Fat Dog have dropped ‘Peace Song’, their first new music since the release of their debut LP WOOF. this past September. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by James Ogram. Watch and listen below.
Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Fat Dog.
This Friday, Amber Mark will release a new EP called Loosies. It includes the previously released songs ‘Won’t Cry’ and ‘Sink In’, as well as a new single, ‘Wait So Yeah’. Check it out below.
“As I’ve been working on so much music for the next album, this mini project just started coming together,” Mark said of the EP. “It’s loose, sweaty, and a little dance-floor. Mainly made at home by myself and with a few of my friends. The rest is coming, but this is a little thank you to anyone who’s waiting for being so patient.”
King Hannah have offered their take on Elvis Presley’s ‘Blue Christmas’. Listen to their acoustic rendition of the holiday classic below.
“We’ve been singing ‘Blue Christmas’ together for the past couple of years, and so it felt right to celebrate our favourite time of year in the only way that we know how; singing and harmonising together,” the duo said in a statement. “Traditionally a love song about spending Christmas alone and longing for lost loved ones, we hope that our simple arrangement of just two vocals and one 60’s Gibson acoustic guitar enhances the romance and peacefulness that this time of year brings on cold, silent winter nights.”
King Hannah released their sophomore album, Big Swimmer, earlier this year. Revisit out Artist Spotlight interview with King Hannah.
Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood has announced his first solo album in 12 years. Set for release on February 21 via ATO, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams features guest appearances from Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, and Wednesday. Accompanying the announcement is the Lydia Loveless duet ‘A Werewolf and a Girl’, which arrives with a video directed by Kid Dynamite/None More Black’s Jason Shevchuk. Check it out below.
“‘A Werewolf and A Girl’ was written in August of 2021, around 40 years after I fell for my high school sweetheart,” Hood explained. “The song juxtaposed our falling in love and our breakup a year later. Once I cut the demo, I knew I wanted a woman to sing the choruses from the girl’s point of view. And in my head, it was always going to be Lydia. I mean, I didn’t really even have a second choice. The subject matter’s kind of provocative, so I wouldn’t have wanted to ask somebody that I didn’t feel was a friend. I wouldn’t want someone to be uncomfortable and then just not want to talk to me anymore. What I didn’t count on was that when I asked Lydia if she would be interested in doing it, she actually happened to be in the studio and did it the next day. And that’s what’s on the record.”
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams was produced by the Decemberists’ Chris Funk, and the Decemberists’ Nate Query also plays on it. Other contributors include Kevin Morby, Brad and Phil Cook, Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin, David Barbe, Stuart Bogie, Patterson’s Drive-By Truckers bandmates Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez, and more.
“You remember it one way, but when you really dip into it, when you really look back, the world was a different place,” Hood reflected. “Things were accepted that wouldn’t be accepted now and things you didn’t understand then make sense now.
“This record has all these kind of unintended themes,” he added. “I don’t know if that was anything I set out to do as much as it just kind of worked out that way. You know, there are a lot a lot of happy accidents in this record.”
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Cover Artwork:
Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Tracklist:
1. Exploding Trees
2. A Werewolf and a Girl [feat. Lydia Loveless]
3. The Forks of Cypress [feat. Waxahatchee]
4. Miss Coldiron’s Oldsmobile
5. The Pool House
6. The Van Pelt Parties [feat. Wednesday]
8. Last Hope
9. At Safe Distance
10. Airplane Screams
11. Pinocchio
Everything Is Recorded, the project of XL Recordings founder Richard Russell, has announced a new album. Temporary is set for release on February 28 via XL. It includes the previously released Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan duet ‘Porcupine Tattoo’, as well as the new single ‘Losing You’, featuring Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble and Yazz Ahmed. Check out its Ed Morris-directed video below.
Temporary also features contributions from Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster DePlume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor, and Nourished By Time. “Making the album was joyous, a way of hallowing life,” Russell said in a press release.
Earlier this year, Richard Russell and Samantha Morton released an album as Sam Morton, Daffodils & Dirt.
Temporary Cover Artwork:
Temporary Tracklist:
1. October
2. My And Me [feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Ricky Washington and Alabaster DePlume]
3. Porcupine Tattoo [feat. Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan]
4. Never Felt Better [feat. Sampha and Florence Welch]
5. Ether [feat. Maddy Prior]
6. Losing You [feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble and Yazz Ahmed]
7. Firelight [feat. Florence Welch, Berwyn and Alabaster DePlume]
8. The Summons
9. No More Rehearsals [feat. Roses Gabor, Jah Wobble, Jack Peñate and Yazz Ahmed]
10. You Were Smiling [feat. Samantha Morton]
11. Norm [feat. Bill Callahan]
12. Swamp Dream #3 [feat. Clari Freeman-Taylor]
13. The Meadows [feat. Roses Gabor, Kamasi Washington and Rickey Washington]
14. Goodbye (Hell Of A Ride) [feat. Nourished By Time]
The lineup for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been unveiled. As previously reported, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone are set to headline, with Travis Scott performing something billed as “Travis Scott Designs the Desert.”
Lady Gaga headlined Coachella in 2017, when she replaced a then-pregnant Beyoncé. Green Day will be making their Coachella debut, while Post Malone performed at the festival in 2018.
Also high up on the bill are Charli XCX, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Kraftwerk, The Original Misfits, BLACKPINK members LISA and JENNIE (each performing solo), FKA twigs, Clairo, The Prodigy, Benson Boone, and The Marías.
Other notable acts on the lineup include The Go-Go’s, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, beabadoobee, Three 6 Mafia, Anitta, Zedd, Japanese Breakfast, Darkside, Amyl & the Sniffers, Mustard, T-Pain, Arca, Rema, ENHYPEN, Shaboozey, Miike Snow, the Dare Jimmy Eat World, Circle Jerks, Djo, Yo Gabba Gabbaa!, A.G. Cook, Fcukers, Blonde Redhead, Kneecap, Wisp, julie, Gel, and more.
Coachella 2025 will take place over two weekends, April 11-13 and 18-20, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. A ticket pre-sale will begin Friday, November 22 at 11:00 am PT via the festival’s website.
Bright Eyes‘ Conor Oberst and Shudder to Think frontman Craig Wedren have teamed up for a new song, ‘Justice to a Scream’. It serves as the end title track to the short documentary ALOK, and its lyrics include lines from the film as well as poetry from the film’s subject: non-binary author, poet, comedian, and public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon. Check it out below.
“Conor Oberst was my idol growing up,” Vaid-Menon said in a statement. “I’ve always regarded his lyricism as among the very best of contemporary poetry and it’s such a full circle moment to collaborate with him on this song. Literally a dream come true. And what a bop!”
“I am a longtime admirer of ALOK,” Oberst added. “Their powerful writing, art and advocacy for transgender people and all people who suffer from the lunacy of ignorance and bigotry that permeates our society is inspirational. So when the opportunity to work on this song with Craig Wedren came along I was thrilled. I am also a big time, lifelong fan of Craig – from the amazing Shudder to Think records through his various projects and solo work. He possesses a truly one of a kind musical mind and a voice as unique and iconoclastic as he is. He has also been a great and treasured friend of mine for many years. This is all to say I loved working on this project with these two incredible pioneers.”
ALOK, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, also features a score by Wedren and Simón Wilson.
Bright Eyes released their latest album, Five Dice, All Threes, came out in September.
Courting have announced their third LP, which is titled Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story’. The follow-up to January 2024’s New Last Name is set to arrive on March 14 via Lower Third. Check out the lead single, ‘Pause at You’, along with the cover artwork and tracklist below.
“We wanted to keep everything incredibly direct – to hit everyone in the face and leave,” vocalist Sean Murphy-O’Neill said of the new album in a press release. Speaking about the new single, he added: “‘Pause at You’ is a culmination of everything we’ve been working on over the last few years – an observation on night time paranoia mixed about with night out ecstasy. Light outing, floor filling, tie undressing, rock.”
Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Courting.
Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side To Tell the Story’ Cover Artwork:
Lust for Life, Or: ‘How yo Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell The Story’ Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Stealth Rollback
3. Pause At You
4. Namcy
5. Eleven Sent (This Time)
6. After You
7. Lust For Life
8. Likely Place
spill tab has dropped a new single, ‘PINK LEMONADE’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Sweetiepie, and you can check it out below.
“‘PINK LEMONADE’ was made on a chaotic day at John’s back house studio,” spill tab, aka Claire Chicha, said in a statement. “We took a 40-minute jam, cut it up, spliced it around, and used that as the foundation, adding more quirky guitar lines and unconventional drums. It’s fitting because the song is about feeling discombobulated in life—feeling disconnected from my body, anxious, and wanting to escape into the cracks of the couch.”
‘PINK LEMONADE’ is spill tab’s first new music since last year’s KLEPTO EP, which followed her run as support act on Sabrina Carpenter’s Emails I Can’t Send tour.
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