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Announcing La Luz's Floating Features, out 5/11/18

Credit: Vikesh Kapoor

Hardly Art is pleased to announce the return of L.A. shredders La Luz, whose new album Floating Features will arrive on LP, CD, digital, and cassette Friday, May 11th. Propulsive first single “Cicada” offers a taste of Floating Features’ blissed-out hi-fi sound–stream it now and click the link above to watch director Ryan D. Browne’s soap opera-...

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Announcing Dick Stusso's In Heaven LP; listen to "Modern Music"

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Hardly Art is proud to announce its first release of the new year: Dick Stusso’s In Heaven. Lead single “Modern Music” is an apt introduction to Stusso, an existentialist cowboy character inhabited by Bay Area songwriter Nic Russo. You can stream the song or watch a lyric video starring Stusso below. In Heaven is out Friday, March 2nd on LP, CD,...

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Protomartyr announce new album + tour dates, share "Why Does It Shake?"


This October marks the release of Protomartyr’s third and finest work to date, The Agent Intellect. Named after an ancient philosophical questioning of how the mind operates in relation to the self, it’s an elegant and often devastating display of all that makes Protomartyr—composed of singer Joe Casey, guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard,...

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Shannon and the Clams return with Gone by the Dawn, share video for "Corvette"

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Hardly Art is proud to announce Gone by the Dawn, the latest full-length from acclaimed Bay Area trio Shannon and the Clams. Earlier today, Stereogum debuted leadoff single “Corvette,” along with its evocative music video, directed by Loren Risker for Out of Focus TV. Recorded at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco and produced by Sonny Smith, Gone ...

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Announcing La Luz's Weirdo Shrine, out August 7; hear first single "You Disappear"

Credit: Andrew Imanaka

On Friday, August 7th, Seattle “surf noir” band La Luz returns with the anticipated follow-up to their breakout 2013 debut album It’s Alive. Recorded in a makeshift surf shop studio with producer Ty Segall, Weirdo Shrine is a noisier, more energized effort. “You Disappear,” the first mp3 single, premiered this morning via Stereogum – read on at ...

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