Jouska, the project of Oslo-based artist and Sassy 009 bandmate Marit Othilie Thorvik, has announced her second album, Suddenly My Mind Is Blank. It arrives on February 17 via Koke Plate, and today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single, ‘Death Sentence’, which follows September 2022’s ‘Why’d You Leave Me In Red’. Check it out below.
“’Death Sentence’ was the first song I made for this album,” Thorvik explained in a statement. “It’s about being in a toxic relationship and the struggles of leaving. It feels like you’re gonna die if you stay and that you’re gonna die if you don’t. So you end up clinging on to it because it’s all you’ve ever known.”
Since the release of 2020’s Everything is Good, Jouska has evolved from a duo with Hans Olav Settem to a solo endeavor. “Throughout this process I’ve worked on becoming a better producer and songwriter,” she added. “I’m liquid when it comes to music. My mind is set on making something emotional and refreshing. Some people might find my music schizophrenic, but playing with different genres and moods is what makes Jouska what it is.”
White Reaper have shared the latest offering from their forthcoming album, Asking for a Ride. It’s called ‘Pink Slip’, and it follows previous singles ‘Pages’ and ‘Fog Machine’, both of which made our Best New Songs segment. Check out a video for it below.
Asking for a Ride is due for release on January 27 via Elektra.
The Smile are the latest act to perform a ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ for NPR. Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and drummer Tom Skinner were joined by their touring saxophonist Robert Stillman to play ‘Pana-vision’, ‘The Smoke’, and ‘Skrting on the Surface’ from their debut LP, A Light for Attracting Attention. Watch it happen below.
The Lemon Twigs, the band led by brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario, have returned with their first song in two years. ‘Corner of My Eye’ arrives today via their new label home Captured Tracks. Check out its accompanying video, directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario, below.
“We recorded this track winter of 2021 in our old rehearsal studio in Midtown, NYC,” the D’Addario brothers said in a statement. “Apart from the vibraphone, the instrumental track was recorded live with Andres Valbuena on drums and Daryl Johns on upright bass. We laid down the vocals late that night once the traffic outside had died down. We’ve had the song for a while now, so we’re excited to share it with fans who may have heard it live over the years!”
The Lemon Twigs’ latest album, Songs for the General Public, came out in 2020.
De La Soul’s entire back catalog is finally coming to streaming services. After a decades-long legal battle, the group has announced that their music will hit digital providers on March 3, 2023, which marks the 34th anniversary of their 1989 debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising. “It’s been 20 plus years overdue, but finally, we are here,” Maseo said in a press statement.
De La Soul’s classic LPs didn’t arrive on streaming initially due to complications around licensing and sample clearance issues that led to a dispute with their label, Warner Records. Two years after De La Soul’s discography was purchased by Tommy Boy Records in 2017, the group suggested their albums would see a digital release, which ended up delayed due to a royalties dispute that was resolved when Tommy Boy was acquired by Reservoir in 2021.
De La Soul’s last album, And the Anonymous Nobody…, arrived in 2016.
Do you feel as though your business is going under? Maybe you feel as though you are not bringing in as much profit as you once were and this concerns you. Either way, it is more than possible for you to make a change if you analyse the problems you are having.
Identify your Problems
There are a ton of reasons why your business could fail. A lot of entrepreneurs panic and they assume that theirbusiness is having more problems than they are. Before you get to this stage, you need to try and identify what’s happening under the hood. What is causing your drop in financial income? Why are your customers going to your competition? If you can diagnose the underlying cause then this will help you to make long-term plans and it will also help you to operate more efficiently going forward. One reason why so many companies fail is that they spend far more than they should on expenses. A way for you to get around this would be for you to ask vendors for cheaper prices and for you to compare the prices of products online, regularly. If you needColoplast products for example, because you work in the healthcare industry, then there are numerous providers online that you can compare for the best rates.
Put your Ego to One Side
Next, you have to try and put yourego to one side. If you know that your company is failing then this could well be because you need help. Is there someone who you can turn to for this kind of advice? Maybe you need to bring in some experts. Either way, the longer you wait, the fewer options you have. If you are able to make a few phone calls then this will help you to solve your issues and you may even find that you can salvage your small company. If you wait because you are too proud to ask for help, or admit that there is a problem then this can make things even more difficult for you in the future.
Be Realistic
Now may be the time for you to put some of the things that you love, to one side. It may be that you love the fact that you have Wednesdays off work, but if you need to bring in more sales then it may be that you have to open all week going forward. In some instances, you may need to open at weekends as well. Either way, if you can take the time to look at what you need to change then this will help you to make the best adjustments for the future. Prioritising your clients and your bills is so important, even if that means doing things you don’t like, or don’t agree with in terms of your business model.
Admit when you’ve Failed
One major issue amongst entrepreneurs is that they have hope for their failing business. There is nothing wrong with this but if you care about your success in the long run then you have to understand the warning signs of failure and you also need to know when to admit defeat. If you don’t then you may find it very difficult to sustain your company.
Earth, Wind & Fire drummer Fred White has died at the age of 67. White’s brother and bandmate Verdine White confirmed the news in a post on Instagram. No cause of death was provided.
Born Frederick Eugene Adams in Chicago in 1955, White was a drum prodigy who got his start drumming for Donny Hathaway before finishing high school. He joined his siblings Verdine and Maurice White in Earth, Wind & Fire in 1974, a year before their single ‘Shining Star’ reached No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. He played on eight of the group’s LPs, starting with 1975’s That’s the Way of the World through 1983’s Electric Universe, and can be heard on other classics like ‘September’ and ‘Boogie Wonderland’.
After leaving Earth, Wind & Fire in the early 1980s, White continued to drum for acts like Deniece Williams, the Emotions, and Ramsey Lewis. Most recently, he appeared on Diana Ross’ 2021 comeback album Thank You. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Earth, Wind & Fire in 2000.
“He joins our brothers Maurice, Monte, and Ronald in heaven and is now drumming with the angels,” Verdine White wrote in his tribute post, continuing:
Child protégé, member of the EWF ORIGINAL 9, with gold records at the young age of 16 years old!
He was brother number 4 in the family lineup. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
But more than that at home and beyond he was the wonderful bro that was always entertaining and delightfully mischievous!
And we could always count on him to make a seemingly bad situation more light hearted!🙏🏾😍🙏🏾
He will live in our hearts forever, rest in power beloved Freddie!!
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Phil Elverum has released a new song called ‘Huge Fire’, which marks his first material as Mount Eerie since 2019’s Lost Wisdom pt. 2. It appears as the closing track onCOLORS, a 20th-anniversary compilation from the Tokyo indie label 7e.p. Records that also features contributions from Lou Barlow, Heather Trost, Tori Kudo, Mirah, Jason Lytle, Spencer Krug, Julie Doiron, Hisako Tabuchi, Quasi, Tim Kinsella, and more. Check it out below.
In 2020, Elverum issued Microphones in 2020, his first album under the Microphones moniker in nearly two decades. Foghorn, a vinyl-only release comprised of “100% background noise,” followed in March 2021.
Gangsta Boo, the pioneering Memphis rapper who was a member of Three 6 Mafia, has died. According to a report from Fox 13, Boo – real name Lola Mitchell – was found dead at her Memphis home this afternoon. Her Three 6 Mafia bandmate DJ Paul then confirmed the news in a social media post. She was 43 years old.
Gangsta Boo was born on August 7, 1979 and grew up in the Whitehaven area of Memphis, Tennessee. She started rapping at around age 14 and joined Three 6 Mafia after catching the attention of her then-classmate DJ Paul during a school talent show. She remained in the group until 2001, appearing on their 1995 debut Mystic Stylez, a defining album in the horrorcore rap genre, and on through 2001’s Choices: The Album.
Boo had already embarked on a solo career by the time she left the group, with her debut solo LP, 1998’s Enquiring Minds, boasting the hit single ‘Where Dem Dollas At?’. She followed it up with Both Worlds *69 in 2001 and Enquiring Minds II:The Soap Opera in 2003 before putting out a number of mixtapes, the latest of which was 2018’s Underground Cassette Tape Music 2. More recently, she appeared on Run the Jewels’ RTJ4 track ‘Walking in the Snow’ and joined Latto and GloRilla for the single ‘Fuck the Club Up’.
In an interview with Billboard published last month, Gangsta Boo discussed her influence on the new generation of rappers. “I have to admit, respectfully and humbly, that I am the blueprint. I hear my cadence in a lot of men and female rappers. I hear my cadence in a lot of men and female rappers… my sound is a Memphis sound. It’s a Gangsta Boo sound, it’s a Three 6 Mafia sound. So, I am the blueprint and I wear that badge proudly as fuck.”
“I used to run away from it. I used to didn’t want to even give myself flowers because I’ve been so low-key and humble, but I’m on some fuck that shit,” she said. “It’s time to claim what’s mine. I’m one of the main bitches. And it feels fun to still be able to look good and be relevant in a place where I don’t have this million-dollar machine behind me and I have all my natural body parts, no shade to the ones that don’t. But it just feels great to stand in yourself and look in the mirror and be like, ‘Wow, you did that.’”
