Lincoln Hall News

Today, celebrated Malian rock band Songhoy Blues have announced dates for a North American tour to begin in September and extend through the fall. The tour comes following the band's sophomore album, 2017's critically acclaimed RESISTANCE, which Rolling Stone called one of the best albums of 2017. Since then, the band has toured consistently across five continents, spreading their unique sound and helping to make them a force to reckon with. This August will see the release of Songhoy Blues 'Live @ EartH' LP, a classic set recorded this past January in London at Evolutionary Arts Hackney, as a precursor to their new studio album.

This summer, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter Carl Anderson will embark on a midwest tour supporting American Aquarium. The news follows the release of his new EP You Can Call Me Carl and tour dates with Nikki Lane, Devon Gilfillian and Paul Cauthen.

Returning for its second US edition July 8-14, 2019, Independent Venue Week, with Eventbrite as its exclusive ticketing partner, announces the full list of participating venues. The event is expanding rapidly in its second American iteration, from 20 venues in 20 cities in 2018 to more than 80 venues across more than 50 cities this year - and counting. 'We're incredibly excited to see this initiative continue to grow after its successful first year,' says Rev. Moose, Managing Partner of Marauder, the producers of the US event, 'These critical, open-minded spaces drive their local music markets. Independent Venue Week is an opportunity to build camaraderie and community through a week of shows.'

The debut album from 18-year-old singersongwriter mxmtoon, the masquerade delivers what she calls “rhyming diary entries”: an off-the-cuff account of her most private thoughts and feelings, usually dashed off very late at night, straight from her brightly lit brain. In her deliberate refusal to hide behind metaphor, the Oakland-based artist otherwise known asMaia achieves a quiet bravery, an unrestrained honesty that gives voice to those who often go unheard.

Fantastic Negrito is marking the one year anniversary of his GRAMMY® Award-winning album, PLEASE DON'T BE DEAD, with the premiere of a powerful new companion video. 'The Suit That Won't Come Off' is streaming now at Fantastic Negrito's official YouTube channel HERE. A special closed captioned version of the video is also available to stream on Fantastic Negrito's official Facebook page with a donation link to the Braille Institute.

Breakout star Mahalia has unveiled the 'Love & Compromise' tour, which accompanies the announcement of her highly anticipated debut album 'Love and Compromise' due September 6th. The tour will see the songstress perform across Europe and North America. It begins in Detroit, MI on September 22nd, followed by a string of dates across America and Canada before heading back to the UK for some of her biggest shows to date, including a date at London's prestigious Roundhouse on November 25th. The songstress will then head out to Europe for several dates, which include stops in Norway, France, Germany with more to be announced. US tickets go on sale Friday, June 28th at 10am local time.

As Boy Scouts, Oakland-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Vick makes the kind of music that hits like good advice from a beloved friend. It's generously warm and inviting, built atop her open, searching voice, but it doesn't shy away from tough emotional truths.

Cosmo Sheldrake has announced that he'll bring his live show back to the US this fall after his July underplay tour SOLD OUT last month. The fall dates will kick off on September 23rd in Washington, DC and bring Sheldrake to several cities in the US and Canada for the first time before wrapping with a show in Los Angeles on October 15th. All fall dates will feature support from experimental New York quartet altopalo. Full dates are below, Spotify exclusive presales begin tomorrow, June 25th with general on-sale available this Friday, June 28th via www.cosmosheldrake.com.

Whether it's playing to an audience of tens of thousands like they do regularly around the world or just a few hundred for an intimate show, few bands can command a stage as powerfully as UK's massively popular band ENTER SHIKARI. U.S. audiences will witness their close and personal side when St. Albans' favorite sons come storming North America for a short run of dates on their Stop The Clocks North America Tour in September 2019. These twelve stops will be the band's first shows this side of the Atlantic since JanFeb 2018's tour on the back of their most recent album, The Spark. They will be joined by New Jersey's celebrated CAN'T SWIM on all dates, except Chicago. The whole night will feature just the two bands, allowing both to perform full sets.

SHEER MAG return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They're still writing about surviving our current hellscape, but this time around, the politics get extra-personal. It's heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. 'We've been waiting to write these songs since we started the band and we were able to take these experiences and build a story out of them,' notes front woman Tina Halladay. The album verges on being a concept piece, and the protagonist resembles Halladay herself. The songs document a particularly alienating time in her life when she was laid off from a job. Broke and newly single, her father (with whom she had a fraught relationship) passed away, leaving her with more wounds than felt possible to heal. The album's lead single 'Blood From A Stone' which was released today, kicks off the narrative of the album proper. It flashes back to Tina's life from a few years back and sets up the arc for the rest of the record. 

Today, NY's Charly Bliss have shared a video for their critically acclaimed sophomore album's title-track 'Young Enough.' High Snobiety, who premiered the video today and profiled the band, is saying Young Enough finds the band 'confronting some of life's most distressing and unexpected twists head on with pure rage, positive energy, and even paralyzed joy.' Young Enough is out now via Barsuk Records.

Today Jay Som - a.k.a. Melina Duterte - announces her sophomore album, Anak Ko, pronounced Ah-nuh Koh, and meaning 'my child' in Filipino.The follow-up to her breakout debut album Everybody Works, which received countless year-end list accolades in 2017, this album was completed during a week-long solo retreat to Joshua Tree. While much has changed both sonically and personally for Jay Som in the two whirlwind years since her debut, Duterte still recorded, produced, engineered and mixed this album herself at home, though this time in her newly adoptive city of Los Angeles.

Superpuma Records announced today that Jake Xerxes Fussell has been added to the Daniel Norgren - Wooh Dang - North America Tour. The Durham, NC, singer and guitarist will join Norgren for all dates as direct support. 

Dream pop legends The Ocean Blue today announced the release of their first new album in over 6 years - Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thievesis out June 21 on Korda Records. Billboard premiered the Seventh Seal-esquevideo for first single “Kings and Queens,” also out today ahead of their tour next month.

Today, JR JR have released their fantastic new single “Low” from the forthcoming double album Invocations / Conversations, due out May 31st on Love Is EZ records. “There are plenty of smarts on the band's new double album” writes Billboard of the upcoming release, and the breezy but danceable melodies that counter relatable lyrics about feeling driftless found on “Low” are no exception. “'Low' is a song written in Los Angeles,” explains JR JR's Josh Epstein, “and is about a fictional musician character. It describes a typical day in the life—going out and networking until it becomes almost robotic. The character is caught in the cycle of monotony and this is the appeal for some meaning. The quest that Neil Young wrote about so long ago, that still goes on today.” This June, the band will play a series of shows in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Ann Arbor. Upcoming dates are listed below.

Synth-pop trio Operators' new album, Radiant Dawn, is out today on Last Gang Records. The band, featuring Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits), Devojka, and Sam Brown (Divine Fits, New Bomb Turks), previously shared the first single “Faithless” and the video for album track “I Feel Emotion”. Radiant Dawn is currently featured as Stereogum's “Album of the Week”, who said “it's music for a nightclub in a moon colony. It's music for a retro-futuristic recreation of an Eastern Europe metropolis that never quite existed. It's music for an encroaching dystopia.” LA Weekly similarly anointed the album, saying “the first hints of greatness came with the release ofEP1 in 2014, followed by the debut full-length, Blue Wave, two years later. But it's the majesty of the 14 songs that fill Radiant Dawn that show just how far this group has come.” Buy and stream Radiant Dawn HERE.

Jamestown Revival's new song, “Who Hung The Moon,” premiered yesterday at Earmilk. Listen HERE. Of the track, Earmilk praises, “An effortless vocal harmonization washes over you as the light guitar strum dances playfully in the backdrop of this starry-eyed folk melody. The 'Oohs' at the end breathe a soul-lifting feeling into the track that wraps you in a warm embrace. The final product is a mesmerizing track that's both beautifully crafted and earnest at its core.” 

Breakout singer-songwriter J.S. Ondara has been nominated for “Best Emerging Act” at the2019 Americana Music Awards. Ondara's debut LP Tales of America was released in February via Verve Forecast to widespread critical acclaim. Most recently, Ondara was featured on PBS' “NewsHour” and also made appearances on NPR's “All Things Considered” and “World Cafe.”

Rising UK indie stars Bloxx will be making their US live debut next month joining Hembree and Warbly Jets on the official Alt Nation Advanced Placement tour presented by Sirius XM. The tour stretches all around the country and is hitting most major markets. All dates are listed below.

Boris have never been one for sentimentality—they simply wave goodbye to old worlds in favor of new horizons. That's exactly the logic behind the band's two forthcoming reissues of Akuma No Uta and Feedbacker, which will be released via Third Man Records this year, marking a new partnership between the band and label. The batch of reissues also makes way for Boris's first new album in two years: LφVE & EVφL, due out this August on Third Man. The pioneering, monolithic trio will also be hitting the road with NYC industrialists Uniform this fall - tour dates are listed below.