Weird World is happy to announce the signing of Slime and the forthcoming release of “My Company” / “In One Year”, his debut AA-side single for the label due for release on May 11th 2015. Slime is Will Archer, born in Newcastle just before league football in England changed for good. Music was entirely absent
Hookworms postpone US dates
Hookworms have unfortunately announced that their upcoming US tour is to be postponed due to VISA complications. Read a note from the band and watch this space for rearranged dates for later in the year. — We are really sorry to tell you that unfortunately we are forced to cancel our upcoming US/Canadian tour. There
How to Dress Well shares orchestral “Pour Cyril”
Tom Krell, AKA How to Dress Well has today shared a special new orchestral version of “Pour Cyril”, a highlight from last year’s What Is This Heart? Krell is joined on the new version by Minna Choi’s Magik*Magik orchestra and first performed as part of a continuous sixty minute live score put together to mark
Jaakko Eino Kalevi announces self-titled new album, out June 15th 2015
Jaakko Eino Kalevi is proud to announce details of his new self-titled album, due for release 15 June 2015, and his first full-length album for Weird World. The ten-track collection finds Jaakko on spellbinding form, composing sumptuous and wildly original music that teems with ideas and more than delivers on the promise of its predecessor, the breakthrough
Jib Kidder announces “Raw Vision” television show
Jib Kidder recently spent a day at BRIC House in Brooklyn taping Jib Kidder Presents: Raw Vision, a one-hour long performing arts variety show he conceptualized himself. Due to air Wednesday, April 15 on Brooklyn Independent Media, a 24/7 television channel featuring programming produced and curated by BRIC, the offbeat hour of power will feature
Richard Dawson announces new UK dates
Richard Dawson has announced a string of his largest UK headline shows to date. The five date May run follows this month’s extensive sold-out tour which culminated in Liverpool this week. Full list of dates below. Dates: Weds 13th May – London, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club (tickets) Thurs 14th May – Bristol, Polish Club
Richard Dawson announces European dates + Basic House remix
Richard Dawson’s tremendous “Nothing Important” continues to win new admirers with every week that passes and the Newcastle artist is set to take its songs, and those of its equally brilliant predecessors “The Magic Bridge” and “The Glass Trunk” to audiences all over the UK next month. To add to this, Dawson has today announced that
Jib Kidder shares “In Between” video, announces Panda Bear dates
Sean Schuster-Craig, AKA Jib Kidder, has shared new song “In Between”, the lead single to be taken from Teaspoon To The Ocean, his debut release for WW due for release later this month (January 26th.) Watch the video for “In Between” here. “In Between” follows previous glimpses of the record in “Dozens” and “Appetites feat.
Peaking Lights share “Under The Influence” mixtape + West Coast tour starts this week
LA’s Peaking Lights, the husband-wife duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis, are embarking on a brief west coast tour this week. To celebrate, the pair created a 2-hour mixtape called “Under The Influence” featuring music that influenced the creation of their new album ‘Cosmic Logic’, out now via Weird World.
Richard Dawson shares “The Vile Stuff” remix by Karen Gwyer + new live dates
Richard Dawson has today shared a great new remix of Nothing Important centerpiece by UK producer Karen Gwyer. Listen to it here. The sinister lament that is ‘The Vile Stuff’ shows Dawson as a master of the minutiae of British storytelling as he charts the downfall of a group of students on a school trip, “downing Asda’s own-brand stubbies
Hookworms share “Radio Tokyo” video; announce new UK / US live dates
There is Hookworms live and then there is Hookworms on record. As the flood of acclaim around their second album The Hum testifies, both are equally thrilling sides of one coin. The Leeds five-piece mix power with finesse in the studio, each revolution of their visceral protopunk-wired repetition rock an exercise in nuance versus tumult.
How to Dress Well shares new mixtape + announces tiny NYC show
Tom Krell, AKA How to Dress Well, will be performing one final New York show to close out 2014, as part of the final run of programming at beloved Brooklyn music venue Glasslands. Says Krell, “Glasslands and Popgun have supported me since the beginning of my career and I am honored to be invited to