Avey Tare, the solo project of Animal Collective’s Dave Portner, has announced a new album called 7s. The follow-up to 2019’s Cows on Hourglass Pond was recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina with Adam McDaniel. In a press release, Portner describes the LP as “a dreamy surrealist landscape,” and two songs from it, ‘The Musical’ and ‘Hey Bog’, are out today. Take a listen below, and scroll down to see the album cover, tracklist, and Avey Tare’s upcoming tour dates.
7s Cover Artwork:
7s Tracklist:
1. Invisible Darlings
2. Lips At Night
3. The Musical
4. Hey Bog
5. Sweeper’s Grin
6. Neurons
7. Cloud Stop Rest Start
Avey Tare 2023 Tour Dates:
Mar 23 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle
Mar 24 Savannah, GA – Lodge Of Sorrows
Mar 25 Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
Mar 27 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
Mar 28 Washington, DC – Songbyrd
Mar 29 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
Mar 31 Brooklyn, NY – Market Hotel
Apr 1 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Apr 3 Montreal, QC – Bar Le Ritz PDB
Apr 4 Toronto, ON – The Drake Underground
Apr 6 Detroit, MI – El Club
Apr 7 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
Apr 8 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
Apr 27 Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library
Apr 28 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
Apr 29 Sonoma, CA – HopMonk Tavern
May 1 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
May 2 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile
May 3 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret
May 5 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
May 6 Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge
May 8 Sante Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
May 9 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
May 10 San Diego, CA – Casbah
May 13 Los Angeles, CA – Lodge Room
Boston Calling has announced its 2023 lineup. Taking place across Memorial Day Weekend at the Harvard Athletic Complex, the festival will be headlined by Foo Fighters, the Lumineers, and Paramore, with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Queens of the Stone Age, the National, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Bleachers, the Flaming Lips, Niall Horan, 070 Shake, Teddy Swims, the Aces, Genesis Owusu, Mint Green, Mt. Joy, and the Linda Lindas among the many acts also scheduled to perform. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, January 12 at 10am ET. Check out the full lineup below.
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has announced the lineup for its 2023 edition, which will take place from June 15-18 in Manchester, Tennessee. Kendrick Lamar, Foo Fighters, Zeds Dead, Odesza, and Liquid Stranger are set to headline the festival, which will also feature appearances by Paramore, Lil Nas X, Sheryl Crow, Fleet Foxes, Pixies, black midi, Three 6 Mafia, Rina Sawayama, Alex G, My Morning Jacket, MUNA, Korn, Jenny Lewis, Tyler Childers, the Beths, Marcus Mumford, Amber Mark, Baby Keem, Diarrhea Planet, Franz Ferdinand, Sylvan Esso, 070 Shake, Men I Trust, and many more. Find ticket information here, and check out the full lineup in the festival poster below.
Anthony Gonzalez has announced the ninth M83 album, Fantasy, which will arrive on March 17 via their own Other Suns label. To accompany the announcement, he’s shared a new single called ‘Oceans Niagara’, alongside a video created by his brother and filmmaker Yann Gonzalez. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.
“Very proud to present the first track of my new album Fantasy,” Anthony Gonzalez commented in a press release. “It’s called ‘Oceans Niagara’ and it’s the very first collaboration between my brother Yann Gonzalez and myself on a music video. I wanted to create this sense of friendship. Listening to that song, I imagine people running, driving fast, or riding spaceships together. It’s this sense of going forward, like a magic potion that you take to discover new worlds. Beyond Adventure!”
Yann Gonzalez added: “‘Oceans Niagara’ is the perfect synthesis of M83’s music: a wall of sound and emotions that goes crescendo until it climaxes, with moments of pure melodic ecstasy that personally make me feel like I’m floating, loving and crying all at once, almost like being a teenager again. This is the first time I’m directing a music video for Anthony and this was a great chance for us to share our common references and emotions from our own childhood and teenage years with hints of our favorite French-Japanese animes, horror films and kid’s strange TV shows from the ‘80s and ‘90s.”
Fantasy will follow 2019’s DSVII, the sequel to 2007’s Digital Shades Vol. 1. “I wanted this record to be very impactful live,” the M83 frontman said in a statement. “The idea was to come back with something closer to the energy of Before The Dawn Heals Us. The combination of guitars and synths is always in my music, but it’s maybe more present on this new record than on the previous ones. I wanted to be more present lyrically and vocally even if that was daunting at first. I thought if I could achieve that, this album will be more personal than those that came before.”
Fantasy Cover Artwork:
Fantasy Tracklist:
1 . Water Deep
2 . Oceans Niagara
3 . Amnesia
4. Us And The Rest
5. Earth To Sea
6. Radar, Far, Gone
7. Deceiver
8. Fantasy
9. Laura
10. Sunny Boy
11. Kool Nuit
12. Sunny Boy Part 2
13. Dismemberment Bureau
Purling Hiss have announced a new album called Drag on Girard, which marks their first full-length in six years. The follow-up to High Bias and 2019’s Interstellar Blue EP is slated for release on March 24 via Drag City. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Yer All In My Dreams’, which you can check out below, along with the LP’s cover art and tracklist.
Drag on Girard Cover Artwork:
Drag on Girard Tracklist:
1. Yer All In My Dreams
2. Something In My Basement
3. Baby
4. Out The Door
5. When the End Is Over
6. Stay With Us
7. Drag on Girard
8. Shining Gilded Boulevard
Country Westerns have announced a new LP called Forgive the City. The Nashville band’s sophomore album, which finds them reuniting with producer Matt Sweeney, arrives on April 28 via Fat Possum Records. Accompanying the announcement is the new single ‘It’s a Livin’, which follows the previously shared ‘Money on the Table’ and comes with a video directed by Miranda Zipse. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist.
“’It’s a Livin’ is the last song I wrote for our new album. It’s meant to be a tribute to musicians and travelers who are waiting for the road to open. And also a promotion of forgiveness in general,” vocalist and guitarist Joseph Plunket explained in a press statement. “It’s about the last go around and wondering what’s left out there. An encouragement to those who have to push through and keep moving and also an acknowledgement of a time to lay it down. It has pretty obvious vibes of a pandemic spent in Nashville and the actual lyrics are less pretentious than this description. I wrote it on my Danelectro 10-string which gives it a cool aggressive jangle.”
Of the album, Plunket added: “Overall, it’s about partnerships. Though never planned as a concept, writing the last few songs (sometimes in the studio) I started to realize that none dealt with romantic relationships in any direct way. They’re intense songs about friendships, fellow travelers, even business associations—how exciting they can be when things begin and how disappointments, betrayals or shared success can leave just as much a mark on your life as romantic love. In the end that’s all a band is right?”
Forgive the City Cover Artwork:
Forgive the City Tracklist:
1. Knucklen
2. Speaking Ill Of The Blues
3. Grapefruit
4. Money On The Table
5. Wait For It
6. Country Westerns
7. It’s A Livin
8. Something Goes Wrong
9. Cussin’ Christians
10. Where I’m Going
11. Hell
12. Marinero
U.S. Girls have announced their next album: Bless This Mess is due out February 24 via 4AD. Meg Remy’s eighth album under the moniker will include the previously released singles ‘So Typically Now’ and ‘Bless This Mess’, as well as a new song, ‘Futures Bet, which is accompanied by an Alex Kingsmill-directed video. Carlyn Bezic, who sings on the track, co-stars in the visual alongside Remy and will also open for U.S. Girls’ 2023 tour with her project Jane Inc. Check out ‘Futures Bet’ and find the album artwork, tracklist, as well as those tour dates below.
The follow-up to 2020’s Heavy Light was created “in tandem with the conception and birth of Remy’s twin boys,” according to a press release, and the closing track ‘Pump’ even samples her breast pump. Collaborators on the 10-track LP include Alex Frankel of Holy Ghost!, Marker Starling, Cobra Starship’s Ryland Blackinton, Basia Bulat, and Roger Manning Jr., as well as audio engineers Neal H Pogue, Ken Sluiter, Steve Chahley, and Remy’s husband and longtime collaborator Maximilian Turnbull.
Bless This Mess Cover Artwork:
Bless This Mess Tracklist:
1. Only Daedalus
2. Just Space For Light
3. Screen Face [feat. Michael Rault]
4. Futures Bet
5. So Typically Now
6. Bless This Mess
7. Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)
8. RIP Roy G Biv [feat. Marker Starling]
9. St James Way
10. Pump [feat. Alanna Stuart]
U.S. Girls 2023 Tour Dates:
13 April – Montreal, QC, Canada, Centre PHI
14 April – Boston, MA, USA, The Sinclair
15 April – Philadelphia, PA, USA, The Foundry
17 April – Brooklyn, NY, USA, Elsewhere
18 April – Washington, DC, USA, Union Stage
21 April – Chicago, IL, USA, Lincoln Hall
27 April – Toronto, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground
28 April – Toronto, ON, CANADA, Velvet Underground
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach have announced The Songs of Bacharach & Costello, a new box set compiling their collaborative work. Set for release on March 3, the 4xCD, 2xLP ‘Super Deluxe Edition’ includes both the newly remastered Painted From Memory and a new record, Taken From Life, which features unreleased material from the proposed stage adaptation of their 1998 album Painted From Memory, live performances and more. The box set also contains rare photographs, session notes, and an essay by Costello about working with Bacharach. Three unreleased live recordings are out today, and you can listen to them below.
Of the new songs on Taken From Life, Costello said in a statement: “These reflect the stories and impulses of a group of people who are, obsessive and vain, who are betrayed and become disappointed in life but long tenderly for a happier time, who are unfaithful, dishonest, destructive and turn out to be the inventors of a dangerous past, who are guilty, haunted and romantically deluded, desperate, vengeful and even cruel.”
He added: “In their musical form they are different kinds of dark love songs that anyone might sing if they happened to be an artist, his model, a wife, a fantasist, a lover, a philanderer or disillusioned daughter. You know, fun for all the family.”
Costello and Bacharach first collaborated in 1996 on ‘God Give Me Strength’ for the film Grace of My Heart. In 2018, Costello and the Imposters released Look Now, which featured three songs co-written with Bacharach.
The Songs of Bacharach & Costello (Super Deluxe) Tracklist:
1. In the Darkest Place (2023 Remaster)
2. Toledo (2023 Remaster)
3. I Still Have That Other Girl (2023 Remaster)
4. This House Is Empty Now (2023 Remaster)
5. Tears at the Birthday Party (2023 Remaster)
6. Such Unlikely Lovers (2023 Remaster)
7. My Thief (2023 Remaster)
8. The Long Division (2023 Remaster)
9. Painted From Memory (2023 Remaster)
10. The Sweetest Punch (2023 Remaster)
11. What’s Her Name Today? (2023 Remaster)
12. God Give Me Strength (2023 Remaster)
1. You Can Have Her
2. Painted From Memory
3. Don’t Look Now [feat. Burt Bacharach]
4. Everyone’s Playing House
5. I Looked Away
6. Taken From Life
7. My Thief
8. Shameless
9. Photographs Can Lie [fet. Burt Bacharach]
10. In the Darkest Place
11. Why Won’t Heaven Help Me?
12. Stripping Paper
13. He’s Given Me Things
14. What’s Her Name Today?
15. Look Up Again
16. Lie Back & Think of England
1. Toledo (Live in Tokyo, Japan, Nakano Sunplaza Hall / February 08, 1999)
2. In the Darkest Place (Live in Melbourne, Australia, Athenaeum Theatre / February 16, 1999)
3. My Thief (Live in Tokyo, Japan, Nakano Sunplaza Hall / February 08, 1999)
4. I Still Have That Other Girl (Live in Tokyo, Japan, Shibuya Hall / February 10, 1999)
5. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again (Live in Toronto, Ontario, Massey Hall / June 16, 1999)
6. God Give Me Strength (Live in Toronto, Ontario, Massey Hall / June 16, 1999)
7. Painted From Memory (Live in Stockholm, Sweden, Berwaldhallen / January, 5, 1999)
8. What’s Her Name Today? (Live in Stockholm, Sweden, Berwaldhallen / January, 5, 1999)
9. This House Is Empty Now (Live in New York City, Late Night With Conan O’Brien / Nov. 27, 1998)
1. I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (Live at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK / October 17, 1977)
2. Baby It’s You
3. Please Stay
4. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again (Live in Toronto, Ontario at Massey Hall / June 16, 1999)
5. Make It Easy on Yourself (Live in London at Royal Festival Hall / October 29, 1998)
6. My Little Red Book (Live in London at Royal Festival Hall / October 29, 1998)
7. Anyone Who Had a Heart (Live in London at Royal Festival Hall / October 29, 1998)
8. I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (Live in New York City, Sessions at West 54th / October 18, 1998)
Kate Davis has announced her sophomore album, Fish Bowl. The follow-up to 2019’s Trophy will come out on March 24 via the singer’s new label home, ANTI- Records. Today, Davis has unveiled the album’s opening track, ‘Monster Mash’, which you can check out below.
“‘Monster Mash’ was one of the first songs that was written for the record,” Davis explained in a statement. “This is the moment where the character is abandoned by everything that she knew. And there’s this feeling of isolation in living your life up to a point where you’re like, ‘This is what I’ve chosen.’ But when you transition into a different phase of life, it’s easy to feel like a monster, to feel like you’re harmful to people, or that people are fearful of you.”
Fish Bowl Cover Artwork:
Fish Bowl Tracklist:
1. Monster Mash
2. Call Home
3. Fructify
4. Consequences
5. People Are Doing
6. Ride or Die
7. yoyo
8. Long Long Long
9. dd
10. Saw You Staring
11. Fish Bowl
12. Reckoning
WILDES, the moniker of London singer-songwriter Ella Walker, has enlisted the Falming Lips for the new single ‘True Love (Make Me Believe)’. It’s set to appear on her forthcoming debut album Other Words Fail Me, which lands this Friday, January 13 via AWAL. Check it out below.
“This past year has been full of pinch-me moments, but today, releasing ‘True Love feat. The Flaming Lips’ is certainly one of the biggest,” Walker said in a press statement. “I wanted to add this final song to the album as an ode to self love and radical acceptance of yourself, no matter who you are, or what you have experienced. Never in a million years would I have believed The Flaming Lips would be the band to help bring this song to life – so thank you to the band, for bringing vivid technicolour to this rainbow of a song.”
Other Words Fail Me was produced by St Francis Hotel, who is known for his work with Michael Kiwanuka, Greentea Peng, and Little Simz. “It was a name I’d had for quite a while in my head, but the album really grew into the name – it became a lot more symbolic than I ever intended, as writing this album was the only way I could safely and honestly talk about what was going on at the time,” Walker explained. “I quite literally didn’t have any other words to describe it other than the lyrics in these songs.”
