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John Carpenter has shared the second single, “The Ferrymen”, off his upcoming project “Cathedral” which is a graphic novel out August 4th via Storm King Comics and the album out August 7th via Sacred Bones Records.

The 120-page graphic novel is written by Carpenter, editor/producer/wife Sandy King, and Sean Sobczak, illustrated by Federico De Luca and Luis Guaragna, colored by Ryan Winn, and lettered by Marshall Dillon.

Daniel Davies said this about the song: “I like that one because it really seems to feature all three of us in a special way. It has interesting harmonies that Cody put together and John’s signature pad-style string parts. It’s more of an electronic metal track in a way, but we just wanted to make it as heavy and driving as possible.“

CZARFACE has shared a new song feat. Frankie Pulitzer, “Brothers Grimm”, off their self titled album out August 28th via Silver Age.

TRACKLIST:

01. Brothers Grimm
02. All It Takes Is One Bad Day
03. That’s Law
04. Raw Forever (Feat. Busta Rhymes)
05. Triple Helix
06. Grim-Visaged War
07. Dr. Yorgo In The Land Of Acid 7.0
08. Mad Technology (Feat. Method Man)
09. Gnawing At My Rhyme Like A Poisonous Rat
10. Omega Beam
11. Dragon Canon (Feat. El-P)
12. Scrub
13. Paul Bufano Type Beat
14. Frankie (Feat. Kendra Morris)
15. Intruder… Seems Curious

The video for the song was done by Alex Pint at Doorstop Design Studio.

PJ Harvey has shared a new song, “Voyager”, for the new TV by Professor Brian Cox.

The video for the song was co-directed by Brian Cox and PJ Harvey.

PJ Harvey shared this about the song: “I was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the ‘voice’ of Voyager 2. I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song. 

The song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth. With these ideas as my starting point I let the song develop, and discussed an orchestral accompaniment with Dario Marianelli.

I’m very happy with the end result, and it’s wonderful to hear the orchestral score bring such expansiveness to my music. I thoroughly enjoyed researching the history and journey of Voyager 1 & 2, and was glad to be able to quote the great Carl Sagan within the song, and his famous description of our fragile and beautiful ‘pale blue dot.’”

Editors have shared the second single, “The Rush”, off their upcoming ninth album “Surface, Echo & Sound” out October 30th via PIAS.

Tracklist
01. Surface, Echo & Sound
02. Call It In
03. The Rush
04. Rescue
05. Shadow
06. Real
07. Happiness
08. Much Love
09. Butterfly Wings
10. Seriously
11. The Hills We Died Upon

The video was filmed in Tokyo and directed by Henry Ehara.

Tom Smith shared this about the song: ““The Rush” is an imagined bar scene of two people talking about life, drinking and reflecting on its highs and lows. That idea of finding comfort in people close to me, friends and loved ones and family, is a theme that comes up all the time. It’s a theme that is in everything to a degree.”

Starcrawler have shared a new song, “ON 2 U”, and is available (digitally) now.

The video for the song was directed by Christopher Blauvelt.

Starcrawler will be on tour start July 15th, headlining some shows and supporting the Sex Pistols on other dates.

Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal have shared the first single, “Unfinished Concrete Initials” off their upcoming album “DOOMED!” out August 14th via Backwoodz.

Open Mike Eagle shared this about the release: “In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something. I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for “Neighborhood Gods Unlimited” with the caveat that we would focus on our thing next. Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’ Each vision is a crashed airplane halfway on the border of dream and nightmare, bitter and sweet, sadness and freedom. Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.”

“Unfinished Concrete Initials” features Hemlock Ernst (a.k.a. the rap moniker of Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring).

Eartheater has shared her third single, “Crown Jewel”, off her upcoming album “Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message” put July 14th via Chemical X.

Eartheater shared this about the song: “I wrote this love song for my baby girl but I guess it’s subplot is about good posture. I was very tall at a young age taller than all the boys and sometimes taller than grown ups. My girl is probably going to be taller than me and I just want her to shine as bright as she can and not feel self conscious about it. One of my retorts when people would feel the need to remark on my height was ‘it’s like I’m in a penthouse in Dubai’ hence the Dubai line.”

Jack White has shared the third single, “Dollar Bill”, off his new album “Frozen Charlotte” out July 10th via Third Man Records.

TRACKLIST:
1. G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs
2. Derecho Demonico
3. There’s Nobody There
4. Raising the Grain
5. You’ll Never Fix Me
6. Nobody Knows
7. Dollar Bill
8. I Can’t Believe What I’m Hearing
9. Thick as Thieves
10. All Alone Again
11. She’s in a Frenzy
12. Making Contact
13. Neighbors Blues

Jack White shared this about the release:  “An old carnival prize chalkvware statue from the 1940’s of a sailor boy falls over in my recording studio and its head breaks off. graba nearby blue skull shaker percussion object and glue it in the head’s place. paint the body white and suddenly an all new character avatar that called “Frozen Charlotte” came to life. A “frozen Charlotte” is a penny doll toy from victorian times, they were ceramic but could float or have a dress put ove, recalling an old folk song about a girl who froze to death from not dressing properly in the winter. wanted to make the modern version of chalk ware of the 40’s and 50’s which to me is 3D printed plastic. We took the piece to be scanned and CAD filed in order to make more of her with the help of Daniel Birkhead and my good man Daniel Mancini facilitating. Then sanding, priming, spraying back at my own shop to create numerous avatars of her including a male trixter hero version named the “Frozen Charlatan” who is the chrome metallic alter ego. Some of them felt like they needed to include the original broken off sailor’s head. Many versions of the sculpture started to come out of me, different personalities and characters, some to mimic the fast airbrush style of cheap carnival prizes made assembly line style, and some more elaborately painted, all of which are in the art show.”

Tyondai Braxton has announced the release of his new album “Splayed Werks” and with it the first 2 singles, “UnFS” and “Piiano”, the album is out August 21st via Erased Tapes.

TRACKLIST:

1. Bell Smear
2. Multiplay
3. Dia
4. Vali
5. UnFS
6. Salt Point
7. Oslo
8. Realistic Water
9. Multiplay II
10. Phonolydian
11. Piiano
12. 4 Zones
13. Nimble FX
14. Clouds of
15. K Space

Braxton shared this via a press release: “My philosophy on releasing music has changed a lot, but also my idea of what it means to be an artist. The important part of the artist’s job is to archive what you’re doing, what you’re excited about, what you’re dealing with, what you’re reacting against, putting that in a form that documents your life…At the moment, we’re all looking out into the world, dealing with the helplessness in a time of war, media over-saturation. What’s the role of the artist in that? I think the archiving of any particular creative idea in the moment is one of the most significant things an artist can do now. Things I previously thought were important “this piece means so much to me,” or “listen to how this chord arrived” are actually much less so.”