Fontaines D.C. stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (May 7) to perform their recent single ‘Starburster’. Watch it happen below.
‘Starbuster’, which we named Song of the Week upon its release, leads the band’s upcoming album Romance. The follow-up to 2022’s Skinty Fia arrives on August 23 via XL Recordings.
Molly Drag has released a video for ‘Hell Raiser’, the final preview of his upcoming album Mammoth – out May 24. Check out director Laura-Lynn Petrick‘s video for it below.
“‘Hell Raiser’ is a song about fear, and how it can bring us together,” Michael Charles Hansford explained in a statement. “The strong similarity to love that fear can awaken inside us at the perfect time. I like to think of this as a tragic comedy. How two things that at the surface level seem so far apart but in actuality are very close.”
Arooj Aftab has unveiled a new song, ‘Whiskey’, lifted from her upcoming album Night Reign. Following ‘Raat Ki Rani’, the track features Kaki King and Gyan Riley on guitars, Maeve Gilchrist on harp, Linda May Han Oh on bass, Jamey Haddad on percussion, and TimaLikesMusic on keyboard and piano. Check it out below.
“‘Whiskey’ is about being out at night with someone you like, but the evening gets a little carried away,” Aftab explained in a statement. “My friend has had too much, now I am tired, and I need to figure out how to get us both home. But overall somehow the night and the interaction is still pretty cute.”
Night Reign, the follow-up to 2021’s Vulture Prince, arrives on May 31. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Arooj Aftab.
The California musician Kathryn Mohr has shared her cover of Low’s ‘Cut’, which appears on the upcoming Low tribute compilation Your Voice Is Not Enough. Listen to it below.
“It was the lyrics that immediately drew me into this song,” Mohr explained. “The intimacy of a hair cut. The loss of a version of someone you knew as they turn themselves inside out to survive. It’s one of the saddest things in the world to me, watching someone harden and loose themselves to their pain.”
Due later this year via the Flenser, Your Voice Is Not Enough has so far been previewed by Have a Nice Life’s cover of ‘When I Go Deaf’, Planning for Burial’s take on ‘Murderer’, Allison Lorenzen’s version of ‘Words’, and Drowse and Lula Asplund’s rendition of ‘Hey Chicago’.
Hinds have announced their first album since 2020’s The Prettiest Curse. Viva Hinds is set to arrive on September 6. To mark the announcement, they’ve shared the Beck collaboration ‘Boom Boom Back’, alongside a video directed by the band’s Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote. Check it out below.
Cosials and Perrote recorded the new album in rural France; it’s their first collection since the departure of bassist Ade Martín and drummer Amber Grimbergen. Pete Robertson produced the LP, which was engineered by Tom Roach and mixed by Caesar Edmunds. Viva Hinds includes the previously released song ‘Coffee’ and a collaboration with Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten called ‘Stranger’.
Viva Hinds Cover Artwork:
Viva Hinds Tracklist:
1. Hi, How Are You
2. The Bed, The Room, The Rain and You
3. Boom Boom Back [feat. Beck]
4. Stranger [feat. Grian Chatten]
5. Superstar
6. Mala Vista
7. On My Own
8. Coffee
9. En Forma
10. Bon Voyage
Brandon Miguel Valdivia, the Nicaraguan-Canadian percussionist and composer who records as Mas Aya, has announced a new LP. Coming and Going, the follow-up to 2021’s Màscaras, lands on July 12 via Telephone Explosion Records. The lead single, ‘Tú Y Yo’, is a collaboration with his partner, the Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta. (Valdivia and Pimienta’s daughter, Martina Valdivia, guests on one song). Take a listen below.
Coming and Going Cover Artwork:
Coming and Going Tracklist:
1. Dora
2. Windless, Waveless
3. Be (featuring Martina Valdivia)
4. Tú y Yo (featuring Lido Pimienta)
5. What Shattering!
6. Ocarina
7. No Trace
8. Abre Camino
Wand have announced a new album called Vertigo. The follow-up to 2019’s Laughing Matter will arrive on July 26 via Drag City. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Smile’, which comes with a video directed by Connor Clarke. Check it out below, along with the album cover, tracklist, and Wand’s upcoming tour dates.
Currently a four-piece with Evan Backer, Evan Burrows, Robbie Cody, and Cory Hanson, Wand created Vertigo from 50 hours of live improvisations. The album also features string and woodwinds arrangements by Backer.
Last year, Wand frontman Cory Hanson released the solo album Western Cum.
Vertigo Cover Artwork:
Vertigo Tracklist:
1. Hangman
2. Curtain Call
3. Mistletoe
4. Jj
5. Smile
6. Lifeboat
7. High Time
8. Seaweed Head
Wand 2024 Tour Dates:
May 30 Constellation Room Santa Ana CA
May 31 The Siren Morro Bay CA
Jun 1 Moe’s Alley Santa Cruz CA
Jun 2 Holland Project Reno NV
Jun 5 The Marquis Theater Denver CO
Jun 7 Isleta Amphitheater Albuquerque NM #
Jun 8 The Rebel Lounge Phoenix AZ
Jul 10 Thalia Hall Chicago IL
Jul 11 Mahall’s 20 Lanes Lakewood OH
Jul 12 Darien Lake Amphitheater Darien Lake NY #
Jul 13 Meteor Windsor Ontario Canada
Jul 15 Budweiser Stage Toronto Ontario Canada #
Jul 16 Theater Fairmont Montreal Quebec Canada
Jul 17 Crystal Ballroom Somerville MA
Jul 18 Bowery Ballroom New York NY
Jul 19 Underground Arts Philadelphia PA
Jul 20 Songbyrd Washington DC
Jul 22 The Earl Atlanta GA
Jul 23 Saturn Birmingham AL
Jul 25 Rubber Gloves Denton TX
Jul 26 Parish Austin TX
Jul 29 Club Congress Tucson AZ
Jul 30 The Casbah San Diego CA
Aug 2 Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown CA
Aug 3 Troubadour Los Angeles
# with Red Hot Chili Peppers
Draag have released a new single titled ‘Microgravity tank’. It’s the second offering fro their upcoming EP Actually, the quiet is nice, following last month’s ‘Orb weaver’. Check it out below.
“I used to live in a house that had this very unusual energy,” songwriter Adrian Acosta shared in a statement. “It’s the kind of energy I could only connect to that specific house. It was quite haunting. Every few months or so, I’ll have a Deja vu moment that brings me back to that house. When it fades, all I can think about is how my better years are behind me.”
Actually, the quiet is nice arrives on May 17 via Julia’s War.
Amen Dunes – the project of Damon McMahon – has unveiled ‘Rugby Child’, the latest single from his new album Death Jokes, which is out on Friday. Following the previously released ‘Purple Land’, ‘Boys’, and ‘Round the World’, the track arrives with a music video from director Steven Brahms featuring McMahon and dancer Jennifer Florentio. Watch and listen below.
Ahead of the release of her new album The Hollow on Friday, Keeley Forsyth has shared its title track. Following previous cuts ‘Turning’ and ‘Horse’, the track comes paired with a music video, which you can check out below.
“The title-track was made in reaction to reading an article about a woman suffering from postpartum psychosis, and a really tragic end,” Forsyth explained in a statement. “I felt so connected and moved by this. I wanted to force myself into the same space that she might have felt, or I imagined that she felt, so I could at least feel that she wasn’t alone. So in the song there is reference to “there is no help here, not for me” and also the highs and the lows of the strings referencing the resonance in one’s mind as you’re losing control to this horrendous mental illness disease.”
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