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Silverbacks Announce New Album, Share New Single ‘Something I Know’

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Silverbacks Announce New Album, Share New Single ‘Something I Know’

Silverbacks have announced their third full-length, Easy Being a Winner. The follow-up to 2022’s Archive Material is due for release on October 18 via Central Tones/Cargo. Today, the Dublin six-piece has shared the new single ‘Something I Know’, which follows July’s ‘Selling Shovels’, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below.

“Lyrically, it tells the story of a religious person who is at a crossroads in their life,” lyricist and guitarist Kilian O’Kelly explained in a statement about ‘Something I Know’. “They have fallen in love with someone but also remain committed to their faith – a very common story from the past. The singer and main character is damned if they commit themselves to their religious duties as they will always be left wondering what could have been, and deems themselves to be damned by a higher power if they pick love and turn their backs to their ongoing religious commitments and faith. Whether or not the main character is turning to their loved one, or turning to a God, is left open.”

“The song also has a special feature from mine and (vocalist and guitarist) Daniel’s dad, John,” he added. “He plays clarinet drones on the track and also provides a sermon from the sky style spoken word at the end.”

As with their previous two albums, Silverbacks recorded Easy Being a Winner with Daniel Fox (Gilla Band) at Sonic Studios in Stoneybatter, Dublin. “Now that Easy Being a Winner is coming out, I feel I can more confidently say who we are,” O’Kelly added. “We’re indie rock. And this album sounds even more like the indie rock I imagined for our band all those years ago.”

Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Silverbacks.

Easy Being a Winner Cover Artwork:

Easy Being a Winner Tracklist:

1. Selling Shovels
2. Giving Away An Inch Of
3. Look At All You’ve Done
4. Hide Away
5. Something I Know
6. Flex
7. Spinning Jenny
8. No Rivers Around Here
9. Billion Star Night Light
10. Songs About Divide
11. Easy Being A Winner

The Rise of Sound Money T-Shirts: A Fashion Trend or More?

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The Rise of Sound Money T-Shirts: A Fashion Trend or More?

There’s a new trend going around town. Did you hear? The fashion industry is now increasingly interested in Sound Money T-shirts. These trendy tees feature designs related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies, as well as traditional forms of currency like paper, gold, and silver. An interesting design trend; it makes one wonder. Are these shirts just a passing fad? In this article, we will delve into the emergence of money t-shirts, what they symbolize, and why they are becoming popular among fashion enthusiasts and those who value financial independence.

Understanding Sound Money

Before exploring the realm of sound money t-shirts, it’s important to grasp the concept of “sound money.” This term refers to a system where a currency retains its value over time and is not susceptible to inflation or control by central authorities. Advocates for sound money strive for currencies backed by assets such as gold or innovative decentralized currencies like Bitcoin.

The Appeal of Sound Money T-Shirts

Rocking sound money t-shirts not only demonstrates one’s support for alternative monetary models but also acts as a conversation starter. These shirts ignite discussions on topics like organizational autonomy, blockchain technology, and decentralization, which are increasingly resonating with an expanding audience. It is also a powerful way to express yourself and voice your opinions without uttering a word.

Fashion Meets Monetary Education

The trendy sound money tees effortlessly blend fashion with financial literacy serving as a platform for expressing beliefs and sparking discussions about traditional as well as modern currency systems. By infusing style with substance, these shirts are becoming tools for raising awareness about financial independence and liberty across various communities.

The Influence of Social Media and Trendsetters

Social media has played a significant role in propelling the popularity of sound money t-shirts into the mainstream. Influential figures on platforms endorse these shirts not only as fashion statements but also as symbols reflecting their views on global financial matters. Their vast reach significantly amplifies the message conveyed by these tees.

Diverse Designs to Capture Attention

Brands specializing in crafting money t-shirts recognize the significance of captivating designs that appeal to both wearers and spectators. From depictions of cryptocurrency emblems to elaborate patterns inspired by currencies, there exists a sound money t-shirt suited for every individual. These designs enable people to discover shirts that resonate with their values while complementing their style preferences. It’s a unique blend of visual appeal and a strong message.

Advocating Financial Autonomy

In a world of centralized financial systems, donning a sound money t-shirt symbolizes a declaration of self-reliance and empowerment over one’s financial destiny.

Many people looking for monetary options other than currencies are drawn to the idea of gaining economic freedom through secure digital assets that are decentralized. Wearing these shirts is a way to show support for the movement toward a new financial era.

The Strength of Community Around Sound Money T-Shirts

What makes sound money t-shirts unique compared to other passing fashion trends is the community that has been built around them. By sporting these breezy cool tees, individuals join a community that shares beliefs in free-money principles, freedom, and personal financial sovereignty. It is a community that encourages discussions and resource sharing and creates an atmosphere where everyone feels empowered to manage their finances.

Not Just Fashion: A Deeper Connection

While some may view money t-shirts as a fleeting trend in fast fashion, their popularity tells a different story. They represent an increasing awareness and desire for autonomy, among people worldwide. These shirts go beyond style statements; they carry messages advocating for revamped monetary systems and increased financial independence for all.

The Importance of Education and Awareness

Another important aspect surrounding the rise of sound money t-shirts is the emphasis on education and awareness. Many sound money t-shirt brands actively contribute to spreading knowledge about financial literacy, investments, and decentralized currencies. These brands not only provide resources on their websites but also engage in educational initiatives, webinars, and collaborations with experts in the field. By combining fashion with comprehensive educational efforts, they empower individuals to make informed financial decisions and advocate for a more secure and transparent monetary system.

In Summary

Sound money t-shirts have moved beyond being fashion pieces: they are now symbols of a mentality centered on financial responsibility and individual autonomy.

As they become more popular, they spark discussions about modern forms of currencies and other options to traditional money systems. If you want to show your backing for new-age financial principles in a trendy way, these cool t-shirts are the perfect choice. Don a stylish tee and spread the sound money statement.

Lone Justice Announce First New Album in 37 Years, Share Single

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Lone Justice Announce First New Album in 37 Years, Share Single

Los Angeles country rock band Lone Justice have announced their first album in 37 years, Viva Lone Justice. Set for release on October 25 via Afar, the follow-up to 1987’s Shelter marks the reunion of the band’s original lineup: Maria McKee, Ryan Hedgecock, Marvin Etzioni, and the late Don Heffington. Today, they’ve shared two tracks from the record: their take on the American folk standard ‘Jenny Jenkins’ and a cover of the Undertones’ 1978 hit ‘Teenage Kicks’. Take a listen below.

The Belair Lip Bombs Sign to Third Man Records

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The Belair Lip Bombs Sign to Third Man Records

The Belair Lip Bombs have signed to Third Man Recordings, becoming the first Australian band to sign to the label. “Signing with Third Man has been a dream for us, particularly as the first Australian band on the label,” the band said in a press release. “Everyone at the label is a legend and it’s obvious how much love they put into each of their releases. We couldn’t be more stoked to be joining the Third man fam!”

Helmed by frontwoman Maisie Everett, the Belair Lip Bombs features guitarist Mike Bradvica, drummer Liam De Bruin, and bassist Jimmy Droughton. Their debut album, Lush Life, arrived last year via Cousin Will, and will now be reissued on Jack White’s label. Physical copies will be available from October 18.

Discussing the record, Everett said:

The album is titled ‘Lush Life’ – these words are referenced a few times throughout the album. Themes or motifs explored in the album often involve a longing for something that isn’t there, but maybe not quite knowing exactly what that something is. The term ‘Lush Life’ sort of describes a picture perfect world where everything is easy (but doesn’t actually exist).

I wanted it to be perfect, and we tried a lot of different things in the studio, in terms of melodies and harmonies. It was a lot of fun. I was playing in another band at the time and constantly on tour which made it hard to finish the album in a linear way. But I’m glad we took our time with it, because it’s turned out exactly how we wanted it.

The Belair Lip Bombs are currently working on their second LP, which is expected to arrive next year.

Adeline Hotel Announces New Album ‘Whodunnit’, Unveils New Single

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Adeline Hotel Announces New Album ‘Whodunnit’, Unveils New Single

Dan Knishkowy has announced a new album under the Adeline Hotel moniker, Whodunnit, which is slated for release on September 27 via Ruination. Check out the title track below.

‘Whodunnit’ explores the dissolution of a marriage. Speaking about the titular metaphor, Knishkowy said in a statement: “By the time you find out who’s responsible for the crime, it sort of doesn’t matter anymore. What’s compelling is watching the dialectic circumstances in the plot reacting to and causing each other.”

Whodunnit serves as the follow-up to October 2023’s Hot Fruit. Katie Von Schleicher produced the album, which features drummer Sean Mullins (Moon Mullins, Sam Evian), keyboardist Winston Cook-Wilson (Office Culture), bassist Carmen Quill (Scree, Tilt), and vocalist Jackie West. “Even though I was going through something that was objectively hard, I didn’t feel lonely,” Knishkowy reflected. “I was being freed to find myself, to build my own connection with the world that had been lost.”

Whodunnit Cover Artwork:

Whodunnit Tracklist:

1. How Did I Get So Lucky?
2. Whodunnit
3. Preying On
4. Grief
5. Egg On My Face
6. Joy
7. Isn’t That Enough?
8. I Will Let Your Flowers Grow
9. Possible Lives

Half Waif Announces New Album ‘See You at the Maypole’, Shares New Single ‘Figurine’

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Half Waif Announces New Album ‘See You at the Maypole’, Shares New Single ‘Figurine’

Half Waif, the project of Nandi Rose, has announced a new album titled See You at the Maypole. The follow-up to 2021’s Mythopoetics lands on October 4 via ANTI-. It’s led by the single ‘Figurine’, which comes paired with a video directed by Derrick Belcham and shot at Rose’s upstate New York home, with choreography by Kora Radella. Check it out below and scroll down for the album artwork (by Annika Tucksmith) and tracklist.

‘Figurine’, like much of See You at the Maypole, was written in the wake of a miscarriage. “Not everyone will go through a miscarriage, but this is a song about how to continue on after losing something precious, how to find the light on your face again,” Rose explained. She added, “I was literally carrying death inside me, and then my body was frozen.… This wasn’t just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss – the loss of a life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of finding a way back again.”

Rose worked on the new LP, which also follows 2024’s Ephemeral Being EP, with longtime collaborator Zubin Hensler. Other contributors include percussionists Jason Burger and Zack Levine, guitarist Josh Marre, violinists Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park, clarinetist Kristina Teuschler, trombonist Willem de Koch, harpist Rebecca El-Saleh, and upright bassist Spencer Zahn.

See You at the Maypole Cover Artwork:

See You at the Maypole Tracklist:

1. Fog Winter Balsam Jade
2. Collect Color
3. I-90
4. Figurine
5. Heartwood
6. Big Dipper
7. Shirtsleeves
8. Sunset Hunting
9. Dust
10. Slow Music
11. Ephemeral Being
12. Violetlight
13. Velvet Coil
14. The Museum
15. King of Tides
16. Mother Tongue
17. March Grass

This Week’s Best New Songs: Jamie xx, Magdalena Bay, MJ Lenderman, and More

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This Week’s Best New Songs: Jamie xx, Magdalena Bay, MJ Lenderman, and More

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this best new music segment.

This week’s list includes ‘Greyhound’, the cathartic eight-minute single that leads Foxing’s upcoming album; Trace Mountains’ ‘In a Dream’, a driving, existential single that sprawls over seven and a half minutes; Magdalena Bay’s kaleidoscopic ‘Tunnel Vision’, which harks back to the duo’s prog-rock origins; Jane Remover’s fuzzy, mesmerizing new song ‘Dream Sequence’; High Vis’ ‘Mind’s a Lie’, which injects their post-hardcore sound with elements of house music; A$AP Rocky’s infectious and surprisingly effective collaboration with Jessica Pratt, ‘Highjack’; Soccer Mommy’s ‘M’, the gentle, pensive lead single from her forthcoming album Evergreen; MJ Lenderman’s ‘Joker Lips’, which evokes genuine heartache between a series of punchlines; Sex Week’s hypnotically delicate ‘Kid Muscle’; Jamie xx and the Avalanches’ soaring, colourful collaboration ‘All You Children’; and ‘Seed of a Seed’, the gorgeous new song from Portland’s Haley Heynderickx.

Best New Songs: August 5, 2024

Foxing, ‘Greyhound’

Trace Mountains, ‘In a Dream’

Song of the Week: Magdalena Bay, ‘Tunnel Vision’

Jane Remover, ‘Dream Sequence’

High Vis, ‘Mind’s a Lie’

A$AP Rocky feat. Jessica Pratt, ‘Highjack’

Soccer Mommy, ‘M’

MJ Lenderman, ‘Joker Lips’

Sex Week, ‘Kid Muscle’

Jamie xx feat. the Avalanches, ‘All You Children’

Haley Heynderickx, ‘Seed of a Seed’

Clairo Shares New Video for ‘Juna’

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Clairo Shares New Video for ‘Juna’

Clairo has shared the music video for ‘Juna’, a highlight from her latest album Charm. Marking her first-ever visual for an album track, the Bradley J. Calder-directed clip features Clairo at a wrestling show. Watch it below.

Charm, Clairo’s third album, came out on July 12. A few days later, the singer-songwriter performed ‘Juna’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Album Review: Chrystabell & David Lynch, ‘Cellophane Memories’

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Album Review: Chrystabell & David Lynch, ‘Cellophane Memories’

Cellophane Memories, David Lynch’s latest musical collaboration with Texas-born singer Chrystabell, drifts by in a haze. Even if you’re not too familiar with Lynch’s work or the entire aesthetic the filmmaker’s surname has been associated with (and often misused), the album title hints at the thinly nostalgic nature of its music, which is preoccupied with dreams, memory, and suggestive scene-setting more than any kind of solvable mystery. Chrystabell – who has frequently collaborated with Lynch since contributing to the Inland Empire soundtrack and played FBI agent Tammy Preston in Twin Peaks: The Return – has likened it to “mood music,” but clarified, “not that it creates mood, but more that it reflects your own.” You come out of it unsure what’s happened but mesmerized nonetheless, and if it serves its purpose, with a keener awareness of your environment and headspace.

Lynch and Chrystabell’s first album together, 2011’s This Train, was a rather conventional yet transfixing offering in a subgenre that Lynch – with his and frequent collaborator Angelo Badalamenti’s production in Julee Cruise’s 1989 album Floating Into the Night – helped establish. By contrast, the dreampop of Cellophane Memories is sparser, largely beatless, and more experimental – more dream, less pop, essentially – as if expansed by the passage of time. Still, the intimate dance between Lynch’s airy synths and Chrystabell’s angelic vocals remains intriguing; the production has a way of beautifully diffusing the bluesy, confessional element of Chrystabell’s prior work without overshadowing its power. Floating atop the overlapping, stitched-up, and reversed layers of her voice, fragments become the focus, boundaries are blurred, and the mundane bleeds into the otherworldly. If only there was a word for that.

At times, the arrangements are a little too amorphous to keep you hooked in the swirl of it all. But they are tender, vulnerable, and, if nothing else, cinematically paced. In ‘The Sky Falls’, Lynch’s synths soften the frail resignation of Chrystabell’s words, barely decipherable except when they mention death, into something ethereal rather than downcast. When he switches to a twangy, reverb-drenched guitar, it has a strangely grounding effect, shedding light on the expository details of ‘You Know the Rest’ and rendering the sensuality of ‘Two Lovers Kiss’ all the more palpable. But the record is at its most sweeping when it includes contributions from the late Badalamenti, whose epic synths heighten the wondrous (and decidedly unerotic) romanticism of ‘So Much Love’, as well as composer Dean Hurley, whose bass and drums turn ‘The Answers to the Questions’ into not only an ominously lurching standout but the undeniable centerpiece.

Cellophane Memories supposedly came to Lynch in a vision during a nighttime walk in a forest, where a bright light became visible over the tops of tall trees. That vision manifests in the brooding highlight ‘Reflections in a Blade’, driving the climax of the action, which you can just about decipher if you look hard enough: “Darkness would not hide her for long/ She took a breath and ran/ She ran as fast as she could to the back of the house/ The light of the flashlight dancing like a shiny knife blade.” It should be no spoiler that it turns out to be a dream, though one vivid and violent enough to leave you questioning the reality around it. “She thought they had a bond/ An unshakable bond/ But was it too good to be true?” Chrystabell wonders, in a wave of profound lucidity, on ‘The Answers to the Questions’. But once she wakes from that dream, she is floored by a connection that transcends two human beings; the final track is called ‘Sublime Eternal Love’. Whether you could call the conclusion Lynchian is up for debate. But it’s the gentle beauty, not the ambiguity or weirdness, that animates this collaborative album, echoing through the silence left in its wake.

The Romantic Disorder: Ruiyan Sun Solo Exhibition

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The Romantic Disorder: Ruiyan Sun Solo Exhibition

The Romantic Disorder: Ruiyan Sun Solo Exhibition, took place at the Blanc Gallery in midtown Manhattan from from July 25th to 27th, 2024. The exhibition presented a subtle interplay of light and shadow, conjuring a world suspended between memory and reality. Here, amidst the hazy tones and gentle whispers of the sea, lies a profound exploration of the delicate fabric of human emotion and remembrance.

The exhibition explores the shared human experience that reverberates with love, loss, and the unspoken poetry of existence. Ruiyan Sun’s artistry blends technological sophistication and emotional depth. Programming within p5.js and ml5.js, she creates dynamic visuals that adapt and evolve, mirroring the unpredictable, chaotic, and beautiful flow of life itself.

Nostalgic Glimpses, merges the charm of vintage comic aesthetics with the spontaneity of modern generative algorithms. The artist’s approach celebrates the unpredictability and uniqueness of each moment and evokes a poignant sense of nostalgia reminiscent of the cherished, flickering frames of old animations. Ruiyan Sun’s artistry masterfully combines technological sophistication with profound emotional depth, creating a vibrant intersection between modern programming and the fluid unpredictability of human experiences.

Exhibition View, Photography by BluBlu, 2024

The short film series, characterized by its serene yet poignant storytelling, captures the quiet moments of existence against the ceaseless hum of the world. Each frame is a testament to the enduring allure of Romanticism. Through subtle hues, the deliberate gestures of characters, and the carefully crafted ambiance, the artist has invited viewers to linger within the spaces between spoken words, to feel the resonance of silence and the weight of the unspoken.

Exhibition View, Photography by BluBlu, 2024

Whispers of the Departed: A Memorial Reflection Experience, encapsulates Sun’s profound dialogue with the themes of memory and loss. This installation transforms remembrance into an interactive ritual; each QR code, discreetly placed upon tombstone-like doors, offers a unique gateway to the life of a person once vibrant and now remembered.

Exhibition View, Photography by BluBlu, 2024

The act of choosing a door and engaging with a lost narrative is a solitary reflection on the impermanence of life and the importance of memory. Visitors are encouraged to take a flower after engaging with the stories—a symbolic gesture of fleeting beauty and the ephemeral nature of human existence.

Exhibition View, Photography by BluBlu, 2024

The Romantic Disorder transcends conventional romance, navigating beyond the clichéd symbols to touch upon an irresistible longing rooted deeply in the collective unconscious. The color palette, a testament to subtlety, melds with the backdrop of a fog-laden seascape, suggesting the blurred boundaries between the seen and the unseen, the said and the silent.

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