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Money manager: financial tips for your business

Running your own company can give you a great amount of freedom and control over how you spend your day. However, this may also mean that you need to deal with the responsibility of making money, and distributing it where you see fit. Considering how to make better choices with this could make your business more profitable, and even potentially make it a nicer place to work.

Using savings

You may already have savings for your personal life, but you might want to consider how you could use them within your business as well. Should you pay yourself a salary out of profits, you might want to think about putting some of that money into an ISA. Using one, such as the provider found here, could allow you to increase your capital, giving you more to potentially put back into your business. It could also be a good idea to discuss the importance of saving with your team, so that they can also learn to make better financial decisions. There may be a limit to how much you can save within this type of account so, should you wish to save more, you might want to look into different types of business savings that could help you to grow even more.

Do your part

Within your business morals and values, you might also want to try and be an integrated part of your community, helping others while still getting on with your daily jobs. Some of these strategies could help your business itself, whereas others might help others around you. The benefit of this can be that it might improve public opinion of your brand. Donating to charities may make people think more highly of you. In addition to this, you might be able to offset some of your business tax. You may also prefer the idea of giving some of your profits to those who could really benefit from it, rather than paying it in taxes. 

Focus on staff retention

There can be a number of benefits to keeping a good team within your company. This can help with client liaison, especially if they build up that rapport with the employee they speak to. There may also be some financial benefits that you might not have previously considered. Recruiting new staff can be costly, from needing to put up advertisements, to spending time interviewing. In addition to this, you might also need to pay or spend time training new recruits. Having a dedicated team and a happy workplace may make it less likely that people want to leave. The experience that employees can get from working for you for a long time may also aid them in being better at their job, which could also lead to a higher number of sales, or even returning clients.

Looking after your business can involve a lot of financial consideration. Whether you want to build up your savings, or even find ways to better spend your money, it could be a good idea to really think about some positive changes you could make.

NOIA Unveils New Single ‘verano adentro’

NOIA has offered another preview of her upcoming debut LP, gisela. It’s called ‘verano adentro’, and it follows the previously released songs ‘eclipse de amor’, featuring Ela Minus, and ‘didn’t know’, featuring Buscabulla. Give it a listen below.

“‘Verano Adentro (Summer Inside)’ is a song about a suspended feeling of quiet and peace, about those small moments when no one can take away your joy or your feeling at peace with the world,” Gisela Fullà-Silvestre explained in a statement. “The song is also a small ode to the rooftops of Barcelona. laying in the sun near the laundry drying. To me the beat feels a bit deconstructed, half done, and somehow it has a woody texture. I hope that the song brings a bit of warmth, the kind of warmth that a mid afternoon ray of sun coming through the window feels when you’re taking a nap on a winter day.”

gisela is set to drop March 31 on Cascine.

Lucy Dacus Shares New Video for ‘Night Shift’

Lucy Dacus has shared the official music video for ‘Night Shift’, a single from her 2018 sophomore LP Historian. The clip is directed by Jane Schoenbrun (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) and featuring Dacus, Jasmin Savoy Brown (Yellowjackets), E.R. Fightmaster, Liza Anne, and more. It was filmed at the Poconos Palace in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Watch it below.

Matador will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of Historian with a vinyl reissue, which is due out May 26 and will feature Dacus’ first draft of the original album artwork. Its follow-up, Home Video, came out in 2021. boygenius, Dacus’ group with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker, are releasing their debut full-length, the record, on March 31.

ther Announce Debut Album, Release New Song ‘impossible things’

ther is the slowcore outfit led by West Philadelphia-based recording engineer Heather Jones, who has worked on projects by They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Deer Scout, and Crooks & Nannies. Today, they’ve announced their debut LP, a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy today, which lands April 14. Check out the first single, ‘impossible things’, below, along with the album cover and tracklist.

“I wrote this song at a time I felt connected to the expansiveness of eternity, and when forever didn’t feel so long,” Jones said of ‘impossible things’ in a press release. “I was bouncing back from a long, low point in a big and intentional way, ready for the uncertainty and terror of the future, and anchoring my heart around the joy of loving and being loved. i don’t know if i’ll ever feel so aligned again with what normally feels obtuse and impossible, but it’s a comfort to carry this song around in my back pocket, remember that it’s there, and play it with my friends.”

a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy Cover Artwork:

a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy Tracklist:

1. 1 kid
2. big papi lassos the moon
3. water that you cannot drink
4. love is always
5. impossible things
6. a brief moment
7. a whisper
8. with you
9. 2 holidays

Hatchie Shares New Song ‘Rooftops’ Featuring Liam Benzvi

Hatchie has announced a deluxe version of her 2022 album Giving the World Away, which will include five new tracks. Among them is the recently released ‘Nosedive’, as well as the just-unveiled ‘Rooftops’, featuring the New York singer-songwriter Liam Benzvi. Take a listen below.

“I wrote, recorded and mixed Giving The World Away with Joe [Agius] and Jorge [Elbrecht] in 2020, with Joe and I recording in Brisbane and Jorge mixing in Denver,” Harriette Pilbeam explained in a press release. “We wrapped everything up in December, with plans to release in April 2022. In the meantime, the three of us were finally all able to get back in a room together in 2021, with no specific plans for the outcome. After five intense writing days in the bitter Denver winter, we ended up with about 12 new ideas, some of which we felt fit perfectly into the world of the long-finished album. It was too late to make any additions at that stage, but we felt it would be a shame for them to not be included in the release. To me, these songs round out the world this album established, with my original intention being to make a more uplifting, energetic record than my first.”

The deluxe edition of Giving the World Away is out April 7 via Secretly Canadian.

1. Lights On
2. This Enchanted
3. Twin
4. Take My Hand
5. The Rhythm
6. Quicksand
7. Thinking Of
8. Giving The World Away
9. The Key
10. Don’t Leave Me In the Rain
11. Sunday Song
12. Til We Run Out of Air
13. Nosedive
14. Cast Aside
15. Rooftops [feat. Liam Benzvi]
16. Dream On (Country Girl)
17. The Rhythm (George Clanton Remix)

SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan) Announce Debut Album ‘Silver Haze’, Share Video for New Song

SQÜRL, the duo of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, have announced their debut album. Silver Haze, which features collaborations with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot, comes out May 5 via Sacred Bones. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a video for the LP’s opening track, ‘Berlin ’87’. Check out the Jem Cohen-directed clip and find the album cover and tracklist below.

“Jim created the basic guitar tracks first in his home studio, with memories of living in Berlin in 1987 floating around him,” the band stated in a press release. “The tracks were then SQÜRLized by Carter & Randall at Circular Ruin.”

Of the video, Cohen said: “Roaming Central and Eastern Europe soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, backpack crammed with Super 8 cameras, I was deeply moved by the landscape. I couldn’t have guessed some of the footage would surface over a quarter-century later in a film for Jim and Carter’s band. They work hard to forge their expansive sound, with its indomitable beat and secret harmonics. Glad I had that backpack, and to be of service.”

The band added: “SQÜRL is so happy to have a film by Jem Cohen to accompany the first single. He’s one of our favorite filmmakers, and with his magical hands and eyes, he somehow captures the most evocative details that most people don’t even notice. The images he has chosen and shaped so perfectly evoke the feeling of our music, and then elevate it to another level. Our big thanks to you, Jem!”

SQÜRL was formed in 2009 to score Jarmusch’s film The Limits of Control. They’ve since put out a series of EPs, and, in 2020, released Some Music for Robby Müller, which served as the score for Claire Pijman’s documentary Living the Light.

Silver Haze Cover Artwork:

Silver Haze Tracklist:

1. Berlin ‘87
2. The End of The World
3. Garden Of Glass Flowers [feat. Marc Ribot]
4. She Don’t Wanna Talk About It [feat. Anika]
5. Il Deserto Rosso [feat. Marc Ribot]
6. John Ashbery Takes A Walk [feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg]
7. Queen Elizabeth
8. Silver Haze

Lonnie Holley and Bon Iver Collaborate on New Single ‘Kindness Will Follow Your Tears’

Lonnie Holley has shared ‘Kindness Will Follow Your Tears’, a collaborative track with Bon Iver that will appear on the artist’s new album Oh Me Oh My. It follows the previously released title track, featuring Michael Stipe, and ‘I Am a Part of the Wonder’, with Moor Mother. Listen below.

Oh Me Oh My is out this Friday, March 10. On the day of its release, Lonnie Holley will donate a piece of artwork to the office of Supreme Court Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson, and the donation will be recognized in a reception hosted by Justice Jackson.

Joanna Sternberg Announces New Album ‘I’ve Got Me’, Shares New Single

Joanna Sternberg has announced a new album called I’ve Got Me. The follow-up to 2019’s Then I Try Some More is set for release on June 30 via Fat Possum, and it was recorded with producer Matt Sweeney and engineer Daniel Schlett at Strange Weather in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Check out the LP’s title track as well as the cover artwork (illustrated by Sternberg) and tracklist below.

“I pretty much stayed out of Joanna’s way,” Sweeney said of the process, “let them know they sounded great and allowed the music to happen.” He added: “For me, this album is a dead-on example of how the more brave and clear an artist is in expressing their own world, the stronger it resonates with strangers.”

Commenting on the title track, Sternberg said: “I do not remember if I wrote this song before or after reading the poem ‘Oh Yes’ by Charles Bukowski, but the song is definitely meant to reflect the same sentiment. I also have the poem tattooed on my right arm!”

I’ve Got Me Cover Artwork:

I’ve Got Me Tracklist:

1. I’ve Got Me
2. I Will Be With You
3. People Are Toys To You
4. Drifting On A Cloud
5. Mountains High
6. I’ll Make You Mine
7. Stockholm Syndrome
8. Right Here
9. The Love I Give
10. She Dreams
11. The Human Magnet Song
12. The Song

Caroline Rose Shares Video for New Song ‘Tell Me What You Want’

Caroline Rose has unveiled a new single, ‘Tell Me What You Want’, taken from her upcoming album The Art of Forgetting. It follows previous cuts ‘Love / Lover / Friend’, ‘Miami’, and ‘The Doldrums’. Check out a video for it, co-directed by Rose and Sam Bennett, below.

“When I listen to this I really feel for myself during that time,” Rose shared in a statement. “My head was like a cesspool of voices trying to tell me what to do. You know, the end of a relationship can be so confusing. There are all these emotions swirling around and really no handbook. You realize when all your attempts to connect with your partner aren’t working, you either have to find a way to stick it out or leave… And both options suck. I guess this song is about being in that pickle of desperation, between trying to protect yourself and feeling the immense guilt and regret of walking away from someone you love.”

The Art of Forgetting will be out on March 24 via New West Records.

Nation of Language Release Video for New Single ‘Sole Obsession’

Nation of Language have released a new song called ‘Sole Obsession’. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by John MacKay and shot in 16mm around Queens and Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park. Check it out below.

The band’s Ian Devaney and Aidan Noell said in a statement about the single: “In simplest terms, ‘Sole Obsession’ is one about knowing when, or if, to give in or give up. Particularly, when to untie the knots we tie ourselves into when an infatuation sets in. So many of us have experienced an addictive feeling that constricts us further and further until, hopefully, there’s a moment of clarity that allows one to free themself from that particular compulsion. The title of our next album, Strange Disciple, is a lyric from ‘Sole Obsession’ which references a character of such a nature; one who finds themself an adherent to a subject that is probably not worth the devotion.”

They added: “We chose to represent this with an anonymous robed figure that lives within all of us, waiting for us to don the cloak and take up our role, and we worked with John Mackay to bring the Disciple to life in the music video. Taking cinematic inspiration from Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) as well as Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1958), the Disciple is depicted as one of us, and we in turn are depicted as the Disciple.”

‘Sole Obsession’ follows Nation of Language’s 2022 single ‘From the Hill’. Back in December, they shared a remix of ‘Across That Fine Line’ by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard. Their latest album, A Way Forward, came out in 2021.

Check out our inspirations interview with Nation of Language.