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Knocked Loose Announce New Album, Share New Single ‘Blinding Faith’

Louisville quintet Knocked Loose have announced a new album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To. The follow-up to 2019’s A Different Shade of Blue and 2021’s A Tear in the Fabric of Life EP lands on May 10 via Pure Noise. ‘Blinding Faith’ arrives today along with a video shot by Kevin Lombardo. Check it out and find the cover artwork, tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates below.

“It was just hilarious how many people showed up to church that I knew were rude, horrible, selfish people,” guitarist Isaac Hale said of the song in a press release. “They knew that it made them seem like a better person — or if they said the words, it would redeem them of any negative quality just because they showed face.”

Produced by Drew “WZRD BLD” Fulk, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To features collaborations with Poppy and Chris Motionless. “On this album, we go the fastest we’ve ever gone; we go the scariest we’ve ever gone. We also go the catchiest and the most melodic that we’ve ever gone, and that’s the point,” Hale added. “Instead of branching off into a specific direction, we want to encompass ALL directions.”

Last year, Knocked Loose shared the songs ‘Deep in the Willow’ and ‘Everything Is Quiet Now’.

You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Cover Artwork:

You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To Tracklist:

1. Thirst
2. Piece By Piece
3. Suffocate [feat. Poppy)
4. Don’t Reach For Me
5. Moss Covers All
6. Take Me Home
7. Slaughterhouse 2 [feat. Chris Motionless]
8. The Calm That Keeps You Awake
9. Blinding Faith
10. Sit & Mourn

Knocked Loose 2024 Tour Dates: 

Feb 27 – Hamburg, Germany – Grosse Freiheit 36
Feb 28 – Berlin, Germany – Huxleys
Feb 29 – Leipzig, Germany – Conne Island
Mar 2 – Antwerp, Belgium – Trix
Mar 4 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute
Mar 5 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3
Mar 6 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Academy
Mar 7 – Bristol, UK – SWX
Mar 9 – Leeds, UK – Project House
Mar 10 – London, UK – O2 Forum
Apr 27 – Las Vegas, NV – Sick New World
Apr 29 – Detroit, MI – Russell Industrial Center
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
May 3 – Lawrence, KS – Granada
May 4 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
May 5 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
May 6 – Austin, TX – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
May 7 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
May 10 – Phoenix, AZ – The Marquee
May 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Shrine
May 12 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
May 14 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Sodo
May 15 – Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
May 17 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
May 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
May 19 – Denver, CO – Mission Ballroom
May 21 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
May 22 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
May 23 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed
May 24 – Newport, KY – Megacorp Pavilion
May 25 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater
May 28 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage Age
May 29 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
May 30 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
May 31 – New York, NY – Terminal 5
Jun 1 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
Jun 3 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Jun 4 – Montreal, QC – Olympia
Jun 5 – Toronto, ON – History
Jun 7 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
Jun 8 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Jun 9 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live

Mo Troper Announces New Album ‘Svengali’, Shares New Single ‘The Billy Joel Fan Club’

Portland power-pop musician Mo Troper has announced his next LP, Svengali, which will be out May 3 on Lame-O Records. Featuring the previously released single ‘For You to Sing’, the record follows last year’s MTV as well as his recent Jon Brion tribute album, Troper Sings Brion. Check out Troper’s new track ‘The Billy Joel Fan Club’ below.

“When I was a kid I was literally forbidden from talking about the Beatles at the dinner table,” Troper explained in a statement. “I could only listen to music in the basement or through headphones. As a result I feel a lot of shame whenever my enthusiasm for anything is apparent. I apologize constantly for being excited about things. ‘The Billy Joel Fan Club’ is about falling in love with someone who shares your specific interests and nurtures your enthusiasm. It is a true story, about someone who founded and asked me to participate in something called The Billy Joel Fan Club. To bring it full circle, I tried to make it sound exactly like a Paul McCartney song from 1967.”

Troper Sings Brion Cover Artwork:

Troper Sings Brion Tracklist:

1. Bleach
2. The Billy Joel Fan Club
3. Too Far Gone (Chainman’s Theme)
4. Spark World
5. You Always Loved Me
6. The Face of Kindness
7. You Called Me Your Baby
8. For You To Sing
9. A Piece of You Broken Through My Heart
10. Recipe For Loving
11. Good Hair
12. Before I Went Bad
13. Push Around

Les Savy Fav Announce First Album in 14 Years, Share New Single

After returning last month with the single ‘Legendary Tippers’, Les Savy Fav have announced their first album in 14 years: Oui, LSF comes out May 10 (via Frenchkiss/The Orchard). The Root for Ruin follow-up is led by the new track ‘Guzzle Blood’. Check out animator Christy Karacas’ video for it below, and scroll down for the album cover and tracklist.

“As the first song on OUI, LSF, ‘Guzzle Blood’ drops you into the bottom of a dark well,” frontman Tim Harrington said in a statement. “In a lot of ways the rest of the record is about the things we do to climb back out.”

“When we finished our last record, there was a sense that if we were going to do more, we wanted to do something more ambitious,” Harrington added. “I think it took us a while to even get in a space where that was possible.”

Oui, LSF Cover Artwork:

Oui, LSF Tracklist:

1. Guzzle Blood
2. Limo Scene
3. Void Moon
4. Mischief Night
5. What We Don’t Don’t Want
6. Legendary Tippers
7. Dawn Patrol
8. Somebody Needs A Hug
9. Racing Bees
10. Don’t Mind Me
11. Oi! Division
12. Barbs
13. Nihilists
14. World Got Great

Bnny Releases New Song ‘Crazy, Baby’

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Bnny has unveiled a new single, ‘Crazy, Baby’, which is lifted from the upcoming album One Million Love Songs – out April 5 via Fire Talk Records. Following lead cut ‘Good Stuff’, “‘Crazy, Baby’ is about recognising patterns in your romantic history and yourself,” the band’s Jessica Viscius explained. Check it out below, along with Bnny’s upcoming tour dates.

Bnny 2024 Tour Dates:

Apr 19 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
May 9 – Rotterdam, NL – Rotown
May 14 – London, UK – Paper Dress Vintage
May 15 – Southampton, UK – Heartbreakers
May 17 – Brighton, UK – The Great Escape
May 18 – Manchester, UK – Yes (Moodswings)
May 20 – Paris, FR – Supersonic
Jun 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Baby’s All Right

Amanda Bergman Announces New Album, Releases New Songs

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Amanda Bergman has announced a new album titled Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever. The follow-up to her 2016 debut Docks is set to arrive on June 7 via CowCow/Redeye. The album was mixed and produced by Bergman’s partner, Petter Winnberg, and recorded between Atlantis Metronome in Stockholm and their own farm studio in rural Sweden. It’s led by the singles ‘Wild Geese, Wild Love’ and ‘Day 2000 Awake’, which you can hear below.

Speaking about ‘Wild Geese, Wild Love’, Bergman said in a a statement:

Written during spring 2022. In the midst of my dad’s last months this song took form as a bittersweet thank you and some kind of celebration of the wildness of unconditional love between a father and a daughter. That I felt he’d given me. Like something very ethereal and universal, like birds in the air.

Gradually, lyrically it turned into a song about trying to voice the days or moments before someone really sick passes. They’re there but they’re somehow moving back and forth between reality and something else. Almost always in these circumstances people report on these almost magical situations appearing. Like sudden moments of clarity, deep love, gratitude, humour, forgiveness. Being close to someone who is approaching the end of this life peels off a few layers for sure.

I know he wanted me to see beyond the plain. And to expand my vision always. Which I don’t always do. But I know he could always code my language.

Of ‘Day 2000 Awake’, she added:

This one is about relationships, becoming a parent and somehow somersaulting through mental maturity. Trying to grow up, letting go of yourself and life as it was prior and doing so under quite strained conditions; when there’s absolutely no time for reflection and your headspace and physical presence is totally consumed by babies.

Literally having no proper sleep for thousands of days really leaves you equally a better and a worse version of yourself. Being a woman and experiencing becoming a parent is probably the biggest life change you’ll have. I feel it taught me a lot.

Your Hand Forever Checking on My Fever Cover Artwork:

Your Hand Forever Checking on My Fever Tracklist:

1. Wild Geese, Wild Love
2. I Love Him Til I Love Him Right
3. Day 2000 Awake
4. Poor Symmetry
5. My Hands In The Water
6. Offset Island
7. The World Is Tired Of You
8. Sign Of A Past Life
9. Thought I Didn’t Wake You Up

Pissed Jeans Share Video for New Song ‘Cling to a Poisoned Dream’

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Ahead of the release of their sixth album Half Divorced on Friday (March 1), Pissed Jeans have dropped one more single, ‘Cling to a Poisoned Dream’. Following previous cuts ‘Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt’ and ‘Moving On’, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Joe Stakun. Check it out below.

Hovvdy Release New Single ‘Meant’

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Hovvdy have previewed their forthcoming self-titled album with a new single, ‘Meant’. Listen to it below.

“’Meant’ reflects on how the most impactful love one can offer is consistency; particularly when life is complicated or derailed,” the duo’s Will Taylor explained in a statement. “It’s a song of gratitude for receiving that kind of love.”

Hovvdy is due for release on April 26 through Arts & Crafts. Previously, the band shared the singles ‘Forever’, ‘Jean,’ ‘Bubba’, and ‘Portrait’.

Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard Shares New Single ‘New World (Flow)’ Featuring Fiorious

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Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard has shared a new single, ‘New World (Flow)’, featuring Bronx-born, Milan-based singer-songwriter and visual artist Fiorious. Check out the Tom Furse-directed video for it below.

“When I wrote the chords for this song, I was aiming for something with the power of a hymn,” Goddard said in a statement. “Without discussing this concept, Fiorious added words that have a kind of atheistic spiritual quality that I always love in house music.”

Fiorious added: “I connected to the track instantly and loved how it moved from an interior moment in the verse to an explosive climax in the chorus. The lyrics took their cue from that feeling, the idea of getting out of your own way and surrendering, and so it became this meditation on fearlessness. From there, I started arranging my vocals as a huge choir of me, and it all came together very quickly.”

Why Travel Insurance is Worth Every Penny

Traveling, whether for leisure or business, is an exciting venture that broadens the mind and enriches the soul. It’s an opportunity to explore unknown territories, experience new cultures, and create memories that last a lifetime. 

However, as much as traveling offers invaluable experiences, it also comes with its share of risks – from lost luggage and flight cancellations to medical emergencies and unexpected global crises. This is where the importance of travel insurance becomes undeniable. Investing in a comprehensive travel insurance plan from Group Medical Services or others can protect you from unforeseen expenses and complications, ensuring peace of mind throughout your journey. 

Understanding the broad spectrum of scenarios that travel insurance can cover is crucial. Among various forms, vacation travel insurance stands out as an essential for those planning leisure trips. This specialized insurance caters specifically to the needs and challenges faced by vacationers, offering coverage for trip cancellations, interruptions, emergency medical expenses, and more. Let’s delve into the reasons why securing travel insurance is a wise decision that’s worth every penny.

Financial Protection Against Trip Cancellations and Interruptions

One of the primary benefits of travel insurance is its role in safeguarding your investment should you need to cancel or interrupt your trip. Life is unpredictable; illness, severe weather, or family emergencies can derail your plans. 

Without insurance, you could lose non-refundable deposits and prepayments, which in some cases, could amount to thousands of dollars. Travel insurance policies that cover cancellations and interruptions can reimburse these expenses, alleviating financial strain and allowing you to plan your trip anew without shouldering the burden of sunk costs.

Coverage for Medical Emergencies Abroad

Perhaps the most critical feature of travel insurance is its provision for medical emergencies. Healthcare systems vary greatly across the globe, and in some destinations, the cost of medical care can be exorbitant. An unforeseen illness or injury can thus not only disrupt your trip but also result in overwhelming medical bills. Comprehensive travel insurance includes emergency medical coverage, which pays for your treatment and, if necessary, medical evacuation. This is particularly vital for travelers venturing to remote locations or participating in adventurous activities.

Assistance Services: Your Lifeline in Unfamiliar Territories

Beyond financial reimbursements, another advantage of travel insurance is the inclusion of 24/7 assistance services. These services act as your lifeline when navigating unexpected situations in unfamiliar territories. Whether you need help replacing lost travel documents, advice on handling a theft, or assistance in coordinating emergency medical care, the support team is available round the clock to guide you through the process. This invaluable resource can mean the difference between a manageable hiccup and a full-blown crisis during your travels.

For those traveling frequently, partnering with a business travel company can further enhance your travel experience by providing additional support and resources. They ensure all your travel needs are met efficiently, allowing you to focus on your business objectives without worrying about the logistics.

Mitigating the Impact of Loss or Delays

Travel insurance also offers protection against the inconvenience and potential expenses incurred due to lost, damaged, or delayed baggage. Losing your belongings or waiting days for your luggage to arrive can significantly dampen your travel experience, not to mention the cost of replacing essential items. With travel insurance, you can receive compensation for these losses, allowing you to replace necessary goods and enjoy your trip without added stress.

Offering Peace of Mind

Ultimately, the most significant benefit of travel insurance is the peace of mind it brings. Knowing that you have a safety net can make all the difference in how you experience your journey. Rather than worrying about what might go wrong, you’re free to immerse yourself in your travels, confident in the knowledge that you’re protected against a broad array of potential pitfalls.

Just as travel insurance plays a crucial role in your trip planning, ensuring that your vehicle is adequately insured is also vital, especially if your travel involves driving at your destination or renting a car. Car insurance quotes can provide you with the necessary coverage to protect you from unexpected events on the road, just as travel insurance covers your overall journey.

Final Thoughts

While some may view travel insurance as an unnecessary expense, the reality is that it’s a critical aspect of planning any trip. The value of the protection it offers far outweighs the cost of the premium, making it a wise investment for any traveler. 

From providing financial protection against the unexpected to offering emergency assistance in times of need, travel insurance is indeed worth every penny. The next time you plan a trip, remember to consider travel insurance not as an optional add-on but as an essential part of your travel preparations, ensuring a safer and more enjoyable travel experience.

DIIV Share New Video for ‘Brown Paper Bag’ Starring Fred Durst

DIIV have shared a new video for ‘Brown Paper Bag’, the lead single from their upcoming album Frog in Boiling Water. It’s shot to look like a Saturday Night Live performance, with an introduction by Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst. Check it out below.

In addition to the video, DIIV have announced a run of North American tour dates, beginning on June 6 in Santa Cruz, California before wrapping up in their hometown New York City on August 5. Find the list of dates below, too.

DIIV 2024 Tour Dates:

Jun 6 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
Jun 7 – San Francisco, CA- Regency Ballroom
Jun 8 – Roseville, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
Jun 10 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
Jun 12 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
Jun 13 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
Jun 14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
Jun 16 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
Jun 18 – Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
Jun 19 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
Jun 20 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theater
Jun 21 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
Jun 23 – El Paso, TX – The Lowbrow Palace
Jun 24 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
Jun 25 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
Jun 27 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park
Jun 29 – Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theatre
Jul 15 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
Jul 16 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
Jul 17 – Richmond, VA – The National
Jul 19 – Charleston, SC – The Music Farm
Jul 20 – Orlando, FL – House of Blues
Jul 21 – Miami, FL – The Ground
Jul 23 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
Jul 25 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
Jul 27 – Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
Jul 28 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Jul 30 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
Jul 31 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre
Aug 2 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall
Aug 4 – Montreal, QC – Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
Aug 5 – Boston, MA – Royale
Aug 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount