Sean “Diddy” Combs has announced a new album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, his first solo LP in 17 years. The follow-up to 2006’s Press Play is out on September 15 via his own Love Records. In a trailer posted on his social media, Diddy ponders: “Why am I doing this? Especially with the success that I’ve had, especially where my life, how stressful and treacherous this music business is. My heart has been broken. I still have that question of, like, ‘Will I ever love again?’” Watch it below.
On Instagram, Diddy tagged a number of artists, some of which appear in the trailer, including Justin Bieber, Swae Lee, Mary J. Blige, Babyface, Jozzy, Yung Miami, French Montana, DJ Khaled, Teyana Taylor, and 21 Savage.
Earlier this year, Diddy teamed up with City Girls and Fabolous for the song ‘Act Bad’.
Titanic – the new project from Mabe Fratti and Hector Tosta (aka i la Católica) – have announced their debut album. Vidrio is due for release on October 20 via Unheard of Hope. Today, they’ve previewed the LP with two new songs, ‘Anónima’ and ‘Hotel Elizabeth’; the latter comes with a music video directed by José Ostos. Check it out below.
“This was pretty fun to record as my vocal register feels super relaxed in this tonality,” Fratti said of ‘Hotel Elizabeth’ in a statement. “We were looking for a jazzy feeling and in this moment I couldn’t help but think of Chet Baker and his pretty smooth singing. We made this song when were in Bratislava in a hotel called Hotel Elizabeth, and this is where we save the building that is on the cover of the album.”
“In our collaboration with Mabe Fratti and i la Católica’s Titanic, we wanted to dig into the realm of dental loss dreams,” Ostos added of the video. “The film narrates a surreal dentist appointment that becomes a disorienting bad trip. We felt the song had an eerie, gloomy atmosphere to it, and we thought of exploring it through teeth, needles and blood.”
Fratti and Tosta recorded Vidrio in their hometown of Mexico City, moving between Tinho Studios, Progreso Nacional, and Pedro y el Lobo Studios. It follows Fratti’s third album Se Ve Desde Aquí, which came out last fall.
Last November, Kristin Hayter revealed she would be retiring Lingua Ignota in early 2023. Now, she has announced her debut album as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter: SAVED! will be released October 20 via Perpetual Flames Ministries. The first single, ‘ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL’, arrives with a video that was filmed, directed, and edited by Hayter. Check it out below.
Hayter worked with longtime collaborator Seth Manchester on SAVED!, which features both gospel standards and originals. The record “documents an earnest attempt to achieve salvation through the tenets of charismatic Christianity,” according to a press release, “focusing on the Pentecostal-Holiness Movement, which dictates that one’s closeness to God is demonstrated through transcendental personal experience.”
SAVED! Cover Artwork:
SAVED! Tracklist:
1. I’M GETTING OUT WHILE I CAN
2. ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL
3. THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD
4. IDUMEA
5. I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
6. PRECIOUS LORD, TAKE MY HAND
7. MAY THIS COMFORT AND PROTECT YOU
8. THE POOR WAYFARING STRANGER
9. NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD
10. I KNOW HIS BLOOD CAN MAKE ME WHOLE
11. HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING
Margo Price has announced Strays II, a companion to her most recent album Strays, which came out in January. Out October 13 via Loma Vista, the record features nine new songs the form of three acts: Topanga Canyon, Mind Travel, and Burn Whatever’s Left. Today, Price has shared the first act, which includes ‘Strays’, the Ny Oh-assisted ‘Closer I Get’, and ‘Malibu’, a collaboration with producer Jonathan Wilson and Big Thief’s Buck Meek. Take a listen below.
“The title track is the story of how my husband, Jeremy [Ivey], and I met and fell in love in Nashville two decades ago” Price explained in a statement. “I wrote most of the words and Jeremy wrote the chords and melody. It also reflects how we have always tried to stay true to who we are as people: ‘Love and pain it comes in waves but it was quite enough in those early days, we were wild as wolves my darlin’, we were strays.”
“‘Closer I Get’ (co-written with Jeremy Ivey) was originally meant to open this double album with the line, ‘Being alive costs a lot of money but so does dying,'” she added. “I’ve always thought it was unfair that the moment we are born, we immediately start racking up debt just for existing. This song was conjured from the ashes of our initial psychedelic trip—sometimes your perception and depth of field changes depending on where you’re at in life.”
Price continued: “‘Malibu’ was written with Mike Campbell in his Malibu home after Jeremy and I had driven through the canyon fleeing a forest fire to get my guitar from our Airbnb. I had the start of the song and brought it to him looking to finish it out. I wanted to write something with a country funk/Bobbie Gentry feel, a good long rambling story about the minutiae of the day, like ‘Ode to Billy Joe’. Mike added the long ‘California’ yodel and the bridge and was exactly what the song needed. My favorite line is ‘love and grief are a package deal, the more you have, the more you feel.”
Strays II Cover Artwork:
Strays II Tracklist:
1. Been to the Mountain
2. Light Me Up [feat. Mike Campbell]
3. Radio [feat. Sharon Van Etten]
4. Change of Heart
5. County Road
6. Time Machine
7. Hell in the Heartland
8. Anytime You Call [feat. Lucius]
9. Lydia
10. Landfill
Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande have reportedly parted ways with manager Scooter Braun. Lovato, who signed with Braun in 2019 and released two albums under his management, split with Braun last month, per The Hollywood Reporter. Grande has been working with Braun’s SB Projects since 2013 and put out six albums under his leadership; details about the split, which was reported via Twitter by Puck News’ Matthew Belloni on Monday, have not yet been revealed.
The news follows rumours that Justin Bieber had also left Braun’s management company, though representatives for both Bieber and Braun have denied the report. J Balvin left SB Projects in May.
Braun famously helped launch the career of a then-12-year-old Bieber after watching videos of him performing on YouTube, and has since gone on to represent him for 15 years. His current roster now includes Bieber, Tori Kelly, Carly Rae Jepsen, Usher, Dan + Shay, and David Guetta.
In 2019, Ithaca Holdings, Braun’s former holding company that included SB Projects, purchased the master rights to Swift’s first six albums after acquiring her former record label, Big Machine Label Group. The deal inspired Swift to re-record her early albums in order to reclaim ownership and control of her catalog. Her next re-recorded LP, 1989 (Taylor’s Version), comes out October 27.
Squirrel Flower has dropped a new single, ‘Alley Light’, taken from her forthcoming record Tomorrow’s Fire. It follows lead singles ‘Full Time Job’ and ‘When a Plant Is Dying’. The track’s accompanying video was helmed by Weird Life Productions and features the artwork and studio of Gwen Yen Chiu; check it out below.
“This song is about the man in me, or a man who I love, or a man who is a stranger to me,” Ella Williams explained in a statement. “The video references a neo-noir Chicago heist movie where they use this thermal metal contraption to cut into a safe. They run around the city making sparks fly and getting up to no good. I wanted to do all that.”
Ahead of the release of their new LP Real Life this Friday (August 25), Crooks & Nannies have dropped a new single titled ‘Big Mouth Bass’. They’ve already previewed the album – the duo’s Grand Jury debut – with the tracks ‘Temper’, ‘Weather’, and ‘Country Bar’. The new song arrives alongside a video directed by Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy. Check it out below.
Black Pumas have announced their sophomore LP, Chronicles of a Diamond. The follow-up to their self-titled 2019 album arrives on October 27 via ATO. It was produced by the band’s Adrian Quesada and primarily mixed by Shawn Everett. Lead single ‘More Than a Love Song’ is out today alongside a music video directed by Juliana and Nicola Giraffe. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“‘More Than a Love Song’ is a message I borrowed from my Uncle Steve,” Eric Burton explained in a statement. ” As a songwriter and caregiver, he’d listen to me write songs from afar and if I were lucky he’d have a pointer or two for me. ‘Life is more than a love song.’”
Chronicles of a Diamond Cover Artwork:
Chronicles of a Diamond Tracklist:
1. More Than A Love Song
2. Ice Cream (Pay Phone)
3. Mrs. Postman
4. Chronicles Of A Diamond
5. Angel
6. Hello
7. Sauvignon
8. Tomorrow
9. Gemini Sun
10. Rock And Roll
Slow Pulp have released ‘Broadview’, the latest offering from their forthcoming LP Yard. Following previous singles ‘Slugs’, ‘Cramps’, and ‘Doubt’, the track arrives with an accompanying visual by Melanie Kleid, which you can check out below.
“This song is about letting yourself fall in love for the first time in a long time,” vocalist Emily Massey said in a statement. “After being hurt in previous relationships I was trying to decide if making the jump was worth it. Turns out it was.”
Yard is set for release on September 29 via ANTI-.
Another Sky have released a new track, ‘Burn the Way. It follows the recently released singles ‘Psychopath’ and ‘A Feeling’, and you can check it out below.
Speaking about the song, vocalist Catrin Vincent said:
‘Burn the Way’ was written after a conversation with someone in denial about climate change. It’s about the feeling of being powerless and having to run from someone’s behaviour before you take on their reality.
As much as anger is a difficult, complicated emotion, it’s sometimes the first step towards survival.
Climate change is coming for everyone. No one can wait it out in the trees. Sometimes anger burns the way.
We also wrote it after supporting Biffy Clyro which completely gave us a new perspective on live performance. We played it a few times on our last tour and it’s the first time we’ve had a mosh pit at any of our shows.
