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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.”

Captain Murphy has shared a new song, “Mudhole”, made for the soundtrack of the movie “The Furious” directed by Kenji Tanigaki.

The video for the song contains images by Adam Fuchs, the Adul Swim animator who also helped create the Captain Murphy aesthetic alongside Flying Lotus.

Lenny Kaye has shared the second single, “Solstice”, off his upcoming debut album “Goin’ Local” out July 17th via Yep Roc.

Kaye shared this about the song: “I wrote ‘Solstice’ with Patti Smith. Our collaboration continues a long history together across many of our shared works.”

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.”