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Evil Island have shared the second single, “Animal” off their upcoming debut album “Terraform The Afterlife” out August 14th via Blowed Out Records.

Evil Island is Johnny Whitney, Cody Votolato, and Mark Gajadhar of The Blood Brothers, Autry Fulbright II of OFF! and …and you will know us by the trail of dead, and Todd Weinstock of Glassjaw.

TRACKLIST:
1. Melted Heart (ft. Alexis Krauss)
2. Termantrixx (ft. Michael Gatto)
3. Animal
4. Tiger Baby
5. T-Hexx (ft. Guy Picciotto)
6. Evil Island Death Cult National Anthem
7. Grow Spikes
8. I Bought A Spell (ft. Jordan Blilie)
9. No Good
10. Moonlight Doomlight
11. Blinding Rage
12. King Death
13. Suicide By Cop

Johnny Whitney shared this about the song: “‘Animal’ felt enormous almost immediately. It’s the only song we’ve ever written that sounds authentically like us while also sounding like it could be blasted through the PA at a football stadium.”

The video for the song was directed by Patrick Lascu and Chelsea Deebo.

Whitney shared this about the album: “‘Evil Island’ was born out of the firestorm of creative energy that Cody, Mark and I felt when The Blood Brothers reunion tour ended in 2024. My brain was on fire, I was gripped with a kind of mania. I had so many ideas rattling around in my skull that if I didn’t make something new with my friends, the psychic damage probably would’ve manifested as some exotic form of cancer. I knew our story wasn’t over. More importantly, I knew our particular strain of feral pop hardcore felt more necessary than ever given that the world is boiling in bullshit. So we wrote eleven songs, brought Ross Robinson into the fold, then Autry joined the band, and suddenly everything locked into place. With Terraform the Afterlife, we let Ross completely off the leash. What was supposed to be a two-week recording session turned into a five-month descent into something far bigger than we imagined. We built a musical world that’s dazzling, violent, joyful, ugly, melodic, brutal and somehow still coherent. We put every drop of ourselves into this record. Terraform the Afterlife is the most creatively gratifying thing I’ve ever been part of, these songs will be fucked into my skull forever.”

Arab Strap have shared the first single, “You You You”, off their upcoming album “Half Told Tales” out September 4th via Rock Action.

TRACKLIST:
01 I Get Noise
02 You You You
03 Be a Man
04 Fighting for You
05 Glamour Magick
06 Gape
07 Under Offer
08 Basic Physics
09 Sunsong
10 Dollar Park
11 Mr. Splitfoot
12 Ampersand
13 Fragments
14 Beats per Minute

Arab Strap shared this about the album:  “We’re thirty years old this year. So we decided to celebrate by doing what we enjoy most: by making new music.”

“The excitement comes because me and Aidan like and hate different things. There are things in the record that individually we might not choose but that’s why I like this album so much, because it’s not the one I wanted to make. I don’t think it’s what Aidan wanted to make either, it’s this bit in the middle. It might not be 100% what we want but it’s good for the band, and it works.”

The video for the song was directed by Luke Bovill.

Aidan Moffat shared this about the song: “‘You You You’ is an attempt to remind ourselves, and hopefully others, that the world’s not full of awful people. That there are millions of us out there dealing with the same worries every day: from the rising costs of absolutely everything, our mental and physical health, the constant slaughter and tyranny in our newsfeeds, to playing an unwitting part in the military-industrial complex, and the endless warping of reality. It can often feel like a complete absence of human decency  it’s no wonder that despondency can feel like our default disposition. It was designed as a kind of invocation. To bring forth the stubbornly elusive spirits of hope and solidarity.”

Mike D has shared the second single, “What We Got”.

The song was recorded during the same sessions as “Switch Up,” and was joined in by his sons, Davis and Skyler Diamond. Mike D and Very Nice Person recorded it with SZA producers Carter Lang and Tyran Donaldson, as well as musicians Jason Lader, Benjamin Pacheco, and Knox Fortune.

MorMor has shared a new single, “Like Heaven” which features Celeste, off his upcoming album due later this year.

MorMor shared this about he collaboration: “She came to [Rick Rubin’s Malibu studio] Shangri-La simply to hang out, but ended up jumping on the mix. Her vocal was recorded in that first session and it remains in the final version. She captured a raw, immediate energy that couldn’t be recreated.”

A Perfect Circle have shared a new single, “Starless, ahead of their upcoming tour.

Billy Howerdell shared this about the release: “Some songs get kicked around and massaged for years. But once in a while, one takes shape quickly, as if it had been there all along.”

Maynard James Keenan shared this about the song: “Absolutely chuffed to debut this new track on stage in the U.K. Of course I’m excited to release the recordings but our songs always take on an expanded personality once we start playing them live.”

Rolando Magdaleno has shared his first single, “Háblame”, as a solo artist.

Rolando Magdaleno shared this about the song: “”Háblame” marks the beginning of my solo chapter. The foundation for the song is a post-punk melody and immersive atmospheres, the song oscillates between an emotional containment and a rhythmic expansion to the end. Lyrically the song tackles pride, emotional distance and the difficulty of saying what really matters before it’s too late. More than a dramatic declaration, “Háblame” is an act of transparency: an invitation to breaking the silence and to assume the unsaid.”

The video for the song was directed by Angel Estrada Fuentes.

Tricky has shared the second single, “Because I Don’t Know”, off his upcoming album “Different When It’s Silent” out July 17th via False Idols.

The song features Mitch Sanders. And as Tricky said: “… changing lanes like tears in the rain…”

Iceage have shared the third single, “The Weak”, off their upcoming album “For Love Off Grace & the Hereafter” out May 29th via Mexican Summer.

The credits for the video are as followed:
Footage by Anna Dobos.
Lyric video by Alex Tults.
Still images by Ira Rønnenfelt.

Elias Rønnenfelt shared this about the song: “The songs needed to be immediate, urgent, raw, and fast. We wanted to try to shed any unnecessary weight. Catching outlets of energy is what excites us the most.”

Mike D has shared a new single, “Switch Up”, which is the first release from a Beastie Boy since their last album as a band in 2011.

Mike D shared this about the release of the song: “Ok. Here we go. I know we are not putting anybody into space and there are a lot of huge problems in our world right now and didn’t realize this was a big deal to me until woke up today and was like “sh*t. “Switch Up” comes out tonight”. Hoping it brings some happiness for all y’all.”