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WITCH Announce First New Album in 39 Years, Release New Song With Sampa the Great

Zamrock band WITCH have announced their first new album in 39 years. It’s called Zango, and it arrives June 2 via Desert Daze Sound. New single ‘Avalanche of Love’ is out today and features Sampa the Great. Check it out and find Zango‘s details below.

“Zango means ‘meeting place,’” the band explained in a statement. “Every village [in Zambia] will have this central place, where villagers meet to prepare for work, where youngsters go to learn, where the young ones learn from the elder folks, and where the visitors come and converge. It’s an institution, a place where people are welcomed, and where people come for research. It speaks to our band and its various backgrounds and countries. We are at our own meeting point with our music.”

Zango was recorded at DB Studios, the same studio where the band laid down their 1975 LP Lazy Bones. Led by Emmanuel “Jagari” Chanda and Patrick Mwondela, the new lineup features keyboard player Patrick Mwondela, percussionist Nico Mauskoviç, guitarists Stefan Lilov and JJ Whitefield, and bassist Jacco Gardner.

Zango Cover Artwork:

Zango Tracklist:

1. By The Time You Realize
2. Waile
3. Nshingilile
4. Streets of Lusaka
5. Unimvwesha Shuga
6. Avalanche Of Love
7. Malango
8. Stop The Rot
9. These Eyes Of Mine
10. Message from W.I.T.C.H.

Yaeji Shares Video for New Single ‘Passed Me By’

Yaeji has shared one more single from her debut album, With a Hammer, ahead of its arrival on Friday (April 7). It follows previous offerings ‘For Granted’ and ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’. Check out a video for the track, directed by Enayet and Zanzie, below.

Veruca Salt’s Louise Post Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares New Song ‘Guilty’

Veruca Salt’s Louise Post has announced her debut solo album. Sleepwalker was produced by Matt Drenik and comes out June 2 via El Camino Media. Check out the lead single ‘Guilty’ along with the album’s cover art and tracklist below.

“I have always identified as a sleepwalker,” Post said of the album’s title in a press release. “I slept-walked around my house routinely when I was a child, and even down the street. I believe in hindsight it was me trying to process what was going on in my home with my parents’ troubled marriage. As far as I know, I stopped sleepwalking after the divorce when I was eight, but it has always been a part of me that I feel protective of, a little girl who I feel sad for.”

“Throughout it all, I felt like my higher purpose was screaming at me, trying to wake me up from my despair and setting me on a path of creativity,” she added. “I had felt paralyzed and desolate as the pandemic set in and writing these songs helped snap me out of my stupor and reclaim a small part of the solution.”

Sleepwalker Cover Artwork:

Sleepwalker Tracklist:

1. Queen of the Pirates
2. Guilty
3. What About
4. All Messed Up
5. Killer
6. Hollywood Hills
7. Secrets
8. All These Years
9. Don’t Give Up
10. God I Know
11. The Way We Live

Pip Blom Return With New Song ‘Tiger’

Pip Blom have returned with a new single called ‘Tiger’. It marks the Dutch band’s first new music since their 2021 record Welcome Break. The track is set to appear on their as-yet-unannounced third LP for Heavenly. Check it out below.

“It’s my favorite song off the album, and quite different to what we’ve done before,” Blom said in a press release. “I don’t want to sound arrogant, and I find these things difficult to say about my own tracks, but it’s quite an earworm! It’s good to surprise people with a new sound, and though it still sounds like a Pip Blom track because it has my voice on it and the melodies I tend to write, it feels like it’s from a different source. I wanted to be bold and do something new.”

FACS Release New Song ‘Constellation’

Ahead of the release of their new LP Still Life in Decay this Friday (April 7), Chicago art-rock outfit FACS have dropped one more single, ‘Constellation’. It follows the previously shared tracks ‘When You Say’ and ‘Slogan’. Check it out below.

Still Life in Decay is the follow-up to 2021’s Present Tense. In press materials, FACS described it as a “post-event review” addendum to their last album.

Charlotte Gainsbourg Joins SQÜRL on New Single ‘John Ashbery Takes a Walk’

SQÜRL, the project of  Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, have released their latest new single, ‘John Ashbery Takes a Walk’, which features Charlotte Gainsbourg. Following lead single ‘Berlin ’87’, the track is taken from their upcoming album Silver Haze and arrives with an accompanying video created by Jem Cohen. Check it out below.

Silver Haze comes out May 5 via Sacred Bones.

feeble little horse Release New Song ‘Steamroller’

feeble little horse have dropped a new song, ‘Steamroller’, taken from their forthcoming album Girl With Fish. Check it out below.

According to vocalist Lydia Slocum, ‘Steamroller’ is “a shame song overall” and her “most embarassing song to sing.” The band’s Sebastian Kinsler added, “When I played Lydia the first voice memo she liked how clicky the guitar sounded so I recorded a track through my iPhone for the intro. Also, when we were working on vocals, I was like I think you should go ‘yeah’ in the pause after the chorus and she was thinking the same thing, really good sync energy that day.”

“When the song was first laid out, I saw it was like 3.5 minutes and I was like ‘Are y’all sure you wanna release a song that long?” Jake Kelley recalled. And Ryan Walchonski commented, “We wrote it while I was sick. I also remember asking Seb if I could do a guitar solo on this one (something we rarely do) and he said yes and I was happy.”

Girl with Fish is set to arrive June 9 via Saddle Creek. feeble little horse shared the song ‘Tin Man’ along with its announcement.

Cola Release New Song ‘Keys Down If You Stay’

Cola  – the project of former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright – have released a new single, ‘Keys Down If You Stay’. It marks the band’s first new music since their 2022 debut Deep in View. Check it out below.

“Evan woke from a dream one morning: the three of us jamming with the memory of this exact drum part still etched in his mind,” Darcy explained in a press release. “That was how this one started… ‘Keys Down If You Stay’ has already become a live staple for us so we were thrilled to finally lay it down earlier this year. Our friend OK Pederson created the brilliant video for the track, a piercing and funny take on Cost Of Living.”

Dua Lipa to Star in Greta Gerwig’s New ‘Barbie’ Movie

Dua Lipa has joined the cast of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. She’ll be playing a mermaid version of the doll, as confirmed by character posters that have just been released. The cast for the movie also includes Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Emma Mackey, Michael Cera, Helen Mirren, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, and more.

Back in 2021, Dua Lipa revealed she was set to make her acting debut in Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller Argyle, which does not yet have a release date but is expected to come out this year. Last year, she joined Young Though on Calvin Harris’ song ‘Potion’.

Albert Hammond Jr. Announces New Album ‘Melodies on Hiatus’, Releases New Song

Albert Hammond Jr. has announced a new album, Melodies on Hiatus, which arrives on June 23. Spanning 19 tracks, it follows the Strokes guitarist’s 2018 LP Francis Trouble. Lead single ‘100-99’, which features GoldLink, comes paired with a music video directed by Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg. Check it out below.

“I grew up listening to 90s hip-hop, and I would always gravitate towards the melodic hooks in the songs I heard on the radio, specifically anything Dr. Dre was producing or rapping on,” Hammond Jr. said of the new track. “Years later, I noticed myself pulling from the style of those melodic lines in my guitar work, even though it wasn’t obvious to anyone else as I was so directly associated with being in a rock band. ‘100-99’ was something I’ve wanted to do for some time—work with a rapper over a beat and guitar part I wrote—and it’s really exciting that I was able to do it with GoldLink.”

In a joint statement about the video, Ricciardi and Weinberg shared: “When we first met with Albert, it was clear we were all on the same page: we wanted to have fun and we wanted to experiment with simple concepts that tell a deeper story. The album is 19 tracks, it’s sprawling but interconnected in a special kind of way, and we wanted to maintain that visually as well. The five videos we made for Melodies on Hiatus take place in a series of rooms all within one larger space, different scenes that string together one very long night. Throughout the entire process, Albert was so open and kind, he trusted us, and it cultivated a really pure, almost psychedelic environment.”

Melodies on Hiatus Cover Artwork:

Melodies on Hiatus Tracklist:

1. 100-99 [feat. GoldLink]
2. Downtown Fred
3. Old Man
4. Darlin’
5. Thoughtful Distress [feat. Matt Helders & Steve Stevens]
6. Libertude
7. Memo of Hate
8. Home Again
9. I Got You
10. Caught by Night
11. Dead Air
12. One Chance
13. Remember feat. Rainsford
14. 818
15. Fast Kitten
16. I’d Never Leave
17. Never Stop
18. False Alarm
19. Alright Tomorrow [feat. Rainsford]