Chelsea Wolfe will be hosting a monthly radio show for RBMA Radio (Red Bull Music Academy Radio) called Hypnos Hour, where she’ll be sharing music that has inspired her over the years, favorite songs, and conversations with other musicians. Each episode will have its own theme, with the first episode focusing on outsider folk, blues, and country.
Hypnos Hour goes live tomorrow, 4/20, from 6-7PM EST. Click HERE to sign up and then then tune in HERE.
Then Chelsea Wolfe and her band kick off her North American tour with support from labelmates A Dead Forest Index this Sunday, 4/24. A full list of dates can be found below – CLICK HERE for tickets and info.
Chelsea Wolfe’s “Hypnos / Flame” is out today on 7″ vinyl, digital platforms, and as a part of a special digital deluxe version of Abyss. This release features two b-sides from the Abyss recording sessions, and all versions include previously unreleased demo version of album tracks “Grey Days,” “Simple Death,” and “Survive”.
Hypnos / Flame 7” — includes download card with 3 additional Abyss demos as bonus tracks. Available here in the US or here for the UK. Ships worldwide.
Hypnos / Flame (Digital) — 5 track digital release includes both b-sides plus 3 Abyss demos as bonus tracks. Available digitally on iTunes, Amazon or Bandcamp.
Abyss (Deluxe Edition) (Digital only) — includes full Abyss album plus 5 track “Hypnos / Flame,” available digitally on iTunes or Amazon.
Be sure to check out the new music video for “Hypnos” below, directed by Chelsea Wolfe and Ricky Vernett and edited by bandmate Ben Chisholm.
Wolfe and her band kick off their North American headline tour at the end of April, and continue on through June. Set lists will include songs from Apokalypsis to Abyss. London duo and labelmates A Dead Forest Index will be joining on most dates, supporting their debut In All That Drifts From Summit Down. A full list of dates and tickets are available HERE.
Chelsea Wolfe has shared a new music video for “Hypnos” from her upcoming 7″ release, out April 1st. On April 24th, she starts her full North American tour, with support coming from labelmates A Dead Forest Index on most dates. See a full list of shows below – tickets and details are available HERE.
Apr 24 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Bunkhouse
Apr 25 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
Apr 26 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister Bar
Apr 28 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk / Levitation Austin Kick-Off Party
Apr 29 – Dallas, TX @ Trees
Apr 30 – McAllen, TX @ Cine El Rey
May 02 – Memphis, TN @ The Hi-Tone
May 03 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade – Heaven
May 04 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
May 06 – Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony
May 08 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
May 09 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
May 10 – Boston, MA @ The Royale
May 11 – Providence, RI @ Fete Music Hall
May 12 – Hamden, CT @ The Space
May 13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
May 14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre
May 16 – Montreal, QB @ Theatre Fairmount
May 17 – Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
May 19 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
May 20 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
May 21 – Columbus, OH @ Ace Of Cups
May 22 – Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
May 24 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
May 25 – Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
May 26 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
May 28 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall
May 29 – Vancouver, BC @ Imperial
May 30 – George, WA @ Sasquatch Festival *
Jun 01 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Jun 02 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Jun 07 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Jun 08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom
Being a person is exhausting. The empathy that charges Chelsea Wolfe’s best songs innately understands. Wolfe has a record of walking straight into the broken heart of tragedy—victims of suicide, natural disaster, and terrorism have all been paid tribute in her catalog, from the poignant grandeur of 2013’s “The Waves Have Come” to the metallic riffs of last year’s “Iron Moon.” Wolfe’s shattering themes underscore her self-described “folk roots”and lend the music a bracingly contemporary edge—they’re not goth for the sake of it. Her enveloping arrangements and elegant, versatile voice (the high notes of last year’s “Survive” imagined Lorde fronting a doom metal band) can feel more protective than haunting.
The understated, acoustic “Hypnos” is a just-released B-side tolast year’s colossal Abyss. Here, Wolfe does something maybe harder, as she claws at the catastrophes within her own soul, not the outside world. It’s pulled along by wide-open fingerpicking and a quaking atmsophere, featherlight in form and heavy with unsayable experience. “Oh baby, I’ll carry your disease/ The darkness that lives inside you deep,” she sings at the chorus, her voice both shivering and forthright, “Oh honey, I’ll put up a fight with death/ He’s never coming near my love again.” “Hypnos” begins menacing and air-tight but opens a window as it unspools. It’s as if the song itself is a liberating act of admission, arriving at its end with hope, some peace, and a space to breathe.
Chelsea Wolfe will be releasing a new 7-inch titled “Hypnos / Flame” on April 1st. Both tracks were recorded during the Abyss sessions, and you can stream “Hypnos” here:
In addition to festival appearances at Treefort, Sasquatch, and Levitation events, Chelsea and her band will also be playing a full North American tour with support from A Dead Forest Index on most dates. Tickets and a full list of dates can be found HERE.
Chelsea Wolfe could be described as a folk singer, but that really doesn’t capture the whole story. Though she’s now based in Los Angeles, she grew up in a musical household outside of Sacramento, California, where her father played in a country band and had a home studio. As such, she began experimenting with music at a very young age, but it wasn’t until 2010 that her debut LP The Grime And The Glow first put Wolfe on the map with its desolate folk stylings.
The follow-up, 2011’s Apokalypsis, garnered an even bigger response, as it put Wolfe’s gloomy vision through the filter of a proper studio set-up. In the wake of those albums, Wolfe began touring extensively, although a crippling struggle with stage fright initially prompted her to take the stage with a black veil over her face. Over time, those fears were conquered, and she even dialed down the doom on her acoustic third album, 2012’s Unknown Rooms, although she then veered back toward stark electronic sounds for 2013’s Pain Is Beauty.
On paper, all of this genre-hopping shouldn’t have worked, yet Wolfe has managed to forge together a uniquely cohesive sound palette that impressively borrows from black metal, drone, dark ambient and R&B. Regardless of its constituent parts, there’s no denying that Wolfe’s music is striking, which is likely why it’s been employed in numerous films and television shows. However, even with the extra exposure, there’s still a defined edge to Wolfe’s hypnotically dissonant sound. In this excerpt from her recent interview with RBMA Radio’s Kaline Thyroff, Wolfe charts a course through her career thus far.
NPR Music just released a Tiny Desk Concert with Chelsea Wolfe – stream it HERE.
February 12, 2016 by LARS GOTRICH • On last year’s Abyss, Chelsea Wolfe explicitly rendered the metallic tendencies that have always existed just below the surface of her music. Wolfe’s soulful howl found its bite in gigantic riffs and devastating volume that suited some of her most significant songwriting yet. But at the Tiny Desk, Wolfe took her songs back to their primal form with just her voice, a muffled electric guitar and a loop pedal.
Removed from thunderous distortion, the ghostly “Maw” becomes a nightmare in broad daylight, as Wolfe details “shattered teeth under a dripping tongue” just waiting “in this silence while you’re sleeping.” “Crazy Love,” a love song that’s dangerous in its desperation, sounds no less chilling. But it’s “Iron Moon,” inspired by the poetry of a Chinese factory worker who took his own life, that’s the most stripped of its metal. Wolfe’s guitar sounds muddy and dank as she sings, “My heart is an empty tomb / My heart is an empty room,” recalling the lonesome wail of Kitty Wells shot through the darkness.
After Eagles of Death Metal’s November 13 show at Le Bataclan in Paris became the site of a horrific terrorist attack, it’s been impossible to think of the band without conjuring thoughts of that previously unthinkable violence. Since then, the group’s done interviews about that night and been included in countless news stories. They were nominated for a Brit award. They’re likely haunted by ghosts.
They’ve also been asking musicians to cover “I Love You All the Time,” a song from their last album Zipper Down, with proceeds going to the Sweet Stuff Foundation’s “Play It Forward” campaign, which aids victims of the attacks. It was likely chosen because the song includes a few lines of French (“Ce soir c’est le soir et toi avec moi/ Et tu viens me voir, tu viens ouh la la,"etc.), but also because its themes are universal, and easily adaptable (such as the song’s title). So far the people who’ve tackled it include Florence and the Machine, Savages, My Morning Jacks, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Eat World, Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron, and Nada Surf.
Nobody has so thoroughly transformed "I Love You All the Time” as successfully as Chelsea Wolfe. Her deep, eerie half-speed version loses the original’s party-time feel; instead, we’re offered a gorgeous, melancholic late-night incantation. (In a way, it’s reminiscent of “The Waves Have Come,” Wolfe’s Pain Is Beautyballad inspired by the 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, which she wrote from the perspective of someone surviving a disaster.) In Wolfe’s “I Love You All the Time,” the lines “I’m never alone, I look at my phone/ If I call you up, you’re never at home” become especially heartbreaking. The repeated “I would beg if I thought it would make you stay” take on an entirely new meaning, a last grasp at life in the face of an inevitable, unexpected death. In remaking of the track, she found a way to own it.
As a part the Play It Forward campaign, Chelsea Wolfe has released a cover of the Eagles of Death Metal song “I Love You All The Time”, available now on iTunes, Spotify, and the Play It Forward site. 100% of the money from the artist, label, and distributors will be donated to families of the victims of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, as well as the family of slain EODM crew member Nick Alexander.
Read more about the Play It Forward campaign below, or visit their site to hear other covers and learn how you can help.
Eagles Of Death Metal has announced the release of the second wave of the Play It Forward EODM Campaign that debuted December 18, 2015 with an amazing assortment of covers of “I Love You All The Time” from the band’s current album Zipper Down. For every cover sold, the band pledges to donate 100% of its publishing income to The Sweet Stuff Foundation, the non-profit organization founded in 2013 by EODM co-founder Joshua Homme to provide assistance to musicians and their families in times of need, as well as musical education and gear for the next generation. Participating artists were also asked to donate the money generated from sales of the song to the charity.
The Play It Forward EODM Campaign was first inspired by none other than Duran Duran who reached out with an immediate and sincere act of musical solidarity in the aftermath of the November 13, 2015 attacks in Paris that took so many lives at Eagles Of Death Metal’s show that night at Le Bataclan: Spurred by a fan-led campaign to push Eagles Of Death Metal’s cover of Duran Duran’s classic “Save A Prayer” to #1 in the UK, Simon LeBon tweeted that the new romantic icons would donate their share of royalties from the track to charity.
In the weeks that followed, Eagles Of Death Metal asked artists the world over to cover “I Love You All The Time,“ pledging to donate 100% of its publishing income to The Sweet Stuff Foundation. With invaluable support from TuneCore, the first wave of “I Love You All The Time” renditions were made available, with contributions from artists as diverse as Florence + The Machine (featuring The Maccabees), Kings Of Leon, Savages, My Morning Jacket, Imagine Dragons, Jimmy Eat World, the Dean Ween Group and more.
The second round of covers from are available now. Yet more additional versions are forthcoming and will be announced as they are confirmed. Those wishing to donate should go to http://playitforwardeodm.com/ for information on how to do so.
With cooperation from Fondation de France: www.fondationdefrance.org and FENVAC: www.fenvac.org, Play It Forward EODM Campaign donations to Sweet Stuff will aid the surviving family members of those killed in the November 13 Paris attacks—as well as the family of slain EODM crew member Nick Alexander. For more information on The Sweet Stuff Foundation, go to www.thesweetstufffoundation.org.
Eagles Of Death Metal will return to Europe for the first time since its triumphant appearance during U2’s encore December 7, 2015 in Paris. The first run of rescheduled dates—now christened The Nos Amis Tour—will include a February 16th show at the Olympia in Paris. “The people of Paris have always been incredible to us, and our feeling of love towards this beautiful city and its people has been reinforced a million times over this past month,” commented EODM co-founder and frontman Jesse Hughes. "Hearing the stories of the survivors, the injured and those who have lost loved ones has been overwhelming. Not returning to finish our set was never an option. We look forward to coming back in February and continuing our mission to bring rock ‘n’ roll to the world.”
