Hotline TNT have released the Somersault EP, featuring remixes of tracks from their 2023 album Cartwheel. It includes reworkings by DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ, They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Poisonfrog, Downstairs J, and Car Culture. Take a listen below.
“I had no idea what to expect when we sent the stems out to get the Cartwheel tracks remixed, and all five of these visions messed with my head,” project leader Will Anderson said in a statement. “When the artists asked me what BPM the song was at or how much headroom to leave in the mix, I didn’t know how to answer and probably gazed upon them with a one thousand yard stare as I recalled the horrors of my GarageBand project files, leaving them to their own devices to figure it out.”
Haley Heynderickx has released her first new song in six years. It’s called ‘Seed of a Seed’, and it features Heynderickx on vocals and acoustic guitar, William Seiji Marsh on tenor guitar, Caleigh Drane on cello and string arrangement, and Matthew Holmes on double bass. Check it out via the Evan Benally Atwood-directed video below.
“I first sent a demo of ‘Seed of a Seed’ to my friend Tré Burt and he loved it,” Heynderickx shared in a statement. “For three years he kept asking me if I’d finished the ‘better better’ song. It felt like a throwaway song to me, at first. It’s so simple, but I didn’t realize how much angst I’d woven into it: a desire for simplicity, and how far away that felt. It seems I accidentally pressed my story — the last four years of my life — into a tiny little tune and I love it now, too.”
Heynderickx’s debut album, I Need to Start a Garden, came out in 2018.
Denver band Public Opinion have announced their debut LP, Painted on Smile, arriving September 6 via Convulse Records. Lead single ‘Drawn From Memory’ arrives with a Derek Rathbun-directed video, which you can check out below.
Painted on Smile was co-produced by Militarie Gun/Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton and God’s Hate/Twitching Tongues member Taylor Young. “We really wanted to try and expand the sound of the band more,” vocalist Kevin Hart said in a press release. “That early 2000s stuff like The Strokes, The Hives, and Bloc Party was really important to us when we were kids, and I think this time we let a lot more of that infiltrate into what we were doing, and we ended up stumbling on more of our own sound.”
“I’m really proud of the music, but the lyrics are honestly pretty hard to read along to,” Hart added “It’s me purging a lot of things that I feel negatively about. I think so much of my previous stuff was very ‘f*ck you’ and this is much more of a ‘f*ck me,’ apologetic kind of album.”
Public Opinion Cover Artwork:
Public Opinion Tracklist:
1. Drawn From Memory
2. Hothead
3. Some Don’t
4. Stethoscope
5. Passes Me By
6. Chicanery
7. No Fruit At All
8. Dry Clean Only
9. Scene Missing
10. Wear & Tear
“The Avalanches have always been an inspiration for me,” Jamie said in a press release. “Their sample technique and how they piece together different sounds is incredible and collaborating on a track with them has showed me new ways of making music.”
The Avalanches added: “We’re so excited about the release of this track with Jamie ‘All You Children’. We hope you love it as much as we do.”
The Hard Quartet – a new indie rock supergroup composed of Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – have released their debut single. It’s called ‘Earth Hater’, and it arrives with a claymation music video directed by Eyedress. The group has also announced their first three live shows, which are set to take place in Los Angeles, New York, and London this fall. Check out ‘Earth Hater’ and find the list of dates below.
The Hard Quartet 2024 Tour Dates:
Oct 10 Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco w/ Papa M
Oct 17 New York, NY – Webster Hall w/ Weak Signal
Oct 22 London, England – Electric Ballroom w/ the Tubs
Chelsea Wolfe has announced a new EP, UNDONE, which arrives on August 30 via Loma Vista. It features remixes of songs from her latest album, She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She, by ††† (Crosses), Full of Hell, Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh), Boy Harsher, Forest Swords, and more. Listen to ‘Tunnel Lights (††† Remix)’, featuring vocals from Chino Moreno, below.
“She Reaches Out felt like the perfect record to have official remixes for since it’s themed so heavily with transformation,” Wolfe said in a statement. “I called in some artists I really respect to expand upon the sonic universe we created with Dave Sitek and it’s been such a treat and delight to hear each song come back transformed!”
UNDONE EP Cover Artwork:
UNDONE EP Tracklist:
1. Dusk (Ash Koosha Remix)
2. Eyes Like Nightshade (Full of Hell Remix)
3. House of Self-Undoing (Boy Harsher Remix)
4. Everything Turns Blue (Justin K Broadrick Remix)
5. Whispers In The Echo Chamber (Forest Swords Remix)
6. Tunnel Lights (††† Remix)
“‘Sick Of The Blues’ is about being heartbroken and taking back some joy, remembering that you’re the source of your own happiness, not someone else, even when you’re hurt and left with a hole in your heart,” bandleader Dana Margolin explained in a statement. “After being messed around enough, you just want to take back control. I just wanted to let it go, stop letting it consume me. I wanted simplicity, to have fun and remember everything good that could possibly happen. To love wholly, to not take anything too seriously. To have fun with my friends, to remove the tunnel vision and fall in love with my life again.”
The new album was produced by Dom Monks and recorded in Frome, England at the beginning of 2024. “We’ve always been known as a band who do something very particular and very emotionally intense live, and Dom (Monks) knew how to get that feeling across,” Margolin said.
“It feels like the first time we’ve made something,” she added. “It captured something about our friendship as a band and the way that we have learnt to play together. It’s taught me so much. Following your gut to the nth point, trusting your friends and their loyalty, trusting yourself to be able to fight with people properly and still come back together. How I want to live is how I want to make records, because making records is my life because my work is my play is my job is my life. It all ties together in this thing, and there are ways to do this that might not kill me.”
Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Cover Artwork:
Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me Tracklist:
Porridge Radio Tour Dates:
Thu Oct 31 – Tourcoing, FR – Le Grand Mix
Fri Nov 01 – Vendôme, FR – Les Rockomotives
Sat Nov. 02 – Lorient, FR – Les Indisciplinées
Thu Nov 07 – Dublin, IE – Whelan’s
Mon Nov 18 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Tue Nov 19 – Bristol, UK – Marble Factory
Wed Nov 20 – Leeds, UK – Irish Centre
Fri Nov 22 – Glasgow, UK – Òran Mór
Sat Nov 23 – Newcastle, UK – Newcastle University SU
Mon Nov 25 – Manchester, UK – Gorilla
Tue Nov 26 – London, UK – Electric Brixton
Fri Nov 29 – Margate, UK – Lido
Sat Nov 30 – Brighton, UK – Chalk
Mon Dec 2 – Amsterdam, NL – Tolhuistuin
Tue Dec 3 – Brussels, BE – Botanique
Thu Dec 5 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo
Mon Dec 9 – Hamburg, DE – Knust
Tue Dec 10 – Berlin, DE – Columbia Theater
Wed Dec 11 – Prague, CZ – Futurum
Thur Dec 12 – Vienna, AT – Flex
Sat Dec 14 – Schorndorf, DE – Manufaktur
Sun Dec 15 – Zurich, CH – Mascotte
Tue Dec 17 – Luxembourg City, LU – Rotondes
Wed Dec 18 – Wiesbaden, DE – Schlachthof
Thu Dec 19 – Cologne, DE – Artheater
Thu Jan 23 – Washington, DC – The Atlantis
Fri Jan 24 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
Sat Jan 25 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
Sun Jan 26 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
Tue Jan 28 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison
Thu Jan 30 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
Fri Jan 31 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry
Tue Feb 4 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Wed Feb 5 – Seattle, WA – The Chapel
Fri Feb 7 – San Francisco, CA- Independent
Sun Feb 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
Pom Pom Squad have announced their sophomore LP, Mirror Starts Moving Without Me. The follow-up to 2021’s Death of a Cheerleader comes out October 25 via City Slang Records. It’s already been previewed by last month’s ‘Downhill’, and a new single called ‘Spinning’ is out today, along with a video directed by frontperson Mia Berrin and Benjamin Lieber. Check it out below and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
“The song represents a moment when I was learning to cope with painful memories of the past and how they’ve shaped my future,” Berrin said in a statement about ‘Spinning’. “In accepting them, I’ve been able to find more freedom and forgiveness within myself.”
“A lot of the lyrics on the album have to do with watching/analyzing yourself, so I knew I wanted to create a surveillance room setup for something,” she added of the accompanying visual. “It turned out to be a really fun home-base for the ‘Spinning’ video.”
Opening up about the album, Berrin shared: “I took a lot of inspiration from my younger self on this album. I wanted to get back in touch with my creative roots. After hitting a particularly rough bout of writer’s block, I challenged myself to make a playlist of my all-time favorite songs from childhood to adulthood. It was healing in a way I didn’t expect! Before we went into the studio I made my bandmates and Cody do the same, then we all listened to each other’s and had a long conversation about them. Through the sessions for Mirror we were all pulling references from our collective playlists more than anything else.”
Christopher Owens has returned with ‘I Think About Heaven’, the former Girls frontman’s first new music in seven years. The single artwork, photographed by longtime collaborator Sandy Kim, features Owens outside the Wolf’s Lair Castle in Los Angeles, home of the late Shelley Duvall. Listen below.
Owens’ last solo release was 2017’s Vante by Curls. In the years since, he has faced significant personal challenges, including a motorcycle accident, battles with homelessness, and the loss of former Girls bandmate Chet “JR” White.
Swedish psych-rockers Goat have announced a new self-titled album, which lands on October 11 via Rocket Recordings. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new track ‘Ouroboros’. “The cycle of rebirth means the refinement of the soul,” the band said in a press release. “An evolution in which we slowly find our direction. Our own rhythm.” Take a listen below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.
Goat Cover Artwork:
Goat Tracklist:
1. One More Death
2. Goatbrain
3. Fool’s Journey
4. Dollar Bill
5. Zombie
6. Frisco Beaver
7. The All Is One
8. Ouroboros
