Freakout Announces Second Chance Treefort Showcase on 3/24 in Boise

Freakout Records is proud to return to Treefort Music Fest for the second year to present a second chance showcase. This showcase is free and open to the public and a chance for everyone to catch some bands a second time or first if you miss their official performance. This event is FREE for 21+ w/ID.

FEATURING:

Smokey Brights, Acid Tongue, BlackWater HolyLight, Fruit & Flowers, Kuinka, Dan Dan, Gold Casio, Robin Bacior, The Love Bunch, Prism Bitch, KEXP DJs Sharlese & Atticus.

RSVP HERE

Freakout Records Welcomes Gold Casio, Announces 'Love vs. Logic' Single

Freakout Records is pleased to announce Portland based nu-disco pop group, Gold Casio as the latest addition to the label. With a new EP right around the corner, KEXP has premiered the first single "Love vs. Logic," which will drop on all streaming platforms this Wednesday, February 14th.

"Love Vs Logic is a song about two aspects of the human experience that influence our lives in often conflicting manners, but are ultimately not doomed to be contradictory." 

Julius Casian, Gold Casio

Catch Gold Casio this week in Seattle as Freakout presents the band at Barboza on the 14th, along with Portland's Minden amd local support from Future Shock.

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You can also catch Gold Casio at the first night of our Freakout DJ Series, coming to you from Jupiter, a newly established art and arcade bar in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.  

Freakout is Headed to Austin for SXSW!

Freakout Records & Votiv are proud to present an official SXSW showcase at this year's festival. Join us Thursday 3/15 at Javelina on Rainey St. for a special evening of PNW-rooted music, featuring artists from the Freakout family along with a few of our friends. For festival tickets and more information, visit the SXSW website.

For more information, check out our Facebook event here. 

5th Annual Freakout Festival - KEXP Blog Recap

Check out the recap from the KEXP blog team of the 5th Annual Freakout Festival that took place in Ballard November 17th-18th. Thanks to all involved in making this year a success!

The 5th Annual Freakout! Full Lineup Annouced

Join Freakout in Ballard this year for The 5th Annual Freakout!

Friday-Saturday November 17th + 18th

TICKETS AND MORE INFO

Full Lineup now announced:

Guantanamo Baywatch, Magic Sword, Porter Ray, Roadkill Ghost Choir, My Goodness, Smokey Brights, Acid Tongue, Maiah Manser, Charms, Cosmos, The Shivas, Bread & Butter, Battlme, Sundries, Bombay Beach, Kelli Schefer, The White Tears & Pearl Dragon is Dead, Tomo Nakayama, Psychomagic, Stas THEE Boss, BlackWater HolyLight, Taylar Elizza Beth, Sleeping Lessons, Jusmoni, Cumulus, Basement Surfers, The Artisanals, Eastern Souvenirs, Spesh, Future Shock, Baywitch, Moon Darling, FKL, Youngblood and Head Band.

The annual Festival curated by Freakout Records with support this year from KEXP's Audioasis, Treefort Music Fest, Killroom Records and Artist Home Record Club.

Acid Tongue - Humpty Dumpty: NYLON Premiere

'Humpty Dumpty,' the second single from Acid Tongue's forthcoming album 'Babies' (10/13), premiered today on NYOLON: https://nylon.com/articles/acid-tongue-humpty-dumpty-song

On the concept of the song, singer Guy Keltner says...

"Sometimes love is a rock, and sometimes love is an egg. We criticize, whine, cheat, yell and nag until we have our partner sizzling on high heat over an open flame. I think most couples have this vision of growing old side-by-side and being all things to one another. The truth is, we're all Tinder-loving, wine gurgling, lonesome, depressed animals chasing what flees. We buy the first car that fits us, run the thing into the ground, and sell it off to the nearest teenager with a learner's permit. Oh, to be young and in love!"

Babies comes out October 13 via Freakout Records. Pre-order the album on CD or vinyl HERE.

New Release: Roadkill Ghost Choir - False Youth Etcetera, Out Oct 27th

Cinematic, indie-rockers ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR have announced their return with a new album entitled False Youth Etcetera, out October 27 via Freakout Records.

Stream the first single ‘Classics (Die Young)’ HERE

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“'Classics (Die Young)' is my tribute to Dylan & The Boss and a reminder to myself to keep on moving forward through the dark days. The tone of the song was inspired by one of my favorite Springsteen tracks ‘Tougher Than The Rest’ and I wanted to chase down that feeling I got from it.” – Andy Shepard (lead singer)

For more information about Roadkill Ghost Choir & False Youth Etcetera, visit Freakout Records website. Additionally, the band has announced an extensive North American tour which goes on sale Friday. Full dates below.

HEAR 'CLASSICS (DIE YOUNG)'

TOUR DATES

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11.02 – Nashville. TN – The Basement East

11.03– Athens. GA – Caledonia Lounge

11.07 – Houston. TX – White Oak Music Hall

11.08 – Austin. TX – Stubbs Jr

11.10 – Tuscon. AZ – 191 Toole

11.11 – San Diego. CA – Soda Bar

11.13 – Los Angeles. CA – Moroccan Lounge

11.14 – San Francisco. CA – Rickshaw

11.16– Portland. OR– The Liquor Store

11.17– Seattle. WA– Freakout Festival

11.18– Boise. ID – Neurolux

11.20– Denver. CO– The Globe

Acid Tongue Announce Europe Tour

ACID TONGUE is excited to be returning to their friends at Failure By Design Records for a third tour of the UK & first trip to the European mainland!

Thanks to Zuma Booking, Bad Vibrations UK, Acid Box Promotions, & Portsmouth Psych for their assistance.

Stream the premiere single from Babies, "If I Really Loved Her" & pre-order the album available October 13 via Freakout Records (US) & Failure By Design (UK).

UK:

09/27 - Brighton, UK - Sticky Mike’s Frog Bar (TICKETS)

09/28 - Hull, UK - ADELPHI (TICKETS)

09/29 - London, UK - The Shackwell Arms (TICKETS)

09/30 - Portsmouth, UK - The Birdcage (TICKETS)

10/01 - Cambridge, UK - Blue Moon (TICKETS)

EU:

10/02 - Bruxelles, BE - Le Chaff

10/03 - Mannheim, DE - Kurzbar

10/04 - Paris, FR - Espace B (TICKETS)

10/05 - Olten, CH - Le Coq d’Or

10/06 - Toulouse, FR - Obohem

10/07 - Biarritz, FR - Savsage Festival

10/10 - San Sebastian, ES - DabaDaba

10/12 - Lisbon, PT - Damas

10/13 - Fafe, PT - Cafe Avenida*

10/14 - Sevilla, ES - Sala X

10/16 - Toulouse, FR - La Cave a Rock

10/17 - Imperia, IT - Arci Camalli

10/18 - Firenze, IT - Annibale Night @ NOF

10/19 - Roma, IT - Fanfulla 5/A

10/20 - Ravenna, IT - Circolo Abajur

10/21 - San Salvo, IT - Beat Cafe

* Babies LP Release Party

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.

PRE-SALE TICKETS

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."

Pre-Order 'Babies'

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

New Release: The Bumps - 50th Anniversary Reissue: 'Please Come Down / Baby Blue' (1967)

Freakout Records is proud to present our first reissue...

The Bumps - 50th Anniversary: "Please Come Down / Baby Blue" (1967)

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Available AUGUST 25 on limited-edition 7" vinyl, in partnership with our friends Mike McCready & Hockeytalkter Records

For fans of: The Sonics, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts

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Exclusive Stream: Neu Yeuth 'Make A Move'

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We've been waiting awhile for this one! Freakout is so excited to finally welcome Neu Yeuthto the family! We have an exclusive stream of their single 'Make A Move' available below.

Pre-order their debut self-titled EP, available July 14, on either physical CD or digitally.

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Neu Yeuth was born from a Craigslist ad.

When Huntington Filson and Claire Grayson first connect in 2015, they could have never guessed they would become so creatively conjoined at the hip. In the year since, they've spent long Sunday mornings writing and making sweet beats now available to you and your little earbuds via Apple Music & Spotify. 

Huntington, a student of Cornish College of the Arts, and Claire, a Salt Lake transplant, create a style of electronic pop perfectly apropos to modern youth culture. Pulling from influences such as CHVRCHES, Purity Ring, MØ, & Grimes, a style that might sound familiar coming from the lofts of Los Angeles or Brooklyn neighborhoods, is now blasting out of the Pacific Northwest.

Maiah Manser featured in Vogue Met Gala Instagram for Katy Perry, Frank Ocean, & Giselle Bundchen

Tracks from Maiah Manser's Second Skin EP were used by Vogue for the Met Gala 2017.

Her songs were featured for Katy Perry, Giselle Bundchen, and Frank Ocean, by director Gordon von Steiner, at the Instagram booth.

Now Available: Maiah Manser - 'Second Skin' (EP)

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The debut EP by noir/pop songstress Maiah Manser is now available digitally everywhere! Read the premiere on Pigeons & Planes and order a copy on CD from the Freakout store.

Stream the EP on Spotify, Apple Music, & all other digital outlets.

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/

Maiah Manser 'Top of My Lungs' premiere on The FADER

Maiah Manser premiered her new track "Top of My Lungs" with producer Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean) on The FADER.

Stream TOML on Spotify, Apple Music, & all other digital outlets now!

Full Second Skip - EP available Fri. April 28.

Sofar Sounds Seattle: Freakout & Filson Showcase

A huge thank you to Sofar Sounds & CC Filson Co.in Ballard for hosting an incredible night of acoustic performances by Smokey Brights, Fauna Shade, and FKL last night.

Photos by Keith Trix Woodard II

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

PRE-ORDER AT PEARLJAM.COM

Maiah Manser premieres conceptual film of 'Second Skin' on Atwood Magazine

Maiah Manser has debuted a new conceptual video for her single “Second Skin” over at Atwood Magazine. Watch: http://atwoodmagazine.com/second-skin-maiah-manser-premiere/

The video, produced by Kevin Shea Adams, is a fashion-based exploration of the high desert.

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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