Aoife O’Donovan has announced a new album called All My Friends. It’s slated for release on March 22 via Yep Roc. The title track, which features the Westerlies, the Knights, and San Francisco Girls Chorus, is out now. Check it out below.
“The seeds of this song predate the entire project as a whole,” O’Donovan said of ‘All My Friends’ in a statement. “This song is about camaraderie, companionship, people united in common struggle against oppression. I imagine the women literally marching in Tennessee as the dawn lifted over the fields. I imagine the struggle of needing just one more state to ratify, and just how much weight that final vote held. I imagine the collective longing for the country of our birth to open her arms. The opening, featuring my voice in harmony with The Westerlies, sets the tone for the record. Slowly, the strings enter, enveloping the chorale in rich tones, and then when the band kicks in after that first verse, we hear the gorgeous aching sound of the San Francisco Girls Chorus.”
O’Donovan co-produced All My Friends, the follow-up to 2022’s Age of Apathy, with Eric Jacobsen and Darren Schneider. The LP was mixed by Schneider and mastered at Chicago Mastering by Bob Weston.
The Lemonheads have shared a cover of ‘Seven Out’, a song written by the Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. Listen to it below.
“Mac from Superchunk made me a tape of The Vaselines and The Louvin Brothers when we stayed with him on our first real tour in 1987,” Evan Dando said in a statement. “Eugene’s band Captain America played their first show with us in Glasgow (with Brendan from Teenage Fanclub on drums) in 1990. We did a lot of touring with Eugenius in the early 90’s (no longer Captain America after Marvel Comics threatened to sue). I’ve always LOVED this song since it came out on a Eugene solo single. I’ve finally covered it!”
Along with last November’s ‘Fear of Living’, the track will appear on a special limited edition 7″ that will be exclusively available at Dando’s upcoming live shows.
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has announced the lineup for its 2024 edition. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fred again.., Post Malone, and Pretty Lights will be headlining the main stage, while Four Tet, Carly Rae Jepsen, Brittany Howard, Megan Thee Stallion, Armand Hammer, Faye Webster, Khruangbin, Yves Tumor, Idles, Ethel Cain, Chappell Roan, Maggie Rogers, Thundercat, Diplo, Cage the Elephant, Róisín Murphy, and more are also set to perform.
The festival takes place June 13 -16 at Bonnaroo Farm in Manchester, Tennessee. This year’s superjam, a Bonnaroo tradition featuring sets from surprise guests, is dubbed “Once More With Feeling(s)—The Dashboard Confessional Emo Superjam.”
Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes, according to the Southwark Coroner’s Court in London. A statement from the coroner issued on Tuesday stated that the Irish singer-songwriter “died of natural causes” and that the office “therefore ceased their involvement in her death,” The New York Times reports.
O’Connor died in July at age 56 at a private home in southeast London. Police said that the death was not being treated as suspicious at the time and an autopsy would be carried out to determine the cause of her death.
Gouge Away have announced their third LP, Deep Sage, which will drop on March 15 via Deathwish Inc. The follow-up to 2018’s Burnt Sugar is led by the single ‘Stuck in a Dream’, which comes with a video directed by Caleb Gowett. Check it out and find the album’s cover art and tracklist below.
Deep Sage will include the May 2023 single ‘Idealized’. Gouge Away began writing the LP in 2019 and didn’t finish until March 2023, when they started recording it with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden East, completely analog and almost entirely live.
“Recording live and to tape creates an intense environment where we have no choice but to feed off each other’s energy,” the band’s Christina Michelle said in a statement. “We have to get it right in one take and if anyone messes up we all have to start over, so no one wants to be that guy. It adds an element of risk and excitement. We don’t want to sound beautifully polished or perfect anyway. We want to sound like the five of us being human, and no one is better than Jack Shirley when it comes to capturing what it feels like in the room.”
Deep Sage Cover Artwork:
Deep Sage Tracklist:
1. Stuck in a Dream
2. Maybe Blue
3. Idealized
4. Deep Sage
5. A Welcome Change
6. Overwatering
7. No Release
8. The Sharpening
9. Spaced out
10. Newtau
11. Dallas
Sheer Mag have shared ‘Moonstruck’, the latest preview of their forthcoming album Playing Favorites. The track comes with an accompanying video directed by Ryan Schnackenberg (Cult Images) that draws inspiration from Rush’s ‘Limelight’ visuals. Watch and listen below.
“‘Moonstruck’ is about how invigorating it is to have a new crush,” guitarist and lyricist Matt Palmer explained in a statement. “After too long lost in the wilderness, it’s gratifying to find a beacon of tenderness to help reorient yourself in the maze of love. Written in 2021 and originally intended for a disco EP, ‘Moonstruck’ has been reworked as a more expansive and lush arrangement and features some of our favorite guitar work on the new record.”
Playing Favorites, out March 1 via Third Man, includes the previously released singles ‘All Lined Up’ and the title track.
Torres has released a new single, ‘Wake to flowers’, taken from her forthcoming record What an enormous room. It comes paired with a video by frequent collaborator Dani Okon, who helmed the visuals for earlier singles ‘I got the fear’ and ‘Collect’. Check it out below.
“I’m familiar with the disappointment that frequently follows hope,” Mackenzie Scott shared in a statement about the new song. “People are frighteningly resilient. We are regularly optimistic and regularly shattered by the want of something, maybe something that takes all our might and energy and then still doesn’t happen. But have you ever been anxious that things weren’t going to turn out the way you hoped, or maybe you weren’t very optimistic, and then you got everything you wanted? I feel like this happens a lot but I don’t hear it acknowledged very much. Everything I have now is something I once fought and longed for—this song is my way of keeping myself aware of that all the time.”
What an enormous room comes out January 26 through Merge.
Waxahatchee has announced her next album and first on new label home ANTI-, Tigers Blood. The follow-up to 2020’s Saint Cloud is out March 22 and features performances by MJ Lenderman, Spencer Tweedy, and Phil and Brad Cook. Lenderman contributes guitar and harmony vocals to the lead single ‘Right Back to It’, which you can check out below alongside a video directed by Corbett Jones and Nick Simonite.
Katie Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell” while on tour at the end of 2022. She recorded the album with Saint Cloud producer Brad Cook at Texas’s Sonic Ranch studio.
In 2022, Crutchfield teamed up with Jess Williamson for the collaborative album I Walked With You A Ways, released under the name Plains.
Tigers Blood Cover Artwork:
Tigers Blood Tracklist:
1. 3 Sisters
2. Evil Spawn
3. Ice Cold
4. Right Back To It
5. Burns Out At Midnight
6. Bored
7. Lone Star Lake
8. Crimes Of The Heart
9. Crowbar
10. 365
11. The Wolves
12. Tigers Blood
Waxahatchee 2024 Tour Dates:
Apr 18 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater @
Apr 19 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre @
Apr 20 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed @
Apr 21 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre @
Apr 23 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall @
Apr 25 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place @
Apr 26 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre @
Apr 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre @
Apr 28 – Richmond, VA – The National @
Apr 30 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel @
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium @
May 3 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live @
May 4 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater @
May 5 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
May 6 – Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre @
May 8 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom @
May 9 – Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall @
May 10 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater @
May 11 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater @
May 13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren @
May 14 – The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA @
May 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium @
May 17 – Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. @
May 18 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater @
May 19 – Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery @
May 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot @
May 23 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom @
Aug 19 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
Aug 21 – Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s %
Aug 23 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
Aug 24 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
Aug 25 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden %
Aug 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
Aug 28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
Aug 29 – South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
Aug 30 – Portland, ME – State Theater &#
Aug 31 – Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
Sep 1 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
Sep 6 – Vienna, VA – Filene Center – Wolf Trap &#
Sep 7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #!
Sep 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
@ with Good Morning
% with Tre Burt
# with Tim Heidecker
& with Snail Mail
+ with Greg Mendez
! with Gladie
Julia Holter has announced a new album: Something in the Room She Moves arrives March 22 on Domino. Following 2018’s Aviary, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album includes the previously unveiled single ‘Sun Girl’, which made our Best New Songs list, as well as the new track ‘Spinning’. Check out its accompanying video, directed by Giraffe Studios, below, and scroll down for the record’s cover artwork and tracklist.
‘Spinning’ is “about being in the passionate state of making something: being in that moment, and what is that moment?” Holter reflected in a statement. Of her new album, whose title “flips the gaze” of the Beatles’ ‘Something’, she said: “There’s a corporeal focus, inspired by the complexity and transformability of our bodies. I was trying to create a world that’s fluid-sounding, waterlike, evoking the body’s internal sound world.”
Something in the Room She Moves Cover Artwork:
Something in the Room She Moves Tracklist:
1. Sun Girl
2. These Morning
3. Something in the Room She Moves
4. Materia
5. Meyou
6. Spinning
7. Ocean
8. Evening Mood
9. Talking to the Whisper
10. Who Brings Me
The Smile have released another single from their upcoming album Wall of Eyes. This one’s called ‘Friend of a Friend’, and it follows the already-released ‘Bending Hectic’ and the title song. The track features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone from Robert Stillman. Listen to it below.
‘Friend of a Friend’ will be accompanied by a video from director Paul Thomas Anderson, which is set to premiere alongside a surround sound album playback of Wall of Eyes at a series of one-off events hosted at independent cinemas between January 18-25. Find more information here.
Wall of Eyes, the follow-up to 2022’s A Light for Attracting Attention, is due out January 26 via XL.
