spill tab has dropped a new single, ‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’. Produced with Solomonophonic, the track follows spill tab’s 2022 outings ‘Splinter’ and ‘Sunburn’. Check it out below.
“‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’ is the result of Solomonophonic and I wanting to make the zazziest song we could,” spill tab explained in a statement. “We spent many days tweaking and creating different dynamics, wanting to make it fluid but jarring at the same time. I’m super excited that it’s finally out.”
Black Honey – the Brighton quartet comprising frontwoman Izzy Bee Phillips, guitarist Chris Ostler, bassist Tommy Taylor, and drummer Alex Woodward – have announced their third album. A Fistful of Peaches is out March 17, 2023 via FoxFive Records, and lead single ‘Heavy’ is out today, alongside a music video directed by and starring Drag Race UK’s Dakota Schiffer. Watch and listen below.
“We wrote this song the day I found out the founder of our fan club passed away from Covid-19,” Phillips explained in a statement. “We were talking about the weight of grief and the way it holds you down, about the parallels between grief and depression. The weight of mental illness and how it brings you a deeper understanding of grief. There’s always a glimmer of light though and I love how Heavy has that kind glitter darkness. It’s in my nature to become co-dependant and I think in this song I’m reaching for someone to help me climb back out. I talk a bit about the never-ending story as it was my first dialog with death and depression as a child. Watching Artax the horse getting swallowed by the nothing whilst Atreyu screamed helplessly from the edges of a swamp really spoke to me.”
Commenting on the song’s visual, Dakota Shiffer said: “For my directorial debut it was crucial to me that Heavy centred around the themes of trans femininity. A self-portrait of a struggling trans person who’s exterior appears alluring and glamorous but is constructed out of a need for survival. That survival has led many trans people in history to endanger themselves in pursuit of euphoria. The showgirl aesthetic, the location, and the pastel colour pallet puts the creative firmly in a distinct era but everything is not as it appears. Writing the lipstick on the mirror as a reference to Butterfield 8, an infamously misogynistic movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, is the finale to a dreamscape of an evening in which the song narrates perfectly.”
A Fistful of Peaches will follow Black Honey’s 2021 album Written & Directed. “If the vibe of Written & Directed was creating this whole Tarantino world and this safe space of me almost refusing help and saying I was fine, then with this album it’s the opposite,” Phillips commented. “Lockdown had happened, I’d had two years of not writing anything and feeling like my entire purpose had gone down the drain, I’d been in intense therapy which was exhausting, and what came out was just me regurgitating things from my entire life and building my brain cells back to how they should be. I’ve had to be more honest and vulnerable with myself, but I feel like I’d be disservicing anyone who spends their time and passion and energy into this project to not fucking unveil it all.”
A Fistful of Peaches Cover Artwork:
A Fistful of Peaches Tracklist:
1. Charlie Bronson
2. Heavy
3. Ups Against It
4. Out of My Mind
5. Rock Bottom
6. Cut the Cord
7. OK
8. I’m a Man
9. Nobody Knows
10. Weirdos
11. Tombstone
12. Bummer
Dream Wife have returned with a new single called ‘Leech’. It marks the London-based trio’s first new music since the 2020 LP So When You Gonna… Take a listen below.
“‘It’s an anthem for empathy,” the band said of ‘Leech’ in a statement. “For solidarity. Musically tense and withheld, erupting to angry cathartic crescendos. The push and pull of the song lyrically and musically expands and contracts, stating and calling out the double standards of power. Nobody really wins in a patriarchal society. We all lose. We could all use more empathy. As our first song to be released in a while, we wanted to write something that feels like letting an animal out of a cage. It’s out. And it’s out for blood…”
Ailbhe Reddy has announced her new album, Endless Affair. The follow-up to the Irish singer-songwriter’s 2020 debut Personal History will be out on March 17, 2023. Today, she’s shared a video for the lead single ‘Shitshow’, which you can check out below.
Speaking about the new track, Reddy said in a statement: “Sh*tshow came from a lyric I played with for a few months which was ‘my god, look at the state of me, this is so embarrassing, won’t you take me home?’ It’s kind of addressing another person and kind of addressing myself from the perspective of the morning after. I had those lyrics for a while and while working with Tommy McLaughlin on the record he jokingly said we should call the album Sh*tshow and I vowed to work that word into a lyric so it perfectly fit into this song. It’s about looking back on a night out with regret while also addressing and apologising to an ex-partner about my antics. The first verse is to myself and the second verse is to someone else. It’s kind of a tongue in cheek examination of a bad hangover.”
Endless Affair Cover Artwork:
Endless Affair Tracklist:
1. Sh*tshow
2. A Mess
3. Damage
4. Inhaling
5. Bloom
6. Last To Leave
7. Shoulder Blades
8. I’m Losing You’re Winning
9. Good Time
10. You Own The Room
11. Pray For Me
12. Motherhood
Pile have announced their next album: All Fiction is set to arrive on February 17 via Exploding in Sound. Today, they’ve shared the album’s lead single, ‘Loops’, along with an accompanying video. Check it out below.
“Throughout most of Pile’s existence, I’ve used songwriting as a means to work through personal issues and to express uncomfortable feelings in what I’ve perceived to be a healthy form of processing emotions,” frontman Rick Maguire explained in a press release. “While doing this I’ve also been working hard to create a career in writing music. The song ‘Loops’ is about the confusion I’ve experienced in the place where those two roads meet, and reflecting on whether what I’m creating is for personal growth or for personal gain has ended up leading to more questions than answers.”
All Fiction is Pile’s eighth LP, following 2021’s Songs Known Together, Alone and In the Corners of a Sphere-Filled Room. “I’ve been trying to get out of what I think is ‘the rock band format,’ and I was also tired of what I saw as our identity as a band,” Maguire said. “The confusion about identity combined with existential anxiety led to exploring my imagination as a means of escape.”
All Fiction Cover Artwork:
All Fiction Tracklist:
1. It Comes Closer
2. Loops
3. Gardening Hours
4. Link Arms
5. Blood
6. Lowered Rainbow
7. Forgetting
8. Poisons
9. Nude With A Suitcase
10. Neon Gray
Jeff Cook, a co-founding member and lead guitarist of the country band Alabama, has died at the age of 73. According to a statement posted on the band’s official social media accounts on Tuesday, Cook “passed away peacefully yesterday, November 7, with his family and close friends by his side at his beach home in Destin, Florida.” In 2012, Cook was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and publicly revealed his diagnosis in 2017.
Born in 1949 in Fort Payne, Alabama, Cook earned his broadcaster’s license at 14 and worked at a local radio station as a DJ while still in high school. In 1972, he co-founded the band Young Country with his cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry. The group eventually changed its name to Wild Country before going by Alabama, releasing their debut album, Wild Country, in 1976. They put out 22 more albums, eight of which reached No. 1 on the US country charts. They had more than 30 No. 1 country hits and several crossover hits, with songs like ‘Song of the South’, ‘Mountain Music’, ‘I’m In A Hurry’, ‘Cheap Seats’, and ‘Dixieland Delight’ remaining staples to this day.
After the band stopped actively performing in 2004, Cook formed the groups Cook & Glenn and the Allstar Goodtime Band. In 2005, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as a member of Alabama. He continued touring with Alabama through 2018, at which point permanently retired from the road.
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Electronic music pioneer Don Lewis has died. Pitchfork reports that the composer and musician, who created an instrument called the Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO), passed away on Sunday (November 6). He was 81 years old.
Lewis grew up in Dayton, Ohio and developed an interest in music as a child after watching an organist perform at his church. He studied electronics engineering student at the former Tuskegee Institute, where he also joined the Tuskegee Chorus and played music at rallies for Martin Luther King Jr. In 1961, he enlisted in the Air Force and served as a Nuclear Weapons Specialist for four years in Roswell, New Mexico. He then relocated to Denver, Colorado, where he worked as an engineering technician, before quitting his job to become a full-time musician and moving to Los Angeles.
Lewis designed LEO, a synthesizer system linking multiple synths together that predated the MIDI controller by ten years, in 1974 and completed it in 1977. He also worked with Roland founder Ikutarô Kakehashi on rhythm units such as the FR-7L, CR-68, and CR-78, and contributed to the making of the Yamaha DX7.
Lewis collaborated with a number of notable musicians and producers, including Quincy Jones, Sergio Mendez, and Michael Jackson. He also opened for the Beach Boys on their 1974 tour and performed at the 1975 and 1976 Newport Jazz Festival.
A feature-length documentary chronicling his life, Ned Augustenborg’s The Ballad of Don Lewis: The Untold Story of a Synthesizer Pioneer, was released in 2020. The film will make its US broadcast debut on PBS in February 2023 as Don Lewis and the Live Electric Orchestra.
Georgia Maq has shared a cover of Regina Spektor’s ‘Samson’, which will appear on the Camp Cope leader’s new EP Live at Sydney Opera House. It’s a collection of songs recorded during her recent performance there, and will be out on December 2. Listen to Maq’s rendition of ‘Samson’ below.
“Samson is a very important song to me, being a greek woman with a moustache and hairy arms I was always bullied in school about being different, but then I heard Samson and it completely changed my perspective of my body,” Maq explained in a statement. “I started playing that song when I was 15 and it always brought me back to my power.”
“I love how live versions of songs are different to the recording and I love the authenticity of a live performance, so I wanted to share that,” she added of the EP. “With the pandemic, it’s hard to go out and see live music so I wanted to bring that intimate experience to the listener at home. These performances were special to me because I had my beautiful step mum Rebecca Mason on the piano, as well as my ride-or-die string duo, Lucy Rash and Lucy Waldron, all of whom I am very lucky to call friends.”
Live at Sydney Opera House EP Cover Artwork:
Live at Sydney Opera House EP Tracklist:
1. Big Embarrassing Heart
2. Living Alone
3. Neighbour
4. Cold Summer
5. Samson
Former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason has shared the details of his fifth solo album, Brothers & Sisters, along with the lead single ‘No More’, which features Javed Bashir. The LP is out March 3, 2023 via Double Six. Check out the new song and find the album artwork and tracklist below.
Co-produced with Tev’n, Brothers & Sisters features contributions from Javed Bashir, Jayando Cole, Keshia Smith, Connie McCall, Adrian Blake, and Kaviraj Singh. “To me, this record is a massive ‘Fuck you’ to Brexit,” Mason explained in a press release. “And a giant ‘Fuck you’ to anyone that is terrified of immigration because there is nothing that immigration has brought to this country that isn’t to be applauded. Can you imagine what this place would be like without that [immigration]? I mean what would it be like? Cornish pasties and morris dancing?”
“This track is about Imperialism and in a subtle way, relative to some of my other work, references Australia, Partition and Africa through a combination of lyrics and music,” he added of ‘No More’. “I like to imagine the spirits of these cultures and people haunting the families who profited and were involved in their destruction down through the generations.”
Brothers & Sisters Cover Artwork:
Brothers & Sisters Tracklist:
1. Mars Man
2. I’m On My Way
3. No More
4. All Over Again
5. The People Say
6. Let It Go
7. Pieces Of Me
8. Travelling Hard
9. Brixton Fish Fry
10. Upon My Soul
11. Brothers & Sisters
Drake and 21 Savage have been sued by Condé Nast over the fake Vogue cover they used to promote their new album Her Loss. The cover was part of a fake promotional campaign for the album, released Friday, which also included an appearance at NPR’s Tiny Desk, Saturday Night Live, and an interview on The Howard Stern Show.
In an Instagram post teasing the faux cover story, Drake personally thanked Editor-and-Chief Anna Wintour: “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!! Thanks @voguemagazine and Anna Wintour for the love and support on this historic moment.”
In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, said that neither the publisher nor Anna Wintour have had any “involvement in Her Loss or its promotion, and have not endorsed it in any way.” The company’s lawyers added, “Nor did Condé Nast authorize, much less support, the creation and widespread dissemination of a counterfeit issue of Vogue, or a counterfeit version of perhaps one of the most carefully curated covers in all of the publication business.”
They claimed that they had repeatedly since 31 October asked Drake, 21 Savage, and the public relations agency Hiltzik Strategies to take down the posts. “Defendants’ flippant disregard for Condé Nast’s rights have left it with no choice but to commence this action,” they wrote.
Condé Nast is seeking $4 million in damages, or triple the defendants’ profits from their album and “counterfeit” magazine, as well as punitive damages and an end to any trademark infringement.
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