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Amaarae Shares Video for New Single ‘Co-Star’

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Amaarae Shares Video for New Single ‘Co-Star’

Amaarae has revealed that her new album, Fountain Baby, will be released on June 9 via Interscope. The follow-up to 2020’s The Angel You Don’t Know was led by the single ‘Reckless and Sweet’, and now the Ghanaian-American musician has shared a new track from it, ‘Co-Star’. It arrives alongside a music video directed by Lauren Dunn and featuring cameos from model Biba Williams, Nigerian rapper Deto Black, 1XBlue designer Lois Saunders, photographer and model Moyosore Briggs, and more. Check it out below.

“‘Co-Star’ is a fun song about star signs!” Amaarae said in a press statement. “I wanted to give people something cute and flirty for the summer! Astrology is such a huge part of our youth culture, it felt like a missed opportunity to not lean into that and give the girls an anthem that reads and celebrates them all at once! The video is amazing too! Having some of my favorite women in the whole wide world represent themselves in such an iconic way. The Clermont Twins are such an iconic duo. Also Biba! Deto! Moyo! Bijou & Chi are such a huge part of alternative African culture. These are the tastemakers of our time! It’s really so amazing to bring them all together.”

waterbaby Announces Debut EP ‘Foam’, Shares New Single ‘911’

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waterbaby Announces Debut EP ‘Foam’, Shares New Single ‘911’

Stockholm artist waterbaby has announced her debut EP, Foam, which will drop on June 14 via Sub Pop. The 5-track collection was made with help from producer and collaborator Marcus White, who also mixed the EP. To accompany the news, waterbaby has shared a new single called ‘911’, which follows March’s ‘Airforce blue’. Check it out below.

Jim O’Rourke Announces ‘Hands That Bind’ Soundtrack, Unveils Single

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Jim O’Rourke Announces ‘Hands That Bind’ Soundtrack, Unveils Single

Jim O’Rourke has announced that his soundtrack to the Kyle Armstrong-directed film Hands That Bind will be released on July 7 via Drag City. He’s also shared an edit of a track called ‘A Man’s Mind Will Play Tricks On Him’, along with a video directed by Armstrong himself. Check it out below.

Set in the farmland of Canada’s Alberta province, Hands That Bind stars Paul Sparks, Susan Kent, Landon Liboiron, Nicholas Campbell, Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy), and Bruce Dern.

Hands That Bind Cover Artwork:

Hands That Bind Tracklist:

1. Go Spend Some Time With Your Kids
2. Wasn’t There Last Night
3. He’s Only Got One Oar in the Water
4. That’s Not How the World Works
5. A Man’s Mind Will Play Tricks On Him
6. Here is Where I Seem to Be / The Good Lord Doesn’t Need Paperwork
7. You Have No Idea What I Want
8. One Way or Another I’m Gone

Little Dragon Announce New Album, Share Video for New Single ‘Kenneth’

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Little Dragon Announce New Album, Share Video for New Single ‘Kenneth’

Little Dragon have announced their next album, Slugs of Love, with a video for the new single ‘Kenneth’. The follow-up to 2021’s New Me, Same Us and last year’s Opening the Door EP comes out July 7 via Ninja Tune. “It’s about friendship and love, and the dirt of getting caught in bitterness and taking the wrong turn mentally,” the band said of ‘Kenneth’ in a press release. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork (by Yusuke Nagano) and tracklist below.

Slugs of Love features guest appearances from Damon Albarn and Atlanta rapper JID. “We’ve been exploring different ways to collaborate and communicate,” the group shared. “Dissolving patterns and making new ones. Nurturing our ability to curiously press down keys, to bang—sometimes hard sometimes gently—on different things, strumming strings, recording sounds and investigating the limits for how much or little a sound can be tweaked… Together we have developed, replayed, danced to, cried, and laughed to this music as it has evolved forwards, backwards, sideways and all around, but now finally as a complete masterpiece… This feels like our finest work yet. We are very proud.”

Slugs of Love Cover Artwork:

 

Slugs of Love Tracklist: 

1. Amöban
2. Frisco
3. Slugs of Love
4. Disco Dangerous
5. Lily’s Call
6. Stay [feat. JID]
7. Gold
8. Kenneth
9. Glow [feat. Damon Albarn]
10. Tumbling Dice
11. Easy Falling

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.

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