Cakes da Killa has announced a new album called Black Sheep. The follow-up to 2022’s Svengali comes out March 22 via Young Art. Today, the New York rapper has previewed the LP with the new single ‘Mind Reader’, a collaboration with Stout. Check it out below.
In addition to Stout, Black Sheep features collaborations with Dawn Richard and Wuhryn Dumas. It finds Cakes da Killa reuniting with longtime collaborator Sam Katz, the producer behind Svengali.
Black Sheep Cover Artwork:
Black Sheep Tracklist:
1. It’s A Luv Thang [feat. Wuhryn Dumas]
2. Mind Reader [feat. Stout)
3. Make Me Ovah
4. FourPlay
5. Do Dat Baby [feat. Dawn Richard]
6. Global Entry
7. Downtown J
8. Cakewalk
9. Crushin In Da Club
10. Problem 4 Problems
11. Ain’t Sh*t Sweet
Liquid Mike have put out a new song, ‘American Caveman’, lifted from their upcoming album Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot. It follows lead single ‘K2’, which made our Best New Songs segment. Listen to it below.
Paul Bunyan’s Slingshot will be self-released on February 2.
Fabiana Palladino has announced her self-titled debut album, which is set for release on April 5 via Paul Institute and XL Recordings. The 10-track LP features contributions from Jai Paul, Rob Moose, drummer Steve Ferrone, and Palladino’s father and brother, bassists Pino and Rocco Palladino. Check out a video for the new single ‘Stay With Me Through the Night’ below, and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.
Discussing the album, Palladino said in a statement:
A central theme of the album is aloneness. Whether it’s a song where ’m searching for connection with someone else, or trying to embrace the aloneness, it tends to come back to me, who I am when I’m alone, what I feel when I really look inwards. I’d say it’s a pretty introspective record overall. The songs are often about trying to go deeper into yourself, exploring your true feelings and how they then relate to and affect your relationships with others.
“Stay With Me Through The Night” is the first song I wrote for the album. It was at the end of a tricky period where I hadn’t written music for nearly two years, and it came out in a bit of a flood, I barely even remember where or how I wrote it, but I knew it was going to be an important song for me. It ended up being the centrepiece of the album, a song that encapsulates a lot of the feeling and emotion of the rest of the record and musically it brings old together with new, which became a theme across the record…a way of combining my influences with a modern perspective.
Rhythmically the feeling of the song comes from funk and disco, I was thinking about the piano playing of Patrice Rushen and Michael McDonald, Chaka Khan’s ‘What Cha’ Gonna Do For Me’, Bernard Edwards bass playing on Chic’s ‘Good Times’, and The Bee Gees ‘Spirits Having Flown’ but we tried to take the track somewhere else in other aspects of the production to bring out the big feelings in the song. It situates us in the emotional world that I tried to create for the rest of the album.
Fabiana Palladino Cover Artwork:
Fabiana Palladino Tracklist:
1. Closer
2. Can You Look In The Mirror?
3. I Can’t Dream Anymore
4. Give Me A Sign
5. I Care
6. Stay With Me Through The Night
7. Shoulda
8. Deeper
9. In The Fire
10. Forever
Squid have dropped a new track, ‘Fugue (Bin Song)’. It arrives ahead of a North American tour in support of the band’s sophomore album, last year’s O Monolith. The track was recorded during the sessions for the album with longtime collaborator Dan Carey at Peter Gabriel’s Real World studio. Check it out along with the list of dates below.
Water for Your Eyes will open Squid’s run of tour dates, which will feature exclusive tour merch, including a collaborative tour poster from both bands and cassette mixtapes from Squid. “It’s an antidote to the immediateness of music consumption nowadays,” the band’s Ollie Judge said in a press release. “It features music by friends and people I admire, probably best to be played at nighttime whilst sat on your favourite chair.”
Squid 2024 Tour Dates:
Feb 2 Austin, TX – The Parish *
Feb 3 Dallas, TX – Dada *
Feb 5 Nashville, TN – Basement East *
Feb 6 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West *
Feb 8 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
Feb 9 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer *
Feb 10 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel *
Feb 14 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club*
Feb 15 Montreal, QC – SAT *
Feb 16 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre *
Feb 18 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *
Feb 19 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line *
Feb 23 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall *
Feb 24 Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre *
Feb 25 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile *
Feb 27 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom *
Feb 29 Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory *
Mar 1 Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco *
Mark Knopfler has announced a new solo album, One Deep River, which will be released on April 12 via Blue Note/EMI. The first single, ‘Ahead of the Game’, is out today. Give it a listen and find the LP’s cover art and tracklist below.
“Crossing the Tyne is always on your mind,” Knopfler said in a statement, referring to the river that runs through his childhood home city of Newcastle. “It’s what you were doing when you were leaving as a youngster and that feeling is always the same every time you do it. You’re heading out or you’re coming back, and it just connects with your childhood. The power of it doesn’t go away.”
One Deep River Cover Artwork:
One Deep River Tracklist:
1. Two Pairs Of Hands
2. Ahead Of The Game
3. Smart Money
4. Scavengers Yard
5. Black Tie Jobs
6. Tunnel 13
7. Janine
8. Watch Me Gone
9. Sweeter Than The Rain
10. Before My Train Comes
11. This One’s Not Going To End Well
12. One Deep River
Chastity Belt have dropped a new song, ‘I-90 Bridge’. It’s the second single off their upcoming album Live Laugh Love, following ‘Hollow’. Check it out below.
“I-90 Bridge’ is the fictionalized account of real times in Seattle,” the band’s Lydia Lund said in a statement. “When I wrote the chords and melody, the song felt like a classic Chastity Belt song which deserved classic Chastity Belt lyrics addressing growing pains and self reflection in Seattle.”
Last November, it was reported that Lana Del Rey, the 1975, Nick Cave, Perfume Genius, Bleachers, Florence Welch, beabadoobee, and more recorded covers of early to mid-20th century songs for the soundtrack to the upcoming Apple TV+ series The New Look. The full tracklist for the soundtrack, which was produced and curated by Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, has now been unveiled. Take a look below.
The first single from the soundtrack, Florence + the Machine’s rendition of ‘White Cliffs of Dover’, will be released on Wednesday, January 31.
Created by Todd A. Kessler, The New Look is a historical drama starring Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior and Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel. The show premieres on the streaming service on February 14, 2024.
The New Look (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Cover Artwork:
The New Look (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Tracklist:
1. Florence + The Machine – ‘White Cliffs Of Dover’
2. The 1975 – ‘Now Is The Hour’
3. Lana Del Rey – ‘Blue Skies’
4. Perfume Genius – ‘What A Difference A Day Makes’
5. Nick Cave – ‘La Vie En Rose’
6. Beabadoobee – ‘It’s Only A Paper Moon’
7. Joy Oladokun – ‘I Wished Upon The Moon’
8. Bartees Strange – ‘You Always Hurt The One You Love’
9. Sam Dew – ‘I Cover The Waterfront’
10. Bleachers – ‘Almost Like Being In Love’
fanclubwallet – the project of singer-songwriter Hannah Judge – has announced a new EP, Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines, arriving March 29 via Cool Online. Check out its first single, ‘Band Like That’, below.
Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines features fanclubwallet’s touring band: bassist Nathan Reid, guitarist Eric Graham, and drummer Michael Watson, who also produced and mixed the record. “I was lucky that when the time came to find a band, I had one standing right in front of me,” Judge commented in a statement. “It’s cool to let your best friends take the lead. They feel like my arms and my legs. Extensions of myself!”
“I had spent months studying everyone else’s bands,” Judge said of ‘Band Like That’. “What made them so good? Why couldnt I be like them?”
Bnny has announced a new album: One Million Love Songs, the follow-up to 2021’s Everything, is out April 5 via Fire Talk. Check out its first single, ‘Good Stuff’, along with the album cover and tracklist below.
“It’s a breakup song, but it’s hopeful, optimistic even,”Bnny’s Jessica Viscius explained in a statement. “Or perhaps it’s just the denial, hoping things will be different next time, hoping that love can save you.”
One Million Love Songs was produced by Viscius and recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville with Alex Farrar. “I wanted to make songs that are exciting to play – songs that make me feel happy,” Viscius said in a statement. “This album is about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
1. Missing
2. Good Stuff
3. Crazy, Baby
4. Something Blue
5. Screaming, Dreaming
6. Sweet
7. Nothing Lasts
8. Rainbow
9. Changes
10. Get It Right
11. No One
Grandaddy have unveiled ‘Long as I’m Not the One’, the latest single from their forthcoming album Blue Wav. It follows previous offerings ‘Cabin in My Mind’ and ‘Watercooler’. Check out a lyric video for it below.
“While the lyrics arrived early and remained mostly unchanged, I ended up recording two or three other versions of this song and just couldn’t get it right,” Jason Lytle said of the new song in a statement. “Too folky and/or too country was the culprit. Luckily, I hung in there and settled on this rendition. Just enough shine and dirt. Just enough modern and vintage. I’m still confused as to what it is, but that’s pretty normal for me.”
