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Phoenix Share New Single ‘Alpha Zulu’

Phoenix have returned with a new single called ‘Alpha Zulu’. Marking the French group’s first new music in two years, the song follows ‘Identical’, which they contributed to soundtrack for Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks. According to a press release, the title comes from a phrase Thomas Mars heard a pilot repeating over the radio during a flight in a storm. Listen to it below.

In an interview with Apple Music 1, Mars explained:

To me, I’m so scared of flying that it sounds like Mayday when I heard this the first time. Like, “Alpha Zulu, Alpha Zulu, going down.” And so I guess it stuck with me, and it came out in a strange way in the studio. The way we make music is so… It’s really collaborative, and it’s almost like therapy, kind of. And I don’t know what we just did, but also the sense of time felt really strange because we worked on this for a long time during the pandemic. I guess every album that came out recently is a pandemic record, more or less. They all have to be linked to this weird moment in life. I’m not sure when we started, when we stopped, how long we stopped for. But at some point when we were seeing the end of the tunnel, not only the pandemic, sort of, at least we could think, “Oh, there’s going to be a tour.” That was going to be a possibility of this record coming out then. Then it clicked, and all the joyful pieces that we were hoping for, came together and made this record. And you use that time of self-reflection, and you use it, it comes out in the music. So I guess all that time spent not doing anything is somehow coming out on this record. It does something to you.

Phoenix issued their most recent album, Ti Amo, in 2017.

Of Montreal Announce New Album ‘Freewave Lucifer Fck’, Release Video for New Song

Of Montreal have announced a new album called Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck. It’s set to arrive on July 29 via Polyvinyl. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a video for ‘Marijuana’s a Working Woman’, which features animation by Madeline Babuka Black and artwork by David Barnes. Check it out below.

“Like all the songs on the album, this one was informed by pandemic isolation and the psychological struggle inherent in that kind of existence,” Kevin Barnes said of the track in a statement. “The lyrics are a free flowing collage of all that I was perceiving and absorbing during that time period. I swapped alcohol for weed midway through the pandemic and that is what the title of the song refers to.”

Last year, Of Montreal self-released their album I Feel Safe With You, Trash. Their last LP for Polyvinyl was 2020’s Ur Fun.

Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck Cover Artwork:

Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck Tracklist:

1. Marijuana’s a Working Woman
2. Ofrenda-Flanger-Ego-à Gogo
3. Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden
4. Après Thee Dèclassè
5. Modern Art Bewilders
6. Nightshift
7. Hmmm

Of Montreal 2022 Tour Dates:

Sep 8 Athens, GA – 40 Watt #
Sep 9 New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf #
Sep 10 Austin, TX – Mohawk #
Sep 12 Albuquerque, NM – Sister #
Sep 13 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom #
Sep 14 Los Angeles, CA – Regent #
Sep 15 Berkeley, CA – UC Theatre #
Sep 16 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall #
Sep 17 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #
Sep 18 Seattle, WA – Neumos #
Sep 19 Missoula, MT – The Wilma #
Sep 20 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro #
Sep 21 Englewood, CO – The Gothic #
Sep 22 Lawrence, KS – The Granada #
Sep 23 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag #
Sep 24 Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre #
Oct 4 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle #
Oct 5 Richmond, VA – Broadberry #
Oct 6 Washington, D.C. – 9:30 Club #
Oct 7 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere #
Oct 8 Boston, MA – Sinclair #
Oct 9 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of the Living Arts #
Oct 10 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom #
Oct 11 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick #
Oct 12 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall #
Oct 13 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line #
Oct 14 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall #
Oct 15 Cincinnati, OH – Woodward Theatre #
Oct 16 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle #

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Maggie Rogers Releases Video for New Song ‘Want Want’

Maggie Rogers has released a new song called ‘Want Want’, which will appear on her upcoming record Surrender. The track arrives with an accompanying video filmed at a karaoke bar in NYC’s Koreatown. Check out the Warren Fu-directed clip below.

Surrender is set for release on July 29 via Polydor Records. ‘Want Want’ follows early single ‘That’s Where I Am’, which was paired with a video featuring cameos by David Byrne, Quil Lemons and Hamilton Leithauser.

Panic! At The Disco Announce New Album, Return With New Single ‘Viva Las Vengeance’

Panic! At The Disco have revealed the details of their new album Viva Las Vengeance, which is set for release on August 19 via Fueled by Ramen/DCD2 Records. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared the album’s title track, marking their first new music since 2018. Check out its Brendan Walter-directed video below.

Frontman Brendon Urie recorded the Pray for the Wicked follow-up live to tape in Los Angeles alongside Jake Sinclair and Mike Viola. “Viva Las Vengeance is a look back at who I was 17 years ago and who I am now with the fondness I didn’t have before,” Urie explained in a statement. “I didn’t realize I was making an album and there was something about the tape machine that kept me honest.”

Viva Las Vengeance Cover Artwork:

Viva Las Vengeance Tracklist:

1. Viva Las Vengeance
2. Middle of a Breakup
3.Don’t Let The Light Go Out
4. Local God
5. Star Spangled Banger
6. God Killed Rock And Roll
7. Say It Louder
8. Sugar Soaker
9. Something About Maggie
10. Sad Clown
11. All By Yourself
12. Do It To Death

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce First Album in 9 Years, Release Video for New Song Featuring Perfume Genius

After announcing a handful of shows, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have finally detailed their new album: Cool It Down arrives on September 30 via Secretly Canadian. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Spitting Off the Edge of the World’, which was produced by Dave Sitek and features Perfume Genius. It comes alongside a music video directed by Cody Critcheloe, aka Ssion. Check it out below and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.

“To all who have waited, our dear fans, thank you, our fever to tell has returned, and writing these songs came with its fair share of chills, tears, and euphoria when the pain lifts and truth is revealed,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O said in a statement. “Don’t have to tell you how much we’ve been going through in the last nine years since our last record, because you’ve been going through it too, and we love you and we see you, and we hope you feel the feels from the music we’ve made. No shying away from the feels, or backing down from what’s been gripping all of us these days. So yes we’ve taken our time, happy to report when it’s ready it really does just flow out.” She continued:

The record is called ‘Cool It Down’ which is snagged from a lesser known Velvet Underground Song. I told Alex Prager whose photo graces our record cover that her image speaks to sweeping themes in the music and sums up how I, Karen, feel existentially in these times! But there’s always more to the story. This is how our new story begins, we present to you with heads bowed and fists in the air Spitting Off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius.

A note on this video, it’s a dream collaboration with one of our favorite artists of the 21st century Cody Critcheloe who did the artwork for our first record back in 2003 and has been making visionary music videos for the last decade. The time to collaborate again came with Spitting, the shoot in Kansas City was dream-like, the dreams you have after eating something really greasy right before bed; bizarre, poetic, and intense. Perfume Genius was incredibly gracious to roll in the very cold mud as my co pilot and steal scene after scene with his surreal charm.  We trusted Cody implicitly, he surpassed expectations and gave us our November Rain. YYY’s spirit is alive and well through the eyes of Cody Critcheloe. Custom Yeahs limo was largely his handiwork, fueled on love.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ last LP was 2013’s Mosquito.

Cool It Down Cover Artwork:

Cool It Down Tracklist:

1. Spitting Off the Edge of the World [feat. Perfume Genius]
2. Lovebomb
3. Wolf
4. Fleez
5. Burning
6. Blacktop
7. Different Today
8. Mars

 

Flasher Share Video for New Single ‘I’m Better’

Flasher have shared ‘I’m Better’, the latest single from their forthcoming LP Love Is Yours, which is out June 17 via Domino. The track follows previous offerings ‘Sideways’ and the title song. Check out the music video for ‘I’m Better’ below.

“‘I’m Better’ is about leaving a toxic relationship and finding joy, freedom, and self-assurance on the other side,” the band explained in a statement. “We filmed the video in central Oregon during a brief escape from pandemic isolation in 2021. The footage captures the expansive feeling that comes with exploring a new place or path forward.”

Muse Share Video for New Song ‘Will of the People’

Muse have released a video for their new song ‘Will of the People’, the title track from their forthcoming album. It follows the previously shared singles ‘Compliance’ and ‘Won’t Stand Down’. Check out the Tom Teller-directed visual for ‘Will of The People’ below, along with the band’s newly announced tour dates.

In a statement about the single, Matt Bellamy commented: “’Will of the People’ is a fictional story set in a fictional metaverse on a fictional planet ruled by a fictional authoritarian state run by a fictional algorithm manifested by a fictional data centre running a fictional bank printing a fictional currency controlling a fictional population occupying a fictional city containing a fictional apartment where a fictional man woke up one day and thought “fuck this.””

The Simulation Theory follow-up is set to land on August 26 via Warner Records.

Muse 2022 Tour Dates:

Oct 4 Los Angeles – The Wiltern
Oct 11 Chicago – The Riviera Theater
Oct 14 Toronto – The History
Oct 16 – New York City – The Beacon Theater
Oct 23 Amsterdam – Royal Theatre Carre
Oct 25 Paris – Salle Pleyel
Oct 26 Milan – Alcatraz

KUČKA Unveils New Single ‘Messed Up’

KUČKA has returned with ‘Messed Up’, her first single of 2022, out now via  Soothsayer/LuckyMe. Give it a listen below.

“Messed up is about situations that we can get into that we know are bad for us, but it’s also the reason that we are drawn to them,” KUČKA explained in a press release. “I actually wrote this song a few years back but could never get the production to work. A few months ago I sat down with it again and decided to start the production from scratch and everything just clicked within a couple of hours.”

KUČKA dropped her debut full-length, Wrestling, last year. The electronic artist recently collaborated with Flume on the track ‘Escape’.

 

Joan Shelley Unveils New Single ‘Home’

Joan Shelley has today shared ‘Home’, the third single from her forthcoming album The Spur. Listen to it below.

Following 2019’s Like The River Loves The Sea, The Spur includes the previously released title track, as well as her collaboration with Bill Callahan, ‘Amberllit Morning’. It’s due out on June 24.

She & Him Cover The Beach Boys’ ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’

She & Him have shared their take on the Beach Boys’ 1966 classic ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’, which serves as the second single from their upcoming record Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson. Listen to it below.

The duo of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward announced the covers album in May with a rendition of ‘Darlin’, off the Beach Boys’ 1967 album Wild Honey. Melt Away is scheduled for release on July 22 via Fantasy.