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Coheed and Cambria Return With New Single “Shoulders” [Listen]

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After a surprise “sequel” to the hit “Jessie’s Girl”, Coheed and Cambria have returned with “Shoulders”, their first proper studio recording in almost three years!

Available today on all streaming platforms, “Shoulders” is also joined by an official visualizer streaming on the band’s YouTube channel with an official music video arriving in the near future.

“For the last 20 years, Coheed and Cambria have continuously broken the mold of what a rock band can be, forging their own path and building a universe around their music unlike any other,” writes the press release. “Whether it is in the way their genre-spanning approach to songwriting has allowed them to bridge worlds without being contained to one, or the multifaceted story arc of their albums and comic book series which mark the longest running concept story in music, Coheed and Cambria have consistently shaped new standards, never conformed.

“‘Shoulders’ touches on the highs and lows of this journey, and how at times it can be frustrating to be an outsider to trendy circles, but in the end, doing it your own way has the biggest rewards,” they add.

“In art, in your career, in relationships…  No matter how much you give of yourself or try, you have to accept that not everything in life can be a perfect fit,” explains Coheed and Cambria vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez of the new track that’s being sold as the band’s most accessible material of their career, “built with ferocious riffs and a towering chorus.”


COHEED AND CAMBRIA ON TOUR

Later this summer, Coheed and Cambria will embark on an outdoor co-headlining amphitheater tour with The Used.  The 18-city U.S. tour, produced by Live Nation, will begin on Friday, Aug 27th in Irvine, CA and make stops in Phoenix, Dallas, Cleveland, New Jersey, Worcester, and more. The late summer journey will feature special guests Meet Me @ The Altar and carolesdaughter on select dates and will culminate with performance at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, FL on Sept 24th.  A full listing of dates can be found below along with additional information on www.CoheedAndCambria.com.

8/27 – 9/24: Co-headlining Dates with The Used

Fri Aug 27 – Los Angeles, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre*
Sat Aug 28 – Phoenix, AZ – Mesa Amphitheatre*
Mon Aug 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex – Outdoors*
Tue Aug 31 – Denver, CO – Levitt Pavilion Denver*
Thu Sep 02 – Irving, TX – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory*
Sat Sep 04 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater*
Sun Sep 05 – Houston, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
Tue Sep 07 – Wichita, KS – WAVE – Outdoors*
Wed Sep 08 – St. Louis, MO – Saint Louis Music Park*
Sat Sep 11 – Columbus, OH – Express Live! – Outdoors*
Sun Sep 12 – Cleveland, OH – Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica*
Tue Sep 14 – Cincinnati, OH – The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park*
Wed Sep 15 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park*
Sat Sep 18 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium – Outdoors*
Sun Sep 19 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center*
Tue Sep 21 – Baltimore, MD – MECU Pavilion^
Wed Sep 22 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater^
Fri Sep 24 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place^
Sun Sep 26 – Miami, FL – S.S. Neverender Cruise

* with special guest Meet Me @ The Altar
^ with special guest carolesdaughter

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on 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.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. 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. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “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 trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs 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.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…

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