Angels & Airwaves have officially announced their highly anticipated sixth studio album, LIFEFORMS, will be released on September 24.

They have also announced a world tour, beginning on September 29 of this year that will extend into 2022. Both of these announcements were first made from space, when the band partnered with Sent Into Space to launch a renewable hydrogen capsule which played an out of this world premiere of the entire album along with displaying the tour and album information!

This celebration extends to the release of the band’s second track from the forthcoming record entitled “Restless Souls” which is written from the perspective of God as a letter to humanity regarding life’s trials and the necessity for humans to demonstrate resiliency.

“’Restless Souls’ in many ways is a honest letter from God to humanity – because life seems to always be looking for ways to inspire, clarify and teach us when things become more difficult,” said frontman Tom DeLonge. Of LIFEFORMS, he said: “This album for me is a journey through different relationships, different points of view, and how we each have our own life path.”

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Angels & Airwaves is comprised of Tom DeLonge (lead vocals, guitar/synths), Ilan Rubin (drums/guitar/backing vocals/synths), David Kennedy (guitar) and Matt Rubano (bass) – released the first single and video from LIFEFORMS, “Euphoria,” on May 19. NME called the track “explosive” while Rolling Stone said the visuals told a “story about a passionate and ultimately deadly liaison between a femme fatale and a Man in Black.”

DeLonge, a founding member of Blink-182, formed Angels & Airwaves in 2005. The band has released five full-length albums and charted numerous hits, including “The Adventure,” “The War,” “Everything’s Magic” and “Rebel Girl.” The Dream Walker, released in 2014, hit No. 1 on iTunes and No. 5 on Billboard’s Top Alternative Albums chart. A multimedia project, the album was accompanied by a graphic novel, comic books and the short film Poet Anderson, co-directed by DeLonge, which won Best Animated Short Film at the Toronto International Short Film Festival.

In addition to his work with AVA, DeLonge created To The Stars, a multimedia entertainment company that creates original content across music, film, television and publishing. DeLonge served as executive producer of The History Channel series “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation” and will make his feature film directorial debut with the forthcoming Monsters of California.

The Restless Souls tour will begin on September 29 in Riverside, CA and will move throughout the United States before spending the month of March in Europe and the UK. Tickets will be on sale on Friday, June 18 at 10 AM local time at this link HERE. The Los Angeles and New York shows went on sale last month while it was also announced that the band would be playing Lollapalooza on Saturday, July 31. This newly announced tour is their last since their sold-out 2019 fall tour, which was their return to the live arena after a seven year hiatus.

Angels & Airwaves – Announcement From Space!

From humble beginnings in a Brisbane bedroom, Austen’s unique brand of hooky and emotive indie-pop has gone on to hit airwaves and stages around the country, introducing her as one of the most promising rising voices of her kind. With her mononymous persona serving as a bold alter ego to the self-described introvert, Austen draws inspiration from synth pop, electronica, psychedelia, art pop and indie, and has been praised for her distinctive sound on new single, North South East West.

My Dream Rider: Austen

1. Adrienne, from Yoga With Adrienne. She kept me sane and healthy during lockdown and has the perfect mix of motivation and relaxation for that pre-show energy.
2. Cheese platter. One thing I missed during the gig-drought of Covid is the cheese and fruit platter of the green room. All of the on-stage energy comes from the camembert.
3. Teppanyaki chef, who throws food towards me as I get ready. I’ll be doing my makeup and turn my head slightly to get a little piece of egg catapulted into my mouth on demand. Yum.
4. Sensory deprivation chamber/float tank. I’ve done a floatation tank session only once before, and it was wild: time seemed to warp until it felt like I’d been in there for 24 hours, after what was in reality about 30 minutes. I came out with a very different and more relaxed outlook on life, which is exactly what I need pre-show.
5. Home cinema projector – to watch David Attenborough docos in HD.
6. Exotic animal petting zoo, because I want to hug a monkey.
7. IV vitamin drip. Sometimes after a few shows and a week of being sleep deprived I really crave some *health* pumped straight into my bloodstream. I’ve never actually done this, but I feel like it would make me a better performer, and justify the fact that I survive on eating only the green room cheese platters mentioned in number 2.
8. Someone to pat me and tell me I’m doing a good job. I’d like this just in life, generally, but especially when the pre-gig nerves kick in.
9. A fire for that nice smoke smell of camping. I would accept some sage or palo santo to burn and waft around the space, but ideally, a fire pit in the middle of the room – with proper ventilation, obvs – would be the perfect way to make me feel grounded and cozy. (Whoever is patting me and telling me I’m doing a good job would be allowed a quick break to tell campfire stories.)
10. Mark Ronson spinning vinyls in the corner. I just feel like he’d be able to nail the vibe, you know?

(BONUS)

11.               Benji, from Yoga With Adrienne. My kindred spirit.

Austen’s new single, North South East West, out now!

Music video out now.

https://www.austenmusic.com/

NGAIIRE Releases Visuals For ‘Closer’ Single

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Following the announcement that NGAIIRE has joined the Majestic Casual roster, the Sydney-based future soul darling releases the visuals for the recent single ‘Closer’, taken from her upcoming third album ‘3’ which is due for release on Friday, 27th August.

The whole story concept revolves around two lovers (Sela and her real life partner Mark Turner) who are a part of a cult who must abstain from any kind of affection, lust, love, sex to uphold age old beliefs. Their cover is blown and they are punished. The cult represents uniformity, culture, religion, ideology with the angular choreography further meant to reflect the militant and sometimes absurd ways in which we choose to move as groups of people.

The lovers represent the yearning to live outside of the boxes but unable to because of the perimeters that are there. I am merely a story teller within the story which Adam opted to have me dropped in a bit later as to not be the entire focal point of the story which I think works well especially since I had initially toyed with the idea of not being in it at all. I also serve to represent a choice  made to be loud and proud against the backdrop of what society wants to dictate to me what I should act like – which is not a multi-faceted black woman.” – NGAIIRE

Having built a musical identity that effortlessly crosses genre and art form, her renowned vocals, tight beats and big pop sounds have seen NGAIIRE acquire countless accolades including four National Live Music Awards, an FBi Radio SMAC Award for best live act, Australian Music Prize and AIR Award nominations for her 2016 release Blastoma and the inaugural Australian Women in Music Award for Artistic Excellence. Not to mention gracing the stages of Glastonbury through to Splendour In The Grass, and touring alongside artists from Sufjan Stevens to Flume to Alicia Keys and John Legend.

NGAIIRE ‘Closer’ is available now via Majestic Casual.