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• Holly Herndon – Eternal

• Holly Herndon + Jlin “Godmother” (ft. Spawn) – AI single + video

  

  Today Holly Herndon dropped her track “Godmother”, a collaboration with footwerk producer Jlin and Herndon’s own AI baby Spawn. Emulating Herndon’s voice to the rhythmic patterns evocative of Jlin’s music, Spawn produced the track as well as the video morphing of their two faces below.

  Read the full statement from Herndon on the making of “Godmother”, evolution of Spawn, and future of music in the wake of AI here.

  NOW BOOKING: Holly Herndon Ensemble AI AV shows for Spring + Summer festivals and select special events. Contact brandon [at]lb-agency.net

• Holly Herndon supporting Radiohead’s EU/UK tour this month

  

  Holly Herndon has been invited as the main support for Radiohead at their European shows later this month.

  Holly will join Radiohead for the entirety of their sold out 8-date tour. Herndon’s critically acclaimed album Platform married emotional and political critique with innovative club music. The interactive and ecstatic experience of her live performance has now evolved into a group which includes the artists Colin Self and Mat Dryhurst. The trio plan to work on new Holly Herndon material, due later this year.

  Holly Herndon will also be appearing at festivals in the UK, Europe and US this summer.

  HOLLY HERNDON LIVE DATES:
  May 20 – AMSTERDAM, Heineken Music Hall (w/ Radiohead)
  May 21 – AMSTERDAM, Heineken Music Hall (w/ Radiohead)
  May 23 – PARIS, Zenith (w/ Radiohead)
  May 24 – PARIS, Zenith (w/ Radiohead)
  May 26 – LONDON, Roundhouse (w/ Radiohead)
  May 27 – LONDON, Roundhouse (w/ Radiohead)
  May 28 – LONDON, Roundhouse (w/ Radiohead)
  June 1 – LYON, Les Nuits des Fourviere (w/ Radiohead)
  June 3 – BARCELONA, Primavera Festival
  June 4 – PARIS, We Love Green Festival
  June 8-9 – PORTO, Primavera Festival
  June 11 – LONDON, Field Day
  July 16 – CHICAGO, Pitchfork Festival
  July 17 – CHICAGO, Constellation
  July 18 – ST. LOUIS, Luminary Center for the Arts
  August 5 – AMSTERDAM, Dekmantel
  August 12 – HELSINKI, Flow Festival

• Holly Herndon Autumn tour dates announced

  

  Holly Herndon’s universally lauded sophomore album ‘Platform’ released May 19 via 4AD / RVNG has tapped directly into the Zeitgeist – the conversation around how we construct and protect our online identities and the communities we build to design our collective future has never been more present in art and the world. After sold out launch shows at XOYO and Berghain and festival appearances including Sonar this Summer Herndon’s ever-evolving ‘Platform’ A/V live experience has a fully booked tour this Autumn with more dates soon to be announced.

  Selected Reviews
  Pitchfork give ‘Platform’ Best New Music 8.7:
  ‘Platform’ may turn out to be the most thought-provoking experimental electronic music release of the year. 
  The Guardian 4/5: gloriously avant garde and fiercely inventive.
  The Quietus: this album feels genuinely new.

  Selected Interviews
  The Guardian: Queen of Tech-topia
  Pitchfork: Fix The Future
  The Fader: 10 Radical Ideas
  BBC Radio 6 w/ Maryanne Hobbs
  SPIN: Trying To Find New Ways

  Upcoming tour dates
  14/08/15 – Øya Festival, Oslo, NO
  15/08/15 – Only Connect Festival, Oslo, NO (Talk)
  20/08/15 – Kampnagel Summerfest, Hamburg, DE
  17/09/15 – Dublin Fringe @ Spiegeltent, Dublin, IE
  02/10/15 – Denovali Fest, Essen, DE
  03/10/15 – ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE
  09/10/15 – L-Ektrica, Rome, IT
  10/10/15 – roBOt, Bologna, IT
  15/10/15 – Unsound, Krakow, PL
  23/10/15 – Liverpool Music Week, Liverpool, UK
  24/10/15 – Simple Things, Bristol, UK
  04/11/15 – Illuminations @ Oval Space, London, UK
  06/11/15 – Club2Club, Turin, Italy
  29/11/15 – All Tomorrow’s Parties, Prestatyn, UK

  Now booking 2016 festivals and special events: brandon [at] lb-agency.net

• Stream Holly Herndon’s ‘Platform’ LP in full via NPR – Summer tour dates announced

  

  Following 4AD’s announcement in March that Holly Herndon’s sophomore LP ‘Platform’ would be released May 19 via 4AD / RVNG along with the premiere of her video for ‘Interference’, Herndon’s portrait gracing the cover April’s edition of the Wire magazine and a big feature in Pitchfork: Fix The Future: Holly Herndon’s Collective Vision, NPR have just put up the album streaming in full a week before it’s release. Listen here.

  4AD have also announced Herndon’s Summer headline and festival tour dates including the following dates in EU / UK:

  June
  10th – XOYO, London, UK [Tickets]
  11th – Berghain (CTM) (w/ AGF, Amnesia Scanner, Claire Tolan), Berlin, Germany [Tickets]
  13th – Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK [Tickets]
  20th – Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain [Tickets] – debut of expanded A/V trio show!
  26th – S/V/N @ Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
  27th – Badaboum, Paris, France [Tickets]
  28th – Les Siestes Electronique, Toulouse, France

  July
  3rd – Belluard Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland [Tickets]
  4th – Dancity Festival, Foligno, Italy [Tickets]
  11th – Jardins Efemeros, Viseu, Portugal

  August
  14th – Øya Festival, Oslo, Norway
  19th – 21st – International Summer Fest @ Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany

  Now booking Holly Herndon’s Autumn headline tour (Oct. – Nov.):

  brandon [at] lb-agency.net

• Holly Herndon ‘Platform’ LP on 4AD / RVNG May 18 – new single + video

  

  4AD have just announced that on May 18 / 19 they will be releasing Holly Herndon’s eagerly anticipated sophomore album ‘Platform’ in partnership with RVNG Intl. who released her debut ‘Movement’ in 2012 and critically acclaimed 2014 singles / videos from the album ‘Chorus’ (#1 on The Quietus, #37 RA best tracks of 2014) and ‘Home’. As if that weren’t exciting enough, there is also a new video from Metahaven for the single ‘Interference’ (below)!

  Herndon will come over to preview the album in Spring with a new A/V show, and will be joined by back-up singer Colin Self, who appears on the album, for selected dates. She is available for Summer festivals June – August. Now booking Oct / Nov headline tour. brandon [@] lb-agency.net

  April 30 – Brussels, BE @ Bozar
  May 1 – The Hague, NL @ Rewire Festival
  May 2 – Krems, AT @ Donau Festival*
  June 20 – Barcelona, ES @ Sonar Festival*

  *w/ Colin Self

   

• Home

• Chorus

• Holly Herndon’s “NSA break-up song” + Metahaven video ‘Home’

  The second, and equally revelatory single, ‘Home’ from Holly Herndon this year leading up to her imminent sophomore LP in 2015 takes the form of a break up ode to the NSA. A deadpan portrait amidst a shower of NSA icons, Herndon showcases her increasingly poppy intertwining vocal melodies with an ever-expanding avant-garde production palette. Check the video below and write-up from Pitchfork.

• Holly Herndon drops ‘Chorus’ video and new music for RBMA Radio

  

  Holly Herndon has just dropped the first single and incredible video for ‘Chorus’ (directed and programmed by Akihiko Taniguchi) in anticipation of her 2014 sophomore LP on RVNG – it will blow your mind! She’s also just done a ‘Fireside Chat’ for RBMA Radio including a bunch of unreleased tracks. Watch out for another single this June, Summer festival appearences, and the September release of the full-length followed by an EU headline tour!

  Now booking brand new interactive A/V show: brandon[at]littlebig.org.uk

• TELEPORT feat. Halo, Herndon, Gatekeeper ++. 28.04 – Berlin

  

  Littlebig is proud to present a Berlin showcase of some of our cutting edge live talent, TELEPORT, including Laurel Halo, Holly Herndon, Gatekeeper as well as our partner agency Surefire’s exciting artists NHK’Koyxen and DJ Bill Kouligas (PAN). The concert will happen at Festsaal Kreuzberg on Sunday. April 28, 2013 – doors at 19:00. For more information on the artists and the event please visit the Facebook event page here. Tickets are 13€ and can be purchased in advance through the Facebook page or Koka36.

• Holly Herndon FACT mix + March UK/EU tour + Donau and Tauron Nowa Muzyka festivals

   

  

  Holly Herndon is on fire right now (and it’s not just because of her hair color)! After the great response from her recents shows at AB Club, Brussels, Berghain for CTM Festival, Berlin, and sold-out headline Cafe OTO show in London as well as Boiler Room appearance, she will be doing a run of dates March 21 – 30 (now booking!).

  She has just been announced for Donau Festival on April 27 and Tauron Nowa Muzyka on August 23.

  Check out a strange and wondrous vision of a not-so-distant techno future with her stellar FACT mix, also selected as Resident Advisor’s mix of the day!

  And listen to the killer NHK remix of ‘Fade’ here.

  MARCH confirmed dates:
  3/21/2013 thrs UK Manchester, University of Salford, Sonic Fusion Festival (w/Chris&Cosey)
  3/23/2013 sat UK London, Basing House (w/Hieroglyphic Being)
  3/24/2013 sun SE Stockholm, Sodra Theater (w/Andy Stott)
  3/27/2013 wed NL Amsterdam, OT301
  3/29/2013 fri PT Guimaraes, O Convívio
  3/30/2013 sat PT Lisbon, Galeria Zé dos Bois
  NOW BOOKING: brandon [@] littlebig . org . uk

• Littlebig welcomes Holly Herdon, CTM Festival announced

  

  We are very pleased to welcome Holly Herndon to Littlebig. Herndon’s ‘Movement’ just dropped on RVNG Intl. and her cyborg avant-techno is already making big waves. She is confirmed for CTM Festival in Berlin on January 31, 2013 and Cafe OTO for Bleed on Feb.2. Now booking a weeklong run for the end of January, Spring showcases, and Summer festivals. contact: brandon [at] littlebig.org.uk

  Check out these features and interviews:
  FACT
  Pitchfork
  DazedDigital
  The Quietus