The Ocean Blue Announce New LP, Air "Kings and Queens" New Single/Video

Pennsylvania-based indie pop/dream pop band The Ocean Blue have announced the release of their new album titled 'Kings and Queens / Knaves and Thieves', their first in 6 years.

The follow-up to 2013's Ultramarine, will be out June 21 via Korda Records. Pre-order your copy here.

In an interview with Billboard, frontman David Schelzel said the Ocean Blue didn't plan on a six-year-plus break between Ultramarine and Kings and Queens/Knaves and Thieves, but he says that being an independent band now, after years with major labels such as Sire and Polygram, "we don't have those pressing timelines and we make records in the spaces that we have in our lives. I tend to be a perfectionist so I'm always wanting one more bite of the apple in the recording studio, and if you don't have a deadline or someone clamoring to put out a record, things can kind of flip and you can take more time these days to make a record -- even if it's easier because we all have our own studios and more expertise than we did before."

The band have also aired a seventh Seal-esque video for the first single “Kings and Queens”, directed by Typsy Panthre and starring Starfolk’s Brian Tighe.

Take a look below.

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Watch: David Carretta Shares Music Video For "Visage"

French electronic music artist David Carretta has shared the video for his infectious new single "Visage".

The song has been added to our current playlist and is taken from his forthcoming new album 'Nuit Panic' out on May 31st via Blackstrobe Records.

The video was directed by Barbara Balestas Kazazian. Watch it below.

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New Order Announce Live Album, Stream “Sub-culture” -Live Version

Manchester legends New Order have announced the release of their new live album '∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes..'

In June 2017, New Order returned to the stage at Manchester’s Old Granada Studios where Joy Division made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme in 1978. For the celebrated show ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes .., New Order deconstructed, rethought and rebuilt a wealth of material from throughout their career: familiar and obscure, old and new.

Featuring tracks such as Disorder, from Joy Divisions Unknown Pleasures and not played live for 30 years, up to 2015’s Plastic from New Order’s critically acclaimed Top 5 album Music Complete - this is the perfect document of those magical 5 nights.

The album was recorded live on 13th July 2017 and includes the full show and encore plus 3 additional tracks recorded over the residency to give listeners a full representation of the breadth of material performed. It will be released onis released on July 12th, pre-order it here now.

This special series of intimate shows took over Stage 1 of Manchester’s iconic Old Granada Studios for five nights in June 2017. Created in collaboration with visual artist Liam Gillick, who has previously presented solo exhibitions at venues such as Tate Britain and MoMA in New York; and orchestrated by composer-arranger Joe Duddell, a fellow son of Manchester and a frequent collaborator with the band, the live show was performed by the band with a 12-strong synthesiser ensemble from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Check out the tracklist and listen to ‘Sub-culture’ live below.

∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes.. Tracklist:

01. Times Change (Live at MIF)
02. Who’s Joe (Live at MIF)
03. Dream Attack (Live at MIF)
04. Disorder (Live at MIF)
05. Ultraviolence (Live at MIF)
06. In A Lonely Place (Live at MIF)
07. All Day Long (Live at MIF)
08. Shellshock (Live at MIF)
09. Guilt Is A Useless Emotion (Live at MIF)
10. Sub-culture (Live at MIF)
11. Bizarre Love Triangle (Live at MIF)
12. Vanishing Point (Live at MIF)
13. Plastic (Live at MIF)
14. Your Silent Face (Live at MIF)
15. Decades (Live at MIF)
16. Elegia (Live at MIF)
17. Heart & Soul (Live at MIF)
18. Behind Closed Doors (Live at MIF)

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