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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Announce New Covers Album, Share Cover of R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’

Last year, Jason Isbell tweeted that if Joe Biden won the US presidential election, he would make a charity covers album dedicated to the state of Georgia. Today, Isbell and his band the 400 Unit have detailed the LP, titled Georgia Blue, which is out October 15 and features covers of songs by Cat Power, Otis Redding, Indigo Girls, the Allman Brothers Band, Gladys Knight & The Pips, and more. Guests on the record include Julien Baker, Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Brittney Spencer, Adia Victoria, and more. Check out Isbell’s take on R.E.M.’s ‘Driver 8’ below.

All proceeds from Georgia Blue will benefit three nonprofits: Black Voters Matter, Fair Fight, and Georgia STAND-UP. “Georgia Blue is a labor of love,” Isbell said in a statement. “On election day 2020, when I saw that there was a good chance the state of Georgia might go blue, I came up with an idea: to record an album of Georgia-related songs as a thank you to the state and donate the money to a Georgia-based non-profit organization. I will admit my motivations were a bit selfish. For years, I’ve been looking for an excuse to record these songs with my band and some friends. The songs on this album are some of my favorite Georgia-related songs… I hope you enjoy listening to these recordings as much as we enjoyed making them. Keep listening to good music and fighting the good fight.”

Georgie Blue Tracklist:

1. Nightswimming [feat. Béla Fleck and Chris Thile]
2. Honeysuckle Blue [feat. Sadler Vaden]
3. It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World [feat. Brittney Spencer]
4. Cross Bones Style [feat. Amanda Shires]
5. The Truth [feat. Adia Victoria]
6. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
7. Sometimes Salvation [feat. Steve Gorman]
8. Kid Fears [feat. Julien Baker and Brandi Carlile]
9. Reverse
10. Midnight Train to Georgia [feat. Brittney Spencer and John Paul White]
11. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed [feat. Peter Levin]
12. I’m Through
13. Driver 8 [feat. John Paul White]

Makthaverskan Announce New Album ‘För Allting’, Release New Song

Makthaverskan have announced their next LP: För Allting, the Swedish band’s fourth album and first since 2017’s III, is due for release on November 12 via Run for Cover. Recorded with HOLY’s Hannes Ferm, the album includes the new single  ‘This Time’, which is out today. Take a listen below and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.

För Allting Cover Artwork:

För Allting Tracklist:

1. –
2. This Time
3. Tomorrow
4. Lova
5. All I’ve Ever Wanted to Say
6. Ten Days
7. –
8. Closer
9. Caress
10. These Walls
11. För Allting
12. Maktologen

Hatchie Signs to Secretly Canadian, Unveils Video for New Single ‘This Enchanted’

Hatchie, the moniker of Australian singer-songwriter Harriette Pilbeam, has signed to Secretly Canadian. Along with today’s announcement, she’s shared a video for the new single ‘This Enchanted’, her first new music since her 2019 debut album Keepsake. Check it out below.

“‘This Enchanted’ encapsulates everything I wanted to do moving forward from my first album,” Hatchie said in a press release. “I started writing it with [producer Jorge Elbrecht] and [guitarist Joe Agius] in February 2020 and completed it from afar in lockdown later in the year. We had been talking about making something dancey but shoegaze.”

She added: “It’s one of the more lighthearted, lyrically vague songs of my new recordings about falling in love; it’s not a perfect relationship, but you’re enthralled by one another and it’s an easy love. It’s one of the most fun songs I’ve written, so it was a no-brainer to pick it as my first solo release in almost two years. It feels so right to be working with a label as exciting as Secretly as I step into new territory with Hatchie. I’ve been counting down the days until its release for a long time.”

St. Vincent Shares Video for New Song ‘The Nowhere Inn’

The Nowhere Innthe new mockumentary starring St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein, is being released on Friday (September 17). Ahead of its arrival, Annie Clark, who also did the soundtrack for the film, has shared a new song called ‘The Nowhere Inn’, alongside a video directed by Nowhere Inn director Bill Benz. Check it out below.

St. Vincent issued her latest album, Daddy’s Home, earlier this year. The soundtrack for The Nowhere Inn comes out September 19.

Marissa Nadler Unveils Video for New Song ‘If I Could Breathe Underwater’

Marissa Nadler has released a new song called ‘If I Could Breathe Underwater’. The track is lifted from her upcoming LP Path of the Cloudswhich was announced last month with the single ‘Bessie, Did You Make It?’. Check out the music video for ‘If I Could Breathe Underwater’, directed by Jenni Hensler, below.

“When I wrote ‘If I Could Breathe Underwater,’ I was contemplating the possibilities of possessing various superhuman powers: teleportation, shapeshifting, energy projection, aquatic breathing, extrasensory perception, and time travel to name a few,” Nadler explained in a statement. “As a lyrical device, I married those powers with events in my life, wondering if and how they could change the past or predict the future. I loved working on the melody for this song and bringing the choruses to their climaxes. Mary’s layered, hallucinatory shimmers really echo the netherworld of the story.”

Hensler added: “This song took on many meanings to me and I love that about it. How beauty and tragedy collide. Dreaming of having supernatural powers to change reality and have the ability to live and breathe underwater. It could also speak to the duality of existence. That we all have inner personas or shadow selves, and how we envision those different masks we wear. I chose to make something that touched on the idea of duality and the inner persona. To connect to the two worlds.”

The Path of the Clouds arrives October 29 via Sacred Bones/Bella Union.

My Morning Jacket Release Video for New Song ‘Love Love Love’

My Morning Jacket have shared a new single, ‘Love Love Love’, alongside an accompanying video. The track is the second offering from the band’s upcoming self-titled album, following last month’s ‘Regularly Scheduled Programming’. Check out the visual, co-directed by frontman Jim James and George Mays, below.

“‘Love Love Love’ is trying to steer the ship away from everything I’m talking about in ‘Regularly Scheduled Programming’ and speak toward positivity and pure love, finding truth within yourself and in the world around you,” James said in a statement.

My Morning Jacket, the follow-up to last year’s The Waterfall II, lands October 22 via ATO.

Coco Share Video for New Song ‘Come Along’

Coco have shared a new single from their forthcoming self-titled debut album. It’s called ‘Come Along’, and it comes with an accompanying video. Check it out below.

“The skeleton of ‘Come Along’ was recorded live, all together, with Oliver on guitar, Maia on drums, and Danny on bass,” Coco stated in a press release. “The underlying chord loop plays throughout as other instruments are weaved in one by one, picking up momentum and rolling forward as everything joins in harmony.”

Of the video, they added: “The video mimics the song in this way, portraying our individual days-in-the-life with each of us filming one another on handheld camcorders. The day culminates in our first performance together as Coco, at a house show in Oliver’s garage with our friends as backing band. When it all came together we were pleased with the juxtaposition of the comically low fidelity and fast-paced editing, like a homemade action movie.”

Coco’s self-titled debut is set to arrive on October 29 via First City Artists. The band – composed of Maia Friedman (of Dirty Projectors, Uni Ika Ai), Dan Molad (of Lucius, Chimney), and Oliver Hill (of Pavo Pavo, Dustrider) – announced the album with the single ‘Knots’.

Lunar Vacation Unveil Video for New Single ‘Gears’

Lunar Vacation have previewed their upcoming debut album, Inside Every Fig Is a Dead Wasp, with a new single called ‘Gears’. The track comes with an accompanying Nosferatu-inspired video starring songwriter/vocalist/guitarist Grace Repasky. Check it out below.

“When I look back on any kind of relationship, it’s usually through rose-coloured glasses. I guess this song tells me that although this happened, you just gotta keep going because this isn’t the end of the world,” Repasky explained in a press release. “But the last lines are a reflection of how inner-me feels… I’ll probably always be a little sad about the loss. I feel like most, if not all, of my songs are future-me giving past-me advice and insight on specific situations that evoked heavy feelings.”

Maggie Geeslin commented on the video: “We shot this all in a few hours one evening. Nearly all of our neighbors saw Grace lurking in the parking lot and got a good scare. Everyone, including our little crew, seemed simultaneously horrified and amused by Grace’s character. We want everyone to feel a little confused, a little scared, and a little funny after watching this video.”

Lunar Vacation have also today announced a run of 2022 tour dates across North America and Europe; find the list of dates below.

Inside Every Fig Is A Dead Wasp is set for release on October 29 via Keeled Scales. Lunar Vacation previously shared the album tracks ‘Shrug’ and ‘Mold’.

Lunar Vacation North American Tour Dates 2021-2022: 

Oct 23 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees
Nov 12 –  Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
Nov 13 – Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern
Jan 20 – Washington, DC – Black Cat*
Jan 21 – Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts*
Jan 22 -| Brooklyn, NY – Webster*
Jan 23 – Boston, MA – Sinclair*
Jan 25 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz*
Jan 26 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace*
Jan 28 – Chicago, IL – Metro*
Feb 2 – Calgary, AB – Commonwealth*
Feb 4 – Vancouver, BC – Biltmore*
Feb 5 – Seattle, WA – Neumos*
Feb 6 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom*
Feb 8 – San Francisco, CA – Independent*
Feb 10 – Los Angeles, CA – Regent*
Feb 12 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar*
Feb 15 – Austin, TX – Parish*
Feb 16 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada*
Feb 19 – Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge*

*w/ The Beths

Lunar Vacation UK/Europe Tour Dates 2022:

May 7 – Oslo, NO – Krøsset
May 8 – Stockholm, SE – Nalen
May 9 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega
May 11 – London, UK – Moth Club
May 13 – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hounds
May 15 – Leeds, UK – Headrow House w/ Sports
May 16 – Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
May 17 – Edinburgh, UK – Sneaky Pete
May 18 – Manchester, UK – YES
May 20 – Paris, FR – Supersonic
May 21 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso (London Calling)
May 22 – Antwerpen, BE – Trix
May 24 – Cologne, DE – Subway
May 25 – Berlin, DE – Privatclub

Sam Evian Shares Video for New Song ‘Time to Melt’

Sam Evian has unveiled the title track of his forthcoming album, Time to Melt. The single arrives with an accompanying video directed by John TerEick and filmed in the woods surrounding Evian’s home. Watch and listen below.

“If you’re familiar with tarot, I think of it as pulling the death card in a positive way,” Evian said of the song in a statement. “It’s like facing the idea of death, which I think everyone thought about a lot this past year, maybe more than usual collectively.”

Of the video, he added: “I met a lonely alien in the woods and they taught me a jig. As the night went on they convinced me to try huffing some special kind of bug spray, which opened a wormhole vortex to another dimension.”

Time to Melt arrives October 29 via Fat Possum. Sam Evian previously shared the singles ‘Knock Knock’ and ‘Easy to Love’.

Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser Joins Oneohtrix Point Never on New Song ‘Tales From the Trash Stratum’

Oneohtrix Point Never has announced a new expanded Blu-ray edition of his most recent album, last year’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. In addition to the previously released rework of ‘Nothing Special’ featuring Rosalía, the Blu-ray edition, which arrives October 29, will include an alternate take of ‘Lost But Never Alone’ by Oneohtrix Point Never and A. G. Cook and a new version of ‘Tales From The Trash Stratum’ featuring new vocals from the Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser, the latter of which is out today. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying visual.