Open Mike Eagle has announced a new record, Component System With the Auto Reverse, sharing the single ‘i’ll fight you’. The project arrives on October 7 via the rapper’s own label Auto Reverse Records. Check out ‘I’ll Fight You’, which was produced by Diamond D, below.
Spanning 14 tracks, Component System With the Auto Reverse features the earlier released tracks ‘burner account’ (featuring Armand Hammer) and ‘multi-Game arcade cabinet’ (with R.A.P. Fererria, Still Rift, and Video Dave), as well as guest production from Madlib, Quelle Chris, Child Actor, Kuest1, and Illingsworth.
When I was in high school I used to stay up late to tape the hip-hop shows on college radio station WHPK on the south side of Chicago. it was the only way to hear the underground rap songs that changed my world. I still have many of the cassettes, with songs by giants like MF DOOM, DITC, Outsidaz, All Natural, Juggaknots, Organized Konfusion and more.
I named each tape. I named one Component System. This album was made in the spirit of that tape but with new music from me. Some of the people on the original tape appear on this album, I’m so proud of that that it brings me close to tears.
This first single is produced by Diamond D of DITC, who’s beats and raps have inspired me my whole ass life.
Component System With the Auto Reverse Cover Artwork:
Component System With the Auto Reverse Tracklist:
1. the song with the secret name
2. tdk scribbled intro
3. 79th and stony island
4. i’ll fight you
5. circuit city [feat. Video Dave and Still Rift]
6. I retired then I changed my mind
7. burner account [feat. Armand Hammer]
8. for Doom
9. crenshaw and homeland
10. multi-Game arcade cabinet [feat. R.A.P. Ferreira, Still Rift and Video Dave]
11. credits interlude [feat. Serengeti]
12. peak lockdown raps
13. kites [feat. Video Dave and Still Rift)
Lamont Dozier, the legendary songwriter and producer who helped establish the Motown sound as one third of the Holland-Dozier-Holland trio, has died. Dozier’s son Lamont Dozier Jr. confirmed his father’s death on social media. No cause of death was provided. Dozier was 81.
Born in Detroit in 1941, Dozier grew up singing with the Romeos and the Voice Masters, which were part of Motor City’s vibrant vocal scene. After being recruited by Motown boss Berry Gordy, Dozier joined forces with the brothers Eddie and Brian Holland in 1962. Dozier and Brian Holland would focus on musical arrangements and production, while Eddie Holland was tasked with writing lyrics. The team found success early on with hits for Martha and the Vandellas, the Miracles, and Marvin Gaye, before landing their first No. 1 hit with the Supremes’ ‘Where Did Our Love Go’. They went on to write and produce nine more No. 1 hits for the Supremes, including ‘Baby Love’, ‘Come See About Me’, ‘Stop! In the Name of Love’, ‘I Hear a Symphony’, and ‘You Keep Me Hangin’ On’, and were also behind the Four Tops chart-toppers ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’ and ‘I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)’.
After a royalty dispute with Berry Gordy, the trio left Motown in 1968 to form two labels, Invictus and Hot Wax, penning hits such as Freda Payne’s ‘Band Of Gold’ and Chairmen of the Board’s ‘Just Give Me a Little More Time’. Dozier parted ways with the group in 1973 to focus on his career as a lead artist, scoring a Top 20 hit with the 1974 single ‘Trying to Hold on to My Woman’. In the late 1980s, Dozier started collaborating with Phil Collins, co-writing and producing the No. 1 single ‘Two Hearts’, and also worked with Carly Simon and Alison Moyet. Holland-Dozier-Holland were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Lambchop have unveiled a new single, ‘So There’, alongside an accompanying video. It’s the second offering from their upcoming album, The Bible, following previous cut ‘Police Dog Blues’. Check out the Isaac Gale-directed clip below.
“‘So There’, in my head, addresses the idea of showing up, being there for your friends and for things that we believe to be right and true,” Kurt Wagner explained in a press release. “But also wondering if that alone will ever be enough. I was reflecting on this during the time I was immersed in the scorching Minneapolis summer of 2021. Stuck in traffic staring at a Grateful Dead bumper sticker, parked daily under a highway billboard sign with ‘Cloudy Forever’ sprayed on its pole. Flies in the vehicle, an underlying sense of dread on the streets, waiting for the sun to burn away the morning’s haze.”
The Bible is slated for release on September 30 via City Slang.
JID has announced his new album The Forever Story, which drops on August 26 via Dreamville/Interscope. Today, the Atlanta rapper has previewed it with the new single ‘Dance Now’, which features Kenny Mason and Foushée. Check it out below, along with the album’s cover artwork.
The Forever Story will follow JID’s 2018 record DiCaprio 2. Although a tracklist has not yet been unveiled, the LP will include the previously shared single ‘Surround Sound’ with 21 Savage and Baby Tate.
Brooklyn duo Rubblebucket have announced a new album titled Earth Worship. It’s set to arrive on October 21 via Grand Jury. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the LP’s title track, which is paired with Haoyan of America-directed video. Check it out below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Discussing the new album and its title track, Rubblebucket’s Kalmia Traver said in a statement:
Feeling the heaviness of being life is OK, and we humans are in a pickle. When we say we “would like to break up these patterns”, we’re talking about the unhealthy addictive extractive patterns enmeshed into our whole human-centric society. Patterns that lead us to mistakenly believe we’re isolated and not deserving of the love & pleasure of our dreams, lead us to cause needless harm to ourselves and our planet. Healing on a big scale is tied to healing on a mini scale and that’s what this album and song are working on, hoping to dance with, hoping to dream about. My favorite quote I’ve heard lately (from Krista Tippet in her conversation with adrienne maree brown) was “vitality has endings in it”. That’s up on my wall now. I want to ~be about~ allowing ourselves to grieve & be tender together, learning how to separate from what isn’t needed anymore, like a leaf off of a branch in fall, or like the linden flowers that are blooming now on the trees outside my window as I write this: fully mature, ready to spiral downwards to the earth and meet new energy, become more life. There are a million bazillion ways to worship the earth, and every day is an opportunity to find a new way. Making this album was one way we went for it.
Alex Toth added: “’earth worship’ the song – encapsulates the messages of the album as a whole. As a human being, being in pain is a given. Can we find ‘clean’ ways through the pain in order to break unstainable harmful patterns on individual, community and global ecosystem levels? In his book My Grandmother’s Hands Resmaa Menakem defines clean pain as ‘choosing integrity over fear and standing in that fear with integrity and moving towards the unknown.’ Facing fear with integrity is an urgent matter as we are more than individuals. We are a continuum of life across many generations carrying stories, traumas, messages, vibrations and legacies.”
Rubblebucket’s previous LP, Sun Machine, was released in 2018.
Earth Worship Cover Artwork:
Earth Worship Tracklist:
1. Earth Worship (Intro)
2. Earth Worship
3. Morning In The Sun
4. Rain Rain Nature Rain
5. Geometry
6. Cherry Blossom
7. Melt Through The Floors
8. Zeros As Round As The World
9. Sexual Revolution
10. Sweet Spot
11. Truth In The Air
12. Mockingbird
13. Too Much Feeling
London-based indie outfit Buggs have dropped a new single, ‘Mother’, via Sad Club Records. It follows their recent offering ‘Flaws’, which was featured in the fourth season of Killing Eve. Check out a video for it below.
“This song started off being about my own mother, but it ended up being just as much about myself and concepts of motherhood in general,” the band’s Alice Western explained in a statement. “Through looking at someone else and the way they deal with life you also end up looking inward and examining the way you do things too. It’s a cry out to my mother/women of the world asking ‘How do we do this! How do you do this? How do we get through it!’ It’s ok to feel lost, helpless and vulnerable. We all do, all the time. We should sing songs about it and be lost and hopeless together.”
She added, “‘Mother’ feels a lot more tender for me, especially in the pre-choruses and choruses. This song is a lot more direct – I’m calling out, crying out, trying to work things out. Musically this song is a bit more country, a bit more acoustic and raw for us too.”
Muna Ileiwat has shared a new single from her upcoming debut EP Twenty-Seven. It’s called ‘JOMO’, and it follows the previously released song ‘Pity Party’ and the title track. Listen below.
“‘JOMO’ is the joy of missing out,” Ileiwat explained in a statement. “This song is about me never wanting to leave my house. While some may experience FOMO, this song is for the introverted, glorifying the joy of avoiding social obligations.”
Brooklyn singer-songwriter Nisa has announced a new EP, Exaggerate, sharing its first single and title track. The EP was produced by Nate Amos (of Water From Your Eyes and My Idea) and comes out on September 30 via Hit the North Records. Listen to ‘Exaggerate’ below.
“I had a bit of a personal reckoning last year that resulted in writing a lot of experimental pop music,” Nisa Lumaj explained in a press release. “Some of these songs began to flourish because I was lyrically all over the place. I started sorting them all out into moments where I felt I was connecting with myself and figuring out ways to communicate. Sometimes I feel like I emotionally have trouble sitting in the present moment. This EP was about wanting to will myself into the present and, like, feel things.”
Exaggerate will follow Nisa’s Time To Plant Tears EP, which arrived last December.
Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73. Her husband, John Easterling, confirmed the news in a post on the singer’s social media. “Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends,” he wrote. “We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”
The statement continued:
Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund (ONJFoundationFund.org).
Olivia is survived by her husband John Easterling; daughter Chloe Lattanzi; sister Sarah Newton-John; brother Toby Newton-John; nieces and nephews Tottie, Fiona and Brett Goldsmith; Emerson, Charlie, Zac, Jeremy, Randall, and Pierz Newton-John; Jude Newton-Stock, Layla Lee; Kira and Tasha Edelstein; and Brin and Valerie Hall.
Although born in Cambridge, England, Newton-John grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where her father worked as a German professor and as the headmaster of Ormond College. During her teenage years, she formed an all-female vocal group called the Sol Four along with three school friends. After the group split up, Newton-John entered and won a talent contest on the television program Sing, Sing, Sing that earned her a trip to London, where she formed a duo with another Australian singer, Pat Carroll, who left Britain once her visa expired. Newton-John then recorded her first single, a version of Jackie DeShannon’s ‘Till You Say You’ll Be Mine’, for Decca Records in 1966.
Newton-John would go on to join Toomorrow, a bubblegum group formed by producer Don Kirshner that starred in the science fiction musical film of the same name and scored one minor British hit, ‘I Could Never Live Without Your Love’, in 1970. Newton-John’s first solo album, If Not for You, came out a year later. Its first single, a rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘If Not for You’, became her first international hit, with its follow-up, ‘Banks of the Ohio’, reaching the Top 10 in the UK and Australia.
Although her second UK album, Olivia, never saw an official release in the US, the title track to her next album, Let Me Be There, was a huge success, winning her a Grammy Award for Best Country Female. A series of hit singles followed, including ‘If You Love Me (Let Me Know)’, ‘I Honestly Love You’, ‘Have You Never Been Mellow’, and ‘Please Mr. Please’. After moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Newton-John won the Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Country Music Association; her success in the genre sparked controversy among the industry’s purists, with many members of the CMA quitting the organization in protest.
In 1978, Newton-John’s career skyrocketed when she starred in the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Grease opposite John Travolta. Its soundtrack album spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and spawned three massive hits: ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’, ‘Summer Nights’, and ‘You’re the One That I Want’, which topped both the US and British charts. Later that year, Newton-John released her next record, Totally Hot, which boasted a mix of soft rock and disco. Her first film appearance after Grease was in Xanadu with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck; although the film was not a success, its soundtrack – which featured ‘Magic’, the the title track with ELO, and the Cliff Richard duet ‘Suddenly’ – was a hit.
Newton-John continued shifting her image and leaned more towards rock with her next album, Physical. It became her biggest commercial success, yielding the hugely popular title song as well as ‘Make a Move on Me’, a Top 10 hit. She went on to star in another film with John Travolta, the 1983 comedy Two of a Kind; the movie bombed, but a song recorded for it, ‘Twist of Fate’, was another hit. Following her marriage with actor Matt Lattanzi, Newton-John released Soul Kiss, which had a more lukewarm reception. In 1986, she had her daughter Chloe and went on a nearly three-year hiatus, returning in 1988 with the album The Rumour. Her daughter appeared on the cover of her subequent children’s recordm Warm and Tender.
In 1992, shortly after releasing her third hits collection, Back to Basics: The Essential Collection 1971–1992, Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer. She recovered after undergoing treatment over the next year and became an advocate for breast cancer research and other health issues. She was also devoted to several environmental and animal rights causes, having canceled a 1978 tour of Japan to protest the killing of dolphins caught in tuna fishing nets. In 2008, she opened the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. In 2012, she reunited with Travolta for a holiday charity album called This Christmas and starred in the Australian comedy A Few Best Men. A few years later, she teamed up with Amy Sky and Beth Nielsen Chapman for the inspirational album LIVE ON. In January of last year, she released a new song, ‘Window in the Wall’, which was recorded with her daughter Chloe.
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