Even voorstellen – King Princess – new album ‘girl violence’


Oct 25 Cherry (single)
King Princess - Cherry | Live From Vevo Studios

Album  Girl Violence - Album by King Princess | Spotify

Aug 25 KING PRINCESS RELEASES NEW SINGLE “GIRLS” & ANNOUNCES FLASH TATTOO EVENTS
King Princess - Girls (Official Lyric Video)

JUNE 25 SHARES NEW SONG/VIDEO BY WARREN FU FOR “RIP KP”
King Princess - RIP KP (Official Music Video)

NEW ALBUM GIRL VIOLENCE OUT SEPT 12

King Princess – the project of Brooklyn-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and actor Mikaela Straus – returns next month with her triumphant third record Girl Violence, out September 12th on section1. Following previous singles “RIP KP” and “Cry Cry Cry,” new single “Girls” is out today and finds King Princess at the mercy of a toxic relationship. Characterized by Mikaela’s raspy vocals, moody organ, and backup singers reminiscent of romantic 50s pop, “Girls” is a sultry track that gives into unhealthy desire, which explodes into a final release of distorted guitar. The song embodies the darker side of Girl Violence, where King Princess entertains chaos and self-destruction for the sake of quelling her hunger for companionship and pleasure. King Princess puts it simply: “Girls. Bring me to my knees.”

To celebrate the release of Girl Violence, King Princess is partnering with a curated selection of tattoo shops - all run by women and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community - in the US, Canada, Europe, LATAM and Australia for a global flash tattoo event on Saturday, September 13. Each tattoo shop will be creating custom flash sheets based on the album’s visual world, and everyone tattooed will be entered into a raffle to win prizes, including signed vinyl and prints, Girl Violence merch, and guest list spots for upcoming KP shows.  King Princess, section1/Partisan, and each participating tattoo shop will be making donations to local charities who support the LGBTQ+ communities.

Stephen Colbert, and King Princess recently sat down with The New Yorker to discuss the new record. Made in collaboration with Jake Portrait (Lil Yachty, Alex G, Unknown Mortal Orchestra), and Aire Atlantica (breakthrough: SZA’s “Low”), Girl Violence is the sound of Straus picking up the pieces after her world fell apart – fighting for freedom, stepping back from the limelight and major label system, breaking up, moving away, and returning to NYC where she was born and raised. Through it all, she somehow found the agency and creative spirit to fight the misconceptions and create the album she was destined to make, in a potent return to self. Perennially underestimated, she now wields the chip on her shoulder as a weapon, upping the ante and taking the reins on Girl Violence.

LIVE
December 13 - La Madeleine - Brussels, BE

December 14 - Le Trianon - Paris, FR

December 16 - Melkweg Max - Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tracklist

1. Girl Violence
2. Jaime
3. Origin
4. I Feel Pretty
5. Cry Cry Cry
6. Get Your Heart Broken
7. Girls
8. Covers
9. Say What You Will
10. RIP KP
11. Alone Again
12. Slow Down and Shut Up
13. Serena
    
    More on King Princess & Girl Violence:
    Sometimes no matter how hard you try, your life can still fall apart. Girl Violence, the third album from King Princess, is the sound of Mikaela Straus picking up the pieces of a world left shattered.
    “Girl violence is very sneaky,” Straus says. “It's not physical, it’s deeply emotional, spiritual, and spooky. Women are both amazing and sinister—including myself—and it's my curiosity to understand all the love, loss, and changes that come out of my love for women. Why are we so inclined to cause and receive chaos? If you've experienced even an iota of it, then you'll have a story to tell. And these are mine.”
    The songs on Girl Violence are probing and vulnerable, but also nuanced, sensual, and bold; a product of her physical homecoming — leaving LA after seven years for Brooklyn where she was born + raised. “I was not loving life, I didn't feel grounded at all. I realized my feet were dangling for years,” she says of her end-stage time in LA. “Once I was back in the arms of the city I love, I started to feel easier and lighter about hard decisions that were actually in my best interest.”
    Accordingly, the album brims with an exhilarating sense of freedom, stemming from Straus’ decision to leave behind the major label system that had defined much of her story up to this point. While not strictly a “breakup record” in the traditional sense, Girl Violence was in part born out of a newly-found romantic freedom following the end of a long relationship. Finally feeling at home and left to her own devices, she was able to tap into the force that fueled some of her earliest creative excitement and breakthroughs.
    She zeroed in on it: one studio, a tight-knit NYC crew, and a few months of immersion. She found kindred-spirit collaborators in Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jacob Portrait (credits include Lil Yachty, Alex G), and Aire Atlantica (breakthrough: SZA’s “Low”) and inspiration in tracks by IDLES, Massive Attack’s Mezzanine (her bedrock reference for production/mixing/vibe), and Beatles live sessions. Girl Violence slowly started to take shape.
    This collection may be “a celebration of the craziness of femininity, in awe and admiration of the derangement,” but it also stands as a document of Straus’ multifaceted evolution. She’ll always be in motion with her quicksilver humor and curious, open heart.
    
    “It's about recognizing that we have an abundance of love in our life,” she says. “I don't think I will ever lose the ability to stop loving or creating big loves. You can have crazy fallouts and breakups, but you aren't incapable of loving, if anything, I think it makes you more capable.”
    
    Although Girl Violence centralizes relationship dynamics in all their cerebral, emotional, and carnal glory, above all else she interrogates the shifting sands of self. How you view yourself and move through the world, what you understand and acknowledge, and the logic you still decide to abandon—for desire, for adventure, for the ride. Through it all, she offers up Girl Violence not as an answer, but as an echo—one that’s yours to claim, distort, and make your own.

Even voorstellen - The Belair Lip Bombs Announce New Album, ‘Again’,

‘Again’, Out October 31st via Third Man Records

Oct 25 “back of my hand” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsH8fVJfStw

Sept 25 “don’t let them tell you (it’s fair)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eKyoF7NrKU

Aug 25 Watch the Video for Lead Single, "Hey You” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqJfu-QS6k

LIVE Wed. Nov. 12 - Ghent, BE @ Charlatan

Australia’s The Belair Lip Bombs announce their new album, Again, out October 31st via Third Man Records (the first Australian release on the label), and share its lead single, “Hey You.” Again is the follow-up to their 2023 debut, Lush Life, a “punchy, hook-laden rock record…straightforward in sound but borderline unassailable in its construction” (The Guardian). Again marks a new chapter for Australia’s best-kept secret, who have been building a loyal local following since they first formed eight years ago with their earnestness and ultra-sticky power-pop song structures. Again is endlessly listenable and winkingly symbolizes the band’s reintroduction to a global audience.

The Belair Lips Bombs is made up of Maisie Everett, Mike Bradvica, Jimmy Droughton, and Daniel "Dev" Devlin, who first formed the band in a Melbourne suburb, Frankston’s DIY venue Singing Bird Studio. Upon graduating from high school, they juggled band life with day jobs, working to define a sound inspired by classic rock pillars like the Rolling Stones and Television as well as indie stalwarts like the War On Drugs and Stephen Malkmus. They spent the first years as a band opening for Australian favorites like Ladyhawke, Spacey Jane, Slowly Slowly, and Tired Lion before releasing their more grunge-inspired self-titled debut EP in 2018 and then the poppier three-track follow-up, Songs to Do Your Laundry To (2019)

As the next decade rolled in, the Belair Lip Bombs fine-tuned their “limerence-rock” (as Maisie puts it) aesthetic across impassioned and snappy singles. In mapping out what would become Again, the band merged their individual influences more than ever to craft a no-skips collection of indie-rock anthems. It gives the group’s DIY indie-rock style a fresh coat of polish across 10 rollicking new tracks. Again was produced by the band, Nao Anzai (The Teskey Brothers), and Joe White (Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever), marking the first time the Belair Lip Bombs worked with a producer,

Maisie, who was born in Scotland and moved to Australia at 3 years old, tends to fall back into an early love of vocal behemoths, Queen when she writes the band’s prominent melodies and harmonies, as on today’s single, “Hey You.” The song is a jubilant melody built from a looping synth that’s bound to inspire listeners to leap up and dance it out. “Having a synth loop driving a whole song is something that we've never done before,” Maisie says. Dev adds: “We kind of leaned into that and pushed to make the scope of the song bigger than some of the other songs in the album.” The accompanying video was directed by Angus Fielder.

The Belair Lip Bombs pull you in immediately with their self-coined “yearn-core” combination of quick-footed rhythms, warm and fuzzy guitar melodies, and Maisie’s cathartic vocals. As they move into an exciting new era of their careers, their unshakable friendship, wide-open hearts, and knack for foot-tapping melodies will no doubt endear them to legions of fans in search of musical transcendence. 

Next month, The Belair Lip Bombs embark on their first ever North American tour with Spacey Jane, with many dates already sold out. Following, they’ll play headline shows across Europe.

Again Tracklist

1. Again and Again
2. Don’t Let Them Tell You (It’s Fair)
3. Another World
4. Cinema
5. Back Of My Hand
6. Hey You
7. If You’ve Got The Time
8. Smiling
9. Burning Up
10. Price Of A Man

Starman Records news - Rudolf Hecke + God=doG
Album release (LP/CD) 17/10/25
Single "The Ending Song" (Leadvocal Yassin Joris) uit op 03/10/25

Rudolf Hecke + God=doG - The Ending Song

Rudolf Hecke over “The Ending Song”: ‘Als ik mijn dochter Querelle van 21 vertel “misschien is dit wel het laatste album dat ik maak” dan kijkt ze me verbolgen aan en antwoordt: oudere mensen hebben niet het prerogatief van “voor het laatst”, ook jongeren weten hun pad soms abrupt afgebroken. De stilte die dan valt is die van een schuldig man. 45 jaar geleden ging ik op pad en ik bewandel het nog steeds. Zonder overrompelend succes, maar nog steeds zonder meester noch God. Met de geest en het hart van de eerste stap, er valt nog zoveel nieuws te vertellen al kom ik stilaan adem te kort. Het is een zegen die vele jonge mensen wordt miskend. ‘The Ending Song’ is een lied van vertroosting, de opdracht die ik mezelf heb opgelegd mijn eigen pad te banen, het leven ermee plaveien, is rijker geworden.  Het wenkende einde doorzien als een eeuwig nieuw begin. De prachtige, zalvende, jonge stem van Yassin Joris helpt me hierbij. En de clip die mijn dochter Querelle omheen mijn song heeft gedrapeerd, verse zeilen op een zich steeds heftiger werende zee. Oud en jong verenigd in pijn, vergeving, dankbaarheid, trots… ‘The Ending Song’.

God=doG is het collectief rond Belpop-icoon Rudolf Hecke en bestaat uit Yassin Joris (Jokke, Naima Joris), Nikkie van Lierop (IH8CAMERA, Erotic Dissidents, Praga Khan), Klaas Tomme (Iskander Moon, Illuminae) en Toon Derison (Steven De Bruyn, El Fish).

Rudolf Hecke bracht in 1989 zijn eerste solo-album “God is dog spelled backwards” uit. De plaat werd prompt door De Morgen uitgeroepen tot beste Belgische album van het jaar. Humo kroonde hem tot “De Nick Cave van Vlaanderen”. Vervolgens trok Rudolf op een never-ending tour langs jeugdclubs en festivals. Hij trad ook vaak op als support van internationale topacts; Iggy Pop, Sugarcubes, Triffids, Einsturzende Neubauten, SPK, Peter Hammill, Bob Geldof, Björk…

Daarvoor had hij al Belpop geschiedenis geschreven met Company Of State, ‘electronic body music’ pioniers, waarmee hij door Europa tourde met o.a. Eyeless in Gaza, Neon Judgement, Front 242, La Muerte…

36 jaar en vele muzikale avonturen (Rudolf kent een indrukwekkende spreidstand als songwriter van psychedelic pop met Pop In Wonderland over soul&rnb met Yasmina Karraz tot verstilde folk met Elsje Helewaut en Vera Coomans) later is hij terug met een sterk, donker en sfeervol album dat vergelijkbaar is met het werk van bijvoorbeeld This Mortal Coil: verschillende stijlen van nummers gezongen door verschillende bandleden. Het album is geproduceerd door Hecke, David Poltrock en Ian Caple (Tindersticks, Tricky, Alain Bashung…). Ook special guest Elsje Helewaut verzorgt de leadvocals op één van de songs.

Tot overmaat van spreidstand: Rudolf heeft ook bewezen een begaafd auteur en spreker te zijn. Hij tourt met diverse lezingen (Gainsbourg, Orbison, De Sixties) zeer intensief door Vlaanderen en eind 2024 publiceerde hij zijn negende boek ‘Hoe ruw is de steen?’, waarin hij zich verdiept in de vrijmetselarij. De reis naar dat boek ging gepaard met de opname van nieuwe God=doG-nummers. Er ontstond een wederzijdse invloed, symboliek, vragen, inzichten, reflectie.

In de talrijke mysterieuze en fascinerende liveshows, wordt een ijzersterke, intense performance doorweven met zeer persoonlijke verhalen van Hecke, gastoptredens van auteurs die rock ’n roll uitademen en een interactief ritueel dat geen enkel publiek koud laat. Kortom Rudolf Hecke & God=doG staat garant voor een unieke en zéér aparte avond.

Live Shows (More TBC):

06/9 : Brussel – Botanique (support IH8Camera)

20/9 : Haacht – CC (+ Herman Brusselmans, Elvis Peeters)

26/9 : Sint Truiden – De Fwajee

30/9 : Melsbroek – Radio Singjaal sessie

18/10 : Boutersem – Magazijn De Snoek

19/10 : Antwerpen – Groene Waterman (literair salon)

27/10 : Hove – Bar Eduard

30/11 : Gentbrugge – JH Asgaart (+ Herman Brusselmans)

12/12 : Amsterdam – Qfactory (+Herman  Brusselmans)

03/4/26 : Bredene – CC (+ Herman Brusselmans, Delphine Lecompte)

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