Jordana has unveiled ‘You’re in the Way’, the latest single from her upcoming EP I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking. “It’s about getting to know yourself again after seemingly wasting time investing in someone else,” she explained in a press release. Check out the song’s video, directed by Molly and Judson Valdez, below.
I’m Doing Well, Thanks For Asking arrives this Friday, Noevember 11. It includes the previously shared tracks ‘Is It Worth It Now?’ and ‘SYT’.
Tame One, the New Jersey rapper best known for his work in the hip-hop trio Artifacts, has died, NJ.com reports. No official cause of death has been provided. Tame One was 52.
Born Rahem Brown in New Jersey, Tame One was drawn to graffiti art from an early age, and became a graffiti writer himself. “As a general person, I’m the quiet type,” he said when asked about his moniker in a 2004 interview. “I sit back in the cut. In my younger days, I was a regular terror but I’ve mellowed out. For the name, I just carried it over from my graffiti days. That was the name I was writing on walls. So, when I started rhyming, I didn’t want people to be, ‘Who are you?’ Everyone was coming out with these astounding names like MC Killer Rapper and all that other nonsense. I had to be me. I had to be myself. I wanted people who knew me on the street, to know me on a record. So they could say, ‘Oh, that’s the Tame-One dude? That’s the dude who has his name everywhere!'”
Tame One co-founded Artifacts with El Da Sensei and DJ Kaos in 1988. The group released their debut album, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, via Atlantic’s Big Beat imprint in 1994. They put out another album, That’s Them, in 1997 before breaking up shortly after. Following their dissolution, Tame One remained a presence in the underground scene and issued his debut LP, 2003’s When Rappers Attack on Eastern Conference Records. He also joined Weathermen, a rap supergroup formed in 2002 by Cage Kennylz and El-P, and featured on a number of tracks on their 2003 mixtape The Conspiracy.
Tame One continued releasing solo albums, EPs, and singles throughout his career. He teamed up with Cage for the 2004 record Waterworld, released under the name Leak Bros, Dusted Dons for the 2006 collaborative LP Slow Suicide Stimulus, and Del the Funky Homosapien for the 2009’s Parallel Uni-Verses.
Paying tribute to the rapper on Instagram, El-P wrote: “I don’t even know what to say. Rest in peace to Tame One. The Artifact, the Weathermen crew member, the leak brother, the legend, and undoubtably the friend and family of many broken hearted people.”
Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this best new music segment.
On this week’s list, we have the gothic, intoxicating new single from Yves Tumor, ‘God is a Circle’; BROCKHAMPTON’s vibrant, chaotic banger ‘Big Pussy’, the first single from the group’s final album; ‘Fallout’, the driving, fuzzed-out, and intimately comforting lead single from Yo La Tengo’s new LP; Miss Grit’s ‘Follow the Cyborg’, a striking introduction to the cinematic vision of their debut album; Caitlin Rose’s poignant collaboration with Courtney Marie Andrews, ‘Getting It Right’; Gladie’s catchy, exhilarating new single ‘Born Yesterday’; and Acre Memos’ ‘Another Bird Song’, a gentle, sunny track featuring Lomelda’s Hannah Read.
Best New Songs: November 7, 2022
Song of the Week: Yves Tumor, ‘God Is a Circle’
BROCKHAMPTON, ‘Big Pussy’
Yo La Tengo, ‘Fallout’
Miss Grit, ‘Follow the Cyborg’
Caitlin Rose feat. Courtney Marie Andrews, ‘Getting It Right’
Gladie, ‘Born Yesterday’
Acre Memos feat. Lomelda, ‘Another Bird Song’
Low’s Mimi Parker has died. Alan Sparhawk, her partner and the band’s other half, revealed the news on social media, writing: “Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but… She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.”
Parker was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in late 2020. She first spoke publicly about her diagnosis on the Sheroes Radio podcast in January of this year, and the group recently canceled a run of scheduled tour dates as Parker was undergoing treatment.
Parker was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where she and Sparhawk would form Low in 1993 alongside bassist John Nichols. Her mother was an aspiring country singer who taught herself how to play guitar, as did one of Parker’s sisters, and they would often sing around the house growing up.
Recalling how she was brought on to play drums for Low, she said in a 2001 interview: “I guess it was always kind of a dream, not something I ever thought I’d do, but every once in a while I’d have the thought that playing music would be fun. So Alan and I talked about it and then he and John Nichols got together and came up with the idea of the band — slow and quiet.” She continued, “Around this time Alan was working at the arena in Duluth and he was in the basement and they had tons of old equipment from the orchestra that was there years ago. There was a drum down there and a cymbal. So he asked about it and this woman said, ‘Oh, I can’t give it to you, but why don’t you just take it.’ So he brought home a snare drum and a cymbal and kinda laid it on me. ‘You could just play drums in this band! It would be really easy!'”
Low released their debut album, I Could Live in Hope, in 1994 on Virgin Records’ Vernon Yard imprint. Favoring minimalist arrangements and dynamically subtle performances, the record helped define the genre that would become known as slowcore. Zak Sally replaced Nichols for 1995’s Long Division and its follow-up I Could Live in Hope, which brought the band further acclaim.
After three LPs on the independent label Kranky – 1999’s Secret Name, 2001’s Things We Lost in the Fire, and 2002’s Trust, Low signed with Sub Pop Records and issued their first album for the label, The Great Destroyer, in 2004. Sparhawk and Parker remained in the band through various lineup changes and continued diversifying their sound, which underwent a radical reinvention when they teamed up with producer BJ Burton for 2018’s Double Negative. Burton also produced its follow-up, last year’s HEY WHAT, which marked Low’s first album as a duo and was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical category.
Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but
She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.
— LOW (@lowtheband) November 6, 2022
Steve Lacy made his Saturday Night Live debut last night (November 5), performing ‘Helmet’ as well as his chart-topping single ‘Bad Habit’. Watch it below.
‘Helmet’ and ‘Bad Habit’ are both taken from Lacy’s second album, Gemini Rights, which came out in July. The 24-year-old singer is currently on a North American tour in support of the LP and will head to Europe next month.
Aaron Carter, the teen pop idol and younger brother of Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter, has died, The Hollywood Reporter and TMZ report. Carter was found dead in his bathtub in his home in Lancaster, California. He was 34 years old.
Born in 1987 in Tampa, Florida, Carter released his self-titled solo album when he was nine years old and opened for the Backstreet Boys early in his career. His sophomore LP, Aaron’s Party (Come Get It), came out in 2000 and featured hits such as ‘I Want Candy’, ‘That’s How I Beat Shaq’, and the title track. Two more albums, Oh Aaron and Another Earthquake!, arrived in 2002 and 2003 respectively, and he wouldn’t release his fifth and final studio album, Løvë, until 2018.
Carter was occasionally a guest on Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel, and he also appeared on reality shows such as House of Carters and Dancing With the Stars as well as the Dr. Seuss musical Seussical on Broadway.
As an adult, Carter was open about his struggles with addiction and substance abuse. During a 2019 episode of The Doctors, he said had been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, and acute anxiety. Earlier this year, shared he had entered rehab for a fifth time in order to regain custody of his young son, Prince.
In August of this year, Carter told the Daily Mail he was working on a musical comeback. “I realized that I was killing myself and everything was being destroyed around me from it,” he said. “I was lying to the world and myself. Everybody deserves a second chance. I have not committed any crazy crimes… I am not how some people try to paint me. If somebody wants to call me a train wreck, well I’ve been a train that’s been wrecked multiple times and derailed by many different things. But I rebuild, get on the tracks and keep going.”
Wild Pink appeared on CBS Saturday Morning earlier today to perform three songs: ‘See You Better’ and ‘Hold My Hand’ from their new album ILYSM, and ‘Die Outside’ from last year’s A Billion Little Lights. Watch clips from the segment below.
ILYSM, Wild Pink’s fourth studio album, came out last month via Royal Mountain. Check out our interview with frontman John Ross about the project.
Becoming a musician is something that many creatives decide to do. For every successful musician, there are thousands more behind them, itching to get a slither of that success. Just like a lot of careers that can involve the public eye, it’s a very lucrative and hard path to go down.
With that being said, if it’s something that a person has a serious passion for and can’t see themselves doing anything else in life, then it’s worth pursuing. How does a musician find their own sound though?
With any craft, it’s all about practice. For a musician, being the best is reliant on practicing that musical instrument every day. Whether that’s as a singer or as a drummer, every day should be dedicated to practicing music in some way, shape, or form.
By practicing, the musician gets better and that’s important to do because perfection doesn’t exist. Everyone has the ability to improve upon what they’ve already learned and got as a talent. If practice doesn’t happen, then it can quickly become stale and the skills learned can become rusty. When a musician relies on their sound, it can’t afford to falter in any way.
There are lots of experts out there in the field of music that are more than willing to offer their fair share of advice. For example Gerard Zappa Wooster, a professional musician who works hard to demystify the industry as a whole.
It’s good to get wise words of advice from those who are in the music industry, instead of relying on others that may not have that level of experience or knowledge.
Music is good for the soul and it’s also good for those who are musicians. Sometimes, playing your own music can be a distraction from the goal of building the sound desired. That’s why it’s good to be influenced by other artists within the realm of the genre you’re going for and in general.
Try to listen to music daily if it’s not already happening. It’ll provide the inspiration that is needed for direction in musical style.
At the end of the day, the best thing to trust when it comes to being a musician is the gut. It’s the place that is most reliable when getting a feel for things. Does the sound feel good? Does it feel right? If the answer isn’t 100% yes, then there’s still some way to go before that sound is achieved.
It’s always worthwhile to think outside of the box. There may be a style of sound that hasn’t been done before. Maybe it’s a combination of several genres that become one super hybrid sound? Don’t be afraid to experiment as a musician – it should be in your blood!
Finding sound as a musician is the first step into putting the music out there and getting seen.
Gladie have dropped a new single from their upcoming LP Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out. The Philadelphia band’s latest is called ‘Born Yesterday’, and it follows lead single ‘Nothing’. Give it a listen below.
In a note on Bandcamp, Gladie’s Augusta Koch wrote:
HELLO!!!
Really excited and nervous to finally release “Born Yesterday” today, the last song we’re sharing before the entire record comes out.
This song in particular means an incredible amount to me. I wrote this about 8 months into reevaluating my life’s most complicated relationship – alcohol (you very fun but evil little shit). While there were many joys & victories in those early days of change I was also completely overwhelmed by the amount of feelings pouring in. I used to think of myself as someone who was very in touch with their emotions and personhood but this transition proved me wrong. It felt and still feels isolating, lonely, intense, and shaky but also on my good days, it feels like a homecoming. I’m seeing myself again; the ugly parts and even the beautiful ones too. I survived this far by numbing myself and though there are times when it deeply pains me that I did that, I have a new grasp and empathy for people’s ability to change. This world feels beyond fucked, I’m sure I’m not alone in my continued search for solid ground. I kept returning to this notion of how we view each other and ourselves as “fixed things”. There can feel rigidity to our identities but I don’t think that’s true if we don’t want it to be.
Matt and I made this music video of my oldest and dearest friend Siri rollerskating around Philly. I really wanted to capture the beauty of learning something new in the sunrise (something drinking didn’t really allow me to see) We met in my freshman year of high school and boy have we seen each other through some huge life changes. She was my first creative friend and has been a huge source of motivation and inspiration for me for as long as I’ve known her.
I hope this song resonates with you. Thanks again for supporting our band, it truly means so much to us.
Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out arrives on November 18 via Plum Records.
Temps – a 40-strong international music collective curated and produced by UK comedian James Acaster – have released their debut single. ‘no, no’ features contributions Quelle Chris, Xenia Rubinos, Shamir, NNAMDÏ, Seb Rochford. Check it out via the accompanying video below.
“I became completely obsessed with this project, it was all I focussed on for two years and we ended up making my favourite thing ever,” Acaster said in a statement. “I hope people enjoy it.”
Acaster is set to appear on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday, and a full-length album from Temps is due out next year.
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