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Local Music, Daily Roundups
02/12/2015
Janice Headley
photo by Beth Eisgrau-Heller

  • Local label Sub Pop Records has issued an apology for this week's Father John Misty release. It appears the fancy diorama featured in the deluxe vinyl edition of I Love You, Honeybear is affecting the vinyl. The label explains on their site, "In short, the extra, bulging thickness of the pop-up art in the Father John Misty jacket creates a lump that, when the LPs are sealed and packed, pushes into the LPs, causing the vinyl to warp and making that handsome, painstakingly and expensively produced jacket an elaborate record-destroying device. This oversight, and any attendant suffering, is our fault, and we are very sorry. We promise to be less ambitious in the future." Visit SubPop.com to find out how to replace your fancy tri-colored record, and check out a video of that vinyl-warping packaging below: [Pitchfork]

  • UK post-punk icons Wire will be releasing their 13th studio album this Spring. Unlike 2013's Change Become Us, where the songs were written in the '80s but reworked in the studio, the new album features tracks recently written by frontman and founding member Colin Newman. Check out the track "Joust & Jostle" below. The self-titled full-length will be out April 21st via the band's pinkflag label, and the band will be stopping by Neumos on Wednesday, May 27th. [Under the Radar]

  • Pennsylvania rockers The Districts made their television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Watch them perform the track "4th and Roebling" off their debut A Flourish and a Spoil. The Districts will be live on KEXP on Thursday, March 5th at 9:30 AM PT, and playing the Tractor Tavern on Wednesday, March 4th. [Consequence of Sound]

  • Florida-based group Hundred Waters share a beautiful animated video for the track "Innocent," off last year's release The Moon Rang Like A Bell. The eerie clip, directed by Jeremy Clapin, features a lonely, little robot-squid-guy in a baseball cap, walking the halls of an abandoned spacecraft. Watch below. The Moon Rang Like A Bell is out now via OWSLA. You can catch the band next week, Tuesday, February 17th, at Neumos. [Stereogum]

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