Brothers Osborne, Jimmie Allen, Eric Church, Steve Earle, Ashley McBryde, Maren Morris, and more have contributed to a new Rolling Stones tribute album. Due out next year, Stoned Cold Country was produced by Robert Deaton and also features Elle King, Marcus King, Little Big Town, Elvie Shane, Koe Wetzel, The War and Treaty, Lainey Wilson, and Zac Brown Band. Check out Brothers Osborne and the War And Treaty’s cover of ‘It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)’ below, along with the album’s cover art and full tracklist.
“This album is Country Music’s thank you to The Rolling Stones for 60 years of inspiration and providing the soundtrack of our lives,” Deaton explained in a statement. “While recording the record, I was reminded that this is a showcase and spotlight on the best we have to offer as a genre. From our artists to all of the musicians that played on the record, we boldly state that Country Music is second to none when it comes to artists of integrity and creativity.”
Stoned Cold Country Cover Artwork:
Stoned Cold Country Tracklist:
1. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – Ashley McBryde
2. Honky Tonk Women – Brooks & Dunn
3. Dead Flowers – Maren Morris
4. It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It) – Brothers Osborne & The War And Treaty
5. Miss You – Jimmie Allen
6. Tumbling Dice – Elle King
7. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking – Marcus King
8. Wild Horses – Little Big Town
9. Paint It Black – Zac Brown Band
10. You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Lainey Wilson
11. Sympathy for the Devil – Elvie Shane
12. Angie – Steve Earle
13. Gimme Shelter – Eric Church
14. Shine A Light – Koe Wetzel
Drake and 21 Savage’s collaborative album Her Loss is out now. Originally set to arrive last week, the record was pushed back after producer Noah “40” Shebib came down with COVID. The pair promoted Her Loss earlier this week with a faux Vogue cover, a fake performance at NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, and an “interview” with Howard Stern repurposing footage from Stern’s interview with Jerrod Carmichael. They also shared the album’s actual cover artwork. Spanning 16 tracks, Her Loss features a guest appearance from Travis Scott on the song ‘Pussy & Millions’, as well as an interpolation of Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ on ‘Circo Loco’.
Special Interest have released their latest album, Endure, via Rough Trade. Following the New Orleans no-wave punks’ 2020 breakthrough The Passion Of, the 11-track LP features the previously shared singles ‘Foul’, ‘Midnight Legend’ (featuring Mykki Blanco), ‘(Herman’s) House’, and ‘Cherry Blue Intention’. Special Interest self-produced and recorded the new album at HighTower in New Orleans, with engineering by James Whitten, mixing by Collin Dupuis, and mastering by Matt Colton.In press materials, the band described the recording process for Endure as “inverted” due to the pandemic, which opened the door to a new period of experimentation.
Phoenix have returned with Alpha Zulu, their first new album in five years, out now via Loyaute/Glassnote. The follow-up to 2017’s Ti Amo was self-produced by the band and recorded in Paris’ Musée des Arts Décoratifs, which sits in the Palais du Louvre. “We felt it would be a fantastic adventure to create something out of nothing in a museum,” the group’s Laurent “Branco” Brancowitz said of the recording experience in a statement. “And so with the pandemic, we could live exactly this scene, to be alone in an empty museum.” The title track, ‘Tonight’ featuring Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, and ‘Winter Solstice’ preceded the LP.
Tenci, the Chicago-based band led by Jess Shoman, have issued their sophomore LP, A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing, via Keeled Scales. On the follow-up to 2020’s My Heart Is an Open Field, Shoman is joined by Curtis Oren on saxophone and guitar, Izzy Reidy (Izzy True) on bass, and Joseph Farago (Joey Nebulous) on drums. The LP was recorded with engineer Abby Black and includes the advance singles ‘Two Cups’, ‘Vanishing Coin’, and ‘Sour Cherries’. Each song creates a spell to “fill my heart back up,” Shoman said in press materials, “by reframing complex feelings by turning my head sideways and seeing them in a different way.”
Carla dal Forno has put out her latest album, Come Around, via her own Kallista Records imprint. Arriving three years after Look Up Sharp, the record features the early single ‘Side by Side’ and the title track. While working on the album, the Australian artist settled in the town of Castlemaine, Central Victoria, her third home in as many albums, and the songs deal in part with the concept of home and experiencing insomnia. The track ‘Slumber’ features guest vocals from English artist Thomas Bush. Read our review of Come Around.
Boldy James has dropped a new album, Mr. Ten08, which was produced entirely by Futurewave. It follows a series of projects the rapper has released over the past twelve months, each in collaboration with a different producer: Super Tecmo Bo with the Alchemist, Killing Nothing with Real Bad Man, and Fair Exchange No Robbery with Noclas Craven. Mr. Ten08 was previewed with a video for the lead single ‘Flag on the Play’, and today James has also shared a visual for a track called ‘Dormin’s’.
Okay Kaya is back with her third album, SAP, out today through Jagjaguwar. Kaya Wilkins wrote, performed, and produced the follow-up to 2020’s Watch This Liquid Pour Itself, which features guest contributions from Nick Hakim, Taja Cheek of L’Rain, Adam Green of The Moldy Peaches, Farao, Zannie, Aerial East, LEYA, The New Romantic, Ydegirl, Eli Keszler, and more. “My writing process often begins with images in lieu of words,” Wilkins explained in a statement. “What if you’re tree-juice? How far along the stem do you have to ride before you get away from your parents and realise you’re the tear of this person and the blood of this person?”
Big Joanie’s sophomore LP, Back Home, has landed via Kill Rock Stars in the US and Thurston Moore and Eva Prinz’s label Daydream Library Series in the UK. Ahead of its release, the feminist punk trio previewed the follow-up to 2018’s Sistahs with the tracks ‘Happier Still’, ‘Confident Man’, ‘In My Arms’, and ‘Sainted’. The LP was produced and mixed by Margo Broom and features violin by Charlotte Valentine of No Home. “It’s about the different ideas of home,” singer/guitarist Stephanie Phillips commented in press materials. “Whether that’s here in the UK, back in Africa or the Caribbean, or a place that doesn’t really exist; it’s neither here nor there.”
Hawa has unveiled her debut full-length, Hadja Bangoura, via 4AD. The album is named after Hawa’s great-grandmother, who passed away last year, and Hawa wrote most of it in Guinea’s capital of Conakry in West Africa, where she grew up and her grandmother lived. Featuring the advance singles ‘Gemini’, ‘Progression’, and ‘Trade’, the follow-up to Hawa’s 2020 the ONE EP was produced Tony Seltzer and Inef Coupe, with a guest spot from Eartheater on the closer ‘Eater’.
Mount Kimbie have issued their new double album MK 3.5: Die Cuts | City Planning via Warp. It’s composed of separate albums by the duo’s Dom Maker, who helmed the guest-heavy Die Cuts, and Kai Campos, who produced City Planning. It includes features from Slowthai and Danny Brown, James Blake, Liv.e, Keiyaa, Wiki, Kučka, Reggie, and others. While Die Cuts draws on Marker’s love of collaboration, City Planning was inspired by Campos’ experience of DJing at clubs and festivals in recent years, which led to a period of “intense listening and thinking about listening.”
Other albums out today:
Old Fire, Voids; Various Artists, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Music From and Inspired By; R.A.P. Ferreira, 5 to the Eye With Stars; Tom Skinner, Voices of Bishara; First Aid Kit, Palomino; Wizkid, More Love, Less Ego; MorMor, Semblance; Turnover, Myself in the Way; ghost orchard, rainbow music; Julien Chang, The Sale; Gold Dust, The Late Great Gold Dust; Joji, Smithereens; Dean Fertita, Tropical Gothclub; Daniel Avery, Ultra Truth; µ-Ziq, Hello; Metro Boomin, Heroes & Villains; Horse Lords, Comradely Objects; Coco & Clair Clair, Sexy; Laura Jean, Amateurs; Ezra Collective, Where I’m Meant to Be; Low Island, Life In Miniature; Isla Craig, Echoe’s Reach; R.A.M.B.O., Defy Extinction; Born Without Bones, Dancer; Caleb Landry Jones, Gadzooks Vol. 2; Connie Constance, Miss Power; La Femme, Teatro Lucido; Rolando Simmons, Human Remains; Brothertiger, Brothertiger; Fleshwater, We’re Not Here to Be Loved; Froglord, Army of Frogs; Adam Winchester, Trailing Remnants; Geotic, To Not Now, Nor to Ever, Despair.
Paramore appeared on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform ‘This Is Why’, the title track from their forthcoming album. Watch it happen below.
This Is Why, the follow-up to Paramore’s 2017 LP After Laughter, was announced last month. It’s set for release on February 10. Paramore have also announced a North American tour in support of the album; find the list of dates below, too.
Paramore 2023 Tour Dates:
Tue May 23 – Charlotte, NC – Spectrum Center^×
Thu May 25 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena^×
Sat May 27 – Atlantic City, NJ – Adjacent Festival
Tue May 30 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden^×
Fri June 02 – Washington, DC – Capital One Arena^×
Sun Jun 04 – Cleveland, OH – Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse^×
Mon Jun 05 – Indianapolis, IN – Gainbridge Fieldhouse^×
Wed Jun 07 – Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena^×
Thu Jun 08 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena^×
Sat Jun 10 – Columbus, OH – Schottenstein Center^×
Sun Jun 11 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paint Arena^×
Tue Jun 13 – Orlando, FL – Amway Center^×
Wed Jun 14 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live^×
Thu Jul 06 – New Orleans, LA – Smoothie King Center!*
Sat Jul 08 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena!*
Sun Jul 09 – Austin, TX – Moody Center!*
Tue Jul 11 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center!*
Thu Jul 13 – Denver, CO – Ball Arena!*
Sun Jul 16 – San Diego, CA – Viejas Arena!
Wed Jul 19 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum!
Sat Jul 22 – San Francisco, CA – Chase Center!
Mon Jul 24 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena!*
Tue Jul 25 – Portland, OR – Veterans Memorial Coliseum!*
Thu Jul 27 – Salt Lake City, UT – Vivint Arena!*
Sat Jul 29 – Tulsa, OK – BOK Center!*
Sun Jul 30 – St Louis, MO – Enterprise Center!*
Wed Aug 02 – St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center!*
^ with support Bloc Party
! with support from Foals
* with support from The Linda Lindas
× with support from Genesis Owusu
BROCKHAMPTON have shared the first single from their upcoming final album, The Family. It’s called ‘Big Pussy’, and it was produced by Bearface and Nick Velezit, with vocals from group leader Kevin Abstract. Accompanying the song is a music video directed by Alex Huggins and Harrison Fisherman and filmed in New York. Check it out below.
The Family, the follow-up to last year’s Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine, drops on November 17 via Question Everything/RCA.
Carla dal Forno specializes in music that’s as hazy in atmosphere as it is thick with tension. The Australian experimental artist first showcased her detailed approach on her 2016 debut You Know What It’s Like, which conjured a strange air of detachment while pulling you in to explore its ambiguous world. She tightened her sound on 2019’s Look Up Sharp, her first album on her own Kallista Records, favouring a new kind of immediacy without sacrificing the enigmatic appeal and nuance that marked her previous work. This trajectory seems to continue on her latest outing, Come Around, which you might quickly register as both her most honed-in and least sonically diverse album to date. There is a clearer structure, songs rarely meander, and even the instrumental pieces serve less of an elusive purpose. Yet even as dal Forno strips away much of the deceptive complexity of her work, the result is still richly immersive listen that becomes harder to pin down the deeper you fall into it.
Come Around is, of course, as inviting as anything dal Forno has put out in the past, and arguably even more so; like its predecessor, the album’s title gives a subtle hint as to which direction the project generally moves in. Her candidness is the first thing that comes through on the opening track, ‘Side by Side’: “Touch to see/ My body warms in good company,” dal Forno sings, a lyric whose palpable intimacy is mirrored in the soft synths that heat up the song’s typically dreary mood. “Face to face/ It’s been some years since I’ve seen this place,” she continues, presumably referencing the small city of Castlemaine, Central Victoria, where she settled while making the record. When she sings the titular words on ‘Come Around’, she seems enlivened by the opportunity of guiding loved ones through her favorite parts of a new place she gets to call home – a comforting feeling she graciously extends to her audience without much obfuscation.
But the duality and tension that’s permeated her music – the way it gives an impression of distance, aesthetic stylization, and coldness while doing the opposite of steering you away – is still present. Rather than using layered production to cloud the pure emotion burning at the core, it’s the simplicity that’s more deceptive this time around. As direct and enticing as it is, there’s something about the sparse presentation of ‘Come Around’ that makes it feel faintly illusory – like the singer is in fact removed from her surroundings and is playing out a scenario in her mind. As we delve further into the album, it also feels like we’re pushed further inwards, entering a dissociative state of sleeplessness. “When you fight with the day and you’re so angry/ Stay awake all the time in the endless heat/ Find it hard to relate in amongst the weeds,” she sings on centerpiece ‘Stay Awake’. This sense of anxiety sinisterly creeps into a mystifying cover of The United States of America’s ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’, and it’s heightened by the kinetic percussion and piercing electronics that later rush in on ‘Mind You’re Own’.
As soon as ‘Stay Awake’ arrives, the album slips into a hypnotic groove, carried along by some of dal Forno’s most sublime bass lines, that it doesn’t abandon until the meditative ‘Deep Sleep’. This sharp focus not only keeps the album engaging but deftly embodies dal Forno’s isolated headspace, and it’s ‘Slumber’, a duet with English musician Thomas Bush, that attempts to disrupt it. Dal Forno hasn’t exactly shied away from making romantic music, but never has she so clearly given voice to both sides of a relationship. Although there is a clear logic to the song – the male voice allows dal Forno to “drift off with a sigh/ No longer tethered here to the world outside,” feeding into ‘Deep Sleep’ – the marriage between the voices and the instrumental feels slightly incongruous, the rare case where a small lack of clarity doesn’t work in dal Forno’s favour.
When her voice emerges again, though, we find that the dream that haunts her keeps unraveling, and on the final track ‘Caution’, she delivers what might be the album’s most sobering, unsettling, and mysterious lines: “But what exactly would it take/ To give this horror closure?” And then, in a moment of absent-minded lucidity, she repeats, “Shoot the line/ Should go fine.” The details are blurry, but even as the smoke unfurls, the truth finds its way out, like the last thing you mumble knowing everyone’s drifted off to bed. Meanwhile, you’re left making sense of time, and you have to make a choice: do you stay away, try to hold out, or keep moving forward?
Starting your business on the right track is always going to take some effort. In the highly regulated, competitive, and important world of legal firms, it’s going to take even more care and attention. If you already have your license to practice, have gone through the legal steps of establishing your business, and know what you want to do, here are a few steps to help you get there including legal marketing.
Make sure you have a business plan ready
You should take the time to turn what you want for your business into a plan of how you’re going to actually run the business. There are great sample business plans for law firms that you can use as a basis. However, you have to think about which legal services you will offer, how you’re going to win clients, what costs you need to cover, and how you’re going to keep your business compliant.
Get your finances in order
We’re not just talking about the funding that you might need to source to start your business, although that is important. You have to make sure that you have the right setup to handle client funds alongside your own business accounts. Comingling client money with your own is one of the big legal mistakes you can make, so you need to have your own checking account as well as setting up a client trust account or some viable alternative.
Getting the right technologies and services
You’re not just going to be running your firm through sheer will and determination. You need to work out which legal technology tools you’re going to need for your law firm, as well as outsourced services that you may very well rely on. This includes your hardware, your legal practice management system, office software, and client relationship management tools. All of these are vital for managing a modern legal business.
How are you going to reach clients?
An essential part of any plan to start a law firm is having a firm idea of how you’re going to win the business of your clients, as well. To that end, the best place to start is by creating a website and establishing your office’s presence, before learning how to create a law firm marketing strategy. Getting an idea of the different tools that will help you with outreach is vital.
Working as a business owner
You will likely have plenty of experience working as a lawyer before you start a firm. However, the role of a business owner can be quite a different kettle of fish. You might have more choice in how you do your work, but you’re also responsible for every aspect of it. What’s more, while you may enjoy greater financial potential, your work-life balance can suffer as a result. Make sure you know what to expect as a business owner before you jump in with both feet.
Your legal firm’s success isn’t going to be solely determined by how well you can establish it from the beginning. However, putting your best foot forward is definitely going to help in the long run.
MIKE has dropped ‘What Do I Do?’, the latest offering from his upcoming album Beware of the Monkey. It arrives with an accompanying video directed by Xin Wang, and you can check it out below.
Beware of the Monkey is set to arrive on December 21 via MIKE’s label 10k. ‘What Do I Do’ follows the previously released single ‘Nuthin I Can Do Is Wrng’.
Jeff Rosenstock and Laura Stevenson have teamed up for another Neil Young covers collection. Out today via Polyvinyl, the four-track Younger Still follows the duo’s 2019 EP Still Young, and it was recorded in the basement of Rosenstock’s Los Angeles home. Stream it below.
“We have done something that we hope Neil Young doesn’t hate. Because we love him,” Stevenson said in a statement. “We covered some of his songs again. He didn’t say he was mad the first time. We just love him, okay? So we did it again, OKAY? WHAT’S WITH THE THIRD DEGREE?”
Rosenstock added: “We had such a nice lil’ time making the last EP Still Young, so we immediately dove into another! We recorded two songs before I moved across the country with a plan to record two more the next time I was back in town. Joke was on us though LULZ — a global pandemic happened, those two songs never got finished and Laura and I didn’t see each other for almost two years!”
The Antlers have shared a new version of ‘Ahimsa’, a track from 2017’s solo album Impermanence. Check it out below.
In a statement about the track, Silberman explained:
The original version had a patient tempo, spare instrumentation and hypnotic circular delays. It was intended as a meditation on the Buddhist notion of “non-harming,” which is perhaps a better translation of the title than “non-violence.”
Stemming from my wish for a tranquil day amidst turbulent health issues, my focus then was on confronting my own ephemerality as inspiration toward greater compassion for those around me. But in the years since its original release, I think the song has taken on a meaning closer to the immediacy of the chorus of “no violence,” and become a kind of hymn in opposition to the rampant turmoil and seemingly inescapable vitriol of the moment.
“Ahimsa” is an attempt to create a peaceful space within a violent world. The scope is wider now, though the message remains the same: mortality is one of the few qualities we all share in common, and through recognizing this we may discover compassion for one another.
Camp Cope have shared a music video for ‘Sing Your Heart Out’, the closing track off their latest album Running With the Hurricane. Check out the poignant visual, edited by Natalie van den Dungen, below.
The ‘Sing Your Heart Out’ video is a depiction of love as it manifests in Georgia Maq, Sarah Thompson, and Kelly-Dawn Hellmrich’s lives, including a nod to Maq’s fandom of Frightened Rabbit. Speaking about the origins of the track, Maq explained:
Anyone who knows me knows how much Frightened Rabbit means to me, I think I hold the title of most FR tattoos on my body (6). When Camp Cope first flew to the U.S, I departed the plane and connected to LAX wifi, and in my message requests was a message from someone I didn’t know called Simon Liddell. In the message, he told me that he had shown Scott Camp Cope before he passed and that Scott had a lot of nice things to say about it. I burst into tears on the spot. So when we went to Scotland, I invited Simon and his girlfriend to our show, they came along and we’ve been friends ever since. During tours and then lockdowns Simon would send me bits of music he’d written for me to play with, he sent me a little piano part and it became the first half of Sing Your Heart Out.
Simon Liddell, former member of Frightened Rabbit, added: “Sharing music and collaborating remotely was a great way to stay connected with friends during lockdown. I sent Georgia a rough piano sketch which she developed into such a beautiful song – I was thrilled that I could play a small part in this album by one of my favorite bands.”
Drake and 21 Savage’s collaborative album 
Special Interest have released their latest album, 
Phoenix have returned with 
Tenci, the Chicago-based band led by Jess Shoman, have issued their sophomore LP, A Swollen River, A Well Overflowing, via 
Carla dal Forno has put out her latest album, 
Boldy James has dropped a new album, 
Okay Kaya is back with her third album,
Big Joanie’s sophomore LP,
Hawa has unveiled her debut full-length, 
Mount Kimbie have issued their new double album 
