PRESS CLUB
RELEASE NEW SINGLE AND STUDIO VIDEO FOR
"NEW YEARS EVE"
WATCH AND LISTEN NOW WITH SUBSTREAM MAGAZINE
NEW ALBUM WASTED ENERGY OUT AUGUST 16
PERFORMING AT READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS IN UK
"Press Club install a rackety underlay to their sound that gives them a
uniqueness most bands would kill for." - Alternative Press
"...There's no answer to where they could end up." - Kerrang! Magazine
AUGUST 7, 2019 - Melbourne, Australia based punk band, Press Club, have released a new song and studio video for "New Years Eve" today. Fans can check out the video now exclusively with Substream Magazine here: http://bit.ly/33jAxHC
The song is taken from Press Club's highly anticipated new album Wasted Energy, which will be released on August 16.
The band previously released the song and music video for "Thinking About You". The track has been met with critical praise and grabbed add's on some of Spotify's biggest rock charts - New Noise, Fierce Femmes and All-New Rock.
Marked out as a band to keep an eye out for very early on, their music was singled out for its honesty and integrity, and the band praised for their powerhouse live performances.
Wasted Energy is the follow up to the band's wildly successful debut, Late Teens. Press Club's sonic calling cards are all present on the new album; the fuzz-addled, kicked-in speaker bass of Iain MacRae, the thick guitar tones of Greg Rietwyk, the merciless drumming of Frank Lees, and the emotionally charged vocal deliverance of Natalie Foster. The new album is now available for pre-order here: https://pressclub.bandcamp.com/
The band will embark on their biggest UK headline tour to date, including performances at Reading & Leeds Festivals after an overwhelmingly successful tour earlier this year that included sold out shows in London, Zurich and Edinburgh as well as festivals like Manchester Punk Festival, Liverpool Sounds City, The Great Escape and Belgium's Groezrock. A full list of upcoming shows can be found below.
Wasted Energy track listing
1. Separate Houses
2. Dead or Dying
3. Thinking About You
4. Chosen Ones
5. Obsessing
6. Get Better
7. Behave
8. New Year's Eve
9. How Can It Not Be Love?
10. I'm In Hell
11. Same Mistakes
12. Twenty-Three
Press Club // Upcoming Tour Dates
Aug 22 - The Parish, Huddersfield UK
Aug 23 - Reading Festival, Reading UK
Aug 24 - Leeds Festival, Leeds UK
Aug 25 - Greenbelt Festival, Northamptonshire UK
Aug 27 - Redrum, Stafford UK
Aug 28 - Bodega, Nottingham UK
Aug 29 - Surf Cafe, Newcastle UK
Aug 30 - Broadcast, Glasgow UK
Aug 31 - Night People, Manchester UK
Sep 3 - Annie's, Worcester UK
Sep 4 - Bermuda Bob's Hi-Fi, Norwich UK
Sep 5 - New Cross Inn, London UK
Sep 6 - Prince Albert, Brighton UK
Sep 8 - Cinetol, Amsterdam NL
Sep 10 - Haldern Pop Bar, Haldern DE
Sep 11 - Sonic Ballroom, Cologne DE
Sep 12 - Alte Hackerei, Karlsruhe DE
Sep 13 - Dynamo, Zurich CH
Sep 14 - Strom, Munich DE
Sep 15 - Cross Club, Prague CZ
Sep 18 - Stengade - Copenhagen DK
Sep 19 & Friday Sep 20 - Reeperbahn, Hamburg DE
Sep 21 - Vera, Groningen NL
Stay updated on Press Club
Website: http://www.pressclubmusic.com
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Sutherland Institute announces Sen. Romney & Burgess Owens in 2019 Congressional Series
SALT LAKE CITY—Today Sutherland Institute announced Sen. Mitt Romney will speak about The Case for Conservatism in Sutherland’s 2019 Congressional Series presented by Zions Bank.
Following Romney’s remarks, NFL star Burgess Owens will participate in a Q&A session with Rick B. Larsen, Sutherland Institute president. The event will be held on Monday, Aug. 19. Details are found below.
The is a private event, but it is open to the public with advance ticket registration and will be streamed live on Sutherland’s Facebook page. It is also open to media who RSVP in advance to kelsey@sifreedom.org. Space is limited.
“In an era of ballooning deficits; social, racial and economic divisions; and isolationist tendencies, socialism isn’t the solution,” Sen. Romney said. “Conservatives need to promote a governing vision that reaffirms our core principles and resonates with younger Americans who will ultimately shape the future of our country.”
“Conservative values are, for many, intermingled with partisan politics,” said Rick B. Larsen, Sutherland Institute president. “Without a clear explanation and defense of the value of societal institutions like faith, family and free market principles, upcoming generations may lack an accurate perception as to what conservatism means. Based on my personal associations with both the Romney family and Burgess Owens over the years, there are no two better people to ‘make the case.’”
THE CASE FOR CONSERVATISM
*Questions from the media will be permitted following a Q&A with audience members*
WHEN: Monday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. MDT
WHERE: Sutherland Institute
15 W. South Temple
Suite 200
Salt Lake City
Sutherland Institute’s Congressional Series is designed to facilitate civil dialogue and convene stakeholders, elected officials and community leaders to discuss important issues. These are private events. As such, Sutherland reserves the right to deny access to or remove any individual who interrupts a speaker or panelist, is disruptive or combative in tone, and/or refuses to allow open and civil dialogue. By attending any event, you agree to these terms and conditions.
ABOUT BURGESS OWENS:
Burgess Owens knows about success. From All-American honors at the University of Miami, to thriving businesses, to six wonderful children, and even a Super Bowl victory with the Oakland Raiders, he understands the journey. Burgess travels throughout the country speaking of the principles that underlie the foundation of our American way of life. From a historical perspective he speaks of the values espoused by our country's Founders through such documents as the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. His life has been dedicated not only to achieving his best on the field of competition, in the boardroom, and by serving in his community and church, but by helping others find their way to success and the joy that ensues.
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Dead canaries
by Robert Koehler
958 words
“Many people think that the fight for America is already lost. They couldn’t be more wrong. This is just the beginning of the fight for America and Europe. I am honored to head the fight to reclaim my country from destruction.”
This is how the El Paso killer ended his white supremacy screed, posted just before he “went in” and killed 22 “invaders” who were shopping at a Walmart’s store this past weekend. And, as everyone knows, half a day later another armed maniac wearing body armor and sporting a semiautomatic went on a shooting rampage outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, killing nine and wounding 26. And a few days earlier, a gunman killed three people, including two children, at a festival in Gilroy, Calif.
So what else is new? Should we sing the national anthem?
Something is terribly wrong in this country of almost 400 million guns — wrong beyond solution by gun control or increased security measures . . . at shopping malls, schools, garlic festivals, churches, temples, synagogues and everywhere else. Americans are killing each other at an average of one mass shooting a day. How is this possible? What poison is permeating the social infrastructure?
Nearly seven years ago, after the horrific shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, sociologist Peter Turchin called the nation’s mass murders, which have been increasing at a dizzying rate over the last half century, “canaries in a coal mine.”
He wrote: “The reason we should be worried about rampages . . . is because they are surface indicators of highly troubling negative trends working their way through deep levels of our society.”
In other words, tragic and horrifying as such events are in and of themselves, they are also collective signals of some deeply embedded flaw in the social infrastructure that must be discovered and addressed. Racism is only part of it. Guns are only part of it.
Consider the media consensus after the El Paso shootings that it was also a “hate crime.” Was this supposed to ramp up its level of seriousness? Innocent people are dead no matter what you call it. Pondering whether it should be considered a hate crime seemed as nitpicky to me as pointing out that the shooter not only killed 22 people but parked his car illegally before entering Walmart.
Here’s what it was: a dehumanization crime. In every mass shooting rampage that has ever taken place, the killer had no personal connection to his victims. They weren’t people, they were either symbols of a social wrong with which he was obsessed or, at best, collateral damage.
Turchin called this “social substitutability” — substituting a particular group of people for a general wrong, proclaiming them enemies because of their ethnicity, religion, presence in a classroom or any other reason.
Engaging thus has another name. It’s called going to war.
“On the battlefield,” Turchin wrote, “you are supposed to try to kill a person whom you’ve never met before. You are not trying to kill this particular person, you are shooting because he is wearing the enemy uniform. . . . Enemy soldiers are socially substitutable.”
They’re gooks. They’re nips. They’re hadjis.
Writing in the wake of a mass murder way back in May (in Virginia Beach), I noted: “War is a combination of dehumanizing and then killing an enemy along with any civilians in the way (a.k.a., collateral damage), and then glorifying the process: that is to say, it’s mass murder plus public relations.”
When we celebrate war, salute it and revere it, we’re not celebrating the corpses in mass graves or the bomb-shattered cities and villages and wedding parties. We’re not celebrating the radioactive fallout, the birth defects caused by depleted uranium or the global military’s unfathomably large carbon footprint contributing to the environmental collapse of Planet Earth. We’re not celebrating PTSD and the high suicide rate among vets.
We’re celebrating the waving flag and the national anthem, the glory and the bravery and the heroism. All this stirs the heart — especially the heart of a young man — like little else. All of which brings me back to the El Paso killer’s screed. He was going off, fully armed, to a shopping mall to kill moms and dads buying school supplies for their kids in order “to reclaim my country from destruction.”
He was playing war. My guess is that they’re all playing war, in one way or another. Whether or not the mass murderer is a vet — and a large percentage of them are — they are giving meaning to their lives by turning their anger and despair into a military operation. When we mix racism in with the easy availability of lethal weaponry, it turns into terrorism, which is to say, collective lunacy — a lunacy surpassed in its scope and human cost only by the lunacy of war itself.
So my question is this: Why can’t we talk about this at the national level? How many minutes of the last two Democratic presidential debates were devoted to the defense budget or nuclear weapons or the 21st-century phenomenon of endless war? Tulsi Gabbard, a vet, used about a minute of her time to address the issue, taking a clear stand against our regime-change wars. Otherwise . . . nada.
Does anyone think that lockdown drills in the public schools or security checks at shopping malls (a recent New Yorker cartoon depicted a woman in a grocery checkout line removing her shoes and putting them on the conveyor belt) will keep us safe? Does anyone believe that our current political system is capable of addressing the prevalence of war and the trillion dollars-plus we hemorrhage annually for “national defense” and prisons and “border security”?
Does anyone doubt that the mass murders will continue?
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Robert Koehler(koehlercw@gmail.com), syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor. He is the author of Courage Grows Strong at the Wound.
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CONVERSATION
PREMIERES HIGH-ENERGY NEW SINGLE
"I CAN PLAY THE OUTLAW"
EXCLUSIVELY WITH ALTERNATIVE PRESS
"One of the latest promising post-hardcore acts won't need more than a
few words to convince you of their greatness" - Alternative Press
WATCH MUSIC VIDEO HERE
August 7, 2019- Toronto, CDN - Post-Hardcore raconteurs, CONVERSATION have teamed up with Alternative Press to premiere their brand new single "I Can Play The Outlaw" today. The track touches on the topic that truth is rarely welcomed with open arms, but is still something to be sought after. Filled with aggression and hook, this song is just a taste of what CONVERSATION have to offer. Fans can stream the in-your-face track and music video today at https://www.altpress.com/features/conversation-new-song-video-i-can-play-the-outlaw/ .
The first single from the band's upcoming two-part EP, The Honesty EPs - Romance | Reflection, due out September 6th, is a look into the high-energy live show that has earned the band spots opening for acts like Silent Planet, Enter Shikari, Hands Like Houses, Our Last Night and many more.
"When we were coming up with the concept for this first video, we wanted to showcase what it was like to be at a CONVERSATION show and a raw look at what our lives look like. We had accumulated a lot of live footage so it was an easy move to build everything from there" shares vocalist Timothy Bolton on the video."I Can Play The Outlaw" was the perfect track for this style of video as it speaks to the attitude that we exude on stage. We don't expect everyone to like us; but we're incredibly happy when we meet people that see what we're doing and want to be involved. We're all over the moon to be releasing this music into the world."
Part one of the upcoming two-part EP, Romance is an introduction and first chapter that showcases the many different directions CONVERSATION are willing and able to go. From the crushing, chaotic instrumentation on "True Romance" to the more melody and hook driven work on "You've Made Yourself Perfectly Clear", this EP shows the works of a band who believe in the music they love, but are not afraid to step outside of its borders.
The Honesty EPs - Romance | Reflection Track Listing
This 6 track EP can be abrasive in one moment and pensive in the next, while always maintaining a common thread of raw and unapologetic honesty.
CONVERSATION is Timothy John Bolton (Vocals), Erik John Potvin (Bass), Jason Oaks (Guitar and vocals), Patrick Kosak (Guitar) andYoda Perron (Drums).
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