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Bad Moves Share Video for New Single ‘Outta My Head’

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Bad Moves Share Video for New Single ‘Outta My Head’

Bad Moves have released a new single, ‘Outta My Head’, taken from their forthcoming LP Wearing Out the Refrain. The accompanying video was directed by David Combs, Benjamin Epstein, Guillan Leonardo, and Kate Sweeney, and features appearances by comedians Margaret Cho, Josh Gondelman, and Chris Gethard, as well as musicians Cheekface, Martha, Suzie True, and Chris Farren. Watch and listen below.

Wearing Out the Refrain will be released on September 13 via Don Giovanni Records. It includes the previously shared tracks ‘New Year’s Reprieve’, ‘Let Rats Inherit the Earth’, and ‘Hallelujah’.

Sex Week Share Video for New Song ‘Naked’

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Sex Week Share Video for New Song ‘Naked’

Ahead of the release of their self-titled debut EP on Friday, Sex Week have shared one more single, ‘Naked’. It follows earlier cuts ‘Toad Mode’, ‘Angel Blessings’, ‘Cockpit’, and ‘Kid Muscle’. Check it out via the accompanying video below.

“’Naked’ is about two people with their own insecurities hoping to see and be seen beyond superficial expectations,” the Brooklyn duo explained in a statement. “The word naked isn’t so literal as it is more the idea of being vulnerable, and wanting to share that vulnerability with someone. Hoping that by being open, someone will in return accept you for who you are. Then, if you’re lucky, they’ll be open about their own insecurities and you can return the favor. Everyone deserves to feel love and be naked in their own way.”

Purest Form Drop New Song ‘Burn’

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Purest Form Drop New Song ‘Burn’

Purest Form – the Los Angeles trio featuring vocalist Story Beeson (Choking on Ash, Vacant Future), guitarist-programmer Madison Woodward (Fury, Object of Affection), and bassist Riley Joyner (Roman Candles, Pocketknife) – have put out a new song called ‘Burn’. It arrives on the heels of their self-titled debut EP, which came out earlier this year. Check it out below.

“We have a burning fantasy to set fire to a complacent retroactive society,” Beeson said in a statement. “Start new. Start present. See things for what they are and destroy corrupt and evil monoliths of war.”

Adrian Younge Announces New Album Featuring Snoop Dogg, Bilal, and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier

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Adrian Younge Announces New Album Featuring Snoop Dogg, Bilal, and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier

Adrian Younge has announced a new LP, Linear Labs: São Paolo, arriving November 15 via his own Linear Labs. The compilation features one unreleased song from various forthcoming albums Younge has produced for the label, including collaborations with Snoop Dog, Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier, Brazilian actress/singer Samantha Schmütz, Middle-Eastern singer Liraz, London-based jazz vocalist ALA.NI, and soul singer Bilal. Check out the first single ‘Esperando por Você’, a preview of the upcoming Something About April III, below.

“For the last 30 years, I’ve studied rare and obscure records in an attempt to become the most unique producer in the world,” Younge said in a press release. “A world where I create music with no expiration date…a vortex where the composers of yesterday and today sonically meet to discuss the way that hip hop has informed modern ears…essentially, my music is for the heads. This is São Paulo!”

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Hemlock Ernst (Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring) Enlists ELUCID for New Song ‘Remains’

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Hemlock Ernst (Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring) Enlists ELUCID for New Song ‘Remains’

Hemlock Ernst, the rap project of Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring, has shared a new single from his upcoming album Studying Absence. ‘Remains’, which features Armand Hammer’s ELUCID, follows lead cut ‘Raised in the South’. Check it out below.

Recorded with producer Icky Reels, Studying Absence is set for release on October 16 via Tygr Rawwk Rcrds. “With Hemlock Ernst, I tend to work over soul and jazz break type beats,” Herring said in a press release. “Icky Reels’ production was a far more industrial and acidic landscape. I knew this would be more of a cerebral process, breaking down the beats, challenging the rhythms, finding the voices. But I decided to accept the challenge.”

How to Create a Retirement Plan That Accommodates Both Partners’ Dreams and Aspirations

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How to Create a Retirement Plan That Accommodates Both Partners’ Dreams and Aspirations

Retirement is a big deal. It is not just leaving work; it is the kind of life that is about to be experienced—together. So, if you two are really eager to start with the planning, be prepared to be taken for the ride of a lifetime. The objective: make up a retirement plan that corresponds to both of your joint dreams. Therefore, let’s take it step by step, ensuring both of you share the same thing and are enthusiastic about what’s to come.

Have a Heart-to-Heart

Start with a heart-to-heart before you get into the nitty-gritty of a plan. Sit down for a chat so that you can put everything out there. In other words, put all your dreams for the future on the table, whether individual or shared. What are your personal retirement goals? Maybe you have always dreamed of chartering a sailing trip across the Pacific or having your own pottery studio outside your back door. Your partner probably has a dream too, like playing the top one hundred golf courses in North America or spending lots of extra time with the grandkids.

Now that you’ve got your own individual dreams out there, it’s time to take a look at what you want together. See yourselves traveling the world or perhaps owning a sweet little beach house. How about volunteering or getting involved in a community project? Pinpoint those shared dreams and start building your plan around them.

Compromise and Negotiate

Not every dream will fit together perfectly, and that’s okay. That is where compromise comes in. It could be that you both want different types of vacations, or have different ideas about how much time to spend working on hobbies. Find a compromise. For example, perhaps you do a bit of both or alternate between the two. It’s all about balancing what makes both of you happy.

Financial Planning: The Backbone of Your Plan

The next section is financial planning, and we can never talk enough about money when thinking about retiring. Start by taking a good look at your current financial situation. How much have you saved? From what sources do you anticipate income during retirement? That usually covers pensions, Social Security, or investments.. As part of your strategy, make sure to set up a Roth IRA if you haven’t already—it’s a great way to benefit from tax-free withdrawals in retirement.

The next step is to budget for your dream lifestyle. Love to travel? Factor in those costs. Love dining out? Make room for it in your budget. And don’t forget to plan for miscellaneous expenses. That’s really finding that sweet spot where your dreams meet your financial reality.

Plan the Lifestyle You Want

Consider how you would want your day. A running day or the one that will seem relaxed with nothing? Here, define your way of life, how you want to be and ensure your plan supports this. Do you want to live in another city or country? Plan that out as well. Maybe you have your eyes on a new car or second home, include space for these dreams in your retirement plan.

Health and Wellness

Not forgetting health, retirement is the perfect time to stay active and healthy. Be prepared for any potential healthcare needs. Think about how you’ll keep up your wellness. Maybe you take up yoga together or start a jog in the morning. And it’s smart to consider long-term care options, just in case.

Legal and Administrative Essentials

This is the not-so-fun part but incredibly important: Get your estate planning together—think wills and trusts. Oh, and those beneficiary designations might need to be updated on some accounts or insurance policies. It’s a bit of paperwork, but worth it.

Review and Adjust Regularly

Your plan is not etched in stone. An appointment with change, and naturally your goals may vary. Come back and review how things are going regularly. If your health changes or you get new grandkids, be prepared to change your plan. Be flexible–that’s one of the secrets to keeping your retirement dreams alive.

Use Resources and Tools

Remember, you have tons of resources out there to help you. Financial advisors can be of help in providing the best direction, especially in case your case is a little too complicated. There are numerous tools and applications over the internet that can help you with both budgeting and planning. Use them to keep your plan on track.

Wrapping It Up

Here is the roadmap to build up a retirement plan that is truly custom-fit to both your dreams. It is all about coming to a clear understanding: laying down common goals, the financial reality in contrast to your dreams. Plan together, adjust where needed, and enjoy your retirement. Retirement can be a time that truly lets both of you flourish. And with a little planning, it can be everything you ever wanted.

Ready to start? Get a cup of coffee, sit with your partner, and begin this new and exciting chapter in your life. Here’s to long and fulfilling retirements

allie Announces New Album ‘Every Dog’, Shares New Single

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allie Announces New Album ‘Every Dog’, Shares New Single

New York City-based singer-songwriter allie has announced her second album, Every Dog, sharing a video for the title track. Featuring the recently released single ‘Radio Shower’, the follow-up to 2021’s Maybe Next Time is set to arrive on September 27. It was recorded in Brooklyn with guitarist Alex Harwood, bassist Maxwell Zikakis, and drummer Patrick Freeman. Check out the video for ‘Every Dog’, directed by Zikakis, along with the album artwork and tracklist below.

“Every Dog highlights different growths I’ve experienced as a songwriter, in the efficacy of both more abstract-leaning and literal-leaning types of storytelling,” Allie Cuva explained in a statement. “I felt freer to write about my own experiences and wherever else my imagination took me, worrying less about fitting in with other artist peers, and just wanting to make something that felt fair and real and true to my life in this vast and crazy world.”

“I wanted to create something that felt flickering – the oscillating guitar can resemble the constantly churning transportation flowing through NYC – and that also evolved to deliver the listener somewhere different than expected, which was meant to represent big, structural change in a relationship,” she continued.

Commenting on the title track, Cuva said: “I understand ‘Every Dog’ to be a somewhat abstract representation of my own journey and the journeys of my loved ones, especially artist friends, to find solace in such a trying, chaotic environment here in NYC.”

“Looking back,” she added, “I think the song ‘Every Dog’ was a way for me to honor both the pain of necessary separation from beloved people who had once been very close to me, and also the sense of peace and acceptance I felt in knowing such decisions were made for the right reasons–out of love for the other and myself.”

Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with allie.

Every Dog Cover Artwork:

Every Dog Tracklist:

1. Sweet
2. Radio Shower
3. Every Dog
4. From The Dead
5. Tiny Colored Pills
6. Three Dykes in a White Pacifica
7. I Was Here (Valentines Day Song)
8. Cereal Box Lottery

Public Opinion Release New Single ‘Some Don’t’

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Public Opinion Release New Single ‘Some Don’t’

Public Opinion have dropped another single from their upcoming debut album, Painted on Smile. ‘Some Don’t’ follows previous cuts ‘Drawn From Memory’ and ‘Hothead’. Check it out below.

Painted on Smile is set to arrive on September 6 via Convulse Records.

Tucker Zimmerman Announces New Album ‘Dance of Love’, Produced by and Featuring Big Thief

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Tucker Zimmerman Announces New Album ‘Dance of Love’, Produced by and Featuring Big Thief

Belgium-based, California-born singer-songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has signed to 4AD and announced his debut for the label, Dance of Love. Out October 11, the record was produced by Big Thief, who also serve as his backing band alongside collaborators Mat Davidson and Zach Burba. Zimmerman’s wife Marie-Claire, who appears on the cover, contributed backup vocals. Today, Zimmerman has shared a new single, ‘Burial at Sea’, and its Noah Lenker-directed video. Check it out and find the LP’s details below.

“It was an extreme honor to make a record with one of the greatest songwriters of all time,” Big Thief said in a statement. “We believe in this music with all of our hearts, and we hope it brings you joy.”

Zimmerman had this to say:

After years of writing and filling a box with over 500 song sheets, I had finally found my path, my originality, my voice. It had become clear to me that songs of only one kind were worth spending time on: those which had a positive message and a peaceful vibration […] Just poetry. Little hums that perhaps might lift us all above our daily worries and fears, little hums that try to make the world a better place to live in.

Dance of Love Cover Artwork:

Dance of Love Tracklist:

1. Old Folks From Farmersville
2. Idiot’s Maze
3. Lorelei
4. The Season
5. Burial At Sea
6. They Don’t Say It (But It’s True)
7. Leave It On The Porch Outside
8. The Ram-a-lama-ding-dong Song
9. Don’t Go Crazy (Go In Peace)
10. Nobody Knows

Tucker Zimmerman 2024 Tour Dates:

Nov 3 Manchester, UK – Deaf Institute
Nov 5 London, UK – Pitchfork London, The Lexington
Nov 8 Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who Festival

Album Review: Spirit of the Beehive, ‘YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING’

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Album Review: Spirit of the Beehive, ‘YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING’

In 2022, a year after Spirit of the Beehive released their knottiest, most abrasive record to date, bandmates Zack Schwartz and Rivka Ravede ended their romantic partnership. Last year’s i’m so lucky, the four-song EP that followed ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, was not only a test as to whether the group could venture on but harnessed their manic approach to explore a wave of confounding emotions. Although the experiment proved successful, it sounded like a naturally transitional effort, a cathartic outpouring that would allow the unpredictable Philadelphia trio to carve out a new path forward. That this group – known for abstracting and corroding feeling, operating in a genre where “confrontational” is not only high praise, but the default – would follow it up with an actual breakup album did not seem particularly likely. But YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING, their fifth album, isn’t another left turn so much as a continuation of what began with i’m so lucky – picking at the same wounds, magnifying the same fears. What if we really let the pain and horror sink in, it seems to ask, veered a little closer to the edge?

Spirit of the Beehive still make “confrontational” music, just less so – and never, unlike so many of their imitators, as an aesthetic choice. In promo materials, Corey Wichlin uses the phrase “less antagonistic,” though fans wary of the band going in a poppier direction should consider that one of the album’s stickiest hooks is saying “Goodbye to the void.” While it builds on the more polished, streamlined version of their sound that was introduced on i’m so lucky, the trio’s constant fascination with pop structure still doesn’t manifest as pure adherence to any kind of formula. If anything, it becomes more of an affective tool than a stylistic one. Against its glossy presentation looms the specter of death and the cruel passage of time, and the group’s familiar paranoia now sounds more like a descent into a world of evil. As the breakup at its core threatens the dissolution of so many other facets of reality, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING becomes an album about desperately clutching onto one’s humanity, yet ends up the band’s most human and emotionally resonant effort yet.

On the very first song, ‘THE DISRUPTION’, Deedee of MSPAINT chimes in to deliver an aspirational chorus that doubles as an exorcism, arriving just after a brief storm of power chords: “Break the spell, disenchant all the evil in your head!/ Rectify existential dread, you do not fear the dead!” But his proclamation is followed by an unnerving scream, suggesting that the band’s signature wickedness and ambiguity will keep creeping its way through. It’s there in the voice that struggles to be heard on ‘LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE’, which was originally written while touring behind ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH and lays out a morbid scene to prove it, except the arrangement is more beautiful than anything on that album. But for all its allusions to stalking, guns, and godly violence, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING suggests there’s often nothing more sinister and deadly than what’s right in front of us, inevitably: the mundanity of life, seasons changing. “I can’t stop time,” Schwartz admits on ‘1/500’, “But I want it to be on my side.” There’s a reason ‘SORRY PORE INJECTOR’ represents “daily rot” in the form of an almost-straightforward rock song, chugging along before drifting into something less tangible.

Mirroring the lives it deconstructs, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING has more than a few abrupt twists and rougher edges, made all the more enticing by its softer appearance, like the rhythm section that suddenly booms out of ‘THE CUT DEPICTS THE CUT’. The surprises are not only musical, but verbal, too; in ‘SORRY PORE INJECTOR’, it is the boldness of a confession that comes in the middle of nowhere: “If all the love is gone, then you can say what you want.” It’s this hypothesis, more than just the viability of their collaborative project, that Spirit of the Beehive tested on i’m so lucky and delve deeper into here. Some of the least chopped-up songs, the ones that tend to hold their shape – ‘I’VE BEEN EVIL’, the Ravede-penned ‘FOUND A BODY’ – almost scan as tender confessionals. But what lingers after listening to the album is less of an internal or intraband dialogue than bits of it that shine through as a kind of truth (“Resentment is a hill to die on”; “Devotion is a cancer”), memories that spin out your head at the precipice of catastrophe. For any of it to matter, though, you’ll have to listen close.

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