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Watch the music video for "scrolls of doom", the first single from Dear Nora's forthcoming album, human futures Posted 24 Aug 2022


Photo: Leslie Lechner

human futures, the latest album by Dear Nora and the group's first recorded in a commercial recording studio, will be released by Orindal Records on October 28, 2022. Over the album's twelve tracks & thirty-four minutes, there are new kinds of songs, old kinds of songs, there is still the voice of beauty and sanity that we’ve come to know and love over the years. On songs like leadoff track and first single “scrolls of doom,” Dear Nora founder and guiding force Katy Davidson leans more into the producer’s role than that of singer-songwriter – coaxing bandmates Greg Campanile (drums), Nicholas Krgovich (piano/synth) and Zach Burba (bass/synth/drums) through chord changes, beats, and stylistic blends, while writing vocal melodies on the spot. Everyone brings the most interesting parts out of each other and themselves. Here, Katy’s more like the ‘top-line’ writer, composing the melodies, harmonies and lyrics, almost treating the other elements as if they were found – making this Dear Nora record much more collaborative than past ones and particularly contemporary in its process.

Today, we're thrilled to share human futures' leadoff track "scrolls of doom" and its accompanying music video. Watch it here:

Pre-order human futures on "Skull" opaque natural vinyl, classic black vinyl & digital formats HERE.

Catch Dear Nora on their fall US tour!

Oct 30, 2022- Chicago, IL @ The Hideout (w/ Jill Whit & Moon Racer)
Nov 01, 2022- Portland, ME @ SPACE
Nov 02, 2022- Burlington, VT @ Radio Bean
Nov 03, 2022- Cambridge, MA @ Lilypad
Nov 04, 2022- Providence, RI @ AS220
Nov 05, 2022- Greenfield, MA @ Ten Forward
Nov 07, 2022- Brooklyn, NY @ Baby's All Right
Nov 09, 2022- Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's (w/ 2nd Grade)
Dec 04, 2022- Los Angeles, CA @ 2280 Arts
Dec 07, 2022- Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Dec 10, 2022- Seattle, WA @ The Vera- Project




Cass McCombs- Heartmind is out now Posted 19 Aug 2022

Heartmind, the 10th album by CASS McCOMBS, is out now!

In his review for Pitchfork, Sam Sodomsky wries "Across a casually sublime album, Cass McCombs is at his most confident and intentional, constantly returning to the imagery of music and the casualties of a life devoted to making and sharing art."

In their "Album of the Month" review, Uncut calls Heartmind "One of the most impressive bodies of work of the century so far."

The Fader writes "Heartmind is as rich & confounding as anything that McCombs has released. In its melodies & structures, it has the same wristwatch-like quality as all of his best work, beautifully simple on the surface despite the intricate complexity underneath.”

Orindal has an exclusive cassette edition of Heartmind (featuring a 7-panel, foldout lyric sheet) & it's available HERE.

New Macie Stewart single & video: "Maya, Please" Posted 18 Jul 2022


Photo credit: Ash Dye

Chicago singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Macie Stewart (she/they) returns with “Maya, Please,” their first single/video since their debut album, Mouth Full of Glass, released last year via Orindal Records. Following the same sonic path as Mouth Full of Glass’s avante chamber folk, “Maya, Please” is a tender morsel of meditative acoustic balladry, featuring fingerstyle guitar, understated vocals and lushly-arranged strings, all performed by Stewart. The accompanying animated video was drawn and directed by Izzy Vasquez.

From Stewart:
"This song moves in and out of internal and external experience, all revolving around forgiveness. It is a conversation being had inside yourself asking for forgiveness, and ultimately finding the ability to forgive yourself. I wrote the strings at home and recorded them at Fox Hall with Dorian Gehring."

"Maya, Please" is available to stream & purchase from Bandcamp.

Advance Base & Karima Walker Aug/Sept UK Tour Posted 22 Jun 2022

ADVANCE BASE & KARIMA WALKER
August/September 2022 UK Tour
Aug 28, 2022- Manchester, UK @ Gulliver's
Aug 29, 2022- Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint (w/ Raveloe)
Aug 30, 2002- Wakefield, UK @ Chantry Chapel
Aug 31, 2022- London, UK @ The Lexington (w/ Herbal Tea)
Sept 01, 2022- Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert
Sept 03, 2022- London, UK @ St John on Bethnal Green / Daylight Music (w/ Robert Stillman)
Sept 04, 2022- Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival (just Karima Walker, no Advance Base)
Sept 05, 2022- Bristol, UK @ Cube Cinema (w/ SH Davidson)
Sept 06, 2022- Oxford, UK @ Port Mahon (moved from The Library) (w/ Katie Malco)

Please note that if you're still holding tickets for Advance Base & Karima Walker's originally scheduled April shows at these venues, they're still valid for the new dates!

Cass McCombs- Heartmind cassette Posted 15 Jun 2022

On August 19, Orindal Records will release the cassette edition of our old friend Cass McCombs' excellent new album, Heartmind.

On Heartmind, Cass McCombs enters the double-digit-album phase of his career, a quantitatively rarified place for any songwriter; rarer still, though, is the fact that he does not yet seem to have settled into a qualitative sound or pattern, of singing the same thought twice (or perhaps even once).

Heartmind cassettes feature a metallic silver imprint & a 7-panel, full color foldout j-card featuring complete album lyrics & credits. Tapes will ship on or before the August 19 release date & can be pre-ordered HERE.

CDs, LPs & digital downloads of Heartmind are available from ANTI- Records.


CASS MCCOMBS ON TOUR
June 15, 2022- San Diego, CA @ Casbah
June 17, 2022- Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room Highland Park
June 18, 2022- San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
June 19, 2022- Cayucos, CA @ Schooner’s
Sept 07, 2022- Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
Sept 08, 2022- Ferndale, MI @ Magic Bag
Sept 09, 2022- Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sept 10, 2022- Indianapolis, IN @ HiFi
Sept 11, 2022- Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr Smalls Theatre
Sept 12, 2022- Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace
Sept 14, 2022- Boston, MA @ Royale
Sept 15, 2022- Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
Sept 16, 2022- New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Sept 17, 2022- Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Sept 28, 2022- Madrid, Spain @ Teatro Bellas Artes
Sept 29, 2022- Zaragoza, Spain @ Luis Galve
Sept 30, 2022- Alicante, Spain @ Teatro Arnichas
Oct 01, 2022- Valencia, Spain @ Sala Loco
Oct 04, 2022-Milan, Italy @ Bellezza
Oct 06, 2022- St. Gallen, Switzerland @ Palace St. Gallen
Oct 07, 2022- Schorndorf, Germany @ Manufaktur
Oct 08, 2022- Paris, France @ Café De La Danse
Oct 10, 2022- Bristol, England @ Redgrave Theatre
Oct 12, 2022- Manchester, England @ The Stoller Hall
Oct 13, 2022- London, England @ Alexandra Palace Theatre
Oct 15, 2022- Dublin, Ireland @ Liberty Hall
Oct 16, 2022- Glasgow, Scotland @ Mackintosh Church
Oct 18, 2022- Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Rotonde
Oct 19, 2022- Cologne, Germany @ Artheater
Oct 20, 2022- Utrecht, Netherlands @ Cloud 9
Oct 22, 2022- Berlin, Germany @ Frannz Club
Oct 23, 2022- Hamburg, Germany @ Nochtspeicher
Oct 25, 2022- Copenhagen, Denmark @ DR Studie 2
Oct 26, 2022- Stockholm, Sweden @ Slaktkyrkan
Oct 28, 2022- Oslo, Norway @ Oslo Parkteatret

Wednesday- Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up​ tapes are back in print! Posted 26 Apr 2022

Back by popular demand!!!! Wednesday's instant-hit covers collection, Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up, is back in print on tape! Featuring amped-up versions of classic songs originally recorded by Gary Stewart, Chris Bell, Roger Miller, Drive-By Truckers, Hotline TNT, Greg Sage, Vic Chesnutt, Medicine & Smashing Pumpkins, the second edition of Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up features yellow-tint shells imprinted with gold ink.

Own the album that Pitchfork liked so much, they reviewed it TWICE!

Sam Sodomsky reviews Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up for Pitchfork

Jayson Greene reviews Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up for Pitchfork

Purchase Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up on yellow tint tape or digital formats HERE.


demos by Karima Walker is out now! Posted 01 Apr 2022

demos, the new EP by Karima Walker, is out today!

From For the Rabbits' review of demos:
"While the concept of a demo version can sometimes feel like seeing something uncooked, here it feels like watching Karima put the pieces together of a particularly fiendish puzzle as you second-guess where the sketches might end up in the stunning finished product that was Waking The Dreaming Body. Take How It Falls Apart, while it feels loosely familiar you certainly couldn’t tie it to a specific track on the final record. The track was inspired by memories of being a long-distance runner when Karima was in high school, as Karima recalls, she, “would go whole miles spelling this word, e-s-t-c-e-q-u-e…something about the rhythm of this word would just kinda fit with how my body was moving”. This jogging mantra became a way of, “mapping a landscape” and the looping pattern became the base rhythm of the song. From that physical place, Karima seems to almost ground herself, allowing her true thoughts to pour forth, as she questions everything she’s known up until this point, “everything comes from god’s own hand, a little sweeter than I can stand. Knew the story thirty years ago, conversation was a sinking stone, fraying edges of what we know”. There’s something disarmingly intimate about this recording as if we’re being invited to peek behind the curtain, see the whirring cogs, the inflating lungs, the fizzing synapses that make up a perfectly complex thought process, it’s unusual and beautiful all at once, from this most special of talents you’ll quickly learn to expect nothing less."

Purchase demos on digital formats & limited edition cassette HERE.


Karima Walker & Advance Base postpone UK tour, announce US west coast tour with Claire Cronin & share new music Posted 31 Mar 2022


Karima Walker & Advance Base have made the difficult decision to postpone the April UK tour. Here's a statement from Advance Base's Owen Ashworth:

With the current levels of COVID infections in England & Scotland, we just don't think it's the right time to travel overseas & perform the kinds of shows that we've worked so hard to prepare. So, in the interest of our health & yours, we're coordinating with venues & promoters to reschedule our UK dates for August & September, with the hopes that COVID numbers will be at a more manageable level by the time we return.

All of the dates that have already been rescheduled are listed below. If you'd already purchased tickets for our April shows at any of these venues, your tickets will be valid for the rescheduled dates. Our rescheduled Oxford show has been moved from Fusion Arts to The Library, but Fusion Arts tickets are still valid for the new venue.

Advance Base & Karima Walker
August/September 2022 UK Tour

Aug 28, 2022- Manchester, UK @ Gulliver's
Aug 29, 2022- Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
Aug 30, 2002- Wakefield, UK @ Chantry Chapel
Aug 31, 2022- London, UK @ The Lexington
Sept 03, 2022- London, UK @ St John on Bethnal Green / Daylight Music (w/ Robert Stillman)
Sept 05, 2022- Bristol, UK @ Cube Cinema
Sept 06, 2022- Oxford, UK @ The Library (Moved from Fusion Arts)

We're still working to confirm new dates for Edinburgh, Brighton & Hull. Updates will be posted at orindal.limitedrun.com/pages/tour-dates as soon as we have more information to share.

Unfortunately, we will not be able to reschedule a Hastings show through the same ticket vendor. If you purchased tickets for Hastings, or if you purchased tickets for any other show but are unable to attend the new date, email advancebase@gmail.com & I'll get you in touch with the ticket sellers to ensure that your money is refunded.

I'm truly sorry for any inconvenience the postponed dates may cause. Postponing our tour has proven to be a costly & time consuming undertaking, & Karima & I did not take the decision lightly. Regardless, we're still pretty sad about postponing our visit to the UK. We hope to see you in August & September.


Some news that we're happy to report:

Karima Walker, Advance Base & Claire Cronin are touring the West Coast off the US in May!

As always, you'll find ticket links at orindal.limitedrun.com/pages/tour-dates.


To mark the announcement, Advance Base released a new song called "Little Sable Point Lighthouse". It's available now from Bandcamp.

Karima Walker's new EP, demos, is out tomorrow (April 1). Read For the Rabbit's preview HERE.

Listen to "how it falls apart" from Karima Walker's forthcoming EP, demos Posted 21 Mar 2022


"how it falls apart" is the first single from demos, a new EP by Tucson, AZ singer, songwriter & sound designer Karima Walker. On demos, Karima Walker shares early, home-recorded versions of songs from her critically acclaimed 2021 folk/ambient album Waking the Dreaming Body, alongside illuminating sketches and ambient pieces. The demo versions of “Softer,” “Window I” and “Reconstellated” feature alternate lyrics and intimate acoustic arrangements that highlight the power of Walker’s voice and musicianship, while ambient pieces like "thunder interlude" and "earth into air" plumb deeper depths of tension.

demos is out April 1, 2022 on all digital platforms via Orindal & Keeled Scales. A limited cassette edition with alternate cover art is out on April 30, 2022.

Pre-order your copy of demos HERE.

"how it falls apart" is available now on all digital platforms.

Catch Karima Walker on tour!

Apr 07, 2022- Hull, UK @ The New Adelphi Club (w/ Advance Base)
Apr 08, 2022- London, UK @ The Lexington (w/ Advance Base & Katie Malco)
Apr 09, 2022- London, UK @ St John on Bethnal Green / Daylight Music (w/ Advance Base & Robert Stillman)
Apr 10, 2022- Hastings, UK @ The Piper
Apr 12, 2022- Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert (w/ Advance Base)
Apr 13, 2022- Bristol, UK @ Cube Cinema (w/ Advance Base & SH Davidson)
Apr 14, 2022- Oxford, UK @ Fusion Arts (w/ Advance Base & Katie Malco)
Apr 16, 2022- Edinburgh, @ Sneaky Pete's (w/ Advance Base & Faith Eliott)
Apr 17, 2022- Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint (w/ Advance Base)
Apr 18, 2022- Manchester, UK @ Gulliver's (w/ Advance Base)
Apr 19, 2022- Wakefield, UK @ Chantry Chapel (w/ Advance Base)
Apr 28, 2022- Asheville, NC @ Isis Ballroom (w/ Flock of Dimes)
Apr 29, 2022- Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom (w/ Flock of Dimes)
Apr 30, 2022- Charlottesville, VA @ Southern Cafe & Music Hall (w/ Flock of Dimes)
May 01, 2022- Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (w/ Flock of Dimes)
May 02, 2022- Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's (w/ Flock of Dimes)
May 04, 2022- Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere (w/ Flock of Dimes)


Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up by Wednesday is out today! Posted 11 Mar 2022

Wednesday's new covers collection, Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up, is out today on limited edition cassette & digital formats!

Here's what the critics have to say:

"Back in January, Wednesday showed off their country bona fides with a trio of covers for Aquarium Drunkard, songs by Roger Miller and Drive-By Truckers and, best of all, a quivering yet towering take on Gary Stewart’s brilliant “She’s Acting Single (I’m Drinking Doubles).” Those songs all appear on Mowing The Leaves Instead Of Piling ‘Em Up, the band’s new covers LP out today. So do songs originally recorded by Smashing Pumpkins, Vic Chesnutt, Medicine, Chris Bell, Hotline TNT, and Greg Sage. As they did with Edie Brickell’s “Ghost Of A Dog” at the end of Twin Plagues, Wednesday make these tunes their own. If you like noisy melodic guitar music with a bit of twang in it, this stuff is crack." - Stereogum

"Given that the songs range from a pair of country classics, to latter day Americana, to more mainstream alternative rock, the album primarily serves as a further sampler of what Wednesday does right. Namely putting together melodic song structures slathered over with more than a fair share of feedback and an off-handed charm courtesy of Hartzman’s vocals." - Under the Radar

Purchase Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up on cassette & digital formats HERE. You can also purchase cassettes in special-priced bundles with other Wednesday cassettes & color vinyl LPs HERE.

Wednesday kick off their US tour tonight with a sold out show at Static Age in Asheville, NC!

WEDNESDAY ON TOUR
Mar 11, 2022- Asheville, NC @ Static Age (SOLD OUT)
Mar 13, 2022- Opelika, AL @ 10khz Records (w/ MJ Lenderman & the Wind)
Mar 14, 2022- New Orleans, LA @ Saturn Bar (w/ MJ Lenderman & the Wind)
Mar 16-19, 2022- Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar 19, 2022- Dallas, TX @ Club Dada (w/ Snapped Ankles & Fearing)
Mar 20, 2022- Little Rock, AR @ Stickyz (w/ MJ Lenderman & the Wind)
Mar 22, 2022- Knoxville, TN @ The Pilot Light **CANCELED**
Apr 06, 2022- Athens, GA @ Flicker Theatre
Apr 07, 2022- Birmingham, AL @ Spring Street Firehouse
Apr 09, 2022- Houston, TX @ Satellite Bar
Apr 10, 2022- Austin, TX @ Emos (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 11, 2022- Dallas, TX @ The Studio at the Factory (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 13, 2022- Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 14, 2022- Tucson, AZ @ Groundworks
Apr 17, 2022- San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
Apr 19, 2022- Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Apr 20, 2022- San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
Apr 22, 2022- Sacramento, CA @ The Starlet Room
Apr 24, 2022- Reno, NV @ The Holland Project
Apr 26, 2022- Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 28, 2022- Seattle, WA @ The Showbox (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 29, 2022- Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater (w/ Beach Bunny)
Apr 30, 2022- Boise, ID @ El Korah Shrine (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 02, 2022- Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 04, 2022- Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room Lounge (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 06, 2022- Lawrence, KS @ The Granada (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 07, 2022- Indianapolis, IN @ Hi Fi Annex (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 09, 2022- Albany, NY @ Empire Live (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 10, 2022- Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 12, 2022- Boston, MA @ House Of Blues (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 13, 2022- Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 14, 2022- Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 15, 2022- Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 17, 2022- Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 18, 2022- Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Philadelphia (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 20, 2022- Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 21, 2022- Carborro, NC @ Cat's Cradle (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 22, 2022- Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 24, 2022- Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 25, 2022- Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall (w/ Beach Bunny)
May 27, 2022- Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall (w/ Beach Bunny)

Watch Karima Walker's live session for Audiotree Posted 03 Mar 2022


On Valentine's Day 2022, Karima Walker stopped by Audiotree to film a mesmerizing live set of ambient sound design & original folk songs from her 2021 album Waking the Dreaming Body. You can watch the full session above or stream the audio HERE.

Catch Karima Walker on tour!

KARIMA WALKER UK TOUR w/ ADVANCE BASE
Apr 07, 2022- Hull, UK @ The New Adelphi Club
Apr 08, 2022- London, UK @ The Lexington
Apr 09, 2022- London, UK @ St John on Bethnal Green / Daylight Music (w/ Robert Stillman)
Apr 10, 2022- Hastings, UK @ The Piper
Apr 12, 2022- Brighton, UK @ The Prince Albert
Apr 13, 2022- Bristol, UK @ Cube Cinema
Apr 14, 2022- Oxford, UK @ Fusion Arts
Apr 16, 2022- Edinburgh, @ Sneaky Pete's
Apr 17, 2022- Glasgow, UK @ The Hug & Pint
Apr 18, 2022- Manchester, UK @ Gulliver's
Apr 19, 2022- Wakefield, UK @ Chantry Chapel

KARIMA WALKER NORTHEASTERN US TOUR w/ FLOCK OF DIMES
Apr 28, 2022- Asheville, NC @ Isis Ballroom
Apr 29, 2022- Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
Apr 30, 2022- Charlottesville, VA @ Southern Cafe & Music Hall
May 01, 2022- Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
May 02, 2022- Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's
May 04, 2022- Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere