrics, I was in. With the remaining bits of unused vocals, he started what would be "Murdered Out." Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) plays drums, based on the trashy drums that Justin first laid down. I went back and did more vocals and guitar and we mixed it…"Murdered Out" was such a great surprise! Looking forward to our next collaboration.
Kim Gordon
August 2016
Stream or download "Murdered Out"
Kim Gordon playlist at Spotify
Kim Gordon - Twitter
Kim Gordon - Instagram
Justin Raisen - Twitter
Tonight : Body/Head In L.A. Supporting Sleater-Kinney
Just a reminder the duo of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, aka Body/Head (shown above) are playing at the Hollywood Palladium tonight prior to the reunited Sleater-Kinney (tickets). Beloved-by-some revivalist Ian Rubbish plays first of three.
In addition, Body/Head will be appearing at Calgary's Sled Island Festival in late June.
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Body/Head - Twitter
Body/Head - Facebook
Body/Head - New 7", East Coast Dates This Week, Melbourne In January
Just a reminder that earlier this week we released a new 7" from Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head, "The Show Is Over" b/w "The Canyon". It's in stores now or available direct from Matador.
In addition, Body/Head have a series of Eastern USA appearances starting this week, following by a performance at Melbourne's Sugar Mountain Festival in January :
Thursday, November 6 – Union Pool, Brooklyn NY (with Nate Young’s Regressive Nightmare, Steve Baczkowoski)
Friday, November, 7 - Union Pool, Brooklyn NY (with Nate Young’s Regressive Nightmare, Vanessa Rossetto)
Saturday, November, 8 – Boston Hassle Fest 6, Cusine En Local, Boston MA
Saturday, November, 15 – Kings Barcade, Raleigh NC (a benefit for NARAL Pro Choice NC)
Saturday, January, 24 – Sugar Mountain Festival, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne AUS
Coming November 4 : Body/Head - "The Show Is Over" b/w "The Canyon"
On November 4, we'll be releasing a new 7" from Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, "The Show Is Over" b/w "The Canyon". Preorders are being accepted now at The Matador Store.
While some of you might've caught news of Kim's upcoming book, 'Girl In A Band : A Memoir' (Harper/Collins) yesterday, there's a some upcoming Body/Head dates you might've missed in the process :
Thursday, November 6 - Union Pool, Brooklyn NY (with Nate Young's Regressive Nightmare, Steve Baczkowoski)
Friday, November 7 - Union Pool, Brooklyn NY (with Nate Young's Regressive Nightmare, Steve Baczkowoski)
Saturday, November 8 - Boston Hassle Fest 6, Cusine En Local, Boston MA
Saturday, November 15 - Kings Barcade, Raleigh NC (a benefit for NARAL Pro Choice NC)
THIS WEEKEND: PRIMAVERA SOUND 2014
We have not one, not two but SIX bands on the roster playing at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this weekend. Set times for all below, in CET.
Thursday, May 29th
Glasser 6:35-7:20pm, Pitchfork Stage
Majical Cloudz 8:55-9:45pm Pitchfork Stage
Queens of the Stone Age 11:00pm- 12:05am, Heineken Stage
Friday May 30th
Body/Head 8:45-9:45pm, Auditori Rockdelux Stage
Darkside 1:00-2:00am, Ray Ban Stage
Lee Ranaldo and The Dust 10:25-11:20pm, Vice Stage (streaming live here)
Familiar faces and sounds in the line-up include Spoon, Mogwai, The Mark Eitzel Ordeal and Cold Cave.
VIDEO : The Weekly Feed In Conversation With Body/Head
The Weekly Feed's Kyle Meredith traveled to Knoxville, TN to chat with Body/Head's Kim Gordon and Bill Nace at The Big Ears Festival. NOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO WATCH THE INTERVIEW AND NEED AN EASY QUOTE FOR A "NEWS" ITEM : Kim insists Sonic Youth never had "radio hits" (YOU'RE WELCOME!)
Saturday May 3 : Body/Head at NYC's Poetry Project (St. Mark's Church)
(hey, it's a Body/Head flyer for a show other than the one plugged below!)
Tomorrow night at the Sanctuary Of St. Mark's Church (131 E. 10th St.), Body/Head will be appearing alongside authors Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, and Mira Gonzalez in a night curated by Eileen Myles. Tickets are $20 in advance and all proceeds benefit The Poetry Project.
Primavera Sound 2014
It's another mini-Matador fest at Primavera Sound festival this year, as Queens of the Stone Age, DARKSIDE, Body/Head, Lee Ranaldo and The Dust, Majical Cloudz and Glasser all descend upon Barcelona for the weekend of May 29th-31st. Elsewhere amongst the line-up familiar faces include Spoon, Mogwai and Cold Cave ,with tickets on sale now from www.primaverasound.es.
Xmas Gift To You: Body/Head "Last Mistress" Remix
Yours for the t(we)aking: A phenomenal 14-minute remix of "Last Mistress" from Body/Head's Coming Apart LP (on New York Times and Spin's Best Of 2013 lists, among others), by Jake Meginsky. Play loud.VIDEO : Body/Head with Ikue Mori, Issue Project Room, Nov. 13
video courtesy Windows Have Eyes. More footage here.
Coming 12/3 : A Lower-Than-Low Priced Compilation LP Of Matador 2013 Highlights
OK, we missed Black Friday by a few days, but if that means ONE LESS TRAMPLING this holiday shopping season, it was totally worth it. On December 3, we're releasing a limited edition, one-time pressing of a $5.99 list LP , 'It's Been A Business Doing Pleasure With You', featuring 9 songs from (most of) our 2013 releases. In addition to album tracks from Chelsea Light Moving, Majical Cloudz, Body/Head, Lee Ranaldo & The Dust, Iceage and Kurt Vile, there's a live version of Queens of the Stone Age performing "If I Had A Tail" at the 2013 iTunes Festival (Roundhouse, London), Savages' "City's Full" from last summer's KEXP session, and Yo La Tengo performing "Before We Run" in those same KEXP studios.
We don't have any copies for mail order, sadly, but hopefully you'll find one at your favorite record store after they're done sweeping up all the broken glass, blood, etc. from Black Friday. If you prefer, you can order a digital version of the comp. right now at the Matador Store.
Out Today : Body/Head - 'Coming Apart' double LP/CD/digital album
Pitchfork's Marc Masters has called Body/Head's 'Coming Apart', "intoxicating". Tiny Mix Tapes cites the album's "unusual synergy, exploration, and focus", while the New York Times' Ben Ratliff writes, "there are no wrong notes on 'Coming Apart'. Nor is there a possibility of any." Today, you can formulate your own opinion with the format of your choice ; the new album from the duo of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace is in stores (or in some instances, in your mailboxes), and Body/Head will kick off their global touring tonight at Brooklyn's Union Pool.
US
Tue-Sep-10 Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
Thu-Sep-12 Los Angeles, CA The Echo
Fri-Sep-13 San Diego, CA The Casbah
Sat-Sep-14 San Diago, CA San Diego Music Thing (feat. presentation by Kim)
Thu-Sep-19 Portland, OR TBA : 13, Portland Institute Of Contemporary Art
Sat-Sep-21 Lexington, KY Boomslang Festival
Tue-Sep-24 Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art
Wed-Sep-25 Detroit, MI Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Tue-Oct-01 Atlanta, GA The Earl
Wed-Oct-02 Augusta, GA Westobou Festival- Sacred Heart Cultural Center
Sat-Oct-05 New York, NY The New Yorker Festival
White Magic & Bad News support 9/12
Europe
Sunday, October 20 Amplifest, Porto (Portugal)
Tuesday, October 22 ZDB, Lisbon (Portugal)
Wednesday, October 23 Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg (Germany)
Thursday, October 24 Spazio 211, Torino (Italy)
Friday, October 25 Covo, Bologna (Italy)
Saturday, October 26 Serendipity, Foligno (Italy)
Sunday, October 27 Bloom, Milano (Italy)
Tuesday, October 29 La Cartonnerie, Reims (France)
Wednesday, October 30 La Poudriere, Belfort (France)
Thursday, October 31 La Centrifugeuse, Pau (France)
Friday, November 01 Ninkasi Kao, Lyon (France)
Saturday, November 02 Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Tuesday, November 05 Bi Nuu, Berlin (Germany)
Wednesday, November 06 Salon, Istanbul (Turkey)
Friday, November 08 Unlimited Festival, Wels (Austria)
Sunday, November 10 Cafe Oto, London (United Kingdom)
order 'Coming Apart' from The Matador Store, Amazon or iTunes.
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Body/Head - 'Coming Apart' streaming today at Pitchfork Advance
'Coming Apart' ; the new 2XLP/CD/digital album from Body/Head, aka Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, is streaming today at Pitchfork Advance, prior to the September 10 release date. Mojo's Stevie Chick has likened 'Coming Apart' to "70 minutes of drone, feedback amp-noise and guitar squall that swings between abstract beauty and rolling turmoil...freeform and improvisational, it's peaks are primal and powerful." The bad news is that Stevie penned the review too late for our sticker copy ; the good news is that you'll be able to find the album in the abstract beauty bin of your local record shop (or failing that, the rolling turmoil department). The Wire's Phil Freeman calls 'Coming Apart', "just the thing for listeners who always found Sonic Youth too timid and bound to rock convention," though we hope he and his publishers do not mind that we've edited his quote to read "...just the the thing. For listeners".
preorder 'Coming Apart' from The Matador Store|
Body/Head's upcoming dates are below ;
US
Tuesday, Sept 10: Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
Thursday, Sept 12: Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Friday, Sept 13: San Diego, CA @ San Diego Music Thing ( feature presentation by Kim Gordon)
Saturday, Sept 14: San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
Thursday, Sept 19: Portland, OR @ TBA Festival
Saturday, Sept 21: Lexington, KY @ Boomslang
Tuesday, Sept 24: Chicago, IL @ MOCA
Wednesday, Sept 25: Detroit, MI @ MOCA
Wednesday, October 2: Augusta, GA @ Westobou Festival
EUROPE
Sunday, October 20 @ Amplifest, Porto (Portugal)
Tuesday, October 22 @ ZDB, Lisbon (Portugal)
Wednesday, October 23 @ Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg (Germany)
Thursday, October 24 @ Spazio 211, Torino (Italy)
Friday, October 25 @ Covo, Bologna (Italy)
Saturday, October 26 @ Serendipity, Foligno (Italy)
Sunday, October 27 @ Bloom, Milano (Italy)
Tuesday, October 29 @ La Cartonnerie, Reims (France)
Wednesday, October 30 @ La Poudriere, Belfort (France)
Thursday, October 31 @ La Centrifugeuse, Pau (France)
Friday, November 01 @ Ninkasi Kao, Lyon (France)
Saturday, November 02 @ Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Tuesday, November 05 @ Bi Nuu, Berlin (Germany)
Wednesday, November 06 @ Salon, Istanbul (Turkey)
Friday, November 08 @ Unlimited Festival, Wels (Austria)
Sunday, November 10 @ Cafe Oto, London (United Kingdom)