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The Besnard Lakes Share Video for New Song ‘Feuds with Guns’

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The Besnard Lakes Share Video for New Song ‘Feuds with Guns’

Canadian indie rock outfit The Besnard Lakes have previewed their upcoming album The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings with a new song called ‘Feuds with Guns’. It’s accompanied by a rotoscoped animated video directed by Jordan “Dr. Cool” Minkoff. Watch it below.

“‘Feuds With Guns’ is one of the first songs written from our upcoming LP,” the group wrote in a press release. “This one is a good slow-dancer! Written almost entirely in the Cabanon at The Rigaud Ranch, this one started out as an organ and drum idea that morphed into a little OMD-style pop song.”

Speaking about the process of making the video, Dr. Cool explained: “I rotoscoped a couple of the big dives from a video of an extreme high-diving contest that took place in the 80s. About a week after I had animated the first guy’s big jump, I returned to the video to check out some other usable clips. I realized I had never watched the full clip of the first jump — I had just stopped once he hit the water. I found out that after he lands in the water he floats back up unconscious and then gets taken away on a stretcher. So now what was I supposed to do? People in the comments were asking what had happened but no one knew the answer. After a bunch of snooping around the internet I found the guy’s Facebook and he’s TOTALLY alive. His name is Pat and he lives in Florida. I messaged him but he hasn’t answered.”

The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings arrives January 29 via Fat Cat/Flemish Eye. It includes the previously released singles ‘Raindrops’ and ‘Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again’.

Jeff Rosenstock and Laura Stevenson Join Forces on New Song ‘Caring’

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Jeff Rosenstock and Laura Stevenson Join Forces on New Song ‘Caring’

After joining forces on Still Young, a Neil Young covers EP released in honour of the legendary singer-songwriter’s 74th birthday last year, Jeff Rosenstock and fellow DIY artist Laura Stevenson have teamed up once again for an acoustic track called ‘CARING’, featuring Dan Potthast on pedal steel. Check it out below.

The track is taken from Rosenstock’s 2020 Dump series on Bandcamp, where he’s been sporadically releasing one-off tracks since in the early stages of lockdown in April. Stevenson also sang on the tracks ‘DEPT OF FINANCE’, ‘COLLAPSE!’, and ‘DONE DONE DONE’. Rosenstock’s most recent studio album was NO DREAM, released in May.

Amanda Shires Covers Genesis’ ‘That’s All’

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Amanda Shires Covers Genesis’ ‘That’s All’

Amanda Shires has shared a cover of the Genesis classic ‘That’s All’. Check out the singer-songwriter’s rendition of the band’s 1983 track below, along with the original.

In a press release, Shires referred to the song as a “true COVID anthem”. Her cover arrives with an accompanying animated lyric video featuring a number of topics that defined the year, including a COVID-19 molecule, Tiger King, a mural of musicians who died this year (including Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen, John Prine, and more), and an actual dumpster fire.

In 2019, Shires formed the Highwomen, a country supergroup also featuring Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby. They released their self-titled debut later that year.

Caribou Speaks Out Against Companies Hiring DJs to Perform Virtually on New Year’s Eve

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Caribou Speaks Out Against Companies Hiring DJs to Perform Virtually on New Year’s Eve

With the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affecting the scale and scope of New Year’s Eve celebrations, Caribou‘s Dan Snaith has taken to Twitter to express his frustration at private companies trying to hire DJs to perform at their New Year’s Eve parties.

“I was just offered $40k to DJ virtually for a private company on NYE,” the electronic producer wrote yesterday (December 29). “Hey corporates – looking at the world RN, can’t think of a better use of your slush fund than pissing it up the wall so yr pampered staff can watch overpaid DJs prance around the lamest virtual party of all time?”

When Australian artist Ben Thomas suggested Snaith take the money and then donate it, he responded, “Yes, I do find this a compelling argument in some ways. And I have done this in the past (I’ve never done corporate gigs but with other money that I’ve received via usages of my music etc). I guess I’m suggesting that there’s a bigger problem than just this one absurd offer.”

Snaith released his most recent album as Caribou, Suddenly, in February, followed by an EP of remixes in October. Check out our year-end features The 50 Best Albums and 50 Best Album Covers of 2020, featuring Caribou’s Suddenly.

Andrea Turk and Virgo Verse Unveil New Single ‘Strawberry Wine’

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Andrea Turk and Virgo Verse Unveil New Single ‘Strawberry Wine’

Two Los Angeles-based artists, Andrea Turk, a Jakarta-born singer-songwriter, and Virgo Verse, an experimental singer-songwriter, teamed up for their new single ‘Strawberry Wine’. The song describes the perspective of someone who believes that vengeance is the only way to fulfill their right to justice against the person who broke their heart.

The song follows on Andrea Turk’s last single, ‘Super Human,’ and Virgo Verse’s EP, ‘Roam.’

‘Strawberry Wine’ can now be streamed via Spotify.

Slash, Alice Cooper, and More Are Camp Counsellors in New ‘Rock Camp’ Trailer

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Slash, Alice Cooper, and More Are Camp Counsellors in New ‘Rock Camp’ Trailer

Alice Cooper, Slash, Gene Simmons, Sammy Hagar, and more appear in the new trailer for the upcoming documentary Rock Camp. Check it out below.

The film details the story of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, the American camp started by David Fishof that for more than two decades has offered people the chance to jam with and learn from rock stars. “You would have a 15-year-old kid playing drums and a dentist on guitar,” Alice Cooper says in the clip. “If this band were a real band, it’d be the weirdest band ever, but cool.”

The film, which was directed and produced by Douglas Blush, follows four campers in particular and also features appearances from Steven Tyler, Dave Navarro, Paul Stanley, former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach, Nancy Wilson, Jeff Beck, and members of Judas Priest, among others.

Rock Camp will receive a virtual cinema release on January 15 and will go on demand a month later on February 16.

Run The Jewels Become Action Figures in New ‘walking in the snow’ Video: Watch

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Run The Jewels Become Action Figures in New ‘walking in the snow’ Video: Watch

Run the Jewels have shared a new music video for their RTJ4 track ‘walking in the snow’. The stop-motion visual was directed by Chris Hopewell and sees action figure versions of Killer Mike and El-P leading a revolution. Check it out below.

“It was great to work with the RTJ guys again,” Hopewell, who also worked on the group’s ‘Don’t Get Captured’ video, said in a statement. “Everyone was very aware of the gravity of the subject matter and RTJ didn’t want to be too obvious or on the nail with the visuals, so we went with an ’80s style fantasy look with evil snow warriors and their icy king oppressing the bedroom toys. It was great to be involved with a project with a positive vibe to end a pretty fucked up year. Big thanks to the RTJ crew for their truth and for letting us work with their amazing music once again.”

RTJ4 dropped in early June. Check out where it landed on our 50 Best Albums of 2020 list.

A Record Number of Albums Reached Number One in the UK in 2020

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A Record Number of Albums Reached Number One in the UK in 2020

A record number of albums climbed to the number one spot in the UK albums chart across 2020, according to Official Charts Company. 43 different albums reached Number One, more than any other year in the history of the charts. The new data breaks the old record from 2015, when 39 records made it to the top spot. Last year saw 32 chart-toppers, while 2018 only had 19.

As NME points out, only three albums that topped the UK albums chart this year occupied the spot for more than a single week. These were Dua Lipa‘s Future Nostalgia, which stayed at the top spot for two weeks, as did Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, while Taylor Swift‘s folklore was the only album to occupy the spot for three weeks. One of the two most recent number ones also came from Swift with evermore, followed by Paul McCartney’s McCartney III.

Vinyl Sales Hit Record High in the US

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Vinyl Sales Hit Record High in the US

Vinyl just had its best sales week in history in the US. As Billboard reports, there were 1.842 million LPs sold in the US during the week ending on Christmas Eve, which marks the biggest week the format has had since Nielsen/MRC Data began tracking music sales in 1991. The previous record was achieved just the week prior, with 1.445 million units sold between December 10th and December 17th.

Independent record stores also broke a new record of their own with 733,000 vinyl sales. The week’s biggest selling vinyl album was Paul McCartney’s McCartney III, which was released on December 18 and sold 32,000 units, making it the third-largest sales week for a vinyl record since 1991. The previous week’s top seller was Taylor Swift’s folklore, which sold 23,000 copies following a promotional boost from the artist’s webstore.

According to Billboard, vinyl sales also outpaced the week’s CD sales — only the fourth time that’s happened since 1991, and all four of them happened since September of this year. Experts had made that prediction last year after vinyl saw its 12th year of steady growth, reaching 18.84 million US vinyl sales compared to less than a million in 2007.

Watch Kevin Bacon Cover Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ For His Goats

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Watch Kevin Bacon Cover Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ For His Goats

Kevin Bacon has shared an acoustic cover of Radiohead‘s ‘Creep’, performing the 1992 hit single while surrounded by pet goats. Watch it below.

“The goats were insisting, so I had to try,” Bacon wrote in the caption of the Instagram video, in which one baby goat can be seen repeatedly chewing on his sleeve. Introducing the song in the video, he added: “Well, the goats wanted me to play this. I don’t really think it’s appropriate, but…”

 

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