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Shalom Announces Debut Album ‘Sublimation’, Shares Video for New Single ‘Happenstance’

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Shalom has announced her debut full-length, Sublimation, which will arrive on March 10 via Saddle Creek. The LP finds the Brooklyn-based, South African-raised artist teaming up with producer Ryan Hemsworth (of Quarter-Life Crisis). Today, she’s shared the album’s lead single, ‘Happenstance’, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below and scroll down for the cover artwork and tracklist.

Sublimation Cover Artwork:

Sublimation Tracklist:

1. Narcissist
2. Happenstance
3. Whole Life
4. Soccer Mommy
5. Did It To Myself
6. Concrete
7. Nowadays
8. Train Station
9. Bodies
10. Lighter
11. Mine First
12. Live Through This
13. End In Sight

Elanor Moss Shares New Single ‘Catholic’

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Yorkshire songwriter Elanor Moss has released the new single ‘Catholic’, taken from her upcoming second EP Cosmic – out February 3 via Blue Raincoat Music. The track, which follows previous offering ‘Cosmic Memory’, was co-written with frequent collaborator Sam Griffiths of the Howl & the Hum and recorded in Brooklyn with producer Oli Deakin. Listen to it below.

Speaking about the track in a press release, Moss explained: “‘Catholic’ isn’t truly a song about being Catholic, or leaving the Catholic church… not really. It’s a song about grappling with your identity and realising you’ve relied on validation from others most of your life, whether that’s friends, family, or romantic partners. It’s also about realising you have the power to change and doing that. It’s cathartic to play and sing live, and I felt like I was tapping into something new in my writing. We tried recording it a bunch of different ways; acoustically, more lounge-y, slower… it didn’t feel right until it was big and loud. It was an interesting moment for me in my writing and sound. I wanted to be loud for once and see what it was like to be in an indie-rock band. I love it.”

Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Elanor Moss.

Fran Unveils New Single ‘God’

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Fran, the moniker of Chicago musician Maria Jacobson, has released the latest single from their upcoming album Leaving, which is out next week via Fire Talk Records. ‘God’ follows the previously shared cuts ‘So Long’, ‘Limousine’, and ‘Palm Trees’. Check out a lyric video for it below.

Quasi Share Video for New Single ‘Nowheresville’

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Quasi, the project of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, have shared the latest single from their upcoming album Breaking the Balls of History. Following previous cuts ‘Queen of Ears’ and ‘Doomscrollers’, ‘Nowheresville’ arrives alongside a music video in which a gorilla takes a hike through the forest in search of the band’s practice space. Check it out below.

Breaking the Balls of History is set to come out on February 10 via Sub Pop.

Why Bonnie Release New Song ‘Apple Tree’

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Why Bonnie have released a new song called ‘Apple Tree’. Arriving ahead of their North American tour, the track was described by band leader Blair Howerton as “a song about the parables we tell ourselves to make sense of things.” Give it a listen below.

Why Bonnie’s debut album, 90 in November, came out last year. Check our Artist Spotlight interview with Why Bonnie.

Watch Alvvays Perform ‘Belinda Says’ on ‘Fallon’

Alvvays made their late-night TV debut last night (January 10), performing their single ‘Belinda Says’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it below.

‘Belinda Says’ is taken from Alvvays’ latest album, Blue Rev, which was released in October. More recently, the band shared a music video for ‘Many Mirrors’ made by Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone. In March, they’ll head out on a world tour in support of the LP, with dates across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

SZA Shares New Video for ‘Kill Bill’

SZA shared a new music video for her SOS track ‘Kill Bill’. The Quentin Tarantino-inspired clip was directed by Christian Breslauer and includes a cameo from Vivica A. Fox, who starred in Tarantino’s 2003 movie of the same name. It also features snippets of album tracks ‘Nobody Gets Me’ and ‘Seek & Destroy’. Check it out below.

One Step Closer Release Surprise EP ‘Songs for the Willow’

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One Step Closer have surprise-released a new EP called Songs for the Willow through Run for Cover. The three-track project, which features the previously shared song ‘Dark Blue’, finds the band reuniting with Eric Chesek, who recorded their debut album This Place You Know, as well as Jon Markson, who has recently worked on records by Drug Church, Koyo, and Soul Blind. Stream the EP and check out the music video for ‘Turn to Me’ below.

U2 Announce New Album ‘Songs of Surrender’ Featuring 40 Reimagined Songs

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U2 have reimagined and re-recorded 40 of their songs for a new album, Songs of Surrender, which will be out on March 17. The LP is meant as a companion to Bono’s recent memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Check out a trailer for it, which previews a reworked version of ‘Beautiful Day’, below.

U2 teased the record via handwritten photocopied letters sent to select fans. One letter, signed by the Edge, read in part: “The fact is that most of our work was written and recorded when we were a bunch of very young men. Those songs mean something quite different to us now. Some have grown with us. Some we have outgrown, but we have not lost sight of what propelled us to write those songs in the first place.”

The Edge continued to explain that the project “started as an experiment” but quickly became an “obsession as so many early U2 songs yielded to a new interpretation.” He added: “Intimacy replaced post-punk urgency. New keys, new chords, new tempos and new lyrics arrived… Once we surrendered our reverence for the original version, each song started to open up to a new anthemic voice of this time, of the people we are now, and particularly the singer that Bono has become.”

Coachella 2023 Full Lineup Revealed

The Coachella 2023 lineup has been announced. Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean are set to headline this year’s edition, which features Calvin Harris performing as a sub-headliner. The festival will return to Empire Polo Club in Indio, California in the spring, taking place across two weekends: April 14-16 and 21-23.

Other acts on the bill include Björk, boygenius, Rosalía, Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, Gorillaz, Sudan Archives, Burna Boy, Porter Robinson, Ethel Cain, the Chemical Brothers, Weyes Blood, Jai Paul, Blondie, Kaytranada, Alex G, Kali Uchis, Pusha T, Wet Leg, Kaytranada, Yves Tumor, Snail Mail, Rae Sremmurd,  $uicideboy$, Yung Lean, MUNA, Domi & JD Beck, Magdalena Bay, Soul Glo, GloRilla, the Comet Is Coming, the Breeders, Knocked Loose, Sleaford Mods, the Comet Is Coming, Horsegirl, Doechii, SG Lewis, Noname, Fousheé, Romy, Flo Milli, IDK, Yaeji, EarthGang, the Linda Lindas, and many more. Check out the full lineup below, and find more info here.