The Chair follows Dr Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) as she navigates her new role as the English department chair at the prestigious Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is faced with an unusual set of challenges as the first woman to chair the department and as one of the few staff members of colour at the university.
The series will be released on the 20th of August on Netflix.
Watch the trailer for The Chair below.
As announced, Lorde is back with a new single from her upcoming album Solar Power. Following the LP’s title track is ‘Stoned at the Nail Salon’, which was also co-produced with Jack Antonoff. Phoebe Bridgers, Clairo, Marlon Williams, and James Milne are credited as backing vocalists on the track, according to Tidal. Listen to ‘Stoned at the Nail Salon’ below.
“This song is sort of a rumination on getting older, settling into domesticity, and questioning if you’ve made the right decisions,” Lorde said in a press release. “I think lots of people start asking those questions of themselves around my age, and it was super comforting to me writing them down, hoping they’d resonate with others too. I used this song as a dumping ground for so many thoughts…”
Lorde is set to perform ‘Stoned at the Nail Salon’ on Late Night with Seth Meyers tonight (July 21). Solar Power, her third album, arrives on August 20.
Aaron Maine has announced a new Porches album: All Day Gentle Hold !, the follow-up to last year’s Ricky Music, is out October 8 via Domino. Along with the announcement, Porches has today shared a video for the new track ‘Okay’. Check it out below.
“I recorded this album in my room between October 2019 and April 2021,” Maine explained in a statement. “The world was flipped and I wanted to make something injected with as much love, urgency, and lust for humanity as I possibly could.”
All Day Gentle Hold ! will include the previously released song ‘I Miss That’, which came out in October of last year.
All Day Gentle Hold ! Cover Artwork:
All Day Gentle Hold ! Tracklist:
1. Lately
2. I Miss That
3. Okay
4. Swimming Big
5. Back3School
6. Swarovski
7. Watergetsinside
8. In a Fashion
9. Inasint
10. Grab the Phone
11. Comedown Song (Gunk)
Sturgill Simpson has announced a new concept record called The Ballad of Dood and Juanita. The LP is out digitally and on CD on August 20, with vinyl to follow on December 3. It marks the singer-songwriter’s third album in twelve months following last year’s Cuttin’ Grass albums. Check out the album artwork and tracklist below.
According to a press release, Simpson wrote and recorded the new album, which he calls “a simple tale of either redemption or revenge,” in less than a week. “I just wanted to write a story—not a collection of songs that tell a story, but an actual story, front to back,” Simpson said, further describing the album as a “rollercoaster ride through all the styles of traditional country and bluegrass and mountain music that I love, including gospel and a cappella.”
Simpson is currently on location filming the upcoming Martin Scorsese movie Killers of the Flower Moon.
The Ballad of Dood and Juanita Cover Artwork:
The Ballad of Dood and Juanita Tracklist:
1. Prologue
2. Ol’ Dood (part I)
3. One In the Saddle, One On the Ground
4. Shamrock
5. Played Out
6. Sam
7. Juanita [feat. Willie Nelson]
8. Go In Peace
9. Epilogue
10.Ol’ Dood (part II)
Deerhoof have announced a new album: Actually, You Can, the band’s eighteenth studio record lands October 22 via Joyful Noise. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Department of Corrections’, which arrives with a stop motion video created by Jess Joy. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
“Think of all the beauty, positivity and love that gets deemed ugly, negative and hateful by the self-proclaimed guardians of ‘common sense,” Deerhoof remarked of the album’s themes in a press release. “We’d hardly be destroying society by dismantling their colonial economics and prisons and gender roles and aesthetics. We’d be creating it!” A press bio penned by Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz and Sad13 describes Actually, You Can as “a genre-abundant record that uses technicolor vibrancy and arpeggiated muscularity to offer a vital shock from capitalism’s purgatorial hold.”
According the band, ‘Department of Corrections’ is about “all the marvellous mysteries of life that don’t add up on a ledger sheet or figure into an AI algorithm. It’s about Judas going electric. It’s about how the human species itself is meaningless without a planet to live on. How we vastly outnumber our would-be masters if only we could get organised.”
Actually, You Can will follow the band’s 2020 album Future Teenage Cave Artists. Last September, the group surprise-released a covers album titled Love-Lore.
Actually, You Can Cover Artwork:
Actually, You Can Tracklist:
1. Be Unbarred, O Ye Gates of Hell
2. Department of Corrections
3. We Grew, and We Are Astonished
4. Scarcity Is Manufactured
5. Ancient Mysteries, Described
6. Plant Thief
7. Our Philosophy Is Fiction
8. Epic Love Poem
9. Divine Comedy
Indigo De Souza has today shared ‘Hold U’, the latest offering from her forthcoming debut album Any Shape You Take. Check out a music video for the new single below.
“I wanted to write about a really simple kind of love that isn’t necessarily romantic, but that is just about holding space for other people to fully express themselves and to feel celebrated,” De Souza said of the song and video in a statement. “Just simply seeing someone in their humanity and loving them. We are constantly evolving and we only truly have space to process our lives openly if we feel safe and are encouraged to love ourselves and celebrate our bodies. I am really blessed with the sense of community that I have in my life, and I wanted to highlight that in this video. Community is the purest kind of magic and can heal so much trauma and pain. We all just want to feel truly held by the people around us!”
Any Shape You Take is set for release on August 27 via Saddle Creek. It includes the previously released single ‘Kill Me’, which landed on our Best New Songs segment.
LA-via-Seattle trio La Luz have announced their self-titled fourth album. The record arrives October 22 via Hardly Art, and the new single ‘Watching Cartoons’ is out today. Following previous offering ‘In the Country’, ‘Watching Cartoons’ comes with a video directed by Nathan Castiel. Watch it below and scroll down for the LP’s cover artwork and tracklist.
On their new album, guitarist and songwriter Shana Cleveland, bassist Lena Simon, and keyboardist Alice Sandahl worked with producer Adrian Younge. “We both create music with the same attitude, and that’s what I love about them,” Younge remaked in a press release. “They are never afraid to be risky and their style is captivating. I don’t work with many bands, but I love taking chances on people that share the same vision. We both love to be ourselves, and it was an honor to work with them.”
La Luz’s last album, Floating Features, landed in 2018.
La Luz Cover Artwork:
La Luz Tracklist:
1. In the Country
2. The Pines
3. Watching Cartoons
4. Oh, Blue
5. Goodbye Ghost
6. Yuba Rot
7. Metal Man
8. Lazy Eyes and Dune
9. Down the Street
10. I Won’t Hesitate
11. Here on Earth
12. Spider House
Grimes has unveiled a snippet of a new song called ‘100% Tragedy’ on TikTok. “My label thinks this isn’t a single what do y’all think?” the caption reads. Sharing the same clip on Instagram, she added, “Imo this song shud have a music video.” Check it out below.
Earlier this year, Grimes said the follow-up to last year’s Miss Anthropocene, set to be her first with Columbia, is a “space opera” about lesbian artificial intelligence. She also teased another track called ‘Shinigami Eyes’ on Discord. In another Instagram post, she said was joining the Discord staff “so we can all be addicted to gaming together.”
@grimes100% Tragedy #grimes #dancer #choreography #100%Tragedy 🤍🧚🏻♀️ @symonekimeka @rayjrv♬ 100 Percent Tragedy by Grimes – Warnymph
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Taylor Swift will not be submitting Fearless (Taylor’s Version), her 2021 re-recording of her 2008 album, for consideration at the next Grammy or CMA Awards, a representative for Republic Records confirmed to Billboard. “Fearless has already won four Grammys including album of the year, as well as the CMA Award for album of the year in 2009/2010 and remains the most awarded country album of all time,” the label representative said. Instead, her December 2020 album evermore will be submitted for consideration in all eligible Grammy categories.
evermore‘s sister album, folklore, earned Swift her third Album of the Year award at this year’s Grammys. Swift announced her plans to re-record her first six albums after Scooter Braun’s 2019 purchase of Swift’s former label, Big Machine Records, in order regain control of her masters. The next installment in the series is Red (Taylor’s Version), which is set for release on November 19.
Kanye West is hosting a listening party for his new album Donda at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium this Thursday (July 22) at 8pm ET. According to an ad for Beats Studio Buds that debuted during Game 6 of the NBA Finals last night, the event will be livestreamed globally via Apple, and the album is out on Friday. Check out the ad below.
The ad stars America’s fastest woman, Sha’Carri Richardson, who was banned from competing at the Tokyo Games earlier this month after testing positive for marijuana. “Sha’Carri doesn’t need you to let her do anything,” the YouTube caption reads, adding, “DONDA is officially out in 48 hours!” The video is soundtracked by a song called ‘No Child Left Behind’, which is set to appear on Donda.
Kanye West’s most recent album was 2019’s Jesus Is King. The rapper previously claimed its follow-up would come out in July 2020, but no album materialized.
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