Artist News & Press

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Gladie
Posted 08/13/2025
Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, the second full-length record from Philadelphia band Gladie, opens with a contemplative instrumental called “Purple Year.” Along with acoustic strumming and a late-night wall of cricket-chirps, cello and gentle horn runs set a dewy, moonlit stage before second track and single “Born Yesterday” bursts alive with drums, bass, and bright guitar chord…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Knox Fortune
Posted 08/12/2025
Knox Fortune is a producer, songwriter and artist born in Chicago’s Oak Park neighborhood, based in Brooklyn. He received a Grammy award for his early work producing and songwriting with Chance The Rapper. He has released two solo albums, Paradise and Stock Child Wonder. Most recently he produced “First Place” and “Dads Love” for Justin Bieber and the single “Soup”…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Emily Yacina
Posted 08/04/2025
Emily Yacina has been self-releasing music for over a decade, offering a “treasure trove of wrenching melodies and delightfully off-kilter meditations on time and absence” (Stereogum). Although she’s collaborated with some of the most notable names in indie rock, including Alex G and Rostam, Yacina is a singular artist. Her voice is compelling and instantly recognizable, sometimes winking, lilting, or…

Ground Control Touring Welcomes Go Kurosawa
Posted 07/30/2025
Go Kurosawa is multi-instrumentalist, producer, and co-founder of the independent label Guruguru Brain. Best known as drummer of Kikagaku Moyo, Go has spent the past decade building bridges connecting east and west, sound and silence, rock and ritual. soft shakes is something different: his first solo album, made entirely by himself, and made mostly for fun. Go has a rare…