ira glass Release New Single/Video, "mister magnanimous"
ira glass —the Chicago post-hardcore band helmed by Lise Ivanova, Landon Kerouac, and Jill Roth — present their new single/video, “mister magnanimous.” Distilling the mercurial, genre-spanning energy that has earned them praise from So Young, The Line of Best Fit, Chicago Reader, and more, “mister magnanimous” is ira glass in peak form. “You da man; I put you down like Barbara Walters,” frontwoman and founding member Lise Ivanova intones atop kinetic percussion and eerie guitars, referencing the late news anchor who also appears on the track’s cover artwork. The accompanying self-directed “mister magnanimous” music video is uncanny — as amusing as it is unsettling — and features Ivanova strutting around Chicago’s Millenium Park in a fetish mask. The result is a singular visual accompaniment that heightens the inimitable chaos of “mister magnanimous.”
“mister magnanimous” precedes ira glass’ brief tour, which begins this weekend in Montreal, and includes additional stops in Toronto and Kalamazoo. In addition “mister magnanimous” lands ahead of the first-ever run of ira glass vinyl: a 12” split EP which features the band’s 2024 debut compound turbulence flexing for the heat on Side A and the acclaimed 2025 follow-up joy is no knocking nation on Side B. ira glass vinyl will be available in stores beginning December 11th.
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ira glass originally formed through fliers posted around Chicago that read: “NOISY POST-HARDCORE INSTRUMENTALISTS DESIRED.” In the time since, ira glass have cultivated a reputation for their invigorating live performances and recorded music that resists any one categorization. Their debut EP compound turbulence flexing for the heat earned them praise from Stereogum and Chicago Reader, who dubbed the band as “Chicago’s best new post-hardcore band.” Their follow up — 2025’s joy is no knocking nation — saw the band breakthrough internationally; The Line of Best Fit profiled them as an “On The Rise” band, FADER interviewed them for the buzzy “Opener” series, and Pitchfork reviewed the EP, praising ira glass as “loose and volatile, but also calculated and severe.”
ira glass’ 12” split EP features the band’s 2024 debut compound turbulence flexing for the heat on Side A and the acclaimed 2025 follow-up joy is no knocking nation on Side B.
ira glass vinyl will ship beginning December 11th