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Tiny Habits Announce Debut Album, Share New Song ‘Wishes’

Tiny Habits have announced their debut album, All for Something, which will arrive on May 24 via Mom+Pop. Produced by Tony Berg and Will Maclellan, the LP includes the previously released singles ‘Flicker’, ‘Don’t Have The Heart’, ‘Small Enough’, and ‘Mudroom’, as well as a new song, ‘Wishes’. Check it out below.

“I remember starting this song and thinking it felt unoriginal,” the trio’s Cinya Khan shared in a statement. “I felt like I had already written songs about wanting a different life or a different set of circumstances. But I came to the realization that my experience, while unique to me, was one shared by so many others. When Judah and Maya wrote their verses the song truly came to life. Shared honesty will always be original. And confessional songwriting can be the most potent of all.”

Maya Rae commented: “I remember when Cin played Wishes for the first time… I’ve never connected so much to a song. Writing my own verse to this already heart wrenching, emotional, and vulnerable song felt so cathartic and honestly, just so healing. To me, this feels like our most important statement as a band. It’s the most honest thing that has come out of the three of us as a unit. As scary as this was, it was a turning point for each of us. We’ve been waiting a long time to share this with the world, and I feel so incredibly excited and nervous for you all to listen ❤”

“I remember immediately falling in love with Wishes the moment Cin brought it to us,” Judah Mayowa added. “When she asked Maya and I to write our own verses, I was unsure of sharing something so revealing. I truly thought I wasn’t going to be able to articulate feelings so vulnerable and personal to myself. But as soon as I sat down and began writing the emotions poured out of me and onto the paper. I couldn’t hold back. It was something my physical and spiritual being needed. This song became such a crucial turning point in my song writing. Now, I only want to create honest art and never want to shy away from vulnerability. I hope that this song helps the listener to find the motivation to be honest with themselves and the people they love. While we may feel isolated it is so important to remember you are not alone… and you are not a burden.”

Kara Jackson Shares Cover of Karen Dalton’s ‘Right, Wrong or Ready’

Kara Jackson has shared a cover of Karen Dalton’s 1969 track ‘Right, Wrong Or Ready’. It’s the first new music from the singer-songwriter since her 2023 debut album, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?. It comes with a Jellystone Robinson-directed video, which you can check out below.

“‘Right, Wrong or Ready’ is one of my favorite songs that has become a mainstay in my live sets,” Jackson said in a statement. “I love the song because it’s not quite a love song, but more so a statement of the kind of limbo love can become when a person has been on your mind for way too long. A love song for the lonely.”

Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Kara Jackson.

St. Vincent Releases New Single ‘Big Time Nothing’

Ahead of the release of her new album All Born Screaming, St. Vincent has released a new single from it called ‘Big Time Nothing’. It follows previous entries ‘Broken Man’ and ‘Flea’. Check it out below.

All Born Screaming, the follow-up to Daddy’s Home, features contributions from Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Josh Freese, Stella Mogzawa, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, and David Ralicke.

Margaret Glaspy Announces New EP ‘The Sun Doesn’t Think’, Unveils New Song

Margaret Glaspy has announced a new EP, The Sun Doesn’t Think, which arrives this Friday, April 26. Following last year’s Echo the Diamond, the collection is led by the track ’24/7′, which you can hear below.

“While I was on tour for Echo The Diamond, I was writing this EP,” Glaspy explained in a statement. “I was inspired by just being around audiences and experiencing their charisma and their stories. It made me want to bring more music to them and release records closer to their inception.”

“This song represents my attempt to understand how the threads of my childhood have woven the adult costume that I wear,” she said of ’24/7′. “I started to see that my beliefs about love and life had not evolved since I was a little girl and it had a pretty direct link to my own sense of worry and anxiety.” Glaspy added, “I love being an adult – with it comes the opportunity to connect your own dots.”

The Sun Doesn’t Think EP Cover Artwork:

The Sun Doesn’t Think EP Tracklist:

1. 24/7
2. Bathtub
3. I Need Help
4. Would You Be My Man?
5. The Sun Doesn’t Think

Open Mike Eagle’s Group Previous Industries Announce Debut Album ‘Service Merchandise’, Share New Song

Previous Industries – the project of frequent collaborators Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and Still Rift – have announced their debut LP. Service Merchandise will be released on June 28 via Merge Records. To mark the announcement, the trio has shared the new single ‘Pliers’, following the already-released ‘Showbiz’ and ‘Braids’. Video Dave directed the song’s video, which pays homage to the “Show me the way to go” scene from Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Check it out below.

“This is a song about tension, pressure and using our tools,” Open Mike Eagle said of ‘Pliers’ in a statement. “It’s about the pressure of being middle-aged in rap, the pressure of sharing oneself in relationships and a high stack of yesterdays about to topple into tomorrow. It’s the sound of the fight to take a deep breath.”

Service Merchandise Cover Artwork:

Service Merchandise Tracklist:

1. Showbiz
2. Pliers
3. Braids
4. Roebuck
5. Montgomery Ward
6. White Hen
7. Babbages
8. Fotomat
9. Dominick’s
10. Zayre
11. Kay Bee

Mitski Shares New Video for ‘Star’

Mitski has released a new video for ‘Star’, a single from her 2023 album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We. It’s directed by Maegan Houang, who worked with Mitski on the videos for Puberty 2’s ‘Happy’ and Laurel Hell’s ‘The Only Heartbreaker’ and ‘Stay Soft’. The clip was filmed on a small pond overnight and finds Mitski performing on a boat amongst painted pieces of wood. Watch it below.

“Unlike the more narrative/concept driven videos Mitski and I have done together in the past, I wanted this video to encapsulate the impressionistic circularity we all experience,” Houang explained in a statement. “Our lives oscillate between light and dark repeating itself in an endless cycle where nothing is permanent. The best moments are fleeting, but so are the bad.”

Earlier this year, Mitski shared a cover of Pete Seeger’s ‘Coyote, My Little Brother’.

Another Michael Release New Song ‘Seafood’

Another Michael have unveiled ‘Seafood’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down. It follows previous entries ‘Is There a World?’, ‘Mudslide’, and the title track. Listen below.

“I wrote ‘Seafood’ from the perspective of characters in the seafood industry: fishermen, suppliers, restaurant workers, and at-home cooks,” Michael Doherty explained in a statement. “I was feeling particularly romantic about seafood at the time, and the song well encapsulates that headspace. In a similar way that writing about music came up on our first album, writing about food feels natural to me.

“Also we’re so lucky to have one of our biggest influences, Chris Weisman, playing the Yamaha Venova so beautifully on this song,” he continued. “That’s the instrument you’re hearing that sounds like a soprano saxophone. Truly a dream come true to have his playing on one of our recordings, thank you Chris!”

Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down arrives May 31 via Run for Cover. Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Another Michael.

Staples Jr. Singers Announce First Album in Nearly 50 Years, Share New Song

Staples Jr. Singers – the family gospel trio of siblings Edward Brown, R.C. Brown, and Annie Brown Caldwell – have announced their first new album in almost 50 years, Searching. Following their 1975 debut When Do We Get Paid, which was reissued by the Luaka Bop label in 2022, the LP is set for release on June 14. Check out the lead single ‘Lost in a World of Sin’, along with a trailer for the album, below.

Searching was recorded by Ahmed Gallab, who performs as Sinkane, and engineered by Albert Di Fiore. The rhythm section is made up of R.C’s son Gary, his grandson Jaylin, and Edward’s son Troy. “The process was very easy,” Gallab said in a press release. “There’s nothing like a family bond/band. It was so special to watch how locked into each other everyone was. You can hear and feel that on this record.”

“It was good to be able to go back and look back over our life,” Annie Brown Caldwell shared. “Some of the same songs that we had sung, those songs have a new meaning to me.”

“I feel like I was able to witness part of this family’s continued story and legacy in real time,” Gallab added. “That was a very special thing to witness.”

Searching Cover Artwork:

Searching Tracklist:

1. Living In This World Alone
2. Lost In A World Of Sin
3. You Got To Believe
4. Walk Around Heaven
5. I’ve Got A Feeling
6. Don’t Need No Doctor
7. I Don’t Need Nobody But You
8. Get On Board

Susanna Announces New Album, Shares New Single ‘Everyone Knows’

Susanna has announced a new album titled Meditations on Love, which is slated for release on August 23. Today, the Norwegian singer and composer has unveiled its lead single, ‘Everyone Knows’, which comes with a self-directed video that was filmed and edited by Jonas Mailand. Check it out and see the album cover and tracklist below.

“I tried to capture the very vulnerable feeling of leaving a relationship and the shame that oen comes with being betrayed,” Susanna said of ‘Everyone Knows’ in a statement. “Your world is suddenly turned upside down and you are le with the aching feeling, ‘how can I go on without my love?’ And the ʻlove’ is not just that specific person, but all the things you identify with the relationship, and very oen how you identify yourself, who you are.”

“With Meditations on Love, I wanted to bring my songs and music into a new landscape,” Susanna added. “And I knew I had to find someone new to work with on the production to do that, so that I could be pushed in other directions.” The album was produced by Juhani Silvola and features contributions from Sarah-Jane Summers on strings, Harald Lassen and Morten Barrikmo on reeds, Dag Erik Knedal Andersen of Cortex on drums, and Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen of Pinquins and Ensemble Neon on percussion.

Last year, Susanna released Baudelaire & Orchestra, the final in a trilogy of albums inspired by the French poet.

Meditations on Love Cover Artwork:

Meditations on Love Tracklist:

1. Everyone Knows
2. Big Dreams
3. Leave Behind
4. I Took Care of Myself
5. Black Heart
6. Elephant Song
7. Battles
8. A Swallow
9. Where Has the Love Gone
10. I Was Never Here

mui zyu Shares New Song ‘the rules of what an earthling can be’

mui zyu (aka Eva Liu) has previewed her sophomore album, nothing or something to die for, with a new single. It’s titled ‘the rules of what an earthling can be’, and it follows ‘the mould’‘everything to die for’, and ‘sparky’. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Liu’s Dama Scout bandmate Danny Grant, below.

Talking about the song, Liu shared: “an alien sprouts in a library and shows us two doors. they assure us one of the doors leads to a better universe. however the other door will drag us back to reality under the never-ending curse of the harmful rulebooks earthlings force upon each other. in this cruel world people’s bodies are policed and their dreams are crushed. thankfully the alien will help us choose the right door.”

Grant added of the visual: “Well presented traditional 1 bed cave offered on a fully furnished basis. Located under a popular dirt mound with excellent local amenities. The property comprises spacious open plan living space, striking spiral staircase and multiple portals. TV license included.”

nothing or something to die for will be released May 24 on Father/Daughter Records. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with mui zyu.