Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
75001 Paris, France
In case you didn't know, we are touring north america this summer along with She's Green. Tickets are on sale and some dates are already running low. Don't miss out!
Tickets at: softcult.band Softcult – June 2025 Tour Dates
05/29 Hamilton ON – Bridgeworks
05/30 Toronto ON – The Axis Club
05/31 Ottawa ON – The 27 Club
06/01 Montreal QC – L'Escogriffe
06/03 Guelph ON – Sonic Hall
06/04 London ON – Rum Runners
06/06 Detroit MI – The Sanctuary
06/07 Chicago IL – Cobra Lounge
06/08 Columbus OH – Skully's
06/10 Nashville TN – The End
06/11 Atlanta GA – Purgatory At The Masquerade
06/13 Tampa FL – Crowbar
06/14 Orlando FL – Conduit
06/15 Jacksonville FL – Jack Rabbits
06/17 Carrboro NC – Local 506
06/18 Washington DC – Black Cat
06/19 New York NY – Bowery Ballroom
06/21 Philadelphia PA – The Foundry
06/22 Boston MA – The Middle East
03.30 New York, NY - Knockdown Center
04.02 Kingston, NY - Tubby's
04.04 Philadelphia, PA - TRANSCENDENTAL Secret Location
04.06 Miami, FL - The Ground Miami
04.08 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever
04.09 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever
04.30 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Melbourne
05.10 Castlemaine, Australia - Theatre Royal
Very pleased to announce a run of shows in June featuring Benoit Pioulard (Brooklyn) and somesurprises (Seattle), hitting NYC, Providence, and Philadelphia.
Pioulard will perform new material to mark the release of a soon-to-be-announced LP, and somesurprises will play their blissed-out shoegaze pop in a duo iteration, featuring works from their critically beloved 2024 album, “Perseids”, along with brand new songs. We look forward to seeing you there !
Benoit Pioulard & somesurprises:
27 June (Fri): Brooklyn, NY / @publicrecordsnyc
28 June (Sat): Providence, RI / @as220providence
29 June (Sun): Philadelphia, PA / @milkboyphilly
Benoit Pioulard on IG: @b.pioulard
somesurprises on IG: @somesurprises
Organized by @anniversary_group
Flyer and BP photo by @dogpasta
somesurprises photo by @lalalalaurn
Diamanda will play Night Two of Maryanne Amacher: In the Immediate Space of the Body as presented by Blank Forms. Diamanda will be performing De-Formation: Piano Variations.
Over two nights at Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, Blank Forms presents two artists whose work takes orthogonal approaches to notation. Using the archival notes and sketches of Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009), several of the artist’s longtime collaborators reconstruct GLIA and Petra, two pieces from her oeuvre which are notable exceptions to Amacher’s ethos of ephemerality; the majority of her work has too many undocumented but temporally and spatially specific parameters to be restaged posthumously. Meanwhile, Diamanda Galás, Amacher’s friend and fellow traveler through the extremities of the music world, performs De-formation, a solo piano work about the plight of gueules cassées, disfigured WWI veterans referred to in the French as “broken faces.” Galás improvised De-formation in 2019; in 2023, she transcribed it with the help of Thomas Feng, making the piece reproducible for the first time.
De-formation: Piano Variations is a work for solo piano. Composed and recorded by Diamanda Galás on September 2019, the piece is based on the expressionist poem “Das Fieberspital” (“The Fever Hospital”), a gruesome depiction of warehoused yellow fever patients, written by German poet Georg Heym in 1912, which Galás also set to music on her 2022 album Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations, 2022). De-formation is set in the years immediately thereafter. It depicts the march and delivery of infected WWI soldiers to hospitals, industrial warehouses, and hidden spaces throughout Germany, where they will soon endure medical abuse. During and after WWI, medical professionals often treated the lives of injured patients as forfeit, performing experimental operations on maimed soldiers and confining the infected to woefully inadequate institutions in order to protect the patriotism, health, and mental vitality of the uninfected citizens of the State.
The “Black Witch” to Amacher’s “White Witch,” Diamanda Galás has spent much of her musical career interrogating the grotesqueries of death and suffering. Educated as a classical pianist, Galás spent her twenties immersing herself in jazz, working with David Murray and Butch Morris, then avant-garde composition, with Vinko Globokar and Iannis Xenakis. In the 1980s, she garnered mainstream recognition—and controversy—for her album The Divine Punishment (Mute, 1986), which reformulates Old Testament texts to subvert the decade’s conservative rhetoric condemning AIDS patients for living in sin. On successive albums, Galás continued to work in and against religious musical traditions; Saint of the Pit (Mute, 1986) emulates the improvised, call-and-response form of Greek Maniot mourning songs, while You Must Be Certain of the Devil (Mute, 1988) draws on gospel music of the American South. Her most recent album is Broken Gargoyles (Intravenal Sound Operations, 2022).
Amacher’s 1991 piece Petra was originally commissioned for the ICSM World Music Days in Boswil, Switzerland at the behest of Marianne Schroeder, who performed the piece with Amacher. Written for two pianos, Petra is an exceptional work in her otherwise multimedia oeuvre, a direct extension of her working methodologies for electronic compositions taken into an acoustic realm that alludes to the music of Giacinto Scelsi and Galina Ustvolskaya. The piece is based on both Amacher’s impressions of the church at Boswil and science-fiction writer Greg Bear’s short story of the same name, in which gargoyles come to life and breed with humans in a post-apocalyptic Notre Dame. Like much of Amacher’s work, a performance of Petra is not as straightforward as it might appear. There is no definitive score, but rather a series of fragments and working notes left to be deciphered by the interpreters. Schroeder will be joined by Stefan Tcherepnin, who has worked on arrangements and interpretations of the composition with her for the last decade.
Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) was a composer of large-scale fixed-duration sound installations and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture. She is frequently cited as a pioneer of what has come to be called “sound art,” although her thought and creative practice consistently challenges key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of this nascent genre. Often considered to be part of a post-Cagean lineage, her work anticipates some of the most important developments in network culture, media arts, acoustic ecology, and sound studies.
In the mid-1990s, the musical lives of DC-based Tsunami and the NYC-based Ida were intertwined. In addition to sharing many bills and tours together, Tsunami’s label, Simple Machines Records, released Ida’s first three albums, and the band members frequently collaborated on other musical projects. Now, 25 years later, both bands are celebrating the reissue of these releases by The Numero Group with the Coin Toss tour in March and April 2025.
In a nod to equity, whimsy, and jamming econo, the two bands plan to share equipment and van space, as well as determining each night’s stage order by a flip of the coin. The audience is encouraged to join the bands for the entire evening as Ida and Tsunami fuse their sets together. Special guests – representing the bands’ wide network of musical friends and heroes – are expected to join them on stage at most shows, to lend a crazy guitar part, or guest vocals, or to play one of their own songs. There will be sewn-on patches, swag, participation prizes, and a joyful noise.
Confirmed dates with tickets on sale on Friday, September 27, 2024.
Tickets onsale 9/27/24 at 9 AM local time
Tickets onsale 9/27/24 at 9 AM local time
Tickets onsale 9/27/24 at 9 AM local time
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Tickets onsale 9/29/24 at 9 AM local time
11/18/24 MOVED FROM MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS TO POLARIS HALL. TICKETS PURCHASED FOR MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS WILL BE HONORED AT POLARIS HALL.
Tickets onsale 9/27/24 at 9 AM local time
Tickets onsale 9/27/24 at 9 AM local time
March 28, 2025 (Friday)
The DLC @ 8:00 PM
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
March 29, 2025 (Saturday)
Treefort Music Fest 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Boise, ID, United States
March 31, 2025 (Monday)
The Unknown @ 7:00 PM
Anacortes, WA, United States
April 2, 2025 (Wednesday)
The Black Lodge @ 7:00 PM
Seattle, WA, United States
April 3, 2025 (Thursday)
Polaris Hall @ 7:00 PM
Portland, OR, United States
April 4, 2025 (Friday)
John Henry's @ 7:00 PM
Eugene, OR, United States
April 5, 2025 (Saturday)
Rickshaw Stop @ 7:00 PM
San Francisco, CA, United States
April 19, 2025 (Saturday)
Pappy & Harriet's @ 7:00 PM
Pioneertown, CA, United States
April 22, 2025 (Tuesday)
Linger Longer Lounge @ 7:00 PM
Phoenix, AZ, United States
April 25, 2025 (Friday)
The Far Out Lounge & Stage (Austin Psych Fest) @ 12:00 AM
Austin, TX, United States
April 25, 2025 (Friday)
The Gremlin @ 7:00 PM
Mcallen, TX, United States
April 27, 2025 (Sunday)
Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio @ 7:00 PM
Denton, TX, United States
April 28, 2025 (Monday)
Resonant Head @ 7:00 PM
Oklahoma City, OK, United States
April 29, 2025 (Tuesday)
White Schoolhouse @ 7:00 PM
Lawrence, KS, United States
April 30, 2025 (Wednesday)
Hi-Dive @ 7:00 PM
Denver, CO, United States
May 1, 2025 (Thursday)
Sister @ 7:00 PM
Albuquerque, NM, United States
May 2, 2025 (Friday)
Club Congress @ 7:00 PM
Tucson, AZ, United States
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02.02 — berlin, germany — volksbuhne (CTM festival)
06.02 — aalborg, denmark — northern winter beat festival
07.02 — den haag, netherlands — grauzone festival
07.05 — athens, greece — arch club
09.05 — copenhagen, denmark — a colossal weekend (NIKA)
10.05 — copenhagen, denmark — a colossal weekend
13.05 — vilnius, lithuania — šv. kotrynos bažnyčia
14.05 — riga, latvia — anglikāņu svētā pestītāja baznīca
15.05 — tallinn, estonia — niguliste kirik
16.05 — tartu, estonia — jaani kirik
18.05 — barcelona, spain — el molino
20.05 — brno, czechia — red church brno
23.0 5 — gdansk, poland — klub żak w/neo quartet
Mon. Jan 13, 2025 - Fargo ND - The Aquarium ^
Wed. Jan 15, 2025 - Bozeman MT - The Rialto ^
Fri. Jan 17, 2025 - Seattle WA - The Crocodile ^
Sat. Jan 18, 2025 - Portland OR - Mississippi Studios ^
Mon. Jan 20, 2025 - San Francisco CA - Great American Music Hall ^
Tue. Jan 21, 2025 - Los Angeles CA - Lodge Room ^
Wed. Jan 22, 2025 - San Diego CA - The Casbah ^
Fri. Jan 24, 2025 - Salt Lake City UT - Urban Lounge ^
Sat. Jan 25, 2025 - Denver CO - Bluebird^
Fri. Feb 13, 2025 - Sydney, AUS - Oxford Art Factory ^ $
Sat. Feb 14, 2025 - Brisbane, AUS - Crowbar ^ $
Sun. Feb 15, 2025 - Melbourne, AUS - Northcote Social Club ^ $
Fri. Feb 21, 2025 Zurich, Switzerland - Bogen F
Sat. Feb 22, 2025 Geneva, Switzerland - Antigel Festival
Mon. Feb 24, 2025 - Munich, Germany - Ampere
Tue. Feb 25, 2025 - Berlin, Germany - Lido
Thu. Feb 27, 2025 - Paris, France - Petit Bain
Fri. Feb 28, 2025 - Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Club
Sun. Mar 2, 2025 - Nijmegen, Netherlands - Doornroosje (Red Room)
Mon. Mar 3, 2025 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
Wed. Mar 5, 2025 - Brighton, United Kingdom - Chalk
Thu. Mar 6, 2025 - Bristol, United Kingdom - The Lantern (Bristol Beacon)
Fri. Mar 7, 2025 - Manchester, United Kingdom - Band on the Wall
Sat. Mar 8, 2025 - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Room 2
Wed. Mar 26, 2025 - Bloomington, IN - The Bishop ^
Thu. Mar 27, 2025 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival
Sat. Mar 29, 2025 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl ^
Mon. Mar 31, 2025 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle Back Room ^
Tue. Apr. 1, 2025 - Washington, DC - Atlantis
Fri. Apr 02, 2025 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere
Thu. Apr. 3, 2025 - Boston, MA - Sinclair ^
Fri. Apr 4, 2025 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom ^
Sat. Apr 5, 2025 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA
Mon. Apr 7, 2025 - Toronto, ON - Horseshoe ^
Tue. Apr 8, 2025 - Detroit, MI - Loving Touch ^
Wed. Apr 9, 2025 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall
Thu. Apr 10, 2025 - Minneapolis, MN - First Ave *
Fri. Apr 11, 2025 - Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall *
Thu. May 29, 2025 London, UK - EartH
Sat. Jun 7, 2025 - Barcelona, Spain - Primavera Festival
Wed. Jun 12, 2025 - Porto, Portugal - Primavera Festival
^ With Circuit des Yuex
$ With Come
* Co-Headline with Mount Eerie