Yo La Tengo have released a new song, ‘Aselestine’, the second single from their forthcoming album This Stupid World. Following lead single ‘Fallout’, the track features lead vocals by Georgia Hubley. Check it out below.
This Stupid World, the band’s sixteenth album, is set to arrive on February 10 via Matador Records. The band will then head out on a tour of the US and Europe in support of the record.
Death Valley Girls have shared a new single, ‘Sunday’, which will appear on their upcoming album Islands in the Sky. It comes alongside an Arturo Baston-directed video inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Check it out below, along with the band’s newly announced tour dates.
“Recently I realized I have been numbing, medicating, intellectualizing, and avoiding my pain and feelings for most of my life,” band leader Bonnie Bloomgarden said in a statement about the track. “Over the past few years I learned you have to feel and move through your feelings or they get stuck, and then you become a vessel or container for all the feelings you are trying to avoid! If you acknowledge, feel, and process them, you get to release and move them out of you! This song is to honor that process! Feel your feelings, be so sad you wanna cry forever, and then move on, you gotta keep moving!”
Islands in the Sky drops on February 24 via Suicide Squeeze Records. It includes the previously released single ‘What Are the Odds’.
Death Valley Girls 2023 Tour Dates:
Feb 4 – Los Angeles, CA -Gold Diggers
Feb 12 – Den Haag, NL – Grauzone Fest’
Feb 14 – Utrecht, NL – Db’s
Feb 15 – Amiens, FR – La Lune des Pirates ( nuit de l’alligator)
Feb 16 – Angers, FR – Le Chabada ( nuit de l’alligator)
Feb 17 – Vannes, FR – L’Echonova ( nuit de l’alligator)
Feb 18 – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie ( nuit de l’alligator)
Feb 20 – Brussels, BE – Botanique (Witloof Bar)
Feb 22 – Dudingen, CH – Bad Bonn
Feb 23 – Annecy, FR – Hors Pistes Fest
Feb 25 – Berlin, DE – Berghain Kantine
Feb 28 – London, UK – Moth Club
Mar 1 – Nottingham, UK – Bodega
Mar 2 – Newcastle, UK – The Cluny
Mar 3 – Manchester, UK – Projekts Skatepark
Mar 4 – Lille, FR – L’Aéronef
Mar 7 – Nimes, FR – Paloma
Mar 9 – Macon, FR – Le Matilda
Mar 10 – Bordeaux, FR – Bordeaux Rock( festival)
Mar 11 – St Malo, FR – La Route du Rock Hiver ( festival )
Mar 14 – Bisbee, AZ – The Quarry
Mar 16-17 – Austin, TX – SXSW
Mar 18 – Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
Mar 20 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake
Mar 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Quarters
Mar 23 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Festival
Mar 24 – Reno, NV – The Loving Cup
Mar 25 – Oakland, CA – Eli’s Mile High Club
Mar 31 – San Diego, CA – Whistle Stop
Apr 1 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriets
Shalom has announced her debut full-length, Sublimation, which will arrive on March 10 via Saddle Creek. The LP finds the Brooklyn-based, South African-raised artist teaming up with producer Ryan Hemsworth (of Quarter-Life Crisis). Today, she’s shared the album’s lead single, ‘Happenstance’, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below and scroll down for the cover artwork and tracklist.
Sublimation Cover Artwork:
Sublimation Tracklist:
1. Narcissist
2. Happenstance
3. Whole Life
4. Soccer Mommy
5. Did It To Myself
6. Concrete
7. Nowadays
8. Train Station
9. Bodies
10. Lighter
11. Mine First
12. Live Through This
13. End In Sight
Yorkshire songwriter Elanor Moss has released the new single ‘Catholic’, taken from her upcoming second EP Cosmic – out February 3 via Blue Raincoat Music. The track, which follows previous offering ‘Cosmic Memory’, was co-written with frequent collaborator Sam Griffiths of the Howl & the Hum and recorded in Brooklyn with producer Oli Deakin. Listen to it below.
Speaking about the track in a press release, Moss explained: “‘Catholic’ isn’t truly a song about being Catholic, or leaving the Catholic church… not really. It’s a song about grappling with your identity and realising you’ve relied on validation from others most of your life, whether that’s friends, family, or romantic partners. It’s also about realising you have the power to change and doing that. It’s cathartic to play and sing live, and I felt like I was tapping into something new in my writing. We tried recording it a bunch of different ways; acoustically, more lounge-y, slower… it didn’t feel right until it was big and loud. It was an interesting moment for me in my writing and sound. I wanted to be loud for once and see what it was like to be in an indie-rock band. I love it.”
Check out our Artist Spotlight interview with Elanor Moss.
Fran, the moniker of Chicago musician Maria Jacobson, has released the latest single from their upcoming album Leaving, which is out next week via Fire Talk Records. ‘God’ follows the previously shared cuts ‘So Long’, ‘Limousine’, and ‘Palm Trees’. Check out a lyric video for it below.
Quasi, the project of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, have shared the latest single from their upcoming album Breaking the Balls of History. Following previous cuts ‘Queen of Ears’ and ‘Doomscrollers’, ‘Nowheresville’ arrives alongside a music video in which a gorilla takes a hike through the forest in search of the band’s practice space. Check it out below.
Breaking the Balls of History is set to come out on February 10 via Sub Pop.
Why Bonnie have released a new song called ‘Apple Tree’. Arriving ahead of their North American tour, the track was described by band leader Blair Howerton as “a song about the parables we tell ourselves to make sense of things.” Give it a listen below.
Why Bonnie’s debut album, 90 in November, came out last year. Check our Artist Spotlight interview with Why Bonnie.
Alvvays made their late-night TV debut last night (January 10), performing their single ‘Belinda Says’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it below.
‘Belinda Says’ is taken from Alvvays’ latest album, Blue Rev, which was released in October. More recently, the band shared a music video for ‘Many Mirrors’ made by Stardew Valley creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone. In March, they’ll head out on a world tour in support of the LP, with dates across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
SZA shared a new music video for her SOS track ‘Kill Bill’. The Quentin Tarantino-inspired clip was directed by Christian Breslauer and includes a cameo from Vivica A. Fox, who starred in Tarantino’s 2003 movie of the same name. It also features snippets of album tracks ‘Nobody Gets Me’ and ‘Seek & Destroy’. Check it out below.
One Step Closer have surprise-released a new EP called Songs for the Willow through Run for Cover. The three-track project, which features the previously shared song ‘Dark Blue’, finds the band reuniting with Eric Chesek, who recorded their debut album This Place You Know, as well as Jon Markson, who has recently worked on records by Drug Church, Koyo, and Soul Blind. Stream the EP and check out the music video for ‘Turn to Me’ below.
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