Microwave have dropped a new song, ‘Huperzine Dreamz’, from their forthcoming album Let’s Start Degeneracy. It follows previous cuts ‘Bored of Being Sad’ and ‘Straw Hat’. Check it out below.
‘Huperzine Dreamz’ is “kind of a nod to the wide variety of nu-tropic supplements Tito and I have been experimenting with over the last several years,” according to bandleader Nathan Hardy.
Let’s Start Degeneracy is due out April 26 via Pure Noise Records.
Sub Pop will be releasing a new 7” single from the Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi. It’s out on April 12, and the A-side, ‘A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest’, is out today. It features Emma Ruth Rundle reciting her poem, ‘Paloma’. Listen to it below.
Drop Nineteens have announced a reissue of their debut album Delaware. It’s due for release on June 21 via Wharf Cat, and today, the band has shared two new songs: ‘Nest’ and a cover of Lana Del Rey’s ‘White Dress’. Take a listen below.
“I was admittedly late to Lana,” bandleader Greg Ackell commented in a statement. “But this track got me and it just won’t let go, so I decided to bring it to the band. The band looked at me a little sideways when I suggested covering Lana Del Rey’s ‘White Dress,’ but the moment we started running through what I had in mind together, they locked in on it.”
Of ‘Nest’, he added: “‘Nest’ was originally intended to either open or close our album Hard Light. When we realized we had a better opener and closer, we were unable to find the right place for it on the album. It’s an apt closer as B-side to ‘White Dress’, because it’s the the last song Drop Nineteens will be releasing for a while, or perhaps ever, because you know, you never know… The ruminative lyrics make it well suited for this position.”
The band has also altered the album’s cover art for the reisssue, replacing the gun in the girl’s hand with flowers. “We decided to change the cover image, not so much to self-cancel, but because we simply will not put the image of a young person with a gun in their hand out in the world in today’s climate,” Ackell said. “To be fair, the concept was probably overstated even in 1992. We love the new cover design, and we are proud to be donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this Delaware reissue to the charity Artist For Action To Prevent Gun Violence.”
Last year, Drop Nineteens released their comeback album, Hard Light.
Delaware Cover Artwork:
Delaware Tracklist:
1. Delaware
2. Ease It Halen
3. Winona
4. Kick the Tragedy
5. Baby Wonder’s Gone
6. Happen
7. Reberrymemberer
8. Angel
9. My Aquarium
10. (Plus Fish Dream)
Angel Olsen and Maxim Ludwig have teamed up for a cover of the Velvet Underground’s ‘I Can’t Stand It’. It appears on the upcoming Lou Reed tribute album The Power of the Heart, which includes previously released contributions from Keith Richards and Rufus Wainwright. Take a listen below.
The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed is set for release on April 20 via Light in the Attic.
St. Vincent has shared ‘Flea’, a new single from her forthcoming album All Born Screaming. Following last month’s ‘Broken Man’, the song features Dave Grohl on drums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass. Check it out below, along with St. Vincent’s newly announced tour dates.
All Born Screaming, Annie Clark’s follow-up to Daddy’s Home, is due April 26. Cate Le Bon, Josh Freese, Stella Mozgawa, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, and David Ralicke also contributed to the LP.
St. Vincent 2024 Tour Dates:
May 22 Ventura, CA – The Majestic Ventura Theater *
May 24 Napa, CA – BottleRock Napa Valley
May 25 San Francisco, CA – The Masonic *
May 26 Napa, CA – JaM Cellars Ballroom *
Jun 7 Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands – Best Kept Secret
Jun 8 Aarhus, Denmark – NorthSide Festival
Aug 8 Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater #
Aug 9 Carnation, WA – Thing Festival
Aug 11 Vancouver, British Columbia – Orpheum ^
Aug 13 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory ^
Aug 14 Ogden, UT – Ogden Twilight at the Ogden Amphitheater
Aug 16 Los Angeles, CA – Greek Theatre
Sep 5 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway %
Sep 6 Philadelphia, PA – The Met %
Sep 10 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount %
Sep 11 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount %
Sep 13 Washington, D.C. – Anthem %
Sep 14 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall @
Sep 16 Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater @
Sep 20 Saint Paul, MN – The Palace Theater @
* with Momma
# with Spoon
% with Yves Tumor
^ with Eartheater
@ with Dorian Electra
The Ophelias have shared a new track, ‘Soft and Taken’, which appears on their upcoming Ribbon EP. Check out a video for it below.
Ribbon, which follows the Ophelias’s 2021 album Crocus, comes out on April 12. Upon its announcement, the band previewed it with the song ‘Black Ribbon’.
Vampire Weekend have shared another single from their forthcoming album Only God Was Above Us, which comes out on April 5. Following previous entries ‘Capricorn’, ‘Gen X Cops’, and ‘Classical’, ‘Mary Boone’ was written by Ezra Koenig and produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and Koenig. It features a sample of the drum loop from Soul II Soul’s ‘Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)’. Check it out below.
In addition to the new track, Vampire Weekend have today announced a nine-date run of shows in the UK and Europe, kicking off on November 29 at Dublin’s 3Arena; find those dates below, too.
Vampire Weekend 2024 UK Tour Dates:
Nov 29 Dublin, Ireland 3Arena
Dec 1 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
Dec 2 Manchester, UK O2 Apollo
Dec 4 London, UK Eventim Apollo
Dec 6 Wolverhampton, UK The Halls
Dec 8 Glasgow, UK OVO Hydro
Dec 10 London, UK O2 Academy Brixton
Dec 13 Paris, France Adidas Arena
Dec 15 Amsterdam, Netherlands. AFAS Live
Bnny has shared two new tracks from One Million Love Songs, their new album that arrives on April 5 via Fire Talk Records. ‘Something Blue’ and ‘Changes’ follow the previously released ‘Crazy, Baby’ and ‘Good Stuff’. Check out the video for ‘Something Blue’ and listen to ‘Changes’ below.
Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Bnny.
Pittsburgh-based artist Merce Lemon has shared a new single, ‘Will You Do Me a Kindness’. Check out its Greg Freeman-directed video below.
The song is “a collage of moments, lines, and feelings I had gathered over the months,” according to Lemon. “The title comes from a quote I heard in the youtube video of the crass Winnebago man and the rest kind of spilled out from there. It is a song close to my heart, the inescapable loneliness we feel as humans, the little things we notice when we are alone, the fear yet desire to give ourselves wholly to another.”
Lorde has shared her contribution to A24’s Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. Listen to her rendition of ‘Take Me to the River’, originally written by Al Green before the Talking Heads recorded their version for 1978’s More Songs About Buildings and Food, below.
In an email newsletter marking the release, Lorde wrote:
Hey you, it’s me
Today my version of “take Me To The River” from the Stop Making Sense compilation comes out.
Do you remember the first time you ever heard Talking Heads?
I’ll tell you my story.
Ok, it’s 2008. I’m twelve years old, eyes painted black, jaw blasted with acne. My bedroom is a nest of posters, broken toys, street signs. I’ve kissed with tongue.
Something’s happening to me: i am beginning to ooze out in every direction. I feel a constant burning urge to express myself, to draw a map that leads to who l am. I can’t get it right; there’s deep discomfort in this, and I have no choice but to keep trying.
At the same time, I’m realising that if I look at a picture or listen to a song sometimes a surge of feeling will take over my whole body. In this way, I can remove my strange-feeling insides and replace them with whatever I want. I can’t predict what exactly will do this to me, so I have to try everything. Things are either corny, or they’re cool. Occasionally, the thing that replaces my insides is a total mystery to me, not corny or cool but somehow both, and through this feeling I have my first experiences with the divine.
My mother, an artist herself, sees the ooze. She brings her laptop into my room one night and puts on a Youtube video. It’s grainy, 240p at best. In the video I see a band from another time performing on a TV show. The lead singer wears a suit, has high cheekbones and slicked-back dark hair. To his left a blonde girl plays bass. They stand in pools of light. The dark haired man is singing a song about wanting someone, not being sure why. He is a preacher, a controlled fire, a wild animal. He’s moving like ive never seen anyone move, and his eyes are rolling back in his head. He knows how it feels to kiss with tongue. The wifi signal drops in and out from downstairs.
I feel a portal open between me and the screen. Humour, lust, rhythm and ritual course through me. I don’t understand what I’m feeling, but I do understand that the band in the grainy video live with the same strangeness that I do. My palms tingle.
My insides are replaced.
This version of the first Talking Heads song I ever heard was done in a few days in Echo Park, L.A. with my friend Jimmy. It’s my interpretation of that pixellated spiritual experience. We did it fast, I didn’t let myself tidy it up too much, it had to feel young and imperfect, the peeling posters, the jaw of acne. It’s beyond a great honour to be part of this compilation. In doing so, I am reaching
back through time and pinning something to that kid’s wall.
Hope you like it
Everyone’s Getting Involved also features covers by Miley Cyrus, BADBADNOTGOOD, Blondshell, girl in red, Jean Dawson, Kevin Abstract, the Linda Lindas, Toro y Moi, and more. So far, we’ve heard Paramore’s take on ‘Burning Down the House’ and Teezo Touchdown’s version of ‘Making Flippy Floppy’. A release date for the project has not yet been announced.
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