Bright Eyes have shared a cover of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Running Back’ as part of Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary celebration. The band originally recorded their version of the song in August 2020 for a SiriusXM Session, but the cover was given an official release yesterday (January 14) as part of the label’s ongoing singles series, which aims to raise $250,000 for New Hope For Families. Kathleen Frances has also released her contribution to the project, offering her take on Electric Youth and College’s 2014 song ‘A Real Hero’. Take a listen below.
“Thin Lizzy is one of the finest rock n roll bands of all time,” Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst said of the cover in a statement. “Phil Lynott’s vocal delivery and lyrics exemplify nonchalant cool. On top of that they gave the world a reason to invent the word guitarmonies. I think this is such a beautiful love song. It felt really good to sing.”
Commenting on her choice of cover, Frances said: “I used to have this song on repeat. It has such an uplifting feel and its belief in humanity seemed particularly fitting for this project. I wanted to do something different, slow it down and create a moodiness to feel the sentiment of the song in a different way.”
Brockhampton have today announced they are taking an “indefinite hiatus.” On Instagram, the LA-based hip-hop collective revealed that their upcoming shows – at the O2 Academy Brixton in London on February 7 and both weekends of Coachella 2022 – will be their “final performances as a group.” They’ve also cancelled all the other dates of the 2022 world tour they announced last year.
Brockhampton came together after group leader Kevin Abstract posted a note on the forum KanyeToThe asking if anyone would like to start a band. The many members who would go on to join the collective include Matt Champion, Dom McLennon, Merlyn Wood, Joba, Bearface, Romil Hemnani, Jabari Manwa, Kiko Merley, Robert Ontenient, Henock “HK” Sileshi, Ashlan Grey, and Jon Nunes. After moving to Los Angeles in 2017, the group released all three albums in their Saturation trilogy. They signed with RCA in 2018 and released three more albums in three years, including 2018’s Iridescence, their only album to reach No. 1. on the Billboard albums chart. They also parted ways with Ameer Vann after facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Brockhampton’s last album was 2021’s Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, which featured Danny Brown, A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg, Charlie Wilson, and JPEGMAFIA.
When it comes to fashion, you might feel like things are changing faster than you can keep up. That’s why it’s such a good idea to create a wardrobe that will help you keep up with these trends. A base wardrobe allows you to keep up by acquiring smaller items each season, such as handbags or scarves.
Prioritize Quality
You have likely heard it is best to have a few pieces that are good quality than a huge wardrobe made up of cheaper items. This ensures you can dress thoughtfully. It might sound boring to have fewer pieces in your wardrobe, but they will be of better quality. Plus, if you find something that fits you perfectly, you could consider purchasing it in bulk, as well as multiple colors or styles. It’s wasteful to keep or buy clothing that doesn’t fit you that well. If it’s a little too large or doesn’t hang quite right, you could have it altered. If it’s too small, don’t keep it in the hopes that it might fit someday since this can make you feel negatively about your body. Purchasing quality pieces can add up, but one way of affording good alterations and clothing is to take out a personal loan from a private lender. Good clothing is an investment in yourself, especially if you need it for work.
Only Wear the Things You Love
It’s tempting to purchase something because everyone else is wearing it but be honest about whether it makes you feel good about yourself. Clothing should also fit your lifestyle. If you are someone who loves dressing comfortably then investing in the latest restrictive blouse or sky-high pair of heels does not make much sense. Just because heels and dresses are classy doesn’t mean they fit the lifestyle of someone who is constantly running here and there. The good news is that no matter your lifestyle, there are pieces that can complement it and make you feel your best. Wear the things that you enjoy and that make you feel great. Of course, it’s a good idea to ensure that everything is cohesive so you can mix and match more often. Try limiting yourself to just two styles since this will help everything mesh better.
Choosing Colors
Of course, it is your style, but there are a few key wardrobe items you may want to consider. For instance, perhaps you want to have a basic dress, tees in neutral colors, and jeans that you can then dress up. You might want to have something to wear in the evening, a dressy item, and something casual. Even if you don’t have a lot to fill in the gaps, this will get you started.
Updating with the Season
This is the fun part of your wardrobe since you get to choose whatever you like that is in style. Getting a statement bag or pair of shoes can bring your current wardrobe up a bit. For example, you might choose a piece in the season’s color. Or you may go with a statement leather jacket or sandals. Each of these allows you to have some fun with your fits so you don’t grow bored with your basic wardrobe.
Sun June have released a new single called ‘Reminded’. It appears on the expanded edition of the band’s 2021 album Somewhere, which is out today via Run For Cover and Keeled Scales and also includes the previously unveiled song ‘Easy’. Check out a visual for the new track below.
“‘Reminded’ is about being captivated by someone you have a bad history with and wanting to reconcile with past mistakes, despite it being the most unhealthy decision,” lead singer Laura Colwell explained in a statement. “It’s about gazing narrowly into an old flame… Basically, it’s the sexiest song we’ve ever written. The song leans so far into romance that we thought it would be fun to add some sax. Justin got to arrange it all, and then we had local saxophonist David Alvarez (from Medellin Collection, and Hyah!) lay it down.”
King Princess has teamed up with Fousheé for a new song called ‘Little Bother’. King Princess and Fousheé wrote the song alongside Zach Fogarty (A$AP Rocky, Girlpool, Claud), who also co-produced the track. Check it out below.
“I have been a big fan of Fousheé for a while, so when we started DM’ing and eventually set a date in the studio, it was a dream,” King Princess said in a press release. “‘Little Bother’ kind of came out of nowhere; Zach had the guitar part and Fou and I just started going off. It became this song about tiptoeing around someone you’ve lost and feeling like a pest. It poses questions to a person who may not be listening at all and I think that’s a beautiful sentiment.”
‘Little Bother’ follows King Princess’ 2021 single ‘House Burn Down’, as well as 2020’s ‘PAIN’ and ‘Only Time Makes It Human’. Next week, the singer will begin supporting Kacey Musgraves on her US tour.
deathcrash have released ‘Doomcrash’, the final preview of their forthcoming debut LP Return. The track follows previous singles ‘Horses’ and ‘Unwind’. Listen to it below.
Talking about the new song, bassist Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement:
This all started with a really over-the-top doom riff I would play on the bass in rehearsal sometimes, with an absurd amount of distortion. We all loved it but whenever we tried to take it anywhere it lost its magic. Tiernan, as he often does, got very obsessed with the ‘idea’ of this doom riff, and became determined to make it into something. None of us liked what Tiernan was doing and it got to the point where I refused to even play the riff. I don’t know how it actually unfolded but i remember when we were in this awful rehearsal room filled with soft rock memorabilia, me and Tiernan were sitting on the sofa and he showed me a new riff he’d made, based around the chords from the dreaded doom riff. I was back on board. Immediately I started writing the most post-rock bass riff I could think of, unplugged, there on the sofa. We recorded it on a phone. That’s why I love deathcrash, because one of us can always see something that the others can’t, and then it clicks.
Years & Years has today released a new single, ‘Sooner or Later’, the final offering from his upcoming album Night Call. The track was co-written by Olly Alexander, Clarence Coffee Jr., and Mark Ralph, who also produced the LP. Give it a listen below.
Night Call, the follow-up to 2018’s Palo Santo, is set to arrive on January 21 via Interscope. So far, Alexander has previewed the record with the songs ‘Sweet Talker’, ‘Starstruck’, and ‘Crave’.
Earl Sweatshirt is back with a new album titled SICK!. Out now via Tan Cressida/Warner Records, the follow-up to 2019’s FEET OF CLAY was preceded by the singles ‘Tabula Rasa’, ‘Titanic’, and ‘2010’ and includes guest appearances from Armand Hammer and Bruiser Brigade’s Zelooperz. “SICK! is my humble offering of 10 songs recorded in the wake of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns,” the rapper said in a statement. “Before the virus I had been working on an album I named after a book I used to read with my mother (‘The People Could Fly’). Once the lockdowns hit, people couldn’t fly anymore. A wise man said art imitates life. People were sick. The People were angry and isolated and restless. I leaned into the chaos cause it was apparent that it wasn’t going anywhere. these songs are what happened when I would come up for air.”
FKA twigs has dropped her new mixtape, CAPRISONGS, via Young/Atlantic. Arriving three years after MAGDALENE, the 17-track effort features the artist’s recent Weeknd collaboration ‘Tears in the Club’ as well as contributions from Shygirl, Rema, Pa Salieu, Koreless, Tobias Jesso Jr., Fred again.., Jorja Smith, Mike Dean, Warren Ellis, and more. “if you are lonely or feel isolated or void of encouragement by your immediate circle you can borrow my friends on the mixtape,” twigs wrote on Twitter. “i think it’s my response to where the world has been at in recent times the humm of the background podcast acting as the soundtrack to our lives as we desperately try not to be alone pablo had so much belief in me it gave me a lot of confidence to want more for myself as an artist. also to reach out and collaborate with other artists and also to push myself to channel my pain and anxiety into work that felt more inclusive and dare i say joyful this is something i have never been able to do before in my art.”
Cat Power has released a new covers album, simply titled Covers, which is out now via Domino. Produced entirely by Chan Marshall, the LP includes her versions of songs by Frank Ocean, Billie Holiday, Bob Seger, Lana Del Rey, Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, The Replacements, The Pogues, and more. It also features a new take on her own song ‘Hate’, from 2006’s The Greatest, retitled ‘Unhate’. Completing a trilogy of sorts, Covers follows Cat Power’s previous mostly-covers collections Jukebox (2008) and The Covers Record (2000).
Storm Queen is the sophomore album by Melbourne singer-songwriter Grace Cummings. Out now via ATO Records, the follow-up to 2019’s Refuge Cove was produced by Cummings herself and includes the previously released singles ‘Heaven’, ‘Up In Flames’, and the title track. “In the past there were times when I’ve let other people’s opinions affect me too much,” she explained in a statement. “But with this record I learned that I’m allowed to influence myself instead of taking in anyone else’s ideas. I learned to completely trust what I see and hear in my head, and I stuck with that and just focused on creating what I love the most: something real and raw and ugly and beautiful.”
Elvis Costello has issued a new album with his band the Imposters. The Boy Named If, out today via EMI/Capitol, includes the advance tracks ‘Farewell, OK’, ‘Paint the Red Rose Blue’, and ‘Magnificent Hurt’. ”The full title of this record is ‘The Boy Named If (And Other Children’s Stories)’,” Costello said in press materials. “‘IF,’ is a nickname for your imaginary friend; your secret self, the one who knows everything you deny, the one you blame for the shattered crockery and the hearts you break, even your own.” Co-produced with Sebastian Krys, the album is a collection of songs that “take us from the last days of a bewildered boyhood to that mortifying moment when you are told to stop acting like a child – which for most men (and perhaps a few gals too) can be any time in the next fifty years,” Costello added.
The Wombats have returned with a new album called Fix Yourself, Not the World. Out today via AWAL, the LP was recorded remotely during various COVID-19 lockdowns and was produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers), Gabe Simon (Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey), Paul Meaney (Twenty One Pilots, Nothing But Thieves), Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag‘n’Bone Man) and Mike Crossey (The 1975, The War on Drugs, Yungblud). The band members were never in the same room during the process of making the album; Matthew “Murph” Murphy is based in Los Angeles, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen in Oslo, and drummer Dan Haggis in London.
Other albums out today:
Cordae, From a Bird’s Eye View; Bonobo, Fragments; Fuss, We’re Not Alone; Sea Girls, Homesick; Fickle Friends, Are We Gonna Be Alright?; The Lumineers, Brightside; Anna Von Hausswolff, Live at Montreal Jazz Festival; Underoath, Voyeurist; Blood Red Shoes, Ghosts on Tape.
Phil Elverum has shared the details of an expansive, career-spanning Microphones box set. The 10xLP set, titled The Microphones – completely everything, 1996 – 2021, will include all seven official Microphones albums, download codes for 74GB worth of digital material (including the complete discography, early cassettes, unreleased outtakes, live recordings, and stems), plus a 107-page book featuring never-before-seen photos, notebook pages, artworks, and detailed notes. There’s also a “special fancy little decorative sash garlanding the top of the box, silver foil stamped and delicate.” Watch a trailer for the release below.
On his website, Elverum suggests that completely everything will mark the end of the Microphones project. “Here you can buy everything from the Microphones contained in a humongous box,” he wrote. “This is final. To commemorate and tombstone 25 years of this intermittently-awake recording project, we made this chunk. It’s a 10 pounder, lift with your legs.” The box set, which ships out in February, will be a limited-edition, one-time run, and will not be re-pressed. You can pre-order it here.
PJ Harvey has announced a reissue of her ninth studio album, 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project. It’s due for release on March 11, and a demo version of ‘The Wheel’ is out today. Check it out below.
Last year, PJ Harvey reissued several of her albums on vinyl, including 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, 2004’s Uh Huh Her, and 2007’s White Chalk. Next up is a reissue of 2011’s Let England Shake, which comes out January 28. In April, PJ Harvey will publish a book-length narrative poem called Orlam written in the Dorset dialect.
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