GUEST POST: Faith Coloccia of Mamiffer – Top Artists of 2019


 

Time for another Ghost Cult “End Of Year” Guest post! We’ll be sharing lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the globe. Faith Coloccia of Mamiffer shares her top eleven artists, albums, live concerts of 2019 and beyond with our readers. This marks Faith’s second appearance in our year-end list jamboree and we are honored and grateful for her recommendations, always worth checking out! Mammifer released their new album The Brilliant Tabernacle via Sige Records.

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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: November 1st New Music Releases


Purchase And Stream All The New Music Released Today!

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SUMAC – Love In Shadow


Big time artists do big-time things, at big times, to paraphrase my favorite sports analogy. 2018 is shaping up to be a crazier time in the world than ever, full of chaos, and special kind of hubris that fuels the mania. Art is typically a reflection of society, and for me personally, I have been clinging to art in a vain attempt to help save my own life in this tumultuous time. One of those artists giving me life has been underground supergroup SUMAC, with songs as big as the all caps in their name. Turning in yet another massive release with Love In Shadow (Thrill Jockey), the band peels back the curtain on this undercurrent running through all of us and shows us the glorious ugliness many choose not to see.Continue reading


GUEST POST: Faith Coloccia Of Mamiffer Best Of 2016


Ghost Cult once again brings you “End Of Year” lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the world. Today we are honored to have Mamiffer co-leader Faith Coloccia who shares her eclectic list with us. If you aren’t familiar with Faith’s musical output or any of her other ende+avours (she’s a baddass renaissance woman) look her up!

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Video: Mamiffer – Parthenogenesis, Tour Begins Next Week


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Mamiffer released their new music video for the track ‘Parthenogenesis’ from their forthcoming SIEGE Records release The World Unseen on Apr 1st. You can watch the video at this link or below:

 

Mamifer is a duo comprised of Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner (ISIS, Sumac, Old Man Gloom). Next week they kick off their short tour of the US. The World Unseen comes in several formats like CD, 2xLP, and digital formats via SIGE Records in the U.S. (pre-order it here) and as a CD with a bonus disc on Daymare Records in Japan.

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The World Unseen track listing:

1. By the Light of My Body

2. Flower of the Field II

3. 13 Burning Stars

4. Mara

5. Domestication of the Ewe – part I

6. Domestication of the Ewe – part II

7. Domestication of the Ewe – part III

8. Parthenogenesis

 

Mamiffer – US tour dates:

Mar 24 Boise, ID : Treefort Music Festival

Mar 25 Salt Lake City, UT : Diabolical Records

Mar 26 Denver, CO : Lost Lake

Mar 28 Omaha, NE : O’Leavers

Mar 29 Columbia, MO : Club Berlin

Mar 30 St. Louis, MO : Foam

Mar 31 Knoxville, TN : Big Ears Festival

Apr 1 Cincinnati, OH : Northside Yacht Club

Apr 2 Chicago, IL : Co-Prosperity Sphere

Apr 3 Milwaukee, WI : Cactus Club

Apr 4 Minneapolis, MN : Icehouse

Apr 5-9 Iowa City, IA : Mission Creek Festival

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Hopscotch Music Festival Confirm Line Up


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Hopscotch Music Festival, dubbed “America’s (Secretly) Best Festival” and “the premiere experimental and underground festival in America,” returns September 10-12, 2015, to downtown Raleigh, NC at Raleigh City Plaza. Confirmed artists performing include:

Ace Henderson
Acid Chaperone
Advaeta
American Aquarium
Ameriglow
Bandages
Battles
Big Ups
Birds of Avalon
Black Clouds
Blaxxx
Booher
Boulevards
Breathers
Brief Lives
Bully
Cakes Da Killa
Carlitta Durand
Cashmere Cat
Chaz French
Chelsea Wolfe
Choked Out
Chulo
Clark
Cloud Becomes Your Hand
Dad & Dad
Daniel Romano
Deerhunter
DJ Earl
Dorthia Cottrell
Drippy Inputs
Dwight Yoakam
Echo Courts
Elisa Ambrogio
Escher
EYEHATEGOD
Eyes Low
Father
FAULTS
Flock of Dimes
Fórn
Godflesh
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
GoldLink
Grand Champeen
Grandma Sparrow
Hank Wood & The Hammerheads
Hanz
HeCTA
Ian William Craig
Jake Xerxes Fussell
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Jenks Miller & Rose Cross NC
Jenny Hval
Jessica Pratt
John Chantler
Jubilee
Keath Mead
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Las Rosas
Lawrence English
Le1F
Leapling
Less Western
Leverage Models
Lilac Shadows
Lizzo
Lost Trail
Loud Boyz
Lud
Luxe Posh
Lydia Loveless
Mac McCaughan
Mamiffer
Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler
May Erwin
Microkingdom
Mitski
Moenda
Moon Duo
Morbids
Mumdance
Must Be The Holy Ghost
Naked Naps
Natalie Prass and the Spacebomb Orchestra
Nathan Golub
Natural Causes
New Music Raleigh: Music by Oscar Bettison and Evan Ziporyn
Nick James
No Love
Nocando
Nots
Obey City
OBN IIIs
Old Man Gloom
Oulipo
Outer Spaces
Owen Pallett
Patois Counselors
Peacers
Phil Cook presents Southland Mission
Pile
Pill
Porches
Prurient
Pusha T
River Whyless
Roky Erickson
Sannhet
Sarah Louise
Secret Boyfriend
Sheer Mag
Shitty Boots
Silent Lunch
SkyBlew
SMLH
Solar Halos
Some Army
Soon
Steve Gunn & The Black
Twig Pickers
Tashi Dorji
The Vibekillers
thefacesblur
Tombs
TV on the Radio
Tycho
TZYVYX
Wahyas
Warehouse
Wildhoney
Wizard Rifle
Wovenhand
WYMYNS PRYSYN
X
Yandrew
Zack Mexico
Zeena Parkins
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