Freakout Presents: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets at Tractor Tavern

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It’s our pleasure to present powerful Perth-based rockers Psychedelic Porn Crumpets at Tractor Tavern in Ballard on Friday, September 13! Cosmic rock four-piece Levitation Room opens the night.

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The Freakout 2017 Lineup Announced, Dates set for Nov 17 & 18 in Ballard

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Freakout Records is so excited for the 5th annual return of THE FREAKOUT!- join us Nov 17 & 18 at the Tractor, Conor Byrne, Sunset Tavern, Hattie's Hat, & CC. Filson in Ballard, Seattle, WA.

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Thank you to our presenters Artist Home Record Club, Audioasis on KEXP, Killroom Records, & Treefort Music Festival

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Acid Tongue Announces 'Babies' Debut LP - Single Released for "If I Really Loved Her"

Acid Tongue have released the first single from their forthcoming full-length, Babies. All Things Go premiered "If I Really Loved Her," saying, "Catchy to the core, 'If I Really Loved Her' is the perfect cut from the dreamlike, almost sci-fi masterpiece."

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The Brooklyn-by-way-of-Seattle project blends fuzzing garage with buzzing psychedelia to create irresistible indie rock. Lyrically, Acid Tongue confront the overwhelming senselessness, resulting confusion and more recently realized doom associated with an "American condition." Acid Tongue will release their debut album Babies on October 13 via Freakout Records.

STREAM "IF I REALLY LOVED HER"

Guy Keltner, songwriter and frontman for Acid Tongue, said of the song, ""I wrote 'If I Really Loved Her' in one sitting, on a patio in the woods outside of Spokane, WA. I was in the process of uprooting my life in Seattle and moving to Brooklyn. I lost my job, I lost a lot of my friends, and I was flat broke. I'm still flat broke. But I was with someone who believed in what I was doing and stuck it out with me during a really difficult period of my life. This song is a love note to that kind of loyalty. We don't choose who we love, but we do choose who we stick with when things get rough."

Acid Tongue have released two EPs up to this point, the second of which charted on CMJ's Top 100 and earned critical enthusiasm. The band will kick off tour with a string of East Coast dates, before heading to Europe. They'll return to the US in November, to play festivals such as Off Beat in Reno and Freakout in Seattle. Dates are listed below. More to be announced.

"[Acid Tongue] find the sweet spot between psych-rock and garage, and ride that wave as far as they can take it ... a smooth journey that sometimes dips into heaviness, indicating that Acid Tongue could pull off being a doom band if they wanted to take it there." - CLRVYNT

"Sweltering and hazy-as-hell, Acid Tongue’s scorched indie-pop sounds plucked straight from a desert’s watering hole." - DIY Mag

"Woozy but never falling down, 'Beautiful Disaster’ sounds like an escape but is eager to stick around. Luckily the hypnotic hooks (which would make The Cribs proud) aren’t going to be leaving your head anytime soon." - DORK

Smokey Brights to perform at Bumbershoot 2017

Smokey Bright join Solange, Lorde, Gucci Mane, Haim, White Reaper & more for Bumbershoot 2017, Labor Day weekend in Seattle!

For more information visit: https://www.bumbershoot.com/

FKL Releases Two New Singles – On the Water/Elliott – available on 7” Vinyl

PRE-ORDER AT PEARLJAM.COM

London-based artist FKL hits the US with the vinyl release of their debut singles ‘On the Water’ & ‘Elliott’. As heard on Fader, Dazed, KEXP, Clash Magazine, Dummy Magazine & VICE.

Freakout is excited to release 'On the Water'/'Elliott' on 7" vinyl in partnership with Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) & Hockeytalkter Records

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My Goodness - Scavengers (LP) Released on Freakout

Freakout Records is excited to add Seattle pop rock My Goodness to our roster. Pre-Order Scavengers on 12" vinyl - available June 2, 2017

LISTEN TO THE SINGLE "SCAVENGERS"

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Smokey Brights to headline Bread & Butter Release Show

Smokey Brights will headline the Tractor Tavern (Seattle) on April 15 for the Bread & Butter album release show (Killroom Records) with Great Spiders. #KEXPpresents

Tickets: http://m.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=7191045&pl=tractor

Photo by Boone Sommerfeld

Freakout Records + Upstream Music Festival

Freakout Records is honored to be curating a stage at Upstream Music Fest + Summit, May 2017! More information coming soon.

Freakout Festival 2016 Announced

Freakout Records is proud to present the 4th annual Freakout Festival, Dec 8 & 9 in Seattle, WA. featuring Spencer Moody (of The Murder City Devils), Smokey Brights, Erik Blood (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, The Maldives), MASZER, Maiah Manser, Acid Tongue, Cumulus, Wyatt Blair (of Lolipop Records) & more! For the full lineup, visit the Freakout Festival page.

FREAKOUT FESTIVAL
Dec 8 & 9
Chop Suey / Pony / Bar Sue / Lovecitylove
E Madison St & 14th Ave, Seattle, WA

2-Day Pass ($28) - http://bit.ly/freakoutfest
Day 1 Only ($15) - http://bit.ly/freakoutday1
Day 2 Only ($15) - http://bit.ly/freakoutday2

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Thank you to Audioasis on KEXP, City Arts Magazine, Pabst Blue Ribbon & Jameson Irish Whiskey for their support.

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Poster design by Meggyn Pomerleau & Ian Cunningham

Acid Tongue to open for Night Beats & The Mystery Lights

Shortly after moving to New York City, Acid Tongue has announced a return performance in Seattle with psych rock Night Beats on Saturday, November 12th at the Nectar Lounge.

11.12 Saturday (Psychedelic Rock)
Nectar & Solid Sound present:
Night Beats
The Mystery Lights
Acid Tongue
Special Guests
Visuals by Mad Alchemy
$12adv
8pm, 21+

Tickets available here: http://bit.ly/TheNightBeatsTix

Maiah Manser Announces Dates w/ Manatee Commune

JUST ANNOUNCED: Maiah Manser will be main support for 3 NW dates in support of Manatee Commune's album release.

Sept 29 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo
Sept 30 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Oct 1 - Seattle, WA - Neumos

More info at manateecommune.co

Smokey Brights - "Hot Candy" available Oct 21

Seattle band Smokey Brights will be releasing their sophomore full-length "Hot Candy" on 12" vinyl via Freakout Records on October 21, 2016.

PRE-ORDER HERE: http://www.freakoutrec.com/store/smokey-brights-hot-candy

Read more about the album from CityArts' Jonathan Zwickel:

Hot damn, Hot Candy! Modern rock n roll never sounds this fresh. The second album from Smokey Brights is both a rebirth and a milestone, a head trip and a body high, meticulously crafted but natural as daylight. The music taps into history and stretches out a kind of visionary rock that rolls relentlessly forward while recombining iconic sounds—prog, funk, Bowie, Styx, Wilco, Flaming Lips—into something urgent and fun and utterly surprising.

Seriously: If you're not already listening to Hot Candy, you're losing precious seconds.

What else do you need to know? Two singers (married), a guitar hero some call Keanu J. Fox, and a crack rhythm section with veteran status. Since their 2014 debut Taste for Blood, Smokey Brights have amassed a rabid base of fans across the West Coast, gaining momentum with every show. They are a self-started, self-sustaining rock n roll machine that generates maximum joy through musical communion.

The members of Smokey Brights have been singing and playing together in various incarnations across Seattle for more than 15 years. Ryan Devlin and Kim West—the married singers—write the bones for most of the songs in their North Seattle living room. The mind-meld between drummer Nick Krivchenia and bassist Jim Vermillion leads to unpredictable, shape-shifting groove. Mike Kalnoky—the guitar hero—tops it all off with counterpoint melodies and soaring solos. Coming together at Wizard House, their hand-me-down rehearsal space, the band bursts with life and love and an offbeat energy that's infectious. Hot Candy is an album made by a company of pros finding their finest voice in collective effort.

Listening yet?

Start the album from the beginning and dig it all the way through. Every song is a discreet, complex world unto itself that rewards patient listening. Right from the start Hot Candy evokes a rock n roll fantasy, born from a whoosh of noise to coalesce into the hard-driving opener—and lead single—"In Demand." Is this a fist-pumping rock anthem or a brazen indictment of Internet-driven overconsumption? Yes and yes.

Kim steps to the mic for song two, the sinuous, sultry "Desiree," outro-ing with full flange and four-four stomp. "Not Enough Time" is simultaneously beautiful, foreboding, complex and catchy—a swirl of emotions that might be Smokey Brights' signature cocktail. As Kalnoky unleashes one of the album's most luscious guitar hooks, Ryan sings, "You’ve got to stand some in the rain to get lightening struck/And that’s just how it is."

Four songs in, "Malibu Musk" slows down and slithers into a sinister, twilit foreboding that foreshadows the album's latter half. The band describes the next track, "Baby Bigshot," as a lullaby for the Baby Boom generation, Ryan singing, "We're waiting for the trickle down!"  No, that isn't a Theremin’s weird coo on "Start Wearing Black"—that's Kim's natural singing voice, which goes on to boost a stunning finale and one of the album's finest, freakiest moments. "Ugly Evergreen" features achingly lovely vocal interplay between Ryan and Kim as the band builds to another monumental climax. Closer "Stickman" is a sweet, sad coda, acoustic-strummed and fingersnapped like a tender farewell.

To make Hot Candy, Smokey Brights decamped for a week at the end of 2015 to the Rock n Roll BnB, a live-in recording studio on Sauvie Island, a verdant refuge surrounded by the Columbia River a few miles from Portland, Oregon.  The digs were throwback, but the gear was impeccable, as was the ear of host/producer/engineer Sean Flora. The result is simply one of the most refreshing records you'll hear all year. Trust.

Now get yourself to the nearest sound system and do the damn thing!

Maiah Manser to Play Bumbershoot Festival

Maiah Manser plays Bumbershoot Music Festival Sunday, September 4th on the Starbucks [Mural] Stage with Shaprece at 4:20pm. 

Newaxeyes to Play NW Psych Fest August 12th at The Sunset Tavern

Freakout Records own Newaxeyes is set to play NW Psych Fest Friday, August 12th at The Sunset Tavern in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood. 

Event details and tickets HERE. 

Newaxeyes - "The 8th Passenger" out July 15

PRE-ORDER NEWAXEYES - THE 8TH PASSENGER *HERE*

Freakout Records is proud to announce the release of "The 8th Passenger", an unofficial soundtrack to Ridley Scott's 1979 opus, ALIEN. Conceived and performed by Seattle electronic-maestros NEWAXEYES, the soundtrack takes its name from the Polish title of the original film.

The soundtrack will be released as a limited-edition run of double-cassettes, featuring the iconic image of Bolagi Badejo, the man inside the Alien suit.

Seattle quartet Newaxeyes takes a genre-agnostic approach to songcraft. Melding wide-ranging influences, the band fuses diverse samples, guitar squalls, and caustic beats to create pieces that refract the frenzied information-assault associated with our modern era. Their mercurial sound is tinged with the paranoia, volatility, and catharsis of the present.

At the beginning of 2015, Newaxeyes was approached by celebrated Seattle film arts organization Northwest Film Forum to perform an original live score to a film of their choosing as an installment of NWFF's Puget Soundtrack series. The band chose Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterwork ALIEN for the thematic and aesthetic resonances that they found between the film and their work. Relationships between human and machine, primal psychosexual associations, The Other, and the work of H. R. Giger were among the many elements of Alien that the band investigated and incorporated in their 2-hour score.

And visit the Facebook Event Page for the JULY 15 RELEASE SHOW AT FREDWILDLIFE REFUGE IN SEATTLE

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'Visual Noise' Acid Tongue + Imperial Motion | AVAILABLE NOW

Last night, Acid Tongue + Imperial Motion launched their 'Visual Noise' collection with a launch party at BLEACH in Tacoma.

T-Shirts are available now at the IM website: store.imperialmotion.com/collections/visual-noise-acid-tongue

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