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Paramore Announce New Album ‘This Is Why’, Share Video for New Single

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Paramore Announce New Album ‘This Is Why’, Share Video for New Single

Paramore have announced their next album: This Is Why arrives February 10 via Atlantic. It’s led by the title track, which is out today alongside a video directed by Turnstile’s Brendan Yates and shot in Malibu, California. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover artwork (by Zachary Gray).

“’This Is Why’ was the very last song we wrote for the album. To be honest, I was so tired of writing lyrics but Taylor convinced Zac and I both that we should work on this last idea. What came out of it was the title track for the whole album,” Hayley Williams explained in a statement. “It summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last 3 or 4 years. You’d think after a global pandemic of fucking biblical proportions and the impending doom of a dying planet, that humans would have found it deep within themselves to be kinder or more empathetic or something.”

“It was so rad working with Brendan,” Williams added. “I’ve known the Turnstile guys for a little while and was so psyched to have our worlds collide in this way. There’s a cool kinship between the way our bands do things… Hopefully we will get to play shows with them at some point.”

Speaking about the new record in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, Williams said:

I think that’s what was so exciting about any type of influence that we’ve grown up with, which I think is probably a bit more wide span than some fans would even realize, just because of the scene that we ended up being such a big part of. We were able to really lean into some of those earliest influences where a lot of electro clash and stuff that had a lot of groove, but it was really aggressive. I don’t know, I love Dev Hynes’ journey because he was in Test Icicles, and then you listen to what he’s doing now and all the artists that he’s worked with. And that’s the kind of artist that we want to be considered as. Zac plays some of his most aggressive stuff on this record and it was so… I was freaking out to be watching it in the studio because we hadn’t seen it in a minute. And yet, like you said, there’s some beautiful restraint that I think shows up in all of us in different parts that really allows other things to speak. And yeah, it was just such a cool… This was such a cool experiment, really.

This Is Why was recorded with longtime collaborator Carlos de la Garza, who worked on the band’s self-titled LP and 2017’s After Laughter.

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Knifeplay Release New Single ‘Ryan Song’

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Knifeplay Release New Single ‘Ryan Song’

Knifeplay have previewed their forthcoming LP Animal Drowning with another single, ‘Ryan Song’. Following lead single ‘Promise’, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Ben Turok. Watch and listen below.

Talking about the new song, songwriter Tj Strohmer explained in a statement: “This song is about a friend who died young. He was a gifted writer and an incredible, one of a kind person who judged no one. Yet he was deeply misunderstood by most and lived with a lot of pain. A late-night conversation with a mutual friend inspired me to write something that was really about him, rather than my selfish feelings on his passing. Obviously, I will never know for sure if these words actually would have resonated with him, but I did my best with what I do know and I think the feelings expressed in this song are things anyone can relate to.”

Animal Drowning is due for release on October 19 via Topshelf Records.

Watch Weyes Blood’s New Video for ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’

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Watch Weyes Blood’s New Video for ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’

Weyes Blood has shared the music video for ‘It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody’, the lead single from her upcoming album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, which we named our Song of the Week earlier this month. Check out the Charlotte Ercoli-directed visual below.

Ercoli previously helmed the video for Weyes Blood’s ‘Seven Words’. And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, the follow-up to 2019’s Titanic Rising, is set to arrive on November 18.

Lucy Dacus Covers Carole King’s ‘Home Again’ and ‘It’s Too Late’

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Lucy Dacus Covers Carole King’s ‘Home Again’ and ‘It’s Too Late’

Lucy Dacus has offered her take on Carole King’s ‘Home Again’ and ‘It’s Too Late’, two tracks off King’s classic 1971 album Tapestry. Originally released exclusively on a 7” as part of Third Man Records’ Carole King Home Again vault package earlier this year, the covers are now available on streaming services. Take a listen below.

“When I listened to Tapestry from my mom’s CD collection, I was young enough that it didn’t register as good or bad – it just defined what music sounded like to me, and it’s still a foundation of how I understand songwriting,” Dacus told The Guardian. “She’s clever in the good way – queen of internal rhyme – and I love how her melodies reinforce the tone of the lyrics. She keeps it simple, but that’s what makes it universal.” She adds, “When I was asked to cover a couple of her songs, it was a no brainer. Her work feels like a part of my DNA and I’m grateful for it.” 

Lucy Dacus recently shared a rendition of Cher’s ‘Believe’ for the Spotify Singles series. Her latest album, Home Video, came out last year.

 

Let’s Eat Grandma Release New Single ‘Give Me a Reason’

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Let’s Eat Grandma Release New Single ‘Give Me a Reason’

Let’s Eat Grandma have released a new single, ‘Give Me a Reason’, along with a lyric video. It’s lifted from the deluxe edition of their latest album Two Ribbons, which is out now on Transgressive. Check it out below.

“Back in Autumn 2019 we went to Sheringham on the Norfolk coast and stayed in an Airbnb together, where we wrote ‘Give Me a Reason’,” the duo explained in a statement. “Sheringham is a small seaside town and there was barely anyone there at that time of year, it was pretty rainy and cold, but we went for walks and sat by the sea and talked a lot. I think you can really hear the surroundings seeping into the song; it’s one of our most emotionally raw songs, but it felt very cathartic to write because of it. We were both writing about different things, but tying them together in a way which felt like it came together really naturally. We wrote a lot of the songs on Two Ribbons individually after this, so it feels nice to release something that we wrote completely together.”

Let’s Eat Grandma have also announced that they have composed an original score for the new Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, which is set to arrive on October 28.

Daisy George Announces Debut EP, Unveils New Song ‘do u feel?’

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Daisy George Announces Debut EP, Unveils New Song ‘do u feel?’

London artist Daisy George has announced her debut EP, see me now, sharing the new single ‘do u feel?’ alongside the news. It lands on November 25 via Brace Yourself Records. Check out the new track, a collaboration with SANITY, below.

“I wrote this song with SANITY around the time when Sarah Everard was killed in 2021, when the issue of violence against women was prevalent in the news,” George commented in a statement. “It seemed more than ever that everyone had an opinion on how women should behave, who ‘qualifies’ as a woman, and what the experience of being a woman in today’s society meant. ‘do u feel?’ is a direct statement for all women who feel frustrated or who don’t feel heard or truly understood, and the track is loud and powerful to match that frustration.”

Tegan and Sara Share Video for New Single ‘I Can’t Grow Up’

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Tegan and Sara Share Video for New Single ‘I Can’t Grow Up’

Tegan and Sara have shared another single from their ucoming album Crybaby. This one’s called ‘I Can’t Grow Up’, and it follows earlier cuts ‘Fucking Up What Matters’, ‘Yellow’, and ‘Faded Like a Feeling’. Check out its Mark Myers-directed video below.

The new track “was musically inspired by Chicago band Dehd and their album Flower of Devotion,” Sara Quin explained in a press release. “The song started on bass, an instrument I’d never written with until Crybaby, and I was channeling a little bit of Emily Kempf from Dehd, and Peter Hook from New Order. My partner had traveled back to the U.S., after a year of being stuck in Canada during the pandemic, and I was enjoying late nights alone writing music and singing full tilt in the basement.”

Crybaby arrives on October 21 via Mom + Pop.

Nation of Language Return With New Single ‘From the Hill’

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Nation of Language Return With New Single ‘From the Hill’

Brooklyn trio Nation of Language are back with a new single, ‘From the Hill’. It will be part of a 7” that’s set for release on December 9 and will include another track, ‘Ground Control’, as a vinyl exclusive. Take a listen below.

“’From the Hill’ is a song reflecting on times when friendships fall apart over romantic entanglement, accompanied by the sensation that you’re somehow watching it happen from above with a more zoomed-out perspective,” singer Ian Devaney explained in a statement. “It can feel at times like certain parts of life are a story with which you’re just following along – the characters enter, they play their role, and then they leave. Often it’ll feel sudden and catch you off guard, and other times you’re able to see that it’s the only way things could have played out despite what you may have wanted.”

The song marks the band’s first new music since their 2021 album A Way Forward. “For us, we’re in a moment right now where it feels good to get this out into the world. It’s one that didn’t really feel like it fit the vibe of A Way Forward, nor is it any real indication of where the next record is likely heading. When that situation arrives we like to use these 7” releases to step outside the larger framework that the albums provide and just release a track that we love, so this is us doing that once again.”

Check out our inspirations interview with Nation of Language.

Foyer Red Unveil New Song ‘Pollen City’

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Foyer Red Unveil New Song ‘Pollen City’

Brooklyn band Foyer Red have released a new song, ‘Pollen City’. It follows their recent single ‘Pickles’, which came out in July, and May’s ‘Flipper’. Check it out below.

“There’s a special kind of buzzy energy in the air when the seasons change and the weather gets warmer; Pollen City is about that inherent impulse to stir things up, sometimes in a wicked sort of way,” lead singer Elana Riordan explained in a statement. “This track is the first song we wrote from scratch collaboratively as a 5-piece late last year, with ‘Flipper’ and ‘Pickles’ being more associated with the Zigzag Wombat era. I like to think of it as a bridge into the new world the five of us have created together, teasing some new sounds and forms, shapes and colors, etc.”

Jobber Release New Song ‘Hell in a Cell’

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Jobber Release New Song ‘Hell in a Cell’

Jobber have released ‘Hell in a Cell’, the title track from their upcoming EP that’s out October 21 on Exploding in Sound. Following lead single ‘Entrance Theme’, it arrives with a music video directed by Steve Marucci. Watch and listen below.

Discussing the new song, vocalist/guitarist Kate Meizner said in a press release:

‘Hell in a Cell’ is basically an allegory. On its surface, it’s a narrative about a fictional wrestler mentally preparing for a match and questioning whether it’s worth it to put her body on the line for the sake of spectacle, which, in this case, is a match set to end with her taking a 30 ft jump off a steel cage a la Undertaker vs Mankind at HIAC 1998. Pulling back the curtain a bit, the lyrics are pretty personal and came out at a time when my job was having an especially negative impact on my health. I wanted to quit so badly, but in the midst of covid-19 related layoffs and economic downturn, everyone was being bludgeoned with anti-labor talking points like…. “why are you complaining about your job? You should feel grateful to even have a job!” The lyrics “Am I ungracious? / Because I won’t turn water into wine / Am I buried forever? / If I start speaking my mind” are from the POV of the wrestler, but also came from a personal place, expressing my anger toward workplaces and their horrendous, exploitative treatment of workers.

Musically I wrote the heavy intro riff of “Hell in a Cell,” when I was listening to the Helmet album “Betty” on repeat. The intro sounded like the perfect entrance theme for a physically huge, hulking wrestler like Kane or Braun Strowman, and I shaped the song ‘around’ the riff to mirror the cinematic ebb and flow of a wrestling match. Mike F (drums) and Justin P (sound engineer) were instrumental in shaping the dynamics of the song – making the big riff parts sound huge in contrast the quieter parts with delicate guitars and melodies.

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