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SuicideGirls Are Bringing Back ‘Blackheart Burlesque’

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SuicideGirls, the wildly popular online alternative model website, is announcing the return of Blackheart Burlesque, which is back after a 6-year hiatus. The show toured throughout North America for five years in the early 2000’s, opening for Guns N Roses and Courtney Love. The tour this year begins in Cleveland, OH on October 11th and comes to an end December 5th in New Orleans, LA.

The show will feature choreography from Manwe Sauls-Addison, who has worked with artists such as Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, and Lady Gaga. Performances and stripteases will poke fun at Kill Bill, Game Of Thrones, The Big Lebowski, Planet Of The Apes, Dr. Who, and more.

The full touring schedule can be seen below. Tickets are currently on sale here.

SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque Tour Dates:
Oct 11 – Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
Oct 12 – Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room
Oct 13 – Cincinnati, OH – 20th Century Theatre
Oct 14 – Sauget, IL – Pop’s Nite Club
Oct 15 – Columbia, MO – Blue Note
Oct 17 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theater
Oct 18 – Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground
Oct 19 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
Oct 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – In The Venue
Oct 22 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
Oct 23 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theatre
Oct 24 – Reno, NV – Knitting Factory
Oct 25 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
Oct 26 – West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues
Oct 27 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues
Oct 28 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
Oct 29 – Tempe, AZ – Marquee Theatre
Nov 1 – San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
Nov 2 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
Nov 3 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
Nov 4 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
Nov 7 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room
Nov 8 – St. Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
Nov 9 – Orlando, FL – Plaza
Nov 10 – Atlanta, GA – Masquerade
Nov 11 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
Nov 13 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
Nov 14 – Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
Nov 15 – Richmond, VA – The National
Nov 17 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
Nov 18 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts
Nov 19 – New York, NY – The Gramercy Theatre
Nov 20 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
Nov 21 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
Nov 22 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
Nov 23 – Providence, RI – Fete Ballroom
Nov 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
Nov 26 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
Nov 27 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues
Nov 29 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theatre
Nov 30 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave II
Dec 1 – Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
Dec 3 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
Dec 4 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
Dec 5 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues

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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!

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(l-r) Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter, Daniel Davies - Photo Credit: Sophie Gransard

John Carpenter has been teasing big news for a couple weeks now and all has been revealed this morning. Carpenter is back with Lost Themes IV: Noir from Sacred Bones Records!

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

John Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”

From John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Lost Themes IV: Noir is set for release on May 3 via Sacred Bones Records. The album pays tribute to Noir cinema!

In conjunction with the announcement, they’ve shared a music video for the album’s first single, “My Name Is Death”, a miniature noir film directed by Ambar Navarro, starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). “Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” states Carpenter. “ We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death.”

Sacred Bones previews, “The scene-setting new single marks new territory for Carpenter and his cohorts, propelled by a driving post-punk bassline that is embellished by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo.”

“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’ Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films. But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”

Sacred Bones notes, “Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV ‘noirish’ is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it.”

“It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that became the initial Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts,” the label explains. “Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. That innate free-flowing chemistry helps Lost Themes IV: Noir run like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

Here’s the full Lost Themes IV: Noir track list:

1. My Name is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes

The following physical variants will be available:

  • Sacred Bones Exclusive Red on Clear Splatter vinyl w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Sacred Bones Society Exclusive on Black and White Splatter on Clear w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • All retail Transparent Red, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Indie Exclusive Tan and Black Marble, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Rough Trade Exclusive Oxblood Red and Black Splatter, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Shout Exclusive Black and Clear cloudy, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • Black LP, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
  • CD
  • Tape

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now!

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