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Lifeguard Share Video for New Single ’17-18 Lovesong’

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Lifeguard Share Video for New Single ’17-18 Lovesong’

Lifeguard – the Chicago trio made up of bassist and vocalist Asher Case, drummer and percussionist Isaac Lowenstein, and guitarist and vocalist Kai Slater – have shared a new single, ’17-18 Lovesong’. It comes alongside the announcement of their debut release for Matador, Crowd Can Talk + Dressed in Trenches, which pairs the previously released Crowd Can Talk EP with the new, five-track collection Dressed in Trenches. Check out a video for ’17-18 Lovesong’ below, along with Lifeguard’s upcoming tour dates.

“More than old records – before that, before anything – we’re influenced by live shows and people around us,” Slater said in a press release, with Lowenstein adding: “The inspiration comes from playing shows with people and having that mind-blown moment of seeing some friend play at Schubas or Book Club. It’s happening on these tiny little scales of seeing kids play live and [knowing] this is something new and interesting.”

Crowd Can Talk EP Cover Artwork:

Crowd Can Talk EP Tracklist:

1. New Age (I’ve Got A)
2. I Know I Know
3. Fifty Seven
4. Typecast

Dressed in Trenches EP Cover Artwork:

Dressed in Trenches EP Tracklist:

1. 17-18 Lovesong
2. Alarm
3. Ten Canisters (OFB)
4. Shutter Shutter
5. Tell Me When

Lifeguard 2023 Tour Dates:

Jun 9 Los Angeles, CA – Genghis Cohen
Jul 6 Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
Jul 20 New York, NY – Central Park Summerstage %
Jul 21 Philadelphia, PA – Ukie Club ^
Jul 22 Asbury Park, NJ – House of Independents ^
Jul 23 Baltimore, MD – Ottobar ^
Jul 25 Washington, DC – DC9 ^
Jul 27 Durham, NC – The Pinhook ^
Jul 28 Asheville, NC – The Grey Eagle ^
Jul 29 Nashville, TN – Third Man Records ^
Jul 30 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade ^
Aug 1 Birmingham, AL – Saturn ^
Aug 2 New Orleans, LA – Toulouse Theatre ^
Aug 3 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall ^
Aug 4 McAllen, TX – The Gremlin ^
Aug 5 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger ^
Aug 7 Austin, TX – Parish ^
Aug 8 Dallas, TX – Sons of Hermann Hall ^
Aug 9 Fayetteville, AR – George’s Majestic Lounge ^
Aug 11 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck ^
Aug 13 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall ^

% with Horsegirl, Water From Your Eyes, Iceage
^ with Horsegirl

Wolf Eyes Announce New Album ‘Dreams in Splattered Lines’, Release New Songs

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Wolf Eyes Announce New Album ‘Dreams in Splattered Lines’, Release New Songs

Wolf Eyes – the Michigan-based experimental collective led by Nate Young and John Olson – have announced their new LP Dreams in Splattered Lines. It’s set to arrive on May 26 via Disciples. To mark the news, they’ve shared three new songs: ‘Engaged Withdrawal’, ‘My Whole Life’, and ‘Days Decay’. Take a listen below.

“This record was recorded after we finished the New York Public Library residency in early 2022,” Young explained in a press release. “We had spent a lot of time in NYC during the residency but because of Covid we had limited access to the Library archives. We would spend 4-5 hours at the library and then go to museums. The MET’s Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibit was a huge influence on this record. Learning about the Chicago Surrealists’ spoken-word poetry performed with musicians was inspiring and affirmative. While Surrealism could generate often poetic and even humorous works, it was also taken up as a far more serious weapon in the struggle for political, social, and personal freedom, and by many more artists around the world.”

“We started by continuing to explore the ideas of short dense sound collages that had similar behaviors to ‘hit singles’,” Young continued. “Using a lot of ideas that we established on the Difficult Messages series, we started to look at hit songs like terrariums: folding the idea of music and sound happening inside sound environments we created in the studio. The record starts with a Car Wash that includes a Short Hands track playing on the car radio while waves of white noise and contact microphones are plunging into water buckets. The track is then played in a car while going through an actual car wash and finally layered and mixed in the studio.”

Olson added: “Dreams in Splattered Lines is the latest in Wolf Eyes’ journey into the corners of unknown electronic subterranean worlds. Thirteen tangled stories razor sharp from the duo’s recent Difficult Messages singles foray starting with a unique ‘suite’ from ‘Radio Box’ to ‘Engaged Withdrawl’ and ending with the grim title track, here is Wolf Eyes at their most abstract yet corrupted listening experience yet. For a group that would rather invent genres rather than follow them, Dreams in Splattered Lines is the twisted road that leads another 25 years onward to the unquenchable passion of unknown arcane electronic worlds. Music dreamt in 242 B.C. and horribly born in 20042 A.D.”

Dreams in Splattered Lines Cover Artwork:

Dreams in Splattered Lines Tracklist:

1. Car Wash Two w/ Short Hands
2. Radio Box (Excerpt)
3. Plus Warning
4. Engaged Withdrawal
5. Exploding Time
6. My Whole Life
7. The Museums We Carry
8. Pointerstare
9. Comforts of the Mind
10. In Society
11. Find You (Vocal)
12. Days Decay
13. Dreams in Shattered Time

Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Song ‘It’s Fine’

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Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Song ‘It’s Fine’

Bethany Cosentino has announced her debut solo album, Natural Disaster, which will be out July 28 via Concord. Along with the news, Cosentino has also confirmed that Best Coast, whose last album was 2020’s Always Tomorrow, is going on an indefinite hiatus. Check out a Janell Shirtcliff-directed video for her new single ‘It’s Fine’ below, and scroll down for the LP’s cover art and tracklist.

Butch Walker produced Natural Disaster, which was written in Nashville and Los Angeles. “When I look at all the artists I find most influential, the common thread is that they take risks and continue exploring different versions of themselves,” Cosentino said in a statement. “My goal is to keep growing and challenging myself and living outside any kind of box, to keep on evolving as an artist and a person. And if anyone’s feeling stagnant, I hope this record inspires them to see what else life has to offer. It’s really scary to take those risks and make big changes in your life, but what you find on the other side can be so magical.”

Of her decision to put Best Coast on hold, Cosentino added: “My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade. The decision to pause the project indefinitely, and explore a new side of myself, was a very difficult one to make – but it felt necessary for me. Life is too short to not give yourself what you feel you need and want. I am excited about being just Bethany Cosentino for a while and figuring out who I am outside of the ‘Bethany from Best Coast’ box I’ve lived in for such a long time.”

Natural Disaster Cover Artwork:

Natural Disaster Tracklist:

1. Natural Disaster
2. Outta Time
3. It’s Fine
4. Easy
5. A Single Day
6. My Own City
7. For A Moment
8. Calling On Angels
9. Real Life
10. Hope You’re Happy Now
11. It’s A Journey
12. I’ve Got News For You

Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, Missy Elliott Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees

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Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, Missy Elliott Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame has announced its 2023 inductees: Kate Bush, Rage Against The Machine, George Michael, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, and the Spinners.

DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray will receive the Musical Influence Award, while the Musical Excellence Award is going to Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Bernie Taupin. The late Soul Train host Don Cornelius is this year’s Ahmet Ertegun Award recipent. The artists who were nominated for 2023 induction but were snubbed are A Tribe Called Quest, Cyndi Lauper, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Soundgarden, Warren Zevon, and the White Stripes.

The 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place Friday, November 3 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. “This year’s incredible group of inductees reflects the diverse artists and sounds that define rock’n’roll,” John Sykes, president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in a statement. “We are honored that this November’s induction ceremony in New York will coincide with two milestones in music culture; the 90th birthday of Willie Nelson and the 50th Anniversary of the birth of hip-hop.”

Speakers Corner Quartet Enlist Kae Tempest for New Song ‘Geronimo Blues’

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Speakers Corner Quartet Enlist Kae Tempest for New Song ‘Geronimo Blues’

Speakers Corner Quartet have linked up with Kae Tempest for ‘Geronimo Blues’, the latest single from the South London collective’s upcoming record Further Out Than the Edge. Listen to it below.

“It made sense to build the track around their vocals, as the poetry felt better suited to a more stripped back, cinematic feeling,” the group’s Biscuit explained in a press release. “The lyrics and themes are timeless. When we discussed it recently, we felt like the song’s texture is sand and the emotion is time.”

“The relevance of this song comes around and around. All of the subject matter feels like it’s on loop,” drummer Kwake Bass said, with bassist Peter Bennie adding: “Yeah, I’m always surprised just how relevant the lyrics feels, no matter how many times I’ve listened to it.”

Further Out Than the Edge is due out June 2 on OTIH Records. It includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Can We Do This?’ (featuring Sampha), ‘fix’ (with Tirzah), and ‘On Grounds’ (featuring Coby Sey).

Witch Share New Single ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’

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Witch Share New Single ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’

Witch have shared a new single, ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’, the second preview of their first album in 39 years. It follows Zango‘s lead offering ‘Avalanche of Love’, which features Sampa the Great. Take a listen below.

“In that studio, we felt the freedom to express ourselves in ways that are often restricted in our own culture because of us being women,” the group’s Theresa Ng’ambi said in a statement. “‘Unimvwesha Shuga’ is an expression of love and passion, we (Hanna and I) were gossiping about our fantasies as girls and the things we dreamt to express but wouldn’t normally be able to. To us, singing these words was a liberation to express our crazy fantasies.”

Zango is slated to arrive on June 2 via Desert Daze Sound.

Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Achtung’

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Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Achtung’

Modern Woman have released a new single, ‘Achtung’. Following last July’s ‘Ford’, the track was produced and mixed by Oli Barton-Wood and mastered by Jason Mitchell. Check it out below.

“‘Achtung’ was a song that I wrote around the bassline when I didn’t have any other instruments around, which when we developed as a band focused on trying to build a kind of tension and release within the music,” frontperson and guitarist Sophie Harris said of the song in a statement. “Lyrically it’s a bit of a stream of consciousness about memories of childhood.”

“‘When I was in school I used to live round the corner from a friend who I had a real crush on. His parents were German, and his Dad scared me,” Harris continued. “If we were in his room and had the window open, we could hear his neighbour playing hymns on the piano. His dad also used to come in and shout at us if we were doing things we weren’t supposed to, which was often. The song is made up of snapshots of images of going round to that house as there were a lot of emotions flying round. It definitely reminds me of a more innocent time.”

Carla J Easton Returns With New Song ‘One Week’

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Carla J Easton Returns With New Song ‘One Week’

Carla J Easton is back with a new song called ‘One Week’. It’s the first single from her upcoming album SUGAR HONEY, the follow-up to 2020’s Weirdo, which is due out in October via Olive Grove Records. Check it out below.

“’One Week’ was recorded live off the floor at MacArts (Galashiels) and engineered by longtime collaborator Stephen Watkins,” Easton explained in a press release. “It’s produced by my drummer Calum Muir and I co-mixed it with Ronan Breslin at La Chunky Studio (Glasgow). What’s been so exciting about creating my latest work is that it’s the first time me and my live band have produced all the tracks”

She added: “I’m really interested in the way we recall memories and use days of the week as markers for remembering previous events. ‘I must have went for dinner on Tuesday because on Monday night I was out with a friend’ etc. So that idea was the starting point for the story of a relationship unravelling fast.”

Last year, Easton and Simon Liddell’s project Poster Paints released their self-titled debut LP. Revisit our Artist Spotlight Q&A with Carla J Easton.

Great Movies for Students That Can Help in Many Ways

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Great Movies for Students That Can Help in Many Ways

The process of learning consists of various academic assignments. Some of them are easy to complete, and others may puzzle you a lot. Students commonly like to write essays, reports, and reviews about movies, especially when these are movies about students. They are close to them because they commonly focus on their own needs, fears, beliefs, and hopes. It’s not always easy to highlight such essentials. At times, students simply don’t have enough experience to reflect their ideas on paper.

Some folks cannot write great papers just because they don’t watch good pieces. They don’t want to undergo college student burnout just because some of their tasks are too hard to complete. Thus, we want to help such students. The experts from AffordablePapers, which is a top-rated cheap essay writing service, have analyzed thousands of movies they all watched to recommend the best ones. These are not only movies about students and education. These are movies for students as they focus on various crucial issues. If you find that our list offers pieces that have to relate to student life, don’t be surprised. It means they can teach you something vital!

The Lord of the Rings

The trilogy of The Lord of the Rings fairly belongs to the best movies for students and anyone else of all time! Numerous awards in various categories leave you breathless for a while. Which one of the 3 films to watch? You should watch them all! Each part teaches you many vital morals and makes you reconsider some of your foundations.

The central idea is a fight of good against evil. Yet, it invoices such things as faith, resistance to evil, real friendship, dignity, loyalty, and so on. While some heroes give in to the worst, others find hope in each other and the ones they love. It is about making the choice that can lead you to victory or failure. We can withstand all the evil if we have faith in other people.

Good Will Hunting

This is one of the true masterpieces of movies for college students. It suits youngsters greatly because it focuses on a teen who has a brilliant mind but definite personal issues. He has no purpose in life, and one experience professor tries to help him. The psychologist tries to dig into the root of the problem and finds opposition. Moreover, he likewise faces his own issues. These two turn out to be tied to one another. If they find out how to collaborate, both of them will find the required solutions. Otherwise, everything may go amiss.

The Graduate

This one belongs to the most motivational movies for students. It is about a youngster, a graduate, and in the middle of a serious life choice. His father has already decided what career he must follow. Nonetheless, the graduate realizes that this path is false for him. There is also love and other vital things for teens. Therefore, this piece is captivating for all students.

In Pursuit of Happyness,

We need to mention this piece as one of the most inspirational movies for students and simply everyone. It is a true story about a lonely man with a kid. He loses a job, and all seem to turn their backs on him and his issues. Nonetheless, the main hero does not give up when most people would. This is a miraculous story of success. Some might claim that it’s another Hollywood scenario. Nonetheless, it’s a real story, and it may inspire a lot of people. It is especially vital for teens who are only trying to find their life and career aims. Watch it to realize that everything is possible if you really want to enjoy success. Pursuit your happiness to be happy!

Hidden Figures

We are convinced that “Hidden Figures” is a great piece that is worth your attention. It is based on real events that took place while the launching of Apollo-11. Yet, it mainly focuses on 3 Afro-American women who work at NASA. Those were bad times for all black people who are only were getting on their road to equality.

One of the women turns out to be a mathematician genius who can calculate better than any computer. She works separately from the main experts because of racial issues. Yet, she does not complain and fulfills her duties perfectly. At the time, it turns out that the team of Apollo-11 has serious problems, and all the members may die. The woman is asked to help, and she shows that the computer is wrong. Will others listen to her or to the computer? Watch this captivating piece to find it out!

Les Misérables

This one is a special film we have kept to end our review. It’s a musical, and it is perfect! The famous creation of Victor Hugo was filmed ideally, and all the actors performed excellently. The musical gets a hold of your heart instantly and will not let you before it ends. You should not miss this impressive movie!

The Bottom Line

It is very interesting to watch various movies with different plots and topics. Many of them let you review the same issue from a new angle. They can even change your opinion. It’s helpful for students to watch great pieces and afterward write reports to express their thoughts creatively.

EP Review: Beach House, ‘Become’

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EP Review: Beach House, ‘Become’

The five songs on Become, the new EP Beach House released for Record Store Day that is now available across digital platforms, clearly belong in the same universe as the duo’s 2022 album Once Twice Melody. They’re all lifted from the same sessions, and at one point, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally felt like they created their own little world. “To us, they are all kind of scuzzy and spacious, and live in the spirit realm,” they wrote, which, typical sonic signifiers aside, seems like the only relevant precondition for being included in the Beach House canon. They work their magic in the exact ways you expect them to, but they also manage to wander far from the easily identifiable. The group rolled out Once Twice Melody in four chapters over several months, and as a late addition to the saga, Become does not offer further context or clarity. It doesn’t fold these chapters into any kind of neat story, and nor does it venture beyond the musical experiments they already showcased on that sprawling LP. But yes, it exists in the same realm, providing an opportunity to step back into it and take pleasure in that old, placeless yearning.

Any fan of Once Twice Melody can only be glad Beach House chose to shine a light into these previously hidden corners, even if none of them hold a candle to the record’s most memorable highlights. Separated from while emulating its epic sheen, these songs feel like a generous offering with little to prove and plenty to enjoy, and whatever lack of definition or sense of direction turns out to be part of the charm. Opener ‘American Daughter’ conjures the band’s signature dreaminess but seems to work backwards from it, picking up steam and laying out foggy visions of a girl before Legrand even utters the words “dreamt about her.” It’s a compelling song about the fragments of memory that burn brighter in the effort to forget, and as it keeps gathering momentum, the certainty of the singer’s affirmation – “To know her/ Is to love her” – is clouded by an image that’s fading away, veering into abstraction and even cliché.

‘Black Magic’ revolves around a similar idea but adds less heft to the swirl. “It’s strange and makes you wonder,” Legrand sings over enchanting guitars that belie a great emptiness, never quite naming the thing or “her.” It floats in a familiar fashion that doesn’t ask much of you but to linger a bit, maybe try and fill in the gaps. The more time you spend with them, the more the tracks seem to complement each other: ‘Devil’s Pool’ is even more languid and distant, but it’s paired with an endearing melody that prevents the wistfulness from becoming unbearable, while ‘Holiday House’ is sturdier and wide-eyed. There are echoes of Once Twice Melody‘s ‘Superstar’ and ‘Runaway’ in the latter song, but there’s something curious about its steady, unchanging pace, befitting a collection that keeps the engine running mostly by looping the past.

Beach House seem all too aware of this: “It’s not really where we are currently going, but it’s definitely somewhere we have been,” they said of Become. Shortcomings aside, it’s hard not to indulge and stay in that place for the little while it lasts, even if it begs a bigger question: Where are they currently going? There’s barely a hint in these songs, which at best serve as another reminder of what they’ve always done so remarkably well. “Love is like a fire/ Light it, it goes higher,” goes the title track; Become is Beach House just keeping hold of the torch.

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