Los Angeles-primarily based seashore goths The Growlers go back to the sector’s airwaves and highways with their new single “Natural Affair” and their new 2019 World Tour. Since their Julian Casablancas-produced 2016 LP City Club, The Growlers have racked up legions of passionate fanatics around the globe, collecting 200 million Spotify streams, 1.2 million month-to-month listeners, and seventy-five million YouTube streams. The band’s overnight achievement has been years in the making, fueled via a nonforestall go with the flow of recent fabric, continually-on fan interaction on social media, and their epic live shows, with audiences making a song alongside each gloriously twisted lyric.
The Growlers’ new unmarried “Natural Affair,” self-produced by way of singer Brooks Nielsen and guitarist Matt Taylor, continues the band’s exploration of the Viber, seedier facet of recent wave funk. Bursting with chorused guitars and syncopated percussion, the track changed into inspired for the duration of classes for his or her new LP Natural Affair. “A lot of our songs have been coming out at the darker, extra sentimental facet, so we determined to make something greater upbeat,” says Taylor. “We all took a break, watched a documentary on Spandau Ballet, and wrote this riff that sounds a piece like ‘The Groove Line’ through Heatwave. More disco and energetic, simply trying to preserve it funky.” It’s the primary tune off Natural Affair, the Growlers sixth studio album, due in the fall at the band’s own Beach Goth Records and Tapes, destined for the dance ground, the bedroom, and the pageant stage.
Cutting across seven countries and fifty-four dates, The Growlers 2019 World Tour just kicked off with bought-out indicates in Phoenix, Denver ( nights!), Toronto, Montreal, Asbury Park, and Ogden, Utah, in which the band shared the degree with The Flaming Lips. The tour includes stops at NYC’s Central Park SummerStage on September 14 with support from indie legends The Lemonheads, in addition to shows inside the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, and the bought-out Green Man Festival inside the UK along with Idles, Sharon Van Etten, and Father John Misty. This year the band hosts their annual Beach Gothevent as a 3 night Halloween celebration on the legendary Hollywood Palladium, presenting extended performances, surprises, and unique guests. Due to popular call for, the 0.33 night time (eleven/2) has been delivered and now sale.
Top seeds Mostafa Asal and Hania El Hammamy rose to the event within the finals of the CIMB Foundation WSF World Junior Squash Championships in Kuala Lumpur, claiming an Egyptian double inside the most suitable World Squash Federation junior occasion for the third 12 months in a row.
Defending champion Asal follows in the illustrious footsteps of Ramy Ashour, Mohamed Elshorbagy, and Marwan Elshorbagy by using turning into the fourth Egyptian to win the guys’ name two times in a row, at the same time as El Hammamy, runner-up for the past two years, eventually claimed the title at 0.33 time of asking – just as distinguished compatriot Nour El Tayeb had completed 8 years in the past.
Now competing in her 5th and final international junior championships, it was clear that global No.15 El Hammamy turned into desperate to give up her junior career on a high.
The 18-yr-antique from Cairo had to be at her first-rate in opposition to Jana Shiha, but, to peer off the project of her 2nd-seeded compatriot eleven-9, 11-6, eleven-eight at the Bukit Jalil National Squash Centre.
