When we reviewed Bay Factions self-titled album we used adjectives such as rich, delectable and desperate, all adjective that apply to the new song weâre premiering today titled âCrack Pipe,â the first in a series of b-sides theyâll be releasing. Singer James Mcdermott tell us of the song ha didnât quite make the cut the first time, âI wrote this song when I was 17. We messed around with it a bit and recorded it at Northeastern through their Summer Singles Series but hated the bass line. Never really figured out anything better for it and when we were listening to all of the potential songs for the album it just didnât fit quite the way we wanted it to.â
Check out the brand new track from Bay Faction below and be on the lookout for a new release in 2017.
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T3M Exclusive Stream: We Love You-Â My Emperor, I've Failed You
Itâs refreshing to hear when a band leaves their comfort zone to try and challenge themselves. We Love You does just that on their new release My Emperor, Iâve Failed You, their first release from Near Mint Records. The reverb and chorus, reflective of shoegaze and emo pioneers of the 90â˛s, brings a new element to the evolving sound of We Love You, almost making the music sound like itâs from another galaxy. Check out the stream below and pre-order their new record on cd, cassette or digitally from Near Mint!
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Sorority Noise Signs To Triple Crown, Announces Tour
Sorority Noise has just announced that theyâve signed to Triple Crown Records. Theyâll be releasing a split with TWIABP in the fall, as well as a new album in the first half of next year. In addition, theyâve announced a headlining tour with support from Raboys and JANK.
11/01 - Wallingford, CT - Wamleg*
11/02 - Boston, MA - Middle East Downstairs*
11/03 - New York, NY - Shea Stadium*
11/04 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church*
11/05 - Washington, DC - DC9*
11/06 - Richmond, VA - Strange Matter*
11/07 - Pittsburgh, PA - Cattivo*
11/09 - Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar*
11/10 - Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen*
11/11 - Madison, WI - University of Wisconsin, Madison - The Set*
11/12 - Cleveland, OH - Mahall's*
11/13 - Columbus, OH - Double Happiness*
Kevin Devine has just released the first single from his upcoming 9th studio album, Instigator. The song is called âNo Historyâ and you can listen to it below!
A Day Without Love Delivers Songs From the Heart With His New Video For âSolaceâ
We have the incredible opportunity to bring you a new video from the Philadelphia singer/songwriter, A Day Without Love. Brian Walker writes songs about real issues that he comes across, both personally and ones heâs seen first hand. He talks about his bouts with depression, self image and being black in a white DIY scene. Weâve been given the pleasure of releasing the music video for the title track of his new album Solace, as well an interview where we talk about his struggles. Check them out below!
A Day Without Love, how did that start out?
Iâve been playing guitar since I was 18 and the name A Day Without Love came from a poem that I wrote when I was writing a poetry book called 365 of Being Alive. I was playing music but I wasnât doing it actively but around 19 or 20 I started doing open mics but I only introduced myself as Brian Walker. Then I went through all of my old poems and thought A Day Without Love because the poem was about a time that I witnessed spousal abuse on a campus I was on and I stopped the incident from happening. I thought to write songs around human conflict and most of those conflicts being ones of my own or things Iâve witnessed and/or experienced so I thought A Day Without Love because the first day you find without love is the day you find chaos.
 Solace is both the name of the record youâre releasing and the video weâre premiering. Talk about those a little bit.
Solace came from a lot of confrontations with inner demons inside and just where Iâve been musically and where Iâve been in my life overall. Iâve had a lot of big growing up and changes that have happened to me since the writing of the song, like, I lost my grandfather to lung cancer, I stopped drinking alcohol, I lost my first serious day job, I went through a band breakup. Even though the band is just me right now, I had two lineup changes and those lineup changes werenât even out of personal disgust, they just had adult life things to do I wanted to do this full fledging. I had a lot of loss and a lot of friendships lost and systematic things happening, issues just like with life. So I know a lot of my songs prior are kind of like âIâm this young dude and I hate where Iâm atâ but now itâs kind of like, I have to face my fears, I have to confront these things Iâve been trying to hide away or drink away and pretend things are ok and I wanted to peace in myself while trying to overcome the struggle. The song Solace is about sticking true to your passions while realizing that your life might not be like others and knowing that not being like some people is kind of a struggle but at the same time its peaceful because you youâre not being define by society standards, thus the line âI know itâs not easy to live a life of insecurity.â
 You could hear that in the song. The song is somber and slow and reflects that mood. The slide guitar in particular really adds to that feeling as well. Where did the influence for that slide part come from?
Itâs interesting that you say that because we were actually not going to have that slide in there at all and that was written by my producer Jake Detwhiler. He was mimicking my vocal line âlet me liveâ because I said âyo, letâs figure out something that mimics that lineâ and at first we wrote is as just a bend but went back and forth between slide or no slide. My drummer at the time, who also plays guitar, was like âslide is cheesyâ and then I realized, thematically speaking, this record is supposed to be the summation of what Iâve done before and how Iâm going to move forward. The last time I used slide in any recordings was in my first record Island, so we thought to bring back the slide. Granted my music gets labeled as alternative-emo, I love the blues, so thatâs how we settled on keeping the slide.
 I think thatâs cool because you donât hear that in this type of music that often, if at all. Itâs unique and it sets you apart. Talking about your blog post titled âBeing Black In A White DIY Scene,â one thing you wrote about are how your influences differed from other peoples, which I found extremely interesting because you were pulling in pieces of BB King, Bill Withers and Motown and you can hear that influence. Do you think the way your influences differs from others attracts them more to your music?
I would say so. As silly as it sounds, if I got a dollar for every time someone came up to me and said and said ânice chords bro,â Iâd probably be pretty rich. For me, Iâm just adapting the soul and blues and stuff I learned into my music. When I first started playing the guitar I had an uncle who played bass and he would come over and have me play Sitting on the Dock of the Bay for hours and it drove me nuts. And then we do a song by The Stylistics and all of these traditionally soulful songs of the sixties and donât get me wrong, I love soul with all my power. I think the best way I can incorporate it into my music and the message Iâm writing is trying to create those chords and making it rock. I didnât grow up with Green Day. I listen t Green Day or The Ramones but it just wasnât my staple. It was there but whatâs at the home was listening to Bill Withers and Marvin Gaye and stuff like that.
 You mention that you decided to take part in the DIY community because of the impression to you than it actually ended up being and you ended up feeling otherwise.
My first DY show ever was at a coffee shop in New Jersey with this band called Track Royalty. They were the most accepting people ever and they were a 2007 MySpace type hardcore band. They said âI think you should try playing thisâ because I went to Penn State all I heard was Sweet Home Alabama and I thought that was all of music, you know, just coming to a bar and playing Sweet Home Alabama. So I realized that there was a community of people that was so much more accepting and will listen to you and care about you and are more appreciative of original music. Thatâs what I was taught about these people and coming from bars, it was very intimidating and not just because of how hard it is to turn a bar crowd but every time, someone would remind that Iâm black. There were times I would play at bars locally in Philly or even at Penn State where someone work drop the N word and say things like âIâve never seen an N word do thatâ or âIâm surprised a black guy is still playing guitar these days.â I know over the years of playing DIY scenes, granted Iâve had accepting experiences, Iâd have some crucial moments where it felt no different than being at a bar. Another example, itâs very off-putting to be told your music is soulful when youâre not writing soulful music. My music is kind of angsty, grungey, alternative rock music.
 So itâs people just saying something because they feel like youâll connect with because youâre black essentially.
Exactly. If I sang Ainât No Sunshine at the beginning of my set and said I was soulful, Iâd say damn straight Iâm soulful because I just sang a soulful song but Iâm not singing those songs. Itâs not saying I cant but I choose not to because I think I wouldnât be doing a service to the original type of music and to the art but I just think itâs a slap in the face. Itâs almost as bad as when you hear a lo-fi recording of, say, a female artist and you donât talk about the art but you talk about her gender. You say, âOh that was beautiful and sexyâ when there was nothing sexy about that song to begin with and I think that itâs disservicing to the artist. Thatâs another thing thatâs different about this record because not once in any of my other songs have I brought up race. I needed to address that and I needed to talk about that because Iâve definitely gone through a lot of things in Philly and in other places over the years where I was approached with âoh, we thought A Day Without Love was a white guy.â I have definitely gone to venues and loaded in and people didnât believe I was the person I was or âyour voice doesnât match your skin.â That being said to me, granted it sounds harmless, but it actually is pretty harmful.
 Itâs interesting that you bring up women because of the amount that is currently being written about the inequality of women as well in the music industry. You donât really see a black opinion in the inequality discussion in the music scene, at least not the extent that youâve written. How do you see this issue moving forward and how do you think it should be handled?
I think in DIY scenes weâve been talking about opening the dialogue and being aware for a long time but weâre not doing those things. I wish I had my own DIY house but I would be doing a lot of these things but I think it would be really productive if we did things to reflect the diversity that we desire and what I man by that is having shows that arenât just DIY and punk because the thing is, if you want to have black people in a DIY scene, youâre going to have to include the type of music that black people are playing and you have to do that in a way that is so stream less that it looks like youâre doing in because you appreciate the music, not because you want black people in the scene. I know for a fact that I have black peers that appreciate my music but wont go to shows because of the demographics there which in itself is a problem. The point Iâm trying to get across is the way we can eliminate and diversify and eliminate biased thinking is by creating diversified events where it doesnât feel like its just one specific type of genre, one specific type of people, one specific type of community and then say that weâre open to all communities. At the end f the day youâre going to have people that like certain things because thatâs their preference but when it comes to race and eliminating the biases that come along with it, I think the best thing you can do is try to see things for what they are and eliminate the language where you want to put someoneâs demographic before their music because granted every demographic your are, thatâs apart of what makes you you, but if you use a persons demographics to define a person I think thatâs the part that makes people feel labeled and I think we need to eliminate that from our conversation, eliminate that from our actions. When I go to some shows, and Iâm not going to say all shows, people are going to say âthatâs A Day Without Loveâ versus âthatâs a black musician that plays as A Day Without Loveâ I think itâs really bad when you see me as a black person playing as A Day Without Love versus just seeing me for the music Iâm writing.
 Itâs kind of the same thing when you bring in the issue of identifying a band with a female singer as female fronted instead of just whatever the band is.
Thatâs exactly what Iâm saying. I think at least from DIY perspective we need to diversify the way that we operate our communities down to the houses we book in to the shows that we book to the people we collaborate with, without using demographics as a factor in how weâre going to diversify.
 Would you compare the lack of action you see in your scene to the facebook warrior who writes a million words about an issue but you never se that person actually outside doing something for the cause?
I definitely would pair it because at least in the DIY community I see a lot of thoughts and opinions but Iâm not seeing much action and I think it would be very great if we could put a lot of those words and thoughts into action because after that action comes, a change in the way we think, the way we feel and the action becomes a real community brought together.
 Youâve mentioned that this is the first time youâve written songs about race. Tell us about the background behind those and why you thought now was the right time to do that.
Granted, Solace the single, isnât exactly much about race but more about dealing with depression, trying to find comfort in not being like other people and even though it wasnât written directly about race, those feelings definitely come from it. There are four songs specifically about race on the record. I felt like it was the time to finally my time to come out about the truth of who I am, and thatâs not saying I was never honest with any of my songs, but there were certain topics that I thought need to be brought about. My whole theme of the record was to talk about the inner things that bother me as a human being and literally make me almost hate myself and how Iâm trying to find peace with that. For a lot of my life even outside of the music community Iâve definitely had events that have happened that have made me resent that Iâm black. Like the song Constantly Ignored is actually about racism from the in-group and the out-group because I used to get bullied by black people for being educated. I did speech therapy when I was young because the catholic school said I had a very urban Philadelphia accent. I grew up in a black neighborhood and black kids would try and fight me because they thought that I thought that I was better than them and thatâs not the case at all. I was raised to accept people for who they are. So thatâs the type of thing I wanted to get across was me trying to find peace within myself. I thought, me as a musician and sticking with my mission of writing songs that make people think while still rocking out, it would be a great idea to talk about race because I think id be a liar to myself if I didnât talk about my cultural or heritage type of thing that Iâve had to face. I think the song that speaks the most powerful is something I didnât write but a track where my grandma spoke on, the interlude I Hop It Ends Someday, I literally hit record and asked my grandma âwhat do you think about racismâ and she sat down in my room and just went on a rant. I think there are certain lines there that blew my mind. She speaks about not hating white people, she speaks about not being able to get a hot dog at an intersection in Philadelphia and she talks about police brutality. I definitely think in the emo/punk scene, the scene that I play in most often, thatâs a topic thatâs just not talked about. Itâs seen all the time in hip-hop but itâs not talked about and that might have to do with the fact that a lot of the people in that scene havenât experienced what Iâve experienced.
 Have you ever thought about bringing the dialogue about racism to your live shows?
Iâm starting to but I havenât started talking about racism yet, mostly because I havenât played those songs and the records not out but in terms of depression, Iâve definitely been talking about Ericaâs Lighthouse and the importance of being there for each other because I definitely have songs from previous releases that are about depression. Race is something I want to do but it will most likely happen this fall. I wonât lie, initially I was scared to start talking about race. Part of me making my difference in this world and giving to this world is trying to share the pain that Iâve experienced to other people can heal. You donât even have to be black to understand where Iâm coming from because you have to think to yourself, the underground punk scene is supposed to be a scene where people say theyâre outcasts due to the fact that theyâre marginalized, maybe they donât have any friends due to a social issue or whatever it may be, but if I talk about what makes me feel like Iâm an outcast or certain things that were out of my control that made me an outcast then I would hope the scene or the community would feel a little bit closer and little bit more understood.
 So what are the plans for A Without Love?
Iâm going to be practicing with a full band and Iâll be doing a full band show in Philadelphia at Everybody Hits with a few local bands. On top of that, Iâll be spending two weekends per month traveling in the Midwest and northeast to spread my message. Another thing I want to do in the near future is write an EP about my body image because thatâs another thing Iâve struggled with. Iâm going to continue what Iâm doing but b a little bit more proactive about it.
 At the end of the day, music is your outlet and how you cope.
Yes and itâs becoming more of a coping mechanism for me each and every day. I definitely deal with depression and currently cant afford therapy but the guitar has been my therapist really. I just did an interview with Special Book By Special Kids not too long ago where I talked about depression and how music helps me because itâs kind of like connecting the dots. You express a feeling that you have and someone says âI have it tooâ and you share your ideas and thoughts about you get through each day. I think my goal with A Day Without Love is trying to help people do that.
Crying have announced their new album, titled Beyond the Fleeting Gales. Itâll be out on 10/14 via Run For Cover. Listen to the first single, âWool In The Wash,â over at Stereogum.
American Football have announced a second self-titled album, to be released October 21st via Polyvinyl. Listen to a new song, âIâve Been Lost For So Long,â over at Pitchfork.
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Slaughter Beach, Dog Announces LP, Streams âMonstersâ
Slaughter Beach, Dog, the side project of Modern Baseballâs Jake Ewald, has just announced its debut LP, Welcome, out via Lame-O on 9/30. The first single, âMonsters,â is streaming over at Stereogum. Also, check out the acoustic session we did with Jake for this song last year below!
Pinegrove has just announced what theyâre calling the âPingus Invitational.â Hereâs what the band has to say about it:
âhello everybody i am very proud to announce the First Annual Pingus Invitational. Pingus, which is Latin for table tennis, is also an ethos based in hanging out & playing acoustic shows in living rooms. this next week we'll be doing our best to embody the Spirit of Pingus through a short tour down to Atlanta & back. We will also be making a documentary to help spread the message of hanging out & ping pong & music. if you're around any of these places please get in touch & i'll provide you with an address!â
All Get Out have announced their âNobody Likes A Quitterâ Tour. Theyâll be joined by Gates and Microwave. The tour kicks off on October 27th in Nashville.
Kevin Devine has just announced the Instigator Tour, covering the whole US this fall. He will be joined by Pinegrove, Petal, and on select dates, Julien Baker. Tickets go on sale this Friday.
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Set Your Goals have announced three shows for this December in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of their album Mutiny!. Joining them will be Like Pacific, Canât Swim, Search Party, and most excitingly, Misser, who havenât been active in about 2 years.