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Guppy Share New Song ‘A Voicemail for the Mayor’

Los Angeles-based band Guppy have shared ‘A Voicemail for the Mayor’, the latest single off their upcoming album Big Man Says Slappydoo. The track follows previous offerings ‘Alien’, ‘If I Wanted To’, and ‘I’m Your Daddy Now’. Check it out below.

“This was my attempt at writing a love song with my fully formed adult brain,” the band’s J Lebow explained in a statement. “I generally shy away from love songs because something about love doesn’t feel like an emotion that belongs to me so how could I possibly have a point of view on it? “A Voicemail to the Mayor” is an avoidant attachment style anthem. I was starting to really catch feelings for someone after a long period of intense personal growth, and I felt truly afraid that falling in love would rob me of all that growth. This is sort of a joyful temper tantrum of insisting I don’t want love while actively falling into it.”

Guppy’s new LP, which was produced by Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties, arrives on April 22 via Lauren Records.

The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia Replacing Kanye West as Coachella 2022 Headliners

Two days ago, it was reported that Kanye West would no longer be performing at Coachella 2022. Now, the Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia have been announced as the Sunday night headliners of the festival. Check out the new Coachella poster below.

“I’m so looking forward to this moment with Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd finishing out the Sunday night slot this year,” Paul Tollett, president/CEO of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, told Variety. “Coachella has a special relationship with Abel [Tesfaye aka the Weeknd] and I’m so thankful to have this upcoming performance with these iconic artists all on the same stage.”

The Weeknd headlined Coachella back in 2018. Swedish House Mafia teamed up with the singer last year for the single ‘Moth to a Flame’, and later remixed his Dawn FM track ‘Sacrifice’. The group’s debut album, Paradise Again, comes out on April 15.

Cola Release New Song ‘Water Table’

Cola – the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright – have released a new single called ‘Water Table’. It’s set to appear on their upcoming debut album, Deep in View, alongside previous cuts ‘Blank Curtain’ and ‘So Excited’. Check it out below.

“‘Water Table’ came from some experiments with bass chords,” Stidworthy explained in a press release. “The guitar parts of the verse was an attempt to write something Tim would come up with and basically wrote itself. The guitar in the chorus was originally a harp sample played on a keyboard, which is why the working title was Dark Harp. It was the last song I wrote for the record at a moment when we were pretty sure what would end up on the record. I felt like the record needed the emotional note of a song like Water Table and the track flowed out of me. Tim sent it back to me with lyrics the next day so I knew it was gonna work.”

Deep in View will arrive on May 20 via Fire Talk Records.

Sweet Pill Share Video for New Song ‘High Hopes’

Philadelphia’s Sweet Pill have shared the second single from their forthcoming LP Where the Heart Is. Following lead track ‘Blood’, ‘High Hopes’ arrives with an accompanying video by MidVessel. Check it out below.

“The idea for shooting a music video at the bowling alley initially started as a joke as we and our friends get together on a weekly basis for bowling,” bassist Ryan Cullen explained in a press release. “Keeping our heads held high even though we are being sabotaged by the Gutter Goblins is how we feel connected to the theme of ‘High Hopes’.”

Guitarist Sean McCall added: “The Sweet Pins League was a long awaited dream. The collective goal of winning the bowling league trophy was all this band ever wanted, even before knowing it. Although we’re still at the bottom, Sweet Pill is on their way to retiring their music career and becoming full-time Sweet Pins champions.”

Where the Heart Is drops on May 25 via Topshelf Records.

Charlie Hickey Releases New Single ‘Dandelions’

Pasadena-based artist Charlie Hickey has unveiled a new single, ‘Dandelions’, the second offering from his upcoming debut record Nervous at Night. “This is one of the most special songs to me on this album,” Hickey said in a statement. “It’s about a time in my life and in the world that felt very stagnant but at the same time full of rapid change.” Listen to it below.

Nervous at Night is set to arrive on May 20 via Saddest Factory Records. The album was produced by Marshall Vore and features contributions from Phoebe Bridgers, Harrison Whitford, Christian Lee Hutson, and Mason Stoops. Hickey previously shared the record’s title track.

Field Guides Announce New Album ‘Ginkgo’, Unveil New Single

Field Guides, the project led by Brooklyn-based artist Benedict Kupstas, has announced its third album. Ginkgo is out June 24 via Whatever’s Clever, and it features contributions from members of The War on Drugs, Adeline Hotel, Public Practice, and Stars Like Fleas, among others. Check out lead single ‘Salmon Skin’ below.

Kupstas shared the following statement on the new track:

“Salmon Skin” was mostly written while I was in Lebanon a few years ago, volunteering with an NGO in the Bekaa Valley. It was an intense time. I was corresponding with Alena Spanger (longtime collaborator), who was in California at the time, getting lost in coves. I was spending my breaks sitting in a sort of grotto on the grounds of a very old monastery, where a mangey feral cat would sit on my lap. The geographical and psychic displacements felt a bit surreal. And I found some sort of parallel correspondence between salmon and spiders. I had been in the process of moving to Switzerland, but feeling extremely conflicted about the prospect, and lots of things were unraveling, dizzying forks in the road. That’s what that song grew out of.

It was the first and only song we recorded with the full live band, before the pandemic and other disruptions forced a change in approach.

Ginkgo will follow 2014’s Boo, Forever and 2019’s This Is Just A Place.

Gingko Cover Artwork:

Gingko Tracklist:

1. Judee At The Delaware Water Gap (A Prelude)
2. Salmon Skin
3. Agios Sillas
4. Son Of The Tree That Owns Itself
5. Cicadas In The Lemon Trees
6. The City Is A Painting
7. Rain On My Parade
8. Condensate
9. The Petrichor Near Landwehr Canal
10. Margaret
11. When I Pulled Slivers From Your Feet

Sunflower Bean Share New Song ‘I Don’t Have Control Sometimes’

Sunflower Bean have shared a new single called ‘I Don’t Have Control Sometimes’. It’s taken from the New York trio’s forthcoming album Headful of Sugar, which features the previously released tracks ‘Roll the Dice’, ‘Who Put You Up to This?’, and ‘Baby Don’t Cry’. Check out its music video below.

“I’ve always thought that my reckless side was both a gift and a curse, leading me to my best choices on stage but my worst choices in life,” vocalist and bassist Julia Cumming explained in a statement about the song. “I don’t have control sometimes is admission, acceptance, and almost celebration of the parts of yourself that are impulsive or maybe even insane.”

Headful of Sugar is set for release on May 6 via Lucky Number.

Sharon Van Etten Announces New Album ‘We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong’

Sharon Van Etten has announced her new album, We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong. The follow-up to 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow will be released on May 6 via Jagjaguwar. Check out a trailer for the record below.

Van Etten’s recent singles ‘Porta’ and ‘Used To It’ do not appear on We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong. In fact, there will be no advance tracks leading up to the release of the album. “I wanted to approach this release differently, to engage my fans in an intentional way, in an effort to present the album as a whole body of work,” Van Etten commented in a statement. “These 10 songs are designed to be listened to in order, at once, so that a much larger story of hope, loss, longing and resilience can be told.”

Daniel Knowles co-produced We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, which features Van Etten’s touring band of Jorge Balbi on drums, Devon Hoff on bass, and live musical director Charley Damski on synthesizers and guitars. According to a press release, the album “concerns itself with the questions we ask ourselves when we think the world – or at least, our world – might be ending. Have we loved as well as we could? Did we try hard enough? How do we protect the things most precious to us from destructive forces beyond our control? And how do we salvage something worthwhile when it seems all is lost?”

The cover art is intended to reflect Van Etten’s approach to these questions. “I wanted to convey that in an image with me walking away from it all,” she said, “not necessarily brave, not necessarily sad, not necessarily happy.”

Van Etten has a run of US dates later this month with support from Mia Joy before embarking on her European Darkness Fades Tour and The Wild Hearts Tour with Angel Olsen, Julien Baker, and Spencer.

We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong Cover Artwork:

We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong Tracklist:

1. Darkness Fades
2. Home to Me
3. I’ll Try
4. Anything
5. Born
6. Headspace
7. Come Back
8. Darkish
9. Mistakes
10. Far Away

Joan Shelley Announces New Album ‘The Spur’, Shares New Single

Joan Shelley has announced her first album in three years. The follow-up to 2019’s Like the River Loves the Sea is called The Spur, and it’s due out June 24 via No Quarter Records. Today, Shelley is previewing the record with its lead single and title track. Check it out and find the album’s cover art (by Rob Carmichael and Amber Estes Thieneman) and tracklist below.

The 12-track LP was recorded in the spring of 2021 at Earthwave Farm in the Kentucky countryside. James Elkington produced the album, which includes collaborations with Bill Callahan, Meg Baird, and the British novelist Max Porter, as well as Nathan Salsburg, whom Shelley married in June of 2021. The songs on the record were written between the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020. At the time of recording, Shelley was seven months pregnant with her first child.

The Spur is the result of a period of opposite extremes: of intellectual hyper-connection and physical isolation,” Shelley explained in a press release. “This album will forever be fused with the memory of our marriage, the birth of our child, and the intense joy despite the darkness.”

The Spur Cover Artwork:

The Spur Tracklist:

1. Forever Blues
2. The Spur
3. Home
4. Amberlit Morning
5. Like The Thunder
6. When The Light Is Dying
7. Breath For The Boy
8. Fawn
9. Why Not Live Here
10. Bolt
11. Between Rock & Sky
12. Completely

Nilüfer Yanya Shares New Video for ‘the dealer’

Nilüfer Yanya has shared a new music video for ‘the dealer’, which appears on her latest album PAINLESS. The clip is directed by Molly Daniel, who also helmed the video for  ‘anotherlife’. Watch it below.

PAINLESS, Yanya’s third full-length, arrived last month. Following its release, the London singer-songwriter performed the single ‘midnight sun’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The US leg of her world tour in support of the album begins this month.