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Mark Knopfler Announces New Album ‘Ahead of the Game’, Releases New Song

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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 Release New Song ‘I-90 Bridge’

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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.”

Live Laugh Love arrives March 29 via Suicide Squeeze Records.

Jack Antonoff Details ‘The New Look’ Soundtrack Featuring Lana Del Rey, Nick Cave, Perfume Genius, and More

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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 Announces New EP, Shares New Single ‘Band Like That’

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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?”

fanclubwallet’s debut LP, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me, came out in May 2022. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with fanclubwallet.

Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines EP Cover Artwork:

Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines EP Tracklist:

1. Our Bodies Paint Traffic Lines
2. Complex Weather
3. Picture of Her
4. Easy
5. Band Like That

Bnny Announces New Album ‘One Million Love Songs’, Unveils New Single

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.”

Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Bnny.

One Million Love Songs Cover Artwork:

One Million Love Songs Tracklist:

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 Release New Single ‘Long as I’m Not the One’

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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.”

Blu Wav will be released on February 16 via Dangerbird Records.

Watch André 3000 Perform ‘That Night in Hawaii When I Turned Into a Panther…’ on ‘Colbert’

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André 3000 brought a track from his debut solo album, New Blue Sun, to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Joined by his collaborators, the musician performed a 10-minute rendition of ‘That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh*t Was Wild’, and he also sat down for an interview with Colbert to talk about his love for the flute, his influences, and more. Watch it happen below.

Earlier this week, André 3000 announced a run of tour dates in support of New Blue Sun.

Phosphorescent Announces New Album ‘Revelator’, Shares Video for New Single

Phosphorescent has announced a new abum, Revelator, which is due for release on April  5 via Verve/Decca Records. It follows 2022’s The Full Moon Project, which saw Matthew Houck releasing monthly covers, and marks his first Phosphorescent LP since 2018’s C’est La Vie. Check out a video for the title track below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.

Speaking about the new track, Houck said:

This is the song that made me realize I was writing an album.
There’s always one that does that
Until then I’m sort of floundering around with a bunch of song bits in various stages
With no clear picture of what it is I’m doing

Once the song ‘Revelator’ came to be
I could see what the album could be

I truly struggled with naming the album Revelator
As I feel like it probably has certain biblical and genre connotations
That don’t apply to this album or to Phosphorescent at all

But in the end I know what I mean by it
And the album really couldn’t be called anything else
And so that’s why this is the title track

I think it might be the best song I’ve ever written

Revelator was produced by Houck and recorded in his Nashville studio over the course of six months. Collaborators on the album include Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Jim White of Dirty Three, and Houck’s partner, singer-songwriter and pianist Jo Schornikow. Schornikow wrote an original song for the record, ‘The World Is Ending’, marking the first Phosphorescent track to be written by someone other than Houck.

Revelator Cover Artwork:

Revelator Tracklist:

1. Revelator
2. The World Is Ending
3. Fences
4. Impossible House
5. Wide As Heaven
6. A Moon Behind The Clouds
7. All The Same
8. A Poem On The Men’s Room Wall
9. To Get It Right

Carly Rae Jepsen Joins Bullion on New Single ‘Rare’

Nathan Jenkins, the electronic producer and songwriter who records as Bullion, has announced a new album: Affection comes out April 26 via Ghostly International. To mark the announcement, he’s shared a new single, ‘Rare’, featuring vocals from previous collaborator Carly Rae Jepsen. Check it out below.

“I’ve been a fan of Bullion from the first listen,” Jepsen said in a statement. “His music just sends me some place good every time. We started writing together over zoom sessions in lock down and then met in real life in Toronto, London and LA. When I first reached out to him, I said ‘it would be fun to see how your world of music and mine could play together’ and it’s been one of the coolest discoveries. To be featured on Rare is such a sweet start to 2024. And as a fan still, I’m really looking forward to this whole album.”

In addition to Jepsen, Affection features collaborations with Panda Bear and Charlotte Adigéry. Bullion’s past credits include work with Ben Howard, Nilüfer Yanya, Avalon Emerson, Westerman, and more.

Affection Cover Artwork:

Affection Tracklist:

1. A City’s Never [feat. Panda Bear]
2. Affection
3. Rare [feat. Carly Rae Jepsen]
4. Your Father
5. The Flooding
6. Cinch
7. World_train [feat. Charlotte Adigéry]
8. Cavalier
9. Once, In a Borrowed Car
10. Open Hands
11. 40 Waves
12. Hard To Do

MELTS Announce New Album ‘Field Theory’, Share New Single ‘Figment’

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MELTS – the Dublin quartet made up of Robbie Brady, Hugh O’Reilly, Gaz Earle, and Eoin Kenny – have announced their second album, Field Theory, which is slated to arrive April 12 through Fuzz Club. The follow-up to 2022’s Maelstrom was recorded live to tape in Black Mountain Studios in the summer of 2023, with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox producing. Check out a video for the lead single ‘Figment’ below.

Discussing the album’s themes, the band said in a press release: “Like gravity we are drawn to and miss people and like light waves we love people and are loved. We live in orbits of each other, drawn by unseen forces. The album explores these forces, how we relate to each other, the people we live with and the people we live without. At the heart of Field Theory lies the realisation that we inhabit each other’s worlds as much as our own, through a field of wide-ranging forces, as important as the ones keeping the planets in place.”

“’Figment’ is about the relationship we have with the world around us, filtered through our own imagination, shaped and coloured by how the individual see’s the world,” they added of the new single. “The difference between the concrete and imagined. The video for ‘Figment’ was shot by Irish filmmaker Andy Parkes and explores similar themes as the song – how the mind perceives the world subjectively based on key elements: time, emotion and distance from the person or event.”

Field Theory Cover Artwork:

Field Theory Tracklist:

1. Figment
2. Waves Of Wonder
3. Clouded
4. WLDNG
5. Shelter Of The Shade
6. Main Sequence
7. Altered
8. The Never
9. Softly Breathes