Vancouver pop-punk five-piece Chief State is releasing the new LP Tough Love on March 27 via Mutant League Records.
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the band’s album release shows have been canceled. Instead, they’re going to live stream an acoustic performance this Saturday 3/28 via the Mutant League Records Youtube channel here.
Tune in at 6pm PST on Saturday to hear Chief State perform songs from the new album Tough Love (along with some old fan favorites). The band will also be giving away copies of Tough Love on CD.
Frontman Fraser Simpson says, “We were massively disappointed to cancel our release shows due to the coronavirus. It does at least give us a unique opportunity to take our performance to fans around the world and not just in Vancouver though! We’re excited to share some acoustic renditions of our songs old and new. We’ll be taking questions and chatting between songs so it’s a great opportunity to get to know us and all that we get up to! We’ll also be doing some giveaways so tune in on Saturday 3/28 at 6pm PST for some quarantine hangs!”
Check out the band’s latest single “Biding Time” here and the music video here:
“…an instant-classic…Tough Love is chock full of high-quality moments.”– The New Fury
“Chief State are a high-energy pop-punk quintet hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, who are tighter than a rich relative and as posi as your older siblings’ mangled youth-core records.”– Alternative Press
Beverly, MA— Caspian, who recently played a pair of sold out shows at the historic Cabot Theatre in the band’s hometown of Beverly, Mass., share a clip of their first live performance of “Flowers of Light” HERE.
The footage arrives as the band has added a new leg to their North American tour, with the first of the band’s Summer 2020 plans revealed:
6/1/20 Ferndale, MI The Loving Touch
6/2/20 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
6/520 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
6/6/20 St. Paul, MN Turf Club
6/8/20 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
Tickets for the above dates are on-sale this Friday at 10 am local time. A premium package, including a ticket, exclusive patch and signed poster is available Wednesday at 9 am eastern HERE.
Caspian’s 2019/2020 Full Tour Dates:
12/12/19 Hangzhou, China Mao Livehouse
12/13/19 Shanghai, China Mao Livehouse
12/14/19 Shenzhen Shi, China B10 Live
12/15/19 Guangzhou, China T:Union
12/17/19 Tokyo, Japan Koenji High
1/30/20 Los Angeles, CA Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
1/31/20 Phoenix, AZ Rebel Lounge
2/1/20 San Diego, CA The Casbah
2/3/20 Fresno, CA Strummer’s
2/4/20 Felton, CA Felton Music Hall
2/5/20 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
2/7/20 Portland, OR Doug Fir Loung
2/8/20 Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
2/9/20 Seattle, WA Neumos
2/11/20 Sacramento, CA Holy Diver
2/12/20 Long Beach, CA Long Beach Art Theatre
3/31/20 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
4/1/20 Buffalo, NY Rec Room
4/3/20 Boston, MA The Sinclair
4/4/20 Boston, MA The Sinclair
4/5/20 Woodstock, NY Colony
4/6/20 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
4/8/20 New York, NY Le Poisson Rouge
4/9/20 Washington, DC Black Cat
4/10/20 Richmond, VA Gallery 5
4/11/20 Asheville, NC The Grey Eagle Tavern
4/12/20 Durham, NC Motorco Music Hall
4/14/20 Atlanta, GA Aisle 5
4/15/20 Orlando, FL The Abbey
4/17/20 Nashville, TN Exit In
4/18/20 Louisville, KY Diamond Pub & Billiard Concert Hall
4/19/20 Columbus, OH Ace of Cups
6/1/20 Ferndale, MI The Loving Touch
6/2/20 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
6/5/20 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
6/6/20 St. Paul, MN Turf Club
6/8/20 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
On Circles, the band’s fifth album and first release in over four years, arrives on Jan. 24 via Triple Crown Records. Album pre-orders, which include a highly limited 180 gram black vinyl variation as well as a green/blue vinyl offering, are available now via the Triple Crown Records’ webstore HERE.
The eight-song album was recorded at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pa. by producer Will Yip (Code Orange, Defeater, Quicksand, Turnstile), On Circles marks the most organic writing and recording sessions in Caspian‘s 15-year history. Together for four week-long songwriting sessions, the band opted for music gleaming with visceral impact instead of over-thought tangles, over-arching concepts and drawn-out crescendos.
Caspian have released four albums: The Four Trees (2007), Tertia(2009), Waking Season (2012) and Dust and Disquiet (2015). Since the Beverly, Mass.-based band’s inception, they’ve earned accolade upon accolade for their sweeping, cinematic music. 2015’s Dust and Disquiet was hailed by Noisey as “the life-affirming soundtrack you need in your life,” Brooklyn Vegan exclaimed “eardrums will be blown and jaws will be dropped” upon hearing the 10-song release, while Spin described the sextet’s output as “epic, wordless orchestral swells on the lush, layered, and crushingly pretty.”
Caspian Is:
Philip Jamieson (guitar/keyboards) Erin Burke-Moran (guitar) Jonny Asburn (guitar) Jani Zubkovs (bass) Calvin Joss (guitar) Justin Forrest (drums)
Oregon – YOB, who kick off a new round of North American tour dates on Tuesday, share a recently taped Amoeba Green Room session. The session was filmed during the band’s previous national tour and features the songs “The Lie That is Sin,” “Breathing from the Shallows,” and “Our Raw Heart,” the title track from the band’s critically-acclaimed 2018 album. View the session HERE.
Born in Berkeley, CA in 1990, Amoeba Music Hollywood is the world’s largest independent record store. Nestled deep inside Amoeba Hollywood is its Green Room, home for each of its visiting artists and an intimate performance space. Amoeba’s Green Room Sessions have featured stripped down, acoustic performances by Julien Baker, First Aid Kit, and Father John Misty, as well as full-throttle, powerhouse electric sets from Youth Code, U.S. Girls, and The Heavy.
Album Success
Our Raw Heart surfaced on a wide range of best of 2018 lists, nabbing the #1 spot in Decibel Magazine’s extensive year-end issue, as well as receiving nods from NPR, Rolling Stone, ArtForum, Mashable, New York Magazine’s Vulture, Noisey, Treble and more.
Consequence of Sound’s Heavy Consequence said of the album that they placed at the top of their 2018 countdown: “Our Raw Heart… possesses a serene almost uplifting quality,” while PopMatters, who also placed the release at the top of their Best Metal of 2018 list, said “… true art… offers us an insight into the most frightening of human emotions. Our Raw Heart acts as a portal to another’s pain…”
“YOB‘s eighth album, Our Raw Heart, is a riveting document of Scheidt‘s year,” said Rolling Stone in an online feature. “A gauntlet of sickness and health, clarity and confusion, the record wrestles with mortality and ultimately perseveres.”Decibel Magazine, in their July cover story said “one of the byproducts” of Scheidt’sillness “is a brilliant new album that takes the YOB blueprint of punishingly heavy, delightfully angular doom/sludge into unexplored areas of heart-breaking melody and triumphant resolve.” The album has won accolades from the Associated Press (“Yob… swing effortlessly between menacing distortion and hushed reverie”), NPR (“…the group’s sprawling gravity and thunderous majesty have taken an introspective turn…”), Pitchfork (“…metal that sounds sensuous, bellicose, and jubilant all at once”).
North American Tour
Tickets, as well as exclusive ticket and merch bundles, are on-sale now. The bundles, which can be found via YOB‘s website, include an entry ticket, an exclusive t-shirt as well as the option of vinyl or CD versions of Our Raw Heart.
YOB Tour Dates:
(All dates with Voivod and Amenra except where noted)
March 26 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line March 27 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall March 28 Columbus, OH Ace of Cups SOLD OUT March 29 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop March 30 Toronto, ON Phoenix March 31 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom April 2 Portland, ME Geno’s SOLD OUT April 3 Boston, MA Royale April 4 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw April 5 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer April 6 Richmond, VA Broadberry April 7 Raleigh, NC Kings April 9 Knoxville, TN Concourse April 10 Atlanta, GA Masquerade (Hell) April 11 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack’s April 12 Houston, TX Warehouse April 13 Austin, TX Barracuda April 14 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey April 16 Denver, CO Marquis Theater * April 18 Phoenix, AZ Club Red + April 19 San Diego, CA Brick by Brick + SOLD OUT
* – No Voivod + – YOB only
YOB Is:
Travis Foster (drums) Aaron Rieseberg (bass) Mike Scheidt (vocals/guitar)
Los Angeles, CA (February 24, 2019) – The 91st Academy Awards saw the world’s biggest rock band own Hollywood’s biggest night.
Legendary rock band QUEEN + Adam Lambert opened—and stole—the show at the star-studded Oscars, performing a medley of two of their most iconic songs, “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions,” getting a much-deserved standing ovation from Tinseltown’s elite. Watch their electrifying tour de force HERE.
Queen Is First Rock Band to Ever Open the Oscars
It was also a history-making performance, as QUEEN is the first rock band to ever open the Academy Awards. “Guitarist Brian May was the first to appear on stage, shredding on his guitar to the iconic beat of ‘We Will Rock You,’” wrote Rolling Stone. “Lambert joined, paying homage to (Freddie) Mercury’s gravity-defying vocals and unmistakable showmanship.”
Bohemian Rhapsody Is Highest-grossing Biopic of All Time
QUEEN, who were recently the No. 1 streamed artist on Spotify, was celebrating the Oscar nomination and blockbuster success of the award-winning 20th Century Fox film, BohemianRhapsody, a tribute to the band’s enduring legacy and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history’s most beloved entertainers. Bohemian Rhapsody is the highest-grossing biopic of all time and the fifth top-grossing release of all time for Fox.
The legendary “Bohemian Rhapsody” single, regularly cited as one of the greatest songs ever recorded, was recentlyrecognized as the world’s most-streamed song from the 20th Century, as well as the most-streamed Classic Rock song of all time. “Bohemian Rhapsody” hit No. 1 on the iTunes Rock Chart and No. 10 on Spotify’s Global Top Songs Chart and has been on that chart every week since the film’s release.
QUEEN original band members Brian May and Roger Taylor will team up once more with vocalist Adam Lambert for the Rhapsody tour, an epic 25-date run from mid-July through late August. The North American headline tour will be produced by Live Nation.
After blowing everyone away on the eighth season of American Idol, Adam Lambert went on to release his debut album For Your Entertainment which included the international hit “Whatya Want From Me” and earned him a Grammy Award nomination. Adam followed this success with his second album Trespassing which became the first album to reach the number one spot in the US and Canada by an openly gay artist. His highly anticipated third album The Original High was executive produced by Max Martin and Shellback and included the smash hit “Ghost Town.” Adam joined the cast of Glee for a six-episode story in 2013 and performed the role of Eddie in Fox’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He went on to judge on The X Factor Australia where his artist, Isaiah, won the show. 2019 will see Adam releasing his fourth album, and also exploring the world of film, voicing character Emperor Maximus in upcoming animated-live action hybrid movie Playmobil: The Movie. His new song “Feel Something” came out on February 22nd.
