Shalom has previewed her forthcoming album Sublimation with a new single, ‘Lighter’. Following previous entries ‘Soccer Mommy’ and ‘Happenstance’, the track comes paired with a visual animated by Rory Alene. Check it out below.
“This song is one of my favorite things I’ve ever made,” Shalom said of ‘Lighter’ in a press release. “I wrote it in 45 minutes and sent it to Ryan (Hemsworth), he sent it back with the guitars, and I fell in love with myself by making a song about wanting to be someone else.”
Sublimation is set to arrive on March 10 via Saddle Creek.
Lael Neael has unveiled ‘In Verona’, the latest single from her forthcoming record, alongside a self-directed video. It follows the previously released track ‘I Am the River’, which landed on our our Best New Songs segment. Check it out below.
Water From Your Eyes have announced a new album, Everyone’s Crushed, the duo’s first since signing with Matador. It’s scheduled for release on May 26. Today, they’ve shared the lead single ‘Barley’, alongside a video directed by the band’s Rachel Brown. Check it out and find the LP’s cover art, tracklist, and Water from Your Eyes’ upcoming tour dates below.
“’Barley’ is a rhythmic sound collage experiment drawing from modern classical, classic rock, and dance music,” the band explained in a statement. “The lyrics suggest repeated futile attempts at attaining the unattainable and allude to Sting and Sonic Youth. The video mirrors these concepts in scope, texture, and variety – juxtaposing feelings of entrapment and late stage capitalism against the sense of freedom inherent to the vast American landscape. Despite all this heady bullshit the song is, at its core, fun.”
Everyone’s Crushed will follow the band’s 2021 record Structure. Late last year, Brown released the solo collection You Haven’t Missed Much under the moniker thanks for coming. More recently, the pair shared a remix of Winter’s ‘good’.
Everyone’s Crushed Cover Artwork:
Everyone’s Crushed Tracklist:
1. Structure
2. Barley
3. Out There
4. Open
5. Everyone’s Crushed
6. True Life
7. Remember Not My Name
8. 14
9. Buy My Product
Water From Your Eyes 2023 Tour Dates:
Mar 16 Brooklyn, NY Residency Night #1 – Secret Location
Mar 24 Brooklyn, NY Residency Night #2 – P.I.T.
Apr 7 Iowa City, IA – Mission Creek Festival
Apr 8 Omaha, NE – Slowdown *#
Apr 10 Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre *#
Apr 11 Boulder, CO – Fox Theatre *#
Apr 12 Salt Lake City, UT – Soundwell *#
Apr 13 Las Vegas, NV – Area15 *#
Apr 14 Bakersfield, CA – Temblor Brew #
Apr 15 Oakland, CA – Eli’s #
Apr 16 San Luis Obispo, CA – Fremont Theater *#
Apr 18 Reno, NV – Cargo Concert Hall *#
Apr 19 Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post *
Apr 20 Santa Cruz, CA – Rio Theatre *
Apr 21 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon #
Apr 22 Phoenix, AZ – Trunk Space #
Apr 23 Flagstaff, AZ – Yucca North *#
Apr 24 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace *#
Apr 25 Albuquerque, NM – Sister *#
Apr 27 Oklahoma City, OK – Jones Assembly *#
Apr 28 Fayetteville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge *#
Apr 29 Memphis, TN – Black Lodge *#
May 1 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue *#
May 02 Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theater *#
May 04 Morgantown, WV – 123 Pleasant Street *#
May 05 Richmond, VA – Friday Cheers *#
May 06 Winston-Salem, NC – The Ramkat *#
May 07 Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees
Jun 24 Calgary, Alberta – Sled Island
Trevor Powers has announced his first new album under the Youth Lagoon moniker in seven years. The follow-up to Savage Hills Ballroom is called Heaven Is a Junkyard, and it arrives June 9 via Fat Possum. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Idaho Alien’, alongside a Tyler T. Williams-directed video. Watch and listen below.
“Heaven Is a Junkyard is about all of us,” Powers said in a press release. “It’s stories of brothers leaving for war, drunk fathers learning to hug, mothers falling in love, neighbors stealing mail, cowboys doing drugs, friends skipping school, me crying in the bathtub, dogs catching rabbits, and children playing in tall grass.”
Discussing ‘Idaho Alien’, Powers explained:
I wait for good mistakes. I spend a lot of time feeling around in the dark. For every thousand ideas I have, I have one good mistake. I was fuckin’ around on the piano one day and found ‘Idaho Alien.’ It felt like it already existed and I just dug it up.
I’ve always loved old hardboiled crime novels. They’re twisted but pure. ‘Idaho Alien’ comes from that space. Home often feels like a Jim Thompson book. One of my neighbors smokes meth all day and mows the lawn at 2:00 am. Her boyfriend lived in a tent in her backyard, and one day she locked him out of the house so he went as far as trying to stab her. He got sent to prison for 10 years. She told me she still loves him, and I told her she deserves better. The last time I asked her not to mow the lawn at 2:00 am, we wound up talking about aliens and Subway sandwiches. Every November, a church group rakes her leaves and tells her about Jesus. I don’t think it’s working.
Heaven Is a Junkyard Cover Artwork:
Heaven Is a Junkyard Tracklist:
1. Rabbit
2. Idaho Alien
3. Prizefighter
4. The Sling
5. Lux Radio Theatre
6. Deep Red Sea
7. Trapeze Artist
8. Mercury
9. Little Devil from the Country
10. Helicopter Toy
Allensworth, the latest from American structuralist filmmaker James Benning, is divided into twelve five-minute static shots, each chronicling one month of a calendar year. Benning is an artist who, throughout his long-running career, frames American landscapes within a rigid temporal structure. His schematic approaches prompt inquires into the relationship between landscapes and the social formation built around them. In Allensworth, duration compels us—perhaps even forces us—to study the images closely. Allensworth is a film about surfaces and the truths we can or cannot gleam from their inspection. Spectatorship becomes a way of exploring the complex histories contained within seemingly unpolitical surfaces.
The community of Allensworth was established in the early-20th century as refuge from Jim Crow-era white supremacy. It was the first town in California run by Black people. The town’s namesake was co-founder Colonel Allen Allensworth, an ex-slave and clergyman who died six years after the town’s establishment. He was struck by a motorcyclist; no investigation determined whether it was a deliberate killing. In the time after Allensworth’s death, a deluge of misfortunes assailed the town, including a drought and insufficient water supply. Beyond that, the nearby railroad stopover refused to hire Allensworth residents, and then re-located to a predominantly white area, stranding Allensworth economically and geographically. In the mid-1970s, Allensworth had fallen into ruins with plans for future demolition. However, it was instead memorialized as a state park, with its derelict infrastructure reconstructed. None of this context is relayed in Benning’s movie. There’s no historical exposition whatsoever. Instead, Allensworth lingers on the plain, decontextualized images of modern Allensworth and poses the questions: do surfaces contain their histories? And how does the past imprint upon the present?
Most of the movie’s twelve shots cover landscapes composed with little-to-no staffage: exteriors of Allensworth’s buildings. For the first few shots, the images are so still they’re almost mistakeable for photographs. Sound offers a fuller panorama of the vicinity though, beyond the mono-directionality of the camera’s eye. Occasionally, cars cruise through the background. There’s even a James Benning equivalent of a gotcha! moment when the recurring chug of a locomotive is finally matched by the train’s visual counterpart, reflected faintly in a building’s window. These faint, seemingly insignificant details would pass unnoticed in a non-durational version of Allensworth. Benning’s form highlights the little details which comprise a time and place.
The main outlier shot in Allensworth is a classroom interior where Faith Johnson reads poetry from Lucille Clifton. It’s a jarring addition. It feels constructed, whereas every other composition appears “natural” or, contradictorily enough (considering the entirety of modern-day Allensworth is a reconstruction), “untouched.” In another shot, Nina Simone’s “Blackbird” plays over a landscape. “Cause your mama’s name was lonely/And your daddy’s name was pain,” she sings. This is the movie’s closest tango with catharsis, explicitly pointing towards the aching sadness Allensworth holds. A space of dreams has become a museum of past dreams. Allensworth further this memorialization, bringing us further from the dreams of the past in the hopes of sparking more for the future.
The online casino industry is a multi-billion-pound market. Combined with the video gaming market, online gaming is valued at in excess of £200 billion. There’s a lot of money involved, and the industry relies on safe and secure methods of moving it around. But just as importantly, they have to be fast!
Even if you’ve never been inside a real casino, you’ll be familiar with the games on offer thanks to popular culture, like movies and videos. But this online gaming industry doesn’t just include the typical online casino sites, but also includes more relaxed forms of games, like the ever-increasing online bingo sector, with Foxy Bingo being a leading online bingo site that has seen impressive growth.
At the start of it all, traditional electronic payment processors like Visa and MasterCard were about the only option for depositing and withdrawing from your account at a gambling site. But for a number of reasons, including speed and security, these were not ideal. A new solution was needed, one that could quickly transfer money between accounts while protecting users’ sensitive data from hackers and other suspicious online actors. Enter PayPal!
The company was originally launched as Confinity, way back at the birth of the Internet as we know it, in 1998. It merged with Elon Musk’s X.com the following year and became the company we know as PayPal today. Fast-forward to today, and PayPal is the giant of the online payments world, with over £650 billion worth of transactions in 2020. The reason is speed and capacity.
Credit card deposit and withdrawals can take up to five working days to go through, and now they are not even legal payment options for online gambling in some jurisdictions, including the UK. Withdrawals made via a PayPal usually take hours or less. And PayPal is fully optimised for mobile devices, giving the company an advantage in the fastest-growing area of the iGaming industry; mobile gaming.
Of course, speed means nothing if your accounts are left vulnerable to data theft. PayPal ensures that all transactions are protected by utilising 128-bit SSL encryption technology. It also runs checks on your server to make sure SSL 3.0 or higher is supported before any transactions are approved. This means that your money is safe at all levels.
Finally, PayPal generates enough transactions to allow it to make minimal charges for transactions. There are no fees for using PayPal as a payment method levied by online casinos. And if you have a big enough win to notice the percentage it takes in commission, you won’t care anyway.
Of course, there is now a considerable range of e-wallet payment options, including Skrill and Google Pay, which offer the same advantages as PayPal. But it is this company that cracked the whole Internet payment problem. And because it’s the original, it is still regarded as the best, so the familiar blue logo is still the go-to option for online gamblers around the world. It’s a shame that Musk hasn’t had as much success with his other, recently acquired, famous blue logo!
Hannah Read, the artist who records as Lomelda, has shared the new single ‘Scaredy’s World’. A collaboration with More Eaze, the track arrives via Read’s newly launched label, Double Yolk Record House. Listen to it below.
Speaking about the song, Read said in a statement: “How do I say what Scaredy means to me? Scaredy demands that her song be sung with conviction. Scaredy wants the stereo maxed. Scaredy chooses rot over forever. She pulls me out of my half life and shows me my death so that the squirmings of hope will stir in my gut again. I let my soul come out my mouth, as inspired by my best friend, my sweet Scaredy, for all my remaining days.”
“It’s been such a dream to make music with Hannah Read over the last few years,” Mari Maurice added. “The more we’ve worked together, the more I’ve truly felt that we are often trying to say the same things in our music but in different ways/with different tools. “Scaredy’s World” is somewhat of a literal manifestation of this as I wrote words/sang with Hannah’s own processed glossolalia and felt our voices and our ideas merging into one. To me this song captures so much of the simultaneous wonder and fear that comes with being alive and I feel touched that I get to sing about and experience much of that with Hannah and Lomelda.”
Of her new label, Read commented: “I started this thing called Double Yolk Record House to shelter my experiments in making and sharing music. Double Yolk currently functions as a small and simple artist favored record label, but it will one day also be a real life house and serve many functions to support a common musicful life outside the usual cycles and mindsets of the rock star industry.”
When it comes to jetting off abroad for a well-deserved vacation, you’ll only expect the best. If you are looking for an exotic white beach or a luxurious yacht for sale on which you can lounge, or if you want to experience the tasteful luxury of some of the world’s most iconic cities, you will want an indulgent getaway that offers unparalleled levels of relaxation and luxury.
From beautiful beach escapes to iconic urban hideaways, there are so many destinations to choose from including Claymore Hotel accommodations for your stay. Here are our top picks for the best luxury travel spots for your next vacation:
Lanai, Hawaii
If you’re looking to indulge in world-class amenities and luxury resorts, then Lanai in Hawaii is for you. You can be as lazy or active as you like, with opportunities like snorkelling, horseback riding, and champion-level golf at your fingertips.
Equally, you can kick back on 18 miles of secluded beaches or pamper yourself at one of the many spa resorts on the island. If immersing yourself in the local culture is more up your street, you can try local delicacies and cuisine and explore prehistoric Hawaiian village ruins or the Keahiakawelo, the Garden of the Gods.
St. Barts, Caribbean
When you think of this tropical West Indies Island, you can already see the sun, sand, and glistening blue of the Caribbean Sea. Known as one of the hottest celebrity destinations in the world, St Barts spans just eight square miles but is plenty of ways to spend your time.
Sip a cocktail on one of the many sandy beaches, take advantage of the high-end shopping opportunities or rent a yacht for some relaxation on the water. For that extra touch of luxury, fly to and from St Barts on a private jet and enjoy the convenience and comfort that comes with private travel.
Tiwi Islands, Australia
Known as the ‘Island of Smiles’, this hidden gem on the Arafura Sea is located just 80km north of Darwin and is made up of two main islands, Bathurst and Melville. This is the perfect vacation spot if you’re looking to enjoy a unique blend of Aboriginal culture and coastal landscapes.
The Tiwi people are renowned for their distinctive art pieces, and you can purchase artwork directly from local artists. Then you can explore the diverse landscape, from vibrant rainforests, dense jungles, and picturesque beaches.
St. Moritz, Switzerland
Sand and sea aren’t everyone’s idea of the perfect luxury vacation spot. Snowy mountain getaways, like St. Moritz, are a perfect alternative, especially if you love to ski. St. Moritz is one of the most top-rated ski resorts in Switzerland and has hosted the Winter Olympics twice.
Known for its glorious terrain, you can enjoy the slopes, try your hand at bobsledding and tobogganing, or take a load off one of the many opulent spas.
Daughter have unveiled a new single, ‘Swim Back’, taken from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game. Following previous cuts ‘Be On Your Way’ and ‘Party’, the track features the London-based string orchestra the 12 Ensemble, arranged by the band’s Igor Haefeli and orchestrated by Josephine Stephenson. It comes paired with a Tiff Pritchett-directed video, which you can check out below.
Stereo Mind Game, Daughter’s first studio record since 2016’s Not to Disappear, is due to arrive on April 7.
